Thank you for your service brother, I have a lot of respect for our vets, I come from a military family, my grandfathers were in WWII, one of them was at Pearl Harbor and my uncles were in Vietnam. Hope you are doing well brother!

@@kpropainmust’ve been good to get to hear stories from them. I’m the only US service member in my family’s lineage so it’s kinda tough to look and point the finger as to way I joined lol.

Follow your instincts

I was thinking the same thing. His eyes. As he talked it was like a movie replaying in his mind.

Love bless you you remind me of a friend of mine Orville one of my wife's brothers he loved Jesus and life his wife and beautiful daughter Leah

it is not NAM! it is Vietnam.

@@bwana-ma-coo-bah425 Just curious...Have you ever been in the military and if so have you ever been "in country" (South East Asia)??? So what if someone says "Nam" instead of "Vietnam"? I am a Vietnam veteran and I (along with others) have no problem with it. You need to chill-out and don't get so picky over something so trivial.

@@AFmedic You Americans call it Nam because it makes you feel tough. Did 2 years in Vietnam. Conscripted not drafted, big difference. Sent mates home in body bags, saw heaps of US soldiers turn up with a kill kill attitude and watched them cry themselves to sleep. On our last day my mate took a dump on the US flag and then wiped his ass with it and I pissed all over it. We returned, he ended up crucifying himself on a needle full of heroin, for him the torture never stopped. Just like every other war the US has decided to get involved in you walked away in defeat with your tail between your legs. If there is after life, my mate is looking for LBJ and he means business. If you beat me to the after life, look for LBJ I have unsettled business too! So as you can tell I am the real deal.

@@AFmedic I too am a Nam vet served in 1969-70 12th Security Police Sq. 483 Combat Support Wing. Nam vet 😊

@@1949LA-ARCH I'll forgive you for being Security Police ROFL I was with the 375th AeroMed Evac. Sq. 1968-1971

let me get your comment correct. you respect people for going to a country kill people for no reason, they have no business being involved in only are there for money and you respect that?

And the interviewer , he knows the right questions to ask !

"Well, I did get wounded one time. I was in my barracks..." I had to laugh out loud, right after my jaw dropped when he described blowing the claymores and running THROUGH the enemy!

@@Jonno2summit We had a rocket attack one night and a guy came into our building the next morning with a bandage on his head. We asked what had happened and he snapped "I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT !" He left and a few minutes later a couple of his buddies came in and were laughing. We asked what was going on and they said when the attack started the guy who had been wounded was in the latrine. When the first5 rocket hit he jumped up and hit his head on the toilet roll dispenser. Busted his head open and knocked him out. His two buddies found him and carried him to the aid station, where they treated his injury and put him in for a purple heart. Wounded in Vietnam by a toilet. We never let him live it down.

@@rondodson5736 LMFAO! Thank you, Sir for that, and for your service of course. Damn that's funny. Worst latrine duty ever. Crappy situation.

@@sheepsfoot2 And he stayed out of the way. Good job there.

Non anti American, just anti unjustified war.

What's the significance of looking to the right with his voice trailing off ?

No, they invaded a country that was asking for its independence and killed thousands of civilians, including women and children, and dropped agent orange all over the south of the country, a poison that still does damage today. And Vietnam is still communist, people live well there and the country has good relations with the United States, so NO, it only served to sow misfortune, in their own families and those of many Vietnamese. Nothing more.

Welcome home

Much respect to this gentleman…my two uncles fought over there

Sadly with the direction our govt is heading to day, i feel our efforts seem to be in vain.

Exactly 💯

Wether we were Recon or regular, we were almost always outnumbered.

Were you at DaNang or PhuBai?

Our AO was west and south of Da Nang, Americal Division, 196th, 198th, 11th Brigade.

Yeah. He did go back momentarily and then come back to present. Still see the alertness in his eyes.

Thank You for your service to our great nation

Your account was riveting. Respect to you, and thank you for your service

We could have used a man with an attitude like yours. 101st I Corp 2 tours, because it was bad.

He was being very kind of being in Nam, it very much sucked from the time you arrive till hopefully you return home on two feet.

Thanks for your sacrifice... Time is everything.😉

😮that was in the strike zone real situation.

But i still feel i was one of the lucky ones. So many didn't come home alive or complete. Welcome home.@@sammiedog4

Not a negative, a positive attribute in this society. ☆

​@@fjb4932exactly

Same same brother. Adjusting was a bitch Inability to sleep and nightmares cost me my first marriage Thank God things eventually improved

God bless you all.

That cousin sounds like an educated fool who probably wears camouflage but has never served a day.

Their experiences have filtered down through the years, the Rangers have a detachment now that was started in 1984 that most people have never heard of that's harder to get into than Delta and more elite, they were called the Rangers Regimental Reconnaissance Detachment (RRD) but sometime down the line changed their name to the Rangers Regimental Reconnaissance Company (RRC) although some inside of the Rangers still refer to them as the RRD. They are the US military's premier direct action unit and are used to train Green Berets and Navy Seals in direct action tactics. It was Army Rangers who went in and found Navy Seal Marcus Luttrell after his team had been wiped out during Operation Red Wings, made famous by the Mark Wahlberg movie Lone Survivor, but what people don't know is before those Rangers even slid down their ropes on the mission to locate Luttrell the RRD guy's had already been there and tracked down and killed the Taliban members who'd ambushed Luttrell's team, not only that but they'd set up an ambush for reinforcements they knew would be coming to their aid and completely wiped them out also. Any time that Green Beret ODA teams or Navy Seal team's go on a mission all the intelligence they have on maps that mark enemy positions, strength numbers, and anything else all the way down to enemy electronic monitoring devices all comes from an RRD team whose already been there, they're JSOC's super secret ninja's and everything about them that got started in 1984 when they were formed was a result of ex Vietnam War LRRP's who were still in the Army that set up their program, and from there they've just kept getting better and better at what they do to the point where now they go into cities in civilian attire and set up electronic monitoring devices including hidden cameras so that when special operations team's do their missions they can open a laptop and see up and down city streets before they even enter a city. I've only found one podcast with an ex RRD member, I can't remember his name but his podcast was on the channel from The Team House, he talks about the insanely brutal qualifications they have to pass to get on the team and how selection is a matter of current team members making their choices for who they want, if you enter "The Team House, Rangers RRD Team" that should get you to the podcast with the guy, Wikipedia has a page on them under the title "Army Rangers RRD Teams" I believe but there's not too much on it about them and their missions because it's like even Wikipedia points out they're so secretive it's extremely difficult to find out anything about them, even in this day and age where every other guy whose been in Delta and DEVGRU talks about it in podcasts and writes books about their experiences the guy's who've been in the RRD just don't talk about it.

Thanks for the update on RRD.

God loves killers

Welcome home Marine . Semper FI USMC 84-96 .

Semper Fi..H2/9-70-72 Take care my Brother!!

@@davidbrewster1994 Long live the Third Marine Division

Yep. And reading all the Government Reports (which the average American has never bothered to access) it’s screamingly apparent it takes about 6 month for the average combat vet to accept the reality of their imminent death. Once they got there, they’re fine combatants. They have learned to live in anomie.

The way he goes back to that guy snoring and laugh makes me wonder if the reason why he talked about him was that he COULD laugh😢😢❤ I thank you so much for your Service and I Salute you!!!! 🫡 🇱🇷

Same with my dad. He never really talked about his suffering much, he preferred to share the good times he had. 25 or so years ago, he did admit he had he had a dream where he's back on his first tour, on point. He can hear and SMELL everything again. He's hit by a sniper, on the ground, and all alone. He's waiting for the next shot. I asked him if he's ever had that dream before. He sheepishly said "all the time."

thank you

@@bthorn5035 The Power of Terror !

Same here. It's been 52 yrs for me. I was Air Force 375th Aeromedical Evac. Sq.

Thank you for your service. I was you tubing all the tunnels they had. They would be everywhere and nowhere in a second. The booby traps were insane. The house I bought was where Joe Smith was living when he was drafted. He was the first man from Evans County Georgia to loose his life in Vietnam. When something weird happens I just figure Joe is messing with me.

Well said….

I agree with your comment, he downplayed everything, but of course if captured alive. You can imagine you definitely would’ve been tortured and then killed once they’ve got the information from you and of course these four-man teams knew that. 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇸

Great man and love your motives and awesome service.

Damn straight - you nailed it, mate. Thumbs up from Canada. I remember Glasgow, my hometown. 👍

This is where America's military misadventures in S.E Asia becomes personal. Youngsters conscripted to kill Vietnamese and be killed by them. A wicked time in US history and for what? US objectives not obtained, civil disruption back home.

@@ScornedRemnant Govan I’m from sir.

@@Rswipes83 Govan? That's just a walk across the Clyde from my dad's White Inch. He said that area was badly bombed in '40 by Goering's mob. Some of his neighbours were killed by bombs but by that time my dad was in the far east in the RN. My mum, from Netherlee, was serving in the RAF, horrified by the other choice of working in a munitions factory. Mum had it in for the Jerries, having seen so many of "the boys" fallen in the RAF, one of them her boyfriend, a Spitfire pilot killed in combat over France in '42. She met Tin Legs Bader and Guy Gibson. Bader and his colleagues gave the Jerries a good bloody nose in '40, sending them back across the Channel where they could turn left at Luxembourg to find their fatherland and tell Adolph to find a new hobby. I came to Canada with the folks long ago because Glasgow was bombed to the point of housing being problematic. Cheers. mate.

Thanks sir for your service. My late father SFC retired led radio relay teams for the SF LRRP teams during his last two tours over there. His first was as an RTO plt leader with the 173rd ABN Bde.

I'm looking for Mike Majors,out of the Florida Keys.

This guy is so down to earth and glad he shared his experience, including after with Spokane. Funny how people you know, or family can turn on someone just like that without even trying to understand the person and what they went through. You can hear the hurt when he described that experience.

They aren’t “stories,” my friend. They’re your lived experience. You owe no one any kind of explanation. You know intimately what combat means, what it means to confront the reality of your own death very painfully and then, the wonder of being alive and the freakin’ guilt. Take care.

What movie have you been watching to call it Nam?

@@bwana-ma-coo-bah425 vets I served with who did tours in- country... Prior to and during Tet. What would you call it?

@@bwana-ma-coo-bah425 ...looking at your replies and what you did, you call it what you want. We lost alot of men and woman because of LBJ and Macnamara...lying to keep a promise that he would protect Vietnam. And look what we got for it.

@@cmichaelanthonyimages2197 I call it Vietnam. I did 2 years in Vietnam. How many did you do?

@@cmichaelanthonyimages2197 Nothing! Just like Iraq and Afghanistan. Can you see the common denominator?

In Their Honor... ''For none are closer to the very Author of pain, & sacrifice Himself. Than Those who choose to perform it for the sake, & safety of others. How much more then; Those Living Sacrifices who continue to bear Their scars of our POW, PTS, TBI, & Their handicapped Tattoos; Who's still performing them both night, & day ?'' -Former U.S. Paratrooper Sgt. 82nd Abn. Div. 1/504 back in '74.

If you are disabled then you have to learn to be undisabled

@@gregjones3660 Going from thinking I can't. To thinking how can I ?

@@soldtobediers I dont know. Just look at all the people that were told they would never walk again. Some of them walk again. I cant tell you what will heal you. If you look at Steven Hawking if thats the best a person can do then thats what they should do. But nobody will argue with you except you about what your best is. And that is who you have to answer too...

@@gregjones3660 ''In the heart of the heart, in the tiniest part, lives the will to survive.

I was conscripted. Big difference. Vietnam 2 years. Sent mates home in body bags. Last day my mate took a sht on the US flag and then he wiped his ass with it. To help him out I pissed all over it. A couple of US soldiers saw what we were doing. We took one look at them and they turned and walked away. By that time we were both ready to start killing US people. Years later he crucified himself on a needle , the torture never sopped for him. All because another one of your US presidents said we had to go there and kill people who had done nothing to us or us to them. If there is life after death, my mate is looking for LBJ and he means business. 🖕 LBJ Wait till I get there. And don't bother thanking me for my services. That is an insult. Just like every other war the US decided to get involved in you retreated with your tail between your legs.🖕

Seattle has long been a viper's nest of communism.

Pretty sure in WW 2 they had K rations, Viet Nam had C rations.

I can appreciate what your dad did running radio relay teams in the central highlands for Cambodia and Laos. I supported SF recon teams with helicopter insertions and extractions as well as radio relay teams at remote sites. There sites were often overrun by the NVA along the borders of Cambodia and Laos. Their communication support often made all the difference between life and death for those teams during recon along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Their combined efforts lead to the Cambodian Incursion that helped bring the war to an end.

@@ronwinkles2601 Thanks for your service sir.

Yes he is...Spot on!

his words fell on deaf US ears.