"Vietnam: The Soldier's Story" Doc. Vol. 6 - "Last Chopper Out: The Fall of Saigon" 

Unfortunately.

Only the stupidity of the politicians remains the same

But Biden said in now way would there be any similarities between the two??? (As I watch video of South Vietnamese clinging to landing gear)

i was in saigon in 1973 ....you dont know what your talking about ....look at your history! veitnam filed international bankrupcy 1980 and russia in 1986 ...kabul taliban are broke 30 days later....in case your business calculator batteries are low that is 5 years later and ten years later. sounds to me like we got better at something. remember afganistan has a huge drug trade.....wheres the beef!!! lol

Thank Biden for that zfissco

Same here. I remember staying home to watch this

What was the onslaught like Green Paulo? I was two months short of 15 in my native Scotland, we only received a US view point, which we naturally supported.

I was there. USS Midway

@@KeithWilliamMacHendry Well the Northern army ( which is the Vietcong ) decided to have a big battle that could end the war forever. So they held a huge attack on the US embassy at Hue city and then approach Saigon ( which is the capital of the south and it called Ho Chi Minh City nowadays). The US army fought with everything they got and because the battle was happening in Tet ( one of the most important holiday in Vietnam ) so the Vietnamese southern army have to give their soldiers a holiday. Without the support of the southern army , US army literally fighting against one of the most elite army forces back then on themselves.

@@KeithWilliamMacHendry After the Battle, the Vietcong failed to take over Hue and Saigon, basically they lost. But the casualties of the US army was HUGE. That was just like the surface. But you can research about the battle and the war on the internet. Trust me the thing i said was just the top of an iceberg

@@mikethompson6713 As a person who knows different viewpoints from both side : US government and the vietnam government. I just wanna said that the war was brutal and nothing can able to compare the destruction of the battle. You was one many US navy soldiers had fought for the freedom of the southern Vietnam. Although the south fell but i just want to say Thank you and honor you as one of the bravest soldiers. Once again Thank You for your contributions. God bless you🙏🙏

Hey Skipper - my name is Kelley Broussard (I am the daughter of Retired Master Seargent Colin Broussard @44:10.) I just want to say that as the daughter of a Vietnam Veteran myself - I know that your service, sacrifices and patriotic bravery were never really truly appreciated let alone appropriately acknowledged. I was born five years after the Fall of Saigon, and like so many other Vietnam Vets - my dad was just relentlessly haunted by the unspeakable tragedies that he experienced during the Fall of Saiogon. Up until the day he passed away, he suffered with so much that he just couldn't seem to find a way to forgive himself for... I know that far too many of you returned home to a grossly ungrateful country. Many of you were spitefully disparaged by your very own fellow American citizens, some of who shouted derogatory names at you, and some who had the audacity to actually spit in your faces. There was literally no recognition or support for the devastation that you, my dad and the rest of our Vietnam Vets had just been through, nor sympathies or real acknowledgments for the brothers in arms who were killed and had to be left behind. This is why I believe with every fiber of my being that it is you, my dad and every last one of our Vietnam Veterans - that are some of the finest warriors God has ever put on this earth. Never in all of America's history has there ever been a war where it's veterans had to know and feel the pain of their country’s insurmountable rejection, while having to carrry on with their live's in the wake of a war's horrific aftermath. Nobody should ever have to know what that is like. So please just allow me to say to you and to any other Vietnam Veterans who might be reading this... My family and I proudly honor you, and we'll always appreciate and acknowledge the tremendous service and sacrifices that each and every Veteran of the Vietnam War so valiantly made. Celebrating and acknowledging all of our Vietnam Veterans whom we are so gratefully and humbly indebted to. Today, yesterday, and always. As for me... Well... Let me just say that some people only dream of getting to one day meet their hero's. I was raised by mine. RIP MSgt Colin D. Broussard - USMC Retired - Operation Frequent Wind. #SemperFi

I understand why you do. Godspeed

Yep Ford and Biden 2 of the most weak and embarrassing presidents this country has ever had

@@billyferal5558 Maybe stop invading countries?

Semper Fi 🇺🇸

@@paulsuprono7225 I hear ya. Were you in the Marine Corps?

Semper Fi dude

@@CrossOfBayonne I hear ya 1st Mar Div.

Yes James ,the misery in the surviver s faces

De Javu😊

Is it true the girls are screaming in Afghanistan as they are forcibly assaulted?

I wish that one on dak to was here I've watched all of them and know I'll watch them again . These series have taught and explained the Vietnam war to me differently in ways that I can understand things differently . Wonderful documentary on the Vietnam war... If anyone knows anymore recordings if the Vietnam war let me know please . Thank you Vietnam vets for all your bravery and courage throughout this war . Our military showed our nations heart and strength in our fighting throughout. God bless all our men who fought in this war and all our female nurses that assisted our men .

I think there was a PBS programme called Vietnam: A Television History which was more visually intense showing destroyed limbs and body parts. Parental guidance suggested.

It is today part of a working economy I will go there Next year to meet a teacher I been friends with who is Vietnamese teaches English therein Hanoi hope to meet a couple I been with helping them with there English who are young students

I hope war will never happen again in the world and in my beloved Vietnamese.

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Its turned into a suburb of China, along with Laos & Cambodia. The Chinese ruin everything they put their filthy hands on. These lovely countries have quiet enclaves of peace that hints at the beauty it once had but largely it's all played out.

@@David-og7di it’s a very dirty place. Raw sewage is polluting its beautiful waters and there is trash everywhere. Most of Vietnam has no trash service and recycling is unheard of. The plastic cheap flip flops are discarded in their waters and are backing up everywhere.

Welcome to 100 years of US Foreign policy

Because our government loves war. It's a money maker for them. Also something to twist and campaign on

money to be made

Superb book. Wish it were required reading for American History Students.

I think I'll do that.

Hope those poor souls who died in the war in 1960s and even 1970s, will be all rest.

@Thomas Morningstar I was still in the service in 73 and to the best of my knowledge it was deiscalating but there was still fighting going at least in may of 1973 .

Yes, it is. And Ambassador Martin was a damned fool.

Who is watching this in 2021?! I am.

@@azia5051 just comparing it to Kabul

@@azia5051 2022 now today 5-6-22 unbelievable wht went on there !!

"Broken promises on weapons & money to destroy Saigon" is just a stupid excuse of the defeated puppets of the US. The documentary "The Vietnam war" wrote: "With the weapons left by the US in 1973, the VC can fight US to the end of the century.", or the film "The 10,000 day' war" also said: "If you put weapons around them (Saigon army) , only a gust of wind will destroy the Saigon army, because there is nothing inside." Victory or defeat is not determined by weapons !

@@thuankhong run away men liar !

It was the happiest and proudest moment of the Vietnamese people won after nearly a hundred years of fighting for an independent Vietnam, freed from foreign domination.

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I’m guessing that in both wars we had allegiance from the country’s military because of large quantities of military technology and $$$. Russia learned a lesson in Afghanistan in the eighties aided by CIA sourced SAMs. Ironically, in Kabul the Russian and Chinese embassies are still open.

I look for and buy these dvd docs of na m anywhere I see them. I'm a eternal student of military history.

We want that too, so that people who are still bitter about failure feel "it's okay to lose".

When don't politicians run wars???? You think the soldiers set policy. I agree though. Many military echelons were hobbled but that was what the cold war was....Sabre rattling . In VN and Indochina all that futility cost millions of lives.

Btw....I promise you this....no soldier sets out to be a hero....just to survive and be there for his mates. In doing this heroic acts are done. Mostly one is terrified, horrified & drunk and high in between.

Jane Fonda 1...us servicemen...zeros

thats what happen when pick a fight with the people of a country,rather than with its army.american army attacked the people of vietnam,not its army.

"Hero" is probably the most overused term of all time. Rather than being "heroes," a huge number of American troops in Vietnam were rapists, druggies, child murderers and slaughterers of non-combatants. They deserve NO "thanks for their service." (See "Kill Anything That Moves.")

May he be blessed.

Thousands of children, victims of Agent Orange are still not "helped" by the US, not to mention compensated

@Jim 762 much love brother keep safe the wolfs are out there love you man thanks for your service.

I hear you, Mike. I was 15 when this happened, and later joined the USAF and fought in the Panama and the Persian Gulf. I can't even imagine this tragedy. It seems like only yesterday, but here I am, 60 years old and wondering where all the time went. But you know? Life is beautiful, and every day is a gift that God gives us to enjoy. Look out the window, see the trees and the grass, a child playing in the park, a dog chasing a ball -- all of it is just wonderful. Even on my worst day, I can see those things and recognize that it is all going to be okay. I should have died a couple of times during my military career, so I frankly consider every single day a gift. There are so many people worse off than me, who still greet every dawn with joy, so I try not to complain, no matter how much I hurt. Good luck my friend, and God Bless!

I want you to know Jesus is real. I'm not just a Brian wash Bible thumper. But pray and he will let you know...

Ya hang in there man and don't over think shit it will get you know where.....God Bless and Airborne All The Way!👍

i'm 60, and lived through all this but didnt know the details. just had to say, i hope the covid thing hasnt made things worse, now we are all sitting around, wondering if the kids will call. to mask or not to mask is our reality, and nobody knows whats coming next. i think most of us are survivors enough that we will be watching the covid19 documentaries in a decade, and going, 'yeah, i did all that'

I was with the 31st MAU...during that time

Ours was a much more polite generation. I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s. I remember the old saying "grace under fire," when it was applied when we were kids.

@@doyleperkins4916 I'm a millennial and have never heard the phrase "grace under fire", but when I was a kid, there was a TV show by the same name. I never stopped to think about the meaning though, but after reading your comment, now I know and I think it's a good thing to teach my own kids.

@@doyleperkins4916 what does grace under fire mean ?

My dad got killed in Vietnam .I grew up with an abusive stepfather.who would laugh and say vc and nva probably raped my father before they tortured killed him. All this because Washington listened to hippies talking shit about u.s soldiers who gave it there all. Why the government sent my father to Vietnam to die for a a war they knew they couldn't win and didn't want to finish. I hope lbj is shoveling brimstone right now

My dad was in Nuremberg 78-80.

Opinion*

Wife and five children' it brought a Tear to My Eye"

Desperation breeds miracles.....

Yes, father! Both America and North Vietnam Communist violated the Paris Peace Agreement. That aimed to stop the war (1) withdraw all American soldiers, still give military support. (2) both South and NVC on ceasefire, stay where they were and stop fighting, and prepare for election. The fall of Saigon was predicted when the U.S. Congress cut all military supports to the South, while NVC continued received the massive powerful weapons from Soviet Union and China on economic base. Henry Kissinger’s The Whole Memoir told all.

@@marynguyen2579$ 1,000 bill ; 600,000 baby killers didn't bring victory, more" supports" for dumb and coward people = waste money .

Film "The Vietnam war": Americans fight in Vietnam -70% for honor, -20% for China -10% for South Vietnamese What a foolish folly of the American leadership

That's why they killed Kennedy in 63'

Well to be fair I think people tend to overlook the bigger picture when they talk about the Vietnam War. I can sit here and talk about the 1973 Paris Peace Accords where the NVA agreed too, among other things, the right to self-determination of the South, to hold a vote, and to not use military force to unite the country. We could circle jerk every other point people on Quora and RU-vid like to make. Like the US government actually caring what it’s population thinks, or some other dumb made up shit like, “It was the US’s goal to stop the south from becoming communist.” The truth of it is that the mission of MAG-V in Vietnam before the assassination of the Diem Brothers in 1963 was identical to the mission of K-MAG in the Republic of Korea which was George Marshall's doctrine of nation building as a Military Solution. After the assassination's of the Deim Brothers, which was orchestrated by a right wing junta that was dedicated to the proposition that nation building was for pussies, the strategy of the US shifted to a battle of attrition against the Soviet economy by proxy. This was based, in part, on George Kennan’s observation that Marxism is a decadent agenda and they wouldn’t be able to keep pace with the capacity for renewal of American constitutional capitalism. This turned out to be true because by 1970, the administration of the USSR was unable to hide the cracks in the soviet economy and it was obvious to Brezhnev and Mao that Marxism was untenable. this led to the Nixon-Brezhnev Détente and the Mao-Nixon “Leaky umbrella” summit. Because of Vietnam, the USSR is no more and Vietnam has evolved from it’s Soviet Marxism puppet roots to some weird mix of Free Enterprise Marxism that is clunky and has a lot of corruption, but hey they have skyscrapers now. Russia is stuck at an unhealthy Free Market phase between Soviet Marxism and a Russian version of market capitalism. While China adopted the Harvard MBA business model and is now neither fish nor fowl and largely paralyzed by the ideological insecurities of a neo-peasant consumer society based on a Dilbert performance archetype. That's why right now, at the date of this posting, they have tanks rolling down the streets, and government thugs attacking protesters, outside of the banks that completely screwed people out of their money after there Ponzi scheme of housing investment fell apart. We can sit and argue the morality of it, but the sad truth was by 1970 what happened in Vietnam was no longer a concern to the US, because it was already becoming the big dick super power it is today. All it needed to do was to continue to cause the USSR to spend money. Since almost 80% of Vietnams economy at the time was literally USSR foreign aid, once the USSR fell apart, Vietnam would fall too. Which happened in the late 80’s forcing the Vietnamese to withdraw their attacks from Thailand and out of Cambodia. With no more support from the USSR, Hanoi resorted to calling the international community for food aid as Vietnamese began to starve in the northern parts resorting to eating seed stocks. Afghanistan was no different. Afghanistan, historically, was being used as a hotbed for groups to undermine the security of western nations. When the Taliban refused to oust Al Qaeda a coalition went in a removed them from power. Then they set up their own government. This government was more than clunky and it was very corrupt, but hey, at least they aren't planning on flying planes into buildings. Once the Taliban finally agreed to keep Afghanistan free of these groups the US signed a treaty with them and left. Why? Because who cares what the Taliban does in a religious shithole on the other side of the world as long as they keep groups that seek to undermine the US or it's allies from operating on afghan soil. You can say it's fucked up, and sure you can make valid arguments, but the truth is countries will always act in their own self interests.

war is just a continuation of politics .politicians should decide war or not

What was the name of your unit?

Thank our self for our service ,I wasn't there but spent a many of night overseas guarding when people back home sleeping,when I got back home was treated like shit by some of my American. I was a president honors guard from DC station in Spain Turkey and who knows. Love all of my brother in service. And one last thing I am black.

Liar

Thank You God Bless

Thank you for the personal aspect and thank God you made it.

Their sever= disgusting war crime

Is it true many girls are forcibly assaulted in the last 5 days in Afghanistan?

Maybe worse I think.

We never learn

Hot take. 🔥 Who did you copy that from?

Maybe about time usa stayed out of other countries business

It is still called Little Saigon

Really

criminals with blood on their hands

You are correct Mike

I just wanted to add to your statement cause the videos titles his name Darwin W Judge when it is in fact Darwin Lee Judge, there is no W, Darwin was my uncle!

I remember macaques like it was yesterday.

I guess you were a Marine.

You bet-Made E-5 in 20 1/2 months. Joined for 3 years-did not spend 2. Got early out.

@@hippielewis4768 my dad was Airborne at Hamburger Hill, Ashau Valley, Dak To, Pleiku, Da nang, Phu bai, Da Lat Kontum Phan Rang and An ky.

qntnbarrett88 -I was in 3rd marine division-bronze star on 8-26-1968

Thank you anyway.

"This series first aired in October 1998 in six parts." Right there in the video info. Where they supposed to see the future when making this or what?

I watch that war since I was 7 to 13

yes there were exception the 18th (?) ARVN Div at battle of xuan loc /Battle at Newport Bridge they hold off a far greater NVA force for nearly 2 weeks, thats the proof that they could fight, when well lead ARVNs could fight, also some Para Units fought well during the last days. But dont forget the US cut the Weapon/fuel and Ammo deliveries to South Vietnam and even before this the ARVN were outgunned they had only a few M-48 (with 90mm gun) and M-41 (76mm) vs masses of NVAs T-55 (100mm) and chinese T copies Also Montagnard Tribesmen were excepcional good Fighters when lead by US green Barrets as an Green Barret officier stated "they wre pound for pound as good as conventional US combat troops" Dont blame the Men, blame the ARVNs corrupted officiers corps, south vietnamese are the same Breed like northern men and they could fight when well lead and supplied. With US air support and without the supplies cut all what happend could be avoided. I was a Teenager back then and i remember this sad days very well, i sat every evening at the TV watching the news from VN. Sry for my bad english. Edit now i saw the whole vid and they mentioned both Battles Xuan loc and Newport bridge

@@Sturminfantrist We agree there were some exceptions. I do blame the mostly corrupt officer corps. Thank you for contributing to this discussion.

TxCowpoke: "stand and fight" for what? So as to prolong a week, a month or a year from its death fate which had already been determined when the Nixon-Kissinger team introduced the Vietnamization program and secretly negotiated relations with communist China - the main backer of North Vietnam. Although Nixon had made promise to Thieu in writing to use nuclear threat to deter any attempt of invasion by North Vietnam, that promise became null when Nixon resigned his presidency and the new U.S. Congress was forceful to cut all aids to South Vietnam. At first, the ARVN was doing fine with Nixon's Vietnamization program. The fierce battle of Quang Tri in 1972 where the ARVN prevailed over the NVA was an undeniable example of the ARVN's ability to fight the North Vietnamese army. But when news of the aid and support cut off by the new U.S. president and U.S. Congress from Washington reached Saigon, the clock for the end of South Vietnam started ticking. After all, who in the right mind would expect the ARVN to maintain moral and confidence to fight an enemy that was receiving full supports from the entire communist block while itself being cut loose on its own by America and its allies of the free world? Don't you think the ARVN's decision to put down their guns not to fight was wisdom? Don't you think that decision may have also prevented further unnecessary, senseless deaths and destructions to the country that had already by that time ravaged by a terribly misguided war?

TxCowPoke, Xuan Loc battle or Newport Bridge are nothing as it just win by surprising and delays the failure as longer as it could with more bloodshed. If they have ever wanted to fight against the NVA force, why didn’t they do it in the first place at Phuoc Long province, if they can do it may be the U.S Congress will continue to send supply to them. They blamed their failure to their leader, officer and Americans but if they fought well on the battlefield at Ap Bac, Binh Gia, Dinh Tuong,...the American will not need to bring their troops to Vietnam. Do not bring here lie by the reason for their failure is about their equipments and weapons, ammunitions are little than the enemy. The ARVN got 1,4 million troops, tanks and armored vehicles are 8000 while the enemy only got 320,000 troops with 600 T54 tanks. When the NVA captured the Long Binh - the big Supplyment of South Vietnam, they have a lot of new tanks, new fighters, weapons and ammunitions that enough to Cambodian campaign. After 50 years, an old ARVN vet who worked in U.S aid program has told the truth that all weapons, ammunitions and equipments are enough to hold the South until the end of 1976 even the U.S didn’t send aid. His name is Vu Van Loc colonel and he is still alive in U.S today. He said the reason that the ARVN did not stand and fight because panic is spread out from the top to the bottom. So the ARVN soldiers just drop gun and run. You can watch his clip below, please find someone who know VietNamese language, they will translate for you. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-H54m2l3Dg4E.html

@@nhattuyenphan9150 You seem to think I'm calling the ARVN cowards...I am not even implying that. I am saying they became dis-spirited when the US Army pulled out. I said there were exceptions but in the end my buddies saw that many of the ARVN armies were pulling off their uniforms and even carrying signs of their hatred for America. I don't doubt they felt deserted. In the beginning it seemed our purpose was to win as soldiers but there were days of so-called truces and the stopping of the bombings of the North gave the NVA a chance to rebuild and reorganize. We fought with one hand tied behind our backs in that we now depended on body counts as a way to win a war. We only sometimes held the ground we fought for. America began to hate the very soldiers they sent to the job. The American fighting man was betrayed by America and the politicians, the ARVN army was betrayed by politicians and corruption! Here was the hard part, who could you trust in Vietnam? So many of those who were allies by day were Charlie by night, even some of the women and children. One of my buddy's had his face blown off in a Saigon bar by a bicycle bomb planted near him by a youngster. The end was predictable. I think most soldiers from Vietnam hoped that if there were futures wars we would go in and win it no matter the cost. Those were soldiers dying and their lives mattered and their deaths should have mattered even more!

Yep true, just like in U.S.A, but truth the same time.

Who wouldn’t do that if they thought it may help them and their families survive? And it’s not like the Americans were going to be coming back for all that stuff.

I think they meant they were fighting and attacking people for them. I don't blame them for it though.

I think anyone who had an semblance of a mind must be a badass. Damn. What chaos is defined as

No oil. So, why did America go in? Your argument is faulty.

Dork

America in vijetnam?

America in balkan, Japan, sout korea, mejbi rusia

Oh blv me I'm well aware and have been for a long time.....just a new game of deceipt now they play!

@@chrisjones8515 cheers well done

It's the same.

Yes war monger videos

Right 100!!!!

Watching Americans fleed from Kabul then know

Congress cut his funds also. I

No one was left behind. They still left Vietnam on the last trip. NVA did not shoot the evacuation plane.