Nam Angels

In 1968, Sonny Barger (the titular head of the Hells Angels) has made a proposal to President Lyndon B. Johnson.

He offered 5,000 Hells Angels to go to Viet Nam as a single fighting force (one division a little Hells Angels) as long as their President equipped, trained them and let them go on their own unit in North Viet Nam.

President Johnson refused him flat with cons-offer.

What do you think?

I think we do not have a foreign legion in the U.S. The French can not ask questions about your past and give you a new name to the admission ... but our government has slightly higher standards.

The U.S. military also has a chain of command .... they tend not to allow civilians to tell them how to do their work, even if they say they can bring with them 5,000 men. Registration for the military is signing your life on no provisions allowed .... .... and then you do what you say.

Can you imagine the vigilance and war profiteers that would occur if we let a band who self-fund with drug money in the army, allowing them to stay together as a band, then turn them loose in a foreign country??? Pres. Johnson had a lot of things, but he was no fool.

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I think they would have lasted less than a week after leaving the foot in Vietnam.

Oh yes, and today they are even this place and would be a huge mess than it was during the war.

LBJ exploded. I would have liked to see this unit is captured by the VC.

probally could have won the war.

Johnson did not want people could not control, is probably the reason for assassinating Kennedy me that we will never really know the truth. I think that Johnson was a vicious and jealous man who thought he should run the States anything.

The Hells Angels could have been more severe, but will be faced in taking care of everyone, while the appeals trial. They are simply one of the men who serve in war, perhaps a little more convincing should we say.

Maybe he thought they listen to the internal leadership issues rather than the President of the United States Furthermore, they may not have been more powerful men at that time knowing that their involvement with sex and drugs rock and roll.

A president can not give in to gangs who are outside the law. Unfortunately because they would probably have plowed their way through areas where others could not and would not be with their "do not give a ****" attitude ... if he makes a promise that he would face ridicule in Congress by accepting a gap.

Johnson wanted power for himself and I do not think he would ever think of letting someone else to operate outside of what it says.

Whatever they did, they were put aside when they came home, too, like most in this war Vets .. outa sight outa mind and what they come back too ... Why are Vietnam Vets still beg in the streets ...

Considering that at the time, there were fewer than 300 members, they could not find one that could succeed in obtaining the right spelling on offer, there really is not much to think . Unless, of course, that if the offer had been accepted, the odds were 99 against 1 in favor of their candidate for the hill, behind a yellow stream behind them.

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