Talk:Sidney T. Weinstein

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Sidney Weinstein was a unique leader. He could remember the name of just about any solder serving under him. His ability to address soldiers by name and ask them about sepecific family members was unique and said volumes about this officer and gentleman. He was a rare leader and always put his subordinates above himself. I am grateful that I knew him

Chester R. Milton CW3 (Ret)

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Sidney T.(Thomas "Tom") Weinstein served in the Republic of Vietnam in 1967-68 as the G-2 Advisor, 23rd ARVN Division, Ban Me Thuot, and was present in South Vietnam during the 1968 TET Offensive. Acting on 1LT Ronnie R. White's intelligence information of an all-out, nation-wide attack by enemy forces, then Major Weinstein briefed the Senior Advisor to 23rd ARVN Division, Colonel Henry A. Barber III. Following a midnight staff call three days before TET, Colonel Barber and the local Vietnamese Province Chief, LTC Than, put a regiment of armored personnel carriers (APC) mounted with 90mm recoilless rifles and filled with infantry soldiers, on duty the night the 1968 TET Lunar New Year celebrations were to begin. On the night of January 31, 1968, the city of Ban Me Thuot was attacked by an entire division of North Vietnamese regular army infantry troops, reinforced with two separate regiments of NVA infantry, plus at least two independent battalions of Viet Cong. American and South Vietnamese military were outmanned and out-gunned by at least ten to one and would have certainly been decimated, had not Major Weinstein briefed Colonel Barber of the impending "anticipated" attack and placed these friendly forces on duty the night of the 1968 TET celebrations. Innumerable lives were saved. Interrogations of prisoners of war (POW) after the offensive indicated the North Vietnamese High Command had strategized that the city of Ban Me Thuot would be "easy pickings" to capture and destroy, then to hold remaining live Americans as hostages to attempt to end the war. (Military historians documented this fact in 1968 as well as in 1975; the strategy did not work for North Vietnam in 1968, but it worked in 1975, resulting in much of the city of Ban Me Thuot to be destroyed and the majority of friendly military forces decimated.) Thanks to his fortitude, Major Weinstein's actions saved countless civilian and military lives in the city of Ban Me Thuot, as well as lives of American advisors to 23rd ARVN Division, Americans in Advisory Team #33, Special Forces A and B Teams, CIA officers, civilian Police Advisors, other intelligence officers, military police, U.S. State Department (USAID) employees, and support personnel.

In 1973-74, Lieutenant Colonel Sidney T. Weinstein served as Battalion Commander, 2nd MIBARS (Military Intelligence Battalion, Aerial Reconnaissance and Surveillance), headquarters located in Kaiserslautern, West Germany.

(Source: Ronnie R. White, Major, US Army (Ret), eyewitness who served under Major Weinstein in Vietnam as the S-2 Advisor, Advisory Team #33, 1966–68, and who served under LTC Weinstein as Commander, Detachment D, 2nd MIBARS, in Germany, 1973-74.)