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It's Soul Time

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>>33263690
>tfw Vietnam war level of aesthetics will never be achieved again

>>33263719
What's his rifle? A CAR-15?

>>33263690
I'm at JRTC and it's basically fucking Vietnam. Raining, hot, pits, jungles, fucking awful.

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>>33264005

You guys see this yet? (/wsg/ has sound so be ready)

>>>/wsg/1582926

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Why is the vietnam war so aesthetic, /k/? I'm really digging these photos and that whole period of history around the world feels so interesting.

I guess part of it is the first assault rifles being fielded. Instead of big wooden guns we've got sleek new space age polymers and aluminum going out with troops. The first modular load bearing equipment (I think, with ALICE), and the fears that accompany this new nuclear age. The Soviet Union could blow us to hell at any minute, and you could also be drafted and sent to vietnam to die in a rice field. Music is great, drugs are easy to get, and there's a real shift in American society in general. The difference between the 40s/50s and the 60s/70s is night and day in terms of social order and values.

It just seems like times were more exciting back then, although they were very frightening as well.

>>33264017
Yes, that is a gun.

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>>33263690
Here is great video on the subject,this guys is author of Black Rifle 2 and is recommended by Ian.

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLYLkrethQA

>>33264633
and the Mafia in it's hey-day

>>33264633

Air-cav was a complete gamechanger over what we saw in the past. Also every picture you see is surrounded by dense jungle. the enemy feels everywhere. it must have been terrifying to fight in.

>>33263968

My arms and back hurt just lookin at those guys carrying m-60s and ammo belts through the heat and humidity and dense jungle. fucking hell.

>>33264633
You forgot some of the most important things. The Sexual Revolution was at its peak, birth control pills were recently invented, and the most common STDS hadn't developed antibiotic resistance.

>>33264852
I don't know that much about the history of the sexual revolution, so what time period are we looking at? Were kids shipping out after being drafted and shipped out in the late 60s being taken away from the revolution, or did it start when they started coming back home after a few years out?

I think the media coverage of this war was vastly different than any war preciously. In Vietnam we had cameramen and news crews in the thick of it, taking videos and photos of kids shooting and being shot. Back in Korea and WWI and WWII we got stories of heroism and shit that really sugar coated the realities those men faced out there.

I also think that vietnam was covered in a much more gritty way in popular culture, movies, books, etc. When you think of WWII you think of Captain America delivering some comical punches to mean ol' Nazis. Maybe Donald Duck dressed up like a nazi and acting like a dumbass. When we look at the pop culture around Vietnam, we think of characters like the Punisher and Rambo, both of whom are flawed and slightly disturbed people. I don't know if vietnam fucked more people up mentally than previous wars, but it seems like discussion of shit like PTSD and depression and stuff were more kosher and fair game than during previous wars.