The night of December 25th his son, Matt Marcinko, announced, on social networks, the death of Richard “Dick” Marcinko, at 81 years of age, who was the first officer in command of the Team 6 of the SEALs of the United States Navy that participated in the Vietnam War.
“On Christmas night, we lost a hero, who is also known as The rogue warrior, the retired commander of the Navy SEALs and the creator of the SEAL Team Six, my father, Richard Marcinko, ”he tweeted on December 26 on his personal account.
Marcinko’s passing was also announced on the Facebook page of the Navy SEAL Museum, “Dick Marcinko played a very unique role in the history of SEAL, leaving a legacy like no other. ‘Demo Dick’ it is considered the main counterterrorism operator in the United States. ” The institution stated on its page.
Marcinko was promoted to lieutenant commander and assigned as naval attaché to Cambodia in 1973. He served in Cambodia for a year and a half before returning to U.S to take command of the SEAL Team two from 1974 to 1976. According to the Museum Navy SEAL, Marcinko led the team in what is known as its most successful operation in the Navy during the Vietnam War: the assault of May 1967.
According to official information, Marcinko and his men murdered a large number of soldiers from the Vietcong or National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam, that it was a communist political and military organization that fought against the regime of South Vietnam and against American troops.
It should be noted that Marcinko was deployed for the second time with the SEAL Team two during the Vietnam War and his platoon assisted the Army Special Forces during the Tet Offensive, which was planned by the North Vietnamese government and executed by the North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong in 1968 against the allied forces led by the United States, especially the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ERVN, Army of South Vietnam).
This operation is key since during the offensive, approximately 4 thousand American soldiers lost their lives, which increased the rejection of the war by the citizens of the United States.In addition, the offensive was also a turning point in the tactics of the North American army that meant a change in the strategies of that country, to finally seek negotiations in order to end the war.
The war and its nuances
The Vietnam War started in the 1960s, was taken as protagonists, on the one hand,to Republic of Vietnam or South Vietnam, and its ally the United States. In contrast, the Army of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam o North Vietnam, allied with the National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam or Viet Cong, and backed by the People’s Republic of China and the now extinct Soviet Union.
According to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the main cause of the conflict was the attempt to overthrow the government of South Vietnam. As a precedent, there were some communist guerrillas in this area. The attempted coup in South Vietnam was supported by North Vietnam, and led to a war between the two sides.
Within the information documented by various US media, various human rights violations were raised as a result of this war, as an example of this is on March 16, 1968 when US soldiers attacked a town in southern Vietnam, in the region from They are My, in order to annihilate the fighters of the Viet Cong. In that place they only found civilians whom they raped and murdered.
The platoon commanded by the lieutenantand William L. Calley Jr. swept Son My and killed 182 women, 173 children (including 56 babies) and 60 elderly people, as well as destroying 247 houses, killing all livestock and burning rice fields. The United States Army then called it a victory until the reporter Seymour hersh published the truth of the facts and, since then, the Massacre of My Lai it became the symbol of the massacres of Americans abroad.
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