Royal Marine Reacts To The Most Terrifying Man of the Vietnam War 

"Got them surrounded from the inside" means, stay the fk out, you'll just be in the way. An angel of death moment. The mindset is ominous.

My father was 101st Airborne Ranger. He was the first boots in and only 1 of 2 people in his platoon to make it out alive. The stories he told me had me awestruck every time. Action everyday and when you think about all the death on both sides, extremely sad. God bless them all. My father passed a few years ago after leading an amazing life. I've never met a better person, and I miss him dealer. God rest his soul.

I read a book on MACV SOG that had Jerry Shriver in it. On one mission the soldiers had his dog in the NCO club and force feed the dog beer. The dog got sick and shit on the floor and the men rubbed the dog nose in the shit. After finding out what happened he went into the NCO club chugged a beer and pulled out his revolver, then took a shit in the middle of the club and asked if anyone wanted to rub his nose in it. No one moved.

Once I heard Florida everything else was just a "ahh makes sense yea"

Mad Dog was the original John Wick lol. Nobody should be messing with his German Shepherd!

My mom's fourth husband was a tunnel rat in Vietnam. When you mentioned how they were so different than normal people. He did three tours. He never told me any of his Vietnam experiences but I do remember a framed article from a newspaper in West Palm Beach Florida. The article describe a fast food manager who while entering a bank was pushed by three bank robbers on the exit. He told me that he chased them because they almost knocked him down the stairs and curse them which made them shoot their pistols at him. He was unarmed at the time an a small man 5 ft 7 148 lb but he chased the three men down the sidewalk. I asked him was he worried he was going to be hit and he said no they had 32 caliber pistols with barrels less than 2 inches, if they could hit him while running it would be by accident. The three guys kept shooting at him until they didn't have ammunition and then ran out of breath because he had better endurance In an alley alone he basically engaged in all three in hand-to-hand combat. Sorry can't give you a rundown of that into the fight but the police arrived and he was subduing them. He kept the article I think because his mother or his sister gave it to him framed, otherwise he didn't act like it was anything special he did

Hes a florida man

for men like this their definition of "vibing" is getting shot at. this is where i draw distinction between the words "soldier" and "warrior" anyone can be a soldier. you can get drafted and be a soldier. but warriors are born. they are the individuals possessed by the spirit of war. obsessed with war. their ideal day of fun and relaxation is combat. the more entense the better. the kinda person that gets high anxiety and panic attacks from the prospect of sitting on the couch at home watching TV. or walking to the grocery store. but put them in the midst of a warzone, tell them who the enemy is and let them go. they are in their element. day in. day out. they will inflict casualties with great personal satisfaction.

The multiple pistols thing used to be called a _"Brooklyn Reload",_ an old tactic of Mafia hitmen, where you would carry a bunch of cheap revolvers in a bag, then discard them as you emptied each one....I wouldn't carry that kind of rig in the field, but I can see someone thinking it to be a good idea.

I'm a vietnam veteran, I know the Australian SAS were requested to instruct the yanks on jungle warfare at one stage .Australian AATTV were awarded five VC .Barry Petersen an Australian AATTV was known as the Tiger Man of Vietnam a book was written.He was a Malay campaign veteran was seconded to CIA He was sent up to the highlands and worked with the Montana's.

It's not a sawed off shotgun, it's an M79 grenade launcher. We called it the biooper

The Vietnam War was a s**t show where politicians tied the hands of the military behind there backs with these stupid "rules of engagement" that prevented them from fighting the enemy and then sent them out to "fight" the enemy. As John Rambo put it in Rambo: First Blood; "Nothing is over! Nothing! You just don't turn it off! It wasn't my war! You asked me, I didn't ask you! And I did what I had to do to win! But somebody wouldn't let us win! And I come back to the world and I see all those maggots at the airport, protesting me, spitting. Calling me baby killer and all kinds of vile crap! Who are they to protest me, huh? Who are they? Unless they've been me and been there and know what the hell they're yelling about!"

My cousin was Drafted into the US Army in late 1969 n came back a different man. He was captured by the Vietnamese but they were High on drugs n my cousin got to a chance to run from them into the jungle. He got away but took 1 week to find his group. He almost fell into one kof the Vietnamese traps that were deep holes in the ground n at the bottom there were many Spikes. The things he saw has caused his nightmares even up to now. I remember him telling me that when he was near the front he ran into a very young child ( he looked like 12) n he pointed his rifle at my cousin n my cousin had to kill him. He still can see that boys face. I could tell u many stories that he told me but many he could never tell anyone. 3:13

Sgt Roy Benavidaz. Most badass Green Beret

The jungle may have been scary but the Agent Orange they tried to clean it up with was worse.

SOG was a hell of a program. Those 6 man recon teams were quite often getting bounced by dozens to hundreds of enemy at a time. It's amazing any of them survived (I believe 50 of them are still officially listed as MIA in Laos and Cambodia.) John Stryker Myer (former SOG) has some incredible books about them I read a few years ago and his podcast episodes with Jocko Willink are incredible.

Col Hackworth? He was in the movie "We Were Soldiers." He ended up being one of the most decorated US soldiers

Lt. Gen, Lewis "Chesty" Puller USMC, speaking to his troops on being surrounded in a battle, "Great. Now we can shoot those bastards from every direction." Shiver was essentially paraphrasing Chesty with his remark.

My dad was on the 2nd ever SEAL team, the 1st stayed in the USA working out training and trying out new weapons and developing tactics. There was a guy on his team... this dude on their days off... he would go butt ass naked with a knife or manchette and leave the base only to return with a necklace of ears of all the guys he killed in hand to hand. He also used to leave with a BB gun... he would shot dudes until they lost their shit and charged him and then he would hack them to death. This dude had NO CHILL and loved killing the enemy. My dad was busted to private 6 times for behavior issues. Mostly beating up officers but the best one was the great big ass RIBs they rode down the river... yeah the whole team was swimming naked at the end of the pier on the Mekong River and my dad had a puppy.. a catfish came up and swallowed the puppy whole so they jumped out and dropped a whole case of grenades in the water and left to go get beer. About an hour later the MPs showed up and arrested my dad due to the fact that the exploding grenades and popped a seal in a 1.5M+ PT boat (1960s money) and it had sunk. He had multiple Purple Hearts, Bronze Stars and Silver Stars. Sadly his online military service seems to be gone. I am sad I never copied it to my computer. Donald F. Oden, 58, of Ferguson Road, passed away Sunday, July 1, 2007 RIP dad you were always my hero. He died of complications from his wounds in Vietnam, he was 100% disabled but never took a single dime from the government and worked as a Head Electrician for IMC a potash mining company in Carlsbad NM. Without Carlsbad NM the USA would have lost WW2 as it is required to make shells and explosives and at the time was the only industrial production in the USA,

I thought this might be about Carlos "White feather" Hathcock. He was a deadly sniper.

A buddy of mine scored high on the ASVAB and he could basically choose any job in the US Army but he requested 11B, grunt. they even tried to convince him of a different job but he said. "I only want 11 B" He went career, went Airborne and he's still serving today

The other advantage of using the enemy's AKs is that the distinctive sound is confusing to the enemy. Confusing to friendly's as well. Two edged sword that could definitely bite you on the ass!

"Surrounded from the inside," is pure gold.

I've meet a far number of former macv-sog guy's. They all said Shriver was the most violent and terrifying person they knew. They also said, on average, he himself carried as much firepower as an entire recon team.

Shriver was less than three weeks away from finishing his third tour of duty. He was just 27 years old when he was officially listed as MIA (Missing In Action). He left behind Klaus, a little over a dollar in his account, and his prized smoking jacket which would hold a prominent place of honor in the camp’s club. The following inscription was displayed underneath the silk smoking jacket: “In Memory of Sergeant First Class Jerry M. Shriver Missing in Action 24 April 1969.”

Some of the guys from MAC V SOG have done podcast's and shared their stories and experiences. John Stryker Meyer, a prominent figure from SOG did a podcast with Jocko Willik, podcast 180. John also has his own podcast called SOGcast where he interviews other SOG guys and shares stories. You should definitely check them out in your free time, very well worth it.

That breed of soldier you are talking about have a name: warriors, born for war and bred for war, fighting the enemy and partaking in warfare is their entire lives and the closest thing we have to a genetically-engineered human created artificially for specific tasks I agree you are right about the whole thing unfortunately, i think the only thing we can do for them is allow them to become mentors to the next generation of their kin and partake in the process as much as possible because in the end they cant really integrate society like your average human being does its just not who they are When a warrior grows too old to fight he can only teach and die

If you have 6 pistols, you have 5 firing pins and barrels as backup for the first that jammed. Reloading takes longer than grabbing a second gun. You can fire in 2 directions at the same time allowing you to create suppressing fire, while also actually firing at your target. Also, if you can accurately hit a single spot with both barrels at the same time, it is something like 4 times as likely to break through their cover and kill the guy on the other side of an obstacle.

In WWII U.S. Navy formed the U.D.T. Underwater, Demolition, Teams. These guy in a bathing suit Snorkel and a back pack would clear mines and other obstacles before the military could make beach assaults. These same guys group would eventually have a off shoot called the U.S. Navy Sea Air everything Land. They were invented to do classified missions. They eventually did add the tanks and rebreathers. B.U.D.s is just a starting point of training. Basically it is a flush point for those not willing to go all the way.

You are probably thinking about Roy Benevidez

The rumor is that he went native and lived with the Montenyards.

Have u done one on Carlos Hathcock? Marine sniper one of the deadest . He is from my home state of Arkansas.

I would argue for Carlos Hathcock being the most feared man on the US side in Vietnam, 93 confirmed kills with an unofficial toll between 300 and 400 as a Marine sniper.

Multiple revolvers like a pirate, no reload, just grab a new pistol lol

I had a friend, who was more like a father to me, that was MACV-SOG in Vietnam. He did three tours, '66, '67, and '69 and came back with a lot of scars (physical and mental). He was training me to join the military during high school because I wanted to become Special Forces like him. He was the deadliest man I've ever met in my life. I have another friend who was a LRRP (Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol). They were both men you wanted on your side, not against you.

SEE!! Mad Dog had to be a Florida Man!!! Don't mess with Florida Man! LOLOLOLOL!!!!!

As soon as I heard MAC V SOG I knew he would be bad ass. Their missions were so dangerouse you had to sign a contract for 7 missions at a time. The unit is the only unit in US military history with a 100% casualty rate.

I was born in the 60's so I was a kid in the 70's. Those Viet Nam vets that came back were scary dudes. You'd see them walking around with thousand mile stares and you didn't dare mess with them.

I have listened to dozens of interviews of SOG guys. Two of them mention Shriver. One said that he had arrived new at some location and was assigned a room in a plywood barrack of some sort and was attempting to get some sleep, when he was woken by Shriver riding a motorcycle inside the building. Another guy said that he had encountered Mad Dog in the camp bar and Shriver had a monkey sitting on his shoulder and the monkey had defecated on his shirt. Shriver didn't seem to care. This guy intimated that he didn't like Jerry, because he considered him truly crazy.

My son was the soldier until he got injuried, a trained sniper, parachutist and all his men loved him.. he’s an architect construction engineer now

I'm a by-product of the Vietnam war. My grandpa was a Artillery Staff Sargent. Knocked up a girl there and had a baby mid war (my uncle), had another baby with her later after (my mom). Im 23% vietnamese, the rest is a small mix of a bunch of european counties like the baltic states, irish, scotish, german. Edit: my grandpa is still alive and kickin well enough for being in his 80's now. Gets out and walks everyday, goes on hiking trails. I made him a Great Grandpa.

No wonder!!! ! He's a Florida man!!!!!

A friend of mine was a total alcoholic/ drug abuser. And while extremely different in 87/88 he was given the choice of military or 5 years in prison. He chose the Marine Corp. After being clean and sober through basic, he never looked back. Retired after 30, and now lives in Montana. A little cattle ranch with 10 head. Still clean and sober.

Thanks for the series recommendation.

I recommend looking up William Fairbairn. He came up with a lot of tactics used by SWAT and special forces the world over.

The soldier you were thinking about was a commando during WW2,he was the first to shave his head into a Mohawk,also there was the OSS during WW2,aka Donovans Raiders.

12:24 to add to what you said, it also helps the special forces stay invisible to the enemy longer if they are using the enemy’s weapons. When you are listening to a firefight, you don’t know who’s who if all the weapons are the same. It generates a level of confusion.

Using the enemies weapon also has the benefit of matching the sound, which can confuse the enemy. It can cause hesitation in return fire.

The 3rd reason to use your enemies weapons is the sound.

I had a buddy , long range rekon who spent a lot of time in North Vietnam in one and two man hits ... usually gathering intel but also taking out high level vietco g and nva regulars . He had a hard time back home and told me he missed the hunt and killing.

I’m not locked in here with you, YOUR LOCKED IN HERE WITH ME!!

In the early days the MAC SOG guys use either the AK 47s because it didn't sound like the M 16s, so it didn't attract unwanted attention. But also The Swedish K Sub Machine Gun, because of it's deniability. Behind enemy lines they would often wander into Laos or Cambodia chasing the enemy, so they didn't carry anything that would identify them as U.S Forces.

Maybe it's just me, but "royal" and "marines" should NEVER be used together. My favorite part of this was "He convinced me that for the rest of my life, I'd never go into a bar and cross someone I didn't know." And "when he wasn't training, he spent his free time training." 😅😮

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Growing up in Florida next to the Everglades (swap) I can understand him feeling at home in a jungle lol

@ 13:37 i remember reading about this man, the reason he took a lever action .444 Marlin into battle was to get through the heavy brush and into bunkers ... Quite effectively eliminated the eney with it.

I was 11b with the 101st Airborne in the golf war.I’m proud mad dog came from screaming eagles. I have nothing but respect for anyone that served in ‘nam , that was a brutal war, which was actually considered a police state action on our so called behalf

All war is terrifying. Also, what made Vietnam different from other wars is that instead of being a war of conquest, it was a war of annihilation.

My old man was 101st Airborne. Another man born for that life. Always said he accepted he was already dead by being there and getting out was his second chance to live. It never left him mentally though and physically the agent orange finally caught up damaging his heart valve until his end. RIP pops❤.

Easy. The fastest reload is another pistol. Modern speed reloading didn't even start until the 1980s, snd only became prevalent in the last twenty years. Before modern rapid fire guns, carrying two to eight pistols was not uncommon for over three centuries.

Also @ 12:20 the other reason they used enemy weapons was it left no trace of who attacked who .. no American brass casings to give away the fact that your enemy was in the area .. after a battle it looks like a case of accidental friendly fire ...

Roy Benavidez is likely the man you were trying to remember. Probably one of the toughest human beings to ever live.

You might be thinking about Carlos Hathcock.

A great book about Vietnam is "The 13th Valley". It's a novel but vets of Vietnam I know say it's very realistic especially on jungle combat.

Learn more about MACVSOG, their stories will curl your toes. I grew up thinking Rambo was over the top, nah, Rambo's story is the story of a watered down SOG guy. Not even joking, I'm absolutely fascinated by SOG stories, men doing impossible missions in impossible conditions against regiment sized opposition and thriving.

Yay new video hello from the US it's 4 in the morning and I'm hyped.

Different pistols and rifles was the clever move as you can literally find ammunition to fit from enemy or, downed allies. The mentality is, "If I cant use one, Ill use another". Thanks for your service from a Vet myself.

SF is doing side quest behind the scenes

I was in for 22 years. First Operation was Grenada. Yes I knew a few of these guys. Most, when retired or after they left, had a very hard time assimilating back into society. Many lived a country life, off grid even. What once made them "weird", would pay off as soldiers, then haunt them a good long while in civilian life. The very nature of their personality, would prevent them from seeking help. Sad really. As far as carrying so many guns, many Vietnam era guys didn't trust the .45 in the jungle and dirt. Reloading in a firefight was out of the question. The old toss and draw (another pistol) worked best. And like Carlos Hathcock, he had a price on his head and knew the enemy could be serving him his beer.

I had a friend in the southwest of Vietnam and Laos. He said what they were afraid of was the Orangutans. They would grab a solider and beat them to death.

You have no idea what that man had to go through the worst thing you ever had to do was walk through a snowstorm

We talk a lot about heroes like Shriver, Hathcock, and Benavidez, but we also need to remember men like Chaplin Vincent Capadanno and Desmond Doss who went into battle with the purpose of saving lives.

Another good reason to carry an AK. Is that the report is recognizable by the enemy and doesn't sound like a threat. They assume it's one of their own.

The Fat Electrician just did a video about Operation Bolo in the Vietnam war, check it out!

Roy Benavidez

I was named after my father’s best friend in Vietnam. “He was the bravest man I ever knew” “he would jump out of perfectly good airplanes”

Two crazy stories of Vietnam SF guys are MSG Roy Benavidez or Col. Bob Howard both MoH recipients both absolute legends.

SOG missions are crazy to think about. Some of the tactics they used for extraction, mainly dropping a weighted rope to crash through the canopy, so they could connect and get lifted up through the canopy and then hang from the rope for the ride home is insane.

This dude was a real life Rambo

Jocko has podcasts with living members of the MACV-SOG. These guys were what Rambo dreamed about being.

well... this was very much eye opening... My dad was in vietnam and i saw his release papers that where all blacked out, it always bugged me. His Uniform has the screaming eagle on it, he told me before that he was in a team that was only told that they're to report for duty and they cannot speak to anyone any must get up and immediately report, they cannot speak to anyone until the mission is over, and cannot talk about the mission.

My Dad is a veteran of Korea and Vietnam,.... He went to Korea at 15 yrs old when he stole his older brothers birth certificate and enlisted and then reenlisted for Vietnam and did 2 tours. at 86 he's still tough as nails and looks and acts like he's only in his late 60's, lives in the mountains on the Reservation, still hikes a 5-mile mountain trail every day and still chops his own wood..lol

I met two what I call "natural warriors". They didn't get men needlessly wounded or killed being heroes, but their men would follow them anywhere.

One of the funniest comments from the SAS in North Africa in 1941 was about the Jeep. It was unlike any other vehicle that they had used before. They thought it was like magic. It was extremely reliable, it could go anywhere do anything and they could mount a Gun on the back and run at 70 MPH.

I’m Matt Damon in Saving Private Ryan. Hands in my knees rocking back and forth crying

It’s always a good start to the day when I have a new video to watch! Much love to you all! Have a wonderful day/night whatever it is where you are

Guys like this would have been gladiators in ancient times.

17:46 Sounds like the Pathfinders of the 101st.

I would not want this man hunting me in the jungle!

you carry enemy weapons so when it barks, it doesn't raise the alarm a .223 will get... damn

That's not a shotgun ,it's a cut down M79 grenade launcher

You need to listen to a podcast on RU-vid with Jerry Stryker Meyer he was in MAC v SOG and if you knew how much ammo they carried on an operation you’d think it was bs. There are a few different people who’ve interviewed Jerry, but before they could join they had to sign papers that it was 50 years classified before they could talk about it I believe.

Great video reaction... keep them coming. 11:59 That's exactly the reason for all those pistols. To make sure that if he is behind the lines that he is virtually assured of having at least one weapon on him that matches the ammo he finds. Though I'm pretty sure this is the kind of John Wick individual that could just as easily kill you with a pencil.

I know Three people who were heavily involved in Viet Nam, one was a Delta Force flag waving American, one was an insane Marine who was Never able to live up to the standards set by his former WWII Marine father, and the Third was a Fearless "Tunnel Rat" and Body Guard for the CIA who "never" stepped foot into Cambodia. The Delta Force guy survived by his wits, was well connected in the Cy-Op's underworld of warcraft, and for me personally, the Ideal neighbor. The Insane Marine, whom I worked w/ in my Alaska days, made it out of his Tour of Viet Nam but his father was unsatisfied w/ his performance so he "re-upped" and volunteered for time in Cambodia just to kill as many as he could. He went insane years afterwards and "offed" his sister's husband and is hopefully still in prison. The Third guy was a co-worker and Lead at the U.S. Major Airline we worked for and held a job, prior to his tour of Viet Nam, as one of those "SkyWalker's" who fearlessly walked narrow steel beams while building New York Skyscrapers. He was also Full Blooded Sioux Indian, which is why he didn't experience Fear. In Nam, he proved as much by doing what is easily considered one of the scariest jobs in that war, a "Tunnel Rat", no description necessary. It's why the CIA chose him as a personal Body Guard for their time in other countries . . . those stories were Wild. He was so well liked, they sent him to a military Horse Ranch in the Rockies for his last year of service, just to decompress. After Nam, he worked for the "Skunk Works" on other CIA projects. He's passed away now, RIP my Friend.

the british did the same thing in india and malaisia, 4 man teams giving medical help to tribes and getting help and soldiers from them in return, tribal loyalty is like family you dont break it, thats why they are so loyal.

Dude:" It's a longer video, it's 13 minutes..." Me meanwhile watching 3h long podcasts:"Really a longer video?"

A couple of reasons to use an AK would be takedown power and reliability in crappy conditions. Another would be that the enemy couldn't identify you by the sound of your gun, because it sounded like theirs.

Many of those who survived a quarter of what he went through were broken when they came back considering all of the stories I've heard about the one who came back.

The randomness of the Vietnam war allowed men to be creative and allowed them the anonymity to move. Hatred and young men will create insane circumstances.

America had the filthy 13 in world war II