You guys are going to love this bonus segment in which we talk to Nick and Jeff about their post-Army activities around the world working as freelancers. They trained SWAT teams, worked in Central Asia, recovered kidnapping victims in Chechnya, and much, much more. Together, they have written a book about this subject called Vagabonds which is due out later this year. www.patreon.com/posts/46444982
We Few and Whispers in the the Tall Grass are, hands-down, the best military memoirs I've ever read. Read both multiple times and ended up buying a couple of copies for friends and family. Thank you for hosting the living legend himself
Nick could be a great standup comic with the stories of his buddies and him and their escapades when back in camp or on standdown….read the books…they’re both great!
If you get him back on someday, ask him to talk about how Bong seemed to know what he was thinking so often, and also the amazing relationships he had with the other Bru on his team.
Nothing like Nick’s audiobooks on repeat when you’re….doing anything. Literally anything. 🇺🇸🤘🏻 When he rants about the “cookie” getting all Ranger’ed up about things, it’s hilarious.
I just want to say in my lifetime I have met one Mac V sog. operator and like all of the other Vietnam veterans I thank them for their service end it was a pleasure talking with a legend because that’s what these guys are!!!👍👍👍👍
Nick is such an amazing person! I really enjoyed the humorous way he is telling his story in his books, the perfect contrast to the tension and horrors on a mission. But he is even more enjoyable life!
No he's not. People throw the word "hero" around way too easily when it comes to these veterans. He was a "hero" to those he was with in Vietnam. The rest who believe he is a "hero" believe in the Tooth Fairy" also. Vietnam did absolutely nothing for American safety, security and freedom. All it did was claim 60000 American lives and waste the country in treasure and talent. Not to mention it almost tore America apart. He was an invader and aggressor in someone else's country that did nothing to Americans or the USA. When it comes to Vietnam...he can get to the back of the line when the term "hero" is used. There are tons of people in society that are true heroes that no one will want a video of. Another example of an American who allowed his Government to send him where he did NOT belong. He should have known better himself. His time in Vietnam did nothing for American safety, security and freedom. He was a chump and pawn of his Government and the military/industrial complex. He's not a hero nor someone's victim. He is simply a survivor of an American disaster that he willingly participated in and prolonged. That's the basics of his "story" ....whether he mentions them or not.
I like hearing about the staggering odds and how they developed tactics to overcome them . In John Plasters book he said in certain areas every 30 minutes you could add 100 NVA or more and after an hour and a half they’d truck in Anti Aircraft. Wonder if these operations would even be approved now days. If they are I guess we’ll have to wait 20 or 30 years to hear the stories. This was another great interview, thanks guys. Would love to see an interview with Kregg P Jorgensen who wrote Acceptable Loss or Gary Linderer , Allen “Lurch” Cornet who wrote Gone Native . You guys should do a book list Love your interviews Cheers 🥃
The military these days is LOADED with REMFs. Fuckin pussies who dont believe in honor or bravery. Missions like these could come up would never be approved so the many who would volunteer for them would never know about them.
A have read a few books about the History of MAGVSOG and US recon teams in the recent years and a specific operator Nick Brockhausen from CCN was mentioned here and there in several chapters. To be honest, his stories gave me a good laugh and his salty humour is gold. Please upload more interviews with guys like him, its amazing what they can tell us. Thank you for uploading and have a great day
I read the books, Nick you are the embodiment of the "Jolly Green giant walking the earth with a machine gun"... you are one bad dude. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE!!!!
I just recently read Nick's book "We Few," and I was pleasantly surprised to discover my mom's ex-husband Capt. Larry T. Manes was the recon CO when he got to CCN. I laughed out loud many times reading the book especially at all of the nicknames that were applied to Larry like El squat, Sausage fingers, Laughing Larry, and the deuterium midget. I was lucky enough to have Larry tell me stories about serving in Vietnam with 5th SFG and MACVSOG. He spoke highly of the "Yards," too. I am buying "Whispers in the Tall Grass," on Amazon right now. Cheers and thank you gents for your service.
Nick's talents are also remembered as a fantastic artist of Rembrandt quality. Bobo Liner and I are holders of some of his quality masterpieces.... The wild Boer!!!!!!!!!!!
My dad operated as macv sog in the northern area of ops with nungs served 1950-1980 he served with 1st special forces he had 10 tours in Vietnam and from inchon to the dmz his memoirs are amazing I served 20yrs army airborne ranger 84-04 but nothing like these group of guys they are on a different level amazing 99% death rate and survive still just eludes the mind
And he did part in keeping an American disaster going that wasted America for almost 10 years. No soldiers...No war. They love to blame the politicians and unsupportive American public for everything. Their legacy is being either too ignorant or cowardly...or both...to stand up to their Government when it was wrong. Their time in Vietnam did nothing for American safety, security and freedom. It wasn't their fight. There was NO "Pearl Harbor". It was an Asian civil war for independence. They were chumps and pawns of the US military/industrial complex. And yet....they do these videos for their legacy to the generations. He and the 2.7 million others that joined him, willingly participated in an illegal war. The US never had the guts and integrity to declare war. This man should have known better and evidently didn't know when he belonged in a fight, and when he didn't. He was essentially an invader and aggressor in someone else's country that did nothing to Americans or the US. He had NO legitimate right or reason to be there...and he should have figured that out back then. He is not a hero nor a victim. He is simply a man who is a survivor of an American disgrace who dodged a bullet from the people he wrongly intended to kill. His time in Vietnam had absolutely NO effect on American freedom, safety and security. He very foolishly risked his life for nothing. Real patriotism doesn't involve stupidity.
Thank you so much for yr podcast..My uncle never wants to talk about his Vietnam fight.I dont ever ask or push..Hes still has that hard core way about him..As kids growing up in the mid 70's an 80's We got alot of push back from uncle's an friends of of are family..Its was very tough at that time we didn't realize how much pain an suffering they were going through..We had to grow up fast an be quick on are toes when being around them..I'm glad I had to grow up the way we did..Bc I'm very respectful an understanding to there heartache...💪🇺🇲🙏
I know what you mean about your uncle. My dad was SF Hatchet team Missouri. And it was only certain times in my life that pop would tell me his stories of his time over there. I wished I’d payed better attention when he did talk. Captured 3 prisoners while on missions, but was only credited for two. The ranking prick Captain rode under the chopper with the prisoner and cut the straps of the prisoner and let him fall when he started kicking. But I do know that my father actually enjoyed his time and team while he was there. Same Captain called in wrong coordinates for an air strike that wiped out him and the team on the next mission after pop had come back.
The first time I was around for story time I was so taken aback that this was papaw and uncle nick, like this guy used to think it was hilarious to feed me Oreos and let papaw and mama Debbie deal with me on a sugar high😂
Big shout to George Spelvin for his amazing narration on Audible. I' know some fantastic books that have been butchered by poor narrators. George has it wired tight he is on both and I hope he does the next.
I would love to see, or hear, an interview like this sometime with some of the indeg that are fluent in English. I think hearing their perspective as natives to this land and culture would be fascinating. I also wonder just what became of most of those men. I hope they made it out of there before the North got a hold of them.
At 27:55 "aviators." Highest praise. The pilots were the drivers. Violating all instincts, they came in. Fight or flight? The pilots couldn't physically fight, but chose not to flight. Unnatural courage. Knew they had incoming. Some sat on extra ceramic bullet proof plates, and still came in. Sometimes waiting for the guys on the ground to get there.
Ive listened to both his books, i have to say I found them more entertaining than movies. Made me move on to John "Tilt" Meyers Across the Fence and several other books by Vietnam SOF memoirs.
The guy that narrated nicks books has done the best narrations on a book not read by the author. Got about 107 books in audible and his two I've listened to multiple times. It was hard for me to get into tilts book but after an hour it Got good
@ Anton Jones if you get the chance another good book is blackcat 2-1, I have the honor of knowing Bob very well and he is awesome and wrote a great book
The NVA and Vietcong are the most formidable enemy we have faced. We have had it easy. I'm not sure if our current special forces could handle an enemy like the NVA or Vietcong
Thank you guys for getting (trung si nick) on the channel. I've read/listened to both books a few dozen times each. Can't wait to see what else he's got for us.
IF HIS BOOKS DONT BECOME MOVIES (with an emphasis on his verbiage and inner thoughts), THEN WE NEED ONE LAST SOG MISSION, WITH HOLLYWOOD AS THE TARGET!!
Funny you should say that...he has with Jeff Miller about his experiences working in the private sector after the war as it were. Nick will be back on the show with Jeff on May 7th to talk about it.
"But if you have to, you shoot your way in, gather up all the wounded and dead, try and drag your perforated carcus back to the helicopter" 😳🤭😭 - legend
Is there some reason why no one realized "intelligence was compromised". Just appears that so many of these teams were AMBUSHED as they approached. Huge teams of enemy fighters running to take them down. ALMOST EVERY TIME. God Bless all those "Boys".
With him talking about making the Brandy and adding marijuana and all that extras, I am wondering how many US troops got into the opium and nodded out and we're over ran because they were too high?! Has anyone ever touched on that?! A nodded out (from heroin or opium) getting overrun ?! Did it happen more than you may think?! Plz let us know...
Greetings from Scotland, i 3/4 the way through "We Few" and i have his other SOG book waiting in the wings well written and very funny, better than "Tilt's" books which are lacking in description and are a little simplistic.
Nick is so fucking funny. Nicks description of the anti recon teams is scary AF> "They run you down n kill u. Mr. Chuck was on the learning curve all the time". Also, to be in the middle of the jungle and see "born in the north to die in the south" carved in a tree would be cray to see. And then the story about the shrine in the cave and the snake people...very spooky.
I see you like the peaty single malt. Neat, as God meant it. Great video. I just finished your "Tilt" interview. Thank you for making this history. And I agree with Nick, it is so much better than the boob tube.
Brokhausen joined MACVSOG-CCN in June 1971 when CCN was shutting down and conducting very few missions across borders. The "Glory Days" of CCN were 1968-69 when the legends were made and established the reputation of the unit that MANY today live off their glory. There are those who make their "reputations" spending more time in the team house bars than in the field. Most of our drunks survived the war to tell their tales, our heroes did not. I have watched a number of these broadcasts and it is a very rare day when I hear a REAL MACVSOG "legend" being interviewed. Try getting men like; Drew Dix, Dave Carr, Gary Hollingsworth or Pat Edington (!), instead of these bar room male bovine excrement spreaders! Major Donald E. Zlotnik (Ret) Special Forces (Enlisted SF 3 qualified (1963-64), then OCS), Logistics Officer MACVSOG-CCN 1969-70 (Don't let the Logistics officer fool you--I hold five valor awards and a Purple Heart. I also received a Bronze Star for Achievement as the LOG Officer--REAL Special Forces men do the best job they can in every position they are assigned! Example: When Colonel Howard, the most decorated soldier from the Vietnam War, served as the Supply Sergeant at MACV SOG-CCC when he was an SFC. Again, REAL SF excel at every job they are assigned!)
@@keelsmac01 Threatening to kill another SOG member because he rubbed his dog's face in dog shit...does NOT make a hero. Carrying a blow back spring operated Grease gun (45 cal) instead of the MUCH more efficient CAR-15 on recon, tells me you are not too bright. I judge SOG Recon men on how many SUCCESSFUL missions they ran....not on bar room stories. Every time a team makes contact with the enemy (minus Prisoner snatches) is a FAILED mission. Great recon men snuck in and out of a target area without been seen by the enemy. I have not hear of one of the REAL "Legends" ever on a podcast.
@@TruTube.1. Exactly. You hit the nail on the head. He thinks there's no real men out there because he only hangs around "soyboys." That says a lot. I also want to say I find it odd he's wishing for more tough guys and mens men to he around so he can be in their presence. Perhaps there's some repressed feelings towards men going on with him. He doesn't have to live like that in 2021. People are more accepting now.
@Trumptard Jr Aka Your Mama's Boo Aloha & Deplorable Dotard Don The Con lost big time in Hawai'i. 33% His insane mad red hatters on January 6th are looking at a grand jury for sedition and RICO charges? Perhaps Tweetless Trump 2021 might need some serious medication for his always sore lying ass?
WTF is your problem dotard? Have you been huffing the foul ass gasses fro Hannity for too many years and have all foxed up news brain rot? Here is a message for all you loud boys from Liz Cheney."The President of the United States summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack," she said in a statement. "Everything that followed was his doing. None of this would have happened without the President. The President could have immediately and forcefully intervened to stop the violence. He did not."
Dude! This guys awesome! I almost pissed myself listening to those books! Fuckin highlarious! I loved the story about the monkey rapin the goose and the dogs gettin their revenge.
