Vietnam War: American Airbase Today: Phuoc Vinh

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  • Take a look at how a former airbase town has changed since the Vietnam war as I go to Binh Duong Province to visit Phuoc Vinh.
    Old photos by Richard Howard.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 198

  • @Ghoat7777
    @Ghoat7777 5 років тому +13

    In 1970-71, I was at “Binh Phouc”, I knew it as Song Be, which was just west of the small mountain, Nui Ba Ra, Which was only a few miles north of Phouc Binh. I was with the 6th battalion 27th artillery unit assigned to an old Macv compound! Which had a small plane runway right next to the compound. And there was a small hospital there. I have flown in and out of Phouc Binh, a few times. I had a girlfriend there who worked on our base, with her farther. Her name was Nguyen Thi Thu. Her older sister also worked for the Americans. I am so amazed to see how Phouc Binh has changed and grown. I have always wanted to go back there almost since I left. I wanted to see how the country looked without war! But alas as a vet, I cannot afford such a trip on my meager income!

  • @richardweinhardt5399
    @richardweinhardt5399 5 років тому +16

    Lived on that base from May 70, till November 70. Co A 1/13, 1st Air Cav.

  • @RichGilpin
    @RichGilpin 8 років тому +13

    Great work Kyle. Appreciate your going out of your way on a somewhat hopeless search. In Vietnam 68-69 with 11th Armored Cav. Went to Phuoc Vinh army base to get new eye glasses after more than a month doing night perimeter guard and ambush patrols with only prescription sunglasses. Went back in 95 but didn't get to Phuoc Vinh (got to An Loc, Loch Ninh, and Tay Ninh). Will watch more of your videos and look for your facebook page. Wow things are really different now from 95. Take care!

  • @henryrhea7956
    @henryrhea7956 9 років тому +20

    Thanks for sharing this video, Kyle. I was stationed at Phouc Vinh June '67-June '68, first with 1st Division then as gunner with the 162nd Assault Helicopter Compny, so I was very familiar with the Phouc Vinh airfield. Seeing it as it is now was a real eye opener! AND a treat! Thank you.

    • @kyleledotnet
      @kyleledotnet  9 років тому +1

      Henry Rhea please share this video with anyone you know. thank you

    • @ClassyHaze
      @ClassyHaze 9 років тому +2

      My grandfather was also stationed here

    • @rockypaciulli1933
      @rockypaciulli1933 7 років тому +1

      Kyle Le Dot Net

    • @anniekate1914
      @anniekate1914 5 років тому +1

      hay henry i was there until Sept. 67 162nd also. 2nd plt. Bill Helton

  • @anniekate1914
    @anniekate1914 5 років тому +10

    i was there in 66-67. 162nd Assault Helicopter Co. 1st Avn. Brigade with part of the1st Infantry Division. this was great

    • @henryc6271
      @henryc6271 5 років тому +1

      anniekate1914 suuuure

  • @michaelcummingsherrera1232
    @michaelcummingsherrera1232 4 роки тому +6

    Are you serious? That old dude has been dead and long gone, for who knows how long.
    Phuoc Vinh, was my last base camp near the end of my second tour of duty. I was a combat medic that was reassigned to HSC 15th Med Bn, First Cavalry Division.
    I became friends with three sisters that ran a family-owned diner in town. The oldest one was strikingly good looking and 21 like me at the time.
    One time when I was strolling in town, she pulled up along side me in a 1969 Buick Opal Kadett. I asked her where she was going and she said she was going to Saigon for the day; and then she invited me to come along with her. That totally floored me. I couldn't go with her due to time constraints but I was flattered that she would ask me to accompany her. The fact she was driving a brand new car in 1969 shows the level of prosperity in South Vietnam. How many people owned their own cars in communist Hanoi?

  • @snickerdoodle15
    @snickerdoodle15 6 років тому +11

    They are not mad at you Kyle, it's just the way old people talk in Vietnam. My grandma talks to me the same way, listing all of the towns she knew in the US. It's normal 🙂 I'm from BinhDuong, too omg

    • @bobtis
      @bobtis 4 роки тому +1

      Besides they seem to realize how futile it is trying to find someone from 1968. Impossible. After the fall of the South I'm sure people fled or died.

    • @sumbeech1484
      @sumbeech1484 2 роки тому +1

      My goodness gurlie you should be a model ! Beautiful !

  • @anthonywier6781
    @anthonywier6781 5 років тому +12

    My base camp was in Phuoc Vinh. January of 1966 to February 67. I remember the market well. In fact, the market blew up in '66'. I was on guard duty that night, on the perimeter facing the town and heard the explosion. Phuoc Vinh was an interesting village. Americans would go into town but had to leave by sundown. I was told later that the 'other side' would come in at night.

    • @yeetermarou2234
      @yeetermarou2234 2 роки тому

      Awesome info! , Also Thank you for your service!

    • @markpaul8178
      @markpaul8178 2 роки тому

      Anthony,you are correct about U.S.soldiers having to be back at base at sunset.My brother Ray Paul was there in 69 and 70.He told me that one of his buddies got caught over there after dark.That same night the base was attacked and some girls hid him by laying him down in a shallow hole and covered him up with palm leaves.He told my brother the next day that during the attack a V.C. soldier was hit and a doctor was operating on him on a table right above the hidden soldier and he could see everything.After the battle was over in the wee hours of the morning he went to the front gate and almost was shot.The rule was if you couldn't get back by dusk,you stayed the night over there.

  • @ankhue
    @ankhue 8 років тому +2

    By the way, what you're doing here is great. Thank you for helping people to re-connect to each other. I saw your other video that you helped a lady to find her sister.

  • @timrogers1521
    @timrogers1521 3 роки тому +7

    Kyle, Phuoc Vinh is hardly what I’d call an airbase. As an infantryman with 1/26 1st ID Oct. 66-67 it was more of a forward staging area. Don’t get me wrong I really enjoyed your posting and hope you are successful in your search. When I first arrived the airfield could only accommodate helicopters, C-123 and 130’s and as I recall the C-130 had rocket boosters, the single runway was laterite. That being said the Phuoc Vinh than is nothing as I remember especially since the original Catholic Church was demolished. As I recall the Church was the tallest structure in town. There were no trees as there are now; however the people are just as beautiful and smiling as I remember. It was a rural / farming area, little access to electrical power and no running water. There were so many villagers working and dependent on the Army base from construction, house keeping , laundry mostly women as the men were either ARVN or VC who knew.... I always felt bad about the USA abandonment, however today they maybe better off. Thank you for your postings, good luck in your search.

    • @jimrichards4193
      @jimrichards4193 2 роки тому

      yeah I convoyed from long vinh in sept. '65 and the place was desolate and horrible...we had to go for chow with the air cav in an old wooden fort . We were with 1st div P.O.L. and were eating c rations

    • @johnn251
      @johnn251 11 місяців тому

      So, are you saying that the Vietnam War was about Catholicism?

    • @timrogers1521
      @timrogers1521 10 місяців тому +1

      @@johnn251how did you extrapolate that, from what I wrote?

  • @MrMogieville
    @MrMogieville 7 років тому +19

    I believe I was there 65-66 serving with the 1st infantry division, company C, 2nd battalion, Black Lions. What a difference.

    • @forwardobserver2048
      @forwardobserver2048 5 років тому

      Ronald Mogensen 1st Infantry and 1st Cavalry at Phuoc Vinh. Ground Zero for Agent Orange saturation. Never got into the village. Off limits in ‘69-70.

    • @walkaway6353
      @walkaway6353 5 років тому

      @@forwardobserver2048 LOL thanks for the lauf..."Agent Orange saturation".
      The only time you wore the "poncho" was when the 123's sprayed .

    • @MrMogieville
      @MrMogieville 3 роки тому

      @Marc Kunze I do not remember why I said (I believe),as we arrived by ship in September 95?

    • @jimrichards4193
      @jimrichards4193 2 роки тому

      I was there too 65-66 1st div. Glad you made it back !!!

  • @briandd27
    @briandd27 9 років тому +4

    Thanks for this. My uncle was at Phuoc Vinh during the Vietnam War.

  • @dungho8054
    @dungho8054 6 років тому

    KYle you are good, I watched a lot of you video . very good work. Thanks...

  • @glennmcgee1729
    @glennmcgee1729 9 років тому +3

    I enjoyed this video and read your companion piece, Kyle. I found the story intriguing. You were bold to basically travel back in time on behalf of someone else with little information surrounding a sensitive era. I can understand some push back but also know in my line of work, some people are wary to any stranger asking questions. I appreciate this kind of content because I want to learn more about people overseas. There's a plethora of travel videos in tourist areas looking for places to eat and party which is all good, but there is a need for quality content such as this for those less internationally traveled.

  • @darch19
    @darch19 3 роки тому +2

    Phuoc Vinh is a town of Binh Duong province

  • @JimmyBahia
    @JimmyBahia 6 років тому +4

    My first base camp with the First Infantry Division-1/5 th Artillery and 1/26th Inf. Regt.

  • @kokomokid4006
    @kokomokid4006 4 роки тому +6

    "🍺GARRY🍀OWEN🍺"
    B-1-7 1CAVAM
    1972

  • @tayninh69
    @tayninh69 5 років тому +4

    I actually enjoyed this video. I was with A btry. 2/20th ARA "Blue Max" and we moved from Tay Ninh to Phuoc Vinh in late June of 1970 (I think). I went home in Aug. of 1970 and I don't remember much about the place. Nice video.

    • @markpaul8178
      @markpaul8178 2 роки тому

      Jay,did you know ray Paul who was there in 69 the 70?He is my brother.

    • @tayninh69
      @tayninh69 2 роки тому

      @@markpaul8178 I'm sorry, it's been a very long time since we were all over there. The name doesn't ring any bells for me. Maybe if you knew what outfit he was with that might help. Have a good one.

  • @christopherherrera921
    @christopherherrera921 4 роки тому

    Wow! Good job,this is cool,regardless of anything uncomfortable. It only makes you stronger. And at the end you are doing good.

  • @scentlessapprentice88
    @scentlessapprentice88 3 роки тому +1

    Your knowledge of the language is outstanding. Great work! Awesome video

    • @robrak3569
      @robrak3569 11 місяців тому

      He’s Vietnamese 😊

  • @thomasglandon5078
    @thomasglandon5078 5 років тому +8

    This was my base camp in 1969 with the 1st Cav

  • @edterry7710
    @edterry7710 Рік тому +1

    I was there in 1970 I went there to talk to a doctor for combat stress I was 19 yes old man have things changed since then

  • @mrtinwindup
    @mrtinwindup 8 років тому +5

    Thanks for sharing. I was there with the 1st Cav. in 69 and 70. So much has changed. Where are all the young people? After looking at your other videos, it looks like they are all in Saigon. Really like all your videos.

    • @kyleledotnet
      @kyleledotnet  8 років тому +1

      +mrtinwindup thank you. please share this video with your friends. im really trying to grow my channel. thank you. if more people knew about me I'd be able to make more videos

    • @nikiwagner6879
      @nikiwagner6879 5 років тому +3

      My dad was too, Sir. At that time & with 1st Cav, Airmobile detachment, 191st Military Intellegence. He has recently passed away & I am looking into his service. That lead me here. I know his helicopter was downed at some point. Not sure if that is why he was awarded the AM? Anyway, did you know him? Don Welch, from canon city?

  • @harleydog7
    @harleydog7 9 років тому +10

    Cam an Kyle. I served there in 68 with 101st ABN. I used that runway many times. It's surreal to see it without all the buildings that lined it. Despite the defeatist comments, I also find people with minimal info, with an 80% success rate. Your methods were laudable. In my opinion, the unfriendly attitude depicted is as a direct result of communism. Those people will never see the prosperity they experienced while the USA was there. I'm ashamed that we deserted your people & left them in the clutches of tyranny. Thanks again.

    • @kyleledotnet
      @kyleledotnet  9 років тому +1

      harleydog7 word. thanks for writing.

    • @kyleledotnet
      @kyleledotnet  9 років тому +1

      harleydog7 if you know anyone who might be interested, please share this video with them and be sure to check out my LZ x ray video too

    • @zannierzan9634
      @zannierzan9634 6 років тому +3

      harleydog7 I appreciate your service to your country, but if people really loved the S.Vietnam government, it wouldn't collaspe within months.

    • @MrRight-fu1gf
      @MrRight-fu1gf Рік тому

      @@zannierzan9634He is well aware just writing some White supremacy shit to make himself feel better. Like I’m killing you for your own good. 😂😂😂

  • @tennisman2k
    @tennisman2k 7 років тому +3

    I stationed in Phuo c Vinh in 1966 early 67 with head quarters company 6Bn 27th artillery Battalion 8 inch howitzers and 175 mm guns ..

    • @r.johnmckay1153
      @r.johnmckay1153 6 років тому +1

      My father was the battalion commander of 6th of 27th Artillery. . . .

  • @Ferda1964
    @Ferda1964 6 років тому +1

    the people of Vietnam are so very nice and polite

  • @johnbaylaya7000
    @johnbaylaya7000 5 років тому

    Was there for a couple of months after leaving Cambodia (First of 12th First Cav...) great video, good to see.how things are looking ...

  • @khoi.gaspar9493
    @khoi.gaspar9493 9 років тому

    Interesting...

  • @Owlerycrinkie0918
    @Owlerycrinkie0918 9 років тому +1

    OMG, good luck finding that old man in the picture. Nice video though.

  • @RTH-xo6gl
    @RTH-xo6gl 4 роки тому +2

    Navy now makes port calls in Vietnam

  • @larrycook1047
    @larrycook1047 4 роки тому +2

    I pulled a lot of guard duty on bunker #123 that was right across from the Catholic Church in 1970. There was a monument of The Virgin Mary there too.

    • @michaelcummingsherrera1232
      @michaelcummingsherrera1232 4 роки тому

      I also pulled guard duty in '69 on the tower that overlooked our helipad at HSC 15th Med Bn. Having recently come from a line unit, I was the only medic that knew how to fire and clean a M-60 machine gun.

    • @markpaul8178
      @markpaul8178 2 роки тому

      Hi Larry.Did you know ray Paul who was there in 69 and 70?

  • @jameslibby1347
    @jameslibby1347 2 роки тому

    I was based at Phuoc Vinh 66-67 1/26th Inf, (BRO)First Inf Div We had tents, later had tropic building’s

  • @damoo1982
    @damoo1982 9 років тому

    cool music

  • @timtigerz1
    @timtigerz1 Рік тому

    Just imagine all of the stories these old folks could tell.

  • @paullaurn
    @paullaurn 5 років тому

    Im taiwanese but i stayed in binh duong vietnam over 13 years....before binh duong was call the name "song be",and phuoc vinh now call the new name phuoc giao...phuoc vinh was huge area around Song Be river until Dong nai river....

  • @popdadaorona
    @popdadaorona 8 років тому +31

    man , this is incredible for me almost unbelievable ,I was with the 101st Airborne Div dec 67 nov 68.. that was our home base ... during Tet jan68 we convoyed to Bien Hoa and did some house to house sweeps... what a way to begin our combat experience ... we moved all over Nam from here ,,, Cu Chi/ Dak To/ Phan Rang/ never got any rest .. always hungry ,wet, and tired... sometimes we managed to have a little bit of fun. would love to go back and see if our old buildings are there ... we would pull perimeter guard when we were back for a rest ... that didn't happen to often ... Charlie was always on our ass. I was with 2/506th Charlie Co. 1st Platoon. 101st Airborne Div. if any of you motherfuckers read this .... drop me line .

  • @forwardobserver2048
    @forwardobserver2048 5 років тому +5

    Ground Zero for Agent Orange saturation from what I’ve read. 1st Cav 1969-70.

    • @nikiwagner6879
      @nikiwagner6879 5 років тому

      This was my dad, who just died 2017, Dec., served 69-70 1st Calvary, MI 191st military detachment Airmobile. He never filed for VA benefits & he never talked about it. We do know his chopper was downed at some point. I now have his medals (he denied having), I filed for DIC on behalf of my mom- granted with little hassle. Strange since back in 1989 my dad was tested (at his request) for agent orange. Which they said he did not have. In fact he was told he was not in the "theater" for agent orange. Funny, since his death certificate states otherwise...hence the approval for DIC (denied accumalated since he had never applied while alive)

    • @mebeasensei
      @mebeasensei 3 роки тому

      @@nikiwagner6879 I am new to learning about all this, but it seems to me a lot of people have filed and been granted their claims for Agent Ornage ..even without a direct cause and effect specified. Alas, your pop has passed. RIP

  • @ronaldbrown4044
    @ronaldbrown4044 Рік тому +1

    I was there in 69. I taught English to the people in town as I also spoke Vietnamese. I don’t recognize the town in your video. As I recall there were only dirt roads. We got hit by sappers one night who staged in the town.

    • @kyleledotnet
      @kyleledotnet  Рік тому

      interesting, thanks for sharing your story.

  • @rpm12091
    @rpm12091 4 роки тому

    That place has really came up in the world.

  • @RealSpaceHobo
    @RealSpaceHobo 9 років тому

    Omg - really loved this vid - especially all those old women kicking your sorry ass Kyle - can't wait to see the next one....:-)

  • @ankhue
    @ankhue 8 років тому +13

    Those people who yelled in this video, I think it's not that they were upset or mad at you because you're asking questions. I think there are some Vietnamese people they are just like that. And actually, the way they are talking to you, it's more like they are telling you that you are stupid and wasting time to find the man in the picture. I don't mean to say you're stupid, i am just explaining why they yell. I really hate when people do that. My mom is a kind of person who ask questions all the time because it's not hurt to ask; and there were so many times I saw people yelled at my mom just like that. I was so angry because they yelled at my mom. I hate it a lot. I think it's a bad influence not only in Vietnam but also in many Asian countries, and many students and younger generations are afraid to ask questions because they are afraid of being yelled at and being called stupid.

  • @tsiyon12
    @tsiyon12 4 роки тому

    Your spoken Vietnamese is outstanding 👍

  • @jamespeters2859
    @jamespeters2859 3 роки тому

    Good music

  • @ESPLTD322
    @ESPLTD322 3 роки тому

    Reminds me of Florida with mountains

  • @charliequiming9275
    @charliequiming9275 4 роки тому +1

    Clark Michael sp4, worked supply 31st Engineers HHC 1970, lived right off the air strip across from graves registration.

  • @RicardoRMedina
    @RicardoRMedina 6 років тому +13

    Take in account that after the fall of South Vietnam in 1975 many people with association with Americans or South Vietnamese government fled because they feared for their lives. Those who stayed were placed in Re-education camps where a high percentage were tortured. It was a difficult time for these people and they do not wish to remember. The person Kyle is inquiring of maybe was able to flee to the US or maybe was one of the thousands of Boat people who ended up in the Philippines, Thailand or any other country. There is also a possibility that he was killed in the war or died a natural death later years.

    • @profiveactive4758
      @profiveactive4758 5 років тому

      100% it's true..

    • @jopflah416
      @jopflah416 5 років тому

      Kodak Retina And where were you when you witnessed all this? Are you a degreed historian? Do you easily fall for propaganda? Are you really gullible? Do you make shit up?

  • @clippertalk
    @clippertalk 9 років тому +2

    Cool vid, thanks for the upload. One of my cousins worked as a reporter in VN for a couple of years, she was based in Hanoi I think. Her name is Oanh, you wouldn't happen to know her would you?

  • @timjenkins8538
    @timjenkins8538 Рік тому

    Love this background music! Where can I download it? I can't find it anywhere online.

  • @jerryadams5401
    @jerryadams5401 5 років тому +2

    Kyle, what do modern day Vietnamese people think about American Vietnam Veterans? Are they well received. Or is there a lingering dislike?

    • @kilo393
      @kilo393 5 років тому +2

      From what I've seen and read they don't care.Most people have moved on from the war.I saw a video of an American vietnam veteran and he was pretty well recieved even by a group of men who used to be in the NVA.

    • @MrBurntfinger
      @MrBurntfinger 3 місяці тому

      @@kilo393 Soldiers tend to respect other soldiers, even ones they fought against. There's a shared experience between them. Trying to explain it is like trying to explain blue to a blind man.

  • @jimw.4161
    @jimw.4161 3 роки тому +1

    Wow!
    I was stationed at Phuoc Vinh with the 1st Cav in 1970 - 1971.
    I don't recognize a damn thing!
    It's changed a bit!
    😁

    • @datasoccer
      @datasoccer 2 роки тому

      Hey... im trying to find people that might have known my father at this place. he was there 1969-70.. and then i think his second tour was more south. can we get in touch? email or whatever? He was in the 1st Cav

    • @jimw.4161
      @jimw.4161 2 роки тому +1

      @@datasoccer
      Datasoccer,
      Pls let me know which unit your father was in - that will narrow things down quite a bit.
      If he was in military intelligence there is a greater possibility that I knew him.
      I served with the 191st MID (1sr Cav) in the IPW section.
      I also served further south:
      Bien Hoa; Long Binh; and Xuan Loc - near the South China Sea.
      Good luck with your search!

    • @gearhead19
      @gearhead19 Рік тому

      My cousin was also with the 1st air-cav 70-71, haven't seen him in 45 years have questions I would like to ask him. Btw. Welcome home and thank you for your service.

    • @jimw.4161
      @jimw.4161 Рік тому

      @@gearhead19
      Thank you, and I hope you are able to locate your cousin. ✌

  • @TheLivingDeadOne
    @TheLivingDeadOne 9 років тому +6

    8:55 Moral of this story, dont laugh at old people They may have been hot when they were younger.

  • @datasoccer
    @datasoccer 2 роки тому +1

    anyone here between 69-71? Thought it might be good to connect some folks with my dad who served here during that time. 1st Cav.

    • @markpaul8178
      @markpaul8178 2 роки тому

      Ray Paul my brother was there in 69 the 70.,your dad might know him.

    • @datasoccer
      @datasoccer 2 роки тому

      @@markpaul8178 wow I bet he did. I have audio reels (now digitized) and pics. Do you know if he had a nickname? Let's connect, i'd love to see if there was a connection of some kind.

    • @RichardTobin-mr6wu
      @RichardTobin-mr6wu 10 місяців тому

      I was there 69 to 71. Names Rick Tobin, what's your dad's name

  • @paullaurn
    @paullaurn 5 років тому

    The guy u try to find in binh duong, maybe after 1975 he was
    Join reform through labour and death in the
    reform through labour camp...
    If not death, maybe come back home land alredy, the people linve there now,normally after years 1975 just from north vietnam movies there....

  • @bjmartinphotography
    @bjmartinphotography 9 років тому

    That was funny Kyle. Find my real dad for me, lol. Yeah, I have no clue too.

  • @yuanchanbeats
    @yuanchanbeats 4 роки тому

    Did you finally find that guy on the picture?
    Reminds me of a personal situation in Thailand.
    In 2005 I had visited the island Koh Samui with my parents and my brother. We had met a nice family who owned a restaurant on the island in a village named Maenam (Thai Kitchen Restaurant).
    2007 I went there again and met those peopke again.
    This year (2019 | 12 years later) in june I´ve been in Koh Samui again and visited the same spot. My parents have been there in 2011 again but they said, that restaurant closed.
    Actually, the building is still there but it changed (still looks similar). Now it is called Sunshine Gourmet. I talked to the owner.
    When I showed her some old pictures she recognized the ex-owner und told me she still lives in that village.
    Some some other people we´ve met there already left the island long ago.
    There was one restaurant owner named Cherry. She had a restaurant in that area too, but nobody could recognize her.
    Even after 12 years it can be hard to find someone, with just a picture or memories/descriptions. But it is possible.

  • @Kakkoii_ne
    @Kakkoii_ne 3 роки тому

    Maybe I missed it, but what was the reason you went looking for the person in this photo?

  • @YiannisPho
    @YiannisPho 8 років тому +6

    Kyle, you impress the hell out of me. My first exposure to your videos was rather negative. You looked like a young punk on an ego trip. But slowly you gained my trust and finally my admiration. Not only do you have a wicked sense of humor and an eye for a well-turned dish, but you also have a pretty big heart. Some NGO interested in Vietnam's development--and global image--should give you a medal. Well, maybe not tomorrow. But as soon as you dry out completely behind the ears and tone down your channel's and blog's relentless self-promotion. You are now a bona fide public figure. Anymore, the road to more subscribers is not by endless advertising of your existence (an annoying and, I think, rather self-defeating endeavor at this point), but by earning, as you clearly deserve, more viewers' respect and affection.

    • @kyleledotnet
      @kyleledotnet  8 років тому +3

      +YiannisPho self promotion is important in order to grow a channel in order to make more money. videos are not only expensive but time consuming to produce. i also self promote because there are many people who steal my videos and upload them onto their own channels and now local us tv stations are illegally doing the same thing. unfortunately, im a one man operation and can not do anything about it. so I self promote because I have to. not because I want to.

    • @posto4893
      @posto4893 7 років тому

      YiannisPho I like ego waffles .-.

    • @kilo393
      @kilo393 5 років тому

      Self promotion is very important these days.There are youtubers who don't make very good videos in my opinion, but because they know how to advertise themselves very well they get thousands and even millions of views.

  • @DragonGodOFAndy
    @DragonGodOFAndy 9 років тому +1

    Now it's so tempting that I wanted to also find out who that man is? So tempting to know!

    • @kyleledotnet
      @kyleledotnet  9 років тому

      Phong Thinh Yeah. would have been great to see him.

    • @DragonGodOFAndy
      @DragonGodOFAndy 9 років тому

      Kyle LeDotNet I like history and the war stuff and that's like my hobby on the side that's why I saw this video and wanting to know cause it looks so awesome!
      So what happen after did anyone help you out or with any clues?

    • @kyleledotnet
      @kyleledotnet  9 років тому

      Phong Thinh no. no one knew. the pictures weren't great.

  • @multitieredinvestor183
    @multitieredinvestor183 3 роки тому +1

    When I commanded A 40th Signal Battalion we installed buried 400 pair telephone cable for 1CD August 1969.

    • @markpaul8178
      @markpaul8178 2 роки тому

      I bet my brother Ray Paul was in on that operation.

  • @stanleyfistick9414
    @stanleyfistick9414 3 роки тому

    Was here in '68. C/3/197 Arty.

  • @Rachiuwu
    @Rachiuwu Рік тому

    Didn't know theres surf in Vietnam. 😮

  • @Boris_Chang
    @Boris_Chang 4 роки тому +4

    In older times one could be sent to a re-education camp for having worked for the Americans. Today Vietnam has healed rather amazingly, and of all of the Communist countries today seems the least oppressive (or in the case of North Korea-scary). IMO, your whole approach was awkward and abrasive. And yes, having been married to a Chinese woman for twenty-five years, she and her entire family often speak with raised voices. I once asked her why she yelled at me so much and why her family members (when we went over for a visit) seemed to be yelling at each other). She seemed stunned. She tried to explain that was just how Chinese were and not to take it as anyone being angry at me. I guess it permeates a lot of Asian culture to speak loudly, especially when trying to make a point. I don’t take it personally.

  • @Methadone4Life
    @Methadone4Life 8 років тому +2

    Sad to see skyscrapers take the place of trees, jungle and animal life. We are slowly destroying every last piece of untouched wilderness. Sigh.

  • @harrybriscoe7948
    @harrybriscoe7948 6 років тому +2

    In his next video he visits France with a picture from world War One looking for some one in a 100 year old picture

    • @kyleledotnet
      @kyleledotnet  6 років тому +6

      Btw, the family of the man in the picture reached out to me after they saw this video. Nothing is impossible.

  • @mebeasensei
    @mebeasensei 3 роки тому +1

    1:37 Looks nice.. A market, locally grown vegetables. People walking, shade, bicycles. 0:53 looks like Modern hell. Generic mall. Concrete. No shade. Roads. Chain stores and food from warehouses all over the world, refrigerated and delivered with millions of carbon miles and carbon hours of re-fridgeration. Welcome to Texas Vietnam. Makes no difference Lotte is Korean and AEON Japanese. I wonder if the local councils can resist the urge to level the markets, 'clean up' the streets and cave into developers? Money honey.

  • @vanhanvu469
    @vanhanvu469 5 років тому +1

    Mình có 2 bác làm bên chế độ cũ ( việt nam cộng hòa ) 1 người bên mỹ 1 người còn ở phước vĩnh - phú giáo a có thể cho e xin tấm hình e tìm phụ cho đó là người thân của a hay sao

  • @justinhoang5301
    @justinhoang5301 9 років тому

    i grew up there.

    • @kyleledotnet
      @kyleledotnet  9 років тому

      Justin Hoang did you recognize any places I filmed?

  • @inquisitvem6723
    @inquisitvem6723 9 років тому +1

    it is hard when you don't even have the name of that guy....

  • @luanpham96
    @luanpham96 9 років тому +2

    Hi anh kyle.
    So finally did u found her.
    Yeah phuoc vinh was where I lived.
    My grandpa was a Lính.
    He still lived around there.he may know the person u looking for.

    • @kyleledotnet
      @kyleledotnet  9 років тому

      luan pham no, it was a wild goose chase. didnt work out

  • @ronaldrobinson9517
    @ronaldrobinson9517 3 роки тому +1

    I was there 68-69 31st combat Engr

    • @markpaul8178
      @markpaul8178 2 роки тому

      Hi Ronald,my brother was there in 69 and 70 with the 31st.His name is Ray Paul,did u know him ?He still lives in Tennessee.

    • @ronaldrobinson9517
      @ronaldrobinson9517 Рік тому

      @@markpaul8178 No I was in CO A

  • @Aguijon1982
    @Aguijon1982 6 років тому

    It surprised me how little the vietnamese remeber and care about the war

  • @NguyenThuy-gt7xx
    @NguyenThuy-gt7xx 9 років тому

    gửi hình 2 người đó qua cho Con yh, con tìm xem được hk ?

  • @greggfrederick1461
    @greggfrederick1461 4 роки тому +1

    1/21 cav b battery palace guard one month 1970 then back to the jungle

  • @LinhHoaTran
    @LinhHoaTran 9 років тому

    I doubt if you can find the man or the woman Gai. VN has been through a lot and is a fast changing country. It is my serious concern that many relics of the past will be lost and can never be found again. Sad.

  • @rubenramos1000
    @rubenramos1000 2 роки тому

    Saludos lograron obtener información del hombre que buscaba?

  • @friedgaming8258
    @friedgaming8258 7 років тому +2

    its funny, I'm from there and I don't understand what they saying 😂😂😂😂

  • @Romans--bo7br
    @Romans--bo7br Рік тому

    Kyle... Great video, lots of memories there. I was in Nam from.. Jan. 8th, 1968 - Nov.16th 1970, from Phu Bai (A Shau Valley) to Vinh Long... been in Phuoc Vinh 8 or 9 times when I was flying with the Outlaws & Maverick gun team out of Vinh Long... we covered a Lot of real estate over there. An improvement to your otherwise wonderful video.... would be to... Lose the music, it's unnecessary & a little annoying.

  • @thuanqt
    @thuanqt 9 років тому +2

    Kyle, thanks for sharing this vid. It shows that the "Vietnamese collective memory" is quite bad! People talk of 1971 as if it is some ancient time and almost comes across as it it exists in myth and legend. 1972 is a long time ago if you were born after it because you may hear bits and pieces from your parents, but 1972 should not be for the gray hair generation! What it does show is that people have been through so much. The new transplants replaced the olds, who in turn had been uprooted and migrated to other places around the world. That's why when I visit Vietnam, I feel that Vietnam and people in general is lack of its sense of history and identity. What made up of this deficiency is just a lot of Vietnamese. On my personal life here in the States I barely make contact with a Vietnamese (except for my wife) for the whole week long until I visit Little Saigon. When you go to Vietnam, all of a sudden you're surrounded by the mass of Vietnamese! It's always a strangely pleasant sensation every time I step foot to Vietnam. You come into such close contact with Vietnames. you become accustomed to this environment very quickly for the two/three weeks when you stay there. For the first week or so after coming back here, you miss that affiliation. The funny thing is that you always experience this nastagia of Vietnam doesn't matter how many you make the trip!

    • @kyleledotnet
      @kyleledotnet  9 років тому +3

      ***** sometimes memories are purposely blocked. sometimes people genuinely forget.

    • @namvet5368
      @namvet5368 8 років тому +1

      +Kyle Le Dot Net: I was temporally stationed there with the 1st. Infantry Division Military Police during Operation Junction City in spring of 1967. I have put some photos of Phouc Vinh on different sites. I have a great photo of the Market Place that I took which is on line.

    • @andro7862
      @andro7862 2 роки тому

      I can assure you Vietnamese have great pride for their ancestors and their fight for independence. But both the thousands of people with PTSD and the government pursuing more cordial relations with the USA and Korea would rather just erase that war from memory. Ho Chi Minh said that after the war they will drink tea with the Americans.

  • @robertwolfe6369
    @robertwolfe6369 4 роки тому +1

    I am surprised that for a man that speaks the language as well as he does is so unaware of their tones. I was taught they spoke in a sing song manner but I found/find their language harsh, abrupt and animated.

    • @Johnnybomb1
      @Johnnybomb1 4 роки тому

      Most of the South East Asian languages sound disgusting . Vietnamese,Thai,Khmer, and Lao. Indonesian (Bahasa) sounds nice though.

  • @BlueHorizon1321
    @BlueHorizon1321 6 років тому

    Dong (something) = Đồng Xoài

  • @war.and.peace99
    @war.and.peace99 3 роки тому

    Is this remembrance of your prime time?

  • @S62bhas
    @S62bhas 3 роки тому +1

    a very sad story to me Politicians in the U S A Should have Been Jailed & You fellows kept quiet not right the country would have changed

  • @williamsimmons152
    @williamsimmons152 4 роки тому

    Why are they so antogonistic about trying to find someone?

  • @phucvan993
    @phucvan993 5 років тому

    4.56

  • @stoneblue1795
    @stoneblue1795 7 років тому

    I was not really into your video until the old lady chewed your ass. Now I am on the edge of my seat watching the rest of it. Funny shit actually! +1

  • @RasEthiopia.
    @RasEthiopia. Рік тому

    They are upset because of the wounds they carry.

  • @andro7862
    @andro7862 2 роки тому

    13:03 I think I know why lol

  • @lehai7361
    @lehai7361 4 роки тому +1

    Phú giáo hú nhẹ nhau

    • @ThanhLan194
      @ThanhLan194 4 роки тому

      Ngã 3 Kỉnh Nhượng - Vĩnh Hòa

  • @anniekate1914
    @anniekate1914 5 років тому +1

    i mean the video was great not the war

  • @gregorys6838
    @gregorys6838 4 роки тому

    Dare I say...another little America.

  • @AntonyCoLtd
    @AntonyCoLtd 3 роки тому

    My mon know Gai, she said to me

  • @yoomat66
    @yoomat66 3 роки тому +2

    The way of Vietname people talking sounds like yelling people...Looks like they dont have time to communicate with you.It is very different from Thai.

  • @joeygreen1628
    @joeygreen1628 6 років тому

    So did you end up finding the guy?

    • @kyleledotnet
      @kyleledotnet  6 років тому +3

      the guy's family reached out to me after the saw the video. unfortunately, he passed many years ago.

  • @user-qy6yn4kl8d
    @user-qy6yn4kl8d Рік тому

    Unlike America's books, movies and documentaries, Vietnam seems incurious about the war; content to dot her landscape with brutalist, Soviet-style memorials.

  •  4 роки тому

    why a mall ? they are dying here in the US.

    • @bretthoffman2128
      @bretthoffman2128 3 роки тому

      Did you see the picture on the 📺 in the lady's house? It was a table top color, did you see what the picture was doing on the set? Cable and Satellite might not even be there yet, internet on the phones maybe acess to content, likely regulated

  • @bobtis
    @bobtis 4 роки тому +1

    Very sad we had to loose 59,000 people and things turned ok anyway for the Vietnamese people. I think if the US could have seen the future they would have settled for this any day.

  • @imnew2nm324
    @imnew2nm324 6 років тому +1

    Man, why the crap music?

  • @faezramlee
    @faezramlee 9 років тому

    Is that phuoc vinh tay ninh?

  • @muknup
    @muknup 10 місяців тому

    So did ya find the ol' bastard??

  • @trandietnguy
    @trandietnguy 7 років тому +18

    The background music is annoying

    • @yongwoo1020
      @yongwoo1020 6 років тому

      Kyle, are you gonna stick up for your boy Antti regarding this comment from trannie-guy?

    • @keylime1237
      @keylime1237 6 років тому

      trandietnguy what the hell is wrong music? what kind of freak are you?

    • @h.hunsel6314
      @h.hunsel6314 6 років тому +2

      better than the stupid techno music on all travel vids.