Viet Cong Booby Traps
Peter Lloyd has a great primer up on his site about Viet Cong Booby traps during the late great hate in Indochina. (originally from SSG Arnold Krause C 2/12th Infantry.)
“It comes as no surprise that the utilization of IED’s (Improvised Explosive Devices) in the Middle East theatre of war, in Iraq and
Afghanistan, throws up similar problems faced by the foot soldier in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. The only difference is that one fighting force was primarily using boots for transportation and the other is using vehicles. The end result is the same: injure or kill using an explosive device without directly engaging the enemy.’
