Were There any real Colonel Kurtz , as in the movie Apocalypse Now , during the Vietnam War ??

[52ndStreet]

My question, were there any real Colonel Kurtz, as in Apocalypse Now, during the Vietnam War.? That a military hit team had to go into Cambodia to take out.?!??! Did what happened in the movie ever take place.?? Your responses??!!

 

[1srelluc]

Colonel Kurtz in the film Apocalypse Now is loosely based on real-life Special Forces officer Robert Rheault, who was the commander of the secretive MACV-SOG during the Vietnam War

 

[52ndStreet]

Colonel Kurtz in the film Apocalypse Now is loosely based on real-life Special Forces officer Robert Rheault, who was the commander of the secretive MACV-SOG during the Vietnam War

So the character in the movie, was based on a real person.?? Robert Rheault, is that what you are saying. ? My question now is did the CIA or the U.S. Army send a hit team to take him out.??!!

 

[Sunni Man]

So the character in the movie, was based on a real person.?? Robert Rheault, is that what you are saying. ? My question now is did the CIA or the U.S. Army send a hit team to take him out.??!!

Hollywood nonsense.

 

[Sunni Man]

Jerry Shriver was considered the most bad ass MACV-SOG soldier during the Vietnam war.
The NVA feared him and sent killer hit team's to comb the jungle and take him out.
Even placing a large cash bounty on his head.
This is the guy to look up and read about.

 

[whitehall]

The only crazies in LBJ's war were in the Hollywood studios that created the myth of the psycho Soldier.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

There is no known record of the U.S. sending a hit team into Cambodia to kill Colonel Reault. However, there was a controversial incident involving Colonel Robert Rheault, a U.S. Army Special Forces officer, during the Vietnam War. He was implicated in the Green Beret Affair, where U.S. Special Forces executed a suspected double agent, Thai Khac Chuyen, in 1969.


This operation was part of Project GAMMA, a covert intelligence program that operated in Cambodia and Vietnam. The program was highly effective in gathering intelligence on North Vietnamese activities, but it was shut down after the execution incident.

 

[Persuader]

"Apocalypse Now," the film, is based on Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness". The film, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, retains the basic structure of Conrad's novella, but it shifts the setting to the Vietnam War and introduces different characters and situations.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Why THE FUCK where we even fighting in Vietnam in the first place?

 

[Persuader]

Why THE FUCK where we even fighting in Vietnam in the first place?

LBJ decided he wanted to fight N. Vietnam.....why? I have never heard a good answer to that.

 

[Persuader]

Lyndon B. Johnson and the Vietnam War

Why THE FUCK where we even fighting in Vietnam in the first place?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

LBJ decided he wanted to fight N. Vietnam.....why? I have never heard a good answer to that.

The draft ended right before my birthday

I probably would have gone had I been drafted

 

[Mushroom]

So the character in the movie, was based on a real person.?

As "based on a real person" as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Psycho, Deranged, House of 1,000 Corpses, Silence of the Lambs, and a character from ConAir were all based on Ed Gein.

When one reads that phrase in relation to movies, it really means 99% of it was completely made up.

Believe it or not, there is far more "reality" in Full Metal Jacket than in that movie.

But at least Full Metal Jacket was based on the auto-biography of an actual Marine who served in Vietnam. Apocalypse Now was based on an 1899 novel by Joseph Conrad.

 

[Persuader]

The draft ended right before my birthday

I probably would have gone had I been drafted

I remember stories about draftees going to Canada to avoid vietnam.... probably not that many.

 

[Persuader]

The draft ended right before my birthday

I probably would have gone had I been drafted

Google Search

 

[Meathead]

Hollywood nonsense.

Actually it was based on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.

Heart of Darkness - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

MAGA villains don't think they are villains.

All villains lack empathy, so they cannot humanize their victims.

 

[Sunni Man]

I remember stories about draftees going to Canada to avoid vietnam.... probably not that many.

An estimated 50,000 young men fled to Canada in order to avoid being drafted during the Vietnam era.
The Canadian government would grant them automatic citizenship.