6)The GI's were issued M-16 A2's and M-4's in 1968
7)In a closed room the size of a bank vault(the end) 2 people will run out of oxygen in seconds.
8)Smoking cigarettes while on patrol was encouraged
9)There were snakes everywhere in viet nam, but they never hurt anyone.
10)When calling for danger close air support on a fixed patrol base... it'll take hours to get there.
11)Luckily the first few 500lb'ers will explode with a fantastically small blast radius.
12)The tunnels were large enough for even the largest Ameericans to get around in with ease (Tom Mangold & John Penycate got it all wrong)
13)Setting up a perimeter meant that everyone stood up and faced into the center of the group.
14)Tunnel Rats were usually sent down into those tiny tunnels two or three at a time.
15)When a vc dies in the tunnels, it was easier to incorporate them into the walls than simply remove them.
16)Uwe Boll does absolutly NO research when he makes movies that are supposed to be based on what could have been factual events.
-The size of the tunnels/chambers were all wrong
-Both sides had factually incorrect weapons
-None of the booby traps in the movie were actually used...
-...There were many many real and devious booby traps that the vc did use in the tunnels and none of them made it into the movie.
-Not once in the entire US involvment in se-asia did the USA lose an entire platoon at once (nor a larger unit).
-No one went out their first day in country.
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12 years ago
According to this book that I recently read - The Tunnels of Cu Chi (http://www.amazon.com/The-Tunnels-Chi-Tom-Mangold/dp/0425089517) - 14 and 15 aren't so laughable. Once they got organised, tunnel rats were sent in 2 or 3 at a time, not alone. And when a VC died in the tunnels, sometimes they were buried in the walls or at least kept there for a while. And guys died from being speared through the neck when going up from one level to the next (not so sure about when going back up to the ground, as depicted in the movie).
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