Creepy Things that were “Normal” During Vietnam War

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  • @ives3572
    @ives3572 10 місяців тому +30

    Nothing but respect for all those brave souls who fought valiantly and gave up their lives for something greater than themselves.

  • @BrianLevine-q7e
    @BrianLevine-q7e 10 місяців тому +86

    I asked my Dad what bothered him the most about being in Vietnam. "Knowing a 5 year old is your enemy".

    • @MikeHunt-fo3ow
      @MikeHunt-fo3ow 10 місяців тому +9

      not getting sent there for no good reason?

    • @BrianLevine-q7e
      @BrianLevine-q7e 10 місяців тому +17

      @@MikeHunt-fo3ow My Dad and others in his unit volunteered. They went over in 1966. My Dad had 8 years in the Army when he went. My godfather was there in 1965. They went because the USA was supposed to be the "good guys". They wanted to fight Communists before they got near the USA. They got sucked into a sh*t storm.My Dad did all the evil things you heard about. He told me what he did in my teens. He wanted me to hear it from him. I got no problem with anything he did. The NVA and Viet Cong had no restrictions on their actions like the US had.

    • @MikeHunt-fo3ow
      @MikeHunt-fo3ow 10 місяців тому

      to stop that you dont shoot the soldiers silly you take out the boss @@BrianLevine-q7e

    • @bradabar2012
      @bradabar2012 9 місяців тому +1

      Wow!

    • @leonleon2276
      @leonleon2276 9 місяців тому +1

      so Americans got beat by under 10 year olds with bamboo bow n arrows. Okay , thanks.

  • @zeusathena26
    @zeusathena26 10 місяців тому +32

    My father was in Vietnam in 1965-1967. He was a Louisiana swamp boy, & so he wasn't scared. He taught the guys how to deal with a lot of it. Especially the leeches that dropped from the trees, & latch on. He had a lot of fun with 5h3 newbies with them too.

    • @johnlynch-kv8mz
      @johnlynch-kv8mz 10 місяців тому +3

      Good to hear it! I hope and pray Y’All arh okay.

    • @ToudaHell
      @ToudaHell 9 місяців тому +1

      I shudder at the thought of leeches falling from the trees. Just watching them swim toward me in a bog is bad enough.

    • @zeusathena26
      @zeusathena26 9 місяців тому +2

      @@ToudaHell agreed. Apparently his fellow soldiers hated it too. He showed the guys how to deal with them. He also fished, & cooked them for his buddies. He used his GI bill to get a master's in forestry.

    • @JB-ed9rt
      @JB-ed9rt 9 місяців тому +2

      Can you tell us some more stories about ya pops.. I know you got some good stories.. please put much detail in as possible.. Got me on da edge of my seat for a good read

  • @deboragoodson2757
    @deboragoodson2757 10 місяців тому +24

    I have a new found respect for the men who served in Vietnam. I was always aware of the fear and paranoia of the enemy. But i never considered the fact that the actual environment was just as deadly if not more. Thank you all for your sacrifice and service. God continue to bless and keep you. Thank you Nutty History for this eyeopening lesson❤

    • @kellychuang8373
      @kellychuang8373 10 місяців тому +1

      I can also say good video and really even more of a surprise of the actual environment not even clothes were safe from bugs like Malaria carrying mosquitoes. That nightmare and quagmire of a conflict really was F#4^ and Hell.

  • @dolorespcaldwell
    @dolorespcaldwell 10 місяців тому +47

    God bless our Vets especially those who served in Vietnam 🇺🇸

  • @kathrinsides2838
    @kathrinsides2838 10 місяців тому +13

    Thank you for doing this short video on Vietnam. I really wish you would do a more in depth video about this topic.
    I never got any education on the subject due to the fact that it was “too controversial” even in the mid-to-late ‘80’s. I had 1 teacher in high school who was a paramedic in Vietnam. And my senior year, we begged him to show us the pictures he took & talk about his experiences in our advanced human physiology class, and he did as a special day for us. He’s a really interesting & intelligent man, and I’m still friends with him today.

    • @chuckz2934
      @chuckz2934 10 місяців тому

      About 30K were killed at Normandy alone. Not disrespecting those who were killed in Vietnam but w KIA you really need to provide context

    • @danielwebster5748
      @danielwebster5748 8 місяців тому

      I know a guy that was in Vietnam and he didn't have any tips on his fingers he said the Viet Cong traditionally would cut your fingers to see if you would move. He said he had to play dead several times and get fingertips lobbed off and not move a muscle so they would think you were already dead.

  • @chalkiememe4183
    @chalkiememe4183 9 місяців тому +5

    I had never thought about all these added horrors. What a terrible experience for those veterans. Worse than any nightmare.

  • @fadedxwilson947
    @fadedxwilson947 10 місяців тому +5

    This was honestly a great educational video, thankyou.

  • @thehangmansdaughter1120
    @thehangmansdaughter1120 10 місяців тому +12

    All those kids, sent to fight other kids, so many came back broken. And how could they not be, after what they'd seen and done? And the people left behind, on the ground in Vietnam, the things they witnessed. It's wonder either side kept their sanity.

  • @RissaFirecat
    @RissaFirecat 10 місяців тому +15

    This is the reason for my husband's thousand-yard stare! He was never the same after he came home.

  • @kellychuang8373
    @kellychuang8373 10 місяців тому +3

    Good video and this really takes the nightmare of the conflict to a whole other level.

  • @leroysr1951
    @leroysr1951 10 місяців тому +6

    Remember when we came back they hated us and they still do called us all kinds of names in the book and no rich man son had to go.

  • @vicmorrison8128
    @vicmorrison8128 10 місяців тому +92

    History shows we should have never been there. Careful who you vote for youngins lest you find yourself or your children in the same situation...again. Rip Greg.

    • @Florida_man407
      @Florida_man407 10 місяців тому

      No duhhh aren't you the only person to ever say that.

    • @madievans4222
      @madievans4222 10 місяців тому +13

      @@Florida_man407 that doesn’t make the statement any less valid or poignant, it all starts with a vote

    • @calneigbauer7542
      @calneigbauer7542 10 місяців тому

      If you look at history we should of been there to stop the genocide of of a people

    • @tylerpemberton3134
      @tylerpemberton3134 10 місяців тому +4

      Yeah be very careful like your vote actually means something 😂😂😂

    • @TynanCanGame
      @TynanCanGame 10 місяців тому +2

      Vote with dollars not ballots

  • @Blitzkrieg1976
    @Blitzkrieg1976 10 місяців тому +14

    That place was a death sentence...those jungles look terrifying, those men traumatized. And the way America treated our boys...and still do.😢

  • @patricialong5767
    @patricialong5767 10 місяців тому +6

    My Danish father grew up in the jungles of Colombia and he would tell me his adventures of this area. He always said, "The little things will get you quicker than the big things" meaning that the insects, bacteria, snakes and plants, will kill your more quickly than jaguars and other animals of size. You know what? He was right! And yes, yes, there are demons in all shapes out there in them thar woods, believe it or not!

    • @missyouwish88
      @missyouwish88 9 місяців тому

      How did a Danish kid grow up in Columbia? Were his parents missionaries or something?

  • @ToudaHell
    @ToudaHell 9 місяців тому +2

    My mom actually threw a bamboo viper once. She was an environmental engineer in China and was walking through a bamboo forest when her hand grabbed something fleshy. Apparently she screamed and flung the thing away. Her guide told her she was really lucky it was winter at the time and the viper was sluggish in the cold. Southern China is around 10 degrees C in the winter. And thus started her quite understandable fear of snakes.

  • @lindakay9552
    @lindakay9552 9 місяців тому +3

    My mom had an uncle who was a decorated upper service man in Vietnam. He survived. I'd have to look at the family tree to remember his rank. My mom said her family was always really proud of him. I'm obsessed with studying wars. But I don't know much about Vietnam. Leave it to Nutty History to school me.❤

  • @juanitoviejo2121
    @juanitoviejo2121 9 місяців тому +4

    Damn bro you make 'Nam sound so exciting I want to sign the silly papers again! USMC 1967--1971.

  • @Volky_Volk
    @Volky_Volk 10 місяців тому +6

    The most deadly venom, which can kill you in two seconds flat delivered from this snake
    03:35
    snake: :D

  • @classic.cameras
    @classic.cameras 10 місяців тому +9

    I'd say MOST POINTLESS USA WAR but nah I would have to just say THE FIRST POINTLESS USA WAR as there have been so many since then. I am for the USA defending freedom and fighting against tyrants but this war was just dumb.

    • @willywonka7812
      @willywonka7812 10 місяців тому

      The US, historically, has installed dictators, not toppled them.
      The US army exists to control the landscape for global commerce and to ensure US corporate hegemony

  • @elconquistador5095
    @elconquistador5095 9 місяців тому +1

    Very difficult place. Kudos to our troops who endured that awful war.

  • @quentinrawlins4876
    @quentinrawlins4876 10 місяців тому +2

    Man this is a nutty video.

  • @thatrogersmith
    @thatrogersmith 10 місяців тому +3

    4:07
    Don’t mind me, I’m just mesmerized by that snake’s tongue. 😂

  • @scottmcwave9479
    @scottmcwave9479 10 місяців тому +8

    Well it’s one two three what are we fighting for! Don’t ask me I don’t give a damn, next stop is Vietnam!🎶

  • @paulholbrook7315
    @paulholbrook7315 Місяць тому +1

    The most dangerous of the vipers was called the two step snake....It bites you and you take two steps...........and drop dead..........

  • @jonnyjungle8096
    @jonnyjungle8096 9 місяців тому

    Nothing but respect for Viet Nam vets. Just couldn’t imagine being 19 years old, shoved into an 8 week training camp and thrown into one of the most vicious wars in history. The worst thing I had to worry about at that age was if I had a lift to whatever party was going on at the weekend.

  • @Rogermacanally
    @Rogermacanally 9 місяців тому +2

    Crazy to think all these people died for absolutely nothing

  • @debbylou5729
    @debbylou5729 10 місяців тому +12

    The French wanted a piece of Asia, lost and we stepped in. Sure, that makes sense

    • @robertonavarro7713
      @robertonavarro7713 10 місяців тому

      US military is back in Southeast Asia. They are building several bases in the Philippines to counter China.

    • @1pcfred
      @1pcfred 9 місяців тому

      It made sense to us. We stepped in to make sure the commies got nothing for free. They paid what we demanded of the land.

  • @hicknopunk
    @hicknopunk 10 місяців тому +3

    This is the generation that gave us Dragon's Lair.

  • @jimbrown7261
    @jimbrown7261 10 місяців тому +1

    Damn! They need to do a Naked and Afraid series over there.

  • @PacoOtis
    @PacoOtis 9 місяців тому +1

    Did you forget about the WWII guys who faced the same thing, but did so without helicopter evacuations or modern medicine? Let's give credit where it is due! Best of luck and thanks for sharing!

  • @sparks2spare782
    @sparks2spare782 10 місяців тому +9

    My dad was in Air Cav and they would shoot snakes on the landing pads all the time.

    • @mollymcnaughton3133
      @mollymcnaughton3133 10 місяців тому +2

      My uncle was in Air Cav for a time. The stories he told me about Tux...💕

  • @kennethprice5628
    @kennethprice5628 10 місяців тому +3

    I wasnt there but served in the Navy 1971-77., the entire waste of a war was because of the lie of the Tonkin gulf

    • @1pcfred
      @1pcfred 9 місяців тому

      Now there was a war in Vietnam and US combat forces engaged enemy in the war. But due to the US strategy you cannot say the US was actually at war in Vietnam. At least not in the classical sense. There was no campaign to defeat the North. Never was. It wasn't a goal of the mission. All the US wanted was for the North to stop attacking the South. Just go home and be good little commies on their own land. That's not how you wage a war!

  • @richardmoorer2668
    @richardmoorer2668 9 місяців тому +2

    Snakes are venomous not poisonous

  • @bradabar2012
    @bradabar2012 9 місяців тому +1

    Incredible Video, subscribed and bell turned on!

  • @gmoney4980
    @gmoney4980 10 місяців тому +3

    Mother nature is freakin scary.

  • @christophercarpenter8868
    @christophercarpenter8868 9 місяців тому +2

    Agent Orange,Oycontin etc killed my uncle

  • @imaghost2961
    @imaghost2961 10 місяців тому +5

    “For some, it felt like being a space marine battling xenomorphs.”
    Were the soldiers on drugs..? No offence, but they were literally fighting other humans. Maybe I’m taking this too literally, and I don’t even know if Alien was even out during the war (never seen it. Too messed up) but xenomorphs and human beings look nothing alike. This is a really weird comparison.

  • @paulholbrook7315
    @paulholbrook7315 Місяць тому +1

    You give a figure of 58K US casualties.....No, casualties are dead plus wounded...In Vietnam there were 211000 US casualties of which 58+K died......

  • @melvinatkins998
    @melvinatkins998 9 місяців тому +1

    Not by biological grandfather, but he was, and still is my grandfather!…. Everyone knew not talk about that war!…. He would just break into tears!…. He was an overly nice alcoholic, and even as child I knew he seen some things that I cannot even comprehend!…. 💯

  • @PanikedReactions
    @PanikedReactions 10 місяців тому +2

    Casualty’s include wounded. So 58,220 casualties is incorrect. Far more casualties.

  • @JPriz416
    @JPriz416 10 місяців тому +4

    MAC-V-SOG trained on an island with their indigenous troops and they would eat the rock apes. One of their training techniques was to get as close to the apes as they could and kill a dozen or so for their native troops to take back to their compound. The name of the island is at aloss to me right now.

  • @kentjensen4939
    @kentjensen4939 10 місяців тому +2

    Of course, the Romans lost even more than that in one battle, the Battle of Canae against Hannibal and his Carthagenians.

    • @robertonavarro7713
      @robertonavarro7713 10 місяців тому

      What about the massacre of 3 Roman legions in the hands of Germanic tribes in the Teuteburg forest?

  • @comparedtowhat2638
    @comparedtowhat2638 9 місяців тому

    Did you mention Step-and-a-half. You know, the snake that if it bite you, you would drop dead after taking a step and half?

  • @ItsDivisive
    @ItsDivisive 10 місяців тому +2

    And don't forget whether drugs they tripped out on at the time , and all the homeless orphan people that died that no one kept track of probably

  • @arthurbrumagem3844
    @arthurbrumagem3844 9 місяців тому +1

    The enemy had to deal with all these as well especially the NVA who were in many cases city boys. You can bet the Ho Chi Minh trail took its toll on the enemy

  • @Kishimyu
    @Kishimyu 9 місяців тому +1

    America hands weren't clean either. They had Hmong children fighting on their side. Without the Hmong, many more American soldiers would've died in those jungles.

  • @arthurbrumagem3844
    @arthurbrumagem3844 9 місяців тому

    Bamboo vipers were not that deadly compared to other venomous snakes there. I saw many different venomous snakes while there but never a king cobra. But was always concerned that while walking thru elephant grass I would walk into one at face level. Bothered me more than the enemy

  • @jettsteari3062
    @jettsteari3062 9 місяців тому +1

    The artwork is amazing.

  • @petersutcliffe4927
    @petersutcliffe4927 10 місяців тому +6

    The scariest thing they found was a bunch of people who didn't want foreigners invading their country.

    • @petersutcliffe4927
      @petersutcliffe4927 10 місяців тому +1

      @@mikememine1423
      the very same

    • @1pcfred
      @1pcfred 9 місяців тому

      Yes and we allied with those people that didn't want to be invaded too. To repel communist aggression. The US was there as the guests of South Vietnam.

    • @petersutcliffe4927
      @petersutcliffe4927 9 місяців тому

      @@1pcfred A wildly corrupt, illegitimate government. Maybe we should just let countries decide their own political systems without invading them.

  • @mrsteiner5290
    @mrsteiner5290 9 місяців тому +1

    No wonder the U.S used napalm and flame throws

  • @nhienleminhhue6605
    @nhienleminhhue6605 9 місяців тому

    when they can't name the General of the PAV that order the capture of the Rock ape you know the order did not exist.

  • @chrisbaylor7764
    @chrisbaylor7764 10 місяців тому

    I saw duke dennis at 1:53

  • @larry_9982
    @larry_9982 10 місяців тому +2

    Yes the GI's had a lot of stress to deal with during the war. Many of these sightings could probably be attributed to the high incidence of heroin and some really good marijuana though. I was there and I saw a lot of guys really really stoned.

    • @GingerMaster6875
      @GingerMaster6875 9 місяців тому

      Compared to the weed of today, those guys were smoking backyard boogie. That heroin from that particular region, on the other hand, started an epidemic here. But I could see that making someone physically and emotionally detached from all the stress. A literal zombie with training.

    • @missyouwish88
      @missyouwish88 9 місяців тому

      Stress can really screw with your head, too

  • @danielwebster5748
    @danielwebster5748 8 місяців тому

    I don't know I'll talk to several men that I would consider to be very truthful and they said you had to watch when you were walking through the jungle because there was an upright walking ape that would throw rocks at them and supposedly men were knocked unconscious by these Rock apes throwing big rocks. No they did say many times they didn't see them they would simply see the large boulders flying through the air that was probably too large to be thrown by a human being.

  • @SkyeMama313
    @SkyeMama313 10 місяців тому +3

    Can you do one on the saltwater underground railroad for black history month? Please and thanks ❤

    • @missyouwish88
      @missyouwish88 9 місяців тому +1

      I second this- mostly because I've never heard of it!

  • @rickwilson8533
    @rickwilson8533 9 місяців тому

    1st Infantry 26th BlueSpaders 69-70 don’t forget rats bigger than small dogs!

  • @joserafaelmendoza1214
    @joserafaelmendoza1214 10 місяців тому

    You sure are funny,with that call to cancel your trip to Cambodia .😅😂😅😂

  • @CoralineJonesPinkPalace
    @CoralineJonesPinkPalace 10 місяців тому +1

    Now, this is going to be terrifyingly interesting.

  • @scottmarquardt3575
    @scottmarquardt3575 10 місяців тому +4

    My stepfather, Don Hackett, from Seattle told me when he was a radio man in the jungle he heard noises, set his radio down and investigated. I guess he ended up killing all the scary!

  • @charlesbowers8845
    @charlesbowers8845 10 місяців тому +3

    Anyone know who the narrator is? He does a good job.

  • @Vanessa-bl7cp
    @Vanessa-bl7cp 10 місяців тому +2

    Just a FYI: snakes aren’t poisonous, they are venomous.

  • @arthurbrumagem3844
    @arthurbrumagem3844 9 місяців тому

    Trained in trench warfare ? Not likely. But the tunnels they dug over there was an example of taking trench warfare to an extreme 😂

  • @mitchellculberson9336
    @mitchellculberson9336 9 місяців тому

    Snakes don't growl or snarl.

  • @mikerogers1216
    @mikerogers1216 9 місяців тому

    Smakes: Venomous, not poisonous.

    • @1pcfred
      @1pcfred 9 місяців тому

      Venom is one kind of poison.

  • @cluedin
    @cluedin 9 місяців тому

    Sorry tiger!!!

  • @debbralehrman5957
    @debbralehrman5957 10 місяців тому +1

    Wow

  • @sangjeongkimcho293
    @sangjeongkimcho293 10 місяців тому

    3:15 🤣

  • @gregwhittingham7420
    @gregwhittingham7420 10 місяців тому +2

    Do Americans forget Australia 🇦🇺 followed you guys in there but you guys seem to never mention it also check out the aussie band cold chisel the song is called khe sanh its about what Australians went through after that war

  • @lizardtattoo1
    @lizardtattoo1 9 місяців тому

    But they do have a unique native monkey- the Cat Ba langur

  • @ABO-Destiny
    @ABO-Destiny 10 місяців тому

    Jist remember the British and other European colonisers had been through all these and much more in same and similar places centuries earlier in history and they had triumphed.
    What made them succeed and what made america fail.
    War is just a way to achieve a definite result but I genuinely believe there are many, many, innumerable untold stories which goes on during and before a war which helps or disables one side fighting for the result.
    I am sure there were much more silent local support for european colonisers than history books care to write about, unlike support fir america during vietnam and some other wars

    • @saber1able
      @saber1able 10 місяців тому

      Interesting that they triumphed yet it is not British or European. And, if they triumphed, where were they during the war? I don't remember them battling to hold the territory that they owned in Vietnam. What part of Vietnam was British/European anyway? I like history, it would be interesting to learn more.

    • @ABO-Destiny
      @ABO-Destiny 10 місяців тому +1

      @@saber1able
      Ok.
      The British were there in Indian sub continent and upto Myanmar , Malaysia and Singapore which is east and south east of Thailand which is east of Vietnam.
      However in Vietnam the french were the dominant colonisers.
      The Americans got involved in the war after colonial powers had to recede from their overseas territories post WW2 giving way to the rise of America as dominant world force, however America was counter balanced by communist Soviet Union and new communist nation of China who was sponsoring the spread of communism in North Vietnam while south Vietnam was still holding onto the French colonial legacy.
      USA got involved indirectly and then directly in Vietnam war to prevent spread of communism in south vietnam.
      Thats the story in gist, I am sure there are many untold stories involved too.
      The point I wished to make is, the european colonial powers got involved in different parts of Asia and setup colonies after they got out of stranglehold of middle eastern/ ottoman islamic trade control by circumnavigating africa to find new trade routes to South, south east and east asia.
      Most of the regions in South and South east asia were at that point under control of local islamic, buddhist and hindu kingdoms.
      Those days the situation as described in this video were far worser, wild animals , poisonous reptiles, crocs were abundant, not to speak of proliferation of diseases, insects, mosquitoes and associated illnesses and similar tactics as described here of scaring invading forces with poisonous animals and other inhuman,dreadful means were more of a norm irrespective of who the enemy was, than they were during the USA- vietnam war, and then communication was primitive which offcourse was more of a disadvantage of locals than colonisers.
      So you can see things were much more difficult for european armies to setup establishments and win battles in 18th century than they were in 20th century.
      So why could european colonisers succeed while USA did not.
      The basic reason I believe is an urge of battle hardy europeans to set foot outside their continents and a counter urge of locals to get rid of local kingdoms , locals until recently were always dependent on individual strongmen who were more interested in personal gains through toppling of empires than fight for their own race as we have nowadays. It was much more normal for people to collaborate with outsiders to further their own interests than these days.
      Those days europe was not very developed while those places were rich and when one becomes rich and powerful one tends to loose social cohesiveness and strives for individual greatness instead, so I am sure europeans got much more support from locals those days than Americans received during 20th century and under those situations these non descriptive, salient roles played by locals most likely had played crucial role, however nothing works like a natural need to have something and European colonisation through turn of events had succeeded probably because europeans of those times really needed to get out of europe for their own survival.

    • @1pcfred
      @1pcfred 9 місяців тому

      The US wasn't trying to colonize or defeat anyone in the far east. While engaged in combat operations the US didn't fail either. The South fell two years after US combat forces withdrew. Now we could have and perhaps maybe should have gone back. But decided not to at the time. Technically the US achieved our goals with the Paris Peace Accords.

  • @JonBrown-po7he
    @JonBrown-po7he 10 місяців тому

    Painful mistakes are helpful corrections to the wise, while entitled fools embrace angry rage. As vet of our Central America incursions, I can say Vietnam was helpful, yet with a large, shinny scar in the midst of our tarnished, national honor. Nobody's like me serve because we were 'raised' to believe life, in a democracy, includes giving, not just taking!

    • @willywonka7812
      @willywonka7812 10 місяців тому

      The real John Brown would be abhorred by your bloodthirsty imperialist ideology

  • @lopedog33
    @lopedog33 10 місяців тому +2

    Venomous snakes not poisonous

  • @phaultypmm
    @phaultypmm 9 місяців тому

    Foliage. Is that a Simpsons reference

  • @kobrazak
    @kobrazak 10 місяців тому +1

    Noted: don't start a war in Australia 📝

    • @missyouwish88
      @missyouwish88 9 місяців тому

      Ask them how the Emu War went 😆

  • @coltonboone8415
    @coltonboone8415 10 місяців тому

    My grandpa is in the picture at 9:52

  • @AlBirk-m1p
    @AlBirk-m1p 10 місяців тому +3

    Lame attempts at humor are insuferable....

    • @missyouwish88
      @missyouwish88 9 місяців тому

      Then don't watch 🤷‍♀️

  • @P3rmissionD3ni3d
    @P3rmissionD3ni3d 9 місяців тому

    Wow. Well I now understand why they sprayed agent orange. Unfortunately it became a case of die now or die later.