Post by ramboyearone on Mar 14, 2012 8:36:57 GMT -5
Real life episodes used for the second movie
MacVsog units were the first in military history to use HALO jumps in war (high altitude, low opening).
Military bows were really used by MacVsog units during their missions. Real life suppressed weapons are much more louder than the ones you see in the movies.
So using bows gives a tactical advantage during close range, surprise attacks.
The real life bows used by MacVsog teams in the sixties were not so different from the one depicted in the movie, with the main difference being that they were collapsable.
However, arrows with explosive tips are fiction.
Giving fire to the grass was a tecnique used by vietcong against MacVsog teams, to push them out from where they were hiding, as reported by author John Plaster in one of his books.
In the second movie, we see Rambo using this vietcong tecnique against enemy soldiers which are pursuing him.
During the eighties there have been rumors regarding a Delta Force intelligence operation in Vietnam, with the objective of collecting info regarding live prisoners of war still held in South East Asia.
Delta Force is the 'son' agency of the original MacVsog (that was closed in 1970). It is a counter terrorist military unit that was created (by the others), by MacVsog veterans still on active duty in the eighties.
It is an elite unit created for 'behind enemy lines' and 'undercover' military operations. The famous 'The Unit' television series is accuratly inspired by Delta Force.
There have been rumors regarding the military undercover operation depicted in the second Rambo movie. This urban legend was the base for the movie script.
But the facts are that it is only a urban legend: not any military action has ever have been taken regarding the famous POW-MIA issue.
Never-found-missing-in-action-soldiers have been an open wound for many years after the vietnam war.
While it is possible that some prisoners were held after the war, this possibility, 40 years later, is still pure theory, a theory with not so many reasons to exist for two reasons.
First of all, up to now no one has ever seen a single serious proof regarding live american prisoners held in Vietnam, Laos or Cambodia. All the so called 'proofs of life' collected in the years were found to be not supported by facts, and in the worst cases, were found to be hoaxes.
Second, no one has ever founded any serious reason for keeping prisoners alive and for ever.
It is possible that Hanoi did not want to give back some prisoners: yes, this is true. This happens in any war. But there is no reason at all to keep them alive for ever.
Keeping them for ever is complicated: expensive in terms of money and work, and risky in terms of international public opinion, and will give you nothing in return.
It is painful to write, but the truth is that any military expert will tell you that if an army does not want to release their prisoners of war, what ever the reason... Will simply kill them.
And that any other theory, military speaking, is simply a non-sense.