Of course it did. I witnessed some of it. I stopped it in my unit. In fact, there were confrontations I had with guys from other units. By the way, I wasn't the only one.

But I completely disagree with SC's and SB's statement. We existed for the Nation; the Nation did not exist for us. We were in Vietnam to carry out national policy that had certain objectives and procedures. We usually did everything we could to win over the locals. We needed them and without them our job was that much tougher. American soldiers are not trasined to abuse and I for one held myself to a higher standard.