At the start of 1968, three years after US ground forces first landed in Vietnam there are nearly half a million Americans and country, fighting an estimated four serve nearly 300,000 North Vietnamese regulars and Viet Cong guerrillas. US military strategy is a combination a bombing key industrial and supply sites in the north. While launching massive search and destroy operations in the south, dead enemy bodies not territory is the measure have success. With the numbers to being firmly on America’s favor, president Johnson and his top military advisers including overall commander general William Westmoreland, assure the American people the victory is within reach. It is only a matter of time before the NBA and BC succumbed to their losses. The Vietnamese however have successfully battled foreign powers for over 1000 years and with a population of over 16 million the north is prepared and willing, to replace their casualties. For US troops in the field, this means they keep doing the same thing day in and day out. Under the constant threat have an enemy that is anywhere and everywhere. “out here the tension is building builds into you feel like you gonna explode. Most these guys would give anything for an excuse to squeeze off a couple rounds”. 19 year-old second lieutenant very Romeo has been in Vietnam for six months. He spent most of that time leading search-and-destroy missions. “guys will do anything to break the tension, it’s some other black humor magazine, guys play monthly pay bayonets throwing them in each other’s feet moving them closer and closer together. and I told him I said military and yourself can be walking around here with that moving here cattle questioner on far I’ll on just dealing with the incredible tension and stuff and junction go to your moment and when you’re in a rural area prostitutes and drugs and other things that wish that was real”. Romeo and his man cope with the rhythm the war tens of millions of people throughout Vietnam prepare for the country’s most important holiday the Vietnamese Lunar New Year or test, tat marks the arrival of spring a time to pay tribute to ancestors and look forward to good fortunes in the New Year. Since the start of the war it is also marked a time peace, when all sides observe a two-day cease-fire. Lost of หรือ lotta South Vietnamese soldiers have already headed home now these past couple days commandment China call everyone back, apparently we’ve gotten when the NBA’s buildup around some other cities.