Brit Reacts To THE BOOBY TRAPS USED AGAINST THE US MILITARY DURING VIETNAM WAR
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2024
- Brit Reacts To VIETNAM WAR BOOBY TRAPS EXPLAINED
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Hi everyone, I’m Kabir and welcome to another episode of Kabir Considers! In this video I’m going React To VIETNAM WAR BOOBY TRAPS EXPLAINED
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My dad joined the Marines in 1967 at the age of 17. He wouldn't talk about the war unless he was drinking. And over the years you could piece together this picture of what he went through and why he was the way he was. So, he served at Khe Sahn after the siege, and he said their job was to run these plates to keep the runway up and running under constant mortar fire. Now they didn't send him there until he turned 18 and that if you were wounded that time in recovery didn't count to your 13-month tour. He served along the DMZ fighting mostly regular NVA forces taking or holding hills. He could be a bit of an asshole. But it wasn't until after he passed away that i put myself in his shoes. I think i would be just as fucked up and disassociated with life in general if i was an 18 year old kid thrown into a meatgrinder at that age.
My Dad was Special Forces. He received a silver star (third highest medal for our military. He was a true hero. He started to tell me stories later in his life about the things he saw there. I wouldn't wish that on anybody
I knew a Vietnam vet who was unfortunately homeless. Back when I was skateboarding I’d have a beer with him every once in a while. He wouldn’t talk much about the war. All he would really say is, “it was hell on earth.” RIP Cowboy.
In my skating days, I knew a Vietnam vet who only drank Canadian whiskey.
F4 Pilot.
Only talked about it when he got drunk.
Its been about 30 years since I saw him last..
But, those conversations are still some of the saddest memories I have.
My dad was in the Australian Army in the Vietnam War and didn't say a lot about it but did say it was so bad a lot of soldiers shot themselves in the foot or hand just so they could go home. He called it the 'politicians' war its a shame they didnt do their own dirty work!
Are we really in a world where you have to say "unalived" instead of "killed"? Man, put me back into the 1970s, please.
The cause of the Vietnam War, was the South had established a Democracy, and Ho Chi Minh the leader of the North was a devout communist and wanted to reunite the entire country under his leadership and invaded the South. His propaganda got some of the Vietnamese in the South to join his communist idea and they became the Viet Cong. Together they started annihilating the South Vietnamese Army. And President Diem asked President Kennedy for help. Kennedy sent military advisors in to help train the South Vietnamese Army. After Kennedy's assassination President Johnson felt compelled to escalate the the conflict because the South Vietnamese were losing and we were in the cold war against communist Russia. And felt if Vietnam fell to communism the rest of Asia would.
The French were at war with the rebels in Vietnam. I don't remember how, but they got the USA to come help them. Then, afterward, we got entrenched. The French forces withdrew and left the USA there to fight alone. The USA didn't pull out because we were fighting communism.
They would even use Dead Bodies for traps, placing Grenades under the bodies with the pins pulled. The Bodies weight kept the bombs from going off, until they were moved when the bodies were being checked for Intel. If there was any food or water on the bodies, chances are they were poisoned.
They would also use Snares which would trip and lift Soldiers up, flinging them onto a bunch of poisoned Pungi Sticks.
Soldiers were advised not to touch any random objects found, as they either had explosives or were in direct lines of sight for Snipers. Those Snipers knew they'd be killed, but their objective was to take out as many of the enemy as they could before they fell.
They also used Women and children as suicide bombers as well.
My friend gave me a book called Man Trapper. It had lots of information about these traps and how to build them.
Most of these were adapted from traditional traps for wild boar. The war originated in the 1950s after the fall of French Indonesia.
My dad was A USMC Combat Engineer during Vietnam.
I've got several documents on known Viet Cong traps.
This video only scratches the surface.
Absolutely terrifying.
Jeez man. These are real-life SAW traps.
7:18 this is literally a SAW trap lol, but instead of a board of spikes it’s a shotgun with tripwire attached to the trigger.
They also strapped bombs to children who would run towards the soldiers. Most people couldn't shoot a child. A lot of the PTSD had to do with orders to shoot women and children.
No, you do NOT "run" away. You can't notice OTHER traps if you are running. Best thing you can do is retrace your steps backwards to clear the area then carefully try to find a way around the traps. Another difficult and dangerous job was "tunnel rat". The VC had many tunnels dug underground to move men and arms from place to place without being spotted. The tunnel entrances were frequently used to lay ambushes. The only real way to fight them was to crawl in after them. ALL tunnels had tricks and traps. Whether it be baskets with snakes in them that were dumped on the invader if tripped or false tunnels that lead to dead ends and could be made to collapse onto invaders etc, etc. As noted punji traps of all sorts were employed to devastating effect. The truth is that we were trying to fight using conventional tactics and equipment vs an UNconventional enemy. They pretty much gave us a master class in guerilla warfare to the point that many of the tactics and warfare doctrines that our special forces use to this day are either copies of, or developed in response to, Vietnamese warfare
In the video he said slowed down the Americans. A lot of these traps were meant to maim soldiers because it takes two people to carry them out to safety.
Read "Guerrillas in The Mist."
Vietnam was basically a brutal master class in how to do guerilla warfare right.
Yep. The Vietcong and NVA got absolutely fucked up compared to us, but look at the end result. We had to abandon the war because it just wasn’t going anywhere. The real problem was the tunnels. If that tunnel system wasn’t so insane, we would’ve made progress. Still slow, but we would’ve eventually completely taken control of the country and ended the war that way. But the tunnels were just far too elaborate and massive, and the stupid ass politicians with their ROI changes that also fucked everything up too didn’t help
SPIKES
Hi Kabir, there was no good reason for us to be involved in Vietnam. Some of it was fear mongering because it was right in the middle of the cold war. Some politicians pushed the "domino" theory, where as each little country fell momentum would build, and more and more countries would follow.
There was also the Military/Industrial Complex. There is big money to be made in selling planes, tanks, helicopters, guns, ammo, etc. I lived in Fort Worth, Texas, during the Vietnam war. With over 33,000 employees, General Dynamics was the largest single employer in town. We also had numerous helicopter factories and other defense related industries. These were good paying, union jobs. Everyone knew someone in the defense industry.
I have 2 cousins that were in Vietnam. One did back to back tours in special forces. Pretty much like Apocalypse Now. They both drank heavily afterwards, but don't anymore. Neither speak about their experiences
When my uncle was in the Korean war, he talked about them booby-trapping toddlers and when an American would walk up to them and the toddler moves, they would all blow up!
I will never break dance in Vietnam again!
I always loved how inventive the Vietnamese were with traps. Terrible and horrible traps of course, but still, they were so good at making them. It's now wonder why Vietnam vets tend to have really bad PTSD. Though to be fair we didn't really obey the rules of war either sadly. Killing innocent people, raping woman, torturing people....etc. So the hate for each other was strong. But, that's war for you. Humanity tends to go out the window when things start to get brutal.
5:20 the only thing you can really do is make yourself as small a target as possible, and dig around the trap to disable it. In my opinion.
This was some Home Alone type shit
Yea.....not fun
That was always the big question "WHY ARE WE THERE?"
In 1954 Vietnam was temporarily partitioned at the end of the Indochina War. A publicite was scheduled for 1955 that should have resulted in a unified Republic of Vietnam. Instead you had widespread fraud and the (Communist) Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam and a (Dictatorship) Republic of (South) Vietnam when the dust settled. The Communist immediately began to support an insurgency in the South to reunite the country under their leadership.
The US became allied to the South and was invited in first as advisors, then trainers and eventually full military support.
Technically it wasn't an invasion although the Communist saw it as one because they considered themselves as rightfull rulers of both North & South much the way China sees Taiwan today.
Yeah, your attention would be on where you were placing your feet rather than what was going on around you. I spoke one time to a USAF ‘Combat Controller’ (basically Air Force special forces who parachute in and direct air strikes). He said one time he was part of a 5 man team and they were dropped into very dense jungle. They spread out and were slowly moving forward searching for signs of Vietnam Cong presence. He said he had his eyes glued to the ground checking for trip wires and was moving forward at a snail’s pace “when all the sudden I smelled rice cookin’. So I looked up and I was on the edge of a clearing and there were about a half dozen viet cong regulars in the middle of lunch just lookin’ at me.” The rest of the story I’ll save for another time. It’s probably not UA-cam friendly.
We invaded Vietnam because it was in the middle of a civil war. We fought agaisnt North Vietnam, the communist side, in support of the South. We spent many yeras in Vietnam, before eventually stopping, and the North eventually won, and we eventually recognized their regime anywyas. So really, it was all for nothing
Ron Kovic did an excellent job of driving home that point in "Born On The Fourth of July."
we did not invade Vietnam per se, we went there by the invitation of South Vietnamese government, the French had already fought a war in indochina, that resulted in the splitting of tye country into. we supported the South Vietnamese government and Arvin forces in an anti-insurgency campaign against the Viet Cong and the NVA north vietnamese army. until it became obvious there was too much grass roots support in the south for the VC. one thing we didn’t do that maybe we should have was invade North Vietnam, by staying out we left an area for the enemy to stage forces, to refit and reequip their armies. as well as leaving a supply source for the VC
The US, in a post-war anti-communist frenzy, equated bureaucratic Stalinist regimes with communism and went to war to protect capitalist markets. The Vietnam war was one such war. The end result was death and defeat.
I need to go and watch something light hearted now I still got the willies (might be dating myself with that term).
those helmets were not the kind worn by American soldiers.
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11:51 Both yes and no. Some politicians are former military. So, in that case, they won't be fighting while they're a politician, but they did before. Didn't one or both of your princes also serve with the British military? I know royalty isn't exactly the same as a politician though. Perhaps some in your Parliament?
Make sure you check out the vietnam tunnel video to. They are amazing! The tunnels were all the more reason we would have never won a war.
Only 25% of the soldiers in Vietnam were conscripted. The rest volunteered.
Even a psychopath would look at these traps and think, "nah. that's just wrong, even by my standards."