Apache was a female Viet Cong sniper and interrogator known as "Apache", because of her methods of torturing US Marines and ARVN troops and letting them bleed to death.

The term Việt Cộng (越共) appeared in Saigon newspapers beginning in 1956.

Under the terms of the Accords, military personnel were order… The Viet Cong was a network of communist agents and subversives, supplied and controlled by North Vietnam but active within South Vietnam. This article was originally published on Cracked.com, March 27, 2015.

He was honored by having a rifle named after him: a variant of the M21 dubbed the Springfield Armory M25 White Feather, for the nickname "White Feather" given to Hathcock by the North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN). Saigon, South Vietnam was a chaotic and bloody place in the winter of 1968.

She was killed in 1966 by Carlos Hathcock, who was part of a sniper team of the United States Marine Corps. Hathcock's record and the extraordinary details of the missions he undertook made him a legend in the U.S. Marine Corps. American soldiers referred to the Việt Cộng as Victor Charlie or V-C. "Victor" and "Charlie" are both letters in the NATO phonetic alphabet. Viet Cong officer is shot in the head, iconic photo taken.

The weapons weren’t necessarily from dead American soldiers. The origins of the Viet Cong begin with the Geneva Accords of 1954. The earliest citation for Việt Cộng in English is from 1957. The Viet Cong forces were very successful at acquiring and using American made arms, which led directly to most of their big successes in the early to mid-60s.

Author Evan V. Symon wrote this article based on his interview with a former Viet Cong soldier, Nguyen Hoa Giai, during the Vietnam War. It is a contraction of Việt Nam Cộng-sản (越南共產, Vietnamese communist), or alternatively Việt gian cộng sản (越奸共產, "Communist Traitor to Vietnam"). "Charlie" referred to communist forces in general, both Việt Cộng and North Vi… Carlos Norman Hathcock II (May 20, 1942 – February 22, 1999) was a United States Marine Corps (USMC) sniper with a service record of 93 confirmed kills. If at the height of the Vietnam War (1965-76) you had asked an American who their country was fighting in Vietnam, most would have said the Viet Cong. Even if your knowledge of the Vietnam War comes exclusively from Hollywood films and Texan textbooks that only refer to…