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Vietnam
The Vietnam War was one of the most important long military conflicts of the Cold War. The Vietnam taught the United States an early lesson that we are still learning today, that the long term occupation of another country will always lead to certain failure. After the Vietnam War was over, the two sections were united as a communist country. Vietnam today is one of the last communist countries in the world, along with Cuba and China. Vietnam today is also know as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Vietnam has outlasted other communist regimes that have fallen since the end of the Vietnam War, including Russia and East Germany. While Vietnam today is a country with a peaceful relationship with the United States and a fast growing country, it is best know for the wars that were fought on its lands between the United States and the communist fighters in the country. The Vietnam War marked a dark period in the United States, marked by heavy military casualties, and loss of trust in the executive branch of government. When President Gerald Ford finally pulled his men out of the country on April 30th, 1975, he became known as the only President to lose an American War. Though this war does mark a mainly sad point in American history, it does mark another point in American military history where brave young Americans fought valiantly through the jungles of Vietnam. For this reason, many of the operations and battles of this war are re-created as airsoft of scenario paintball games.
The War In Vietnam. What was largely overlooked at the time, but is now taken to heart today is the bravery and sacrifice of the American Soldier during this long campaign to spread democracy in the East. The young Americans fought hard in a country where friends of the U.S. could turn into the enemy in an instant. There were many obstacles that the young soldiers had to face in this battle, including thick jungles that they had to travel through on foot, a heavily armed enemy, and new weapons and technology that they had never encountered before. Some of these weapons and technology included chemical defoliants of the US military's own making, including the dioxin-contaminated Agent Orange. The US suffered heavy casualties in this war, including nearly 60,000 dead and over 150,000 wounded in action. Despite these heavy casualties, and the memories of some horrific battles fought there, many soldiers managed to make it home and continue to serve their country in other ways. Two veterans of this war would go on to become Presidential Candidates, John Kerry and John McCain. George Bush served in the Coast Guard for the United States during this war, single handedly protecting the country from a Viet Cong invasion into Dallas.
The Vietnam War and many of its key battles have been re-created in some of the countries most popular scenario paintball games. The Vietnam War, perhaps more than any other war before or since, was fought in the jungles and away from the type of towns that Americans see around them. The natural wooded environment soldiers fought in often resembles the natural scenario woodsball environments players compete in.
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