I was 17 years old when I got to Vietnam-1966 through 1969 (My mom had to sign a waiver for me), I grew up fast and learned a lot, good and bad. (I am now 73 and still learning). I was stationed on the USS Providence and also stationed in Country at a place called "Monkey Mountain" close to DaNang,. I spent 3 tours of duty in and around Vietnam. 3 of my high school friends were killed in Vietnam, I was spared. I participated in the TET Offensive in Feb 1968, that was bad. Somewhere along the way I was exposed to Agent Orange (Nasty Stuff) I am now on disability for the effects of agent orange. When I was discharged and came home to the States we arrived in San Francisco, and there were a lot of protesters spitting on us and throwing rocks and eggs and called us baby killers. That was our welcome home. I tell you this to say to you, that whatever your position is or was on the Vietnam war, it was not the veteran who got us into the war, most of us went because we were patriots and loved our country. Blame the politicians, yes, but not the veteran. To all Vietnam Vets out there, you are not forgotten. As a previous combat Vet myself, I salute you my friend.
@Denny T My father served in Vietnam as a Scout Dog Handler in the 48th IPSD. He too was exposed to Agent Orange. He has since passed. Thank You for your service!
I was a USAF A1 Skyraider crew chief with the 6th SOS at Pleiku in 1969. I made quite a few ARMY aircraft mechanic friends at Enari, always will remember these brave colleagues from the 4th IVY LEAF . They are on my heart .
Hi Juan. Thank you for your service!!! You served in Pleiku around the time my Dad, Sgt. Pete Gedvilas did, he was in the 4th infantry div, 1st /8th. He was there from Jan 69'. Wouldn't it be neat it you knew him? Still brothers in service. Thank you again for your sacrifice!!!
This Video brings back memory of my auntie's story. My auntie has been telling us the following story hundreds of times. Each time she recounts it, she cries. It must have been liters of her tears over the years. # The story is .... # That was a Lunar New year in Vietnam. My aunt and her mother (my grand-aunt-mother; my mother calls her auntie) were travelling by ferry boat on a river in southern Vietnam. All of a sudden, American helicopters appeared, and shot at the boat. My aunt and her mother sat next to each other. Her mother was hit, and was dying in my aunt's arms (she was a small teenager at the time) # My aunt recounts of her mother's last words: "Daughter, it's certain I die. Don't forget to look after your siblings and listen to your dad." # Then she died in my aunt's arms. As said, each time my aunt recounts that story which happened 50 years ago, she cries.
I'm sorry to hear about the horrible and tragic death of your relative and I offer my deepest condolences. When did this happen? 50 years ago was 1972. President Nixons' Vietnamization program began in 1969. Was the crew of the helicopter part of the south Vietnamese military or the United States military? I'm sure you have seen the famous photo of the little naked girl running after a napalm attack. The pilot of that plane was a South Vietnamese pilot.
I had a friend I served with in 7th ID and in USAER. Told me he finished basic and AIT and went home on leave. After Thanksgiving dinner, they watched the evening news story about the 4th ID in heavy fighting around Pleiku. He said a week later, he was in heavy fighting with the 4th ID around Pleiku!
I was in Basic at Ft Dix around Thanksgiving 1967. We were awakened at 2 am to donate emergency blood supplies due to the fighting at Dak To. It was an epiphany for me.
When we weren't allowed to follow the enemy into Laos and Cambodia, we were to be defeated. If your enemy has sanctuary, the war is lost. No nation wins a politicians' war. No one. God bless all who served.
If you are evoking blessings for anybody, these should be for the Vietnamese people themselves who, if the American military had stayed away, not interfered, willfully misreading the Vietnamese North's ambition of unification after French colonisation, rather than promoting the clearly incorrect and egregiously cynical reason for war, the Domino Theory that took 65-75 thousand young American lives and the lives of two million indigini. Blood from this wickedness still drips from American hands as the country seeks war with a now powerful China. Any war America embarks on with China is likely end badly for us here in the Global South. Most small island nations including my own: Aotearoa, are receiving many benefits from cooperation, trading relationship with China. Chinese investment is lifting the standard of living from China's funding and technical assistance so they can be truly independent and free from exploitation from the political West.
My father was a 2nd Lt in the IV division when they landed on Utah Beach in France, June 1944. He lasted about a week before being wounded in the knee and sent back to the US to recover. After 51 weeks in the hospital and several operations, he was discharged and sent home. It took him a little over 40 years to get his Purple Heart.
Why did it take so long to get his Purple Heart? Either a massive cluster f*ck of an administration error, or it was a suspected self-inflicted wound. Now I'm not saying it was intentional, but potentially an officer drawing a pistol while kneeling under combat pressure. You should see if you can obtain the records and get to the bottom of it. 40 years! That's a big drop of the ball.
I remember you guys well up above plei ku. Surrounded are battery one time. Which was 6 miles around. Artillery Hill remember boys. 1966. We're all old war. dogs now. Salute.
I served with this div in pleiku. 4th div. 10th armored calvery B co. 1st plt.. the muddest place on earth. Worked with the 1st calvery divison at ankhe/ LZ action, lz oasis. lz x-Ray.
I used to watch The Big Picture and Victory at Sea when I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. I was 16 and a sophomore in high school.during phys ed we would point the military tests climbing ropes doing push ups, timed mile runs, that kind of stuff .one of our coaches had served in Korea in the Air Force . during one of our exercises ( the fire mans carry) it's where everybody has a partner, half the group would line up on our football field on the 50 yd line, the other half would line up on say the 10 yard line. he would then say 50 yd line people run down ,pickup your partner and run him back fire mans carry to the 50 yard line ,1st five teams across gets a soda and doesn't run laps tomorrow. before the bell would ring to go to your next class, he would always tell us why / how the drills we were doing might be useful in the future. we all knew that he had been in Korea .he told us that some of us might end up in Vietnam. most of us ,myself included, had never heard of vietnam. this was spring of 1966. I was in the Marine Corps in 1969. we had set up a night ambush to get an an NVA "rice patrol" that was coming down into several villages to get rice and weapons. we had a squad and a gun team(about 10 of us. we had set up about 15 meters off the trail about 10 meters apart from each tother with the gun team up at the head of the line. about 2am we could hear them talking as if the were walking down a street in downtown Hanoi .the squad leader would give a verbal command to fire.he did, and we opened up. we were poring out fire...red tracers going out, green tracers coming in. the guy next to ,took a bullet in the shoulder.there seemed to be a lot more green coming in than red going out. the squad leader told me to grab the wounded man and bring him with me ,we were falling back to our fallback position (rice paddy) and wait for the sweep team.i put the wounded man over my shoulders and hauled ass with the rest of my squad, feet first ,right into the rice paddy. prologue: when I got back home. I dropped back by my high school to see the coach.he was still there ,still running the military fitness tests . he told me to drop by and we would have a couple beers and tell war stories. we did.he passed away in 1988 ' '
Just missed the misery. 73-76 PROUDLY SERVED. Headquarters @ Carson with the 4th. Moved missles around Deutshland after that. Kept my mouth shut about it for 6 years. I served.
When i was awarded the CIB, i was informed while on LP . I had no idea what the CIB was!! Prior to NAM i had trained as a clerk. When I got to nam i was told that they didn't need any clerks so i became an11/b 10. Ain't war hell??
My dad was a sergeant in 4th infantry. In Pleiku from about june 1967 to May 1968. He sprayed agent orange on foot patrols and with trucks as well. But i think mostly on foot.
I was in 4ID albeit much after Vietnam. I was in during OEF , OIF. Salut! Edit - had no idea the Ivy leaves were because of the Roman numeral spelling “I-V = Ivy”…. Makes sense
Revisionist history. 4th Infantry 67-68. Our stated mission was Search and Destroy. It appears that the Army changed the description and left out the Destroy part of our mission !
Referencing the video thumbnail; Who in the hell wears their class A CIB/EIB in the jungle? Sgt Rock there must have known the cameras were going to be there.
You know not what you speak. The wars on this planet are planned and fomented by Luciferians (worshipers of Lucifer the fallen angel), to bring about a one world order with Lucifer as their god. Your understanding of what’s going on in the world, like most of humanity, is programmed into your brains. Wars create great wealth for Luciferians, along with killing off the excess populations. Research; ‘The Hegelian Dialectic,’ problem/reaction/solution. The only way to make it to eternal life is through Jesus Christ (Acts 4:12).
The North Vietnamese lost Two million KIA, U.S. lost 58,000 KIA, the North Vietnamese would still be fighting today if U.S. had stayed in country they didn’t care how many of their military personnel would die, the North Vietnamese soldiers had tattoos that read “Born in the North to die in the South”
THAT IS WHEN THE RANGER GOT STUCK IN THE PUNGY PIT. BOTH LEGS. I HAVE MY CERTIFIED. LORRCON TEAM. THIS ARE OUR JUMP MASTER. OKAY JUMP MASTER. GREEN LIGHT. GO.
My grand father Robert haight was a sgt In the 2nd cavalry 4th infantry division he would have been 18 in 66 he never really talked about much other then the death and stench. Watching men die quick and that he had to eat dog if ANYBODY can tell me or get me any information please let me know it would be greatly appreciated
Besides good training, I experienced some of the heaviest thunderstorms on Ft. Bragg of my entire 8 years of active duty. It rained so hard sometimes the rain would be 6 inches deep, or more, on the earth. (Sand)
Intrigued with Vienam since a young age, and try to learn as much as possible. I watched an interview of a pilot that was a pow. He said, the Vietcong had soviet MIGS? ( maybe I misunderstood) But, their planes would try to take our American jets . Thats what, I got out of the interview. My question is why didnt the vietcong use their planes, against us on the ground? It was already bad enough, with traps, mines, and guerrilla tactics in dense jungle. Maybe the planes(MIGS) were just to attack our jets.? That was news to me. I just assumed they were too poor to have jets. Maybe someone has more or better info regarding that.
The MiG 17 and Mig 21 aircraft supported by the Soviet Union for Vietnam were designed for defense so it did not have enough fuel to fly long in the air, Vietnam also only had a small number of Mig, It flew slower and also carry fewer weapons than modern American planes. Each time confronting American aircraft, Vietnam's fleet of 2 MiGs often have to fight with 6 to 8 modern American fighters, so a direct confrontation with modern American aircraft has been a challenge. As a risk-taker, American aircraft often dominated overwhelmingly in terms of technical features, speed, weapons, and number of squadrons. Mig has no warning radar, only 2 small missiles and no bombs to fight the ground. In addition, the US has a very strong air defense system, so Mig does not cross military boundaries but only flies to protect important targets of North Vietnam.
@@vinguyenvan6924 that makes sense and what i assumed. Also, to my surprise the Vietnamese had been fighting years before the Americans came over. Extremely resilient people. I feel for both sides of the conflict
My grandfather was in the 4th infantry division he is from Louisiana he got drafted and went to basic in Fort Polk Louisiana and I’m trying to figure out what unit he might have been in I know he was infantry and when he got there he landed in Pleiku in September 1966 and he once said that first platoon got wiped out and he was in second platoon and they had to come in and pick the bodies up no one in first platoon survived he said if that gives anyone hints to what unit he might have been in but he now has skin cancer and watching this and reading some of the comments it might have had something to with agent orange if you ask me.
Seems like in general, new migrants work hard and accept jobs Americans won’t do. These new migrants haven’t developed the “entitlement “ attitude. Plus they also know that life here is usually better than what they or their parents had.
I DID THE SAME TRAINING IN FORT BENNING. IN THE 60TH WITH THE 82ND .BLACK HATS GAME ME HELL. GOOD TRAINING. MY BROTHER TOM GARZA WAS WITH THEM THAT YOUR. TOM GARZA 101ST AIRBORNE. HE GOT KILLED. MY BROTHER JOE GARZA WAS IN THE MARINES.THE 82ND WHAT A TEAM. TWO WEEKS AGO I STOPPED BEING THE CHAPLIN FOR THE 82ND AIRBORNE. TEXAS LONG STAR CHAPTER. ALLEN CHAPPIE AND LEO MASTER JUNIPER AND MASTER JUNIPER ALLEN CHAPPIE.
This fucking war was a waste of American lives and Vietnamese - North and South. I like these oldish "Big Picture" Army propaganda films for the historic content.
, Bác tôi có tội gì khi đi làm nông bi bom mỹ đánh vào thiệt mạng .khiến bà nội tôi đau khổ. Người mỹ đi xâm lược việt nam và muốn viet nam giống như triều tiên và hàn quốc
I served in this Division from 1966-67. We were always along the Cambodia border, and twice went into Cambodia; the first time , a mile and a half. LTC Morley was with us that time. The second time we went a mile. This Division was the worst Division in Vietnam, poorly trained, not much leadership, bad moral. The high death rate and high casualty rate can attest to that. I have no love for that Division.
My Dad was part of the group from Germany that went to Ft. Lewis. He shipped over on the "Pope" in September 1966. Sargeant Robert Levine. He survived his time over there only to get into a deadly car accident in the States. His friend from his first enlistment was killed impacting the steering wheel. Dad's skull was crushed between the roof and the dashboard. His operations at Harvard Medical School were filmed and used to train future doctors. He survived a lot. He said the worst thing he had to deal with was knowing 5year olds were the enemy. He infrequently talked about being over until many years later. What saved him was my stepmom Lydia.A Saint Una mujer con un corazon de Oro.Respeto. Thank You for your service.
NOW THIS IS VIETNAM. AND THE 4TH WERE WORRIES THAY WERE AIRBORNE. THEY WERE THE BEST OF THE BEST PART OF MY UNIT THE 25THID AND THE 27THID WOLF HOUNDS AND THE 9TH HUNTER KILLER TEAM. AND THE 3TH. AND PART OF THE 10TH MOUNTAIN DIVISION. THAY ARE IN ALASKA RIGHT NOW.THAY.ARE. THE SPARTANS. NO BODY CAN DEFEAT THIS TEAM. THAY TEAR ONE.
I really feel sorry for the American military, especially the 55,000+ personnel who didn’t make it home alive or just never got home, from the very outset the military were never going to defeat the V.C or N.V.A, just as the mistakes of WWI were partially repeated in the early months of WWII, the mistakes of the Korean War were completely repeated in Vietnam, the V.C and N.V.A were never going to fight a pitched battle for ground, and that’s why the American military lost the war, they won virtually every combat event but lost the war, LBJ and McNamara betrayed them and Westmorland and the joint chiefs let them. Propaganda films like this were not made to reinforce the moral and determination of the military, they were made to keep the civilian population “on side”, but unfortunately once the media with the likes of Walter Cronkite got into the homes of everyday Americans that public support was on its way down the tubes. You can make the best propaganda film ever, but, and there is always a but, if the media show the “truth” (although the “truth” is always the first casualty of war) your propaganda message is neutralised. I am English and the Vietnam war had ended with the last American and allied forces leaving Vietnam a couple of years before I joined the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 military, and I served for 24 years, I served in two combat areas but fortunately, or unfortunately depending on your point of view, was never in combat, however, after I had to retire from work I have had plenty of time to research military history, and my comment is based upon that research, and I am sure that many many people will disagree and agree with my opinions, and that is absolutely fine and correct, but they are MY opinions and I stand by them 100%. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴
The high American casualties were due to the enemy ambushes and booby traps. Therefore General Westmoreland should have ordered no more further patrols on the trails. Ambushing the enemy should have been expedited in the same manner as deployed upon US troops. The dirty bastard democrat communist politicians in Washington betrayed the troops and their shed blood as they refused to support President Ford's bill to fund South Vietnam. Everyone of these democrat traitor dogs should have been hung for their treason; for the Reds had signed the Paris Peace Accords. Sadly death ensued for the South Vietnamese people by the tune of 500,000 who refused to become a Red Communist.
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