Battlefield Vietnam - Siege At Khe Sanh
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2015
- Features twelve episodes exploring the events of the Vietnam conflict from a military perspective. Twelve Classic One-Hour Episodes From The Acclaimed TV Series Devoted To Vietnam's Key Battles. Judgement of the Vietnam war has been clouded by issues which occurred away from Vietnam: the campus protests, the controversial presidencies of Johnson and Nixon, the agonised arguments over MIAs and POWs and the tormented veterans of that war. For so many people, the Vietnam War brings to mind events in America, not in Vietnam. When thoughts turn to Vietnam, attention focuses on a young girl burned by the napalm, piles of bodies at My Lai and the summary execution of a Viet Cong insurgent on the streets of Saigon. Those events are important, but they do not shed a great deal of light on the military realities of the conflict. Battlefield Series Three: Vietnam was the first definitive documentary of the Vietnam War as a war. It will intentionally avoid the subsidiary issues which cloud judgement of the war, so that a clearer picture of what actually happened on the ground and in the air will emerge.
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Saw an old man ahead of me today washing his truck. Then I noticed his Khe Sahn license plate frame. I washed his truck while he told me about the battle. What an awesome experience to get to hear his story. A true privilege.
Nice one
You washed a criminals truck, way to go.
@@a.nelprober-rl5cfMad commie stay mad😂
@@a.nelprober-rl5cfsaid like a true keyboard snowflake. Be proud of yourself when you go to bed. You sir are a winner. 😂
@@a.nelprober-rl5cfYou think any of them wanted to be there?
I remember the 26th at Khe Sahn. There used to be a 5th MARDIV but in Vietnam it was the 1st and 3rd MARDIV with I Corps.
I was a Corpsman with H&S Co. 2nd Battalion 9th Marine Reg. 3rd MARDIV. We were at Khe Sahn in 67 and I was TAD to Dong Ha 3rd Marine Medical Battalion for the rest of my tour in 68.
Thank you for your service sir.
I thank you for your service.
We might have been there at the same time. I was a corpsman with a platoon from C company, 3rd Recon. We arrived back at Dong Ha in spring, 1967, after training in Okinawa, and eventually traveled by truck up route 9 to Khe Sanh where our platoon joined A Co. 3rd Recon. I spent a few months there on various patrols with the Recon teams.
Charlie Med - call sign 'Peanutbutter'
Awesome doc!
I'm an ex infantryman (Iraq, 06), and brought an old Russian motorbike and rode it round Vietnam in 2009-2010. If you go to Vietnam it's incredibly easy to see how America couldn't have won that war....the terrain is horrendous, viewed through the eyes of an infantryman. I was there as a civilian, and could only imagine. Gimme Iraq over that place anyway to fight
The shock waves from those bombings must have been incredible.
Yup, so is the PTSD all human got around them
Grandpa tells me stories of Khe Sanh and a lot of his recon missions there constantly being mortared rocketed and shot at by VC all day every day and even into the night he tells me about his experiences every now and then and every time I can't even imagine how much rough it had to be but I can imagine just how exhausting having to deal with that kind of shit day in and day out not even trying to stress about whether or not your going to get shot but just knowing that you could is enough for most to not even wanna be there but he had a job to do and damn it if he didn't get it done in time they'd have been in more serious shit I'm glad he has made it all the way into retirement and I'm glad I get to hear his stories I appreciate him for everything and all that he's done for this country despite how much shittier it's become since before even I was born
Those Marines were hero's, who fought a very difficult war in brutal terrain
heroes, not hero's.
my phone auto corrects inaccurately sometimes
@@bubbasmith7807 I forgive you.
@@1bridge11 Thanks
I think the pilots of the B52s were the heroes, without the boombings from their B52s maybe Khe sanh would be the second Dien bien phu hehehe.
Brother in law was a marine in this battle and was the only survirsor in his group. He suffered severely from PTSD. He died from brain cancer 8 years ago. He got so injured he could never have kids. He was only 18. He always helped the Vets as much as he could and would give right arm for them. I miss him so much , was a great guy. He got full marine honors at his funeral and is buried in the nicest military cemetery in the whole state of Michigan. Never talked about the war.
My father, of who I am his junior, I believe was awarded a silver star for holding hill 861.
Chronology is convoluted. I will have to go through records more thoroughly but dealing with settling his affairs. God give rest to these brave souls.
Thank you all for your service. I feel for all of you living with PTSD or agent orange.
What makes the Vietnam war so sad is 1 it was not our fight worse was how our own were treated when our people came home. I am so sorry. It may be late but for the record Thank you for your service...prayers still with you all.
That was a myth. Many of the vets joined in protests.
You know Ho Chi Minh wrote a Nieve well intentioned letter to Dwight D Eisenhower stating that George Washington was a historical figure he respected and that all Vietnam wanted was freedom from the French Occupation. He asked for our help. Crickets so he went and found those who'd help.
@Matthew Familia Yes. All they wanted was independence. Instead of helping them and being true heroes, we acted like murderous thugs. I believe it was just done by Kennedy, Nixon, and LBJ to advance their own political power.
@@paxwallacejazz True. Plus our pig-headed-belligerence has only gotten worse since then.
@Matthew Familia no no no... I don’t think the Americans should have had to die in that conflict but I’d like to see you tell that south Vietnamese refugee families !! They don’t buy that bullshit you are spewing. Vietnamese Americans still fly the south Vietnamese flag dude. South Vietnam and the United States were not the bad guys in this conflict !!! Again I’m not saying Americans troops should have went there but defending south Vietnam from the communists had merit. Also Americans troops dominated the communists in battle, got the enemy to sign a peace treaty which they broke years after American forces had left. North Vietnam defeated south Vietnam, not the United States.
My dad was a marine there and I never wanted to watch it but he has passed and this is heartbreaking all the people who were there were hero's
Amen
heroes, not hero's
@@1bridge11 well thank you a you correctly stated something that a person with a doctoral degree you should be so proud of yourself for correcting people smarter than you on RUclips lmao get a life it's just sad
@@cynthialinn1120 You seem very cranky. Are you on your period?
Wars hell
One of the best war documentaries.
To the Marines, Sailors, Soldiers and Airman who fought there…God bless you.
To the politicians who ran it…God damn you.
When you're a kid and told "Don't talk about Vietnam" to your dad (Airman in country) and others (old man's cousin was Marine at Khe Sahn) it seemed weird. But, you're a kid, you do what you're told. As a 40-year-old, its painful to understand what they experienced. What a mess.
And to Wess Moreland, who wanted to be the next John Wayne.
How absolutely horrific, to see with open eyes, it’s unbelievable.
Young boys in for the fight of their precious lives.
Kill or be killed, what a way to survive… my heart is broken for these HEROS.
The awful conditions our boys lived through, many many tears flow for them .
Salute and thank
You all 🇺🇸
HEROES, not HEROS.
All that sweat and blood to fight for it then turn around and walk away from it was the epitome of Stupidity
The outcome at Khe Sanh was never really in doubt for one reason - the amount of unopposed air support the US could provide was overwhelming. Hundreds of acoustic and seismic sensors were seeded around the combat base. Shell/flash reports, infrared imagery and analysis of intercepted enemy communications were also used to identify potential enemy targets. Close support air strikes by carrier based Douglas A-4 Skyhawk jets and land based B52's carpet bombing. Marine pilots flew 7,078 sorties and delivered 17,015 tons of ordnance in defense of Khe Sanh, while U.S. Air Force tactical aircraft made 9,691 sorties and delivered 14,223 tons of munitions. No army can withstand carpet bombing with each bomber dropping 84 500-pound bombs internally as well as another 24 750-pound bombs mounted on wing pylons. The demoralizing effect this weapon has cannot be underestimated. American intelligence sources had detected 20,000 or more NVA soldiers in the vicinity of Khe Sanh. The stunned North Vietnamese army withdrew in face of overwhelming firepower.
then what happened
Over 7,000 sorties by Marine aviators alone?! Good God.
@@lolshark99b49 Absolutely ridiculous rules of engagement hamstrung our forces, the rampant corruption of the Republic of Vietnam’s government wore down the morale of the ARVN and its command structure, and asymmetric warfare wore on our populace, unused to seeing unfiltered reality. This resulted in an American withdrawal from a war that never should have been fought, sadly, a mistake that was repeated in the Middle East.
This war (and this battle) are pretty funny in several respects:
1. This did not turn out to be the Dien Bien Phu v2.0 anticipated by Giáp and NVA losses were massive. Giáp was coy about the rationale for his commitment of so much manpower to this operation, but later accounts seem to indicate that he thought this would be death blow in itself.
2. It may have just been done to curry favor, but Ho Chi Minh reached out to Truman to request U.S. support for his efforts at independence. In my opinion at least, he genuinely was fond of the United States, and if we had just supported him there may have been a bizarre hybridization of SE Asian communism with Western characteristics.
3. Lt. Col. Archimedes Patti of the OSS was basically responsible for both founding and training the Viet Minh as a skilled cadre during WWII, and also vouched for Ho Chi Minh’s character and the validity of his movement to Truman. We both created and trained a force to become our enemy, essentially.
4. Vietnam is about to become a mammoth trading partner post-COVID as a result of their cheaper prices and both Chinese hubris and their inability to ensure supply chain stability.
In short:
“War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.” - MajGen Smedley Butler, USMC
“Time is a flat circle.” - Rust Cohle
A shame so many had to die for profit, avarice, and misguided ideology.
NOTE: It should be noted that if ROEs were relaxed, there is a very significant probability that the North would have been overrun. We didn’t need nukes as Nixon argued: we could have plunged deeply and rapidly into the North as we did in Korea, but without the “near-crossing of the Yalu” moment of avarice that characterized the Korean War.
Basically everything about this war was absurd in its bureaucracy given its brutality. It was like a group of office managers attempted to fight a conflict they had no direct exposure to.
@@agentanaranjado Let's Go Brandon
@@1bridge11 In all fairness, every politician is horrible, ha. You basically have to be a sociopath to make it, and that is true of nearly all of them.
Would like to know where I can find the intro music. Anybody? Thanks
So Khe Sahn was supposed to be used as a springboard for an invasion of Cambodia ?
Any interviews with the enemy must have been hell beIN hit with a b52 strike
Platoon was based around this by Oliver Stone
Thank you to all vets 🇺🇸
How would that be to come in day 1 to the thick of an attack? 27:21
My dad was at khe sahn but not on the main base. He was on top of some hill right next to it I think hill 881 with 2nd bat 4th marines. I may have the hill number wrong.
BEYOND THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR. The Viet-Nam War that was a continuity of the Korean War and therefore of World War Two.
"They were hit by bombs & left no trace of ever having existed," lol. Daaaaamn.
77 days of almost never ending explosion 💥 must be a big strain to American 🇺🇸 soldiers mind. I’m wondering what the Vietnamese 🇻🇳 went through.. must have been hell for both sides.
My father said he was stuck with his best friend’s corpse while it rotted and exploded and he could never get the smell out of his lungs.
Hell is an understatement.
Here’s your reminder: PTSD is what you would expect your brain to do given what you went through. You’re loved and someone relies on you just existing each day ❤.
I was a Navy Hospital Corpsman with Mike 3/9, 3rd Marine Division way back in 1969. Our platoon ran missions out of Khe Sanh firebase to some of those "hills" around Quang Tri Provence. I was twenty years old at the time and in the best physical condition of my life. I'm 72 now and exposure to Agent Orange has taken its toll on my body. I have lymphoma, diabetes, a heart, and kidneys that are starting to fail. The good news? I know I have a home in heaven one day. In my sophomore year in high school, I was told that God loved me and that he paid for all my sins on the cross. All I had to do is trust him as my savior.
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:16 (KJV)
With all of the sensors and planes I'm surprised they couldn't pinpoint and knock out the NVA artillery.
Also Vietnamese were extremely adaptive. When they located the dropped sensors (Operation Igloo White) they didn't destroy them, they evacuated the area but left buckets with urine and sweaty shirts around so the sensors thought there were humans around. Hours later Americans bombed the empty spot, putting their aircraft at risk for nothing.
M46 130mm was and is a bad M.F...NVA could shell at will...We had no artillery to counter the 130..and they hid them well..I know!
6412mars I think we had the 155. If I remember correctly that was our big artillery shell and it was deadly.
@@1969tss yes we did...but the range of the 130 was far greater than the 155...we simply could not reach the 130s
The artillery was in Laos in the co rock mountains a 'neutral' country, The north Vietnamese would wheel it out ,fire it then wheel it back in safe and sound
Sad RUclips has hobbled this at 240p.
In my opinion, the reason it was not captured by the North Vietnamese is that the men were needed to maintain the momentum of the Tet Offensive.
Damn Cold War Zombies do be crazy
Yeah looks cool
Bruh I just watched your video
There is a book written that is all diary logs. It is a much more detailed explanation.
Khe Sahn was indeed strategic and well worth defending. It was the first pass into S Vietnam besides the DMZ. LBJ never indicated he was willing to enter Laos or Cambodia with ground troops. What was Westmoreland thinking when he destroyed such a strategic base? Hard to believe that NVA guns were out distancing USA arty. Some reports indicate 15,000 NVA dead. In the end, it was the B-52 that crushed the NVA- too bad they were not used earlier.
they where using soviet 203s the US doesn't use anything over 155
They decided they didn't need it and it was too far forward, it was more of an excuse to destroy NVA units trying to take Khe Sahn. B-52's before this were considered strategic bombers for nuclear war, not conventional bombardment.
Here is a good article on artillery at khe sanh: www.argunners.com/the-guns-at-khe-sanh-1968/
@Matthew Familia I'm pretty sure they called it the city I know the Commander was pissed when he got the order to stop advancing they were close to the mother load. If we not willing to go all out then don't go at all
@@JBlackjackp M110s amd M107s SPA
NVA goal at Khe Sahn was to pull US forces out of the cities, to allow the Tet Offensive to happen, they won in public opinion after a brutal defeat on the ground, they were willing to take as many casualties as needed to get the US to finally pull out...
my older brother was in Khe Sanh in 1968, he carried a m-60 machine gun. thank god he came back home to Arkansas, he does not talk about the battles a whole lot while he was there,
It's not the war we thought: It was the war they fought. America loves her babies. Each and every one of them. She kives her babies.
God bless Vietnam
You talk about President Lyndon Johnson 1968
As were the flight crews!
I watched this on Discovery back in late 90's. America's bombing tactics is its major weakness.
A very pro American account, leaving out a lot of important details.
Like what?
dam.... watching 240p in 2021 feels werid
BEYOND THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR. FDR: "It's a long road to Tokyo ! In every sense of the word... The defeat of Germany does not mean the end of the war !" The Korean War was the continuity of World War Two. The Battle of Khe Sanh took place on the Korean peninsula.
quality oc
I sold my soul and my cigarettes to the black market man
I've had the Vietnam cold turkey,
From the ocean to the Silver City
52:41 Garry Owen!
How did the troop movement sensors work? Acoustic?
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Wheres the marines when you need them. The potholes here are terrible😮
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Protection was a matter of life & death.
Out with the plywood
I asked my Uncle once, "You were in chemical/biological warfare. " Why did you fly into Khe Sahn TWICE?" He said, "Just because the Marines were under Siege, it didn't mean they didn't need their gas masks inspected!"
Lesson 1: NEVER STORE AMMO DUMPS IN ONE OR TWO SPECIFIC AREAS, WHICH CAN BE KNOCKED OUT (DESTROYED) WITH TWO STRATEGIC BOMBARDMENTS BY THE ENEMY (obviously underestimated). IN FUTURE, SPREAD OUT AMMO DUMPS INTO SEVERAL LOCATIONS: NOT ONLY DOES IT GREATLY LESSEN THE RISK OF LOSING 90% OF STOCKPILED AMMO, (according to this documentary) BUT IT WOULD HAVE SAVED VALUABLE TIME (AND LIVES) GETTING THE MUCH NEEDED AMMUNITION TO THE TROOPS IF THEY HAD BEEN AT SAFE DISTANCES BUT EASILY WITHIN REACH, SO TO SPEAK.
Call of duty black ops
FIGHT
Oh yes general westmoreland the general in charge of
While Westmoreland was busy and pre occupied with defending Khe Sahn, Viet Congs were preparing massive surprise attacks across South Viernam on Tet 1968
I am well read on this battle and there is a little known checkmate the NVA had briefly. When they almost breached the perimeter and US Marines/ARVN pushed them back, the NVA gained control of the main water well connected to the base. Now if they knew about it's significance I don't know but if they would have cut the well the base would run out of water in days and there was no logistical way to supply water AND everything else by air for very long. The American armed forces would have had to break out under fire and essentially lose the battle.
Luckily for them NVA forces let go of this brief advantage.
It still remains a mystery why the NVA did not poison or otherwise deny the use of the water supply. I think that for whatever reason they wanted the marines to stay there.
Music is so weird sounding.
Weird, but very good.
I LOVE IT
Armin Van Buren “resistance de amour” is very similar
@@jls5480 Not similar at all.
Johnson should of allowed the Military to do what was necessary to win
The u.s military should of been to take the gloves off
@@1bridge11 I hear you, anyway you get the picture . Take the gloves off.
get a life, or get some new pussy.
pin point accurate spelling and grammar, does not equate to good writing. There are five stages to the writing process and I'm not going use them for informal writing , I have better things to do.
allowed to take glove off, my smart phone auto corrects are sometimes inaccurate when it comes to grammar and spelling sometimes, good news I am having a gaming p.c built.
The Vietnamese really got into their heads. Love to see it!
Definitely set them on their defense, but at the cost of thousands of NVA troops. I'd say it was the other way around, NVA got rocked. Worth it? Nope.
@@corvetteshorts4670 and the USA won the war right
@@lolshark99b49 & Vietnam lost over 800,000 NVA/Kong while USA lost 50k+ so I don’t wanna hear you trying to say anything abt how the Vietcong was better fighters lmao they only reason they won was because of political issues at home.
@@mando_sosa2893 Scoreboard
@@mando_sosa2893 pfft how about the us allies soldiers?
All that work, 100s of people died on both sides and in the end US forces withdraw from khe sha any ways Wat a waste!!!😬😢
Modern analysis suggests that the North Vietnamese attacks on Khe Sanh were in fact a successful attempt to lure US forces away from the imminent Tet Offensive in South Vietnam and not an actual attempt to take Khe Sanh itself. The US commander during the battle, General William Westmoreland, maintained that the true intention of Tet was to distract forces from Khe Sanh; the truth is the complete reverse of that thinking. It was just one of the many mistakes Westmoreland made in the prosecution of the war. Westmoreland himself was replaced just two months after the battle.
I think one of the biggest mistakes we made in the vietnam war was not going into Cambodia and laos in the beginning of the war..We could have cut off they supply line early.Many of the battles in Vietnam the NVA would withdraw into Cambodia and Laos.
@@kenmesoturnt4415 We did do cross-border operations and a famous US airforce radio station in Cambodia had a heli kill a plane.
@@belluh-1huey102 I think we would have hurted them bad if we had built bases in one of those countries but the commanders were probably thinking we would ended up in a siege like the french did.
@@kenmesoturnt4415 There is a good video on dark docs about a base in Cambodia and laos operated by the USAF
Yep. USA got owned. :)
Imagine if there no b52
Shitty b 29s instead I guess
i found gen westmorland to be one of the biggest biggest problems of the vietnam war.
Red China had pushed its communist regime aggressively from 1950 to 1980. Its goal was to establish communist government in every southeast Asia countries. Without sacrifice of America service men and women, all SEA countries would have been controlled by communist governments. So while we can have vacation in free Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, even Vietnam, please remember those soldiers.
Yeah... see they failed in all those countries even when the US wasn't involved. I'm not saying commies shouldn't be dealt with... but we should have been more concerned about the ones on home soil, not the rather nationalistic NVA and ho chi mihn.
Vietnam and Laos are both still communist governments to this day. Also we sacrificed American troops for nothing. It wasn’t to keep anyone “free”. Letting them be free would be letting them be communist and live the way they chose. We forced our way of life on them. The south Vietnamese people wanted communism, not the corrupt capitalist puppet government we propped up for too long. Also Thailand is a shithole country with a handful of tourist spots. Thailand is a failure of capitalism. Ho Chi Minh would have won any election that was held in both south and north Vietnam. Who do you think the Vietcong were after all? They were South Vietnamese. They weren’t NVA.
Singapore is another hellhole fake country with fascists ruling it. And Malaysia is another country that was forced to live the way the Americans and Australians and British wanted them to live. Don’t forget the brits and aussies went in there and essentially genocided the people there when they wanted to be communist in the late 40s and 50s. These are not free countries. The only free one you’ve mentioned is Vietnam and they’re communist.
War is such a waste.
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I think this battle is same a secret war in Laos.
Dude ! Im this battle almost 1500 Laotians died. What are you talking about ? Get offline
Thanks to US Marines and VN Rangers that taught communist Vn a lesson. We should never trust or consider as friends
The Vietnamese were incredibly they kept digging even when being outgunned amazing.
How dumb do you have to be to store most of your ammo in one place?
Well, an attack on laos then up to North Vietnam would have ended the war.
Or brought China and maybe Russia into the war
The White house audio well I reckon you send 20000 troops automatically
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Draft dodgers protested because they were cowards not because we had been in Vietnam too long. If they protested because we were there too long, where are they now? We have been in Afghanistan longer but no peace marches, why because now we have no draft so they don't care. All they trying to do in the Vietnam protests was to stop the war before they had to go.. Like I said cowards. The politicians were just as bad as the cowards. They negotiated a peace which gave South Vietnam to North Vietnam. All the brave warriors that had honor and courage to serve were killed and wounded for nothing, all because the cowards at home protested and the disgraceful politicians listened to them. The cowards at home and the despicable politicians lost the war not those of us that served. The lose on them and them alone. That is true history not the crap the cowards and yellow politicians spew out.
There was no way you could off won the war, you tried everything and failed, if the USA was stupid enough to invade the north then the Chinese would off sent 1million troops in support like korea
Nice going, Ed. I ve read some pretty nasty stuff from Americans who still support the Communist regime. I had to use some pretty salty language to shut them down. It s funny that these opportunists live very well in the USA. But when it comes to serving Uncle Sam their assholes pucker with fear. They cover it up with some psuedo intellectual arguements and now after 50+ yrs. they still like to insult those who have served. I forgot the confusionist's name on Googles, but I m sure that you can find many more home brewed philosophers right here on line. Good luck, ED.
We were winning the war but the north Vietnamese wisely decided to continue fighting rather than capitulate when the protests became fodder for the six o’clock news. We never lost a major battle but lost the war because of spineless politicians.
Proud Vietnam war Vet.
Ed Helmick your theory is crap.Afghanistan was invaded because of terrorism.
Im a usmc war vet and you're an idiot.
Well at the end of the day that was worth it......Not.
Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't. Supplying the Vietnamese communists wore down the Russian and Chinese revolutionary spirit. We'll never know what the world would have looked like had America not gotten involved.
Glory to the Empire.
we have to keep politic out of our military and what our military does in war time!
A lot of men died for something the government wouldn't back. They shouldn't let the soldiers do their jobs and forget the damn politics
Without the USAF B-52 carpet bombing, the US would have lost this battle!
South Vietnamese army sva was destroyed 200
NVA and VC buried or burned alived
Super-gaggle...how many millions a day I wonder?
The US navy got an undeserved victory.
President Richard Nixon is my father
Honneur et respect aux grand héros général vietnamien GIAP
Man that alot of Americans
Saving the aussies from the commies !
President Joe Biden audio you owe me$5,000 Joe xxxxxxxxxxx
My step dad lived through that battle.. and then went on to molest my sister, humiliate and belittle me at every step, drink himself into stupers, eat pills all day and scream for his mommy in the night during his nightmares.. Some people, deserved every bit or torment and torture they received over there... he's one of them.
Marine PFC - Billy Hill - Pensacola Florida
I was also physically and verbally abused as a kid by my step dad a marine who was also a survivor of this battle .
@@bigbastard1009 I'm sorry you had to go through that as well.. There is no sense inflecting your pain onto someone else, especially a child.. He taught me how not to be a father. My boys will never know what its like to live with a piece of shit like that, I only hope you to brake the cycle.
Was he was like that before khe sahn? Or was it the PTSD and TBI? Anyways sorry man that sucks
@@Tarzander I didn’t know him prior to Vietnam but I do know that he had a lengthy criminal history prior to enlisting or being drafted.
@@AerialEscape sounds like a real winner. Hope you and your family are doing well
...they won a battle but lost the war..
VIETNAM 🇻🇳 CONTRE IMPERIALISMUS 🇺🇸 USA 1968 VIVE VIETNAM 🇻🇳
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history will judge LBJ and McNamara.... McNamara was the worst one....
Peter Moss.
@@davidbradley3025 explain how Pete moss was worst
How McNamara worst
America's WW1 ?
Vive le Vietnam 🇻🇳 et vive générale GIAP
Like all Democrats, Johnson had "Made the Mess" ( OF, Vietnam ) . . . then he decided to WALK AWAY from everything . . . even "Before" the Khe Sanh siege was over !.
Actually Nixon (a Republican) walked away from it with popular support. The first official US involvement was with Eisenhower, Republican.
Montana Bulldog huge L
You mean like Nixon secret deals with the enemies? Or Reagan cutting and running from Lebanon which made Al Qaeda think that you only have to hit Americans once and they'll cut and run? George Bush Iraq disaster? How about Trump saying he trusts KGB Putin more than US military and intelligence officers? Republicans presidents don't have a great military record, buddy.
Trump is 'Walking Away' from Afghanistan. The US and Taliban just signed a deal for US withdrawal.
Derp
I'm sure Trump was there in spirit.
You should have been there as a KIA.
Don't understand but I know democracy is trash. When everyone agrees that evil is ok then democracy is mob rule. Thats why more people need a republic like America.
@@1bridge11 trump is a fake patriot fuck him and all trumpers. From a salty war vet
@@brandonstonestone1795 Why so salty? Your side won the Vietnam war, traitor.
@@1bridge11 im a war vet you stupid fucking fake patriot. Go to hell. You and the orange moron war dodger.
Vietnam lost more people. Americans spend a lot of money. hahaha
MACV figure for the Khe Sanh was ~5500 NVA casualties, US and allies was around 12000 casualties. You may have mistaken it for Hue or other battles.
@@TriTran-qb9eg American troops are always overwhelming. Americans just lose to public opinion
This isn't much different than what the Russians and Ukraines are experiencing in Donetsk.
Ukraine is largely flat with few rivers as far as I can tell
My uncle told me about his experience their recently. Show'd me some Time magazines he was on the front of. Fucking crazy it was all for 'banking' interests.
And 'they' wonder why people say Adolph was right.
Here cause of Shane Gillis
Home movies of Wasters And Losers!