The Use Of Punji Traps In The Vietnam War

[@BlackFox_632]

imagin having to keep an eye out for Vietcong while worrying that your next step might be on a trap.

[@uselessuser4990]

starbucks2101 hahahahahhah

[@BBlaze.]

Or having to keep an eye out for ISIS while worrying that your next step might be on an IED. Not much has changed.

[@kaiyoung7326]

Home field advantage simple as that.

[@colin-campbell]

And you know the traps were deadly because they cut through thin pieces of fabric with such deadly effectiveness.

[@barrylast8655]

High stress × ..........

[@gavinberry8658]

I am the Lorax and I speak for the trees And the trees speak Vietnamese

[@AldoHExse]

Lorax was the evil one the whole time :O

[@siopao8137]

Who invited “The Giant Furry Peanut” ?

[@metaltriops5957]

gavin berry Lmao

[@joksizantos7520]

Send Napalm at my location

[@sovietred7371]

Best comment

[@stevesilvas9059]

My cousin was a short man during his Nam duty At 5" 2' he was used as a ''Tunnel Rat".. Crawling in the Vietkong tunnels with a knife..pistol & a few grenades..How he made it back home is a God Send...

[@retrogaminggenesis6102]

Glad he is safe and thanks for his service

[@moonmanjam9897]

Tell him I said thanks for his service

[@Mecha_Hitler]

Youre right he was a fucking rat.

[@Mecha_Hitler]

Josh Bottomley What

[@ponylover2206]

He was so small the bullets missed him lol sorry I made fun of his height. I’m glad he served and survived

[@MrTigerlore]

*Americans:* “We have helicopters, napalm, missiles, jet fighters, aircraft carriers, and soldiers armed to the teeth. What have you possibly got that could defeat us?” *Vietnamese:* “Sharp poop sticks.”

[@ey7290]

@Hoàng Nguyên soviet guns

[@terencecarey4947]

Trust me clown we have never been defeated! We just put our marbles up!

[@bigmikestan]

They had all those tunnels look up Cu chi tunnels

[@goldenbrothers5579]

@Hoàng Nguyên and chinese guns

[@comradepolarbear6920]

@Mindfulness Organics the gulf war

[@Drew-vz8pb]

This video made me understand PTSD more than any other video or document ever has. I could only imagine thinking throughout the entire war I was not only gonna have to watch out for shooters in the thick jungle underbrush, but traps below. Every step could be a deathtrap. that's terrifying. I couldn't imagine coming home and feeling like I could walk with confidence in every step again.

[@MrRedeyedJedi]

My great uncle fought in burma during ww2. He used to tell us how the japanese would dig pits, cut bambo like that and burn the tips. The screams and the resulting wounds he saw his mates get haunted him

[@LoydAvenheart]

pacific war was like this on crack, japense soldiers when wounded would blow themselves up if us solider tried to help so they just bayonetted any japense they saw lying on the ground.

[@reieben886]

Punji is not a new things in vietnam or ww2, the british first encounter it in 1870s in burma

[@aeea8318]

@@reieben886 Oh really? 😮

[@rootlady5934]

😔

[@mikepreston-engel8869]

My friend's dad was a tank commander in Burma. Never said a single word about what happened there but use to complain about how his M4 Sherman used to get bogged down in the muck.

[@kuyachamp7618]

Who would win? *Army Boi* Or *One spiky Boi*

[@epixdevo3180]

bubba!!!

[@BOAYang]

the talking tree

[@thiscookie8719]

@@BOAYang yes

[@radioactiverat8751]

Who would win? A soldier trained by one of the most well funded and technologically advanced militaries in the world? One Spiky boi?

[@LiterallyMark1]

Chocolate Boi

[@jeplin4567]

American Soldier: Sneezes* Bush: Bless you.

[@cuonghaviet8329]

Bush : cơm muối

[@jeplin4567]

Mack is that sarcasm- i dunno anymore

[@jeplin4567]

Mack oh well in that case, ok

[@elscoobo3928]

*TREE

[@tobsternater]

A SERIAL scymbag....and BTW....take your pick...as to WHICH ONE!!

[@TacosTasteGood456]

My Grandfather served in Vietnam from 1966-1968 and again from 1970-1971. He never told us any stories, but after he passed away, his close friends at the VFW shared some of them. He ran a surveillance platoon, going 3 weeks at a time without orders. During the waiting period, their scout / supplier was killed in a punji stake trap. Eventually, the men became paranoid of waiting. As the commanding officer, my grandfather told everyone to find an animal and train it to occupy their time. He had a pet monkey, but most had rodents. One day, when the men ran out of rations, half of the men wanted to kill and eat one soldier's pet pig. The other half became very attached to it. The men nearly killed eachother over deciding what to do. My Grandfather had to give the order to allow the men to kill and eat it. Grown men cried and suffered over it, and there was not even an enemy in sight. The sound of guns in the distance, but complete and utter isolation. War is hell. RIP. Victor R. Welfl 1928-1995

[@vietnguyenhung600]

Your grandfather has gone where he shouldn't have been.

[@kray736]

@@vietnguyenhung600 yes 🇻🇳🤜🇺🇸

[@glockdude5472]

It wasn’t his grandfathers decision to go to Vietnam, it was the elite leaders. It’s not at all fair to demonize the average blue collar soldier who did what he was told to do. Those men believed they were doing something worth dying for and it’s horrible to talk bad about them. They gave much more than any shit talker on KZbin.

[@glockdude5472]

@@vietnguyenhung600 you should of kept the communism out of your country. It’s a nasty thing.

[@CameronsCars]

@@glockdude5472 exactly. He grew up dirt poor in rural Texas. We went into the service to serve in Germany, since he had learned German from his parents. But when Vietnam came around, he had no choice. He did his duty and did what he did for the men under his command. He was spit by protestors on when he came back to the USA. That was wrong.

[@edlopez1001]

American Soldier: We're almost done clearing this forest. Punji: Well yes, but actually no.

[@fuzzyapplepie6940]

Viet cong: Parry these you fucking casuals! *Punji trap.*

[@geobigntall3830]

justin 01 this is stupid what you have to say..makes no sense at all!

[@Shuriver]

Stop showing us that guy that keeps falling to a punji trap XD dont you have another angle or actor?

[@AllanEvansOfficial]

HTP Gaming YT get us a Charlie in there

[@patrykestevez6014]

Hahaha, yes men this dude

[@salvadorayala3860]

Shuriver 🤣😂

[@Snoogen11]

It's actually footage of him falling into different traps. He's just very unlucky.

[@thekidd638]

i would like but 420 likes

[@setv1]

Lesson, don't ever get into a land war in Southeast Asia again.

[@Chris-ts2yc]

Baddu no thats not the lesson that they learn. "burn everything that hides behind a rainforest with napalm" is what they learned.

[@fvn55yearsago57]

Baddu lol

[@mrhombreman]

itsabig you come off as a crazy person.

[@dudeman5234]

itsabig ,you whites in America lost the war simple fact

[@VietnamBallAnimation]

Lesson two Dont bomb a enemy you cant see

[@a.-.f_k]

Cause of death: stick

[@phamduykhanh7037]

And shits

[@SanjuSingh]

*poop stick

[@saucy_celery2012]

The shit end of the stick lmao

[@kodlackwhitemane5596]

@@saucy_celery2012 death by a shitstick lol

[@abramo7700]

Imagine choosing where to step and choosing a different place but the punji pit was right there

[@yaboi1288]

That's exactly how I feel when I choose the other answer which is wrong instead of the right one I was thinking about for so long in an exam.

[@abramo7700]

@alex haes imagine being a fucking idiot This meme was made by Not Alex Haes gang

[@jordanadams7168]

@alex haes imagine being unfunny

[@Sebastian.12]

That’s the point of these traps. It puts Mental Stress on the American patrols during that war. So it causes them to panic and out of focus that lead to less combat effectiveness plus the exhaustion of the soldier by walking a mile inside the big jungle

[@millsbomb007]

@@Sebastian.12 also an injured american grunt was better than a dead one, because it also took a few other's out of fighting to help carry the wounded.

[@expanddong3975]

Holy shit. I would be shitting my pants trying to find all the traps before they go off

[@jayaye2139]

same

[@Clarkbra001]

+Expand Dong rather step on punji sticks than a mine

[@jonnyhatter35]

+Expand Dong why is another way the traps were effective. The constant fear of falling into the traps must have been very psychologically exhausting.

[@Mrmikemike46]

USMC used ex VC as scouts, to locate them! That helped !

[@slovakgamer5818]

Expand Dong i would be paranoid as fuck. i would be more worried about traps than viet cong.

[@brysonmedeiros960]

Id imagine it's a lot harder to fight a war when you're busy watching the ground. Oh wait now you gotta watch the sky too.

[@robklein3686]

There is no easy war to fight

[@janrychly6651]

Best trap against Americans? Fastfood.

[@aeea8318]

Mean and easy.. But lol

[@freshstart3555]

Don't forget video games

[@jcmanny101]

Jan Rychlý Mass shooters

[@miamibrando3471]

Make all of the jokes you guys want about America and Americans but our country still shits on yours. lol

[@rootlady5934]

Absolute TRUTH..my theory is that is why they act so mean,irritable&waxed.

[@tz4217]

Even the ground Speaks Vietnamese

[@thebritish25]

@Sigmund225 That's not true the Vietnamese have been using Punji traps for centuries there is records of French Soldiers being WIA and KIA during there invasion of Dai Nam in the 1880s.

[@nguyenquanghung2344]

i like how you call our country is Dai Nam ( great Nam) most of people in east asia juat call us An Nam (peace full south ) :)))) but that country of Nguyen dynasty still fall

[@VietnamBallAnimation]

hahahhah Every single Country has been using that cheap tactic for Centuries

[@nguyenquanghung2344]

because it's cheap and it effective :)))

[@yoyoyeah9083]

Nguyen Quang Hung meh its normal in south east asia

[@travisdt]

Vietnamese had used big spike bury in mouth of river to sink Mingols ships by utilizing tidal cycles Now small stick w gravity

[@evan4534]

How did they get the budget for that old brown shirt?? That was a sick demonstration!

[@كيلاكيلا-د1غ]

Love you all I'm Vietnamese I hope war will never happen again in the world and in my beloved Vietnamese

[@Opisthocoelicaudia2]

Failed to mention about the steel bottomed boots issued in the mid to late 60s to infantry.

[@fackrez11]

steel bottom boots deflected punji's to the bottom of the feet.

[@whenyoupulloutyourdickands4023]

@Rafal Omnom should issue steel leg armor then lol. Wouldnt be surprised if they issued that if vietnam dragged on.

[@Khoros-Mythos]

@@whenyoupulloutyourdickands4023 Steel armour would be extremely heavy and limit movement. Not ideal for the jungle.

[@jackhudner3804]

Clever. No doubt these things were terrifying to think about when your unit had to creep through the jungle.

[@DJC_2003]

Well that's another advantage these types of things have...imagine being the guy to step on one of these things, the guilt you would feel knowing you probably caught the attention of every enemy in the area with your struggle and calls for help

[@Guiltless765]

Should of kept our asses out of Vietnam.Another worthless war that cost countless lives.

[@johnherrington3134]

No it was worth something. To getting rich politicians and the industries tust produce weapons.

[@breizhrudie4757]

And cost S.E Asia's future.

[@themitochondriaisthepowerh9177]

*should have

[@donotneed2250]

From what I understand is a certain first lady's family had borax mines in 'nam. I'm still trying to figure out why we followed the French and we even equipped them. Oh, what I said earlier.

[@keegan6666]

fuck the communist scum

[@FreakyGremlinDK]

I wonder how many of these traps are still left un-triggered in the forests of Vietnam, just waiting for a pass by local or tourist to step into them.

[@camerons7364]

God damn never thought of that

[@ninhquangsu1848]

No simple trap can last long, only American bombs and orange readers are the problem.

[@ragerontilt4778]

Curious is the trap maker’s art - his efficacy unwitnessed by his own eyes.

[@dkmodder4405]

America has entered the chat Vietnam has entered the chat Traps have entered the chat *America has left the chat*

[@grarg12345]

Japan has entered the chat

[@dkmodder4405]

@@grarg12345 Hiroshima has been banned by battle-eye

[@NW_AB12]

Ammar Siddiqui America has been banned due to toxic behaviour

[@dkmodder4405]

@@NW_AB12 ISIS has been kicked for teamkilling

[@dkmodder4405]

@@marshalgeneral4756 Vietnam has lost connection to the server

[@habloverdi7047]

When China invaded Vietnam they learned this the hard way as well.

[@millsbomb007]

erm...they where an ally....

[@robzonefire]

The war is called Sino - Vietnamese War it occurred at February 1979 after Vietnam invaded Cambodia in 1978.

[@millsbomb007]

@@habloverdi7047 an ally when they fought the americans.

[@habloverdi7047]

@@millsbomb007 Yes they were but not anymore. What good is an ally that stabs you in the back.

[@quanbaka4908]

Actually, we have been war with china since like, the beginning of century ;-; That 1979 war was just a mini war comparing to most Sino-Vietnamese war in the medevial age :v Vietnam and china are like natural enemys lol

[@ethan_nielsen]

While In Rust, Spear vs AK *You Know Who Wins*

[@solidname7839]

Cumpound bow

[@sebastiand8086]

Ethan Nielsen I’m a rust queue right now

[@alanwatts8239]

@@solidname7839 cum-pound-bow position

[@nick9602]

Eoka in a bush vs. a AK guy running past bush......

[@Jare6sn1pes]

Finally a rust related comment on something that isn’t related to rust

[@keaton_jb_meme_central]

My great grandfather served in Vietnam. His most infamous story he told was when he got trapped in a punji pit. Like many men during that war, he survived but wasn’t unscathed, and his mental scars were much deeper than his physical. This past summer we visited Washington DC and went to the Vietnam memorial, my dad pointed out a few of my great grandpa’s buddies from the war. Rest In Peace to anyone who died in this war, wether American or Vietnamese, and thank you for serving your countries through literal hell ❤️🇺🇸🇻🇳

[@un-dprssre]

Hmm.. can I ask something. How much vietnam people, farmer, mother, kids without weapon killed by your great grandfather??

[@chibuo4733]

Respect other people, respect other people’s way of life, respect other people’s land. Period. Well done Vietnam, for doing what you were forced to do by the uninvited.

[@aalleexx1997]

yeah, same with Afghanistan, USA time is over

[@morningstar3831]

@Orkëo Swaarte what they d0??

[@ホフマン日向]

*Walks in the Vietnam forest for scenery but falls into a forgotten punji trap* Guess I'll die

[@koffegames5018]

ホフマン日向 damn bro...you good? 😂

[@raymondgalvez5557]

Lmaoo all that money spent to travel there Just to die by that should of just stayed home

[@Lionel0896]

Actually we removed them all after the war. They were used in the vincinity of army camps so people would often keep tab of where they were. There haven't been a single incident of people falling into these things (that I know of), but I would recommend staying away from the jungle all together lol

[@tinnguyen2271]

Beside that, we still find American’s bombs in the jungle to this day. They are usually buried a few meter under the ground since 1960s. They are all mostly deactivated, but still there are fews that would explode on contact

[@doomsmoothie1935]

@@Lionel0896 I would also imagine by now they would have biodegraded

[@maryannetteflores8799]

sneaky little bastards! such a simple and effective trap. Not only injures the guy who hits it but demoralizes the rest too, good example of utilizing available resources.

[@dudeman5234]

Mary Annette Flores ,it fucked the white man up the stink pink azzhole and shited in his face

[@neonknight-1522]

@Jamie Nelson I bet your ass gets jealous of the shit that comes out of your mouth.

[@aniketshinde9885]

this trap invented by maratha

[@chillbrobraggins383]

@Jamie Nelson lol whatever country you're from, America would take a fat funky ass shit on your men if they were ever dumb enough to step to us. We could clear you out in one run and wipe you clean off the world map, you and yours would be nothing but a memory.

[@jamesrene7509]

Born and raised American, respect to both sides of the troops and have quite a few Vietnamese friends, Cambodia, Louise, etc. Glad this war is over now 1 thing for sure Vietnamese people stick together and make decent friends

[@Squish_that_cat]

They are now our partners against CCP

[@moonmanjam9897]

America "told you we should not have let them not use are nuclear bombs" Vietnam "I speak tree"

[@rommeltj1367]

What???

[@icewallowcome5437]

Dumbass can't even spell haha

[@luongngo1802]

I had a stroke

[@louisbrody582]

Dos Paco wdym his sentence doesn’t make any sense

[@icewallowcome5437]

@Dos Paco he siad are instead of our, dumbass

[@philbrown9764]

As a Marine Nam Vet, I know that I was VERY lucky to be stationed on an air base, Chu Lai 68-69 1st MAW MAG 12.

[@boondocker7964]

Phil, wish I had been on base at Chu Lai, '66-'67, 2nd Bn. 1st Marines, South of DaNang, East of hill 55, West of Hwy. 1. You gonna make some more vids??

[@khsimagesdotcom856]

If you were a grunt doing a tour in Vietnam, you pretty much were the trap. Since the Viet Cong would seldom fight in large scale battles, the US military would send squads on search and destroy missions. The squad was basically bait for the larger units watching them. Once engaged, the US squads would call in overwhelming artillery or air support. This rarely worked b/c the Viet Cong knew this was the goal and would wait until US troops were in carefully designed kill zone before every attacking.

[@ArkFisted]

Nobody: US Soldiers: Why are the trees talking?

[@anonymouse6129]

My uncle is a vietnam war veteran he said that trees are not the only one talking but the tunnels are talking to

[@Nimori]

My grandpa said he scared a vietcong into his own trap, after trying to take him hostage. He said it was horrifying, and hilarious.

[@Jarell1661]

Realizing that he and his (dead/maimed) buddies fought a useless war probably was as hilarious.

[@Nimori]

SeculaRxHumanisT Wasnt that useless. At least they saved some of the south Vietnamese from being killed by communists. They went to the Philippines on boat.

[@Jarell1661]

@@Nimori They saved a few South vietnamese, great. But what about the vietnamese civilians that were sprayed with napalm/agent orange or bombed by the U.S. and its allies ?

[@Jarell1661]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_Agent_Orange_on_the_Vietnamese_people Your grandpa can be proud.

[@Nimori]

SeculaRxHumanisT Agent Orange was specifically made to destroy plants. Tests shown that you could inhale some and still live, without internal damage. However, if you inhale a lot, it could cause cancer later on. Pamphlets often dropped from B57’s warned civilians when and where American’s were going to use it. And that civilians in that area should follow strict guidelines as to surrender themselves so they would still have food and shelter after. However the vietcong decided to exploit that and hide behind civilians, endangering them so that the vietcong could infiltrate. You seem pro vietcong. I have a list of war crimes carried out by their leaders and government; not by specific peoples. FURTHERMORE Americans killed more north Vietnamese soldiers, and even Chinese soldiers. A prime example being that one navy seal operation, with only 12 members; killing over 900 Vietnamese soldiers without casualties.

[@quandong4448]

Once on the battlefield in Vietnam and witness a partner on a trap, it is very brave to continue walking.

[@DinoTorso]

Stepping on a trap and tearing up your ankle seems like a winning lottery ticket home if you ask me.

[@hickspaced2963]

Gangrene however does not

[@cn4s490]

you forget that these traps are smeared with human waste and snake poison. If they get out of there without timely treatment, they will die.

[@redarmydan]

This really helped me with my history controlled assessment, thanks for uploading it :)

[@calvinnyala9580]

Fear tactic is, and always place high stress, even to elite soldiers... Played by both side, some more effective and efficient than the other

[@shimagaijin4552]

I inadvertently met Vietnamese govt public affairs officer and a "senior Colonel" from the Vietnamese Air Force, a Mig-21 pilot with over 2K cockpit hours that he was traveling with. They had been at high level military meetings on Randolph AFB. Nice gentlemen. The Colonel was a true warriors deserving of the utmost respect. They were discussing joint-basing and joint-training, and joint-security with the USAF. They told me that BAR FAR MOST Vietnamese want stronger relations with America, they wished America had stayed and won the war, and even in Hanoi, American joint-basing was favored by 77% in recent polls. OMFG. (disclaimer, I just bicycled Vietnam N to S for 30 days, and it seems like those statements were correct)

[@bruh-uc6so]

wow these traps were utilize against men with grenades, rifles, bombs, ability to call airstrikes and other artilleries in what is considered to be the first modern war, you have to respect it.

[@Biscuitchris7again]

A friend of my dad was in country very early on in the war. He volunteered. He came from a Military family so the idea of duty drove him. His unit was attached to an ARVN Cavalry unit. The ARVN would routinely put NVA/Viet Cong POWs into the helicopters, take them up into altitude, and push them out. Waist gunners on the other choppers would sometimes use the falling POWs for target practice. They would also do this to village honchos sometimes, pressing them about troop movements and such, then out they went. It was all under the command of the ARVN, so it was never investigated or followed up by the US forces. He said: "There was no difference between them."

[@maichu2555]

Lũ xúc Sinh.

[@fatboi9028]

i love that the weapons expert is so basic. hes legit just explaining what it does. you dont need to be an expert to know how gravity works

[@carpetclimber4027]

@Fatboi Well, he's explaining things to American viewers, of course he has to take it very slowly and very basic.

[@rickpeters1626]

Again, hubris? kzbin.info/www/bejne/joPVYp6XjbB1qbc

[@tommy5822]

My grandpa stepped in a punji trap (He survived the war btw)

[@youhavetrashvideoz]

Weird flex

[@raydvone684]

@@youhavetrashvideoz but ok

[@ngolokante7805]

@@youhavetrashvideoz how is it a flex

[@mikolajschulz5847]

So this guy just layed vietnam traps in a random forest... just wait for them hickers to go camping

[@aikurife4972]

I actually did this as a kid, for context i live in hawaii and i was around 10 years old, I remember seeing this trap on some sort of social media, it was a video explaing how to build it and used it, a hole, anything sharp at the bottem, sticks, leafs, and sand, thats how i did it because mud wasnt close to a beach and the weather is always sunny. I remember drawing “->” in the sand and a x on the spot, me and my brother thought it was a “prank” and funny. Only one person fell for the trap and it was just some poor old lady, and we was hiding behind a tree giggling, after no one else fell for it we just got our mom and she said it could break someones feet and got mad at us, we didn’t understand lol

[@stevelogan5475]

Thank God i missed vietnam by a couple of years, but i had a few cousins that were there, and they all made it home alive. An interesting note, and you rarely see it on film, is a walking stick used by hikers,campers,etc..., not a cane, some of our fellows in nam would use these when walking point just because of below ground punji pits. No good for most gravity drop punji's or land mines, but there were far more ground pits than those 2 traps.

[@fishunter007]

Who would win? Well equipped and best army in the world. VS Wooden spiky bois

[@theconservative7433]

fishunter007 Best army in the world my ass

[@pietrotettamanti7239]

@@theconservative7433 And what would be the best army in the world? I'm curious.

[@theconservative7433]

Pietro Tettamanti China / Russia

[@pietrotettamanti7239]

Why? Last time I checked the russians got their ass kicked in afghanistan

[@anon2427]

fishunter007 the US army wasn’t well equipped when Vietnam started

[@simul8rduude]

Velocity + mass + sharpened spikes = death? Hmm, I had always assumed that combination = cake.

[@olympian3]

The cake is a lie

[@bobbyshmurda395]

So many people are uneducated about what the soldiers had to go through

[@keegyweegy7803]

Elon Must fuck you

[@keegyweegy7803]

They could just put LEGO all over

[@maplemaple1439]

@Jamie Nelson well there's the revolutionary war, civil war, and WW2 but okie dokie

[@maplemaple1439]

@Jamie Nelson no we came in because of pearl harbor and u boats bombing civilian boats with Americans.

[@maplemaple1439]

@Jamie Nelson I've watched saving private ryan for the cinematography and Dunkirk. That is all.

[@pukes6273]

"a person with a gun can still easily lose to a rock thrown by a master"

[@bribay]

Great t-shirt demo at the end. Didn't think it could hurt anyone til I saw that

[@MissDistarr60]

Aside from all the death, what I find truly sad is that they sent "Boys" in to do something none of them were prepared to do or deal with, after the fact. I have a dear friend who is 63 and he still wakes up in the middle of the night, screaming out while in the midst of nightmares he has on a nearly constant basis. Where does one go to get peace from oneself? These many years later and still they carry the weight of that war around with them. The wounds that go unseen are often the worse.

[@maderi]

I Take it that your friend was drafted , either way welcome to war is the same in any of em

[@OrganicDolphin]

MissDistarr60 draft women

[@chadchungus6671]

Astro Dan Finally someone said it.

[@joshuaharrison8648]

Wow... That shirt shows gives us great perspective

[@littlenemo14]

Terrifyingly simple. Respect to all who fought there from a UK veteran.

[@fatherpaulstone896]

Respect to the Vietnamese for kicking yanks out of their country

[@sorry-what5527]

Who would win A trained Marine who has been taught to fight in unfavorable conditions Or A little pointy Wooden thing

[@anonymoustruthseeker8233]

a pointing twig😂

[@theamericanpatriot2015]

Actually, marines weren’t trained to fight in the jungle. We got fucked in the ass because of that...

[@starboiii962]

Salute to Vietnam, you proved nuclear nations aren't always the strongest

[@ey7290]

Just because a nation has nuclear weapons doesnt mean they have a good army, look at India

[@starboiii962]

@@ey7290 usa , Russia, China , France and then India , Indian army is one of the strongest and the third biggest army

[@cardboardbox191]

Not really I don't think the vietcong could have done a good invasion of america. it's just a the enemy being defending guerrilla style and the home filed advantage is a bitch to overcome.

[@thile6742]

Well the US killed 2M VC and people who follow communism Vietnam after all

[@cardboardbox191]

@@ey7290 You could argue it does (atleast strong armed forces) it depends if you count the nukes.

[@manny4552]

Not matter what anyone thinks of the war .. you gotta respect the veterans who served in the war.. very few of them volunteered and it took guts

[@AzizDoufikar2280]

"Very few of them volunteered" Only 1/3 of the Army personnel was made up of draftees while others were volunteers.Yeah, only "few" huh...

[@manny4552]

@AzizDoufikar2280 hey slick all my friends and relatives were drafted.if you were not rich connected or in school you got drafted.. apparently you were not drafted..ok..maybe you had bone spurs

[@sampratt8584]

Who would win? World super power or stick

[@larrylinn8589]

Most of the American forces just wanted to serve their assigned 12 month tour of duty. The Viet Cong and NVA were going to go home victors or dead.

[@xanderluv]

They put shit on the sticks?

[@ivanlagrossemoule]

They were literally shitposting.

[@user-ib3dj1he5x]

Well it could give them infection

[@daveshearer1961]

It would give them an infection and also potentially hepatitis.

[@zacelder46]

ivanlagrossemoule this made me laugh bro

[@dlighted8861]

Refreshing. That instructor is the real deal.

[@GriziDaWiz]

Wonder how many traps are just still left out there.

[@ThornySnailPictures]

0 lol they're all rotted away and covered in dirt. At most there may be a small depression in the ground where the trap was.

[@mystier3423]

Our country removed all of them after the war. It’s possible because we actually marked them all on the map, not placed them randomly

[@supahdupahplayahmacknumbah1]

1:42 can you imagine this guy accidentally stepping into the trap while he's talking about it? Why would you actually make one and risk that? Lol

[@enshk79]

*trip* AHHHHHHH CUT!!!!!!

[@padelisgk8126]

I like,,,simple -cost effective- and with things you have at home,,, especially if somebody goes walking down your backyard.

[@DannyOutcast]

Guerillas vs Invaders Next time just leave their rice fields in peace yeah...

[@joethekinghawk7514]

No wonder we lost the war in Vietnam, simple tricks defeated a high-tech military.

[@jamesryan6224]

Plus we didnt have good intel and we hat traitors like John McCain that blatted out or plans to the enemy.

[@WakingUpInAsia]

Technically, US didn't lose. The campaign was lost when domestic confidence fell. Vietnam won the war of attrition, a very effective way when you are the underdog. PS. You can never napalm the whole forest, and guerilla warfare is a strength of many SEA countries. Poor Americans.

[@WakingUpInAsia]

@Juan Espinoza I don't usually reply to someone typing in all caps but North Korea is sitting confidently beside China and Venezuela is a no-gain country. I'm not making excuses, I came from SEA region. So yes, you better believe your all caps smh.

[@WakingUpInAsia]

@Juan Espinoza Aye, you left the very important part of Korean War. Don't be like that. Of course, UN and US went to it AFTER NK almost annihilated SK in a surprise invasion. The coalition troops pushed NK so hard that China have to intervened. You have to treat NK as a buffer zone of China to the east, so any invasion of it would mean China intervening. Venezuela? Never heard of that shit country until its economic downfall. I'm not pro-US so give up, you are just anti-US.

[@WakingUpInAsia]

@Juan Espinoza Dude, if you are gonna argue, make it so with proper sentences. I cannot understand any of it, like a fragments or phrases with no coherence. Are you an elementary? Crimea is a different case. The old USSR lies on the lands beyond what is Russia now. The US cannot just meddle directly into it, the consequences are great. South Korea is South Korea since after the end of world war, protecting it is clear as sky. Two different scenarios. Your arguments are drifting far away from the original topics. I think you need to at least take a basic education on writing sentences and constructing arguments.

[@quanghungle5894]

To American friends: We have gone through thousands of years of warfare, with countries: China, Mongolia, France, and finally America. We Vietnamese have never subdued anyone! Sacrifice to the last to protect independence! "Nothing is more precious than independence and freedom" - HO CHI MINH

[@thihienmainguyen4314]

If you cannot ... Các bạn không đọc được tiếng Anh chịu khó chờ bản tiếng Việt nhé. # I must say the Vietnamese were extremely humane. # During the last hours before the end of the war at 11:30 30-4-1975 (in fact, always, well before that time), the Vietnamese commandos and militia (Viet Cong) were everywhere in Saigon, for sure even on the US Embassy ground. # What would have happened if a grenade or two were thrown at the crowds at the US Embassy or the American Marines still there? Yet, nothing had happened. # For sure, all around and very close to Saigon, and inside Saigon itself, there were enough of Vietnamese (Viet Cong) guns and missiles that could down a helicopter or two that were evacuating the escapees. # Yet, not a single shot was fired at the low-flying helicopters. # Furthermore, during the many years of the bloody war, WHILE THE AMERICAN MILITARY (and their followers, the South Korean troops, the Australian troops, ...) committed heinous barbarities on the Vietnamese people every hour of the day, every day of the many years that they waged their invading, unjust, immoral, barbaric war on Vietnam (barbarities like the kill-all-burn-all-rape-all massacre in Son My - My Lai in 1968, or the napalm bombing of the "Napalm Girl" Phan Thi Kim Phuc in Trang Bang in 1972, or the indiscriminate B52 carpet bombings killing all, including infants and old women, or the spraying of toxin Dioxin - Agent Orange that is still, right now in March 2019, causing catastrophic destruction of the bodies of many Vietnamese young, and numerous monstrous birth defects to Vietnamese women), THE VIETNAMESE on the other hand had NOT, not once, kidnapped or committed any atrocity on American children or women, or American civilians, many of whom were living in Vietnam at the time (and quite vulnerable). NOT ONCE. # If that does not show Vietnamese's humanity, I don't know what else does. ====================== # In Video on a similar topic, "The Fall Of Saigon (Part 7)" (kzbin.info/www/bejne/o4qtqp-irK1gppo ), at 10:41 the journalist Mr Peter Arnett says "What was this war all about?" # Mr Peter Arnett asked the question, but I think he had also implied the answer; and the answer was similar to that by Australian Prime Minister Mr Gough Whitlam. # Prime Minister of Australia Mr Gough Whitlam was among the few westerners who voiced the OBVIOUS TRUTH (in contrast to many other who knew this truth but chose not to say it, or worse even colluded with the rich and powerful US Government to wage an extremely barbaric invading conquering immoral unjust war on the Vietnamese people in an attempt to impose a new colonialism [after the failure of the French's old colonialism] on Vietnam) # Mr Gough Whitlam said (I saw it on the internet some years ago, but sorry I did not write down any info; it was in one of the interviews he gave; I just remember him saying so) "THE VIETNAMESE SIMPLY WANTED THEIR INDEPENDENCE." # That's why they kept on fighting the almighty US war machine against all odds, with tremendous sacrifice and suffering, and unbelievable hardship and difficulties; that's why they resolutely fought off the expansionist Deng XiaoPing - Mao ZeDong's Chinese invasion combined with the genocidal Khmer Rouge's Pol Pot attacks (supported by the vengeful US Administration) ====================== In video "RR7522A VIETNAM SAIGON THE COMMUNISTS TAKEOVER" on the same topic (kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5zRhXefbJV-fKc ), at 04:17 the Saigon Regime's soldier says "Everybody is happy!" with another face smiling broadly next to him. # How true, at least for (I'd estimate) 99.99% of the Vietnamese people! ====================== If you don't read Vietnamese, maybe the English interpretation below helps. # Vietnamese saying: Giặc đến nhà, đàn bà cũng đánh! English: Enemy arriving to your home; women too fight! # To better understand Vietnamese women, look up for "Trưng sisters", "Lady Triệu (Triệu Thị Trinh)", “Võ Thị Sáu”, “Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai”, “Lê Thị Hồng Gấm”, “Đặng Thùy Trâm”, “Nguyễn Thị Út (Út Tịch)”, "Tạ Thị Kiều", "Nguyễn Thị Định", "Bùi Thị Xuân", ... # Poem by Tố Hữu: O du kích nhỏ giương cao súng Thằng Mỹ lênh khênh bước cúi đầu Ra thế! To gan hơn béo bụng Anh hùng đâu cứ phải mày râu! # My attempt at English translation: Petite militia girl raising high her gun Towering American guy stoopingly walking, his head bent So! Big liver (courage) better than fatty stomach (big body) Heroes not having to be reserved just for men. # There was a happy ending to the "Petite militia girl and the towering American guy" photo: They (Nguyễn Thị Kim Lai, 17 years old at the time the photo was taken on 20-09-1965, and American ex-pilot William Andrew Robinson, aged 22 then) met up again 30 years later, but this time as FRIENDS when Robinson came to visit Kim Lai at her home in Hà Tĩnh province in Central Vietnam (kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3WplKOMpsR7kKM ) ======================= garge7676 says "... the North Vietnamese did, indeed, commit crimes ... I think the Hue City massacre and their attacks on the hamlets ... are the clearest examples of their crimes." - I reply: # During the American war in VietNam, I'd estimate that for every bullet the Vietnamese side (Viet Cong) fired, the American Military shot back the equivalent of 100 thousand bullets (equivalent: 1 rocket launcher's round = probably 1 thousand bullets, etc.) # And of course the Vietnamese (Viet Cong) had no helicopter gunships, no long range artillery, no armed-to-the-keel warships hugging Vietnam's coast, no bombers, no B52s for carpet bombings, not as many soldiers as the American side, no (negligible number of) war correspondents (those for propaganda) .... # And of course the American side totally dominates 100% the propaganda machinery. # In Hue City in 1968 (and in fact everywhere in Southern VietNam during the whole American war), if there was even a suspect (no need for fact yet) of Viet Cong's presence anywhere, then the American Military would bomb, shoot, burn that place indiscriminately, trying to kill all, burn all, destroy all, in the manner of "We bomb them back to the stone age" # So, is there any surprise that all the killing and massacre committed in Hue City in 1968 were in fact committed by American shooting all, killing all, burning all, "bombing them back to the stone age", then with the total dominance of the propaganda machinery, they (the Americans and their puppet Saigon regime) concocted the false story of the Vietnamese side (Viet Cong) killing civilians ?

[@SlackersIndustry]

for when the mother in law is coming!

[@budakperak0072]

Hahahaha mother in law

[@budakperak0072]

Mother in law same traps in vietnam

[@sainidaljinder7868]

Hahhahah lol

[@namkhanhng1802]

Also the VC is also very smart too, they attach fans into the AT mines, so when a US helicopter hover above the mine (at the right height), the wind generated by the helicopter will make the fan rotate fast enough so the mine would fly up and hit the helicopter, bring the helicopter down, damage it but it would not destroy the helicopter, but it will injure or even kill the soldiers inside.

[@millsbomb007]

bouncing betty's

[@iam6750]

Ok folks, another physics formula here: Velocity + mass + sharpened spikes= death. That's enough science, I'm tired studying physics right now.

[@integritasa305]

USA : We have missiles, airplanes, choppers, granades, bombs, rifles, , hundreds of thousands of soldiers,the navy seals. VIETNAM: Hold my bamboos

[@grub833]

USA got bamboosled

[@trisingapore6796]

@@grub833 The USA be like: We need to steal a panda from China and use it to detect bamboo next time.

[@magentaangel5531]

This is an eye opener of one of the things these soldiers had to face. Frightening...

[@Steamed]

Dunno if anyone had noted this, due to the hollowed nature of the bamboo, it could cause major bleed outs if it impaled an artery or vein.

[@geyotepilkington2892]

Nice observation. Didnt even consider that.

[@adyr940]

The viet cong gave them a sharp lesson Ok ill leave

[@irfanabdulaziz6474]

Don't come back

[@TribuneGamer]

Salty Silvers 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@luongngo1802]

Lmao

[@chrismorgan1838]

*shots fired*

[@cuonghaviet8329]

Pointy lesson

[@aquach_fps]

If you had a metal plate attached on the bottom of your shoe would it work then??¿

[@minhn1791]

Pussc Killer Imagine hiking for hours with a metal plate on the bottom of your shoe and all your equipment and rations... I’m sure not all traps are successful at hurting someone with the rubber boots they have. And also the VC probably had their own people step on another persons traps

[@aquach_fps]

@@minhn1791 good point good point BUT what about a light iron plate ?????

[@minhn1791]

Pussc Killer There are multiple other traps that impale other parts of the body like the thigh. if you happen to fall straight down on your foot for that to help and a foot injury isn’t that bad. A tight turny around the foot and the person can still limp and move and even run with help. The sticks are angled in hopes the impale other parts of the legs. So maybe it would protect some. The logistics of imbedding iron in every shoe during war would be a problematic. US soldiers had a major sock shortage that caused trench foot.

[@tbone9603]

It’s hard to believe people can do this to each other!

[@huu-banvu6904]

Low-tech can be superior to high-tech: it depends how, where and when! It´s the matter of intelligence

[@doyourbest.9554]

Most excellent comment! Spot on!

[@gelynch52phPH]

I wasn't in Nam, spent my war years serving stateside, but bamboo was used as slow torture. It is a grass and grows from the bottom up. Sharpen a stick and tie the prisoner above it and the bamboo will just grow upwards killing the guy slowly.

[@alexandervangeogernghia7199]

The american: Napal is good thing Bamboo trap is bad thing

[@bornfree8073]

Napalm was used against the communist, not the good guys.

[@cuentaprincipal3225]

bastard, pUSsy united kill 3.000.000 vietnamese civilians, kill kids womens and old people.

[@satho3587]

@@cuentaprincipal3225 And hundreds millions dead under communism rule

[@kaiserslavaniaashur1623]

@@satho3587 *And 2 mega cities and millions of civilians killed for “Weapon teating”* under US rule

[@satho3587]

@@kaiserslavaniaashur1623 to be fair communism killed more communist

[@InyoTim]

A friend stepped into one walking point on a patrol. The spikes missed completely and he wasn't injured. Punji pits weren't common like explosive booby traps were.

[@Drpermer]

I always wondered why a platoon didnt always have a couple of VC prisioners leading them. Maybe there were not enough of them to serve as human shields.

[@BusyBodyVisa]

The Vietnamese managed to defeat the most powerful technologically advanced military in the world in part with bamboo and shit. You gotta respect that.

[@gojida2207]

No sensible person respects any of that stuff. Both sides committed atrocious war crimes, with the Vietnamese torturing POWs and the Americans using chemical warfare. You think any of the US soldiers wanted to be there? They were pretty much all drafted, young men barely out of high school. At least the Viet Cong was fighting voluntarily. The US soldiers had no choice.

[@assassinmanx6128]

And the fact the U.S. couldn't just open fire on everyone in villages made the war that much more complicated. You sit here and try and help a wounded vc then get blown the fuck up. The U.S. should of been allowed to just blast anyone. I know that sounds unrealistic but we got our ass whooped due to having to pick and choose who we can kill.

[@hurricaneirma561]

AssassAMan X there are rules of war. You can’t just drop napalm bombs on civilians.

[@assassinmanx6128]

@@hurricaneirma561 Then we should of just stayed out of it. America's rich self always starting wars then send OUR innocent civilians to die for their bullying.

[@assassinmanx6128]

@@hurricaneirma561 Let me rephrase. We always either bully and conquer, or try and help other countries. And our innocent civilians either join to die/kill or get forced to die/kill.

[@SamDru]

Vietnamese soldier vs. predator?

[@rajeshwarsharma1716]

Amazing military adaptations. There must have been military schools that researched these simple but effective traps. Worth exploring the Vet geniuses behind these rather than dishing American slant.

[@somerandomguyusa7442]

These are fun to use in rising storm 2 best way to defend the rice 10/10

[@chrisychris3054]

It's almost like they wouldn't have had to deal with this if they weren't invading someone else's country.

[@batistalift]

Well, the politicians who decided to go to war didnt suffer a bit. The young men who were randomly drafted and forced to go there did.

[@ngunis4842]

Will the punji bambok stick pierce thru army rubber boots ?

[@thenasiudk1337]

Who would win? US Army ------------------- 1 sticky boi

[@stiffstud8511]

Imagine if they forgot to take down the traps used as examples.

[@decjorden7112]

There are still millions of landmines all over the world from old battlefields and children are dieing or manned

[@jianjiang6293]

How about the napalms??

[@davidfetterly1067]

there's also another trap used in the Vietnam war called landmines

[@bismadwiananda9517]

lesson learned. dont go to vietnam with an m16 in hand

[@williamwallace2278]

Simple/nasty/effective! Rather brilliant!

[@AR-ml9eo]

The Vietnamese were the patriots fighting to free their country by any means necessary. The US military committed innumerable war crimes and massacres. Of course I feel sorry for the drafted US grunts (soldiers) who died and were wounded. But there is a whole other reality that almost never gets any mention. There were tens of thousands of US soldiers who actively opposed and protested the US invasion of Vietnam, including on the battlefield. There were soldier's marches, protests, underground newspapers by the GIs. There were also thousands of "fragging" incidents against "Gung-Ho" officers for their brutality and the danger they posed to their own men. That means the US soldiers would shoot their "own" officers, or roll a fragmentation granade into their tent at night. That's why it was called fragging. The Pentagon officially admits to 800 documented fraggings but obviously the real number was far greater. A successful fragging meant no one knew. US soldiers would do things like go on patrol and fire off rounds as they walked to warn off the Viet Cong. They established a tacit agreement to not fight. The Pentagon itself later in the 2000s addmited that their estimate at the time was that nearly 2/3 of the militaryin the field was not combat ready after 1969 because they wouldn't fight. Black soldiers led the opposition with the famous slogan, *"No Viet Cong Ever Called Me Nigger."* You can find photos of that slogan. So US soldiers were not only victims but many did everything in their power to stop the war. I highly recommend a magnificent documentary called, "Sir, No Sir." I think it's on KZbin. It's about the US soldier's rebellion against the Vietnam War. It also has a real short addition about the 'Spitting' myth. Pro-war right-wingers made up stories during and after the war to justify their own atrocities (like all the 'Rambo' BS). The most common lie was that the hippies spit on the returning soldiers. It is total BS. I remember my older friends coming back from the Vietnam War all messed up and repeating that lie and others. Turns out they were just repeating what the sargents and officers had told them. Another was that they had to kill the kids because they had granades, and other BS. That's what they would use to justify massacres like "My Lai" where US soldiers from the Americal Division butchered over 400 women, children and elderly in 4 hours. US helicopter pilots finally turned their guns on the soldiers committing the massacre to stop them, and then rescued a few survivors. Colin Powell began his "career" by organizing the cover-up of the My Lai Massacre.

[@fuzzyapplepie6940]

Deadliest weapons in each country. USA: M16 France: Famas. Russia: AK-47 Vietnam: Bamboo