"But South Korea had learned a hard lesson ..."
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The gooks in Vietnam actually feared Korea's Blue Dragon Brigade more than our Marines.
The Koreans also had the fierce tiger division too. I don't know which one got the vietnamese more shit-your-pants scared out of the two.
The reason they were so effective is because of japanese military tactics, but on a smaller scale. Park Chung hee was a Japanese officer. The koreans did not give a singular fuck about Rules of engagement, they didn't care about war crimes, they cared about nothing besides killing people. And they were well trained. Stone cold professionalism. It was a chore for them. They were the heir to the imperial army more than the JSDF. Their tactics shocked and frightened the American servicemen who collaborated with them.
>When Korean forces were deployed to I Corps in 1968, U.S. Marine General Rathvon M. Tompkins stated that "whenever the Korean Marines received fire or think [they got] fired on from a village... they'd divert from their march and go over and completely level the village. It would be a lesson to [the Vietnamese]". General Robert E. Cushman Jr. stated several years later that "we had a big problem with atrocities committed by them which I sent down to Saigon." presumably in reference to the Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất massacre.
You didn't fuck with the south Korean expeditionary dudes. Those were the same guys who made up the rooftop Koreans by the way.