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Have you seen that movie on Netflix where these guys go back to Vietnam years later after the war, and they recover gold they hid when they were soldiers?
Pits and Mines - Mine Sweeper job would kill - You need to sweep, then add pressure to the ground, 2 step process that contradicts. Takes time - No easy solution - Others use livestock to trip the traps. I think this falls under self defense - Considering they will need to live with the mine field, it is hard to disarm them when you don't know where they are.
Every guerrilla warfare is like that! Afghanistan is the same thing. Story time: There's this story about how Alex The Great mother's wrote him a letter asking why he was taking so long to conquer that area Alex The Great send her bags of sand and ask her to cover the land around her palace with that sand. At night two warriors where entering the palace when one said "You first" and the othe "No, of course not. Yiu first". They eventually stab one another because of that Then Alex's mother wrote him in response "Now i get it! Even over there the sand is violent"
My grandpa fought in Vietnam. The stories he’d told me.. I believe while on Monkey Mountain, all the soldiers had befriended some dogs. One morning they woke up and walked outside and all the dogs had been cruelly butchered. The horror of seeing these dogs wasn’t the worst part. The worst part...was knowing the enemy was right there, while they all slept. The rumors of these traps, and all the psychological warfare used by both sides was horrifying. But what upsets me the most was seeing my elderly grandpa talking to some Vietnamese friends who had fought as his enemy during the war. These men were sitting around having drinks together. Yet not long ago in the grand scheme of things...they’d have killed each other. It just really struck me how these men thought of each other as terrifying enemies at one point. They would’ve killed each other. All because of political and circumstantial issues of the time. And yet....like 40 years after that, they sat around talking, having drinks, laughing together. Men who showed pictures of their time in service, their families, and their lives after the war. It’s like all that happened for no reason. No good reason. They all lost friends during the war, and yet there they sat. It just all seemed so senseless at that point. All that psychological turmoil...and it all ended when the political tides turned.
Daniel Robinson Daniel Robinson Except it does because they *literally were*. I get your sentiment mate, but my statement wasn’t an assumption. Who they fought with, they were literally known as the enemy to people like my grandfather, and my grandfather would’ve been their enemy. It wasn’t a “he knew Vietnamese guys” and an assumption. The whole premise of their meeting and conversation was based upon the fact that they all survived a war in which they fought against each other.
@Daniel Robinson no man, 80% of Vietnamese population supported and fought along side NVA and VC. Understand how there were 3 million foreign soldiers including the US fought alongside with 3 million Vietnamese soldiers, while North Vietnam have nearly zero foreign military troops fought by their side. Why do South Vietnamese government need foreign troop if they were supported by the local, it is because a large portion didn't supported them. It shown 30% of South Vietnamese soldiers in action were Vietcongs in disguise, another 30% of South Vietnamese soldiers were ghost soldiers which none exist (this is similar to Afghanistan soldier), and 60% of South Vietnam military budget gone to the government pocket.
My grandfather received a bite from a snake in Vietnam and got so sick he was flown to Hawaii. That’s how my mom came about. A sick marine can still get the job done I guess.
The weird part is that those Kraits are actually very calm and unwilling to bite unless bothered. But obviously, after being tied together or nailed to things, they were p*ssed off.
@@Isaaczsf why not? I did. And read about kraits too. Reading as a kid about the jungle and deadly animals is why I ended up studying biology. Kids shouldn't be shielded from the truth, but no reason to be a foul mouthed heathen either.
@@user-ty5di3ku6o I wouldn’t consider pissed to be foul mouthed, I suppose we might just differ on that. I just didn’t think it was relevant enough to a child learning about some of the most gruesome traps in recent war history. I don’t really care though lol
@@sqtoquickforu9429 if your wounded it takes two people to get u to safety hence 3 soldiers are out off the fight, your dead your mates are still in the fight.
This is pure BS. I fought in 2 wars and never tried to wound an enemy. in combat you shoot to kill not to wound. A wounded enemy is just as dangerous as one not wounded
@@vinn3327 that dont apply in real war. i speak from experience. In a combat situation, you don’t care whether the guy in front of you is dead or “only” wounded. What counts is that he doesn’t move anymore, not an inch! If he does, and if you think that he might still pose a risk for you or your buddies, you might want to put another round in him. In this regard, it’s better to be on the safe side and a killed enemy is better than a wounded one. Of course, many people say it’s better to wound an enemy because your enemy needs a lot of manpower to carry him away and care for him. This is true, but there’s a more important factor that has to be taken into account: The devastating psychological impact that a dead comrade has on the morale of your unit. In battle, people get constantly wounded and every soldier is used to it. After the combat is over, you will go and visit your wounded buddies in the hospital, swap stories, look at the nurses, and get drunk with them. A dead comrade, on the other hand, can completely screw up your fighting spirit. If there are many dead, your unit’s cohesion is in jeopardy. I’ve seen units getting disbanded because the kill toll was too high. The soldiers had lost all trust in their leaders. Killing your enemies is better than just wounding them.
I went to Vietnam in 2019, went both Saigon and Hanoi war museums. They showed many examples of these traps. Overall experience was very nice. The people were extremely nice and friendly to me being American. Going back soon. Great video!!
We welcome everyone, but next time you would be surprised, if you have enough time for visiting, that every provinces have their own martyrs' cemetery, everywhere, millions people died! So we do enjoy these peaceful times def, but in Vietnam we usually say : "we forgive but never forget"!
It's weird. Vietnam really wasn't that long ago, in terms of generations. Tens of thousands of soldiers died, only for us to be (at least somewhat) friendly not that much later. Makes me think all of them died for nothing.
@@Neckromorph they were died for the hope of stopping communist sir , nonesense. American chose helping French, any an other way for vietnamese people except communist group sir ? The French expoited them about 100 years, my grandmother said that many of vietnamese people didnt have enough foods to alive at that time ((
Sometime in the distant future, when your part of the world is on the losing end of an invasion from a foreign force, this stuff is going to look like a playbook.
@Moe Barker The US was there out of obligation and for profit. France pretty much expected it cause of the US's previous involvement in nam. And the corpo's were getting a slice.
In the distant future automated drone swarms will use flir and satellite based ground penetrating radar scans to sweep large areas before the cat-tread based remote soldier units with motion and heat based tracking are airdropped from sub orbital deployment stations. A fully rendered 3D environmental map distributed to all units involved with the operation. The more that automation and technology is involved in warfare, the less relevant tactics from past centuries will be.
Well id be pretty mad if I lived south of mcaulay culkin and after trying to force me to adhere to and put his his political signs he puts buried sticks covered in poo all over my yard for me to fall into.. id prob be pesci pissed
@@MekongMonsterSC The socialists were fighting to free their country from imperialists for decades. The south was a puppet state, not a separate country.
Let us remember with all imperialist might & slaughter of US government & military industrial complex could NOT break brave courage of Vietnamese freedom fighters against invading force.,
@@MekongMonsterSC Vietnamese forces that drove out the French after many years of colonial slavery finally won their freedom. US intervened and installed a fake President (Diem) who was oppresive to the Buddhists and other non-catholics. In the end, the South "freedom and democracy" loving" Puppet government was more cruel and terrorist-like than the Communist North the US portrayed to be evil. The Buddhist monk who self-immolated and burned himself was the start of the downfall of the cruel and puppet South Vietnam President!!! FREE AND UNITED VIETNAM KICKED out both the FRENCH AND THE AMERICANS out of their motherland. Even the Chinese and UN/US backed up Cambodia's devilish Pol Pot. These are the bravest race of modern history. 42 to 1 casualty and still did not surrender to the US and now their new generation is enjoying a PEACEFUL and UNITED nation, unlike the Korea which the US imperialists successfully divided forever. Before North invade Vietnam, the South Vietnamese were killing monks and Buddhism followers and people who support the North in South Vietnam, 40,000 people were locked down, 10,000 were executed. Learn that 80% of South Vietnamese were supporting the North, 70% of Vietcong soldiers were South Vietnamese, 30% of South Vietnamese soldiers were fake soldiers they didn’t even want to fight with the North, 1.5 million South Vietnamese soldiers surrender right on the day North Vietnam army came to Saigon despite all large number of the aids they still had from US and their South Vietnam president fled out of Saigon 3 days before that, so much for patriot.
My grandpa served in 'nam and i remember his stories about these sticks he said one of his friends had one of these pass through both his legs. They managed to bring him to safetey. Good o'l gramps called it porcupine dicks. R. I. P.
I am Vietnamese, we went through great wars with national pride If you want to see the fierce war, learn the history of Vietnam If you want to see safety, peace and no racism, come to Vietnam If you want to see what forgiveness of war is, go to Vietnam If you want to see smiles and lots of friendliness, come to Vietnam We have history , culture , travel and great food Welcome to Vietnam
I am pure American and I know that the Vietnamese are a very good people. And I am humbled and impressed by the kindness and forgiveness that you show to us Americans, despite the fact that we were totally wrong to invade your country and kill your people. I had a Vietnamese co-worker (who lives in Westminster, California) and he was the nicest and most gracious person I have met. So I say God bless you and all the Vietnamese people!!
"The conventional army loses if it does not win, the guerilla wins if he does not lose." Especially true with a foreign invading army and the indigenous guerilla fighting for his home.
@@MichaelTheophilus906 with Vietnam, it was the means to get their independence from colonial powers, which is why after the Americans left and South Vietnam capitulated they fought the chinese, they just wanted independence and communism was the best path to get it
But the Vietcong guerillas DID lose. They were obliterated in 1968 during the TET offensive. The standing army of North Vietnam ALSO lost in their largest invasion of the war in 1972. And the capital of North Vietnam ALSO "lost" when American B-52's just about obliterated it before they surrendered and returned to the peace table in Paris.
It was a brutal proxy war that we should have never been in and the French were taking a Vietnamese side. a lot of my dad's friends died and some came back heroin addicts all kinds of weird STDs just awful.
@@JamesonsTravels Vietnam is a paradise right now. My grandfather was also in the war and he said it was basically a shitshow that you were sent out by yourself for sometimes weeks with very little radio communications for fear of being "triangulated" he was also in Korea as well may he RIP died peacefully at 92 two months ago he is and always will be my hero.
@Christhorpe Junction yeah Vietnam is apparently pretty cool I know a guy who went to Vietnam a couple years ago looking for soldiers whose bodies were never recovered, he said it was pretty awesome
I think most of the modern conflicts amarica should of never got involved. America needs to stop pretending it's the top milltary power and leader of the world. Let's be honest America as not achieved a meaningful victory since ww2, you couldn't win at Korea, you lost Vietnam, and the conflicts america do win are usally poor undeveloped countries they take the oil or w.e resources they can plunder. It's wrong, America biggest bully in the world
@@dudewithpews6417 if you ever get to go just do it just don't even think about it just do it it's a dirt cheap and everything is beautiful :] thank you I miss him very much and my mom is very upset means the world to me.
A lot of that ammo was found in Iraq too if I remember correctly. Its basically a parting present with a note saying "haha, we raided your supply cash!"
@@citizen6119 I havent yet reached legal age to join but I will follow in my father's footsteps he was a Ranger and never goes around adding it the title to everything he does
“A slow painful death with no anecdote available...” That’s horrible. I mean the guy is dying. The least you can do for him is tell him a comforting story while he goes...
It was interesting about infections of wounds, I am an Aussie EMT and recently watched a doco about survival rates from soldiers in Vietnam compared to the Falklands conflict. It was amazing how temperature and humidity contributed to infection and deaths compared with fighting in cold conditions.
@@GodBlezzAmerica I wish i could remember, it was quite a few years ago. It was on RUclips and it was on the Falklands war. If i can find it I'll send you the link.
Septic is nasty. Australia knows this all to well. Humidity + heat = infection on even the smallest wound. Not so much here in Canada. Humidity on the west coast is generally low all year round.
My uncle lived these nightmares. I have heard stories of how they used the sticks to trap a Marine squad and wiped them out. He was in Army intelligence and had to do an After Action Report on the fight. What he found was that the veteran units walked through the rice patty but when a new squad of fresh Marines did the patrol they weren't aware that they needed to do this and stayed on the dry trail in the middle of the patty. A VC on the right opened fire and the Marines dropped left to take cover from the incoming fire. The left side had been setup with the sticks and disabled the entire squad. Then another VC hidden in foliage directly at the end of the trail opened up with a RPK and took out the entire squad. When they investigated, they found that the 2 firing positions of the VC had trash left. By the amount of trash, these 2 men had been hiding there for almost 3 weeks waiting for someone do just what this Marine squad had done. I'm not trying to say this unit was dumb, it just shows what happens when we don't train properly. My uncle trained men after the war and it is human nature to stay dry or to drift to objects in the middle of an open field. During training he would be in that position in the middle of the field and take out the entire squad because they'd bunch up. Obviously simulated but he did it to get the point across because of his experiences in Vietnam.
i have heard some stories when i dug deep after some drinks with some vietnam buddies. never hero type but i stepped on this or that. picked this up. hence no arm or leg left.
Yes, but eventually you come against an enemy who knows you are going to be trained to avoid that central dry path, and he booby traps everything else except that path...
Americans obsession with kicking cans and picking stuff up is still a huge weakness. The fact that afghans put explosives inside coke cans on the road is crazy. Our inability to leave things be aided our enemy more then anything
My grandfather never told me much about his time as a marine, the only thing he told me and was probably comfortable telling me was he was in a town and non of the water was clean so they were only drinking beer and a marine made a threat to kill every single one of the Vietnamese and my grandfather told him he would kill him the second he pointed his gun at another innocent and he just went to sleep
I think it's true what they said in Jarhead when the drill Sergeant asked the protagonist if his grandfather ever talked about the war and he said only once.And the drill sergeant replied well that's how you know he wasn't lying
@@ivanvalle8704 it's interesting I have a lot of marine and military friends although I never served and also family and half of them hate that movie and half of them love it.I've heard so many people tell me it's one of the most realistic movies and one of the most unrealistic movies. The hurry up and wait aspect of everything is spot on but they get pissed off about how they get deployed with their drill sergeant is their officer which never ever happens. You also don't get selected for sniper School while sitting on a toilet. I'm a classical musician and I love Amadeus it's pretty spot on but there's some other classical music movies that are stupid. But some people confuse movies with documentaries it just depends on your taste
Actually, Those flip flop wearing farmers did nothing to America interest. It's all about American politicians Cold War miscalculation and overconfidence. I feel sorry for those young Americans who were sent 10000 miles from their home to fight and die in a brutally meaningless war and the lives of millions of innocent Vietnamese.
@@rawbee8932 It’s about live and death, kid. U would cry your fking ass off and beg for your mom if were sent into a war such like that. It’s always easier to type a comment about who wins or loses than getting a history lesson
Hey Jameson I didn't realize you were a Vietnam vet My uncle also got drafted and man oh man you guys are a whole different breed. If it wasn't the war that killed you coming back and dealing with cancer PTSD suicide all that jazz . You seem pretty damn well adjusted but I'm sure it wasn't easy. Thank you for your service
Same story for VN soldier, they feel overwhelmed because big gun, tank, helicopter... Everything they never seen in their life. But behind them is family, friend,... So they keep fighting and go on.
remember , they have to fight a super power of the world , bomb rain down from the sky daily , the the family got raped , killed , burned alive , they lost almost every battle to the USA . It like using stick to fight gun , but the bamboo stick is all they had , and they fucking stab their foe with those effectively
@@yippers7230 people forget easily that it's the South Vietnam government who called the US to help them against the North Vietnam communist invasion, an invasion which didn't respect the 1954 Geneva Accords.
I served with a lot of Vietnam veterans who used to tell me not only about the "Two-step " snake, but also getting attacked by tigers in certain regions.
Someone I know went to Vietnam a couple years ago. While there they took a walking tour of the Ho Chi Minh trail. They said the Vietnamese guides were very strict about not wondering off the trail. Because the jungle is still loaded with booby traps ours and theirs.
And also the undetonated bombs that are left behind since the war. A lot of Vietnamese were crippled or died because of these War era explosives. And the Ho Chi Minh trail is one of the main targets for bombing runs during the war, so there'll be a lot of bombs left there.
My father served 3 tours of Vietnam as a combat medic. He told me while they moved through those VietKong camps while "ghosting" the village. He told me ghosting was not leaving anything behind or picking up anything. He said they would not even leave their cigarette butts on the ground to reveal that they were even there.
The Vietnam war is one of the few things that genuinely scares me Even though I’ll probably never go though any of this stuff it’s still terrifying to think about
@@JamesonsTravels I just saw Dan MGTV cover it from three months ago, I had to go watch your video. I think he is actually insane, very insecure for that matter
I was an infantry platoon leader in Viet Nam and I always feared the punji pits and bamboo traps placed along traveled areas. Also I saw the "2 step " snake one time in a booby trap in Cholon Saigon in November of 1967 after a fire fight that caused 65% cacualties in my company
My grandpa had one leg get sliced open by one, he didn't notice at first but somebody else pointed it out and he had to go back home. He also encountered a tiger. They smelled something awful at night and didn't know what it was. Later he and my grandmother visited a circus and when they were shown the tigers he remembered the smell.
@@andreasjuhl2731 Oh cmon, u at parties like this? I mean, some people are downers but you are on a whole new level my dude. Atleast he has something to tell about his family that hes proud of. no need to be the grumpy old man that just shines with pessimism... gotta imagine: "Yeah, i told that dude on RUclips that hes a fucking weeb, that fucking nerd hahahaha, his parents must be so proud while i myself just point at others and cant just mind my own business". But really, great Comment telling somebody over the Internet what a Loser he is because what he does and not does at the moment even if u dont even know him personally nor even know if he has a Job or smth else. U must be like a really likable Person...
Guys it all comes back to British people. Like the person above me said, they used guerilla tactics. We when we fought against Great Britain, we Americans used guerilla tactics too. We hide on top of trees, ambushes, traps and just fighting with what we have. Great Britain had also advance technology back then, meaning more troops, guns, and fire power, but we all won because of these tactics.
Growing up I always remembered my dad’s big toe nail that was split in the middle and grew crossways from a punji stick that went through his boot when he jumped out of the chopper in a rice paddy when he was in Vietnam, amongst other scars. Sweating in the middle of winter during malaria flare ups.
Malaria can mess up your health for a long time. A WW2 Marine in my hometown caught it in the Pacific. It messed him up for years especially zapping his stamina which isn't good for a farm boy.
Taking trophies from your enemies has been going on since the beginning of time , i am trying to decide whats worse , the government signing your death warrant by sending you into a situation where the probability of survival was very low or getting put on death row.
@Master Catnip U NAILED IT 100%!!! That said, as a citizen the military must remain effective and ready. The govt takes advantage of this, and that is why there are fences and razor wire around the capital, PR seeding BS. Mlitary 4 those w the balls 2 go in... it's sad that these old bastards tell them what to do.
As a citizen the military must remain effective and ready. The govt takes advantage of this, and that is why there are fences and razor wire around the capital, PR seeding BS. Mlitary 4 those w the balls 2 go in... it's sad that these old bastards tell them what to do.
@beat thebans True, the biggest mistake, any military have made around the world is letting the media in and being embedded. Let the lads do their work and move on.
there's something not only scary but frustrating about the effectiveness of primitive booby traps from the Allied perspective... basically a superiority complex, that was very real, as they were superior in technology as an armed force, but being constantly afflicted by this basic level of war...
@Jordan Spencer I would assume it was considered, and then curbed pretty quick... Mid cold war, us didn't want to give the Soviets any excuse to use them as well, cuban missile crisis was still in everyone's mind... Wasn't that it was cheaper, it was safer, and mutually assured destruction exists today as it did back then
@Jordan Spencer Funny, you know, 5 countries i think had the Nuke at the time. Russia and China included. It was the cold war and i'm pretty sure that a well informed man like you would know what would have been the consequences. Though, all kind of chemicals have been spread by the tons over Vietnam, soldier or not, so your wish for cheap devastation has been partly fulfilled.
my grandfather served in Vietnam as a recon marine.he’s told stories of when they’re were walking thru the jungle and one of the guys in his group went off to use the bathroom and they heard a scream. they ran to him and saw that he was being malled by a tiger.( the man survived and the tigers pelt is now hanging above his fireplace)
@@davidnguyen2410 there were some tigers in north east South Vietnam (state of Vietnam, created at Geneva or paris conference if i remember correctly some of those two cities...) , especially near border with Laos. For the rest of Vietnam you are right, they are extinct. There were reports of tiger attacks and tiger stalking preys during vietnam war to, but you really needed to be most unluckiest bastard to come and be hunted by a tiger in place where they were considered extinct...
Here we go!! I was the N.C.O.I.C. and Chief Instructor of HQ. Co. 13th Engineers (Viet Cong Orientation and Booby Trap Trail) on Camp Pendleton in the ravine below the Lake O'Neill Hospital in 1967. !! Lewis Puller Jr. was a platoon leader and he and his platoon replaced of all units in my platoon. I was 3rd Platoon Kilo Company 3rd. Bn. 27th Marines. We stayed two weeks with his platoon to show them the ropes. We were in the (fact ) heaviest booby-trapped area of Vietnam. Quang Nam Province south of Da Nang. The book "EVERY MARINE" A Battle for Go Noi Island details this story. This is also my story, I helped write the book. Naturally, a lot of memories flooding back. On the traps, two besides what was covered were, a simple nail sticking up and a hollowed-out piece of bamboo. You would then file the percussion cap to almost paper-thin and then insert it into the tube and let it rest on the nail head. Then dig a hole deep enough so the foot coming into it was now on a straight down projection. Pressure on the point of the round would fire the percussion cap and the bullet first would come up through your foot and if lucky soldier leaning forward to take the next step the bullet would strike again in the chest or under the chin. Result causality, and some extra men you can't afford to lose. Another if the V.C.had no supplies they would dig a hole big enough to accommodate a whole combat boot about 6 inches deep and then angle it to one side so you twisted or broke your ankle!! Our Special Ops did it to them and they did it to us. Anywhere and where we patrolled all of a sudden there would be a grenade beside where we were walking. ??You would assume someone in front dropped it. You'd pick it up and stick it on you and turned it back into the armory. Well, a Marine named Dillard Peterson got it from the armory. Later going through a village that was supposed to be deserted, Dillard came across an artesian well. Said he would drop a grenade in it because sometimes they would hide underwater using a reed to breathe until you pass!! He pulled the pin and it detonated the second the spoon flew off. Short fuse. They would take the blasting cap off and tape all the delay out (instant boom). When I finally got back to the Company area, I went through the armory and found 4 more that were short-fused. No, Dillard Peterson lasted all of 45 seconds before he died. This was tough to write.
Yes, my Dad called the percussion ammunition in a tube or nestled inside bamboo; "Toe Poppers". He said that he had seen them made with rifle ammunition and shotgun shells.
@@nebulajar3259 Dillard was a very good human being!! I was to rotate out to back home on the 14th of June. He was to rotate the 14 of July to get married!! Dillard Peterson, we called him Sweet Pete!! Thank you for your concern!!
"And the thought that you could die a slow painful death without any anecdote available" 1:37 Snake bites you... but then offers to tell you a funny story about its father. Love your videos. Great stuff!
I've given care to Vietnam vets, and one of them told me why is was a "confusing war"; the enemy literally looked exactly like the allies because it was a war of ideologies within the same ethnic group, not to mention uniforms among the VietCong weren't always a thing and hid among civvies, hence guerrilla warfare. I'm glad to be a caregiver and hear vets' stories and be there for them to lend an ear.
@@lockiet7227 I understand that from a civvie's perspective, but to hear it from the perspective of a vet who witnessed the tangible confusion on the battlefront really adds another layer of understanding. "The reason why we're there" that academia speculate and debate in the college forums go out the window when survival becomes priority. That vet expanded my perspective on the matter.
I’m a Vietnamese, born and raised in Saigon after the war. When I was 14, I traveled to the US to study. I only ran into a Vietnam war vet once, it was a weird encounter.
@KISHANTH JEYAMOORTHY lots of people turn up missing when they go places they don't belong, oh well. Mind your business means a lot. Must not be from the south, or country areas in general. Everyone down to dairy farmers have them. Castle law here. Cops follow it and sometimes help.
Scariest "booby trap" I can imagine is a child forced to carry a bomb/grenade that asks for your help. Heard terrible stories about that from Iraq/Afganistan
I'd blame the doctrine they put on their people's mind. thinking it was the cause of religion. the truth was that suicide bombing is literally suicide, so they go straight to hell. these thing typically taught by Shia doctrine.
Religious fanaticism does crazy things to the mind. It lets people find justification for unjustifiable suffering. I know I'm bringing up this topic, but to anyone who might disagree: let's be honest, this isn't unique to Islam. Its just scared, insecure people finding comfort in their religion and (sometimes but not always) this fear is taken advantage of by an extreme cult-like movement, leader, or group. It could happen to Christians, Hindus, Pagans, or believers of any other religion. It doesn't even have to center on religion, either! Cults of personality can do this as well. (sorry for ranting)
@@hughquigley5337 personally i wouldn't acknowledge Shia as part of Islam either. they planted false beliefs on other Muslims. even some Sunni believed them. and yes, they manipulated peoples fear into fighting a fake cause. *sigh *
Problem is that it has nothing to do with Religion. The horrible things that happen are the worst sins one could ever do. Islam is just a cover up. They hide behind it to feel better about themselves or to have Something the general public over there allready respects/fears over years they turned the rules of islam on its head so that they can make use of it. Hope you can understand what i am trying to say.
As a Vietnamese myself, i can tell you something. First, those sticks are the old methods in the old time, back when our ancestor fought the Mongol Dynasty. I can see it could still be applied in a very efficient way even in the times of Guns. Second, the problem was, the American soldiers did not know the teritorries like the Vietnamese did. It's our home, after all. Third, that is why American soldiers needed the South Vietnamese to join this fight, in order to defeat the Communists. The South was the force that was able to defeat the North Communists. I just had no idea why the American retreated in 1973 when they were on the brink of victory. There's more i can tell you, but i believe these are enough.
@@hunggamerofficial3252 US retreated due to bad press and a lack of popular support back home, in the end the guerrilla achieved it's goal, to prolong the war enough that the costs, both material an "spiritual", were to high to keep it, so ultimately the US pulled out. it was not that different than what the afghans did to the Soviets in the 80s (and with the Americans now)
My Father served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War and although he doesn't talk a whole lot about his experiences over in Vietnam, he's open to talking about it if I ask him about it, which I don't do often but sometimes we exchange and swap stories about our experiences in the Army, as I served 2011-2014.
@@koscocosco5309 ikr🤣🤣.But that's all they can be proud of.Invading weaker countries,got their asses kicked out,then make movies and video games where the US are portrayed as winner lol
All the technology and high budget spent on the war, sticks and holes in the ground were so effective in taking out and slowing down the opposition.....
I had the honor of a Vietnam POW telling me his story non stop for hours a few years back. Won't repeat it, but I will say I'll never forget the scars he had.
If you are into this kind of stuff and happen to be in Vietnam I recommend you taking half an hour boat trip from Ho Chi Minh city to Cu Chi tunnels. They make very informative expeditions inside underground tunnels where Vietnamese was hiding during the war and showcase all the traps they made. Truly gruesome
Dead right. can't even hold their own elections without screams of fraud, yet sticking their noses in other countries affairs. Usa is definitely the school yard bully of the world.
Thanks for the video and your thoughts. For me, a 'bouncing Betty' was on my mind. I was a Marine grunt 68-69 two tours, barely 100 days. The first tour was with Golf 2/3 at Charlie 2 just over the bridge at Cam Lo. Once when walking point on a Platoon patrol I came to the top of a hill. I froze at what I saw. The hill was some 30-40 yards in length and width. Elephant grass covered most of the hill, and trees ringed three sides. As I stood there the words 'this could be it for you' flashed in my mind. I didn't want to take the next step. My team leader came up, and I told him, and before he left I told him that I think my next step is my last. He came back and had me back up a step. Then, he went through the green weeds, vines etc that were pressed against my stomach and chest. He found one was a green plastic trip wire. We went back to our firebases, and engineers went there and found the wire had an anti-tank mine on one side and an anti-personnel mine on the other side. God is good! I went back to Vietnam in 2018-2019. They are wonderful and forgiving people. Paul Meuse
Thank you for your service sir. I believe your story 100% and can relate. Ill keep the details to mine to myself for now. But nothing outside God Himself can explain experiences such as yours an very similar experience I had deployed and here. I did 3 deployments to Afghanistan with the 10th Mountain Division, 11B Infantry 2/3 was the hottest AOs at the time. God gave us those signs and dreams like I've had the night before patrols and kept us here for reasons we don't and may never know. That is only for Him to know. Your story gave me chills and made me remember dreams and feelings I experienced and for the millionth time just thanked Him again.
@@JMc10287 Good evening from Killarney, Co. Kerry, Ireland. Mr. Jamesons, one thing for sure is if I had a choice of Vietnam over Afghanistan or Iraq, I'd takeVietnam. My tour I was medevaced from Fire Support Base Cunningham - A Shau valley after 9 weeks. See: 'Sapper Attack in the A Shau valley'. We got there after the main assault, but had nightly sapper attacks. I wasn't hit; I'd had a seizure, and dysentery for 6 weeks. Best weight reducing plan of my life. ;-) When I was checking into my next duty station (Camp Lejeune) I told them I wanted to go back. I did for a short tour. Another seizure. My first time I got stuck carrying the radio for my Plt Sgt., after a month I found out I was the 5th in 6 months. God is good as the Irish say. The funny stuff helps. We (4) were going out on an LP one night, and were at the spot, and still standing. The senior grunt didn't like the spot. To save arguing in the dark, the patrol leader let him pick the spot. When we lay down it was slippery... he picked a spot with huge wide piles of fresh water buffalo dung. Our torso, legs, arms were full of it. Keep up the good work
Yes... dying without an "anecdote" available would be a tough one. However, as long as there was an antidote available, I'd put up with the lack of a short story.
I have 3 uncles that fought in vietnam and they told me stories that just left me crying cus of what they saw and did. I myself am a Marine vet and fought in Iraq. What we did and saw does not compare to vietnam or Korea and WW2 and ww1
Chesty Puller's son life story was really sad. Also, I can't imagine what other untold Vietnam Vets went through.. being poor, drafted, fighting an unpopular war, went back broken and crippled, and everybody at home seemed want to have a piece of you to spit on. What a terrible moment in history.
Yes it was a hell of a thing. 2.7 million of us Vietnam Veterans served .Only 673,000 were drafted 1/4 of those who served in Vietnam. We won the battles ,but the politicians lost the war , not the Soldiers ,Sailors ,Airmen and Marines that fought there !!!
I went in in 1975... I was 17. I talked to many that had been there. I was not that upset that I had been to young to go. I love my brothers who suffered the heat. Semper Fi... Thank you, each and all of you.
The Vietnamese also have a special booby trap for Huey. It's a grenade was tied to a thread (act as a timer) that connected to a wooden propeller, whenever a Huey flying at tree level near enough, the wind cause the propeller to spin and then after a few seconds, the thread got stretched out to hard that it triggers the grenade to detonate
No, our people were well seasoned fighters. We had fought the Chinese since the beginning of time then France came in. Americans in their arrogance did not listen to France and still invaded our land.
@@JamesonsTravels my great uncle was bitten by a snake that had been tied and locked to the “roof” of a Vietcong tunnel he was a tunnel clearer (I forget the actual name) and he lost his hand cause the poison made his skin rot
My kid spent 10 months west of Saigon and there is all kinds of creeping, crawling stuff like spiders, centipedes and snakes. Lots of mold from rotting vegetation. Plus disease ridden rodents, and a surplus of parasites. Now this is something that rarely pops up because some parasites don't "emerge" for years, even decades.
It seems unlikely that too many people would be dying from snake bites. Nowadays we know that snakes tend not to inject much venom into bites on large animals who are not intended to be prey like humans, and are instead sort of delivering a warning or defensive strike. Falling into a stake lined pit and being left to die for days... That does it for me
I actually managed to get caught in a trap from WW2, not near as serious as these ones. I was visiting in Norway and we went to see some bunkers used by the Germans to hold prisoners in WW2. I was about 12 years old and after we had seen the bunkers me and my cousin chased each other through the forest when we were both thrown to the ground, turns out there was still barbwire traps in the ground around the bunkers and both me and my cousin got caught in one. Luckily for us we were wearing fishing boots so the wire didn't penetrate the skin but it's a bit eerie to think that a war prisoner could have been caught in it and maybe died for it.
@@SA-yn6pg the entire country was pretty much against the war. Soldiers were disrespected and spit on when they came home because most americans knew the war was pointless but didnt know who to put the blame on.
One of my dad's friends got pricked in the head by a thorn, just a thorn. Left it and left it, but it had given him a terrible infection that got into his brain. He ended up killing himself because of the mental disability it caused. You really can't take chances with infection
Viet Nam in 60's was like a 5th century country--no, none zip clean water in whole country. Boil it 20 minutes, whos got 20 minutes on patrol ! Halazone tabs in canteen makes water taste like swim pool but won't kill you either. It was so unhealthily even the people that lived there for centuries had sores en stuff wrong not a healthily place.
@@TheSixStringGuy He was a landscape gardener so came into contact with these things a lot, he was really unlucky because the thorn was propped up against a tree which he laid back on and that's how it was able to penetrate a softer area of his head (near the brainstem) just enough for the infection to have easier access to his brain. At the time you'd just think it was nasty thorn prick, it hurts but it doesn't do anything else. Little do you know what's on the surface of the thorn, gotta be so careful man.
We entered their home, first mistake. MANY soldier’s/Marines were drafted and didn’t want to be there. The Vietnamese had help from China. China would NEVER allow the US to occupy a country bordering theirs.
@@MusMasi China invaded Vietnam for several reasons. First, Vietnam was occupying the Spratly Islands which China claims. The Khmer Rouge of Cambodia are Chinese allies so the Chinese had to stop the Vietnamese from destroying them. Lastly, the Chinese people living in Vietnam were routinely beaten and sometimes killed by Vietnamese authorities.
I love our Vietnam vets. Everytime I speak with one they always say they feel bad for me and others having to go to the dessert. I always tell them that they are the real deal because most of us would hate the jungle and what they had to deal with and encounter. Tiger's, booby traps, constantly raining, bugs, snakes, etc. Yea I'll go back to Iraq in a second before Vietnam if I had the choice.
Jungle only in way south. central part was mostly paddies and fields farm country. Chu Lal has miles of white sandy areas that look like an African desert. Sunglasses or blinding sun all day.
My Father was in nam war and he said he saw a lot of soldiers go in that jungle and he saw even fewer come out without injuries, my father said the only reason he isn't missing a body part is because he was really lucky and his squad wasn't called to go into the jungle.
@@JamesonsTravels It is simple as that, if you are an powerful empire, you have to keep war zones going on to keep soldiers trained, and to have reasons for high military budget. USA is creating and keeping multiple warzones active where they can send in their soldiers to have something like a combat training ground. Its vietnam, korea, afghanistan, irak, syria and so on. And its because the government of the usa is evil since the beginning of the usa there has not gone one simple single year where the americans where not participating and waging a war. But the soldiers are not to blame, not to 100% at least. Maybe around 50% for picking up the gun and going to war. You had to make a choice, and you made your choice by taking the rifle in the hand and going to vietnam.
@@BlackAge2k you need to brush up on your history bud. Your take on foreign affairs is quite skewed as well. You sound like one of those CCP bots running around YT calling Americans evil like a true commie suck hard.
Those sticks would be no joke. Those guys went through hell there. Snakes and tiger, what part of the game is that. Talk about using what you got. Was interesting to watch. Great video
My father served in Vietnam as a chopper pilot. Four months ago he told he was shot down twice in Vietnam. The last time he got shot down he had to evade capture for 2 weeks. I always was proud of my dad, I am even more proud now after knowing what he survived. I thought I was tough when I served for 17 years active duty as an airborne ranger soldier.
Scariest thing walking through the jungle would be losing your squad and being alone, tired, mind playing tricks on you hearing the animals making rackets wondering if I'm being watched.
My father was a Seabee in Vietnam. He was taking a shower and saw a snake in the corner of the shower and ask a Vietnamese man if it was poisonous. The Vietnamese man told him "If you get bitten you'll be dead after you take two steps." I think the scariest booby trap would be a pit full of large spiders.
I feel communism becoming a huge threat to our government's agendas was the major factor. Our government sent our troops there against a much more experienced force. It was our own government's decision to order restrictions that failure to do so will result in harsh punishments. How is that for morale? Imagine being in combat see your brothers getting slaughtered over & over, not knowing how, when, what way, or if your number will come up. And the rules of engagement feels like it benefits the enemy, and make you more vulnerable. And you're the only ones that are and have to follow the rules of engagement. And the whole time, our government's agenda's was all that really mattered. And alot of our troops were slaughtered, mamed, destroyed physically and mentally. To benefit personal agenda's of certain government officials, incahoots with business associates. And they continue to cover up, & lie about Vietnam. Don't minimize or ignore. Stop being fooled, and somebody else's sacrificial lamb.
@@freeyomnd_619 so true. political cause the war. South Vietnam VNCH never want our troops there, but we force ourselves in by eliminate their president Diem who is very successful stoping NVA and eliminate VC in the the south. If the political leader listen to our military generals then many millions lives on both sides and especially VN civilians/refugees in the sea. It's their civil war like we have, why the hell we want England involvement.
Right.The old generation of communists was full of experience, the young generation was full of enthusiasm. Americans and the Saigon government only have a lot of weapons and money.
Vietnamese-American here, grandpa was ARVN and fought against the Viet Minh years before (he was drafted into the French army in 1937). He said it was a tough time because some of his neighbors were the enemy, people he grew up with were killed by the VC or were trying to kill him. He was from Tra Vinh, the DEEP south of vietnam too. He and two other ARVN soldiers were attached to green berets + marines teaching them the jungle as he had experience during the french war. Grandpa retired from active duty in 1973. 1975 happened and my mother told me grandma burned EVERYTHING military to hide from the VC/NVA but they tortured/heavily threatened neighbors into giving info and my grandpa was in jail/re-education camp for 13 years! He wasn't a general so he lived, the communists killed every high ranking individual they captured. Mom came to America under refugee status, my dad was a boat immigrant and they met here. Blessed to be an American and wouldn't have it any other way! Cu Van Thai - 9th division. KBS 3501th. My grandpa and his unit! When he retired in 1973, he was delivering mail for the ARVN + American soldiers, I'm not sure what he did in his original active duty but any information would be amazing. God bless you all
As an American, i traveled through Vietnam last year for a month, fell in love and had the best time of my life. I can't wait to get back. Such an amazing country
I think the mace trap would be the scariest for me to see if I were a soldier back in a time like that, just imagine. Being slowed down in murky water carrying the heavy weight of military gear & seeing the spiked mace swinging down.
My grandpa never encountered traps (from my knowledge). He did however encounter an ambush on his base and a Viet Cong sniper. He’s a very nice person and you would never think he was a soldier. He only served 6 months because he got a Purple Heart
Don't forget that the US military recruiters waived the minimum intelligence requirement for recruits. The pentagon sent soldiers into the field with shoddy equipment (The early non-chromium plated M16) in order to save money.
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Undertaker 😝
You prick, keep em scared
Did you see any booby traps?
Have you seen that movie on Netflix where these guys go back to Vietnam years later after the war, and they recover gold they hid when they were soldiers?
Pits and Mines -
Mine Sweeper job would kill -
You need to sweep, then add pressure to the ground, 2 step process that contradicts.
Takes time - No easy solution - Others use livestock to trip the traps.
I think this falls under self defense - Considering they will need to live with the mine field, it is hard to disarm them when you don't know where they are.
“If you didn’t drop it, don’t pick it up”
Army
Well said good point
Learn that at basic?
Unless it's s police call
@@tocrispyay wtf
@@persistentapparartionkitty5830 russia*
The Vietnamese were able to protect their homeland from invading Chinese, Mongols, and Americans...pretty impressive.
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Every guerrilla warfare is like that! Afghanistan is the same thing.
Story time: There's this story about how Alex The Great mother's wrote him a letter asking why he was taking so long to conquer that area
Alex The Great send her bags of sand and ask her to cover the land around her palace with that sand. At night two warriors where entering the palace when one said "You first" and the othe "No, of course not. Yiu first". They eventually stab one another because of that
Then Alex's mother wrote him in response "Now i get it! Even over there the sand is violent"
And freed Cambodia from Pol Pot's genocide
And the French to
@@josepedrosilva3265 the mongols wrecked afghanistan
Scariest would be for me, always thinking a sniper is looking at me..
The enemy you fear most is one that you cannot see
If a Sniper is watching you, you automatically dead.
@@juniorvalencia9140 not if they miss
@@josephmccrudden1709 bold of you to assume they’ll miss.
Facts I’d need some damn Xanax I’d have anxiety like these dudes bouta get me this is it I know tell my mama I love her
My grandpa fought in Vietnam. The stories he’d told me.. I believe while on Monkey Mountain, all the soldiers had befriended some dogs. One morning they woke up and walked outside and all the dogs had been cruelly butchered. The horror of seeing these dogs wasn’t the worst part. The worst part...was knowing the enemy was right there, while they all slept. The rumors of these traps, and all the psychological warfare used by both sides was horrifying. But what upsets me the most was seeing my elderly grandpa talking to some Vietnamese friends who had fought as his enemy during the war. These men were sitting around having drinks together. Yet not long ago in the grand scheme of things...they’d have killed each other. It just really struck me how these men thought of each other as terrifying enemies at one point. They would’ve killed each other. All because of political and circumstantial issues of the time. And yet....like 40 years after that, they sat around talking, having drinks, laughing together. Men who showed pictures of their time in service, their families, and their lives after the war. It’s like all that happened for no reason. No good reason. They all lost friends during the war, and yet there they sat. It just all seemed so senseless at that point. All that psychological turmoil...and it all ended when the political tides turned.
May this be a future lesson before the next time gov try this on our children 👍 story
Daniel Robinson Daniel Robinson Except it does because they *literally were*. I get your sentiment mate, but my statement wasn’t an assumption. Who they fought with, they were literally known as the enemy to people like my grandfather, and my grandfather would’ve been their enemy. It wasn’t a “he knew Vietnamese guys” and an assumption. The whole premise of their meeting and conversation was based upon the fact that they all survived a war in which they fought against each other.
@@BMarie774 maybe ur gramps learned abt forgive n forget n thus life goes on…
Enemies are the best counselors. They are the only ones who can understand the experience.
@Daniel Robinson no man, 80% of Vietnamese population supported and fought along side NVA and VC. Understand how there were 3 million foreign soldiers including the US fought alongside with 3 million Vietnamese soldiers, while North Vietnam have nearly zero foreign military troops fought by their side. Why do South Vietnamese government need foreign troop if they were supported by the local, it is because a large portion didn't supported them. It shown 30% of South Vietnamese soldiers in action were Vietcongs in disguise, another 30% of South Vietnamese soldiers were ghost soldiers which none exist (this is similar to Afghanistan soldier), and 60% of South Vietnam military budget gone to the government pocket.
My grandfather received a bite from a snake in Vietnam and got so sick he was flown to Hawaii. That’s how my mom came about. A sick marine can still get the job done I guess.
Aye yo
You got a random Vietnamese snake and your dad's snake for existing.
@EL- CHE Vive must have it certainly got buried
feels proud of your grandpa?
Why American attack my country?
The weird part is that those Kraits are actually very calm and unwilling to bite unless bothered. But obviously, after being tied together or nailed to things, they were p*ssed off.
Did you mean "pissed off"?"
@@CombatDoc54 the children might see lol
@@user-ty5di3ku6o Young children probably shouldn’t be learning about Vietnam war traps anyway if they shouldn’t read the word “pissed”
@@Isaaczsf why not? I did. And read about kraits too. Reading as a kid about the jungle and deadly animals is why I ended up studying biology. Kids shouldn't be shielded from the truth, but no reason to be a foul mouthed heathen either.
@@user-ty5di3ku6o I wouldn’t consider pissed to be foul mouthed, I suppose we might just differ on that. I just didn’t think it was relevant enough to a child learning about some of the most gruesome traps in recent war history. I don’t really care though lol
True, in infantry training I was taught, “if you kill a enemy soldier, you take out one, but if you wound a soldier you take out three”
Why is this
@@sqtoquickforu9429 the answer is in the video
@@sqtoquickforu9429 if your wounded it takes two people to get u to safety hence 3 soldiers are out off the fight, your dead your mates are still in the fight.
This is pure BS. I fought in 2 wars and never tried to wound an enemy. in combat you shoot to kill not to wound. A wounded enemy is just as dangerous as one not wounded
@@vinn3327 that dont apply in real war. i speak from experience.
In a combat situation, you don’t care whether the guy in front of you is dead or “only” wounded. What counts is that he doesn’t move anymore, not an inch!
If he does, and if you think that he might still pose a risk for you or your buddies, you might want to put another round in him. In this regard, it’s better to be on the safe side and a killed enemy is better than a wounded one.
Of course, many people say it’s better to wound an enemy because your enemy needs a lot of manpower to carry him away and care for him. This is true, but there’s a more important factor that has to be taken into account:
The devastating psychological impact that a dead comrade has on the morale of your unit. In battle, people get constantly wounded and every soldier is used to it. After the combat is over, you will go and visit your wounded buddies in the hospital, swap stories, look at the nurses, and get drunk with them.
A dead comrade, on the other hand, can completely screw up your fighting spirit. If there are many dead, your unit’s cohesion is in jeopardy. I’ve seen units getting disbanded because the kill toll was too high. The soldiers had lost all trust in their leaders.
Killing your enemies is better than just wounding them.
Vietnam shows the world that every small country can win against a big country.
If they try with courage and patient.
@Carl PanzramLot damage and suffering came from u.s.
Now with drone warfare and robots, I don't think anyone stands a chance against shyt like that. It bout to get scary
@@quantumuniversetvinc.6117 How about talibans?
@@quantumuniversetvinc.6117 Afghanistan?????
The Finnish did it before in ww2 against the soviets (winter war)
I went to Vietnam in 2019, went both Saigon and Hanoi war museums. They showed many examples of these traps. Overall experience was very nice. The people were extremely nice and friendly to me being American. Going back soon. Great video!!
We welcome everyone, but next time you would be surprised, if you have enough time for visiting, that every provinces have their own martyrs' cemetery, everywhere, millions people died! So we do enjoy these peaceful times def, but in Vietnam we usually say : "we forgive but never forget"!
@@ledanglove yeah Dude Ain't Nobody is A Bitch eh
It's weird. Vietnam really wasn't that long ago, in terms of generations. Tens of thousands of soldiers died, only for us to be (at least somewhat) friendly not that much later. Makes me think all of them died for nothing.
@@Neckromorph more American soldiers killed themselves after the Vietnam war that died in it, it's crazy man
@@Neckromorph they were died for the hope of stopping communist sir , nonesense. American chose helping French, any an other way for vietnamese people except communist group sir ? The French expoited them about 100 years, my grandmother said that many of vietnamese people didnt have enough foods to alive at that time ((
Sometime in the distant future, when your part of the world is on the losing end of an invasion from a foreign force, this stuff is going to look like a playbook.
@Moe Barker wrong side? Yanks shouldn't have ever been there
@Moe Barker The US was there out of obligation and for profit. France pretty much expected it cause of the US's previous involvement in nam. And the corpo's were getting a slice.
In the distant future automated drone swarms will use flir and satellite based ground penetrating radar scans to sweep large areas before the cat-tread based remote soldier units with motion and heat based tracking are airdropped from sub orbital deployment stations. A fully rendered 3D environmental map distributed to all units involved with the operation.
The more that automation and technology is involved in warfare, the less relevant tactics from past centuries will be.
Won't happen that's why America cuts big checks to foreign policy every Bill
"distant future?" have you been living under a rock? the invasion's been underway for years ..
You can't help but respect the Vietnamese people. They hold no grudges are are a friendly yet strong friend.
Bro Vietnamese are crazy
@@DiamondHoe thank
@@DiamondHoe agreed. Homey never dated a Vietnamese girl, they hold every grudge.
Hold no grudges? Right I don't hold any grudges against Taliban either. 😂 Are you f****** serious? Why don't you go hug a tree.
No, yanks are crazy invading other people's countries and wormongering
Can't really fault them for setting traps, it's like home alone, would you get mad at macaulay culkin for defending his home against the Intruders?
Did you really compare the Vietnam War to Home Alone c'mon man
Well id be pretty mad if I lived south of mcaulay culkin and after trying to force me to adhere to and put his his political signs he puts buried sticks covered in poo all over my yard for me to fall into.. id prob be pesci pissed
@@MekongMonsterSC The socialists were fighting to free their country from imperialists for decades.
The south was a puppet state, not a separate country.
Let us remember with all imperialist might & slaughter of US government & military industrial complex could NOT break brave courage of Vietnamese freedom fighters against invading force.,
@@MekongMonsterSC Vietnamese forces that drove out the French after many years of colonial slavery finally won their freedom. US intervened and installed a fake President (Diem) who was oppresive to the Buddhists and other non-catholics. In the end, the South "freedom and democracy" loving" Puppet government was more cruel and terrorist-like than the Communist North the US portrayed to be evil. The Buddhist monk who self-immolated and burned himself was the start of the downfall of the cruel and puppet South Vietnam President!!! FREE AND UNITED VIETNAM KICKED out both the FRENCH AND THE AMERICANS out of their motherland. Even the Chinese and UN/US backed up Cambodia's devilish Pol Pot. These are the bravest race of modern history. 42 to 1 casualty and still did not surrender to the US and now their new generation is enjoying a PEACEFUL and UNITED nation, unlike the Korea which the US imperialists successfully divided forever.
Before North invade Vietnam, the South Vietnamese were killing monks and Buddhism followers and people who support the North in South Vietnam, 40,000 people were locked down, 10,000 were executed. Learn that 80% of South Vietnamese were supporting the North, 70% of Vietcong soldiers were South Vietnamese, 30% of South Vietnamese soldiers were fake soldiers they didn’t even want to fight with the North, 1.5 million South Vietnamese soldiers surrender right on the day North Vietnam army came to Saigon despite all large number of the aids they still had from US and their South Vietnam president fled out of Saigon 3 days before that, so much for patriot.
My grandpa served in 'nam and i remember his stories about these sticks he said one of his friends had one of these pass through both his legs. They managed to bring him to safetey. Good o'l gramps called it porcupine dicks.
R. I. P.
Sorry for the loss that’s good humor
😂😂😂😂😂
sorry for your loss sounds like ur grandpa was a real badass
Srry for youre loss i bet he was a true hero i wish i couldve thanked him for his service
Sorry for your loss, but I couldn’t help laughing when he called them “porcupine dicks” 😂
The booby traps that take your kids, house, car, and motorcycles are the scariest.
A big one took off entire left suspension of an M-48A3 track. roadwheels, sprockets fenders and bunch a grunts riding in her.
@Bin Aladen someone had a bad day
@Bin Aladen Still having a bad day, huh?
@Bin Aladen keep swearing your lazy ass cant do anything,keep trying to make me burst to tears fucking nitwit
@Bin Aladen Ouch.
These things are a huge force multiplier, so easy and inexpensive to make, still super effective depending on the terrain
A great psychological weapon also
@@B355Y indeed
Thats why they are banned by articles of war.
@@kingofthebridge8339 No they are banned cause it would give an edge over the superpowers of the world, and they have Veto.
Yeah... they basically fended off World’s super power with fucking dirt and sticks 😂
I am Vietnamese, we went through great wars with national pride
If you want to see the fierce war, learn the history of Vietnam
If you want to see safety, peace and no racism, come to Vietnam
If you want to see what forgiveness of war is, go to Vietnam If you want to see smiles and lots of friendliness, come to Vietnam
We have history , culture , travel and great food
Welcome to Vietnam
Planning to come back to your wonderful country in april 2025 to celebrate with you.
I am pure American and I know that the Vietnamese are a very good people. And I am humbled and impressed by the kindness and forgiveness that you show to us Americans, despite the fact that we were totally wrong to invade your country and kill your people. I had a Vietnamese co-worker (who lives in Westminster, California) and he was the nicest and most gracious person I have met. So I say God bless you and all the Vietnamese people!!
It's lke "come to brazil" but you want to come to vietnam.
95 percent of your people are dirt poor. Only the top 5 percent army generals live decent lives.
Sueño con ir a vietnam !no tengo los medios ! Una nación admirable !!
This is the madness of war. In the Polish book we have one quotation ,, People to people dealt this fate''.
Glad to see a viewer from Poland. Thanks for watching.
@@JamesonsTravels This is great pleasure for me to watch your films.
I think it describes death camps to be fair but this fits here aswell
the quote does not translate well
@@theophiluschambers3628 Made sense to me, but I took a second look 🤷♂️
"The conventional army loses if it does not win, the guerilla wins if he does not lose." Especially true with a foreign invading army and the indigenous guerilla fighting for his home.
@@MichaelTheophilus906 with Vietnam, it was the means to get their independence from colonial powers, which is why after the Americans left and South Vietnam capitulated they fought the chinese, they just wanted independence and communism was the best path to get it
But the Vietcong guerillas DID lose. They were obliterated in 1968 during the TET offensive. The standing army of North Vietnam ALSO lost in their largest invasion of the war in 1972. And the capital of North Vietnam ALSO "lost" when American B-52's just about obliterated it before they surrendered and returned to the peace table in Paris.
@@badguy1481 "trust me bro"
It was a brutal proxy war that we should have never been in and the French were taking a Vietnamese side. a lot of my dad's friends died and some came back heroin addicts all kinds of weird STDs just awful.
i agree. a poorly planned war that vietnam in stuck in the middle of. first the french then usa. glad to see vietnam is doing well today.
@@JamesonsTravels Vietnam is a paradise right now. My grandfather was also in the war and he said it was basically a shitshow that you were sent out by yourself for sometimes weeks with very little radio communications for fear of being "triangulated" he was also in Korea as well may he RIP died peacefully at 92 two months ago he is and always will be my hero.
@Christhorpe Junction yeah Vietnam is apparently pretty cool I know a guy who went to Vietnam a couple years ago looking for soldiers whose bodies were never recovered, he said it was pretty awesome
I think most of the modern conflicts amarica should of never got involved.
America needs to stop pretending it's the top milltary power and leader of the world.
Let's be honest America as not achieved a meaningful victory since ww2, you couldn't win at Korea, you lost Vietnam, and the conflicts america do win are usally poor undeveloped countries they take the oil or w.e resources they can plunder.
It's wrong, America biggest bully in the world
@@dudewithpews6417 if you ever get to go just do it just don't even think about it just do it it's a dirt cheap and everything is beautiful :] thank you I miss him very much and my mom is very upset means the world to me.
The Vietnam War was like the Home Alone movie series on a National level
True. 100% true
Haha great analogy
International level
Omg, im laughing ao hard 😂
No Viet Nam vs USA war.
Fun fact: a lot of the "eldest son" ammo is still in circulation, and many cartels and gangs will accidently buy it and blow up their rifles.
This is true
YES
I enjoyed this fact, thank you
A lot of that ammo was found in Iraq too if I remember correctly. Its basically a parting present with a note saying "haha, we raided your supply cash!"
@@PugilistCactus not to be a dick but cache*
I love videos like this because I get to learn a bit about history and I can hear a marines opinion on it.
The dark 5 chan is great for that and youre right this is an even better perspective with Jameson
This guy served 5 years never made sergeant and was never deployed his opinions are very important lol
@@nomadc4tl152 and how long did you serve?
@@citizen6119 I havent yet reached legal age to join but I will follow in my father's footsteps he was a Ranger and never goes around adding it the title to everything he does
@@nomadc4tl152 bruh. Well, even if he was never deployed, he still knows more than you do
“A slow painful death with no anecdote available...”
That’s horrible. I mean the guy is dying. The least you can do for him is tell him a comforting story while he goes...
that's what religion is for
lol
Underrated comment
@@splitpitch you didn't get the joke huh. gotta bring religion in wherever you can
@@ludwigt5934 no, not 'wherever i can', just where it's appropriate- after all it's a placebo for the dying and the emotionally crippled.
It was interesting about infections of wounds, I am an Aussie EMT and recently watched a doco about survival rates from soldiers in Vietnam compared to the Falklands conflict. It was amazing how temperature and humidity contributed to infection and deaths compared with fighting in cold conditions.
Documentary tittle?
@@GodBlezzAmerica I wish i could remember, it was quite a few years ago. It was on RUclips and it was on the Falklands war. If i can find it I'll send you the link.
Septic is nasty. Australia knows this all to well. Humidity + heat = infection on even the smallest wound.
Not so much here in Canada. Humidity on the west coast is generally low all year round.
My uncle lived these nightmares. I have heard stories of how they used the sticks to trap a Marine squad and wiped them out. He was in Army intelligence and had to do an After Action Report on the fight. What he found was that the veteran units walked through the rice patty but when a new squad of fresh Marines did the patrol they weren't aware that they needed to do this and stayed on the dry trail in the middle of the patty. A VC on the right opened fire and the Marines dropped left to take cover from the incoming fire. The left side had been setup with the sticks and disabled the entire squad. Then another VC hidden in foliage directly at the end of the trail opened up with a RPK and took out the entire squad. When they investigated, they found that the 2 firing positions of the VC had trash left. By the amount of trash, these 2 men had been hiding there for almost 3 weeks waiting for someone do just what this Marine squad had done. I'm not trying to say this unit was dumb, it just shows what happens when we don't train properly. My uncle trained men after the war and it is human nature to stay dry or to drift to objects in the middle of an open field. During training he would be in that position in the middle of the field and take out the entire squad because they'd bunch up. Obviously simulated but he did it to get the point across because of his experiences in Vietnam.
i have heard some stories when i dug deep after some drinks with some vietnam buddies. never hero type but i stepped on this or that. picked this up. hence no arm or leg left.
We were always taught never take the path of least resistance for these reasons
Yes, but eventually you come against an enemy who knows you are going to be trained to avoid that central dry path, and he booby traps everything else except that path...
Americans obsession with kicking cans and picking stuff up is still a huge weakness. The fact that afghans put explosives inside coke cans on the road is crazy. Our inability to leave things be aided our enemy more then anything
@@Mr.MFuckingYTchangedmyname yes but it’s much harder to place explosions in wet areas than dry areas
My grandfather never told me much about his time as a marine, the only thing he told me and was probably comfortable telling me was he was in a town and non of the water was clean so they were only drinking beer and a marine made a threat to kill every single one of the Vietnamese and my grandfather told him he would kill him the second he pointed his gun at another innocent and he just went to sleep
I think it's true what they said in Jarhead when the drill Sergeant asked the protagonist if his grandfather ever talked about the war and he said only once.And the drill sergeant replied well that's how you know he wasn't lying
@@jonathanperry8331 lol I loved that movie
@@ivanvalle8704 it's interesting I have a lot of marine and military friends although I never served and also family and half of them hate that movie and half of them love it.I've heard so many people tell me it's one of the most realistic movies and one of the most unrealistic movies. The hurry up and wait aspect of everything is spot on but they get pissed off about how they get deployed with their drill sergeant is their officer which never ever happens. You also don't get selected for sniper School while sitting on a toilet. I'm a classical musician and I love Amadeus it's pretty spot on but there's some other classical music movies that are stupid. But some people confuse movies with documentaries it just depends on your taste
@@jonathanperry8331 should give the book a read mate it's incredible the movie was very tame compared to it I loved both though
He was a hero then
They were a formidable enemy. Never underestimate a people fighting for independence.
Agreed
Actually, Those flip flop wearing farmers did nothing to America interest. It's all about American politicians Cold War miscalculation and overconfidence. I feel sorry for those young Americans who were sent 10000 miles from their home to fight and die in a brutally meaningless war and the lives of millions of innocent Vietnamese.
@@Zov631 keep denying the fact that you got ur ass kicked
@@rawbee8932 It’s about live and death, kid. U would cry your fking ass off and beg for your mom if were sent into a war such like that. It’s always easier to type a comment about who wins or loses than getting a history lesson
@@rawbee8932 I’m lucky enough to not to be born during that war so my ass is okay now lol
Hey Jameson I didn't realize you were a Vietnam vet My uncle also got drafted and man oh man you guys are a whole different breed. If it wasn't the war that killed you coming back and dealing with cancer PTSD suicide all that jazz . You seem pretty damn well adjusted but I'm sure it wasn't easy.
Thank you for your service
@@tunners thanks for letting me know I'll have to edit it
Same story for VN soldier, they feel overwhelmed because big gun, tank, helicopter... Everything they never seen in their life. But behind them is family, friend,... So they keep fighting and go on.
remember , they have to fight a super power of the world , bomb rain down from the sky daily , the the family got raped , killed , burned alive , they lost almost every battle to the USA . It like using stick to fight gun , but the bamboo stick is all they had , and they fucking stab their foe with those effectively
@@lesangpro Thank u, but for us, Agent Orange was the worst.
We should never have been involved in that war, but god damn do I love the music that came with it.
@@yippers7230 people forget easily that it's the South Vietnam government who called the US to help them against the North Vietnam communist invasion, an invasion which didn't respect the 1954 Geneva Accords.
@@emilienodj735 yeah it's not like the US crafted such a puppet in the first place or anything
I served with a lot of Vietnam veterans who used to tell me not only about the "Two-step " snake, but also getting attacked by tigers in certain regions.
Yeah man i know a vet that served in malaya and then nam. Tigers scarred him more than anything.
@Mind traveling Sagittarius I think he is asking the government.
Someone I know went to Vietnam a couple years ago. While there they took a walking tour of the Ho Chi Minh trail. They said the Vietnamese guides were very strict about not wondering off the trail. Because the jungle is still loaded with booby traps ours and theirs.
Were they wearing ho chi minh sandals out there.
There is also a so many undetinated landmines
And also the undetonated bombs that are left behind since the war. A lot of Vietnamese were crippled or died because of these War era explosives. And the Ho Chi Minh trail is one of the main targets for bombing runs during the war, so there'll be a lot of bombs left there.
My father served 3 tours of Vietnam as a combat medic. He told me while they moved through those VietKong camps while "ghosting" the village. He told me ghosting was not leaving anything behind or picking up anything. He said they would not even leave their cigarette butts on the ground to reveal that they were even there.
The Vietnam war is one of the few things that genuinely scares me
Even though I’ll probably never go though any of this stuff it’s still terrifying to think about
Watch the guy that died 37 times
Gathering No Moss tell me about it. Look at what the Democratic controlled media has been doing the last 5 years
You in your thumbnail is how my parents look at me
lol. that was from the dan ballz video. how i was looking at his comments.
that's a good one
@@JamesonsTravels I just saw Dan MGTV cover it from three months ago, I had to go watch your video. I think he is actually insane, very insecure for that matter
@@JamesonsTravels 👌😂
I wanna like but it’s on 69 likes
"The Vietcong never called me no n***a"
Muhammad Ali
He was truly profound
i mean why should he fight if his people are already in a war against its home
@@susystem7901 Why was he at war with Africa?
@@gillybuzz what are you talking about?
@@realkevin6242 What? I'm confused
I was an infantry platoon leader in Viet Nam and I always feared the punji pits and bamboo traps placed along traveled areas. Also I saw the "2 step " snake one time in a booby trap in Cholon Saigon in November of 1967 after a fire fight that caused 65% cacualties in my company
you are a brave man
My grandpa had one leg get sliced open by one, he didn't notice at first but somebody else pointed it out and he had to go back home. He also encountered a tiger. They smelled something awful at night and didn't know what it was. Later he and my grandmother visited a circus and when they were shown the tigers he remembered the smell.
and today his grandson is a weeb. Must be so proud..
@@andreasjuhl2731 Lmaoo
@@andreasjuhl2731 you telling me this kid should be a war veteran and not a weeb
@@andreasjuhl2731 Oh cmon, u at parties like this? I mean, some people are downers but you are on a whole new level my dude. Atleast he has something to tell about his family that hes proud of. no need to be the grumpy old man that just shines with pessimism... gotta imagine: "Yeah, i told that dude on RUclips that hes a fucking weeb, that fucking nerd hahahaha, his parents must be so proud while i myself just point at others and cant just mind my own business".
But really, great Comment telling somebody over the Internet what a Loser he is because what he does and not does at the moment even if u dont even know him personally nor even know if he has a Job or smth else. U must be like a really likable Person...
@@FabiTheFreak ^^^
Vietnam has been at wars for thousand of years, fought of the Chinese, mongols, French, Japan... and the US be like: Aight lemme tap that 😂
Vietnam has never been conquered or defeated.
its amazing how they were never defeated even after the size gap of troops and technology
@@JavierLopez-cp9tr we have will power, each person in our country a anime main character
Don't forget the British
Guys it all comes back to British people. Like the person above me said, they used guerilla tactics. We when we fought against Great Britain, we Americans used guerilla tactics too. We hide on top of trees, ambushes, traps and just fighting with what we have. Great Britain had also advance technology back then, meaning more troops, guns, and fire power, but we all won because of these tactics.
Growing up I always remembered my dad’s big toe nail that was split in the middle and grew crossways from a punji stick that went through his boot when he jumped out of the chopper in a rice paddy when he was in Vietnam, amongst other scars. Sweating in the middle of winter during malaria flare ups.
Malaria can mess up your health for a long time. A WW2 Marine in my hometown caught it in the Pacific. It messed him up for years especially zapping his stamina which isn't good for a farm boy.
Huge Respect for every Vietnamese for defending their home country with everything that they had against the enemy.
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@@fredm.2699 so ?
@@tamo9659 where are you from?
@@fredm.2699 Germany, why does that matter ?
huge respect for every American soldier who defended freedom against the communist scourge
Taking trophies from your enemies has been going on since the beginning of time , i am trying to decide whats worse , the government signing your death warrant by sending you into a situation where the probability of survival was very low or getting put on death row.
@Master Catnip U NAILED IT 100%!!! That said, as a citizen the military must remain effective and ready. The govt takes advantage of this, and that is why there are fences and razor wire around the capital, PR seeding BS. Mlitary 4 those w the balls 2 go in... it's sad that these old bastards tell them what to do.
As a citizen the military must remain effective and ready. The govt takes advantage of this, and that is why there are fences and razor wire around the capital, PR seeding BS. Mlitary 4 those w the balls 2 go in... it's sad that these old bastards tell them what to do.
@beat thebans True, the biggest mistake, any military have made around the world is letting the media in and being embedded. Let the lads do their work and move on.
@Master Catnip you elect a government. So by your logic the people of a nation is it's worse enemy.
@@bigzed7908
So, you haven't heard of the division of America?
there's something not only scary but frustrating about the effectiveness of primitive booby traps from the Allied perspective... basically a superiority complex, that was very real, as they were superior in technology as an armed force, but being constantly afflicted by this basic level of war...
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@Jordan Spencer I would assume it was considered, and then curbed pretty quick... Mid cold war, us didn't want to give the Soviets any excuse to use them as well, cuban missile crisis was still in everyone's mind... Wasn't that it was cheaper, it was safer, and mutually assured destruction exists today as it did back then
@Jordan Spencer Funny, you know, 5 countries i think had the Nuke at the time. Russia and China included. It was the cold war and i'm pretty sure that a well informed man like you would know what would have been the consequences.
Though, all kind of chemicals have been spread by the tons over Vietnam, soldier or not, so your wish for cheap devastation has been partly fulfilled.
my grandfather served in Vietnam as a recon marine.he’s told stories of when they’re were walking thru the jungle and one of the guys in his group went off to use the bathroom and they heard a scream. they ran to him and saw that he was being malled by a tiger.( the man survived and the tigers pelt is now hanging above his fireplace)
I have heard some terrible stories from vets. Helpless feelings.
Absolute bullshit story and you know it.
@@Ethan-xf4or lmao there never was tigers in Vietnam only in captivity
@@davidnguyen2410 there were some tigers in north east South Vietnam (state of Vietnam, created at Geneva or paris conference if i remember correctly some of those two cities...) , especially near border with Laos. For the rest of Vietnam you are right, they are extinct. There were reports of tiger attacks and tiger stalking preys during vietnam war to, but you really needed to be most unluckiest bastard to come and be hunted by a tiger in place where they were considered extinct...
@@davidnguyen2410 there was but they were extremely endangered but the story is prolly fake
Back in 2005 I went to the Boobytrap museum at the old Vietcong tunnels out at Cu Chi, a US$4 day trip from Saigon. Saw some crazy stuff there.
You are right.
Here we go!! I was the N.C.O.I.C. and Chief Instructor of HQ. Co. 13th Engineers (Viet Cong Orientation and Booby Trap Trail) on Camp Pendleton in the ravine below the Lake O'Neill Hospital in 1967. !! Lewis Puller Jr. was a platoon leader and he and his platoon replaced of all units in my platoon. I was 3rd Platoon Kilo Company 3rd. Bn. 27th Marines. We stayed two weeks with his platoon to show them the ropes. We were in the (fact ) heaviest booby-trapped area of Vietnam. Quang Nam Province south of Da Nang. The book "EVERY MARINE" A Battle for Go Noi Island details this story. This is also my story, I helped write the book. Naturally, a lot of memories flooding back. On the traps, two besides what was covered were, a simple nail sticking up and a hollowed-out piece of bamboo. You would then file the percussion cap to almost paper-thin and then insert it into the tube and let it rest on the nail head. Then dig a hole deep enough so the foot coming into it was now on a straight down projection. Pressure on the point of the round would fire the percussion cap and the bullet first would come up through your foot and if lucky soldier leaning forward to take the next step the bullet would strike again in the chest or under the chin. Result causality, and some extra men you can't afford to lose. Another if the V.C.had no supplies they would dig a hole big enough to accommodate a whole combat boot about 6 inches deep and then angle it to one side so you twisted or broke your ankle!! Our Special Ops did it to them and they did it to us. Anywhere and where we patrolled all of a sudden there would be a grenade beside where we were walking. ??You would assume someone in front dropped it. You'd pick it up and stick it on you and turned it back into the armory. Well, a Marine named Dillard Peterson got it from the armory. Later going through a village that was supposed to be deserted, Dillard came across an artesian well. Said he would drop a grenade in it because sometimes they would hide underwater using a reed to breathe until you pass!! He pulled the pin and it detonated the second the spoon flew off. Short fuse. They would take the blasting cap off and tape all the delay out (instant boom). When I finally got back to the Company area, I went through the armory and found 4 more that were short-fused. No, Dillard Peterson lasted all of 45 seconds before he died. This was tough to write.
Good research.
@@leviackermen2261 Thanks but I didn't research it. "I LIVED IT"
Rest In Peace for Dillard
Yes, my Dad called the percussion ammunition in a tube or nestled inside bamboo; "Toe Poppers". He said that he had seen them made with rifle ammunition and shotgun shells.
@@nebulajar3259 Dillard was a very good human being!! I was to rotate out to back home on the 14th of June. He was to rotate the 14 of July to get married!! Dillard Peterson, we called him Sweet Pete!! Thank you for your concern!!
"And the thought that you could die a slow painful death without any anecdote available" 1:37
Snake bites you... but then offers to tell you a funny story about its father.
Love your videos. Great stuff!
Vietcong were the real soldiers, making weapon from scraps, and ready to die to defend their homeland.
Fighting a group of people who fought multiple war and never lost is a dangerous enemy
You got to give props to the vietnam soldier's creativity when it comes to these bobby traps.
The worst Booby trap is the one where you fall in to a pit that you can’t escape, and the narrator is talking to you non stop until you die.
how this channel make you feel
That bloke dark...something or other has the worst voice I know. His voice could be used in psychological warfare ,agreed 😂
I've given care to Vietnam vets, and one of them told me why is was a "confusing war"; the enemy literally looked exactly like the allies because it was a war of ideologies within the same ethnic group, not to mention uniforms among the VietCong weren't always a thing and hid among civvies, hence guerrilla warfare. I'm glad to be a caregiver and hear vets' stories and be there for them to lend an ear.
Learn grammar
@@ry_3958 the only thing he misspelled was is instead of it 😂🤡
It’s a confusing war because we didn’t have a real reason to be there
@@ry_3958 what are you on about
@@lockiet7227 I understand that from a civvie's perspective, but to hear it from the perspective of a vet who witnessed the tangible confusion on the battlefront really adds another layer of understanding. "The reason why we're there" that academia speculate and debate in the college forums go out the window when survival becomes priority. That vet expanded my perspective on the matter.
I’m a Vietnamese, born and raised in Saigon after the war. When I was 14, I traveled to the US to study. I only ran into a Vietnam war vet once, it was a weird encounter.
Saigon?? I am reluctant to believe you given that you called it Saigon.
@@stefan2serb its still a common colloquial name, def faster to say than HCM. Hell even our airport is still coded SGN
I keep a lot of traps on my property, land mines, and some trip wire. But I'm a native Floridian and the there are strange things in the swamp
Why the hell do you have traps on your property?
Better delete this before ur dog gets shot
@@Richjack3 because there are strange things in the swamp, obviously
I don't blame ya...
...those democrat voters are crossing borders more than ever!!
@KISHANTH JEYAMOORTHY lots of people turn up missing when they go places they don't belong, oh well. Mind your business means a lot. Must not be from the south, or country areas in general. Everyone down to dairy farmers have them. Castle law here. Cops follow it and sometimes help.
Scariest "booby trap" I can imagine is a child forced to carry a bomb/grenade that asks for your help. Heard terrible stories about that from Iraq/Afganistan
I'd blame the doctrine they put on their people's mind. thinking it was the cause of religion. the truth was that suicide bombing is literally suicide, so they go straight to hell. these thing typically taught by Shia doctrine.
Religious fanaticism does crazy things to the mind. It lets people find justification for unjustifiable suffering. I know I'm bringing up this topic, but to anyone who might disagree: let's be honest, this isn't unique to Islam. Its just scared, insecure people finding comfort in their religion and (sometimes but not always) this fear is taken advantage of by an extreme cult-like movement, leader, or group. It could happen to Christians, Hindus, Pagans, or believers of any other religion. It doesn't even have to center on religion, either! Cults of personality can do this as well. (sorry for ranting)
@@hughquigley5337 personally i wouldn't acknowledge Shia as part of Islam either. they planted false beliefs on other Muslims. even some Sunni believed them. and yes, they manipulated peoples fear into fighting a fake cause. *sigh *
Problem is that it has nothing to do with Religion. The horrible things that happen are the worst sins one could ever do. Islam is just a cover up. They hide behind it to feel better about themselves or to have Something the general public over there allready respects/fears over years they turned the rules of islam on its head so that they can make use of it. Hope you can understand what i am trying to say.
@@nf794 but then it does have something to do with religion. A twisted interpretation of religion as an excuse for violence.
moral of the story:
the vietnamese know how to use sticks better than we do
No dude, we fought with the South Vietnamese so they knew and were doing the same.
As a Vietnamese myself, i can tell you something.
First, those sticks are the old methods in the old time, back when our ancestor fought the Mongol Dynasty. I can see it could still be applied in a very efficient way even in the times of Guns.
Second, the problem was, the American soldiers did not know the teritorries like the Vietnamese did. It's our home, after all.
Third, that is why American soldiers needed the South Vietnamese to join this fight, in order to defeat the Communists. The South was the force that was able to defeat the North Communists. I just had no idea why the American retreated in 1973 when they were on the brink of victory.
There's more i can tell you, but i believe these are enough.
@@hunggamerofficial3252 US retreated due to bad press and a lack of popular support back home, in the end the guerrilla achieved it's goal, to prolong the war enough that the costs, both material an "spiritual", were to high to keep it, so ultimately the US pulled out. it was not that different than what the afghans did to the Soviets in the 80s (and with the Americans now)
@@hunggamerofficial3252 Sharp stick never gets old
@@realdragon
No, it never does
My Father served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War and although he doesn't talk a whole lot about his experiences over in Vietnam, he's open to talking about it if I ask him about it, which I don't do often but sometimes we exchange and swap stories about our experiences in the Army, as I served 2011-2014.
Both of you were invading third world countries on false reasons.. Real great.
@@koscocosco5309 ikr🤣🤣.But that's all they can be proud of.Invading weaker countries,got their asses kicked out,then make movies and video games where the US are portrayed as winner lol
All the technology and high budget spent on the war, sticks and holes in the ground were so effective in taking out and slowing down the opposition.....
I had the honor of a Vietnam POW telling me his story non stop for hours a few years back. Won't repeat it, but I will say I'll never forget the scars he had.
I met a D day survivor in 2019 he wouldn’t talk about it
From Vietnam respect
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I love your videos. As a former Army veteran. Thanks for your service ... “Rangers Lead the Way”
thanks brother. had some good e club moments at Benning with rangers. doo times.
If you are into this kind of stuff and happen to be in Vietnam I recommend you taking half an hour boat trip from Ho Chi Minh city to Cu Chi tunnels. They make very informative expeditions inside underground tunnels where Vietnamese was hiding during the war and showcase all the traps they made. Truly gruesome
I love the people of Vietnam
As a retired US Marine, I can't help but thank all those who served in Vietnam. SSGT. Jenkins USMC
Thank you for your service SSGT. Jenkins 🇺🇸
Let's me honest this was just one of many places America should never have been.
Dead right. can't even hold their own elections without screams of fraud, yet sticking their noses in other countries affairs. Usa is definitely the school yard bully of the world.
@@kev5125 Americans we’re smarter and still are
Jr bro you cant say that while not knowing how to spell
@@jr224 What do you base that on? Curiosity got the better of me.
@@jr224 so smart that you guys Donate 2300 billions worth of taxes to Taliban's arsenal
Thanks for the video and your thoughts. For me, a 'bouncing Betty' was on my mind. I was a Marine grunt 68-69 two tours, barely 100 days. The first tour was with Golf 2/3 at Charlie 2 just over the bridge at Cam Lo. Once when walking point on a Platoon patrol I came to the top of a hill. I froze at what I saw. The hill was some 30-40 yards in length and width. Elephant grass covered most of the hill, and trees ringed three sides. As I stood there the words 'this could be it for you' flashed in my mind.
I didn't want to take the next step. My team leader came up, and I told him, and before he left I told him that I think my next step is my last. He came back and had me back up a step. Then, he went through the green weeds, vines etc that were pressed against my stomach and chest. He found one was a green plastic trip wire. We went back to our firebases, and engineers went there and found the wire had an anti-tank mine on one side and an anti-personnel mine on the other side. God is good! I went back to Vietnam in 2018-2019. They are wonderful and forgiving people.
Paul Meuse
Thank you for your service sir. I believe your story 100% and can relate. Ill keep the details to mine to myself for now. But nothing outside God Himself can explain experiences such as yours an very similar experience I had deployed and here. I did 3 deployments to Afghanistan with the 10th Mountain Division, 11B Infantry 2/3 was the hottest AOs at the time. God gave us those signs and dreams like I've had the night before patrols and kept us here for reasons we don't and may never know. That is only for Him to know. Your story gave me chills and made me remember dreams and feelings I experienced and for the millionth time just thanked Him again.
@@JMc10287 Good evening from Killarney, Co. Kerry, Ireland. Mr. Jamesons, one thing for sure is if I had a choice of Vietnam over Afghanistan or Iraq, I'd takeVietnam. My tour I was medevaced from Fire Support Base Cunningham - A Shau valley after 9 weeks. See: 'Sapper Attack in the A Shau valley'. We got there after the main assault, but had nightly sapper attacks. I wasn't hit; I'd had a seizure, and dysentery for 6 weeks. Best weight reducing plan of my life. ;-)
When I was checking into my next duty station (Camp Lejeune) I told them I wanted to go back. I did for a short tour. Another seizure. My first time I got stuck carrying the radio for my Plt Sgt., after a month I found out I was the 5th in 6 months. God is good as the Irish say.
The funny stuff helps. We (4) were going out on an LP one night, and were at the spot, and still standing. The senior grunt didn't like the spot. To save arguing in the dark, the patrol leader let him pick the spot. When we lay down it was slippery... he picked a spot with huge wide piles of fresh water buffalo dung. Our torso, legs, arms were full of it. Keep up the good work
Yes... dying without an "anecdote" available would be a tough one. However, as long as there was an antidote available, I'd put up with the lack of a short story.
you little devil.
My man JT saving the world one upload at a time. Odin's Men Unite!!!
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I have 3 uncles that fought in vietnam and they told me stories that just left me crying cus of what they saw and did. I myself am a Marine vet and fought in Iraq. What we did and saw does not compare to vietnam or Korea and WW2 and ww1
Chesty Puller's son life story was really sad. Also, I can't imagine what other untold Vietnam Vets went through.. being poor, drafted, fighting an unpopular war, went back broken and crippled, and everybody at home seemed want to have a piece of you to spit on. What a terrible moment in history.
Yes it was a hell of a thing. 2.7 million of us Vietnam Veterans served .Only 673,000 were drafted 1/4 of those who served in Vietnam. We won the battles ,but the politicians lost the war , not the Soldiers ,Sailors ,Airmen and Marines that fought there !!!
I went in in 1975... I was 17. I talked to many that had been there. I was not that upset that I had been to young to go. I love my brothers who suffered the heat. Semper Fi... Thank you, each and all of you.
The Vietnamese also have a special booby trap for Huey. It's a grenade was tied to a thread (act as a timer) that connected to a wooden propeller, whenever a Huey flying at tree level near enough, the wind cause the propeller to spin and then after a few seconds, the thread got stretched out to hard that it triggers the grenade to detonate
Genius
@@SpeedKing.. i literally just said that in my head
They were just using their brains at the max.
Because if we lose then we will encounter more death we had the will to fight to survive
No, our people were well seasoned fighters. We had fought the Chinese since the beginning of time then France came in. Americans in their arrogance did not listen to France and still invaded our land.
@@difencrosby The world will never forget this American lose and it proves that strength is not the key to win. 💯
the one i hated the most was the snake one god being bitten alone hurts like a bitch but the potent venom ouch
don't think it happened much but guys would think about it.
@@JamesonsTravels my great uncle was bitten by a snake that had been tied and locked to the “roof” of a Vietcong tunnel he was a tunnel clearer (I forget the actual name) and he lost his hand cause the poison made his skin rot
@@swanygaming6668 Tunnel Rat?
My kid spent 10 months west of Saigon and there is all kinds of creeping, crawling stuff like spiders, centipedes and snakes. Lots of mold from rotting vegetation. Plus disease ridden rodents, and a surplus of parasites. Now this is something that rarely pops up because some parasites don't "emerge" for years, even decades.
It seems unlikely that too many people would be dying from snake bites. Nowadays we know that snakes tend not to inject much venom into bites on large animals who are not intended to be prey like humans, and are instead sort of delivering a warning or defensive strike. Falling into a stake lined pit and being left to die for days... That does it for me
I actually managed to get caught in a trap from WW2, not near as serious as these ones. I was visiting in Norway and we went to see some bunkers used by the Germans to hold prisoners in WW2. I was about 12 years old and after we had seen the bunkers me and my cousin chased each other through the forest when we were both thrown to the ground, turns out there was still barbwire traps in the ground around the bunkers and both me and my cousin got caught in one. Luckily for us we were wearing fishing boots so the wire didn't penetrate the skin but it's a bit eerie to think that a war prisoner could have been caught in it and maybe died for it.
Like ya got tangled in loose barbwire? Or it was set up as a trip wire? Snare?
@@chaddsteinberg3758 not loose barbwire, it was snares anchored to the ground and like twenty of them, just outside where they kept the prisoners
Nevermind the booby traps, the tunnels you got stuck in upside down would be the worst
Sentences are hard
@@foreverpop2542 you’re not wrong haha
shouldn't be invading countries you have no business in. They were protecting their land
THIS THIS THIS, it bothers me greatly that Americans feel they are entitled to invade any and every country
@@SA-yn6pg they’re warmongers LMAOOOOOOOOO
@@SA-yn6pg the entire country was pretty much against the war. Soldiers were disrespected and spit on when they came home because most americans knew the war was pointless but didnt know who to put the blame on.
One of my dad's friends got pricked in the head by a thorn, just a thorn. Left it and left it, but it had given him a terrible infection that got into his brain. He ended up killing himself because of the mental disability it caused.
You really can't take chances with infection
Exactly, sometimes a micro bacterium can be just as deadly as a gun or sword
Wow thats crazy
Viet Nam in 60's was like a 5th century country--no, none zip clean water in whole country. Boil it 20 minutes, whos got 20 minutes on patrol ! Halazone tabs in canteen makes water taste like swim pool but won't kill you either.
It was so unhealthily even the people that lived there for centuries had sores en stuff wrong not a healthily place.
@@TheSixStringGuy He was a landscape gardener so came into contact with these things a lot, he was really unlucky because the thorn was propped up against a tree which he laid back on and that's how it was able to penetrate a softer area of his head (near the brainstem) just enough for the infection to have easier access to his brain.
At the time you'd just think it was nasty thorn prick, it hurts but it doesn't do anything else. Little do you know what's on the surface of the thorn, gotta be so careful man.
We entered their home, first mistake. MANY soldier’s/Marines were drafted and didn’t want to be there. The Vietnamese had help from China. China would NEVER allow the US to occupy a country bordering theirs.
china also invaded/took military action against vietnam after the vietnam war.
@@MusMasi China invaded Vietnam for several reasons. First, Vietnam was occupying the Spratly Islands which China claims. The Khmer Rouge of Cambodia are Chinese allies so the Chinese had to stop the Vietnamese from destroying them. Lastly, the Chinese people living in Vietnam were routinely beaten and sometimes killed by Vietnamese authorities.
@@beezlebub7847 ah the khmer rouge what a nice bunch of blokes to have as your allies, especially if your trying to claim some moral high ground
Yeah, a big sad mistake. But im happy for Vietnam that they won, real fighters
@@beezlebub7847 Trường sa của Trung Quốc từ khi nào vậy . Đúng là xuyên tạc
This proves u dont have to be a SF guy to be affective, you just need the will to think effectively!!!
Absolutely
I love our Vietnam vets. Everytime I speak with one they always say they feel bad for me and others having to go to the dessert. I always tell them that they are the real deal because most of us would hate the jungle and what they had to deal with and encounter. Tiger's, booby traps, constantly raining, bugs, snakes, etc. Yea I'll go back to Iraq in a second before Vietnam if I had the choice.
Jungle only in way south. central part was mostly paddies and fields farm country. Chu Lal has miles of white sandy areas that look like an African desert. Sunglasses or blinding sun all day.
How about not going to any war?
My Father was in nam war and he said he saw a lot of soldiers go in that jungle and he saw even fewer come out without injuries, my father said the only reason he isn't missing a body part is because he was really lucky and his squad wasn't called to go into the jungle.
was just talking to a guy about the traps there. It messed with soldiers more psychologically than the damage they actually done I would say.
Are they making victims of themselves after attacking the country which is so far from their own country?
Our intention in Vietnam to this day is hard to understand based on our actions.
@@JamesonsTravels It is simple as that, if you are an powerful empire, you have to keep war zones going on to keep soldiers trained, and to have reasons for high military budget. USA is creating and keeping multiple warzones active where they can send in their soldiers to have something like a combat training ground. Its vietnam, korea, afghanistan, irak, syria and so on. And its because the government of the usa is evil since the beginning of the usa there has not gone one simple single year where the americans where not participating and waging a war. But the soldiers are not to blame, not to 100% at least. Maybe around 50% for picking up the gun and going to war. You had to make a choice, and you made your choice by taking the rifle in the hand and going to vietnam.
@@BlackAge2k you need to brush up on your history bud. Your take on foreign affairs is quite skewed as well. You sound like one of those CCP bots running around YT calling Americans evil like a true commie suck hard.
@@2ndAveScents its ok you can keep supporting western imperialism and systematic racism on back people
@@off1tenth438 🤣 wow, thank you for immediately exposing your true ignorance without having to actually have an argument
Those sticks would be no joke. Those guys went through hell there. Snakes and tiger, what part of the game is that. Talk about using what you got. Was interesting to watch. Great video
My father served in Vietnam as a chopper pilot. Four months ago he told he was shot down twice in Vietnam. The last time he got shot down he had to evade capture for 2 weeks. I always was proud of my dad, I am even more proud now after knowing what he survived. I thought I was tough when I served for 17 years active duty as an airborne ranger soldier.
My father was a marine for 18 years. I was born on Camp Lejeune. I've got nothing but respect for the USMC. Thank you for your service sir.
Scariest thing walking through the jungle would be losing your squad and being alone, tired, mind playing tricks on you hearing the animals making rackets wondering if I'm being watched.
100%
No the scarriest thing in the jungle of vietnam is talking bushes. You never know when and where the sound of AK47 come from
or agent orange or all the other war crimes we committed over there
My father was a Seabee in Vietnam. He was taking a shower and saw a snake in the corner of the shower and ask a Vietnamese man if it was poisonous. The Vietnamese man told him "If you get bitten you'll be dead after you take two steps."
I think the scariest booby trap would be a pit full of large spiders.
My great uncle was a Seabee as well. I don't think he served in Vietnam though.
Don't mention seabea. Just say seal
*"I think our biggest shortcoming in Vietnam was not understanding the fact we were fighting their greatest generation."*
*- James G. Zumwalt.*
I feel communism becoming a huge threat to our government's agendas was the major factor.
Our government sent our troops there against a much more experienced force. It was our own government's decision to order restrictions that failure to do so will result in harsh punishments. How is that for morale? Imagine being in combat see your brothers getting slaughtered over & over, not knowing how, when, what way, or if your number will come up. And the rules of engagement feels like it benefits the enemy, and make you more vulnerable. And you're the only ones that are and have to follow the rules of engagement. And the whole time, our government's agenda's was all that really mattered. And alot of our troops were slaughtered, mamed, destroyed physically and mentally. To benefit personal agenda's of certain government officials, incahoots with business associates. And they continue to cover up, & lie about Vietnam. Don't minimize or ignore. Stop being fooled, and somebody else's sacrificial lamb.
greatest generation is a crock.
@@freeyomnd_619 so true. political cause the war. South Vietnam VNCH never want our troops there, but we force ourselves in by eliminate their president Diem who is very successful stoping NVA and eliminate VC in the the south. If the political leader listen to our military generals then many millions lives on both sides and especially VN civilians/refugees in the sea. It's their civil war like we have, why the hell we want England involvement.
Right.The old generation of communists was full of experience, the young generation was full of enthusiasm. Americans and the Saigon government only have a lot of weapons and money.
Which the American military BEAT to a pulp. The war was lost by the American Democratic Congress. The loss had NOTHING to do with the military.
Vietnamese-American here, grandpa was ARVN and fought against the Viet Minh years before (he was drafted into the French army in 1937). He said it was a tough time because some of his neighbors were the enemy, people he grew up with were killed by the VC or were trying to kill him. He was from Tra Vinh, the DEEP south of vietnam too. He and two other ARVN soldiers were attached to green berets + marines teaching them the jungle as he had experience during the french war. Grandpa retired from active duty in 1973. 1975 happened and my mother told me grandma burned EVERYTHING military to hide from the VC/NVA but they tortured/heavily threatened neighbors into giving info and my grandpa was in jail/re-education camp for 13 years! He wasn't a general so he lived, the communists killed every high ranking individual they captured. Mom came to America under refugee status, my dad was a boat immigrant and they met here. Blessed to be an American and wouldn't have it any other way!
Cu Van Thai - 9th division. KBS 3501th. My grandpa and his unit! When he retired in 1973, he was delivering mail for the ARVN + American soldiers, I'm not sure what he did in his original active duty but any information would be amazing. God bless you all
As an American, i traveled through Vietnam last year for a month, fell in love and had the best time of my life. I can't wait to get back. Such an amazing country
Every American dead soldier: SERIOUSLY?
The Eldest Son strategy was a genius idea.
Macv sog booby trapping VC ammo
Other reports I've read said that it really didn't have much impact
My grandfather isn’t really afraid of much but we know he’s afraid of snakes. He was a Vietnam veteran, I wonder if this had anything to do with it.
I think the mace trap would be the scariest for me to see if I were a soldier back in a time like that, just imagine. Being slowed down in murky water carrying the heavy weight of military gear & seeing the spiked mace swinging down.
You wont see it! You'll feel it
lmao realtalk
@@bush-b5330 LUL That is true
My grandpa never encountered traps (from my knowledge). He did however encounter an ambush on his base and a Viet Cong sniper. He’s a very nice person and you would never think he was a soldier. He only served 6 months because he got a Purple Heart
1:40 slowly dying without knowing any anecdote would truly be horrible
Don’t be mean 😂
@@callumsked9137 what?
It is refreshing to hear from a real soldier about this
Don't forget that the US military recruiters waived the minimum intelligence requirement for recruits.
The pentagon sent soldiers into the field with shoddy equipment (The early non-chromium plated M16) in order to save money.
He has the same facial expression as I do listening to the narration
@Lucas Lucas he has a very strange way of talking
Can someone please send that guy some kind of opiates or something. Damn, calm down dude!
😂😂😂😂
The dude who narrated the original video sounds like the guy who tells you the side effects at the end of medicine commercials.
Too fast.