The RISKIEST Mission In The Vietnam War

One year into the Vietnam War, remnants of an American company were cut off in a jungle near the Cambodian border. Hiding in the jungle was the enemy - over 3,000 of them. Alpha Company arrived to relieve the cut off G.I. 's and get them back to safety…As the veterans told it, the Viet Cong were yelling “Come on, G.I., come and get us.” To save their fellow G.I’s, Private John F. Baker and Captain Robert F. Foley intended to do just that.
As Alpha Company started their rescue effort, the lead men in the columns were cut down by enemy fire. In an instant, all hell broke loose. Private Baker and Captain Foley, now with their uniforms covered in blood from their comrades' wounds after dragging them to safety, took the lead of the columns to push the rescue mission forward. Shaking like a leaf thinking of his slain G.I.s, and of the ones still trapped, Private Baker zeroed his focus on two enemy bunkers. Simultaneously, Captain Foley took control of the situation as company commander, deploying his platoon’s until he had enough of being pinned down and took an M-60 machine gun to lead an assault himself. By day’s end, both men would meet the surpassing tests of their lives with acts of courage far beyond the call of duty…
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[@bradr2142]

I think it's not a special bond as much as it's a sacred bond. It's holy and scared. Wow what an experience with good leadership.

[@MichaelSSmith-hs5pw]

I was a Vietnam veteran before it became popular. Iron Triangle, 1969 🎖💜♠️🪖🇺🇸

[@Militology]

Thank you for your service, and welcome home.

[@jimmymarsh2489]

Brave men. My friend has a lot of Vietnam bring backs, helmets, flak jacket, and the coolest thing he has his dad brought home was a N.V.A pith hat, with N.V.A vandaleer, and the best was the A.K 47. Thanks to all who served in Vietnam and welcome home soldiers

[@davidsoule1252]

Awesome video and awesome soldiers! I had it much easier in Vietnam in the Navy. I was an FTG aboard a guided missile destroyer, USS Joseph Strauss DDG-16. FTG's set up the computer and radar to fire the ships guns. On Easter Sunday, April 2, 1972, Strauss and USS Buchanan DDG-14 were on a firing mission just south of the DMZ. Our mission (we found out later, though those in CIC and the ship's Captain knew at the time) was to slow the NVA advancement toward Dong Ha Bridge over the Cua Viet River while then Marine Captain John Ripley was dangling under the bridge for 3 hours in an attempt to blow up the bridge and to slow the NVA advancing toward the Marine spotters spotting for the two ships. Captain Ripley was successful in blowing up the bridge and the Marine spotters were saved. We also later learned that the Easter Offensive had started just a couple days before then. Each ship fired around 1500 rounds. Each ship received hundreds of rounds of counterbattery with no hits on either ship that day. At the end of every firing mission, the Marine spotters would give us a GDA (Gun Damage Assessment). From the Marine spotters, "Too many to count, estimated 2,000-3,000 KIA's and about 100 tanks and other vehicles damaged or destroyed." That is from two ships. Strauss's last 5 months of the 1972 deployment was spent off the coast of N. Vietnam in operation Freedom Train and then Operation Linebacker and Linebacker II. There are a lot of videos about Captain John Ripley blowing up the bridge and speeches by then Colonel or Retired Colonel John Ripley about his mission on KZbin. He always mentions Naval gunfire support.

[@ericksonking5033]

outstanding bravery love for there fellow man

[@houstonbrown3450]

Incredible soldiers ❤, God Bless all of you

[@galesams4205]

I served with the 4th div. at camp Howaway and the 10th Armored calvery Hwy 19 LZ albany, lz blackhawk.

[@user-fn5id5tt9j]

Wow, Albany, that's heavy.

[@se461]

Our warriors in Viet Nam were as great a fighting force as any the United States has ever had. It's a shame the politicians were running the war.

[@marialittlefieldpradokurpu2061]

All the way Sir’s!!

[@double-O-9_and_a_half]

They don't make em like this anymore. Especially when it comes to company commanders. Leadership.. fucking Leadership is EVERYTHING!

[@johnsieverssr8288]

They were bad asses

[@chuckweber7402]

Great video. 👍

[@petermalloy5360]

Brave and honourable men

[@user-tk8pw7bg9u]

BRAVE, BRAVE, BRAVE

[@Pointman-yf6or]

1/27 “WOLFHOUNDS”

[@Militology]

🇺🇸 🫡

[@paullyon-vv9tb]

All the BRAVE MEN who fought in veitnam,deserve our full respect ❤ they were as brave and good as the WW2 men but was never treated like it

[@garyhammond2213]

I've mentioned to friends many of whom are VN vets. If I had been a woman, I would have married a VN Marine.

[@all4honor]

FOLLOW ME!!!!LEAD THEWAY

[@ahmadtarmizimradzi3263]

Only him that made history how grate American Army are. Not the whole bunch of the American soldiers.

[@maxadful]

Intruder vs Defender s

[@lance8080]

Yellow slant eyes

[@johnsieverssr8288]

They were lied to

[@thunder3470]

It is said that history is written by the victors, well maybe not in this case. The ones with the best propaganda machines

[@Stepman94]

This war shouldn't have happened 🤦🏽🤦🏽

[@lance8080]

It happened 🎉

[@Stepman94]

@@lance8080 do you know why?

[@lance8080]

@@Stepman94 Vietnamese population control be my guess 🇺🇸

[@pirsensor1186]

The real heroes are the vietnam freedom fighter the VC and North Vietnamees army that give there life for ther freedom of all vietnam godbless Vietnam and is brave people that was fight to invaders more then 30 years long.

[@terrymarshall3377]

They could have just stayed away from the Good Peopleof South Vietnam and let them live in peace and all this could of never happened.

[@Pointman-yf6or]

And murdered hundreds of thousands that did not want to be communists. Ever hear of the killing fields fool?

[@jordaneban7993]

true, i also salute the vietnamese warriors that gives there life for the freedom of their foture generation, vietnam nowadays are living peacefully

[@arthurbrumagem3844]

Over a million died in the process.

[@jaybot303functionerror4]

@@terrymarshall3377The North had won a Democratic vote to reunite Vietnam, they had also been Allies of the U.S. & U.K. in world war 2. Before turning to China & the U.S.S.R. Ho Ci Min had wrote multiple letters to the U.S. asking to support the Vietnamese independence movement against the French who occupied Vietnam. The Viet Min 1st fought the French & beat them to try to reunify the whole of Vietnam. Brave people fought on both sides of what was a Vietnamese Civil war, but Democratically Ho Ci Min had won a vote to reunify the Country, which was ignored. It’s why the Vietnamese were so motivated & had irregular’s all over the South as well as N.V.A. units well trained coming down from the North. America also never officially declared war on North Vietnam.