Had a grunt tell me after we pulled them out of a hot LZ. "you got the worst job in Vietnam." I told him I thought he had the worst job. I also told him you come a calling and we come a hauling. That's what you call mutual respect. After we dropped them off. We gave each other a handshake and a thumbs up. Never forget that. 117th. Assualt Helicopter Company Vietnam 69/70
+dan davis Thanks for your time in Nam. My father was in Mekong 68-69. Tried to follow in his foot steps in Raq and Afgan but never felt that connection like I would have thought. Different times, good luck to you.
+Ethan Tremblay Thank you also for your service. All vets are our protectors and deserve the respect and appreciation we deserve. No matter what branch or what job we performed we served and protected this country proudly. Let's not also forget our allies veterans who served beside us to protect their country and the world. Peace be with you all.
+dan davis Thanks for your service in that war. It's shameful vets were hated for going through hell and back, and still are to this day to a certain extent. Going to AF BMT on June 21. Security Forces after that.
When I walk around my Saigon neighborhood, there are reminders that I protected America when stationed up in the Central Highlands. Where local coffee and pho shops once stood there are now McDonalds, Burger King, Popeyes, Pizza Hut. Just like General Smedley Butler said, I helped make things safe for corporate interests by blowing up the country then imposing a brutal economic embargo. When stationed in Vietnam, I never saw a fat Vietnamese. Now they have a national health epidemic of obesity and diabetes. And the beat goes on...
Well spoken. I volunteered for Nam. I was in 19 months. 13 of those months I was a crew chief and gunner. I wept when I left my buds behind. Wimp, no. I loved my buddies. I came home in one piece. Thank God. And I would do it again. Freedom is not FREE.
Bruh fr all what u did was for nothing. Why even invade vietnam. You fought farmers and still lost. You killed soo much innocent plp and families. And you go there with the tought of bringing "freedom" gtfo 🤣🤣🤣🤣👎
My dad served in this unit in 67/68. I think he said he was a door gunner on the "Witch Doctor". He's opened up about his experiences a lot in these past several years. He watched this with me. Thanks for sharing.
I served in the 9th infantry division in 68 and alot is missing in these clips. Most of us combat soldiers were turned into remorseful killers and still to this day I can still hear combat and incoming some nights before bed. God bless us all
I'm sure it was much worse than ever reported the things we did over there. My neighbor was there in 69 and I can tell he's got something going on inside most days (we as in the us)
@@nickbaxter3111 They never show anyone the stack of shot dead nude children and women before burning them. You get this cold chill all through your body and you can hear some soldiers crying in empathy and when they hit us it was family members getting revenge.
Cheers to all of our Vietnam vets. These guys did an incredible job in the delta. Pick up the book "The Boys of "67." We should not forget what happened there.
This is very interesting. My uncle was a door gunner, 170TH AHC, 52ND CAB, 17TH CAG, 1 AVN BDE. Was shot down on March 24, 1970. The crash site was located in the mid 90's. We finally had a service for him in 2001.
A couple of years ago, my little town held a welcome home Vietnam Vets 4th of July parade for guys of my era. Vets in convertibles instead of beauty queens. I kept getting something in my eye. It was beautiful
This was great. So much respect for you guys in the choppers...I was at Phan Rang AB in 1969. I was a weapons loader/crew chief on one of the AC-119 gunships stationed at the base. We were phased out toward the end of 69 when the AC-130 was coming in. I was reassigned to Xuan Loc to work on 0-1A bird dogs for the 19th TASS Forward Air Control. I just wanted to go home and buy a car...lol. Luckily, I got to with minor damage.
To all you vets THANK YOU! You brave men served our country well when the young population couldn't or wouldn't appreciate it! America loves you men! God Bless!
My cousin's grandpa was in Vietnam, a chopper pilot as well, but he was actually shot down during an extraction mission. He doesn't like to talk about it either. One can only imagine what he and the others went through.
Welcome back brothers and sisters I volunteered as a door gunner and my company Commander because of the short Personnel did not Release Me even though we didn't get along I want to thank you I could have been shot down....sp4 Republic of Vietnam 1971 Three Corps region.... thank you doctors and nurses and attendants at the 24th Evac Hospital welcome back🇺🇸🇲🇽
I hate to say it but it looked like a Ton of Fun in that Gunship!!! I know it was a nightmare being over there but if ya had to be that Huey Gunship stemmed like a good place to be. I know they were easy targets for missiles. God Bless all you Vietnam Vets and welcome home 🙏🏻
I was in the 128th, late 1969. We were flying Night Hawk missions and my crewchief, John Brashears, stole a minigun from a Cobra at the 187th Crusaders in Tay Ninh on an overnight stay up there. Hell yes he got caught! It was a hoot.
The 128th, call sign Tomahawk, was still around - in Korea - in the late '80s and early '90s. I was in the sister unit - the 201st Red Barons during that timeframe. Oddly enough it was the Red Barons that received new aircraft in '88 which were configured with the M134 Miniguns. Those guns could be fixed forward for the pilots to fire and it was literally a blast. There was a switch on the gun to select 2000 or 4000 rounds per minute. Every fifth round was a tracer but it looked like a constant stream of light while firing - especially at night. Great memories...
It's amazing how close the combat was in the Vietnam and Korean wars. By our military standards today they might was well have ran in with swords and shields.
I am proud of you, it took a hell ofva lot of bravery, for the pilots,and to get shot and,come back to fly a gun ship troops or Dust Off missions yall did a hell of a job , I don't give a damn about the politics involved,thank you all for your sacrifices,,!!!
No. Bravery is flying into a valley where the hills on both sides are crackling with small arms and 50 cal AA, while you hunt for the wreckage of the gunship carrying your friends.
Bravery is saying NO to a government and sticking up for what you believe in. While I did not say NO, I did question what the hell we were doing...while I was stationed in the Highlands with an air cav unit. Maybe I would have thought differently if I was in the war much earlier. Flying missions every day in the mountains searching for activity, we followed a logical pattern in the map quadrants. VC/NVA could hide or be prepared for action. Heck, just flying helicopters is risky business. I could not keep quiet risking my life every day. That was the reason I had no friends during my tour. Besides lack of leadership and discipline, there were many internal wars: EM Vs Officers, druggies vs juicers, whites vs blacks. CIA and II Corps Vietnamese general pedaled 95% pure heroin from Laos to Pleiku, Vietnam for distribution. It was a more insane situation than was portrayed in Apocalypse Now.
The history of Vietnam is exciting, fascinating and one of the longest continuous histories in the world, with the oldest archaeological findings showing that people have been living there as far back as over a half million years ago.Ancient Vietnam was home to some of the world's earliest civilizations, with a cultural history of over 20,000 years - making them one of the world's first peoples who practiced agriculture.
this is good, love these real personal perspective videos. thanks. also, gotta love the crew talking to each other, i could understand what they were saying, like vietnamese running and getting shot
9th Inf. 9th Avn. Jayhawks. Later," Merkin Hawks", in Tan An where me and Scottie Ends transferred to, after 9th Div. pulled out. We were the,"Last of the Jayhawks". Our handle was,Merkin256, on hunter-killer mission south,east,west of Saigon. Bridges our armorer and Scottie, procured a minigun from the engineers? Mounted the gun on leftside behind 1st.Lt. Ken Hibl the pilot. It did the job real good. Me and Scottie were crewchiefs! Yep!? Two crewchiefs! We got it done. Army at it's best, folks.
Amazing people not that I know the first thing about military matters. Can just appreciate the skill courage and the inconceivable something that enables some people to do this .
We could only fire when fired upon, unless our troops were in trouble AND we got clearance to help them out. I can truly say that we never psyched-out like in the My Lai massacre. Ask them for an explanation but, "u don't deserve one."
Amazing to see footage of the Hydra 70 rockets back in Nam.We currently still produce that rocket and at the plant I rough cut the nozzle assemblies.250-300 per day per person per shift with 3 shifts and 6-7 people a day running them.
Yes I know that. . . . It's similar to the time after 9/11 in that way. It's a very frightening thing to contemplate, how easy it is for us, all humans everywhere, to get caught up in the moment without thinking about it. If you've seen Fog of War, McNamara seemed to be sincerely doing what he thought was best. I'm not sure you can say the same thing about the Bush Administration 2001 to 2004.
I was there when the Gunslingers had a pod salvo in the revetment the crew was wiping down tailboom with jp4 and a electrician working on something the whole thing went off rockets everywhere couple piolets loaded everyone into a slick and off to Long Binh.
The first truly influential part of history in Vietnam was the Bronze Age, when the Đông Sơn culture was in Vietnam, dramatically advancing their level of civilization. Vietnam's peculiar geography made it a difficult country to attack, which is why Vietnam under Hùng Vương was for so long an independent and self-contained state. The Âns and Qins were among the earliest foreign aggressions of Vietnam, but the ancient Vietnamese regained control of their country soon after their invasions.
“Shot in the leg, healed and came back” no biggy. Oh the stories. Crash a helo, go back and grab another. Can’t do that today that’s for sure. I’m sure many of those guys have hearing aids. Hanging around running helicopters without hearing protection. Army doesn’t pay for hearing loss anymore. Love the footage and that’s before task force 160th! I’d take you guys any day.
For the historical record; it is not the 1/28 Gunship Assult Company. It was the 128th Assult Helicopter Company. Of the 11th Aviation Batalion, 1st Avaiation Brigade. Also I am sure that the speaker Bob Powell, is asleep waiting on the coming of the Lord. He was a really great officer and gentleman to have served for. He was in the 1st Cav Division on his first year tour in Vietnam. On his second tour he was our Platoon Captain (Leader). I heard he made it to Major a year or so after 1969
I had another friend also a door gunner. I asked him if he volunteered for that. He said they told him that was going to be his job. He had guard duty around 6:00 am when he saw who he thought was the enemy. One of the enemy waved at him. He said to himself, "Oh a bad MF!" So he was on a big machine gun and was a only a second from giving the enemy some lead poisoning. But someone stopped him and told him that there were Koreans in the area. I cracked up when he told that he thought the soldier thought he was, " A bad mother f "
This is a good idea to expand the Sri Lanka tourism industry. There are ex US marines who served in Vietnam and they like to refresh their memories and experience some simulated experience that they face at a young age. A tour-based bell heli search and rescue operation with simulated nonlethal gear. We could promote this program to Vietnamese as well. Why only playing on video games when you can really have the real-time warfare experience?
I think I see a 'Rattler' patch on the pilot identified as Larry Wagner, does anyone know if that is the unit from which he came? Great video, thank you lots for posting. From the proud son of a US Army Aviator that flew a tour with the 'Rattlers' 1965-66. To all Vietnam Vets, thanks for your service and welcome home.
@pinz2022 In our case the Crew Chiefs wanted the door mount gun, but approval had to go throgh the chain of command. I'm not sure how high up. I know for sure we went through the company commander. But it might have gone higher. The two pylon mounted guns were an approved US Army system. Their problem was they jammed alot and the weight of the two pylons was over 300 lbs. Not counting the guns. So we did away with the mini's on the sides, opting for more rockets and a door mini gun
no fucking way!!!!! my dad was there when this happend!! he just walked by looked at the the date and were it was and just said "huh i saw a chopper shooting in the distance once" he was 9th infantry flower power divition south of saigon in rai chien thts 20 miles south of saigon he served 69'-70'
@balls7674 So you were crew chief on a "loach" using the "free '60'"? I recall reading Hugh Mills' "Low Level Hell". In the whole "hunter-killer" game plan it sounded like the scout choppers ran three times the risk of the cobras. Frickin' insane.
You are right. They didn't make it. It was a long walk n swim. They found their freedom in, The Killing Fields of Cambodia. If I remember correctly those millions that got murdered were Alive when I left. They were looking for freedom. I might be wrong.
we VNAF learned a lot after you guys left we fly low level ,tree top or about 15 feet off the ground VC got no chance to fight back, 12.8 AAA is very dangerous for us lead gun fly by trail gun got them easy in delta areas there are not many of VC Max is one battalion or about three hundred VC at a time When a VC got hit, he got average about twelve bullets
Nicely said,My respects as well. And my respects to you also. All gave some.Some gave all.Most don't talk about it outside of the times they were having a little fun. My Grandfather "The Colonel" was a war hero in Korea.He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross,The Silver Star as well as purple hearts and others.And I never knew any of this until after he passed away.his military dress uniform had more stuff displayed and hanging that i've seen anywhere except news TV and movies.
Had a grunt tell me after we pulled them out of a hot LZ. "you got the worst job in Vietnam." I told him I thought he had the worst job. I also told him you come a calling and we come a hauling. That's what you call mutual respect. After we dropped them off. We gave each other a handshake and a thumbs up. Never forget that. 117th. Assualt Helicopter Company Vietnam 69/70
+dan davis Thanks for your time in Nam. My father was in Mekong 68-69. Tried to follow in his foot steps in Raq and Afgan but never felt that connection like I would have thought. Different times, good luck to you.
+Ethan Tremblay Thank you also for your service. All vets are our protectors and deserve the respect and appreciation we deserve. No matter what branch or what job we performed we served and protected this country proudly. Let's not also forget our allies veterans who served beside us to protect their country and the world. Peace be with you all.
+dan davis
Thanks for your service in that war. It's shameful vets were hated for going through hell and back, and still are to this day to a certain extent.
Going to AF BMT on June 21. Security Forces after that.
you protected america in vietnam oO?
When I walk around my Saigon neighborhood, there are reminders that I protected America when stationed up in the Central Highlands. Where local coffee and pho shops once stood there are now McDonalds, Burger King, Popeyes, Pizza Hut. Just like General Smedley Butler said, I helped make things safe for corporate interests by blowing up the country then imposing a brutal economic embargo. When stationed in Vietnam, I never saw a fat Vietnamese. Now they have a national health epidemic of obesity and diabetes. And the beat goes on...
Well spoken. I volunteered for Nam. I was in 19 months. 13 of those months I was a crew chief and gunner. I wept when I left my buds behind. Wimp, no. I loved my buddies. I came home in one piece. Thank God. And I would do it again. Freedom is not FREE.
Would you really do it again ? So many innocent lives lost for no reason at all. They never posed a threat to any country
@@googles2222 exactly
Bruh fr all what u did was for nothing. Why even invade vietnam. You fought farmers and still lost. You killed soo much innocent plp and families. And you go there with the tought of bringing "freedom" gtfo 🤣🤣🤣🤣👎
Freedom of vietnamese farmers in a war thousands of miles away from america?
@@azerty123456475 Wow kinda disrespectful
My dad served in this unit in 67/68. I think he said he was a door gunner on the "Witch Doctor". He's opened up about his experiences a lot in these past several years. He watched this with me. Thanks for sharing.
I served in the 9th infantry division in 68 and alot is missing in these clips. Most of us combat soldiers were turned into remorseful killers and still to this day I can still hear combat and incoming some nights before bed. God bless us all
I'm sure it was much worse than ever reported the things we did over there. My neighbor was there in 69 and I can tell he's got something going on inside most days (we as in the us)
@@nickbaxter3111 They never show anyone the stack of shot dead nude children and women before burning them. You get this cold chill all through your body and you can hear some soldiers crying in empathy and when they hit us it was family members getting revenge.
Cheers to all of our Vietnam vets. These guys did an incredible job in the delta. Pick up the book "The Boys of "67." We should not forget what happened there.
Boys of 67 yes Leeds United were a great team.
This is very interesting. My uncle was a door gunner, 170TH AHC, 52ND CAB, 17TH CAG, 1 AVN BDE. Was shot down on March 24, 1970. The crash site was located in the mid 90's. We finally had a service for him in 2001.
A couple of years ago, my little town held a welcome home Vietnam Vets 4th of July parade for guys of my era. Vets in convertibles instead of beauty queens. I kept getting something in my eye. It was beautiful
Why? You feel sry for the Vietnamese dead ppl?
I was just up the road from the 128th. 70-71. CE and gunner. Still surviving.
Remember LZ Snoul, Cambodia. Never forget. Welcome home.
I was with the 174th AHC, in Duc Pho, 70-71. We'd have loved to have mini's on our slicks. That's just awesome. .
Welcome home, brother.
This was great. So much respect for you guys in the choppers...I was at Phan Rang AB in 1969. I was a weapons loader/crew chief on one of the AC-119 gunships stationed at the base. We were phased out toward the end of 69 when the AC-130 was coming in. I was reassigned to Xuan Loc to work on 0-1A bird dogs for the 19th TASS Forward Air Control. I just wanted to go home and buy a car...lol. Luckily, I got to with minor damage.
To all you vets THANK YOU! You brave men served our country well when the young population couldn't or wouldn't appreciate it! America loves you men! God Bless!
They protected the USA or just gone killing other ppl...f idiots
My cousin's grandpa was in Vietnam, a chopper pilot as well, but he was actually shot down during an extraction mission. He doesn't like to talk about it either. One can only imagine what he and the others went through.
Welcome back brothers and sisters I volunteered as a door gunner and my company Commander because of the short Personnel did not Release Me even though we didn't get along I want to thank you I could have been shot down....sp4 Republic of Vietnam 1971 Three Corps region.... thank you doctors and nurses and attendants at the 24th Evac Hospital welcome back🇺🇸🇲🇽
Welcome home Geezer Smith. The smoke has cleared, but not the memories. Hang in there.
I hate to say it but it looked like a Ton of Fun in that Gunship!!! I know it was a nightmare being over there but if ya had to be that Huey Gunship stemmed like a good place to be. I know they were easy targets for missiles. God Bless all you Vietnam Vets and welcome home 🙏🏻
I was in the 128th, late 1969. We were flying Night Hawk missions and my crewchief, John Brashears, stole a minigun from a Cobra at the 187th Crusaders in Tay Ninh on an overnight stay up there. Hell yes he got caught! It was a hoot.
I was next door to 128 at the massive 605th we would build mini gun hand conversions for them and the1/4 cav.Phu Loi.
GREAT video! Brings back memories. Thanks!
Wish you guys Could have found the POW Camps and got them out. My uncle ken got shot down . Was there from 67 to 73.
Jesus Christ... I hope your Uncle recovered from that... 🙏
Back then they really had to fly in close .
truly amazing the weapons we had, l cant imagine being on the receiving end of the awesome fire power we had.
The 128th, call sign Tomahawk, was still around - in Korea - in the late '80s and early '90s. I was in the sister unit - the 201st Red Barons during that timeframe. Oddly enough it was the Red Barons that received new aircraft in '88 which were configured with the M134 Miniguns. Those guns could be fixed forward for the pilots to fire and it was literally a blast. There was a switch on the gun to select 2000 or 4000 rounds per minute. Every fifth round was a tracer but it looked like a constant stream of light while firing - especially at night. Great memories...
A good friend of mine was a crew chief on one of these gunships.... Skip Brownlee from Jackson Township, NJ.
It's amazing how close the combat was in the Vietnam and Korean wars. By our military standards today they might was well have ran in with swords and shields.
Rock Hard , thats ducking right; USMC Sgt air wing.
Thanks for posting
I am proud of you, it took a hell ofva lot of bravery, for the pilots,and to get shot and,come back to fly a gun ship troops or Dust Off missions yall did a hell of a job , I don't give a damn about the politics involved,thank you all for your sacrifices,,!!!
Bravery to shoot civilians?
No. Bravery is flying into a valley where the hills on both sides are crackling with small arms and 50 cal AA, while you hunt for the wreckage of the gunship carrying your friends.
Bravery is saying NO to a government and sticking up for what you believe in. While I did not say NO, I did question what the hell we were doing...while I was stationed in the Highlands with an air cav unit. Maybe I would have thought differently if I was in the war much earlier. Flying missions every day in the mountains searching for activity, we followed a logical pattern in the map quadrants. VC/NVA could hide or be prepared for action. Heck, just flying helicopters is risky business. I could not keep quiet risking my life every day. That was the reason I had no friends during my tour. Besides lack of leadership and discipline, there were many internal wars: EM Vs Officers, druggies vs juicers, whites vs blacks. CIA and II Corps Vietnamese general pedaled 95% pure heroin from Laos to Pleiku, Vietnam for distribution. It was a more insane situation than was portrayed in Apocalypse Now.
on the vietnam war classic 'chickenhawk' by robert mason he recalls the army using air cranes to transport damaged chinooks. amazing!
The history of Vietnam is exciting, fascinating and one of the longest continuous histories in the world, with the oldest archaeological findings showing that people have been living there as far back as over a half million years ago.Ancient Vietnam was home to some of the world's earliest civilizations, with a cultural history of over 20,000 years - making them one of the world's first peoples who practiced agriculture.
Thanks for your service
That's one hell of firepower you guys got there but firepower alone is still not enough.
GREAT VIDEO!...-First I've come across this...!
Was with the 1st Avn Bdge--CuChi..in 1969...worked mainly in Tay Ninh area..
Amazing footage
Thank you for your time and your insight on a conflict. This coversation we help me in my studies. Agian Thank You.
Nice footage, informative
Fantastic video dude. Thanks for sharing it.
this is good, love these real personal perspective videos.
thanks.
also, gotta love the crew talking to each other, i could understand what they were saying, like vietnamese running and getting shot
My good friend was in the 1st aviation Bde. 69-70 he was a (what he called) a slick driver W02 Harrison
anyone that runs is a VC, anyone that stands still is a well disciplined VC
mate this vid is awesome. thanks.
9th Inf. 9th Avn. Jayhawks. Later," Merkin Hawks", in Tan An where me and Scottie Ends transferred to, after 9th Div. pulled out. We were the,"Last of the Jayhawks". Our handle was,Merkin256, on hunter-killer mission south,east,west of Saigon. Bridges our armorer and Scottie, procured a minigun from the engineers? Mounted the gun on leftside behind 1st.Lt. Ken Hibl the pilot. It did the job real good. Me and Scottie were crewchiefs! Yep!? Two crewchiefs! We got it done. Army at it's best, folks.
Thank you all for the service to our country!
I knew all those guys. I was in the 128th. Cpt Powell was doing the talking. I was the crew chief throwing the smoke and lighting up the minigun.
really good video. keep up the good work.
Amazing people not that I know the first thing about military matters. Can just appreciate the skill courage and the inconceivable something that enables some people to do this .
We could only fire when fired upon, unless our troops were in trouble AND we got clearance to help them out. I can truly say that we never psyched-out like in the My Lai massacre. Ask them for an explanation but, "u don't deserve one."
The video sound is pretty good, beyond my imagination
Amazing to see footage of the Hydra 70 rockets back in Nam.We currently still produce that rocket and at the plant I rough cut the nozzle assemblies.250-300 per day per person per shift with 3 shifts and 6-7 people a day running them.
For real? Damn. I'm guessing that isn't just for the USA because that's a lot of rockets.
So hopefully weve kept that up or made more because Ukraine is showing how much artillery shells you can really use in a day..
Incredible!
Respect my friend
Bodies? Some!! Innocence? YES.
Yes I know that. . . . It's similar to the time after 9/11 in that way. It's a very frightening thing to contemplate, how easy it is for us, all humans everywhere, to get caught up in the moment without thinking about it. If you've seen Fog of War, McNamara seemed to be sincerely doing what he thought was best. I'm not sure you can say the same thing about the Bush Administration 2001 to 2004.
My grandfather is the gunner this video.
Hollywood always depicted the M60 as the main door gun. I never knew the M134 minigun and its variants were used.
I was a Assault Trouper jumping in and out these's
Love the sound of the old projector. Does it have a rheostat motor control to avoid the 'flicker'?
awesome...
I was there when the Gunslingers had a pod salvo in the revetment the crew was wiping down tailboom with jp4 and a electrician working on something the whole thing went off rockets everywhere couple piolets loaded everyone into a slick and off to Long Binh.
è un ricordo meraviglioso
The first truly influential part of history in Vietnam was the Bronze Age, when the Đông Sơn culture was in Vietnam, dramatically advancing their level of civilization. Vietnam's peculiar geography made it a difficult country to attack, which is why Vietnam under Hùng Vương was for so long an independent and self-contained state. The Âns and Qins were among the earliest foreign aggressions of Vietnam, but the ancient Vietnamese regained control of their country soon after their invasions.
“Shot in the leg, healed and came back” no biggy. Oh the stories. Crash a helo, go back and grab another. Can’t do that today that’s for sure. I’m sure many of those guys have hearing aids. Hanging around running helicopters without hearing protection. Army doesn’t pay for hearing loss anymore. Love the footage and that’s before task force 160th! I’d take you guys any day.
is this brief footage of a documentary? or did you make this yourself? its very interesting and cool, I'd watch more if you have any
For the historical record; it is not the 1/28 Gunship Assult Company. It was the 128th Assult Helicopter Company. Of the 11th Aviation Batalion, 1st Avaiation Brigade. Also I am sure that the speaker Bob Powell, is asleep waiting on the coming of the Lord. He was a really great officer and gentleman to have served for. He was in the 1st Cav Division on his first year tour in Vietnam. On his second tour he was our Platoon Captain (Leader). I heard he made it to Major a year or so after 1969
I had another friend also a door gunner. I asked him if he volunteered for that. He said they told him that was going to be his job.
He had guard duty around 6:00 am when he saw who he thought was the enemy. One of the enemy waved at him. He said to himself, "Oh a bad MF!" So he was on a big machine gun and was a only a second from giving the enemy some lead poisoning. But someone stopped him and told him that there were Koreans in the area.
I cracked up when he told that he thought the soldier thought he was, " A bad mother f "
The full version is on utube 'vietnam the way it was'...strongly recommended!^^
🙋🏻♂️ hello from Sweden 🇸🇪
This is a good idea to expand the Sri Lanka tourism industry.
There are ex US marines who served in Vietnam and they like to refresh their memories and experience some simulated experience that they face at a young age.
A tour-based bell heli search and rescue operation with simulated nonlethal gear. We could promote this program to Vietnamese as well. Why only playing on video games when you can really have the real-time warfare experience?
I think I see a 'Rattler' patch on the pilot identified as Larry Wagner, does anyone know if that is the unit from which he came? Great video, thank you lots for posting. From the proud son of a US Army Aviator that flew a tour with the 'Rattlers' 1965-66. To all Vietnam Vets, thanks for your service and welcome home.
@ Moderate Fkr..My husband who did 4 tours in Vietnam read your comment and said "The only battle scars he has is crawling under his desk"
nice, discretion, a real feel
101st 17air cav here crew chief
That was one of the mantras.
I wonder if anyone remember wo4 armit tilgner who flew in vietnam as an army pilot. I am inetersted to know more of him.
welcome home!
Heroes each and every one.
'If I say this beach is safe to surf,this beach is safe to surf !
i'm not afraid to surf this place........
Hooah from a former 3-101 AVN
Where were the UC Berkley grads on that final pass? Didn't see any dreadlocks or tie-dyed shirts.
I salute you all my mentors
@pinz2022 In our case the Crew Chiefs wanted the door mount gun, but approval had to go throgh the chain of command. I'm not sure how high up. I know for sure we went through the company commander. But it might have gone higher. The two pylon mounted guns were an approved US Army system. Their problem was they jammed alot and the weight of the two pylons was over 300 lbs. Not counting the guns. So we did away with the mini's on the sides, opting for more rockets and a door mini gun
wow! thats an air crane at the end of the vid!
no fucking way!!!!! my dad was there when this happend!! he just walked by looked at the the date and were it was and just said "huh i saw a chopper shooting in the distance once" he was 9th infantry flower power divition south of saigon in rai chien thts 20 miles south of saigon he served 69'-70'
Ha ha perfect sound effects.
@balls7674
So you were crew chief on a "loach" using the "free '60'"?
I recall reading Hugh Mills' "Low Level Hell". In the whole "hunter-killer" game plan it sounded like the scout choppers ran three times the risk of the cobras. Frickin' insane.
Salute
Was the 128th flying out off Phu Hiep ?
where can i find more footage like this? That isnt a full length doc.
cool Beavis-yeahblow some more stuff up!
The Vietnam War the only war that America lost. RIP in to all those who died. It was a bloody war.
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Although some wars can be pointless, many are just.
Is this from a documentary?
Minigun, "about 4000 rounds per minute" at about 25 cents a round, do the math
You are right. They didn't make it. It was a long walk n swim. They found their freedom in, The Killing Fields of Cambodia. If I remember correctly those millions that got murdered were Alive when I left. They were looking for freedom. I might be wrong.
we VNAF learned a lot
after you guys left
we fly low level ,tree top or about 15 feet off the ground
VC got no chance to fight back,
12.8 AAA is very dangerous for us
lead gun fly by trail gun got them easy
in delta areas there are not many of VC
Max is one battalion or about three hundred VC at a time
When a VC got hit, he got average about twelve bullets
GOD BLESS ALL OF OUR BRAVE VETERANS.
Brave men
lost a good buddy in the Delta 9th Army infantry 1968
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Nicely said,My respects as well. And my respects to you also. All gave some.Some gave all.Most don't talk about it outside of the times they were having a little fun. My Grandfather "The Colonel" was a war hero in Korea.He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross,The Silver Star as well as purple hearts and others.And I never knew any of this until after he passed away.his military dress uniform had more stuff displayed and hanging that i've seen anywhere except news TV and movies.