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@thegeneraldog8236

Жыл бұрын

Ok

@capncake8837

Жыл бұрын

Ay, nice.

@wowee_3117

Жыл бұрын

haha.. scharzenegger

@thegeneraldog8236

Жыл бұрын

I love your videos and it’s fun to see it

@davidspencer8373

Жыл бұрын

Like video

I met a tunnel rat once, he had to spend up to a day underground, no paper to write what he saw, a light, knife, and handgun on him

@ShadeRaven222

Жыл бұрын

Hanze in Fargo season 2 was a tunnel rat if you've ever seen the series. He ends up fking everybody up 😆

@azimisyauqieabdulwahab9401

Жыл бұрын

A tunnel rats

@cloutmastermemes2007

Жыл бұрын

@@ShadeRaven222 I mean I’m not surprised lol. If you’re a soldier trained as a tunnel rat you better be tougher than nail and leather! Most tunnel rats were smaller men. I’m talking normally 5”5 and under. If you’re a small man doing tunnel warfare you have to be a badass to survive and fight In extreme close quarters combat like That

@nothanks9503

Жыл бұрын

@@ShadeRaven222same with Thomas Shelby from Peeky Blinders

@arimpact

Жыл бұрын

I mean when you are defending where you lived from a foreign invader like America, what WOULDN’T you do to protect it

My uncle was a tunnel rat and he sadly sufferers terribly from PTSD. He is currently is living in a VA facility, but before then he accumulated a large collection of knives, his main weapon of choice in the tunnels. He is one of the sweetest people I know and I am so thankful to have him be apart of my family.

@manikyum

Жыл бұрын

Do you support what your country did to a foreign country and its citizens during Vietnam

@user03104

Жыл бұрын

@@manikyum no one did that’s why they left💀💀💀

@rasmusjensen588

Жыл бұрын

He's a war demon with no respect to his name, hope he gets the karma treatment of agent orange.

@Coleslaw97

10 ай бұрын

@@rasmusjensen588yeah cause he had all the choice to be there, keep ur mouth shut

@GodAtDribblingMitoma

8 ай бұрын

@@rasmusjensen588what?

I'm a filmmaker currently doing a documentary on Australia's Combat Engineers aka The Tunnel Rats. Some of the stories I've heard and filmed are nothing short of incredible. Over the weekend just gone I interviewed one tunnel rat named George (I'll withhold his last name for now) who was down a tunnel, and they knew it was a "Hot Hole" as they called it because there was a lack of spiders webs. A lot of spiders webs would indicate a "Cold Hole" as they called them. Several metres underground they found a "Letter box" in the wall. Usually a metal tin stuck in a hole in the tunnel wall couriers would drop intel or messages in and would disappear back to another tunnel. As they were trying to get it out of the wall, George was passing his torch to his fellow engineer and it shined on a figure pointing a pistol at them only a few feet away. In the blink of an eye he pulled out his Browning 9mm and fired a shot. The sound almost blew out his eardrums and the smoke in such a small space made it impossible to see anything in front of him so he fired 7 more shots in case there was anyone else behind him. When the smoke cleared and they dragged the VC body out it was a kid about 12 years old who was holding a captured American M1911 .45 however whoever gave it to this kid didn't teach him how to maintain it as the hammer and safety catch were both completely rusted to the body. So the kid was trying to shoot them but couldn't get the gun to fire. George still holds a lot of regret about that day, and has told me in a fascinating interview. Keep a lookout for a documentary called "Holdfast: One Small Step". It's going to be my first feature documentary and it's going to expose a side of the war no one's ever heard before.

My grandfather was a tunnel rat , and a demolition engineer in Vietnam, he has a picture of a giant python he had to kill when he ran into a nest in the tunnel with no light, in the picture the snake is laid out on a tank and is almost as long as the tank itself , really crazy and unimaginable what these brave men must have endured

@ducanhluu2697

Жыл бұрын

brave? more like invaders, hope he suffered in PTSD

@tailongraven4924

Жыл бұрын

I mean thoes Vietnam people really did fight with everything they had , they scheme they hide like Rat and only attack at the vulnerable point

@banditluis

6 ай бұрын

He Vietnamese or American. Either way we thank you’re grandfather for their service no matter on what side. My grandfather was also a veteran but in world war 2.

@tyleranderson8634

6 ай бұрын

@@banditluis he is american , thank you to you and your grandfather

@neashton1904

2 ай бұрын

My grandmothers first husband and my aunt’s father was a long range reconnaissance fighter, he signed up and recruited to serve instead of many that where protesting and trying to get out of serving that got drafted anyways. He and his team of six were moving through the jungle and his friend got shot so he strayed from his team to move his friend ( so his friend could die in peace) and he rejoined with his team because they were gonna get evaluated, and he was leading them and he stepped onto a land mine and he knew he would die. He left behind a wife and a child that would never know him.

My uncle was a tunnel rat. He's still horrified by the things he has done. He had severe PSTD. Now, he has an ongoing battle with cancer because of agent orange.

@samkangal8428

Жыл бұрын

I wish the politicians would suffer the same.

@jamesboone3678

Жыл бұрын

@@samkangal8428 me too

@ottorahn69

Жыл бұрын

Karma

@samkangal8428

Жыл бұрын

@@ottorahn69 Karma don‘t exists.

@Ontiming2023

Жыл бұрын

An he’s a murderer went to poor nations to kill people who barely have shoes an let the wyte supremacist tell him a illogical reason there was no logical reason for you to go to Vietnam an kill poor people

In the military there's a lot of ego and competition. The tunnel rats enjoyed their notoriety as the biggest badasses of the war.

@GOWvMatchstick

Жыл бұрын

Most likely yeah. Individualism is hard to come by in the military so take what you can get

@heartsandmindswarhistory

Жыл бұрын

@LoveTheLordofAllWorldsRunner sounds like a tough gig for sure. But I think the tunnel rats have the bigger reputation. Crawling down a hole in the ground filled with dangerous things goes against every human instict. They were legends.

@hairyballs089

Жыл бұрын

Yup, keep stroking the ego of the dummies of the unit so they keep doing the dangerous stuff.

@heartsandmindswarhistory

Жыл бұрын

@@hairyballs089 you're disrespectful and incorrect. If you sent your worst person down the tunnels and they were killed or injured then you spend the whole day trying to recover them. Most of the tunnel rats were elite

@heartsandmindswarhistory

Жыл бұрын

@LoveTheLordofAllWorlds yes runner is a dangerous job as well. I did read that Hitler was a runner and won some medals for bravery. Shame he wasn't killed in WW1. Absolutely, the tiny tunnels were built for small, thin people. Going into the tunnels hits most of humans' main phobias: claustrophobia, being buried alive, snakes, spiders, the dark, and humans with weapons trying to kill you. Huge respect to all the veterans.

I help out a veteran Coast Guard PT boat gunner that I befriended. he told me, "The rivers were filled with the chemicals we dropped, then we would boil the water in lead tanks for drinking. We had no idea what was happening." He has had multiple cancer diagnoses and has to uses an oxygen tank. He has 5 kids that are in their late 20s and 30s, I remember when I was 13 and he told me the only thing he wanted was to see his youngest daughter finish nursing school. Damn guy is to stubborn to die and I love him

@matthewmccoy7437

Жыл бұрын

after reading this i pictured a man looking the grim reaper dead in the face saying “‘she hasn’t finished nursing school.” and the reaper saying “alright sir just call me when you’re ready” lol. hope he’s doing well!

2:41 I love the reference to that scene in Call of Duty Black Ops where that character called Swift gets suddenly killed by a Vietcong

@ghillieninja4596

Жыл бұрын

Or at 11:53 love that reference to that scene with woods and mason playing Russian rolet when bowman died

@RD-tb7dk

Жыл бұрын

@@ghillieninja4596 you ever see The Deer Hunter? Really good war movie from the 70s based on Vietnam. Had a POW Russian roulette scene which I believe is what inspired the scene in Black Ops.

@GOWvMatchstick

Жыл бұрын

They do stuff like that a lot

@sneakerreview4397

Жыл бұрын

Swift got killed because he let his guard down for one second, that just goes to show how sharp you had to be while being in them tunnels, you couldn’t pay me to go in those tunnels, not even for 30 seconds

"The regular troops would almost shy off the path when they passed the Lurp's quarters. No matted how toughened up they became, they still looked innocent compared to the Lurps". - Dispatches by Herr.

@cloutmastermemes2007

Жыл бұрын

Why did the shy away I’m confused. I understand lrrps would do recon and fighting in enemy territory but I still don’t understand

@heartsandmindswarhistory

Жыл бұрын

@@cloutmastermemes2007 the war correspondent Michael Herr who wrote that quote is saying the regular troops were intimidated by the Lurps. They were the toughest, they saw the most action, they 'interrogated' prisoners in their quarters. They were scary dudes basically, according to Michael Herr. Same reason you might shy away from a biker gang or any other group of scary dudes.

I've heard some absolutely batshit insane stories from former LRRPs. The missions they got sent on were nothing short of ludicrous. Absolute badasses. You should still be able to find documentaries about them on youtube.

@JeromeandTyrone

Жыл бұрын

Was Rambo a LRRP? 😃

@whiterabit09

Жыл бұрын

I think he was definitely written as one...

@tac5780

Жыл бұрын

@@JeromeandTyrone no, MACV-SOG, they were part of army SF, they did classified missions across the borders into Laos, Cambodia and North Vietnam, it was often 6 MACV-SOG operators inserting into areas with thousands of NVA to conduct multiple types of operations, they were basically lrrps but on steroids

@arifhariman1129

Жыл бұрын

I dont think theres any badasses in war. No one wanted to be in a war

@phyo1716

Жыл бұрын

Were LRRPs rangers?

I'm so thankful my dad was not able to fight in Vietnam. He enlisted in spring of 1968, right after graduating high school, but found out that he has atrial fibrillation. While the condition hasn't really affected his life as a civilian, I can see why it could be a serious problem in war.

The agent orange was a fail. And shoulda never been used on anyone

@heartsandmindswarhistory

Жыл бұрын

It was horrific. JFK started it in 1962. He doesn't get as much blame as he should for Vietnam.

@darkonojic7494

Жыл бұрын

Do you support Ukraine?

@chrisholder4978

Жыл бұрын

It wasnt used on people so to speak. It was used on plant growth and cover.

@T-REXMACHINEGUN

Жыл бұрын

It's wasn't meant for people just people happened to be where it was dropped

@harmlessratz7151

Жыл бұрын

And yet ppl died and still suffer from it.

I had a neighbor that was a medic during Tet. He told me that when it kicked off, they didn't realize what was going on because it felt like any other day. He was also in the field with the infantry. I had another neighbor that was a pencil pusher in the green zone during Tet. That was the only time he had to fight during the war and he cannot touch a gun because it was so traumatic for him. I also met a guy that was exposed to Agent orange and his life is a mess because of it.

@Krspy2

Жыл бұрын

Agent Orange was terrible. My grandpa ultimately died from it after 1 liver transplant while waiting for a 2nd donor (after fighting for years for his benefits). RIP Walter Velez

@scotty9294

Жыл бұрын

💔

@bigsmall246

Жыл бұрын

@@Krspy2 loads of vietnamese got deformed kids thanks to it, on top of having their bodies destroyed

"I knew one 4th division Lurp who took his pills by the fistfull, downs fom the left pocket and ups from the right, one to cut the trail for him and the other to send him down it" - Dispatches by Herr.

@bradmoberly6164

Жыл бұрын

Poetic but true

@conorhoney7776

Жыл бұрын

That's heavy

My dad was in Nam. Every night around 9 PM the lights would suddenly go dim at his artillery battery position. The VC had tapped into the generators and were turning on the lights in the their tunnel system every night. Once the tunnel was discovered they found everything from a hospital to livestock pens.

Imagine a videogame in which you are a Tunnel rat, that would be very horrific

@shrimpbadgids

Жыл бұрын

The first black ops you got do try a bit of it, and in rising storm viteman you get lots of chances to try it!

@ViroRads

Жыл бұрын

@@shrimpbadgids yeah forgot about RS-Vietnam, pretty good game

@fredslegacygames6157

Жыл бұрын

@@shrimpbadgids did you notice the bo1 reference when they where talking about Larps

@Redxxxkiller

Жыл бұрын

There actually is, its called Vietcong, from one Czech studio. Its abandonware so you cannot buy it anywhere legally

@levankhachidze3030

Жыл бұрын

@@Redxxxkiller yes i remember those missions was hard as f and also so much claustrophobic even though its a videogame

Its quite amazing how the tunnel rats would be able to move around with the massive weight of their balls

@patrickgjorven7832

Жыл бұрын

I know right!

@seamuffin_

Жыл бұрын

And size

@dukeon

Жыл бұрын

Balls alone weighed 100 lbs

Call of Duty Black Ops reference @ 2:42 . This is when Swift dies and you only have a pistol on the mission "Victor Charlie". Nice work!!

@user-pl7ec3ms8l

Жыл бұрын

Saw it too

@panelaashigaryuuko

Жыл бұрын

On 12:00 there is reference too. RIP Bowman.

Gotta love simple history ❤️

@chrisholder4978

Жыл бұрын

Nothing simple about it

Love your channel, keep up the good work

Between simple history and Arm chair historian im wondering if you two purposely released Vietnam vids at the same time

@heartsandmindswarhistory

Жыл бұрын

We can never have too much Vietnam content 😁. "Our first rock-and-roll war, stoned murder" - NY Times.

I'm glad this Is a new video with new information. I thought at first it was just another compilation of old videos stitched together. I've been seeing / skipping a lot of those uploads lately.

My grandfather served as an MP during Vietnam, he was put on convoy guard duty all the time. Only thing that saved them was the gun trucks and V100 armored cars

Agent Orange: Almost as toxic as the water at Camp Lejeune.

@aboveblazin

Жыл бұрын

Underrated comment

My grandmother told me a story about my great grandfather who is a team leader of the tunnel diggers, his tunnels saved many villagers and included my grandmother but when the Tunnel Rats coming in his tunnels, he shouts "Chuột!" means "Rats" in Vietnamese so then he saved some of his comrades (Others died trying to protect) and the villagers are taking shelter after a small fight before the Tunnel Rats exploded the tunnels

@903strikerunit

Жыл бұрын

A Vietnamese brony? Telling a story of his ancestors killing Americans..... Sus....

@307180740

Жыл бұрын

Always good to hear stories involving murican casualties.

@ngthanhphong8537

Жыл бұрын

@@903strikerunit Hah rare thing to see right? But still i just proud of our country to grow something better and peaceful than holding hatred past, we always remember our histories, always forgive our enemies and move on to build our future better

@XantheFIN

Жыл бұрын

Its always interesting see and hear on from other side what is the meaning all of. Anyway i wish best to you over there. Sorry (though i can't apology honestly over it) that this turned out to be more political reasons for the war than any other... when i did check what was the reasons for the start of the war by USA.

@brendonkim7466

Жыл бұрын

@@307180740 you always like to hear of people becoming casualties? You probably need professional help

Your sponsors are the only ones I never skip, I love how you put effort into them lol

Larry Hama is one of the founding creators of the original G.I.JOE A Real American Hero comics, he is also a Japanese-American Vietnam veteran. In 1987, Hasbro the toy company that owns GIJOE honored Hama by creating a character based on his likeness, his character is the G.I.Joe team's EOD/infiltration soldier, Tunnel Rat.

@patrickgjorven7832

Жыл бұрын

Very cool!

@amadeusagripino6862

Жыл бұрын

Larry Hama, the comics writer? I used to like his run on Wolverine back in the 90's.

@bradmoberly6164

Жыл бұрын

One of my favorite figs

@princessmarlena1359

Жыл бұрын

Tunnel Rat is awesome, as is Larry Hama.

Awesome Video! Happy Holidays!

Hey simple history, I love your videos by chance could you make more videos on war on the pacific (ww2) i really enjoy your videos and if you read this, keep up the good work 👍

My Uncle Ronnie served in Vietnam after lying about his age. He served as a tunnel rat for 2 tours. Ended up being sent home after he was the only guy to survive a truck explosion thankfully with only a piece of shrapnel in his leg to remember it by. He doesn't really talk about it past that.

@SteviesDistrict

Жыл бұрын

If he has only talked about it once, you know its real.

You got to love the Russian Roulette scene, a node to "the deer hunter".

@NX6.2

Жыл бұрын

More of a nod than a node.

@Joe5561000

Жыл бұрын

@@NX6.2 Thank you, I have always struggled with spelling. Thank God for spell check..

I love how you showed the tunnel scene from blacks ops 1. I'll never forget swift....

Love the black ops references in such an informative video

My dad was a LRRP and he suffered problems from Agent Orange. Both my uncles served one in the Corp one in the Navy. RIP to my uncles. There was not a man who served who saw combat and was ever the same again. They sacrificed more than we would ever know. May GOD bless them!

Love the Call of Duty Black Ops campaign references, very well done.

@rafegl4313

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, especially that russian roulette reminds me about cod black ops

awesome video dude

I stand corrected. Awesome:) y'all had me worried there for a minute lol

It’s traumatizing to imagine things that soldiers on both sides had to face with. There is a novel called “War Sadness” by Bao Ninh, tells about a former NVA soldier who has to face with post-war mental problems. The war ended 50 years ago, people are now welcome and forgive the things that American caused to our country.

I will never forget my neighbor's stories of being a tunnel rat. Growing up he taught me military techniques and ham radio operations from his wheel chair. Lost his legs over there. Wonder if he is still with us. I should try to find him.

Great Video!!!!!!!!

Nice video got alotta views fast, people love vietnam stories.

These videos are extremely well made!

11:53 Play! You can't kill me!!!!! You shoot G.I You shoot! I really like those references to Black Ops and many more things you make in your Videos keep it up 👌

@ghillieninja4596

Жыл бұрын

Fr amazing

@annguyenngoc9977

Жыл бұрын

no, friend lich Viet Cong didn't play that game, that's not true it was the filmmakers who put this fake detail, it's a metaphor for surviving the war like a game of luck

I've known tunnel rats and I've known reconnaissance rangers my great-uncle was a reconnaissance ranger that had died over in Vietnam or I should say Southeast Asia these soldiers need not to be forgotten for what they did was something quite extraordinary in too many of them had treated like scum because of a few and the leadership that they had

@sponge671

Жыл бұрын

Wdym South East Asia?

@crf80fdarkdays

Жыл бұрын

@@sponge671 he's possibly referring to the fact that it wasn't just Nam' America was in

@chrisholder4978

Жыл бұрын

Use proper punctuation. You just typed the longest run-on sentence I have ever seen/ read.

@patheticbread6861

Жыл бұрын

@@chrisholder4978 literally who cares?

@ottorahn69

Жыл бұрын

They raped and committed genocide.

My Grandad was in the Navy on the USS Brush, and at one point, Vietnamese parents sent their children to soldiers with bombs and other explosives. He was instructed to be a part of the firing squad that executed them, since there was no safe way to defuse the explosives. I believe this was one of the events of the war that developed PTSD for him, and I don’t blame him, since it was such a dangerous job and a traumatizing experience for him.

@longha3892

Жыл бұрын

You guys go to ours country, even kid want to protect country. We just give what they deserve

@nguoisaohoa6410

Жыл бұрын

​@@longha3892 that is just Abuse And raising seed on the kids mind tbh As a vietnamese myself i dont feel proud

@maxfrankow1238

11 ай бұрын

@@longha3892Kids should always be off limits. Consider yourself lucky friend.

Can you talk about the MAC V SOG in the next time please? I think a lot of people want to hear about it.

@aaronjust5862

Жыл бұрын

Or Carlos Hathcock would be a good one

@rosaria8384

Жыл бұрын

@@aaronjust5862 they have already made a video about Hathcock

I’m so sorry to all the soldiers and civilians caught up in this war on both sides. Agent Orange and Napalm should never have been used. I’m really sorry to all American troops who were forced to fight, not because they wanted to but because their country asked them. Thank you for your service. And to the Vietnamese soldiers and civilians caught up in this war just trying to defend their life style from the American government who didn’t care about keeping the Vietnamese civilians safe but just cared about stopping communism.

@Ontiming2023

Жыл бұрын

An he’s a murderer went to poor nations to kill people who barely have shoes an let the wyte supremacist tell him a illogical reason there was no logical reason for you to go to Vietnam an kill poor people

@dude9318

Жыл бұрын

Yeah

@mikesiciliano210

Жыл бұрын

The US only went into Vietnam to defend South Vietnam. It was the North Vietnamese who attacked South Vietnam. The US military were invited guests of South Vietnam. No need to apologize.

@Ontiming2023

Жыл бұрын

@@mikesiciliano210 an who gave people in jungles all these sophisticated technology like tanks an guns they cant invade a country without those so where is an who supplied those for them to start there invasion to fight an attack each other answer the question sir

@DissAeon

Жыл бұрын

@@mikesiciliano210 No goverment goes to war without gaining something worth the costs.

I love the random scene from The Deer Hunter thrown in.

2:38 every cod player having flashbacks

This whole time, I thought Agent orange was an explosive.

@christianterrill3503

Жыл бұрын

Lol nope it's a chemical used to kill plants. That's why so many soldiers were exposed and had issue with it. They just sprayed it and stored it like it was harmless it most certainly was not harmless.

@PNJB_R

Жыл бұрын

@@christianterrill3503 Those poor Vietnamese soldiers just defending their country like Ukraine and Afghanistan.

@thelonewanderer2550

Жыл бұрын

​@@PNJB_Rshut up

@Doi-

Жыл бұрын

@@PNJB_R not... exactly. They were divided and then guided to kill each other for the political ideals of two superpowers, it's actually similar to what happened to all of Arabia.

@MrMisterDerp

Жыл бұрын

@@PNJB_R please learn history before spewing crap like this

2:32 I like the black ops reference from the rat tunnel level

Love the Black Ops animation as a reference

I could never be a tunnel rat. I would mentally break down.

@LIONTAMER3D

Жыл бұрын

black & latino servicemen were overwhelmingly selected for tunnel work. the pentagon did not deny the aggregate truth, they also didn't bother explaining to the press or public why that was the case.

@ghyzig

Жыл бұрын

It is understandable that the work of a tunnel rat, or someone who spends long periods of time underground, can be challenging and demanding. Working in confined or underground spaces can be physically and mentally demanding, and it is important to be prepared and equipped to handle the challenges that may arise. If you are concerned about your ability to handle the demands of a particular job or activity, it is important to consider your own limitations and to seek guidance and support as needed. It is always important to prioritize your own physical and mental well-being, and to seek help if you are experiencing stress or other difficulties.

@HauyneX

Жыл бұрын

Bet

@heartsandmindswarhistory

Жыл бұрын

@@LIONTAMER3D that's incorrect. Most tunnel rats were short and thin. They were mostly white, and also a lot of Hispanics. Hispanics were overrepresented as tunnel rats, blacks were underrepresented. Often the tunnel rats were volunteers and received an extra $5/month hazard pay. Source: Mangold and Penycate, The Tunnels of Cu Chi

@Ghost-vi8qm

Жыл бұрын

Americans and there focus on races 🤦🏻‍♂️

I always be amazed by how many CoD references are put in these videos

I love how all these little scenes are from Black ops 1. The tunnel rat, the russian roulette and so on lol

Love seeing the SKS

2:40 cod black ops 👌

It wasn't the Americans that first discovered the tunnels that's absolute crap!! The Australians were the true Tunnel Rats of the Vietnam war and were the first to discover them. The US brass refused to accept the massive tunnels at Cu Chi the Australians had discovered and started mapping even existed. My Father was one of these men. 3 Field Troop of the Royal Australian Engineers were the men who fought in and mapped these tunnels and discovered their true size, of 40km of tunnels holding over 3000 men with field hospitals and ammo storages. There is a book written about these men It's called "No Need For Hero's" written by Sandy MacGregor, the commander of the unit. Great book about real hero's!! No one used a torch that was plain suicide!! It was darkness and a rope tied to your legs to pull you out. They did have torches but only used if they were contacted even then it was stupid as they knew where you were. The book shows how it was all done with drawings of the booby traps and ambush points they had!! 1RAR and the Combat Engineers attached from 3 Field Troop were the one who did this. Sick to death of Americans saying they were the ones who did everything.

@njones420

Жыл бұрын

Welcome to American "history" ;)

@97Crazysteve

Жыл бұрын

It's the American's *perspective* . Pretty much every war in history will be told differently by each side. Take something like World War 2 for example, if you just learned about it from the Japanese or German perspectives it would probably seem like a completely different conflict.

The animations are so much more immersive

That’s BlackOps reference was much appreciated

my mom was born a year after the war 😢 the whole Vietnam was poor my mom moved to Sweden to have a better life i hope you guys had a great life unlike my mom ty

My grandpa was a LRRP team leader in Vietnam. He is a crazy guy.

@rasmusjensen588

Жыл бұрын

He's a war demon with no respect to his name, hope he gets the karma treatment of agent orange.

There’s a great podcast by Jocko, he interviews a SOG guy, very interesting and amazing what they went through. Episode 118-120 if I am not mistaken

Can there be a dedicated videos about ARVN troops ?

I remember an old Pc game called "Vietcong" and some of the scenarios was clearing vietcong tunnels as a tunnel rat.

Vietnam truly was horrible the soliders had ptsd and lifealtering injuries afterwards, not only that but also agent orange which destroyed soliders lungs and hurt plants, truly horrible

@TankieC

Жыл бұрын

🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳

@sovietfederation9738

Жыл бұрын

A war that was only pursed because of politicians during that time

@terryhurtado8852

Жыл бұрын

@@sovietfederation9738 and the media same with iraq, then they paint anyone against the war as soviets. they pretend to be them on social media with silly usernames a real soviet would never use.

@sovietfederation9738

Жыл бұрын

@@terryhurtado8852 unfortunately nothing will ever change with people like them in power all we can do now is hope for both nations

@sovietfederation9738

Жыл бұрын

@@terryhurtado8852 it’s always the same response to any type of idea or reform in the US

The spraying of chems to destroy the jungles, was evidense of the lunacy of that war.

They also used a Winchester shotgun with a short barrel while clearing them tunnels.

Imagine that .45 going off in a tunnel

@DankAk-47

Жыл бұрын

You’d probably want to use the knife after that ears would bleed

The way the VC killed that guy gives me Call of Duty BO1 flashbacks. Poor Swift.

we need a separate video of the macv sog

RIP Swift

I haven't seen anyone talk about bulldozer drivers but my grandfather was one and every other Vietnam that I have talked to said that he had the most dangerous job being where he was he was the front most dozer operator on highway 1 and told me about everyday he was taking incoming fire while trying to do his job just like a big Target in the middle of the jungle on that piece of heavy equipment he got a purple heart when he ran over I land mine and the dozer rolled over on top of him pinning him to the ground for 2 hours and putting shrapnel in his skull

Omg i love the black ops game references

Thank u😊

6:07 VC: "HA! We broke the seal!" U.S.: What.

Worst jobs of the Vietnam War. Just fighting in vietnam

The thing about the tunnel rats is that they were mostly comprised of ethnic minorities. Americans are very tall compared to Vietnamese, and a lot of the American soldiers couldn't fit in the tunnels. Luckily for the Americans, they had an ethnic group that was short enough to infiltrate the tunnels. Most of the tunnel rats were of Puerto Rican and European descent. As a Puerto Rican myself, I honor the bravery and sacrifice of my people. I hope that one day, the rest of the mainland recognizes us as not just their backdoor playground, but as something bigger than that.

I used to play a browser game about the LURPs it was called mud and blood:recon a real-time strategy/action game which was painfully brutal.

Wasn't there a guy on G.I. Joe that was called, Tunnel Rat? The fictional zombie-making chemical, 2-4-5 Trioxin, from the movie, Return of the Living Dead was based on the chemicals like Agent Orange.

I'm curious. The only .45 I know of issued in Viet Nam was the 1911 .45 ACP, yet every illustration you used in the tunnel rat section was of a revolver.

@jamesthompson3023

Жыл бұрын

I think they used both and a lot of guys had different pistols sent to them from home or something they found like there gun if last resort

@mryeastmanmcyeast104

Жыл бұрын

@@jamesthompson3023 yes they had firearms sent from home because the 1911 was too loud in the tunnels I think. Not for sure on this though

@paleoph6168

Жыл бұрын

Tunnel rats were usually issued a .45 ACP M1917 revolver or an M1911A1 pistol, but there some cases where .38 caliber revolvers and High Standard .22 pistols equipped with a suppressor were used instead.

@gbonkers666

Жыл бұрын

Smith and Wesson even modified a special revolver--.38 caliber and put a silencer on it...because the TRs quickly found that the .45 had a loud BANG which echoed throughout the enclosed spaces almost deafening them.

I am a big fan of this chain yeah

3:05 that guy right there, is a *master* whistler!!

I know a guy who was a tunnel rat, he can barely hear and he was messed up, poor guy

@heartsandmindswarhistory

Жыл бұрын

💔

@rasmusjensen588

Жыл бұрын

He's a war demon with no respect to his name, hope he gets the karma treatment of agent orange.

@willk9028

Жыл бұрын

@@rasmusjensen588 no my friend you’re mistaken. The guy I know didn’t want to be a tunnel rat at all. He didn’t want to be in the war, he was drafted. He’s a victim too

Those tunnel rats must suffer from PTSD now.

@ottorahn69

Жыл бұрын

Good.

@rasmusjensen588

Жыл бұрын

PTSD and cancer. The can just thank their country and government

Love the black ops refrance

arnold be growing fast

Remember to Thank the Vietnam Vet. Also please inform them of the New Policy for Agent Orange Exposure. This is help Veterans get the help they need. I encourage you to help our veterans in informing them.

Great video

cool to know

Y’all should do a story on the Navy Seawolves. They were the best helicopter attack squadron in the war.

“I cut my teeth in the trenches of the Somme, you larped your Santa Claus butt to Vietnam!” JRR Tolkien

@laststarfighter5335

Жыл бұрын

George is such a pirate, even stole the "R.R."

@heartsandmindswarhistory

Жыл бұрын

'In war, there are no unwounded soldiers' 💔. WW1 and Vietnam were so different, it's hard to compare them fairly. In Vietnam they didn't know who their enemy was, such a high % of deaths were accidentally killing women and children. It looks like it was very challenging to say the least.

The guy I worked with Sony was a rat gained a herion addiction because things he saw and experienced. Great guy. Horrible thing he went through.

The Aussie SAS was doing the silent long range patrols all the time. They went out for a month at a time and never spoke or made a sound.

Next do The Korean War!

Tunnel Rat COD Black Ops Easter egg

@xxstephxx1005

Жыл бұрын

As well as the Russian roulette with the two guys at the table

@heartsandmindswarhistory

Жыл бұрын

@@xxstephxx1005 is that made up idea from The Deer Hunter in the game? Thats disappointing given it never happened.

@Jimmy2003MLPFIM

Жыл бұрын

Viktor Reznvo was there

“Some folks are born, made to wave the flag. Ooh they’re red, white, blue.” CCR

My buddies father was a green beret and did LRRP and still to this day he's not all there I haven't seen him in a while he's lost alot the past few years

0:33 That scene is a straight nod to Black Ops 1 😎