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[–] 36 points 1 year ago (14 children)

OK, slitting throats killed the enemy. Fine.

Why cut off dicks after this? Strange paraphilia? Taking dicks as trophies? Dehumanise the enemy? Imagine going to the effort on an exposed battlefield to get a corpse in position to be able to cut off the trousers and find the dick under the clothes to cut it off in a bloody mess (chopping off a dick from a fresh corpse will bleed like crazy). WTF

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    They didn't state the order these things happened in...

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Pinning down 2 live soldiers enough to chop off a dick sounds even more difficult!

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago

    They were likely outnumbered and being injured during the whole process.

    The VC also could have removed them after being dead. I think it was less about they wanted to do it and more about psychological warfare. The whole platoon will be talking about those poor dismembered men and they may be worried theirs is next.

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago

    To invoke fear and damage the enemy's morale. Equally possible it could be internal propaganda to incite discipline among US forces. Soldiers are less likely to surrender if they believe they will be tortured. You can bet nobody fell asleep outside the wire after hearing that story.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I’m pretty sure the story is made up. Literally thousands of soldiers got high.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I prefer to put a happy spin on it and assume it was penis envy.

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