Wow, Dom was a counselor for the vets program here at home! THAT's awesome! He DOES have THAT tremendous ability to "PULL YOU IN" so to speak! Like, EVEN IF he didn't share nor HAVE the Costra Nostra background etc.?...He IS STILL one of those peoples, that "I Myself" find QUITE interesting and fascinating! RIP Dom!
First time I googled this guy I couldn’t believe it! I thought it would surely label him primarily as a mobster, but It came up as “Dominic Montiglio American soldier”…RIGHTFULLY SO! 🇺🇸 R.I.P. and thank you for your service dom. 🙏🇺🇸
I was coming through LAX on my way home from The Nam when a group of Hippies hollered “Baby Killer” at me. The tallest one got in my face screaming and I reacted by punching his lights out b/c I thought he was going to hit me. The cops came, took me into a room in the airport and asked where my connecting gate was. They escorted me to the gate and I never heard anything more about it to this day, but I do remember the hate directed at us & never understood it.
I did three tours in Nam. Total of 25 months out of a four year enlistment from 3/64 to 2/68. Joined within a month after my 17th birthday. Navy Corpsman attached to a Marine Corps Combined Action Company. A 17 man unit. Three Purple Hearts. After I got out I went to Angola as a merc from 3/68 to 3/69. Made great money. Also did some work in the Philippines against the Moros. Then I went to an American college in Mexico because I was afraid I might be arrested in the U.S. due to some of the shenanigans I had pulled in Africa. While in college in 1970 a young, chubby co-ed approached me and started swearing at me because I was a Nam vet and I ignored her. She was surrounded by about a dozen friends. Then she spit on my face... so I knocked her out with one punch. Her friends were in shock. I got in trouble. I claimed self defense. Lucky for me the Dean's son had been drafted and was at the time a grunt in Nam. So I had a sympathetic ear and I got a pass. Also had a problem with some frat guys... but that came to naught after I snatched a guy's glasses off of his face and threw them to the other side of the lunch room. It was a small private American University in Mexico City, University of the Americas, and there were around a dozen vets... and we all hung out together. All of us were pretty liberal and were there for the co-eds as well as for the degree. None of us hippied out. Most of us thought the war was bullshit. We had to pick up our GI Bill checks once a month at the Embassy and there must have been at least a hundred ex pat vets in different schools in Mexico at the time. Made life long friends there. Came back and eventually went to Law School. Graduated in 79.
@@therealdominickmontiglioIt's truly incredible what you said about the 58,621 U.S. casualties. Breaks my heart. Thank you so much for your service. What an amazing life you had.
Thank you for always keeping Dom ALIVE!
It was very sad how these veterans were treated. Such a disgrace in this country. RIP Dominick.
Dom is such a great storyteller. Would love a movie on his life like Henry Hill
Wow, Dom was a counselor for the vets program here at home! THAT's awesome! He DOES have THAT tremendous ability to "PULL YOU IN" so to speak! Like, EVEN IF he didn't share nor HAVE the Costra Nostra background etc.?...He IS STILL one of those peoples, that "I Myself" find QUITE interesting and fascinating! RIP Dom!
We love you DOM !!!
I really enjoy his sharing his past life experiences. It’s quite interesting.
New Dom! Thanks, Ross!
RIP soldier you seen some serious shit at home and abroad.
First time I googled this guy I couldn’t believe it! I thought it would surely label him primarily as a mobster, but It came up as “Dominic Montiglio American soldier”…RIGHTFULLY SO! 🇺🇸
R.I.P. and thank you for your service dom. 🙏🇺🇸
Well said!
Airborne!
Flying HIGH!!!
I was coming through LAX on my way home from The Nam when a group of Hippies hollered “Baby Killer” at me. The tallest one got in my face screaming and I reacted by punching his lights out b/c I thought he was going to hit me. The cops came, took me into a room in the airport and asked where my connecting gate was. They escorted me to the gate and I never heard anything more about it to this day, but I do remember the hate directed at us & never understood it.
Very neat
I did three tours in Nam. Total of 25 months out of a four year enlistment from 3/64 to 2/68. Joined within a month after my 17th birthday.
Navy Corpsman attached to a Marine Corps Combined Action Company. A 17 man unit. Three Purple Hearts. After I got out I went to Angola as a merc from 3/68 to 3/69. Made great money. Also did some work in the Philippines against the Moros.
Then I went to an American college in Mexico because I was afraid I might be arrested in the U.S. due to some of the shenanigans I had pulled in Africa.
While in college in 1970 a young, chubby co-ed approached me and started swearing at me because I was a Nam vet and I ignored her. She was surrounded by about a dozen friends. Then she spit on my face... so I knocked her out with one punch. Her friends were in shock.
I got in trouble. I claimed self defense. Lucky for me the Dean's son had been drafted and was at the time a grunt in Nam. So I had a sympathetic ear and I got a pass.
Also had a problem with some frat guys... but that came to naught after I snatched a guy's glasses off of his face and threw them to the other side of the lunch room.
It was a small private American University in Mexico City, University of the Americas, and there were around a dozen vets... and we all hung out together. All of us were pretty liberal and were there for the co-eds as well as for the degree. None of us hippied out. Most of us thought the war was bullshit.
We had to pick up our GI Bill checks once a month at the Embassy and there must have been at least a hundred ex pat vets in different schools in Mexico at the time. Made life long friends there.
Came back and eventually went to Law School. Graduated in 79.
We miss you brother Dom. My uncle Shane wouldn’t have made it back home if it wasn’t for you saving his ass on that hill in Nam.
That airport story was some funny shit! to bad Dom pasted I'm sure there were many untold stories! RIP: DM
We have another full feature with untold stories. It’s in the works
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@@therealdominickmontiglioIt's truly incredible what you said about the 58,621 U.S. casualties. Breaks my heart. Thank you so much for your service. What an amazing life you had.