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.
@jg09436 жыл бұрын
What a great attitude. Welcome home and thank you!
@danabondy2812 Жыл бұрын
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.
@deborahleone43516 жыл бұрын
Not the worst experience of GI's. But you had a great attitude! THANK YOU FOR SERVING! God bless you🙏💜✝
@oldfan19633 жыл бұрын
(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.
@kevinjohnson-lf3kj6 ай бұрын
Remember the USS Mayaguez incident May of 1975 R I P
@user-wy1dl2me2p6 ай бұрын
RIP
@tronghungdao25111 ай бұрын
Thank you for your help ❤👌👋👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@juliuslambert9226 Жыл бұрын
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.
@wil7228 Жыл бұрын
Liked your common sense approx. Thank you for your service.
@ronaldwarren52202 жыл бұрын
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.
@kennethprice56282 ай бұрын
In 1971 my lottery number was 2...hell no, I joined the Navy😂😂😂
@swampfizz6 жыл бұрын
very sincere..it was a good day when I said " I aint short I'm next"
@jgee4073 Жыл бұрын
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
@rshowers75907 ай бұрын
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.
@Makg5036 жыл бұрын
Awesome story man
@mosesgonzales8820 Жыл бұрын
Perfect thank you 🙏
@markjfox8662 жыл бұрын
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 🎖👍🎖👍🎖👍🎖👍🎉🎊
@danielcunningham5940 Жыл бұрын
Thank you man. I am still hurting and wondering if I am going to go out by suicide some day or get wasted by the VA
@51panzerman4 жыл бұрын
Unskilled interviewer but a good story that would’ve been better . Thanks for your service soldier.
@richardlong80142 жыл бұрын
Stand up, honest, combat vet. Nobody there knew what danger tomorrow would bring. Fear affects us all. Everybody there had a job to do.
@pfossful5 жыл бұрын
Very honest
@johnnyangel9163 Жыл бұрын
This guy is honest as rain.
@bryanfrombuffalo7685 Жыл бұрын
Being from Buffalo...it was kinda ironic the bridge is the peace bridge
@stenandersson67046 жыл бұрын
You are lovely!
@apintofbeer1667 Жыл бұрын
John Wayne refused to serve his country,this man did serve his country
@robertisham5279 Жыл бұрын
Nohe did not serve his country. He fought in some pointless war we didn't need to be in. That's not serving your country..
@apintofbeer1667 Жыл бұрын
@@robertisham5279 Both Wayne and Ronald Reagan didn't serve their country during world war 2
@falconmoose15895 жыл бұрын
Good interviewer. Excellent.
@craigallen59635 жыл бұрын
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]
@yankee25585 жыл бұрын
Legs didn't vgo to jump school , some but not all of the legs went to repel assault school ,but in the war didn't mean anything because 101 wasn't jumping we were air assaulting so mostly it was just the Airmobile but the didn't matter a bit and I hope you watch more of these videos because it's not a person crying for attention telling them , hope you understand it .
@WmGood2 жыл бұрын
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!!!
@kabbey30 Жыл бұрын
What this interview really needed was a speed talking interviewer.
@mikehuynh92723 жыл бұрын
Da nang vn father Steve Tommy
@bloop6812 Жыл бұрын
Another interview from this Interrogator. Don't like his style too much background info asked regarding his family!
@donbeaubien2372 Жыл бұрын
At least he shared his story, thanks for all your negativity,
@harrykuheim6107 Жыл бұрын
Vietnam, A'Stan, and Iraq...total wastes...we got nothing...USMC 70-74
@rshowers75907 ай бұрын
You can bet your ass that the Bush’s, the Clinton’s, Obama, Graham, McConnell, Romney, and Cheney got plenty. The Clintons are known gun runners, the Libya gold heist, human trafficking, the Bush/CIA drug running, Cheney and the Senators got theirs through the contractors. There ought to be tribunals…..