We Were Soldiers

I don't know why but after watching the war movie yesterday, I could understand what they are all doing inside. I could feel their helpless situation, which at times call for desperate measures, including airstrikes bombing their defending position to prevent overrun by the enemy. This is where there is no room for mistakes. One miscalculation, like giving the wrong coordinates, or the pilot releasing the bomb a second too late, could result in killing your own men. This movie, though I don't know when it is made, is set in the timeframe of the Vietnam War. In it, we saw a battalion is being airlifted in by helicopter (I think it's UH-1H) to secure a landing zone(LZ-xray). After which nightmare started. They kind of underestimate the enemy. They got 1 battalion of American soldiers there, versusing 3 battalion + 1 reserve of enemy troops. This is nuts, they are heavily outnumbered!!! I really respect the officer-commanding the battalion there. He is a very tactical person, knows when the enemy is going to strike and what are they trying to do, so he can send people to cut them off, saving the lives of many. The enemy came in masses, they have got the people and know their terrain well. At the end of it, he did win a victory, but at a huge cost. Charlie Coy being overrun, Bravo Coy dissipated, Alpha Coy not much better. 400 soldiers in, less than 50 came out alive.

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In it, I heard a lot of familiar terms being used, which kind of stir my memories of army days. It is really good to recollect how tough the past are, going through the whole shit and working together to achieve the same objective. This is really sweet, and I believed that it cannot be replaced, or bought with anything else on this Earth. "Flanking, LZ-hot, code name-broken arrow, Alpha Liner, machines used: UH-1H, Machine-guns, M-16, AK-47, grenades, motars" All these sounds familiar?? Well, its all part of what my company had to do in Army....haha.

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War movie is not just mass slaughter of human beings using machines, seeing human dies, their guts being splashed everywhere, but its a ongoing everchanging situation where you have to outsmart, outwit the enemy to save not only yourself, but the lives of your brother in arm too. The Vietnam war is a failed American war. 58000 Americans died fighting a war that is not even their own. A huge tragedy indeed. War is a terrible thing, I hope there will not be a World War 3 in the future, or else what Einstein says will come true :"I know not with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones."

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We are the Guardsmen Warriors,

Resolute in Loyalty,

Steadfast in Commitment,

We fight for our Country,

Our Home, and our Family.

Land Warriors from air and sea,

Unfailing in toughness,

Valiant in our Actions,

We destroy all foes who Challenge our Mission.

We are Elite Warriors,

With daring Initiative,

We rule the day,

We rule the Night,

Always ready,

Ready to Strike!!!!