My grandpa was in the Vietnam war, we would always tell me these combat stories. He passed away this year on my birthday. This song reminds me of him. Respect the Vietnam vets.
@@osaker4610 Yeah sure, you're such a mastermind to think that each one of the soldiers on the army are responsible for that specific thing, blame the politicians for starting that war, soldiers are just following orders
@@darkdaejang429 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragging that was good thing. But I can blame all soliders of one nation who enter other country and BIG %of dead civilians was because wE sUsPEct tHerE is VieTconG leTs FucKinG bUrN thIs vilLaGe down wiTcH wOmEnS, ChILds and fArmeRS. Bro i hate USA (and wars overall) solliders for all warcrimes including droping two atomic bombs (thank good pilots end themselfs when they get news what they did) on cyvilians cities, all masacres that they do in Middle East ect. I bet my fucking sallary that you are american and your schools cant educaten you about dark side of America history. + If u joint military to pay your shool debt or Just for money and you are send to war THATS WAS YOUR CHOISE, you join military, your army commit warcrimes YOU ARE PART OF THIS.
"We are soldiers" was based Hal moore. Who told his boys he would be the first off and last back on the huey. Would not leave a man behind. Him and his wife was per their wish, was buried with his boys (soliders). his men would follow him anywhere. A true man who thought of his soliders as if they was his sons. He earned my respect. Rip Hal Moore
my dad was there with charlie troop . he called down the artillery on his position when they were being over run . he spent 72 hours without sleep . after his Lt. was hit he ran the radio without stopping .he always told us he went over to viet nam because the army sent him . after an hour there he only knew he wanted to live and come back home . dad went while many stayed home and he was treated like shit when he returned from further tours . the rest of his life he was treated with little respect and mostly mistrusted because he served . he did his duty and returned with honor
well, he should had known better, like a fully functional person would, that he would want to come back home after an hour there. He was a man who killed people for the decisions of rich old farts who found convenient and probably entertaining having poor people kill themselves. No matter how many movies they make, no matter if he thought he was doing good there is no honour, no good, nor cleverness in that. At least he was treated the rest of his life the way he deserved.
Poem by Merrill Glass. Remember the time you lent me your car and I dented it? I thought you'd kill me... But you didn't. Remember the time I forgot to tell you the dance was formal, and you came in jeans? I thought you'd hate me... But you didn't. Remember the times I'd flirt with other boys just to make you jealous, and you were? I thought you'd drop me... But you didn't. There were plenty of things you did to put up with me, to keep me happy, to love me, and there are so many things I wanted to tell you when you returned from Vietnam... But you didn't.
Those Huey pilots were BADASS. Many went on to be test pilots and stunt pilots. A guy that worked at a local helicopter plant flew a Huey in Nam (now retired) used to give rides at fairs and airshows for 50 bucks. For 100 bucks he would give you a ride on juice. Ive seen him do actual barrel rolls. Then he does them while flying backwards.The Vietnam War era pilots were fearless.
Yeah, but they are like that cuz they are the survivors. Cuz the Vietcong had rpgs. They’d come from nowhere, and usually if your hit, you ded. You could survive, but look at the foliage, and if you have been hit, there are likely enemy nearby. Horrible stuff. The fact it was hard to aim napalm didn’t help either.
For the record, my father was a Huey pilot in Vietnam, and I've recently taken on a 'dangerous assignment'. My friends have agreed to do an acapella song of my choice at my wake if the worst happens. This is my choice. Sabaton, you make a difference. You make people understand sacrifice. Don't change, ever. Just keep holding alight the torch. Vitae Lampada.
Your father was a brave Man and I'd like to say thank you. Yeah I know that my thanks is 39 years late(I was born in 1991), for it matters to me that the way Our brave Men who went over to fight in that war did not deserve to be treated the way that they were when they returned home. So Thank you VERY Much for serving and I will never forget the brave men who are still in the jungles of Vietnam.
Huey is to today one of the best - small, agile, fast, and it is much of space inside, makes it great machine to landing ops, recon or just support missions. And now we're ready to strike!
Sadly the armor on the Blackhawk and Huey was not as good as it could have been,but then it would be much slower and not do its job well. You really can't compare the Apache to a Huey,they do different jobs and have different weapons and purposes.
fun fact, the movie used to make this video [We We're Soliders] was based upon a book, which was written by a Nam Vet who was actually at the final battle in the movie
This is my favorite Sabaton song. I've been to Vietnam, I've seen the war museum in Saigon. It's probably the coolest nation I've ever visited. Me and my extended family took a 2 week trip there, 4 days in Saigon and the rest in Phu Quoc, 15 years ago. It was truly a jewel in a faraway land. Today I hear it's completely destroyed by Chinese prospectors. The only Vietnamese I learned was Ba Ba Ba or 3-3-3,. that was the local lager beer you got when ordered a beer, served with a glass full of ice. Man I miss that place.
It's so weird that it's Museum because we would want this every night on TV when it was going on. When we were kids in school we would play War girls and boys am I old or what
Man watching stuff showing the Huey Gunners just shakes my soul. To think my grandpa was doing that in Vietnam is just crazy. And he's around to tell about it still. Mercy.
My dads uncle was in Nam. I met him a few times he was a quiet person and cool but was drafted and seen the horrors of Nam and I heard stories that he saw like five of his men blow up into pieces and that his platoon would collect the ears of the dead Vietnamese soldiers. He was a tough guy for-sure and served his country.
We Were Soldiers is the best Vietnam war movie because it's the only one that depicts the forward air coordinator accidentally napalm bombing his own troops. It happened more than a few times during the conflict, I've never seen that depicted before or since in a big budget Hollywood production and not even Apocalypse Now, Platoon and Full Metal Overrated Jacket were that ballsy.
@Anonymous Anonymous they weren't a bunch of rice farming peasants you know, they were a well trained and large army with a huge guerilla warfare component. The U S military continuously lost much less troops and supplies and land then them while being outnumbered much of the time. So fuck off with your biased lies and propoganda.
@Anonymous Anonymous we weren't invading, south Vietnam was being aggressively attacked and probed by north Vietnamese and Vietcong forces, they were on the verge of collapse so we decided to help. If your country had sworn to protect democracy, it isn't going so stand idly by and watch one get torn apart.
@Anonymous Anonymous the taiban didnt own afganistan just fight the current goverent and with the countrys army being non existant it makes sence why we(the usa) would help out after 9/11. like we dont control the land it goes right back to afganistan like for intestance in ww2 when we did operation overlord the towns were back in the remining french hands not the us, also in not argueing just a friendly tip
My father did (2) tours in Nam. 1st w/MACV(Armor)'65 as a Capt. n then 5th Inf. '69 on the DMZ as a Maj. He took real nice photos from heli especially Marble Mtn.
Nick McGarry Which is funny because the US should be treated like shit for the Napalm/Agent Orange bombing it did in Vietnam. Using what is basically chemical weaponry should be punished more harshly(if i remember correctly about 600 000 - 1 000 000 people were affected by the Agent Orange).
+ImperialGuardsman74 Even our own troops! It's horrible to find out that, in several cases, US aircraft didn't fully check to see if there were US soldiers on the ground before the Agent Orange was dropped. Vietnam Vets literally went through hell over there and deserve so much more than they get, even nowadays.
I'm a Vietnamese and i hate this war, which too many people of both sides and both countries died in. Nowadays, Vietnamese people love peace, not war. We don't want to talk about it.
+Phúc Phan Gia Toàn I'm glad your country has found its independence and fought for what you believed in. You SHOULD be proud, in yourself, in your relatives that participated, and in your country. You have my utmost respect, my friend.
Phúc Phan Gia Toàn im Vietnamese too,unlike those vietnamese kid who only respect 1 side and hate another,i respect both sides and hate those degenerates who only cared about 1 not 2
I feel bad for both sides of the conflict,tons of Vietnamese city's were burned to ground and many civilians were killed,while when American soldiers came back,they were basically hated by society,they would be attacked and many would have no homes,no family's or girlfriends to come home to,the war was pointless for both country's,other then the north Vietnamese. My great uncle was a mechanic who worked on Hueys.
I always wonder how post-war Vietnam handled the aftermath of the civil war. A lot of the war is fought between the vietnamese sides, the communist north and the autocratic south.
I'm from Vietnam and my grandpa was a transporter in the war. in a time, 10 trucks transporting weapon and ammo to the battle but American plane shoot and killed 9 of them, my grandpa got shoot too but he survived, he turned off the light and then fall into a river, now he's 90 yrs old.
Vietnam War was the first war that was on TV and guess what was on our TV every night when I was a kid. My uncle move over to Vietnam because the people when he came back for even him like crap, and hate to say the government still treating people like crap
I wish this video could be remade to show how 7/6Inf and 6/6Inf of 1st Armored Division (US Army) swung around in the famous "left hook" to attack all 3 Sadams feared Republican Guard Tank Divisions and left victoriously. This is amazing work on the video. Just wish that we had something this good about us.
Home of the free becuase of the brave. salute all your veterans. how much courage is needed to drop out of a plane or helicopter sourrounded,i may not know,the veterans of the 7th Air Calvary,101 and 82nd Airborne do. please respect and thank your local veterans. not just of these units but all.
And we should also take a moment to remember all the Vietnamese soldiers who died protecting their country as well as the innocent civilians who were murdered
Let me give you an idea of white phosphorus, what Vietnam napalm was mostly made of Its is it's own oxidizer so it cant be put out and it's highly highly toxic But the worst is it burns at 5,000 F or 2760 C
Ehh, not really. Napalm is basically diesel mixed with various thickening and gelling to make it sticky. And because its a gel, it can be spread over a large area which is what you want when burning out enemy positions. White Phosphorus (WP) is a solid, which means it would just break into chunks and sit there. However WP generates a lot of smoke, and was used (and still is today) as an ingredient in burst type smoke grenades.
America didn't have bunker busters and the weaponry it has nowadays. It's reliance on WW2 technology (a.k.a. jellied gasoline a.k.a. napalm) as well as inequality at home added on to an increase of youths (caused by Baby Boom) made an environment ripe for protest and riot. As well as an overall unpopular war as we supported a Catholic dictator regime. Originally Ho Chi Minh went to UN (or was it League of Nations?) to equest independence basis of government like america, and they laughed at him.
