gnarlyyyy soundtrack man!!! i recognized a lot! did i hear hans zimmer journey to the line from the thin red line? best movie ive ever seen congrats you made my afternoon!
My father was in the Special Forces 1968-1973, He did operations in Loas & Cambodia rescuing P.O.W.'s, He was a P.O.W. for 18 months and was traded @ the end of the war during the P.O.W. exchange in 1974. I was born in 1975 and I am lucky to be alive. Thank you for fighting our secret war's, some of these men will never be imortalized the way they should god bless the Special Forces!
@yesca1pr - I thought your father might knew my partner who was in the Special Forces during 1968-1973 as well. He was wondered durting the operations in Vietnam. He was then worked in Somalia during the Black hack down.
People call veterans of this war baby killers. the only reason these people call the soldiers who answered there nations call baby killers is because of the media. You think babies and women aren't killed in Iraq/Afghanistan you should probably think again the only difference is media coverage of this war wasnt as extensive as in the war in Vietnam. All veterans deserve respect and our utmost gratitude. "while Americans are at the mall Marines are at war"
My uncle was buried the other day at Arlington w/ full honors. During the parade to the burial site, a guy w/ a MACV-SOG hat covered w/ ribbons stopped in his tracks, spat his cigar on the ground, and snapped into a salute. Once we passed he picked up his stogie, and carried on. That would have made my Uncle's day.
The Vietnam Memorial isn't long enough for all the Vets who have died and are dying as a result of Agent Orange, my father included. Thanks to all the men and women who fought and died there. Daph
hell lets throw in the montanyard hmong and death camps boat people slave labor and general marxist cirminality and shittiness for 35 years, turned a budding country into a socialist hellhole after rpaing and pillaging it for 15 years in cowardly indirect terror war focused on fucking voer the coivlains poulace and murdering as many as possible attacking villages and killing all with flamethrowers and the Hue massacre. Fuck the commies in the Hanoi and DC fuck you all
to all vietnam vets THANK YOU!!!!!!! i was in high school but i getting ready for being drafted,did not want to go to school more but war ended,went us army 1976-1985.
In frame 0:43, during the Vietnam War, there were tribes in the central highlands who fought alongside with special forces. these tribes are still loyal to the American soldiers after the war, they do not like the Vietcongs. THey are the forgotten allies of America. I had uncles who fought alongside the Special Forces during the war. Im Montagnard, thank you for helping my people of Vietnam.
Too bad those that are bitchin' get a pass and can continue to live "in the Land of the Free, because of the Brave". Most people do not have the stomach for war...not even those that have to fight. You do what you have to do. Does anyone out there really believe that we could have defeated Germany & Japan if we had the press of today. Could you watch the nightly bombing knowing that women and children were dying? The way you win war is to kill & kill until they quit! KILL 'EM ALL or get killed.
5:25, 5:27, 5:31, 6:21, 6:52 are the world's finest jungle fighters/patrollers and ambushers - Australian SASR.
The hints are the landrover, the trees in the background (trees were for the most part not cleared at Nui Dat - the base for 1 Aust Task Force), the L1A1 SLRs (with XM148s and 30 round mags! Imagine that brassing you up in the first seconds of contact!!) and the '44 patterns webbing as well as the shots where you can see the aussie waterbag down some of the members shirts.
picture at 4:36 thatguy in the middle has his m16, and the magazine is curved way more than usual, indicating that its chambered in 7.62x39. they didnt have that then. theres alot of pics in here that are not of vietnam
That first black and white shot of the guys on the track (0:26) is of Australian troops, they are wearing Aussie Jungle Greens, GP boots and carrying Australan webbing the guy closest has a '37 pattern basic pouch.
My guess would be standard infantry (i.e. RAR - Royal Australian Regiment) rather than SAS. THey are not cammed up enough for SAS. Actually they don't look cammed up enough to be even regular diggers to me.
If it werent' for the casualty I'd have guess it was a walkthrurehearsal.
my 83 yo uncle just passed away,... fought all over the pacific, till the day he died couldnt be in close quarters with a asian person, started sweatin & shakin. Said all the evil things he saw the jap's do,.. he would never trust a asian person.
well, something just pissed me off how someone who had no combat experience saying it was wrong for what we done over there. For one I didn't start talking about my experiences until recently. Many of these young bucks have writen books but, to write about the horrors of war tend to turn peoples stomachs except the one's who have experienced it we just have nightmares or flashbacks time and again because are brains so strewed up.
@hawkkins562 i use to have a neighbor that was nervous around children. turns out he was a vet. he didnt like seeing me or my brother. my dad asked him why. he said it reminded him of the children he had to shoot in the war... he said before the war he loved children... he never left his house. but it was the saddest ive ever seen a man...
@hawkkins562 Im 18 and couldnt possibly understand what it was like over there but i have tremendous respect for anyone in that war. I just want to say thanks for what you did.
@hawkkins562 This war happened before i was born,but rest assured vets,there are people out there who genuinly feel true respect and would tip our hats to you guys any day.Some of us are thankful that we have only seen movies or read history and only have the ability to imagine what you went threw.Im no soldier,but i salute you all!!!!!
@hawkkins562 combat experience has nothign to do with the faggot imbeicle is regurgitating leftist lies from the 60's that have been eternally refuted by the a little something called the truth, commie polciies of terror and murder that intentionally killed hundreds of thousand sof innocent civies in their unprovoked imeprialism begginign in 1959 and before like Thanh aka Ho he changed his names murder of the VQQD and mass murder of opponets in 1945 and nva terror from 1954-1959 throw
My Grandfather was in Vietnam, 66 or 68-70 Not sure if he did 2 tours or not, but he was a part of the 4th infantry, LRRP, RTO.. we all know that the life expectancy of an RTO was 2 weeks or 2 missions, He said sometime's he was the only one to make it back, he went into to dangerous territory with 5 man teams, Wore black and white tiger camo stripes, I have a picture of him in Plekui with his scout, a Maunhtin (sp?) kid, about 14 yrs of age, When my grandfather was drafted he was 23, Old man.
Long Range Recon Patrol, Radio Telecommunication (or something?) operator, meaning, the life line of that team, making him the number 1 target to any snipers or trained eye vc.
Ho chi Minh, Vietnam's communist leader, is a disguting TRAITOR & MURDERER! In exchange for chinese military aids in the war with France (1945-1954), he gave up Paracel & Spratly archipelagos with large oil resources to China. He even ordered to murder his own mistress named Nong thi Xuan when she threatened to disclose her sexual relationship with him since that would destroy his image as a "Father" of Vietnam who "sacrifices" his whole life for Vietnam revolution.
Prosperity only exists in big cities in Vietnam like Hanoi and Saigon, but 80% of Vietnamese population live in poor, underdeveloped rural areas. While corrupt communist leaders like Prime minister Nguyen tan Dung and President Nguyen minh Triet are multi-billionaires, a regular Vietnamese earns only $1 per day. More than 200,000 Vietnamese women from poor families, many as young as ten, are working as prostitutes and sex slaves in China, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Korea.
Vietnamese live within their means unlike USA oK? Prostitutes not only exits in VN but also in "developed" nations like US whom sex industries is huge. VN dont have strip clubs which still good.Prostitution is illegal but ofcourse cant prevent everything from happening.
I respect these guys who fought in vietnam because they were mostly people from lower levels of society and because they were mobilized, they didn`t want it, for them war has been inflicted so I respect them... Today they are all a bunch of weekend warriors who seeks for a little adrenaline pump
jaketaylor15 you should read some real books and do some hard fact finding.
One of the greatest kept secrets in the Navy during Vietnam was a Elite unit called the U.S Navy Seawolfs. today the only ppl who know who they are, are Former Special operations groups and maybe the ppl who still have there lives because of the SeaWolfs.
the Seawolfs are the most decorated unit in the Entire Vietnam war. if one was ever captured he was worth 10,000 pieces of Gold.
my father was 1st cav. and then studies and observations group. We recently found out he received the purple heart but refused it because he was injured with an assigned south veitmenese soilder and they went to different hospitals. the south veitmenese soilder died. He doesn't tell to much of what they did something to do with communication wires in the jungle. He did recently say that they went to cambodia several times.
Hey I can see him in a picture good bless Larry Ibiza, Vietnam Veteran who fight with Aussies in a mix special unit. Nowaday he lives in Ibiza Spain. Great Guy respect.. You can find him in facebook
One of the battalions of the Royal Australian Regiment. ...Bush hats, GP Boots and '58 pattern webbing are a definite identifier. I've seen this pic many times in Aust historial files.
yeah austrailian troops defo. i read something a website that they were the best fghting unit in vietnam all the us troops did was smoke weed shag girls and fire a few 1000 rounds into the jungle when ever they got into contact the auzzys on the other hand trained by THE BRITISH !!! fighting strong stiff upper lip and all that lol
@petethebastard yes pretty sure this is a 4RAR (4th battalion Royal Australian Regiment )section 1971-72. It comes from a series of shots after a successful contact.
well c4crookedrider the U.S. had many restrictions like you can't go here you can't shoot here because the U.S. and also the government set to many restrictions so the U.S. was in an un winable war.
Oh,,really? i just know that..but what kind of restrictions that led the US to lost?? do the US really follow? do the France & China also set the same restrictions becuase they also lost?
well, since the US had the lesson there so please win the war in afghan & irag..so me your strength!
With all that fire power, I only have one question to ask you guys, I'm not being offensive but how did you lost a war to a country that's just a 1/10 or your size, eh?
The US people voted to lose the war when they voted to pull the troops out, by electing Nixon. And to be fair, the US was also fighting the USSR and PRC, etc, via proxy (ie, funding, training and equipment was supplied by these 2 powers), plus the US military was not at all suited to counter insurgency and jungle warfare in the 1960s/ cold war era.
Ya, and ussually the nerd go home alive and the so-called warrior is shipped back state sides in a box that said "RETURN TO SENDER", look ya muppet, I'm looking for an answer, not a joke.
@c4crookedrider they didnt won. Politics lost due to heavy comunist propaganda infiltrarion into US govs as predicted by Kennedy during his visitor to Berlin. Thats the facts. US won the war in 1968 after almost annihilated North Vietnam Army during Tet Offensive, remeber Hue and Khe Shah.
North Vietnam will occur 10 years and only when last US soldier leave the Vietnam gulf sea, will try again to invade south vietnam. Thats the facts. Us just had to invade North Viet.
@LightsEShadows Thanks to George Bush this is not happened in Iraq and we hope that Obama will do the same in Afghanistan that require much more troops....
"War is the continuation of diplomacy by other means." Clausevitz
One can kill as many as one can, but the ultimate victory is who actually holds the ground, and sits on the burnt-out dung heap thumbing their nose at the vanquished...
Trying to figure out if those boys at 5:28 are Aussies. The rifle the bloke 2nd from the left is holding looks awfully like an L2A1 "Bastard". The standard Aussie SASR LRRP was five men in Vietnam. Those fellas at 5:32 are definitely Aussie SASR (the L2A1 at 2nd left is unmistakable- plus this image is famous in the Aussie photo archives).
After the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991, the communist authority in Vietnam switched to its big brother Red China, a new leader of a few remaining communist nations including China, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, and Cuba, for China's backup to remain in power in Vietnam. There are ten divisions of more than 100,000 Chinese troops disguised as mine workers in the central highlands, who will repeat another Tiananmen Square massacre in case Vietnamese revolt against the communist regime.
the other SF guys out their did their job S&D did theirs and thats what I regret because of us the rest of the boys coming home got a bad rep. Sure I went dinky dow because of the war and I have to live with what I've done but I can't take back what happened so fuck it those were some of my experiences. I liked the video by the way. To all the men with green faces you will not be forgotten
People will always remember you and these who sacrified their live frin SF (greeb beret) for the country!!! I like the video as well. Do you know some one as SF (green beret) from Oregon State during the Vietnam war?
came back with a beer and sat down with the rest of the guys and cracked jokes while this guy skined this man alive did it bother me at the time the answer is no because he wasn't a human to me at the time because we were dehumanizing everyone and got use to the death and destruction and after my second tour I began to like it. Afterwards I respected the gooks because this man never told us shit he just died and we didn't get shit but an AK, some maps and abag of rice and fish.
One guy I knew hung a gook up by his feet on a bamboo tri pod and started interrogating the poor bastard, when he didn't get the answer he wanted he took out his knife and cut off an ear the sack of shit would scream until he passed out. The thight liped bastard didn't talk man so so he cut a little more off of him and then I said, Shit man what in the hell he's not going to say anything waste his ass or something. He told me to go get fucked or I was next. I turned around and went to the hooch.
shit they would kill ya and put your head on a pike and put note between your teeth in veitnamese saying this is what happens when are own fuck up what do you think were going to do to you victor charlie. Shit man you people don't have a clue about vietnam except your history lesson bullshit, the only people who know shit are the ones who have been their and don't talk about much unless their with other vets from their units or not at all.
Seems odd to me that an actual combat vet would ramble on that much to no one in particular. It's out of character with most of the vets I know and served with.
man you guys are retards, this video is about the men who fought for their country some of them gave their lives to protect buddies and everyman in this video alive or dead would kick the living shit out of you, put two or three rounds in you then leave you or take you back as a memento those guys we called greeny's those SF guys who would go out on S&D mission were nuts man and they could kill ya and say sorry bout that many of them were pure war machine and they didn't care.
I have it on videotape , I think Bryan Brown (FX movies)is in it. MASSIVE THANKS and RESPECT to those that served in Special Forces, LRRP , LRP. RECON, SEALS, and all the combat soldiers, pilots, sailors, in Vietnam. ALL GAVE SOME, SOME GAVE ALL...
he couldnt have been in the s.a.s i was a green berret there wa a point during nam when the green berrets tried to get started but it failed it then took them untill 78' to get ther men propely trained.
so you were a green beret in vietnam, but you're only 20 years old? wouldnt that put you at birth in 1989? so enlighten me what was your unit? team number?
you didnt answer the rest of my questions. and SF does not work in platoons. group? team number?...listen man, dont steal from these real heros, the guys who actually served there.praise them but dont claim to be one of them if you arent.
the green berrets did when they were on recons we didn't were dogtags so if something went down there was someone to id the body, 5th SF group, B-team we started with 12 men but by the end of the war we had lost 96 men (Gaining and losing)
no sf did NOT run recon in platoons, as a matter of fact the very group you claim to be a part of ran recons with no more then 8 men ata time. the closest thing to that was"hatchet force" which was the predecessor of todays cif company.b-team....is not a team number. so you were on the b-team the whole time? i guess you barely left the wire because the b team is logistical support for the ODAs.
i said we were a 12 man group i never said how many men went on recons with us, sure they were logistical support for the ODA's, but there are other things we did, that are classified and not to be declassified untill 2012.
you are so full of shit and it sickens me you are trying to steal from these real heroes who fought the war over there. you can't even spell GREEN BERET right. the B-team does nothing classified pal.....trust me. you still have not given a battalion, company, or team number.....b teams still have team numbers. whats your name? ill run it through some people.
but ya gts455, spotting fakes is kind of easy on the net most of the time. real vets give out the name of there "units" not the whole god damn Division lol.
my Father did 4 tours in Vietnam in Naval Special Operations unit was called, Seawolfs Hal-3 Det-5
all i can tell you is what i already have and that what i did is classified untill 2012, the onley other thing i can tell you is i am a forger and combat expert that is why i was put in SF
you know what be at the smithsonian on sept.27 2012 and see for your self, my mission briefings and notes are going to be declassified along with my daughter's from panama and deasert storm, and, have you ever heared of Presidential Elite force, that is what i retired in, a team of hand picked men and woman, by the president himself.
Colton first of all your page says your 20 years old.
second Women are not allowed to serve in Direct combat fields, only combat they can see if from air, now today some Women MP's have got into some fire fights but that's not what where taling about.
also the Only thing the President can have as "his force" is the U.S Marines.
first of all it is my grandsons page, secondly, woman are aloud to be in direct combat obviously, how many planes do you here about going dow, and howmany woman do you here about dying in the line of duty, you would think for all of the shit the have to go through they would get paid more than males, the marines are not hand picked by the president and he controls all branches of the american military, and presidential elites are SSF (secreet Special Forces)
Women are not allows to serve in Direct combat, hel even the new U.S Army strong recruiting papers have on them. on it. and i just signed mine a few months ago.
strait from the pages, Symbol with the * indicates military occupational Specialties not currently open to females
so is delta, green berret, seal, presidential elite, and s.a.s. and the papers dont entitle anything about them not being able to serve SF's, and woman are aloud to serve in infantry, and CE (combat engineers), the papers in the 60's and 50's, 70's said that but the new ones dont starting in 1984 that was changed, i read the paper when my daughter brought them home no were did it state they werent courently open to females
When I signed my 0300 contract one of the criteria was that you are not a woman. Same with Army, Same with Navy. dont believe that JI Jane bullshit for one minute.
look it up on google woman die every day in the field in combat arms, they don't hav it easy and if it wern't for my daughter being in the army i would feel the same as you i used to say that same shit until she got her firs assignment and i started thinking different why don't you look it up on google woman die every day
LoL Lee Burkins too :D
texaswader 1 month ago
I saw Lynn "Blackjack" Black in one of those pictures.
texaswader 1 month ago
omg i think i saw my grandpa
AWSOMEGUY7961 1 month ago
I think I see Rush Limbaugh in there....
RandallFlaggNY 2 months ago
Actually, SAS were founded back in WW2
cclukebangladesh 2 months ago
No matter now the political BS or idealism... thanks for this vid and thanks to ALL who were there.
19strad49 5 months ago
gnarlyyyy soundtrack man!!! i recognized a lot! did i hear hans zimmer journey to the line from the thin red line? best movie ive ever seen congrats you made my afternoon!
NorCal4Life925breh 7 months ago
FUCK all them anti-war shits. War cannot be avoided.
123hahadie 7 months ago
@123hahadie Tell us a war story, tough guy.
RandallFlaggNY 2 months ago
That's uncle Doug @ 2:23. He died sometime back of pancreatic cancer.
Hnelson469 8 months ago
My father was in the Special Forces 1968-1973, He did operations in Loas & Cambodia rescuing P.O.W.'s, He was a P.O.W. for 18 months and was traded @ the end of the war during the P.O.W. exchange in 1974. I was born in 1975 and I am lucky to be alive. Thank you for fighting our secret war's, some of these men will never be imortalized the way they should god bless the Special Forces!
yesca1pr 8 months ago 3
@yesca1pr - I thought your father might knew my partner who was in the Special Forces during 1968-1973 as well. He was wondered durting the operations in Vietnam. He was then worked in Somalia during the Black hack down.
lilyw1000 7 months ago
@lilyw1000 can you e-mail me please. yesca1pr@yahoo.com
yesca1pr 1 month ago
@yesca1 will you ask your father if he knows marvin knight the 2nd
AWSOMEGUY7961 1 month ago
@AWSOMEGUY7961 My father say's he when into Laos with a sergeant Knight he might be the same guy.
yesca1pr 1 month ago
@yesca1pr ima find out and get back with you on it
AWSOMEGUY7961 1 month ago
is that Bob Howard @ 2:33?!!!
666flatliner 9 months ago
wow these are some moving images. These soilders look very serious.
allbiznessboxing 9 months ago
I thought vietnam and US are enemies?!
bongthoi1 9 months ago
People call veterans of this war baby killers. the only reason these people call the soldiers who answered there nations call baby killers is because of the media. You think babies and women aren't killed in Iraq/Afghanistan you should probably think again the only difference is media coverage of this war wasnt as extensive as in the war in Vietnam. All veterans deserve respect and our utmost gratitude. "while Americans are at the mall Marines are at war"
clearlyimabeast 9 months ago 2
Don't forget the Cav Scouts they do work those motherfuckers are hard
neonazi91 10 months ago
@neonazi91 aeroscouts buzzing around in their Loaches... hard as they come
666flatliner 9 months ago
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neonazi91 10 months ago
hired thugs what sort of medal do you get for killing a child the Pram Cross
endracismguy 10 months ago
a good one
grunt182820 9 months ago
@grunt182820 probably
endracismguy 9 months ago
forgot NZSAS mate, they did vital recon that saved many lives, may they be remembered alongside the others.
nzman101 10 months ago
My uncle was buried the other day at Arlington w/ full honors. During the parade to the burial site, a guy w/ a MACV-SOG hat covered w/ ribbons stopped in his tracks, spat his cigar on the ground, and snapped into a salute. Once we passed he picked up his stogie, and carried on. That would have made my Uncle's day.
frankdrebin 10 months ago 3
Thank you.
frankdrebin 10 months ago
Lots of great pics on your video!
"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." Samuel Adams
Libertytreeblood 11 months ago
what is the music they are playing i know its from the thin red line
mathewmissouri77 11 months ago
the vietcong won?
lsrir 1 year ago
The Vietnam Memorial isn't long enough for all the Vets who have died and are dying as a result of Agent Orange, my father included. Thanks to all the men and women who fought and died there. Daph
dvmcgovern 1 year ago
All Vietnam veterans deserve to be respected and honored!! They went down to hell and came back alive !!!
TheKILLA317 1 year ago 11
Song sounds like the one from The Last Samurai
ngm1214 1 year ago
hell lets throw in the montanyard hmong and death camps boat people slave labor and general marxist cirminality and shittiness for 35 years, turned a budding country into a socialist hellhole after rpaing and pillaging it for 15 years in cowardly indirect terror war focused on fucking voer the coivlains poulace and murdering as many as possible attacking villages and killing all with flamethrowers and the Hue massacre. Fuck the commies in the Hanoi and DC fuck you all
deltapunk21 1 year ago
war vet is the shit...i appreciate all of you guys...y'all kick ass
MrEddyb68 1 year ago 3
jeez mention the aussies fuck sas are the best in the world from ww1 to now we still get no credit same with kiwis and canadians its not fare
Henza9218 1 year ago
VUTHANHANMHAININH..WOULD YOU LIKE TO TRY ?
HAWAIITAL 1 year ago
A lot of these pictures aren't even Vietnam.....
HOSTILE987678 1 year ago
@HOSTILE987678 how can you tell they are not from NAM
ALLDAYINFANTRY 10 months ago
ALL OF THEM DEFEATED BY VIETCONG IN VIETNAM WAR.
vuthanhnamhaininh 1 year ago
@vuthanhnamhaininh WERE YOU THERE? DID YOU SEE ANYTHING THAT WOULD WONT TO TRY NOW.. SEND NAME AND ADDRESS AND POC.....
HAWAIITAL 1 year ago
FYI, the first photo is of Australian Infantry, not US SF.
TheJimbaHut 1 year ago 3
Im getting ready to join the army SF now but i have nothing but the highest of respect for all Vietnam Vets.
ElDiabloEastSida 1 year ago
1:21 is from the movie Apocalypse now.
mccauley404 1 year ago
What ever the comments - a great video and tastefully done.
solarday 1 year ago
to all vietnam vets THANK YOU!!!!!!! i was in high school but i getting ready for being drafted,did not want to go to school more but war ended,went us army 1976-1985.
t328 1 year ago
R E S P E C T ! ! !
dietcoke1996 1 year ago
Has someone having similar film of Special forces in Vietnam from 1969-1984?
I would like to find one of my friend if I could. Thank you! He is nowing working in Iraq currently and from Oregon! Darling!!! I miss you!!
lilyw1000 1 year ago
Has someone having similar film of Special forces in Vietnam from 1969-1984?
I would like to find one of my friend if I could. Thank you! He is nowing working in Iraq currently and from Oregon!
lilyw1000 1 year ago
In frame 0:43, during the Vietnam War, there were tribes in the central highlands who fought alongside with special forces. these tribes are still loyal to the American soldiers after the war, they do not like the Vietcongs. THey are the forgotten allies of America. I had uncles who fought alongside the Special Forces during the war. Im Montagnard, thank you for helping my people of Vietnam.
KeepingItRealGuy 1 year ago 3
respect to all the people who died there also to the ones still serving
greets from belguim
lovecirl 1 year ago
1:46 = Pogues or REMFs BRM training...ain't nuthin' special 'bout them...& Why the heck you got a photo of Martin Sheen in Apocolypse now in here?
amaroq69 1 year ago
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JustinAndrews74 1 year ago
british army wasn't in the vietnam war but the S.A.S were
ranbrent 1 year ago
@ranbrent The Special Air Service (SAS) Regiment IS a part of the British Army. And yes, the SAS were there, quietly wreaking havoc on the enemy.
jamessmedley82 1 year ago
@jamessmedley82 i know by the way the s.a.s was founded by a scotsman :)
ranbrent 1 year ago
@ranbrent Yes, David Stirling was a Scot. I'm English, but I live in Perth, and if I'm not mistaken, Stirling's from this neck of the woods.
jamessmedley82 1 year ago
@jamessmedley82 yeh..i don't know were he was born just know he was scottish.
ranbrent 1 year ago
Too bad those that are bitchin' get a pass and can continue to live "in the Land of the Free, because of the Brave". Most people do not have the stomach for war...not even those that have to fight. You do what you have to do. Does anyone out there really believe that we could have defeated Germany & Japan if we had the press of today. Could you watch the nightly bombing knowing that women and children were dying? The way you win war is to kill & kill until they quit! KILL 'EM ALL or get killed.
roberttga 1 year ago
About 4 mikes and thirty seconds in there's a picture of a four man lrrp team in the field....my brother is second from the left
scipioAF 1 year ago
@scipioAF
my brother's in there, too, in another photo. He passed away in April.
TandyLu 1 year ago
@scipioAF my brother's in a photo, too. He passed away in April this year. God Bless them all!
TandyLu 1 year ago
fuck all
bonjourvietnampro 1 year ago
Good war, bad tactics, no real start, no real end.
IamaRifle 1 year ago
@IamaRifle Ain't no such thing as a "Good war"...
amaroq69 1 year ago
@amaroq69 I'm referring to the aspects that make up a war. As for the humanity, war is the worst thing out there, too bad it is in our nature.
IamaRifle 1 year ago
USSF= Heros
MintyJones14 1 year ago
5:25, 5:27, 5:31, 6:21, 6:52 are the world's finest jungle fighters/patrollers and ambushers - Australian SASR.
The hints are the landrover, the trees in the background (trees were for the most part not cleared at Nui Dat - the base for 1 Aust Task Force), the L1A1 SLRs (with XM148s and 30 round mags! Imagine that brassing you up in the first seconds of contact!!) and the '44 patterns webbing as well as the shots where you can see the aussie waterbag down some of the members shirts.
jtan163 1 year ago
picture at 4:36 thatguy in the middle has his m16, and the magazine is curved way more than usual, indicating that its chambered in 7.62x39. they didnt have that then. theres alot of pics in here that are not of vietnam
950rpm 1 year ago
That first black and white shot of the guys on the track (0:26) is of Australian troops, they are wearing Aussie Jungle Greens, GP boots and carrying Australan webbing the guy closest has a '37 pattern basic pouch.
My guess would be standard infantry (i.e. RAR - Royal Australian Regiment) rather than SAS. THey are not cammed up enough for SAS. Actually they don't look cammed up enough to be even regular diggers to me.
If it werent' for the casualty I'd have guess it was a walkthrurehearsal.
jtan163 1 year ago
@jtan163 Yep you are correct it is actually a 4RAR( Royal Australian Regiment) section in 1971 it is from a serries of photos taken durring a contact
acoyrazorback 1 year ago
my 83 yo uncle just passed away,... fought all over the pacific, till the day he died couldnt be in close quarters with a asian person, started sweatin & shakin. Said all the evil things he saw the jap's do,.. he would never trust a asian person.
mrsmelzbad 1 year ago
My grand dad was a LRRP so thanks for making this tribute(rest in peace papa)
double2echo 1 year ago
why all the bitching on who won n who lost at the end of the day it finished in what 72-73 so why not just remember the fallen and those who sufferd.
balny2000 1 year ago 19
@balny2000 Vietcons too?
MrLIENDRES 1 year ago
@MrLIENDRES fuck the Vietcong!!!
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latiat1234 1 year ago
well, something just pissed me off how someone who had no combat experience saying it was wrong for what we done over there. For one I didn't start talking about my experiences until recently. Many of these young bucks have writen books but, to write about the horrors of war tend to turn peoples stomachs except the one's who have experienced it we just have nightmares or flashbacks time and again because are brains so strewed up.
hawkkins562 2 years ago 30
@hawkkins562 i use to have a neighbor that was nervous around children. turns out he was a vet. he didnt like seeing me or my brother. my dad asked him why. he said it reminded him of the children he had to shoot in the war... he said before the war he loved children... he never left his house. but it was the saddest ive ever seen a man...
MBPKyle 1 year ago
@hawkkins562 Im 18 and couldnt possibly understand what it was like over there but i have tremendous respect for anyone in that war. I just want to say thanks for what you did.
DOWN545454 1 year ago
@hawkkins562 This war happened before i was born,but rest assured vets,there are people out there who genuinly feel true respect and would tip our hats to you guys any day.Some of us are thankful that we have only seen movies or read history and only have the ability to imagine what you went threw.Im no soldier,but i salute you all!!!!!
superbert35 1 year ago
@hawkkins562 combat experience has nothign to do with the faggot imbeicle is regurgitating leftist lies from the 60's that have been eternally refuted by the a little something called the truth, commie polciies of terror and murder that intentionally killed hundreds of thousand sof innocent civies in their unprovoked imeprialism begginign in 1959 and before like Thanh aka Ho he changed his names murder of the VQQD and mass murder of opponets in 1945 and nva terror from 1954-1959 throw
deltapunk21 1 year ago
@hawkkins562 - Were you a member of Special Forces in 1966-1969?
lilyw1000 7 months ago
Those boys @ 0:23 are infantry of the Royal Australian Infantry Corps, @ 5:27 & 5:32 they are Aussie Special Air Service Regiment (SASR) LRRPs.
wattlebough 2 years ago
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cronicxxxup 2 years ago
My Grandfather was in Vietnam, 66 or 68-70 Not sure if he did 2 tours or not, but he was a part of the 4th infantry, LRRP, RTO.. we all know that the life expectancy of an RTO was 2 weeks or 2 missions, He said sometime's he was the only one to make it back, he went into to dangerous territory with 5 man teams, Wore black and white tiger camo stripes, I have a picture of him in Plekui with his scout, a Maunhtin (sp?) kid, about 14 yrs of age, When my grandfather was drafted he was 23, Old man.
Biddwin123 2 years ago
iya mate what does LRRP RTO stand for ? and why was the life expectancy that low ?
jaketaylor15 2 years ago
Long Range Recon Patrol, Radio Telecommunication (or something?) operator, meaning, the life line of that team, making him the number 1 target to any snipers or trained eye vc.
Biddwin123 2 years ago
dam! so he was the one who collected infomation and then sent it to T.O.C. did your grandad make it back alrite ?
jaketaylor15 2 years ago
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Ho chi Minh, Vietnam's communist leader, is a disguting TRAITOR & MURDERER! In exchange for chinese military aids in the war with France (1945-1954), he gave up Paracel & Spratly archipelagos with large oil resources to China. He even ordered to murder his own mistress named Nong thi Xuan when she threatened to disclose her sexual relationship with him since that would destroy his image as a "Father" of Vietnam who "sacrifices" his whole life for Vietnam revolution.
TOMP66666 2 years ago
Prosperity only exists in big cities in Vietnam like Hanoi and Saigon, but 80% of Vietnamese population live in poor, underdeveloped rural areas. While corrupt communist leaders like Prime minister Nguyen tan Dung and President Nguyen minh Triet are multi-billionaires, a regular Vietnamese earns only $1 per day. More than 200,000 Vietnamese women from poor families, many as young as ten, are working as prostitutes and sex slaves in China, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Korea.
TOMP66666 2 years ago
Vietnamese live within their means unlike USA oK? Prostitutes not only exits in VN but also in "developed" nations like US whom sex industries is huge. VN dont have strip clubs which still good.Prostitution is illegal but ofcourse cant prevent everything from happening.
ToiYeuDatNuocCuaMinh 2 years ago
Finaly VC won, you lost.
ctenar1970 2 years ago
I respect these guys who fought in vietnam because they were mostly people from lower levels of society and because they were mobilized, they didn`t want it, for them war has been inflicted so I respect them... Today they are all a bunch of weekend warriors who seeks for a little adrenaline pump
sagorevach 2 years ago
jaketaylor15 you should read some real books and do some hard fact finding.
One of the greatest kept secrets in the Navy during Vietnam was a Elite unit called the U.S Navy Seawolfs. today the only ppl who know who they are, are Former Special operations groups and maybe the ppl who still have there lives because of the SeaWolfs.
the Seawolfs are the most decorated unit in the Entire Vietnam war. if one was ever captured he was worth 10,000 pieces of Gold.
Dogmeat1950 2 years ago
my father was 1st cav. and then studies and observations group. We recently found out he received the purple heart but refused it because he was injured with an assigned south veitmenese soilder and they went to different hospitals. the south veitmenese soilder died. He doesn't tell to much of what they did something to do with communication wires in the jungle. He did recently say that they went to cambodia several times.
TheGroutman 2 years ago
and of course to all troops in war and veterans priceless
dougie8856 2 years ago
peter jasper my dad thanks mate shot 4 times vietnam
dougie8856 2 years ago
Hey I can see him in a picture good bless Larry Ibiza, Vietnam Veteran who fight with Aussies in a mix special unit. Nowaday he lives in Ibiza Spain. Great Guy respect.. You can find him in facebook
ForoSabino 2 years ago
respect
madbiker53 2 years ago
1st picture is of Australian troops! (Not US!)
One of the battalions of the Royal Australian Regiment. ...Bush hats, GP Boots and '58 pattern webbing are a definite identifier. I've seen this pic many times in Aust historial files.
petethebastard 2 years ago
yeah austrailian troops defo. i read something a website that they were the best fghting unit in vietnam all the us troops did was smoke weed shag girls and fire a few 1000 rounds into the jungle when ever they got into contact the auzzys on the other hand trained by THE BRITISH !!! fighting strong stiff upper lip and all that lol
jaketaylor15 2 years ago
@petethebastard yes pretty sure this is a 4RAR (4th battalion Royal Australian Regiment )section 1971-72. It comes from a series of shots after a successful contact.
acoyrazorback 2 years ago
well c4crookedrider the U.S. had many restrictions like you can't go here you can't shoot here because the U.S. and also the government set to many restrictions so the U.S. was in an un winable war.
jpono3 2 years ago
Oh,,really? i just know that..but what kind of restrictions that led the US to lost?? do the US really follow? do the France & China also set the same restrictions becuase they also lost?
well, since the US had the lesson there so please win the war in afghan & irag..so me your strength!
hunyai 2 years ago
With all that fire power, I only have one question to ask you guys, I'm not being offensive but how did you lost a war to a country that's just a 1/10 or your size, eh?
c4crookedrider 2 years ago
it was the home front thats why the americans lost veitnam
TheShart1234 2 years ago
The US people voted to lose the war when they voted to pull the troops out, by electing Nixon. And to be fair, the US was also fighting the USSR and PRC, etc, via proxy (ie, funding, training and equipment was supplied by these 2 powers), plus the US military was not at all suited to counter insurgency and jungle warfare in the 1960s/ cold war era.
wattlebough 2 years ago
because the nerds dont know how to use the guns while the REAL warrior only has a KNIFE.
Justinfearless 2 years ago
Ya, and ussually the nerd go home alive and the so-called warrior is shipped back state sides in a box that said "RETURN TO SENDER", look ya muppet, I'm looking for an answer, not a joke.
c4crookedrider 2 years ago
blame the hippies
CallTheMarines0311 2 years ago
c4crookedrider,
If you look casualty records you should able to see who really won war when talking only war.
But the political side of the loss was catastrophic
mikko76 2 years ago
Ya, I know, VC lost more, but they won the war, you have to admit that, I'm not dissing on your US force, I'm just saying that they won.
c4crookedrider 2 years ago
Won what? A destroyed country. Noone wins war, some just loose more.
erikk123 2 years ago
@c4crookedrider they didnt won. Politics lost due to heavy comunist propaganda infiltrarion into US govs as predicted by Kennedy during his visitor to Berlin. Thats the facts. US won the war in 1968 after almost annihilated North Vietnam Army during Tet Offensive, remeber Hue and Khe Shah.
North Vietnam will occur 10 years and only when last US soldier leave the Vietnam gulf sea, will try again to invade south vietnam. Thats the facts. Us just had to invade North Viet.
LightsEShadows 2 years ago
@LightsEShadows Thanks to George Bush this is not happened in Iraq and we hope that Obama will do the same in Afghanistan that require much more troops....
LightsEShadows 2 years ago
kind of hard to loose a war when your not there. USA left in 1972. the South fell in 1975. on it's own.
Dogmeat1950 2 years ago
We left in 1973.
I joined up myself in 1975. I met and worked with many, many Nam Vets.
BrassPie 2 years ago
well by 72 it was over.
Dogmeat1950 2 years ago
"War is the continuation of diplomacy by other means." Clausevitz
One can kill as many as one can, but the ultimate victory is who actually holds the ground, and sits on the burnt-out dung heap thumbing their nose at the vanquished...
petethebastard 2 years ago
Trying to figure out if those boys at 5:28 are Aussies. The rifle the bloke 2nd from the left is holding looks awfully like an L2A1 "Bastard". The standard Aussie SASR LRRP was five men in Vietnam. Those fellas at 5:32 are definitely Aussie SASR (the L2A1 at 2nd left is unmistakable- plus this image is famous in the Aussie photo archives).
wattlebough 2 years ago
Gracias por servir son unos verdaderos heroes.... se les respeta¡¡
14096766 2 years ago
Powerful video
Thanks for sharing and to those who served !
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After the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991, the communist authority in Vietnam switched to its big brother Red China, a new leader of a few remaining communist nations including China, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, and Cuba, for China's backup to remain in power in Vietnam. There are ten divisions of more than 100,000 Chinese troops disguised as mine workers in the central highlands, who will repeat another Tiananmen Square massacre in case Vietnamese revolt against the communist regime.
TOMP66666 2 years ago
the other SF guys out their did their job S&D did theirs and thats what I regret because of us the rest of the boys coming home got a bad rep. Sure I went dinky dow because of the war and I have to live with what I've done but I can't take back what happened so fuck it those were some of my experiences. I liked the video by the way. To all the men with green faces you will not be forgotten
hawkkins562 2 years ago
People will always remember you and these who sacrified their live frin SF (greeb beret) for the country!!! I like the video as well. Do you know some one as SF (green beret) from Oregon State during the Vietnam war?
lilyw1000 2 years ago
How do you feel now knowing you were lied to?
Nam should never have happened. More government lies for a mass human sacrifice. Gulf of Tonken never happened.
Maybe the guy you let get tortured to death, didn't speak English, OR DID NOT KNOW ANYTHING - barbarians
14ALL41OK 2 years ago
came back with a beer and sat down with the rest of the guys and cracked jokes while this guy skined this man alive did it bother me at the time the answer is no because he wasn't a human to me at the time because we were dehumanizing everyone and got use to the death and destruction and after my second tour I began to like it. Afterwards I respected the gooks because this man never told us shit he just died and we didn't get shit but an AK, some maps and abag of rice and fish.
hawkkins562 2 years ago
One guy I knew hung a gook up by his feet on a bamboo tri pod and started interrogating the poor bastard, when he didn't get the answer he wanted he took out his knife and cut off an ear the sack of shit would scream until he passed out. The thight liped bastard didn't talk man so so he cut a little more off of him and then I said, Shit man what in the hell he's not going to say anything waste his ass or something. He told me to go get fucked or I was next. I turned around and went to the hooch.
hawkkins562 2 years ago
shit they would kill ya and put your head on a pike and put note between your teeth in veitnamese saying this is what happens when are own fuck up what do you think were going to do to you victor charlie. Shit man you people don't have a clue about vietnam except your history lesson bullshit, the only people who know shit are the ones who have been their and don't talk about much unless their with other vets from their units or not at all.
hawkkins562 2 years ago
Seems odd to me that an actual combat vet would ramble on that much to no one in particular. It's out of character with most of the vets I know and served with.
2Manchu70 2 years ago
man you guys are retards, this video is about the men who fought for their country some of them gave their lives to protect buddies and everyman in this video alive or dead would kick the living shit out of you, put two or three rounds in you then leave you or take you back as a memento those guys we called greeny's those SF guys who would go out on S&D mission were nuts man and they could kill ya and say sorry bout that many of them were pure war machine and they didn't care.
hawkkins562 2 years ago
Thank you for this tribute.
John S. Meyer
One Zero
RT Idaho
68 - 70 - CCN/FOB 1 - MACV-SOG
cowponyz 2 years ago
No, thank you for your service.
MeisterJager90 2 years ago
my dad was SAS in vietnam .
mediamafiaproduction 2 years ago
he couldn't have been S.A.S it was formed in 1978 after vietnam
colton11165 2 years ago
no he was in the SAS i know what for sure
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ever heard of the movie THE ODD ANGRY SHOT.
he was stationed in vung tau.
mediamafiaproduction 2 years ago
I have it on videotape , I think Bryan Brown (FX movies)is in it. MASSIVE THANKS and RESPECT to those that served in Special Forces, LRRP , LRP. RECON, SEALS, and all the combat soldiers, pilots, sailors, in Vietnam. ALL GAVE SOME, SOME GAVE ALL...
alvo69 2 years ago
@mediamafiaproduction - I think the SAS (at least the patrols there may have been liason or Q staff at Vung Tau) were stationed at Nui Dat.
Vung Tau was the Australian log base and an R&F\R centre.
jtan163 1 year ago
not true SAS were created in 1941 they were disbanded after the war in 1946 but reinstated a year later in 1947.
gts455 2 years ago
he couldnt have been in the s.a.s i was a green berret there wa a point during nam when the green berrets tried to get started but it failed it then took them untill 78' to get ther men propely trained.
colton11165 2 years ago
so you were a green beret in vietnam, but you're only 20 years old? wouldnt that put you at birth in 1989? so enlighten me what was your unit? team number?
gts455 2 years ago
it is my nephews account
colton11165 2 years ago
you didnt answer the rest of my questions. and SF does not work in platoons. group? team number?...listen man, dont steal from these real heros, the guys who actually served there.praise them but dont claim to be one of them if you arent.
gts455 2 years ago
the green berrets did when they were on recons we didn't were dogtags so if something went down there was someone to id the body, 5th SF group, B-team we started with 12 men but by the end of the war we had lost 96 men (Gaining and losing)
colton11165 2 years ago
no sf did NOT run recon in platoons, as a matter of fact the very group you claim to be a part of ran recons with no more then 8 men ata time. the closest thing to that was"hatchet force" which was the predecessor of todays cif company.b-team....is not a team number. so you were on the b-team the whole time? i guess you barely left the wire because the b team is logistical support for the ODAs.
gts455 2 years ago
i said we were a 12 man group i never said how many men went on recons with us, sure they were logistical support for the ODA's, but there are other things we did, that are classified and not to be declassified untill 2012.
colton11165 2 years ago
"the green berrets did when they were on recons"
you are so full of shit and it sickens me you are trying to steal from these real heroes who fought the war over there. you can't even spell GREEN BERET right. the B-team does nothing classified pal.....trust me. you still have not given a battalion, company, or team number.....b teams still have team numbers. whats your name? ill run it through some people.
gts455 2 years ago
but ya gts455, spotting fakes is kind of easy on the net most of the time. real vets give out the name of there "units" not the whole god damn Division lol.
my Father did 4 tours in Vietnam in Naval Special Operations unit was called, Seawolfs Hal-3 Det-5
Dogmeat1950 2 years ago
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gts455 2 years ago
all i can tell you is what i already have and that what i did is classified untill 2012, the onley other thing i can tell you is i am a forger and combat expert that is why i was put in SF
colton11165 2 years ago
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gts455 2 years ago
you know what be at the smithsonian on sept.27 2012 and see for your self, my mission briefings and notes are going to be declassified along with my daughter's from panama and deasert storm, and, have you ever heared of Presidential Elite force, that is what i retired in, a team of hand picked men and woman, by the president himself.
colton11165 2 years ago
Colton first of all your page says your 20 years old.
second Women are not allowed to serve in Direct combat fields, only combat they can see if from air, now today some Women MP's have got into some fire fights but that's not what where taling about.
also the Only thing the President can have as "his force" is the U.S Marines.
really stop possing.
Dogmeat1950 2 years ago
first of all it is my grandsons page, secondly, woman are aloud to be in direct combat obviously, how many planes do you here about going dow, and howmany woman do you here about dying in the line of duty, you would think for all of the shit the have to go through they would get paid more than males, the marines are not hand picked by the president and he controls all branches of the american military, and presidential elites are SSF (secreet Special Forces)
colton11165 2 years ago
Women are not allows to serve in Direct combat, hel even the new U.S Army strong recruiting papers have on them. on it. and i just signed mine a few months ago.
strait from the pages, Symbol with the * indicates military occupational Specialties not currently open to females
Infantry
Cav Scouts
Armour
Combat Engineer
Artillery.
THOSE ARE DIRECT COMBAT,
Dogmeat1950 2 years ago
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gts455 2 years ago
19 Delta, Cav Scouts
Dogmeat1950 2 years ago
so is delta, green berret, seal, presidential elite, and s.a.s. and the papers dont entitle anything about them not being able to serve SF's, and woman are aloud to serve in infantry, and CE (combat engineers), the papers in the 60's and 50's, 70's said that but the new ones dont starting in 1984 that was changed, i read the paper when my daughter brought them home no were did it state they werent courently open to females
colton11165 2 years ago
ok clearly you have never been in the military, Women are not aloud to serve in the Infantry at all.
go down to the local Recruiting station they'll tell you women can't be in the infantry or any combine arms field.
and if your to lazy to do that then try google and type in "can women be in the U.S Army infantry"
Dogmeat1950 2 years ago
When I signed my 0300 contract one of the criteria was that you are not a woman. Same with Army, Same with Navy. dont believe that JI Jane bullshit for one minute.
MeisterJager90 2 years ago
Do you know someone from Oregon when you sign a contract as SF? Thanks.
lilyw1000 2 years ago
Do you know someone who was in special force during 1969 in Vietnam? I was trying to find my lover's on youtube without successed.
lilyw1000 2 years ago
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gts455 2 years ago
ya he is full of it.
Dogmeat1950 2 years ago
look it up on google woman die every day in the field in combat arms, they don't hav it easy and if it wern't for my daughter being in the army i would feel the same as you i used to say that same shit until she got her firs assignment and i started thinking different why don't you look it up on google woman die every day
colton11165 2 years ago
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gts455 2 years ago