From one vet to another I want to say a big THANK YOU to all the men that fought in vietnam and to the women that put them back together again, God bless you all.
My brother served with the 101st rakkassans in Afghanistan and Iraq and while he was on deployment I studied the history and lineage of the 101st and they're a very elite unit. And I just wanted to say thank you all for your service and setting the bar of excellence as high as you guys did in WW2 and Vietnam you guys make me very proud to be an American.
THANK YOU SOOOOO VERY MUCH FOR SHOWING THE 101ST AIRBORNE REEL HISTORY. I TOOK PART IN THE FIRST AND SECOND MISSION OF THE RICE BOWL OF OPERATION VAN BUREN. AND LATER AT TUA YAH AS A COMBAT SURGICAL MEDIC. TWO MONTHS LATER I ROTATED BACK TO THE STATES. MY CALL SIGN "DOC ONE".
Proudest thing I ever did was earn the screaming eagle combat patch. 2008 to 2009 14 months Iraq. If asked to do it all over you bet your ass I would. Thank you to all combat vets past present and future. 🇺🇸
Much of this film was shot by members of DASPO Department of the Army Special Photographic Office. I commanded 1970-1974 the Panama DASPO detachment. That was after two Vietnam tours.
My grandfather was in the 82nd airborne div. He had rank of captain, and a medic , who were allowed to carry a weapon. He jumpted in Normandy 6/6/1944 , dday!, Then , he jumpted in Holland in "OPERATION MARKET GARDEN 9/44, Then he got wounded in the Ardennes , Battle of The Bulge 12/16/1944 - early 2/45. He wasn't enthused reminiscing about it , for it brought back bad memeries of seeing American , and Nazi- German troops dying!
'Beware the chicken men.' -Common warning amongst North Vietnamese Regulars and VC alike, after multiple engagements with the 101st. There is no Vietnamese word for 'eagle'.
1966 als 16.jaehriger wurde ich von meinem Lehrer gefragt ob die Amerikaner in Vietnam siegen würden.Ich sagte:Niemals! Dafür bekam ich eine schlechte Note und einen Eintrag ins Klassenbuch...
Do you know Hernonimo Lopez? He was in the 101st Air Borne Div 1964 to 1965. He'd be about 78 years old. He was married with two children. He was from New York City.
Your father must be a good man! My father in Law Rodney Brock was a combat medic with the 101st Airborne. He turned 20 years old in Vietnam. He survived the war to come back and have his own people turn their backs on him. He said that the war changed him as I expect it changed and affected everyone who served. His health declined in the later years partly because of agent orange as it has affected so many of our heroes who fought there. He was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2019. Not by the VA though they intentionally didn't do the test needed because then they would have had to pay for it. So he suffered for years until the cancer was finally discovered and diagnosed. Within a week of that diagnosis he was hospitalized and passed away in the 5 days he was in the hospital on April 27th, 2019. So he silently suffered through lung cancer for years no diagnosis just a knowledge that something was wrong, no chemo, no treatment whatsoever. A warrior until the end. But a warrior/father/husband who deserved so much more than the help he recieved from the VA and his government. I should say lack of help.... he deserved more and was worth more than just being thrown away and forgotten by his own government once he was no longer useful to them. He lived with nightmares and severe PTSD because of what he went through over there and the things he had to do. He had to get a room in the hospital far away from the helipad any time he was hospitalized I'll just leave it at that. He went through those things because he decided to enlist and fight for his country and his brothers, his family. He wasnt drafted he volunteered that's important to note. A 19 year old kid was apart of something bigger than himself and sacraficed his own peace of mind and sanity even a part of his thumb to go fight for us and our way of life. He also watched his friends die. He was their squad's medic so he saw it all and helped as many men as he could. Can you imagine giving your friend morphine to keep him comfortable while knowing he wasn't going to make it and that he was living a man's final moments on earth with that person who would soon take their last breath? He's a true hero whom I look up to and appreciate deeply. Just thought I should share because it's a story that needs to be told..and a person who deserves to be honored. And remembered. Rest in Paradise Rod And my highest gratitude and admiration is also for all the others who gave so much and gained very little. People like your father
Pj ThePickPocket Pickle - thank you for sharing. On behalf of my South Vietnamese communities around the world, a heartfelt THANK YOU to all Nam VETERANS and their families for your ultimate sacrifice. Salute!
Please corect me if I ‘m wrong, the general Hamilton H. Howze gave an ideal to Robert Mc Namara started from 1962 to merge the airborne 11 division with 101 Airborne brigade and created 1st Calvary Division with about 15,954 troops and 459 helicopters along with another planes. They are the one that fought with Vietnam the first time in Ia Drang battle right?
And they had M-14’s ! Damn good weapons if you took care of them! 7.62 is hard hitting! Keep them clean and put lenseed oil on the wooden stock! This Lenseed oil keeps water out of the stock so it wouldn’t swell!
I am probably wrong, so please feel free to put me straight, but I thought that in 1967 the United States Army was using the M-14 rifle as it’s standard issue weapon, but it appears that the 101st and all others in this film have the M-16, or was the 101st one of the first units to use it in Vietnam?. Whatever the situation, this was an excellent documentary and informative as well. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴
I was In Nam from late 66 to late 67 with Charlie Co. 2/327. We trained with the M-14 and never saw an M-16 until getting to Nam. We then were given an M-16 but they were awfully unreliable, constantly jamming, apparently we were the guinea pigs trying the new weapon in actual combat. I would never fire on automatic, that just made the jamming worse.
The flaw of US forces was to lead standard combat against guerrillas.The Viet Cong guerrillas did not confront US forces directly.Instead, they used an ambush while US forces were either resting or without precautions.
Question: Why didn't the US military create a heavily fortified one kilometer wide noman's land at the DMZ from the Pacific, across Laos to the Thai border? Doing so would have stopped NVA troops and supplies from the north and starved the VC in the south.
@@topgunsnake720 The one lesson you Americans will never learn. You can invade a country all you want, you'll never conquer it if the people don't want you there. Even the English realized this with you lot...
Thanks you. best troops in the world led by a moron general who thought he was MacArthur fighting in the pacific. (just like Mattis and others in GWOT) Viet Nam (and IQ) are not oceans where you can bypass enemy strong points to cut them off, starve them out. He hopped around taking and giving back enemy territory taking it back again. build a FOB, base camp, hang around moves out to fight somewhere else, break down the camp, leave and the enemy comes back. ll for an inflated body counts. SF, LRRPs, Recon, FORECON ARangers did great work but no follow up by grunts. If you are not going to put the full might to win at all costs, line up and push. Think WW II. Not Knocking any other war veterans I am one) WW II is the greatest generation. No rotation point, time in county rotation. Get you gear, go to war. come home victorious, disabled or dead.
dont get me fired up 11b in 82nd and i know what we wen through in the mountains and 6 months later we had batttle of falllujah and 3 years later they literally doing exact same bull and didnt learn a damn thing
I was a door gunner on them H1s. Me and my 60 could clear an LZ in one spin. I liked the port side. We lost 2 starboard side gunners. So I quit making buddies with them. My pilot, Co. P., and myself did my whole tour together. We were good, and lucky.
Some of the best things about watching these videos are the comments made by those who were there. Each with their own story of how they spent their youth in Vietnam. God Bless them all!
I def agree. Just saw a doc on GITMO that shows our soldier's POV for first time. It's incredible! Check it out ruclips.net/video/Fjq7qOqfsuk/видео.html
@6:50 they attack but the VC battalion can’t be found. Welcome to Vietnam. That’s how the VC operated - “Don’t call us, we’ll call you.” I know, I was there. This was filmed in 1966, mid-war, when much was to be written about the war. Most of our guys killed didn’t know what that them. I would have liked to have gone “airborne” but I chose not to, staying “straight leg”. The enemy had more perseverance than the U.S. ...I was at Dak To, at the foot of the Ho Chi Minh Trail. This was not Bastogne. Things got really hot for the airborne Nov. 1967.
I served in the 3rd battalion 506th infantry 101st airborne division. I remember the vietnamese Tet offensive ( Watch the documentary )This documentary was very much like it was. My military occupation status (MOS) was a infantry radio operator I carried on my back. I wanted to be a medic to save lives. I realized With a radio on my back and with a prayer I still did. I am very proud to have served. God bless all who have served and arrived home safe.
The 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions were very important in the conflicts in which they participated, Airbornes are true heroes of America. LONG LIVE TO AIRBORNES!
My grandfather was drafted in 1967 in Nashville, Tennessee. Anyone knows what boot camp he would have went to? Trying to find as much information as I can about him, he passed away in 2009 and didn’t talk about the war with me much. I do recall stories of him telling us about being behind the “big guns with huge shells” I am assuming some form of Howitzer? What was the life of a Howitzer gunner like? His grave states he was an SP4. I recall him telling me stories of living on base in Seattle, I can’t remember if it was before or after the war. I wish I had tried to speak to him about this more before he passed
Fort Knox, Kentucky, would have been the closest base for basic training but that is not a sure thing. It would have depended on which MOS the Army decided to put him in.
Robert Mitchum firing the M79 thump-gun was an amazing & completely unexpected thing to randomly happen. had never seen that footage before, but it oddly fits w/ how utterly bizarre the whole war was 12:22
Just saw an amazing short doc about GITMO. Gives our soldiers POV of what went on for the first time. Check it out. ruclips.net/video/Fjq7qOqfsuk/видео.html
my grandfather was on the uss san diego in ww1 when it hit a german sea mine and sank in 20 minutes in the atlantic the loss of life was minnimal thanks to the timely action of the captin who ordered abandon ship! when he saw there was no hope to save the ship my grandfather was actually only 16 and had lied about his age to get in the navy[that was much easear back then of course ] he was wounded and rescued off the coast of new jersey [ a germane sub had laid sea mines the day before] he met my grandmother who was a red cross volunter and here i am telling you folks about my grandad ... seamen hubert h robinson usn thanks god bless you all
Im going to call va make appointment on widows and families being robbed and others claimin to be me the widow and credit etc has been attacked and his id is being played so we need to secure our families and the ones who rest also the ones who have passed with no families its a shame how they do this to our heros god bless all prayers for recovery
From one vet to another I want to say a big THANK YOU to all the men that fought in vietnam and to the women that put them back together again, God bless you all.
Thank you for what? Invading another country for no reason killing women and children? Wow
My brother served with the 101st rakkassans in Afghanistan and Iraq and while he was on deployment I studied the history and lineage of the 101st and they're a very elite unit. And I just wanted to say thank you all for your service and setting the bar of excellence as high as you guys did in WW2 and Vietnam you guys make me very proud to be an American.
Lost a friend in the Airborne. Just before Thanksgiving, 1967, Dak To. Jay Michael Gladden. RIP my friend. We remember.
THANK YOU SOOOOO VERY MUCH FOR SHOWING THE 101ST AIRBORNE REEL HISTORY.
I TOOK PART IN THE FIRST AND SECOND MISSION OF THE RICE BOWL OF OPERATION VAN BUREN.
AND LATER AT TUA YAH
AS A COMBAT SURGICAL MEDIC. TWO MONTHS LATER I ROTATED BACK TO THE STATES. MY CALL SIGN "DOC ONE".
Proudest thing I ever did was earn the screaming eagle combat patch. 2008 to 2009 14 months Iraq. If asked to do it all over you bet your ass I would. Thank you to all combat vets past present and future. 🇺🇸
Thank you for giving us a glimpse into this military glimpse between our two nations.
Much of this film was shot by members of DASPO Department of the Army Special Photographic Office. I commanded 1970-1974 the Panama DASPO detachment. That was after two Vietnam tours.
My stepdad jumped with the 101st in the battle of the bulge! I salute him and all the men of the screaming eagles!
My grandfather was in the 82nd airborne div. He had rank of captain, and a medic , who were allowed to carry a weapon.
He jumpted in Normandy 6/6/1944 , dday!, Then , he jumpted in Holland in "OPERATION MARKET GARDEN 9/44, Then he got wounded in the Ardennes , Battle of The Bulge 12/16/1944 - early 2/45.
He wasn't enthused reminiscing about it , for it brought back bad memeries of seeing American , and Nazi- German troops dying!
'Beware the chicken men.'
-Common warning amongst North Vietnamese Regulars and VC alike, after multiple engagements with the 101st. There is no Vietnamese word for 'eagle'.
Screaming chickens.
Rooters
Dan Kidd
Eagles with clipped wings
@@harold8886 ok.
There is Vietnamese word for 'eagle': Đại bàng (Dai bang). Thank you the holy worriors from Vietnam
1966 als 16.jaehriger wurde ich von meinem Lehrer gefragt ob die Amerikaner in Vietnam siegen würden.Ich sagte:Niemals! Dafür bekam ich eine schlechte Note und einen Eintrag ins Klassenbuch...
To my brothers in the 327th....you boys kicked some commie ass....great job way to represent the glorious screaming Eagles....!!!!
Awesome video. Thank you
Do you know Hernonimo Lopez? He was in the 101st Air Borne Div 1964 to 1965. He'd be about 78 years old. He was married with two children. He was from New York City.
My father was a screaming eagle in nam. I'll have to show him this.
Your father must be a good man! My father in Law Rodney Brock was a combat medic with the 101st Airborne. He turned 20 years old in Vietnam. He survived the war to come back and have his own people turn their backs on him. He said that the war changed him as I expect it changed and affected everyone who served. His health declined in the later years partly because of agent orange as it has affected so many of our heroes who fought there. He was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2019. Not by the VA though they intentionally didn't do the test needed because then they would have had to pay for it. So he suffered for years until the cancer was finally discovered and diagnosed. Within a week of that diagnosis he was hospitalized and passed away in the 5 days he was in the hospital on April 27th, 2019. So he silently suffered through lung cancer for years no diagnosis just a knowledge that something was wrong, no chemo, no treatment whatsoever. A warrior until the end. But a warrior/father/husband who deserved so much more than the help he recieved from the VA and his government. I should say lack of help.... he deserved more and was worth more than just being thrown away and forgotten by his own government once he was no longer useful to them. He lived with nightmares and severe PTSD because of what he went through over there and the things he had to do. He had to get a room in the hospital far away from the helipad any time he was hospitalized I'll just leave it at that. He went through those things because he decided to enlist and fight for his country and his brothers, his family. He wasnt drafted he volunteered that's important to note. A 19 year old kid was apart of something bigger than himself and sacraficed his own peace of mind and sanity even a part of his thumb to go fight for us and our way of life. He also watched his friends die. He was their squad's medic so he saw it all and helped as many men as he could. Can you imagine giving your friend morphine to keep him comfortable while knowing he wasn't going to make it and that he was living a man's final moments on earth with that person who would soon take their last breath? He's a true hero whom I look up to and appreciate deeply. Just thought I should share because it's a story that needs to be told..and a person who deserves to be honored. And remembered.
Rest in Paradise Rod
And my highest gratitude and admiration is also for all the others who gave so much and gained very little. People like your father
Pj ThePickPocket Pickle - thank you for sharing. On behalf of my South Vietnamese communities around the world, a heartfelt THANK YOU to all Nam VETERANS and their families for your ultimate sacrifice. Salute!
Warriors Soldiers ❤
THIS IS WHAT YOU CALL REAL COMBAT......
Thankyousir
Please corect me if I ‘m wrong, the general Hamilton H. Howze gave an ideal to Robert Mc Namara started from 1962 to merge the airborne 11 division with 101 Airborne brigade and created 1st Calvary Division with about 15,954 troops and 459 helicopters along with another planes.
They are the one that fought with Vietnam the first time in Ia Drang battle right?
And they had M-14’s ! Damn good weapons if you took care of them! 7.62 is hard hitting! Keep them clean and put lenseed oil on the wooden stock! This Lenseed oil keeps water out of the stock so it wouldn’t swell!
I am probably wrong, so please feel free to put me straight, but I thought that in 1967 the United States Army was using the M-14 rifle as it’s standard issue weapon, but it appears that the 101st and all others in this film have the M-16, or was the 101st one of the first units to use it in Vietnam?. Whatever the situation, this was an excellent documentary and informative as well. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴
I was In Nam from late 66 to late 67 with Charlie Co. 2/327. We trained with the M-14 and never saw an M-16 until getting to Nam. We then were given an M-16 but they were awfully unreliable, constantly jamming, apparently we were the guinea pigs trying the new weapon in actual combat. I would never fire on automatic, that just made the jamming worse.
James we were takin advantage of
AIR ASSAULT!
First Strike!
Please make the video about the minigun?
Proud descendant of a civil war veteran? Really? Wow I'm impressed......
Good
The flaw of US forces was to lead standard combat against guerrillas.The Viet Cong guerrillas did not confront US forces directly.Instead, they used an ambush while US forces were either resting or without precautions.
Question: Why didn't the US military create a heavily fortified one kilometer wide noman's land at the DMZ from the Pacific, across Laos to the Thai border? Doing so would have stopped NVA troops and supplies from the north and starved the VC in the south.
Sshhh, we weren't supposed to win . But the military won anyway and the politicians gave our win away for a total loss. Go figure.
@@topgunsnake720 The one lesson you Americans will never learn.
You can invade a country all you want, you'll never conquer it if the people don't want you there.
Even the English realized this with you lot...
Victory was certain in ww2
Vietnam was a quagmire
Better if they had have been
Deployed in 1954 to help french!
if this is 1967 why have the got 7.62 M14S and not 556 M16S
Cement is someone burried here just thinkin
Osborne I think
Been there done that
Thanks you. best troops in the world led by a moron general who thought he was MacArthur fighting in the pacific. (just like Mattis and others in GWOT) Viet Nam (and IQ) are not oceans where you can bypass enemy strong points to cut them off, starve them out. He hopped around taking and giving back enemy territory taking it back again. build a FOB, base camp, hang around moves out to fight somewhere else, break down the camp, leave and the enemy comes back. ll for an inflated body counts. SF, LRRPs, Recon, FORECON ARangers did great work but no follow up by grunts. If you are not going to put the full might to win at all costs, line up and push. Think WW II. Not Knocking any other war veterans I am one) WW II is the greatest generation. No rotation point, time in county rotation. Get you gear, go to war. come home victorious, disabled or dead.
dont get me fired up 11b in 82nd and i know what we wen through in the mountains and 6 months later we had batttle of falllujah and 3 years later they literally doing exact same bull and didnt learn a damn thing
Jack Gilbert had caretaker fem his son didnt like
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I was a door gunner on them H1s. Me and my 60 could clear an LZ in one spin. I liked the port side. We lost 2 starboard side gunners. So I quit making buddies with them. My pilot, Co. P., and myself did my whole tour together. We were good, and lucky.
You wouldn’t happen to have a Son named John?
My dad was also door gunner 101st airborne screaming eagles Vietnam 1970 got some medals and cancer out of it.
Some of the best things about watching these videos are the comments made by those who were there. Each with their own story of how they spent their youth in Vietnam. God Bless them all!
I was there 67/68 a navy seabee, i have much respect for the 101
Hello Brothers, 2/502 INF VIETNAM 1970/1971 Remembering Hue, Checkmate, Bastogne, Eagle, mountain yards and how many others.
“...a man sized job. “ uffff snowflakes are cutting their veins as we speak.
I def agree. Just saw a doc on GITMO that shows our soldier's POV for first time. It's incredible! Check it out ruclips.net/video/Fjq7qOqfsuk/видео.html
@6:50 they attack but the VC battalion can’t be found. Welcome to Vietnam. That’s how the VC operated - “Don’t call us, we’ll call you.” I know, I was there. This was filmed in 1966, mid-war, when much was to be written about the war. Most of our guys killed didn’t know what that them. I would have liked to have gone “airborne” but I chose not to, staying “straight leg”. The enemy had more perseverance than the U.S. ...I was at Dak To, at the foot of the Ho Chi Minh Trail. This was not Bastogne. Things got really hot for the airborne Nov. 1967.
I served in the 3rd battalion 506th infantry 101st airborne division. I remember the vietnamese Tet offensive ( Watch the documentary )This documentary was very much like it was. My military occupation status (MOS) was a infantry radio operator I carried on my back. I wanted to be a medic to save lives. I realized With a radio on my back and with a prayer I still did. I am very proud to have served. God bless all who have served and arrived home safe.
The 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions were very important in the conflicts in which they participated, Airbornes are true heroes of America. LONG LIVE TO AIRBORNES!
I love war department videos like this. Made while the war was starting to intensify, these are pure propaganda clips. Fake news, some would say.
@victor soto The 1st Air Cav was already using then in 65 but yeah it was a piece a shit.
1966/67 Cu Chi 25th. Infantry.
My grandfather was drafted in 1967 in Nashville, Tennessee. Anyone knows what boot camp he would have went to? Trying to find as much information as I can about him, he passed away in 2009 and didn’t talk about the war with me much. I do recall stories of him telling us about being behind the “big guns with huge shells” I am assuming some form of Howitzer? What was the life of a Howitzer gunner like? His grave states he was an SP4. I recall him telling me stories of living on base in Seattle, I can’t remember if it was before or after the war. I wish I had tried to speak to him about this more before he passed
Fort Knox, Kentucky, would have been the closest base for basic training but that is not a sure thing. It would have depended on which MOS the Army decided to put him in.
Robert Mitchum firing the M79 thump-gun was an amazing & completely unexpected thing to randomly happen. had never seen that footage before, but it oddly fits w/ how utterly bizarre the whole war was 12:22
very interesting thank you.
Just saw an amazing short doc about GITMO. Gives our soldiers POV of what went on for the first time. Check it out. ruclips.net/video/Fjq7qOqfsuk/видео.html
This the !st BRIGADE in 1965, I know I was there then
my grandfather was on the uss san diego in ww1 when it hit a german sea mine and sank in 20 minutes in the atlantic the loss of life was minnimal thanks to the timely action of the captin who ordered abandon ship! when he saw there was no hope to save the ship my grandfather was actually only 16 and had lied about his age to get in the navy[that was much easear back then of course ] he was wounded and rescued off the coast of new jersey [ a germane sub had laid sea mines the day before] he met my grandmother who was a red cross volunter and here i am telling you folks about my grandad ... seamen hubert h robinson usn thanks god bless you all
Different from ww2 when victory was certain
Vietnam was a quagmire
Better if they had have been
Employed in 1954 to help french!
The standard of being a true warriors was set in high standard by 101st AIRBORNE SCREAMING EAGLE to all Airborne Brothers around the world.
Great movie
There are very good Documentations around, while this Video is just a poor US propaganda movie, most parts were staged for the Camera Team.
Humm illegal to get in my Ccount to bail out your son now air force pays my widows and gov I never gave permission to them to pay fo rdd his bail
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With our natural skill our banks would of been honor ed d but we were rail road
mad respect...operation Hawthorne was some bad ass shit !!!
America had to give a bulletproof vest
Served with the 101st AIRBORNE Division in
TROOP B
2nd Squadron 17th
Cavalry.
Course you did, peeling potatoes
Việt Nam 🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳
The federal reserve anx college s contracts the training is ownership on trust
Im going to call va make appointment on widows and families being robbed and others claimin to be me the widow and credit etc has been attacked and his id is being played so we need to secure our families and the ones who rest also the ones who have passed with no families its a shame how they do this to our heros god bless all prayers for recovery
Brain transplant
Gorilla glue
Jim and stan
Stanly steamer makes your life easier
My dad had that drill riffle
Wayne carried those bullets