"Better Monkeys than the NVA" - Dealing With Wildlife in Vietnam

[@DontMeanNothin]

To watch John's full interview visit: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mXrceXR9ic9pqMk

[@stuwest3653]

These centipedes don't get that large and they are not deadly. There are no orangutans in Vietnam. This man is lying and the thumbnail is fake.

[@DevotedDisciple-x]

@@DontMeanNothin Thank you! I'm there!

[@randall1959]

Ironically, I think a pack of monkeys is called a troop

[@BernardoTorres-w5e]

What a great irony and what an apropos comment

[@mr.pavone9719]

That is ironic indeed. Thank you for using the word correctly.

[@BLOXKAFELLARECORDS]

What an epic comment and epic reply so apropos #johnnyx100 new song FIGHT NIGHT is out now.

[@ghostmantagshome-er6pb]

Troup yes.

[@MichaelLongstreet]

You talking about north vietnamese monkeys? Lol 😂😂😂😂 good one!!

[@fredericklockard3854]

I spent 7 months in the deserts of Iraq and I spent a few weeks at jungle warfare school in Panama. I can say unequivocally I’d rather be in the desert. The jungle is a different kind of hell.

[@Yeah_eatsht]

You are absolutely telling the truth....

[@bluv6430]

Lovely FT.Sherman.

[@joshuaortiz2031]

I was in the desert of Kuwait for a year in the service. As a Florida boy I think the humid tropics and subtropics are still worse. The everglades in the summer with all the mosquitoes and snakes is worse then any desert.

[@Dead_Again1313]

Semper Fi

[@PissyKnish]

You ran all the way to desert to get away from the gay thoughts?

[@kfiscal01]

My old man got bit by a rat while sleeping, it was chewing on his hand while sleeping in the bush. He had to get out and go through rabies protocol. 45 years later he was attacked by a rabid cat and had to get the shots again! He said the new shots were much easier than the old ones! 😅

[@8kigana]

hahahaha too funny. I had a mouse nibble my hair in a hut late at night early morning. I Managed to scare it off eventually . Woke up and walked outside the hut and as a kid just was amazed. Under the thatched roof, bats all under around the whole roofing, and below the hut I realized I saw holes all around the hut. Like it was built on a mouse empire. I am 54 and I remember this like yesterday.

[@MynameisDUmass]

Folks said the same shit, I guess the needles 💉 was thicker way back then instead of thinner nowadays. That's a scary thought 😂😢

[@70stunes71]

The old shots I believe were put into a humans abdomen

[@vxy357]

Rats aren't vectors for rabies.

[@YungFondo]

@@vxy357plague maybe

[@arthurbrumagem3844]

Saw a tiger in my night scope once, woke me up good. Snakes were a daily occurrence but rats bothered me more. My squad leader had to get rabies shots due to a rat bite ,173rd Airborne, 1968

[@DontMeanNothin]

@@arthurbrumagem3844 thank you for your service!

[@arthurbrumagem3844]

@@DontMeanNothin 👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@5150_MiniBikes]

Thank you for your service sir. Welcome home.

[@postiticeland8783]

Sad thing is tigers in Vietnam went extinct because of the war

[@arthurbrumagem3844]

@@postiticeland8783 the war certainly didn’t help their populations but not sure the war was the only reason . Good point though.

[@jimmccormick6091]

I worked with a guy (Vietnamese), who walked down fron the North, and made it out of Sagon at the end. He was 8 or 9 at this time, and, he shared with us how HUNGRY he and everyone else got. These people weren't soldiers, they were refugees, and nobody was giving them anything. He and the other people resorted to eating whatever they could catch and or kill and cook. He told me about those giant centipedes, and, of course, it gave me the heebie jeeebies, but, it was like he said, when you get REALLY hungry, you will do what you have to do.

[@ted.angell7609]

That’s why that internet meme is so silly: “What food is so gross to you that you would never ever eat it?”. Only someone who has never truly been hungry could entertain such a question.

[@Whoitbay1898]

​@@ted.angell7609I'm never eating a giant centipede they're getting shot to a Red mist on site😢

[@DongWang-m4n]

@@Whoitbay1898 That is what you say now when your belly is nice and full but if go into starvation your body and specifically a part in your brain will actually change to being similar to reptile because of starvation. All your sense of disgust or revulsion disappears and anything that moves is potential prey (food). I know of this personally because I have eaten everything you can imagine when I was living in north korea during the famine. We ate everything you can imagine when our crops failed. Everything was gone and eaten, e.g., cat, dog, rat, snake, bird, every bug or insect but we don't have centipede in north korea and whatever else. Then after that it was the tree barks, grasses, and we even cooked leather from shoes and belts and bags. It was usually old, very young, or sickly people that started to die first and some people would cut meat off these bodies and sell as "wild pig" but there was suspicion it was a human meat, but we ate it anyway. When authorities found out of this, meat sellers were arrested and killed on the spot. And when other people in my village found out, me and family became like a pariah. My family knew we were in danger of also arrest and possible execution if they knew we ate human meat so we escaped into china, which was even more dangerous. China sends back refugee from NKorea and usually it is long prison sentence or death. They are cruel, evil devils who will also keep young girl or women to sell into sex slavery or to be sold to marry chinaman since they have a huge shortage of chinawomen. Anyway, we made our way down to thailand and stayed there for a while but was eventually able to live in the U.S. because of former president Bush's North Korean Human Rights Act he created and signed into law to help refugees like me and family. When I first came to U.S. and got off the plane, a man in a car met us and drove us to our first residence and we were startled and wondered if we had mistakenly come to Africa because there so many neegro ws in this big city, it looked like a Planet of the Apes movie. I always thought U.S.A. was a white country so you can imagine. Anyway, after we got settled we were given food assistance voucher/ card but unfortunately this was not enough to cover the food needs of us, so I would grab a stray cat or dog if I ever saw one and take it home for us to supplement our diet. I know most Americans, especially whites think I'm very cruel or disgusting but all of you will be eating rats, dogs, roaches, and each other one day when it happens.

[@johnk.7523]

​@@Whoitbay1898 This. 100%.

[@mikeoxhard3826]

@@ted.angell7609genuinely glad i cant relate.

[@eric4232]

Thank you and all of the Vets who where in Nam.

[@whytry777]

Tosha

[@whytry777]

My uncle bill hurier was there

[@zyourzgrandzmaz]

If you ever meet a Vietnam vet say welcome home. It means a lot as they were literally egged etc when they got back originally cus of stupid hippies calling them murderer's etc

[@CuttySX455]

My sentiments exactly ! Thank You for your service !

[@YungFondo]

@@zyourzgrandzmazfair dues i guess

[@sardonicus76]

My dad tells a story about his second week in country. His platoon had received a report about enemy movement and was sent out on patrol. They were walking down a dirt road outside the perimeter when they saw this kid (maybe 12-14 years old) carrying a huge snake, draped over his shoulders. My dad said it was the biggest snake he’d ever seen in his life, at least eight feet long. He looked over at his platoon mates and said, “Where’s he goin’ with that thing?”. There was a black guy from Missouri in his outfit and he said, “Sheeeit. You know the whole village gonna be eatin’ good, tonight!”. They all cracked up.

[@DontMeanNothin]

That's a wild one 😂

[@drewinsur7321]

Love comments like these it remembers me of the book Dispatches lol

[@dalewalker5845]

Thank you and all the others who served in Vietnam

[@MrRamazanLale2]

For what 😂😂

[@72marshflower15]

Not in my name.

[@tomfilipiak3511]

@@MrRamazanLale2 punk

[@tomfilipiak3511]

@@MrRamazanLale2 punk

[@horacio-ho3bf]

​@@MrRamazanLale2for stopping others on the other side of the world finding freedom in the name of freedom for Dow Chemical, Exxon, etc.

[@1sh1kll91]

Much respect for the Vietnam veterans.

[@72marshflower15]

Not in my name. They did horrible things for lies.

[@reycesarcarino4653]

What about the US Veterans

[@jefferyrightmire9520]

God bless and keep every one of our veterans.

[@gregtennessee8249]

Trump dodged the draft. Mocked you people for going to Vietnam.

[@BrunoBoy3913]

I remember the big cats, the scorpions, the snakes, the mongooses, the rats.

[@8kigana]

That centipede looks scarier than a snake with all those legs, unreal.

[@buzz5969]

I remember the women who loved me long time

[@B126USMC]

I still hate snakes to this day.

[@T-SwiftsMaritalAid]

Mongeese

[@tyson9419]

…and that was growing up in Barstow!

[@babaoreally8220]

In ‘68,west of Chu Lai our aero scout team was being followed for some time,stopped,deployed in ambush positions in the heavy jungle.The team was charged by a 200lb Bengal Tiger,which was shot dead.When we extracted them they loaded it on the Huey,posed for pictures at base camp.I read that several soldiers were taken by these predators during the war.Personally,I got lanced when I snatched a giant water beetle out of a rice paddy,unaware of their toxicity.Five months later I was still peeling dead skin from my hand.All of the creatures there seemed to be of abnormally large size.I saw one of these at jungle school,but never encountered one with my unit.

[@DontMeanNothin]

We'd happily come talk to you. Email us at [e-mail]

[@robertbellemore3483]

The largest centipede in Vietnam is a Vietnam Giant centipede which grows to 8 in and its bite (Sting)is non-lethal unless you're allergic. Nothing happens if it walks on you.😮

[@davidkeeton6716]

That centipede in the thumbnail is the one that Barnes was going to put in Juniors pants in PLATOON.

[@tyson9419]

Yeah that’s fake

[@FlyForever9003]

That one crawling around in the ammo boxes. 😂

[@matawie]

He i walk man!

[@mossbogger8366]

It’s not fake it’s forced perspective. The giant centipede is actually a foot a half long like the guy in the vid said, but it’s dangling from the end of a long stick that is pointing towards the camera and they’re making it look like he’s holding the centipede but he’s hold the stick

[@diavolossilhouette8274]

@@tyson9419like he said. Forced perspective. A 20inch centipede is pure nightmare fuel

[@Bryan-cs9to]

My uncle who served 2 tours w/ the 101st Airborne had some disturbing stories of Vietnam's wildlife and jungles.

[@ChillinVillin-in7sj]

Hi,Viet-Vet here.Got bit by a mongoose,while sleeping(LZ Baldy)had to have full round of rabies shots. Coming into LZ Baldy,on a huey,we had to swerve from what we thought was a telephone pole,turns out,it was a cobra(snake)taking strikes at our chopper,lucky we swerved or it would have brought us down. Lastly,as I was crossing an irrigation canal,an 18-20 ft. reticulated python missed the heel of my boot by inches(had one foot on the bank and had just pulled my foot from the stream). It’s head was huge with dagger like white teeth pointed backwards.🀄️

[@willrowe6088]

A cobra, the size of a telephone pole, about to bring a helicopter down. What a story

[@brandstradamus]

Damn

[@jayhache5609]

@@willrowe6088There’s a photo by a very reputable Belgian helo pilot of a 50-foot-plus snake taken in the Congo in 1959. So, it could have happened! ; )

[@willrowe6088]

@jayhache5609 That is not, in any way, a cobra. It is insane I have to point out such things.

[@justaguy5770]

That's an insane sized cobra, I guess when the prey is large the predators get larg

[@robbo3106]

Tilt is the man. Respect from 🇬🇧

[@fellspoint9364]

John is the best story teller ever. The best thing is the stories are all true. He has lived it.

[@bruanlokisson8615]

Well, most of them are.

[@Gmann97]

I have a huge amount of respect for the guy, but there are no Orangutans in Vietnam, the centipedes don’t get over 12inches and are very rarely fatal, also tigers are functionally extinct in Vietnam. But yeah he’s a great story teller, just remember it is just a story.

[@T-SwiftsMaritalAid]

Right…Vietnamese centipedes are more like 8 inches long and their bites are more like wasp stings

[@fellspoint9364]

There are Vietnam era photos online of American soldiers with tigers that were killed in the field. Also, he’s not the first guy with the tiger story. What’s his motivation to be a bullshit artist ?

[@T-SwiftsMaritalAid]

@@fellspoint9364 what’s anyone’s? There are millions lol. Doesn’t matter what they do for a living they still love to be

[@joe9743]

This older guy I worked for years back was a tunnel rat in Vietnam. He told me he was more afraid of snakes whenever he went in a tunnel more so than the enemy or even booby traps

[@JohnLee-jk5ew]

Keep up the good work Tilt!

[@PS987654321PS]

Centipede bites are very, very rarely fatal. Almost unheard of.

[@qwargy]

Probably not but you’d certainly get sick and compromised to the point where you were at additional risk.

[@stanislavpetrov5955]

Right, because you can be quickly taken to a nearby hospital. These guys were out in the bush, far from medical care, in hot and humid conditions that exasperate any debilitation conditions that they are already experiencing.

[@ry-land-]

@@stanislavpetrov5955Reddit says the photo in the thumbnail has been debunked by the guys son and he said they made it look larger. That being said you probably have a point. Dehydrated , little medical attention, extreme pain causing screaming = VC coming. Fatal for different reasons

[@punothebear]

Coyote Peterson let a giant desert centipede bite him. He was in a lot of pain but in no danger of dying. As a Vietnam veteran I have heard a bunch of stories and they get amplified with each telling. Some of us had difficult, frightening times but few of us had it as bad as Marines fighting on the South Pacific Islands during WW2. I have never heard WW2 vets cry as much as we Vietnam Veterans do. A tour in country was a year unless you re-upped for more. The WW2 Vets were in for the duration of the war and didn't get much R & R.

[@daletowler1354]

we had snakes, cobras, rats as big as a house cat.. 9th Inf Div. delta Co.

[@mikesuch9021]

Monkeys Don't Surf.

[@TheBackslash66]

lmfa o my gawd!!

[@doorswhofan]

Now that, sir, is what we call genius. 😀

[@DevotedDisciple-x]

I could listen to this guy all day! What a great speaker!

[@marksmith3991]

Id like to think that orangutan flipped people off for the rest of the war.

[@BrianRidgway-u5g]

This is amazing history that we would not ordinarily hear. Thank you!

[@ISISareDemocrats]

🤖🤖🤖

[@Ndnlover]

I heard of a vet that got bit by a snake got 100% disabilty. Also any animal bite in the military warrants disability pay..The unknown future of health issue I understand is why..Stay safe and thanks for your service..

[@karlmadsen3179]

This guy has the best stories ever. What is incredible is that he lived to tell them.

[@mandovapehater6988]

I've seen pictures of Vietnam when my dad was there. They had a little monkey of some kind living with them in their tent. He said he was bad to steal stuff and hide it. 😂

[@kc-6837]

Never get out of the boat!

[@travishobart1186]

GREAT reference. What a movie!

[@LithiumSurfboard]

"I just wanted a fucking mango!" or something to that effect. 😀

[@kc-6837]

@@travishobart1186 Thanks, it was!

[@AllenZomberg]

"Absolutely goddamn right"

[@FirstLast-ff7qx]

My old mans buddy in nam got bit by a centipede on his armpit. He said it was so swollen his arm was just stickin straight out. N my gradfather was stung by a scorpion on his back in north africa ww2. Both survived.

[@CandC68]

Behind the Yard camp at FOB2 we had 5" long centipedes the Yards pointed out. "Roll on them in sleep, they burn you." they said. Yup, i tested it. Each segment had two holes the sprayed acid, if they were disturbed.

[@DontMeanNothin]

Email us at [e-mail] to set up an interview :D

[@eduardosuarez2414]

Picture in the thumbnail is a prank, the centipede is being held up closer to the camera. That thing would have to be 2 feet long which would be unheard of. Although I just had an idea for a nam horror movie where some experimental Agent Orange prototype makes all the bugs huge.

[@Azazel2024]

They are over a foot long . Up to one and a 1/ 4 feet or 16 inches

[@mortenfrosthansen84]

I have to disagree... The shadow casted onto his arm and shoulder would suggest otherwise. It looks more like it's from a movie

[@eduardosuarez2414]

@@mortenfrosthansen84 ? the shadow on his arm and shoulder is from his head. Anyway, if you look it up, it's been, dare I say, "debunked," and also a guy on reddit said it was his dad doing a prank.

[@mortenfrosthansen84]

@@eduardosuarez2414 Off course some guy guy on reddit knows the truth.. naturally. Why didn't you just say that to begin with? It is just so believable The notion about the shadow, shows that your statement about camera position and angle, is not valid.

[@eduardosuarez2414]

@@mortenfrosthansen84 What's the more likely scenario - that it's a 3 foot long centipede that has never been recorded before or since, or that it was some guys goofing off with some fishing line? Go ahead and believe it if you want, it's fun to have recreational beliefs sometimes.

[@jvt_redbaronspeaks4831]

Thank you for your service!

[@nomaderic]

My dad was a vietnam vet. I never noticed any lingering effects or flashbacks or anything. Except for one night. He jumped up out of his sleep and started stomping the floor and hitting the ground with a broom. When we finally calmed him down he said he was back in vietnam and the giant centipedes and jungle rats were crawling on him. He said the whole vietcong combined wasnt as scary as that damn centipede. He said the rats were scary because many had rabies and ppl in the platoon were bit and came down with it.

[@stvargas69]

Sounds like that line outta Apocalypse Now Even the jungle wanted him dead

[@smileydog5941]

During the filming of that movie, the set actually had the occasional tiger stalking them

[@gearViewmirror]

@@smileydog5941 Wasn't that movie shot in the Philippines, where there are no wild tigers....?

[@smileydog5941]

@@gearViewmirror I went to fact check myself after you check mated me. So that was something I read in an article many years ago. Searching it on google does lead to results but when you click on the few leads, it leads to retracted articles. Now I'm seeing everything from a Filipino worker killed by a falling log, to a Filipino worker killed by rabies on the set of the movie. Lots of blunder (tropic blunders?) during the filming of that movie, so naturally a lot of myths surround that movie, including the tiger story.

[@smileydog5941]

@@gearViewmirror After searching, it most likley is a rumor, but here is one article that tells of the tiger story. Search Daily Mail: "The maddest movie ever: Why Apocalypse Now is the finest film of modern times"

[@11bravo13]

Trooper forever 🇺🇸 Thanks for your service Brother!

[@B126USMC]

Rats over there are huge. The mosquitoes, if several land on you, bite you at the same time, take off at the same time after biting you; they together could carry you away

[@davidkeeton6716]

Kinda like the ones in Alabama. The Alabama state bird is a mosquito.

[@bobbys4327]

Yeah, when a mosquito can bite through a jungle boot, it's time to GTFO!

[@darksoulquis5643]

That’s crazy could even imagine thank you sir

[@TheGroveinator]

Wow amazing to hear stories like this from the war, first for me

[@jerrodbeck1799]

Thank you, sir for your service 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@alexanderwalle3568]

A Flock of Monkeys was a great band I remember from high school.

[@FarmerDrew]

Arctic Monkeys preferable to Jungle Monkeys

[@JollyRoger-no7ps]

Yeah, they had that hit song called “ I swung, I swung so far away!”

[@alexanderwalle3568]

I coincidentally just heard that song in Food Lion where I noticed crackers in the chips aisle--it was a pocket of the store they obviously never clean, that, again, took awhile to amass such an obvious mess--if it was clear to me, all that shit in there, it was also obvious to them.

[@markrussrll1908]

God bless you guys that had to go over there and those that chose to go over there. What a mess God bless America and may all your souls be blessed🙏🇺🇲

[@LAT-qk3vj]

Subscribed 😄

[@DontMeanNothin]

Thank you! More interviews coming soon.

[@danmaddox2849]

Is that a real photo in the thumbail? Ive been living in Thailand, but I didn't know they got that big lol

[@LLSO4998]

They Don't

[@drewlovelyhell4892]

Someone said it's a prank photo. The bug is much closer to the camera than the soldier. Presumably hanging on a thread.

[@Daniel-wd4jg]

I had a bloody tampon stick to my forehead on my janitorial route before my Youth Pastor service one Sunday.

[@spikesification]

Booby trap…you were lucky…thank you for your service 🫡

[@willrowe6088]

That was your Vietnam huh

[@shoelessb4515]

Bleshu my son.

[@michaeldineenSG2018]

John is such a great guy.

[@dennistate5953]

Thank you.

[@minutemartialarts3152]

I never thought about the wildlife in Vietnam. Didn't realize they had Tigers!

[@PhilMcCrackin-f3n]

I didnt know they had Orangutans either ; ]

[@barryminor6245]

There are so many things you, I, or anyone else don't know and never will... Applies to everyone it's impossible for hue_man''s to know everything. Another factor is that "information" is a commodity it's traded bought & sold, stolen, hidden, misgiven, controlled.

[@tonyverdechi9157]

There's a scene with one in Apocalypse now.

[@762Super]

Never get off the boat!😅​@@tonyverdechi9157

[@allseeingotto2912]

@@tonyverdechi9157 Never get off the boat .

[@BlazingShackles]

I like how he says those centipedes were over a foot long and holds his hands 3 feet apart to show us. War stories get longer every time they're told.

[@laniakea22]

Thanks Dennis Grove

[@JustinPorter-w8z]

I do not know if picture is real. It looks to be over 2 feet. 30 years ago I was in the southern coast of Spain at a farm. A man killed in front of me a centipede that was about 16 inches long. Body 2 inches wide without the legs. The body was a beautiful green and yellow legs. Hard to kill and it was freaking fast. That is the first and last time I have ever seen a bug that large.

[@sempergumby8734]

I remember sleeping on my HMMWV in Fallujah. Woke up in the middle of the night to scuffing on the ground. Used my NVGs to look and saw Camel Spiders all over 😂

[@urcookin]

That’s a very generous foot long.

[@littlemark01]

Unbelievable sacrifices made by these fine Americans

[@alonzocalvillo6702]

Same thing happened to me while on OP (observation post) .I was keeping an eye out for any movement to my front when I heard rustling in the bush to my front.I got on the radio to alert my CO when I found out it was monkeys . For a while there I thought that was it for me.

[@DontMeanNothin]

Thank you for your service! If you'd like to sit down with us to tell your story, shoot us an email at [e-mail].

[@frankrodriguez6178]

My dad was in the 173 airborne. He told me about the monkeys. after I was teasing my son when we were at the zoo about the monkeys getting him my dad wasn’t too happy about me telling him that.

[@LifeAboveTreeLine99]

Crocs are known in that area, I would love to know why there has never been any reporting on crocs attacking soldiers and better yet why not

[@waxedearth5425]

My dad told me a story about someone throwing a krait (sea snake) into a barracks as a joke. Apparently they’re real venomous. That centipede is no joke though..

[@bio-plasmictoad5311]

Some sea snakes are probably the second most venomous snakes no jokes.

[@LLSO4998]

@@bio-plasmictoad5311 Banded Kraits are not sea snakes , but very deadly and Thailand is home to several species.

[@RichardFriendartist]

My dad was in the 1st Infantry over in Vietnam. He told me a few times about having to shoot huge spiders that would destroy (I think phone lines) It's been a while since we talked about it. But I remember him saying they were gigantic and they'd shoot them down with m16 rifles.

[@DontMeanNothin]

Tell him thank you for your service from us when you can. If he's interested in sitting down with us sometime, feel free to send us an email at [e-mail]. - Kyle

[@spaceweezr]

I’ve been thinking abt this centipede for YEARSSSS

[@BADD1ONE]

My dad was in nam for 4 tours. He has recounted horror stories to me. But he complained mostly about elephant grass.

[@williamking951]

BAMBOO is no joke either. Bamboo poisoning and jungle rot , no fun, you get to see your bones. No one mentioned the elephants, rhinos, lizards the length of a car, spiders, ants, and termites. Oh yeah the centipedes do get that big and worms a yard long and 2 inches around.

[@justsumguy8193]

Is the thing he's holding up in the thumbnail real and if so what is it?

[@DontMeanNothin]

Centipede. It's a real photo but we have no idea if the guy in it is short or the photo angle makes it look bigger. Hard to say

[@skylaneav8r902]

I find the orangutan story interesting. There are comments below saying orangutans were extinct in Vietnam by the 1960s. I believe the guy in the video because of a story told to me firsthand… I used to work with a gentleman who was in the field artillery in Vietnam during 1969-1970. This man was of highly reputable character. He once told me of almost cutting an orangutan in half with a machine gun one night that appeared as if it was trying to come through the wire of his fire base. He said it looked like a human outline in the dark/haze, and they had been having frequent probes by VC in the preceding nights.

[@todydn]

Nit to mention just like everywhere in the world weather it be yeti sasquatch what have you every culture has giant hair monkey men and soldiers in nearly every recorded conflict through history tend to have encounters

[@isaal-magyari9203]

the highlands of Viet Nam are very rugged terrain and very poorly studied. I remember in the 90's when the announced they had found several large mammals including the Vu Quang Ox/Saolo and several species of deer along with the only population of lesser one horn rhinos on the asian mainland. Those aren't a couple of slightly different beetles hiding under a log those are species that are quite large. I think it reasonable for there to be Orangutangs in the bush of Viet Nam into the late 60's and possibly even today. I also consider it unlikely that he mistook some other monkey or ape for an Orangutang as they are very distinct with their orange fur

[@formeolosuslasvenators1777]

“Rock apes” I think they describe them as “monkeys” otherwise they would get silenced if they said Sasquatch

[@todydn]

@@formeolosuslasvenators1777 yeah i believe that is what they called em my pops was force recon in nam did work with macvsog and he saud in his time he has seen shit the rest of the world thinks is myth or legend. He never gave alot of specifics but he clarified hed seen things neither human or animal

[@DontMeanNothin]

This wasn't in Vietnam 🙄

[@shorefire3747]

Can anyone verify that the thumbnail is a real picture? Because i've seen them big but never THAT big

[@DontMeanNothin]

It's hard to say with complete certainty. I know we didn't do anything to change the image, but that doesn't necessarily mean it couldn't have been changed by someone else at some point. Between the quality of the cameras back then, the process of images being transferred to digital, and images being resized to fit a thumbnail, there's a good chance it looks longer than it really is. We don't know this guy's height or if the camera angle played a part in how the image looks either. I do believe it is absolutely a real photo, but I think we should keep all of this in mind. - Kyle

[@shorefire3747]

@DontMeanNothin maybe someone who was there could offer some kind of insight as to how big these things actually get in the deep jungle

[@billyshane3804]

I worked with a man called Gary Chicklet. He went in the Vietnam.

[@schiaa7340]

I saw a show about a SF recon unit watching the HCM trail at night and one of them got grabbed by an orangutan in the dead of night. He said he felt a hairy arm grab him so he took out his 1911 and killled it giving up their position. They had to get out of there ASAP.

[@derraider3573]

Wow..is that thubmnail real?

[@DontMeanNothin]

As far as we know, yes. But just because we didn't change the image doesn't guarantee someone before us didn't. Also between the camera quality back then, transferring to digital, resizing to fit a thumbnail, the photo angle, not knowing the guy's height, etc. it's hard to say how big that centipede actually is. But I do personally believe the photo is original. - Kyle

[@derraider3573]

Thanks for looking it up! I know these centepides can get pretty big, but Jeez that thing is almost as thick as the guys forarm. Also he is holding it in kind of a wierd way in his hand. I think there is still a chance this is edited.

[@derraider3573]

​@@DontMeanNothin I found it. You were right, it is an original picture, but it just has a forcwd perspective camera trick on it.

[@MrKydaman]

It was a yuuuuuge centipede.

[@charliepepper3039]

We had black mambas, lions and elephants to deal with in Angola. The worst part for us were the mopani flies.

[@lizardking1096]

Yeah but why did they only send veterinarians to Vietnam?

[@DRES1ne]

Imagine how much wildlife was wiped out during all them nombs being dropped on Vietnam

[@zyourzgrandzmaz]

Dudes got 360° vision no wonder he survived 😂

[@zyourzgrandzmaz]

Yup I'm banned..

[@DontMeanNothin]

Nah we don't ban people man. The channel is Uncensored for a reason. If you want to be disrespectful towards vets and strangers on the internet, that's your choice to make. Not our place to silence anybody.

[@yokothespacewhale]

“We got overrun by monkeys twice” 😂

[@larrysloan9296]

12” common in Hawaii

[@RicketyRocket]

That's what she said.

[@DrCarlBooze]

Did some work in the jungles in Thailand King Cobras and giant Centipedes were the worst. Found one in my sleep system one night right before crawling in. Luckily someone else has a scorpion in theirs the night before so even drunk I knew to shake it out.

[@danielgreen6547]

A foot long centipede? And if they bite you, you are dead????!!! THANK YOU Jesus I wasn't alive during this conflict!!!!

[@Refuse2Lose33]

By the thumbnail, I thought the guy ripped some VC’s spinal cord out. I was like, what is this Yautja bs going on here 😂

[@johnskibajr5691]

A bite from a large centipede could be very painful and a person may experience other effects. Death would be a very rare outcome and probably due to a severe reaction to the venom as in the case with bee stings. There tends to be a great deal of over exaggeration regarding venomous animals. The legend of the three or five step snakes in Vietnam for example. Rumors were spread that if bitten by certain vipers then one would only walk x number of steps before dying. Basically, a matter of only seconds. While a bite from most venomous snakes is a serious matter and certainly death may be the outcome, it does take a while for the venom to take effect.

[@Randman64]

Was there an anti venom available?

[@randall9000]

@@Refuse2Lose33same. I was like what is this Predator bullshi

[@larrysloan9296]

Hawaii is loaded with foot long centipedes. Not deadly though

[@symphantic4552]

"over a foot long" **gestures a meter**

[@bluelightmoon777]

I lost an eye in Vietnam. I was drinking a Mai Tai and I forgot to take the little parasol out.

[@DontMeanNothin]

Hahaha

[@TheRealMeanDean]

Welcome home

[@BernardoTorres-w5e]

I would never be smiling in a photo holding a foot and a half centipede ! Like the photo in his video .

[@leorodriguez-vd7qw]

Centipede bites are rarely fatal.

[@RubyJones-zj4fu]

All wars are messy with messed up happenings but I think ww2 still has the most WTF moments

[@codecaine]

My dad use to tell me stories about the rock monekeys

[@Jos-z5v]

I thought he said the NBA for a second 😭

[@bobbys4327]

same same

[@John-y2b4m]

I had a centipede like two feet long come up on me once when I was working under my car at night. Which wasn't in any jungle, at first I thought it was a snake. and didn't think much of it.. When I realized what it was centipede...I never felt the heebie jeebies before that...I can only imagine having to endure this middle of a jungle getting shot at...

[@justjokinntokin5474]

That thumbnail holding that centipede 😱

[@stratechillenog]

I gotta watch full metal jacket now.

[@Widderic]

Imagine going through basic training and then getting yanked into the dark jungle by a tiger.

[@halcyonzenith4411]

This makes me understand why the use of napalm might be understandable given that the jungle itself poses as much hazard as the enemy, not to mention the cover it provides. The only thing more dangerous in that country was communism.

[@tlwest21]

That is BEYOND terrifying. Thank you for your service! 🫡

[@tobereed]

This guy once caught a megalodon on a bamboo pole. He ate it with Bigfoot

[@Matthew-cw3gn]

There are no orangutans anywhere near Vietnam though

[@horacio-ho3bf]

They were agent orangutans

[@Riomojo]

Better monkeys than the NBA

[@gregtennessee8249]

You must be the perfect human...white with a trump hat, hateful and racist. Trump dodged the draft

[@jmeyer833]

My uncle was on river boat. That's sum scary shit

[@keithd1219]

Full respect for this man and I say this with praise but dang if he doesn't look like David Bowie.

[@alecfoster4413]

Ask a Vietnam Vet who was in country sometime about "Stone Apes" (Vietnam's Bigfoot).

[@drewlovelyhell4892]

A strange fact is that nearly every culture on Earth has a version of the bigfoot myth. Like the the Yeren in China, Yeti in the Himalayas, Mande Burung in India, etc.

[@Phntm213]

Wildlife had to be so fascinating when there were more animals roaring the forests

[@scottjohnson8401]

I knew a girl who woke up with a mouse sleeping in her hand.