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Even after 5 minutes of trauma you still don't know what kind of man you going to be because when it's all over can you finally get somewhere where you call home and you're sitting on your bedroom bed still hearing The echoes of the war somewhere in the background in those few moments your your finally you're at that same spot you always wanted to be but it doesn't feel safe like you would hope it be That soldier will never feel safe unless he's around other soldiers That has experienced the same thing he has They got that thousand Miles stare they don't need to say anything they know I gave you that urge you want to go back because you felt safer with them than you do sit in your bedroom People don't understand what the soldiers went through over there there's no way of explaining it we're trying to get them understand all they needed was time and respect instead of being spit on and judging them what you think they did over there or what you heard they did over there People need to quit judging other people That's when you find out what kind of man you going to be It's a whole new ball game you're facing the enemy and you're in your own country From that moment on you got to fight to get respected again and to feel like you are at home instead of strangers looking at you like you're the stranger I'm done now God bless every soldier there was they're all heroes Ashley the ones that didn't make it back they actually sacrifice their life
Everything that I have said it still wouldn't not help you feel or make you think you might know how they felt over there That's just a drop in the bucket
You missed one of the most interesting Vietnam War drug films - Jacob's Ladder, in which the government experiments on soldiers with drugs making them hyper aggressive. It's a dark, sad film relevant to the MK Ultra project and pop culture.
Presented with facts and a compassionate tone. As the son of a veteran of the Vietnam War, who witnessed too much carnage at age 18 (my father was not unique in that regard). I know he became addicted to the cheap, pure heroin circulating. He was kind man, who was "everyone's best friend". He was patriotic as well, and did not resent his service, but he was suffering with PTSD.
In Naval Air crews, VP Squadron's, 50%of the crew was taking DeX on 12 hour patrols...In 72 anyway you could get them from sick bay...I spent 40 years on methadone maintenance at the VA Hospital because of my addiction to heroin, it probably saved my life, but I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.
I read a fair few books on the Vietnam War as a lad... Despatches by Michael Herr.. View From a Low Bow by an Aussie lve forgotten the name of being the best re drug references and rock n rollers turned soldiers.
When I went to the Philippines any drug that you wanted was there and it was cheap. I used to walk around with a pocket full of cocaine and another pocket filled with marijuana. I barely went to sleep and I always had a prostitute with me sometimes two.🤔🇺🇸
I met Vietnam vets who said every drug being offered in the U.S. was available in Saigon. They also said that they regularly got F'ed up BEFORE going on patrol and even slipped a few beers into their rucks. It is widely known that the CIA pushed the French out of Vietnam to control the heroin trade. They turned Laos into a gigantic Opium poppy plantation. The American military was off limits in Laos but when the South Vietnamese started marketing heroin directly to American G.I.'s, Nixon became concerned and started advocating to pull out of the conflict. The best book i ever read on the subject is entitled "The politics of heroin" by Alfred McCoy.
I’d read 34% of returning US Vietnam vets came home addicted to heroin, there are books about how the US set up shop in Vietnam like the Wild West where drug use was rampant and ran elaborate medical drug studies on the soldiers, and the military numbers and statistics continue to be cited by current drug rehabilitation studies. According to a 1971 report by the Department of Defense, 51 percent of the armed forces had smoked marijuana, 31 percent had used psychedelics, such as LSD, mescaline and psilocybin mushrooms, and an additional 41 percent had taken hard drugs, such as cocaine and heroin. But drug usage wasn’t just limited by what enlistees could illicitly buy on the black market. Their military command also heavily prescribed pills to the troops under the auspices of improving performance. According to a report by the House Select Committee on Crime, the armed forces used 225 million tablets of stimulants between 1966 and 1969. In addition to those amphetamines, which were used to boost endurance on long missions, sedatives were prescribed to help relieve anxiety and prevent mental breakdowns.
Since before WWII it is illegal to use Drugs in U.S. Military. These anti- American jerks would have you believe American soldiers have all been high on heroin, cocaine, marijuana, etc., And that it was rampant in World War, Korean War, Vietnam, Grenada invasion, Panama invasion, Iraq & Afghanistan, or Syria. All U.S. troops are just high!
reaction times, quickness to wake up from REM sleep, cardio, motivation, survival instincts, eyesight, water intake requirements - all are affected by weed.
Australian troops eventually refused to be guarded by American troops and prefered to operate independently of the Americans due to tthem being all off their heads on all sorts of drugs at all levels of rank , thus not competent or safe to be around iff you wanted to survive your tour
Damn that’s info I just learned , everything about that war was so messed up, and the leaders have not a care how much their personal endeavors and being part of the huge under the table kick backs from being the people behind making the American military go to Vietnam that was just massive profits being the only reason to motivate the politicians to be on board to send there own people to be involved in the most damaging war after ww2 That war destroyed so many peoples lives permanently never the same, even the strong were so tramotizes by the stress and death all around and constantly scared for ur life all day all night watching friends die right next to u and death being such a likely and really result , seeing their situation as there’s such a small chance u will live through the next couple days
U could ask a selfish man if he would take a million dollars for himself if it meant that it would include ruining 100 good men’s lives forever. A politician would not even bat an eye, of course and laugh along with the other evil guys next to them
I definitely believe My father was a Vietnam vet. I strongly believe he became at Huron attic while he was in country. He overdose Three years later and die😟, is drugs like Huron was that cheap a dollar and marijuana and you are going to get a lot of drug addicts who are young and naïve💯🥹
Those who think the USA lost Vietnam would be sadly mistaken. The Vietcong lost 180,000 more soldiers/villagers than the USA. We didn’t lose we just said fuck it; packed up and went home
No. You are mistaken. The objective was not to kill as many as you killed but to guarantee that South Vietnam would still have a democratically elected government in Saigon and put a brake on the 'domino effect' there was no 'domino effect' Didn't happen You were fighting an unwinnable war against a nationalist army from the start (General Westmorland had so much to answer for) ergo you lost; your then Secretary of State Mac Namara said so (after he resigned), especially after Tet.
The vietcong objective was reunification of Vietnam under the "communist" North, as of 2023, they were successful in that. Still, America is the best and blessings to those who lost their lives they did service to our country and I wish we appreciated them more coming home back then.
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Even after 5 minutes of trauma you still don't know what kind of man you going to be because when it's all over can you finally get somewhere where you call home and you're sitting on your bedroom bed still hearing The echoes of the war somewhere in the background in those few moments your your finally you're at that same spot you always wanted to be but it doesn't feel safe like you would hope it be
That soldier will never feel safe unless he's around other soldiers
That has experienced the same thing he has
They got that thousand Miles stare they don't need to say anything they know I gave you that urge you want to go back because you felt safer with them than you do sit in your bedroom
People don't understand what the soldiers went through over there there's no way of explaining it we're trying to get them understand all they needed was time and respect instead of being spit on and judging them what you think they did over there or what you heard they did over there
People need to quit judging other people
That's when you find out what kind of man you going to be
It's a whole new ball game you're facing the enemy and you're in your own country
From that moment on you got to fight to get respected again and to feel like you are at home instead of strangers looking at you like you're the stranger
I'm done now
God bless every soldier there was they're all heroes Ashley the ones that didn't make it back they actually sacrifice their life
Everything that I have said it still wouldn't not help you feel or make you think you might know how they
felt over there
That's just a drop in the bucket
Heart felt, respect
You missed one of the most interesting Vietnam War drug films - Jacob's Ladder, in which the government experiments on soldiers with drugs making them hyper aggressive. It's a dark, sad film relevant to the MK Ultra project and pop culture.
That movie was based on a real program that was being considered by the JCOS and government...A realistic portrayal of a real bad trip....
All I remember was a bloke in a bath.
I have never seen Jacobs ladder, any good?
This is a very good channel for historical accuracy.
I've heard of Jacobs ladder but didn't know it was a film I thought it was a ladder 🪜 but I'm gonna have to watch it now
Presented with facts and a compassionate tone. As the son of a veteran of the Vietnam War, who witnessed too much carnage at age 18 (my father was not unique in that regard). I know he became addicted to the cheap, pure heroin circulating. He was kind man, who was "everyone's best friend". He was patriotic as well, and did not resent his service, but he was suffering with PTSD.
In Naval Air crews, VP Squadron's, 50%of the crew was taking DeX on 12 hour patrols...In 72 anyway you could get them from sick bay...I spent 40 years on methadone maintenance at the VA Hospital because of my addiction to heroin, it probably saved my life, but I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.
A vet once told me that when they went though the pockets of enemy dead they always looked for dope and chocolate.
TO THOSE WHO FOUGHT AND DIED IN VIETNAM, GOD BLESS YOU ❤️
You’re talking to dead people lol
This needed to be said
Everybody is on drugs, except drinkers. They never touch drugs.
Good old Methyl.Does everything only bad.
This was very fascinating. It's a topic rarely discussed.
Imagine if they had had Hermann Göring as their commander....
The troops did a lot more than smoking weed, mushrooms & LSD was big in nam.
May God Bless all those young men.Dexedrine makes you fearless.
Good Show. Well done!
the pusszzy was good and the dope was far out man.
Benzedrine Dexamphetamine too !!
IMO it is the most abominable and cruel and loathsome action perpetrated by the warmongers to drug the military.
Amphetamine was used in every conflict at least sine WWI. Not using it would give soldiers a disadvantage over the enemy.
@@funnyyellowdog8833 ''Amphetamine was used in every conflict'' No, definitely not. Not as a wide-range issued drug.
Nicholas Sand admitted to sending over millions of doses of lsd to Vietnam for the troops during the war.
4:20-4:22 a song reference from the song 19 by Paul Hardcastle
I read a fair few books on the Vietnam War as a lad...
Despatches by Michael Herr..
View From a Low Bow by an Aussie lve forgotten the name of being the best re drug references and rock n rollers turned soldiers.
When I went to the Philippines any drug that you wanted was there and it was cheap. I used to walk around with a pocket full of cocaine and another pocket filled with marijuana. I barely went to sleep and I always had a prostitute with me sometimes two.🤔🇺🇸
Lol u had fun
Pocket full = in a bag that fills the pocket, right?
I'd be too worried about losing loose Mary in my pocket if it wasn't somehow bundled.
I met Vietnam vets who said every drug being offered in the U.S. was available in Saigon. They also said that they regularly got F'ed up BEFORE going on patrol and even slipped a few beers into their rucks. It is widely known that the CIA pushed the French out of Vietnam to control the heroin trade. They turned Laos into a gigantic Opium poppy plantation. The American military was off limits in Laos but when the South Vietnamese started marketing heroin directly to American G.I.'s, Nixon became concerned and started advocating to pull out of the conflict. The best book i ever read on the subject is entitled "The politics of heroin" by Alfred McCoy.
Great channels..I love you lonnnnng time
Two dolla for one gram, oh I would of been off my face me..
They had it so good in the military they can't survive when they get out
The pusszzy was good and the dope was far out man.
Interesting
Pretty simple.. explanatory.. going thru hell, death, crazy times.. ppl gonna do drugs
Some happened but I don't believe that it was extensive as the movies showed.
Yes it was.
I’d read 34% of returning US Vietnam vets came home addicted to heroin, there are books about how the US set up shop in Vietnam like the Wild West where drug use was rampant and ran elaborate medical drug studies on the soldiers, and the military numbers and statistics continue to be cited by current drug rehabilitation studies. According to a 1971 report by the Department of Defense, 51 percent of the armed forces had smoked marijuana, 31 percent had used psychedelics, such as LSD, mescaline and psilocybin mushrooms, and an additional 41 percent had taken hard drugs, such as cocaine and heroin. But drug usage wasn’t just limited by what enlistees could illicitly buy on the black market. Their military command also heavily prescribed pills to the troops under the auspices of improving performance. According to a report by the House Select Committee on Crime, the armed forces used 225 million tablets of stimulants between 1966 and 1969. In addition to those amphetamines, which were used to boost endurance on long missions, sedatives were prescribed to help relieve anxiety and prevent mental breakdowns.
@@alan-dx2zf yup..
Internal memos, which have since been declassified make it clear that it was enough of an issue to warrant official discussion.
Since before WWII it is illegal to use Drugs in U.S. Military. These anti- American jerks would have you believe American soldiers have all been high on heroin, cocaine, marijuana, etc., And that it was rampant in World War, Korean War, Vietnam, Grenada invasion, Panama invasion, Iraq & Afghanistan, or Syria. All U.S. troops are just high!
How was alcohol? Less risky than marijuana? To dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.
reaction times, quickness to wake up from REM sleep, cardio, motivation, survival instincts, eyesight, water intake requirements - all are affected by weed.
@@mysticnovelbrofancy words.
@@Oduinn9 ?
Well this is all coming from a Brit haha. Those people drink like mad from a young age so in his opinion it's probably less harmful.
You must be deaf then
Booze much worse i know from experience 😜 yet theres a liquor store on every corner in America an banning is is not a option they tryed!!
I know this isn't mentioned much, but the herbal supplement kratom was used, though not as much
You're right !!
How did you get that information??
@@user-pu5fe5cq5w because I've been. Long time user
Great channels you history bastards.
Nuff love
No way Alcohol is safer than weed😂
Australian troops eventually refused to be guarded by American troops and prefered to operate independently of the Americans due to tthem being all off their heads on all sorts of drugs at all levels of rank , thus not competent or safe to be around iff you wanted to survive your tour
Damn that’s info I just learned , everything about that war was so messed up, and the leaders have not a care how much their personal endeavors and being part of the huge under the table kick backs from being the people behind making the American military go to Vietnam that was just massive profits being the only reason to motivate the politicians to be on board to send there own people to be involved in the most damaging war after ww2
That war destroyed so many peoples lives permanently never the same, even the strong were so tramotizes by the stress and death all around and constantly scared for ur life all day all night watching friends die right next to u and death being such a likely and really result , seeing their situation as there’s such a small chance u will live through the next couple days
U could ask a selfish man if he would take a million dollars for himself if it meant that it would include ruining 100 good men’s lives forever.
A politician would not even bat an eye, of course and laugh along with the other evil guys next to them
Bro the Air Force would bring bundles of marijuana to the troops in Vietnam. Ask a Vet
For all those who took drugs during the Vietnam war..hey maaaan Peace out.
I definitely believe My father was a Vietnam vet. I strongly believe he became at Huron attic while he was in country. He overdose Three years later and die😟, is drugs like Huron was that cheap a dollar and marijuana and you are going to get a lot of drug addicts who are young and naïve💯🥹
Nice ai art
I'm surprise that amphetamine use wasn't higjer
I thought I was a nerd. 😅
No son, the average age for the U.S soldier was not nineteen..it was niiiiiiinteen na na niiiiiiiiteen.
That’s a myth
It was 22
I notice you are no longer in their country, they kicked you out.
Comparing booze and pot? 😂
Thumbnail Homie isn't real but I still feel sorry for him
Noice
Wouldn't you'll love to have had the educated egg head as your combat buddy.
Stereotype
The average age was 22.
19 was a myth.
I wonder how many more misinformation you published
Yeah, Eyedontkno if, EYEAM very impressed by the fact of a "RhinoHorn" hanging on the backround : StuffYourHistory {SaveARhinoceros}
Those who think the USA lost Vietnam would be sadly mistaken. The Vietcong lost 180,000 more soldiers/villagers than the USA. We didn’t lose we just said fuck it; packed up and went home
No. You are mistaken. The objective was not to kill as many as you killed but to guarantee that South Vietnam would still have a democratically elected government in Saigon and put a brake on the 'domino effect' there was no 'domino effect' Didn't happen
You were fighting an unwinnable war against a nationalist army from the start
(General Westmorland had so much to answer for) ergo you lost; your then Secretary of State Mac Namara said so (after he resigned), especially after Tet.
The vietcong objective was reunification of Vietnam under the "communist" North, as of 2023, they were successful in that. Still, America is the best and blessings to those who lost their lives they did service to our country and I wish we appreciated them more coming home back then.
The North Vietnamese achieved thier objective. The U.S. did not achieve thier objective. Remind me again how the U.S. won?
@@wil7228 not so. Read other informed comments.
Nope, a bunch of farmers beat the US military. Not to mention That war was not in our interest what so ever.