A battallion is made up of four to six companies and be as many as 1,000 soldiers...
2 x 1,000 = 2,000
Plus reinforcements...say 500?
50 % of 2,500 is ....1,250
70% of 2,500 is...1,750
Man ...that is a lot of casualties!!
That is very sad ...I have spoken to many many Vietnam vets...AT SEVERAL AMERIcAN LEGION POSTS along with my tradecraft handler "tommy" a pilot, who was a veitnam vet...
My mail man up in Central PA was on some "HILL W/ A #" during one battle...the VC were on top of the hill...
He said his experience was worse than that "hamburger hill" movie...and he was in the **** in dozens more battles for two tours...he got shot 3? Times by AK47 FIRE and hit by shrapnel several times...
The poor guy had a severe back ache for 36 hours and he dealt with the intense pain...goes to the hospital and he was having
A very long heart attack and did not know it...
He said when your shot by an AK in the middle of hand to hand combat...you just keep fighting ...If it was in and out with no organ or spinal injury...you had to just keep fighting and wrap a tight field dressing then reload and help your buddies who were wounded a lot worse...he said those HILL battles were H.E.L.L. on earth and total meat grinders...
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