"America's Special Forces During the Vietnam War" - The Complete Story
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SOG is a story that should be made into a movie. That’s how special those guys were. Period
I was sent by my Captain , to attend the Tropic lighting Academy in Vietnam at FSB CU Chi , I was in 25th inf Div Arty.at that time. This academy was taught by a couple a SOG and a Special Forces E-6 staff sgts. It was a intense through class taught use of sniper tactics and demolitions use and jungle warfare ambush tactics .😊
WOW! I got goosebumps listening to this amazing story of Heroism. What a testament to his character, determination and spirit of loyalty to his comrades. It is men like this that make countries around the world respect the US the way they do!
He was the most humble man I ever had the honor to meet. Incredible man. Roy Benavidez. RIP Hero.
Superior badass
Holy Shizzle that Benevitez is one tough Hombre, God bless ya man
God bless you Mr. Benavidez... You made your country proud sir . Visualizing him saving his fellow Americans and fighting hand to hand combat makes my heart race . Truly a warrior . Thank you for your service
He helped rescue some South Vietnamese soldiers as well during that mission.
A huge thank you to All Heroes who served.
May God bless You All!
You're very welcome the life you live today is because of what we did there.
Still have nightmares to this day
Roy, you were a man, A great man and great soldier!
I sat next to Brian O'Connor and listened to him tell this story to a Lang Vei survivor. These men are giants. I couldn't carry any of these guys jock straps
Staff Sergeant Roy Benavidez ThanK You for your service and being an excellent role model!!
I'll Always Love you Hayden Panettiere
Thank you for your heroism and you are a true US Soldier. Your bravery and spirit you saved many wounded. A true hero. God Bless you sir.
Real Heroes and a great presentation, thank you. EXTREMELY WELL DONE !!!
A True American Hero!!! That is what makes me proud to be an American!!!
John Kerry he spent "4 months" in Vietnam on a swift boat all of his injuries were self-inflicted he got three purple hearts a Bronze Star & a silver star.. I remember him shooting a blooper into a pile of rice on land because he panicked he heard gunfire a piece of shrapnel came back basically the size of a pin he kept rubbing it up & down when he got to Sick Bay the Doc. said why are you here I was in a firefight🤣 the Doc. threw him a Band-Aid & said here you go stop your crying..Along the River Kerry jumped off the boat chasing after the enemy I don't even believe he was VC or had a weapon on him he was severely injured as he was running John Kerry shot him in the back.This kid was like 17 years old...I believe he got a purple heart for that..When he got back to Washington all the veterans through he was going to defend us instead he made us sound like brutal animals saying that we cut off heads cut off their ears raped little girls..I can see now they made him a perfect Democrat because he was a compulsive liar & stabbed everybody in the back they said you will be perfect for the job..When Hunter Biden was working in the Ukraine ripping them people off so was John Kerry's son & Nancy Pelosi son I believe Chuck Schumer's son also.. all Traitors will go to jail in due time..🙏 including John Kerry..Give back your Metal's John you did not deserve any one of them..👉🏻🤮👈 This man was a true hero and he deserved every metal he got through heroism not being a sissy boy like John Kerry.. anytime I see anything about the Vietnam War I have to bring up his name because he truly makes me sick to my stomach..Great Video..👉🏻💪👈
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What a man unbelievable God bless him gives me goose bumps
WOW!!!!! THAT IS IMPRESSIVE!!!!!!
Now that would b an award winning movie
Wow Mr benavidez's story gave me chilling body feelings. Every recruiting soilder should hear of this mans story. God bless him, god bless all soldiers who put their lives in danger so we can have our freedom. I will never forget this story. The same goes for Mr Howard's story. 2 amazing men.
"our freedom"? What are you talking about? What does killing defenseless people in a country that has never done anything against us has to do with "our freedom"?
@@thornil2231 if it's that simple why didn't your bit.ch as.s join the military?
@@thornil2231"defenseless"
I would like to correct one aspect in the last segment. Though Carlos Hathcock did train Navy SEAL snipers. CDR. Richard "Demo Dick" Marcinco was the 1st Commanding Officer and creator of SEAL TEAM 6 which was not commissioned until 1980. Well after the Vietnam war ended.
Lastly, although Special Operations has grown in leaps and bounds in both technology and tactics, politicians still haven't figured out how to win and stay out of wars. Which is why we continue to make the same mistakes over and over.
It's time to follow the Special Operations example and stop mass producing politicians.
The book “Good to Go” by Harry Constance talks about the formation of early teams that led to seal team 6 . I believe one was referred to as Red Cell .
Very good book that covers a long career in the Navy .
@@Mosey410 Red Cell was infamous and the Flag Officers ditched Marcinko when he was "too sucessful" at breaching security at the highest levels of the Navy by charging him with defrauding the government over price of contractor acquisitions. He was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison and fined $10,000.
He detailed his arrest and confinement in his autobiography.
Carlos was the sniper that killed that woman sniper Apache she had 95 confirmed kills & she tortured the Marines by shooting them letting them lay there and bleed out.. Carlos was definitely the man to get the job done and he did..😏👏👏
Thanks for your comment. So very true. As for politicians, they are by nature power-hungry and egotistical. This is true for all parties (or 'both' in the US), not only the one we oppose. War is a racket.
God bless you. Best wishes!
P. M. Palosaari
Saigon, Vietnam
AWSOME 😎
good video.
These men are worth more than every politician in D.C. combined.
I humbly offer an honorable mention:
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Seawolfs
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The Virtue and incomprehensible sacrifice of all Special Ops forces and members are without equal.
May God look after our country. She needs his help now more than ever
I often think of the horrible tragedy of 58,000+ of the best men of America losing their lives and their futures as sons, husbands, fathers.
Yes I was there and a lot of them were my friend not just comrades
Yet 46.000 americans die on roads each year!
During WW2 the Soviets Murdered between 6,000 and 9,000 Polish Officers in the forest of Katyn. That was an international War Crime then, as it is today. In the Vietnam war Americans Captured, tortured and murdered 24,000 Vietnamese Youths between 18 and 24, under operation Phoenix. That has never been described as a war crime.
Over 20,000 polish offiers and leaders killed by Stalin who killed more people than hitler.
Nice
1947: Nuremberg Law
"No more crimes of Genocide". Official's to be held accountable. Yea right, like Johnson, Nixon, Bush, Clinton, Obama & Bidens Covid Vaccine Experimentations.
Get working on it!..... Good luck!
Oh yeah...So how did those Soviets make out on the jail terms they were given?
P.S. I heard that it was the Nazi's that did those naughty things in operation "Phoenix", at least that's what the NKVD/KGB said.
Thank you Lion Heart
It IS NOT the "congressional" Medal of Honor. It is simply, "THE MEDAL of HONOR."
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SEAL Team 6 was founded and trained by Dick Marcinko. Hathcock had nothing to do with that at all.
That is amazing.
Most of this video is valid, with some "typo-like" errors. The legends like Benavidez and Howard are incredible and real. But they were in unique units, like MACVSOG. MACVSOG oversaw units taken from all branches. Special Forces folks were in the Army C&C part. SEALs, Marine Force Recon, etc were in theirs. The title of this video is misleading in that it didn't get into much detail on the "normal" SF actions, but focused into unique actioins, units, and personnel.
In 1951 KENNEDY got a 1st hand account of what GUERILLA WARFARE would face Americans
Oh god this video was absolutely amazing. You sir was without doubt was a brilliant very brave couragers soldier .lan liverpool uk
S/Sgt Bienivtez was an iron man! He did things that no man was capable of!
These men are who should become the Generals, not a politician general. Patton was one of the greatest Generals as he had been in combat, been shot, and led from the front and not Washington D.C. out house.
U 4 real? Everybody knows we weren't even there! (MOS: SC.K18z******, Hue '72)
Impressive individual acts of courage but this is far from the complete story of US Special Forces in Vietnam.
I concur with UBLs opinion. I still believe that LBJ and the military industrial leaders had to get rid of JFK.
06:41 Check out The Green Berets At War, by Shelby L. Stanton.
I want to make a videogame based on that book, because it is an inexhaustable source of missions and organisations. The Medal Of Honor section itself could be the basis for an entire videogame.
- The close distances in firefights make Vietnam ideal
- No one has yet done a Vietnam game with proper jungle, undergrowth, etc.
- The missions in The Green Berets At War write themselves
- The organisations like Mike Force, Strike Force, Hunter Killer Teams, the various operational zones, etc.
- The limited technology means you have to use your own senses and experience. No drones or satellites.
- Instruction instead of testing.
If anyone knows a way to the finances to make that happen, drop me a reply.
20:21 "SEAL Team 6, the elite military unit responsible for assassinating Osama bin Laden, had previously been advised and trained by Vietnam Veteran Carlos Hathcock."
I didn't know that. He had a book out and there was a movie made inspired by him with Tom Berenger called Sniper.
Studies and observations, conspicuous. Check your editing.
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Why haven't they made a feature film of these awesome HEROES and their fellow worriers? Pass the word around
Warriors
Because we do not want to talk about it was hard enough for me to go there and fight let alone watching my comrades die around me wasnt a great time to remember
Thankyoufornosomphoneat
Just out of curiosity does anyone even know about or remember the My Lai massacre ?
Thank you for your loss but we lost 82 soldiers in the army troops us killed in war
Benavides was thought dead upon the choppers return, and was placed in a body bag … they only realized he was still alive, AFTER SPITTING BLOOD IN THE DOCS FACE …
I'm Hispanic I was in the US ARMY journalism
The whole thing could've been over in three months if pilots had been allowed to hit the REAL strategic targets in the north, like Hai Phong harbor and HCM City. Damn shame.
Tunnel rats was more night mare to US army
Larry Aniel
MASTER SARGEANT BENAVEDEZ HUWAAA
All the 1st North Vietnamese leaders were once Americans allies during WWII against the Japanese army. US President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a small group of US special military personnel to Vietnam after 1 year after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. These US military personnels train the 1st Vietminh soldiers how to use assault rifle and booby trap. The Vietminh save several US pilots, who plane was shot down by the Japanese army. US President Franklin D. Roosevelt recognize Vietnam Independence from France but never to live to see it. But his Vice President Truman took a different approach by supporting the French to recolonize Vietnam after rejecting Ho Chi Minh letter of support for Vietnam Independence from France. This cause Ho Chi Minh seeking support from communist Russia and China. In 1950, US Democrats President Truman sent the 1st US MAAG personnel to Vietnam to assist the French Army in Vietnam. This is how America 1st got involve in Vietnam. On May 7, 1954, when France lost thier rule over Vietnam after losing a major battle at battle of Dien Bien Phu to the North Vietnam. America military never left from Vietnam because US Democrat President Truman, JF Kennedy, and LB Johnson made sure that United States should dictate into Vietnam afair. In 1963 US Democrats President JF Kennedy and LB Johnson stage a military coup assination on South Vietnam President, Ngo Dinh Diem on Nov. 2, 1963. This gives United States the power over the country of Vietnam and the Vietnamese peoples. And US Democrats President, JF Kennedy and LB Johnson appointed their puppet ex-Vietminh soldiers, Nguyen Van Thieu, as President of South Vietnam. The South Vietnamese President, who later cost 500,000 South Vietnamese killed or capture by the North Vietnamese army and their allies Pathet Loas and Khmer Rouge of Cambodia when he sent them to Laos and Kampuchia. And who told him to do so. United States. On Nov. 22, 1963, JF Kennedy was killed in Dallas, TX. US Vice President LB Johnson, was appointed as President of United States. The following year Aug. 8, 1964, US Democrats President, LB Johnson announce US military action to Vietnam to Americans peoples over the Gulf of Tonkins, which involve a US Destroyer was patroling past the 17th parallel DMZ line near Honoi the capital of North Vietnam. But according to US Nuclear weapon offier, John White on the US Destroyer Maddox. That their were No attack. But still US Democrats President LB Johnson push for US military action to Vietnam which lead to the Vietnam War. Only 500,000 US ground troops was sent. Out of all the US ground troops who was draft and sent to fight in Vietnam. 40% were Blacks males, along with non-college white male, high school drop out, war protester males, and convict. America didn't sent their best but their worse from 1965-1969 when Nixon became US President. Nixon order all US ground force out of Vietnam to began pull out. US Republicans President Nixon order a non-stop flight of B52 bomber to bomb Hanoi and Haiphong. Nixon promise the South Vietnamese the continuing of US military aids to Vietnam to defend themselve from the North Vietnam aggression. That United States would replace any US military weapons that was lost to the South Vietnam. The South Vietnamese army did retake back many lost territories in the South from Communist North. On August 8, 1974, President Nixon announce his resignation as President of United States over the Watergate Scandal. On Nov. 5, 1974, the Democrats won a landslide in congress. Both the US Senate and the House of Representative. The following year in 1975, the Democrats control congress cuts all US military aids to South Vietnam and on April 30, 1975, the Fall of Saigon to Communist North Vietnam and thus began the flow of Vietnamese refugees. During the entire Vietnam War, America brought pain, death, and destruction to the Vietnamese peoples of Vietnam. And today, several South Vietnamese young generation is still suffer from the affect of United States biological chemicals, Agent Orange which the US military spray all over rivers and forests of South Vietnam. And American still today still talk about how heroic they did during the Vietnam War.
Turned
We can't win wars if politicians with no balls continually give them away... Which makes me Think.. what's more important? Winning the war, or profiteering off of all of the government contracts to keep the war moving along? ... Don't judge me... I'm a veteran also.
Carlos Hathcock was a Marine not Army SF,
It's pretty sad our own government took this man out and then tried to blame Russia. Sound familiar.
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JFK knew in September of 1963 that the Vietnam War could not be won.
That's why he sent them in
@@Thomas-uw1gq That's why he was murdered by the CIA.
And he was shot by a M16 not the 6.5
That's one of the reasons why he was assassinated. He refused to send forced to "fight communism" in Vietnam
Why do you think he was killed? Johnson became president and the defense industry got there war. I grew up in the 60s. Not in a million years were they ever going to let Bobby Kennedy become president. They killed him. How long do you think the powers that be were going to put up with ML King? They killed him too. Once the decision is made its just a simple phone call. Trump told the American public that he would release the remaining papers on the Kennedy murder. I promise you they sat him down on day 1 and told him that if he opens his mouth about it he would be killed. Meeting over. The papers were never released. He did what he was told. Wake up folks that's how it works.
What kind of classified documents would a front line soldier carry?
Communications Signal Operating Instructions (SOI). Not front line. Rather an intelligence gathering mission.
It is called the CEOI extract for use communication authentication document. It is carried by field officers in line units and is classified secret document.
In this case it would be carried by the patrol leader.
Good history video, but youre showing clips of regular Army troops instead of SF. Green berets never wore helmets in the field and wore cammie uniforms. Thanks for the video.
yea. smh at some of this
JFK was a very young President, who was intimidated by the military leadership. No one man can be blamed for Vietnam. It was very complex, and I doubt if anyone commenting here has all of the facts. Both Kennedy and Johnson had great dreams for the country, including civil rights reform. Johnson went on to follow thru with the great civil rights legislation that JFK began. Johnson hated that war. He referred to it as that "bitch" of a war, because it completely overshadowed his Great Society dream. I used to be critical of them, until I came to see that they didn't do anything anyone else under similar circumstances would've done. And we can never know those circumstances as intimately as it takes to make a truly informed judgement about them. Besides, who are any of us to judge? Who among us can honestly say we haven't made errors we wish we had a second shot at? I've got at least a few hundred myself.
Just another day in SOG.
His Congressman would not have done the same for him FTA
If eisenhower had have commited them in 1954
To help the french gcma
Special forces!
They could have avoided the
Future quagmire!
This is a great video, but the writers need to use past tense throughout the video. The poor grammar makes it hard to listen to.
Howard wasn’t an officer when he earned the medal. So many lazy inaccuracies in this. Do your research before cashing in on people’s legacies .
Isnt it hilarious that the enemy does not know that they have just knocked out your entire arms supply, your ammo, 90% of your actual fighting force and STILL doesn't assault your position bc they JUST DONT TRUST US 😅😅..they could have taken over our entire unit if they knew what the 1 mortor and sporadic small arms and machine gun fire did. Oh well next time i guess😅
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Yes ex navy seals eeuu
Dude chat
Communists in the State Department......Fixed it for you.
Another no win drain on US 19 year old patriots.
Unfortunately, SOG didn't win the war. That's the job of a soldier, to win the war.
What a disgraceful mistake
Marines stop doing the devils work,, let the criminals that profit from these conflicts do it themselves we ve been sold a lie
Incredible acts of courage and bravery TRUE HEROS BOTH.
Stewart you are correct ! The American government are nothing but murdering lying terrorist they are the largest terrorist organization in the world all they know to do is nothing but evil. They care for no one but themselves Fact!
ANG ALAM KONG SPECIAL FORCES AY ANG GREEN BERET.
Loved JFK but what a mistake he made !
Under President Ronald Reagan
They faced a way more fierce enemy then the Taliban goat herders lol
This can't be happening chat
Sadly, US came out only second place.
ALL FOR WHAT??
Fun
@@Thomas-uw1gq sicko
I am a Vietnam Vet 1rst& 25th inf. div trying to get real response from those watching & responding. I guess sometimes it works . Thank you for yours!
Hindsight is 20/20.
What you can not drop it. You must of love the war you keep it going. That war which is over but you must of love it cause you are stuck in it what bull keep the pdsr going. Atheist they lived and did not come back in a body bag 😤
The hell are you even on about?
That doesn’t make any sense
Guy McGowan: You guys always say who you are in your first sentence. You never said anything about Mr. Benevides, but everything about yourself.
@@NacoleDKCleaning once of those late night meth binges I guess 😆
Wtf are even saying? Can you translate that to English cause it makes no dam sense!
sadly a lot of mistakes in this video. Roy's action where actually way more bad ass than reported here. Also, SOG is studies and observations group, NOT studies and operations group.