Why USA Drafted Morons Into Vietnam War

During the Vietnam War, the United States was shipping hundreds of thousands of soldiers to fight inside the heavily booby-trapped jungles, whether they were fit for combat or not! Check out today's epic new video that reveals how the US broke the draft requirements to bolster its military, regardless of the soldier's IQ.

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[jamesofficial]

A friend of my dad was a Vietnam War veteran and he was highly decorated. He would never talk about the war and was an alcoholic. My dad found him homeless eating a can of moldy Chef Boyardee ravioli and took him into our home. He was a great man and I considered him to be an uncle of mine. Taught me how to defend myself. Unfortunately my dad couldn't help him anymore and he lost his mind and I never saw him again. I miss him greatly his name was Scott Robins I will never forget him.

[EricTheKei]

Rich people start wars. Poor people die for them. A cost seen as trivial to those who seek money and power.

[bartfart]

16:58 oh so basically War Crimes.
Now I see why I wasn't taught this in school. We were the bad guys.

[theamazinggarbage]

Ngl that title is a little… blunt. These are veterans were talking about here.💀

[DruidsTears]

Full Metal Jacket makes a lot more sense now.

[UnitedStates]

imagine being told youre fighting for your country just for them to call you morons later

[rocistone]

In case you missed it, The Gulf of Tonkin was a Fabrication. It was a pile of lies to give the DoD an excuse for deploying more forces.

[rtothec]

Drill Sergeant: _GUUUUMP! Why did you put that weapon together so quickly?_

Gump: _Because you told me to Drill Sergeant?_ 🤷🏻‍♂️

[xtreme]

Johnson didnt lose to Nixon because he didnt run against Nixon in 1968, Hubert Humphrey lost to Nixon

[thechrisandphaedrusshow]

Referred to as McNamara's morons. He should have been thrown in prison for it. So many wasted lives.

[chriscripplercruz]

When I was in basic training in the early 90s we had a soldier named Huelen he would get the entire platoon in trouble all the time like literally all the time well he was injured and went to the hospital and they were concerned about him and he ended up being mentally impaired his recruiter had lied on his paperwork to get him in the army he should never have been in that situation. We all felt bad about his treatment once we found out why he couldn't do much of anything right

[jaredbarker]

My dad is a Vietnam vet and he dealt with PTSD for a long time. He used alcohol a lot. Like a lot. Within the last ten years or so he has finally started telling me some things and showing me some of his war stuff. But he did have this friend that he served with that was homeless. I remember he just walked around the country and every couple years or so he would show up at our house and him and dad would really tie one on and then he would leave again. I am proud my dad is a Vietnam vet and I do what I can to make him proud to be a Vietnam vet.

[ChandanRadhakrishna]

Now I know how Forest Gump ended up in Vietnam 😮

[miguelbarragan]

Always in recruiting, they needed the numbers. It’s always about numbers.

[YukikoAkemi]

I'm glad that you mentioned the loss of life at Jackson State University. Most folks only focus on Kent State

[Ironheart]

The Vietnam war was oppressive not only to the Vietnamese but to the American youth. Lyndon Johnson wanted a victory by 1970. So they kept rapidly deploying soldiers. Instead of the typical 12-week boot camp, it was reduced to 8 weeks. Most of who were drafted were barely on their teens and did not yet really have enough life skills. It was only the middle to low income people who could not dodge the draft.

Then the war dragged on because they did not expect that these barefooted peasants would actually be more determined to fight them back. Until it came to the point that even American citizens would denounce the US involvement on this war. So when the soldiers came back amptuated and with PTSD, Uncle Sam quickly threw them under the bus.

[JerryEricsson]

I went to Vietnam in 1970, came home in 71 a different man. My wife who was a strong woman adapted to the new me, and after a year or so of rough times, we stayed together, I lost her 4 years ago to cancer after 51 years and 4 days together, less the year I was in Vietnam as we married in 1969. I tried to train some of those troops who could not read or write, I trained them in communications, a job where reading and writing were necessary skills, they could not pass my course. Sad really, they were generally good troops but not the smartest overall.

[Indyofthedead]

I don't think it's right to call them degrading terms like morons. These people were taken advantage of and exploited, many of them dying because of it.

[VENoo]

My grandpa got the South Vietnamese National Order medal, as a major in the Artillery units, his job was to clear out the villages for the infantry to come in, he told me he met two of the most well-known S. Vietnamese Presidents, Ngo Dinh Diem, and Nguyen Van Thieu, they both pinned the medals on my grandpa's uniform, in 1970 he was deployed to Cambodia to fight the Khmer Rouge, he served 17 years, during the Fall of Saigon, he was picked up from a hospital and directly to the border of Vietnam and China to a labor camp, where he said he could see China from his prison cell.

[KayakTN]

"McNamara's Morons" was a common term. Hamilton Gregory has a book on it and several speeches available on YouTube.