I don't get it, didn't they realize... they weren't in South Carolina? Or Texas? Or Nebraska? Or California? What are you doing carrying automatic rifles inside someone else's country... Surely you had to ask yourself, are we the baddies?

My favorite insane asylum I've heard in the war would have to be CCN. Ha ha ha.

Great job, Roger! Roger Youngblood is my cousin!

If I ask the time I'm thinking I'm going instructions how to build a watch

Think of the spirits that haunt the A Shau Valley. With the blood spilled it's got to be terrific..

Here, you seem to have not described the lowland Laos and highland Laos enough. I learned a lot of information about the time from people including Colonel Khao Insixiengmay. Vang pao and his Miao warriors were very brave, but the assistance of the lowland Laos and highland Laos SGU troops should not be ignored. Without the SGU from Luang Prabang and Savannakhet (especially GM30, GM31, GM33, etc.), it is still unknown whether Long Tieng can be held!

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This guy is something else. I was in country 68 to 69. Listening to this character does not make sense. How much training do you have to now . The people were trained to kill us. What the hell is he talking about. I was in an AHC (assault helicopter company) listening to him does not sound like he was there. What is the point of what he is talking about.

What happened to the pro Amercan Vietamese that were left behind?

What a horrible waste of American young men. I remember when I was a young boy in Belize I used to go to a neighbor house to read Time and Life magazines. One issue was the pictures of all the American who got killed the last week or month. I can still see the faces of those young men.Just a waste.

Awesome video the text reads the plane was pushed over the side Maj. Buang-Ly's cessna Birddog is actually on display in florida, his children and grand children gather on the USS MIDWAY every year to thank the USA for rescuing them

That one statement says it all: The new President, Bill Clinton, wants to improve relations with Viet Nam so the info was... Were there people left behind? Yes. Did the government cover it up? Yes. Are those people still alive? Most if not all are dead. To expose this now, especially before the election, would destroy a certain political party. No wonder no one wants to serve. The government will continue to release small amounts of information quietly and in such a fashion as to actually mask it in historical documents so the public at large will never see it. Therefore the government escapes blame or responsibility. Thank you for this well done video.

great video, please mute your phone when recording though. sounded like a number of messages received during this recording😂

Would it be possible to do an episode about the OV-1 Mohawks and OV-10 Broncos in the Iran-Contra War? I served there in 1985 and the DOD will not acknowledge being in a combat zone or award us an Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal. It is unbelievable what I saw and did there.

nice footage!

I visited the Museum of Flying Santa Monica, California back in 2000, there was an A1 brought back from Vietnam, it was gray, like brand new, glad we got it back..

We did not have A1's at Korat but we did have C-121 Connies. Sure miss the sound of a Ricip engine. Thanks again.

I was born in 1963, and I grew up watching the news on Vietnam's War. Many times I would ask my mom who was an Army WAC before I was born, I would ask her "Mom why are those guys smoking that cigarette at the end of a stick?!?!?! And she would tell me because their hands are all dirty with mud, and it would soggy the cigarette.

They didn’t dump the bird dog, Major Buang-Ly’s plane is at the naval aviation museum in Pensacola.

Great video as always, it would be nice to hear more A-1 youngblood stories

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You really should go to Ho Chi Minh, perhaps do walks and talks about Saigon during the war, and before-Graham Greene (google 6 places to find GG in Saigon)? I love the city. It was Jack Drummond who got the Royal Lao Air Force a C-47 so they could stop using their T-28 fighters to ferry opium around.

Once again, the U.S. State Department does a bang up job in an area that have NO experience. I watched this on the television. Joined the army in 1981 and endured my own generation of Bravo Sierra. Spent 10 years in saw some stupid stuff...

Great oral history. Thank you.

I had the pleasure of meeting General Adherholt twice at Spook reunions. General Adherholt gave me a silk, Southeast Asia Blood Chit. I flew porters for CASI in Laos and worked with the Skyraders out of NKP. Really admired these guys and they missions they flew. Paul, this is one of the best videos you have put out. Keep them coming.

Was at Camp Samae San in Sattahip 74-75 as a MP. Visited Pattaya on pass. I remember the Tropicana hotel (still there) and the R&R center. A restaurant called “Dolf Riks”??

Outstanding video! Thanks so much for sharing!

Retired F111 in australia few in museum rest buried USAAF ordered engines to be destroyed and seems they have ownership of a/c.

Sorry for yet another comment; 41:00; it’s interesting that when things truly go to $hit, with the right leadership, soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines etc will figure shit out, even if we have to make it up as we go along. That’s what he did and that’s what we did in April 1991 when we were tossed into northern Iraq to save the Kurds, no one had bothered to write a manual on it, so we winged it. It wasn’t a Special Forces mission, per se, but we were given latitude, responsibility and we took authority. Many of those young green berets are now old retired green berets and working in the mountains of North Carolina.

Maj Ly Bung’s aircraft, still in its VNAF markings, is now displayed in the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Florida.

Cant think usa govt would want this debacle enshrined on www.

No F14 gifted to NVA wheres your compassion nothing has changed today

My favorite warbird of all time.The A1E Skyraider,and what a skyraider it was.You couldnt ask for more firepower,because the skyraider had it all,and did it all.That 20mm cannon made mits meat out of anything it came in contact with!😊😊😊 Tally Ho Paul.

Thank you Dr. Carter,much appreaciated.😊

I am downloading this for listening in my office. Sincere suggestion: Amazon sells decent lavaliere mics that clip on your shirt and plug into your camera or phone. Or you can marry it via Bluetooth. Your content is excellent but in this current market you’ve got to have clean audio too. It’s extremely echoey. The mics are $30

Americans were the true saviors of the Pacific. Without their intervention, the Japanese empire would have conquered the entire region of the pacific ocean and most of the Asian continent.

I thank you for being so honest. You are a genuinely good man.

Priceless.

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Billions of dollars of equipment left behind in Vietnam. We left a brand-new squadron of F-5's and about 200 UH-1's with spare engines, and parts and other aircraft and weaponry. You can look up the totals. Over 1 million M-16 rifles were also abandoned in Southeast Asia. They were able to get a few out but not most. Then Afghanistan in 2021and we still elect these leaders. What is wrong with people?

Excellent. Thanks.

Great coverage of the April 29th event that took place at U-Tapao RTNAFLD. I was stationed at UT during the event. The number and various types of aircraft landing at the airfield was incredible. And, the number of people exiting those various aircraft was amazing! A day I’ll never forget.

CIA Spooks, perfect job for heroin smuggling.

My Dad was stationed at U-tapao AFB June 1975-1976, closing down the US tentant operations there and shipping bombs and other munitions and aircraft. While there he took pictures of the aircraft flown from Vietnam on the Tarmac.

It seems the algorithm suggested to me another outstanding military, aviation and social history channel. Dr. Carter, Thank You for the great work. I am sharing this on 10 Percent True - Military aviation history discord.

I have often wondered of the events from when I left Korat RTAFB in August 1973 to April '75 . Great video, thank you.

I was 10yrs Mum was a caregiver for Maid for 2 kid's Paul and June Think their dad got them out 1975

Interesting topic Paul. The inaction of Graham Martin is hard to understand.. Cheers from 🇸🇪.

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