Including US troops.The US has a long history of using people and throwing them away, when they are no longer useful.
In Vietnam the CIA ran covert, illegal , operations that were in total violation of international rules. Knowing that troops followed orders and asked few , if any , questions, they recruited (had troops ordered) to assist them and do what they wanted done. Civilian assassinations were a big item on their list. They recruited and trained troops to be snipers, (off the record and with no records kept), gave them a bodyguard and sometimes a medic and sent them on missions. Sometimes they failed to pick them up and left to fend for themselves in North Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. They were really pissed when we showed up with a marine platoon that we hooked up with.
There is an estimate that the CIA had over 400 troops killed(assassinated) to keep them from possibly revealing what was going on. I was back here recovering when I learned of the death of one of the guys I went with. I have often wondered how close I came to getting killed. After I attempted, in1974 to get in contact with my partner using the military process, I got a visit from DIA/FBI telling me to keep my mouth shut. Period. (Thanx, Nixon) . I was 27 in 1974 and had young kids, so I did what I was told, I am 62 now, kids are grown, I feel less obligation to be quiet, so my feelings now is fark-em, they want to shut me up, let-em, I don't think they have the balls to do it now.
Many people will feel that I am just an old veteran talking crap and telling war stories, and that is fine, but life has told me that the truth is farther beyond the realm of belief than fiction.
