Viet Nam in HD starts tonight...History Channel
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It is, and thanks for the heads up.
keith44spl
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Len,
When I first saw the thread title...Dang, I thought, I had one of those
Carried by a A-1 Skyraider jocky,
Su Amigo,
Dave
When I first saw the thread title...Dang, I thought, I had one of those
Carried by a A-1 Skyraider jocky,
Su Amigo,
Dave
Len,
When I first saw the thread title...Dang, I thought, I had one of those
Carried by a A-1 Skyraider jocky,
Su Amigo,
Dave
Dave,
Sorry about the "mixup," but I envy you that gun!
The "Spad" will always hold a place of honor in my memory!
Len
keith44spl
Member
Len,
I ain't high tech enough for High Def TV....
I still low tech Heavy Duty
I'll try to catch some of the TV show...
Su Amigo,
Dave
I ain't high tech enough for High Def TV....
I still low tech Heavy Duty
I'll try to catch some of the TV show...
Su Amigo,
Dave
I've already seen twenty three months of Ground Combat in the Vietnam War in HD.
The FACs, SPAD Drivers and Spooky, Shadow and Spectre Crews will always have a place in my heart for keeping me and my folks alive so many times.
Rule 303
The FACs, SPAD Drivers and Spooky, Shadow and Spectre Crews will always have a place in my heart for keeping me and my folks alive so many times.
Rule 303
nawilson
US Veteran
It is on right now. Very powerful show...
Thank you to all the Vietnam vets. You guys fought the good fight. Communism is as evil as Nazism.
Thank you to all the Vietnam vets. You guys fought the good fight. Communism is as evil as Nazism.
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Everybody talks about how "real" a documentary looks.
It doesn't have the smells though.
Any of you guys ever get to the towns with those HUGE vats that fermented the nước mắm?
I think.... was it Phan Thiet?
Dear God, what a smell.
The stinking Delta.
The sour smell of a recently plowed and fertilized paddy that's been wet for a thousand years......
The burning barrels from the latrine......hope the wind shifts.
A yard ville that's been in the same place for centuries.
I once had to catch a hop on a Caribou. 2 or 3 squads of ARVN Rangers were moving or something. ARVN Rangers often kept their families at their base camp. Wives (half preg and puking), naked kids (Vietnamese kids are naked from the waste down till about 4 yrs old), goats, pigs, ducks, chickens. About a two hour flight. 30 minutes in, I'm ready to jump with no chute and walk.....
These are the peaceful smells.
You guys go.
Except for parts of The Highlands, I didn't care much for the place.
It doesn't have the smells though.
Any of you guys ever get to the towns with those HUGE vats that fermented the nước mắm?
I think.... was it Phan Thiet?
Dear God, what a smell.
The stinking Delta.
The sour smell of a recently plowed and fertilized paddy that's been wet for a thousand years......
The burning barrels from the latrine......hope the wind shifts.
A yard ville that's been in the same place for centuries.
I once had to catch a hop on a Caribou. 2 or 3 squads of ARVN Rangers were moving or something. ARVN Rangers often kept their families at their base camp. Wives (half preg and puking), naked kids (Vietnamese kids are naked from the waste down till about 4 yrs old), goats, pigs, ducks, chickens. About a two hour flight. 30 minutes in, I'm ready to jump with no chute and walk.....
These are the peaceful smells.
You guys go.
Except for parts of The Highlands, I didn't care much for the place.
I remember when we arrived (by chartered plane), and they popped the door. Never smelled anything like that before - or since. Just a glimpse of what was to come.....
Watching the program tonite certainly brings back some memories, good and no so good. Well crafted and well sponsored. My hats off to the corporations who will go the extra mile this Friday for Veterans. Thanks to all of you on this Forum who have served!
XAVMECH
Watching the program tonite certainly brings back some memories, good and no so good. Well crafted and well sponsored. My hats off to the corporations who will go the extra mile this Friday for Veterans. Thanks to all of you on this Forum who have served!
XAVMECH
BuckeyeChuck
Member
The History Channel is actually showing a program about history? Ah well. Give it a couple weeks, and they'll be back to being "TLC Lite".
I watched several parts of the show. I then tried to watch the next night and I could not see anymore. I do not know how you guys stayed sane thru that horror. My first wife lost her brother there. I have had some sleepless hours since watching the show. Gonna pass on that one next time. I guess I'm getting old and not as bullet proof as I once thought I was. My hat goes off my glass goes up to you super humans who coould get thru and come home.
My biological father was there for 3 years and died before I could meet him. I talk to his baby sister from time to time, but she can't tell me about where he was. Her husband always gets on the phone and asks, "Why the hell do you want to know??". He was there, too, so I don't press it.
My adoptive father was too old to go, due to being 30 in 1969 and getting deferments, and all he tells me about those times is how crazy everything was. My adoptive mother was a white professor teaching at an all-Black college during the Watts Riots, so maybe they are right.
The 60s seem closed off to me as far as family history goes. I know more about my godfather and his walk across France and Germany during WW2 than I do about the Vietnam years.
My adoptive father was too old to go, due to being 30 in 1969 and getting deferments, and all he tells me about those times is how crazy everything was. My adoptive mother was a white professor teaching at an all-Black college during the Watts Riots, so maybe they are right.
The 60s seem closed off to me as far as family history goes. I know more about my godfather and his walk across France and Germany during WW2 than I do about the Vietnam years.
kraigwy
US Veteran
I watched it, and with it and every other documentation I've seen about Vietnam I come away really torqued.
I was infantry, 2/502 Inf, 101st Abn Div. in 67-68. I was there during Tet. I was there before and after Tet.
Tet was a huge defeat for the VC/NVA. After tet the VC ceased to exist. The NVA were hurt. Bad hurt. The ones we were capturing were poor equiped and ragged.
THEN, THEN
Some idiot stopped the bombing over the north. Not long after we were catching convoys of new equipment. We were in the Ashau Valley, google Firebase Bastonge to see where it was.
The term that comes to mind, "Snatching defeat from the jaws of Victory".
Did we defeat the Germans by stopping the bombing of Germany?
Did we defeat the Japanese by stopping the bombing of Japan?
Did we defeat the Germans by refusing to allow troops to cross the Rhine?
The Soldiers of Vietnam were some of the best soldiers in the US Army history. They weren't doper draftees, they were for the most part professional soldiers. Two thirds of those who served in Vietnam were Enlistees, where as two thirds of those who served in WWII were draftees.
94% say they were glad they served, 74% said they would do it again knowing the outcome.
I could go on, but I've ranted enough.
I was infantry, 2/502 Inf, 101st Abn Div. in 67-68. I was there during Tet. I was there before and after Tet.
Tet was a huge defeat for the VC/NVA. After tet the VC ceased to exist. The NVA were hurt. Bad hurt. The ones we were capturing were poor equiped and ragged.
THEN, THEN
Some idiot stopped the bombing over the north. Not long after we were catching convoys of new equipment. We were in the Ashau Valley, google Firebase Bastonge to see where it was.
The term that comes to mind, "Snatching defeat from the jaws of Victory".
Did we defeat the Germans by stopping the bombing of Germany?
Did we defeat the Japanese by stopping the bombing of Japan?
Did we defeat the Germans by refusing to allow troops to cross the Rhine?
The Soldiers of Vietnam were some of the best soldiers in the US Army history. They weren't doper draftees, they were for the most part professional soldiers. Two thirds of those who served in Vietnam were Enlistees, where as two thirds of those who served in WWII were draftees.
94% say they were glad they served, 74% said they would do it again knowing the outcome.
I could go on, but I've ranted enough.
