9 Things Korean Soldiers Did in Vietnam That the US Army Never Taught Its Grunts

Tae Kwon Do at dawn, flares all night, a fortress for every company, cordons that lasted a week, their own general and their own stretch of the coast, divisions that stayed eight years, dollars paid by Washington, and a company fort held hand to hand at Tra Binh Dong. The Koreans were the most feared allies in Vietnam, and the fear had a price that is still being argued in the courts of Seoul. Chapters: 0:00 Highway 1 through the Korean sector 2:22 Tae Kwon Do every morning 3:56 Flares all night 5:16 A fortress for every company 6:47 The cordon that lasted a week 8:13 Their own general, their own coast 9:39 Tigers, White Horse, Blue Dragons 11:33 Paid by America, sent home to Korea 12:59 Tra Binh Dong, February 1967 15:00 Feared, and the price of fear 17:17 What became of them 18:53 Back on Highway 1 Your turn: if you served near the Koreans, which unit was in your area and what did you see them do? Unit, place and year, one line is enough. Sources: - Stanley R. Larsen and James L. Collins Jr., Allied Participation in Vietnam, Vietnam Studies (Department of the Army, 1975), chapter VI - Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968, vol. XXIX, Korea (the Brown Memorandum, March 1966) - U.S. Army Center of Military History, The U.S. Army Campaigns of the Vietnam War: Stemming the Tide, 1965 - HistoryNet, "Korea's Myth-Making Marines" (Battle of Tra Binh Dong) - CNN, Bangkok Post and The Korea Times reporting on the Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat massacre and the February 2023 Seoul court ruling #VietnamWar #VietnamVeterans #MilitaryHistory