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The Vietnam War was a long, costly, and divisive conflict that required soldiers to be brave and bold. Jerry “Mad Dog” Shriver was one of those men. Join us, as we look at the most terrifying man of the Vietnam war.
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was fought in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between November 1, 1955, and April 30, 1975, when Saigon fell. It was the second Indochina War and a crucial war in the Cold War. While the war was officially fought between North and South Vietnam, the North was supported by the Soviet Union, China, and other communist states, while the South was supported by the United States and other anti-communist allies, turning the conflict into a proxy war between the two. It lasted nearly two decades, with direct US military involvement ending in 1973. The struggle also spread to neighboring nations, intensifying the Laotian and Cambodian civil wars, which finished with all three countries formally becoming communist governments in 1976.
The conflict had a massive human cost: estimates of the number of Vietnamese military and civilians dead varied from 966,000 to 3 million. The fight claimed the lives of 275,000- 310,000 Cambodians, 20,000-62,000 Laotians, and 58,220 American service members. The end of the Vietnam War triggered the Vietnamese boat people and the greater Indochina refugee crisis, in which millions of refugees fled Indochina, an estimated 250,000 of whom died at sea. Once in power, the Khmer Rouge committed the Cambodian genocide, and the war between them and unified Vietnam eventually evolved into the Cambodian-Vietnamese War, which overthrew the Khmer Rouge government in 1979 and put an end to the genocide.
In retaliation, China invaded Vietnam, resulting in border warfare that lasted until 1991. In the United States, the war sparked what became known as Vietnam syndrome, a public aversion to American overseas military participation, which, along with the Watergate incident, contributed to the crisis of trust that plagued America during the 1970s. The United States Air Force destroyed more than 20% of South Vietnam's jungles and 20-50% of its mangrove forests by spraying approximately 20 million US gallons of poisonous herbicides, including Agent Orange. The battle is one of the most widely used examples of ecocide.
Pin Down Hatchet
During the Vietnam War, a Hatchet Force or Hatchet unit was a special operations unit made up of American and South Vietnamese MACV-SOG troops who carried out small clandestine operations along the Ho Chi Minh trail beginning in 1966. The forces specialized in seek-and-destroy missions as well as the recovery of missing American service members in Laos, Cambodia, and North Vietnam. Hatchet Force teams would operate in small groups of three American Special Forces soldiers and 20-40 local soldiers, probing the border areas for a conflict. Hatchet Force teams remained active until each field command was disbanded. They operated from Firebase-3 during the siege of Khe Sanh, a US Marine Corps airstrip.
While the Hatchet team was made up of six American special forces and 32 indigenous soldiers, the firebase housed 131 Americans and 457 Special Commando Units of indigenous soldiers. The Hatchet teams served as striking forces, operating in the jungle against targets identified by recon teams operating from Khe Sanh. On December 30, 1968, a Hatchet Force of 40 soldiers led by 1st Lt. James R. Jerson was sent one mile east of the Laos/Cambodian border to look for Sergeant Robert Francis Scherdin, who had gone missing. The Hatchet force detonated a claymore and was ambushed by two company-sized North Vietnamese troops. Three and a half hours later, the Hatchet Force successfully blasted a landing zone from which they were removed, with 50% fatalities, including Jerson.
Jerson's second in command, Robert L. Howard, was later awarded the Medal of Honor. A second squad of Montagnards was brought in, in January 1969 and spent four days looking for Scherdin before being killed in a helicopter crash shortly after extraction. Scherdin is still reported as missing in action. On June 23, 1971, a Hatchet force was deployed 60 miles west-southwest of Da Nang, five miles from the Lao-Cambodia border. They were entrusted with locating Madison Alexander Strohlein, a sergeant assigned to a four-man HALO squad the day before. The Hatchet crew found a CAR-15 weapon and a parachute at the base of a tree. Strohlein, however, was absent, and no blood or bandages were found. Strohlein is still listed as missing in action.
The Vietnam War was a long, costly, and divisive conflict that required soldiers to be brave and bold. Jerry “Mad Dog” Shriver was one of those men. Join us, as we look at the most terrifying man of the Vietnam war.
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was fought in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between November 1, 1955, and April 30, 1975, when Saigon fell. It was the second Indochina War and a crucial war in the Cold War. While the war was officially fought between North and South Vietnam, the North was supported by the Soviet Union, China, and other communist states, while the South was supported by the United States and other anti-communist allies, turning the conflict into a proxy war between the two. It lasted nearly two decades, with direct US military involvement ending in 1973. The struggle also spread to neighboring nations, intensifying the Laotian and Cambodian civil wars, which finished with all three countries formally becoming communist governments in 1976.
The conflict had a massive human cost: estimates of the number of Vietnamese military and civilians dead varied from 966,000 to 3 million. The fight claimed the lives of 275,000- 310,000 Cambodians, 20,000-62,000 Laotians, and 58,220 American service members. The end of the Vietnam War triggered the Vietnamese boat people and the greater Indochina refugee crisis, in which millions of refugees fled Indochina, an estimated 250,000 of whom died at sea. Once in power, the Khmer Rouge committed the Cambodian genocide, and the war between them and unified Vietnam eventually evolved into the Cambodian-Vietnamese War, which overthrew the Khmer Rouge government in 1979 and put an end to the genocide.
In retaliation, China invaded Vietnam, resulting in border warfare that lasted until 1991. In the United States, the war sparked what became known as Vietnam syndrome, a public aversion to American overseas military participation, which, along with the Watergate incident, contributed to the crisis of trust that plagued America during the 1970s. The United States Air Force destroyed more than 20% of South Vietnam's jungles and 20-50% of its mangrove forests by spraying approximately 20 million US gallons of poisonous herbicides, including Agent Orange. The battle is one of the most widely used examples of ecocide.
Pin Down Hatchet
During the Vietnam War, a Hatchet Force or Hatchet unit was a special operations unit made up of American and South Vietnamese MACV-SOG troops who carried out small clandestine operations along the Ho Chi Minh trail beginning in 1966. The forces specialized in seek-and-destroy missions as well as the recovery of missing American service members in Laos, Cambodia, and North Vietnam. Hatchet Force teams would operate in small groups of three American Special Forces soldiers and 20-40 local soldiers, probing the border areas for a conflict. Hatchet Force teams remained active until each field command was disbanded. They operated from Firebase-3 during the siege of Khe Sanh, a US Marine Corps airstrip.
While the Hatchet team was made up of six American special forces and 32 indigenous soldiers, the firebase housed 131 Americans and 457 Special Commando Units of indigenous soldiers. The Hatchet teams served as striking forces, operating in the jungle against targets identified by recon teams operating from Khe Sanh. On December 30, 1968, a Hatchet Force of 40 soldiers led by 1st Lt. James R. Jerson was sent one mile east of the Laos/Cambodian border to look for Sergeant Robert Francis Scherdin, who had gone missing. The Hatchet force detonated a claymore and was ambushed by two company-sized North Vietnamese troops. Three and a half hours later, the Hatchet Force successfully blasted a landing zone from which they were removed, with 50% fatalities, including Jerson.
Jerson's second in command, Robert L. Howard, was later awarded the Medal of Honor. A second squad of Montagnards was brought in, in January 1969 and spent four days looking for Scherdin before being killed in a helicopter crash shortly after extraction. Scherdin is still reported as missing in action. On June 23, 1971, a Hatchet force was deployed 60 miles west-southwest of Da Nang, five miles from the Lao-Cambodia border. They were entrusted with locating Madison Alexander Strohlein, a sergeant assigned to a four-man HALO squad the day before. The Hatchet crew found a CAR-15 weapon and a parachute at the base of a tree. Strohlein, however, was absent, and no blood or bandages were found. Strohlein is still listed as missing in action.
