I’ll never forget my 8th grade report on Vietnam. I had to interview a vet and the last question I had to ask was “how would you have solved the war?”. I interviewed a Bishop in a local Christian religion. And I was taken aback to hear his answer; “I would have put all the South Vietnamese into boats and take them out to the sea. Then nuke the entire country into oblivion. Then sink the boats.” And I could see he was dead serious. I’m sure you can guess as an 8th grader, I had no idea what to say next. But I have never forgot how serious he was and what that taught me about the effect of that war on the men whole fought.
@maxfrankow1238Ай бұрын
This looks like hell on earth.
@SilvioLopez-kh7xy2 ай бұрын
Recuero el servicio militar enNicaragua....aqui ningun bando sale ganando ......solo queda ..remordimiento....y llanto...
@Matthew-sw4ie2 ай бұрын
God bless the draft dodgers who made the right decision not to be a baby killer
@dwightkline39915 ай бұрын
I was at the theater when this movie was came out. There was two guy's the right age and right after this scene they got up and walked out. They had their memory jogged. Everyone I knew that was there said it sucked and there was no reason to be there.
@MIZUHOKAWASIMA6 ай бұрын
Great KZread⛑Thank you Very Much💐Muchísimas Gracias⛑ ❖ INTERNATIONAL METROPOLIS JAPAN ❖ From Western Pacific Ocean🌏
@MarioSolis-bx3rl7 ай бұрын
Horror solo fue horror y muerte
@user-eq5ng4gj8j7 ай бұрын
Yes all the Viet Nam movies is so real. I t brings back the times when I was in Vietnam. I was there in 1971 & 1972. I was on recon and I end up got a medical discharge . I was told I would not be able to perform my duties. I am get 100% total disability and I get my retirement check to. If I could I would go back to Nam in a heart best. I got PTSD and Agent Orange now. No man left behind.
@brendanmcdonnell74839 ай бұрын
When men were menand not pussies nowadays, not you obviously as only real men look at these clips.
@richardd50099 ай бұрын
That last guy who passes taylor is a ghost
@FlaviomarianoLolo10 ай бұрын
Português
@wipe310011 ай бұрын
3:35 Note how Elias is a christ figure already...
@Joe-bw2ew Жыл бұрын
I was told. The first thing that hits you in the face, is the HEAT of Vietnam. Takes days to get used to it
@Joe-bw2ew Жыл бұрын
Orion made some great movies. Now,theyre GONE
@williambair2633 Жыл бұрын
I knew this movie was going to be epic the first time I saw it just from the opening scene and the musical score in the background.
@shelleyharris9349 Жыл бұрын
Audy Murphy
@shelleyharris9349 Жыл бұрын
Gut Wrenching
@gavinmasterson8202 Жыл бұрын
❤️🔥🙌
@MadMamluk88 Жыл бұрын
3:16 I think that was a blooper that ended up making the cut
@user-lz1um6ho8i Жыл бұрын
Escelente pelicula
@LizardSkin Жыл бұрын
Good god. Pure chills. 2:26 you’re transported to an evening foot patrol in Vietnam in 1967…. You feel the humidity and wetness as they slog up steep terrain in full combat load. The green is these scenes is hypnotic to look at. This movie is art. Lets all be glad we were never in those situations. Nothin but pure respect to those guys.
@lovatog14 Жыл бұрын
Agreed, I can't imagine how it must have felt to be a 18 or 19 yr old kid, getting plucked out of your hometown and sent halfway around the world into a hostile jungle environment. My father got his draft notice the same day he graduated from high school.
@LizardSkin Жыл бұрын
@@lovatog14 for a YEAR… been on a 9 month deployment and it felt like eternity. These guys must have been so happy to go home
@Beemer917 Жыл бұрын
When Charlie Sees that totally used up Marine getting onto the aircraft to go home at the beginning of the movie. That Marine looks just like this old Vietnam Marine I knew back in Pennsylvania name Lou Mercurie. He was a really good guy but he had some pretty serious agent orange problems. He could never sleep then he would go out for these 5-mile walks in the middle of the night. I would see him at work the next day and he just be all bright and chipper eating these giant peanut butter and jelly sandwiches that contained about a half a jar of peanut butter and a half and Jar of jelly on each one. I said you go for a walk last night Lou?, he'd say oh yeah every night. We were making missile parts for a place called Allegheny air ballistics. He ran a deburring bench. He was a good man and a good Marine. I hope he's still alive ,this was in 95. Semper Fi Lou.
@gemstonehiphop Жыл бұрын
the stare between the guy going home and charlie speaks volumes. this is one of my favorite movies. what a story.
@katherinegates1559 Жыл бұрын
🇺🇲❤️🇺🇲 Lost my first love in 1968 at the age of 20yrs old in Vietnam...Never will be Forgotten.🇺🇲
@Mad-id5vb1kl9j Жыл бұрын
Your boyfriend death in vietnam ? Oh my god
@hawk66100 Жыл бұрын
I’m sorry. 😢
@Mad-id5vb1kl9j Жыл бұрын
@@hawk66100 What's you boyfriend name?
@hawk66100 Жыл бұрын
@@Mad-id5vb1kl9j I’m a heterosexual male. I was talking to the OP.
@afveteran5 ай бұрын
My condolences for youur loss and his family son. Me: USAF 1968, Vietnam 69-70.
@balung Жыл бұрын
Why did he say, 65 and a wake up? How, long was a Tour of Duty for those conscripted guys?
@charliep513911 ай бұрын
he said three hundred and sixty-five and a wake up. Standard tour of duty for army was 12 months and 13 for the marines.
@stanleydubois7117 Жыл бұрын
Charlie sheen even does to much gear
@armymenbrazil7798 Жыл бұрын
Fiz platoon com soldadinhos de plástico em stop motion
@leonardopinel9452 Жыл бұрын
Danto.88 Nicaragua Bocay Operacion contra 50.000 terroristas de la CIA.
@alvinhadiyanto7326 Жыл бұрын
My daily life in the office
@josephortiz4826 Жыл бұрын
“You dudes gonna love the Nam....for fucking ever “
@hanhanlon4441 Жыл бұрын
I like the opening, but would they really have rolled in corpses in body bags at the same time as new men were arriving in country?
@thosegirlswannaseeyouwiggl62432 жыл бұрын
3:31
@Ulyssestnt2 жыл бұрын
They had to do 12 months and that was it,in the GWOT we did multiple 12 to 16 deployments if you were unlucky 6-7 months multiples if you were.
@balung Жыл бұрын
What does GWOT stand for? Whats 65 and a wake up? How long is that?
@Ulyssestnt Жыл бұрын
@@balung "365 and a wake up" is a vietnam era way of referring to how long you had left in your deployment in vietnam as people often rotated trough units with a lot of turnover,especially combat arms units.(365 would indicate you had the entire 12 months..65 would mean your were 300 days in ). GWOT is the modern "global war on terror."
@charliep513911 ай бұрын
To be fair, the military in the GWOT is an all volunteer force vs the US Army (and the Marines to a much smaller extent) was a draft army. True, most soldiers that fought in Vietnam were volunteer (about 2 out of every 3 were volunteer), but many "volunteered" because of the draft. For instance, one vet said that no one would hire him because they were afraid he would get drafted as soon as he was trained at the job. Joining the army or marines gave you a higher chance of potentially getting into a non combat specialty and being in the army gave you a shorter overall service obligation with being in the AF and Navy being four years and the Marines or Army being two years or less.
@Ulyssestnt11 ай бұрын
@@charliep5139 Fair enough. It only serves to highlight the boomers were really not protesting for peace but for not being drafted. As soon as the draft went away they couldn't care less.
@breakingpointvideos19952 жыл бұрын
Video of the real 25th Infantry in Vietnam '67-'68: kzread.info/dash/bejne/m6SIw5hwds67XbA.html
@hawkinatorgamer97252 жыл бұрын
The look of that soldier when he catched Chris(Taylors) eyes. That is a real look. Empty, hollow, seeing right through you. I saw it my first tour by a soldier much younger than me, but he had seen alot. It looked like he was looking beyond me when he looked at me. It was like I was not there, and he was just looking past me. He saw two of his brothers(fellow soldiers) get killed by an EFP and he was in the same guntruck, he just survived. His eyes told the story, he was a broken man and always will be. NOTHING will fix him ever again. That is what war does, it kills and it breaks survivors mentally. We will never be the same person after. It sucks, it sucks bad.
@hawkinatorgamer9725 Жыл бұрын
@Jody Schmuckatelli Sorry you have to go through that brother. I know exactly what you mean. My tours were not too bad, but it was enough that I will never be the same. It feels like yesterday, it feels like a lifetime ago.
@afveteran5 ай бұрын
Welcome home brother, , USAF perimeter guard, Cam Ranh Bay airbase, 69-70. I go my cherry busted, Febuary, 70. Had duty across from Don Ba Thin, heard funny buzzing sound. Called it. the CP said do not fire. I could see the fucking local VC. .. They sent me to Pleiku airbase, March 70, same shit. The USAF didn't teach us shit about tactics. Or when NVA snipers firing green tracer rounds on my position. Laying down in the tower and glanced up and see green tracers rounds fucking up everything. No body came out to see how I was... fucking AF assholes.
@hawkinatorgamer97255 ай бұрын
Thank you brother, Welcome home to you as well. I have tons of respect for Vietnam Veterans, I cannot begin to imagine. It is shameful how yall were treated. @@afveteran
@afveteran5 ай бұрын
Thank you, some of us are on our 5th try. They turn me down again just recently. Waiting to hear the outcome for PTSD, and BHP prostate. Some brother vets say keep trying! Me: this is it. I'll be 75 in July and have to deal with this shit? No way.I produced a documentary about the 25th Anniversary of Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Anniversary. Posted here is 1st volume. Thanks and enjoy life! @@hawkinatorgamer9725
@ggrunt37922 жыл бұрын
Alpha 1/9 Marines “WalkingDead”on operation Dewey Canyon in the A Shau valley in the winter of 69 the jungle smelled of slow death of malaria nightmares 0331 PH Feb18
@bill29532 жыл бұрын
We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves" LBJ
@dogtownoon97912 жыл бұрын
What a classic intro
@timothyjohnson75082 жыл бұрын
I wish I'd have served I love this country!!
@ElectricStrider12 жыл бұрын
Major foreshadowing in this opening sequence. Taylor catches a glimpse of his future self. Gardner points to the body bags, which he will end up in. Elias holding up the M-60 like a cross - A Christ-like martyr figure. The senior military man asking if Wolfe has encompassed trouble AGAIN? This foreshadows his incompetence and weakness. Damn, so much to absorb from an opening scene.
@stevepirie81302 жыл бұрын
Another detail is when patrolling he flexes his fingers as those first few days in the field your fingertips ache like mad from all the excess work you’re not used to. I always found the skin withdraws from your nails letting dirt in and causes more pain until you get used to the digging and carrying.
@davidgiles9132 жыл бұрын
I arrived in Saigon and flew into Pleiku on c 130. Just like movie.
@markwright39062 жыл бұрын
Your going to love the nam for fucking ever I love the radio chatter
@dialatutor20052 жыл бұрын
Zombie Vet looking at himself in the past. Cherry Vet looking at himself in the future. 2:12
@dialatutor20052 жыл бұрын
I'll be dipped in shit...
@josemarmolfernandez66552 жыл бұрын
ustedes tuvisteis mas suerte yo deserte por no poder entrar en la legión y me hice vagabundo leche pantera unnnnnnnnnnnnn que bueno
@TRockett55IRISH2 жыл бұрын
One of the most powerful opening scenes in movie history .
@nealfry22302 жыл бұрын
" Happy ST. Patrick's Day Mom & Dad "
@Fastbikkel2 жыл бұрын
The 80's were about vietnam movies, among other things of course. I saw this film a bit too young of age. The scene of the vietnamese boy who had to dance at the mercy of this u.s. soldier, and what eventually happened, haunted me for a while.
@barrynewman44562 жыл бұрын
How could one platoon have so many fuck ups in it ?
@garyjenkins25002 жыл бұрын
Myself as well. Haunting sometimes. It never goes away. Been out since 2 5 70. It's like fucking yesterday. It's the ultimate high
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I’ll never forget my 8th grade report on Vietnam. I had to interview a vet and the last question I had to ask was “how would you have solved the war?”. I interviewed a Bishop in a local Christian religion. And I was taken aback to hear his answer; “I would have put all the South Vietnamese into boats and take them out to the sea. Then nuke the entire country into oblivion. Then sink the boats.” And I could see he was dead serious. I’m sure you can guess as an 8th grader, I had no idea what to say next. But I have never forgot how serious he was and what that taught me about the effect of that war on the men whole fought.
This looks like hell on earth.
Recuero el servicio militar enNicaragua....aqui ningun bando sale ganando ......solo queda ..remordimiento....y llanto...
God bless the draft dodgers who made the right decision not to be a baby killer
I was at the theater when this movie was came out. There was two guy's the right age and right after this scene they got up and walked out. They had their memory jogged. Everyone I knew that was there said it sucked and there was no reason to be there.
Great KZread⛑Thank you Very Much💐Muchísimas Gracias⛑ ❖ INTERNATIONAL METROPOLIS JAPAN ❖ From Western Pacific Ocean🌏
Horror solo fue horror y muerte
Yes all the Viet Nam movies is so real. I t brings back the times when I was in Vietnam. I was there in 1971 & 1972. I was on recon and I end up got a medical discharge . I was told I would not be able to perform my duties. I am get 100% total disability and I get my retirement check to. If I could I would go back to Nam in a heart best. I got PTSD and Agent Orange now. No man left behind.
When men were menand not pussies nowadays, not you obviously as only real men look at these clips.
That last guy who passes taylor is a ghost
Português
3:35 Note how Elias is a christ figure already...
I was told. The first thing that hits you in the face, is the HEAT of Vietnam. Takes days to get used to it
Orion made some great movies. Now,theyre GONE
I knew this movie was going to be epic the first time I saw it just from the opening scene and the musical score in the background.
Audy Murphy
Gut Wrenching
❤️🔥🙌
3:16 I think that was a blooper that ended up making the cut
Escelente pelicula
Good god. Pure chills. 2:26 you’re transported to an evening foot patrol in Vietnam in 1967…. You feel the humidity and wetness as they slog up steep terrain in full combat load. The green is these scenes is hypnotic to look at. This movie is art. Lets all be glad we were never in those situations. Nothin but pure respect to those guys.
Agreed, I can't imagine how it must have felt to be a 18 or 19 yr old kid, getting plucked out of your hometown and sent halfway around the world into a hostile jungle environment. My father got his draft notice the same day he graduated from high school.
@@lovatog14 for a YEAR… been on a 9 month deployment and it felt like eternity. These guys must have been so happy to go home
When Charlie Sees that totally used up Marine getting onto the aircraft to go home at the beginning of the movie. That Marine looks just like this old Vietnam Marine I knew back in Pennsylvania name Lou Mercurie. He was a really good guy but he had some pretty serious agent orange problems. He could never sleep then he would go out for these 5-mile walks in the middle of the night. I would see him at work the next day and he just be all bright and chipper eating these giant peanut butter and jelly sandwiches that contained about a half a jar of peanut butter and a half and Jar of jelly on each one. I said you go for a walk last night Lou?, he'd say oh yeah every night. We were making missile parts for a place called Allegheny air ballistics. He ran a deburring bench. He was a good man and a good Marine. I hope he's still alive ,this was in 95. Semper Fi Lou.
the stare between the guy going home and charlie speaks volumes. this is one of my favorite movies. what a story.
🇺🇲❤️🇺🇲 Lost my first love in 1968 at the age of 20yrs old in Vietnam...Never will be Forgotten.🇺🇲
Your boyfriend death in vietnam ? Oh my god
I’m sorry. 😢
@@hawk66100 What's you boyfriend name?
@@Mad-id5vb1kl9j I’m a heterosexual male. I was talking to the OP.
My condolences for youur loss and his family son. Me: USAF 1968, Vietnam 69-70.
Why did he say, 65 and a wake up? How, long was a Tour of Duty for those conscripted guys?
he said three hundred and sixty-five and a wake up. Standard tour of duty for army was 12 months and 13 for the marines.
Charlie sheen even does to much gear
Fiz platoon com soldadinhos de plástico em stop motion
Danto.88 Nicaragua Bocay Operacion contra 50.000 terroristas de la CIA.
My daily life in the office
“You dudes gonna love the Nam....for fucking ever “
I like the opening, but would they really have rolled in corpses in body bags at the same time as new men were arriving in country?
3:31
They had to do 12 months and that was it,in the GWOT we did multiple 12 to 16 deployments if you were unlucky 6-7 months multiples if you were.
What does GWOT stand for? Whats 65 and a wake up? How long is that?
@@balung "365 and a wake up" is a vietnam era way of referring to how long you had left in your deployment in vietnam as people often rotated trough units with a lot of turnover,especially combat arms units.(365 would indicate you had the entire 12 months..65 would mean your were 300 days in ). GWOT is the modern "global war on terror."
To be fair, the military in the GWOT is an all volunteer force vs the US Army (and the Marines to a much smaller extent) was a draft army. True, most soldiers that fought in Vietnam were volunteer (about 2 out of every 3 were volunteer), but many "volunteered" because of the draft. For instance, one vet said that no one would hire him because they were afraid he would get drafted as soon as he was trained at the job. Joining the army or marines gave you a higher chance of potentially getting into a non combat specialty and being in the army gave you a shorter overall service obligation with being in the AF and Navy being four years and the Marines or Army being two years or less.
@@charliep5139 Fair enough. It only serves to highlight the boomers were really not protesting for peace but for not being drafted. As soon as the draft went away they couldn't care less.
Video of the real 25th Infantry in Vietnam '67-'68: kzread.info/dash/bejne/m6SIw5hwds67XbA.html
The look of that soldier when he catched Chris(Taylors) eyes. That is a real look. Empty, hollow, seeing right through you. I saw it my first tour by a soldier much younger than me, but he had seen alot. It looked like he was looking beyond me when he looked at me. It was like I was not there, and he was just looking past me. He saw two of his brothers(fellow soldiers) get killed by an EFP and he was in the same guntruck, he just survived. His eyes told the story, he was a broken man and always will be. NOTHING will fix him ever again. That is what war does, it kills and it breaks survivors mentally. We will never be the same person after. It sucks, it sucks bad.
@Jody Schmuckatelli Sorry you have to go through that brother. I know exactly what you mean. My tours were not too bad, but it was enough that I will never be the same. It feels like yesterday, it feels like a lifetime ago.
Welcome home brother, , USAF perimeter guard, Cam Ranh Bay airbase, 69-70. I go my cherry busted, Febuary, 70. Had duty across from Don Ba Thin, heard funny buzzing sound. Called it. the CP said do not fire. I could see the fucking local VC. .. They sent me to Pleiku airbase, March 70, same shit. The USAF didn't teach us shit about tactics. Or when NVA snipers firing green tracer rounds on my position. Laying down in the tower and glanced up and see green tracers rounds fucking up everything. No body came out to see how I was... fucking AF assholes.
Thank you brother, Welcome home to you as well. I have tons of respect for Vietnam Veterans, I cannot begin to imagine. It is shameful how yall were treated. @@afveteran
Thank you, some of us are on our 5th try. They turn me down again just recently. Waiting to hear the outcome for PTSD, and BHP prostate. Some brother vets say keep trying! Me: this is it. I'll be 75 in July and have to deal with this shit? No way.I produced a documentary about the 25th Anniversary of Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Anniversary. Posted here is 1st volume. Thanks and enjoy life! @@hawkinatorgamer9725
Alpha 1/9 Marines “WalkingDead”on operation Dewey Canyon in the A Shau valley in the winter of 69 the jungle smelled of slow death of malaria nightmares 0331 PH Feb18
We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves" LBJ
What a classic intro
I wish I'd have served I love this country!!
Major foreshadowing in this opening sequence. Taylor catches a glimpse of his future self. Gardner points to the body bags, which he will end up in. Elias holding up the M-60 like a cross - A Christ-like martyr figure. The senior military man asking if Wolfe has encompassed trouble AGAIN? This foreshadows his incompetence and weakness. Damn, so much to absorb from an opening scene.
Another detail is when patrolling he flexes his fingers as those first few days in the field your fingertips ache like mad from all the excess work you’re not used to. I always found the skin withdraws from your nails letting dirt in and causes more pain until you get used to the digging and carrying.
I arrived in Saigon and flew into Pleiku on c 130. Just like movie.
Your going to love the nam for fucking ever I love the radio chatter
Zombie Vet looking at himself in the past. Cherry Vet looking at himself in the future. 2:12
I'll be dipped in shit...
ustedes tuvisteis mas suerte yo deserte por no poder entrar en la legión y me hice vagabundo leche pantera unnnnnnnnnnnnn que bueno
One of the most powerful opening scenes in movie history .
" Happy ST. Patrick's Day Mom & Dad "
The 80's were about vietnam movies, among other things of course. I saw this film a bit too young of age. The scene of the vietnamese boy who had to dance at the mercy of this u.s. soldier, and what eventually happened, haunted me for a while.
How could one platoon have so many fuck ups in it ?
Myself as well. Haunting sometimes. It never goes away. Been out since 2 5 70. It's like fucking yesterday. It's the ultimate high