Rob, Bonnie C did a great KZfaq tribute to Mel on his passing. You might post a link here.

@@hughescrewchief836 please post it Don - thanks!

@@b-52eggbeast88 Rob I asked Bonnie if she still has it to please post it here.

Link to Mel Hill Tribute

@@hughescrewchief836 vimeo.com/537206137

Jimi, you have always been a lifelong hero of mine and one of the reasons I wanted to be a PJ. Thanks for everything you’ve done sir, your a legend!

@@soldier2390 Wow, thank you... Wishing you all the best ;-)

Was honored to be part of testing the game and in the process exposed to all the podcasts and audio books of SOG men, always had a thing for the Vietnam war, respect from Israel. hope to read your book when it's out.

Thanks for doing this interview. Hope to see you out there :)

@@Patchaddictedpolymath I'm still working on how to play the game LOL @#$%^&*(

Thanks and we hope you enjoy it!

totally agree!

That's a fascinating first hand account I'venever heard before - thank you! Can we invite you to post it in our community forum where other veterans may also read it and add their stories about that night? I have posted it here and will add our copy of the translation of the NVA Sapper Battalions AAR to that page. community.sogpf.com/threads/356-Sapper-attack-on-fob4-Da-nang?p=987#post987

Sorry you had to go through all that. Satchel charges are bad... I've had a few experiences with them as well... :'-(

@@JumpingJimmyJet Satchel charges from the enemy were part of the "game." The game being war. What was a bit more unexpected was friendly fire. Once with the Spike team we woke on the side of a trail. Heard voices(not friendlies) and laid low. An aircraft passed over head, then returned and dropped a CBU on the "voices." It landed short and we were untouched. But we used every radio we had, to ask them to stop bombing. While waiting, the radio operator at FOB2, wished us a "Happy Easter." Another time, with the team, we got inserted and a few minutes later, a plane dropped a bomb close to where we got off the Huey. We decided two things. 1-Sometimes bombing the insertion loc was a good cover. But letting us know it was planned would have been nice. 2- It was time to accelerate our departure from the area. On a "practice" hatchet force op, I was with the small squad (George Pointin was lead) to drive supposed enemy into an ambush(hammer/anvil ). The point man fired his M-79 ahead of us. It armed and detonated very close, proly hitting a branch. One piece of shrapnel hit my chest, didn't penetrate. I had a couple more friendly fire (or accidental) events that I would not have minded, missing out on. So, in retrospect, incoming anything from the enemy was more expected/acceptable, in a way.

@@CandC68 That's some crazy stuff...

Thanks Tom. It was a tough interview as we were so awedby our subject. Jim put us at our ease so well, but there was so much we wanted to ask, and getting the right words in the moment of a live interview is not always easy, especially at 1 in the morning! Jim was so great though he kept me alert til 4am...!

Thank you... I was offered a field commission 3 times. I turned it down, Officers don't get to have the fun us enlisted dudes have. ;-)

yeah Jim has lived more than any of us would in 5 lives

I just take life as it comes. I don't let anything get to me, no matter how hard it may be. Actually these missions were a lot tougher than I present them to be. I have a habit of playing things down... I'll expand on them a bit more when I write the books... Best wishes, jimi ;-)

LOL, I'm sure some other guys did it as well ;-)

I'm sure you are ;-)

Wonder how many Angels God assigned to Jim!!

A lot changed from FOB to FOB and from man to man and month to month. It was an ever evolving setup.

The part where I say "the first time I was wounded, that was funny" well what happened is, I saw the enemy and the guy's asked me ware, so I put a magazine of tracers in my rifle and said, "there" well, all the enemy started shooting back at the tracers LOL, a bullet landed in front of me and kicked up a chunk of wood, it flew up and hit me square in the left eye, blood was all over the place... Moral of the story, "don't mark your position with a mag of tracers" LOL

@@JumpingJimmyJet incredible stories, thank you for sharing them!

that's a very cool comment, thank you

@@SavageGameDesign Its the truth plain and simple, but Im thankful that they're getting a chance to document & talk to these heroes b4 its too late. It makes me sad to think that how we have acted as a country these last few years, I think, "We don't deserve men like this" sometimes. But anyway thank you for being a part of getting the rare chance to talk to them so we can learn from them. So few survived to begin with so these heroes are of a rare breed!

Well duh Rogan is a major douche and has nothing on these guys

don't we all? Jim is such a nice guy too. He's saved countless lives as a doctor since.

Ps. Thank u so much for ur words of encouragement on my PTSD. 🙏💕🍻

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SOG men are truly unique

LOL, I have a lot of respect for the enemy... They can take your life... I have always treated others the way I'd want to be treated... ;-)

@@JumpingJimmyJet Jimi thank you for your service and the reply you made my day. Take care

@@d-drizzle Any time brother

I took around 13 or 15 prisoners while I ran in Vietnam. No bonus checks for them. I never took a prisoner in Laos or Cambodia.

He hasn't played Arma 3 Prairie Fire, but we mean to change that!

@@SavageGameDesign it’s a great DLC! So glad y’all were able to interview these legendary people! Thank you for what you do!

Lots of things I haven't done yet ;-) Still in my bucket to do :-)

yeah most likely. these guys handled so much warsaw pact ordnance in their careers

@@SavageGameDesign plus it been 50 years and there not gun guys at least gun guys like I am

Sam was 173rd, so he ain't no leg. I'm a brit, ex-sailor and marine reservist, so yep I'm a leg! We made the video game, the other guys ran the real missions ;)

He's from Liverpool , England of Irish extraction which would explain the red hair and his slightly mental attitude 😀

@@Paulywauly1969 LOL I love it

I was born in Liverpool, England. moved to the USA and raised in Evergreen Colorado. Went to High Sylmar School, Los Angeles/ San Fernando Valley area of California. I went to college in San Jose California. Did my doctor training in the Bay Area and my residency in Radiology in Saint Louis, Missouri. My practice was in Tucson, Arizona...

@@JumpingJimmyJet you can tell I'm ex army .... I did a full recce before posting my comment .... salutè my friend.

Voice actors? Ok nevermind, is it a movie or a documentary? I kept hearing about voice overs

Nevermind its a f'in game LMAO... Never heard of it

@@hissyhonker220 yeah the SOG vets featured on our channel worked with us for 5 years to make a video game telling their units story. See www.sogpf.com for more info

@@SavageGameDesign I will definitely check that out.. my uncle W.E. "Whit" Whitaker was LRRP.. hehe used to say he was lucky cause he got to Nam on Jan 19 of 68.. get it? Lol was a joke for vets, he got there at Hue the day before TET popped off, he was all up and down the perfume river over at Khe Sahn but "never, ever, ever went to Cambodia or laos, cause we we're not allowed there" he had a great sense of humor. Here in NC I volunteer at local VFW halls and do some video interviews with the guys willing to talk, it seems to really help some of these guys, it's sad but I got into doing this cause one day I was walking out of a pawnshop I buy flintlocks at and a navy Nam guy walks in, I just told him, I know it's a few days late and heck of a lot of dollars short, but welcome home G.I. and gave him a 20 and said go get some ice cream... The guy, Ron just looked at me and then cried I felt like shit and then he said no one ever said that to me but my wife and mother, he told me he and his buddies when they got back home changed at the airport and threw their uniforms away because guys were being targeted... Next thing I know I'm 5 hours late getting home because we talked forever and then I got invited to a local halls chicken stew and showed up in my uncle's jungle blouse and erdl trousers and boots and next thing I know I'm being called "cookie" whatever that means and I'm doing Interviews and welfare checks on the guys who live alone.. it's been 5 years now.. I love our nam boys, I hope they all find piece.. anyway sorry for the rant, I will definitely check this out it seems very interesting.. it's kinda funny to think of a Nam guy playing a "Vidya game" LMAO as my uncle would say. Keep up the solid work and always remember, keep your powder dry!

@@hissyhonker220 you're doing GODS WORK there. Salute.

I won a contest one time for having the smallest balls on the A-team... and it's true... LOL

It's common knowledge amongst SOG vets about the moles and leaks they endured.