GI Revolts: The Breakdown of the U.S. Army in Vietnam (mutiny )

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How many US troops have already refused 'orders' in Iraq already ?


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http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/%7Ergibson/girevolts.htm

GI Revolts
The Breakdown of the U.S. Army in Vietnam

by Richard Boyle

May 1973


INTRODUCTION


The Vietnam War was one of the least popular in American history. It was also the least "popular" with the GI's who were sent to fight it. By the late 1960's, news of GI unrest was being carried on TV and in newspapers around the country and Vietnam vets were speaking at anti-war demonstrations.
But word of the GI resistance in Vietnam itself trickled back more slowly - the soldiers flashing peace signs and Black Power salutes, the group refusals to fight, anti-war petitions and demonstrations, and even the fragging of officers. What we've read in the newspapers, however, has just been bits and pieces. Seldom have we had a chance to hear the whole story from the GI's themselves.

This pamphlet tells in vivid terms two stories of GI revolts -- the shooting of a top sergeant and the mutiny of Bravo Company at Firebase Pace near Cambodia. They are taken from Richard Boyle's book Flower of the Dragon - The Breakdown of the US. Army in Vietnam (Ramparts Press, 1972). Boyle spent three tours in Vietnam from 1965 through 1971 as a war correspondent, and was on hand personally to record many of these events as they happened.

Not all of the stories of GI resistance told in Boyle's book are as dramatic as the story of Doc Hampton or the mutiny at Firebase Pace. Boyle could only cover a few of the thousands of GI revolts in Vietnam.

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