Ronald Dykstra

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  • Опубліковано 7 лис 2024

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  • @bruceadams9542
    @bruceadams9542 9 місяців тому +6

    Thank you Sir for your service.💪 Great detailed interesting story .Thank you for sharing it.👍👍👍👍👍

  • @Buce-ku9vx
    @Buce-ku9vx 9 місяців тому +3

    Good listen. Thanks for sharing. 🫵👍👊

    • @Buce-ku9vx
      @Buce-ku9vx 9 місяців тому

      After listening. This is total stolen valor. 100% 🐴 shit. Guaranteed

    • @charleywalker2982
      @charleywalker2982 9 місяців тому

      👍

  • @sandeewood2948
    @sandeewood2948 Місяць тому

    Thank you for your service Ronald welcome home…Vietnam vet nam 68/69 25th infantry division..11 bravo..and a awardee of the CIB badge…

  • @Bobspossumden
    @Bobspossumden День тому

    It's interesting to me that you had clothespins.

  • @jimmyandkathyharrell
    @jimmyandkathyharrell 6 місяців тому +1

    A bit enthralled with himself but otherwise a good interview. Thank you!

  • @marcclement7396
    @marcclement7396 5 місяців тому +1

    Great "stories"

  • @tombats6428
    @tombats6428 9 місяців тому +1

    If cobras could fly for escort, why couldn't Hueys fly to get you out?

  • @rickhernandez3077
    @rickhernandez3077 4 місяці тому

    ✨👍✨Well $poken👋 $emper✨FCKN✨Fi💥..My Brother Wa$ ARMY🇺🇲4yrs Combat Engineer IN Darmstondt Germany✨Got 0ut And Joined The Re$erve$ As Drill Sgt.(Retired✨)My Uncle$ Were In Army WW11✨*I*M*A* "JARHEAD" ..Good Job*!* CARRY 0N 👊💥😎

  • @stephenmcgraw8871
    @stephenmcgraw8871 6 місяців тому

    I don`t know--I love his interviews,but every once in awhile there`s one that will either exaggerate or outright lie about his tour in Southeast Asia....I don`t think B-52s were called in by the infantry for airstrikes--I was always told that the B-52s struck on their own time,to surprise the NVA with no warning,and what is Mr. Dykstra talking about when he stated that his platoon was setting booby traps??That`s the first time I`ve EVER heard that and I`ve heard thousands of these interviews....I don`t think this guy was there at all....I`m sorry,but it sounds like he`s getting his story out of a movie.....

    • @gvsuveteranshistoryproject34
      @gvsuveteranshistoryproject34  6 місяців тому +1

      There may be some embellishment here, but there are a lot of stray details here that a faker would not know, and are not in any movies I've seen. B-52 strikes were planned, and American units on the ground were warned of incoming ones, since they needed to be a certain distance away from them. A platoon leader or company commander couldn't summon one out of the blue, but there likely would have been some form of communication between them, if likely not between pilot and junior officer. He may have assumed more cause and effect than was there. We did, however, set booby traps, and multiple interviewees mention them, notably men from units of the 101st Airborne in the Ripcord campaign. They used the term "mechanical ambush," but they were basically booby traps. My own view is that most of the story is valid. If he was faking it, he was really good at it. Most fake Vietnam vets aren't very good at it, and are pretty easy to spot.