My father in law was in khe sahn when the ammunition dump exploded, he said all he saw was a giant wave of air coming towards him. Rest in piece John green🙏
Guy in my church was a US Marine at Khe Sanh. He doesn't talk much about it. Nope. And he is one talkative old vet on almost any other subject. #respect
My grammar high school teacher withstood The Siege at Khe Sahn, although he was a very disciplined man, he was also gentle and funny, We once asked him how was The War, he only said "guys I do not want to talk about it but it is hell on earth". One of his frequent phrases was "Thanks God for closet air!" ( Support I Guess? ) He died before his time, quite young as I see it now in his early 40s, because of The cáncer. May he RIP. All you Guys who went to VietNam are heroes, for me.
Do you happen to know the name of that vehicle? I searched the official lists of active/former light utility and engineering vehicles of the US Army and US Marines, but couldn't find the name of it
Kaiser Wilhelm II I have seen that same vehicle appear in Full Metal Jacket. It appears in the scene when the soldiers are being filmed while taking fire (the part with the “Bird is the word” song). I guess it’s some kind of a light utility vehicle, probably for carrying around ammo or crates?
I've watched this video tons of times and every time i see this guy running at 1:27 i always think "This is exactly what running for your fucking life looks like"
@@lambosil1437 Khe Sanh was nothing but danger close,.. do you know how Khe Sanh didn’t fall son?, American airpower,. if not we would’ve all been dead.,. I will tell you this once,. the power the Air Force put in that day killed more Americans then any PVA artillery wished it could do,..
Let me just paint this Astolfo pin up my F-15E Strike Eagle real quick and the asthetic will be complete. P.S. imma be disappointed if I don't see sc00ty b00ty's Casper character drawn on an A-10 or something
@@nicgur_6981 what's the point ? Even if there was air superiority there was no peace because they lost.Had they won his quote would have been accurate.
@@nicgur_6981 This is the generation when you correct somebody and explain your opinion you are automatically "MAD" there is a comment section for a reason
@@rainforestvids3534 is their a rule ? Should somebody erase the comment section after one year ?I was just wondering about the quote and was curious are you that shallow ?
I always wanted to see the Filipino side of the vietnam war. They did the same like the ones in Yultong, brave men against communists. I hope your grandpa is doing alright, I want to see him tell some stories.
My dads first day in Vietnam he got rocketed, hadn't even really met anyone yet and the guy issuing rifles said to wait till tomorrow! This was at Chu Lai guys at Khe Sanh were hardcore.
Slick juxtaposition. I feel like this song brings out the flashy sense of fire superiority American forces prefer. half resent it. half miss it. still dreaming of saving the world for democracy.
The same that I feel when I play wings over Vietnam or il2 sturmovik 1946 with some Vietnam mod and take off with my b52 to bomb the ho chi min trail. Only when they send me on Hanoi I m annoyed. Too anti aircraft fire wtf ahahahah
Flush out your head gear new guy. You think we waste g**ks for freedom? This is a slaughter. If I’m going to get my balls blown off for a word, my word is poontang! -Animal Mother
This video captures , in my opinion the fact that despite overwhelming technology and skill the US war machine was torn apart piece by piece and there was nothing that they could do. nothing but survive.
@@todmann67 Both of you are correct technically. Khe Sanh has been described as a microcosm of the Vietnam War as immediately after winning the battle the marines were told to evacuate and abandon the post to the enemy.
Actually it was kind of the opposite. What should have been an obvious loss (an isolated base, cut off and 28 miles from the nearest friendlies) was able to survive and fend off a substantially larger force for a prolonged period of time because of the US war machine which used air power to hammer any amassing forces, helicopters to evacuate the wounded, and air supply to constantly provide the base with medical equipment, food, water, and ammunition. It's unlikely the any other nation on Earth at the time could have accomplished what the US war machine did there. Oh, and then the siege was broken when 20,000 air cav troopers & Marines fought their way to Khe Sanh.
The fact is, the battle itself was a PAVN feint to lure large amount of US troops from Tet Offensive '68 areas near and around the coast and then the PAVN artillery and guns surrounding the base would bombard the American troops daily and inflict casualties. The PAVN didn't even prioritized in capturing the base like they did against the French at Dien Bien Phu, if an assault is not viable they would never try to launch major assault on the base with many NVA troops.
Ramal, they did try to take it. A lot of PAVN generals were against it, but one general was for it and so it happened. Obviously the assault failed because Murica, but nonetheless they were successful at the US Military focusing resources on Khe Sanh instead of the Tet offensive which also failed but nonetheless it caused people to question the war back home even more and people though we won the battle felt like it was useless to keep fighting at that point.
@@williamsherman1942 Giap was againsts Tet and Truong Chinh basically wiped him from any relevant power from that point onwards. Post war Giap got the "cushy seat" of 'Head of Family Planning Committee' ,shows how much he got maneuvered out of relevancy
I think it would be really interesting to see this War from the Viet Minh/Viet Cong perspective - we`ve seen lots and lots of footage showing all aspects of the time the GIs spend there, but I barely saw anything about how it was for Vietnamese soldiers. Propably wont happen though.
@@ИммануилБормотухин they probably had the equipment and there may be a lot of footage out there, but the main format they used for propaganda was different than that of the US and its allies (action packed documentaries, pro war hollywood movies, sensationalized news reports etc). I once saw a very memorable scene on a documentary in which a film crew was interviewing a Douglas Skyraider pilot as he was strafing enemy soldiers. And as the guy started talking about how exciting it would be to personally check out the effectivity of a napalm bombings on the ground there was a cut to footage of a press conference with 3 men in identical black suits whose faces were visibly deformed by burn scars.
Hey, it's me again. I asked like 8 months ago if I could use one of your videos for a tweet. I came to ask if I could do the same again. Ofc I'd link this video as a source again
@@aussie_mantis3507 It’s in a lot of national archives, also a lot of footage about ‘Nam online on the internet. It’s hard to find, but you can find it
While this was going on the tet offensive was going on full-force, that also failed but shocked the American public back home and really damaged American morale in Vietnam.
They destroyed the Vietnamese sieging Khe Sanh, sure those men paid a price but they won. Although for whatever damn reason American general staff left Khe Sanh not sooner after, ruining years of work.
Где же злобные комментарии о миллионах погибших во Вьтнаме мирных жителей? Или американские демократические бомбы и напалм убивают как то более добро чем советские? Они ведь убили даже больше чем советы в Афгане - где же борцы за свободы?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Khe_Sanh They broke the seige, but pretty much lost the battle. The US giving up Khe Sanh basically broke the McNamara line, allowing better infiltration and extending NVA communication.
![Khe Sanh | Vietnam War | Ultra High Graphics Gameplay [4K 60FPS UHD] Call of Duty](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ABqMlQiVIYU/mqdefault.jpg)
My father in law was in khe sahn when the ammunition dump exploded, he said all he saw was a giant wave of air coming towards him. Rest in piece John green🙏
Rest In Peace, I thank him for his service.
RIP he's in heaven now.
@@hendrikalbertusjanssens7933 nah he's rotting in hell lmaoo
@@Spade_1917 why is he in hell
@@lottabutts3389 Fighting an imperalist war, probably killed civilians, definitely *helped* kill civilians just by his mere presence
Guy in my church was a US Marine at Khe Sanh. He doesn't talk much about it. Nope. And he is one talkative old vet on almost any other subject. #respect
Yes
My grammar high school teacher withstood The Siege at Khe Sahn, although he was a very disciplined man, he was also gentle and funny, We once asked him how was The War, he only said "guys I do not want to talk about it but it is hell on earth". One of his frequent phrases was "Thanks God for closet air!" ( Support I Guess? ) He died before his time, quite young as I see it now in his early 40s, because of The cáncer. May he RIP. All you Guys who went to VietNam are heroes, for me.
Nothing can penetrate the armour if you don’t have any
Do you happen to know the name of that vehicle? I searched the official lists of active/former light utility and engineering vehicles of the US Army and US Marines, but couldn't find the name of it
T-55 AM2B sorry but I have no clue what the name is
@@t-55am2b5 It could possibly be a custom built vehicle or maybe a modified version of a vehicle.
Kaiser Wilhelm II
I have seen that same vehicle appear in Full Metal Jacket. It appears in the scene when the soldiers are being filmed while taking fire (the part with the “Bird is the word” song). I guess it’s some kind of a light utility vehicle, probably for carrying around ammo or crates?
@@t-55am2b5 I found it, it was called the m274 truck.
I've watched this video tons of times and every time i see this guy running at 1:27 i always think "This is exactly what running for your fucking life looks like"
@Ladey Babey those are US Marines running from Vietnamese artillery fire, not Vietnamese running from US bombing runs.
@@METan-fw2cg how do we know what they were running from?
@@borgerchainsaw1016 probably the other people can recognize the fighter planes which were previous to see ....... it's just a guess .......
@@METan-fw2cg I think he ment friendly fire or danger close bombings
@@lambosil1437 Khe Sanh was nothing but danger close,.. do you know how Khe Sanh didn’t fall son?, American airpower,. if not we would’ve all been dead.,. I will tell you this once,. the power the Air Force put in that day killed more Americans then any PVA artillery wished it could do,..
Back when your doordash delivery was kicked out of the back of a C130 at 50 feet and 70 knots
The veterans alive today are precious. What they experienced and felt should and needs to be told to the world.
Damn these people are really good at reenacting Rising Storm 2.
Lmao
💀
overwhelming firepower. I love it!
Here’s a rifle that some other guy was using the other day, a flak jacket, pack of smokes, boots, and two pair sock.
Go get em, boys.
Let’s hope the ww3 aesthetics aren’t ruined by 4K super ultra HD and dudes dressed like fortnite.
Those dudes would die first probably
Chances are that WILL BE the ww3 aestethic. My opinion is it would be hilarious
yes
Let me just paint this Astolfo pin up my F-15E Strike Eagle real quick and the asthetic will be complete.
P.S. imma be disappointed if I don't see sc00ty b00ty's Casper character drawn on an A-10 or something
“Aesthetic”
Peace through air superiority
What superiority they lost
@@nicgur_6981 what's the point ? Even if there was air superiority there was no peace because they lost.Had they won his quote would have been accurate.
@@nicgur_6981 This is the generation when you correct somebody and explain your opinion you are automatically "MAD" there is a comment section for a reason
@@nicgur_6981 can't expect a kid who tells me "why tho"
@@rainforestvids3534 is their a rule ? Should somebody erase the comment section after one year ?I was just wondering about the quote and was curious are you that shallow ?
“I don’t want another Dien bien phu dammit”
Lol it could have been... add some more nva infantry to storm it after the artillery and subtract some us airpower it could have fallen
My oldest grandpa joined Vietnam but he was in the other base somewhere in Vietnam he was a philippine army 1965
I always wanted to see the Filipino side of the vietnam war. They did the same like the ones in Yultong, brave men against communists. I hope your grandpa is doing alright, I want to see him tell some stories.
@@Oline1756 VC was terrified about them
@@captainenglehorn8429 Viet congs are scared of Brave Filipinos, and the used to be based Koreans. Filipinos are brave soldiers, even today.
@@Oline1756
Same here. I’m from a Spanish descent, my great grandfather fought in the Korean war too, in the battle of Yultong.
@@Oline1756 i saw the vidoes when they landed on vietnam
The war with the best soundtrack
Air Force: Congrats you’re a C-130 pilot. You should be safe for you’re time in Vietnam.
Khe Sanh: welcome to the Nam.
Vietnamese: "We'll surround and destroy another major force, just like we did at Dien Bien Phu."
US Military: "Hold my napalm."
I heard that it was a distraction
@@MyHentaiGirl Westmoreland sure seemed to think so
vâng.
We fucked them nva up good
@@Karl_I still lost tho
"Dwight Not in the Office are you crazy"
My dads first day in Vietnam he got rocketed, hadn't even really met anyone yet and the guy issuing rifles said to wait till tomorrow! This was at Chu Lai guys at Khe Sanh were hardcore.
“Michael, the Vietnamese are on the offensive”
“Oh how the turn tabbles”
Rip in pepperoni Vietnamese “offensive”
Before there was Dundermiflin and The Office, there were the Marines and Khe Sahn🍻
0:37 guy flying and smoking is badass and don’t give any fuggs
Oh it's not the lip dub of The Office, shoot..
It might be the song, but i'm pretty sure i saw Dwight of "The Office" screaming on the helicopter.
0:20 неплохая телега, мне бы такую для работы по хозяйству пригодилось
@Ladey Babey "not a bad cart, I would use this one for household chores" he said
@@angelinobernal6899 Whaha, this Russian dude man
@@williamsherman1942 girl
@@ИммануилБормотухинI’m not a girl, mate.
@@williamsherman1942 I'm just correcting you, dude.
white phosphorus type beat
It sticks to kids like napalm
Mega props to the C-123 pilot smoking a cigarette while flying at :36
Slick juxtaposition.
I feel like this song brings out the flashy sense of fire superiority American forces prefer.
half resent it.
half miss it.
still dreaming of saving the world for democracy.
The same that I feel when I play wings over Vietnam or il2 sturmovik 1946 with some Vietnam mod and take off with my b52 to bomb the ho chi min trail. Only when they send me on Hanoi I m annoyed. Too anti aircraft fire wtf ahahahah
P. S. I play also rock n roll music en route 😂🎶
@GYPSY KING FURY shut up commie
Flush out your head gear new guy. You think we waste g**ks for freedom?
This is a slaughter.
If I’m going to get my balls blown off for a word, my word is poontang!
-Animal Mother
Rolling Thunder was a waste
Am I upset that Cold Chisel wasn't used? A little bit. Is this still a banger of a video? You betcha
God were the 60s cameras good
Я тоже хочу,блин азарт прёт!👍👍👍👍
а в черный ящик сыграешь?
we're all gonna come home in boxes or with purple hearts just in time for the ironic montages to come back! is anyone else excited?
sorry, I can't unsee the office intro.
I love this song so much. My first time tripping on mushrooms my buddy played this.
This video captures , in my opinion the fact that despite overwhelming technology and skill the US war machine was torn apart piece by piece and there was nothing that they could do. nothing but survive.
Well the Marines defeated the attack on Khe Sahn, sooo.
@@todmann67 Both of you are correct technically. Khe Sanh has been described as a microcosm of the Vietnam War as immediately after winning the battle the marines were told to evacuate and abandon the post to the enemy.
Actually it was kind of the opposite. What should have been an obvious loss (an isolated base, cut off and 28 miles from the nearest friendlies) was able to survive and fend off a substantially larger force for a prolonged period of time because of the US war machine which used air power to hammer any amassing forces, helicopters to evacuate the wounded, and air supply to constantly provide the base with medical equipment, food, water, and ammunition.
It's unlikely the any other nation on Earth at the time could have accomplished what the US war machine did there.
Oh, and then the siege was broken when 20,000 air cav troopers & Marines fought their way to Khe Sanh.
The fact is, the battle itself was a PAVN feint to lure large amount of US troops from Tet Offensive '68 areas near and around the coast and then the PAVN artillery and guns surrounding the base would bombard the American troops daily and inflict casualties.
The PAVN didn't even prioritized in capturing the base like they did against the French at Dien Bien Phu, if an assault is not viable they would never try to launch major assault on the base with many NVA troops.
Ramal, they did try to take it. A lot of PAVN generals were against it, but one general was for it and so it happened. Obviously the assault failed because Murica, but nonetheless they were successful at the US Military focusing resources on Khe Sanh instead of the Tet offensive which also failed but nonetheless it caused people to question the war back home even more and people though we won the battle felt like it was useless to keep fighting at that point.
@@williamsherman1942 Giap was againsts Tet and Truong Chinh basically wiped him from any relevant power from that point onwards. Post war Giap got the "cushy seat" of 'Head of Family Planning Committee' ,shows how much he got maneuvered out of relevancy
I think it would be really interesting to see this War from the Viet Minh/Viet Cong perspective - we`ve seen lots and lots of footage showing all aspects of the time the GIs spend there, but I barely saw anything about how it was for Vietnamese soldiers. Propably wont happen though.
I suppose there was hardly any filming hardware on Vietnam side. Some filming might be done by GRU/KGB, but it is still classified probably.
Apparently the Ken Burns documentary has interviews with former VC and Vietnamese civilians. Might be worth a watch.
@@ИммануилБормотухин they probably had the equipment and there may be a lot of footage out there, but the main format they used for propaganda was different than that of the US and its allies (action packed documentaries, pro war hollywood movies, sensationalized news reports etc).
I once saw a very memorable scene on a documentary in which a film crew was interviewing a Douglas Skyraider pilot as he was strafing enemy soldiers. And as the guy started talking about how exciting it would be to personally check out the effectivity of a napalm bombings on the ground there was a cut to footage of a press conference with 3 men in identical black suits whose faces were visibly deformed by burn scars.
Hey, it's me again. I asked like 8 months ago if I could use one of your videos for a tweet. I came to ask if I could do the same again. Ofc I'd link this video as a source again
Sure thing dude, thanks for asking first
Thanks. Didn't think I'd hear back from you so soon
@@MrAdelui no problem man, just in another country without a computer atm is all
Sometimes I wonder if film companies sponsor grubmint to engineer plots so they can make movies.
What's the weapon blatting away at 0.50...is it AA?
Probably an M42 Duster
@@rickv9180 Doesn’t seem to have the muzzle break, i don’t actually know what that is
@@rickv9180 Never mind i lied i have zero clue what it is
0:22 like I do the big BOOM
I don’t get how cid you get the ending of the song while in spotify or hell in YT I can’t find that sort of version.
Where do people get all the footage for this stuff?
@Ladey Babey Where, though? US National Archives?
@Ladey Babey righty-oh. It's just that I've been looking for somewhere to download this kind of footage for a project of mine.
@@aussie_mantis3507 It’s in a lot of national archives, also a lot of footage about ‘Nam online on the internet. It’s hard to find, but you can find it
While this was going on the tet offensive was going on full-force, that also failed but shocked the American public back home and really damaged American morale in Vietnam.
Song name?
The human beinz - nobody but me
Chatbox 3000 bruh it was linked in the description down below
I need the complete video of the c-130 on 0:42
0:20 what vehicle is this?
M274 mule.
@@tomlindelow7984 thanks
My new whip, who dis?
Semper fi to all the leathernecks
013 Marvin Crest
literally the first thing i think at the first frame of the video is "arnold schwarzenegger"
What is the guy at 00:21 driving 😂😂😂
M274 "Mule" good little vehicle.
Wait this is the wrong Office Lip Dup
Thank you for not using the song Fortunate Son.
What does Khe sanh mean?
Not using Khe Sanh by Cold Chisel... SMH
Nobody can do the *NAPALM* like me
Nobody can do the *KILLIN'* like I do
Nobody can do the 𝗕𝗢𝗗𝗬 𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗧 like I do
This music really offers an ironic flavor to the fact that the marines and AF got their s* ** ROCKED in this siege and ran like rats out of there
They destroyed the Vietnamese sieging Khe Sanh, sure those men paid a price but they won. Although for whatever damn reason American general staff left Khe Sanh not sooner after, ruining years of work.
Где же злобные комментарии о миллионах погибших во Вьтнаме мирных жителей? Или американские демократические бомбы и напалм убивают как то более добро чем советские? Они ведь убили даже больше чем советы в Афгане - где же борцы за свободы?
Американский напалм - самый демократический напалм)
@@vovannslav9717 quiet commie
@@NationalWolf I've said that Murican napalm is the most democratic napalm so you are the commie cuz you are trying to shut me.
Shut up you commie prick.
Your comment does not make any sense
I hate this map in Rising Storm 2 xD
nut
Cultured man
Glory to victorious Vietcong and North Vietnam!
Comie
@Ladey Babey No they did. It was indecisive.
You know equal please
Big embarrassment for the US so called logistics warfare
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Khe_Sanh
They broke the seige, but pretty much lost the battle. The US giving up Khe Sanh basically broke the McNamara line, allowing better infiltration and extending NVA communication.