How young soldiers got one of the most dangerous jobs in the Vietnam War: long range jungle recon

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  • @wittybear14
    @wittybear14 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +135

    Finally these men get the recognition they deserve!

    • @warwarneverchanges4937
      @warwarneverchanges4937 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      They always shuld as fightingmen regardless of politics country or era In every war you get called for by your country but end up fighting for your brothers and survival

  • @bradr2142
    @bradr2142 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +66

    Thanks guys . You guys were unbelievable warriors. Behind enemy lines. All of you were smiling. You must of liked your jobs at that time. Glad you made it home.

    • @martinholmes639
      @martinholmes639 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Still quite happy to be alive....

    • @rondodson5736
      @rondodson5736 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I believe the lucky ones made it home, at least for the most part. Had a friend who went, came back and has never been the same.

  • @user-vv6sy2ox4q
    @user-vv6sy2ox4q 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +63

    Absolute STUDS!!! I was trained by Vietnam vets, these guys are incredible. Massive respect to these warriors!

    • @TRONABORON
      @TRONABORON 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      🇺🇲🦾🇺🇲

    • @juicyj3819
      @juicyj3819 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@user-vv6sy2ox4q jungle warfare is got to be the craziest theatre. Especially back then at night.

    • @janpierzchala2004
      @janpierzchala2004 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Vietnamese Vietnam vets are not bad either

    • @rondodson5736
      @rondodson5736 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@janpierzchala2004 Seems no one has bothered to talk about them. I have decided to write a book telling their story from their own words. but to get them to talk to someone other than Vietnamese, i have to get to know them and gain their trust.

    • @janpierzchala2004
      @janpierzchala2004 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@rondodson5736 That's true and all I managed was to watch a movie, Vietnam war movie, made by Vietnam that a Vietnamese advised me on Quora as the best. Very artistic and intimate, with a woman in a main role, not antiAmerican at all (planes are the only US element there I believe - I do not remember the title on ytb (while I of course remeber Platoon, Deer Hunter...).

  • @jumpmaster82nd.
    @jumpmaster82nd. 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    Ecstatic these men are getting their day along with all Vietnam vets!
    "Six Silent Men" is a great series!

    • @juicyj3819
      @juicyj3819 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@jumpmaster82nd. What platform?

  • @dagored4077
    @dagored4077 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +54

    You have my total respect gents.
    From a British army veteran.

    • @milesbrown8016
      @milesbrown8016 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Yes total respect. Also from a war veteran..

    • @juicyj3819
      @juicyj3819 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@dagored4077 total respect from your hat. Canada 🇨🇦✊🏻

  • @mark.J6708
    @mark.J6708 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    When I was a boy I came to, via my father, to meet and know a few LRRPs. Men's men and true warriors, heroes to me.

  • @caisson71
    @caisson71 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    The LRRPs were fearless. God Bless them all. 9th Inf Div, 3/5 Cav, 67-68

    • @michaelmusgrave8868
      @michaelmusgrave8868 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Dong tam 1967---1968 probably shared the same dirt(swamp)

  • @45barjas
    @45barjas 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

    former Royal navy Commando medic...respect thank you

    • @zulubeatz1
      @zulubeatz1 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Brit here, so thank you too.

  • @mitchc3569
    @mitchc3569 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I can so relate to so many of these Elder Brothers. I finished High School at 16, went to SAC for a year and was bored to death so at 17+ I joined the U.S. Army. It was the best decision I ever made.

  • @jerryg2232
    @jerryg2232 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

    These Men were Hunters ! Not trappers. Studs is an Understatement !!

    • @TRONABORON
      @TRONABORON 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      🇺🇲🦾🇺🇲

    • @CanIPetDatDogg
      @CanIPetDatDogg 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Actually they're sent out as bait. Then when attacked they call the AF and bomb

  • @Joinoh
    @Joinoh 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I knew very little about LRRP’s until I had the honor of spending some time with one. He told me he got to be a LRRP because he heard they spend a lot of time out in the country. He was a country boy so he liked the idea of that. I thought I knew a lot about the conflict until he opened my eyes. One of the nicest vets I have ever met and today he is a 100% disability. He paid the price!

    • @AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg
      @AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      An old Irish friend in Australia did 7 tour's LRRP Australian, often seconded to a US unit. I remember him telling me about "the tunnel of love", evading a NVA unit at night on a jungle trail, run, dive, give covering fire, some ammo and a transponder to get Air Lifted. He ended up a Warrant Officer, Noel Pearce, sadly passed away now. An orphan from Derry, Northern Ireland who took a bus to Belfast and joined the Australian Army in 1960. A great man.

  • @Mcgregor854
    @Mcgregor854 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I must have read every book printed about LRRPs, Long Range Patrols and Force Recon and probably missed a few. The courage, steel nerves, and dedication of these young men brought to the war in Vietnam us unbelievable. Their stories need to be brought to everyone who witnessed the Vietnam war. God Bless each of you and thank you for your service.

    • @rondodson5736
      @rondodson5736 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I was young dumb and clueless as to what i was getting into. Looking back over the years i wonder how i was so crazy and yet survived. When young you think you are invincible.

    • @AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg
      @AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I've known Australian V Vet's who suffered terribly from PTSD. After all they'd seen and done their mind's gave them NO peace. Better treatments and outcomes are slowly being found, my 26 year old daughter is a Neurologist who studies this very crippling syndrome, her grandfather and great-grandfather were Veterans, WW1 and WW2. She believes that there's an answer awaiting and is wholly confident of helping find it. Give them peace.

  • @markordorica6940
    @markordorica6940 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    All of you , thank you for your service for our country ❤

  • @TheVirgilSamms
    @TheVirgilSamms 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

    OMG. LURPS! We were in awe of these guys in Quang Tri. In our AO they would go out in a six-man team and call arty or air strikes on NVA or VC units. The NVA were taking serious amounts of casualties from the LRRPs and there were bounties on the heads of them. One day I heard them on my Battalion Net screaming for emergency extraction. They said that the had been found and were fending off the NVA. We could hear the fierce firefight on their radio transmissions. They stopped transmitting and then we heard someone say, on the radio, in a Vietnamese accent, "Fuck you GI". and then nothing. The extraction choppers kept calling them, but nothing. It was a really sad day.

    • @Pleasemison
      @Pleasemison 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Thats serious shit. Year?

    • @justinhensley3315
      @justinhensley3315 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      The NVA eventually formed their own version of Lurps to track the Lurps, different from the usual 3-man VC trail watchers...well, you know...

    • @angkhoanguyen6114
      @angkhoanguyen6114 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Then what? You guys still lost the war. The PAVN and NLF defended Vietnam from foreign invaders once again.

    • @Pleasemison
      @Pleasemison 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@angkhoanguyen6114 rice good you buy

    • @angkhoanguyen6114
      @angkhoanguyen6114 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Pleasemison sell me some firepower pls

  • @ronaldfeuerstein435
    @ronaldfeuerstein435 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Men! Thank you for your service!!! To to service men Vet's!! Thank you all for your service and God Bless you all.

  • @rondodson5736
    @rondodson5736 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I enlisted in 1966, graduated high school one day and was in basic the next. Volunteered for Vietnam so was stationed in Europe. Got out after first enlistment and worked for police department for a year and a half, got bored, reenlisted, volunteered for Vietnam again and was there five months after enlisting. Intelligence liked my record from the police and asked if i would like to work for them so jumped at the chance to work undercover intelligence. Busted a group of Americans selling goods to communists so intelligence was even more impressed. They offered me LRRP school at Tan Son Nhut and i graduated in last class April 72, then was offered chance to join MACV/SOG. They said our units were out of field by April 72 but i was in field until November 72, then was part of Nixon's cutback to have 27k left in country, so flew out of Vietnam on 30 November 1972.

  • @zulubeatz1
    @zulubeatz1 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I love listening to these men's stories. They have seen a side of life few live to talk about, volunteered for it no less !

  • @thomasgumersell9607
    @thomasgumersell9607 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    True Warriors and the LRRP Units had courage and bravery. Thank you for your service in the Vietnam War. 💪👃✨

  • @johnfugate5612
    @johnfugate5612 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Thank y’all for your service

  • @rondodson5736
    @rondodson5736 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I was blown up my first week in NAM. Was walking into a bar in Saigon and Charlie threw a satchel charge in in front of me. It blew me out of the building and across the street. Don't remember any pain, but had ringing in my ears and numerous shrapnel cuts but nothing serious. I went back to my hootch and bandaged myself up. We didn't bother doc unless it was something serious. If i had went to see doc or to the hospital i would have received a purple heart. The one medal no one ever wanted to receive.

  • @peacefrog64
    @peacefrog64 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I’ve read a few of their memoirs years ago, Linderer I think released two books on his time as a LRRP. Both were very good and got me hooked on reading these types of war memoirs. Them young guys had big balls back then.

  • @alanl4104
    @alanl4104 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Have read most, maybe all of Gary Linder's books on his time with the LURPS and related stories. I highly recommend them for anyone with interest in this subject. Thanks to these men for their sacrifice and service

    • @stephensmith4480
      @stephensmith4480 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks for that info I will certainly look them up. I read a Book a while back about The Small Teams That were part of The South African Reconnaissance units, engaged in The Angolan Bush Wars of The 70s. They operated in Two man Teams and the stuff the got involved in was simply incredible.

  • @timothygavin7741
    @timothygavin7741 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    My Drill Sergeant at Fort Knox in 1976 wore a LRRP tab on his uniform. He was amazing. I will never forget his name.

    • @juicyj3819
      @juicyj3819 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ? Lol. What's his name?

    • @paulstaney325
      @paulstaney325 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      My guess is that is personal info for him,otherwise he would have gave it up from the get.​@juicyj3819

  • @melissabrett5476
    @melissabrett5476 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Thank you for your service

  • @christopherscotellaro
    @christopherscotellaro 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Im adding this comment bcuz as a writer I know these men need their own dedicated film on their service. The screenplay Im doing now is about a LRRP soldier returning home to Verona, nj in 1967. BACK TO THE WORLD is a wkg title. I’ve done a lot of research ofc but now would be honored speaking with any one willing to reply. Grateful to you. My cousin PVT ANTHONY V HEIN KIA Dar Loc Provence August 7, 1968. RIP Tony. We all love you. Peace ✌️

  • @donaldmiller2090
    @donaldmiller2090 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I read a book in high school about lerp units in Vietnam LRRP and I was hooked with special forces and Black ops from that day forward and that inspired my career to be a scout sniper play lone ranger Constance and force reconnaissance scouts out ahead of the main units sometime in 2 and 3 man teams sometimes by myself

  • @keithdurbin1724
    @keithdurbin1724 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Guys I never served wished I had
    Thank you from the bottom of my heart
    Stay strong

  • @paulflak2823
    @paulflak2823 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    Still blows my mind with all the Vietnam war movies ever made, why there is not one accurately telling the story of the LRRPs. FNA guys!

    • @henryjames8654
      @henryjames8654 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This is what happens when "military" and "intelligence" are used together, the result is neither. God Damned Army, and gook food, we're having a picnic in the jungle....

    • @rondodson5736
      @rondodson5736 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I was told my records would be classified until after i was dead. Guess they think i died as now i see several stories written about our units.

  • @ratter531
    @ratter531 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    In Viet Nam I saw way to much killings 24 hours day and night, bombs, mine fields, the rain, the heat of the jungle, this was over 50 years ago, I am still a mess us kids at age 20 killing in Nam was a f.. nightmare. We came back to our country, who treated us like shit .For those of us who made it back to the USA, we were hated for doing a war job we were forced to do

    • @rondodson5736
      @rondodson5736 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      When i returned i never had anyone confront me with their hatred.I guess because to this day i still have people tell me i am the meanest SOB they ever met. I think i am a nice guy but people say i am intimidating.

    • @craigthescott5074
      @craigthescott5074 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Its to bad i was just a kid during that war but my dad was a Marine from 56 to 60. He was in artillery and went def in one ear so got thrown out on a medical. I guess that was lucky for me. He could have been killed. Sorry this is your fate you guys didn’t deserve that treatment. All liberals should be ashamed of themselves for that.

  • @TheGeonam
    @TheGeonam 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I was with 4th Infantry 11B. One of my buddies left our company to become a LRRP in mid 1968. He and his brother LRRP’s were all killed by a rocket attack as they were being picked up after a mission. Shot the chopper down all on board KIA. His name was Jack Rightmyer from Allentown, Pa. He died February 1969

  • @windsorpatb
    @windsorpatb 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Enlisted in Marines out of High School (1969). My recruiter suggested I not go in for 2 years because I'd be a grunt. I took his advice and went 4yrs Marine Air. I am so fortunate for not having to go to WESTPAC. No sacrifice at all on my part. When I hear these stories, I can't imagine being in that muck and wonder how I would have handled it all. I don't even wear USMC caps or T-shirts because I feel I simply don't rate compared to all Viet. Vets. They're better than me. So much reverence for them. 🙂

    • @Chase-Scs
      @Chase-Scs 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The war machine is a complex thing, you were a part of it and from a random civvy, thanks for your service. Put on that damned hat, Devil Dog.

    • @paulstaney325
      @paulstaney325 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You still served, Thank you.

  • @felixmadison5736
    @felixmadison5736 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I remember in 1969 Vietnam some of us soldiers eating 'LURPS', the Long Range Patrol rations. They were freeze-dried, vacuum-packed, individual rations in an outer zip-lock, clear-plastic bag to keep out moisture. They contained beef hash, chili con carne, and spaghetti with meat sauce, and a few other 'delicacies'. They were, for the most part, a hell of a lot tastier than the canned c-rations.

  • @Philobiblion
    @Philobiblion 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This is sublime. A+ production values. Seamless. Mesmerizing. Sometimes uncanny.

  • @ejsocci2630
    @ejsocci2630 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Welcome home,thank you all so much for your service 👊🏻🇺🇸

  • @apar1560
    @apar1560 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Wow ! Hats off to these men ! 🙏's

  • @BinhNguyen-lo8px
    @BinhNguyen-lo8px 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thanks for your services and sacrifices!

  • @hookeye2
    @hookeye2 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    1967 Bing Dinh, I was a straight leg grunt, but sent on and eight man LRRP (two four man teams "on a snoop and poop") once, for two weeks. 'Got lucky. nothing happened... The bird that picked me (with a PRC 25) and one other man up first, did a "Hammerhead" (at least 20 times) while the other three birds picked up the other six, to keep one M60 trained on the Pick-up Zone... (No gun-ships) Rollercoasters, phiiitt!

    • @christopherscotellaro
      @christopherscotellaro 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Read my comment from chris scotellaro. Grateful to you. Peace ✌️

  • @garyanthony4854
    @garyanthony4854 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thank you for your services to this country.

  • @jaimeduarte9426
    @jaimeduarte9426 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Much respect to all of you and Welcome home.

  • @NYRM1974
    @NYRM1974 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    LRRP RECONDO SCHOOL. I remember my older cousin who was in Nam like my dad an officer in 5th SF. The stories I was told. Long Range Recon patrol black pajamas group

  • @srf2112
    @srf2112 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    My first job out of high school was at a machine shop owned by a guy who was in one of these units. He told us some stories that were harrowing, better than Hollywood type stuff.

  • @tomtroy3792
    @tomtroy3792 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Whenever my Life Starts becoming miserable I think of you guys that fought in the Vietnam War and I start to man up if you guys had to suffer like that it's not going to hurt me a bit to suffer a little

    • @rondodson5736
      @rondodson5736 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Reminds me of the story about a man who felt sorry for himself because he had no shoes. Then he saw a man who had no feet. Always appreciate how good things are for you in life.

    • @SailorGerry
      @SailorGerry 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@rondodson5736
      By the way, this is an old Arab proverb:
      "I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man with no feet"

    • @euanreid6682
      @euanreid6682 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Maybe think about the 150k Vietnamese children mutated by Agent Orange to understand some true misery and suffering.

  • @westonweigand1228
    @westonweigand1228 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Read these stories from Larry Chambers and others books.
    My respect and admiration to you men.
    God bless you all.

  • @charlespackwood2055
    @charlespackwood2055 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Don't be 1st. Don't be last. And DONT VOLUNTEER.

    • @rondodson5736
      @rondodson5736 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      In basic out di came in and asked who liked P--SY. Everyone raised their hands. DI said ok you , you, and you just volunteered for KP. Now any more volunteers.

  • @lpd1snipe
    @lpd1snipe 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for posting this. A friend of mine growing up was a LRRP soldier. I went Navy.

    • @rondodson5736
      @rondodson5736 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I met a retired navy guy once when going to school for my degree in electronics. I asked him if what i heard about the navy was true. He said he didn't know, what did i hear. I said i heard they only kept them around to give BJ'S to the marines. He looked at me and busted out laughing. We were buds from that day forward.

  • @joelwatkins3279
    @joelwatkins3279 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    As an RTO I survived one of the most dangerous jobs in the field of Battle. I did my best to explain to those who were not in Vietnam what it was really like for us who served. Titled. Vietnam No Regrets

  • @SteveBrownRocks2023
    @SteveBrownRocks2023 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    When I saw Steve Gove on this, it blew my mind! I actually worked with him at a shoe repair shop in Columbus Ga. about 40 yrs ago! He told me all about his military activities, & things he had done, & it was just incredible! Also, he was 1 of the absolute COOLEST guys I’ve ever known, just a really great guy! Man! incredible! 🫡🇺🇸 Sgt. Gove!

  • @peasantsrevolt4780
    @peasantsrevolt4780 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My old man...
    Larey D. Clark
    Co E (LRP) 20th Inf &
    Co C (Ranger) 75th Inf
    Vietnam

    • @detector3
      @detector3 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I was in E co 20th Inf from 68 to 69 3rd platoon team 34 RTO

  • @scottbrazinsky615
    @scottbrazinsky615 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you all!

  • @Sniffthedrippings
    @Sniffthedrippings 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    My dad's buddy was a LRRP in the 173rd and he was the biggest badass I've ever known. The guy was stone cold. Here's the kicker--he was only 19 when he was a LRRP. And kids today wonder what gender they are at 19.

    • @rondodson5736
      @rondodson5736 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      If they have to wonder, then they are not men.

  • @briank8697
    @briank8697 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    How did these people walk around with balls so big?

    • @rondodson5736
      @rondodson5736 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      We let the marines carry them for us. :>)

    • @rondodson5736
      @rondodson5736 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That is why we carried ruck sacks.:>)

  • @JohnViinalass-lc1ow
    @JohnViinalass-lc1ow 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    it is really important for the free world to see, hear these back-home soldiers tell their stories, for the free world to know our soldiers can do what they fought to learn, develop

  • @OhItsThat
    @OhItsThat 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Gary Linderers Phantom Warriors books are fantastic. The collection of stories from LRRPs, LRPs and Rangers from all over the US Army are absolutely incredible. Just nutso stories that are told so well. It really upsets me there hasn’t been a Band Of Brothers type mini series or Saving Private Ryan caliber film about these men.

  • @gennehring1
    @gennehring1 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    How's they ever get on the Slicks with those giant balls of steel?

  • @IntheBlood67
    @IntheBlood67 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    For the most part/LURPS operated inside Nam while SOG operated Outside of Nam! If anyone is confused?

    • @michaelscott466
      @michaelscott466 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      LRRPs also ran missions in Cambodia. Largely SOG and LRRPs had very similar mission scopes. LRRPs had more on mission experience because almost all of their training was achieved through running live missions.

    • @rondodson5736
      @rondodson5736 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thanks. I always wondered where they dropped us. They never told us. Just gave us maps with marked positions for target areas and where to be picked up.

    • @rondodson5736
      @rondodson5736 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I just thought they deployed us outside without telling us where because legally we were not supposed to be there.

  • @michaelihsan7869
    @michaelihsan7869 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My brothers, God bless you!

  • @soxbearshwks8988
    @soxbearshwks8988 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    3rd Batt. 7th Marines ChuLai,RVN 10/65-11/66

    • @juicyj3819
      @juicyj3819 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Do any killin?

    • @soxbearshwks8988
      @soxbearshwks8988 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@juicyj3819 we did what we had to do...PERIOD

    • @robertisham5279
      @robertisham5279 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@soxbearshwks8988 How did you see combat?

  • @ComfortsSpecter
    @ComfortsSpecter 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Incredible Presentation
    Confident Oration
    Amazing Vibe as They Explain Themselves
    Immense History
    Wonderful Humanistics
    Thank You for This Good Work Great Man

  • @TM-kb9xj
    @TM-kb9xj 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    We were never outnumbered, we were simply in a target rich environment!

  • @janetharned4343
    @janetharned4343 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Brian Riley, Underhill Ctr, VT, was an LRRP, Lt. in charge, USMC, and served in Vietnam! I haven't seen him in years, but he is the Bravest man I have ever known, and a true hero. Look him up!!❤🎉😊❤

  • @Fredrik7le
    @Fredrik7le 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Is there a longer version? This was like a teaser

    • @armylrs2391
      @armylrs2391 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      This channel is a mess. They need to fire whoever does their editing or whoever is behind the decision making of releasing these in short clips. All of these short 8 minute video should have been put together into one video that had some coherence. I cannot stand channels like this who try to milk every bit of content for everything it's worth rather than actually respecting these vets who took the time to sit down and interview.

    • @Fredrik7le
      @Fredrik7le 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@armylrs2391 so true 👍

  • @sammyyourmammy8170
    @sammyyourmammy8170 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    my father was a ww2 and Korea vet, my bother went into the marines in 1968, he is 8 years older than me. i remeber the night before he left for basic training, my father told him- Son, when you get to vietnam, if anyone ever asks for volunteers for something, NEVER, EVER Volunteer.............

  • @donniewhitten-ji9cm
    @donniewhitten-ji9cm 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I have been in those same jungle s ok.doing special ops.six men only on the hunt for the enemy ok.very dangerous work back then.vietnam ok.former solder USRanger.1968 1970.

  • @cw7422
    @cw7422 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thanks to them. CWO4 USN RET

  • @stokestomlin989
    @stokestomlin989 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Well, an extraordinary presentation, thanks so much guys

  • @AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg
    @AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Here's a thought that occurred to me 20+ year's ago.......Hug A Vet if you are lucky enough to know one.

  • @NoneofUrbusiness-p9w
    @NoneofUrbusiness-p9w 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    They could read and draw maps. No soldier I’ve talked with in 10 years can do either.

  • @billcarpenter5145
    @billcarpenter5145 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Bill Carpenter , Tiger Force HHC 1ST BN 327 ABN INFANTRY 1ST BDE 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION
    1966 67 we were a kick ass Recon unit

    • @user-vv6sy2ox4q
      @user-vv6sy2ox4q 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thank you for your service Sir!

    • @juicyj3819
      @juicyj3819 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      How many dinks did you put to sleep?

    • @DensityMatrix1
      @DensityMatrix1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Hi, my Father was Tiger Force 1/327 101st. 66-67. Maybe you knew him?
      He was at Dak To. I still have his Tiger Stripe boonie.
      How far Airborne?

  • @StevenBoyd-x1n
    @StevenBoyd-x1n 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    These brave American heros deserve a salute from everyone
    HEROES of the USA
    May God shine a bright light on These fine America soldiers.

  • @AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg
    @AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hero's, Patriot's, each and every one.

  • @anotherpeasant
    @anotherpeasant 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Heroes, all.

  • @ivyyoungblood3554
    @ivyyoungblood3554 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My husband was a pointer in the Vietnam War and lost friends. He suffers from PTSD and the VA is not giving him the compensation he deserves.

    • @rondodson5736
      @rondodson5736 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I chose DAV to help me get my comp rating. They were great but i suppose the other groups are probably just as good.

  • @SMC4117
    @SMC4117 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I’ve never been in a “war”. But, I have lived in many places where I was unwanted. From the mountain tops of Costa Rica, to a small village in Nicaragua, and a bit of jail time in Chile… I’ve been shot numerous times, stabbed, attacked by large groups and have had a machete lodged in my skull! What I’ve had to do to be able to write this now would seem appalling to most. Sometimes war comes to you and no matter who you are, you have to fight! My heart aches for those who crossed me. But, my heart is open for loving those I have yet to meet. 🏄🏼‍♂️🎣🤙🏻

  • @nickminton5976
    @nickminton5976 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I had a girl tell me at home Depot when I got my 10% discount so thank you for your service and your hero I didn't know what to say

  • @karenlubeck3294
    @karenlubeck3294 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Those young Men were betrayed by their superiors for not providing air support. It must have been so frightening to be thrown into that situation as a 20 or 21 yr old.

  • @juicyj3819
    @juicyj3819 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    We need a new Vietnam war movie.

  • @r.cooper9790
    @r.cooper9790 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Many ex-nam conscripts found their way into the Rhodesian civil war. Some of their eyes told all about what they went through in nam. There was one posted in guard force duties on the farms in Chipinga. He was polite but never smiled. Check out 'The Mouldings of Chipinge', Lulu Press, by RG Cooper.

  • @mikerichards6311
    @mikerichards6311 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙏 Thank you

  • @michaelhurley545
    @michaelhurley545 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    There are some great books out there on the LRRPs. Some of the story's of the missions that these guys did are seat of your pants reading you cant put the book down.

  • @mikem4883
    @mikem4883 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Marine Corps infantry did this over and over. I know. I was one.

    • @juicyj3819
      @juicyj3819 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Which theater?

    • @DavidSiden-v1p
      @DavidSiden-v1p 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@juicyj3819 the Oceanside Drive-in. Lol. Only time I hear “theater” it refers to WW2. I agree with Mike as I was also a Grunt (H 2/23, G 2/5, B 1/9) 1978-85. If we weren’t doing BLT amphib landings or big desert shit, we were running lots of recon and combat patrols (4 men or a whole squad.) Always long range, lots of weight, hot or cold and always wet.
      We were trained by Nam vets who shared bad-ass skills that HQMC didn’t print in our manuals.

    • @juicyj3819
      @juicyj3819 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@DavidSiden-v1p you get any kills in action?

  • @Cruiser777
    @Cruiser777 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    God bless❤

  • @giovannimaterno9988
    @giovannimaterno9988 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Were these LRRP related to SOG in some way ?

  • @alexanderingram2813
    @alexanderingram2813 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    At last we get to hear from these amazing guys who fought THE NECESSARY WAR . Think about what the world might have looked like had the US not made that stand. It was tough but it was vital. Brave men.

  • @PaulGuhin
    @PaulGuhin 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Been There..... maybe still sometimes.

  • @keithwyatt3354
    @keithwyatt3354 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My brothers story for sure..

  • @jayryan1956
    @jayryan1956 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    had these guys already done 90 days on tour? i thought you had to have previous combat experience before going into this unit? it sounds like they were recruited straight off the plane

    • @martinholmes639
      @martinholmes639 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The various LRP units had short schools for new guys + only 1 new guy at a time on a mission. The Recondo school at Nha Trang, run by SF, was excellent - lots of guys went to that school. Also, many LRP's were 2nd tour, having been line grunts on their 1st tour.
      Additionally, in LRP units, there were also many foreign born soldiers who had "illegally emigrated" from Soviet Bloc Communist countries - they hated Communists with a passion.
      Further, after the Congo Wars wound down, you would see that some former mercenaries had joined the U.S. Army and did Vietnam in LRP units, which after 1969 were organized as the 75th Ranger Bn.

    • @rondodson5736
      @rondodson5736 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Different circumstances. I was air force intel and was asked if i wanted to go to LRRP school. I went then was assigned to MACV/SOG because of my background.

  • @mtnride4930
    @mtnride4930 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I would love to be able to contact Mr Linderer. I think I knew him after his service. I believe my Dad got him into his VFW post in California.

  • @mil546
    @mil546 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Welcome Home.

  • @wannamonslo9626
    @wannamonslo9626 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Soul Patrol the story of the first all black LRRP team.

  • @kevinpeterson3830
    @kevinpeterson3830 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Are the LRRPs Army Rangers at that time?

  • @BurtonSKnowles
    @BurtonSKnowles 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    These men are TRUE patriots!! Willing to fight and die for their country. They deserve nothing but our utmost respect!

    • @rondodson5736
      @rondodson5736 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I had a friend who graduated a year ahead of me and enlisted and was assigned to a MACV/SOG unit. He got me to enlist and i ended up with same unit but never saw each other again until we both retired.

  • @Walkercolt1
    @Walkercolt1 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    LERRPS were special. Special crazy maybe. Night patrol was the WORST duty you could draw. Stumble around in pitch-black in a jungle Charlie knew where every plant was, and you had NO IDEA what you were doing. "Make a sound, and you'll draw fire!" No kidding...I SWEAR Westmoreland had a deal with body bag makers-or with Batesville Casket company!

    • @rondodson5736
      @rondodson5736 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I always liked the dark as i used it for concealment and to find the enemy

    • @juicyj3819
      @juicyj3819 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​Yes but pitch black in the jungle is absolutely terrifying. Especially in a gun fight.

    • @juicyj3819
      @juicyj3819 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@rondodson5736in Nam?

    • @RobertBrown-wm9ob
      @RobertBrown-wm9ob 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@juicyj3819so is fighting in a snow storm at night time

    • @rondodson5736
      @rondodson5736 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I liked the night. It was my friend. I was trained to move thru the jungle without making any noise. That is why the VC thought we were ghosts. We played on their superstitions.

  • @h-f2726
    @h-f2726 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ..really, 360p upload??

  • @jaimevalencia6271
    @jaimevalencia6271 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Mother Rucker is a bad ass fucking name.

  • @pe7143
    @pe7143 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Solders? Title misspelled… But good site.

  • @danodonnell7218
    @danodonnell7218 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Welcome home brothers!!!!

  • @RobinSMoody
    @RobinSMoody 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Iwas recon we appreciate those guys Buddy Moody Poplaville Mississippi

  • @lonewolf5238
    @lonewolf5238 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    These suicide missions were called "Lurps", if I'm not mistaken. I remember reading about them. This was like 60 some years ago. I was 16 years old, Canadian kid, father served in Korea, idiot that I was, I tried to enlist just after I turned 18, got turned back at the border. Funny how some stuff just stays with you.

    • @dalecrummie5818
      @dalecrummie5818 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol, LRRP pronounced Lurp, I was in a descendant of those units, Long Range Surveillance Unit in Central America.

  • @DannySpangler-cx8bl
    @DannySpangler-cx8bl 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My mentor was a paratrooper in the 101st Abn ww 2 he told me I was withrelated two the 11 abn a couple 503rd inf 173 abn brigade my dad told me he would pay for Jr college right after school I enlisted

  • @rhondabailey4444
    @rhondabailey4444 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Welcome Home