Acid Gambit - The Most Dangerous Delta Force Mission

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According to the Cambridge Dictionary, the word ‘gambit’ is defined as ‘a clever action in a situation that is intended to achieve an advantage that usually involves taking a risk’.
During Operation Acid Gambit, a disastrous rescue mission that was only supposed to take four and a half minutes and be one of the opening operations of the 1989 US invasion of Panama, Delta Force found themselves in a situation so sticky that it was sheer luck, rather than tactical gambits, that got them out alive.
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[@alm5992]

7:34 "Don't worry, we'll get you out of here in one piece. Freedom always wi-" *runs into and knocks self out with rotor blade*

[@MrAngelIsland]

Kinda funny 🤣

[@thescpdoctor]

That was my grandfather, he swears it didn't knock him out

[@johngreen4349]

@@thescpdoctor lol

[@julian2626]

Putting the special in special forces

[@thescpdoctor]

​@julian2626 nah leave my grandpappy alone😂

[@terranceaddison4599]

So this what inspired all the 90s action flicks

[@OrganizedChaos396]

I still don't see how this isn't a movie!

[@darwinsoriano6792]

​@@OrganizedChaos396its because of that one scene where the delta almost got beheaded by the rotor blade.😂

[@hatoftricks7132]

​@@OrganizedChaos396 Because gravy seals write books, Delta does the real work.

[@OrganizedChaos396]

@hatoftricks7132 oh absolutely agree, Delta have always been stellar examples of the "quiet professionals". I'm just the kinda guy that likes to read and or see these kinds of acts.

[@superfrycook6360]

Achievement Unlocked: Delta Flawless - Complete Operation Acid Gambit without losing a Delta Force operative

[@bocawilliams9200]

The entire time I kept screaming "Aw $h!T NI**A" if I had been the one being captured, I'd have been screaming this the wholeeeeeeeeeeeeeee time!

[@ssgtomen621]

Fun fact, this is Delta's first 'official' rescue mission. Eric L Haney describes 2 earlier black rescue operations where a single Delta shooter on 'advisory' role had to directly intervene, to bring the missions to success- 1 in El Salvador( or was it Honduras), and the other in Sudan. On one mission, the sole evidence of it ever being conducted is a signed bible given by the grateful missionaries to the Delta operator for the aforementioned rescue- which allegedly on display along the 'Spine hallway at Bragg.

[@jacobjarrett9406]

The Legendary Larry Vickers was one of those Delta Operators🙂

[@gimletinf69]

The original Larry Legend🇺🇸😮‍💨💯

[@LeDiamondDog]

What really ?

[@jacobjarrett9406]

@@LeDiamondDog yea he talks abt it in one of his older videos and there also was a documentary abt the Operation If I remember correctly and he was in it too

[@brianoconnor24601]

Unfortunately he is in jail now for importing some russian guns without proper permits mumbo jumbo. Kinda ironic the country he spent his life protecting locks him up for that bs.

[@onii-chandaisuki5710]

He's apparently been arrested. He served his country and this is how he is repaid.

[@justthat69]

Not going lie sounds like it could be a call of duty mission

[@isaacseg7576]

Fr

[@Saturncastle]

Yeah, like one of those mission when saving captain price in gulag.

[@ramamaulana8922]

Remember that one mission where Menendez got captured by Noriega? Well, Noriega is actually a real person and sued Activision for that reason.

[@iiwhite-shadowii9215]

I would bet all cod campaigns missions are spec ops mission in RL

[@Osama_Zyn_Laden]

​@@iiwhite-shadowii9215Honestly, that's a pretty good theory. Let me break out the old tin foil hat.😂 So let's say they are real missions. I don't think the gravity of the missions like a nuclear bomb going missing are the kind of missions that would be happening in real life? So I feel that part would be changed. It's more than likely intellectual property was stolen. So they have to go get back that information. Is or vice versa steal information from other countries or other companies. Pretty interesting thing to think about.

[@L11ghtman]

Fun Delta (CAG) fact: the Unit is so elite that even though it's an Army Tier 1 asset, it has the freedom to hand-select the occasional Navy, Air Force, and Marine personnel to join if they think they're good enough. The standard Delta pipeline is Army infantry > Ranger School or Green Beret (Special Forces) > Delta.

[@ViktoriousDead]

Not Ranger school, RASP, Ranger school is just. A leadership school, it doesn’t make you a Ranger. RASP is how you become a special operations Ranger

[@065Tim]

Fun facts are seldom true.

[@dgreen9200]

Another fun fact: you don’t have to be infantry at all or a ranger. I was asked by SGM Theis at around 2010, 2012 I received my invitation to building 538 May 14, 2012.

[@vinceee_r]

@@dgreen9200thats dope. Did you end up going?

[@tomconnell1576]

"Everyone had survived the mission" except all the dead people on the other side.

[@yuandredieujuste3574]

We don't count those numbers, lol 😂

[@TerryTurner]

🤣

[@azimisyauqieabdulwahab9401]

This video is so "Gambit"

[@RapidFire175]

Communist are not people

[@patcorbstt1148]

The drug runners?

[@seaasugar605]

Didn't you just do this yesterday. Ohhh i see you went back to fix your lil slip up. Good work im glad you are willing to put in extra work to correct small mistakes.

[@strykerdomagtoy965]

Anyone asking about this being a reupload its because of the fact the previous video had said the delta force guys thay had rescued them were navy seals amongst *a few other inaccuracies

[@GathKingLeppbertI]

Amongst

[@Osama_Zyn_Laden]

Probably just auto correct.​@@GathKingLeppbertI

[@strykerdomagtoy965]

@@GathKingLeppbertI yeah auto correct

[@darkclownKellen]

Sus

[@joelellis7035]

Didn't expect this to be redone. Thank you for correcting the errors.

[@russell28533]

Good job on the accuracy of the rifles. They are correct for the period, and for the people that used them.

[@user-kr7yh8vw9m]

That was a very interesting explanation about one of the most successful operations carried out by Delta Force and the one where they redeemed themselves in the eyes of the US Government. Well done Simple History, well done. I'm glad the hostage was saved and got to see his family again.

[@dougmasters4579]

You said more about this mission in 10 minutes than any (1 hour) boring tv documentary I’ve seen on the same operation - you cram so much info and action in a short space of time. Well done, great stuff.

[@gbagaskoro2]

Thanks for re-uploading. Appreciate the extra work

[@danko6582]

It's always helicopter problems for Delta

[@TopHistoryFactsDaily]

great content mate you actually inspired to me to create my own history channel as i just find your videos so fun to watch

[@thescpdoctor]

My grandfather done got his noggin clobbered

[@abdullahrizwan592]

Wow, is story is so crazy that it sounds like it came from an 80s action film!

[@corymorimacori1059]

“Don’t you know she’s coming home with me, you’ll lose her in the town. I get high. PANAMA! PANAMA!” Van Halen Oscar: Nobody makes a move without my ok, I’m the Panama Canal.

[@Kriegter]

It's about the car though

[@AnonymousFohYOU]

I love this type of content

[@jamesofficial6829]

Wow what badassery these guys displayed under constant pressure from the enemy!

[@knicks01]

This would be a great movie

[@JoeRogansForehead]

Bro was Noriega really paranoid if he strengthens defenses right before the USA invaded ? Seems like he was preparing

[@vriloperator]

Unbelievably cool, love the unit

[@DrEtzor]

No wonder people say that the crews of Little Birds have the biggest balls of steel in the entire American Arsenal.

[@charmsly9506]

Amazing story

[@Frisher1]

From someone that lives in Panamá I've never heard of this story actually, but glad it was successful, no one here apart from a couple fanatics really miss thid dictatorship, the whole country was on the streets against it.

[@BrapBang]

2:42 was Noriega really "paranoid" or just cautious because his citizens and the US GOVT was out to get him? LOL

[@TerryTurner]

This should be a movie, 😎👍

[@CasualStone]

Damn, the US really do play chess.

[@dustintacohands1107]

They all try to don’t thru??? Btw do you play?? I do myself

[@CasualStone]

@@dustintacohands1107 I meant like queen's gambit in like mid game

[@macobuzi]

Have you ever heard Bobby Fischer?

[@usmcdevildog3497]

Voting on a unit video on MACV-SOG

[@anthonycatino3367]

I'm glad to see the errors were fixed

[@KyleFromSouthParkCA]

Amazing

[@bhiei]

Very good video

[@SniperFallen06]

My lifeguard coordinador was a PDF soldier at the time, he fought against these guys and survived, sadly he lost 2 close friends during the battle, he was shot in the leg in the firefight

[@vinceee_r]

He fought against delta? If so, what does he say what its like fighting against them?

[@SniperFallen06]

@@vinceee_r It was a scary experience, bullets flying everywhere,the explosions in mere meters of him, teamates falling around and he Even Saw one of the pilots clearly from the helicópter and tried to shoot him but got wounded in the process,it was very traumatic for him and still lives with PTSD, however he does not regret fighting for the country and for his Friends

[@kingKaiju393]

You gotta do Operation Nifty Package.

[@luisemoralesfalcon4716]

Re upload?

[@dgreen9200]

Had a co-worker code named the mutant he fought in this battle and jumped into Haiti as well. He was the first army guy I ever seen with an underwater demolition skill badge. I miss that crazy SOB 😂

[@bobwehadababyitsaboi103]

Simply History D'oh! It happens to the best of us.

[@Icantchooseaname136]

wasn't this uploaded yesterday?

[@Cyberleader135]

I think the issue was that the original conflated Delta Force and Navy Seals

[@monkeycat48]

They did however there was a mistake with literally calling out the unit that was there in the rescue mission. He was calling them Navy seals instead of Delta Force. Delta Force and Navy seals are different worlds and also different branches of the US military such as Navy seals are for the Navy and Delta forces for the US army

[@SEAZNDragon]

They kept referencing the Navy SEALs who weren’t involved in the mission

[@insaneyogurt4993]

Nuh uh

[@LeoAugustoRovin420]

That's classified

[@Zeus2199]

He was a cia operative this is why they rescued him

[@zealwarriorgaming5315]

Reupload?

[@ecbst6]

Guessing corrected for all the mistaken references to SeALs.

[@gus7850]

they fucked up certain details last time, like calling the operators SEALs when the were Delta Force

[@Autobotmatt428]

@@gus7850 They also screwed up the names of the Delta operators

[@gus7850]

@@Autobotmatt428 right, that was the other thing they messed up, they def dropped the ball for that one

[@Based_Gigachad_001]

Make this a movie.

[@princessmarlena1359]

There was a movie they made for it, I forgot the name though. I only caught the last half of it.

[@thatozarklife]

I really appreciate you guys jumping through your butts to get this corrected version uploaded quickly. I know that wasn’t easy to get turned around in 24 hours but I’m a super proud subscriber as a retired Army NCO myself. God bless you all, my brothers!

[@ghfunner8482]

The Helicopter crash feels like Call of Duty

[@willluther9877]

Hey, simple history here something you can look into and tell us a story Somalia 1993 Black hawk down

[@TheOneManWhoBeatYou]

Huh, they actually went back and corrected their video, good on yah Simple History

[@user-oo7rf8of4x]

Imagen being one of the other prisoner hearing as they rescue just one guy and leave you behind

[@Cap.RedBeard]

Now do a deep dive into School of the Americas.

[@deveshdwivedi8288]

What to risk the life of many soldiers for a single person

[@cloyettesaul3833]

Hello ur vids are super splendid

[@user-vb9cu2de2w]

Simple history you should do a video about Aarne Juutilainen aka the terror of Morocco this guy has a story that would make even Rambo impressed

[@RoadBlocks1.]

straight outta a movie

[@Forgemno]

Respect

[@Theshape7026]

Hey simple history do you think you could do a video on the Maersk Alabama hijacking in 2009 I’ve been a huge fan for around 5 years

[@user-oh6zy7eg1t]

Hiiiii I'm new I'm going to subscribe ❤🎉😊

[@moistpancakes1383]

Epic

[@skylerbowerbank5847]

Re-uploaded?

[@Battlefieldenjoyer]

I tought i watched this vid yesterday

[@skylerbowerbank5847]

Same here

[@gus7850]

yea and they fucked up because they called the operators SEALs when they were not.

[@theexpendablesoldier3373]

“No plan survives contact with the enemy” - Field Marshall Helmuth von Moltke

[@kevinmoh3882]

What happened to the delta video before this?

[@trevorthai1685]

Legends will know this is an upload of yesterday’s video.

[@theawesomeman9821]

Hollywood should make a movie about this

[@masonmcgrew9790]

being delta in panama would be so fucking hard

[@lucoakanrogithe2ahashira509]

Uploaded 2hrs ago? I am sure this was uploaded yesterday or a few days ago already

[@eriktruchinskas3747]

The operator getting knocked out from the rotor blades was due to jumping on kurt to stop him from standing up into the blades accidentally. The skids were collapsed putting the rotors at head level and kurt was dazed and was attempting to stand up. Theres multuple accounts of exactly what happened so im not sure the reason for the misinformation hetr

[@daniellim8964]

By right, the special operators should review their protective suit and equipment, and be very safely masked up to protect themselves from pieces of weapons flying around.

[@not_theone8196]

Wow

[@gamer1q658]

RIP Alex Mason 😢

[@ExplorinInTheWoods]

Is this a redo after calling delta guys seals in the previous video

[@Villy-dv5yn]

Ello good viedo

[@TacticalKitten]

you didn’t even watch it

[@SuperiorSpyDa1st]

Why'd you remove the Delta Force video?

[@SeedCSGO]

muse got treated better than the qanon shaman

[@neftalimorales5449]

What type of red dot optic were the operators running on their CAR's?

[@rogerloess2379]

Probably Aimpoint 2000’s

[@marksmith8079]

The missed opportunity was the other prisoners who could have caused enough mayhem to aide the operators escape.

[@indianajones4321]

Why reupload?

[@johnfeliciano585]

Edited and corrected

[@mas-em4ik]

Did they change something? I thought i watched this yesterday.

[@joelellis7035]

Yep! No longer calling Deltas the SEALs.

[@yacinealg152]

Why did they use the Mh-6 and not the UH-60 "Black hawk" helicopter ? The black hawk provides more room and protection than the MH

[@LucasFelipe356]

But the Black Hawk isn't as agile and permissive when flying in short spaces like rooftops and streets as the Little Bird.

[@billbrasky7540]

Wasn't this uploaded yesterday too? Or am I trippin?

[@N8TheGreatG]

Yes I know I watched this yesterday

[@seanhastings4432]

Two words: Dale Comstock

[@ZMAN_420]

WASN'T THIS PLAYED YESTERDAY?

[@TAGsRC]

Wait so you talk about Delta Force but you run with the story that Kurt Muse was just a disgruntled American in Panama and not a CIA agent?

[@faiz5922]

Badass Pilots

[@TheFlutecart]

Surprised it's not a movie.

[@jonbrollinsface2420]

I met the pilot of the downed helicopter

[@insaneyogurt4993]

Balls.

[@joeh2236]

I saw this yesterday, is this a corrected version?

[@yellowgirlclaire9615]

i like this this history do another delta force mission history from somalia in mogadishu blackhawk down

[@SerjTerrible]

I feel like I’m playing Black Ops 2 again

[@cobracommando3985]

The misson suffer with me

[@jasonberryman7900]

Didn’t they make a movie about this….oh wait. That was another delta/160th operation.

[@WEREDOG100]

⛩️RAKKASAN ⛩️

[@WEREDOG100]

RAKKASAN

[@WEREDOG100]

⛩️⛩️⛩️⛩️⛩️⛩️⛩️

[@moogiibat5845]

The wiki say only 5 panama guard were killed, but here it seems the whole prison guard were killed who is telling the truth.

[@jpax69sh]

Well wikipedia is known for lying and being not trustworthy so i think this video is the real deal

[@chivragunath7804]

Damn God is Good

[@RJpkFire]

"call of duty isnt real bro" Simple History:

[@editionzero7001]

What happened with old thumbnail?

[@johnfeliciano585]

It's been edited and corrected

[@That-guy33]

god was with them

[@jtremblay100]

I noticed they changed they title of the video and took out delta. 😂 since at the end of the video they mention seals in the first version.

[@twcba8547]

Which call of duty game have this level again?

[@justryan6480]

Black Ops 2, I think

[@twcba8547]

@@justryan6480 ah yes ı remeber the mission that we try to capture raul menendez

[@dustintacohands1107]

Wow how many people did they kill?!?!? Why is this not a movie?