US Army Veteran Reacts To "The Real Rambo - Roy Benavidez | The Fat Electrician"

[@Michellefeltzer-hd4mq]

My father was a double amputee after Vietnam, Roy helped to save his benefits that our whole family relied on to just get by! Great amazing man.

[@saaamember97]

They should have renamed Fort Hood to Fort Benavides ..... A proud Texas military installation, after a proud Texan!

[@UToutlaw]

I couldn't agree more

[@TheRagratus]

My personal hero - TMM - Tango Mike Mike aka "The Mean Mexican".

[@dwaynewardlaw897]

I have seen Nick's video 3 times and now your reaction. I am a Texan. I grew up with Audy Murphy as one of my heros. Now I'm 60and Roy Benitez joins him as another of my heros. The book is awesome. I highly recommend it.

[@PAPA_ELECTRICIAN]

Thank you Roy! , thank you TFE for telling his story and thank you for making sure even more people hear it

[@TheRagratus]

I ALWAYS watch Nic's video first- I get the notification alert and drop whatever I am doing and head right over there.

[@christopheryoder8292]

Fat Electrician Friday's are the best

[@paulvamos7319]

I do the same! 😂

[@Rangis_Patch]

Tango Mike Mike. The Alpha of all Alpha's.

[@Johndoe-jd]

For your next Fat Electrician video, can you react to both his Seabee video and his Seabee train robbery video? Both are his shorter and horizontal videos.

[@zgreen9673]

This if the first episode where you looked like a starstruck school boy for half the episode. You just meet your hero for the first time 🤩😆

[@onenutmia8323]

Yeah, Fort Bragg is how it will ALWAYS be to me. That Fort Liberty crap is a bunch of nonsense. Fort Bragg is the home to the Green Beret's. Name it Fort Benavidez.

[@g.gordon8117]

Always Ft. Bragg!. Ret 18B

[@gk5891]

I have a hard time supporting it being called Bragg. The running joke is he killed more of the Army of Tennessee than the Union. He had a bad habit of having whomever was the target of his wraith shot. I consider that a major character flaw. Fort Benavidez I can support.

[@CrazyK9Time]

​@@gk5891 yeah politics of who he was aside, he was just not someone worthy of having a fort named after him. Absolutely terrible strategist

[@perrys63]

I'm with you. As a Marine I still think it's Bragg.

[@leojamesclune1730]

Rename them with heroes names, or new buildings with heroes names. Could you imagine if they had come out with a female espionage training facility named after Virginia Hall? Or things of the nature? Tanker training school named after Lafayette "Wardaddy"? The list goes on

[@johnraygun9868]

Roy Passed as I was joining, I brought him up a lot throughout my career, I just retired (combat medic) I was surprised how many people hadn’t heard about him ❤

[@megandrehr3420]

❤ coming from a the little town roy was from and reading the monument is nothing compared to hearing him speak.

[@Tar-Numendil]

I watch every single Fat Electrician video as soon as I get the notification that it's been uploaded.

[@joeobrien4869]

Fantastic video ex 29 cdo all the way from Scotland 😂

[@LovesAmerica]

General Westmoreland was the uncle to a friend of mine. Her dad was his brother.

[@Sir_Engel_038]

First From Fort Liberty (Ft Bragg) To Fort Master Sergeant Raul Perez "Roy" Benavidez.

[@micheletrainor1601]

He has a battleship named after him in the American fleet. But I approve the name of Fort Benvides. Such a legend.

[@RobertLindenbaum]

God bless AMERICA

[@peterwatkins671]

It’s absolutely Ft Bragg.

[@Morgaine]

I was hired to a career intern program with the Defense Logistucs Agency where most of us moved to Philadelphia from all over the country. When we accepted the job, we signed contracts that specified the timing and levels of advancement over the next 5 years. When we all arived for our first day of training, we were handed new contracts that had the promotions crossed out and we were told to sign them. We had just moved across country and they had no intention of guaranteeing the promotions we were promised. Most had no choice but to sign. The moral of the story is, the government does whatever the hell it wants and having all the copies and documentation in the world doesn't help.

[@alibennett78]

This was a class story

[@richardhansen3225]

For reference MAC-V SOG was disbanded in 1972 and delta force was established in 1977. However the effects that MACVSOG made were used in Deltas SOG's. They definitely took a bunch of chapters out of their book and are still used to this day by Delta *(allegedly)* lol

[@dalejohnson2047]

You should check out the Sammy L Davis Medal of Honor story he is the man they based Forrest Gumps military service on, another hero

[@geoffsullivan7902]

❤️🇺🇸❤️ love the dedication. Some guys n gals just have that thing driving them.❤️

[@HG_Budde]

I swear, you can fckn smell the difference between an officer who worked their way up the lower ranks and one that started as a lieutenant and got everything fed with a golden spoon.. 🙄

[@bcyomassey649]

First ballet MOH hall of famer

[@bassist10814]

Tell me you're from Maryland without telling me you're from Maryland 😂😂 I swear our flag can and will be put on everything

[@Sharky762]

I hope you know of General Westmoreland He was the 4 star General leading the Vietnam war (for better and worse) so for me in my world.. this mans epic story was all meant to be

[@SamGray]

"Now leaving Fort Liberty. Have your liberty papers ready for the post guard or your exit will be denied."

[@robertkenney6752]

I trained for three MOS's and achieved two. I was in training status for a year. Cool it didn't start with me??!!

[@txusmc69]

There is currently a movie in the works.

[@Sarge80]

If you want to learn more about Mac v sog i suggest Jocko willinks podcast, he has several podcasts with John Stryker Meyer and Dick Thompson, what those guy's did and went thru is incredible.

[@djj9675]

Love this story, glad you reacted. Great man, Fort Bragg should be Fort Benavdez. I am honestly against renaming of bases but that I would get behind

[@kenf3539]

I actually got what I wanted when I enlisted. I skipped the other recruiters, and got a job in satellite communications for the Army. Served in four countries including 19 months in Europe. I did everything from surfing in Central America to skiing in the Alps. Zero combat zones. I know that I was lucky...

[@bethboldman8314]

You don't know who Gen. Westmoreland is? He's the Vietnam commander!! I hate to say this, but Nick is wrong about Roy's wife's name. It is pronounced Lay-la. Lalah was my mother's name.

[@thatpatrickguy3446]

Great reaction as usual! And boy did Benevidez do his hero Audie proud! Westmoreland was a real general. Too many Pentagon generals these days are theoretical and/or bureaucratic generals. They don't know shit about the actual military anymore, all they know is that squirrels store nuts in their skulls and other bureaucrats reward them for that. "Oh, Mark Millie? Yeah, he was instrumental in solving the Great Pen Shortage of '07! He found a supplier who would supply us with high quality pens for a cost of only $47.13 EACH! That was a savings of three whole cents based on the other supplier that will save the U.S. military BILLIONS of dollars over the next three thousand years!" I descend into repeated swearing and insults in my thoughts at this point, so I'll spare you that. I'll just repeat my universal truth: Bureaucracy is the enemy of humanity. And that effing telegram sent to his wife. "The Secretary of the Army has asked me to inform you that your husband, Staff Sergeant Roy P Benevidez, was slightly wounded in Vietnam on May 2, 1968 as a result of hostile action... Since he is not, repeat, not seriously wounded no further reports will be furnished." To quote the vid meme, "WHAT! WHAT THE FU.." If that was "slightly wounded" I don't want to know what seriously wounded would look like. And we all know that the cutting of earned military disability benefits was a brilliant plan dreamed up by some bureaucratic soldier in name only at the Pentagon who thought if he saved a whole bunch of money he'd be an even bigger hero than the guy who solved the Great Naval Toilet Crisis of '77 and found a toilet seat supplier who could supply toilet seats to the Navy for only $837.66 EACH and who got himself promoted to a one star Rear Admiral (lower half), a very fitting rank for the man who solved the toilet crisis. Unfortunately for the wannabe bureaucratic general, he was up against a MoH recipient whose motto was "When you see someone who needs help, help them." and who threatened to expose this jackwagon and his bureaucracy to the light of day, leaving them all to scuttle to the shadows like the cockroaches that they are. In case I've understated it here, I hate bureaucratic nincompoopery. I love when Nic can insert the heroes themselves speaking at the end of his videos. God love the legends who have served, and that's all of them, and you too brother!

[@matrikzdaclown7496]

Where is the video you spoke about in the beginning? I cant find it anywhere

[@johnspartan5515]

God bless him, and his dedication to duty to our country. May he rest in peace. Please react to the fat electrician vid on James McNasty (my old unit, the 101st airborne). His story was similar to MSG Benevitez, but during WW2. You won't be disappointed!👍🇺🇲

[@JohnFromSC]

My dad was Army infantry (11B which he called 11 Body bag or 11 Bullet stopper) in Vietnam. He talked about Roy from some stories that he heard while serving. The stories never mentioned a name but talked about a SF soldier and some of it sounded like it could have been about this event... maybe. Word of mouth and gossip isn't always the most reliable 🙄. Some of the stuff was over the top but I'm not so sure that everything was over the top after hearing this from TFE.

[@TheRagratus]

I walked into my recruiters office and said "You don't have to convince me, I've already decided that I'm going to join." I was 20, in college and realized I was wasting my time there. " I want to be an MP- I have 2 friends that already are MP's, One was in Germany on an Nike site, and the other was in Korea with the 2nd Inf Div. so I know the job. I know it's not playing cop" My recruiter, SFC Guidice, this was in 1980, and I still remember his name, said "Well OK then, we'll make that happen" and he did. I ended up at Ft Hood with the 545th MP Co. 1st Cav. If you ain't Cav? You ain't shit.

[@Morgaine]

Please react to TFE's video on The Limping Lady, the deadliest spy in WWII? I love your reactions.

[@phantomreaper2057]

Sog was much more dangerous than delta force they were responsible for successfully completing missions that were thought to be impossible to accomplish like it was nothing basically you run into sog troops your screwed literally

[@LovesAmerica]

Maybe Trump will rename it