Combat audio recovered from one of the missions I flew in Vietnam. 

Onyx Guard back when it really was that simple. If the engine worked so did everything else, no fancy computers or anything to go wrong

Logan Armer probably starts on 1 wire and a magnetio 😂

Onyx Guard Whether it's then or now, there is no other choice _but_ to trust in our equipment and vehicles.

The 60s American version of "she'll be roight"

@@717Airsoft Actually, nearly 2/3rds of Loaches got shot down (I think I remember it being about 900/1500 aircraft deployed). Being a light recco pilot sucked.

And they were calm as cucumbers the entire time. As if it's a videogame, and they're just commentating, like it's not a life-or-death situation. God damn.

@@VG-fk6nk welcome to the wonders of war

@@daspooterman war has no wonders, only rare breaks of sheer luck

@@_-LL-_ I can't argue with that

It's just like any other day,a fire ain't that bad

Slicks had to get the people out while the gunships laid down fire.

Bruh

Bruh

bruh

Bruh

duh,he just got shot at

@@PickledMemes You basically said what the other guy said

i know the word shot up from what happened at my american school :D

@@invalid-user7335 ok?

@@invalid-user7335 I know the word weather from looking at the news at night.

+NeuroticLobster haha my thoughts exactly

hahaha wow.

was just about to comment that lol. my favorite part.

+NeuroticLobster They are just trying to get it out at that juncture.

"RPG! RPG!"

+Igglesworth right lmfao

+Igglesworth They sound like they're putting in an order at Mcdonalds the whole time.

+Igglesworth That is the PTSD speaking.

+Z In Chains shock* PTSD comes later.

+Chris Blanton What if it's Present Trauma Stress Disorder?

Like the quite kid in a discord vc.

I think the slick pilots were on a different frequency than the gunships

They were the evac ones and the other two was the gunships, they supressed fire. But you can tell "slick" probably was screaming a lot while putting in men on the choppers like: "GET IN MOVE!!! MOVE!!! MOVE!!!"

@@thadz2493 There were multiple slick helicopters

@@hammerandpickle7390 I know

Underated comment

True homies compliment each other without the need of saying no homo

@@benz505 you look might breedable bro

ArgentOrangeOK well they kinda have to be panicking doesn’t help anyone especially when you’re flying a helicopter, I could imagine it’ll be a bad idea to spaz out behind the sticks...

Calmness on every single situation is a training given to pilots. They dont deserve to be pilots if they cant be calm in this situations.

It just shows how professional they are and how well they can handle themselves in stressful situations. I can't imagine being this calm and sorted while in combat. Hats off to these guys.

"Chickenhawk" portrays it well. Pilots had hundreds of flight hours before deploying, and even more in the combat zone. Also, the fresh blood usually had an experienced pilot onboard to take lead if anything went to shit. They often were scared to shit, but training overcame the fear - so they were shitless scared, but didn't panic and lose control.

Their trained to be calm under extreme pressure. Explains how they calmly inform everyone that their going down while half their heli is on fire and their 3 seconds from hitting the ground.

Gorilla Pimpin' me to. For some reason I thought he was dead

You could tell pig pen was not dead bc Waldo was giving intel on his condition Waldo would have said If pig pen crashed

Spoilers!!!

@@florencec1707 If you dont want to be spoilered maybe dont look into the comments. Youre supposed to talk about what happened in the video here..

@@florencec1707 dum ass

Same.

The video is 2 minutes long

@@philmiller1845 your the person people don’t hang out with

@@sleepyboi5362 *you’re

@@philmiller1845 Yes, it is.. In case you didn’t notice he said: “in under 3 minutes”. Unless the edit was adding the: “in under”

_hello darkness my old friend..._

Is it me or it is just weird that this video ended up on recommonded

Slick isn't a pilot's nickname, it's a name for a certain kind of Huey Helicopter Edit: It's the kind of Huey entirely made for troop transport (And I would assume medical evacuation), it's called slick because it isn't armed, so there aren't any guns sticking out of it or attached to it's sides

How I am when I play online

RUBY DA CHERRY W DA AK

magmablock It's amazing how they're talking like it's a job and not risking death during active artillery fire.

magmablock ,very true

magmablock very true

Theo Weath it is a job. If you dont shut up and talk clearly, you wont have it for very long. (Youll be dead) communication is essential.

These guys saved my ass more times than i can remember, after hue i was moved to a recon team outside of khe sanh (hill 950) while the battle was still going on.. back in the early days of the war 65-66 you could be in the field doing recon for 12-14 days without shit hitting the fan,, in 67-68 2 days at the most.. i was shot in the shoulder on november 20th 1968 on the border of laos during monsoon season.. pouring rain but it wasn't too bad since we were under triple canopy jungle, was shot by a spotter/scout at dusk about 30 yards feet from me. he was killed instantly by a montagnard that was with us (there was 8 of us, split between US and montagnard or ARVN) took about 30 minutes for a medevac to come in and find us, luckily the scout was killed since not that far away was a company of roughly 90 NVA, would've gotten pretty hairy if he made it back

They knew better, The ricochet from Pigpen's balls of steel would be deadly.

GOD BLESS VIETNAM VET. 🇺🇸🇪🇸

Cloud Jr here and I can confirm those were Balls of steel. Tough SOB my Dad. Love him and miss him. So cool having recording.

Same hear 🇻🇳❤️🇺🇸

Exactly so we used our pissed feelings to kill the Vietcong woohoo baby!!!!!!

@@BGrunty u got ur ass beat lol

@@BGrunty literally got beat by shit sticks and farmers with a few aks when you have multi trillion dollar military wtf do you mean

@@BGrunty Should I remind you who failed and lost ?

John Wayne Is that you, John Wayne? Is this me?

@@LordOfTheEyebots who said that

CPS-1337

@@phuquoc3012 WHO THE F*** SAID THAT?

@Alexander Baumgartner It's full metal jacket

The boys discord be like : "James, this is Carl" "Go ahead Carl" "We got ourselves a hacker"

@@zethicc7557 "Hud Hud the hacker is ban"

"Roger that."

@@nathanfabonan5917 sup Snafu, still got the heebie jeebies

Nathan Fabonan “we were Just by discord mod or some shit”

daveplays well I'm still alive but I can't hear very well

did you think literally everyone died?

@@the-letter_s he was talking about the fact *he* survived it and he kept this to *share* it later on with *us* .

@@whereswaldo1630 dayum how u can manage to survive it

Americans has such good and advanced weapons and still lost😹😹😹

in command of a complex machine with either tremendous firepower and or several men onboard you are concentrating on your job and what NEEDS to be done , you don't have time for bullshit.never make the mistake of thinking those bullshit games are in any way like what it is to be responsible for men's lives until you have bullets come through your floorboards and hit your feet and legs you will never understand

@chilled viper wrong helicopter, these guys were in uh1s, the blackhawk wasn't adopted until a few years after the war

@@darkhorse1691 ok boomer

darkhorse16 Those men went through hell so that future generations didn’t have to. Don’t tell someone that they shouldn’t say anything because they would “never understand.” Those men died, and many brave men and women do today, so people like him can sit at home and play those “bullshit games” and not have to worry. For someone to try to understand what these men went through is not an easy thing, but the fact that he tried, and he sympathized with them means something.

David Optional Well, I feel we’d all be a lot worse off it wasn’t for those “sheep.”

Probably not their first day "in country".

@Mario Salinas "floating tank" yeah right. More like floating tin can. The US lost almost half of all their helicopters in Vietnam. You'd be safer in a tank, for sure. Helicopters weren't armored and offered little protection for the crews. And they knew this. Still they remained calm and collected. Big balls.

@@SnowHawkX Depends in what tank you were. Some were shit and got blown up easily.

@@whatever7338 True enough. The point, however, is that helicopters were death traps and not at all a safe place away from harm like that person insinuated. Not trying to say being a tanker was a jolly good time either, the war was shit for everyone.

@Mario Salinas I guess you missed the part where they got lit on fire and had holes the size of a man's fist blown through their helo...

@James I knew it

Nless you now

@Weston Prather It’s been 36 minutes and you’re still not going to place a question mark?

@Weston Prather You're right it's been 4 hours and you still havent.

@@EastDallasKicks You are a freak

So where's Waldo Vietnam edition is coming......yay....I guess

@@sgtblyat1981 Find the Viet Cong soldier

@@MrPatrosz for Americans i hear its impossible

@@MrPatrosz I can't find him... All I can see are trees

Dat really got me 😂

Yeah true. Seriously without good training lots of courage and experience most would be a stuttering mess going through this sort of stuff. Its full on. Peaceout! 👍

I think its mostly a human reaction, war is so loud and visceral. That it truely makes you seem small by comparison. Sounding small and calm is just the best you can do.

+diver dave No. Men was right, since women weren't on the frontlines like that then (and not even today).

+ineedmyhat they were most likely drugged as shit to perform in combat

+Third Eye Yes and no to women being on the front lines today. It really depends on where you are and where the "front line" is. Women work in some front-line combat roles like being fighter pilots, and often take part in support missions like convoy duty and base defense where they end up in firefights with the enemy. Really, ever since airplanes became a fixture of the battlefield, "Front Line" has been a bit of a misnomer, as even rear areas can be the sites of major battles.

+Third Eye They're now allowed to apply for any combat/frontline position, as long as they can pass the training, they can go into combat.

+Raguleader Dont forget all the engineer positions. If im not mistaken, there was plenty of Engineers who were women in the Iraq and Afghan war. All from, bridge building, rebuilding towns/cities and bomb (Of all its kind) removal. Considering the "frontline" was basically everywhere cause of typical guerilla war that the talibans were doing. These women were in fact on the frontlines :P

Yes, in their situation you would do the same thing. It's amazing the fortitude a human can muster when it's a life or death situation. I'm sure the mantra f many a soldier is "I'm not going to die here!" And that keeps them going.

+Smitteys86 yeah, you can hear that voice shake ever so slightly. fucking chills me to the bone to think about that kind of peril.

+Smitteys86 I would certainly have to change my underwear after going through that shit

+Smitteys86 i dont really hear it

@Smittyeys86 Read his book and find out what really happened during that "incident". It will blow your mind.

Just casually says this, probably a normal monday for him

Oh roger that

Oh roger that

@@SnailKingGY He was clearly freaking out, but what can you going to do about it? You let people know what happened and carry on.

Been there done that. I alwap ys felt less scared as hell because our pilots always seemed to be really calm when the fit hit the shan. Srill, I was scared, just not scared sh** less. Maj. Schwarz and Lt. Brant, you're still my heroes.

Kayla Kewl Moore I can't imagine what he must have gone through

Kayla Kewl Moore Was it your great uncle? Because then that would make sense

Kayla Kewl Moore Your uncle Johnny was and IS a hero in my world

fake

My moms great uncle was in a war he was in a bomber and the bomber got shot down and he was captured they made him walk for miles he lived tell the hell of war got to him

HAHAHAHHAHHAAHAHHAHAAHA

Starts choking people and puts butter knife to their neck LMAO 😂

Deja vu, i seen this comment before. I think you steal it

@@misomonih6534 yah I stole it, stole it from Joe

@@rhinocogaming1189 oh joe, he's my friend. He have a mom

Why should they get gratitude for trying to invade Vietnam? They didn’t even win lmao

@@user-re9gj2zd5e Not all of them willingly went into battle, they were mostly 18, just kids and they were drafted to fight in war, they deserve gratitude for there services, and why is it their fault they lost?, its not them to Decide when the war ends. So fuck off you Disrespectful piece of shit and pick up a book.

Most of them were forced to fight. In the end it was all for nothing. When they returned home they were disrespected for something that they didn’t sign up for which I feel is really sad

@@user-re9gj2zd5e When did America openly invade Vietnam? Wasn't it the NVA that invaded South Vietnam, which requested international assistance? We never officially passed the DMZ on the ground.

@@skyhager5953 America helped them to invade, what’s the difference?

GG

How are the trees?

@@boss9mustang404 celebrating tet holiday of course :).

I didn't know that famous artist in Vienna had Vietnamese blood

@@novicious7945 the profile pic was the result of a silly bet lost that i am too lazy to change lmao

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Lmaooo. 😂😂😂

Bruh

"Slicks" were the name given to the Huey's that only had door gunners and were primarily used to transport troops and supplies. We used to call the lifts into the LZ's, Rat Fucks. When on many, many of these. Some were hot LZ's, some were cold. All was a hell of a burst of adrenaline. "Dust Off" was the name give to the medical Huey evacuation helicopter. I only made one flight in one of these.....that was one to many. Our Dust Offs had no door guns.

@@johnsweat5247 How long were you in Vietnam?

Good thing I never had to depend on anyone like you.

@@DonB.-Mulefivefive huh??

lol the American invaded them,blame the goverment not the Vietnamese

@@Sus-iq5dk Who said he was blaming the Vietnamese?

@@Sus-iq5dk Yeah, we had no business in supporting that dictator, not to mention the fact that our military simply wasn't trained to fight in the environment the troops found themselves in

@@Sus-iq5dk pretty sure the guy is blaming the government of USA about how they treat retreated soldiers

@@Sus-iq5dk fuck commies

Hi, I'm curious where in Saigon that museum is as I'd like to check it out next time I am there.

@@andrewbergman9315 Ho Chi Minh Campaign Museum, Số 2 Lê Duẩn, Bến Nghé, Quận 1, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam. It's about a block or two from the zoo, on the right, as you head towards downtown. Not the big war remnants museum all tourist go to. As I found out when I tried to photograph a combat map of the area where I was stationed, you cannot take pictures. Staff were like VC, came out of nowhere just when I got it in focus and about to take it. Have to say they were polite about it. One of my favorite museums is the Vietnam history museum, right there at the zoo. There are two entrances. One is next to a bridge, you want the other one on the other side. As you walk towards the ticket counter, there is a Buddhist temple on your right and the museum will be on your left. They charge foreigners more than locals and you have to pay extra to take pictures. A small price to pay to help keep the museum in shape. I was surprised when I entered a dark room with very little light. In the middle was a Vietnamese mummy of all things. She looked in pretty good shape for a mummy. My favorite memories are walking alone, finding a local coffee shop and sitting down watching the people. One day, I was at the zoo coffee shop outside and a group of Vietnamese invited me to sit with them. Most spoke English but I tried my best Vietnamese. As we were talking, suddenly a hush fell over us as we saw a procession of rickshaw drivers roll up at the street to disgorge their tourists, everyone over 300 pounds. They had to be helped off them and helped on carts to carry them around the zoo. I never saw so many fat tourists in one place. Eyes fell on me for a response and in my best Vietnamese I remarked, "They finally found all the buffaloes that escaped from the zoo." Silence at first. Then one person twittered, another stifled a laugh and that's all it took from me to guffaw at my own sick joke, and that opened up the floodgates. Everyone laughed like crazy.

@@andrewbergman9315 Just thought of another one of my favorite museums, the My Lai Memorial museum at My Lai. Inside the building are all the graphic pictures of the slaughtered women and children and a picture of Lt Calley with title "enemy of the people" and Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson who landed his Huey and drew his sidearm at Calley to stop the slaughter. They labeled him "hero of the people". He got in deep shit for his actions and Calley scot-free. Anyways, for me the best part of the museum was outside. They restored one of the homes you can walk through. Beautiful flower and vegetable gardens are maintained. And what got my soul were the beautiful but sad statues of dying women holding their dead babies. I was with a group of Vietnamese (I live with locals when in Vietnam, whether in Saigon or Song Ve (small village near My Lai) some of whom were former VC. They seemed interested in my reactions. I tried my best to control my emotions with the statues but couldn't. So much came pouring out that surprised both them and myself.

@@phapnui how to get in contact with you privately please? I don't see any kind of private message function on youtube.

@@phapnui are you by chance a member of "Vietnam: Helicopter War" group on youtube? If not, why not? ;)

They do, just shorter supply!

Schlomo rabbi Goldberg Multiculturalstein Yes

I wish they'd crashed

@@bigyeet5857 bad b8 m8.

@@KnightofDark00180 America had no business in Vietnam, they could all have sunk in the sea for all I care

if you join the military they teach you to always present yourself as brave for the sake of everyone else. really they are all shitting bricks..but there is so much to concentrate on they don't have time to be scared.

+Jalk Walk Really, it's a thing they teach folks using radios in general. If you are not calm, it's really hard to understand what you're saying.

+Raguleader If you screaming on comms it's a morale breaker as well. As well as when you're shitting yourself freaking out you are 10 times harder to understand. Source: Hearing people freak out and die over comms.

+KarmaKing Alex Civvies have this big thing about these scenarios being so full of badasses. Honestly, it's extremely rare you'd see anyone that would actually sound scared. You'd always come across that guy, but considering how many of us go out there being "so cool about everything" is pretty much the norm.

+KarmaKing Alex If youre not cool, youre dead. Piloting is no game.

+Gordon Thomas You're right, Gordon, baddass isn't like the movies. It's being part of a team that's sent all over the European theater to find a fellow soldier and take him home, regardless of the peril involved, or why... only to find out that you're involved in saving what's left of a family ripped apart by war.

+Gordon Thomas but... that was a movie too ;p

+Monochrome Fox That's the joke lol

***** Saving Private Ryan :)

No it was Forrest Gump

+Mattyboy Now *that's* a mattyboy original comment.

There is no such thing as heroes, only peanutbutter

+Mattyboy something something mccain.

+Thhaazz thaz Theres no such thing as Marines in the US Army.

+Jeremy Espil Just read it two weeks ago and I echo your sentiments- great read. Thanks for your service.

+Jeremy Espil My Dad Pappy Clark is in the book.. He is Co Pilot in this Audio Clip..

Jeremy Espil my dad was a crew chief on a CH-46, he served in Somalia, Panama, Desert Sheild and Desert Storm. Any chance pu could have known him?

@@itsmedude420 Shake his hand for me

not even a paint it black lyric was to be heard

B- Y legend has it fortunate son was played every second of the Vietnam war

Lol

FUCK IT!!! I so much want to like this comment but the likes are at 420 and I just can't bring myself to ruin that.

@@flumpyhumpy 422 an hour after you commented. It didn't last long buddy.

+Herr Richtig should i laugh?

Gappie Al Kebabi Are you implying you’re British with the word “Yank’s”? Because you couldnt even take on the “Yanks” good luck with the “farmers”

Wanna thank my dad too?

It’s him

There were no DVDs during late '60s. Only cassettes and 8-track audio players and these guys only had radios which were mostly tuned to military radio stations.

@@solidsnakesfan2929 can you please take this as a funny joke smh

@@fanwtn5124 It's not exactly comedy genius.

+Martin Szabó Pilots not soldiers.

+Martin Szabó Soldiers are heros

Not heros, and I'm sure a surprising number of soldiers just love chaos, but there are those that try their best to be one and I respect that.

+Arknio You're a waste of space.

+str3123 I'd love to not see so many ignorant cunts pretend US soldiers actually do this or that everything is just peachy when shitheads like Khmer Rouge and ISIS are burying children alive for not believing in communism or islam.

Meaning he enlisted. Dufus. Most of us were drafted US "".

Pinoy?

+ThatOneGuy82 vietnam was no joke, period. the shit you see in afghanistan is like a paint ball game compared to what went on in vietnam.

+bvbxiong im sorry but i have to say i dont like your comment... i understand what you mean, but it feels a bit disrespectful for the people who risk their lives for your and my safety in Afghanistan and anywhere else

+Jorn as someone who has fought in both Iraq and Afghanistan, it's not disrespectful. Vietnam is on a whole other level of things being fucked up

+Jeffrey Valerio man, I'm Vietnamese and hearing you say Vietnam is on a whole other level of things being fucked up make me feel insulted, I know that war is always about things being fucked up, but still...

+Urashima Keitarou not my intention. when I say "Vietnam" I'm talking about the conflict, not the country as a whole. should've clairfied.

You can also hear some heavy gunfire at 0:20 too.

.50 on a Gunship is very unlikely

Good Comms...how they do it I do not know

+Good one! aww

+Thhaazz thaz These guys weren't killing civilians, in fact...the whole point of the military (the guys actually out there in the field, not the political side of things...) being there was to save civilians. I wouldn't expect you to understand that though.

***** yeah real nice comment mate....did your mate at the pub tell you that...

@CM-aka Sweeper the whole reason why the soldiers are there is because the us made a false flag operation known as the tonkin incident to start the war. The whole point of the military was to fight in a war. If you STILL believe armies are used to safe civilians and shit like that youre pretty naiv. Of course that stuff happens, but thats far from their actuall purpose.

I wouldn’t say they’re heroes. Most veterans wouldn’t consider themselves heroes. “They are soldiers who’s only doing their duty”

But the other soldiers were doing the same thing

Matija Radoicic who says that they weren’t heros too? Both sides had heros, both sides had villains, it just depends on what side you root for that truly answers question.

@@triplestripe7071 There are no heroes in war. only survivors

Carlo D. Also true. War is very strange thing.

@@triplestripe7071 there are no heroes in war. Neither a bad or good side... Well in this case that is just a tremendous load of bullshit. Vietnam is clearly the good guys, defending their country, and the USA army is obviously the fucking sick brainwashed guys of always who too invades other countries. I LOVE how they got their asses kicked

what

@@lIlIlIl.. hi

@@yoloodevil4170 what

@@lIlIlIl.. what

@@rey4874 hi

Holy shit immoral as fuck.

Crazy Spitfire it was a joke you no brained fuck

@Artameful damn son, you've never witnessed combat humour have you

@Crazy Spitfire You stupid *armchair warriors* have never seen a real *joke* and these real *jokes really activate your almonds.* The day will come and you will shit your pants. You won't know what you'll do and that day you will search for a *comment section* to plug in your *copypastas.*

bravery that paved the way for war on drugs, CIA drug running. contras, coups, murder of 1/3 the Thai, lao, Viet people .... yea dude ..

Carl James ok liberal

@ no one cares

Carl James the soldiers did not have choice, the draft forced everyone able to join up in army.

Did Carl James delete his comment?

+Thhaazz Thaz Aww are you butthurt? Did I rustle you're jimmies kiddo? Haha communist shit. You have no idea how the armed forces works. Go troll somewhere else commie.

Stupid kid? Why the fuck do you have any room to talk about how we killed civilians! You fucks weren't even in the war! Just shut up.