Vietnam War Marines fix bayonet's in rice paddy assault
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 มี.ค. 2023
- Become an AVC Patreon member to receive an annual calendar, early access to videos, exclusive content, and several other perks. This funding goes directly into helping us capture more incredible stories with our nation's veterans: / americanveteranscenter
James E. Livingston was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in June 1962, following graduation from Auburn University. Early assignments included service as a Platoon Commander, Intelligence Officer, and as a Recruit Training Regiment Series Commander.
Promoted to Captain in June 1966, General Livingston served as the Commanding Officer of the Marine detachment aboard the aircraft carrier USS Wasp, before joining the 3rd Marine Division in the Republic of Vietnam in August 1967.
On May 2, 1968, while serving as Commanding Officer, Company E, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, Livingston distinguished himself above and beyond the call of duty in action against enemy forces during the Battle of Dai Do. His actions that day would lead to him being awarded the Medal of Honor by President Richard Nixon on May 14, 1970.
James E. Livingston would serve on active duty in his beloved Marine Corps for over 33 years before retiring as a Major General on September 1, 1995.
Learn more about the American Veterans Center: www.americanveteranscenter.org/
Like us on Facebook: / americanveteranscenter
Follow us on Twitter: / avcupdate
Follow us on Instagram: / americanveteranscenter
Subscribe to our podcast: link.chtbl.com/americanvetera...
![[TH] 2024 PMSL SEA W2D4 | Summer | โอกาสสุดท้าย ของสัปดาห์สอง](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/aswciGrYovo/mqdefault.jpg)
Watch his full interview here: th-cam.com/video/bhZDTzNEbRc/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for risking your future for all of us... This man is a hero....
"Fix bayonets!!! This is for real!!! This is going to be a tough one!!!"
-General of the US Marines.
"The worst war's will be at home."
-Sun Tzu
This man is a legend. Right up there next to the King Leonidas and GERONIMO. He's legendary.
❤ what a waste ???? And in the end Vietnam was lost . Please … don’t fight in wars . This wasn’t worth it . Hippies knew that … Only the 🩸🩸Blood of Jesus acts 4:12
@@mordecaiesther3591 tell the politicians! After Vietnam learn not to trash politicians. Covid Iraq Iran etc.
Time is a strange thing. My grandfather was a ww1 vet that shook my hand. He shook hands with his grandfather who took part in the seige of Vicksburg. He shook hands with his grandfather that fought in the war for independence. I have been 3 handshakes from a Revolutionary war veteran, amazing! I am 60.
I was born in 96, my father in 40, my grandfather in 1894, great grandfather in 1860, great great in 1812.
5 men, separated by 200 years.
The Renaissance was only about 8 old men ago. (80 year olds)
The time of Julius Caesar was about 25 old men ago.
It is simultaneously long as ever, and shorter than we could possibly imagine.
We are ALIVE!
I got a family gravesite full of heroes. Enough. Time to evolve, one way or another.
I pay your won’t have to shake your grandson’s hand in the same manner
@@steviechampagneyour pops was old af when he had you😂
@@ConfuciusZ what can i say? the guy had game😂😂
I’m 38… The Vietnam Vets look like the WW2 vets did when I was a kid. Time is a flyin
Just waite. Yen more will rip off before you can say... what the f........
Dude you're so right! Do you remember when there were still ww1 vets walking around!? I remember meeting a couple guys that were vets of both ww1 and ww2 and they looked like the Vietnam vets of today. Hell the Korea vets look like the ww1 vets from when I was a kid.
Same age and feel the same. Crazy to me that when I looked it up the last WW1 vet died like 10 years ago. Soon we will see the last WW2 vet pass away if we are blessed to still be here. 17 years ago when I was hitting the bars these guys looked my Dad. Now they look older than my grandpa. Time is wild
Yep. I'm 72 now. 52 years since I was there. Half a century. My dad was at normandy. My granddad fought in the trenches. They got old and died. My future...I'm old...
And those few had the luxury of aging.
Army veteran here, I’m always saddened by the loss of so many great young men. God bless them all!
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Blame HENRY KESSINGER
That's because you guys went to war with a country which didn't even pose a threat to you...yes and you lost the war
why were they there?
Whenever your commander orders "fix bayonets", you know you are in deep sh&t.
Affirmative...,Semper Fi,.,....
Must be about the most horrifying phrase in the English (or any other) language.
Gave to face.. hand to hand😢😢. Remember how young these men are. On both sides. Do it it'll be done to you. Put your young untestedk empathic young heart on the shelf. His commander voice!! Fix Bayonets!! 😢😢❤💔❤️🩹❤️🩹
My grampa told me about running out of ammo and fist fighting, swinging empty rifles and throwing helmets. I don't think they had their bayonets fixed, because I don't think the order was given, but it seems to me that it would be the same thing.
That was brutal but honest warfare. Like a bow hunter vs road hunting. Nowadays it's .ore like a video game. Not all obviously as we still have IED, etc. But you don't really see the whites of their eyes. Look into the eyes of the boy / man that your in hand to hand with and about to kill. That is personal❗💯. I salute your Gpa and all the others who have served. Salute
I SPENT 26 months in Vietnam as a Navy Corpsman & I still have trouble talking about it ! PRAY FOR ALL VETERANS, HONOR THEM AT EVERY CHANCE ! GOD BLESS YOU ALL 🙏
Thanks truly for your service.
Thank you for your service.
Welcome home sir.
Lost my marine brother in 98, he was in country 64 -68 . . . Took him 30 years to assemble a kind of peace in his life from that misguided war . . . Then he was gone from this life . . . You have all my empathy and hope that you too, will find you can lay that burden down . . .
God bless and strengthen you . . . ❤
My Husband was a Vietnam marine. He was always proud of that. Your all HERO'S!!!!!!❤
You're*
@@billcutting1299Sure you can correct spelling. Can you provide any other service for our Nation? Oops just a cowardly spelling bee ribbon holder.
@@billcutting1299smart ass
@@billcutting1299 turd
Major General's voice even at his age, commands respect and attention! Thank you sir for your service!
It has the unmistakable tone of authority. And it’s not just tone, but it’s the eloquent, but precise way he utilizes his words as well.
You both must be inbred to believe that 😂😂😂
He was at PI when I went through boot. I met him briefly a few years later when he was the CO of 6th Marines. He was a legend.
He still is. He’s 83.
3rd Bat Co. 1980
General Livingston, I was proud to serve under you in 3rd Recruir Training Battalion, PISC in 1981. At the change of command ceremony when you took over they read your Medal Of Honor citation and we were all inspired to serve with the valor you displayed. Years later I moved to Gainesville Texas and saw where you had been honored by the Medal Of Honor City and had visited here for the Medal Of Honor commemoration. I also bought your book. Truly an honor to have been a very small part of your life even though you never knew me. GOD bless and Semper Fi sir.
God bless you Sir. I was a child when you were being a man. You were and ARE PRAYED for Sir. I remember.
That's a wonderful memory! What an amazing Graduation Ceremony!
He loved us all, names known or not. Semper Fi
@@duckyday1099 thank you brother.
I was there at the same time. He ran with our Company one time.
Its amazing to me how much he humanized the enemy with the line "They were fightin for their lives"
👐.thank you for this comment, you noticed the truth, they, like us, did not start it • just had to finish it.😭 *.GOD ALMIGHTY : please stop this massive, horrific madness, loss of life, & love, and ONLY YOU can do it, please, and we thank YOU, ameen.!😭💔👐
@@lorrainedouze8337 Once you get down to man to man combat it becomes you or him going to walk away if you're lucky you're hoping it will be you 😢
@@j.michaeljefferson60
💖..not disagreeing just wiish it would alll STOP, bc we need our men, our fathers, sons, mothers, and daughters, we need OUR families, we neeed LOVE more than war, but i am soo grateful to those who defend freedom & home, (my grandfather served among many others in my family), they just come back very different, thanks for your comment as well, and blessings to all..💙👐
Yes extraordinarily unique 💫 Blessings to all 🌏 !
@@lorrainedouze8337You're asking your God to STOP war? Are you on drugs? Yahweh called for genocide numerous times and killed more humans than any general ever did.
We need this man in office about now . Thank you for your service and leadership sir . 👏
Seems like it wouldn’t be a good idea he does what he is told by authority no matter how f’d up it is. But thankfully he protected my American freedom in vietnam 😂
It's incredible what these men went through. Thank God for all of them
My father was a WWII combat Marine who fought in the Pacific, Okinawa, the Phillipines, etc. He never spoke about it and never seemed to have anything in common with other WWII combat vets who fought in Europe. One day, we went to a party celebrating his best friend's son coming home from fighting in Vietnam. He was a Marine too and had joined the Marines because he admired my dad so much. His father had served in the Navy duringb WWII. I don't remember a lot about the party but I do remember the young Marine and the old Marine (my dad) sitting quietly off to the side talking. Years later when my dad was in the hospital dying from cancer the young Marine came to say goodbye. I gave them privacy and waited out in the hallway. When the young Marine came out he was crying. He told me that my dad was his hero and that on that day they had spoken so long ago, my dad had saved his life and he was forever grateful. My dad had nothing but respect for Vietnam vets. Every day I miss that old Marine who was a Marine until the day he died. Semper Fi dad, Semper Fi till we meet again ❤
I'm sure glad I didn't join the armed forces. A buddy I grew up with went marine. and got to fight in the last 2 middle east wars he got broken physical and mental.
@@reubeng2110well your a coward, he wasn't. Big difference.
@@user-wl1go3xc9fwhat have you done?
@@user-wl1go3xc9fYou’re*
Your story made me cry. I wonder what your father said to the Marine that saved his life. What a grand thing that was your father said or did.
35 out of 180 rugged. Thank you for your sacrifice each and every one
"Awful", or "Total disregard for his men" comes to my mind. Different times I guess.
Not so...They had an objective. and they took it..The United States Marine Corps has earned a fearsome reputation as a unit you do not want to mess with...I am sure a man of his character still grieves over his dead and wounded...And no one second guesses his decisions of that day more than he does....
@@1Maccabee That’s 80% casualties. I believe at Dai Do this Company of Marines found themselves pinned down in a rice paddy under heavy fire and frontal assault was the best of bad options. I admit as a lowly 11b in that conflict I witnessed more than one butter bars fresh from West Point that was too eager for recognition.
That's not good casualty to hi... I wonder how many they lost during the open ground charge
180 out 180: Brave Warriors
MOH thanks you Sir for your service, I’m 62 years old and always respected what you men had to do. I salute you Sir from a Navy veteran.
Thank you for your service and sacrifice, sir. Welcome home!
Damn, he added something to his voice saying fixed bayonets look at the highest award in the military around his neck. Salute to a warrior.
I'm sure he took point amongst the 180 Marines.
He sure did and I was starting to look around for an M16 and my bayonet!
😢❤
That's dumb, why would the leader take point? He should be in the back giving orders to runners talking to hq asking for air support
@@KrolKaz I was being facetious, ie. implying that most likely he was doing the opposite, that is he was in the rear with the gear..However, the man and leader that he was, he was likely as far forward posted as wise. Leaders do inspire their soldiers by being at the front and very rarely they have fought with their troops, as in the Pacific in WW2. However, one general who did that was targeted by Japanese soldiers and killed.
I worked with General Livingston during Gulf War, he was a true warrior.
My father served under him in 2/4 echo.
My father a WWII Marine said on Saipan the most horrific thing he was apart of was fixing his bayonet and hand to hand combat. God bless all our marines and as a retired sailor it was always an honor to serve with the Marines. Semper Fi
Could you imagine the adrenaline before it started and the feeling one would get , just knowing what is in front of you . That your whole childhood and everything you done to this exact moment in time was there upon you .🙏
I thank him & all my fellow veterans for the service & sacrifice 🇺🇸
The Vietnam war was a waste of lives that served no purpose. Vietnam is communist. There was no cascade effect of other countries falling to communism as was predicted. The only benefits of the war were the profits for the military industrial complex.
SFMF
My Dad said anyone awarded that medal is one hell of a soldier. Anyone alive wearing it is on a different level than any man. God Bless this Marine. RIP Dad, USMC MCRD-PI '59
Your Dad is right.
God bless you and your family.
God bless the USA!
✋📖🇺🇲📜🗽⚖️⚔️🦅
That use to be the case now they want to make the medal more PC . I read a book of my older brother’s when i was around 15 ,A Two Ocean War , about WWII ,in back appendex there was a section of MOH , Navy Cross , ect. reciepients and their actions for recieving it. The actions these men took were the stuff of true heroes ! Absolutely above and beyond the call of duty . To award this medal for anything less is a diservice to all who have attained this honor in the past .
They have NOT made that medal more PC. I’m fact, the requirements are becoming more and more stringent.
That man is a real warrior God bless him and the men that fought with him don't make a lot of men like that anymore
Stupid trump gave Rush Limbaugh one and neither one of them served in our military
I always looked up to war Veterans and always will. I was denied to serve so seeing someone who did is an honor. Semper Fi, Sir.
When this, now elderly warrior repeated the command “fix bayonets” his voice sounded as commanding now as the day he gave that order for real. Those who have never served their Country as men like he has owe him, and those who have served, a real debt of gratitude. God bless him and Americans honour him, and those who serve their Country.
That is why the U.S. MARINES are so Feared and Respected.
Knuckle dragging morons that get themselves and others killed unnecessarily because they have no combat discipline. There's a reason they have a higher loss rate than the Army across the same battlefields.
God bless you sir.
It is good to hear the true stories of some of our veterans, somewhat scary to imagine but gives a better understanding of what they went through
When he said, "Fix bayonets." I started looking for mine.
He's still got it.
Thank you for your service, sir.
Fact
Thank you for your service.
🇺🇸
Thank you sir for your service to our nation 🇺🇸
your service to your country is invaluable
My brother was in Vietnam as a helicopter mechanic and I missed Vietnam by three years, I enlisted in 78. I thank you and all our men and women who served there.
Viet Nam era vet here. Proud to have served the nation.
You Sir a hero,as every Soldier who has ever served is
Welcome home
Semper Fi, General, from me (6002) and my husband (0331). He did four tours.
Thank you for your service. You and your husband are true heroes
🖍🖍🖍🖍
Thank you for your service!
Semper Fi, sir! 2531
Thank you for your service!
Vietnam Veterans deserve si much respect and appreciation for all they went thru
Love you Vietnamese vets so much!! Thank you!!
2/4 magnificent bastards. Echo company. That's my father's former company commander. Battle of Dai Do
I served in Echo 2/4. God bless the Magnificent Bastards. They are the best.
@peterchapla7270 thank you for your service.
I had the honor serving under MajGen Livingston after I left 2/4 and went to Buffalo NY and India Co 3/25. He was the Commanding General of Marine Forces Reserve in New Orleans. He often sent out messages to the Marine Corps Reserve sites nationwide and signed messages, “Lean way forward in the foxhole on this…”. His way of telling us how important that topic was. We read you loud and clear General! Semper Fi
For anyone that hasn't seen this entire video interview, you must watch its a absolutely amazing story told by a amazing story teller you can feel the fear, bravery and intensity these men felt.
Can you please share the link to the interview with us?
Heroes, every single man that day. The youth of today could learn a thing or two from men like this.
What a badass. Takes a lot of guts to do something like that.
That America makes such men. I have had the honor of meeting 2 Vietnam Medal of Honor awardees. Both selfless and dedicated. Semper Fi, sir
Thank you for securing our oil rig. God bless the usa
@@VietnamesePenisAmericanGirl lmao mr swastikas and SS over here, tell me wise guy, what does “SS” REALLY stand for? And not the Wikipedia fake answer, ya seem like you must know what you’re talking about. So please, enlighten me.
@@VietnamesePenisAmericanGirl grow the he ll up.
Marines say Semper Fi. Civilians and other non-Marines say "Semper Gratus", ie. Always Grateful.
God bless the Marines.
"Thou shall not kill" was written in stone by God himself.
It's a shame to have lost so many good men, God Bless one and all, may you all RIP.
That's a Medal of Honor.
Thank you for your service Sir. War is a horrible thing.
This is as raw as it gets. I know it was necessary and I support our Military in all they do. I can see why this Marine received the Medal of Honor.
Thank you sir for your service.
Thank You Sir and all the members of Our Armed Forces for Your Service 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Geez ! What a horrible thing to have to go through. Wow Marines are absolutely amazing. Thank you to all our amazing Marines! We love you !
Some love freedom more than life.
They know the needs of the many outweigh the cost of the few, and stand in the gap to provide that freedom.
I hate communism.
✋📖🇺🇲📜🗽⚖️⚔️🦅
Same as Army infantry but with John Wayne PR.
He was the CO of Third Battalion at MCRD Parris Island, when I was there in 82.
God bless you, thank you for your incredible courage and your service! People like you are just not made any more!!! Incredible man!❤🎉🙏❤️🎉🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️🥰
Thank you for your service, sir! God bless you and your family!
Damn he made me jump up and Fix my bayonet!! 😮
Ditto
Same!!
Real men ... My dad was an MP during WW2 ! lost a lot of MP's to snipers. Thank God my dad got back home... That's why I'm writing this today !
How amazing and valiant your sacrifices were yet they go almost unnoticed by the general public. Thank you hardly seems sufficient but it is heartfelt 👑🥰🌟
Pretty sure that was the battle of Dai Do. Remember hearing about this in boot camp. They were way outnumbered. I think it was 10 to 1. Semper Fi 2/7
Thank you to all who served. ESPECIALLY those who were literally forced to do it. It aint much but its from the heart. Semper Fidelis
These men are a rare and dying breed of heroes we will never see again. 🏅 This kind of loyalty, patriotism, courage, and bravery is something special.
All warriors...true hero. Thank you for your service...semper fi
Damn dude, absolute legend and badass right there…
Cope
He's bad ass because he sent 150 Marines to their death after they killed 400 -500 Vietnamese people? ALL FOR NOTHING. the most shameful war on foreign soil in our history.
@@VietnamesePenisAmericanGirlYou yellow bellies WISH you could have our women. You’re 20-1.. thats or KD from Vietnam.. while barely even trying and having sent a fraction of the force we faced. You’re lucky we didn’t approach that war like we did WWII.. although I will say this about that war.. we defeated the wrong enemy.
With someone ELSE'S life. Generals don't lead bayonet charges across an open field.
@@bjohnston3659 Why don’t you read a little. He was a captain at the time of the battle in Vietnam he is talking about.
We need men like him and his soldiers today.
Major General JAMES LIVINGSTON: thank you for your Service and Dedication.
God bless all the soldiers who have fought for this country. And their families.
Marine Nam Vet here. Semper Fi Brother. That place was pure HELL
My father was in 2/4 echo. Thank you for your service.
Thank you for your service.
Semper Fi Marine and welcome home
SFBAMF
What was your MOS? REMF? Cok? Clerk? Supply?
His voice alone could kill what a bad ass oh and his medal of honor don't hurt!
Wow, this one really gets me. God bless all of you who marched into that dangerous situation to do your job, and you did it well. Praying for the ones who gave their lives. Thank you for telling your story. ❤🙏🙏🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
My brothers who not only say they love you, but back their words with action. Thank you.
I thank and welcome home any and every vet I ever see because of the "welcome" my father got when he came home. He told me the story with tears in eyes but he would never talk about anything about over there
Thank you,all MARINES there too.
The face of American courage here. God bless you sir. Welcome home and thank you
Thank you, Sir. You are a hero
Bless all of them. May they be at peace in the great beyond.
I remember as a teenager calling them baby murderers And Rallying against the troops. I've never been so ashamed of myself
Good
We all learn war is hell and alot of these men didn't even want to go. You were mad at the wrong people. Ther real enemy is the people who sent these brave men to a war that wasn't ours.
Never understood how folks could spit on young men drafted into a war they didn't want, watch their friends die and God knows what to else only to return to be scorned. Even as a kid I knew how wrong that was.
@@BLU3F4LC0N881 It was our war. Unfortunately, a lot of bad decisions were made. Otherwise, we could have won it.
This gives me hope for the world. It's refreshing someone can admit to there mistakes and how bad they feel about it. So many stick to it even though they know they are wrong. 😢
Thank you for your service, sir. You & all the vets.
It's strange for me to see Vietnam vets so old now. But we're talking 50 years ago. Time flies.
I can't imagine being in OIF or OEF , and hear my squad leader or my pt sergeant telling us to fix bayonets 😂 that feels so primal .
I believe somebody semi-famously got a bayonet kill in Iraq Lol
Thanks for your service Matt
We didn’t even have bayonets issued when I was in iraq
Matthew Sparks not only primal, and very up close and VERY personal! 🤯💀🙏
Gomer Pyle learned how to use a bayonet in the Marines too.
Most likely the horrible ugly Truth is the Marines exited the area and the VA/VC reoccupied it shortly afterwards. A few months later, maybe a year another group of brave Marines sacrificed their lives to obtain this objective once again: Perpetual warfare a la Vietnam
Thank you very much for your service sir❤❤❤
My pops served in Nam, every time I hear one of these veterans speak of the war it just makes me miss him that much more. RIP pops ❤
Hard-core, semper fi sir
My brother was in hand to hand combat,side by side with another marine: Hue,(Marine)
I got chills when he said “Fix bayonets “
🇺🇸🙏
You and your men are nothing short then heros sir! Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your service sir!!!
Thank you a thousand times. I salute you. USAF ret.
Him and another Captain received the medal of Honor for this fight. They were defending the Dong Ha Marine base. 2-4 Marines with companies from 1-3 an others , and the armys 3-21 of the 23rd( Americal) Infantry div. MASSIVE numbers of NVA were on the battlefield 7500-10,000 . Against give or take 1,200 or so Marines an Soldiers, much less than that after the first day or twos fighting. Incredible that they not only survived, but succeeded.
He still has his Voice,I was trained by Veit Nam Vet's I am forever grateful!!!! Sempre Fi
To all Vietnam Veterans
Thank you all for your courageous service
Much respect and honor to you all
God bless you Jim.
Semper Fi brother…tough to listen…
Welcome home to all!
🇺🇸
Thank you all, for your service!
This is a true hero and someone every young person should look up to. Thank you for your service.
Damn. They made those numbers with it though!
What a waste of good marines all for nothing . We put our people in bad situations for greed, political nonsense it’d disgraceful. Beirut, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan. All for nothing.
This gentleman seems like a good man and I think we could’ve use your services somewhere else . Thank you sir.
To be fair, a small number of people grew very rich from the events. Spare a thought for the war profiteers!
Thank you for your service During the Vietnam war God bless you 🙏
Thank you for your Service! ❤
God Bless Each
and Every One
Of These Marines.
🇺🇸🙏🇺🇸🙏🇺🇸🙏🇺🇸🙏🇺🇸🙏🇺🇸🙏🇺🇸
May God Bless you
You and all of your men are heroes, sir. Thank you for your service. God bless you.
Salute and respect sir from NZ🇳🇿