Answer (1 of 4): You are so right in saying it was “tactically idiotic.” The white Army name tape was definitely a product of the “peacetime Army” of the Post Korean War 1950s. Vietnam changed all that. We went to war in a tropical environment (not all jungle…) against a foe who was an expert at
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