When she was docked in Bremerton I told my kids that I had served on her. (Ten days on the flight deck as a green shirt on car quails).

Semper Fi Sir. Great Marine Corps General.

I'm a Veteran, as well. However, I am not as near deserving as these wonderful people. They went through a WORLD WAR.

Jim has a very soothing voice. Also, I can't imagine how incredible it would bo to be in possession of something like that.

That's so cool man

Yes we need to start teaching the iraq and Afghanistan wars to the youth.

This is a awesome feature

thank yall for what you did and will continue do

Don’t use black rifle coffee they are anti-gun do not use them

Ur cooked lil bro

I am moved by the many unique voices that speak their stories. More need to hear them and more need to write them. Thank you for your bravery and courage. Is there a writing group in Wa. State?

Where is this museum

Conclusion , war was won by usa and uk with very very insignifacnt help from russia

Great content

Is there any risk of that piece of barbed wire being contaminated from the war?

OEC happened one week after I enlisted (age 17, on the delayed entry program) in the US Marines. My parents were not happy about it and it got worse when I ended up in Beirut a few years later. The WOT began in 1979 but no one wants to admit it.

RIP Jim, miss you.

Guy no good nobody cares

Unless a museum commtee as determined and organized as the uss midway museum and a willing city, it could have been pulled off. That's a long steep hill to climb. I am still impressed how the Midwsy museum has been a success. One memory I'd like to share. I was posted on a ship in San Diego during 74-76. I was at the Broadway Pier downtown looking across San Dieho Bay to North Island where Kitty Hawk, Constellation, and Ranger were berthed simultaneously. A very impressive sight.

Well done my friend. Curtiss

Very informative. I had never heard about the Piggyback Flight before.

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the reason the first helo went down was there were 2 cracked rotor blade indicators that went off. The BIMS system. because it was 2 blades, they sat down and were fortunate they were picked up. The second aircraft, the one that turned around, had an avionics failure and didn't know their direction and had one more mountain range to fly through. The pilot didnt want to crash between the mountains, did not raise altitude to go over the tops and didnt want to break radio silence, so he turned around. The third helo landed and they found out his primary hydraulic pump had failed and was flying on the secondary hydraulic pump and that was over heating. The crew chief wanted to fill it with grease and continue flying, but the Marine commander called it off, told Col Kyle who informed Beckwith. Beckwith got into a shouting match with one of the Marine pilots who popped Beckwith in the mouth, it was almost a brawl but it ended quick. the final helo crash that ended the withdrawl was caused by the air force ground controller according to the pilots. He was being marshalled to a different spot by leap frogging (the sand was too soft to ground taxi) and the ground controller let his wands down but kept the lights on, so the helo pilot thought he was being told to land. No one could see well because of all the sand kicked up from all the C-130's had their engines running . The helicopters the mission used were not the same aircraft they trained in, these came from a Navy anti-submarine squadron off the Nimitz and according to General vaught to me and the desert 2 refueler, they did not fly the aircraft enough to keep them truly airworthy. Either way, each breakdown was a fluke, the haboob was the final straw

About fu@#ing time.

There's something wrong with that mg. It won't fire full auto.

The British General Haig stated that the Machine Gun was a much over rated weapon.

New information about how land mine detectors work!

Touching story.

My dad was a part of this operation.

Like the Scarlet Letter.

I am a massive WWI buff and I never knew this. Thanks for that.

Wasn’t aware of that, thank you!

Very interesting. The terrors of war

Very interesting. I served in the Marine Corps in Iraq (2006-07). We didn’t have this issue that I am aware of, but we had others. I remember one guy in my unit claiming he was mentally unstable in order to get sent home. Our command took his weapon away and he wasn’t allowed to do anything other than manual labor. We also had drug users who had there weapons taken away and filled sandbags and did other menial jobs. The sight of a Marine who was unarmed in a combat zone had the same effect as a yellow armband. Everyone knew what they were; and they were treated very poorly by all. At the end of our deployment they all got kicked out for one reason or another.

Holy What??? From watching You Tube the German, French, and British Army would have you shot for doing this in combat.🤨🤨

It's amazing there werent more officers that were killed by mutinys during the world wars, they were awful people quite often, sad state of afairs, great video

i am world war nerd and iv never heard of this thank you for teaching me something new

Thank you for your service Sir. 🫡

No Sir. Thank YOU, for teaching me something I didn't know. Thank you for your service.

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Such an interesting film and a wonderful tribute to our brave Viet Nam veterans who endured so much.

It’s such a shame this world changing lecture has received only 1545 views!

Found this recipe in my notes, decided to do a quick search to watch someone make it before I got started myself. Love the straight-to-the-point style. Turned out excellent! Thanks for the tip on using the olive oil in the sun-drieds!

good book!

This is a very impressive museum!

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Capt. Ishimoto who was the Intel Officer on this mission was my Aikido instructor for a couple of years. The DOD had to contract with some of us old retired FAA Air Traffic Controllers to set up Enroute ATC operations in Afghanistan and in Iraq. In 2005, we set up a 'state-of-the-art 1950s Air Traffic Control system' for the Air Force. We had people working there in Kabul and Bagram and Kandahar up until the day before the Biden administration and military leadership screwed up the withdrawal and got some good people killed. Knowing what happened to the Vietnamese after what Congress did at the end of the Vietnam War I served in, I warned my Afghan friends from 05/06 to get out whenever the opportunity arose. (As an aside, I gave ATC training to a young man that had been one of the Marine hostages. He was doing OK, but his PTSD was such he withdrew himself from training)