{"id":208931,"date":"2026-05-01T12:10:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=208931"},"modified":"2026-05-01T12:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:18:12","slug":"marta-kos-potvrdila-eu-obustavila-finansijsku-pomoc-za-srbiju-dok-se-ne-popravi-situacija-u-pravosudju","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/marta-kos-potvrdila-eu-obustavila-finansijsku-pomoc-za-srbiju-dok-se-ne-popravi-situacija-u-pravosudju\/","title":{"rendered":"MARTA KOS CONFIRMED: EU suspended financial aid for Serbia until the situation in the judiciary improves!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Migration to Western countries, and even further across the ocean since the very beginning of the 20th century, was an Eldorado for many Serbs. However, the best evidence that life across the pond is not all milk and honey are the stories of those who experienced the dark side of the coin, like Tihomir Momirovi\u0107, who decided to serve in the US Army after part of his family moved to Chicago.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, shortly after arriving at the battlefield, he realized it was a big mistake, and in late 1967, through a combination of circumstances, he arrived in Yugoslavia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Karaburma, Tihomir moved to America, to the city of Chicago, with his father, brother, and sister when he was only 12 years old. He spoke about his life there and how he ended up in Vietnam while guest-starring on a show hosted by Belgrade Radio and Television journalist Svetolik Miti\u0107, which aired on February 24, 1968, following his return to Yugoslavia. On that occasion, he wore the uniform of a corporal in the US Army and brought photos from Vietnam with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the conversation with Miti\u0107, as well as with a journalist from the newspaper Ve\u010dernje novosti who conducted a multi-part interview with him, Momirovi\u0107 spoke about what the training for Vietnam looked like, the battles themselves, and the dark sides of the war. As he said then, after managing to get leave to visit his sick mother in Belgrade, he did not want to return to Vietnam, or to America itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I was 18 years old when I joined the army on July 30, 1966. I arrived at the Fort Knox military base in Kentucky, where I spent a week, before going to another base for training, and when I finished training, I went to Fort Polk in Louisiana. After that followed a departure to a base in Texas, from where I left for Vietnam. At that camp, they told us we were going to Vietnam. In America, we had jungle training; it was a replica of the Vietnamese jungle. There you train at night; we practiced how to attack, how to remove traps, how to set them, when to shoot, and when not to\u2026” he began his military story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As he said, the training camp had a replica of authentic Vietnamese villages where they had demonstration exercises. Specifically, they practiced tactics on how to search villages, how to storm them if they were hostile, and how to enter if they were peaceful. Additionally, as Tihomir said, they practiced how to find traps and how to search dugouts where enemy forces were hidden. What he specifically noted was the fact that during practice they used gas dropped from helicopters, which served to drive people out of houses so they could then be neutralized. According to him, that gas in real battles was more poisonous than the one used in training and could kill a person in just 15 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He received the call to go to Vietnam in May. As he said, he then received a month’s leave before heading to Vietnam in June 1967, via California and Hawaii. There they received money that was only used in Vietnam. His starting salary was 280 dollars, and as he said, it depended on the rank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The camp where they stayed during the war in Vietnam was surrounded by barbed wire, and only the fortification had bunkers and heavy weaponry necessary for defense. Also, inside were workshops for all vehicles, weapons, helicopters, and planes. From “Camp Cu Chi,” as it was called, Tihomir and the other American soldiers set out on all actions. During the conversation, he showed the RTS host on a map of the campus where everything was located, as well as what the life of a soldier inside the fortification looked like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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