I was stationed in Panama when all of this happened. I was in the 41st ASG, lived on Clayton but worked everywhere. It doesn't feel like it was 27 years ago, but I guess it was. This brings back some memories. I am glad I got to serve. I wish we were still there... I'd love to go back.
There are so many books and TV documentaries about SEAL missions but for Delta Force they're way less common. There's a book by a guy named Eric Haney called Inside Delta Force which is great but dated.
I'm really impressed with the accurate depictions of weapons and gear in the reenactment!! I've seen some of their stories, where there's spec ops guys running around with Mini 14's, full length iron sighted A2's and Tapco tricked out SKS's. At least this had Colt commandos and Aimpoints being used.
I’m pretty sure this documentary was back in early 2000 so it was easier to get that gear because there is really a 10-11 difference but there was some gear that were like 15 years old which could be uncommon at that time
Boy this is larry vickers.. an elite SFOD-D commando, and a firearms/equipment specialist.. If you hang around him for longer than 10 Mintues you have to sign a medical waiver because your testosterone will become elevated .
Mr Vickers I just want to thank You and the members of the special operations community for the selfless service that all of you have done for this country. THANK YOU!
Larry, thank you for this. I truly love hearing about your experience as a delta force operator. You are a true American bad ass my friend. Thank you for your service.
Larry your awesome thank you and your team! This needs to be a movie so our country can appreciate what our heroes do! Need good actors and director that can retell this amazing story. Kinda like the movie Argo when they saved the hostages from Iran.
Jason i agree that we need to appreciate our soldiers but i think it makes special operations units job harder the more publicity they get...its why seals, green berets, rangers, delta force operatives and marine recon guys hate the press...it also gives our enemies and potential enemies our tactics that we would use against them, which they then prepare for and kill more of our soldiers...i agree that they deserve our upmost respect and support but lets not put them in the spotlight and make there job harder
Brandon Michaels I had SF family and live here in Hereford so I'm proud to be a 'fanboy' as you call me and as for the SAS flying helo's? No, your correct they don't fly choppers, we have the RAF for that. Don't be butthurt bro, not my fault you guys aren't even second best and keep fucking op's up. Maybe one day but that's very, very doubtful.
@@gangstar8652 ok mr "gangster # 1" maybe when you stop riding the coattails of your so called SF family and actually join and learn humility and respect before shit talking
I mean, let's be honest, 99.9% not a true story and you can tell by the way they told this story. He owns a print shop in Panama, is staying in Panama, but his shop is blown up because they print something the dictator doesn't like nd they also kill his friend and that's why he starts the station...and also its "only after the CIA realizes the guy is a bad dictator they decide to help with equipment"...but his family lives in the US and they say he was then flown back home to the US at the end. Not that he's bad or anything, but let's be honest, he was a spook. He wasn't just running a print shop he was a CIA asset that was printing and broadcasting propaganda to overthrow Noriega, and the CIA was involved long before he said they decided to help.
Michael B Yeah for sure. I think you’re right. It’s exactly the type of shit the CIA was doing during the Cold War. It’s probably why countries like Cuba and North Korea - to this day - assume any American in their country must be a spook. Hah.
This is the funniest factoid: the hostage was given special care because he was a dependent of his wife, who was a teacher employed by the U.S. Dept. of Defense. Almost never in history has the status of "teacher" ever saved anyone's butt from a dictatorship. This has to be a first. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
And you know, this fact worked. He lied about it so well, that I totally forgot that he was a CIA agent, and actually believed that his wife's DOD teacher status helped him out.
He could be recruited by the CIA later on. The CIA supported Noriega before he went rogue because Bush was the director of CIA before he became president, and they actually protected Noriega. Muse couldn't be of help to the CIA up to that point. In fact, if Muse knew how much the CIA and Noriega were in bed, he would have turned against both the CIA and Noriega. Before Noriega went rogue, Muse was expendable to the CIA because their interests were to keep loyalists all throughout Central America and that was far more important to them, and Noriega helped them to a great extent. What broke the relationship between CIA and Noriega, was that Noriega was a double agent and involved in drug trafficking, thereby openly cheating the Americans.
And the terminology he uses. Calling them operators, mentioning the AC 130 Spectre Gunship, wet lights. He sure doesn’t talk like some civilian businessman recalling the most terrifying time of his life.
The complexity of this operation is truly amazing to think about.. Inserting a SOF team into a modernized city, defended by a trained military, armed with AA radar, weaponry and soviet/Cuban NVG capability.. Assaulting a fortified prison at night, locating (one man) among hundreds of cell blocks while keeping enemy QRF elements at bay at the same time... This operation ranks up there with the Son Tay raid and even the Israeli raid on Entebbe, and I don’t think even the SAS have pulled off a operation of this magnitude.. Operation Nimrod in the Uk and Burrass in Sierra Leone were obviously text book missions, but even those don’t come close to the variables of Acid Gambit.
Rob Gray and this documentary doesnt portray how close was the modelo prision from pdf main headquarters, probably 200 yards away , sonthe guards had a clear view of the choppers, it was almost suicidal an they pulled it off
@@TeurastajaNexus ... lol Well who are you comparing to? The IRA? The Somalis? The Vietcong? The Taliban? The Sandinistas? The West Side Boys? Hamas? Boko Harram? ISIS?
Jumped into Panama, with 1/504 PIR. From DZ(intended---lol)/airfield/airport, by Blackhawks to battalion objective---Tinajitas. Was treated better by people in Panama than was ever treated back home.
The people back home have been living so long in safety and comfort thanks to the hard work of guys like you that they fannot fathom the lefel of extreme violence you have to apply against wrongdoers across the globe. Americans live far away from real trouble.
Jumped in with the rangers...plussed up their one company short BN as A co 4/325 ABN INF 82nd. 0200 omar torrijos. at daybreak helo'd into battallion 2000 abn school and batalion hq. 3 days combat and assault then movement into the city. Yes the Panamanians were the nicest happiest people for us liberating them. I remember so many meals they fed us in the streets, and dragging us into their homes.
"People give money to e-thots because men are not men anymore, they are simps and give their money to lazy females because they love OnlyFans" (George Orwell, 1936)
This is an amazing peice of history to learn, I may not have been coherent enough to understand the level of what was going on at the time, but now as im older, wow amazing.
This this just shows you how small the line between a success and failiure can be. Doesnt matter if you do everything right something can always go wrong and ruin everything.
One of the most basic considerations of a helicopter pilot, taught at ground school before ever flying, is weight and weight capacity. Night Stalkers are masters at helicopters. How did this ever happen?
Weapons, gear and training is a very important factor to pull out the mission. But I also see that something like "brotherhood", a kind of a single spark splinter in their hearts, is something more than they salute the same flag and love the same country, is like the meaning of "you're like me, me are like you" thing that makes vanish that "we are complete strangers" and together we cross the hell. Thanks Mr. Vickers!!
Hollywood, even the awesome Scott bros(Tony's dead actually), would need to make it into a net loss & black eye to America, like most see OperationRestoreHope. What BHD fails to tell is how many schools were built, how many police officers were trained, & most importantly how between 250k to 2mil Somalis were saved from starvation due to US military effectiveness. BHD is one battle. Unless it's a WW2 story(who owns hollywood), every war America has fought is a shameful, racist, debacle of indigenous genocide according to hollywood. Communists run hollywood(+media+banks+colleges) which is why you will never see this amazing miracle of a country, that has sacrificed more & pulled more humans out of poverty than any empire in history, portrayed honestly or patriotically. McCarthy tried but when you're also in full control of the banks & the press, you have no successful enemies, mostly because you already own them. Btw, China didnt invent communism, they are just an early testing ground. Marx did, & where's he from? Hint: it ain't Europe but it is real.
@@DowntownDeuce2 I hear ya, bro. That was more a reference to his tribal affiliation not his geographic birthplace. There's no such thing as dual allegiance.
@@DroMeetsPhoto you mean like in black hawk down? Now in real life they held off the Somalis for a lot longer than in the movie and weren't in the blackhawk but still
@@diligentone-six2688 you know "delta force" consists of joint operations that include seal teams and green berets among other special operation forces? or can someone correct me on this?
Larry Vickers... Such a fucking badass and completely humble and modest about the shit he's done. If the moronic internet trolls calling him fat even had an inkling of what he's done that might think twice. Dude is more of a man than all of them will ever amount to in many lifetimes all combined.
I was a Platoon Leader in TF Gator...at that moment, my platoon was across the bay lighting up the Amador barracks. The LT he was referring to in the video that linked up with them was 1LT Dave King, our S-3 Air and the leader of the ground exfil group. Good dude, he was prior service with an SF tab.
The fact that Clark Griswald was down in Panama in that crazy station wagon is what really amazes me 34:08 .....Central American Vacation....prolly was nixed due to all of this.
Awesome video and great job on the hostage rescue mission to be able too handle it takes to get the job done and plus some just to get thing's why they send the best in the world too but some thing's don't always work out but . that's a hard job to do ..but thats I think any way ..and thank you so much
MrMattumbo Not true. It was put forward as a proposal by Charlie Alvin Beckwith as the yanks had nothing like what the Brits had at the time, the SAS which Charlie had recently returned from active service with in the Malay Concern. A counter revolutionary warfare regiment, unconventional warfare, hearts and minds, yes hostage rescue, intelligence. Basically Beckwith wanted an SAS style unit which he very nearly got.
i met noriega before, I went with mason to capture him but he was working with menendez and we failed and I accidentally kill mason, I think it's a game
+50TNCSA A good friend of mine was an M60 operator in the marines (i forgot what mountain battalion). during this time he was stationed on-call during the Panama invasion. It's funny how they were practically set up as QRF for a black operation and didn't even know it.
"Dad was a 'lowly' engineer", looks like you have a lot of respect for your dad and people serving in the general military. Anon I've never heard of mountain marines. But sure.
50TNCSA He wasn't "lowly." He was more brave than a good percentage of the population. I would have enlisted many years ago, but I have a genetic anxiety disorder.
So essentially this is Larry at the movies, but real life delta force badass mfers. On a real note, thank you all for your service, and upholding the constitution and the American ideals! Every American citizen is indebted to every person in our past/present/future military member no matter the role they played. And I find it extremely hard for our government to ever be able to truly pay back our military members that fought back in the day of like ww1 and ww2 where those soldiers landed on foreign soil and fought from day one all the way until the war was over, and their wasn't any telling how long they would be gone for. I know the military changed the way they operate because they know it took a major toll on a hole lot of men in the military mentally. But it's easy to romanticize that era when enemies were easy to tell apart and the military industrial complex was pushing things forward at lightning pace and being extremely innovating, and so many new technologies came forth from it. All I can say is Thank You!
I know this is a late reply, but recently Mr. Larry Vickers uploaded a video shooting a replica of his service carbine, also Ian's channel forgotten weapons had a video discussing the details of the carbine.
So chalk 1 goes down because it's over loaded with the extra weight from the " precious cargo" ? So they failed to make that calculation? Is that the pilots fault? Seems that's an incredible mistake after what 2 months of training and no one thought of that?
It's quite possible that one of the Delta's was supposed to be on another chopper and mistakenly got on the one with Muse thereby overloading it and they just didn't go into it in the video. I'd find it hard to believe as you have that they failed to take into account the weight of a full grown man and be that much overloaded. Those little choppers can't carry much, not like a Blackhawk so I'm pretty sure they were well aware of its lifting capability. Another possibility that is quite likely is in all that crossfire the chopper was actually hit somewhere where it lost significant lift yet was still functional.
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I'm a nobody but this much i can muster up to say, " i respect the amount of determination you guys put up to save lives." I salute you all.
Save lives?
Holy crap larry you were on this mission. How do people think they can give you shit??
i love the 45 minutes of black video at the end of this.
Because LAV's Ops are really that black.
+freedoomed It's a diversion.
this is fucking gold
its how delta operates bro, pure darkness
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I was stationed in Panama when all of this happened. I was in the 41st ASG, lived on Clayton but worked everywhere. It doesn't feel like it was 27 years ago, but I guess it was. This brings back some memories. I am glad I got to serve. I wish we were still there... I'd love to go back.
I love seeing delta force documentaries and stories very rare to find they get some of the toughest missions out there
There are so many books and TV documentaries about SEAL missions but for Delta Force they're way less common. There's a book by a guy named Eric Haney called Inside Delta Force which is great but dated.
Silent professionals
@@MikeZ8709 I read that book. It was pretty good. He had a totally different story and perspective about the invasion of Panama.
I'm really impressed with the accurate depictions of weapons and gear in the reenactment!! I've seen some of their stories, where there's spec ops guys running around with Mini 14's, full length iron sighted A2's and Tapco tricked out SKS's. At least this had Colt commandos and Aimpoints being used.
they even have the specific helmets and jungle jacket used in the real op
So you don't think spec ops used those weapons in some form at some point?
I’m pretty sure this documentary was back in early 2000 so it was easier to get that gear because there is really a 10-11 difference but there was some gear that were like 15 years old which could be uncommon at that time
Boy this is larry vickers.. an elite SFOD-D commando, and a firearms/equipment specialist.. If you hang around him for longer than 10 Mintues you have to sign a medical waiver because your testosterone will become elevated .
Combat zone was always my favorite for that particular reason.
they used the following: TG Faust NATO armor, AWS AK chest rig, AWS Breacher Bag, Safariland 3004, Protec full-cut helmet w/ white liner, SWD goggles, OG107 uniform 3rd pattern, Hand-made tube nylon retention lanyard, Colt 723, Aimpoint 2000 short, Underwater Kinetics QXL Divelight, and Jungle Boots.
ruclips.net/video/n6zfTYQ09Rs/видео.html nice clone of his real weapon
Quite accurate
@@zac3713 They did not use those for the Modelo Prison raid.
@@zac3713 larry's also wearing it in the thumbnail
I wonder what perks they were running.
Mr Vickers I just want to thank You and the members of the special operations community for the selfless service that all of you have done for this country. THANK YOU!
Thanks for everything you have done for this country Vickers🇺🇸
Larry, thank you for this. I truly love hearing about your experience as a delta force operator. You are a true American bad ass my friend. Thank you for your service.
Thanks to you and your team for all
your service.
Larry your awesome thank you and your team! This needs to be a movie so our country can appreciate what our heroes do! Need good actors and director that can retell this amazing story. Kinda like
the movie Argo when they saved the hostages from Iran.
Jason i agree that we need to appreciate our soldiers but i think it makes special operations units job harder the more publicity they get...its why seals, green berets, rangers, delta force operatives and marine recon guys hate the press...it also gives our enemies and potential enemies our tactics that we would use against them, which they then prepare for and kill more of our soldiers...i agree that they deserve our upmost respect and support but lets not put them in the spotlight and make there job harder
Thank you so much for all your guys service... awesome story. God bless America.
Me lookin at the amount of minutes on this video: "Wow, 23 minutes in he's already rescued. So what's the rest of the video for?"
24:32 : "Well shit"
The rest was the pile of shite getaway.
Wouldn't happen British SAS .
@@gangstar8652 sure it wouldn't, fanboy. Didn't know SAS flew choppers
Brandon Michaels I had SF family and live here in Hereford so I'm proud to be a 'fanboy' as you call me and as for the SAS flying helo's?
No, your correct they don't fly choppers, we have the RAF for that.
Don't be butthurt bro, not my fault you guys aren't even second best and keep fucking op's up.
Maybe one day but that's very, very doubtful.
@@gangstar8652 ok mr "gangster # 1" maybe when you stop riding the coattails of your so called SF family and actually join and learn humility and respect before shit talking
@@gangstar8652 by fucking up ops you mean a set back that was alleviated
What a bad ass. Get your press blown up so start a pirate radio station. My salute to a brave and heroic man.
Should have mentioned the delta guys as well. I'm just in awe of their warrior spirit.
I mean, let's be honest, 99.9% not a true story and you can tell by the way they told this story. He owns a print shop in Panama, is staying in Panama, but his shop is blown up because they print something the dictator doesn't like nd they also kill his friend and that's why he starts the station...and also its "only after the CIA realizes the guy is a bad dictator they decide to help with equipment"...but his family lives in the US and they say he was then flown back home to the US at the end. Not that he's bad or anything, but let's be honest, he was a spook. He wasn't just running a print shop he was a CIA asset that was printing and broadcasting propaganda to overthrow Noriega, and the CIA was involved long before he said they decided to help.
Michael B Yeah for sure. I think you’re right. It’s exactly the type of shit the CIA was doing during the Cold War. It’s probably why countries like Cuba and North Korea - to this day - assume any American in their country must be a spook. Hah.
They conveniently fail to mention that Kurt Muse was CIA, which is well established.
@Christian Morgan it's the opposite of a conspiracy theory. Do your research.
Saw this on discovery, didn't know that was you. That's awesome!
This is the funniest factoid: the hostage was given special care because he was a dependent of his wife, who was a teacher employed by the U.S. Dept. of Defense.
Almost never in history has the status of "teacher" ever saved anyone's butt from a dictatorship.
This has to be a first.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
seeingimages haha very true
It was denied at the time but has since come out that he was a CIA operative. But yeah, bad cover for the op.
And you know, this fact worked. He lied about it so well, that I totally forgot that he was a CIA agent, and actually believed that his wife's DOD teacher status helped him out.
I remember hearing of that raid thanks for putting names and faces to the mission. Thanks Larry.
Raid? If this is about anything outside of fiction it could only be lied about as a raid.
the idea that Muse was not a cia agent from the beginning seems dubious, imo.
He could be recruited by the CIA later on. The CIA supported Noriega before he went rogue because Bush was the director of CIA before he became president, and they actually protected Noriega. Muse couldn't be of help to the CIA up to that point. In fact, if Muse knew how much the CIA and Noriega were in bed, he would have turned against both the CIA and Noriega. Before Noriega went rogue, Muse was expendable to the CIA because their interests were to keep loyalists all throughout Central America and that was far more important to them, and Noriega helped them to a great extent. What broke the relationship between CIA and Noriega, was that Noriega was a double agent and involved in drug trafficking, thereby openly cheating the Americans.
And the terminology he uses. Calling them operators, mentioning the AC 130 Spectre Gunship, wet lights. He sure doesn’t talk like some civilian businessman recalling the most terrifying time of his life.
The complexity of this operation is truly amazing to think about.. Inserting a SOF team into a modernized city, defended by a trained military, armed with AA radar, weaponry and soviet/Cuban NVG capability.. Assaulting a fortified prison at night, locating (one man) among hundreds of cell blocks while keeping enemy QRF elements at bay at the same time... This operation ranks up there with the Son Tay raid and even the Israeli raid on Entebbe, and I don’t think even the SAS have pulled off a operation of this magnitude.. Operation Nimrod in the Uk and Burrass in Sierra Leone were obviously text book missions, but even those don’t come close to the variables of Acid Gambit.
Rob Gray and this documentary doesnt portray how close was the modelo prision from pdf main headquarters, probably 200 yards away , sonthe guards had a clear view of the choppers, it was almost suicidal an they pulled it off
Panamian defence forces was far from a trained army :D
@@TeurastajaNexus ... lol Well who are you comparing to? The IRA? The Somalis? The Vietcong? The Taliban? The Sandinistas? The West Side Boys? Hamas? Boko Harram? ISIS?
@@joehavin1 Actually ISIS and Vietcong are more capable for what I know.
@@TeurastajaNexus Yea, how about no lol
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Incredible story. Thank you LAV and your comrades!
Jumped into Panama, with 1/504 PIR. From DZ(intended---lol)/airfield/airport, by Blackhawks to battalion objective---Tinajitas. Was treated better by people in Panama than was ever treated back home.
The people back home have been living so long in safety and comfort thanks to the hard work of guys like you that they fannot fathom the lefel of extreme violence you have to apply against wrongdoers across the globe. Americans live far away from real trouble.
it's been so good for so long that recreational outrage is a thing over dumb shit because there's nothing real to be upset about
My uncle was there 75th rangers 1st ranger battalion c company
We jumped in on the 10th. 3/504 for "Operation Fake JOTB"...wink wink. Hit the prison (us scouts and Cco) Bco hit a Bridge and Deni HQ in Colon.
Jumped in with the rangers...plussed up their one company short BN as A co 4/325 ABN INF 82nd. 0200 omar torrijos. at daybreak helo'd into battallion 2000 abn school and batalion hq. 3 days combat and assault then movement into the city. Yes the Panamanians were the nicest happiest people for us liberating them. I remember so many meals they fed us in the streets, and dragging us into their homes.
The guy saying "We should be Flying, but we are Driving now...LMAO !! That would be an Eye-opener !! lol
holy damn i thought it was just a preview! THANK YOU LARRY!! brb making coffee and pillaging cookies
TheKooster31 Sit tight! I also thought this was a short clip until i saw the duration
Wow. "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to violence on their behalf." (George Orwell.)
If your going to quote someone at least get the quote correct bro.
"People give money to e-thots because men are not men anymore, they are simps and give their money to lazy females because they love OnlyFans" (George Orwell, 1936)
This is an amazing peice of history to learn, I may not have been coherent enough to understand the level of what was going on at the time, but now as im older, wow amazing.
I salute these soldiers because of whom we are free and the country sleeps while they are up on the watch.
This this just shows you how small the line between a success and failiure can be.
Doesnt matter if you do everything right something can always go wrong and ruin everything.
Excellent . Thank you for your service Larry V. Keep Operating and Godbless
This makes me very proud to be apart of such a great country. The entire story is remarkable.
would make a good movie.
thanks for posting.
watch the spy game, i think the whole storys based on this
Nice😊
One of the most basic considerations of a helicopter pilot, taught at ground school before ever flying, is weight and weight capacity. Night Stalkers are masters at helicopters. How did this ever happen?
incredible. thank you for your service and sacrifice sir
This country needs more people like Mr Vickers and his ilk.
Thanks you for your service Mr.Vickers
Thank*
Ahhh, memories of Christmas vacation...
Weapons, gear and training is a very important factor to pull out the mission. But I also see that something like "brotherhood", a kind of a single spark splinter in their hearts, is something more than they salute the same flag and love the same country, is like the meaning of "you're like me, me are like you" thing that makes vanish that "we are complete strangers" and together we cross the hell. Thanks Mr. Vickers!!
2006 was the last time I saw this episode, been trying to find and it now you post it! Awesome
I’m impressed by how accurate the gear they used in this re-enactment!!!!!
wheres Ridley Scott on making a movie about this mission?
I mean if we are being real the men of TFR and Shugart and Gordon deserved their story being told.
Hollywood, even the awesome Scott bros(Tony's dead actually), would need to make it into a net loss & black eye to America, like most see OperationRestoreHope. What BHD fails to tell is how many schools were built, how many police officers were trained, & most importantly how between 250k to 2mil Somalis were saved from starvation due to US military effectiveness. BHD is one battle. Unless it's a WW2 story(who owns hollywood), every war America has fought is a shameful, racist, debacle of indigenous genocide according to hollywood. Communists run hollywood(+media+banks+colleges) which is why you will never see this amazing miracle of a country, that has sacrificed more & pulled more humans out of poverty than any empire in history, portrayed honestly or patriotically. McCarthy tried but when you're also in full control of the banks & the press, you have no successful enemies, mostly because you already own them. Btw, China didnt invent communism, they are just an early testing ground. Marx did, & where's he from? Hint: it ain't Europe but it is real.
@@mobbarley1682 I agree with everything you said except that Karl Marx was born, and resided primarily, in Europe.
@@DowntownDeuce2 I hear ya, bro. That was more a reference to his tribal affiliation not his geographic birthplace. There's no such thing as dual allegiance.
@@DroMeetsPhoto you mean like in black hawk down? Now in real life they held off the Somalis for a lot longer than in the movie and weren't in the blackhawk but still
Hey Kelly loaded this same video! Thanks for the full version Larry.
these operators fall to the ground with their legs wounded after a crash and just casually gets up
ELITE
July 2019. Still a great video.
Can't get enough of this- LAV is kickA$$
The US government doesn't say if Delta Force exist... That's the badass factor
Yes it does - I saw the movie with Chuck Norris in it lol
Oh, is THAT the badass factor? That's what it is, eh?
That's not even it's name. CAG, but it got changed again last I heard.
The US Military won't mention their Existence. That's what they are. SEALs takes too much credit. Including the Green Berets.
@@diligentone-six2688 you know "delta force" consists of joint operations that include seal teams and green berets among other special operation forces? or can someone correct me on this?
Great video LAV....You and the men that were with you are true heroes!
Got to love the classic car 15 with the Aimpoint optic and the giant dive light
LAV, any chance you can make a detail video about the gear and weapons you had on the mission and demo? Would love to see it
I second that
+HORSE SIX ZERO there's a full sized mockup with wax figures and real weapons at the special ops museum near Fort Bragg, NC. it's awesome.
+Tony .338 they would be Danners
+Tony .338 They used Colt M723's, the 727's you see in this reenactment are incorrect.
+Grant Williams Did you not see where he got his information from?
Muse pretty much sounds like an operative...
+Rod 1984 That movie, Spy Games.
Or an L.I.C. handler.
your awesome man. a true warrior.
Larry Vickers... Such a fucking badass and completely humble and modest about the shit he's done. If the moronic internet trolls calling him fat even had an inkling of what he's done that might think twice. Dude is more of a man than all of them will ever amount to in many lifetimes all combined.
Cody S he's a fat legend is what he isb
wow LAV always wondered if this was the kinda stuff you where involved with.. your a true hero mate
I remember watching this on television.
I was a Platoon Leader in TF Gator...at that moment, my platoon was across the bay lighting up the Amador barracks. The LT he was referring to in the video that linked up with them was 1LT Dave King, our S-3 Air and the leader of the ground exfil group. Good dude, he was prior service with an SF tab.
RIP James Sudderth, seemed like a damn good dude
We miss him so much. He was a damn good dude!
The fact that Clark Griswald was down in Panama in that crazy station wagon is what really amazes me 34:08 .....Central American Vacation....prolly was nixed due to all of this.
Bloody good show old boy well done to ALL of you.
Awesome video and great job on the hostage rescue mission to be able too handle it takes to get the job done and plus some just to get thing's why they send the best in the world too but some thing's don't always work out but . that's a hard job to do ..but thats I think any way ..and thank you so much
the comments about Larry that are disrespectful that could have been you in that prison ! show some respect !
Larry Vickers "The Real MCCoy" Thank You For Your Service Man!!!!!!
I was 10 years old when this happened...
Cool.
"...fuckin' Delta" - Sgt. Eversmann
The government won't risk deltas if muse wasn't a government asset...
That's why they took the Military Channel off the air
Delta force was literally started to be a hostage rescue unit, saving regular Americans from behind enemy lines is their job.
Of course, he was obviously a high value asset to send delta into break a dude out of a foreign prison, even if it was run by a Despot
MrMattumbo Not true.
It was put forward as a proposal by Charlie Alvin Beckwith as the yanks had nothing like what the Brits had at the time, the SAS which Charlie had recently returned from active service with in the Malay Concern.
A counter revolutionary warfare regiment, unconventional warfare, hearts and minds, yes hostage rescue, intelligence.
Basically Beckwith wanted an SAS style unit which he very nearly got.
The US sent delta operators to save 70 Iraqi security personnel that were about to be executed by ISIS
Wow, I bet there were so many lessons that Delta and other SOF learned after this mission.
Wow! Beyond amazing. God bless our Warriors!
i met noriega before, I went with mason to capture him but he was working with menendez and we failed and I accidentally kill mason, I think it's a game
Hey Larry classic episode. I would have loved to here some recent commentary from you after.
Man I love this show
Trying to find this for ages cheers
"nah he was just being Kelly, being relaxed and -unconscious".... lol
This fella is CIA
great job guys. big balls ..thank God obammie wasnt in office..
chapmaker46 You're too stupid to be allowed to live.
Awesome documentary! You should do a reunion on your channel with your unit Larry! Hek, even invite Kurt too!
Thanks LAV
They were blocking radio signal because he felt it was a threat. Now they block twitter feed.
i remember my dad telling me about this op but he was just a lowly engineer with the 82nd ...
+50TNCSA A good friend of mine was an M60 operator in the marines (i forgot what mountain battalion). during this time he was stationed on-call during the Panama invasion. It's funny how they were practically set up as QRF for a black operation and didn't even know it.
Everybody does their part man
"Dad was a 'lowly' engineer", looks like you have a lot of respect for your dad and people serving in the general military.
Anon I've never heard of mountain marines. But sure.
Rayniz604 my mistake, it was definitely army
50TNCSA He wasn't "lowly." He was more brave than a good percentage of the population. I would have enlisted many years ago, but I have a genetic anxiety disorder.
thanks for your service Mr.Vickers
I was stationed there at the time, Job Well Done!
I was in Santa Isabel at that time , there were big holes in OpSec that got SEALs killed 😠
Lav have you though about making a video on the m14 and the mk14 ebr as marksman and/or DMR rifles and your experience in regards to the m14/mk14?
Anyone else experiencing a problem with lack of volume? Awesome silent movie, would be better with sound.
So essentially this is Larry at the movies, but real life delta force badass mfers.
On a real note, thank you all for your service, and upholding the constitution and the American ideals! Every American citizen is indebted to every person in our past/present/future military member no matter the role they played.
And I find it extremely hard for our government to ever be able to truly pay back our military members that fought back in the day of like ww1 and ww2 where those soldiers landed on foreign soil and fought from day one all the way until the war was over, and their wasn't any telling how long they would be gone for. I know the military changed the way they operate because they know it took a major toll on a hole lot of men in the military mentally. But it's easy to romanticize that era when enemies were easy to tell apart and the military industrial complex was pushing things forward at lightning pace and being extremely innovating, and so many new technologies came forth from it. All I can say is Thank You!
lmao at the opening shoving in a mix of dubstep in the beginning
I was safe lost somewhere when this went down
Thank you for your service!
Those drums at 0:16 reminded me of Halo Reach. Lol
Holy shit you're totally right
My Dad was stationed there during that time and I was a Senior at Balboa High School during the invasion.
canalzonebratt90 *Who cares, no one gives a fuck u muppet*
LAV your an awesome American!
I would love to see a video which showcases the arms you guys carried on this mission.
I know this is a late reply, but recently Mr. Larry Vickers uploaded a video shooting a replica of his service carbine, also Ian's channel forgotten weapons had a video discussing the details of the carbine.
33:48 fuckin sick beat out of NOWHERE followed by another REALLY out-of-place beat
Thanks, Larry. Good piece of history. Any chance you can upload more of this series here?
Thank you for your service and apologies for the callus that you endured while dragging your big balls for the rest of us…. 🇺🇸 #Salute
"Acid Gambit"-coolest fucking sounding name for an operation out of all operations?
The last half of this video took a very dark turn
There should be a film of this
Thank God for these soldiers!
Forever a legend, forever my hero
Awesome vid brother do some more vids about your time in delta and how u became a firearm consultant
So chalk 1 goes down because it's over loaded with the extra weight from the " precious cargo" ? So they failed to make that calculation? Is that the pilots fault? Seems that's an incredible mistake after what 2 months of training and no one thought of that?
It's quite possible that one of the Delta's was supposed to be on another chopper and mistakenly got on the one with Muse thereby overloading it and they just didn't go into it in the video. I'd find it hard to believe as you have that they failed to take into account the weight of a full grown man and be that much overloaded. Those little choppers can't carry much, not like a Blackhawk so I'm pretty sure they were well aware of its lifting capability. Another possibility that is quite likely is in all that crossfire the chopper was actually hit somewhere where it lost significant lift yet was still functional.
Thank you Larry.
Woa, how'd I miss this upload