I served 2 tours in Nam 1st Aviation (68-69) and 1st Signal (69-70). The ROKs were scary dudes to everybody. I saw them beat the crap out of each other in training all the time. I'm talking serious beat downs. We didn't do shit. I saw them walk through Saigon streets and the Vietnamese would clear a path. The Vietnamese surrounded and hassled GIs on the streets...non-stop. ROKs had respect.

So, I am a Blue-Blooded Yankee assed child of the 80's and an ex-Army Ranger of the 90s. The ROK Marine's reputation for absolute ruthlessness was never published,.....Just quietly spoken about by my Father's generation that was in Vietnam.....'Nough said on that one....These Gents would make Freddy Kruger shit his pants.

My dad was a ROK Marine in the Vietnam War. He rarely talked about it other then saying the viet cong were invisible and he saw a lot of bad things.

that's how you WIN wars

My deepest respect to south korean soldiers …. Thank you for fighting aling side with our troops ….

Salvadoran Marines had the same reputation in Kabul. They were shot at once...they dismounted and kicked in doors till mama threw a teenager out into the street with a old pistol. Nuff said.

Sounds like the Mongolians in Iraq. They did not shy away from retaliation.

Saw them training hand to hand on a rock beach in Korea once

Every account I read about ROK forces in Vietnam they were not to be fuccd with!

Committing atrocities is at best excusable; at worst a sign that the ROK is overrated and corrupt (like just about anything else from Korea besides the food)

Thanks for sharing this video. I served in ROK Marine Corps for 2 years. My father and his 2 brothers too. Being at peace is the most important thing, but if enemies wanna destroy ours, then I’m sure that me and my brothers will be willing to fight on the front line.

My father was a ROK marine in Vietnam. The stories while legendary are also very sad, tragic and messed up. May you never experience war.

My dad told me one of the reasons he thinks why ROKs were so good in Vietnam(we're Korean). Back in the day, the compulsory military camp of ROK was absolutely nuts. The amount of inhumane punishment and training they had to go through was unbelivable - I thought things like that wouldn't even be allowed in a POW camp - and since it was a strict mandatory system it was either survive until the duty is over or go out early dead. And it was 3 years. 3 mandatory years of military service where you cannot escape, no human rights inside of it. Lots of people were beaten to death, drowned, died of exhaustion, starvation, you name it. The stories of my dad is just nuts. For example he told me a story when his entire troop was being punished for just one man's very little mistake - the entire troop was ordered to gather outside at night, naked, at -30 degrees celcius, and the drill instructors were carrying water pots to sprinkle it on their body for hours. These were daily incidents and trainings that every man had to go through. My dad said if you go through something so hard like that with someone else, that brotherhood becomes unimaginably tight that if any one of his member is attacked then it's immediate kill or be killed mode towards the attacker. Nothing else matters.

My big uncle, the oldest of 9 siblings, was a Korean marine of 2nd Brigade "Blue Dragon" during Vietnam war '67~'69.

In S. Korea, I met a KATUSA Sgt whose dad was in Vietnam. He said his dad's unit would decapitate VC they killed and put their heads on stakes around the perimiter of their camp. Were never attacked during his time there. He said, "Their ROE was different." No shit!

Excellent story. I had not known or heard of this prior to seeing this. To me, hats off to the ROK soldiers. That is how you prosecute war. Only

my grandpa was a colonel in the ROK Marines, Intelligence Unit (God bless his soul) during the Vietnam War. he often was the one in charge of directing search and destroy mission in areas where he was assigned to.

Big fan! Grandmaster Chu grew up in the Korean war. Taekwondo and Judo champion got the best schools. Graduate young in Judo college. World Judo/Yudo champion and world military Judo champion then off to Vietnam war. Return to join the presidential security special service how ever after the president wife was killed after a fail attempt he and others were dismissed all were punished. Came to America coaching Cumberland university Judo team. Move to chattanooga and I became his life long student Judo/Yudo and Taekwondo. He is very nice man but superhuman on the mat it's unreal!

Skinned alive is crazy

It's almost as if consequences for actions prevents said actions from occuring.