MACV SOGS most colorful man Nick Brokhausen
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2024
- If you know Nick, you would know that nothing is ordinary and mundane. The three of us, the SOG writer, a SOG warriors son and a SOG warrior discuss SOG history, WW2 Nazis, Rock apes, SOGS MIAs and a whole lot more. Buckle up its going to be a bumpy ride.
My Father, MACV-SOG, made it back home! God bless America's greatest Soldiers and their families!
The man the myth the legend. Hey Nick! Thanks for the interview
We knew it was going to be fun chatting with Nick! and it was.
Its Roberts rules of order.not Rodgers
Hitler in Argentina was documented with photos in the JFK files Trump released the mainstream media said there was nothing new then Bribem reclassified them
Nick is one awesome dude and brother in SOG.
If you haven't read these books, I highly recommend you do so. Or listen to it on Audible. The book is narrated by a guy named George Spelvin and I think he really did it well.
I'm a veteran too. 5 years in the Marines (3/2 Betio Bastards) and 4 in the Army National Guard. I spent a couple years in the sandbox (Iraq).
Anyways, I used to work with a woman who's father was a Green Beret, MACV-SOG in Vietnam. He went missing in Helicopter crash 1967. He was alive when his helicopter hit the ground, the last anyone saw of him he was firing back at the enemy. Couldn't get to him though, overrun. Missing but assumed KIA. His remains were found and returned home in 2000. SMAJ Billy R. Laney from Alabama (He was a SFC When he went missing). His daughter's name is Vicky, and we all miss her since she retired and went back to Mississippi. Seriously, there were a few people who couldn't help it, they openly cried when she left that final day. Our boss included. She's one of a kind. Everyone loves her. She told me she remembers perfectly clear the last day she hugged her daddy and said goodbye when he left for Vietnam. She was just a little kid but she remembers it all. Ugh, the heartbreak. I can relate, I lost my dad when I was young too. But he wasn't MIA. He just died suddenly and we had to begin the grieving process once the shock wore off. But having to hold out hope for so many years like her family did? Impossible fort me to imagine the not knowing where he was or what happened to him? I would have hated it.
Semper FI SF. Thank you for everything you've done for our country. And Welcome Home.
Amazing books and Spelvin is the best narrator for sure.
What an AWESOME interview, can't wait for his next book! I'd love to hear him go in depth about his view on what's going with the russians now after spending so much time preparing to fight them in Europe back then. Muchos Thankyous Mr. Brokhausen
I can ask him
He has a face for radio. Love ya brother.
Signed
Mallethead
Love listening to this guy... Pity his face link was down... Good stuff. Great books.
Awesome interview. Nick is awesome
Server with my Dad, has my respect
Nick is great. He's talking about MOnitor Lizards the water going ones get beyond 7 feet. You don't want to be in the water with them.
He definitely kissed the blarney stone.
Brokhausen is an IQ is a curve buster. Had me enthralled and chortling.
I f’king love Nick!! He’s such an ass… always getting into shit, and pointing the finger to the guys on his right and left. 😂🤣He’s a RIOT!! I’d hang with this guy. Although, I’d probably regret doing so, shortly afterwards. 🤣
His books are almost as the same as this interview.
Thanks for all you do you guys are the best keep up the good work thanks again
‼️Someone pls ask Nick to write about his time with Crusader, as a 1-0!!
Or, just ask him to co-write with other guys from the unit.
The way he writes, and the way the narrator (on Audible) reads his work, is a perfect combo!!
I think about our soldiers who are still MIA from Vietnam quite often. I've heard or read so many things. What I believe happened is, Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City now, wanted us to pay war reparations and we refused. And since we refused to pay them, they refused to release our POWs. That I can believe from our government. No one in politics stood anything to gain by demanding our POWs back. They sure as SH!T weren't going to pay war reparations, so they just cut their losses (we're talking about actual American Service men here), and washed their hands of the entire affair. I believe whole heartedly we left tens of thousands of living American POWs behind in Vietnam. And it sickens me. I am so ashamed of our government for doing that. I heard a myth. A legend from a Master Gunnery SGT I served with in 1998 in the Marines. He was in Vietnam, 2 tours, almost a 3rd before it was over. He told us younger "Jarines" that members of SF, SEALS, Force RECON, PJs, pilots, etc. Continued to go back to Vietnam on their own, with their former team members up into the 1980s to get evidence that we left men over there. And they found it. Lots of it. Turned it all over to our government and they dismissed it. Then in the 80s these members were closely monitored when ever they had on overseas flight and were stopped when they would land in Laos or China or wherever they were planning on entering Vietnam from. A lot of arrests. So in the 80s our government made it impossible for anyone to try again.
I don't know how much of it's true. It sounds like a Hollywood movie, Missing in Action, Rambo, Uncommon Valor, etc. But that doesn't mean it didn't happen. In fact, maybe those movies were written from stories of veterans who actually did those things to try an get our POWS back after the war. Is it that hard to believe? Look at what the MACV-SOG was doing during the war? To a regular leg like me, the things SF gets into does sound like some fictitious war movie. But it's not, it's all true. MACV-SOG, Navy SEALS, Marines, Rangers, AirCav, Hell, the entire Army, the Navy and USAF air crews, The Riverboat Brown Water Navy, all of it is so incredible. I spent just about 2 years in Iraq, and from my relatively safe experience there running convoy escorts and mounted patrols around Al Nasiriya, BIAP and Scandia, I am still unable to even begin to imagine what our Vietnam Veterans were having to do when they were my age. My experience is not the same as a Vietnam Combat soldier's. Really, not even close. IED here and there. Maybe someone will take a shot at us while running the MSR or something. And if anyone did, I was unaware they had. And of course the occasional mortar or rocket would get lucky and land on the FOB. But that's the extent of it for me. I wasn't at Fallujah, or Ramadi, or anything like that. 90% I ran convoy escorts. Not the safest job over there, but certainly not the most dangerous either. 99% of the time, nothing happened at all. I think whatever insurgents we had operating around us would wait until we got complacent and they didn't have to wait that long. Just a few weeks and a lot of soldiers already forgot we were in a war zone again. Our Vietnam Veterans are probably the best soldiers we've ever had. I would put money on that. So I can believe some actually did go back on their own to try find POW camps with Americans in them. It may seem like fiction, but it's just because 99.99999999% of the rest of us in the United States have never been any where near the danger these men faced in Vietnam, and then against all odds, persevered! Most people have seen the movie "Sniper" with Tom Berenger. When he shot the enemy sniper through his own scope, that seems like Fiction, right? Well, , GSGT Carlos Hathcock (The White Feather) did exactly that in Vietnam. He shot an NVA sniper right through his own scope. I'm old enough now to know that just because something sounds unbelievable, it doesn't mean it didn't happen. It just means I can't imagine myself being able to do it. That doesn't mean someone else couldn't do it. Ephraim Mottos, a Navy SEAL from my generation, went Rogue just recently. That's incredible. It's like a Novel, "Rogue Warrior." But it really happened! So, I'm inclined to believe that some individuals did go Colonel Braddock and went back to Vietnam to find their missing brothers. I really really do.
Thank God for guys like Nick. They make life bearable when it's not.
As Nick's unofficial technology assistant, I must apologize (or maybe take credit for) being out of town so you couldn't see him during this podcast.
This must his partner in crime! the other vagabond!
Hi Nick , Dubai,Manchester & Basra Iraq . Regards Scott
the acorn shaped die glocke, it's a vehicle/
Time Machine. It glows blue bc of the bending of
radiating light. Even the metal glows blue.
It was developed in Germany in the early-mid
40s.Hitler used it to escape but ended up landing in Kecksburg PA in the 60s.. from there he escaped to Argentina, where he continued his project involving twins. The crashed object was sent to wright Patterson to repair and is being tested in Nevada to this day
Great stuff
Will nick on again? he is great
I think I prefer Mr. Brokhausen's interviews without having to look at him....... at least we can hear what he's saying now, He seems to have trouble doing audio AND video at the same time and we'all just love him for it.
obviously I'm just kidding but it would be funny if he did an interview with just a picture of him from Germany with the woody woodpecker haircut
We call them goanas here in Oz 😂👍
So, Nick prefers the Haigerloch beer...? Haigerloch is a former brewery where the nazis build a nuclear reactor into. You often got to deep dive into his jokes to get it properly 😅.
Hilarious.
Has anyone heard of a Lebanese man in sog?
Snake people?
Be careful. Nick will sneak up on you and pounce with some far out, weak ass memory. His entertainment is making you believe him. Ha! What say you to that, Mr. Nick? Edit: Didn't mean for this to sound like I don't like Nick. He's a good friend. I served with him at CNN and am just teasing.
Festus Hagen was the name of my technology class teacher in middle school in Sturgis Michigan in 1994
A bit cringe when the guest is a funny good ol boy, but the interviewers have zero sense of humor....
We have humor - i was more scared about what Nick might say! You dont know the convo off air.