Battle Hell Vietnam
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- -The Sky Soldiers: The fighting 173rd Airborne Brigade. Huegy Gunships and their "Cowboys" against the V.C in the Iron Triangle, Operation Marauder, Crimp, Dexter, Yorktown, Aurora, and much more.
-The Black Horse Regiment: The famed 11th Armored Cav. ... Operation Thunderhorse and Elephant's Ear took these hell-for-leather fighting men from sweating jungles to the Tet Offensive and bitter street fighting in Bien Hua and Saigon.
-The Air Mobile Division: The battling 1st Cav., they proved the effectiveness of the helicopter in bloody battle.
-Know your Enemy: Men of the 173rd discovered this captured enemy newsreel depicting ambush and assault tactics of the 9th Viet Cong Main Force Div. A chilling picture of the enemy in battle.
I grew up watching this program, starting in 1950. I still enjoy it. I did go in the Army and served as an airborne ranger 1969-72. The 173 caught hell in Vietnam. Some of those boys likely still ain’t quite right. You won’t see that in this video.
Indeed....I like hearing the Vet's accounts on Y.T.....unbelievable story's.
@6 String Therapy hows that?
@6 String Therapy Please explain what you heard.
my grandma served in nam.she flew a corsair and shot down 8 MIG-21.She killed 3 ACES and recieved the purple heart.
Marine Nam Vet, Chu Lai 68-69 1st MAW MAG 12 and was very lucky to be stationed on an air base. If I hadn’t been, I might not be here today.
the igloos are still there. can see them on google earth
I’ve read that the very last Americans to die in Vietnam were two Marines stationed at an airbase.
my grandma served in nam.she flew a corsair and shot down 8 MIG-21.She killed 3 ACES and recieved the purple heart.she yellin from the background you a liar.
I am an army vet (of Vietnam) 69-70. This movie is coming off as a propaganda flick. In 1965 the U.S. didn't have a clue what we were getting into. Painting a pretty nice picture of the war, The script may have been written by Army P.R. people.
Of course. The Army made it.
Anything from the Army's 'Office of Information' is propaganda. That is what the office was set up for.
I agree with you, regardless of the bullshit nature of that war thank you for your service. I hope all is well with you these days and I pray that your sacrifices and the sacrifices of every Vietnam vet are NEVER forgotten. The politicians seem to have a real thing for fucking everyone. God bless you
The way I see it, all of you men went all the way across the world to fight communists and sacrificed your youth ,peace of mind and lives in many circumstances. I can only imagine what you all would have done to fight it had it been here in America. The greatest man I ever known in life was a marine and a Vietnam vet. It still bothers me today all the things he told about his time there and especially when he came home.
They thought that the Vietnamese people were going to roll over and play dead for the Mighty USA...they were wrong!
I LOVE WATCHING THESE VINTAGE FILMS. ...KIDS OF TODAY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THE WORLD WENT THROUGH
THESE FILMS SHOULD BE MANDATORY TO WATCH IN SOCIAL STUDIES CLASS....
And then they should be reminded that firepower does not a victor make. The US lost its first war in Vietnam. As for the WORLD going through this, I don't think so.
I was a Huey driver in 69 and immediately observed we Americans had no idea whatsoever what we were doing and were outmaneuvered and outfought constantly as those folks were fighting on their own ground and we were invaders. We change our policies every four years and those folks have been in it forever and always will be. I named my son after my flight school buddy who would be 71 but died when he was 20. All lives lost were a complete waste and this includes both sides. Best of luck to all of us.
Mr Stokes, thank you for your service 🇺🇸
Unfortunately history will repeat itself, again and again. Thanks to our politicians / leaders.
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Peace never turned a profit.
Thank you for your service. I watch many of these documentaries and its insane to me that no one ever comments about lives lost on the other side, as if it was only Americans that died. I'm a Proud American but feel especially with us being the invaders that we should value all the lives lost. It's nice to see someone consider them as well. I'm very sorry you lost your friend & his family lost a son. War is bullshit brought on 99% of the time by politicians alone while they sit back and watch us kill ourselves. The only thing that could be accomplished from war is a reminder to never repeat it. But we have and we will.
First intelligent response yet! Thank you!!!
I am proud to have served with the 173rd. 5/67 to 5/68. Best in the Army!
Thank you for your service! Welcome home Sir!
You must have been at Dak To.
I think that about the time my cousin Art Carr was in country with the 173rd. I was with the Marines up North in Quang Nam. Good to see ya made it.
You are appreciated
The Herd !
6 seconds in and it's already telling me to sort my life out.
"okay, MOVE OUT!"
i'm trying bruv
One step at a time lmfao all loves bro
The most forbidden documentary in history:
“Europa The Last Battle” at archive dot org
archive.org/details/EUROPATheLastBattle
@@Ronnie-Jones didn't ask but okay thanks
I love watching these programs about America's heros .
I was in VN with special forces from Australia from 1968 to 1971. Our unit was there from 1963 to 1975. We had the opportunity to work with and many times rescue US units who got themselves into difficulty. The Marines were pretty good because they were professional soldiers like us. We volunteered to be there.
As for the rest, most US Infantry units and certainly National Guard units, they were abysmal. As a result they suffered a high rate of casaulties.
Well duh! That's why Australia won WW2!
I'd be mad too if my country wasn't the #1 world power USA has more nukes than your nation has men let's see what came from America the automobile, airplane, electricity, nuclear power for cities, mass food production, I think the us dollar is still the staple of the world's monetary system oh yes the t.v and vcr and space station ( built by using the giant bay areas the space shuttle provided) so pls post what great things your nation has contributed to betterment of society u crash dummy.......
Ohhh yes the internet too.... List goes on n on n on.... America is responsible for the invention of modern day everything now go to McDonald's n listen to rap music and watch us movies moron..
@Java Junkie yes me n your mom drunk Java together n created mankind in your image...
@Demented Garden Hose YOUR A CRASH DUMMY...
In 1968 .
Vietnamese new year ,the Communist suddenly brings all the soldiers got in to the South Vietnam.
They are trying to takes over the south Vietnam.
But doesn't work at all ,all of themes destroy by the US Army's and South Vietnam Army's.
This is a big battlefield in Vietnam war.
If the elections that were called for in the Geneva agreement that ended the French involvement in 1954 had taken place, the war would never been necessary and hundreds of thousands of lives would not have been lost!
Thanks to all u veterans . My generation appreciates u and your sacrifice.
The narrator and his cheery "this wasnt so bad, it was fun" attitude. Lol. He could make a funeral sound like a friendly neighborhood football game.
People sell their souls for money.
An Irish funeral is a lot of fun. We get drunk.
Often it is ,as my grave was sold out from under don't count your blessings, just pray.
USMC 1969 to 1973; Vietnam 1971 to 1972. What a Marine feels after killing the enemy: RECOIL! Welcome home to all Vietnam vets.
@MG1 Movie Channel 3 Thank you for your service as well.
1970 -1971. USMC
Yes! WELCOME TO YOU ALL!🇺🇸 I Still Can't Believe How BADLY Vietnam Vets Were Treated By Previous Veterans!😢😭😡
@@maureendrozda9033 We Marines for the most part didn't give a shit what people said or did. We did our job and kicked ass like we always do. L-4/11, 1st Marine Division 68-69
@@bubbalong7646 Thank You For Your Service & So Glad You Made It Home!🇺🇸
The music soundtrack sounds like a skipalong holiday sound. It ought be a funeral dirge.
USMC Forward Observer 70/71 1st Mar. Div. 2/11 was 17 years old, wounded twice.
USMC radio operator L-4/1168-69. Semper Fi!
Semper Fi
1st of the 9th! Air Cav! Air Mobile, son! We’ll pick your boat up and put it right down like a baby, and you can go anywhere up that river that suits you, young Captain! Hell, a six foot peak! Huh huh!!
Yeah! Apocalypse Now. Excellent movie. Much as I like it, Full Metal Jacket is my favourite Vietnam war movie though.
@@ChrisG3253032 Both are excellent...don't forget Platoon!
Who won??!!
"They'll probably stay till the job is done." Lol nope. We bounced right out of Vietnam.
I am thoroughly amazed. Conrad Bain who later had a wonderful acting career and had quite a comedic timing
Mr Drummond? Really? Where?
Mr Drummond? Really? Where?
That’s the dude from different strokes
The intro reminds me of the old g.i joe commercial.
"Ok, let's move out!" Gi joe, gi joe, he's all man from head to toe, fighting on land, in the air and sea"
and made out of plastic same as Barbie
Vous traduisez au Vietnamese!OK-Salem-555-JET-VINH HÔI-TAM ĐẢO-The horse-camel-...No smorking!Je ne connaisse pas,je vous souhaite mon ami&tes parents-familles est très gaies=funs(english)-(Vietnamese):an lac,plusieurs bonheurs=happys!Aurevoir=goodbye!Ha...ha...he...he... Un peuple Vietnamese au district Go vap-SAIGON GIA ĐINH=...30/4/1975 nous"giai phong miên nam" thông nhât VIETNAM...le jeudi=the wednesday 30/4/2020[8/4 du,Canh Tý-BUDDHA-Anh dao vàng=yellow-jaune-...15/4 year 2563...VATICAN-ALLAH...]:45 years...30/4/2020+k...=HO CHI MINH au Mausoleum-Ha noi maintenant est ville=city da 2020-1698=322 années-322+k years,
@@tulongpham6002 Je n'ai rien compris de ceçi.Ça n'a aucun sens.Qu'est ce que vous essayez de dire?
@@theotterguy C'est le video"La guerre Vietnamese"[year 1945->30/4/1975 "giai phong miên nam"thông nhat Vietnamese maintenant est 75 années-75+k years... comme "La guerre et la paix=the peace"[LEV STOLTOI-RUSSIA]-OK!Yes=oui ou no=non?Bon,je vous souhaite mon/ma ami(e)(nom-pronom vrai??)&tes parents-familles est très gaies,plusieurs bonheurs=happys!Aurevoir! Un peuple Vietnamese,
Should have said "fearful of the new M16 plastic gun made by Matel"
HALON747, we in the United Kingdom military had the same issues when the L85-A1(SA80) was introduced in the early 80s, the working parts were forever jamming or not going forward properly so that the firing pin wouldn’t strike the firing cap hard enough or not at all, the pistol grip and forward support were plastic and broke or fell off, and that’s just two of the issues, all in all we would have been better of with a toy gun, at least that might have looked the part. 🤬😀👍🇬🇧🏴
We called it the Mighty Mattel. It actually worked alright, if you used it as a club.
I used to have all these Vietnam era “The Big Picture” army segments along with USMC & some Navy & Air Force training/info videos
Pretty sweet post, thanks!
Okinawans called us "Sky Soldiers".
We called ourselves The Herd. As in a herd of cattle kicking up dust.
Thanks! Never thought I'd be an old timer.
I think my Dad was a Sergeant in the 101st Airborne division
I was told by a friend since I wasn't there that this is a true story of Vietnam and everything on this way right here is a known fact
sounds like promo for a Boy Scout camp...
Made for the grunts than lost sight.. Incase morale got low, how many didn't come back ? Lost 2 uncles there, before I ever met them.
my grandma served in nam.she flew a corsair and shot down 8 MIG-21.She killed 3 ACES and recieved the purple heart.lost her 10 years ago to juvenile diabetes mellitus.
damn sugar...
@Ben Carpenter my grandma served in nam.she flew a corsair and shot down 8 MIG-21.She killed 3 ACES and recieved the purple heart.
@@shrshred2323 nobody gives a fuck why do you keep commenting this under every other comment lmao
@@6olf6wang6 my grandma served in nam.she flew a corsair and shot down 8 MIG-21.She killed 3 ACES and recieved the purple heart.lost her 10 years ago to juvenile diabetes mellitus.
damn sugar...
The use of Disney type music is disturbing. This about a war that went terribly bad for us, not a road construction.
Propaganda of course.
Yes, it was.This docu shouldn't have been uploaded. it's really disturbing for the marines ,dead or captured.
The most self congratulatory piece of propaganda I have ever seen,at one point it declared 400 enemy casualties but only light “sky soldier “ injuries. We all know that in 1965 the war was just shifting into high gear,and I wonder who this was aimed at,the general USA population or the poor serviceman and draftee being sent to the war.
Agreed, target of this BS was both US public and the serviceman.
It was probably a draft film
173rd was in a bad firefight nov.8 1965, 1200 vc came down on em 48 were killed pretty quick . Want too see it look up Big and Rich Nov. 8 the song is about those men who gave all that day.
From one combat veteran (Iraq) to another I salute all the men that served in that horrible war, may God bless all of you.
This guy almost make war sounds like its fun
It's was deliberate Propaganda to get young US males and later, our Aussie troops to sign up and fight those " evil Communists."
Its over simplified John Wayne/cartoon style and literal, black and white presentation of a very complex situation.
How many men signed up for this unwinable Civil War no would ever now.
Propaganda like this led to countless needless deaths of US, Australian, New Zealand, ROK and Thai servicemen.
Why weren't elections held in 1956 as called for in the Geneva agreement that ended the French involvement in 1954?
This is how china covert war Work
Thank you for your help
Thank you for your sacrifice
Thank you America
Thank you Mr & Mrs President Trump
FREEDOM FOR VIETNAM
VNCH FOR LIFE
Khong co chi... Chuc may man.
President Trump love Vietnam for ever... no,vnch losser and Mrs Trump losser too!!
Love the cartoon music . Convinced me 🙃
😂
1:29:37 this is what made this war so tough for many.
Just like the news now days lieing the real situation loads of losses and some soldiers didn't have food and some didn't wash for a month the make out it was 4 days in the Field at a time lol
What is your profile pic?
Who was the bright light who thought that sending helicopters into battle was a good idea? The enemy could hear them coming from a mile away!
Nixon, Johnson etc
@@duydinhnguyen6225 Huh. So much for sneaking up on your enemy. Might as well send in the circus.
Then you look at the new data, this wasn't a war it was a waste of human life, and I feel sorry for all those needles deaths.
Most wars are. Manipulation of the gun ho freedom fighters, happily willing to kill, all in the name of freedom.
America spent $168 billion ($1 trillion in today's money) fighting the Vietnam war. Not only a sad waste of human lives, an astronomical waste of money too.
@Mr T it was intentional, many that were that side did drugs, and some continued doing drugs when they returned home, which added more to the death toll. Glad someone at least picked up on that.
@@DemonRevengeSpirits watch the 70s documentary called GI Junkie, its a sad story in American history.
@@daviddou1408 yeah when Covid19 1st was reported and Donny closed down all flights returning from China, you Antifa leaders like Pelosi, Biden, Iman etc called Donny Ray cyst and told all the people of Frisco to go out into the streets, hug and celebrate the Chinese during their Chinese New Year.
Or are you now going to say it happened the other way around like you idiots constantly do.
What a joke! They Vietnamese feared the M16 so much that they called them "little". They had guns with bigger bullets.
And the question remains......ALL of these young men, Boys, Teens....Theor Lives, Body , Hearts , Souls Forever Changed.....for what?? FOR WHAT??????
If anything to make a stand against communism and all that if you look at Nam now it's pretty western and really nice place to live.
For nothing 3 millions Vietnamese got kill and over 500.000 American kill in battle. 😢😢
I pray for all souls lost in war.
Awhile.
These videos really look like ads these days. Totally opposite the reality 🤣
They're selling the war alright, but they're interesting all the same as they give some idea of what their ideal objectives were in contrast to what we have a better idea now was the reality on the ground. They seem corny and even dishonest to present day cynicism, but I don't think that's any more honest than these videos. The truth is that there were at least two, often conflicting, philosophies at work. One was the need to befriend the people of South Vietnam as depicted in some of the videos here, and the other was to kill as many communist insurgents as possible, A third was to negotiate the contradictions set up between these two philosophies without starting World War 3. There was a fourth too: Help the Montagnard peoples of Vietnam wage their own battles against the Vietcong with little help or support from the South Vietnamese governnent. These philosophies, each with their own priorities, often clashed with each other, creating very real casualties, bitterness and demoralisation. It's easy to see why after a few years of fighting, not only people back home in America, but soldiers too, began to feel the war was going nowhere and degenerating into pointless brutality. It may have been degenerating into a spiral of brutality, but it was never pointless - and it's frankly a self-deception to now ridicule the famous 'domino theory'. Vietnamese communism was already an example of the reality of the domino theory: First Russia went communist, then neighbouring China, then Korea, then Vietnam, with serious communist threats in Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia and Malaya. In the end, American resistance caused communism, which annihilated maybe 150 million people worldwide in the twentieth century, to economically and politically implode at the end of the 1980s. The Vietnam War helped lead to that eventual victory, and so it wasn't the unmitigated defeat it's often presented as.
They are ads. They show how the US kicks ass when it wants to.
@Okie Mick I agree. And I also think how we see it now is extremely important for present day policies in the same region with China trying to flex it's muscles over the South China Sea and Taiwan. Western military commitments are crucial in that area and so the West's self-confidence and honour are key factors in the security equation. People tend to forget that the US and her allies were at war with the Soviet Union and Communist China in Vietnam. They were pouring in massive amounts of weaponry and ammunition knowing full well it was being illegally transported through Laos and Cambodia. It was the determination to not escalate the war that made it so long and brutal. You could argue the same about US intervention, but that's when the politics of it becomes crucial and comes down to which war aims were right and which were wrong. In my view, communism and even socialism have an intrinsically aggressive character, and people have the right to defend themselves against that. I don't think that argument's over yet. The West today's awash with radical socialism or communism.
@@bubbalong7646 The men who served could have kicked ass but our effing government had other ideas.
@@woke2woke153 Very well said! Thanks!
Love this. Thank you
Interesting documentary, helping to understand what happend
True
@David Webb Why so??
I kept expecting Wile E Coyote to jump out from behind a tree.
That's what I was watching back in 1969...The Acme Co.
I seen a wabbit and a little bald guy.
Why are so many surprised this is a propaganda film? It was for the soldiers, not civilians.
My dad said Charlie is always in the bush about to end me so be ready
I served with the 2nd battlion 503rd B co 2nd plt 2nd squad March /67 thru March /68 bien hoa junction City , hobo woods battlion B co
Bamethout the rubber plantion Michele tuy hoa
Pleiku,kontum, Dak-To ,Dak- pek ,Dak-seung entire battlion of Vietnamese soldiers all of the men suffered being ambushed while attempting to climb the Dak- seung highland mountain elevation close to the Laotion border,. ( elephants ear) then the battle of the slopes during June into the ambush of A co on hill 1338 we were pinned down attempting to rescue the remnants of remaining members of our battle group only the weapons platoon was saved I remember each member of the the first , second , also the third platoons members were all were head shot in the same fashion as the south.vietamese battlion had been found on Dak-seung ambush .a real taboo scene 👹..!! It was unbelievable to having had witnessed the death and destruction that was present during those conditions of monsoons season elephant grass , bamboo forests , wait a minute vines claymore mines , punji sticks , incoming artillery fire so close we hit wit friendly rounds as well as mortars of the NVA type. Read more
don't forget how we were attempting to reinforce the An keh compound home base of First Air Cavalary at Pleiku Hong Kong mountain then on to Quinon the coastal city with to reinforce the ROK Marines those skirmishes were welcomed relief for our battle weary groups of fatigued members who were severly battle hardened these dinks didn't give up any above ground pursuits
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Background music always ruins it
Joseph Goebbels must’ve been so happy to see his art displayed 25 yrs later
Unfortunately, I have to agree with you. I'm prior military and that sounded like propaganda from the start.
I'll take a m14 over a m16,ar15 any day of the week. Carried one from 76 to 82. Save my ass . No malfunction. Give me my kbar, 1911, and m14. Hoora!
How did a 14 save your ass 1976 1982 ?
Greasy Flight 😂 lol
@@greasyflight6609 accurate, reliable, had choice of mp 40, m14, m16. ,BAR. In 60,s 70,s early 80,s many hot spots in central/ south America/ being paid by the job. ., I joined a militia , trained in ga, FLA,
Mexico. Saw things a kid shouldn't. Firefight is a rush. But often as not we be in full gear . For hours on the tarmac. Or recon/ liason with llocal freedom fighters or anyone who laid out the bread.the seconds of your life tick away in combat. To take a life even if it justified by the one to save the many still haunts me. Was medical rejected by USA. Found others who paid well. Out of 20, only 2 came home. Not like movies. No glory. No medsls, just endless waiting.somettime brass have no clue. Bad Intel. Locals switch allegence. Learned to live by gut feeling. Quit active, 82. More than 80 missions. Then new brass came in started trying to brainwash us. I cut out.
@@draconianways3130 cool story bro
Yeah well the Men with little black rifles kicked their Ass during Tet offensive the people back home didn't have our backs
US killed 33k NVA and VC in the tet offensive. Tet was a failure of monumental proportions. Don’t believe me? Go read about it for yourself
They are all heros to me
dead heroes and dying in concentration camps,you mean?
What I mean at a time when everyone was losing faith in something, these men represented the United states and all the good things it once stood for
@@kenross1634 Nixon was a bad strategist. Had he invoked the enemy to kill the enemy,then the outcome will have been different. I feel the same way as you do. I wouldn't dare put my boys at risk.
@@khasnurihusain5607 I guess you lost me here, Nixon inherited the war and has a mixed record. I doubt we feel the same, I graduated hs in 1975 so I knew people who went. The unraveling of america began here. Bless those who stood for old fashion American values, in changing times
This Vid. is dinky dd. I was door gunner on Helos. running support for an ACR, with Dark Horse Air. Daylight, we load 6 humpers and fly out heavy with 9 more birds and 2 fighters. Heavy because I double ammo if Chief doesn't 86 it. Buy the time we left the LZ we were a flying hole. I could see thru. that helicopter any direction I looked. Pilot was hit in the head and legs but still flying. Co Pilot dead, Chief dead, navigator dead, shot off my right boot heel and ripped a patch from my right shoulder. 1 foot was shot off the main and the tail rotor had holes in it. But we still fired all our ammo before we had to bug out. FUBAR is what it was really like. I didn't want to be there.
david sloan You should not have gone!! Many didn't!!!
You served your country thank you for serving sir!!!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🤘🤘
"Juvenile delinquens" is a better fit than "sky soldiers"
misguided from highest level is a much better description...don't f with the messenger but look at the high level and who is giving them no choice
@@karljensen893 No dobt doctine and stratege from booth sides turned Vietnam fubar. 😵
@hugbug67 Humm... as i recal it's somting said in ether this clip or som other intervju.
Annyway, 19 yearolds roaming the naiberhood, stomping gardens, killing petts, braking stuff and kicking old grandmas, a good fitt dont you think?
I’d fight alongside an Aussie or NZ Troop anywhere anytime, those Brothers know their shit and don’t know the word quit!
Ladgrane valley I can’t spell it and the second tour was some of the first men to enter laos 🇱🇦
Ia Drang?
As Hannah of Hanoi said the US Army was so wiped out with the Australians that they had to use the draft..... Hallelujah Jesus Vietname won the war, my family....
Ironic you thank Jesus when he was banned from the VC people by its government. Keep trolling.
Boy they polished a terd with this doc, you would think we only had a few hundred or a thousand dead, not the 50k plus.
And for WHAT???
They must have been showing this crap to the greenies a ORD and Benning. GA.
The fact that the VC called them "little black rifles" was meant as an INSULT. They carried AK-47's... a FAR superior weapon. They were making fun of the M-16.
Have you seen the damage this "little rifle" does?
@@flaviojunior4218 It didnt do as much damage as the AK-47.. much smaller bullet. And that is why the US hated the M-16... because it was inferior. It also jammed up if even a small amount of dirt got in the mechanism. No so with the AK-47. You american bias is your downfall.
Later in the war the M16 improved but never as reliable as the AK.
Hakapik The AK47 was in no way a better weapon than the M16! If you were there you would know! AK47 was cheaply made that’s why it is still around! Rifle tends to rise when firing in automatic! The AK47 is basically a 308! I loved the M14, Except for the weight!
@@thomasishee3862 HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! No.
Those Aussies (and NZ soldiers) couldn't wait t set up their own area of operations, and not patrol with the yanks anymore. Tactics and discipline.
I swear, this is the same announcer and music from "My Father is a Fudge Packer".
R u shitting me, to funny, is that a Frank Zappa song
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vc were affraid of the m16 ya right
that's why vc was driven off their country and never won. oh wait! i think it was the other way around
@@renegadusunidos6151 nva were weak oh wait other way around apologize
VC , they even were not scared bomb, you can see they were sawing a 500lbs bomb, M16 to them just a toy, it was thay the US troop are scary of AK47
@@AnhTuanTran77477 and the punji pits
@@matthewemery4205 and booby trap
My grandmother Brother was a 2 time vet of the war rip uncle jr
2x ! 👏👏👏💪💪☝🙏💯✔🇺🇸
This old stuff is good to me
It helps me remember all the Military and what they have done for us. From the Revolutionary War to today.
@@kathydavidson393 for who ????? are you for real .... looks like another one with a politically correct blindfold of ignorance
@@axerat1255 I am someone who has lived through this time period. My opinion is mine and you can kiss my 63 yr old hind leg.
After the 1968 .
US clear out camp from airborne division camp in khe sanh .
Such happy background music. 🤣
...and unbridled optimism
This was propaganda shown to the men about to head over there to make them think we were winning the war and raise moral. My grandad told me “they made us sit down and watch some bullshit that we learned was a lie when we got there” he served from the end of ww2 went to Korea and got out after going to Vietnam.
Typical propaganda film. Nothing wrong with that.
What was wrong was the Vietnam War.
Just like Iraq 2003, the Americans never understood (still don't) that the Vietnamese were fighting a different war than the USA. They were fighting for autonomy not communism. LBJ was fighting communism. Ho Chi Min quoted Jefferson, the Declaration and US Constitution in his speeches. He was a Vietnam nationalist.... LBJ (&Co), who made the "great society" and so many wonderful things, never grasped this till the day he died. That is why America lost.
Well said.
Vietnam war was about money and Kennedy knew it..he was going to pull out and that's one reason the shadow government killed him with the help of the Mafia..Lady Bird Johnson was the owner of brown and root in the sixties. Brown and root had the military contracts just like halliburton had the military contracts for the Iraq war.. Dick Cheney and the bushes got rich off of that war.. thank God we have a volunteer military now.. thank God my son joined the airforce so maybe he will not get killed for wanting to serve his country.. if you notice very few politicians children join the military..I will be first in line if I was needed to fight for the safety of this country and my children and grandchildren.. I just do not trust Washington DC policy..once you join the military if you do not have any say-so over anything you just do what you are told... I do love my country I just know how I don't have the power to fix it because it is in terrible need of fixing..that's my two cents worth 🤔😀🤗🍺🍻
BS! Ho was a Communist. His GOVERNMENT was Communist. Vietnam is STILL Communist. And North Vietnam was SUPPORTED by Communists (China and the Soviet Union).Saying they were JUST "Nationalists" fighting American "Imperialism" is pure BS! You might as well call BLM and ANTIFA Nationalists.
@@richardhowe4140
Your two cents worth is a very valuable and honest statement about your own country and its politics. I admire and respect you for that. I wish you and your family safety and well-being. Stay well...;-)
@@Patricia-un6kv I live in South Louisiana and my wife died about five years ago..I am alone and it's no fun..where do you live? Are you married?
Hey--- Conrad Bain doing the narration. (He was on "Maude".)
. . . and we still lost ! How come ?
WE LOST AS SOON AS WE DECIDED TO DO ALL THE HEAVY LIFTING , MANY REASONS BUT A FEW WITH NO DOUBTS ABOUT THEM ARE: SUPPORTING A CORRUPT REGIME THAT WAS ONLY CONCERNED WITH KEEPING THEIR POWER N CARED LESS ABOUT THE PEOPLE, SECOND THE KOREAN CONFLICT WE WERE SO WORRIED ABOUT CREATING CONDITIONS THAT MIGHT WIDEN THE WAY TO CHINA AS WE DID IN KOREA OR WORSE STARTING WW3, SO OUR POLITICIANS MICRO MANAGED THE WAR TRULY LIMITING OUR MILITARY TO WAGE TOTAL WAR AS WAS BEING WAGED AGAINST US LIKE NOT INVADING THE NORTH NO FIGHTING OUTSIDE OF S VIETNAM (WE STILL DID BUT COVERTLY N NOT WITH THE EFFORT NEEDED TO WIN), WE SLOWLY WENT TO WAR IN INCHES INSTEAD OF ALL IN FROM THE JUMP GIVING THE ENEMY TIME TO MATCH OUR TROOP STRENGTH WHILE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE FACT THAT WE HAD STIFLED OUR TROOPS THX TO GARBAGE STRATEGY M CAUTION!! WE SHOULD NEVER EVER AGAIN AS OUR TROOPS TO RISK THEIR LIVES WITHOUT ALLOWING THEM EVERY SINGLE OPTION N ADVANTAGE WE CAN TO WIN SO IF WE CAN OR WONT DO THIS FOR THEM WE SHOULD NEVER ASK THEM FOR TO RISK THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE!!!
We didn't lose. Vietnam isn't under the control of China or Russia, are they? We won. The Vietnamese won.
Corey, EVERYTHING U SAID ABOUT HOW WE DIDNT LOSE THE VIETNAM WAR, EXCEPT THAT WE WERE DEFENDING SOUTH VIETNAM THAT WAS A DEBATABLE DEMOCRACY, AND ONE OF OUR ALLIES! SO WHEN THE SOUTH WAS FINALLY OVER RUN BY THE NVA THEY TOOK POWER N REUNIFIED THE SOUTH WITH THE NORTH UNDER A COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT, WHICH GOING BACK TO THE FRENCH INDOCHINA N THEN INTO ARE WAR WAS THE REASON WE WENT TO WAR THERE BECAUSE OF THE BELIEF IN THE COMMUNIST DONIMO THEORY SLASH FEAR!! SO WHEN U CAN NOT MEET YOUR OBJECTIVE IN A WAR YOU HAVE LOST! THE US NUMBER ONE MISSION WAS TO NOT LET SOUTH VIETNAM BECOME COMMUNIST N ON APRIL 30th 1975 THEY BECAME COMMUNIST.
Paul Suprono “if someone doesn’t want to give up they are hard to beat”........ Mike Tyson.
Paul Suprono They had the total support of the people!!! The u.s. didn't!!
These "movies" are so .. as my Dad would say "Cornball"
Really? Could your dad write, produce, film, narrate and direct a better video? Or is he just venting his frustration over his life?
was the 173rd special? what made them so special? like...was the 173rd better than other airborne brigades
There's a good documentary about them on yt and there's a great song about them sung and written by a 173rd vet.
Vielen Dank
So good to hear from you, Mr. Hussein as always. Yes, that would be good, delicious! Anyone in mind? A sister? Perhaps a cousin?
I get this ad with an active Haji 's head on my chevron and the question "what do you do". Light him up. Check out the wounded. Medivac. What the fcuk else would you do?
My father served in the navy during the Vietnam conflict.
Thank him for me.
My friends and relatives participated...I opposed the war and protested against it...and am damn proud that I did!!!
My best friend&& former schoolmate was a Door gunner(2 terms)on a Huey he told me a few months ago that he lost it when he got back,He actually told me he was DANGEROUS.I went with another friend we went to school with to his house,There was a beautiful rifle in the corner,I said"Wow what a beautiful weapon", His comment!?, "I killed that
G@@k I got that off of"
Isort of acted like it never bothered me,Until his story about just flying around pulling the pin on a grenade tossing it where ever,Thank God they put him in a psycho ward about a year he enjoyed killing @ the time🤪.
10 first minutes has got plenty of staged scenes. The M16 got on the field much later.
@James Knight @James Knight Clarification for those who might fall in the trap of thinking of this video as an historically accurate documentary and to expose those who made it as manipulating deceivers for intentionally failing to mention in the description that some scenes do not correspond chronologically with what it's being said by the narrator as the video contains staged scenes . That's all.
I have this series and it's probably the biggest piece of shit about any and everything possible. The VC feared the new M16 they called the soldiers the men with the little black rifles. Ooo sounds scary. This was probably made before the 16 worked right, or were cleaned and the chrome of the chamber etc. I'd read and maybe if an old timer sees this they can yah or neh that the soldiers had been told that the 14 didn't need to be cleaned either. So they didn't clean the 16 either. I know they sent cleaning kits and pamphlets with the white chick with big tits on how she'll clean your barrel. The M14 guys had been told the same crap?
Nope cleaning your 14 was almost religion in the Corps. No idea about the Army
@@kirkjones9639 it definitely was and still is. Why they decided that it didn't need cleaning was a McNamara deal. I still have the wonderfully sexist A1 pamphlet with Brown Sugar and the white female with 42DDs.
@@frederickwhite6416 Remember drooling over that pamphlet as an 18 year old. McNamara was a corporate bean counter. 16 cost $75 to make the 14 $107. He was never aware of the ballistics of a .22 centerfire round, as opposed to a .30 cal. round and probably had no clue what a cleaning kit looked like. All he cared about, the ammo was cheaper. I still have dreams, now and then, of murdering that prick.
@@kirkjones9639 i probably had a chubby the 1st time I saw it. McNamara was a total jackass. He and Westmoreland should have been imprisoned. Hey let's fight a war of attrition. We can attack the same village over and over again.
@@frederickwhite6416 Oh please don't remind me of General Motors.I suffered some long bad times, not being in Laos and N. of the DMZ. The man was an insufferable fool. Must be something they put in the water at West Point.
The bongos. Always with the bongos.
Lol
this what gives them honor... steal, kill and destroy... psychopaths
Look at history: America kicks ass.
VC beats the crap out of RAMBO.
@@khasnurihusain5607 Rambo beat everybody even National Guard and ISIS.
@@bubbalong7646 hahaha.lol
@@khasnurihusain5607 Yeh you chill, smoke hemp in hookah.
@@khasnurihusain5607 I know. We smoke. We drink mucho. Have good time like in wartime.
When i lived in Sweden i met so many deserter's as Sweden was the only country to take them in, A lot stayed & met Swedish girl's, They where happy.
do some research joe
Yeah, My sister had a US draft dodger boyfriend in the ‘70’s and the first job I got out of high school was with a draft dodger led company in Vancouver, Canada. You see you can get to Canada by walking from the United States so it would follow that there may have been many more DF’s in Canada on account of the long, cold swim to Sweden...
@@adodado1101 joe u reading this
@@adodado1101 I lived in Vancouver.
The men who had to use the crappy m16 feared them the m15 was a good combat rifle.
14 not 15 ..sure was you just not wearing your glasses ..
yes. the m15 was good until the fall of Saigon.
And neither was a good as an AK!!!
@@robertroselle5073 good short range gun and yes they would never jam
Great video
Tell You what though -
the music in this film is really jarring... Like, classical/jazz/lounge-music, for a Conflict, in the Jungle..!
You guys must be young.... this is how documentaries were back in the 70s and 80s.
@Tucking Friggered
It's the old Pathé News style of music, going as far back as the 1940's.....
ruclips.net/video/PJ-vJARftrk/видео.html
Grandes guerreiros americanos que conseguiram conquista mas uma guerra com com grandes tecnologias.
Calla la Boca mamón !
AIR CAV THEY SAVED ALOT OF LIVES
Hey Husain! We've always in the long run stopped reds and defeated reds and will continue to do so and America will demolish any other enemy that attacks Uncle Sam. Got it? (Do you like our MOABs?!)
my grandma served in nam.she flew a corsair and shot down 8 MIG-21.She killed 3 ACES and recieved the purple heart.
And got pregnant between missions, corsair in Nam women ( woke pilots get real.
I think the US forces should have given the finger to the Soviets and Chinese, and advanced full on using all of the resources and technology the US had at the time, and put the fear of God in the S Vietnamese adversaries AND their communist allies. Too bad we didn't have a Ronald Reagan or Donald Trump in office at the time. The people of South Vietnam would be free today.
You could have had anybody you chose in office...it would NOT have made a difference!!! The NLF and the Vietnamese people were prepared to do whatever was necessary to prevail!! Why was the U.S. military there in the first place...and why weren't elections held in 1956 as called for in the Geneva agreement that ended the French war in 1954???
57:35 starts the air cav
Somebody had to protect the marines.
PLANTER LE VENT CUEILLIR LES GRANDS VENTS JUSTE 100% LE NOYAUX-LA FRUIT bao ưng!Aurevoir!
The music, I had to of listened to it 20 times atleast!
Yes I accidentally fell asleep woke up thought I had a old John Wayne movie on. They copied John Wayne or he copy them.
@@Houndini lol me too
Phim nói vềVN mà không phụ đề tiếng việt sao coi .
As DJ Phantom wrote, exactly. Amazing propaganda to see and take in, once one has studied the war history and watched dozens of interviews with veterans. Very very educational in many ways (and of course video footage is always good to see).
Early on in the war
I have a friend in Viet nam who who was there,
My grandfather dug tunnels and increased his kill count on the unsuspecting American boys he was sniping. He only had an SKS carbine rifle and a pocket full of his rice cakes. Greetings from Hanoi. 🍚🌾🇻🇳☠️⚔️
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