>US soldiers force Vietnamese woman to become "human minesweepers", walking through minefields, Vietnam War (1966).
Bullshit. The troops are way to close in danger of shrapnel
>>538609101>hates americabase->because it killed some rice farmers in 'namnevermind
>>538609148They were participating in hands across Vietnam.
They would have covered a much wider area if the women had their kids join the line, but I guess the kids were away at school.What? That’s standard procedure for the IDF.
>>538609101The german complaining about war crimes is rich.
>>538609101The nice soldiers are just watching a village game of red rover red rover.
>>538609101My grandpa was a colonel in the Army in intelligence, his unit was tasked with investigating the massacre at My Lai. Whatever he saw over there changed him severely. When my mom asked him if it was okay to name me after him, he said, and I quote, "I don't give a fuck what you name your kid. Fuck off". He died of cancer shortly after I was born,Little does he know his grandson is a washed up alcoholic NEET. I live it up every day for granddad. If we had nipped communism in the bud and allied with Germany in 1933, we wouldn't have sent our young men to die in the jungle in Vietnam, nor would my grandpa needed to catalogue their rotting corpses
>>538609101How is this any less efficient than using partisans to clear mines for the wehrmacht?
>>538609101they shouldn't have put those mines there then
>>538609101And?
>>538610401He seems like a bad ass.F
>>538610401>massacre at My Lai.Wtf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_massacre
>>538610199germany didnt really do any warcrimes tho. allies killed more allied civilians in europe than germany :D
>>538610813Dont quarter your soldiers with civvies.The japs made their homes and cities flammable as fuck.Dont judge the past with your zoomer faggotry.
>>538610740In a way I'm glad he didn't live to see the world we know today. He would have been one of those old fucks who would have snapped and done something drastic.>>538610780You didn't know? You've gotta brush up on your history anon. The specific part my grandpa was involved in was this, from the wiki page:"Colin Powell, then a 31-year-old Army major serving as an assistant chief of staff of operations for the Americal Division, was charged with investigating the letter, which did not specifically refer to Mỹ Lai, as Glen had limited knowledge of the events there. In his report, Powell wrote, "In direct refutation of this portrayal is the fact that relations between Americal Division soldiers and the Vietnamese people are excellent." A 2018 U.S. Army case study of the massacre noted that Powell "investigated the allegations described in the [Glen] letter. He proved unable to uncover either widespread unnecessary killings, war crimes, or any facts related to My Lai". Powell's handling of the assignment was later characterized by some observers as "whitewashing" the atrocities of Mỹ Lai."My grandpa served under Powell. It's not the massacre that fucked him up, it was the coverup and the characterizations later. The callousness of how it was handled, and how little it mattered once the war ended.
>>538611403I should say for the dummies in the room, yes, obviously Powell (and the unit itself) were aware of the full scope of My Lai and had the full operational picture of exactly what went on. It was a political decision on Powell's part to cover it up despite how obviously wrong it was. Talk about fucking demoralizing man
>>538610401And you wouldn’t have been named Shirley. Here here to your old grandpa! May the ghosts of the murdered children have accompanied him across the River Styx.
>>538613536Hear hear!
