Combat audio recovered from one of the missions I flew in Vietnam.
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- I wrote a book about my experiences in the Vietnam War. It's available on Amazon here: amzn.to/1Lq56yA
Shortly after I wrote GUTS N' GUNSHIPS, I discovered, through a perfect storm of events, an audio recording of my involvement in the extraction of American forces that were about to be overrun by thousands of enemy troops. This mission is described in the book. The following is a small excerpt of the actual radio transmissions. You can find the full audio here:
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“They missed the engine”
“That’s no sweat then”
The confidence they had in their aircraft is awesome, such great machines
Onyx Guard back when it really was that simple. If the engine worked so did everything else, no fancy computers or anything to go wrong
Logan Armer probably starts on 1 wire and a magnetio 😂
Onyx Guard Whether it's then or now, there is no other choice _but_ to trust in our equipment and vehicles.
The 60s American version of "she'll be roight"
@@412milspec Actually, nearly 2/3rds of Loaches got shot down (I think I remember it being about 900/1500 aircraft deployed). Being a light recco pilot sucked.
"How's everything else looking?"
"other than being on fire for a little while back there"
*other than being on fire*
And they were calm as cucumbers the entire time. As if it's a videogame, and they're just commentating, like it's not a life-or-death situation. God damn.
@@VG-fk6nk welcome to the wonders of war
@@daspooterman war has no wonders, only rare breaks of sheer luck
@@_-LL-_ I can't argue with that
It's just like any other day,a fire ain't that bad
Pigpen: *i'm gonna help ya out*
Waldo: *i got you buddy*
Slick: _yeah that sucks man_
Slicks had to get the people out while the gunships laid down fire.
Bruh
Bruh
bruh
Bruh
"other than being on fire a bit back there."
so nonchalantly badass
+Igglesworth right lmfao
+Igglesworth They sound like they're putting in an order at Mcdonalds the whole time.
+Igglesworth
That is the PTSD speaking.
+Z In Chains shock* PTSD comes later.
+Chris Blanton What if it's Present Trauma Stress Disorder?
Slick is there like: “I’m here too...”
_hello darkness my old friend..._
Is it me or it is just weird that this video ended up on recommonded
Slick isn't a pilot's nickname, it's a name for a certain kind of Huey Helicopter
Edit: It's the kind of Huey entirely made for troop transport (And I would assume medical evacuation), it's called slick because it isn't armed, so there aren't any guns sticking out of it or attached to it's sides
How I am when I play online
RUBY DA CHERRY W DA AK
You can hear Pigpen's mood completely change after being shot up, he's clearly shaken up
duh,he just got shot at
@@PickledMemes You basically said what the other guy said
i know the word shot up from what happened at my american school :D
@@invalid-user7335 ok?
@@invalid-user7335 I know the word weather from looking at the news at night.
Relief overwhelmed me to hear Pigpen's voice again.
Gorilla Pimpin' me to. For some reason I thought he was dead
You could tell pig pen was not dead bc Waldo was giving intel on his condition Waldo would have said If pig pen crashed
Spoilers!!!
@@florencec1707 If you dont want to be spoilered maybe dont look into the comments. Youre supposed to talk about what happened in the video here..
@@florencec1707 dum ass
"exploding type rockets or grenades or some shit" Classic :)
+NeuroticLobster haha my thoughts exactly
hahaha wow.
was just about to comment that lol. my favorite part.
+NeuroticLobster They are just trying to get it out at that juncture.
"RPG! RPG!"
Gosh, in under 3 minures i got so attached to this guys. Im so glad They made it back.
Same.
The video is 2 minutes long
@@philmiller1845 your the person people don’t hang out with
@@sleepyboi5362 *you’re
@@philmiller1845
Yes, it is..
In case you didn’t notice he said: “in under 3 minutes”.
Unless the edit was adding the: “in under”
It's one thing to read pages about it in a textbook, but to hear actual audio from the very people who put themselves on the line those decades ago is quite another.
magmablock It's amazing how they're talking like it's a job and not risking death during active artillery fire.
magmablock ,very true
magmablock very true
Theo Weath it is a job. If you dont shut up and talk clearly, you wont have it for very long. (Youll be dead) communication is essential.
These guys saved my ass more times than i can remember, after hue i was moved to a recon team outside of khe sanh (hill 950) while the battle was still going on.. back in the early days of the war 65-66 you could be in the field doing recon for 12-14 days without shit hitting the fan,, in 67-68 2 days at the most.. i was shot in the shoulder on november 20th 1968 on the border of laos during monsoon season.. pouring rain but it wasn't too bad since we were under triple canopy jungle, was shot by a spotter/scout at dusk about 30 yards feet from me. he was killed instantly by a montagnard that was with us (there was 8 of us, split between US and montagnard or ARVN)
took about 30 minutes for a medevac to come in and find us, luckily the scout was killed since not that far away was a company of roughly 90 NVA, would've gotten pretty hairy if he made it back
Just judging from how calm these guys are, I'm guessing whatever caused the holes near his balls must've then ricocheted right off them.
ArgentOrangeOK well they kinda have to be panicking doesn’t help anyone especially when you’re flying a helicopter, I could imagine it’ll be a bad idea to spaz out behind the sticks...
Calmness on every single situation is a training given to pilots. They dont deserve to be pilots if they cant be calm in this situations.
It just shows how professional they are and how well they can handle themselves in stressful situations.
I can't imagine being this calm and sorted while in combat. Hats off to these guys.
"Chickenhawk" portrays it well. Pilots had hundreds of flight hours before deploying, and even more in the combat zone. Also, the fresh blood usually had an experienced pilot onboard to take lead if anything went to shit.
They often were scared to shit, but training overcame the fear - so they were shitless scared, but didn't panic and lose control.
Their trained to be calm under extreme pressure. Explains how they calmly inform everyone that their going down while half their heli is on fire and their 3 seconds from hitting the ground.
The “Slick” pilots are like the quiet kids of the group
Like the quite kid in a discord vc.
I think the slick pilots were on a different frequency than the gunships
They were the evac ones and the other two was the gunships, they supressed fire. But you can tell "slick" probably was screaming a lot while putting in men on the choppers like: "GET IN MOVE!!! MOVE!!! MOVE!!!"
@@thadz2493 There were multiple slick helicopters
@@hammerandpickle7390 I know
Pigpen had me worried for so long after his icon was flashing red...
in command of a complex machine with either tremendous firepower and or several men onboard you are concentrating on your job and what NEEDS to be done , you don't have time for bullshit.never make the mistake of thinking those bullshit games are in any way like what it is to be responsible for men's lives until you have bullets come through your floorboards and hit your feet and legs you will never understand
@chilled viper wrong helicopter, these guys were in uh1s, the blackhawk wasn't adopted until a few years after the war
@@darkhorse1691 ok boomer
darkhorse16 Those men went through hell so that future generations didn’t have to. Don’t tell someone that they shouldn’t say anything because they would “never understand.” Those men died, and many brave men and women do today, so people like him can sit at home and play those “bullshit games” and not have to worry. For someone to try to understand what these men went through is not an easy thing, but the fact that he tried, and he sympathized with them means something.
David Optional Well, I feel we’d all be a lot worse off it wasn’t for those “sheep.”
It's nice that you give subtitles and highlight the speaker as it's easy to lose track when just listening.
John Wayne
Is that you, John Wayne?
Is this me?
@@LordOfTheEyebots who said that
CPS-1337
@@phuquoc3012 WHO THE F*** SAID THAT?
@Alexander Baumgartner It's full metal jacket
"No, I'm about 100 meters behind ya, and you look real good to me."
Pigpen: *blushes*
Underated comment
True homies compliment each other without the need of saying no homo
@@benz505 you look might breedable bro
The calmness they display while under fire is astounding.
Probably not their first day "in country".
@Mario Salinas "floating tank" yeah right. More like floating tin can. The US lost almost half of all their helicopters in Vietnam. You'd be safer in a tank, for sure. Helicopters weren't armored and offered little protection for the crews. And they knew this. Still they remained calm and collected. Big balls.
@@SnowHawkX Depends in what tank you were. Some were shit and got blown up easily.
@@whatever7338 True enough. The point, however, is that helicopters were death traps and not at all a safe place away from harm like that person insinuated. Not trying to say being a tanker was a jolly good time either, the war was shit for everyone.
@Mario Salinas I guess you missed the part where they got lit on fire and had holes the size of a man's fist blown through their helo...
So *THIS* is where Waldo went.
So where's Waldo Vietnam edition is coming......yay....I guess
@@sgtblyat1981 Find the Viet Cong soldier
@@MrPatrosz for Americans i hear its impossible
@@MrPatrosz I can't find him... All I can see are trees
Dat really got me 😂
Jesus man, God nless you guys.
@James I knew it
Nless you now
@Weston Prather It’s been 36 minutes and you’re still not going to place a question mark?
@Weston Prather You're right it's been 4 hours and you still havent.
@@EastDallasKicks You are a freak
This is spectacular. These men were so cool in a chaotic situation. If only more men had made it home safe and well.
+diver dave No. Men was right, since women weren't on the frontlines like that then (and not even today).
+ineedmyhat they were most likely drugged as shit to perform in combat
+Third Eye Yes and no to women being on the front lines today. It really depends on where you are and where the "front line" is. Women work in some front-line combat roles like being fighter pilots, and often take part in support missions like convoy duty and base defense where they end up in firefights with the enemy.
Really, ever since airplanes became a fixture of the battlefield, "Front Line" has been a bit of a misnomer, as even rear areas can be the sites of major battles.
+Third Eye They're now allowed to apply for any combat/frontline position, as long as they can pass the training, they can go into combat.
+Raguleader Dont forget all the engineer positions. If im not mistaken, there was plenty of Engineers who were women in the Iraq and Afghan war. All from, bridge building, rebuilding towns/cities and bomb (Of all its kind) removal.
Considering the "frontline" was basically everywhere cause of typical guerilla war that the talibans were doing. These women were in fact on the frontlines :P
Pigpen sounds like he's just barely recovering from some real shock at 2:02. I really, really never want to be in a situation like that. I have to commend their bravery, because I would never be able to do that.
Yes, in their situation you would do the same thing. It's amazing the fortitude a human can muster when it's a life or death situation. I'm sure the mantra f many a soldier is "I'm not going to die here!" And that keeps them going.
+Smitteys86 yeah, you can hear that voice shake ever so slightly. fucking chills me to the bone to think about that kind of peril.
+Smitteys86 I would certainly have to change my underwear after going through that shit
+Smitteys86 i dont really hear it
@Smittyeys86 Read his book and find out what really happened during that "incident". It will blow your mind.
Pigpen’s first line after being shot up is so god damn good. What an absolute legend. The respect we must show our vets...
When I was in elementary school we had an event for veterans day, I invited my uncle Johnny who was in Vietnam.
We all stood in a big circle and sung the Star Spangled Banner, I looked at my uncle and he was crying, he noticed me and managed to smile even though he was crying. It was a beautiful memory for me.
Kayla Kewl Moore I can't imagine what he must have gone through
Kayla Kewl Moore Was it your great uncle? Because then that would make sense
Kayla Kewl Moore Your uncle Johnny was and IS a hero in my world
fake
My moms great uncle was in a war he was in a bomber and the bomber got shot down and he was captured they made him walk for miles he lived tell the hell of war got to him
“Am I still on fire?”
“Nah, you’re good.”
people talkin about discord and other stuff and no one is talking about how he suvived VIETNAM
daveplays well I'm still alive but I can't hear very well
did you think literally everyone died?
@@the-letter_s he was talking about the fact *he* survived it and he kept this to *share* it later on with *us* .
@@whereswaldo1630 dayum how u can manage to survive it
Americans has such good and advanced weapons and still lost😹😹😹
Anyone who's wondering, a "Slick" helicopter was a Huey outfitted for CasEvac (no guns save for door gunners).
"Slicks" were the name given to the Huey's that only had door gunners and were primarily used to transport troops and supplies. We used to call the lifts into the LZ's, Rat Fucks. When on many, many of these. Some were hot LZ's, some were cold. All was a hell of a burst of adrenaline. "Dust Off" was the name give to the medical Huey evacuation helicopter. I only made one flight in one of these.....that was one to many.
Our Dust Offs had no door guns.
@@johnsweat5247 How long were you in Vietnam?
Good thing I never had to depend on anyone like you.
@@DonB.-Mulefivefive huh??
Girls discord: Omg Jessica he’s soo cute!
Boys discord:
The boys discord be like :
"James, this is Carl"
"Go ahead Carl"
"We got ourselves a hacker"
@@zethicc7557 "Hud Hud the hacker is ban"
"Roger that."
@@nathanfabonan5917 sup Snafu, still got the heebie jeebies
Nathan Fabonan “we were
Just by discord mod or some shit”
"Cloud has some holes right up next to his balls..."
*Yeah, those bullets can't even begin to THINK of hitting such a man with balls of steel!*
They knew better, The ricochet from Pigpen's balls of steel would be deadly.
GOD BLESS VIETNAM VET. 🇺🇸🇪🇸
Cloud Jr here and I can confirm those were Balls of steel. Tough SOB my Dad. Love him and miss him. So cool having recording.
I'm Vietnamese, and I'm glad they both made it out. No one should have died in this stupid war
Same hear 🇻🇳❤️🇺🇸
Exactly so we used our pissed feelings to kill the Vietcong woohoo baby!!!!!!
@@BGrunty u got ur ass beat lol
@@BGrunty literally got beat by shit sticks and farmers with a few aks when you have multi trillion dollar military wtf do you mean
@@BGrunty Should I remind you who failed and lost ?
It's like a movie or something the way they're so cool about everything
if you join the military they teach you to always present yourself as brave for the sake of everyone else. really they are all shitting bricks..but there is so much to concentrate on they don't have time to be scared.
+Jalk Walk Really, it's a thing they teach folks using radios in general. If you are not calm, it's really hard to understand what you're saying.
+Raguleader If you screaming on comms it's a morale breaker as well. As well as when you're shitting yourself freaking out you are 10 times harder to understand. Source: Hearing people freak out and die over comms.
+KarmaKing Alex Civvies have this big thing about these scenarios being so full of badasses. Honestly, it's extremely rare you'd see anyone that would actually sound scared. You'd always come across that guy, but considering how many of us go out there being "so cool about everything" is pretty much the norm.
+KarmaKing Alex If youre not cool, youre dead. Piloting is no game.
In the book, he goes into more detail about what "being on fire for a little while back there" actually meant. He had an electrical fire caused by a short in his electric fuel pump controller. He made a gamble to switch to the analog fuel control to try and stop the electrical fire. The reason it was a gamble was because after being hit, it was unknown if the analog pump was still functioning. If it wasn't working, he'd drop like a stone into enemy territory and face death or imprisonment. Oh, and did I mention the thick black smoke filling the cabin? Couldn't even see out the front window. He pulled on the shutoff lever until it literally broke off in his hand. Luckily, he got the lever down, the smoke cleared, and he lived to fight another day. Can not recommend this book enough. The audiobook is also one of the most well read I've heard and actually includes a portion of this video in the audio.
"It's all green."
"Oh, that's no sweat then."
Man, they don't make men like they used to. God bless you guys.
They do, just shorter supply!
Schlomo rabbi Goldberg Multiculturalstein Yes
I wish they'd crashed
@@bigyeet5857 bad b8 m8.
@@KnightofDark00180 America had no business in Vietnam, they could all have sunk in the sea for all I care
Me: Hey why aren't my Bluetooth earphones working?
Grandpa with Bluetooth hearing aids in next room: *Vietnam Flashbacks*
HAHAHAHHAHHAAHAHHAHAAHA
Starts choking people and puts butter knife to their neck LMAO 😂
Deja vu, i seen this comment before. I think you steal it
@@misomonih6534 yah I stole it, stole it from Joe
@@rhinocogaming1189 oh joe, he's my friend. He have a mom
2:21 "you're a real bro, bro."
Now *these* are fucking heroes.
+Mattyboy Now *that's* a mattyboy original comment.
There is no such thing as heroes, only peanutbutter
+Mattyboy something something mccain.
+Thhaazz thaz Theres no such thing as Marines in the US Army.
This sounds like a discord server for some reason
War Thunder discord
Discord calls after 10 AM
World of Tanks discord in tournaments be like
Lmaooo. 😂😂😂
Bruh
Just how casual and calm they talk about everything
I panic more when playing battlefield then they do in actual war
Yeah true. Seriously without good training lots of courage and experience most would be a stuttering mess going through this sort of stuff. Its full on. Peaceout! 👍
I think its mostly a human reaction, war is so loud and visceral. That it truely makes you seem small by comparison. Sounding small and calm is just the best you can do.
This is definitely cool. Sadly, the popular theme here is 'omg these guys are badass!'. Kids today don't understand that almost all of the troops were 'badass'. This shit was going on left and right, and these two guys got the lightest hit out of the ordeal. Badass isn't like in the movies. It's running in and out of the bullet-riddled jungle to pick up your wounded friends and pile them up at the beach, one by one, until you get shot in the ass and save your legless lieutenant against his will, to later have him join your shrimp boat.
+Gordon Thomas You're right, Gordon, baddass isn't like the movies. It's being part of a team that's sent all over the European theater to find a fellow soldier and take him home, regardless of the peril involved, or why... only to find out that you're involved in saving what's left of a family ripped apart by war.
+Gordon Thomas but... that was a movie too ;p
+Monochrome Fox That's the joke lol
***** Saving Private Ryan :)
No it was Forrest Gump
"it was heavy automatic and exploding type rockets or grenades or some shit"
Just casually says this, probably a normal monday for him
Oh roger that
Oh roger that
@@SnailKingGY He was clearly freaking out, but what can you going to do about it? You let people know what happened and carry on.
Been there done that. I alwap ys felt less scared as hell because our pilots always seemed to be really calm when the fit hit the shan. Srill, I was scared, just not scared sh** less. Maj. Schwarz and Lt. Brant, you're still my heroes.
Legend said, Slick still saying "Roger that" until now
That's what heros sound like.
+Martin Szabó Pilots not soldiers.
+Martin Szabó Soldiers are heros
Not heros, and I'm sure a surprising number of soldiers just love chaos, but there are those that try their best to be one and I respect that.
+Arknio You're a waste of space.
+str3123
I'd love to not see so many ignorant cunts pretend US soldiers actually do this or that everything is just peachy when shitheads like Khmer Rouge and ISIS are burying children alive for not believing in communism or islam.
When the fortunate son dvd song got a littlw scratch
There were no DVDs during late '60s. Only cassettes and 8-track audio players and these guys only had radios which were mostly tuned to military radio stations.
@@solidsnakesfan2929 can you please take this as a funny joke smh
@@fanwtn5124 It's not exactly comedy genius.
As a vietnamese dude, this appearing on my reccomendation is kinda cool ngl
GG
How are the trees?
@@boss9mustang404 celebrating tet holiday of course :).
I didn't know that famous artist in Vienna had Vietnamese blood
@@novicious7945 the profile pic was the result of a silly bet lost that i am too lazy to change lmao
If you have the chance to read Dr. Garrison's book, "Guts 'N Gunships" I highly recommend it. Thank You Dr. Garrison for your service and sharing your experiences. My thanks to all the Croc pilots out there. My Uncle was a "Slick" Crew Chief in Cu Chi in '67-68 and I was a Chinook Flight Engineer until I retired in 2012.
+Jeremy Espil Just read it two weeks ago and I echo your sentiments- great read. Thanks for your service.
+Jeremy Espil My Dad Pappy Clark is in the book.. He is Co Pilot in this Audio Clip..
Jeremy Espil my dad was a crew chief on a CH-46, he served in Somalia, Panama, Desert Sheild and Desert Storm. Any chance pu could have known him?
@@itsmedude420 Shake his hand for me
Tell your dad and his buddies I said thank you.
+Herr Richtig should i laugh?
Gappie Al Kebabi Are you implying you’re British with the word “Yank’s”? Because you couldnt even take on the “Yanks” good luck with the “farmers”
Wanna thank my dad too?
It’s him
My grandfather was in Vietnam. He is still in very good health, and is physically active. Veterans from Vietnam don't get enough gratitude. If any 'Nam vets happen to stumble upon this, Thank you.
Why should they get gratitude for trying to invade Vietnam? They didn’t even win lmao
@@ΤΗΞΙηΣΑζΤΞΚδ Not all of them willingly went into battle, they were mostly 18, just kids and they were drafted to fight in war, they deserve gratitude for there services, and why is it their fault they lost?, its not them to Decide when the war ends. So fuck off you Disrespectful piece of shit and pick up a book.
Most of them were forced to fight. In the end it was all for nothing. When they returned home they were disrespected for something that they didn’t sign up for which I feel is really sad
@@ΤΗΞΙηΣΑζΤΞΚδ When did America openly invade Vietnam? Wasn't it the NVA that invaded South Vietnam, which requested international assistance? We never officially passed the DMZ on the ground.
@@skyhager5953 America helped them to invade, what’s the difference?
Fake: Fortunate Son is nowhere to be heard
not even a paint it black lyric was to be heard
B- Y legend has it fortunate son was played every second of the Vietnam war
Lol
FUCK IT!!! I so much want to like this comment but the likes are at 420 and I just can't bring myself to ruin that.
@@flumpyhumpy 422 an hour after you commented. It didn't last long buddy.
You guys are badasses. Just bought your book. My dad served in Vietnam 71-74 mechanized infantry RA. Thanks for your service.
Meaning he enlisted. Dufus. Most of us were drafted US "".
Pinoy?
Waldo : They had some exploding type bullets or some shit
Pigpen : WE'RE HIT
slick pilots : ᵈᵃᵐⁿ ᵗʰᵃᵗ ˢᵘᶜᵏˢ
“Oh, that’s no sweat then.” What a badass
I returned to Vietnam for a visit and ended up making it my 2nd home. So much for my personal promise to never return if I made it out alive. Flew loach, lift and guns. Anyhow, there is an interesting museum in Saigon, 2 klicks from my home, that has a lot of battle maps from VC and NVA. I was in a camp outside Pleiku and I knew there was a fair amount of activity in the area but I was astounded by how much. About once a week, we'd get rocketed or mortared but it rarely hit anything. After seeing the maps, I wondered why they didn't send in at least a sapper for dramatic effect.
Hi, I'm curious where in Saigon that museum is as I'd like to check it out next time I am there.
@@andrewbergman9315 Ho Chi Minh Campaign Museum, Số 2 Lê Duẩn, Bến Nghé, Quận 1, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam.
It's about a block or two from the zoo, on the right, as you head towards downtown. Not the big war remnants museum all tourist go to. As I found out when I tried to photograph a combat map of the area where I was stationed, you cannot take pictures. Staff were like VC, came out of nowhere just when I got it in focus and about to take it. Have to say they were polite about it.
One of my favorite museums is the Vietnam history museum, right there at the zoo. There are two entrances. One is next to a bridge, you want the other one on the other side. As you walk towards the ticket counter, there is a Buddhist temple on your right and the museum will be on your left. They charge foreigners more than locals and you have to pay extra to take pictures. A small price to pay to help keep the museum in shape.
I was surprised when I entered a dark room with very little light. In the middle was a Vietnamese mummy of all things. She looked in pretty good shape for a mummy.
My favorite memories are walking alone, finding a local coffee shop and sitting down watching the people. One day, I was at the zoo coffee shop outside and a group of Vietnamese invited me to sit with them. Most spoke English but I tried my best Vietnamese. As we were talking, suddenly a hush fell over us as we saw a procession of rickshaw drivers roll up at the street to disgorge their tourists, everyone over 300 pounds. They had to be helped off them and helped on carts to carry them around the zoo. I never saw so many fat tourists in one place. Eyes fell on me for a response and in my best Vietnamese I remarked, "They finally found all the buffaloes that escaped from the zoo." Silence at first. Then one person twittered, another stifled a laugh and that's all it took from me to guffaw at my own sick joke, and that opened up the floodgates. Everyone laughed like crazy.
@@andrewbergman9315 Just thought of another one of my favorite museums, the My Lai Memorial museum at My Lai. Inside the building are all the graphic pictures of the slaughtered women and children and a picture of Lt Calley with title "enemy of the people" and Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson who landed his Huey and drew his sidearm at Calley to stop the slaughter. They labeled him "hero of the people". He got in deep shit for his actions and Calley scot-free. Anyways, for me the best part of the museum was outside. They restored one of the homes you can walk through. Beautiful flower and vegetable gardens are maintained. And what got my soul were the beautiful but sad statues of dying women holding their dead babies. I was with a group of Vietnamese (I live with locals when in Vietnam, whether in Saigon or Song Ve (small village near My Lai) some of whom were former VC. They seemed interested in my reactions. I tried my best to control my emotions with the statues but couldn't. So much came pouring out that surprised both them and myself.
@@phapnui how to get in contact with you privately please? I don't see any kind of private message function on youtube.
@@phapnui are you by chance a member of "Vietnam: Helicopter War" group on youtube? If not, why not? ;)
Shame you Vietnam vets got the reception you guys did when you returned home, you deserved better
lol the American invaded them,blame the goverment not the Vietnamese
@@Sus-iq5dk Who said he was blaming the Vietnamese?
@@Sus-iq5dk Yeah, we had no business in supporting that dictator, not to mention the fact that our military simply wasn't trained to fight in the environment the troops found themselves in
@@Sus-iq5dk pretty sure the guy is blaming the government of USA about how they treat retreated soldiers
@@Sus-iq5dk fuck commies
Being in those choppers in Vietnam was no joke. I have an uncle who did just that and he's got A LOT of stories about his time spent over there.
+ThatOneGuy82 vietnam was no joke, period. the shit you see in afghanistan is like a paint ball game compared to what went on in vietnam.
+bvbxiong im sorry but i have to say i dont like your comment... i understand what you mean, but it feels a bit disrespectful for the people who risk their lives for your and my safety in Afghanistan and anywhere else
+Jorn as someone who has fought in both Iraq and Afghanistan, it's not disrespectful. Vietnam is on a whole other level of things being fucked up
+Jeffrey Valerio man, I'm Vietnamese and hearing you say Vietnam is on a whole other level of things being fucked up make me feel insulted, I know that war is always about things being fucked up, but still...
+Urashima Keitarou not my intention. when I say "Vietnam" I'm talking about the conflict, not the country as a whole. should've clairfied.
0:43 you can hear a 50.Cal going off in the back ground of that transmission
You guys must’ve been in some serious shit glad you made it outa there hope your doing ok.
You can also hear some heavy gunfire at 0:20 too.
.50 on a Gunship is very unlikely
They sound like the most badass truckers of all time
"pigpen" doesnt get any more vietnam helicopter pilot than that. Glad he was okay
Hats off to these guys..........true heroes in my book
But the other soldiers were doing the same thing
Matija Radoicic who says that they weren’t heros too? Both sides had heros, both sides had villains, it just depends on what side you root for that truly answers question.
@@triplestripe7071 There are no heroes in war. only survivors
Carlo D. Also true. War is very strange thing.
@@triplestripe7071 there are no heroes in war. Neither a bad or good side... Well in this case that is just a tremendous load of bullshit. Vietnam is clearly the good guys, defending their country, and the USA army is obviously the fucking sick brainwashed guys of always who too invades other countries. I LOVE how they got their asses kicked
I think people need to take a minute and realize how amazing this is. They were under fire in combat yet had eachothers back and remained calm and in control the whole time. Much respect for our Veterans and God bless them.
i get real emotional listening to these heros. i dont know why. just the bravery and lunacy of war. im in aww
+Good one! aww
+Thhaazz thaz These guys weren't killing civilians, in fact...the whole point of the military (the guys actually out there in the field, not the political side of things...) being there was to save civilians. I wouldn't expect you to understand that though.
***** yeah real nice comment mate....did your mate at the pub tell you that...
@CM-aka Sweeper the whole reason why the soldiers are there is because the us made a false flag operation known as the tonkin incident to start the war. The whole point of the military was to fight in a war. If you STILL believe armies are used to safe civilians and shit like that youre pretty naiv. Of course that stuff happens, but thats far from their actuall purpose.
I wouldn’t say they’re heroes. Most veterans wouldn’t consider themselves heroes.
“They are soldiers who’s only doing their duty”
This is incredible, the audio combined with the names and the visual identification really creates a narrative. Thank you sir.
"i finally found you, waldo.. i finally did" *pulls trigger*
Disregarding how choppy the audio is its incredible how stable and calm these men sound. I know that the amount of training in the military hardens you and and tunes your reactions but these guys dont even miss a beat, not a hint of distress or fear in their voice even when surrounded. At most id say they sounded mildly curious at points but never shaken. Truly a different breed
those helo pilots were the bravest soldiers i ever met.just listening to the audio brought back a flood of memories and tears.
bravery that paved the way for war on drugs, CIA drug running. contras, coups, murder of 1/3 the Thai, lao, Viet people .... yea dude ..
Carl James ok liberal
@ no one cares
Carl James the soldiers did not have choice, the draft forced everyone able to join up in army.
Did Carl James delete his comment?
The way Waldo shouted after Pigpen rejoined the comms is so real, he had his bro's back and was so happy to hear his voice again.
unplug your mic and plug it back
or is that just on xbox live
Holy shit immoral as fuck.
Crazy Spitfire it was a joke you no brained fuck
@Artameful damn son, you've never witnessed combat humour have you
@Crazy Spitfire You stupid *armchair warriors* have never seen a real *joke* and these real *jokes really activate your almonds.* The day will come and you will shit your pants. You won't know what you'll do and that day you will search for a *comment section* to plug in your *copypastas.*
my grandpa was in the Army in nam when he was only 17, im 17 now and its crazy to think about what he saw over there. GOD BLESS our TROOPS!!!!
Real audio like this is so rare. It's an historical gem.
How neat is it, to find an audio of you actually, when you were in Vietnam. And listen to your voice when you were in your 20s, and being older, sitting down and hearing that, that would be awesome for me.
The raw energy of hearing his shaken voice after being lit up is on another level.
you guys were so disciplined with your comms. I love listening to professionals like you guys, your calmness and focus are to be emulated.
Good Comms...how they do it I do not know
that was aweomse! Thanks a lot of posting that, had me on the edge of my seat
God speed to those who fought bravely and died for our country and lives
listening to this, its actually crazy how accurate the comms are on MW2.
Even the pilots were in disbelief of the fire they themselves were receiving, I suppose the Vietnamese weren’t supposed to be that well armed.
@gilbert martinez why would the americans supply the vc
@gilbert martinez mostly the russians. America supplied the puppet govt, not the vc and nva, and china was less about supplying and more about trying and failing at getting troops in 'nam for the eventual betrayal in 79.
@@george-bv3hz
The OSS (precursor to the CIA) provided Ho Chi Minh and his guerrillas with training and resources to gather intelligence and fight the Japanese in ww2, which was later turned on the recolonising French and the Americans/RVN.
"The Americans later claimed that they gave Ho only a few revolvers, although there is considerable evidence that five thousand weapons were airdropped to the Vietminh in the summer of 1945 by the Allies. Also, according to French and communist accounts, the number of Vietminh troops in the country at the time of the fall of Japan, was five thousand."
- 'Ho' (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007)
That amount might not sound like a lot but in those early days US support was crucial to the movement.
@@george-bv3hz There are always people supplying both sides in any war for maximal profit.
It's more likely they didn't expect the LZ to be that hot. I've read before that generally the helos wouldn't be lit up prior to touching down because it was a waste of ammo for the Vietnamese and gave away their position for some time which would allow a spotter aircraft like a Loach or Bird Dog to direct artillery fire or CAS, instead the Vietnamese would wait until they had the advantage on the ground and ambush troops as they jumped off their helis.
thank you for your heroic efforts in Vietnam you are a true hero with true courage. MUCH RESPECT
This is so cool being able to hear actual audio from back then. I'm so glad this was preserved
Wow man. That is pure adrenaline. Hats off to you all. Thank you for your service and sacrifices.
this happened on my birthday, 34 years before i was born.
This is the most charismatic convo during times of war I’ve ever heard.
It's crazy how calm they are and got everything under control
Wow cool
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@@rey4874 hi
You guys really were the best pilots of all time imo, because you worked with faulty highest-bidder trash and still made do with relentless small arms and rocket fire, still got the job done. You are all heroes
The huey and cobra where pretty damn good though.
"ChickenHawk" by robert mason is a really good book about huey pilots in vietnam.
The real question is how did this get recommended to me
NOTHING IN LIFE HAS TO ALWAYS MAKE SENSE, ENJOY AND LEARN FROM WHATEVER THAT IS THROWN IN OUR DIRECTION, GOOD OR BAD!!🤷♂️
The UA-cam Algorithm. And i Think you meant 'Why'
Exactly, you ain't no CIA GAE
this is interesting, I am glad I have gotten this on my reccomend page
Well you are the FBI
My grandpa enlisted and was infantry in country in ‘69. He passed away February 2021, he had severe PTSD when he came back and he was the most kind loving grandfather that you adore and idolize but I can’t imagine the things he saw in Vietnam.
It's so disgusting that people actually disrespected and spit on Vietnam veterans
i mean some vietnam us soldiers were dirty and no better than a guerilla soldiers lmao the war crimes some have commited has over shadowed the real reason our soldiers were fighting and people dont realize that
@@shadow.4997 I mean there wasn't really a real reason outside of the red scare, it was a pointless war, Ho Chi Minh was literally a US fanboy, he even cited the US Declaration Of Independence at the start of his own Declaration of Vietnamese independence.
All men are created equal. They are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among them are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. - Ho Chi Minh.
America could have literally been allies with Vietnam.
Its kinda sad when Pigman says
"i'm hit"
but then he's back!
Bruh i hope you are going to school now or something because this is embarrassing
@@dominicmarinduque848 wut
@@dominicmarinduque848 What?
@@floridianrailauto9032 you guys should really learn to read too, its 'Pigpen', not some minecraft character
@@dominicmarinduque848 "Oh no your comment was auto-corrected, y'all should go back to school because I have no common sense!"
Some of the bravest banter between two heroes that I have ever heard.
To make things clear:
Pilots are supposed to be calm.
Girls locker room: does my ass look big in this?
Boys Locker Room:
Just finished your book. Brilliant
Thanks for you're service, great video.
+Thhaazz Thaz Aww are you butthurt? Did I rustle you're jimmies kiddo? Haha communist shit. You have no idea how the armed forces works. Go troll somewhere else commie.
Stupid kid? Why the fuck do you have any room to talk about how we killed civilians! You fucks weren't even in the war! Just shut up.
"Absolutely BADASSES!" - Sergeant Apone in the movie Aliens
This is what came to mind after hearing this.
Ladies and gentlemen...... what a display of bravery..... they speak as if it's just another day at the office. To them I'm sure seemed that way .... incredible.
No safe spaces needed for these young men. Nothing rattles them.
@Joe Blow , how could you possibly be fucking dumb enough to think that? What are you? Ten, twelve?
Damn after all those years i finally found waldo, and he is a fucking legend!
Nothing but props for the army aviators back in Vietnam. I read Chickenhawk as almost required reading from my father when I was getting into army stuff as a young teen, crazy how these guys had .50s and such just ripping into them and tearing their aircraft to hell, yet they always went up, and tried their best to make it back home.
"seconds later the hill was overrun"
If they late a few seconds, all of the US troops might will get killed or captured, that was scary
Or it would be overrun if nobody was there anymore?
@@1992jamo you mean, if there's no US troops there?
@@halfofmg394 Yeah, I mean it would be overrun pretty fast if nobody was left
@@1992jamo well, maybe yeah, btw, it's been a month since you didn't respond😅
@@halfofmg394 Ave, true to ceasar
my grandpa fought in the vientnam war he was a major general he has pictures of his team.
Last name?
Amazing how these young guys managed to keep it together.
Sir, Thank You for your service. I can see where your son got his love of aircraft from!