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Project 100,000 was initiated by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara in October 1966 to meet the escalating workforce requirements of the U.S. government's involvement in the Vietnam War. According to Hamilton Gregory, author of the book McNamara's Folly: The Use of Low-IQ Troops in the Vietnam War, inductees of the project died at three times ...
Cannon Fodder describes the experiences of an African-American soldier's US Army service during the Vietnam War from Induction - during the beginning growth of the anti-war movement in 1968 - to Discharge in 1971 - shortly before U.S. ground forces ceased active combat operations.
Neal Rairden was a bunker or two down, just 15 yards away, when North Vietnamese commandos tossed a pack of explosives. “When the bomb went off that blew up their bunker, no one could’ve lived ...
The mistakes that were made in 1965 were repeated each year, as each annual crop of American cannon fodder was fed unto the field until 1973, when we withdrew.
May 25, 2015 · Summers Sandoval’s book chronicling the experiences of Latinos in the Vietnam War is due out next year. Audio recordings of the veterans interviewed for the ongoing oral history project are being archived at the Library of Congress.
We were fated to fight the war first hand. We were cannon fodder." - Eugene Sledge. More than 16 million Americans served in the armed forces during the war. Fewer than a million ever saw...
