Vietcong Booby Traps
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There is a whole lot more traps the Vietcong made, that the US soldiers had to come across so there will be a second part to this video. Focusing on the explosive booby traps they created.
There's another!?
What is this? Mortal Kombat?
5th like boi
You should do video about 55 days at Peking1!1!1
The Vietcong as well as the North VNese, take the weapons from Communist to kill the South VNese people. I really hate the.
Other Viet Cong Traps : (Aren't even mention in the video)
1) Cartridge Trap : (A section of pipe, bamboo barrel or hole in timber with a tack nailed through the base upon which sits the cartridge with the round slightly above ground level.)
2) Grenade Trap :
- These are placed along likely paths of travel with a two stakes embedded on both sides of the creek or stream with the grenade tied to one and the safety pin partially removed from the striker lever and tied by trip wire to the other stake.
- Two cans are tied to trees either side of the track with the delay train and safety pins are removed and slide into the cans holding the striker levers in position. A trip wire is tied to both grenades. when the victim's foot pulls the trip wire the grenades are pulled from the cans causing instant detonation.
Source : www.5rar.asn.au/weapons/boobytraps.htm
3) Rolling Spike Trap : (This trap has two rollers with pins sticking out. This means that you will get stung several times getting your leg in, and again, when pulling it out.)
4) Sticking Trap : (Step in this trap and your leg will get pierced.)
5) Clipping Armpit Trap : (Step in this trap and the wooden boards on either side begin to turn, sticking the pins straight into your leg. Furthermore, getting your leg out is going to be a problem.)
6) Window Trap : (This trap functions as it sounds, like a window. Actually, 2 windows with sharp pins in them that closes in on your leg if you walk into one.)
7) Folding Chair Trap: (This trap works exactly the same as an animal trap. When you step in it, your calves will be pierced with sharp pins from both sides in an instance.)
8) Swinging up Trap : (When you step in this trap, nothing immediately happens, however, in an attempt to pull your leg out, you will realize that that is not possible without pins sticking into your flesh.)
9) See Saw Trap : (When you step in this trap, the wooden structure would start to turn and hits you at your upper body with the sharp pins.)
Source : travelfullstop.com/the-8-worst-vietcong-boobytraps-cu-chi-tunnels-vietnam/
10) Gate Trap : (This is the gate trap. This consisted of a grenade set beneath a gate so that when a soldier went to open the gate the grenade would explode under the soldiers feet.)
Source : waranalysisofvietnam.weebly.com/booby-traps.html
11) Rice Bag Bobby Trap : (String is attach to hand grenade inside rice bag. If soldier pull the string the hand grenade will explode).
Source : regimentalrogue.tripod.com/blog/index.blog/2355509/vc-supply-caches/
It's crazy how creative humans get when we're trying to kill eachother.
Ahhh yes.
Ahhh yes.
Ahh ye
Ahhh yes.
Ahhh yes.
Imagine spending months in training, given thousands of dollars of equipment, and flown around the world just to get hit in the face with a coconut with screws sticking out of it.
Bob, he trained for 9 months, joined the Navy seals, he went to Vietnam , K.I.A. , reason of death : a stick
I would be pissed if I was killed by some stick
Years of academy training wasted
"Directed by Robert B. Weide"
Bullets are metal. Metal is compressed rock. You got killed by a pebble...bang
I do not know why, but stepping on a sophisticated landmine sounds a lot more pleasant than stepping in one of these rudimentary stick traps.
At least a landline would end it quick, right?
@@beatlecristian Depends how you step to it. If you step on it the way that your torso is straight up on the mine, you're a goner. But if you step in it with your foor being in front of torso, you might survive. Same with the spikes. If it pierced soldiers torso, they got their name on memorial wall. But if the spikes went through the foot, they had a change to survive.
@@Saunakiuas06 bet even amputation hurts less than a leg with spikes
Unless it's something like a bouncing Betty also known as a de-bollocker.
I’d rather have my leg blown off then have my whole body impaled by several spikes
Moral of the story: "Don't invade a country where bamboo grows plentifully. You will run out of ammo, they won't run out of spikes."
69, better not ruin it
@@creep1523 imma do it anyway
@@bloxracer3627 oh well..
Anyone have link to part 2
@@koharumi1 there's no part 2
Home alone: south east Asia edition
FBI open up
Lmao underrated comment
when u pee in a Vietnam bush
"angry Vietnamese voices"
XD so true
🤦🏻♂️
US: Modern weapons, trained soldiers, aircraft
Vietnam: s t i c c
Aaron Farmer underated comment
Le sticc to the dicc
Demo-Le-Man *AND SO ARE U*
Roman Bukins who’s there satan
@@normaldude7924 No, I am just stating the overlooked fact that women in the military own it not to progressive politics but to couple bamboo whip traps.
These traps are so creative, but so horrifying at the same time.
All for the uninveted guests like the US military.
@@commanderiosifstalin4938 yeah, the traps we’re like a “go away” card instead of a invitation lol
Hold that L maboi
I now understand how to properly revolt against the (((pedophile government)))
American Soldier: *sneezes*
Tree: Bless you
American Soldier: Thank y- Wait what
😂
wkwkwkwkwkk
This is underrated
U still have lumbago?
coffin dance start:))
When you bring a Christmas tree home and it starts speaking Vietnamese
Tyler 20 lmao 😂.
Lmao
Tyler 20 haha!!
Inb4 3K likes
Insert confused soldier noises
The psychological effect has to be brutal when you're constantly anticipating the possibility of triggering one of these booby traps.
According to what I know any US soldier hit the bear trap will have to be brought back the leg with the trap to Saigon for surgery and he will need all of his lucky to keep his leg during the surgery. And if you visited Cu Chi tunnel today you will see a tons of more deadly traps which the final one can crush entire human body if they stepped on it
True, but I've also read accounts from vietcong soldiers of their fears as they endured American bombing runs as they went up the ho chi minhn trail, as well as dealing with lack of food, the weather and also the animals themselves. One account has an entire platoon being wiped out by a tiger. Also, yes markers were laid, but i wander how many vietcong soldiers knew how to look for them and walked into those traps themselves.
Finally, don't think the Green berets or navy seals were sitting on their assets, plenty of ambushes were laid of the vietcong as well.
@@The_Greedy_Orphan I think that tiger story is rubbish unless it's a ninja tiger.
@@reggieking1045 you haven't been to Asia before have you
@@tymontz8311 lol no i haven't but i'm struggling to imagine how a single tiger can take on an entire armed military platoon without using stealth tactics or a rocket launcher. :P
The deadliest trap is where you fall in a hole into spikes, the top closes, and a radio plays commercial pop and rap 24/7
i agree
ahhh dik stabs and earrape.............. i feel the pain thinking about that >_>
Make it play Cardi B for brain cancer
Wap Trap
Edward you little disrespectful punk - you couldn't begin to imagine what those soldiers went through. You can't hold a candle to any of them.
The paranoia must’ve been enough to make some of the soldiers kill themselves....
I guess so, some must have thought that they can at least pick their way out and maybe make it less pain- and dreadful
When you see the “disarm trap” prompt but die before you can react
Lmao
When you are disarming a trap and some free weekend player runs into it and kills himself and you.
Agros Leite mor RS2 Vietnam
What game you talking about csgo?
oof, press F
A lot of the traps were not supposed to kill, just to injure, so it took another 2 people to carry the injured meaning 3 people couldn't fight properly.
Its a very common standard tactic, a very similar reason for Land mines.
@@Suth1172 Mine blows up entire person: 1 person dead.
Mine blows up and amputates a leg: 1 or more personnel required to carry him back, more resources required to heal him, more resources required for the home country to keep alive a disabled person
Vietnamese people are very smart and creative in combating aggression.
@@kurumi394 not to mention the mental effect to the rest of the team. Will you still advance after seeing your friend loose a limp :v
and when the injured man come back the camp, hundreds orther will see it and scare. that is good psychological war.
The thing about these traps is that they operated silently. all you could hear was a scream from a few meters away from your position.
Soldier: "When I go into war I want to die fighting for our country"
Sharp stick in hole: Uhhhh about that
*invade other countries hehe
Some of these traps would even make the Nazis say, “bro, chill.”
I'm Vietnamese so yeah lol XD
LOL XD
Jawohl...
Coconut gonna get chu
The Nazis would get creamed by the Vietcong. It was on Deadliest Warrior, even lmao
"Modern Problems require ancient solutions"
Well said👍, very relevant in today's Internet age. Also people should not give up hope in their local ingenuity to combat modern threats while fully assessing their psychological impact more than their game(or war) changing abilities. I fully believe Vietnam War was a psychological war.
@@jonrassmussen416 k dude
@@jonrassmussen416 k dude
@@jonrassmussen416 ok boomer
World hungry
Bread/2*208
This is the Jesus solution,in 20 AC
They also had tunnels under the ground from their rebellion against the French which allowed them to disappear and reappear to get the advantage and US soldiers were forbidden to replicate these tactics to save public image.
cu chi in vie
What public image? LOL, they already invaded the place, dosed it completely with Napalm, bombed the neighbors into oblivion, used Geneva-convention-prohibited chemicals.
@@astrolillo you’d be surprised on where they draw the line lol
It wouldve been too expensive also thw US couldnt have done it without the NVA or VC knowing . Thus the US just wamted to infiltrate NVA ans VC hideouts or the tunnels that were already made. They'll be ambushed if they spent there time trying to build tunnels. The tunnels were already there by the NVA and VC so they had no issues
That must have been so cool, if it wasn't for the fact that soldiers were recruited to go down there and hunt down the people in the tunnels
My father was in Vietnam he passed away the day after Christmas of 2022. He told me about a lot of these traps. He specifically said that they would nail the snake to doorways so that the snake was injured and irritated. Therefore immediately striking any heat that came near it. Just tossing that out there.
That's good. Your father had no business in there. Good thing he came back to the family.
Rip in pepperoni
Americans: gangsta til' the trees start talking
Viet Cong: gangsta til' there's orange jelly raining from the sky
Lol
I like your soldier avandtar
Nah, the vietcong stil be gansta
Panda Chan Ever heard of Agent Orange?
Russians gangsta til’ the snow starts speaking Finnish
America: Guns
Japan: Swords
Vietnam: bamboos
Hay đấy
Vietnam:wood,bamboo,*STICC*,rubber band
Never underestimate bamboo
Yes
Best comment
I admire the resourcefulness of the vietnamese. They took on the french, the u.s, china, and still came out on top.
As an American I agree. I gotta give props to the ingenuity and tactics the Vietkong used against us. It just goes to show that superior firepower and technology doesn't always guarantee victory.
And the Mongolians - THREE TIMES!
And Mongolia
Japanese?
And won in Cambodia despise the US supporting Pol Pot and his genocide
DAMN. rambo Went Through A lot
Rambo did make alot of vietcong traps in the movies
Does anyone else imagine how painful it would be to fall in one of those traps? I can't stop thinking about it
Yeah ):
Remember, they declare war to Vietnam first.
@@dumbbol4657 true
It would be fucked
@Robby Hendraka they droped down >10,000 bombs in Vietnam
Movie audiences: "Holy crap the traps in those Saw movies are BRUTAL!"
*the trees laugh in Vietnamese*
*Mountains laugh in Afghan*
*Soviets sweating nervously*
Matthew Putnam
Do you genuinely don’t know, or is this a joke?
@Matthew Putnam English: Ha ha ha. Vietnamese: Hoi hoi hoi.
*laughs in Brasil photo*
Nah, nothings as brutal as the reverse bear trap.
This will be a perfect excuse for not touching grass
This is what walking to school was like according to my parents
True lol
underrated comment
So just to review the ground can kill you, the doorways can kill you, the sticks near your feet can kill you, the branches above you can kill you, the bridges can kill you, and the trees around you can kill you.
Obi_Wan Shinobi.34 id just find the nearest tree and cry until i sleep,the Veit Cong or NVA find me,or my squad mate forces me to move
The answer. First, burn all down with heavy fire. And after that, send slaves for clean up^^
@@hasseo195 Nonono. The answer. N U K E ' E M. D E W I T. I S A I D N U K E ' E M.
Those Vietcong clearly made the very best out of home field advantage than anyone else in any war.
This is why we really aren’t suppose to go outside
Everybody gangsta till the squad leader falls through the floor.
Yea they be like gangsta until he be like ending whole mans career bruh moment
If i went back in time and watched that i'd be like "Oh did Bethesda own this place?"
@@NotNicot BRUHHHHHH SAVAGE YOOOOO BRAHHHHHHHHHHHH
Everyone gangsta until the village has a barbeque
Now I know how to stop people from stepping on my lawn, thank you.
Just joined as a member. Loved this video. Keep them coming, Simple History.
TH-cam: Did someone say...BOOBY?
*D e m o n e t i z e d*
*Uno Reverse Card on youtube*
*Video shows US soldiers getting impaled and their blood spews out in an educational video*
TH-cam: *EXCUSE ME!?*
TH-cam is against the United States so they wouldn't demonitize them
@@ginostrains8263 Facts
Man if this video gets demonetized it's not gonna be because of booby lmao
U.S Army: Machine guns, Flamethrowers, and helicopters.
Vietcong: Sharp sticks and bamboo.
And ak47s and rpgs. They were funded by the USSR
r/wooosh
Oh alright then.
@@ibbeats5183 still lost lol.
Don’t forget SKS’s
The Vietnam war was like a damn Saw movie.
I just found a new way to maximize security at my house
i tried it but some guy called ''the government'' sent a letter saying that i would be arrested for this and something about law en breaking it. real weird.
You mean like living in a jungle?
When you turn around and notice your squadmate doing a scooby doo running-in-the-air motion then disappearing into the grass.
Jackson [REDACTED] “Shaggy and Scooby, you check that area over there” *GULP*
Us soldiers exist
Trees : we don’t do that here
More like......
American:we will liberate this Country from Dirty Communism
North Vietnamese:we don't do that in here
Deejay Greg beaver: ima stop you right there
@@Litovskyy yep, u really look like ur thumbnail.
I am the lorax i speak for the trees and the trees say
Touch another tree and I'll break your fucking kneecaps
@@Marcus-eb2vn 😆
6:31
Also known as
"Springlock failrure, vietcong edition."
- Next time, we need to invade somewhere without all this jungle, without pits and booby traps. Somewhere plain and with clear line of sight. What are our options?
- Iraq, sir. It's a desert.
- Perfect!
Saddam's hiding place
And we still ended up in a quagmire lol
@@ishrendon6435 giggity
“So, how will this trap be activated?”
Vietcong: *_tripwire_*
America: How many booby traps do you have!?!?
Viet Cong: YES
*hole*
Aaah, now it makes sense why Rising Storm 2 was made by Tripwire Interactive
American soldiers were doomed to fall
lol
Americans: sir we have burned down the trees we have the upper hand.
Ground: oh hoho you don’t know what’s up
Well not you, certainly, because you are the ground. You are down. :P
Soo bamboo?
burn the ground
Louie Fox, you are the smartest person in the world
What about the bridge traps? Burn the water!
Fun Fact: Vietnamese bears do exist and are endangered today and are now incredibly rare due to the conflict.
These videos are fantastic! Great job!!! 👏🏼😎
when you’re mowing the grass in vietnam, and the lawnmower disappears
Lmao
Finally an original comment
Lol
Accidentally mince someone with it bassicly killing them with it
*screams in Vietcong*
I swear these guys were the producer and writer of the traps from Home Alone
Yeh there all vietnam war veterans
hehe my grandfather was a vietcong ( he sacrificed in 1972)
When you hear the cliché of the Vietnam soldier saying “their in the trees man” ... I’d imagine that comes from them seeing or hearing about people just walking and suddenly an arrow comes out of nowhere and kills someone... no gunfire, no enemy present... that would definitely mess with your mind
As an American, I gotta give props to the ingenuity and tactics the Vietkong used against us. It just goes to show that superior firepower and technology doesn't always guarantee victory.
Trip wire: *exists*
Vietcong: I can milk you
lol
@@yoooo4772 what a name 😂
imagin if jigsaw was on the viet cong side. the war would have been 100% worse.
US military: I'm thirsty
Tree: hi?
@@pokebreeder2517 that would be great
When your hiking in Vietnam and the floor opens beneath you
mY tImE hAS cOmE
there are probably still some unactivated traps like punji sticks still active from the war.
@@cloverseer9836 well that's terrfying!
you're
@Trung Lê Quốc That's pretty nice to know.
Thx for noting. I won't be going hiking there 😅
Hi Simple History , Thank you
Would you do a video on boobytraps of ww2? Some soldiers would deliberately leave grenades for the enemy, but with fuses that blow up right when the pin is pulled. Another method used when abandoning some place would be to hook up explosives to a picture frame on a wall that is slightly askew, and generally officers being neat freaks would straighten out the picture only to get blown up. Bunch of different methods were used. Would be cool to see a video about from you.
US: how do we lose to a bunch of farmers?
Britain: First time?
Lmao
Imagine fighting a guerilla war and still losing more men
I see an English person in the comments
Australian: *laughs in emu*
Ecuador:laughs in goat
US Military: “We will spend trillions of dollars on the most high tech weapons the world has ever seen!”
Defeated by sharp sticks.
They sorted the USA with just fear of a trap. USA never learn. They only know how to drop bombs
Not defeated by sharp sticks. They were defeated by propaganda and Communists back home.
@@kyokogodai-ir6hy thats litterally what the Germans said after WW1 and we all know what happened next...
@Chí Phèo nguyễn ok ,who flung dung.
also dropping those "high tech" weapons for some good old AKs
US army: we have high tech weapons
VC: Bamboo goes stab-stab
The hornet trap then surrounding it with bamboo traps is genius
You can use booby traps in any point in history and they’d still be effective
Imagine if the Russians used them in WW2 against the advancing Germans... yikes.
@@hughquigley5337 they need to place them onwell hidden olaces cuz their place are mostly snow
Imagine the japanese used this to defend every island
@@Mitrunk thy eould need a large hole
Hugh Quigley they had traps but they were more disguised bunkers. They were in villages and made to look like farmhouses, until they opened fire. Could be effective as an ambush sometimes.
Americans: we have napalm highly train soldiers and high tech weapons
Vietcong: we have sharp sticc dat hurt
Bow & Arrow : Legends don't die
@Jamie because soldiers need a moral compass to fight a war. USA soldiers are just mercenaries.
Who would win?
America: Has high tech weapons and equipment , Highly trained and experienced soldiers , High tech vehicles and is mostly motorized
Veitnam: Has a lot of sharp sticks
@@giovannigumalo969 vietnamese because, knowledge is power and americans only have power
And AK-47 and SKS and RPG , and SAMS ,and RPK , And PK and mortars and Long range and AA artillery grenades and mines and MIGS all lavishly Supplied by China and the Soviet Union . The NVA were very well trained and North Vietnam was filled with Soviet Advisors.
Awesome video very interesting.
thanks, i needed this
“No stepping on the grass” just got more deadly
"No open the bag" is the new slogan
They say not no stepping on the grass... But then you realize that all of the ground ahead of you is mud and grass...
Hey.
Don't give me ideas.
Imagine an old man putting these traps in his lawn
I was going to say something but I realized how sadistic it was so, I won’t say it
When the Lorax starts telling the trees to kill people.
Why is this underrated
@Bois shower don't drop teh tvål how come there's no dislikes or comments saying so
@Bois shower don't drop teh tvål how? I didn't write the comment
@Bois shower don't drop teh tvål To who? The fucking Lorax?
The Lorax is a comrade...
My father was a military and I found a little book about Booby traps at his house when I was a kid and it really impressed me. One of which this video don't talk about is little bullets buried in the ground. You step on it, trigger it and just fire your leg from above...
Doesn't make any sense
How does triggering a tiny bullet that's in the ground cause you to get shot from above?
@@Ben-Dover777so what he meant to say is that it would blow the top of ur foot off LOL So they would put a small nail into the bullet in the ground facing upwards, when someone steps on that it would put enough pressure on the nail to fire the bullet thereby blowing the top of ur foot off as it would be the exit wound😃 Interesting stuff he just worded it differently, hope that helps🤗
I always heard too that these traps were specifically designed to maim and injure instead of outright kill. Then the platoon had to deal with an injured soldier causing them even more issues.
When John Rambo used all of these traps against the Vietcong
*Ironic.*
Did he though? Pretty sure it was the NVA.
👀Need to check the last one to see how he takes care of the Mexican cartel
@@merttopcu3085 because it's history and the u.s hasn't lost many wars
@@anonymousgeek8633 hahahahshshahhshahahahahahajhahahahshsahahhahahahahsahhh
Yeah looking from your point rambo is real too. And you didnt lose nam.
@@merttopcu3085 umm ok? I know we have lost wars. Nam was a failure. Your so childish lmao
When “Get off my lawn!” goes too far
heh
*too
What's at far? And why does it want to go there?
faisal3398 🤦🏽♂️
Take my like and gtfo.
You are a great history teacher
America: We have the most advanced force in the world.
Also America: Lost to sticks bamboos and coconuts.
Every Person that survived the Vietnam war while fighting: *We lost alot of men but never saw the enemy*
@@TakeThisL.. Whats funny about that?
@@TakeThisL.. *Ahhh yes so death is funny?*
I love Vietnamese :)))
@@TakeThisL.. what are you talking about? Vietnam is one of the most successful societies and economies of South East Asia lmfao.
They did fine without the US, France, China, Russia, or Thailand telling them what to do.
Eric Garcia is butthurt
I wonder how many of these traps are still out there
Many civilians death after the war by mine or trap like this that left unknown .
1 more things , because i'm a Vietnamese . Just about 5 or 6 years ago i'm witness a man built a his new home . His crews dug up the land and found a massive bomb with the size of the 2xhuman that left in the ground for 50 years that haven't detonated yet . Luckily no one hurt , the bomb still alive , the military show up and disassembled it .
@@oklano1000 Traps area easily dispatched, as long as the ones who set it know the locations. Not many ppl die from traps, but from concealed mines, grenades, bombs etc. These were buried by the american, northern and southern vietnamese troops, so it's impossible to disarm every single one hidden out there. It's getting rarer though, less than 10 every year.
Imma viet too lol, village I grew up in used a bomb shell as a school bell xdd
@@innuendo3085 Lol yeah , people split the bomb and sold for money lol
Timestamps for you people :D
0:00 - Sponsor / Intro
1:15 - Introduction
3:31 - Punji Stakes
5:02 - Spike Boards
5:19 - Trap Bridge
5:54 - Venus Fly trap
6:15 - Side Closing Trap
6:36 - Bear Trap
6:59 - Tiger Trap
7:25 - Mace Trap
8:08 - Door Trap
8:33 - Bamboo Whip Trap
9:07 - Snake Pits
9:51 - Horney Trap
10:19 - Arrow Trap
10:55 - Booby trap markers
11:58 - Outro
Thank you so much, u a real one👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
It has chapters now so no need for that
@@ZekeorSomething I presume his comment was posted before the chapters were added
@@krish4134 You're probably right
Horny trap lol
It is incredible that the Vietcong fought a stronger foe and utterly destroyed them physically and mentally by using the environment.
US Presidents during Vietnam War: "Guys we have to continue the fight, there's a lot at stake."
Vietcong: "Stake, you said?"
A lot of lives at the stake
there was a typo in the traslation... they got there is a lot a stick
Well they didnt want vietnam to be influenced by the communists so there was a lot at stake... Vietnam is very influential in the asian eastern world
@@Chuked From what I learned, they weren't even planning to be full-blown Communist, they sought for a structure to make as their government once they thought they were free from French Colonial occupation.
Hard thing is, Ho Chi Minh was initially on very friendly terms with the USA, quoting even from some of their presidents. They wanted freedom from occupation (and Vietnam has been foreignly occupied by many countries even before France).
But when France "wanted so badly its colony back" after the Japanese defeat and after WWII, the US decided to side with them instead of the Vietnamese.
The rest is tragic history.
😂
Imagine being the person who put down a trap and forgetting where it was and dying by the trap
Me irl.
A buddy of mine said he did that with mines in a training exercise, he was the only "casualty" of the whole exercise! Lol
Oof
Translators are a thing, and they wouldn't ignore a bigass sign lol
There was no Vietnamese died by their trap- Wikipedia.
Seeing this, I believe these are the kind of traps that Rambo uses.
Your channel is really nice 👍👍
*For some reason*
I feel anxious stepping on grass now
Duchi unless you live in Vietnam, don’t be. If you do, be careful. I hear there are still active land mines in Vietnam and other parts of the world. For anyone who’s wondering why they haven’t been dug up and disarmed yet, do you really think you’re going to remember where every single land mine you’ve placed in any country is?
first most of those mine are broken and been found and It is safe to walking in most of our forest now
B3ndy Ah. Okay. That info’s a few years old anyway. We still have American Civil War weapons and projectiles over here though. They’re just buried in the ground or are underwater.
nah it is newest info
just like what u set some bombs that US drop is still buried in our land but those bombs are buried really deep
Worst part of these boobytraps apart from causing damage physically is the part that gets into the opposing soldiers mind.
When having to think about every little step or move you make might be causing you to die a slow and meaningless death it cripples any army.
Apart from also seeing a fellow soldier falling on one of them.
69th like
Meaningless?
There was a great purpose for those booby traps.
FEAR.
@@johaldoronaldo9393 and the ocasional free kill.
This helped me come up with ideas for my trap element. Thanks
Imagine you set up a trap and forget where it is so a few years later you get xp for a kill
Imagine a vietnam who wasent remenbering where he put he trap and he kill himself bruh
Broke: *when the trees start speaking Vietnamese*
Woke: *when the ground starts speaking punji trap*
Bowen Chen hi
When the snow starts speaking Finnish
Bowen Chen is probably a trap
punji pit: *oH hELLo THErE*
When you pee on a bush and then you hear an ak sound, at last you heard:" đjt m* mày" from the bush
Saw: we have deadly traps.
Vietcongs: Amateurs.
Afghans: Amateurs
@@rejvaik00 America SUCKS at wars.
Vietcong*
@@flynncarter229 AMATURES
@@kamanashiskar9203 I wouldn't say that's true we have won the majority of wars we've had
I like it when you upload videos I enjoy watching it
What's worst is that most of those traps are non lethal and instead designed to cause as much pain as possible
That's a common tactic in war because a death is one less soldier on the battlefield, but a wounded soldier is one less soldier plus all the resources needed to care for them.
@@rooty not only that. When soldier dies you burry him and move on (it's not THAT simple but you get my point) with a dying soldier it's a lot slower and it definitely crushes morale
They were designed to damage The soldier as much as possible, so surviving would Be almost impossible
Our imagination is limitless when we look for ways to kill
@ZMan1471 so basically...kill
Am surprised your comment is not successful
@@cv4809 These traps were made with the purpose of slowing american patrols and search and destroy parties by wounding them and thus to waste time and money covering their treatment. If they died while in treatment thats all the better.
A ways to kill enemy slowly in pain and suffering
Kill an enemy, take one out of the fight. Wound an enemy, you take him and anyone aiding him out of the fight.
The dead guy is quiet. The wounded one is screaming and demoralizes his companions.
“Noooo you can’t just use a bunch of traps to win a war”
“Haha funny bamboo do stab stab”
Haha hornets go bzzzz
I must see this in meme format, someone PLEASE make a meme in paint 4 me
Where the funny at?
Bungie Crimes haha funny bamboo trap
what?
Long live the vietcong fighters who made yankies cry bleed and weep 😍😍😍😍😍😍
My dad was stationed in Phu Bai just outside Hue. He was 101st Airborne on a Chinook.He would occasionally tell stories when I was little. He did in 2020 with complications of Agent Orange.
me: tries to find a tree to piss behind
tree: *uhhhhh.... occupied*
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American : hey can I have a light?
Trees : here
American : Than-hold up
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idk what’s worse.. 10,000 bombs dropped upon civilians or this. i gotta give it to the Vietnamese tho, they’re wise people.
USA vs Vietnam
URSS vs Afganistan
At some point in history someone said .... "to fight and defeat your enemy first study his history, that will tell you if an armed force is enough"
Hey grandpa, look at this bamboo tripod! I wonder who made it?
Grandpa: *Vietnam flashbacks*
Everyone gangsta until the trees say: "Dit con me may!!"
My mother is a child?
@@iemantswout I am very concerned if your mother is a child
Another youtube "gangsta" comment...🙄
6 adds on a 12 minute video? Seriously? I just found your channel and it's very informative and entertaining. Just can't ever watch again knowing you approve an ad every 2 minutes.
Thank you for ruining my next few nights' sleep. I liked and subscribed anyway!
Feels like a combination of "Home Alone" and "Saw"
With a sprinkling of Ewoks
And pinch of Annie v Predator
Home alone: lost on the ho chi min trail
I swear Jigsaw took most of his inspiration from the Vietcong.
Real life soldiers: screaming for help / in pain
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