Thank you for the interview and sharing. My dad was in Lai Khe 1/28th recon from 1969-1970. Two members from the 82nd airborne ended up joining their unit (Lee Harper and Larry Lowe). I made a few videos of my dad sharing his experiences and I noticed quite a few similarities between this interview and what he said.

What a great attitude. Welcome home and thank you!

Great video - I'm a non-combat veteran. In general, the people asking the questions treat people who are or have been in the US military as someone from another planet. Please don't forget that we are your friends and neighbors.

Not the worst experience of GI's. But you had a great attitude! THANK YOU FOR SERVING! God bless you🙏💜✝

(May 10, 1953 - April 29, 1975) and (February 16, 1956 - April 29, 1975) were the last two United States servicemen killed in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The two men, both U.S. Marines, were killed in a rocket attack one day before the Fall of Saigon.

Thank you for your help ❤👌👋👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

It's the first time I've heard a story that allows me to understand how I could also have been "gotten" at the same age, because of a difficult path as a young person in society and a speech well-rehearsed state. A kind of gear that would have sent me into the field without my ever really saying yes or no. Thank God, this man came back alive.

Liked your common sense approx. Thank you for your service.

Vietnam US Army vet draftee here. 68/69. I joined a Reserve unit a few years after coming home and served there with an 82nd Airborne vet. After getting to know him he told me of being in Cambodia and loading his best friend's body on a chopper. The bird had brought in a mail sack and there was a dear John letter for my friend. He said that he anxiously opened the letter and got his buddy's blood on the letter. "Drive on, doesn't mean a thing". Yeah right. This was many years later and the event still haunts him.

In 1971 my lottery number was 2...hell no, I joined the Navy😂😂😂

very sincere..it was a good day when I said " I aint short I'm next"

2 years after 10 months to get commission. I was 2 years, 10 months, 10 days. I was XO of the Transient Company at Oakland Army Base 01 Jan 69 to 30 June 69. I remember my good friend getting his assignment to the 82nd when we arrived in Vietnam, exclaiming, “I’m not Airborne qualified!” LOL

If you want a better take on these perspectives? Please look at a similar project from Grand Valley State University. The interviewers are a lot more knowledgable and less leading. The depth of their pre-work makes for a 1000x better, in-depth outcome.

Awesome story man

Perfect thank you 🙏

U r all heros. It was a real war. That some people are still living to this day.Some took their own lives an couldnt handle it. U all never got the praise the help or the recognition u alllll deserved.im from uk. But thank u all for your service and heroism. Men ladys dogs domnut dollys. Welcome hme 🎖👍🎖👍🎖👍🎖👍🎉🎊

Unskilled interviewer but a good story that would’ve been better . Thanks for your service soldier.

Stand up, honest, combat vet. Nobody there knew what danger tomorrow would bring. Fear affects us all. Everybody there had a job to do.

Very honest

This guy is honest as rain.

Being from Buffalo...it was kinda ironic the bridge is the peace bridge

You are lovely!

John Wayne refused to serve his country,this man did serve his country

Good interviewer. Excellent.

I mean no disrespect to Mr Roney, I honestly dont, but, you can tell the difference between a Airborne Soldier and a 'Leg',every time. It comes down to attitude and outlook. Even now, with non-Airborne soldiers serving in the division, there is a marked difference between them, and the Airborne qualified soldiers in the division. AATW! Cpl Craig- HHC 1/505th P.I.R [Scout Plt]

I was in-country from 66-67. Back then being in the army was like a prison sentence. I hatred the army and still do. In-country doesn't mean there wasn't any of the typical army chicken-sh*t, just less than elsewhere. FTA all the way!!!

What this interview really needed was a speed talking interviewer.

Da nang vn father Steve Tommy

Another interview from this Interrogator. Don't like his style too much background info asked regarding his family!

Vietnam, A'Stan, and Iraq...total wastes...we got nothing...USMC 70-74