Vietnam War, 1970: CBS camera rolls as platoon comes under fire 

Only the poor and uneducated

and heroic...

@Anita Bonghit good movie right there

Isabella Love nice generalization. Did you not hear the part where the guy said he would rather be a businessman than a soldier?

@SgtBaker16 Someone's angry they couldn't get into college.

And they always the most badass too

And firing it with one arm and holding the belt with the other

and his name is Tex

@@swopedog6133 Pretty sure his name was Animal Mother.

@@Captroop was gonna say that too lol

So many lives lost in a useless war. Such a shame of all these young men😢

🎇🎇🎇🎇🎇🎇🎆🎆🎆🎆🎆🎆🎆🎇

🫡 Mase

May your friend RIP. He is in a better place. Bless you.

Rip

Any interviews with Kregg? I bet he's got some horror stories.

What a badass.

@@Electronicsflippa Yes, there's one on RU-vid titled "Vietnam Veteran Kregg Jorgenson Talks About the Day he Was Shot on the CBS Nightly News"

The comment I was searching for

LMAO

Honestly? It was. He did that dude a favor. You get shot like that, anxious but still not fully feeling the pain, absolute best thing someone can do for you (aside from treating the wound obviously) is keep you talking, keep you engaged, get your mind on the fact you’re being interviewed by national news and OFF the fact that you’ve just been shot.

Yeah, you don't want to imagine what your wound looks like,...so talk about something, anything...

Gets shot in the leg Soldier: ahh perfect I can go back to civilian life working as a security guard eating fried chicken salads from pollo tropical

And already had 3 purple hearts under his belt.. He's highly decorated

him be like they had us on the first half ngl

@@frankierzucekjr He had more than that under his belt, thats for sure.

@@kyleallen1858 Real badass.

He had been given morphine but you can see that it's starting to wear off.

At Vietnam War there alot of cameramen from both sides that got the bullet. Visited the War museum in Ho Chi Minh and there was at least 100 USA cameramen and 100 Vietnamese. Photographers, videographers and reporters.

cameraman never dies

amen!

true shit

+Blackred12 For The Wins fuck all of you and your bullshit religions

Funk Enstein Cronkite wasn't a Communist you stupid fuck. If believing with all my heart that Vietnam was a bullshit war with bullshit reasoning makes me a Communist then call me fucking Mao.

Robert Walsh They might have got pushed back (after a shit ton of fighting and casualties) but they weren't wiped out. To say so is disrespectful to those killed after Tet.

back when having balls ment something.

And that´s a 20 year old kid.

@@wesley_m6935 What are you, stupid? Ever heard of a metaphor? You waste of bandwidth, smh.

I think he is the real Life Rambo

We should have never been there.

I miss every vet who leaves this earth, including your dad. God bless and keep the loved ones that you still have close to you.

thank God the vietnamese freedom fighters threw these foreign invaders out from their country.

The My Lai massacre begs to differ.

​@@thc_freebaserhe wasn't part of it so stop it show some respect

​@@BalakeHart-nh4xhRespect for what? For killing people?

🤡

As are almost every other

We will always have wars as long as Americans keep voting for Democrats.

Fighting communism is not unnecessary as communism is one of the greatest of evils freedom of speech freedom of religion freedom of thought all banned by communism those vets fought against this evil and if heaven never existed GOD would make one just for them.

​​​@@2fargonedaytona128 like every other war you mean . Hitler and his concentration camps would never have been stopped if good men hadn't brought war against Germany. War is sometimes necessary to stop evil .You armchair critic's make me sick

Facts

What about the ones who documented Isis and the syrian war while under siege and getting air strikes day and night

Reporters are trash now, hate the news media. I dont even remember writing this....0.0

@@Xamze notice almost none of them are american tho.

Hey, I guess you shouldn’t call people gay.

wander what happend to Hero? because he and his mates certainly were Heroes God BLess them

he’s gorgeous too 😍 a true hero

It gave me goosebumps

yum boot

Guy was shot in both legs, making jokes and laughing.

Of course there was, not just his. But from other American soldiers, but much more from the Vietnamese. The amount of chemical agents that the US dumped in Vietnam was responsible.

Sorry he died but what was your lot doing there to begin with

My brother was there 66 ta 69.. Have No idea what he did... I've asked.....

WE don't .... he does !

@@jayden2ui do

My dad is 80 and put some time into this during his service. Seeing him dealing with the Covid thing brings your comment to life this generation was like the Klingons they are happy in the face of fear.

In that moment he has to be calm. The mor you panic the more you bleed in a situation like that. If you calm and put pressure on the wound you don’t bleed out as quickly

@@tuggnuggets130 It was not real. Everything we see on the TV news is actually a movie being acted-out. Yeah, even wars are fake.

@@johnellizz Wish that was true brother, and I'm sure it is to a point, but not in totality.

Adrenalin is a good pain inhibitor.

😄😄😄

Fear by immediate danger sure, but flattery bc u accidently hit the enemies "humanity" i.e. funny bone.

theKidfromutopia “so anyway, i started blasting!”

* slowly pulls out gun*

U tell urself damn hold helmet (unsung album-helmet) ur tatted with rules lol

Last year I traveled through Vietnam. While in the countryside I visited a large store filled with art created by artists who were severely physically disabled due to birth defects from pre-natal exposure to Agent Orange. When speaking to some of them I was met with a heavy sense of guilt from what my country had done to them, but their friendliness, optimism, and devotion to their beautiful art showed me how strong and resilient the people of Vietnam are.

Those were the bloodiest years a good portion of south Vietnam and American deaths came that year because north Vietnam launched an offensive

You aren’t kidding

He in fact is!!! To this day!!!

@@RobertTaylor-cj7zd Whats his name?

What's his namr

He got shot, and he doesn't even show it, twice

reality vs the movies my friend. it’s called shock.

A Shock G... No Digital Underground

Until his adrenaline wore off and reality set back in.

And these Transvestites nowadays in the Military think that they could handle what these guys did. What a joke

@@razoredge6476 lol

what is his name? what became of him after?

^

@Uchiha Recker they were conscripts. it was the leaders who were murderers and the rich like donald trump bribed their way out of a fight. fun fact see the difference in the cover 19 death tolls in vietnam and the US

@Uchiha Recker they're fulfilling their duty to the country they live in. The elites make the wars.

Not really tbh there was no reason for them to go there and do what they did

He also got a silver star and a bronze star! He earned all of them in my book.

@@kortgreen7725 the majority of ground troops in nam (that saw direct action) deserve some sort of award. That just might be my blind patriotism, but I’m not gonna change my mind.

I doubt any of them would of wanted a medal

@@Ryan-xw6nt the honor is not in possessing them but deserving them.

Central Comedy, thats the only thing the US government gave them for risking their life

this is how news used to be, then the Viet Nam war became unpopular back home, and the censorship began....

also mothers crying

Having been in the military, it’s very physical and tough. How much weight do you think infantry carry? And you can’t decide when and when not to soldier, if it’s in the middle of winter, cold, wet and you’re exhausted with no sleep.... you still soldier. Good luck trying to do this as an old man. Even guys in the 20s leave with knee and back problems.

There is no profit in✌'/!!! It's all about the weapons' manufacturers🔫💣💥& defense contractors🚀🛰🚁making their billions off your tax💸💸💸'/!!! 😢🤔👹 I hear they're still looking for W. Bush's imaginary "Weapons of Mass Destruction" that were supposedly being stockpiled by Saddam Hussein'/!!! 🤔🤔🤔.

@@kbrich-nn8od yeah I can tell you're uneducated. W. Bush didn't have WMD, it was Saddam Hussein

FDR should know this better than anyone .I am not a fan of FDR but that is a great statement.

The 20s is when people are the most fit so makes sense

Unfortunately thats pretty much all wars. War is when the old and twisted trick the young and naive in to killing each other

Yeah but most were 18, 19 or 20. Some even 17

@@DiceDecides im in my 30s and i feel better than in my teens lol.

Then you were a dumb kid.

Indeed

Powerful Joe Rogan Experience

I started thinking, about how they knew about the first guy’s thoughts

A real man and hero god bless him

Bless his heart Lord Jesus! And all the rest likewise! How this touches me😢, and how thankful i am to those who served and are serving! "Including my Only Son"...Usmc

A real soldier right there, no one ever leaves a man behind

El macho

He doesnt want to let his brothers down

Same god that refuses to stop childhood cancer ?

Somebody show this to Joe Biden.

@@sam_s_ why ?

"I ain't got time to bleed." -some movie

@@sp10sn *predator

Sounds like Moist Critical

@quixoticelixer yep, the only difference is the world is more expansive and relatively more peaceful, but theres still journalists in the dirty, pot is still pot (it's actually much better now) and men are still men

@@koolfoolhost1 read my comment again to realign properly with the real world

@@_baller I did. Your comment is pandering to an older generation that hates on the modern times.

@@koolfoolhost1 eh I'm apart of this modern generation. Most of the men I've known are severely depressed and have a lot of addictions and barely any control over themselves and they hide it by putting on a front and the women are kind of the same way, but they use sex as a way to feel like there in control of things and both rely on technology and social media way too much. To the point skills are becoming more uncommon and not to mention the problem with ego and narcissism. My generation pretty much like the last generation, but a little worse.

@@boerovich What are you talking about... Pick up a history book! So incorrect, it's just we know about the whole world a lot more now since the technology has changed in the last 20-30 years! SMH and I give you a look of derision 😕

Yeah, right.. there were no propaganda and fake news back then.. (Not saying this particular video is fake) Stupid war..poor people 😢

Lmaooo caught that too

Is this what it felt like In that bb gun war

But DAMN that m60.

Firing the M60 with one arm and straight and true, John Wayne style standing up.

Do you want to talk/learn about God and Jesus? God and Jesus both love you and can help you with whatever you may be going through!

The Hero who got shot was given morphine by the medic right before he was taken where the journalist was.

Only in america lmao..

He is actually alive and well today, he is on Twitter @KreggJorgonsen

@@Williamerhurtig that's so cool, thx man

@@valeregeron2273 *vietnam

They didn't actually

Iv read where alot of returning solders were given a hard time when trying to settle back into daily life. Obviously not all but quite a number.

@SgtBaker16 I beg to differ he couldve easily rejected being sent out there for pretty much suicide and If he truly didnt want to go for the sake of letting the public know just how stressful war is then he would quit

SgtBaker16 By that logic, the soldiers aren’t brave because they’re simply doing what their employer orders. Your logic is flawed.

@SgtBaker16 remember this is far far after humans realised what war can do to people and just how easily someone could get killed or brutally injured...from things that arent even directed at someone for example a stray bullet from a firefight across the jungle couldve easily cut one of them down, or shrapnel from a bullet hitting a tree and splintering it into an entire platoon and not to mention the traps

@SgtBaker16 that may be true but you have to admit 10 times better than most media now

SgtBaker16 you don’t see reporters doing things like that today

Thank you for your service

@@Megamon0001 thank you

god bless you thank you for your service sir

Lost the war lmao

@@SpeedKing.. must be hard knowing no one will ever love you

Good excuse

@@feitraspace4801 excuse?

@@feitraspace4801 he got drafted dammit

Can't blame your grandfather for that unless he's studied a world map.

Are you currently serving in the USAF? Also mad respect to your grandfather for serving.

Haven't you watched hacksaw ridge?

@@snake698 dope movie but could have been made better

That’s why they’d leave them alive

Rt

That’s what I’d think too, but I think once you’ve done it enough times, the thought of getting shot or injured doesn’t hit you untill later on. Plus I’m sure the adrenaline levels are really high during combat, so the medics don’t have time to think about getting killed, they have to focus on reaching the wounded, and avoiding getting shot. No time to think about anything else.

Nah, morphine. You dont feel any pain.

@@suckmyballzgameplays7172 Whit AK i think not good.

A real man is what it is.

@@TheWehzy bro they ddnt give him morphine yet he had just got shot literally seconds before he started talking about a 4th purple heart.

It is what it is, no need to agonize before the pain sets in...

I'm under the impression, based on the previous soldiers story, that the medic was the one who told the reporters about his fear, then they told it over footage. They did the before the medic I swear rewatch it

@@MrHocotateFreight i am sure that is the case but using that shot of him looking like a rabbit caught in the headlights along with that narrative, ESPECIALLY in comparison to the heroic warrior like demeanors of the other guys, is both sensational and unnecessary. Fear is a presupposition. My Pop was a medic with the 82nd and I only heard stories second hand about the nightmares he had picking up body parts and running out of morphine. His five brothers never stopped talking about the war. They lived for their tank, flight and Seabee stories. But Pop never said a word. So i particularly empathize with this kid

I think they were just portraying the reality of the situation. Heroes get scared shitless too. People need to know that. Now he’s a hero not only for his duty but also expressing his vulnerability to those who would not understand otherwise.

You’ve got to be scared to be brave

the radio operator is actually the most dangerous of the jobs but medic im sure was a very close second

raiding homes of others makes you a villain not hero

@@sinistercr0347 holding yourself heroic isn't the same as being a hero. And foot soldiers are not the ones to blame here.

You know what’s really heroic? To stand up against such a war instead of sending soldiers there to lose their lives for political reasons.

@@benjamins_eye662 well they did and took 8year for it to work... And soldiers who deserted or wouldn't enlist had a very hard time.

@@benjamins_eye662 double the people in the south though they were heroes. I suggest you research what happened once Nixon resigned to the people epecially teachers in the south.

Thank you for your service to our country Denny.

@Denny T. Thank you

Thank you for your service Denny.

You are appreciated, Denny.

im sorry for your lost and thanks for your service!, i have a question, what do you mean by spared? were you captured by enemies?

Became an author - Kregg Jorgenson

Lt Dan! You got new legs!

That's the power of morphine You won't feel a pain even if you lost your whole leg

@@peternehemiah1606 i think adrenaline is the saviour here

They promised homes fit for hero’s, we did get hero’s, but they were only fit for homes.. OFAH grandad..🙏

Your dad is a hero. Tell him people like me appreciate his heroism. Respect U.S. military and veterans.

Your Dad is to be honored. You are blessed. RIP to him.. 🇺🇸🙏🏼✝️

@@josecarranza7555 He's a soldier not a hero. That means he's a brave man who answered the call of duty. But I don't agree with American's calling every damn soldier a hero.

"Hope to see him" and than?

Me too buddy, I always look for my dad, he was in the Corp pathfinders.

wow

amazing

Some of my earliest childhood TV memories are of this type of footage from that war.

TheSanityInspector Really?! That’s crazy to me.

wow

It was the boomer's war, every male who came of age before 1973 had to deal with the draft, and that damn war. My uncle and my cousin had to go, uncle came back and my cousin didn't. My uncle was a Marine in 1968-69, door gunner on H34's, and came back in one piece, physically. My cousin was Navy, on an ammo ship the Vietnams hit with B40 rockets in Danang "bridge ramp" in 1969. There were 11 guys on that ship and one guy survived, (it wasn't him).

they shouldn’t be there in first place, what was the point of the war?

só júlia to stop the spread of communism. As Russia’s Iron Curtain swept over Europe, morons like Mcarthy terrified politicians and stroke fear into the hearts of the American people. However as brutal and bloody the war was, some good did come out of it.

@@gublicity So what were the good things that came out of it? Yeah maybe the military industry did gain money but that's it. Afaik the US hardly benefited from the Vietnam War, after all Vietnam did fall for communism right after the Americans realized they were not going to win it. So the whole purpose of it failed. Vietnam was basically the first war that the US has lost in the sense that it did not benefit from it the same way it benefited from other wars.

aabens well essentially it put a stalemate to communism in Asia, but I’m not disagreeing with you not much good came out of the war,

Not only that but it's his 4th injury. He has 3 purple hearts so if he continued the war after those 2 leg shots he would have gotten a 4th purple heart. But that is obviously not realistic so he was done after that.

He gets a purple heart for that injury, he will have 4 in total unless for whatever reason he doesnt accept that medal.

@@Nickstuff100 Oh, I thought you had to continue service after receiving the injury to get a purple heart.

Its all about drug

@@SI0AX nope, you can still get it even if its a career ending injury. Also if you die in combat you also recieve the purple heart

"I got shot in the legs, but it was way below my "package" is what he meant to say.😉

That guy is not only “hero”, now he is my personal hero.

badass af

With an ak!

He's more concerned with assessing the situation than he is about his legs.

I did not see no women just Men

@@MyAntonioavila over 11,000 women served in Vietnam. The majority of them served as “Volunteer Nurses”. That’s right, they weren’t drafted they volunteered. Show some respect for heavens sake.

​​@@Hopster1stfu. Men fought those wars. Know your place.

​@@Hopster1what respect when they invaded another country..

He had been given morphine for pain but you can see that it's quickly wearing off!

Shock is a helluva thing.

That's what makes leaders leaders, the insane ability to remain calm under pressure, yes adrenaline but also his natural ability to remain centered keeps the rest of the boys centered as well.

How many people have you seen shot? I've seen quite a few, and I agree. But they're usually pretty calm right after it happens. It's about 10 minutes+ on that they start to freak out.

Well, it was his fourth time, so probably used to it by then. Should have been called magnet...

The cameraman never dies

@@ongjoeyy exactly, he was too busy listening to the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix

@@skxlter5747 Comments like these makes you realize just how many stupid people on earth there are. Of course, he had to be calm. You're in the middle of war. Why would you broadcast the location of troops by being loud and showy? As a Marine Veteran who served in Iraq, it's common sense to me, but maybe not others. What a pity.

I believe some press are experienced in war because many have gone overseas to film more than once. And anyway, you cant just start screaming when you come under fire.

@@Jaxxonian123 It's not so much the to be low voice because you don't want to alert or give signs to the enemy. It's that the reporter truly is showing bravery. Not a flick blink of emotion. He could be crying or showing how nervous his voice was. The guy was solid rock. No emotions. Shots being fired in all directions. Even the soldiers are ducking.

This guy got nothing on Brian William.

I miss Walter Cronkite.

True,does anyone remember the old news footage of the Hindenburg burning up with all those people running underneath it getting caught in the inferno?,I still remember the reporter sobbing the words ''oh the humanity of it'',or words to that effect?

Check Russian media, they have reporters on the field.

Check this one: watch?v=h-q0MIPfV_Q

that's probably because he would go home

...dude he was 3 purple hearts within 7 months, i doubt he was sent home.

Here is an interview (2015?) where he talks about the incident. @Bastard & BigBoss: Seems he could have gone home, but decide to rejoin his unit.

He was in shock

Stephen Cradick i was joking about his jovial nature. But he wasn't in shock, he was pissing adrenaline from being in a firefight. He definitely was feeling that shit 20 minutes later and for the next month

Sorry for your loss.

I'm sorry for your loss. I thank him for serving and the sacrifice he made.

sorry for your loss, that's the reason why we didn't want any war as vietnamese myself!

False, in his conclusion he depicts what he feels

Are you serious??

@@AbraccudaRichard outlines the days work into an army report. His conclusion does not sum up his editorial on the war, good or bad.

Naw more like what they are told to see.

Amen

I always thought that american movies where wounded heros make jokes were just hollywood´s imagination but now I stand corrected.

Joking and laughing in this kind of situation is pretty normal actually for the stress and that stuff

@@facuokinggton7509 Whenever I punch someone in the street they usually cry -_-

@@benjenkins3220 Comparing being punched in face to being shot at from any direction is like saying that an apple and a banana are the same

@@facuokinggton7509 I am a banana and I can vouch that I and apples are not the same, people keep thinking we look just alike.....

Medic: Give me some cover! Him: Hold my beer. 17 year olds today cry about social justice and safe spaces. These 17 year olds cried about their buddies getting laced in the jungle by an unseen enemy.

Bill Sussman hahaha you should watch the episode of the pc babies from South Park 😂😂🤣🤣

Bill Sussman not all 17 year olds dude....just the ones that appear on the very social media that generalizes groups.

It's Duane Bloor-there's a Facebook group 'Apache Blues' featuring him at nearly 70 years firing an M60. He and all the GI's on this newsreel are all in Kregg Jorgensen's ('Hero' the one shot in the legs) book 'Acceptable Loss'. I highly recommend it.

Nah hero is the real mvp. An ak bullet to each leg and cracking jokes in an interview immediately after. That's the most Savage dude I've ever seen

I Commented The Same Thing OMG Lol

This is nam' baby!

Haha just mentioned that myself lol

Some folks are born made to wave the flag Oooh They're red, white and blue And when the band plays "Hail to the Chief" They point the cannon at you, Lord It ain't me, it ain't me I ain't no senator's son, son It ain't me, it ain't me I ain't no fortunate one Some folks are born silver spoon in hand Lord, don't they help themselves, yeah But when the taxman comes to the door The house look a like a rummage sale It ain't me, it ain't me I ain't no millionaire's son, no, no It ain't me, it ain't me I ain't no fortunate one Yeah, some folks inherit star-spangled eyes They send you down to war And when you ask 'em: "How much should we give?" They only answer: "More, more, more" It ain't me, it ain't me I ain't no military son It ain't me, it ain't me I ain't no fortunate one, one It ain't me, it ain't me I ain't no fortunate one It ain't me, it ain't me I ain't no fortunate one You are welcome

Another reason this can’t be real is because according to Forrest Gump, it was raining from every which way, and no one told the soldiers to “get down! Shut up!”

Now they are all crazed liberal commies.

This guy was a weight on the team ... covering him down, too!

Vice News is 10x better than this AND people still consider it liberal. They go into the front lines in Ukraine, Syria, Afghanistan, everywhere. Look them up.

Two words. ROSS KEMP.

John Rambo vice news is shit. Filled with ignorant fucks

Forest!!

Ethan Ellis “hey bubba”

We referred to him as "Sir Charles", since we never wanted to underestimate our enemy.

"Bit me right in the buttox"

There’s Tex....well, I really don’t know where Tex was from....

That's unfortunate, too - as the 6 o'clock news has never been this exciting in my lifetime. Props to Threlkeld for keeping cool under pressure. He didn't seem to be at all shaken up, nor even break a sweat.

They did it in the second Iraq war as well. Embedded journalists. It's always about propaganda.

They get in the way sometimes

@@Nobunagawa Anti-war propaganda is why we lost Vietnam.

Allagí I know right! That’s just crazy! That’s a real journalist. Wounded soldier had a strong mind.

that s war. My grandpa fought in WW2 and when Hitler put the hitler youth to the front, because after 6 years of war there weren t enough adults left, the children had to go to the front, my gradpa killed his first enemy at the age of 14.... And his dad, my grand-grandpa fought in both world wars... First world war at the age of 16 and the second world war on the western front when he was a father of 5 children and in his early 40s....Age doesn t matter in war.

We were very young and scared 1968 during my first tour I helped drag a guy to a LZ for medivac and he was crying and asking for his mother, his leg was blown off and he died with me holding him, I did not know him but I cried with him.

Jay Walker Jesus I’m sorry you had to go through that, thanks for your service

@@jaywalker712 Thank you for your service sir, greetings from Singapore, every soldier is brave whether the country he was fighting for had good intentions or not

I don't think my old mind could handle going back over it again.

only way out is to shoot both legs ;)

@@BoOwnedU I heard the sound of AK's you coward democrat. I bet you cant tell, pendejo..

@@emergencylowmaneuvering7350 *We called them Kalashnikov back then! They are the real smoker.

@@Crudeoil794 Didnt like them. Too hard recoil for precision on auto. M16's were more precise and easir to fire on auto.

@@emergencylowmaneuvering7350 *The m16 jammed because the chamber got hot and that's the reason why different versions of the,and finally with the grenade launcher. Now the M4.I still love my 7.62mmx39

it became the governments bitch......

57 Mickey

fuzzybunny the government thought showing this would rally young men to war. instead, protests started and government changed what it shows the people

The pentagon learned its lesson and stopped the media from showing the American people the truth.

Yet he doesn't mind when Fox and Breitbart unleash their bullshit too.

@@BrokenSociety966 Thank you so much...!