I spent 7 months as infantry in III Corp which was heavily populated with Viet Cong regular units as well as weekend warrior types. I actually laid eyes on several hundred VC (in day light). Of those, I can remember only 3 or 4 females who were actually armed. Those VC females assigned to laying out booby traps, I never saw, which would serve to increase your ratio slightly.
I spent 9 months in Quang Nam and Quang Tin provinces (I Corps) and don't recall ever seeing any armed women VC, though I saw many "civilians" I'm pretty sure were at night.
We did get a small dink supply column once, one of whom was carrying camoflauged bras. I'm betting they weren't for "the guys."
We stumbled into a field hospital, and some of the guys saw women running out as we came in. There was no resistance, they were hauling *** out. It was presumed that they were all medical personnel. They managed to secure all their patients and wounded. There was no solid evidence they were women just blood trails.
So you came up to a field hospital and the women ran out. were the blood trails from the women after you guys opened fire, or from the wounded in the hospital? Did you guys give chase? were they caught? Seems they could not have gotten far carrying their wounded? Just curious.
Our platoon was setting up a night location early that day. The LT sent a team out to set up some mechanicals. They walked into the perimeter of the NVA Field Hospital. The Hospital personnel (I think I was told they were all women) ran and a firefight broke out. I think most if not all the fire was from our side. The dinks must have been as surprised as our guys were. They moved out fast under fire by our small patrol. They were not pursued until the platoon got there. The Platoon responded and swept the place, there were bunkers huts lotsa cool stuff. I remember a bamboo operating table with blood on it. It seemed like somebody was getting some sort of procedure done when we arrived. I took some of the East Germain surgical tools. As soon as the area was secure we followed the blood trails, its not only difficult to track in the jungle it's very easy to walk into ambush. We had no casualties and preferred to keep it that way. We pulled out arty came in. The enemy would always have prepared hiding and fighting positions. The blood trails at best would have led to a dead NVA at worse to a ambush. The trail I followed went into some of the densest thickest bamboo I can remember. I couldn't imagine how someone could go through it wounded. I called out to the person I assumed was in there to " to surrender,I was a medic, don't shoot, etc" but there was no response. We pulled back, and like I said arty took care of it. Those coordinates were probably given to rangers to look into afterwards they would find any stragglers, and I bet they blew it up a few more times for good measure.
