Patrick’s Reviews > Talking With Victor Charlie: An Interrogator's Story > Status Update
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A not-so-brief briefing on VC organizational structures; Tourison's views on the US military's errors and shortcomings in preparing and keeping qualified linguist-interrogators; how little a VC would actually know; preparing for battle.
— Nov 26, 2022 06:38PM
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In Duc Hoa District, Long An Province for Operation Marauder; what a VC education looks like; who is (and isn't) a "real" VC; Saigon doesn't learn very well.
— Jun 04, 2023 12:46AM
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The end of Plei Me and the entirety of Ia Drang, the winner: airmobility; dealing with North Vietnamese soldiers for the first time; Wick accidentally introduces a new numbering system for the NVA; back to Saigon (December 1965).
— Jun 03, 2023 08:40PM
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Beginning of the battle of Plei Me, autumn 1965; an expanding war = confusing intel terminology, and very unclear orders-of-battle from the North Vietnamese.
— Jun 03, 2023 06:35PM
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Into battle with the 173rd Airborne, and baptism-by-fire for intel go-teams; a dizzying amount on how to read VC; some lessons in how to talk to the VC; upending a whole VC provincial command from the top down.
— Nov 26, 2022 10:47PM
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Back to Saigon in 1965—what difference two years' absence makes; knowing Vietnamese vs. learning to speak VC; from translator to interrogator in one day.
— Nov 26, 2022 05:11PM