Reply #109: The NVA weren't well-supplied.

[TahitiNut]

At Long Binh, we were attacked on our southern perimeter by an augmented battalion of NVA on February 23, 1969. The next day, I happened to wander through where two of them were being treated and interrogated. I saw the C-rat can-openers on key-chains around their necks. They were teen-agers - about 15 years old. They were given not quite enough rations to make it down the HCM Trail - even with what they could get along the way. They were hungry. They were told that they could get our stockpile of C-rats and eat. They were told that our perimeter was guarded by WACs and clerks, and that we went to sleep around 2am. They were told that it'd be a "walk-on." It wasn't, of course. They walked right into the teeth of mini-guns mounted on platforms disguised as water towers. They got chewed up bad. I was told that three actually got through the wires (10-15 yards of concertina and tanglefoot, reinforced with claymores).