Admittedly there is a degree of Truth in Television, but reading gives the impression that Allied troops might as well have been piloting vehicles made from plywood and cobwebs. Adding insult to injury, the Viet Cong decapitated the dead and stuck the soldiers' heads on their own rifles, not looting a single one. During Vietnam, one thousand American troops are slaughtered at Ia Drang, unable to fight back because their rifles cannot fire a single bullet.
Something of a running theme with Garth Ennis' work:.
