"Our flight deck will only take one helicopter at a time…" 

This is such a nice story, it's very wonderful

Salut for your father.

I live by a military base and there’s a large amount of families with stories similar to this, of all cultures our military has fought alongside over the last century or so. I know an older Korean man who was former ROK military and bought an M1 Carbine just like his service rifle as soon as he got his citizenship.

Rất tôn trọng ba mẹ bạn. Bạn đã có dịp quay về Việt Nam thăm chưa?

It was either they go, or Vietnam goes.

That's so sad I would have loved to have one of them birds

I remember watching it on the news and was 3 years old and i was like wow how can u do this to such beautiful machines

Huey is one hell of a good Helicopter.

@@davidbrennan5 still is to this day! Why they are widely still used all over the world

that guy needs to learn to let go, he gets too attached, too quickly XD

Could be worse, he could have been butchered in half by those rotors too

That’s why this net is there

boiq150 Where you one of the aircraft carriers.

Just curious, do you lean left or right now?

Damn 😔😔😔

@@knight905416 would have been nice to know his answer

Too bad your country was so highly corrupt that members of your own air forced bombed the presidential palace in Saigon. Communism didn’t win because it was a better system. It was because people like Diem, Batista, Chiang Kai Shek, and the Tsars were so much worse.

so true. And all the others can do is watch them fail.

And so it happened.

True. But repeating a mere 20 something years later is just taking the piss. The US should have listened to all of those people who said don’t invade Afghanistan and Iraq. 20 years, countless lives and billions of dollars. They could have killed Bin Laden and a few Taliban in 2001 and then never step foot in the place ever again.

Nice!! My grandpa was in one of the destroyers surrounding the aircraft carrier, and he worked in communications so he got to hear the whole thing too

Did you also push him into the water? The UH-1 is such a beautiful helicopter

They were known as “McNamara’s follies”. They were actually a very capable Destroyer Escort/Frigate with Sea Sparrows, torpedoes, a helicopter, and towed sonar... but because of that the slow single screw ships were asked to do things they weren’t designed for.

Thank you for your service Sir!

I served on the USS Blakeley (FF-1072) during the early 80's. She was scrapped during the 90's

What's the reason behind dumping

@@deliveryguy8657 ship could only take one heli.

It isn't really foolish. Depending on how you look at it, a single life is worth more than a 5 million dollar aircraft. And given the amount of people saved relative to the amount of money's worth of aircraft that were pushed overboard, it was a net positive trade off in the end. As much as I hate South Vietnam as a government entity for their brutal authoritarianism, which was arguably worse than the North, it warms my heart to see those people be saved as there was another authoritarian government just right there pining to execute them anyway even if they were better on a broader scale. So might as well give them true survival and freedom in the U.S and other western nations.

I'm crying too... with laughter :-D

Last days of Vietnam

fuck off commie lover

@Harry Eastwood it was our sailors pushing the choppers overboard. Lol Besides, Saigon, the SV Army headquarters, and all stores of ammo and weapons were either seized or destroyed by the NVA and soldiers captured or killed. What would they have gone back to fight for.... And with what weapons and ammo? What would you have had them do, take the helicopters back to the NVA? That would be the ultimate slap in the face.

@@suspicioususer I think you took it out of context. And I very much doubt if they vote for the communist democrats.

same, felt like being kicked in the stomach. Yet understand and certainly do not hate the Vietnamese.

@@kesslermontijo6304 the guys in the fb huey group I'm in say that these hueys were flown by Vietnamese pilots and were just trying to escape also.

Pennies for US war machine and techically they were South Vietnamese guns. In bureaucratic wise its just easier to dump them than take them in service

It was expedient

The US Army had sold older, and I'm sure some newer, rifles to the SV Army. The South Vietnamese Army, after the fall of Saigon, technically would have not existed anymore, so where would they end up ultimately?

Because there are Idiots....

There may not have been enough room to store them all given how many rations would be needed to feed all the refugees and having loose guns lying about when you have people crammed into ships that are well beyond their intense capacity is not a good idea.

Ikr

Better than letting a ton of civilians be tortured to death

@@nubreed13 yup

@@nubreed13 A life is worth more than a 5 million dollar aircraft, and given how many lives were saved relative to the amount of aircraft pushed overboard, it was a net positive trade off.

@@taiwandxt6493 This kind of Huey isn't make anymore, humans every second.

After the rigours of combat service many would've been nearing the end of their useful life anyway, and would've been mothballed and eventually scrapped (post-combat military hardware tends to be as 'tired' as the ground crews who perform miracles maintaining it in the field). While private buyers today would be willing to throw ridiculous amounts of money at refurbishment. Between that, the additional cost of returning them stateside and the limited remaining service life, it was probably more cost effective to just buy new replacements with zero hours on the clock. In any event this was not a normal, planned withdrawal from peacetime deployment, and in the absolute chaos not entirely dissimilar to Britain's withdrawal from France at Dunkirk it was really the only option that was tactically feasible. As you said, saving lives is better than saving kit.

more like next month homie

It took only hours in Afganistán

Congratulations today is the day

This comment didn't age well.

not another year, it happened 24 hours ago. Afghanistan has fallen.

Since WW2 Americans have not won a single war.

"An ideology can't be defeated by a bomb." - MALALA YOUSUF ZAI

Though the evacuation was a sh*tshow, it doesn't negate the fact that US bombarded NV into ending the war and signing the paris peace treaty which they broke.

You saw the horror or a sanitized version? Which is it?

Fortunate son

+kdw75 Liberals and hippies just killed them all

Read "Decent Interval" by Frank Snepp if you want knowledge about the fall rather than goofy replies by people who have no idea what happened.

Easy for you to say since your kids are not the ones sent to fight a senseless war. Let

Everyone in America got distracted by Watergate and Ford just wanted the war to end instead of continuing it.

@@1Dyermaker President Ford went to Congress for funding for the South Vietnamese. The Democratically controlled congress refused.

And fly it where with no gas?

With gas or no gas dat machine warrants respect..it could ve been sitting pretty in some museum

No idea of numbers, but I once read (an internet fact, so make of it what you will) that more helicopters were left behind, either in the water or in-country, than any other military in the world had in it's inventory at the time.

They werent all American aircraft either many were south vietnamese

kcirdrab I’m a go watch videos of the u.k handing over Hong Kong to China then giving a smart ass account about the British empire.

Britain's 99-year lease of Hong Kong had come to an end, so it returned the territory to China in accordance with the lease agreement. In Vietnam, the world's media watched americans pushing helicopters off their ships as they turned & ran away - after expending 10 years, billions of dollars and millions of lives trying & failing to impose their political will on the Vietnamese people. So what was your point again, septic?

@@bnipmnaa How do you define winning or losing the war? How do you define the goal? The US have one goal when they went into the Vietnam war, that is to stop the spread of Communism. Reuniting Vietnam with the South Vietnamese government on top is never actually on the table. Or else the US would have invaded North Vietnam by force. Now, do tell me since Vietnam war, did Communism spread to other country in South East Asia? In fact, today, in 2019, the only country that can still be called a "Communist" is North Korea, USSR is dissolved, most of USSR land joined NATO, China is more capitalist than America. Vietnam is also approaching the Capitalist world. I would say by that measurement, US did not actually lost the war in Vietnam, as they achieve what they wanted in that war.

@@cosplayshop keep dreaming fake boy. China still communist,

@@MrCycled Dumbass, China is classified as Socialist since 1980 when Deng open their door to foreign investment, the current Chinese government is not much different than the socialist government in Norway, Sweden and Germany with the exception of application of ruling class via social score. Notice that Communism do not believe in Class (hence the social score thing would not happened in China if they are still communist) in fact, China are more elitist than US in many way now. Also Communism do not believe in Market Trade, they believe in wealth of the country belong to the people. Which mean trading or bartering is not allowed, which go against the current Chinese regime believe the money belong to the Government, and they used it to trade more unrestricted than the US, Chinese Central bank offered a lot of loan via CPEC and BRI where US bank wouldn't touch. And Capitalism is NOT a political belief (a la Socialism, Communism, Republicanism, Feudalism) , it is a economic trend, when a country openly trade with another country, that is capitalism, defined by free trade, if you look at how China trade, they are capitalist no matter how you slice it. And they almost eclipse US as number 1 economic market. If China is not capitalist, how would you think they can achieve that? Read up and learn stuff before opening your mouth, these passive aggressive comment does not make you look cool, in fact, it make you look clueless and dumb.

There was a dmz line between north and south, but it is a river, u can search "hien luong bridge and ben hai river"

There was.

Because the Government of North Vietnam has decided not to repeat the same attitude as North Korea ... In fact, the North Vietnamese were even in high spirits after the defeat of the French and perhaps with that, they had the audacity not to respect any DMZ established by the West. It is also necessary to remember that the South Vietnam had an extremely totalitarian anti-communist government that had provocative attitudes that made him lose the patience of the communist regime in Hanoi.

@@jorgesantos85 ow nice

They did and the North Vietnamese violated the Paris Peace Accords and overran the country. Now the same thing is happening in Afghanistan almost identically.

To save space on the carriers for evacuees.

🤣🤣🤣

America got the money for all those helicopters that the South Vietnamese, brought, so the only ones that lost money was South Vietnamese.

And we'll make millions rebuilding them.. war is a market.

The U.S army has a policy. people over equipment. It takes 18 years for a child to reach the right age, and then trained for more, rather than a tank that can take a week-month.

The helicopters were evacuating from South Vietnam and were dumped if they were on their last trip.

They were South Vietnamese pilots fleeing with their families from a north Vietnamese takeover.

Lot of artificial reefs for fishes . Thank you

LMAO STOP