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A majority of the PAVN and NLF leadership and officers were old veterans who previously fought Japanese occupation during WWII, and French occupation during the 1950s. To say that they were all just plucky civilians who took up arms to fight the Americans is inaccurate. Many of them were already experienced soldiers.
Then a few years later they liberated Cambodia and fought off an attempted occupation by China in 1979.
Vietnam was a force to be reckoned with well before the US tried to get its claws in it.