Why Daytime Patrols in Vietnam were a Bad Idea & Hunting Communists with the CIA | David Yorck

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[@MichaelCollins1962]

Great story about these great warriors

[@stevin47]

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[@user-rx162r]

I would like to hear him talk about Columbia University and the political science department-- and what he thinks of the way it has developed.

[@user-rx162r]

It seems to me that the war for the soul of America was lost in the heart of the universities.

[@dbeaus]

Throwing frags and firing on given times all night. Mad minutes, night ambushes and totally useless day ventures. I agree, we all knew we were under constant surveillance during the day. We were fighting on their terms because of the body count mantra. We literally exposed ourselves to draw fire from them because this was the only way we could find them, and even then we rarely knew exactly where they were. One Army Captain was relieved of command because he was deemed not aggressive enough for the boys back in the air conditioned barracks. His crime? His orders were to not take existing trails, no roads, no waterways. You know, prime ambush sites. Sounds like a good plan to me. He had, by far, the lowest casualty rate in his battalion. Our engineers also could have made our firebases impossible to attack. But if they did that, they we wouldn't attack them and we couldn't kill them. Body Count. We did the same things over and over again, we were predictable. No Army should ever be predictable. When you opponent knows what you are going to do in advance, you have problems. When I was going home I was with an old Sarge and he asked me where I was going. I told him I was leaving Vietnam. He laughed and said, you may be going home but Vietnam will never leave you.

[@willmears1111]

Thank you for your service to our country. A fellow Vietnam Veteran I Corp. Phu Bai/Hue/Khe Sanh 1967-1969

[@BiC_T-Kno]

I was born on the U.S. Navy base in GTMO Bay Cuba in 1987 my Dad was stationed there for almost 2 years

[@OleDonKedic]

I like how he respects his enemy when talking about the NVA he compliments them for being a "very good army." Of course others are like this but I've seen many that have no respect for the enemy which in my opinion leads to complacency and a lack of combat readiness. Respect to this hero.

[@theroadrunnerjarhead4109]

In my platoon we called the NVA “mister charles,” out of respect for them.

[@camilleespinas2898]

Lt Col. David Yorck sounds like a real prolific and ambitious person that is what America what it is! Thank you for your service. I hope he had time for a family.

[@sanfordpress8943]

That's what I was thinking . What about his family?

[@bruceschulze7487]

Thanks for your service .

[@Jake-ky9ed]

My Dad was a 2nd Lt in Con Thien, May 67, they got over run or pretty big fight, he got shot up pretty bad. Walter Cronkite interviewed him the morning after that fight.

[@christianyorck5062]

Semper Fi Dave Yorck San Diego CA 2 sons in military David Jr Major USMC Peter 101st Airborne

[@pamcampbell6991]

My husband served in Vietnam in 1968, Army. He developed Prostate Cancer from his exposure to Agent Orange and PTSD. (100% disability.) Like you, his family has been serving in the military since 17th century.

[@bobdavidsonm.d.7214]

Same here, drafted in '68' . Just went thru surgery last year. Hope all is well.

[@TCraig00]

My father served in Vietnam the same year. Also exposed to agent orange and also developed prostate cancer this year. Hope they both beat cancer.

[@stardust14pearl91]

🇺🇸Please tell your husband that I thank him so very much for his service.🇺🇸 My soulmate, my grandpa, served in the American Army during the Korean War and my ex-boyfriend served in the U.S. Air Force. They both went to Heaven.

[@brotherbrovet1881]

Almost 400,000 were killed with Agent Orange. My father, and all of his squad and Company who survived their tour in the 199th all we're killed with Agent Orange. The VA doesn't publish the number.

[@johnbell2677]

God bless!!

[@carolancarey992]

thank you sir for sharing your experience, my husband was in Vietnam 68-70 Lt Combat Engineers

[@JoelMMcKinney]

🗽🦅🇺🇲😎🇺🇲🦅🗽

[@mauriceanderson865]

Thank you to your husband for his service

[@jonm2416]

One of the things that always struck me when I would read all these various books of personal accounts in Vietnam was the vast amount of times the enemy would either infiltrate or just stumble into American perimeters..just stepping on guys in the dark or falling into foxholes. Many books have even had accounts of NVA mistakenly identifying the American positions as their own, walking up smiling and paying the ultimate price.

[@michaelbell3939]

Wow I can only imagine

[@MrMr-ws3tv]

The fog of war is real.

[@MWL4466]

What an amazing and interesting man ! It would be such an honor to sit and talk to him and the stories he could tell would leave me spellbound !! All respect to you sir. I'm not American but thank you for your service.

[@andreholmlund1981]

Awsome man, good interview👍🏼

[@JamesBuell88]

My second video of this channel. I'm amazed at how great our men and women are. Thank you for your service sir. Thank you.

[@1murder99]

Glad you made it home. My 7 months in the field with an Infantry company was definitely the most interesting time of my life.

[@michaelseay3812]

"Interesting' thaT is an undserstatement

[@terminallumbago6465]

Also Vietnam?

[@skimmer8774]

My father flew the A-1 aboard the Hancock in the china sea @ 1966. He told me of a few broken arrow calls that came from marines. He was my inspiration and hero. I'm truly proud of you to.

[@cerny4444]

Your dad was/is a hero, thank him for me!

[@skimmer8774]

@@cerny4444 I will in prayer

[@treadhead]

THOSE ON THE GROUND NEEDING " CLOSE AIR SUPPORT " , THOSE BRAVE AVIATORS RESPONDING TO THE CALL WHEN NEEDED .

[@jayjordan3868]

Your dad was a lifesaver and a guardian angel. Thank god for men like him!

[@wireman4029]

My grandfather served in Vietnam, he too was my hero! He taught me the electrical trade when I was 15 in highschool. I am now 39 and am still an electrician. My son shares my grandfather's birthday and got to meet him when he was two. I miss my grandfather's stories...

[@leddielive]

I can't imagine how it feels to lose close friends & just other Marines like this guy did, some 18 lives I believe he said, no wonder he suffered from PTSD. It doesn't matter how rough & tough you are, you can't run away from what's in your head & comes back to haunt you in your sleep night after night. Thank you for your service Marine, semper fi. 🙂🇬🇧

[@MattttG3]

Excellent insight and well put bro. What we do fail to realize is what you stated really is the cause of MUCH of the addiction problems we see in society today. So much of it is just the individual not being able to cope or properly analyze life as it is coming(both good and bad times) My point, I believe so much of the problems in society (American society I only know of ) are caused by us not teaching our youth AT ALL how to deal with both good and bad emotions in a constructive way from the youngest age possible being the starting point. We are not fully realizing how the human brain is subconsciously learning from negative and positive done to them at the complete wrong times and ways

[@lt1nut]

@@MattttG3 Is it "... not being able to cope or properly analyze..." --or-- "... not teaching our youth AT ALL how to deal with [it]..." ? The latter is needed for the prior to occur *but* does not guarantee the desired outcome. The prior is easily/often "interpreted" in a very negative and self-defeating way (by "us"); hopefully that can be realized and was not your intention. (I'm not looking for an argument, rather to inform/help.)

[@frankhinkle5772]

Welcome home sir. A very interesting man and I'd like to hear him talk more about his experiences.

[@r2gelfand]

I could have listened to this gentleman for hours.

[@steveboor1119]

Thank you sir. God bless American Vietnam veterans. Semper Fidelis.

[@vppnbrent]

Bless you David. Thank you for your service.

[@jayjordan3868]

Thank you all who served!!!

[@edwardh1591]

Thank you for your service

[@danielcotts8673]

Major battle at An Loc in 1972. Many Arc Light strikes. I'll bet those neat rows of rubber trees were rearranged. Welcome Home, Sir.

[@spazz743]

Amazing man! The utmost respect sir! At the age you experienced this I could not relate! Respect!!!

[@michaelseay3812]

Respect

[@Dulceysalada]

With deep respect and gratitude for your service Lt. Col. Yorck, I humbly need to point out that Angel Castro, Fidel’s father was the furthest thing from a doctor humanly possible. The man was a farmer who was able to become wealthy by a series of astute business dealings. Castro was the son of Angel’s second partner, a common law wife who had been his mistress and maid. While Angel was always a very hard worker, rather than an aristocratic high society family, they were more like the Cuban Hillbillies a la The Beverly Hillbillies.

[@wayne8276]

Thank you Sir . Words cannot express my respect I have for your commitment and Duty . My brother a Marine in Vietnam served with One Nine . Walking Dead . 67... 68. God Bless you .

[@michealhelber7435]

Thank you for sharing best wishes to you and your family

[@jamiecalder5459]

Thank you sir for your service 🇺🇸

[@rtrobinson88321]

Thank you for your service sir. God bless you

[@tlpoutdoorsman]

Best informative interview to date

[@mikeneave18]

You know your a legit bad ass when marines nickname u the beast.

[@alethamobley6688]

Thank You for your service sir

[@sactomoto9108]

Thank you sir for your service.

[@bopowers5534]

Learned a lot of history here, thank you.

[@michaelseay3812]

Thankyou for your service

[@DyanBermeo]

Wow his family line was in Operation Valkyrie

[@kevinh9110]

Some have said that daytime patrols were bad in Iraq too...

[@waltertx.6020]

Thank you for your service LTC. ( a MUSTANG 🐎) AWESOME JOB SIR! 🇺🇲

[@jacobpettes335]

When he says they were under bombardment by nva, I wonder exactly what type of artillery did nva have? Is it your typical long distance field guns or is it smaller mortars?

[@jcmangan]

"You don`t want to become a Yorck, do you?" General Hans Speidel to Fieldmarshal Rommel on the eve of Normandy battle

[@michaelhendershot4984]

2/12. 3rd Mar Div. I was there... Con Thien. 66-67-68... what a mess it was... a lot of death for sure...

[@georgemcadoo8546]

We didn't have to shave at Khe Sahn, or on the hills to the North of the Combat Base. We shaved at Vandergrift, when it was still called LZ Stud, only because our water wasn't rationed.

[@bobdavidsonm.d.7214]

Right on.

[@mosin9105]

Thank you

[@roscoe74]

Mike Co. 3d battalion seventh Marines. 1968-69. The Marine corps made me a man.

[@treadhead]

DEVIL DOG LEATHERNECK JOHN , THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE & ONCE A MARINE , ALWAYS A MARINE !!!!!!

[@terminallumbago6465]

Thank you for your service.

[@roscoe74]

Under paid under fed professional teenage professional killers.

[@kingofmphs]

Thank you for your service against Communism.

[@marklangkamp3151]

Thank you LTC, I’ve told people for years that it was a religious war, I was up north in 69 and then down to Saigon in 70s worked driving around and checking out movements of NVA and supplies into the the city and areas. I was young but I learned so much from the officer’s in charge although I loved the job I was scared sh-t less most of the time so much so I stayed until February 71 I guess it was the rush that kept me there but it was still better than running up down a hill taking it and then giving it back the next day, I guess they needed something to make a movie about? next time I hope they let me be in the movie and let someone else see how it’s really like. My family are also Roman Catholic, Germans from Mecklenburg and against Hitler. 101st Airborne all the way 716 MP Bn. Also both good Army Units

[@ericmowrey6872]

I'm sorry but your post sounds like total stolen valor bs. None of it makes any sense. So you "drove" around tracking NVA supply movements? Did you have some sort of invisible jeep with a silent motor? You went up north then south to Saigon. That's pretty vague. Was it the DMV up north? Did you hold off an entire NVA division single- handedly with just your M-16 and a knife, then drive down to Saigon? You can't even get the 101st Airborne slogan correct. I'll tell you what it ain't. It ain't a slogan that has the words "all the way" in it. Mister, you're about as phony as a six dollar bill. Your writing is barely literate, with a long run-on sentence devoid of any punctuation. Yet you claim to have driven all over Vietnam tracking the enemy. Let me guess. You were with the CIA. Then you became a navy SEAL. You have so many medals that there's only room on your fake uniform for half of them. You were "in country" longer than general Westmorland. Truly impressive bs.

[@ashleymarie7452]

Very believable. I salute you sir!

[@DSWL_]

this man played big roles in big situations obviously

[@camilleespinas2898]

My Viet Nam husband , helicopter gunman, died last year of bladder cancer.

[@casperblue3668]

Thank you for your service you're brave and one of the many heroes your experiences are amazing is there a book?

[@michaelseay3812]

A bright and shinning star by col john james van

[@michaeldouglas1243]

Outstanding video. Admire what you have done for our freedoms

[@kdolo100]

Salutes to the PAVN!

[@chopperchopper1418]

Watch, ' Veitnam War Dogs ' a tear jerker.

[@michealhelber7435]

Thanks for sharing best wishes for you and family

[@joelpierce3940]

Thank You for your Patriotism, Sir.

[@kibblesnbits3174]

Goddamn once a Marine always a Marine. From keeping the Marine Corps traditional grooming standards at war, to literally fighting for his men. One hell of an Officer

[@pozn9962]

13:00 the Mountain People, my beloved HMONG PEOPLE.. ♥️

[@drmarkintexas-400]

🏆🏆🏆👍🇺🇲🙏 Thank you for sharing

[@christianyorck5062]

What a leader 😅

[@riverbender9898]

I salute you Sir.

[@XHollisWood]

Incredible family history, thank you for sharing, sacrifice, courage and answer the call to serve🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@Dee-nonamnamrson8718]

This is the type of person that should be president.

[@Ratclan]

Completely agree. They know empathy, they understand what it means to make “tough” decisions with life and death involved. He knows how to care and how to fight. A real leader that tells the truth of his life and experience.

[@diptimangautam5533]

A very intelligent man. Wonder if he has any academic papers. I hadn't paid attention to the religious angle in the Vietnam War.

[@billr2375]

Marine Corps experience better than his 20 years with Xerox? I like that...I did 30 in Corporate America, never the trust, commradrie, teamwork I found in just 2 years in the Military. Nice though, not to have bulletts coming at you when at work--but I think I get his drift. Thanks for the stories, the WW2 part, your connection with Hitler assassination, all of it.

[@antisocialjusticewarrior2073]

We defeated the wrong enemy in that world War... lol look around... they fought for drag time story time being pushed on your grandchildren, are you happy ?

[@Mytubehereat]

I'm told that saluting in the field shows any enemy snipers in the area who's in command. Anyone that's saluting you either doesn't know that yet, or doesn't like you very much. Never be 3rd on a match.

[@JILOA]

The Marines had it rough in Vietnam. I had friend who told me stories. He had 27 confirmed kills. To this day he has to go the the VA because of ptsd. He gave me a picture of his squad standing under a flag pole. At the top of the flag pole was a skull with a boonie hat on. They named it Bogart "the head". He said after they killed the N. Vietamese soldier they cut his head off, and left it in the bush until the bugs cleaned it down to the bone. He said the reason they mutilated the corpses - "we did to them what they did to us". Sorry if my post was a little graphic but that's just the way things were in the Nam. I am a Vietnam war 'era' vet too. Army was my branch of service.

[@SGobuck]

My dad was in 2/7 cav from December 67 to December 68. He didn't have it much better, and they had their own "mascot" , but they weren't patient enough to let the bugs clean it so they boiled it.

[@JILOA]

@@SGobuck That was an insane war. It was all about 'body count'. In that jungle environment it didn't take very long for the elements to do it's work on that head.

[@wireman4029]

When they started pulling troops out of Vietnam, it was because the war started to become unprofitable for the politicians because their support for the war was dwindling.

[@harryhatter2962]

The problem was that in Vietnam, the Americans measured success in the numbers of the enemy killed and their tactics were to draw them out in large numbers so they could (hopefully) kill them,, in large numbers...the only problem with this policy was that was stupid!

[@Jleed989]

It would have helped if the locals didn’t keep tipping the enemy off to where you were

[@DonnyfromLG]

The fact that agent orange was ever used in any environment let alone a densely forested area of Vietnam is disgusting.

[@cswammock]

Everything that happens in war is disgusting.

[@akompsupport]

Where to learn more about the CIA IBM targeting lists computerization> ?

[@OpinionatedPeach]

I can’t imagine the things he has seen during his 28 years at Xerox. That’s actually his joke but he made me a copy. Hey oh. I’ll stop now.

[@TEN89_jburney]

Respect

[@carolecarr5210]

Interesting family history & he was a true American.

[@grahamcox8385]

The thing that annoys me is that this is a man who is definitely for real when some comments say this guy fought in the same war but can't give a time,place or even what unit he was in, to lie about something that is so difficult for someone to remember and recover from is just atrocious, the people who do this are not worth the time or effort

[@christianyorck5062]

H 2/9 1967 K 3/4 1968 and CO L/3/4 1968 Battalion Commander 5/14 1987-1989 Is this information helpful Dave German Name Yorck von Wartenburg Check in Encyclopedia☘️👍

[@tnwhiskey68]

Huh? I started to understand what you are saying but the middle gets gobbled up and loses me..

[@putiger57]

LtCol Yorck going through Prostrate Cancer Treatment from Agent Orange Vietnamb SORRY

[@thomaswayneward]

"I didn't want to win the war, but just wanted to make a showing, so they would know we meant business"; LBJ. Sargent W., Danang, 1968-1969.

[@JoelMMcKinney]

AMERICA! 🇺🇲🦅🗽🦅🇺🇲

[@laserprawn]

The South Koreans, under American supervision, successfully hunted about 200,000 communists in just a few ditches in the summer of 1950.

[@thomaswayneward]

They hunted a lot of communist Vietnamese also.

[@marianotorrespico2975]

Nick Halme -- CORRECT. | . . . and some of them were grown men.

[@TCraig00]

The south koreans were the most efficient units in Vietnam.

[@thomaswayneward]

@@marianotorrespico2975 sixteen year olds can kill you just as quick as a sixty year old.

[@zacyoung4446]

Just gotta point out and ask why he pointed out the second world war around the 7:30 mark

[@putiger57]

God Bless for all Americans that die for Freedom against Communists and Nazis.

[@fifthbusiness1678]

Interesting man. His interpretation of the Vietnamese war as a ‘religious’ war, however, is both unfounded and wrong. 10% of the population - both north and south - could be considered Catholic. Unlike Buddhists, Catholics in general were not persecuted for their religion. Dien, his cronies and his successors may have been Catholics, but first and foremost they were rabid anti-Communists - their religion had little to do with their hatred of the North Vietnamese.

[@tabo01]

It was the VietNamese war of independence, and we stuck our nose in.

[@terminallumbago6465]

@@tabo01 Should have never been there imo. A lot of lives lost for nothing. Nevertheless, the way many Vietnam vets were treated after the war was despicable (especially since many of them didn’t have a choice in the matter).

[@putiger57]

@@terminallumbago6465 All war is over economics, power and control. IMO it w\will never change

[@mbp7060]

Wow, semper fi.

[@briangoldy8784]

My Neighbor,,,,,,,,,PFC USMC. Paul Edward Allard,,,,,,,,,,Killed in Action,,,,April, 1969, South Vietnam , Enemy Groundfire, Love You, Buddy, 😞

[@henryh8797]

And make no mistake about it justice will prevail

[@secondswell]

When was this filmed?

[@putiger57]

March 2022 When LtCol was going to UCSD Cancer Radiation Treatments

[@MrDavesbox1]

Semper Fi sir

[@vtlomboy]

Can you imagine the people of the countries we attack and burn their houses down kill their moms, dads kids , then we get bored and go home, but the people we just ruined their lives, can one imagine what kind of PTSD they must have. Really a guy goes and does a 12 month tour and now he has PTSD for life

[@Kevin-dc5cq]

Did he say that Hitler was assinated ? The deciders have always sad that Hitler offed himself along with his 304; Ava Braughn 🤯.

[@Rökström]

Do you hear what you want to hear? Ava Braughn 🤭 Conspiracy nutter 🤣

[@roderickstockdale1678]

Eva Braun

[@paulryan2128]

Hitler wasn't assinated; there was an assination attempt in the Fall of 1944 organized by a colonel Stauffenburg which was unsuccessful. He made reference to THAT. Hitler died in May 1945 of a self-applied bullet to head.

[@YouTube.Algorithmic.Nonsense]

I think he misspoke. He meant assassination attempt. When asked, he was talking about it before he misspoke.

[@roderickstockdale1678]

304?

[@Snow-tm9ic]

Just imagine even the Vietnam war which was fought in the 60s looks so old. Time sure flies but how much have we advanced since then? US is still involving itself in countries like Russia and China which they shouldn't.

[@Snow-tm9ic]

@Boss Drunk on American propaganda.

[@carolecarr5210]

Disgracefully what our country put these men through, & what we did to VietNam.

[@chocolatefrenzieya]

This is the kind of leader you follow to hell and back.

[@robertbandusky9565]

I think that was in the “Partots Beak” area of III corp? I remember flying into the rubber plantations? 🇺🇸

[@linguist8623]

Quantico, VA: FBI training center location.

[@jcmangan]

Not bad for a German.

[@ras8514]

Still 2,000,000+ innocent civilians Were killed in this war.

[@FewGuysFromFloida]

That’s on McNamara and the other war hawks that brought the US into and sent it’s sons to die in a war we had no place in. You also have to consider the draft… a lot of them boys didn’t even have a choice. They were just poor.

[@ras8514]

I know that My point is that american imperialism propagates invasion of sovereign countries And Americans kill civilians Just like other countries like the invasion of Russia recently And just like Russia says that it must be done for some other reason...that's propaganda for internal consumption the american propaganda Americans are unaware that it's fed propaganda just like most third world countries

[@paulhetherington3854]

Or in, S Vietnam - the ABV = Family chat room! Or 3-2 day patrols. Yeah, DIEN FU - Xanadoo! I'm Dien / my lady Xan.

[@wallaceb9120]

Disgracefully what our country put these men through, & what we did to VietNam....another no win war..just like Afghanistan etc.

[@roderickstockdale1678]

I agree, we should have pledged war on Saudi Arabia, protecting our corrupt interests.

[@NeoViper64]

Hand to hand Jesus

[@LBGirl1988]

❤🇺🇸

[@oinn8003]

80 million of them and our kind is shrinking every day…waste of blood