"American youth, you can serve your nation best
by staying home and getting a good education, but if you simply must
join the military, remember what General George S. Patton said, 'No
bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the
other poor dumb bastard die for his country.'
"I took General Pattion's words to heart
and I thought of nothing
else in battle; be it a flight into a hot LZ in Vietnam or a fist fight
in a bar at closing time." - Bobby W. Miller
In 1958 Bob Miller joined the U.S. Air Force and served in the
Strategic Air Command in a crash rescue unit (SAC). Ten years later he was in a U.S. Army
uniform and served with the 192nd Assault Helicopter Company that supported the
3-506th Infantry (Airborne) serving in Vietnam (Phan Thiet LZ Betty).
Miller's aircraft was shot down twice and he was awarded the
Distinguished Flying Cross
and the Air Medal with 29 clusters).
192nd AHC Vietnam 1968 & 1969
You missed me, asshole
Kill Me If You Can, You SOBis a non-fiction book about
flying helicopters in the Vietnam War by Bob Miller. It's a
controversial book by a controversial chopper pilot.
"This is not a paid book review, it is a testimony from me. I
was there. I witnessed what he writes about. Early, most every
morning, their choppers assembled, with LTC Alves, (AKA -
Blackhawk) in the lead chopper often piloted by Miller. They
would lift off on their mission in a fury that the Vietcong
learned to fear. I said a silent prayer for Miller, Blackhawk,
the other pilots, and the grunts every day." - LT Lane Rickman
U.S. Army Corp of Engineers
Not long ago an interviewer asked author Bob
Miller, “Bob do you
deny that Americans are bullies, warmongers and predator?”
Bob's answer: "Whatever my country is or isn’t, I
take personal responsibility. One is either a predator or the prey. I
think it’s safe to reason that Americans prefer the former. One might
even go as far as to say we crave conflict over civility.
"Americans are a lot like lions that go after
and kill hyenas, and you can save the speech about lions only killing hyenas
to protect their territory. Lions, like Americans, don’t give a damn
whose territory the hyenas are in, they’ll kill them absent of hunger
and leave the bodies lie where they fall.
"I believe it was one of those good Christians
who said, 'Kill them all. For the Lord knows them that are His.'
Americans were so taken by this plan of action that our Green Berets
reworked it a bit and made it their go-to slogan.
Kill them all and let God sort
them out."
"In the Vietnam War some counted on Jesus,
others John Wayne, I went with the only one who would have me, General
George S. Patton and General Patton walked me through Vietnam like it
was a stroll in a park." - Bobby
W. Miller
"The
Vietnam War was a war of the unwilling led by the unqualified dying for
the ungrateful."
- From
HAIR
by Gerome Ragnit & James Redo.
Best wishes to all the members of the
3-506th Infantry (Airborne) Currahees and the 192nd AHC (Assault
Helicopter Company).