Mercenaries - Congo '64

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[@Branflakes143]

"Did the Army reject you for your various mental problems?" "Have you ever wanted to see an exotic land where you can live off your pocket change?" "Is your criminal record preventing you from getting ahead in life?" "Do you want a free FAL?"

[@theflatwoods2002]

Yes.

[@leoz8440]

You had me at free FAL

[@emeraldsentinel92alpha30]

Answer is fuck yes to all of these.... Should have added "Are you an outcast of society and is just waiting for a bullet with your name on it to terminate your contract with life?"

[@yeeyee395]

Had me at free fal

[@joshuatamayo6151]

born too late to be a mercenary in the congo

[@snazzy_spaz7854]

"destination: hell Reason for travel: personal business"

[@Roger-rh5lu]

I will be more of a mercenary, I will enlist in the French foreign legion and after a few years I will go to private security, a.k.a mercenary

[@jamescawl6904]

@@Roger-rh5lu Are you french?

[@whattawhaddaya6561]

@@jamescawl6904 Well Non-French can join the FFL.

[@jamescawl6904]

@@whattawhaddaya6561 yes, but it is significantly harder for those who live in the Americas and Asia to join the FFL.

[@conormori]

That was hands down the greatest thing noted about any merc in that film. Chills

[@jupjup7845]

A lot of those guys were WW2 vets who didn't fit into normal life after the world war. Strange to see 60 something year old guys as mercenaries. The guys who were around 20 in 1945 when the war ended would be around 40 in this footage.

[@vincentgoupil180]

They were called "Children of the Highway" who had no country or family to go back to after WWII. Many joined the French Foreign Legion.

[@hummerskickass]

Be afraid of an old man in a profession where people die young.

[@vincentgoupil180]

Yea ... on the other hand the average age of a guerrilla fighter is around twelve to fourteen years old. Some were forced to shoot their parents before being 'recruited'. In the rebelling Simbas their leader gave them chicken bones and feathers to wear that would stop bullets. The iconic image of a fighter was a young kid with an AK-47 with a plastic garbage bag for a rifle strap. While the number of mercenaries varied at times from three hundred to a thousand the Simbas were in the thousands who had no conscience maiming their hostages, ie. scooping out eyes with a spoon or, eating them. Many commentators on this blog forget or don't know 5 Commando rescued many of these hostages. Not all but many.

[@SMGJohn]

@@vincentgoupil180 Surprised this false rumour somehow still stay true to some people, like you for example. Rather ironic its 2022 and you still fall for this shit. Reality is always a little more complex than "bad guy did bad things"

[@vincentgoupil180]

@@SMGJohn What rumor? Please explain specifically.

[@BIGIFANDYELLOWCARD]

To those wondering, this is all 100% real and not a movie. Seriously crazy shit

[@eggy6745]

Apocalypse now shit

[@saulgoodmansentme1992]

really?

[@mixjik4314]

@@saulgoodmansentme1992 yes. It is from a documentary film

[@woodendoor8854]

@@mixjik4314 do u know the name?

[@Benny---]

@@woodendoor8854 Italian documentary called Africa Addio. The Original Italian version with English subtitles is the best, someone uploaded the whole thing on KZbin. Avoid the English/US dubbed version, it's cut down heavily, has bull$it commentary, and is just generally worse in every way.

[@wulfske]

At what point does history just become an obscure 70’s action movie?

[@TheSuspectOnFoot]

Always has been

[@Tonyx.yt.]

you mean 60's documentary?

[@Vettejocke]

1965

[@remy6978]

in the 60's Africa conflicts

[@ShoulderShy]

Because nothing and all it's important. We are in constant shock.

[@quasicroissant]

Not a cell phone in sight... Just people living in the moment

[@mombaassa]

...and dying in the moment.

[@MnemonicHack]

@@mombaassa Well you don't go in expecting to come back out. It's a pleasant surprise if you do.

[@WarScholar]

@@MnemonicHack I think you're being a over-dramatic here. These mercenaries had plenty of material support. I think most of them expected to make a bunch of money and get out just fine. They might be adrenalin junkies but many don't have overt death wishes.

[@MnemonicHack]

@@WarScholar Maybe, maybe.

[@WarScholar]

@@MnemonicHack Check out this list for example and see how few mercenaries were killed or wounded among the many listed. It was a fairly safe occupation. They weren't stupid. mercenary-wars.net/congo/list-of-congo-soldiers.html

[@Ohnoitsthatguy-620]

That absolute Chad rocking that browning 30 cal with his bare hands

[@davidcox3076]

When you really need to clear a house and don't have any grenades, you pick up an M1919 and get to work.

[@nicholasthuya7683]

@@davidcox3076 pretty sure 30 cal pierces huts made from cow shit

[@prakharmishra5583]

@@nicholasthuya7683 pretty sure 30 cal also pierces cardboard houses like the ones you live in

[@RequestAssassin]

@@nicholasthuya7683 a cracker box is a cracker box weather it's handmade from "cowshit" or an American made pressboard McMansion.

[@aksmex2576]

@@nicholasthuya7683 That's so mean but true haha.

[@YoursTrulyMew]

No one knew that they were actually taking orders from the parrot 🦜

[@misdangered4326]

To be fair there’s been times when I would have got more sensible orders from a parrot.

[@guillermozepeda9967]

"I'm pinin' for the fjords, mate..."

[@robertdinero2853]

💀💀💀💀

[@extremely.hung.individual2693]

Squak, let no one survive.

[@forkq5720]

its not a chad its a mercenary not a soldier it could be the same as a terrorist or a cartel person nowdays it doesnt have a flag, just because it has bots and a uniform it doesnt mean its a soldier its a hired gun

[@TheRealMerc4Hire]

Me and the boys murdering the unlucky side that was too fucking poor to hire us

[@jbardouc808]

Always the winning side bro

[@warthog91]

Hahaha ,man that was so dark! Laughed my self to shit anyhow, probably gonna burn for it.

[@borys1960]

Most of this white chads were anticommunists, so no, it was not about money, besides, soviets often offered them more.

[@TheRealMerc4Hire]

@@borys1960 Yeah i know and got that. Point of the joke was just mercs in general

[@davideb.4290]

@@borys1960 what kind of ant is that? a communist ant? very intersting, never knew animals could understand economycs. Anyway, no soviets didn't offer them more, they in fact didn't offer them anything. Plus this were mercs, so, while they may also be motivated by ideological hate, if you didnt pay them, they wouldn't be fighting for you

[@ThePainterr]

My uncle Jimmy Calderhead fought with Mad Mike Hoare in the Congo as a merc. He later dispappeared and was considered KIA leaving a wife and four kids to fend for themselves. Twenty years later through my cousins persistent efforts, Europol located uncle Jimmy residing in Spain in total luxury owning his own nightclub, airfield and two tigers as pets living on his terraced roof of his mansion. He relocated back to South Africa where he once more got acquainted with his kids and apologised to my aunt Enid for dropping her high and dry. Long story short, over the last year he suffered immensely from Alzheimers and recently passed away in death. Another chapter of life finished.

[@ypres1917]

Great story. I just recently re-read Mike Hoare's book, Congo Mercenary (first read it back in the early 70s). Worth a read to those who have not and are interested in the Congo campaigns.

[@waynencc]

Would watch that movie

[@ricardoguanipa8275]

sounds like a real life "The most interested man"

[@RasMajnouni]

Mercenaries are shit what do you expect.

[@andrealves2630]

Good riddance. Fuck mercenaries

[@averagefreedomenjoyer8209]

Ok can imagine the recruiting campaign for the mercenary companies, “What would you do for an FAL?”

[@jamesmikhail017uy2]

Everything

[@giorgilobjanidze5667]

things many in the west would find "questionable" at least

[@giovannicervantes2053]

Call me king Leopold cause I'll take that right arm

[@Brecconable]

Merc Recruiter: What would you do for an FAL? Me: Yes.

[@houseviceroy]

If i was in charge of coordinating the commercial id literally inform the audience that theyd be equipped with a state of the art reliable modern assault rifle the FN-FAL at your side

[@williamnother8066]

2:50 -Preston Garvey, on his way to inform someone of a settlement that needs some help.

[@sponge540]

*"Fuck you looking at, bi-"*

[@The.Hebrew.Raider.Association]

Lmaooooo

[@williamcobbett4943]

Holy fucking keke

[@SB-129]

I laugh/coughed like dying smoker.

[@Jelkitosix666]

Hahahahaa

[@realdeathpony]

Damn Detroit still looks the same.

[@Literallyryangosling777]

Detroit ain't that green

[@MikeHunt-gz9dw]

Dead ass hilarious bro

[@DT-sb9sv]

Right on. But Detroit has a few more burnt out buildings.

[@crazytomato4845]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@user-gd2rg8xg2y]

Detroit never looked this good

[@reallyhappenings5597]

Authentically dynamic gunfights here. All speed and mobility. They never stop moving during their assault.

[@franciscomercado9534]

Cocaine effects.

[@yaboidex4000]

@@franciscomercado9534 adrenaline dumbass

[@louiscachet7681]

@@yaboidex4000 both

[@tdab3883]

@@yaboidex4000 actually, they also use cocaine A lot

[@tucolalo8251]

@@tdab3883 No, they didn't. This was the mid 60's, good luck getting coke in that time period in the congo. Also, find out the background of these men, and you'll know they never touched a drug, other than alcohol, in their lives. Sad, & annoying that people think anyone with energy is on drugs, like how boomer used to say an artist that made a weird painting must have been on LSD.

[@karim140995]

1:16 thats a real life rambo right there

[@Literallyryangosling777]

Colonel cocaine cowboy really bad ass

[@rabbitA16]

The "pirate" is Tiv wasalenko. Tried to find more on him because he came up on a friend's ancestory but there wasn't a lot of info. I did find comments from an elderly man who fought with Tiv. He said he went out the only way possible for a man like himself. Said he passed away in combat and he swears he saw him smiling til the very end.

[@Uncl3David]

Hell yeah!

[@tomsgarage4486]

Good old tiv,or maybe bad old tiv,whatever, he died doing something he loved.bless you cocaine pirate.glad someone put a name to him.😀👍

[@Eric-vs2he]

Can't find anything about him, can you send me a link about him?

[@Gualberto_Villaroel_Oficial]

*A PIRATE'S LIFE FOR ME*

[@captainenglehorn8429]

@@Eric-vs2he Also looks similar to “Tim Dreyer” there is a photo of him on that page with all the mercenary’s names. Fine job dude, i know you have been researching

[@tomonaut]

The days where you could sign up for six months in the Congo.

[@tomonaut]

Mad Mike died yesterday. R.I.P. to this great man. Any videos about him maybe?

[@Arcaryon]

@@tomonaut I stumbled across these videos this morning for no apparent reason as as anyone with a love for history and politics was hooked and now you are telling me that this legendary figure I just learned about literally died on February 2. merly 1 day ago ?! What a crazy thing...

[@tomonaut]

@@Arcaryon Know exactly what you're thinking/feeling. Been having a lot of these coincidences too lately.

[@yngvebalmsteen9174]

@@Arcaryon I understand the feeling completely.

[@recceeboy1237]

3 months in Rhodesia depending on tasking.

[@TheRealRusDaddy]

The guy getting dragged off at 2:36 burned 26 white children to death in their school and is promptly shot in the chest and head by the dude popping off his 1911 from another scene

[@Keoma.1]

pest control

[@deathgripskaraoke9351]

the fact you specified *white* children

[@coffeem8011]

@@deathgripskaraoke9351 and?

[@Dervitox]

@@deathgripskaraoke9351 problem?

[@waifupatter4193]

@@deathgripskaraoke9351 you have a problem with that?

[@xSupra]

0:36 I wonder if that parrot is still alive today. They have insane lifespans

[@redcompanyINC]

It is currently hiding for his war crimes in Congo, Yugoslavia and Iraq.

[@Literallyryangosling777]

The parrot was a war criminal

[@adrianvelez4147]

@@Literallyryangosling777 "My parrot is a war criminal- Congolese patriotic song"

[@CarefreeMan]

@@adrianvelez4147 *Heh, I can only imagine that being a song.*

[@xisotopex]

@@adrianvelez4147 under rated comment

[@zimbabweantrillionnaire9256]

Cold War Africa is the most interesting part of 20th century history for me. idk about the rest of you. But it is horrifically misrepresented and not payed enough attention to. Fascinating time of decolonisation and politics turmoil.

[@rear9259]

South East Asia on a whole different level

[@CaptainTripppz]

MGSV

[@chrischong6613]

I think it's over looked because all those conflicts were so morally ambiguous with all sides committing unspeakable atrocities, which meant they never fit in the political and national narratives of either the Capitalist or Communist nations which tried to portray their system as morally superior to each other.

[@deeznutz8320]

@@CaptainTripppz Yeah only game that ever mentionend it

[@prind142]

@Mialisus Its desperation. Any conflict where both sides are atleast vaguely equal is a desperate fight and desperation always leads to brutality. Especially considering that losing a war in Africa but retaining independence often just led to a second war.

[@franciscocruz8446]

A perfect alternative to war aesthetics.

[@fizhbing]

Look for "Mauzer"

[@jaguar2594]

I try and other KZbinrs try to keep the War aesthetic type videos alive. War footage and matching music is the best combination.

[@EliasPoint]

I would like to make a video on war aesthetics, maybe you guys could help me find the information I need to compile a story and pay tribute

[@SovietBear4]

@@EliasPoint is he dead in the sense the person behind the channel died? Or did he just quit

[@EliasPoint]

@@SovietBear4 he had to focus on real life stuff and his channel kept getting demonetized until youtube eventually just killed his channel entirely

[@MRaaronneary]

Damn, the bloke on the camera was really in the thick of things

[@lorenzobelloni1232]

It was an italian doc called "Addio Africa" english subtitled. Ciao

[@MRaaronneary]

@@lorenzobelloni1232 Thanks, I'll give it a watch

[@recceeboy1237]

Some of the incoming was danger close looked pretty real to this old troopie.

[@MRaaronneary]

@Forallofus Plenty There is plenty of evidence to suggest this isn't staged. I'm not sure how you could possible stage, high velocity automatic small arms fire buzzing past your head. Regardless of your political views, this is an event that happened in history, learn from it, don't try and censor it

[@scottdodge6979]

@Forallofus Plenty pretty sure the shirtless got tagged crossing in front of the door. If you watch the actual documentary....actually on second thought, that document is probably beyond your PC addled brain.

[@billygrey8087]

0:28 oh finally someone who looks normal and relatable in this footage 0:30 never mind

[@suacemanaquiatan9380]

They're mercs afterall, Not surprising.

[@nacho-fb1ch]

LMAOOOOO dude had 3 fucking skulls casually laying around

[@localcrackhead4038]

@@nacho-fb1ch he looks like he's boutta introduce them like it was an episode of MTV cribs.

[@Swearinbag]

This documentary has stuck with me for a few months now and it's so gruelingly realistic that it makes you rethink what people are capable of...

[@bruhi4914]

Name?

[@resadkarabudak1676]

What's the name of the documentary

[@tituikabussaa]

​@@resadkarabudak1676addio africo

[@Ramzi1944]

​@@bruhi4914Africa Addio

[@sixmillionisimpossible]

you mean what africans are capable of. The mercenaries ironically were the ones sent to deal with terrorism by simba rebels.

[@hugovader6727]

the myth ... the legend ... the terror ... the crazy cocaine mustache merc .... xD

[@bosskanova685]

Which one? Haha

[@NoirChat138]

@@bosskanova685 cpt pirate high on benzedrine

[@savagex466-qt1io]

Dont even get me started HUGO VADER . Dont even get me fuckin started man. What Id do for a trip to Syria with dope on the other side.

[@admiralsnackbarkekwalice6167]

If my memory correct, that's mad Mike O'hare. He was a legend around the scene, proper captain Jack type of guy. He died earlier this year at like, 100 years of age.

[@konstantinr.rojdestvenskyi1626]

@@admiralsnackbarkekwalice6167 Nope. Mike is a guy with 1911, who shooted the looter on 2:20

[@cerberus9832]

Colonel pirate cocaine cowboy is the true spirit of christmas, happy holidays

[@capone8058]

True 😎👍

[@johnsagar1152]

Happy Christmas you politically correct dickhead.Pathetic

[@The_Crimson_Fucker]

@@johnsagar1152 That's "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year" you inbred fuck, you got it the wrong way 'round.

[@The_Crimson_Fucker]

@Evilmike42 If that's the case, and it isn't, then they're wrong.

[@joedunn1846]

@Evilmike42 no we dont

[@chaddusmaximus4938]

This is some of the most cinematic combat footage I've ever seen

[@seregill13]

It's from a Italian documentary

[@YKlab24]

"AK 47 are for bad boys " FAL owner :

[@11UncleBooker22]

I talked with a guy from the Congo who was living in Maryland in 2009 that told me his father was killed in the wars of 1965-66. The man I spoke with was about 14 years older than me and when I said I was born in 1966 he said: " wow, seeing someone who was coming into the world when my father was going out really puts it all into focus. I mean to see a man almost 43 years old really shows me how much time has passed".

[@johnw1954]

holy shit

[@VanTalion]

Was his name Norman Kamosi? All of this fit his description

[@mmtravel9726]

@@VanTalion old niggas living in Maryland with father's who were in wars are a dime a dozen

[@krzysztofkrzyzanowski1443]

Quite the story thanks for sharing.

[@bobknobbe3561]

Millions can say that same thing. A ridiculous statement which was either said to impress or as a lie.

[@kristofp72]

Every single one of these guys seems larger than life.

[@-et37-]

Everyone harps about the eyepatch madman but the 2 Rhodesians always stick with me for some reason.

[@sungokong8540]

@@-et37- the bois that throwing grenades?

[@54commando31]

@@-et37- how do you know they were Rhodesian and who you on about

[@-et37-]

The 2 pilots in the beginning. The actual documentary that this is taken from says so.

[@kurade1096]

r.e.m. reference?

[@martinschmidt1906]

White Boy summer

[@remenir97]

Fighting alongside Africans fighting against Maoists 🤨

[@doctordoggo9464]

Cringe

[@timumbra2476]

Schmidty gets no bitches

[@boomerkobold3943]

@@remenir97 what better team up could there be :)

[@spacefisher1427]

Exactly

[@leoflorida95]

The chad mercenary vs the virgin UN troop

[@eonsislept207]

That man clearing a house with a 30 cal machine gun on his hip.

[@sumvs5992]

Finally we knew what the "big iron" really was, not a large caliber colt revolver from the 1800s, but a 1919

[@Literallyryangosling777]

Guns in video games: these potent machine guns have a lot of recoil and they are heavy Guns in real life: rambo style

[@datepicnoob3262]

guess you could say he had a big iron on his hip

[@jamesmikhail017uy2]

@@sumvs5992 I'm pretty sure it's gigantic iron at this point

[@sumvs5992]

@@jamesmikhail017uy2 that's reserved for hip firing a minigun even though it requires a car battery to run and is chambered in 7.62 NATO

[@Xfighter000]

I wouldn't mind a battlefield game centered around this and the Rhodesian Bush War.

[@forwardobservations8222]

brush? lol

[@Xfighter000]

@@forwardobservations8222 You're right, it is bush. My bad.

[@forwardobservations8222]

@@Xfighter000 👍

[@Milo_1368]

Only if devs were honest enough to paint the RLI as the good guys slotting floppies

[@magpie9-298]

Dude that would be awesome!

[@uberfeel]

Africa addio is a great documentary. That documentary is the perfect definition of "Reality is more stranger than fiction".

[@jeremybertz796]

So true.

[@theocean2698]

Is confirmed that most of the images of the documentary were staged.

[@thaneofwhiterun3562]

My 80 year old Great Uncle once enlisted as a mercenary to fight in the congo. The pay was good, very good. It was like double our country's soldier's salary plus the local soldier's salary AND like a few thousand dollars up front. He said that he did it because he was young and "felt invincible and feared nothing". Luckly, the dude who was hiring them or something died or was overthrown or he something because he never came back and he never went to Africa to fight. To this day I joke to him on how he narrowly avoided dying of malaria while fighting a guerilla XD.

[@norsale6176]

Ofc it's up! Mercenaries aren't just people, they're the few who can take orders, handle alot of blood and gore with a great fighting strength and mentality

[@charlesriley2717]

War criminal

[@thaneofwhiterun3562]

@@charlesriley2717 lol (?)

[@charlesriley2717]

@Nachonen17 they supported the criminal state of katanga and later the awful regime of mobutu. Do some research. Mercenaries committed awful crimes during the congo crisis.

[@MarinesMalevolentRule69]

​@@charlesriley2717Almost like all mercenaries did heinous shit , learn your history.

[@johnnada649]

In his autobiography, Carl Jung says that one must not let himself be hypnotized by the beauty of Africa, as his spirit could be entranced by its wildness.

[@adurpandya2742]

mankind desires to live in a fully functional ecosystem.

[@10hawell]

oh boi i have a lot more Jung to read then

[@sulaak]

Carl Jung is dead and Africa still thrives

[@gamerito100]

@@sulaak "Thrives"

[@bodhimeme3385]

@@sulaak "Thrives"

[@magpie9-298]

There’s something about this footage, it looks like a movie.

[@magpie9-298]

christoalix what’s the doc called?

[@matteoprimo7754]

africa addio, italian documentary

[@magpie9-298]

Yeah I knew from the start it was real but there was just something about it. I watched the documentary and I finally understand the conflict and what’s going on more.

[@FSKARKEL]

Because of the music. Music in movies is very powerful

[@MultiSr71blackbird]

All those footages look like a movie because they were filmed with film cameras. Unlike TV cameras where it plays in a different way, like watching it through your own eyes. That's what makes the difference.

[@derstratege1291]

Greetings from the Merchants Guild.

[@Baathist_Brawler_1565]

"Le ironic" racism, by someone who is only allowed to get away with because he is actually a member of the tribe. Gay. You are literally a member of a Merchant's guild I hope you know.

[@ANSELAbitsxb]

Our favorite namibian

[@gamerito100]

@@Baathist_Brawler_1565 At least he has fun, unlike you...

[@Baathist_Brawler_1565]

@@gamerito100 Do we need "them" to entertain us? Doesn't that invalidate such a political stance, if it is earnestly held? Anyways, what about the current situation is actually fun? It seems damn awful and nothing to laugh at, especially when it "them" doing the laughing. I guess being committed to one's political values, and not wanting them co-opted, means being a party pooper.

[@Baathist_Brawler_1565]

@@gamerito100 Ill add that I dont actually want to ruin everyone's good time, but Seth's BRAND of humour seems especially dangerous, making light of a movement that, for all its humour, is genuine and organic. People should remember what the stakes are here... our future.

[@pyjamakid3982]

2:48 Lighting a cig using confiscated war money is some hardass real shit

[@user-hb4dj2kt4w]

I have met a few Korean War Vets who knocked off a few banks while in Pyongyang during the war.

[@randalldrew6044]

My teammates and I use to do that in Iraq.

[@GunsNGames1]

Damn, a guy was firing a M1919 hand held, talk about recoil control.

[@reallyhappenings5597]

not necessary, he was using it to clear buildings cqb, i.e. a close range area weapon

[@sl6147]

@@reallyhappenings5597 Still need to control recoil, or you'll be shooting everywhere but straight in front of you.

[@xxjixerxxtgod5219]

I'm assuming the Game's part of your name indicates that you play video games. Guns in a video game are not the same as how guns work in real life 🤣🤣🤣😭😭😂😂😂😂💯💯👍

[@dirtydave2691]

That was pretty bad ass. No gloves, eye pro................ear pro is for sissy's.

[@ButsNustin]

Millard Washington wow. You wanted to say that so bad, didn’t you?

[@blcklstd6156]

These guys seems so much more intense then normal soldiers.

[@stealthiestboy]

They sure were. Raping and killing civilians. They were just as bad as the rebels they were paid to fight.

[@DeadWayfes]

@@stealthiestboy no... they ended up there cause you know they had no family. Many had family in africa and lost it all with the expulsion and hunting of whites (ever wondered why there aint whites in most of africa appart from humanitarian aid?)

[@mombaassa]

Definitely more "intense", as you describe it. Under the terms of the Geneva Convention, you can kill mercenaries, even if they surrender. Hence the tension.

[@Admin-5]

Better pay and they don’t have RoE’s

[@jimmypadilla3441]

@@mombaassa interesting didn't know that

[@lukasamkharadze1961]

0:11 that guy was 100% SS

[@mitigate385]

Which one?

[@lukasamkharadze1961]

@@mitigate385 one looking at the camera and then smiling.

[@silverpleb2128]

From what I know there is a ex SS or Wehrmacht officer in the original doc, it is said that he always carried his iron cross on him.

[@ValidLsofficial]

@@silverpleb2128 Siegfrid "Kongo" Müler is the one your refering too, while he wasan't officer in the wermacht he was a colonel

[@Thorr-kl6jl]

More likely a veteran of the French Foreign Legion, with service against the Communists in Indochina and/or Algeria. The Congolese "Simbas" were Communists funded by Moscow and Bejing. One of the "advisors" with the Simbas was Castro's Communist henchman Che Guevara.

[@thiniceking12]

0:24 dude pretty much just stares into your soul.

[@nibblessspelledwrong4343]

the camera man has balls of fucking steel

[@venator0405]

It's from the 1966 Italian documentary 'Africa Addio', about the decolonialization of Africa and the human and ecological catastrophes that ensued. One of the most horrific things put to film, it is sobering to say the least. It can be found in its entirety here on KZbin.

[@tannertaylor9432]

The two dudes who filmed this were shot at over a hundred times and literally lined up against a wall and were almost massacred. Massive respect to the lads

[@kestoification]

@@tannertaylor9432 If I recall correctly, isn't it when they were about to be executed, but the rebels (the people that captured them) discovered that they're Italians, not Americans, not "white". That shit was mad crazy.

[@derekobeirnes482]

@@kestoification so where all these white dudes killed in the clip?

[@kestoification]

@@derekobeirnes482 if you are talking about mercenaries, probably yes, some of them died, some of them pulled through, I was trying to find info, but I only managed to find about few of them. Their leader, became a movie director and died last year iirc.

[@durnham]

Bet these fellas had some WILD stories

[@matrimcauthon7937]

No shit.

[@drewfoster2375]

@@matrimcauthon7937 dickhead

[@samueljacksonactuallylaugh4906]

Scott Daniels i dont think he was trying to be an asshole bud

[@drewfoster2375]

@@samueljacksonactuallylaugh4906 he was being unnecessarily rude, thats just how i perceived it

[@justdoinmything]

I met a Merc from back then at a bar in Ireland he had some good stories. He talked about how the Africans killed a ton of nuns and missionaries and his group hunted their killers down and slaughtered all of them.

[@jameslebron2403]

All jokes aside, this is incredible footage.

[@flechette3782]

You can just feel the PTSD insanity oozing out of this clip.

[@richmondlandersenfells2238]

That is true.

[@55Bentley6]

I had a buddy who was an Infantry officer and a French Equitorial African Foreign Area Expert. When he retired in '96 or '97 he became a 'security adviser' to several companies with oil interests in West Africa. Three to six month tours with about a month home with his wife and two kids. Lots of money but .... His biggest worry, no medivac.

[@florinivan6907]

Is it really worth it to have a wife and kid if you spend most of the year away from them? Or did he get married just to fit in with societal expectations? In my view if your job keeps you away from your family for most of the year there's really no point in getting married. Lets be frank here you'll cheat on your spouse and vice versa. Your kids will barely get to know you and vice versa. In my view if you chose such jobs don't get married just stay single. Marriage is for guys who spend more than 50% of the time with the spouse. Otherwise its just someone wanting to not stick out as single.

[@prointernetuser]

​@@florinivan6907 different people live differently. Some families are perfectly content with this arrangement (can't argue with the money). Some not so much.

[@GiganFTW]

@@florinivan6907 now that’s not fair. I mean what else does he have to fight for. It’s probably what makes him an effective family provider.

[@pioupoi]

@@florinivan6907 sometimes you have to answer the call of the wild and danger! Oh those times! Too old now

[@MattiasOskarsson]

That guy with eyepatch reminds me of a guy in my old unit. You might know the sort... Raving lunatic that you wouldn't trust with a dull spoon out in the normal life but in the thick of it he was incredible. He might have been stark raving mad but he was our madman and worth all the fuzz.

[@-et37-]

@@historialz Well said.

[@SteveIsHavingMC]

according to another guy, his name was tiv wasalenko, although i can't find much on him

[@saintniccage2818]

@@SteveIsHavingMC then your not to good at searching

[@Dubbelehalvezool]

This is from the Italian movie Africa Addio, for those interested. A real (and grim) movie about Africa during the decolonization wave of the 60s. Lots & lots of mayhem in that movie, worth a watch (if you can stomach it)

[@abandonthis]

thank you very much

[@sundancetitan5675]

Documentary*

[@seregill13]

Not a movie, a documentary

[@booboo.4463]

To all the warriors out there, fighting for whatever purpose... Great thanks to Major Samm for providing us such good content.

[@MOOSEDOWNUNDER]

For those of you that are concerned about timing and command of these events. This was Major Mullers command, advance party circa 64 July, the 4 Germans and rest French that he speaks about in his interview, the laughing man. Specifics can be found there, he especially covers the skulls.

[@thelaughingman3825]

Great man

[@Roger-rh5lu]

pirate on cocaine is priceless 0:33 1:07 1:30 1:36

[@tomsgarage4486]

Arrrrr sniff arrrrrrrrr

[@cisarjosef2.835]

@@tomsgarage4486 Rolf

[@cisarjosef2.835]

* Rofl

[@zachprouty8595]

that dive though

[@crazycocainemercenary7498]

Love that guy

[@n9ne129]

"The call went out; the pay was $300 a month, all you could loot, and the most savage kind of excitement. And the mercenaries answered the call. Former French Foreign Legionnaires, ex-Nazis, white racists from Southern Rhodesia and South Africa, soldiers of fortune, demented sadists, adventurers and fugitives of every description - the descendants, in spirit and temperament, of the brutal agents of Leopald's Free State - enlisted in Tshombe's army. Once unleashed into the rain forests, they proved more than a match for the Simbas in savagery. Looting, massacring, raping, committing atrocities, they rolled back the Simba tide."

[@ChodeMaster]

This song is beyond catchy

[@wulfone5961]

Makes me want to play Far Cry 2.

[@cepv_2305]

I love that game.

[@ShutUpBubi]

This comment made me buy it on steam

[@temugenie2698]

@@ShutUpBubi you aren't gonna regret it

[@SunnyvaleTrailerParkSupervisor]

I'll never forget the multiplayer with created maps from the players and overpowered snipers

[@guillermotux614]

Good ol times

[@evancooper7510]

0:33 "Big Boss, is it really you?"

[@drewcatch5171]

Those mercs were so close to saving stanleyville’s people.

[@southern_gentalmen]

These guys are living life to the fullest

[@danielcantu5576]

1:36 l like that dolphin dive the pirate did 😎

[@TonkaGoldman-xd5iw]

I thought it was slow and cumbersome.

[@mombaassa]

The pirate pops up everywhere, in this clip. I wonder who he was and what was his story?

[@fiel81]

That was majestic

[@shirleymasurik5971]

I'm sure he winded himself.

[@georgecurtis6463]

I met a real mercenary that fought in the Congo in the beginning of 1970. After a year and a half he told me he was leaving as he got hired. No other info. I got one postcard from him saying he was heading in. Odd that the card had no postmark. Never heard from him again.

[@macn122]

What its him name?

[@georgecurtis6463]

@@macn122 I forget. This was back in the early 70s so my old mind cant pull it up. Besides, I'm bad at remembering names. But his pictures were certainly proof enough. Plus his action against a loud drunk in a bar one night proved it.

[@macn122]

@@georgecurtis6463 jajajajaja nice, my frustrated dream is being mercenary, since a kid y wanna be one

[@georgecurtis6463]

@@macn122 from the pictures and stories he told, no one with a sane mind would want to be one. This is what he told me. As an example, he was with a bunch of mercenaries and natives from the guys that hired him. One night a native who happened to like him because he treated him well, woke him up at night, whispered, leave. So he quietly snuck out. Days later he found that all the mercinaries there were killed. So yes, you have to be a special kind of person to be one.

[@macn122]

@@georgecurtis6463 but i dont think being one, my dream, but probably i being a bored judge or working in office

[@sethleoric2598]

The people who shot this documentary legitimately almost fucking died. Considering some of them were captured by rebels, i think some of them actually DID die making this documentary.

[@norikofu509]

Back when people who made documentaries actually had the balls to show the true no matter the cost

[@sethleoric2598]

@@norikofu509 ye

[@seregill13]

They nearly got executed until the communists realized they were Italian. They let them go because they don't consider Italians to be white.

[@richmondlandersenfells2238]

I think one was literally chased by some shirtless rebel whilst during a skirmish and the guys who were with him were either busy or just didn't care.

[@garyowen9044]

I served with the guy in the beginning of the clip (blonde hair, handlebar mustache adjusting skull). He was a legend.

[@ChodeMaster]

Tell me other fairy tales

[@nightman4142]

What was his name

[@TheNaitsabes96]

Dude, we need to know more about him

[@garyowen9044]

@@TheNaitsabes96 he was a legend in the Cav. We were both in the same unit for a very short time in Germany, we did Caravan Guard, and a gunnery, he PCSd shortly after. Ok, three stories - 1) he deserted the US Army in Vietnam because the Army wouldn’t extend him. He hooked up with French Foreign Legionaries, and fought along side them until the MPs found him. Apparently he was enough of an asset, all was forgiven. He may have had a break in service. 2) The story around Squadron was he was playing poker late into the evening, had a nice hand, and also needed to defecate. Rather than fold, and go to the latrine, he lifted a leg and crapped himself. I don’t know if he was an 11Bravo, or a 19Delta, but he was assigned to our Squadron in Germany. I’ve shared this clip with men from my former Unit, and it’s him. His mustache was legendary, and way outside AR670-1 regs, but no one cared. When I knew him he was an E7 SFC, don’t think he had a platoon. 3) At our gunnery, he was the NCOIC of the MaDuce range. He was beating me on the helmet with a big spoon screaming “Gooks in the wire, Gooks in the wire, Down a piaster!” I don’t know his nom de guerre, and I won’t share his born name, but it’s him.

[@Russ668]

Nothing says bad ass like a mercenary in Africa with an eyepatch, bandana and a rifle.

[@scpplumbing7118]

cowards shooting women and kids,real tough

[@sheevinopalpatino4782]

@@scpplumbing7118 Not really what they did, mate

[@germanfisch]

@Galaxy Guy fun fact he guy getting dragged of in 2:36 burned a bunch of children

[@germanfisch]

@Galaxy Guy 2:20 shows the guy that burned children getting executed

[@erichvondonitz5325]

@@scpplumbing7118 you mean "Possible combatants"

[@thanhlamnguyen6869]

This is beautiful. The camera angles, the "funky" music sync in with the chaos. Overall, i like this music video. My second favourite just after "who will save the world" by Mauzer.

[@fizhbing]

Yep, Mauzer creating some good stuff

[@TheSuspectOnFoot]

Mauzer used the music that the Soviets play from a radio in the original footage though. Just a better iteration of the song played over the OG audio

[@Obey.The.Walrus]

what song is this

[@thanhlamnguyen6869]

@@Obey.The.Walrus The four tops- Reach out.

[@chrisbrent7487]

The footage is from an Italian documentary filmed at the time called Africa Addio.

[@ssechres]

This film makes the mercenaries seem almost like pirates. But much this film also appears in the liberation of Beontre. An incident where the mercenaries interrupted and stopped an ongoing massacre that included women and children and would have resulted in hundreds of innocent deaths if not stopped. Mercenaries have a bad reputation in the West, but these men were employed by a Black African government who’s regular forces were not up to the task.

[@sundancetitan5675]

This is s documentary of the mercs it’s all real

[@ssechres]

@@sundancetitan5675 no problem. Didn’t know there was one.

[@rudipell90]

Kinda debunks the buffed tattooed bearded bad ass stereotype Hollywood portrays as mercenaries. These guys were raw killers, fit as fuck and tough as nails. Roaming the jungle is not for the weak.

[@giovannicervantes2053]

They were brutal bastards but being more raw than the Hollywood solder of fortune i would put good money on the mad mike types instead of mr badass cause they won't do any stand offs or speeches they are shoot on sight types who will use an entire mag and then pull a damn machete out and scalp a MFr

[@tomservo5347]

They did what 40,000 UN troops couldn't while drinking beer (fresh water supply problem, but plenty of beer) and smoking cigarettes.

[@5.7moy]

@@giovannicervantes2053 Exactly what I’m signing up for.

[@giovannicervantes2053]

@@5.7moy good luck

[@randomlyrelatable1372]

You beard actually will get infected in that environment

[@joehill4094]

There they go, one of god's own prototypes. A highpowered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too wierd to live, and too rare to die.

[@quangcaodo8864]

- Hunter S.Thompson. As befitting the era

[@54commando31]

What does this mean

[@drjellygoose9489]

@@54commando31 its means they were all unique magnificent bastards. It came from the movie fear and loathing in Las Vegas

[@selenoyl8740]

One of my favorite quotes

[@edgarbanuelos6472]

We were somewhere around Bumba along the edge of the jungle when the fever began to take hold.

[@Ironbattlemace]

0:25 That man has seen some Congo shit.

[@fhlostonparaphrase]

I've been binge-watching your channel for...probably hours now, I came here via a Rhodesia doc/interview, and found myself enthralled; however this is perhaps your best edit so far!

[@MajorSamm]

Thanks a lot man, out of curiosity, which doc/interview was it, I've had a couple of people mention finding me via one recently.

[@kilU713]

Love the absolute fk oitta this mashup

[@aceshigh6499]

See a lot of early model FALs in action.

[@GlidingZephyr]

Those were very nearly made U.S. standard during the Vietnam war, when they sought to replace the M14.

[@scottrobbins6216]

Yes

[@Luke-rt9bx]

Leland Turner yeah they where used by a lot of nato troops right? I know Canada used them till the earlie 90’s

[@aceshigh6499]

@@GlidingZephyr They are great rifles but a unwieldy compared today's much lighter military rifles.

[@luantunez8975]

Fal= Fusil de asalto ligero in argentina. Used in The Falklands war and still. Very good rifle i heard

[@Kevin-fj5oe]

Teacher : we're going to africa Girls: yay, i can't wait to see all the beaches and culture Boys:

[@herruntersturmfuhrer5731]

African culture... Damn, nice joke.

[@goober2832]

@@herruntersturmfuhrer5731 Uhhh, Baste?

[@randomzebraontheinternet7779]

@@herruntersturmfuhrer5731 HAHA BRO REAL EDGY JOKE, MAYBE YOU SHOULD PUT YOUR "COMEDICAL PROWESS" TO SOMETHING PRODUCTIVE BRO HAHA FUNNY LE MEME

[@WomanBettar59]

Professional Zebra ok liberal

[@jonathanbastard4629]

@@herruntersturmfuhrer5731 I changed this comment so none of the replies make sense, LOL wut?

[@pelleban]

With all the videos from ukraine capturing the horrors of war we think we for the first time can first hand experience soldier life in the moment of combat, but have to say this is old clip gets it all, and better. The constant awereness of surroundings, harsh treatment of prisoners, gun fire and an actual feel of soldier life. I keep returning to this clip, can't explain why but it stirs a feeling in me I haven't felt since my army training. Never experienced real combat but man this captures soldier life right in the feels.

[@abellcrib973]

Y hay muchos pendejos que creen qué la guerra es un acto de valentía por querer experimentar eso. Cuando la realidad es muy diferente y horrible. Sumando al hecho de que tu cabeza quedará jodida de por vida

[@vladvalo]

oh cool (get over yourself watching footage of war over and over isn’t good for your soul so grow up)

[@pelleban]

@@vladvalo What? Mb directed towards a deleted comment and not me lol?

[@TPBXDRicky420]

0:16 that is what trusting your fellow brother in arms with your life looks like.

[@eman0061]

The definition of "Freelance" these guys got to live, truly live

[@John.McMillan]

Aye, Sad that the soldier of fortune is a rapidly dying business, Now its the private army. No fun to be had. No wars to be fought. Just the dirty work of nations who dont want their hands dirty.

[@DarylNorthrop]

@@John.McMillan and why exactly do you think they hire mercenaries???

[@John.McMillan]

@@DarylNorthrop The reason stated.

[@giovannicervantes2053]

@@John.McMillan the gold age is gone ah well

[@alvaro701]

@@John.McMillan Shit now are less wars and less people killing people... How bad

[@houseviceroy]

Everything about this video fits so perfectly, the footage , the song ...it all goes together so well... terrific work #majorsamm

[@ashtralplane777]

You can see the insanity and blood lust in all their eyes in the beginning. It's beautiful.

[@notrightmeow3357]

I remember reading Soldier Of Fortune magazine back in the day.

[@GlidingZephyr]

I used to dream of going into Central Africa or the South Pacific with just a Sten Gun, a few hundred dollars and a carton of Winston menthols.

[@robertoelizondo2922]

FN Fall, 200 rounds, pair of boots, summer shorts and a t-shirt. Those guy really like the action

[@barnabywild2215]

"Wanted. Physically fit white men capable of marching 20 miles per day who are fond of combat and are tremendous romantics. $1100 per month" That was the advert "Mad" Mike Hoare placed in the South African newspapers to join 5 Commando in 1964. To put that into some perspective a month's pay was almost $11,000 in today's money. You can see the allure given that an ordinary bloke off the street could set themselves up for life with a few years service - if they survived.

[@giovannicervantes2053]

As well as those who were vets who couldn't find anything at home after the war cause of what the went through or cause of what they did Hoare was scrupulous but he wanted good troops and undoubtedly he had some grade A SS in his crew that he probably (begrudgingly) accepted for their skills

[@mokozushitoya8882]

I don’t know much about the Congo war but I bet these mercenaries did one hell of a fine job to make the entire place look exactly like hell.

[@quangcaodo8864]

After the battle recorded on this video is concluded, the mercenaries gave the town 24hrs to evacuate. Then they enacted a 3 days long looting spree

[@steelrain714]

@@quangcaodo8864 looting isnt anything new

[@LSD_93]

@@steelrain714 It is in the modern period of war, considering it's against the Geneva Conventions.

[@Bikavin]

@@LSD_93 well,looting during war especially any war in africa is actually quite common in place like liberia,sierra leone,congo etc

[@malcolm_in_the_middle]

Wrong. The mercs did a lot to alleviate the hellishness. The assault shown in this video is on a Catholic school, were rebels were holding the teachers (nuns) hostage, and slowly eating them. They were savages.

[@Baathist_Brawler_1565]

"They've hired out themselves and the planes for $500 a month which no one has paid for six months and a life insurance policy that up to now no insurance company has underwritten. This time, as always, before leaving they've filled out the forms at the airport in the usual manner. Destination: Hell. Reason for Flight: Personal matters." Great video but the original music actually works better. The name scrawled on their base? "Alamo".

[@JacobN-hg8tv]

Just seeing him walk up to his aircraft with the sun behind him, and like the seriousness in not only his face but his walk, really epic, man had prowess.

[@Baathist_Brawler_1565]

@@JacobN-hg8tv Their families had been butchered by black rebels in Angola according to the docco, they had reasons to be serious. I love how it put it, all the mercenaries were exiles, ex somethings, the last of an old age of exploration who had been pushed to the edge of the world. Its like watching a western only in real life.

[@MichealCollins-vr1zo]

Vlad The Impaler Did Nothing Wrong whats the doc called?

[@Baathist_Brawler_1565]

@@MichealCollins-vr1zo Africa Addio, Italian documentary kzbin.info/www/bejne/p2KxqZ9qjtSeo6c . Its a lifechanging video, without its precious footage the history of generations of white civilization in africa might have been entirely forgotten.

[@gewisse_6786]

Merry Christmas Major, the original mercenaries in the congo was the first video of yours I ever saw

[@MV-gl5bg]

Not a cellphone in sight. just a bunch of fellas livin in the moment

[@joeyphaahla]

2:18 lots of people are wondering who that guy is, well some people might know that Britain sent troops to the Congo 🇨🇩 (Ireland not included), that guy is an Australian Soldier with the Commonwealth forces in the Congo 🇨🇩 he was in the Military Police from ‘49 to ‘64 (got shot and discharged), also he lived up until December 2020. The Commonwealth Forces there included troops from Australia, Britain, NZ, PNG, Fiji, Rhodesia, South Africa, India & Malaysia.

[@Archer63270]

Do you reckon you could give me a source to this because I want to look into it more

[@AlanTheBest97]

My grandpa had a neighbour that fought as a mercenary for South África, working for some PMC at that time. He looks to be the most interesting old man in the world.

[@tomservo7005]

These guys were BAD ASS DUDES. It looked like they had some competent officers in command. Perfect song for the vid.

[@budgetmicro5387]

These guys are war criminals

[@tours7325]

@@budgetmicro5387 not all. The majority were just looking to get paid

[@Cairo40000]

@@budgetmicro5387 they're mercenaries. Morals are out the window

[@AqvaSerpentis]

@@budgetmicro5387 not all of them, I don’t know if you know this but the people they fought were actual war criminal, burnt kids alive and stuff like that.

[@Cairo40000]

@J Thorsson Yeah I know but I've never seen any goody two shoes mercenaries before

[@mattbritzius570]

Look at that. No one on their phones. Just people living life.

[@CoffeeMania-uq7if]

"Geneva Convention? More like Geneva Suggestion..."

[@lemmino1846]

“Come on they’re only 150 Irishmen we’ll be home by night fall”

[@williamsmith8790]

That guy rushing with the .30 caliber air cooled has a testosterone level that would power three “soy boys” in the 2020’s.

[@theredstag3743]

More like ten soy boys minimum.

[@sircarl2stlordofcarltoncou74]

Possibly hundreds.

[@pikebasss]

There were some buzfeed boys that tested their testosterone and they were at 1/8th the level of the avg 80 year old man.

[@williamsmith8790]

pikebasss It’s hormones in the food and water that have been emasculating them for years.

[@korpiklaaniband2277]

Could you do that though

[@sirkermitthefirstoffrogeth9622]

Nobody gonna talk about the camera quality? This is clearer than any bank camera.

[@FumblsTheSniper]

Each and every one is a character that I want to know more about.

[@-et37-]

Honestly you couldn’t fill 1 book for each of their stories.

[@FumblsTheSniper]

@@-et37- life’s a story Write it.

[@congo64bukavu37]

I served with 5 commando in the Congo in 1964 -65. With Colonel Hoare after serving 3 years in the Rhodesian Army.

[@giovannicervantes2053]

@@congo64bukavu37 what was he like mr Hoare

[@ratscoot]

It"s actually 1964, libreration of Stanleyville by Belgian paratroopers and international mercenaries during the Simba rebellion. Simba's were a tribe and their rebellion was led by marxist's and supported by the USSR. They fought the Congolese national army under Mobutu, a cruel corrupt dictator supported by Belgium and the US. When Simba’s began starting slaughtering whites there was a intervention to relief them.

[@MrRedsjack]

@big K k Africa blood and guts is a very bad edit of Africa addio. You need to watch Africa addio because Africa blood and guts it's a shitty edit of the Italian documentary to be more splatter and cutting away many historically relevant scenes.

[@andrebarbosa224]

@John Macmillan yeah the US believes in self determination only if it leads to privatization and a capitalist class of overseers so wealth can be funneled out of the country. This is true even when the government is elected traditionally AND is western and liberal (as was the case with Iran in the late 50s, after the election they put the Shah in and that went well).

[@AwesomeDude272]

Both sides were cruel and brutal as hell...not humans anymore

[@12vscience]

Check these out: Katanga Crisis: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qKfKc6mtm7xoetk Ideological subversion: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j2q3p5x_qr2Diac

[@sugarnads]

@@andrebarbosa224 nice regurgitation of your marxist indoctrination

[@benreid7567]

From what I understand about this situation from the original film I saw was that a girls school had been taken hostage and the Congolese army was unable or unwilling to free them after 9 months. The mercenaries hired did it about 15minutes.

[@quangcaodo8864]

Vive le Sacre Mercenaire

[@soldieron9965]

One of the craziest videos I’ve ever seen on KZbin, and I grew up in south Chicago in the late 90’s. And I am also a 2x Iraq war veteran. Pure insanity. 🤯😎

[@CK-il8wy]

I want a game on the Congo Crisis, teach people about the UN's involvement, like the Irish stand at Jadotville

[@AZB2000]

UNinvolved in peace

[@heberrodriguez3310]

Far Cry 2 comes to mind

[@KingKhanate1997]

A thoroughly mad group of individuals. I wonder if the world will ever see their kind together like this again.

[@Terabit3]

I have a feeling we'll see them again sooner than we'd expect

[@yaboidex4000]

@@Terabit3 wym

[@brucekaren6693]

Don’t worry. We will. And far sooner than most people expect.

[@sirmount2636]

They lost then & they’ll lose now

[@luiscarlospallaresascanio2374]

They will do so when the white West sees its supremacy over the other races threatened.

[@jonathankaranja5857]

The music blends perfectly with the action-packed scenes of shooting.