"A Rumor Of War" (1980) - Philip Caputo, Vietnam War 'Feature Film' Version 

I smell a farmyard smell.

@@JonMidtanagree the bovine effluent is strong with this one 😂

thank you and your family for your service

@@JonMidtan”You think your funny.?.😂. Be careful of whom you insult. PTSD comes with get out of jail for free card.☠️. It won’t be me, it will be the instant your mouth 👄 overrides your intelligence, and Karma will react swiftly⏱️⚔️💀. Smells like a farm, because you are buried in it.😉. AHUM’M’@

@@JonMidtan more like a broken down rest area, he cant afford a farm

The book has one of the most upsetting chapters I've read in any book.

I was on the USS Mobile transport ship and we were conducting joint operations with the USMC at Pendleton. I had picked up a copy of the book before we shipped out from CFB Esquimalt. It was a strange feeling reading those pages below decks on a ship that had transported so many young men to Vietnam.

The book is way better than the movie

@@sirhoopalot1 for sure, but that is almost always true.

To some, sharing their experience is a way to find freedom and relief. After that, only time and life bring the healing. We all need to learn sg. We all have sg to share that someone somewhere may be needing. Greetings.

I recommend Battles in the Monsoon S.L.Marshall

Add the Force Recon Diary series by Bruce Norton to your list Sir. Semper Fi

For me the books Beouwoulf in Vietnam and A war With No Windows opened my heart and mind. I read portions of Beouwoulf in Vietnam to my friend (Army 69) about the steps from Gung-ho to complete disaluisament. He was quite then said that's exactly what happened.

Have your read the short timera

I spent 2 1/2 tours in Vietnam. 1965-mid 1967. Caputo's book is correct in every respect. Somewhere along the line the US military morphed from being the lean, green killing machine that won wars, to the corporate mentality of "US Military, Inc., that was scared to death of taking casualties, complete with charts, bar graphs, endless studies, beer choppers, pizza choppers, the fragging of officers, and the whole ball of corporate wax. We went from the Commander-In-Chief telling the Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon what the main strategy would be, then giving the Generals free rein to conduct the tactical operations as they saw fit, to achieve the strategy, to a Commander-In-Chief who spent his time in the Oval Office with a man who ran a car building corporation-a bean counter, looking at maps and telling the generals which buildings we could not bomb. That's what Hitler did, and how did that work out? We went from reporters reporting, to reporters commentating on military operations as if the had studied under Clauswitz, and were therefore more knowledgeable about military strategy and tactics than men who actually were trained from an early age, for military service. I am referring specifically to Walter Cronkite whose take on the 1968 Tet Offensive was 100% wrong and was a major reason public opinion turned against the war, and became the first time that the US cut and ran from an ally during a war-but embarrassingly, not the last time. Then, the brain trust in Washington decided to create an all-volunteer force, which looked great on paper. As usual, they powers-that-be screwed that up, too. When we became involved in Bosnia, then Iraq and Afghanistan, all of a sudden they realized that there weren't enough volunteers (surprise, surprise!), So how did we respond to that little problem? With countless deployments and re-deployments that achieved nothing other than to send home countless sons & daughters in bags, or missing body parts. For what end? There was no end in sight-just more re-deployments until a soldier was killed or maimed beyond recycling back into combat. I notice that this election cycle, there are a lot of combat veterans-some maimed-running for House and Senate seats. This is just my own opinion, but since we have acquired a reputation for getting involved where we shouldn't be, thatmore politicians should be combat veterans, because knowing what going to war actually means, maybe the US wouldn't be in such a hurry to send troops to come home dead and disfigured. Especially since these wars aren't being controlled by generals, but by untrained politicians.

Wow god bless your uncle

RIP hero

Thank you for your service. Salute

Navy ship off the coast. High speed, low drag sailor!

I hope you dropped 2 bits so you could watch Mclucsky lose his cherry on a dinky doa mamma san pu tang!

They always have and always will. The terroristic government don't give a dam about anyone. Well except themselves. Pure demonic evil. Facts

He gave nothing but cowardice…

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Good read. Don't waste your time watching the movie.

You didn't have time.

@@nomadmarauder-dw9re I think I read the book!

I believe they still do sir…

I was stationed at the Quantico MCB Naval Medical Clinic, I loved it and it was an excellent training environment. environment.

Navy Corpsman 80-82 at Quantico MCB outstanding!

Uhg almost as bad as capslock you can't turn off

funny it had a VCR tape version

Hahaha. Yup

My father is Joe Caputo was in the 1/3 A company Vietnam 65/66

@@michaelcaputo7811 related to Lt. Phil Caputo?

@@jonhenson5450 No relation but I remember my father talking about a Caputo from Chicago that was in country with him. I have photos and news clippings. Wish I could contact some of Phillip Caputos family.

@@michaelcaputo7811 I see. His enlistment papers will detail birthplace, next of kin ect. Possibly Google. After lying against his own troops (Crowe) he worked as a professional liar. "War corespondant- reporter" later in the war.

Yes it is.

yes also made it as sec nav

Oh aye, Hoffa flavoured hotdogs daddy'o.

Blood feud was best one regarding Kennedy and hoffa.forgernhis name but guy played Hoffa was best one that played that role.just remembered Robert Blake played him the best

So it is the film that has got it wrong?, I thought it was a stupid move for an officer to only have a sidearm. Thanks for pointing that out for me.

Yeah and the SGT walking around without his rifle too. Especially on patrol. ​@@allandavis8201

Actually not only was portraying some of the Marine's as carrying shotguns correct they even managed to get the correct type that very unit had when they were sent to Vietnam, the Winchester Model 1897 pump with handguard and bayonet lug assembly, Winchester made 2 batches for the military one during WW1 and another batch during WW2. When the movie was made there were no M14's in Hollywood arms rooms to use in the movie so Hollywood armorer's took M1's and modified them to accept BAR magazines and made M14 look alike flash suppressors that screw on the muzzles in place of the gas cylinder locks, some people think they used Baretta BM-59's in the place of M14's but that's not true, years ago I had a magazine that had an article in it about how Hollywood armorer's modified M1's to look like M14's for this movie. One thing that is incorrect is Brad Davis' .45, at least in one scene, you can see where it has an external type extractor like the Ballister Ball Buster and several other M1911 based clones used by foreign military's do, quite often you'll see them as stand in's for M1911 .45's especially back in those days when the US military was still using the M1911 and foreign military clones like the Ballister were more common. I saw this movie on TV when it came out when I was in high school, several years later when I was in the Army I read the book.

Strollm for sure daddy'o !☝

Brad Davis. Excellent actor. Midnight Express was a very harrowing movie. Died of AIDS at 41.

he died of AID's

Correct - read the description for information about that.

Really, So we got rooked ??? I read the book. Volunteered 4 Nam 74-78. Uncle Sam cancelled party during Last part of AIT !!!

​@@unclemoe6043 uncle scammy started to pull out the troops in 72' by 73'nobody was to south east asia ( the nam to those that were their ) in 74' you might have gone to korea , the Philippines or even Japan or Thailand , but not south east asia

@@sonnysantana5454 ur right, Korea was the place. More than half the platoon were Nam volunteers. We were half way or last week of AIT when we got the news. Nvr expected that. Did my 4 and ETS'ed

This is a movie, not a documentary..... Thanks for your service, though.....

@@Lassisvulgaris I HATE INACCURATE MOVIES SO DO MOST PEOPLE. THAT'S WHY THEY HIRE ADVISORS!! YOUR WELCOME!!

Always much too much saluting in the movies.

Not only movies. When I served as a peace keeper in Lebanon in 1989, everybody saluted everybody, regardless of rank. Even if bearing arms....

@@Lassisvulgaris IF YOU SALUTED A MARINE OFFICER IN A COMBAT ZONE YOU EITHER GOT PUNCHED OUT OR THE OFFICER SAID NEXT TIME YOU DO THAT I'LL KILL YOU!!! GET REAL DUDE!!

Another 8 you coulda had a pension for life

Semper Fi, Staff. 69-73 Sgt.

bubba no one out here knows what an ANGLICO is you're wasting words , semper fi bro

Thank. You. And. I am. Not. Voting. For. Trumpe

Some people just gotta complain about everything.

@@PvtEd E apenas um cometário. Nada mais.

Why?

​@@fish9905 Why does everything need to be explained? Just figure it out

LoL most start around 13 and see it from their parents.😊

Bm 59’s

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