No one wants to kill another person, every soldier in a war were forced to kill the other for their survival, and because their commander told them to do so
This is the most unrealistic film on modern war ever made. There's no way soldiers get so close in a fire fight. This isn't even an urban war. And you have those vietnamese soldiers running directly towards them with no cover and no strategy. This looks more like the first world war than the war in vietnam. I also find it funny how people believe there's lots of action and explosions in modern war.
My Great Uncle fought & died in The Vietnam War, when he died he was 21 years old & had a baby on the way. I've never met my great uncle because he died right before I was born but his my hero & I love him very much. I also had a 3rd cousin that fought & died in the Vietnam War too.
you dont understand. you american lost 1, we the Vietnamese lost 10. we fought a war that american bring to us, childrent die, husband die, son die, but we never surrender because we fought for our country, for our people. and what are these american fought for?
@@DCSisMuchBetterThenAceCombat who is come Việt Nam, who is kill my peoples in my country, this is VN, isnot USA.getout! US Army kills 7.000.000 peoples in Vietnam by bom, guns, dioxin, do you know?
I love how this movie, even in the short amount of screen time allotted, gives the same sense of devotion to duty and belief in the cause to the Vietnamese side. Not some faceless enemy, but real soldiers with real lives. This movie was great.
C’mon man, that’s a nonsense comment. This is about a battlefield engagement in the Ia Drang, there wouldn’t be space in this movie to address that. Did the movie Stalingrad address the Holocaust? Did Saving Private Ryan address the bombing of Dresden??? It’s an excellent war movie about the courage of the soldiers on both sides. And about the wives back home. Besides, if we’re talking atrocities here are we discussing the North Vietnamese terror inflicted on pro-American villages and hamlets or are we talking about the MiLai Massacre? Let’s not pretend that stuff was one sided.
What you are talking about has no bearing or connection on what my comment was about or what this movie is about. You need to find some clips of some Vietnamese war movies and have this conversation there. I understand what you are saying but there is no battle for you here on that topic. No one is contesting what you are saying, it’s just out of context on this movie and on my comment about this movie.
The actual Battle of the Ia Drang Valley took place in the Central Highlands, which at the time belonged to South Vietnam. However, the units the 7th Cavalry engaged there were regular regiments from the North that had established bases in that area for its strategic location.
My Dad volunteered to join the Marine Corps when he was 17 while this war was going on and has never said more than to tell me to never join the Armed Services because they will use you up and spit you out. Best fatherly advice he ever gave me.
@@pietroboggio8353 Yeah but flipping burgers doesnt often result in PTSD, getting crippled or killed during your shift. However both jobs are to help rich old men get richer.
@@zeroxception Join the AF, get all the benefits and work a 9-5. Then again most burger flippers are probably on a more marine/army intelligence level.
It was a different time. People were extremely patriotic. It was also the last war that allowed journalists to film freely. The backlash to the war started from the media footage.
MY UP MOST RESPECT FOR ALL VETERANS OF EVERY WAR, BUT MOST OF ALL THOSE WHO SERVED IN VIETNAM. GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND GOD BLESS YOUR FAMILY MAY THE LORD COVER YOU ALL WITH HIS LOVE AND FILL YOUR HEARTS WITH HIS DIVINE PEACE. MY THOUGHTS ABOUT VIETNAM, LBJ WILL HAVE TO ANSWER TO GOD FOR THE LOST OF MANY PRECIOUS,BEAUTIFUL LIVES.
I met a Vietnam Veteran, he was my taxi driver and told countless stories one was when he was a boat driver and carrying 10-20 men and drop them off somewhere then came back within half a day to pick them up but only less than half made it
I had a teacher in high school that was a vet. He told a story how he and his unit would hide plastic bags filled with weed and would come back to find the bags gone with the weed dumped on the ground. Hard to imagine life without plastic baggies lol
My great grandfather was a Captain in the French/ Vietnamese Navy. He fought in the Indochina war and the Vietnam War where he was killed. My grandfather was a Major in the South Vietnamese Army during the Vietnam War. He was shot once but managed to survive. My grandfather moved to San Francisco in the early 1980s and lived there until December 30th, 2020 where he passed away. In honor of these two people, I will join the US Military(Navy) as an Officer after university.
My man, hats off to yo grandfather. He was as fine as they were. South Vietnam could have been d most powerful and richest in all of ASEAN if not Asia considering its pristine geographical location which was right smack in da middle of Asian supremacy with a currency on par with the dollar pre 1975. An American capitalist system coupled with the thrift of d Asian trait would have magnanimously served it well today. But all is not lost, yo children’s generation will witness the dire shifts which are only but beginning to transpire in unified Vietnam now. Take a trip to Beijing China if you can, that’s what they will be witnessing then. It’s in yo bloodline mun, yul fly high in da military, go for lieutenant/colonel all the way, wishing yo the best. Comin to yo live from Singapore
@yura beech ask your Saigon Puppet regime that gifted many islands in Spratly Islands to Taiwan(1 biggest island) and Philipines(4 islands) and China - whole Paracel Islands to pleasure USA contract with China. Communist have never sold any pieces of land to foreign countries like that. So who must be the traitor ?
My uncle is a Vietnam vet and he threw his medals away when he got home and then joined a motorcycle club. He never voted in his life. He’s always been mad at the government ever since. He felt betrayed. He really did believe when he was drafted that he was going to Be fighting for something worthy like his dad did in WW2 and then come back as hero’s.
@@Jackholiday1025 If he is still alive or you know of his military history try to get back those medals or copies. If he wants change convince him to vote and be active in community. Bring back your uncles honor by showing people his efforts during the war and remind people why all Veterans must be treated. If he is still alive try to get him to join or meet a VFW post it goes a long way to helping them.
@Phoenix Ltd i dont know if you ever served but you are wrong about Iraq we didnt kill iraq people its was the people that live in sarder ceadar which they dis care about life they would kill the IRAQ men and women and kids these idiots love Sadam which was evil i know i was there
Probably my favorite scene in the movie. When I first got home from Ft. Bragg I sat down to watch this movie and my mother asked to join me. When this scene narrated, "It was a Sunday. November Fourteenth, nineteen sixty-five..." My mother said, "November 14th! Your birthday!" She stayed on to watch the entire film, but at the end said she never wanted to watch anything like that again. :)
Imagine the tension and fear one would have flying on this mission. The very first mission. Not knowing what lay ahead. I would be shaking in my boots . Total respect for all service men and women around the world .
God Bless you Hal Moore, your war is over. May God always hold you in his loving hands. Hal Moore past away last night 2- 10-17, He was 94 years old. JOHN 15:13
I cannot promise all of you will come back. The only thing I can promise you, is I will be the first to step on the battlefield, and I will be the last to step off the battlefield. We were soldiers once and young.
In ROTC my training officer argued that the only reason the unit was not overrun was because of Hal Moore’s leadership. American massive close air support helps too.
To be honest, our massive fire power, especially through air and artillery saved our troops from being annilihated in many, many battles. I don't think too many Vietnam vets would dispute that.
Col Moores decision to stay, when he was told go back for a “meeting”, if I remember correctly, was a MAJOR reason for his troops survival. He knew it as well. Had he went back, his troops would have been obliterated. Whether by the enemy, or us.
Shortly afterwards after all the death the military abandoned the area and it was retaken by the NVA- because they were making so much money prolonging that bullshit war run by the same Bolsheviks running Moscow in DC.
It wasn't the first engagement in Vietnam. Well it was the first for the Army, but the Marines smashed an NLF battalion during Operation Starlite before that.
Your title for the clip is a bit misleading; the Ia Drang Valley was in the northern part of what was South Vietnam, it was not NOT in what was then Communist North Vietnam. I realize it may be a moot question today as North and South are one country, still under Communist rules. I served on Navy riverine gunboats in the Mekong Delta, or IV Corps. These troopers were in I-Corps, and it was not a pleasant place to be.
@@kesselster I would assume the top post is referring to PBR's, similar but quite a bit different. There were also Tango boats, Zippo's, as well as PCF's and Minesweepers in the Brown Water Navy.
I don't care what Mel has done in his personal life. I don't care how "inaccurate" this movie is. Mel Gibson is freaking awesome whenever he is on screen. Not only does he transform into the character, but he just commands every shot and scene.
The only scene that is inaccurate persay was the end bayonet charge. The NVA launched one last major attack on the third day, but were repulsed by heavy fire and slipped back into the jungle, retreating to fight in a later part of the battle against a sister battalion. This ending however would've made for an incredibly anti-climatic and morbid finish to an already largely morbidly depicted battle, so I can understand why they'd take liberties to make it more badass (which it was).
Jacob Sailer which was only made up with helicopters, there was a "charge" but it was to recover the remaining dead and push the enemy back to make it safe to exfil
no asked the US to get involved in the Vietnam war, no one asked the US to illegally invade Iraq, if you think the US military is on some sort of noble cause you are seriously mistaken... theyre fighting to serve political interests.
God i miss my uncle Sal 2 tours in the darkest jungles and then still had the balls to clean up new york city 70s-90s from a people that hated him from. To be me he was the dad i never had not a man who couldn't leave his past behind.
Correction...Ia Drang Valley was in what was formerly known as South Vietnam. According to the movie....there was a large body of uniformed regular NVA troops in South Vietnam at this location during this time. Vinh Loc Pg.78
This film was the best and most honest depiction of Vietnam. No overblown drama, no psychological mumbo jumbo, just a true story about American and Vietnamese soldiers squaring off in a major engagement.
@@Jupiter.141 Many movies portrayed Vietnam as a Rainforest, Jungle, or Swamp or low lands with rice fields and similar. The Reality was that Vietnam was quite varied in its environment. This particular event happens in the major central highlands of Vietnam the Jungle is replaced by more traditional trees and plant life, and harder dirt and ground as its more in land and higher elevation. So you have a area that is less like the classical ideal of Vietnam and something more like the hills of Southern California. So the Setting is extremely accurate.
Traveled a lot for work and my boss at the time was a old Vietnam heli pilot. We hit really bad turbulence on one trip, it was really bad like stuff flew up and hit the ceiling. I was white knuckling the arm rests and without missing a beat he turned the page on his newspaper, looked at me and said hell why you nervous we probably only dropped a few hundred feet.
It was territory held by North Vietnam at the time. Not North Vietnam as we know it today, but certainly territory held by them. No point in trying to nit-pick a title. Just view it from a different perspective and it clears itself up.
This battle was held in South Vietnam, what perspective should we view it from? Did the Normandy landings also take place in Germany according to your Kangaroo Land perspective??
This movie was my favorite as a kid. I feel like its mostly cus of the music, and also war movies were an instant plus for me. The music, though, really stuck out to me
Probs to the Guy portraying the Vietnamese Commander in this Film, he gives a very professional, controlled impression. Who commanded the Vietnamese in this Battle, anyway?
Ahn Gno Nguyen. That actor did do a fantastic job. I had heard the government did not appreciate the part he portrayed in the project and made life hard for his family.
Title of this clip is wrong. U.S troops never went into North Vietnam like this. Also this battle was in South Vietnam. Only small groups of American Special Forces and Aircraft went into the North
The Battle of Ia Drang comprises two main engagements conducted by the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment that took place on November 14-15, 1965 at LZ X-Ray ("eastern foot of the Chu Pong massif"[16]) and by the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment on November 17 at LZ Albany further north in the Ia Drang Valley. It was the first major battle[5] between the United States Army and the North Vietnamese Army-NVA (People's Army of Vietnam-PAVN) during the Vietnam War as part of the U.S. airmobile offensive code-named Operation Silver Bayonet I (October 23 - November 18, 1965). The battle was part of the second phase of a search-and-destroy operation code-named "Operation Long Reach" that took place from October 23 to November 26 during the Pleiku Campaign.[5]
+Dogmeat1950 yup, CORRECT weird how they titled the clip wrong. :( Stuff like this might make some kids somewhere think that we actually fought in the North. And as we all know, we didn't. We bombed the North but never invaded the North and thus this is how the Internet creates so much 'false knowledge of history' with the public. Ugh.....
Matt Williams, the CEO of The Martin Agency, went to a showing of We Were Soldiers in late 2002 after reading the book of the same name by Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore (ret.). The opening scene showing the gecko climbing up the tree prior to the artillery barrage caught his eye, and after contacting the movie's director, Randall Wallace, he was able to get in contact with the gecko hired for the scene. That gecko, also named Martin, was hired by The Martin Agency and is now featured on many of the popular Geico commercials we see every day. #TheMoreYouKnow
Before Vietnam became divided, it was brutally ruled over by the French, who murdered many innocent Vietnamese citizens. The Vietnamese could not fight back, as they had few weapons.Vietnam turned to the U.S. for help to drive the French out, but the U.S. turned a blind eye and refused to help them. The Vietnamese out of desperation then looked to the Soviets for assistance. The Soviets moved into the Nortern half of the country to assist( read: gain influence). The U.S. would not stand for that of course, and advanced from the southern half of the country.The Soviets continued to send advisors and weapons to the north. The U.S. sent weapons, then soldiers ( what you are seeing in the movie) to the South.The French had bailed, the U.S. stayed and fought the Soviets and the north Vietnamese. Most of the time , the Vietnamese, especially in the South wanted both countries out.Hense the cry, Yankee Go Home.We finally did after the deaths of millions.The Soviets more or less stayed.
Your title should be "heading into battle" (or the like)--they had landed in *South* Vietnam months before this scene. I might add that a friend who was a waist gunner (50-cal) on a retrieval helicopter team told me that this was the most accurate depiction of their battles that he had seen.
Germany: We use a lot of tanks Soviet Union: We have a lot of people Vietnam: we hide in tunnels China: they have to kill is 4 times before we die USA: oh I just bomb everything lol
battle scenes were filmed at Fort Hunter Liggett, a 167,000-acre Army training reservation in Monterey County 150 miles south of San Francisco that doubled for South Vietnam's Central Highlands. Training scenes were filmed at Fort Benning, and domestic scenes were shot in Pasadena.Oct 7, 2000.
They were arriving in SOUTH Vietnam. No battles, other than aerial battles, were fought in North Vietnam. North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam, twice after the time depicted in the movie. The second times they used more tanks than General Patton had in WW-II. The south was short of supplies, because unlike the Soviets and Chinese, our Congress had cut all funding for those supplies.
South Vietnam was a puppet regime which have no legitimacy, created by the French and nurtured by the Americans. Glory for the Vietnamese for defeating the invaders and reunify their nation.
But it is accurate. At the time there wasn't really a word to describe them universally yet. That's nothing wait till you hear what they used to call the 101st Airborne .
@@Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent they called them the chicken soliders they didn't know what an eagle was they saw the patch and they thought of chicken and they not only respected them in more ways than one feared them
Uncle Dave ( Vietnam helicopter last three days hit in the foot and medical out. Ty uncle Dave. To the people of Vietnam I’m glad this senseless violence is over and we have hopefully made peace 2020
"Hollywood got it wrong every damn time, twisting their knives into the memories of our dead comrades." -Hal Moore's introduction in the mood "They finally got it right, (he begins to choke up, but seems at peace) they finally got right..." -Moore when filming wrapped
"Arriving in North Vietnam" ... actually the Battle portrait in this movie was the Battle of la Drang. It took place in a valley in South Vietnam. Your title, Sir, is wrong!🤓☝
----> "America's defeat in Vietnam proves that the Vietnamese army is very elite, unlike in the movie rambo" No, you are poorly educated in history and just demonstrated that. Talk about slitting your own throat. Jeez! Can't tell the difference between a political defeat and a military defeat. That's pretty embarrassing. There is nothing elite about throwing thousands of conscripts at an enemy.
Good movie. Good clip. One small correction: Ia Drang Valley is not in North Vietnam. It is located in the Western part of the Central Highlands near Pleiku.
They are not flying into North Vietnam in this clip. LZ X-Ray was in the Pleiku Highlands, which is in South Vietnam. AFAIK, US forces never entered North Vietnam (on the ground at least. Aircraft flew over all the time)
They pushed with their feet, and held onto whatever was handy. But they also rode with the doors closed, or mostly closed, while in transit, if it wasn't too hot at the altitude there were at.
Not even close. North Vietnam was many things but they were no where close to the issues that happened with North Korea. Indeed much of the issue with Vietnam could have been solved with proper talks and a not so paranoid United States. In todays world even modern socialist Vietnam would be and likely is horrified at what goes in in North Korea but can't really say anything cause of well China.
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My dad served in vietnam and ive asked him bout this movie, He told me it was pretty accurate, the landings, flying etc....
How many kills does he have in Vietnam
@@hanhtang6952 who tf asks that question?
No one wants to kill another person, every soldier in a war were forced to kill the other for their survival, and because their commander told them to do so
That’s not true, that’s impossible!
@@hanhtang6952 5 kill, 12 assist
Honestly, this is my favorite scene of the movie. Gives me the chills.
Same here! 👌
Osama Bin Laden swear ur dead🤣🤣
This is the most unrealistic film on modern war ever made.
There's no way soldiers get so close in a fire fight. This isn't even an urban war. And you have those vietnamese soldiers running directly towards them with no cover and no strategy.
This looks more like the first world war than the war in vietnam.
I also find it funny how people believe there's lots of action and explosions in modern war.
@@FriendlyCroock saw you reply on multiple clips of this movie starting dumbass debates. Get over it
@@FriendlyCroock Shut up..
0:42 what a camera angle of the choppers going down🤩
My Great Uncle fought & died in The Vietnam War, when he died he was 21 years old & had a baby on the way. I've never met my great uncle because he died right before I was born but his my hero & I love him very much. I also had a 3rd cousin that fought & died in the Vietnam War too.
May he rest in peace he is a hero
I thank him for his service
you dont understand. you american lost 1, we the Vietnamese lost 10. we fought a war that american bring to us, childrent die, husband die, son die, but we never surrender because we fought for our country, for our people. and what are these american fought for?
@@haohuynhnhat3881 Hal We fought for some rich Bankers and oil men
@@haohuynhnhat3881 shut up, we all lost the people we loved
@@DCSisMuchBetterThenAceCombat who is come Việt Nam, who is kill my peoples in my country, this is VN, isnot USA.getout! US Army kills 7.000.000 peoples in Vietnam by bom, guns, dioxin, do you know?
This soundtrack was unbelievable. Chills. Perfect in capturing the drama.
Yes, it's a beautiful theme
your son is fortunate
I love how this movie, even in the short amount of screen time allotted, gives the same sense of devotion to duty and belief in the cause to the Vietnamese side. Not some faceless enemy, but real soldiers with real lives. This movie was great.
Too bad they didn't show the atrocities they committed against civilians to win.
C’mon man, that’s a nonsense comment. This is about a battlefield engagement in the Ia Drang, there wouldn’t be space in this movie to address that. Did the movie Stalingrad address the Holocaust? Did Saving Private Ryan address the bombing of Dresden??? It’s an excellent war movie about the courage of the soldiers on both sides. And about the wives back home.
Besides, if we’re talking atrocities here are we discussing the North Vietnamese terror inflicted on pro-American villages and hamlets or are we talking about the MiLai Massacre? Let’s not pretend that stuff was one sided.
@@1FokkerAce You have zero idea what the VC/NVA did to civilians. Nothing the US did in the Vietnam War or in WW2 even comes close.
What you are talking about has no bearing or connection on what my comment was about or what this movie is about. You need to find some clips of some Vietnamese war movies and have this conversation there. I understand what you are saying but there is no battle for you here on that topic. No one is contesting what you are saying, it’s just out of context on this movie and on my comment about this movie.
@@1FokkerAce You're an ignorant communist apologist. Commies were brutal to civilians, not just in Vietnam but Cambodia and China.
The actual Battle of the Ia Drang Valley took place in the Central Highlands, which at the time belonged to South Vietnam. However, the units the 7th Cavalry engaged there were regular regiments from the North that had established bases in that area for its strategic location.
My Dad volunteered to join the Marine Corps when he was 17 while this war was going on and has never said more than to tell me to never join the Armed Services because they will use you up and spit you out. Best fatherly advice he ever gave me.
Society is like this..not only the armed forces.
@@pietroboggio8353 Yeah but flipping burgers doesnt often result in PTSD, getting crippled or killed during your shift. However both jobs are to help rich old men get richer.
@@zeroxception Join the AF, get all the benefits and work a 9-5. Then again most burger flippers are probably on a more marine/army intelligence level.
@@VeeDubBeetle Not all AF is 9-5
It was a different time.
People were extremely patriotic.
It was also the last war that allowed journalists to film freely.
The backlash to the war started from the media footage.
This sent chills down my spine. Thank you for your service veterans!
we thank them, because they were forced into it as pawns, they had no choice. used for political power from LBJ.
Another good one to see is danger close the battle of long tan. I think it is in netflix
Thank them for destroying other people's country and peace
MY UP MOST RESPECT FOR ALL VETERANS OF EVERY WAR, BUT MOST OF ALL THOSE WHO SERVED IN VIETNAM. GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND GOD BLESS YOUR FAMILY MAY THE LORD COVER YOU ALL WITH HIS LOVE AND FILL YOUR HEARTS WITH HIS DIVINE PEACE. MY THOUGHTS ABOUT VIETNAM, LBJ WILL HAVE TO ANSWER TO GOD FOR THE LOST OF MANY PRECIOUS,BEAUTIFUL LIVES.
This movie was released in 2002, to get more Americans to sign up for the post-9/11 wars. I guess you still live in 2002.
I met a Vietnam Veteran, he was my taxi driver and told countless stories one was when he was a boat driver and carrying 10-20 men and drop them off somewhere then came back within half a day to pick them up but only less than half made it
Those men maybe was SEALs
I had a teacher in high school that was a vet. He told a story how he and his unit would hide plastic bags filled with weed and would come back to find the bags gone with the weed dumped on the ground. Hard to imagine life without plastic baggies lol
My great grandfather was a Captain in the French/ Vietnamese Navy. He fought in the Indochina war and the Vietnam War where he was killed. My grandfather was a Major in the South Vietnamese Army during the Vietnam War. He was shot once but managed to survive. My grandfather moved to San Francisco in the early 1980s and lived there until December 30th, 2020 where he passed away. In honor of these two people, I will join the US Military(Navy) as an Officer after university.
It turned out that 1 guy lost his roots
to continue the tradition of traitors of Vietnam, who served for colonism of France and America.
My man, hats off to yo grandfather. He was as fine as they were. South Vietnam could have been d most powerful and richest in all of ASEAN if not Asia considering its pristine geographical location which was right smack in da middle of Asian supremacy with a currency on par with the dollar pre 1975. An American capitalist system coupled with the thrift of d Asian trait would have magnanimously served it well today.
But all is not lost, yo children’s generation will witness the dire shifts which are only but beginning to transpire in unified Vietnam now. Take a trip to Beijing China if you can, that’s what they will be witnessing then.
It’s in yo bloodline mun, yul fly high in da military, go for lieutenant/colonel all the way, wishing yo the best.
Comin to yo live from Singapore
@yura beech ask your Saigon Puppet regime that gifted many islands in Spratly Islands to Taiwan(1 biggest island) and Philipines(4 islands) and China - whole Paracel Islands to pleasure USA contract with China. Communist have never sold any pieces of land to foreign countries like that. So who must be the traitor ?
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I’m so ashamed how these vets were treated.
My uncle is a Vietnam vet and he threw his medals away when he got home and then joined a motorcycle club. He never voted in his life. He’s always been mad at the government ever since. He felt betrayed. He really did believe when he was drafted that he was going to Be fighting for something worthy like his dad did in WW2 and then come back as hero’s.
@@Jackholiday1025 If he is still alive or you know of his military history try to get back those medals or copies. If he wants change convince him to vote and be active in community. Bring back your uncles honor by showing people his efforts during the war and remind people why all Veterans must be treated. If he is still alive try to get him to join or meet a VFW post it goes a long way to helping them.
Not just those vets but all of the living vets since the 1960s.
They fully deserve to be treated that way. They put their huge noses were they didn't belong !
@Phoenix Ltd i dont know if you ever served but you are wrong about Iraq we didnt kill iraq people its was the people that live in sarder ceadar which they dis care about life they would kill the IRAQ men and women and kids these idiots love Sadam which was evil i know i was there
isn't it crazy seeing how healthy and green that valley looks at the beginning of the movie compared to the end
That's true. They dropped the world on suspected targets.
War is hell
America !
Chrck out the difference in the islands in the Pacific before and after the US and Japanese fought over them.
Probably my favorite scene in the movie. When I first got home from Ft. Bragg I sat down to watch this movie and my mother asked to join me. When this scene narrated, "It was a Sunday. November Fourteenth, nineteen sixty-five..." My mother said, "November 14th! Your birthday!" She stayed on to watch the entire film, but at the end said she never wanted to watch anything like that again. :)
Imagine the tension and fear one would have flying on this mission. The very first mission. Not knowing what lay ahead. I would be shaking in my boots . Total respect for all service men and women around the world .
at 0:55 when we closed his eyes i bet he said a prayer to god. knowing he might not make it back to his family again.. that part gets to me...
Lance Vance same here, I can’t imagine what was going through the minds of those men. Such a quick moment but a powerful one
Thankfully, in the end, Vietnam won that pointless and stupid war
@@comradesillyotter1537 not a pointless and stupid war
Stupid, yes, useless? No@David_brent
God Bless you Hal Moore, your war is over. May God always hold you in his loving hands. Hal Moore past away last night 2- 10-17, He was 94 years old. JOHN 15:13
remowil55 .RIP
And he always knew that that war was a mistake.
Although he follow his orders like a soldier aka drone.
There is no god in war.
@@scottouellette9411 God is always present in times of war and in times of peace He is always here
@@scottouellette9411 You some kind of pot smoker? What the?!
I cannot promise all of you will come back. The only thing I can promise you, is I will be the first to step on the battlefield, and I will be the last to step off the battlefield.
We were soldiers once and young.
In ROTC my training officer argued that the only reason the unit was not overrun was because of Hal Moore’s leadership. American massive close air support helps too.
To be honest, our massive fire power, especially through air and artillery saved our troops from being annilihated in many, many battles. I don't think too many Vietnam vets would dispute that.
Col Moores decision to stay, when he was told go back for a “meeting”, if I remember correctly, was a MAJOR reason for his troops survival. He knew it as well. Had he went back, his troops would have been obliterated. Whether by the enemy, or us.
Shortly afterwards after all the death the military abandoned the area and it was retaken by the NVA- because they were making so much money prolonging that bullshit war run by the same Bolsheviks running Moscow in DC.
You forgot artillery from from Falcon the threw a lot of rounds
I never cried and felt so heartbroken whatching a movie. What a standout masterclass of acting, regie and performance.
Great movie on the actual first engagement in Vietnam. I'm so glad Mel Gibson, Berry Pepper, and Sam Elliott did this movie. Great actor's. 🇺🇸
It wasn't the first engagement in Vietnam. Well it was the first for the Army, but the Marines smashed an NLF battalion during Operation Starlite before that.
Your title for the clip is a bit misleading; the Ia Drang Valley was in the northern part of what was South Vietnam, it was not NOT in what was then Communist North Vietnam. I realize it may be a moot question today as North and South are one country, still under Communist rules. I served on Navy riverine gunboats in the Mekong Delta, or IV Corps. These troopers were in I-Corps, and it was not a pleasant place to be.
They called you guys the Brown Water Navy, right? Or, was it a different unit?
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@@kesselster Exactly right, Brown Water Navy. Anything incountry was Brown Water.
Heh. I recall studying them: small PT-like boats, used for insertion and extraction, if I recall correctly.
@@kesselster I would assume the top post is referring to PBR's, similar but quite a bit different. There were also Tango boats, Zippo's, as well as PCF's and Minesweepers in the Brown Water Navy.
as a fellow war movie veteran i can say this was one of the toughest experiences of my war movie career.
You worked on this movie?
@@firingallcylinders2949 someone who has seen a ton of war movies im assuming ;p
😂😂😂😂😂
What about black hawk down?
as a fellow war movie veteran i also watched a lot of war movies... and this one was the toughest, you're right... glad to have served with you!
I don't care what Mel has done in his personal life. I don't care how "inaccurate" this movie is. Mel Gibson is freaking awesome whenever he is on screen. Not only does he transform into the character, but he just commands every shot and scene.
The only scene that is inaccurate persay was the end bayonet charge. The NVA launched one last major attack on the third day, but were repulsed by heavy fire and slipped back into the jungle, retreating to fight in a later part of the battle against a sister battalion.
This ending however would've made for an incredibly anti-climatic and morbid finish to an already largely morbidly depicted battle, so I can understand why they'd take liberties to make it more badass (which it was).
Jacob Sailer which was only made up with helicopters, there was a "charge" but it was to recover the remaining dead and push the enemy back to make it safe to exfil
Las aventuras do Jonathan
Mel just sucks, and so does this movie.
Anthony Watkins Hahaha then why are you here dumbass hahaha
Can’t even imagine the heart pounding moment of entering a combat zone knowing there’s a chance you may die. God bless our troops of all branches!
Terrorist pawns, nothing more.
no asked the US to get involved in the Vietnam war, no one asked the US to illegally invade Iraq, if you think the US military is on some sort of noble cause you are seriously mistaken... theyre fighting to serve political interests.
@@johnd3124 You are mistaken sir. We where asked to help in Vietnam. Long before we actually got involved.
@@fishingismydrug1 Who asked you to help ?
@@locybapsi174 Asked me to help with what?
I was watching this movie 3 hours ago. One of the best films ever, surely.
That's what I say
This scene is some incredible cinematography, although the title of the video itself is wrong.
for more than 10 years, every year in spring, I watch this movie.
God i miss my uncle Sal 2 tours in the darkest jungles and then still had the balls to clean up new york city 70s-90s from a people that hated him from. To be me he was the dad i never had not a man who couldn't leave his past behind.
When he puts his M16 on full auto gives me chills
Correction...Ia Drang Valley was in what was formerly known as South Vietnam. According to the movie....there was a large body of uniformed regular NVA troops in South Vietnam at this location during this time. Vinh Loc Pg.78
This film was the best and most honest depiction of Vietnam. No overblown drama, no psychological mumbo jumbo, just a true story about American and Vietnamese soldiers squaring off in a major engagement.
The only problem of this film was the settings it doesn't feel like Vietnam at all
Have you ever seen platoon?that's real vietnam war movies.
@@Jupiter.141 Many movies portrayed Vietnam as a Rainforest, Jungle, or Swamp or low lands with rice fields and similar. The Reality was that Vietnam was quite varied in its environment. This particular event happens in the major central highlands of Vietnam the Jungle is replaced by more traditional trees and plant life, and harder dirt and ground as its more in land and higher elevation. So you have a area that is less like the classical ideal of Vietnam and something more like the hills of Southern California. So the Setting is extremely accurate.
There actually was some overblown drama. Did you see the scene where the ladies are telling the other ladies that their husbands all died?
But it was wrong about batttle of La Drang.
Traveled a lot for work and my boss at the time was a old Vietnam heli pilot. We hit really bad turbulence on one trip, it was really bad like stuff flew up and hit the ceiling. I was white knuckling the arm rests and without missing a beat he turned the page on his newspaper, looked at me and said hell why you nervous we probably only dropped a few hundred feet.
I remember having a dvd of this movie and watching and learning english from it. What a throwback
Arriving on North Vietnam? This battle was in South Vietnam.
The soldiers OF North Vietnam - AKA representing the North, not that the battle took place in North Vietnam.
But that's not what the title says...
It was territory held by North Vietnam at the time. Not North Vietnam as we know it today, but certainly territory held by them. No point in trying to nit-pick a title. Just view it from a different perspective and it clears itself up.
This battle was held in South Vietnam, what perspective should we view it from?
Did the Normandy landings also take place in Germany according to your Kangaroo Land perspective??
lmao
This movie was my favorite as a kid. I feel like its mostly cus of the music, and also war movies were an instant plus for me. The music, though, really stuck out to me
I like the fact that the pilot that begins this whole thing the very first pilot won the medal of honor!!!!!!!!
Absolutely a great movie. This would be the last day of many men's lives. On both sides.
Bless our service members who like my late father my uncle and cousins served in Vietnam
Hello
1:55 Beautiful slow-mo Hueys!
Probs to the Guy portraying the Vietnamese Commander in this Film, he gives a very professional, controlled impression.
Who commanded the Vietnamese in this Battle, anyway?
There were a lot of officers on the Vietnamese side but the man in charge of the whole force was Chu Huy Mân.
Ahn Gno Nguyen. That actor did do a fantastic job. I had heard the government did not appreciate the part he portrayed in the project and made life hard for his family.
The correct name is " An , Huu Nguyen " . An is the name , and Nguyen is the last name .
GamesLegitament No. He was General Electric.
Shawn Farritor that’s communist for ya
I’ve met a Ia-Drang valley vet. He’s an outstanding person.
Title of this clip is wrong. U.S troops never went into North Vietnam like this. Also this battle was in South Vietnam. Only small groups of American Special Forces and Aircraft went into the North
+Dogmeat1950 This wasn't in the North. This was in the South, but the NVA had 2 full regiments there at the time.
Tao Liu
NO shit lol, learn how to read
That Gecko just didn't have time to React and just jumped off the tree.
The Battle of Ia Drang comprises two main engagements conducted by the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment that took place on November 14-15, 1965 at LZ X-Ray ("eastern foot of the Chu Pong massif"[16]) and by the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment on November 17 at LZ Albany further north in the Ia Drang Valley. It was the first major battle[5] between the United States Army and the North Vietnamese Army-NVA (People's Army of Vietnam-PAVN) during the Vietnam War as part of the U.S. airmobile offensive code-named Operation Silver Bayonet I (October 23 - November 18, 1965). The battle was part of the second phase of a search-and-destroy operation code-named "Operation Long Reach" that took place from October 23 to November 26 during the Pleiku Campaign.[5]
+Dogmeat1950 yup, CORRECT weird how they titled the clip wrong. :( Stuff like this might make some kids somewhere think that we actually fought in the North. And as we all know, we didn't. We bombed the North but never invaded the North and thus this is how the Internet creates so much 'false knowledge of history' with the public. Ugh.....
@0:56 that feeling right there. If you know, you know.
A LTC who led his men into battle and not directing from the rear. Respect.
Because of this movie, Never forget my father, i miss you everyday Papa.
This scene is one of the best scenes in film!
Worse scenes ever
Worst scenes i ever had
@@huygmnguyenthehuyhuy3150 now say that without crying
@@huygmnguyenthehuyhuy3150 lol mad Vietnamese guy, cope buddy
@@jackhertz1271 That was a childish response
I met LTC Bruce Crandall aka Snakeshit when I was a Captain stationed at FT Hood, Texas he autographed one of my 1st Cav unit patch.
This came out 20 years ago. That's crazy! Great film
Matt Williams, the CEO of The Martin Agency, went to a showing of We Were Soldiers in late 2002 after reading the book of the same name by Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore (ret.). The opening scene showing the gecko climbing up the tree prior to the artillery barrage caught his eye, and after contacting the movie's director, Randall Wallace, he was able to get in contact with the gecko hired for the scene. That gecko, also named Martin, was hired by The Martin Agency and is now featured on many of the popular Geico commercials we see every day. #TheMoreYouKnow
The gecko could have had a promising career in drama but he sold out.
@@shawnfarritor5058 damn
I heard his body double got killed during this scene as the choppers unleash hell down in the valley.
Say what you about Mel Gibson but hes great at everything he touch.
“There are no winners in wars, but
Only the dead win”
-Iranian soldier in Iran Iraq war
This doesnt even make sense. How are the dead winning?
MixJik PTSD, the dead don’t suffer the living do
@@mixjik4314 the dead see the end of war.
In the end. They found peace. They won their war with evil.
No...the real winners are those who can see again their families...their houses..their friends...it s not important for which side they fought.
Before Vietnam became divided, it was brutally ruled over by the French, who murdered many innocent Vietnamese citizens. The Vietnamese could not fight back, as they had few weapons.Vietnam turned to the U.S. for help to drive the French out, but the U.S. turned a blind eye and refused to help them. The Vietnamese out of desperation then looked to the Soviets for assistance. The Soviets moved into the Nortern half of the country to assist( read: gain influence). The U.S. would not stand for that of course, and advanced from the southern half of the country.The Soviets continued to send advisors and weapons to the north. The U.S. sent weapons, then soldiers ( what you are seeing in the movie) to the South.The French had bailed, the U.S. stayed and fought the Soviets and the north Vietnamese. Most of the time , the Vietnamese, especially in the South wanted both countries out.Hense the cry, Yankee Go Home.We finally did after the deaths of millions.The Soviets more or less stayed.
Your title should be "heading into battle" (or the like)--they had landed in *South* Vietnam months before this scene. I might add that a friend who was a waist gunner (50-cal) on a retrieval helicopter team told me that this was the most accurate depiction of their battles that he had seen.
1:01 this was just another day in the office for Plumley, for the others it was true terror.
Germany: We use a lot of tanks
Soviet Union: We have a lot of people
Vietnam: we hide in tunnels
China: they have to kill is 4 times before we die
USA: oh I just bomb everything lol
USA: get to the choppaaaa
@@theonefrancis696 Don't forget ur helmet in ur lap
@@loriwise236 Anyone who runs is a VC. Anyone who stands still... is a well-disciplined VC
@@theonefrancis696 click on to Ali Wong want to be a Mexican ... Lmao
@Hoàng Nguyên I saw 300 they said it but might have stoled the line..
The music was absolutely hauntingly sad.
This is a true story about the landing of LZ X-RAY. Imagine being on those choppers heading into battle
I llike to see this movie. Myfather is also a soldier before. Thankyou❤❤❤😊
0:09 I love this chill theme, young US army are ready to go to the battle
RIP every young US army
Everytime I watch this movie my eyes water.
I still dont get it, when they say only 8 helicopters could be in first turn... why there is a scene at 0:30 with 15-16 UH-1 helicopters?
The turn meant landing soldiers in the LZ. They could only land 8 helis at a time
8 would land & 8 would circle. A very dangerous game for all. Especially the 1st men on the ground.
battle scenes were filmed at Fort Hunter Liggett, a 167,000-acre Army training reservation in Monterey County 150 miles south of San Francisco that doubled for South Vietnam's Central Highlands. Training scenes were filmed at Fort Benning, and domestic scenes were shot in Pasadena.Oct 7, 2000.
They were arriving in SOUTH Vietnam. No battles, other than aerial battles, were fought in North Vietnam. North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam, twice after the time depicted in the movie. The second times they used more tanks than General Patton had in WW-II. The south was short of supplies, because unlike the Soviets and Chinese, our Congress had cut all funding for those supplies.
South Vietnam was a puppet regime which have no legitimacy, created by the French and nurtured by the Americans. Glory for the Vietnamese for defeating the invaders and reunify their nation.
Thank you for your service at the X-ray point in the la drang valley at 10;48 am on November 14, 1965.
"The helicopter soldiers'' made me laugh so hard
But it is accurate. At the time there wasn't really a word to describe them universally yet. That's nothing wait till you hear what they used to call the 101st Airborne .
@@Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent they called them the chicken soliders they didn't know what an eagle was they saw the patch and they thought of chicken and they not only respected them in more ways than one feared them
Uncle Dave ( Vietnam helicopter last three days hit in the foot and medical out. Ty uncle Dave. To the people of Vietnam I’m glad this senseless violence is over and we have hopefully made peace 2020
Yeah... not safe to put your M16 on full auto when your still on the fucking helicopter with no enemy in sight.
The Battle of la Drang took place in South Vietnam
"Hollywood got it wrong every damn time, twisting their knives into the memories of our dead comrades." -Hal Moore's introduction in the mood
"They finally got it right, (he begins to choke up, but seems at peace) they finally got right..."
-Moore when filming wrapped
@Janice McCullough correct
@Janice McCullough stay great
@Janice McCullough spreading the love 🤟
except the stupid bayonet charge at the end, which did not happen.
"Arriving in North Vietnam" ... actually the Battle portrait in this movie was the Battle of la Drang. It took place in a valley in South Vietnam.
Your title, Sir, is wrong!🤓☝
YUP! Probably another victim of selective history education.
1:15 there's a lizard before the air strike
one of my favorite movies of all time
America's defeat in Vietnam proves that the Vietnamese army is very elite, unlike in the movie rambo
----> "America's defeat in Vietnam proves that the Vietnamese army is very elite, unlike in the movie rambo"
No, you are poorly educated in history and just demonstrated that. Talk about slitting your own throat. Jeez! Can't tell the difference between a political defeat and a military defeat. That's pretty embarrassing. There is nothing elite about throwing thousands of conscripts at an enemy.
Movies like this no longer exist 😭
Rip lizard 1:21 ;(
That lizard is alive actually you can see it on the ending scene
@@Jupiter.141 Good
Sad times. Be well everyone
Your title is wrong, Ia drang is in the south.
The Ia Drang is not in North Vietnam nor is it in the northern part of South Vietnam. It’s in the central highlands near Pleiku in ll Corps.
Good movie. Good clip. One small correction: Ia Drang Valley is not in North Vietnam. It is located in the Western part of the Central Highlands near Pleiku.
Plumly was a real one, he jumped into d-day, and market garden of world war 2 + jumped in Korea and then the Nam
Ia Drang was in South Vietnam. Central-South.
The caption is wrong! They did NOT arrive in North Vietnam, the battle was in South Vietnam against North Vietnam forces.
Ia Drang Valley is in South Vietnam....
They are not flying into North Vietnam in this clip. LZ X-Ray was in the Pleiku Highlands, which is in South Vietnam. AFAIK, US forces never entered North Vietnam (on the ground at least. Aircraft flew over all the time)
The strongest military but defeated by a farmer....
raya ramadhanz That grammar is giving me cancer
@@reynanlamsen2007 * farmers. Good enough for you? No one can defeat the Vietnamese.
@@chelseaK11 Of course they did. I think the war was about giving China a warning
Farmers didn't beat the Americans, the North beat the south. Getting beat and leaving are 2 different things. The ARVN Army lost that war.
It was a political defeat not a military defeat.
I respect this man a thousand over
The battle was in south vietnam
@@ic4man402 Does ur reply concern with this comment?
@@anhquocleminh2321 hey man don’t be rude
2021 that is me!
AHA!
The Củ Chi Region Wasn’t Even In North Vietnam
Cu Chi is also far from Ia Drang
Fernando Bertotti Facts
I have a beef with the title of this clip. They never went into North Vietnam. They fought in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam.
THIS ENDING AD IS REALLY PISSING ME OFF!!
The most beautiful scene in this movie
Es la mejor película que el visto
They pushed with their feet, and held onto whatever was handy. But they also rode with the doors closed, or mostly closed, while in transit, if it wasn't too hot at the altitude there were at.
"the Helicopter Soldiers are coming!"
North Vietnam: North Korea's successful brother
Cong Mustache More like North Korea's enemy
Not even close. North Vietnam was many things but they were no where close to the issues that happened with North Korea. Indeed much of the issue with Vietnam could have been solved with proper talks and a not so paranoid United States.
In todays world even modern socialist Vietnam would be and likely is horrified at what goes in in North Korea but can't really say anything cause of well China.
I really liked the movie. It was nice to watch along with Hamburger Hill.
This is wrong. The US didn't land in North Vietnam. The battle was in South Vietnam.
Ia Drang valley was in South Vietnam. Central highlands.