BATTLEZONE | Vietnam War Documentary | River Patrol (PBR) | S2E6 

YES never forget that these men & women went when called. My DI in basic (1975) Fort Jackson SC. He was a Vietnam vet. Would overhear his talking to other DI Route stepping to firing range. He had some scary stories to tell. 😊 Will never forget him.

Thank you sir!!!

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they were victims of their own stupidity.

Stupid political decided

I feel your pain, brother. The kind of young men we have today are shaped by the left-wing politicians running Congress and the White House that would denounce your uncle as a war-mongering white racist today.

THAT, is painfully "Obvious" today ! . . .

@Eldon An YOU, must be one of the "Whining Liberals" we were talking about !

@@montanabulldog9687 your arrogant invasion and warmongering killed so many innocent people and caused such social destruction there ... these people had none of your military might but through their desire for freedom from foreign domination killed you and kicked you out of their country and demonstrated what happens to a global bully who has no reality behind their own bullshit ... witness Trump and the Taliban ... another example of the real america ... go to hell you cowboy

@@jeffyoung60 damn right ... and that's because he is / was

Think we did pretty well, considering we had our hands "Tied", most of the time ! . . .

That's very nice to hear your appreciation. Bless you..

Your welcome. Nam Vet

Personally, if I had had my way, those politicians who sent 58,000 young American males to their deaths in Vietnam, would have been lined up against a wall and shot. They were scum who thought of those young soldiers as little more than cannon fodder.

@@montanabulldog9687 the war was not winnable and no blaming other people would change that. Stop attacking other people's countries. Problem solved.

Salute to your friend.. I work with a lady and her husband died of Agent Orange and I know it was also made here in NZ. 🇳🇿

@@allgood6760 can't say to much but I worked on a country estate in UK and there was a guy there nicknamed agent orange because he was one of the main guy's who made it nice guy though

My brother died 5 years ago from agent orange..cancer took him fast..god bless all who served

The Viet Cong won

@Democrats suck ... just stating the simple fact, nothing else. The VC won.

Yes thank you all who served.

Can you blame her?

So sorry O. So sorry. Some of these atrocities it will take generations to recover from.

ThiHienMai Nguyen, Vietnam was the war I was watching as a teen. To see the actions on both sides was horrific. But what the civilians went through, their loss of family ( many at a time ), contamination of the land, the destruction of the bombed cities ect, was horrific. Everyone who was there and lived through the Vietnam War, the scars run very deep on both sides. The cruelty of man against man is abhorrent. 🇨🇦

I am a Vietnamese. We suffered a lot from the Vietcong. The Vietnamese communist killed many Vietnamese people. The communist people are liars and I can't trust them. After Vietnam war many Vietnamese people had to escape their own country. Until now the Communist people are still hurting their own people in many different way. American came to Vietnam trying to support South Vietnamese defeating the ugly Comunist.

@@thompsonnguyen1870 -- Thompson Nguyen says "I am a Vietnamese. We suffered a lot from the Vietcong. .... American came to Vietnam trying to support South Vietnamese defeating the ugly Comunist [Communist]." -- I say: # My aunt and her mother (my grand-aunt-mother) were South Vietnamese. My aunt was only 12 at the time, and her mother was a simple peasant woman fully occupied with toiling to feed her young family. Were they Viet Cong, especially my aunt, at 12 years of age ? Please see the conversation below. Also, in the 4th photo of this " 'The Photographer Who Showed the World What Really Happened at My Lai' By Evelyn Theiss - Photographs by Ronald L. Haeberle, TIME, March 15, 2018 10:14 AM EDT", obviously you could not [but you would ?] say the babies still clinging to their mother's bosom were Viet Cong to be shot point-blank by your American masters and perhaps also by your father following and serving his American masters; similarly in this "File:Dead woman from the My Lai massacre.jpg - From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository" ================ Invitation of a conversation .... ================ ThiHienMai Nguyen: This Video with the helicopters 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. ================ Dash One: Were they alone in the boat? What side were they on. You seem to leave out a lot to make Americans look bad during the war. Not to say bad stuff didn't happen on both sides. I just would like more details. All of your details appear to just force emotion. ================ Andrew Nguyen: @Dash One Your lack of empathy is disturbing. Idk if you would have commented the same for any recount of an American Vietnam veteran. ================ Cem ASTI: @Dash One ... to make Americans look bad...? They are bad. What part of this u dont understand. Wait until they kill everybody who gets on their way.? ================ ThiHienMai Nguyen: @Dash One # Dash One: "Were they alone in the boat?" => No. It was a ferry boat carrying passengers. # Dash One: "What side were they on [?]" => Not sure. My aunt was only 12 at the time so most likely she did not know much of the politics, nor does it matter which side she was on, at 12. Her mother (my grand-aunt-mother) was in her early 30s; she was a peasant so most likely she was fully occupied with looking after her family and helping her husband to raise their young children. She was killed long before I was born; so I could not ask her which side she was on; but she lived in the countryside. # My aunt's recount of the Vietnamese words of her mother (my grand-aunt-mother) before she died: "Con ơi, chắc má chết quá. Con phải thương (mấy) em, với nghe lời cha." (My attempt at English translation: "Daughter, it's certain I die. Don't forget to look after your siblings and listen to your dad.")

My NJROTC ANSI was a swift boat guy as well. Ronald A. Swafford. Also a QMCM. Good man. Learned a lot from him. Now interred at Arlington. May God bless such good men.

@@mikedarren6658 Chief Shawlin is also interred at Arlington. I'm sure they might have served together. Sounds like both of our ANSI played a huge role in so many lives. I shared Chief Shawlin impact on JROTC students lives, to an AFJROTC AFSI (he was struggling) on a cruise last year. Next time I'm at Arlington, I will look up Chief Swafford. I'm sure both are swapping stories at the Chief's Mess in Heaven...RIP QMCM Swafford and Shawlin, you have impacted so many people...Thank You...

Thanks for sharing this Howard.

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Where is coronado?

@@21cranberries21 chắc các bạn muốn lưu giữ quá khứ về một làng quê xa xôi

San Diego CA

Don't doubt it in the least. Looks exciting but hardly fun

Is it true that the Crocodiles were docile during the war for the majority. And were basically sleeping most of the time because of all the people, the lound sounds of bombs, gun fire, actual fires, napomb, agent orange, etc... But then 1 day they went and attacked a whole bunch of Japanese soldiers who were wounded when entering the water... and then the Crocodiles smelt all the blood, the fear of the soldiers and ended up going on a feeding frenzy. As they attacked soldiers more and more of them were bleeding... thus attracting more Crocodiles... adding to the frenzy. Is it true that prior to this day... that for the most of the war... there wasn't much to worry about from the Crocodiles... Is it true they were in more of a hibernation type sleep state for most of the war?

Thanks for being there, I was wounded in April 1969, still have 3 bullets in me, took me a year to walk, been looking for the Medic who pulled me from the dead bodies wrapped in our ponchos, but no luck, the medical personnel and chopper crews are my personal heros. My book is an Ebook, "Million Too One And Lived ", my cousin Alan Peterson was in the 9ths Artillery in Dong Tam at the time I was there, he made it home only to die of Agent Orange 4 years later.

@@factsdonthavefeelingsbeawa2953 Japanese soldiers in Vietnam?

@@factsdonthavefeelingsbeawa2953 wrong war get a history lesson. These are vc and NVA in Vietnam the Americans were fighting against. You are thinking of ww2 when America was fighting the Japanese and 25+ years before the Vietnam war started.🤦‍♂️

Dont forget they are Wasters & Losers and got their arses well and truly kicked out of Vietnam

Damn boy. The plains of South Vietnam are my hometown. The US Navy on the river once burned down my house.If my brother, my relatives did not serve in the US military. I followed the VC to kill you guys. Aggressive dogs......

Thank you for what?

@@leonleon2276 if you served I’m saying thank you for your service.

@@Lynchfan88 you specifically said service in Vietnam tho…..what service by American soldiers in Vietnam is to be thanked for?

Kopp ppp

I was thinking the exact same thing while watching the video. Sure, it was grinding, grueling, dangerous, and often tedious, monotonous work for the PBR men. But they all looked healthy and clean. No one had to stomp through the brush and mud. Returning home to the LST after a extremely long, exhausting, 18-hour day meant a shower, clean clothes, tasty hot meal, and a soft, clean bunk to crash in. I'd rather risk myself on the PBR rather than hump the dirty, muddy, dangerous, filthy brush as a grunt. Yet those very long, work days interspaced grinding boredom with moments of terror meant those Navy PBR guys needed R&R frequently if they were to stay healthy and sane. I suspect re-enlistment rates were not as high as the Navy hoped back then. After a year of doing that, I'd want to do anything else.

so evidently patrols in those PT boats were longer than just a day trip... that doesnt really make sense. the crew of one PT boat would be easily overwhelmed by a small element of enemy.... what a job...

@@xisotopex PT boats were kind of the troublemakers for the VC. We went out looking for trouble. 18 hrs on the boat was the norm.

Making politicians and corporate CEOs rich.

If your husband is still alive ask him if he remembers Frank Albert Natale my father also served on the pbrs around the same time.

Yes I read men in green faces and the seals have nothing but good things to say about them. Picked them up in many hairy situations and when thevsrals heard the twin diesels coming it was a relief. And the sea wolf helicopter s

@@franknatale8607 he usually calls every day or so. I will certainly ask him, but there were many different tributaries that these guys traveled. He was based in Nha Be.

@@franknatale8607 I checked with him and he did not know your Dad. He reminded me that there are numerous tributaries and bases so the likelihood of knowing someone that was based in another area is not probable.

That's so cool you took an interest in his stories 👍👍👍

Grateful for your fathers service 🙏 may he rest in peace.

Thx for your post. And thx to your Dad for his service..

My utmost respect to your father and all our men and women who served in Vietnam 😔❤

Your dad was killed by friendly fire. To be killed by the other team is just, but to be killed by your own team is justice.

Thanks to your entire family for your sacrifice and taking care of your father

They were NO closer to dying than sniper fire or a suicide attack...it was The Nam, and death was ALL around. MUCH respect for our Vietnam veterans 🇺🇸🫡 🪖

A cigarette won't ignite kerosene and the cigarette would have to fall inside a bomb and sit there a while before it would light it

@@jeremymackevincaylor5041 ... STILL !!! ALL HANDS, SMOKIN' LAMP IS OUT!!! DOG CONDITION ZEBRA!!!

Jet fuel is kerosene

I belong to the seawolves.

@@petersclafani4370 Much respect to the Sea Wolves. Your support on the River saved many lives, thank you!

I remember when you could smoke in all the spaces onboard ships with exception maybe mess decks and medical. Those days are long gone.

there is no i in Ordnance!

@@gunndish Thanks. I'm actually aware of that, but unfortunately spell check is not.

@@thomasdaily4363 No troubles ... 30 years an Ordnanceman ... just one of my pet peeves.

@@gunndish I get it. IYAOYAS!

USS Ranger cv-61 1976-1982 Navigation Dept....Qmcs retired

When I would go into a village in the Delta , the kids would ring out - My - My - My which meant GI GI GI and they were always looking for chicklits { gum} or some other candy - the kids in the Delta villages that were safe spots --were priceless.

They were singing "death to America!"

My dad was a chief petty officer instructor. I grew up on Marine bases. In 69 I was in Iwakuni Japan, I had my eighth birthday on the trip going over there there for 3 years sometimes my dad would bring one of you guys home for the weekend or supper,and you grunts play army with me, I truly love you guys

Amen

Yes.

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The US has been defeated in Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, Lebanon, Somalia and now, in Afghanistan. However, the powerful US Army defeated the tiny island of Grenada (1983), as it faced a fearsome army of 287 Police Officers, since Grenada does NOT have an army. In fact, they were half this number, since the Policemen on the afternoon shift had not yet come to work. What seems incredible is the fact that the US was defeated by Vietnam. What? Did the US lose the war against Nam? OMG! Against a poor country, underdeveloped, malnourished, without Navy, without Air Force, NO Marines, Green Berets, SEALs, Rangers, Delta Force, USMC, Rambos or Chuck Norris. Defeated by a country of peasants without strategic plans, no B-59 Bombers, PT-Boats, Northrop F-5 "Freedom Fighter", nor Atomic Submarines. Without Aircraft Carriers, NO Continental Missiles, nor Tanks, Choppters, AR-15, Gatlin Machines’, Flamethrowers, Napalm, Agent Orange. NADA! And to top it off, defeated by an army of teenagers who had no shoes: WITHOUT SHOES!!! Army that fought with bamboo sticks!!! Charlie Kicked Our Asses and even invaded our Embassy. Jeezzz!!! Here is the Duty, Courage and Chanting of Heroism of the US Army. This is the True Story of our Country. This is the History that is already written in the US Books. And the History that was written in Afghanistan is made with the same ink.

“We will kill some, they will kill many, but they will tire first “- Ho Chi Minh

@@salvadorvizcarra769You were spun out when you wrote this, tell true.

Funny. I believe the original designers & manufacturers (at least for the initial prototypes that were brought to the Navy when they were first looking for a specific kind of shallow water patrol boat) was the boat manufacturing company Parker, which is located up in Morehead City, North Carolina, which is about 40-50 miles from my house!! lol

Werent those boats plastic? ..thinkin plastic Mattel the toy maker was puttin m-16 stocks out

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Was this in Anacortes?

Don't join The military if ya soft.

And what’s your story?

Hes a warfighter not a pencil pusher. Leave the pencil pushing to those in the rear.

Hi Dale, I was in 551 4/69 to 4/70. Gunner on the 776 boat.

Thank you both for your service. I wish America had treated you like the heros you are. God bless you.

Had you ever met ROK soldiers in Vietnam?

Well said. We never belonged there, and your country’s progress and focus on peace since then is clear evidence of that.

My father served 13 months with the 173rd at LZ English in 68 and 69. I wish he would have talked to someone about the war, because he took his own life in 2016. He was my best friend and I have missed him everyday since.

@Dr. Frog hopper, I was in Luang Prabang in Laos over 20 years ago and discovered a motorised steel catamaran grounded on the banks of the Mekong. Obviously everything that could be stripped was long gone. Any idea what it could have been?

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The STEPS operated from Dong Tam base ,they picked us Vietnamese Special Forces . Our camp located North of their base. We joined OPN . If needed we landed ashore for search and destroy (1969) Steps was more powerful than PB R.

@@brucemullen3889 Glad you made it back safe to the Gator Navy 👍🏻

Thank you

HAL-3 "Seawolves", here's to absent shipmates!

I had a CWO on my first ship who's first command as a seaman was with that squadron. He's seriously decorated. Silver star, 3 bronze stars with V and 3 purple hearts. Was a great guy too, I could listen to his war stories for hours.

Jocko has talked a lot about these heroes on his podcast.

I have to look up the Sea Wolves, as I've never heard of them. Thank you for the tip.

War serves one purpose. To feed the military industrial complex of the U.S. government. It’s got window dressings like, Justice, and duty, and patriotism. But, at the end of the day it’s just putting money into the pockets of our oligarchs.

Were you there?

@@robertfandel9442 Was born during it, war buff as a kid and got a history degree. Didn't know anything about Afghanistan so went and read a couple books on Russia's and England's experience to inform my thoughts. I think America's revolutionary war is not so dissimilar either. Were you?

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@@whiteguy4282 reality

Yeah that startled me to

Nancy got your panties in a bunch

Snoopy was a gun ship made out of a DC3

My brother was boatswains mate on river boat in Nam. Anyone know Stanley E Davis?

Hope you get the info you need, doing some investigating I have nothing but the basics of where it was deployed, during that period of time it was operating as a training vessel and then later switch home port from Newport RI to Naples Italy, given the time period, I’d assume it was in the region due to the tense period of time between the Arabs and the Israelis, and at that time the Israeli habit of assaulting US ships and claiming them as “accidents”. Still, hope you get some clear answers and I’d be interested in hearing about some of the details as well, good luck

@@kensanity178That has nothing to do with what this man is asking!! Jesus

@@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606 BS. Israeli vessels were not attacking US ships at that time. Where do you get your info?

⁠@@fifthbusiness16781967, the USS Liberty, smart guy. Where do you get your info?

My comment was who are the real Enemy of the People? It's the Tyrannical Governments. These Lifer Politicians with NO soul. Not our Neighbors. Ltr.

Useless post.

0331 PISC 86'. It just repeats itself over and over. The blood of our best soaks the soil in vain.

Indeed. We shouldn't have been there.

Yes Agreed! However, i love you Miss Molly Bell!! Be safe where ever you are and be happy.(?@@)

My uncle was kia in SouthVietnams , Central-Highlands ,mid-3/1968 ,tail end of TET, 10days before my 11th bday. Also, knew neighbors , and friends whose bros. That were over there from 1965-1971; the last I knew of was home by late 1971. All came back changed, and some with complications from exposure to agent orange! SAD!!But, not all for naught!

Well you got Bayous in Southern States and those great river like Missisipi, I wonder how armies like French who never got one big yard to train would fare instead. Just learned these days that once you stuck at swamp, the only vehicles that can worth traversing are those hovercrafts and inflatable boats with fans. I wonder with modern day tech like drones, brown water navy mission should be easier.

Casualty rate on the PBR’s was 3 of 4😔

@@sheilalarkin1291 Thanks for the comment. Did you serve on PBRs?

@@crabbycreates2943 I did not serve but married 2 combat vets. In an effort to support them I read nearly every book written on the war. Certainly couldn’t get my husbands to talk about it much. I still support them now.

not unless you were going all the way

But they were just blasting away, wasting valuable ammo. They couldn't see the concealed enemy gun positions on the shoreline.

Its ok men ..enough to make the VC hide under their trench..and call for a close air support..✌️

@@jeffyoung60 It kept them down from shooting at or sending mortars or rockets at us. If you were lucky you would get a few quick kills.

apocalypse now?

But them mangoes...

Maybe because it was short lived and not too epic?

It was epic enough for those who fought there like my dad.

You're right.

Some of us have never forgotten the Korean War😔

You're 6 days away fromf

@@hugbug4408 huh ???

@@zaddyb9979 You're right on huh , because I 4got what the hell I was trying 2 write about ! Hmmmmm , I hope I'm not getting dementia, or maybe too many bourbons on.the rocks with a squirt of gingerale .

@@hugbug4408 hahahaha. No such thing as too many bourbons lmao.

@@zaddyb9979 What does lmao stand for ? Yeah ! I can hear the laughs on this stupid ? !

Your welcome.

I really hope you mean that. I have family and friends who fought they're scared for life in some ways good and some bad the price of freedom is not cheap!

by destroying their country with agent orange and napalm?

It's said plenty made money off the war.