Interview with SOG Legend John Mullins | Tactical Rifleman
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- Опубліковано 30 жов 2024
- MACVSOG guys were the heroes that I looked up to, when I was a young Soldier. I still consider these guys the greatest warriors to walk the planet; total balls of steel.
In June we had a chance to sit down with one of the most famous SOG guys, John Mullins. I couldn't pass up the chance to ask him to wear a mic and allow me to capture some of his stories to share with you.
My son, Nick, who filmed & edited this video, decided to add subtitles to this video because he wasn't good with some of the audio segments. Looking back, there are a few typos in the subtitles. Those are my fault for not catching. Cut me some slack, I've just had a knee replacement surgery and focusing on computer work isn't high on my list right now. Still, even with the typos, you'll get the picture about what John is talking about. Don't blame Nick, blame me. No Biggie.
I always LOVE having the MACVSOG legends on Tactical Rifleman. I hope you enjoy the video and story as much as I did sitting there getting it first hand. If you want more with these guys, please let me know by sharing, and writing a comment below the video. More comments, and UA-cam shares more. Let's get the word out to everyone about these great gentlemen before they are all gone. Strength & Honor, TR.
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I feel privileged just to listen to the stories this man shares. Salute to the three of you. Makes me feel proud that I served!
Outf---ingstanding, I haven't grined and-or lol so much in years. I've gotta wild&kinky idea, John & John for president and vice president our country would be cooler ( limited vocabulary, due to minimal human contact). Nick Broad house as sec of state. Got my vote. Thankya sir's. May the sun always be on your back with a gentle breezz across your cheeks brother's. From an ole broken down, jarheaded, truck driving hillbilly 🤔🙄🤫👍
Our best Vietnam War movies are still ahead of us...
Me too.
Thanks Carl for getting these legends on to tell there story.
Another great guest lots of great knowledge and stories ! We better start producing these kind of men again and keep this country going !
We agree!
What a great interview. God bless you sir and thank you for your service!
Our pleasure!
Subtitles are fine. You and Nick did fantastic, don't be too critical on yourself; I hope your knee is ok. In the last few weeks, I've been in a bad spot. Karl, your videos have kept me occupied, informed, and entertained. Your videos have kept my mind from dark places and helped me focus. I love the gear stuff with SGM Lamb. It's awesome to watch you two geek out on gear. It's awesome to watch two men with experience talk about gear and how it was used. Mr. Mullins is a legend, and he looks like it. Tilt looks 20 years younger than he is. I always look forward to your videos, Karl. And I'd watch Tilt watch paint dry. Great stuff. Thank you, fellas.
Thanks for watching, TR
Thanks for introducing this legend to us!!!
My pleasure!!
This was fantastic and was easily the best thing I had watched in months. Thank you for sharing all the stories and memories doing it! I have always felt and lived by the belief of being so damn good that you don't take yourself so seriously and keep a humble attitude as well as a sense of humor. You have someone show up for Friday Night Steel in full kit with a hard-on and a attitude to match. Here you have SOG and SF legends laughing and telling jokes. Friday Night Steel guy has a bachelors degree in bullshit. You can spot and see it coming a mile away if you know what you are talking about and doing. Excellent video and content with much respect here.
Awesome interview- great way to spend my afternoon!!!
I love it when you have the MACV SOG guys on , i could listen to them all day long . Thanks Karl . RLTW
Glad you enjoy it!
Have you read any of their books? I just read Whispers in the Tall Grass written by a MACV SOG guy. Interesting stories.
Priceless interview. I hope the Mullins Family agrees.
Bygod this one does
This man's storied life truly is what legends are made of. Wow.
Always hearing these SOG heroes.
Somehow after all these years you still have the very best commercials 👏👏👏
Amazing conversation! Audio books would be amazing too!
Dude was one of the first members of 5th SF that was just starting up. Legend.
And SOG and DET A
great guy . great show thanks karl and crew
In the early 80's they drilled the "quick kill method" into us at Hunter AAF. That stuck with me, that in the mid 90's as a Drill Sgt I would demo at the m16 qual range by doing quick kills at 300 meters without a problem, funny how things stick with you. Now I know who to thank; Thanks, Metal Dick!!!
Wow, quick kill unsighted shots at 300m? That's seriously impressive
In 1973 Basic Training we were not trained on Quick Kill at all, until we got to qualification firing. Then we were required to engage a few targets with QK techniques. Typical Army.
Dove shooting with the bead knocked off
Great interview and stories Karl, both John Mullens and John Meyers are legends!
You guys cracked me up with the shit shoot!!
We (Rangers) were trained in counterterrorism and hostage rescue by the Blue Light Task Force in the mid 1970s, and yes we were taught quick kill techniques, trained in the michilen city shoot house as well as plane fuselages, train cars and buses.
And yes, an audio book(s) would be awesome!!
Thanks for watching and thank you for your service. Strength and Honor, TR
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Thank YOU for your service and your great channel Karl!
We need more men like this in today's America. God Bless.
Absolutely amazing interview. god bless these men.
Fantastic video, just found your channel and God bless you guys. I was was a Cav scout 19 d. Did basic at Fort Knox at that time.
Welcome aboard! Thanks for watching and thank you for your service. TR
Wow!!! Amazing conversation! What a career. Thanks to all of you guys. 🇺🇸
Wow, all that stuff happened when I was in high school and a few short years after great stuff thanks man. JB.
Glad you enjoyed it
Great interview. I always enjoy hearing from John. I have to correct something at 1:25:40 though. You'll find that the _original_ frangible ammo dates back to 1945 and the .30-06 T44 Frangible round later type classified as the M22 Frangible round.
Nest time you talk to Seaux tell him that John Simpson checked in.
Left me wanting more stories!
In this interview, I realized Tilt is a great "Ed McMahon", and a less effective "Johnny Carson" reading excerpts as monologue in the SOG broadcasts.
Any way you slice it, John is a tremendous resource and story teller, and an inspiration to this dyslexic, who also has trouble reading out loud.
I'm glad I got to watch this interview. I have 2 uncle's who served and I cousin that I know of. Our cousin lost his life. My both my uncle's made it home. They don't talk about it.
it's fantastic to hear these living legend's stories
Love hearing these stories.
Great interview....Thanks fellas
Glad you enjoyed it
Tilt is becoming quite adept at interviewing/fleshing out the details. Good on you Sir.
What an incredible American. I wish men like this could have taken power in our country.
I'm very thankful for his stories ty sir
Wow!!! Amazing history of warriors, all 3 of you!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great to see this guy in a video. I did Sam in 3/69 , but Bullis first . Ended up in lll Corp and worked out of Loch Ninh many times . The guys I was with ( Rangers ) showed me this QK method in 70. Stay strong brother ! doc 25th / others 68-71 .
Great interview guys. God Bless
I am so glad to see people setting straight the Phoenix Program.
Thanks Karl for interviewing John.
I loved the Soldier of Fortune PC game John was a part of (which also came out on SEGA Dreamcast). I got it right when it came out and I still think about it to this day. I still like going back to it after all these years.
Same, I love SOF2 to this day
Sad I don't have the game anymore
The ARMA game on Steam with the MACVSOG DLC is really good
@@rwtbkk
1. What's its name?
2. Does it have gore?
@@abskhairounArma Prairie Fire - MACVSOG
Hope it comes to steam
Can’t believe I missed this. Outstanding show. Have heard about BB gun training for years. Stories of folks getting good enough to shoot aspirin or Fizzes thrown in the air. You definitely have to try video wing shooting his method.
Yes! Do the audio book please!
Wow! Amazing ! Really special experience here
Yes to your awesome book idea!!! Audiobook too!!!
Unlike the SEALS, ‘SFs’ don’t advertise their accomplishments.
Fantastic True worriers to hear and understand what men like this did in combat for their country with courage and honor a country whose leaders did not care about , Dam Honorable Bad ass men.
And yes, the audiobook would be most appreciated!
Force Recon fought HELLACIOUS battles in Happy and Elephant valley
I know yall are super busy SGM. I believe if you started a podcast it would be amazing! Maybe down the road if you ever slow down. IF!
Maybe one day!
Loved this episode
Please do the audiobook. I'd definitely get it... Btw, the subtitles themselves are pretty entertaining...lol
White Star ski's, heavy wood with metal edges along with long cross-country poles. Needed to apply ski wax to the bottoms. I used Chippawaugh boots with an indent groove around the back of the heel. The original boots were Mountain boots from Germany, with a square sole tip. My Team Daddy had a pair of the Mountain boots from the 77th. He took us to a State Park for training, we were off any trails, and had to cut our own way through trees and mountain laurel, good training by the whole Team. 11th Group A Compay , Fort Devens.
That was awesome karl, we now need of course the instinctive bb spot shooting. these men were giants. that strodin the Earth. in their prime. that truly was fascinating I. think the first vid i ever watch of tactical rifle man was point shooting with a pistol.
I know a PRU/Phoenix advisor from force recon . Wild stuff!
Some rovinces had problems with theft and graft and no big intel snags! My contact had the biggest intel “spy” get during the entire war
This was back when they had their own homemade kits they didn't have all these perfect pouches, and perfect holsters for each model, they had to improvise and make everything they need for ammo, food, etc.
Great stuff! Hope you do a video of shooting aspirins with Red Ryders.
Yes please do get some operators to do an audio book
I remember that Quick Kill training at Fort Dix, NJ. We shot BB gun rifles at 2 inch disks with white tape covering the center hole, like a washer. We tracked it up, pointed the gun and shot it at the apex before it fell downwards. This was in December 1967. Not using the sights, pointing at it was enough, about 3 inches above the tip of the barrel. With the M14 we shot pop-up sillowet-shaped green targets at various distances. Sometimes they got stuck causing an Alla-by for scoring. The best was night fire, with aiming sticks and elevation sticks. this was interesting on how many would miss targets at night. Some M14's would go full-auto instead of semi-auto. Lot of fun picking up brass that froze to the ground. The missing night targets was an eye-opener, more practice need to be done for this.
As Hack would say, "You're either a stud or a dud."
This man is a stud!
Awesome!
Glad you think so!
I was at Benning at that time. I did the BB gun during Vietnam orientation after jump school and also seen John Wayne filming the Green Berets.
The look when he said “what do you do for rats?” 😳
Do the audio book Carl!!! All the best!
Hanging on to Each Other
Sounds Great❤ 13:28
YES !!!
Dude are you sick? Seems like you've lost a lot of weight. Hope all is well, praying for you regardless!!!
Who in the world did the subtitles,a Martian? Wow....
In my humble opinion this is the Greatest Generation. Not to take away from any American Hero
what an American hero🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I got a little emotional in this interview. CCC RTCALIFORNIA. NOT a member, just a family member.
Unbearable amounts of fun!! Please be advised if you ever find yourself in Solvay N
Y. Not allowed 2 pay 4 your drinks!!! Keep it rollin'. Great job!!!
Carl love these videos is it possible. To do shooting vid with john meyer, love to see old what he ran vs now. Love to see John shoot modern carbine
I will add it to the video idea list
These guys did their jobs with very low tech, no steroids no tattoos they need to pay these guys to teach our spec ops today. The wealth of knowledge they could give
Bloody love this Karl! Do more and defo do the audiobooks - need to get this out to wider audiences and not let this level of humble hero vanish ….. must make sure you get the pronouns right 😂😂
Just wow
I better do it before that first sergeant kills me! 🤣🤣🤣
Yes
I’m a Mullins from eastern ky….rough breed
This was out standing salute to all of you
❤
Hunting Hogs on your 500 Acres, could be turned into a future profitable enterprise perhaps.
Hi karl, Just curious, on about what the rest of the wording on the Pitcher behind John Mullins, head...
Bad ass man
Montignards. Not "Mountain Yards". edit - I get it, you used machine captioning - there's no point since YT does this anyway. If you're going to hard-code subs, you really should check them. "through a file" instead of "suicidal" at around 40:00 as well.
Great interview, but who did the subtitles?
American Hero !
I never see you stuff come across my new feed anymore at UA-cam?????
Yep, UA-cam no longer promotes us. We pissed them off some how. Subscribe and hit the bell for notifications and they MIGHT notify you every once in a while. We still put out a new video EVERY Friday and do a livestream every Tuesday. Thanks for watching, TR.
Great interwiew! But the texting was annoying.
You should try to get Col. Robert K Brown on here
this guy is the Elon of war! when men were men!!
That commercial thing suck dude. Everytime you have to interrupt the fun…
At least four words Karl
Oppressor de libra
Karl you gotta take these boys minigun hog huntin….u seen that?
That would be awesome
@@TacticalRifleman tell me bout it…the sobs run over as many as they hit lmao…funnern fast fuckin frogs in a firefight…
Soldier of Fortune 2 best game
Now here’s some lost tourists….😉 possibly fired a few shots…
still putting camps in low areas
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29:13
Awesome stories awesome men, did not enjoy the host, typical A##
Nice show and tell educational and storytelling 👍👌✌️🫡🇺🇸
I love Respect everty vet.