Veterans History Project - Charles (August) Long
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- Опубліковано 6 сер 2024
- Name: Charles (August) Long
Dates of Service: 1965-1972; 1975-1977
Highest Rank: Sergeant
Branch: United States. Marine Corps
Conflict: Vietnam War
Unit: 3rd Marine Division; Tank Division; Special Services Support Group
Awards: USMC Good Conduct Medal Combat Service; RVN Cross of Gallantry Vietnam Campaign; USMC Service Medal; Honorable Discharge; Overseas Medal; Vietnam Defense Medal; Tet Offensive Campaign Medal; Vietnam Service Medal; National Defense Medal; American Defense Medal
Location of Service: San Diego (Calif.); Camp Pendleton (Calif.); Okinawa-shi (Japan); Twentynine Palms (Calif.); Albany (Ga.); Đà Nẵng (Vietnam)
Collection #: VHP/2019/603
See more about this veteran in the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County's Digital Library: digital.cincinnatilibrary.org...
Charles Long is just one good dude . I like him.
I smiled and laughed a lot with August. He is a very funny Man. Love his stories. I really enjoyed this interview. Thank you August
Your a good man , August.....thank u !
Thank you for all that you did for our Country August! Good interview!
14 medals, 15 ribbons + and he's says "they're no big deal". Humble Marine
You did not bore me!! Very interesting interview- told it very clearly!!! Thank you for serving, I'm proud to hear your story and a big welcome home.
😂August,! Made me Smile & miss the good Times 👍Semper fi !!!
Good man August. Much respect, God bless you and welcome home.
Excellent,many thanks
I have not been giving the Elderly gentleman who is conducting the interview much slack. Yes his questions are hard ridiculous. But he is trying. It just drives me nuts lol! Thankful for his effort
It's good to see August home.
Shuddup and let the guy talk
Very interesting guy. Good interview.
In Nam anyone could get zapped, at any time no matter your job. We all wanted a better job. No matter who you were you could find humor daily unless in a firefight, or mortar attack. Welcome home Marine. I Corp '66 - '67.
He’s on his way to vietnam as a grunt and he asks him if he toured okinawa looking at the damage done there from ww2. crazy
One one the better stories.
Camp Pendleton is north of San Diego and south of Los Angeles
Salt of the Earth, humble man. 57:36
NVR and north from south San Diego...brawlin' might have messed up this good ol' boy...still like him though!!!😎🤠😉
Korea marines 🇰🇷 kept it simple 👏...👌
He said RVNs. NVA and VC were only enemies.
It has been a long long time.I’m guessing 40 years
He definitely had some stories my hat is off to everyone who served in Vietnam, but unfortunately I think he was a little mixed up I spent a tour of duty at red beach. Red beach itself was the headquarters of the Atlantic and the Pacific Seabees there were two CB battalions and the command center of the Seabees right across the road towards the ocean or Bay of Da Nang. How could you possibly spend over a year and not knowing what is across the street from you? You could not see rice patties from the part of red beach he is talking about. While listening to his story I thought I was sitting in my hometown American legion listening to the war stories from the people that never saw war. I spent much time building the base he claims he was. He probably was there but just can't remember correctly that happens to all of us we are old and a little rusty in our thoughts. After all if you were not there they sure sounded good.
I love this guy's interview
Hey august, you should get you some charcoal tablets tablets to help with that Agent Orange
I'm confused. Calling the ARVN the NVA. just wondering
That’s the street BC street in Okinawa
Man this guy interviewing this soldier ask some really weird questions . As if he’s FBI or writing a book . Your sister ? Once it got to him being a marine I stopped feeling embarrassed !
His questions are most wonderful!
@@brentluckhart6238 for you , not me ! That’s why they allow comments .! Ok ? B. H !
Unfortunately this is the worst of the interviewers I I have watched over 100+ of these. I do not know what the history of their family mother and father sister and brother and what they died from I have to deal with this. It is the most unusual interviewer I’ve Ran a crossed. Sorry for the voice texting. Disabled dude
I agree, I was raised that you never ask a man how many acres he has, it is like asking how much money you have in the bank, why did he want to know that?
Too many personal questions! Suppose to be about the Marine and his service not his family tree.
Wow! This guy saw alot of poop for being the aide/driver for a CO of a USMC unit located at Red Beach. I don’t recall that his actual unit was ever identified, but as I remember the only Marine unit at Red Beach at that time was a
Logistics Support Bn. Could be wrong?
You are 100 per cent correct & the CO was a General. I was there
The interviewer is horrible. A good interviewer does not ask questions. A good interviewer listens.
This guy never engaged in combat
That interviewer has some nerve
I did not care for Carter either, seems like Carter times now with the bone head president we have now.
Carlos Hatchcock! Sorry guys he’s pretty well-known. Died of MS I believe
Yessir as a direct connection to agent orange. My uncle did a tour with the 82nd and then became a green beret and did 2 more "trips" as he calls them with S.O.G and he has all sorts of problems stemming from agent orange.
Every marine would have known this and the timeframe he is talking about is not correct how do I know this I was there.
go. I don't appreciate that talk
Never there
This interviewer asking questions was so goofy. He just asked questions in a very almost argumentative manner. Ruined the flow.
4 minutes in and I give up. Let the man tell his story and stop interrupting.
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This Dude Didn't Serve In Vietnam
Another Vietnam veteran that gets his 1 1/2 hour of fame. The man was simply one of 2.7 million Americans who were chumps and pawns of their dysfunctional Government and its erroneous foreign policy. He was nothing more than an invader and aggressor in someone else's country that did nothing to Americans or the US. His service meant absolutely NOTHING as it pertained to American security, safety and freedom. He did his part to enable a foreign policy that tore the country apart in several ways for almost 10 years. That war was a huge disservice to America and he contributed to that. Did he mention these realities b/c I don't watch these BS videos anymore. Just another American who thought he had a right or duty to be somewhere where he did not belong.
You should be more concerned about the topic of the government grooming people to disable their sphincter, non-voluntary muscle, rendered useless so that they spread fecal matter everywhere. You can also investigate how long they let AIDS run its course discovering how long the media blackout lasted. This is when the media or the entertainment industry spoken the word aids. It won't be hard, once one stopped, they all stopped. Then you will see that everybody is in that box and you are just the pot calling the kettle black. Yes, you're still a victim of the white man
This guy is more of a man than you will ever be. You are nothing but a keyboard warrior with no balls.
Amen I agree with everything you said. I wish we'd at least see one Vietnam veteran that would acknowledge that he and his fellow Americans shouldn't have been in vietnam in the first place. You know according to this website 74 % said they'd do it all over again knowing the outcome if they could do it over again. I mean it's one thing id you thought were going to win even Vietnam was never our fight and it was absolutely none of our business. But it's beyond me why they want do it all over again. Why not do things differently. Like why watch your friends and comrades die for nothing and see horrific things all for a lost cause a cause that you now know was never going to succeed when you now know that American aid ( not that we should be giving them aid they never wanted it in the first place) be in vain. It's like these Vietnam veterans like being in these kill or be killed situations which makes no sense. I guess maybe I'm not a veteran so I wouldn't know.
www.vva310.org/about-us/myths-of-the-vietnam-war#:~:text=Myth%3A%20Common%20belief%20is%20that,killed%20in%20Vietnam%20were%20volunteers.
By the way were you an anti war protester back then? Did you call them baby killers? What are your thoughts regarding calling vietnam veterans that and the way they were treated after coming back from Vietnam. I'm not judging just wondering?
@@robertisham5279 you're not a veteran is exactly right. You can't see the difference that they were fighting for and it is worth every minute of their time.