{"id":83456,"date":"2018-12-13T15:39:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T19:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=83456"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:33:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:33:02","slug":"the-untold-story-of-robert-muellers-time-in-the-vietnam-war-wired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=83456","title":{"rendered":"The Untold Story of Robert Mueller’s Time in the Vietnam War | WIRED"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s job is to make sense of how Russia hacked the 2016 election. But to make sense of Mueller, you have to revisit Vietnam’s bloodiest battles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I make it a point to attempt an\u00a0understanding of those I disagree with.\u00a0 It has become all too\u00a0easy these days to use rhetoric in a dehumanizing manner.\u00a0 I do not have to agree with someone to respect them.<\/p>\n

William Sparks, a private first class in Hotel Company, recalls that Mueller got off the helicopter in the middle of a rainstorm, wearing a raincoat\u2014a telltale sign that he was new to the war. \u201cYou figured out pretty fast it didn\u2019t help to wear a raincoat in Vietnam,\u201d Sparks says. \u201cThe humidity just condensed under the raincoat\u2014you were just as wet as you were without it.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Mueller walked up from the landing zone, Kellogg\u2014who had no idea Mueller would be inheriting his platoon\u2014recognized his OCS classmate\u2019s gait. \u201cWhen he came marching up the hill, I laughed,\u201d Kellogg says. \u201cWe started joking.\u201d On Mueller\u2019s first night in the field, his brand-new tent was destroyed by the wind. \u201cThat thing vanished into thin air,\u201d Sparks says. He didn\u2019t even get to spend one night.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over the coming days, Kellogg passed along some of his wisdom from the field and explained the procedures for calling in artillery and air strikes. \u201cDon\u2019t be John Wayne,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s not a movie. Marines tell you something\u2019s up, listen to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe lieutenants who didn\u2019t trust their Marines went to early deaths,\u201d Kellogg says.<\/p>\n

And with that, Kellogg told their commander that Mueller was ready, and he hopped aboard the next helicopter out.<\/p>\n

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Robert Mueller receives an award from his regimental commander Col. Martin \u201cStormy\u201d Sexton in Dong Ha, South Vietnam in 1969.DAN WINTERS; ARCHIVAL PHOTO COURTESY OF THE OFFICE OF ROBERT MUELLER<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/blockquote>\n
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I am well aware of most peoples opinion of Mueller these days.\u00a0 For those of you who would like to know more about the man follow the link below.\u00a0 The author has an obvious bias but his article is well worth a read.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Source: The Untold Story of Robert Mueller’s Time in the Vietnam War | WIRED<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s job is to make sense of how Russia hacked the 2016 election. … The Untold Story of Robert Mueller’s Time in the Vietnam War | WIRED<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}