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Vietnam Voices: 'Man, this is nothing like I had this figured to be'
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2015
- Vietnam War veteran Ron Ledridge talks about his experiences. Ledridge served in the U.S. Navy. He was a farm boy who graduated from high school in La Grande, Ore. His father and several uncles served in the Navy. He joined in 1965.
So proud of my grandfather❤️ love you grandpa Ronnie
You are very beautiful
I love you Cait ❤️
Get real
Fantastic story.
Great American.
Thank him For his service
@@stevenregul6335 good genes 😜
I love these stories of these men's lives. Bless all our Vets and current military men and women fighting for us all over the world! Much love and respect!
Thank you for your service Ron.
God bless.
Welcom home soldier!! You have made your country proud
I just read the comment below on here from Ed Peters about the library burning down. A very good friend of mine was in a photo unit in chain of islands from New Guinea to Guam and the Philipines- We talked alot about those days and now that he has passed another library of valuable information is gone. Congratulations Billings Gazette for doing this and especially to Daryl Urlich ( sorry about slaughtering your name). God bless all our Vets and all those we honor in our hearts that never made it home!
I was in SERE school in Coronado CA. in 69. During a booring class half of us were dozing off. The Lt JG in front of the podium pulled out a 45 and shot 3 blank rounds in the air. We all stayed awake for all the booring classes.
God Bless Ron. Good Man.
Thank you Ron! Semper-fi
I had friends who lived in LaGrande and spent a lot of time there in the 70's, hiked up at Gun sight mountain and went skiing at Anthony lake...
THANK YOU RON !
Live in umatilla and watching all the gazette interviews. Hope to run into you someday ron. Welcome home
Thank you Ron!
Thank you Sir
I saw lots of shacks made out of Budweiser and Fallstaff card board boxes......
Thank you for your service, Mr Ledgridge.
Very interesting interview. Alan R
Thanks for sharing and your service
Awesome interview
Someone just buzzed right by me must have been a seabee lol
Wonderful interview & Ron is obviously a great man! Thank you BG for doing these. Daryl - I do wish you had asked “best day / worst day” question. You don’t miss that very often.
Welcome Home Sir.
Alerts were to be a surprise when they happened. However, our house boy always gave us a heads up the night before. We never figured out how house boys had a scoop before our unit.
A good magician keeps good secrets.
I was with NSA Da Nang 69-70. My base at Camp Tien Sha had old French style barracks and there were about 8 new barracks that were 2 story built by the Sea Bee's. I was in the old French style barracks....the Sea Bee barracks were much nicer. I went back in 2017 and found the main gate to CTS.....its now a Vietnamese Naval base and we could not get near the main gate. There is now a 4 lane hiway in front of the main gate.
And Chu Lai is still an airport, Airbus A321 land there, the old VN War era hangars are still there as well.
Im British an always been fascinated about vietnam war young Americans going to fight in a jungle against a hardened viet con jungle experts
Seabees sounds interesting, but Vietnam not so much because of WAR, heat, humidity, and snakes. Voices puts REAL character to that war. Thanks.
No problems with snakes very much now, it's the idiots on the roads you have to worry about, ( and the smoke away from the big cities ).
Ron Ledridge, U.S. Navy Militarized Constructions (Seabees). Served from 1965 to ????
Austin Panziera he served until 68
Chu Lai is still an airport, Airbus A321's land there, the old VN War era hangars are still there as well.
Trained basically to fight but we didn't fight...
Just can't make this stuff up.haha
Some of these guys really don't wanna say we just sat on the base and enjoyed dfac food. Its ok, even nowadays POGs dont like saying their POGs.haha
LOL! The "air base" at Da Nang was Da Nang Air Force Base.
When it came to Vietnam...you didn't have to be a genius to figure what it was all about. I don't know why Vietnam was some kind of "revelation" to him.
Because he was a teen when he was drafted, how much did you know about war when you were a teen? You are entitled to your opinion but he is also entitled to his and this was an interview asking HIS perspective. Have a wonderful day!
@@caitthegreat3900 Thanks for the "wonderful day" ! But some things need to be said. Vietnam effected my young teen life between 16-18. The Draft was very active and I ended up low on the beloved Lottery System. I studied that war every day for years, taking in everything written about it in magazines, papers, TV news and documentaries. I also had first hand experience from some veterans. I resisted the Draft and Vietnam and knew exactly what I was doing. It wasn't rocket science at 18. But no one wants to know what it was like to be a patriot and resist your Government...WHEN IT IS WRONG. We do like our "war stories"...don't we.
You have a productive day as well !
@@topgeardel again like I said everyone is entitled to an opinion, all I know is that I love my grandpa and I’m thankful for his services
Also I would like to add that he stated that the war was unnecessary, he was just a kid from Oregon that didn’t feel he had a choice in the matter so he did what he had to do.
@@caitthegreat3900 That's why I comment on these videos. Vietnam veterans like to portray a lot of "poor me" and "I did my duty and did what I had to do" Those are falsehoods. They feed that BS to the younger generations...like yourself. Love your grandad all you want...but his assertion that he had "no choice" was a false conclusion on his part. Please get real. The man said the war was "unnecessary"....yet he was a sheep and "did what he had to do". He put his life at risk for nothing. If he had lost his life in that "unnecessary" war in Vietnam....would you be alive?
I was just a kid too. I lived those years as well.
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