That's true. The Charlie didn't actually scare US soldiers though. They inflicted heavy casualties but they weren't some kind of boogeyman to the US personnel. And as the war progressed, the Vietcong got more and more conventional. During the 1960s they were guerrillas but after 1972 the North made them more conventional. Till 1975 they got integrated into the Vietnam Army. That was just after the war thought.
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