The UH1 Huey served as the backbone of Army Aviation in Vietnam. (Photo provided by public domain.)
October 04, 2025
By Will Dabbs, MD
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Vietnam was really America’s last wild west war. There were a variety of reasons for this. The conflict dragged on for more than a decade, and American troops rotated through the combat zone by the hundreds of thousands. The place was already awash in weapons before we got there, and there were new technologies aplenty that were evolving on the battlefield. Also, unlike modern war, not just everybody had a camera. All that conspired to grant US combat troops a bit more latitude...
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