Green Berets Watch Hamburger Hill

Green Berets reacting to Hamburger Hill.
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[@silvercoastcorks3806]

Hamburger Hill the best underrated Vietnam war movie of all time.

[@jasonwilliams4159]

Check out tigerland

[@ghostlyoperator]

I agree.

[@christopherpenington]

For sure!

[@bobmenezes4739]

This review didn´t do it justice at all! Weak review no doubt!

[@snowleopard0412]

EVERYTIME as a Brit i watch these two i think how great they are ...love them and their attitude, style and humour

[@jonathancarroll1283]

My mom and I look forward to their new episodes every Sunday. They’re very entertaining.

[@juanj.robles207]

I was a FNG replacement after that battle, B CO 3/187 RAKKASANS 101st, what was told to me after the final assault there were 15 people left in the company.

[@jburket1969]

Thank you for your service!

[@jeremyronald]

Thank you for your service and welcome home, sir! 🫡

[@anthonycheaford1962]

Did you ever meet Dave Dean of the 101st? He's mentioned in Samual Zaffiri's book on Hamburger Hill but I don't know what unit he was in. I worked with Dave from 1988-97 (civilian job) & was sad to hear he joined the 22/day US veterans taking their own lives on Jan 8 2020.

[@eblkheart]

When I was a teenager, I watched this film with a room full of Vietnam Veterans, including my father. One of my dads friends, who was there viewing the movie, was at this battle with the 101st. So that said, it was a little personal for him when viewing this film. This film really show how much the war was a shit show.

[@eldritchmorgasm4018]

What did they say after watching it?

[@eblkheart]

@@eldritchmorgasm4018 Overall, at the time, they called the most realistic movie at the time. They were impressed.

[@tombakabones274]

What's even more f***** up is that after we abandoned it the enemy reoccupied it and they had to do it all over again

[@Lupinthe3rd.]

One Vietnam war movie you guys should watch for a reaction is called casualties of war from 1989.Set in 1966 Its a true story referred to as the incident on Hill 192 of American squad that committed a horrific crime on a recon mission and the lone solider who was with thee squad refused to take part in the crime and his commitment to bringing justice. It was directed by Brian De Palama and stars Michael j fox, Sean Penn, John c Reilly , Ving Rames Dale Dye

[@Jupiterxice]

Hamburger Hill by far the best Vietnam movie............

[@rogerwood5228]

I always enjoyed Don Cheadle's line: "If you can't fry it, I don't eat it."

[@KahinAhmed72]

Watched the movie twice and I still never understood that line.

[@ForgottenHonor0]

Doc is the best and most tragic character in the movie. I always cry when I watch his last scene. 😢

[@WarInHD]

So Hamburger Hill is quite famous, a lesser known but deadlier hill fight that happened 2 years before was Hill 875 during the Battle of Dak To. 173rd Airborne did the samething which resulted in 361 KIA’s, 15 MIA’s, 1441 wounded, 40 helicopters were shot down, 2 C-130’s, and a F-4C fighter jet. It took 20 days for the battle to end. ARVN lost 434 KIA’s, 1771 wounded, and 33 MIA’s. One of the worst battles of the Vietnam War but hardly anyone knows about it. Hamburger Hill only had 79 KIA’s but it happened after the Tet Offensive so the Media and Public jumped all over the story

[@intricateinc8566]

*This movie is an old school classic, Always love an FNG beers n breakdowns* *My wife just heard you guys talkin about the spank bank and started laughing* 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@patrickdevine1085]

Black troops were not segregated in the Army, there were certain states were segregation was still in practice during the Vietnam War.

[@tombakabones274]

As a kid I used to play with a hand disarmed hand grenade that my dad mailed home from Vietnam as souvenir 😁👍

[@wesb2823]

My dad is a Vietnam vet of the 173rd Airborne and fought at Dak To. He said this is one of the most realistic Vietnam movies.

[@GoaTrex2531]

I remember I did some jungle training and I remember trying to climb hills in wet mud and heat. I can’t imagine once you complete that task. You have to fight for your life.

[@dirtygrunt]

You left out 2 great scenes to react to. One where they threaten the reporter, and where the PSG explains why je keeps coming back to Vietnam.

[@jburket1969]

I Appreciate you guys talking about this film! Especially your take on the pointlessness of the entire operation. I’ve never understood why they didn’t just drop a shit ton of ordinance on that damn hill and flatten it. My father was Sgt. John Alvie Nicholas A Co, 1st BN, 506th Infantry, 101st Airborne Div. He was killed at Hamburger Hill on 17 May 1969. Worcester’s statement about dying for the man next to you always hit home with me. Thank you for your service and thank you for always speaking your mind!

[@Thehybriddanceband]

They did bomb the hill as well. 1000 tons of bombs and 142 tons of Napalm. The NVA tied themselves to trees at the top of the hill because of all the concussion and were going into shock. You guys do a little more homework. That said, you guys do a good job.

[@shredhead4604]

Yep my Pop, 4th ID Quang Tri Province Bronze Star / Purple Heart. Nam was no joke. Then his sons serve during Mid-East conflicts. I’ll take that desert over the jungle any day. My Pops still goin strong to this day. 💪🇺🇸

[@rafiyumahmood2446]

“This is Nathaniel Victor!” That whole scene was funny yet morbidly true, down to the grunts not taking it too seriously at first

[@CAG_GHOST]

Buck went from looking like Obi Wan Kenobi to a blonde Nicholas Cage.💀

[@Jeffro5564]

But buck is before Nicholas hahaha cage should be blonde Buck hahaha

[@patrickdevine1085]

Went to jungle school 6 times during in time in the US Army. Conducted many real world ops in the jungle I loved the jungle. Also fought in towns and cities in Somalia,Haiti, Iraq, and would rather fight in the jungle any day.

[@josephschenkenfelder1876]

My uncle was a sniper with the Army Rangers in Vietnam, and told me some wild stories before his passing.

[@rogerhack3750]

And after vietnam, Don chaedle went to the air force, demanded a higher rank because of his wartime experience on hamburger hill eith the 101st and that's how he became an air force colonel.

[@nw2861]

Love it when you guys do Vietnam era movies, any chance you will do Danger Close: Battle of Long Tan? Its about Australian Major Harry Smith commanding 108 men being surrounded by over 2000 NVA and VC troops. It has a lot of good scenes you guys can dissect and discuss as well!

[@quentinleezavala]

Please do Battle of Long Tan!

[@JohnDoe-wt9ek]

There's a reason "Hamburger Hill" (Hill 937) isn't mentioned in the 101st's "Battle Rolls" during its Week of the Eagle in August. They only talk about the A Shau Valley as a whole. It was an immense waste of life for an objective that they would hand back over to the enemy not a week later, and then waste more life retaking again... The entire operation, as a whole, was in response to the Tet Offensive, and more specifically that the Valley was the conduit used to deploy NVA/VC troops towards Hue, which led to the several weeks long battle for the city. The operation's objectives were to destroy sensitive points in enemy logistics and infrastructure, defensive positions, communications hubs, logistical dumps of supplies, and to dislodge means of movement and coordination. The issue is that, like the last 5 years of the war, since 1964, the US Command echelons were, once again, underestimating the resolve and determination of the foe they were sending their enlisted and junior officers against. The NVA and VC both knew what this op was at its core, and both knew that this would just be one more battle in the "death by a thousand cuts". Already back home, the US just saw the disaster that was the Public Relations over the Tet Offensive between '68 and '69. Hill 937 was one of the points at which the NVA/VC made their stand, knowing the terrain and using their deeply fortified entrenchments and dug outs, they could avoid bombardments and ordnance runs, and then return to the firing line to rain hell on US infantry scaling the steep hillside. While, yes, US Troops FINALLY, after 36 hours of combat, managed to take the hill. It was subsequently abandoned, and thus reoccupied by NV forces. Which forced the 101st to, once again, assault and retake it. Following Westmoreland's directives on prosecution of the war, the entire Operation (as well as the last 5 years, as stated), were a conflict of attrition with no clear objective or point to take. The Tet Offensive, itself, shattered the intelligence illusion that the casualties being wrought upon the enemy were effecting their resolve and their numbers as a whole. The A Shau Valley proved that the enemy was still effective, potent, and capable, and were not giving in just because their Offensive failed militarily. If you look at Vietnam, it looks similar, in many respects, to how Afghanistan and Iraq were handled. While the directives were different, the hamstringing, ROE's, and intentional hand tying of the average US platoon in who, what, and when they can respond to an enemy, and how they went about "destroying" the enemy, seems intentional to the point where its assisting the enemy by default of feigned "incompetence".

[@tree01house]

I served 22 yrs in the US Army Special Forces, (1982 - 2004). Warriors win Battles, Generals and Politicians lose Wars. DOL

[@Cagon415]

My father is a Marine, and this was the only war movie he would watch. He really enjoyed the "handshake" part.

[@ericdbates]

one of the best war films ever. I’ve watched it so much I once knew the platoon sergeant’s monologue about why he keeps coming back to Vietnam, Republic of. excellent…now I get to watch you take. thanks!

[@the_hispawaiian8156]

My grandfather was at this battle. He was a part of the 101st.

[@hunterskinner1365]

Got to meet one of the hamburger hill survivors when I went to swear in at MEPS last month, he's one of the gate guards on base

[@Alfeco-dm7uk]

The Battle of Hamburger Hill (13-20 May 1969) was fought by US Army and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) forces against People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) forces during Operation Apache Snow of the Vietnam War. Though the heavily-fortified Hill 937, a ridge of the mountain Dong Ap Bia in central Vietnam near its western border with Laos, had little strategic value, US command ordered its capture by a frontal assault, only to abandon it soon thereafter. The action caused a controversy among both the US armed services and the public back home. The battle was primarily an infantry engagement, with the US Airborne troops moving up the steeply sloped hill against well-entrenched troops. Attacks were repeatedly repelled by the PAVN defenses. Bad weather also hindered operations. Nevertheless, the Airborne troops took the hill through direct assault, causing extensive casualties to the PAVN forces.

[@chrisruddy2518]

My old boss was a Marine @ Khe Sahn, out of all the Vietnam war movies out @ there time I worked with him… Apocalypse Now, Platoon, full metal jacket… Hamburger Hill was the most realistic depiction of of that war! If anyone would know, that was him, great movie!👍🏻

[@roninky8012]

I listened to a MAC V SOG vet describe having a VC crawl up and touch his boot, yet they could not see each other.

[@angelocos1]

I just realized how old I was when the one dude said they got two man rooms in AIT 😳

[@jonathancathey2334]

My Dad is a Vietnam veteran, who was part of the 173rd Airborne Brigade (1969 -1970). My Dad said, that this movie was the most like the experiences he had in Vietnam.

[@thewireheadmechanist]

I was 82d. This was literally one of the movies they showed us on Tower Air on the way to Desert Shield, last week of November 1990. Not sure who thought that one out. Anyone else on that flight?

[@timurena141]

That also happened on the movie: “The Outpost”

[@MrLorenzovanmatterho]

Great movie but I always wondered how Dylan McDermott's hair always stayed so perfect?

[@odinanderson5365]

the reporter scene gets me every time

[@insanitypepper1740]

Absolutely underrated film

[@knightingale9833]

Man y’all need to do like part two and three so much more about this movie to talk about

[@daedra5651]

“Tunnel Rats” Is another good Vietnam War movie

[@throwabrick]

was so impressed when this came out

[@eliceohernandez4742]

Platoon leader is another underrated Vietnam movie

[@dsumner1234]

You ought to check out an older film called Porkchop Hill about the Korean War.

[@eskhawk]

HAMBURGER HILL was the best Vietnam War film made...I think it had the misfortune of coming out around the same time as PLATOON and FULL METAL JACKET and didn't receive the recognition it deserved...

[@mirsh2541]

Regarding grenades, the current standard issue DM51 handgrenade in the German army actually consists of a cylindrical inner HE grenade, similar in shape to a smoke grenade, but smaller, and then an optional frag jacket you can put over it that's a plastic shell with several thousand steel balls housed in a filler material as frag component. So with each grenade in theory you get the choice of using it as just HE or frag. The unused frag jackets also make for good pencil holders, or so I've heard.

[@MrDman21]

Man, look at how young those guys looked, Dylan McDermott and Don Cheadle.

[@rudeone4life]

What a waste of life... they took the hill and then they abandoned it shortly thereafter... stupidity in action!

[@erickiyoshiphillips2323]

we fought for 20 years and pulled out of Afghanistan we never learn

[@oboogie2]

you just provided the perfect description for the entire war. We should never have been there.

[@bobadom589]

I remember my dad showing this movie to me and they actually used part of his unit for extras to film, my dad was in the marines and I believe his unit was black sheep

[@odameclement2325]

So happy for this review, this movie is so underrated, this episode is 🔥👏

[@jefffaulkner2875]

Best part of the movie is when doc goes, "How the hell am I supposed to identify him, he has no fucking head!"

[@kmol2977]

FYI, the US Army ended segregated units way before Vietnam began.

[@SpicyMilk_ttv]

Airborne don't start fights. HA! Like you said, clearly they've never been to Bragg. I was in countless myself and I can 100% say we started, finished or jumped into fights for no reason.

[@erickiyoshiphillips2323]

lol i was infantry...u gotta think airborne guys come from the same cloth we are a little crazy

[@erickiyoshiphillips2323]

low crawling up hill is crazy. while under firem i remember we did low crawl in the mud and all in spiders in a swamp in georgia i remember how stupid it was but it always has a purpose

[@crnlonewolf3195]

Look at me in eyes boy lmao 🤣

[@davidearley5681]

Bout time! I asked about this one about a year ago!

[@Andy-te1mw]

Awesome movie. Awesome episode.step father was in Vietnam for three tours and said the same thing about the terrain. Miserable

[@GodOfWar221]

There's a really cool way they filmed the battle sequences. They would actually shake the camera, thusly giving the artillery impact effect. This is by far, one of my most favorite of all the Vietnam films.

[@J_Bum]

Yall should checkout raid redemption next.

[@falcore93Live]

I second this

[@BreacherUPTangoDown]

That was the first movie I seen in the movie theater… at 9 years old. lol. My uncle took me without telling my parents. First scene was that dudes guts blown out. lol. I was like wtf! My uncle had just come back from Vietnam in 72.. so he was losing his shit…

[@johnjoobooks]

Still amazed at how you two manage to say the stupidest stuff, the cringest jokes, and yet still feel so friendly and cozy -- just the atmosphere alone worth watching. And that amidst drunken fun you actually telling real military stuff and keep educating us - is awesome. PEAAAACE!

[@c_lo01]

"Wipeout mixed with Spartan race mixed with someone shooting at you." You mean when the military used live rounds for mucking through muddy trenches under barbed wire? Actual training.

[@davidearley5681]

what you missed Kurt, with the it don't mean nothin...doc was upset because the guy who said we airborne lost his head in an explosion and couldn't be identified.

[@Michael-en7of]

And he was an FNG. Didn’t even get his cherry busted.

[@calvinlee1813]

Doc Johnson was upset about McDaniels getting killed and he was close to rotating home. He explained to Sgt Franz about wanting a job at HQ and that Doc wouldn't give him a Profile to pull him out before they went to the Ahau Valley.

[@jefffaulkner2875]

The outpost with the picture....lol

[@nohegalindo]

lol Operation Purple Dragon in 1998. I was with the 101st attached to B-2/187 RAKKASAN’s as one of their FISTERS. The final mission we were on the defense and as the 82nd guys attacked us our infantry cut the parachutes off of the 203 illum rnds and fired them at the attacking force. Well we’ll just say it turned into a brawl. The OC’s had a fun time breaking up the fights. Later that early morning everyone had to clear out because of a forest fire that had started. So we did start the fight and the OC’s had to finish it lol.

[@brisonwolf7669]

the first 5 minutes were hilarious lol love this channel. You guys are great.

[@jim99west46]

Lotta times those Chinese stick grenades didn’t go off

[@OGDamnnation]

"The Iron Triangle"

[@Bullz_eye47]

Imo this movie always gets overshadowed by platoon and full metal jacket

[@jeff3229]

Awesome movie

[@macvsogtaino2350]

On my first weekend pass of osut week 13. Every 18x knows about y’all, thankyou for everything.

[@erickiyoshiphillips2323]

i was 11bravo. we had 2 days after basic then started AIT in benning. goodluck

[@loudguitars69]

Fuckin a lot of guys were eaten by TIGERS 🐅 out in the jungle!!! Fuckin NUTS!!!

[@Jeffro5564]

Imagine your whispering to your best friend in jungle grass and something so fast drags him by the neck and he hear it snap and tiger roars

[@infin8ee]

One of the best stories my dad told me as a kid was the "tiger story ". Loved hearing about his encounters. He was Australian AATTV.

[@jacobperez7168]

Gotta do 6 Days next

[@ericdbates]

yes…an excellent film. Buck would get to take a building and get out of the jungle. would get to make fun of English accents too. bonus.

[@cartergraham4824]

Love you guys, keep making these forever, and I’ll keep watching forever

[@slipperydoorknob2173]

5:02 - 5:38 it's refreshing seeing former NCOs have the same sense of humor and almost quoting word for word the jokes I heard in bct months back😂😂

[@michaelwiggins4353]

thanks for the review.......

[@conamer6738]

The "Potato Masher" was an offensive grenade like the British counterpart the Mills Bomb. They relied on the blast to kill locally while not needing to worry it hitting you because there is almost no shrapnel. A frag grenade is mostly a defensive weapon unless you're in urban combat.

[@JG-yc2fr]

That wont be my case. A 34 year old prior service will definitely not get selected. Im busting my ass if get to go but idk.

[@stephenrask536]

when i was in AIT we also had a guy that needed to shower at the Drill Sergeants offices for like a week before we got marched to class

[@marcusaurelius3487]

I recommend you to watch a documentary about one of swedens top elite units, "kustjägarna", the name of the documentary is "Blod, svett & bajs" (blood, sweat & shit) and can be found here on youtube. You can see some pretty gnarly training scenes.

[@williamflowers9435]

You guys need to check out Generation War… it’s a Band of Brothers type series from the German WW2 perspective . Really good!

[@robinbellamy]

I love your movie reviews! Please consider reviewing the Gene Hackman green beret movie "The Package" and the Christopher Walken mercenary movie "The Dogs of War."

[@oboogie2]

In a six degrees of separation bit, the actor Dennis Franz was in the movie you mention, The Package. Before he was an actor, Dennis Franz served in a recon unit in the 82nd, and I think in the Rakkasans in the 101st, for about a year in Vietnam, at which time he fought in the Hamburger Hill battle (Dong Ap Bia) as I recall.

[@erickiyoshiphillips2323]

i did jungle training in the infantry in thailand. man that terrain sucked. and so many spiders and centipedes that if u got bit it would ballon up. i hated the jungle

[@AhHereWeGo]

Awww, no reaction to the RPG guy? Or the fratricide?

[@chumpzilla000]

You forgot tigers. Vietnam has tigers too

[@brettlaw4346]

Great movie. I think the risk of tactical error between wars still exists when you talk about building to building fighting without consideration for artillery and drones. Vietnam planners tried to fight Korea which was hard to tunnel in easily. Thick brush undermining the M-16s effectiveness and dampening the usefulness of artillery. Just something to consider prior to paying the blood tax.

[@ech0labs]

doc !!!

[@Morlock1943]

Try to watch "Das Boot". Proberly one of the best and most realistic warmovies ever made.

[@harryoliver7089]

Would you guys consider doing video game reactions? Not sure how you’d do it whether you’d play the game or watch missions already on KZbin and put your spin on the realism ect

[@The_Oldguy]

Jungle warfare = Battle by Surprise! JOC Fort Sherman Panama 1966 - Hotter than hell and wetter than the ocean!

[@thomasmccann3679]

you guys gotta finish The Pacific

[@JamesGooding-me1fd]

Next to TV show ultimate force

[@jaygibson5057]

I was in that movie

[@anthonycheaford1962]

Dave Dean of the 101st Airborne fought courageously on Hamburger Hill, mentioned in Samual Zaffiri's book. He was medically discharged soon after due to a parachute training hard landing in the Vietnamese jungle - I think that training was run by MACVSOG's Billy Waugh. I worked with Dean from 1988-97 (civilian job) which included Dean helping to setup 9/11 terrorist KSM in 1997 - I was the patsy sent to Yemen in 1997 to help setup KSM's front company (17-mile south of Al Qaidah town). Dean committed suicide in Jan 2020, 2-days after I'd publicly identified Dean & linked him to Waugh, Yemen & Al Qaeda (Waugh admitted training Al Qaeda fighters in 1990s Yemen) - becoming another of the 22/day. I now guess the mindset of Dean, being willing to help KSM, was forged in battles like Hamburger Hill.

[@toddjenest3212]

Check out "Land of Bad." It was pretty good.

[@xanianempire]

Enemy At The Gates and Behind Enemy Lines, check those movies out.

[@ech0labs]

fuckkk yes it dont mean nothing man not a thing !

[@TapRackTyler]

Curious how I can do these movie react videos on my channel with out getting a copyright issue? Love your content.⚡️