Navy Combat Search and Rescue in North Vietnam (updated)

[@HabitualButtonPusher]

This was very entertaining! My father was a SAR swimmer at Pax River and the SAR School LPO, then Chief at HC-3 in North Island from 70-81. He got two saves in that period, so proud of him and wish he was still here saving more. Thanks Capt. Liebman!

[@thetreblerebel]

I love real stuff like this. Telling it like it was

[@stoneblue1795]

Riveting stuff right here. This guy gets a big thumbs up. Thanks for your service in multiple campaigns sir. We owe you a great deal.

[@capt400]

You guys are the unsung heroes. From a Marine UH34D pilot.

[@michaeljames5187]

Huge fun to listen to Marc, loved the technical details too. These men were in the hot seat from the very beginning and for the duration!

[@billenright2788]

These videos are awesome. Some fantastic stories by those who lived it.

[@nickdawn3985]

Another fantastic no bs presentation, thank you so much for posting these, it's an honor to lisen to their stories.

[@12gauge1oz]

What a story! Another real American hero. Thank you for your service!

[@charlesputnam9370]

My father Capt Charles l Putnam was shot down off coast of North Vietnam RA 5C Vigilante his copolit was saved by one of these brave aircrews.

[@56hueycobra]

Thank You 🙏 Sir For Your Service to Our Country Sir 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@abtechgroup]

Great presentation, Thank You

[@feet9100]

Thank u for your service never really knew much about combat and resuse missions I learnt a great deal

[@motorcop505]

Another great speaker!

[@georgeschmidt4956]

my comanding officer made a rescue in Vietnam and received the Distinguish Flying Cross for his rescue in which he had to pick up the second passenger on the run . the Aircrewman had unrealed the hoist cable like a lariout and flung it down as they flew by this was the only way they could pick up that person because they were Drooping out the Pilot was Comander SAPP. The story is in the book "THE FLEET ANGLES of LAKEHURST " by Barbara Marriott

[@jh52663]

Question for Captain Leibman, just out of pure curiosity. The story about the rescue mission where the helicopter was engaged and subsequently returned fire on Soviet “Freighters” on their way to pick up an Aircrew. Was that a F-4J crew by chance? On May 10, 1972? After the Alpha Strike on the Hai Dong rail yards launched off Constellation, specifically the ‘Fighting Falcons’ of VF96? The US Navy’s ONLY ace of the war? Specifically F-4J Phantom “Showtime 100” armed with 2X AIM7 and 4X AIM9J? Because it sounds to me A LOT like a story I’ve heard before where Showtime 100 had just splashed their 5th MiG with AIM-9J’s and on their Egress were hit by an SA-2 just outside the village of Nam Dinh, was on fire and lost all control, but managed to stay with the aircraft. They rolled the jet using nothing but Power and Rudder until the tail came off and they went into a low level flat spin coming across the beach, and I’ll always remember the statement because it just sticks with me hearing someone say it “Then he gave me the ‘Willie Eject Eject Eject’ and you’re supposed to have your back straight but I was bent like a pretzel in the spin, just barely got 2 fingers on the alternate handle and pulled it then Bam, I went off one way and Duke went off the other.” Pilot Randy “DUKE” Cunningham and RIO Willie “IRISH” Driscoll? Just the way you described the engagement and that they were just off the beach had me thinking, then flying them back to “Connie” and that one aircrew had an injured shoulder makes me really seriously think it was them. Duke happened to have his hands on the Throttle and Stick when Willie initiated the dual sequence Ejection resulting in him acquiring the Broken Shoulder in the ejection.

[@viesturssilins858]

Wonderfull talk!

[@IrishManJT]

Excellent! :-)

[@mr19471985]

As a USMC in vietnam I would go to war with this guy. I was in the Shore Party battalion which worked with the choppers as a Helicopter support team leader.

[@hckyplyr9285]

It is an honor to hear these. I thank you for the upload. But I think in his zeal to, quite rightly, insure knowledge of the Navy's significant contribution to CSAR in SEA not be forgotten or unfairly minimized, the presenter has done a bit of exactly that to USAF CSAR efforts in the same theater. He seems to be comparing apples and oranges in claiming the Navy had as many "saves" in SEA over far fewer attempts and with far fewer losses. Tactics had little to do with this. The matter comes down to location and the threat levels encountered in the rescue attempts Briefly, USAF rescues almost universally involved long distances over enemy territory with most all encountering very heavy opposition. Distance meant time allowing the NVA to flood the area around the downed pilot with resources. By contrast many Navy rescues took place over water with sporadic to no opposition. Had the USN been attempting rescues in western N. Vietnam or Laos they may well have had even HIGHER losses due to the inadequacies in their equipment, something the presenter dwelt on at length. This doesn't diminish the great contributions made by the Navy's much more ad hoc CSAR apparatus in Vietnam, but it does put his statistics in perspective. I think the presenter could have been much clearer about this instead of repeatedly demeaning, whether intentionally or not, USAF and its efforts across 20 years of military history.

[@thetreblerebel]

Craziness just to land on the small boats. Navy pilots are the best bar none

[@afoose]

14:45 is the most insane aviation shit I have ever heard

[@56hueycobra]

Captain Roger Rocher the Weapon System Operator in the Back Seat 💺 of a U.S. AIR FORCE F-4D Phantom II Was Shot Down and Spend 23 Days & Nights On the Ground in North Vietnam 🇻🇳 as Was Putted Out Safely Sir 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@MyPoopoo2]

Sounds like a passionate fixwing guy got stuck flying rotary wing.

[@56hueycobra]

The BEST U.S. AIR FORCE Korea War Movie 🍿 is The HUNTERS With Robert Michell as They Kill MIG-15 in Korea War Sir 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@esphilee]

Did not understand his jokes about the different forces.

[@billthecat3159]

Man, navy pilots whine a lot! Seriously though, he always came when they called = hero in my book.

[@billthecat3159]

Awesome presentation too, thanks!

[@judpowell1756]

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