I have 2 childhood friends. One at Khe Sahn, wounded twice, unable to be evacuated due to heavy NVA artillery in mountains. Another friend there was Army with the 2/7 1st Cav that came to open the siege and Route 9. I was there 8 months later when the CAV rotated to I Corp/Tay Ninh, and the 173d Abn replaced them in II Corp, Pleiku/Bong Son. We all made it back, but not without some physical or mental effects...but we are HOME. God Bless all who served, Welcome Home!
One of my friends was one Khe Sahn's Marines. He gave me his KheSahn medallion, a precious gift. We'd walk and talk. He knew I had been an Air Force Nurse in Japan and had cared for some of his fellow Khe Sahn Marines.
Going to invade another country, killing people from another country is to be awarded a medal? Your country is interesting, If the Vietnamese invaded America and killed millions of Americans on American territory, do you think he deserves a medal?😂
I spent a few months at Khe Sanh in 1967. My platoon from C Co. had returned to Dong Ha after training on Okinawa. Eventually we took trucks up route 9 to Khe Sanh where we became part of A Co., 3rd Recon. Sometimes a team was flown to hill 950 and initiated its patrol from there. I got a transfer to 3rd Shore Party before things got bad at Khe Sanh. Only once in while did the Khe Sanh base receive artillery fire while I was there. 3rd Shore party was a different matter, believe it or not. Our base at Dong Ha was at the north end of the runway and right next to an ammo dump. At dawn one morning I was rudely woken up by what sounded like an F-14 Phatom screaminng overhead with its afterburners on. But it was rockets! Several hit our camp and one marine was blown up. Some weeks later, the NVA artillery targeted that next-door ammo dump. Rounds went flying everywhere, including the Shore Party camp. I was lucky to have been at the BAS in Phu Bai for that attack. When I got back, I found everyone in a state of shell-shock. I went over to our former camp to try to retrieve some gear, but every last thing had been burned up, and all I could find were the lenses to my extra eyeglasses. Later, Shore Party sent me up to Cua Viet, where my main job seemed to be to dig outhouses. We were subjected to NVA artillery fire now and then, but nothing too severe. I spent my final months at what Shore Party called "the island," and took no fire at that base, but did get to lift weights and play basketball when not burning the shitters.
March 30th 1968, Bravo 1/26 Marines fixed bayonets and went back outside the wire to retrieve the Marine bodies (Ghost Patrol) and to get some payback known as the “Payback Patrol” under Capt. Pipes. This is always never mentioned. Always skipped. There is a Documentary called “Bravo The Project” by the Bravo Marines who fought in Khe Sanh. Semper Fi! 🇺🇸
Those officers and politicians don't even look right standing next to those warriors. Why didn't they stay fight with them? They could of brought them some cold beers make them selves useful.
I was a combat corpsman (medic) in the mountains around Khe Sahn and I can tell you, the war was a waist. 58000 men and women died for nothing. And when we got home we were treated like shit.
They died so whiners like you could come home and complain freely. Yeah....we were treated like crap but we did our jobs and were proud of it....unlike some.
You guys should learn about Vietnamese history, our country has many countries that came and died like China (1000 years). America, Japan, France .......
Why? Người mỹ mang bom đạn thả xuống đất nước Việt Nam chúng tôi và người mỹ quy kết cho đại tướng của chúng tôi là tội phạm chiến tranh? Iraq bị tàn phá chỉ vì 1 lọ muối của mỹ , mỹ có đáng chết 1000 lần không?
You guys should learn about Vietnamese history, our country has many countries that came and died like China (1000 years). America, Japan, France .......
The truth about the Vietnam War that was never fully told. United States had No intention of winning the Vietnam War from the very beginning. Fear it might become like the Korean War with mass continuing Communist Chinese troops from China pouring against American military force in Vietnam. And the threat of a thermal nuclear War with the Soviet Union. Why the Vietnam War was never officially declare and why only 500,000 US ground troops was sent to fight in Vietnam. The Vietnam War started during the Civil Rights movement and racial tension between whites and blacks all across America. Several members in the US government were segregationist and they had their eyes dumping their Blacks problem on Vietnam with the chaos that was happening in Vietnam at that time between Communist North Vietnam and South Vietnam. At that time, the South Vietnamese had 250,000 troops and North Vietnamese had 60,000 troops and the DMZ line had already been establish at the 17th parallel. Many Vietnamese peoples from both North and South did Not support going to War and killing each other over the idea of Communist. Even though several North and South Vietnamese leaders believe Vietnam should Not be divided and try to distrupt one another. But they couldn't rally enough support among the Vietnamese peoples in Vietnam to support going to War. Until Nov. 2, 1963 When US President JF Kennedy and LB Johnson order his CIA to stage a military coup assasination on a catholic South Vietnamese President, Ngô Đình Diệm and his young brother Ngô Đình Nhu. This action give America the power to do what ever they want to Vietnam and to the Vietnamese peoples. And the US appointed an ex-Vietminh soldiers for Ho Chi Minh, Nguyễn Văn Thiệu as their puppet South Vietnamese President. The South Vietnamese President who cause the lives of 500,000 South Vietnamese troops killed or capture by the North Vietnamese army and their communist allies The Pathet Lao army, and the Communist Khmer Rouge army of Cambodia when he order them to be station and patrol in Kampuchea. And who told Nguyễn Văn Thiệu to do so? The United States, fear more Americans troops will be killed in Kampuchea. 20 days after the military coup assassination of South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm and his young brother Ngô Đình Nhu. US President JF Kennedy was assasinated in Dallas, TX on Nov 22, 1963 and LB Johnson was sworn in as the 36th US President. On Aug 10, 1964, US President LB Johnson declare US military action to Vietnam over an alleged attack on a US destroyer, Maddox that was on patrol past the 17th parallel near Hanoi, the capital of North Vietnam. While supporting the South Vietnam. 500,000 US ground troops was sent to fight in Vietnam. 40% of those US troops that were sent to fight in Vietnam were adult blacks male along with high school drop out white male, non-college white male, trouble teen white male, and white convict male were all sent to fight in Vietnam. And when these US troops arrive in Vietnam and they did their "Search and Destroyed mission." The Communist North Vietnam gain mass support for their cause and their army grew from 60,000 troops to over 1,000,000 troops. On March 16, 1968, several group of US platoons military unit rape and massacre 500 Vietnamese villagers of women, childrens, and old peoples at the village called My Lai during their Search and Destroyed mission. When news and image of My Lai massacre broadcast all across America. There was a mass out cry of protest all across America. Demanding all US millitary force pull out of Vietnam. This lead to Republican Presidential candidate Richard Nixon winning the Nov. 3, 1968 US Presidential election. The following year, when Richard Nixon took office. His 1st President excutive order was to pull out all US military force out of Vietnam. By then, the communist North Vietnamese army was already infiltrate all over in South Vietnam and attacking every since the Tet offensive that happen on Jan 30, 1968 - Sept 23, 1968. President Nixon order a nonstop US B52 bombers to bombed Hanoi, the capital of North Vietnam and its seaport military supply, Haiphong. This halted the advance of the North Vietnamese army taking over all of South Vietnam. The South Vietnamese army began retaking back many city and town from Communist North Vietnam in the South. But all that end, on August 8, 1974, when US President Richard Nixon made a televise annoucement of his resignation as US President to American peoples over the Watergate Scandal. A few month later on Nov 5, 1974, the Democrats party won a landslide in both in the US Senate and the House of Representative. The following year in 1975, the newly elected Democrats took their seat in Congress. The 1st bill of law pass was to cut off all US military funding to South Vietnam. This action cause the Fall of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam on April 30, 1975 to communist North Vietnam. Thus began a mass flow of Vietnamese refugee fleeing out of Vietnam. 10 of thousands of Vietnamese refugee died at sea from hunger, thirst, illness, Thai pirates, and Chinese warships. Today over 100's of thousands young South Vietnamese childrens are born of birth defect from the US toxic biological chemical, Agent Orange which the US military spray all over rivers and forest of South Vietnam. 3,000,000 innocent Vietnamese civilians of women, childrens, and old peoples had to die in their country during the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War is the worse United States War Crime in history. From Truman, JF Kennedy and LB Johnson were all were WWI and WWII veteran who sent the next young American men to become killers. Here is proof of video on how and who started the Vietnam War and you can see it and hear it for yourself on TH-cam video. Here are name of the video title: 1) LBJ Admits assassinating Diem (1967) 2) JFK Speak of Diem Coup -Whitehouse Tapes Assassination. 3) Lyndon Johnson -Report on the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. 4) Whistleblower John White on Gulf of Incident. 5) LBJ announce Vietnam increase and rise in draft. 6) Violent racism during peaceful protests in the Civil Rights Movement. 7) President Lyndon Johnson using the N word. 8) The Truth about the Vietnam War (PragerU) 9) US bombing civilian village, actual footage 10) US troops spray Agent Orange from riverboat in Vietnam. 11) Veteran tells why the Vietnamese hate him 12) A US Vietnam Soldier Describes his Experiences of War Crime. 13) Incident Hill 192 14) My Lai Masscre (History) Ngô Đình Diệm was a educated Vietnamese politician who was appointed by Vietnam Emperor Bảo Đại Nguyễn and France as President of South Vietnam. Truman was the US President who got American involved when he offer military support to the French troops in Vietnam by sending US military aids and along US MAAG to help train and assist the French troops against Ho Chi Minh and his Vietminh in 1950. This is how American got involved. And when France lost all claims to all of Indochina after loosing a major battle at Diên Biên Phu to Ho Chi Minh Vietminh in 1954. America did not leave Vietnam on the belief of the Southeast Asia dominos effect to communist. That belief was later change when a WWII Veteran JF Kennedy became US President in 1961 and LB Johnson was his Vice President and this happening during the Civil Rights Movement that was happening all across America over whites and blacks. Why I post this is because for years I'm tired Americans use Vietnam War as a Propaganda War story. Telling peoples that they there to help South Vietnam fight against communist North Vietnam. When America is the root cause for the Vietnam War and the downfall of South Vietnam.
I have 2 childhood friends. One at Khe Sahn, wounded twice, unable to be evacuated due to heavy NVA artillery in mountains. Another friend there was Army with the 2/7 1st Cav that came to open the siege and Route 9. I was there 8 months later when the CAV rotated to I Corp/Tay Ninh, and the 173d Abn replaced them in II Corp, Pleiku/Bong Son. We all made it back, but not without some physical or mental effects...but we are HOME.
God Bless all who served,
Welcome Home!
You guys should relearn Vietnamese history, no country has ever come to Vietnam without losing their lives.
One of my friends was one Khe Sahn's Marines. He gave me his KheSahn medallion, a precious gift. We'd walk and talk. He knew I had been an Air Force Nurse in Japan and had cared for some of his fellow Khe Sahn Marines.
Going to invade another country, killing people from another country is to be awarded a medal? Your country is interesting, If the Vietnamese invaded America and killed millions of Americans on American territory, do you think he deserves a medal?😂
Thank you! Semper Fi!
Corporal Klinger?
I spent a few months at Khe Sanh in 1967. My platoon from C Co. had returned to Dong Ha after training on Okinawa. Eventually we took trucks up route 9 to Khe Sanh where we became part of A Co., 3rd Recon. Sometimes a team was flown to hill 950 and initiated its patrol from there. I got a transfer to 3rd Shore Party before things got bad at Khe Sanh. Only once in while did the Khe Sanh base receive artillery fire while I was there.
3rd Shore party was a different matter, believe it or not. Our base at Dong Ha was at the north end of the runway and right next to an ammo dump. At dawn one morning I was rudely woken up by what sounded like an F-14 Phatom screaminng overhead with its afterburners on. But it was rockets! Several hit our camp and one marine was blown up. Some weeks later, the NVA artillery targeted that next-door ammo dump. Rounds went flying everywhere, including the Shore Party camp. I was lucky to have been at the BAS in Phu Bai for that attack. When I got back, I found everyone in a state of shell-shock. I went over to our former camp to try to retrieve some gear, but every last thing had been burned up, and all I could find were the lenses to my extra eyeglasses. Later, Shore Party sent me up to Cua Viet, where my main job seemed to be to dig outhouses. We were subjected to NVA artillery fire now and then, but nothing too severe. I spent my final months at what Shore Party called "the island," and took no fire at that base, but did get to lift weights and play basketball when not burning the shitters.
Thank you all for your service. Semper Fi!!
March 30th 1968, Bravo 1/26 Marines fixed bayonets and went back outside the wire to retrieve the Marine bodies (Ghost Patrol) and to get some payback known as the “Payback Patrol” under Capt. Pipes. This is always never mentioned. Always skipped. There is a Documentary called “Bravo The Project” by the Bravo Marines who fought in Khe Sanh. Semper Fi! 🇺🇸
Hero's all of them.
Victims, not heroes
Is that you Jane Fonda.@@kingdedede9135
Thank you for your service,gentlemen.
Semper Fi, Old Corps!
And Semper Fi my brothers who went before.
The 1/26 Marines protected our unit on Hill 950. Semper Fi
Real heroes. After the TET, General Giap stated it was at this time they thought of surrendering due to the shortage of manpower and morale.
You guys should relearn Vietnamese history, no country has ever come to Vietnam without losing their lives.
@@missvietmedia9080how many did the Vietnamese lose
Those officers and politicians don't even look right standing next to those warriors. Why didn't they stay fight with them? They could of brought them some cold beers make them selves useful.
I had a brother at Khe Sanh.
Glad I missed that, it had to be as close to hell on earth as can be. We stood our ground and held.
I was a combat corpsman (medic) in the mountains around Khe Sahn and I can tell you, the war was a waist. 58000 men and women died for nothing. And when we got home we were treated like shit.
They died so whiners like you could come home and complain freely. Yeah....we were treated like crap but we did our jobs and were proud of it....unlike some.
Were the NVA tough guys?
Warriors like we’ll never know.
You guys should learn about Vietnamese history, our country has many countries that came and died like China (1000 years). America, Japan, France .......
The sound ?
FIRE THE 106!!!
Westy was utterly useless
👍
General giap was criminal war and defeated in vietnam until american force there were
Why? Người mỹ mang bom đạn thả xuống đất nước Việt Nam chúng tôi và người mỹ quy kết cho đại tướng của chúng tôi là tội phạm chiến tranh? Iraq bị tàn phá chỉ vì 1 lọ muối của mỹ , mỹ có đáng chết 1000 lần không?
You guys should learn about Vietnamese history, our country has many countries that came and died like China (1000 years). America, Japan, France .......
Giap was a great man.
@kdolo100 I am sorry for you that you selected this way you protect bad person
So sorry to see these good Marine units under the supervision of LBJ, McNamara, and Westy, who couldnt secure a freestyle jugfuck, lol
McNamara he was the problem.
Funny, Westy orders the jarheads to "stay and fight" while his own people cut n run,. Smoke n Joke. Hide n Slide, ect. Favortism
Get over yourself...the Army more than paid their dues.
The truth about the Vietnam War that was never fully told. United States had No intention of winning the Vietnam War from the very beginning. Fear it might become like the Korean War with mass continuing Communist Chinese troops from China pouring against American military force in Vietnam. And the threat of a thermal nuclear War with the Soviet Union. Why the Vietnam War was never officially declare and why only 500,000 US ground troops was sent to fight in Vietnam. The Vietnam War started during the Civil Rights movement and racial tension between whites and blacks all across America. Several members in the US government were segregationist and they had their eyes dumping their Blacks problem on Vietnam with the chaos that was happening in Vietnam at that time between Communist North Vietnam and South Vietnam. At that time, the South Vietnamese had 250,000 troops and North Vietnamese had 60,000 troops and the DMZ line had already been establish at the 17th parallel. Many Vietnamese peoples from both North and South did Not support going to War and killing each other over the idea of Communist. Even though several North and South Vietnamese leaders believe Vietnam should Not be divided and try to distrupt one another. But they couldn't rally enough support among the Vietnamese peoples in Vietnam to support going to War. Until Nov. 2, 1963 When US President JF Kennedy and LB Johnson order his CIA to stage a military coup assasination on a catholic South Vietnamese President, Ngô Đình Diệm and his young brother Ngô Đình Nhu. This action give America the power to do what ever they want to Vietnam and to the Vietnamese peoples. And the US appointed an ex-Vietminh soldiers for Ho Chi Minh, Nguyễn Văn Thiệu as their puppet South Vietnamese President. The South Vietnamese President who cause the lives of 500,000 South Vietnamese troops killed or capture by the North Vietnamese army and their communist allies The Pathet Lao army, and the Communist Khmer Rouge army of Cambodia when he order them to be station and patrol in Kampuchea. And who told Nguyễn Văn Thiệu to do so? The United States, fear more Americans troops will be killed in Kampuchea. 20 days after the military coup assassination of South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm and his young brother Ngô Đình Nhu. US President JF Kennedy was assasinated in Dallas, TX on Nov 22, 1963 and LB Johnson was sworn in as the 36th US President. On Aug 10, 1964, US President LB Johnson declare US military action to Vietnam over an alleged attack on a US destroyer, Maddox that was on patrol past the 17th parallel near Hanoi, the capital of North Vietnam. While supporting the South Vietnam. 500,000 US ground troops was sent to fight in Vietnam. 40% of those US troops that were sent to fight in Vietnam were adult blacks male along with high school drop out white male, non-college white male, trouble teen white male, and white convict male were all sent to fight in Vietnam. And when these US troops arrive in Vietnam and they did their "Search and Destroyed mission." The Communist North Vietnam gain mass support for their cause and their army grew from 60,000 troops to over 1,000,000 troops. On March 16, 1968, several group of US platoons military unit rape and massacre 500 Vietnamese villagers of women, childrens, and old peoples at the village called My Lai during their Search and Destroyed mission. When news and image of My Lai massacre broadcast all across America. There was a mass out cry of protest all across America. Demanding all US millitary force pull out of Vietnam. This lead to Republican Presidential candidate Richard Nixon winning the Nov. 3, 1968 US Presidential election. The following year, when Richard Nixon took office. His 1st President excutive order was to pull out all US military force out of Vietnam. By then, the communist North Vietnamese army was already infiltrate all over in South Vietnam and attacking every since the Tet offensive that happen on Jan 30, 1968 - Sept 23, 1968. President Nixon order a nonstop US B52 bombers to bombed Hanoi, the capital of North Vietnam and its seaport military supply, Haiphong. This halted the advance of the North Vietnamese army taking over all of South Vietnam. The South Vietnamese army began retaking back many city and town from Communist North Vietnam in the South. But all that end, on August 8, 1974, when US President Richard Nixon made a televise annoucement of his resignation as US President to American peoples over the Watergate Scandal. A few month later on Nov 5, 1974, the Democrats party won a landslide in both in the US Senate and the House of Representative. The following year in 1975, the newly elected Democrats took their seat in Congress. The 1st bill of law pass was to cut off all US military funding to South Vietnam. This action cause the Fall of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam on April 30, 1975 to communist North Vietnam. Thus began a mass flow of Vietnamese refugee fleeing out of Vietnam. 10 of thousands of Vietnamese refugee died at sea from hunger, thirst, illness, Thai pirates, and Chinese warships. Today over 100's of thousands young South Vietnamese childrens are born of birth defect from the US toxic biological chemical, Agent Orange which the US military spray all over rivers and forest of South Vietnam. 3,000,000 innocent Vietnamese civilians of women, childrens, and old peoples had to die in their country during the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War is the worse United States War Crime in history. From Truman, JF Kennedy and LB Johnson were all were WWI and WWII veteran who sent the next young American men to become killers. Here is proof of video on how and who started the Vietnam War and you can see it and hear it for yourself on TH-cam video. Here are name of the video title:
1) LBJ Admits assassinating Diem (1967)
2) JFK Speak of Diem Coup -Whitehouse Tapes Assassination.
3) Lyndon Johnson -Report on the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.
4) Whistleblower John White on Gulf of Incident.
5) LBJ announce Vietnam increase and rise in draft.
6) Violent racism during peaceful protests in the Civil Rights Movement.
7) President Lyndon Johnson using the N word.
8) The Truth about the Vietnam War (PragerU)
9) US bombing civilian village, actual footage
10) US troops spray Agent Orange from riverboat in Vietnam.
11) Veteran tells why the Vietnamese hate him
12) A US Vietnam Soldier Describes his Experiences of War Crime.
13) Incident Hill 192
14) My Lai Masscre (History)
Ngô Đình Diệm was a educated Vietnamese politician who was appointed by Vietnam Emperor Bảo Đại Nguyễn and France as President of South Vietnam. Truman was the US President who got American involved when he offer military support to the French troops in Vietnam by sending US military aids and along US MAAG to help train and assist the French troops against Ho Chi Minh and his Vietminh in 1950. This is how American got involved. And when France lost all claims to all of Indochina after loosing a major battle at Diên Biên Phu to Ho Chi Minh Vietminh in 1954. America did not leave Vietnam on the belief of the Southeast Asia dominos effect to communist. That belief was later change when a WWII Veteran JF Kennedy became US President in 1961 and LB Johnson was his Vice President and this happening during the Civil Rights Movement that was happening all across America over whites and blacks. Why I post this is because for years I'm tired Americans use Vietnam War as a Propaganda War story. Telling peoples that they there to help South Vietnam fight against communist North Vietnam. When America is the root cause for the Vietnam War and the downfall of South Vietnam.
What a brilliant and in-depth comment, it seems you know your stuff.
@@ghenny69420 Yes, Because it happens in my country Vietnam and during my time
Such an expert as yourself...oh so sad you weren't there to tell em' how it should be done....oh darn....
Repent and believe the Lord
LOL....yeah...right......thanks for the laugh!