Vietnam Voices: 'That's pretty unnerving to go through a body to get the rifle'
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- Vietnam War veteran Richard Schiltz talks about his experiences. Schiltz served with the U.S. Marines from 1966 to 1969. He was raised in Billings, Montana.
Great interview. I laughed out loud a few times to some of his responses. Interesting war experience. I’ve watched almost all the these. These guys and their stories are an American treasure that will live forever
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Very interesting interviews.I would have liked to see a picture of the guys when they went to Vietnam. Thank you for doing these interviews. I think this is very important too!
I have been watching for a few weeks now and I agree that the only thing missing is some photos of the men when they were young and in country.
That would have been a great idea!
I would have loved to see pictures too, but so many soldiers lived and died In Vietnam without taking a single picture and without their name ever being mentioned.
Nō the photo is personal so thesemilitary men & women the guys who get on camera give enough you greedy bugGer you neEd to be grateful for this alone
Great interview….thanks for all your struggles and service👍
Amazing interview! Thank you for your service. And thank you Billings Gazette for doing these and preserving history. I love hearing about people’s personal experiences. Every one is so unique.
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I listen to a lot of these and these are particularly good due to quality audio.
Sometimes from other interviewers you get poor quality audio. You can't hear the veteran, phones ringing, dogs barking in the background, etc. Well done!
Shultz,thanks man if I woulda got sent there, I would have been awful glad to be with you.what a man you are!
“Behind every one of those headstones there’s a mother”. In my 12 years as a V.A. Peer Support Specialist I heard countless stories of fellow veterans. I’ve NEVER heard such a beautiful and poignant phrase. Semper Fi(0351 Assaultman, USMC 1979-85).
Amen
Amen
I was with the 1st Marines (3/1) at Camp Horno from about Christmas of 1976-September 7th of 80. (2512 Field Wireman). Spent my entire career at "hole in the wall Horno" with the 1st Marine Regiment. 3 years and 9 months. Lucky me! Had Jimmy Carter for my Commander-n-Chief. Yep, he was a real Tiger! LOL.
Nice comment man!🇺🇲🍺🇰🇷
Thank you for your post!! Spot on statement. Semper Fi(0351 Assaultman 1971-1974)
Thanks Mr. Richard Schiltz for your time in uniform of our country. And thank U Billings Gazette
My cousins did two terms. He said he would choose 10 Koreans over 100 Arvn as "fighters".
@@jegesmedve2276 The Korean Rock Army was double tough!
I came close on a few occasions to joining the military, but life took me elsewhere. Listening to gentleman like this I always feel both admiration for these guys, and some guilt that I never joined. All I can do is be grateful for everyone that has been through hell for our country and thankful because of them I even had the option to live the relatively comfortable life I've had. All my respect to those still with us and those who were lost who served. Thank you.
I tried enlisting in 1967 I was 16 they told me to come back in 5/6 months after looking back glad I didn't,That war was kept going by LBJ to sell oil!, Kennedy was gonna pull us out of Nam,LBJ had him killed,He ran Texas,get it Dallas!!??.
@@packingten Kennedy went to viet nam with some other senators in the mid 50s,he knew immediately it was a lost cause. Apparently we had given the French several million dollars to help the war effort and they wanted to see where the money was going. To bad we didn’t listen to hm.
Not one of these men have said 'Before I went to Vietnam I was at Yale, my Father was on the board, he was a politician.'
Because that would never happen unfortunately
@@J-Zed-Rising Why is that Tristen?
What are you suggesting? ☺
Watch September 15th interview.
Some were there,don't say "not one" unless you are damn sure.
@@danpollard4210 All 7 0f them?
You are a hero. Thank you. A fellow Vietnam Veteran.
Thank you for your service Sir 🙏
Thank you Richard!
Great man. Great interview.
Thank you Richard! I really enjoyed this interview - one of the best I've heard yet. Grateful to the interviewer for asking Richard for a description of DMZ, as I've never actually heard it described. Richard, after 10 years of research, I am finally getting a clearer picture of my own father's locations while in country.
Thank you Mr. Schiltz
Another very good interview Daryl. Thank you Mr Schiltz for your military service , much appreciated!
Thank you for your wonderful interviews! Watched lots of of your videos....good job!
God Bless You Mr. Schultz, thank you for your Commitment as a Fighting Marine!
Great interview! Welcome home Mr Shultz.
Thanks Richard great job.
Dai Do was bad news. Richard saw some really tough fighting. Thank you for your service. Semper Fi Brother!! Welcome Home!! People who call Las Vegas Sin City have never been to Olongapo. 😁😁
Nice seeing your interview Rich.
Never went to THE WALL myself. Had the guy who bunked in the top bunk at Fort Sill with me get KIA at Con Thien early in 1969. The Agent Orange sure knocked down the vegetation up there but the guys still got hit round supper time . 3rd Marines were still there too.
Lot of people say thanks now ...........I just say " it was my privilege "
Dallas R. Dong Ha / 1/40 Arty / 1969
Played softball with a Marine that was on Con Thien off-n-on in '67. Some Marine Recon unit. Force, 1st or 3rd BN. I'm not sure? Didn't talk much about it.
My best friend in school&after done 2 terms as a door gunner,He had a beautiful AK47 I said Jr that's a nice weapon "where'd ya get it it?",I got it out of a dead G###s hands,Serious as a heart attack!.
THANK YOU RICHARD !
Good interview good man very interesting
Thank you for your service!
I was a Naval Gunfire Support radio talker on the USS Duncan call sign Mower. We fired alot of support for the Marines. I may have even talked to Richard back then.
WOW! This was a good interview!! Welcome home Richard!
Thank you Sir
Thank you for your service sir
Do a shot every time the interviewer says K!!!
SERIOUSLY. It's really starting to ruin this for me
interview....interactive.... let's them know he's listening and understanding... asks for clarification or details as appropriate...
You better have a big bottle. Lol
Thank you for your sacrifice
I wish you good health
Thank you
The interviewer needs to understand he's not doing an interview for print media. Watch Brian Lamb interview anyone. These guys know their story and how to tell it.
I could comment on other vet interviews which are dull and unprobing but those are easy to find(though difficult to watch). This interviewer knows the subject and is genuinely interested in those he is talking to. It’s about people!
That's a snooz fest...these are way better
I believe they did about 75 of these interviews and they follow a fairly set format. The agenda seems to be to document who these vets were before during and after their service in Vietnam without getting into too much details. Giving them a chance to talk before they die because it appears that many of them have admittedly stated that they have talked more about Vietnam in these one hour interviews than they talked about Vietnam in the previous 50 years.
Would've liked to know if his dad tried to encourage him to go to law school because he's obviously capable of getting any level of education he wanted.
As the son of a lawyer, I say yes. Not everyone likes academic shit. Nothing wrong with being a tradesman, our ancestors were tradesmen.
richard, that foreign place nam, seems
nuts insane .. happy home sweet home
mahalo Darrell letting these boys men
tell facts and truth finally .. aloha
Amazing man
Thank you. 4 " see in that an doin that!! Redik. How they brainwash thoz young lads... W gung ho.!!!! Sargent!! Has tha war changed you?? Oh IDK..!!!!... He didn't want to say he been disabled for 25yrs due to ❤️ attack from agent 🍊.... . Pee tee ful.!!!
What i found unnerving was Having "Graves registration" set up and get ready before an Op,,,and having to sit there watching them get ready,,
U can tell in his eyes hes seen some f ed up shit
His name is richard shultz
I would love to sit at the kitchen table with this guy and a couple of beers!
We worked with VC against the Japanese and the only Vietnamese to ask us for help was Ho Chi Min there was never a south Vietnam
The Southern Vietnamese regime was corrupt as well..... Vietnam was a double edged sword....
I would love to hear a detailed description of what this guy did when he said he had "fun" over there, cuz he seems like he liked to par-tay
WOW!! Dai Dao. One of the deadliest battles that the Marines fought during the Vietnam War. And nobody has ever heard about it! When Mr. Schiltz says they had 70% causalities he wasn't joking!! Some Marine platoons were completely "wiped" out during that 3 day battle. There was 1 and possibly 2 Medal of Honors awarded for the battle. There is a very good 3 or 4 part video here on TH-cam about the battle. Battle of Dai Dao or some call it the battle of Dong Ha. Parts of the 1st Marine Regiment (3/1) was in that same area but mostly on the South side of the river a few months earlier during TET (late Jan-Feb, Mar, 1968) and they saw some very heavy combat there also trying to keep the river open for supplies from the ocean up the river (West) to Dong Ha. I'm not sure but Oliver North (Contra/Iran weapons Fame with President Reagan) might have been in that battle? Maybe he was with 2/4 later? 2/4 was called the Magnificent Bastards after that battle I believe? Just like the 1/9 became the "Walking Dead" after the ambush (Operation Buffalo) on about the 4th of July of 1967 just Southwest of where the battle of Dai Dao was fought. 1/9 had nearly 75 killed in less than an hour that hot early July, 1967 day! Nealy the entire Bravo Company 1/9 was "wiped" out! If they weren't KIA they were WIA.
They were villages close together
Combat vets should get 4 yrs college free...
non combat vets should get partial compensation for 4 yrs.
But that's just my HO...
God bless this HERO.
It was a little humorous when he said that by dressing in civilian clothes he was able to get a little bit of the boyfriend action and save some money. Oh he seems to be a pretty typical guy
Forrest Gump already taught me everything I need to know about rain in Vietnam.
Wouldn't it be interesting to interview some ex Viet Cong and NVA soldiers? Is that even possible?
Great series. But it is called Vietnam voices and there are no Vietnamese voices.
It would be nice to see photos of the men when they were in service in the video and not just in the thumbnail they way some videos do.
I feel yhe interviewer falters a little near the end when he asks "how do you view vietnam today". He moves on from that series of questions too quickly. I feel he should have given more time to answer but hw jumps from question to quetion to fast in thst part.
RIP Mr Schiltz.
Camp Lejuene/Jacksonville gotta lotta Jack shacks n I miss em.
For every10 fellows sent to Vietnam 1 exposed to life and death combat other 9 jobs in rear surrounded be Vietnam women. Sad how many these guys fathered 100s of 1000s children how many went back to find them?? If u see fellow wearing Vietnam baseball hat I ask of his service when I gear I don't want to talk about it. I ask if he had rear job or in jungles how many affairs with Vietnamese women did you ever return to find your abandoned children??
Man did he get screwed (Flight School) 3 years to go.
220 inches of rain!!!
What the hell??? That over 18ft of rain!!!!
Ok 👌 good stuff 👌
The demonstrators are back. 2021
Bless his heart. His memory is off on some dates. VietNam 1971.
VIETNAM DID NOT OFFICIALLY FINISH UNTIL 72
@@sweetsour6350 Actually, it was 75.
73, end of US involvement.
@@sweetsour6350 1974
Sorry 1975 correct
I like the Marine videos best
Is that Steve Bannons bro?
Hard core searching around for another rifle and speaking about wounded or dead comrade.
Bro needs to cool it with the nervous “K”
darrel; ok, ok, ok, hmm, ok, ok right, ok, ok...
wish I could have stayed to listen to this vet (un-interrupted )
He's thinking of the next relevant question to ask, no offence but I hate it when folks like yourself criticize this guy because he's not a top notch interviewer. Interviewing is a really skilled and difficult job that's why national news anchors and interviewers command such large salaries. I tried it once, I thought I'd be ok at it because I'm a pretty decent actor but I wasn't. This guy isn't top notch but he's not doing a bad job, he asks relevant questions, keeps the interview flowing and mostly stops the guys from rambling all over the place. Could you do any better because I know I couldn't and I've tried it.
Cool man
Good interview, bad lighting
>starts telling a harrowing and deeply personal story
>Interviewer every 5 seconds "Kay..." "HmMmM"
And then we went to .......
What does "Kay" mean? Every statement is answered with, "Kay".
Kay is an homage to the smurf people
I kept thinking he looks familiar... I think he might look like Steve Bannon of Breitbart News. Just a bit... put some beard stubble on the face.
Hearing the interviewer say "OK" after everything the guy says makes this too infuriating to watch, wich is sad because I really wanted to hear his story, just too many interruptions.
mikemb123 I agree
I actually think he is one of the best interviewers out there ,, he is very polite to his guest and lets them say anything
I agree i think he asks the right questions at the right time keeping the interview going along at the right speed
He's perfect otherwise. And it's a perfectly polite habit, expressing interest in the conversation. Do you even English?
Mfer,I wish to God this interviewer's incessant muttering of "K" throughout the interview would be edited out! It's so distributive, dismissive and disrespectful! Drives me nuts.
Man, you ain't kidding. It's almost after every sentence 🤦♂️
Would be interesting to know how many Nva and Viet Cong ended up dying because of Agent Orange
Southwest, I mean east , no west.
The best thing about the Vietnam war ...was the fact that it NEARLY ..Levelled the playing field ....Americas ...wealth ...America's MASSIVE armed forces .... America's superior technology ... was pretty much cancelled out in the Jungles of Vietnam .... so Americans learnt they were not superior men to people living in the 3rd world ... Vietnanese men fought and killed just as many Americans as u did ... Vietnam stood up to America ...and survived ...
"That's pretty unnerving to go through a body to get the rifle". I belonged to the MN. National Guard for 6 years after my 4 years in the USMC and we had a Vietnam veteran in my Guard unit that was with some Marine Recon unit in Vietnam. He was saying after drill one day he was "stacking" his dead, Marine recon buddies in front of himself one day during a nasty firefight on No Go Island just SW of Danang to stop the enemy bullets. He made it out alive but was holding his stomach/intestines in with his hands when they finally pulled out what was left of his team! They say he is/was the most decorated Marine in the State of Minnesota from the Vietnam War? Now that was some "Deep Shit"!! You could look in his eyes (Sergeant Major K.) and they were as hollow as deep, black, bottomless holes even in the mid 1980's when I met him. Now that guy was a F ucking HERO!!
Yeah, no kidding about round-up. My nephew used a ton of it to clear his mother's yard (kinda kid that did a bang up job, if he was doing something, he'd do it right and then some). He was 18-19 and got cancer. Absolutely, related to using round-up. I so agree, don't go to war or go to war. The BS about politicians deciding what can and can't be done is nonsense.
DA REAL MCKOY....RICHARD DID DA FIGHTING!!!! ITS A SHAME THAT THE GUYS IN DA BACKGROUND SAY THEY FOUGHT IN DA VIETNAN WAR!!!!! THEIR INTERVIEW SHOULD BE CUT TOOO 5 MINUTES
Hmm k. Wow. K
The interviewer ruined it. He really sucked. Couldn't listen to the whole interview. K, right, wow......ok, k ...k...right, k ..
This is mostly chit chat, which is called shooting the breeze in the military! Just saying.
Fond memories. Beautiful landscape.
Thank you Richard! Interviewer is hideous…. K, K, K, K, K, K….Jesus dude….
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This interviewer is a moron. The veteran is fantastic.
I want to hear your interviews. K?!
@Michael Jordan Sportsvision : to whom are you replying?
Hush
What's that supposed to mean?
Thank you