USMC AH-1 Seacobra TOW Shoot Operation Praying Mantis

Attack on Iranian oil platforms

[@reese0311]

I participated in Operation Praying Mantis as a young Marine. RIP Capt Kenneth Hill & Capt Stephen Leslie.....Semper Fidelis.

[@DentalTroll]

I was ships dentist on Trenton. I knew Hill and Leslie....Grinch and Hook. God bless them both.

[@aceckrot]

We were shooting with you! I was a Fire Controlman on USS Lynde McCormick (DDG-8). Good to see another SAG Bravo / Battlegroup Foxtrot sailor!

[@GfrmdaBrnx]

Salute to my former San Diego sailor brothers. I served on the USS Chandler DDG 996 during Operation Ernest Will. 🇺🇸⚓️👍🏻

[@duboisvp]

AmericaFckYea, I was a team leader and primary fast rope master for the boarding and subsequent neutralization of the Sassan GOSP. Capt Hill and Leslie watched out for us from the air while we conducted the operation. Let your GF know I wish her God's speed. Her dad is watching out for us from HEAVEN now. Semper Fi!

[@On2elko2]

I was on Merrill shooting the guns!

[@raymondyee2008]

I remember seeing this on the “Elite Warriors” tv program. Even I too when I was young got the impression of the AH-1 getting shot down at the end of the clip. Thanks to the comments here it looks like the people behind the documentary didn’t quite check the fact that it actually crashed at night.

[@thehero1146]

Long live THE USA NAVY

[@newlevelgamer5879]

Glory to the U.S.A 💪🏻💪🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💪🏻💪🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@superiordave1414]

@AmericaFckYea captian hill was my best friend from high school. he was known as the grinch.

[@newlevelgamer5879]

Glory to the U.S.A 💪🏻💪🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💪🏻💪🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@johndoe5816]

Why is there an AIM-9 tone?

[@sadmiral7476]

Because they had AIM-9s.

[@hamzahgeek]

Semper Fi-

[@KGSpradleyAuthor]

Dude…grunts weren’t used, Force Recon assaulted the rigs.

[@ChrisGuzmanS]

Seeing these as the oldest videos in KZbin makes me think that people were more interested in history or documentaries, because new content is pretty much shit

[@mattmatt115]

@StevenPLegere I doubt that absolutely NO oil was spilled... Thats quite the claim!

[@ratbatnufftime2861]

Sorry, but the audio of this video is a no-go!!!

[@hamzahgeek]

@gmurra1 True as well.

[@gmurra1]

@hamzahgeek I appreciate it. And I want you to know that I do not hide behind words on the internet. If I heard someone in public slinging that kind of bile, regardless of law and freedom to express one's opinion, there are certain lines that you do not cross, and once crossed beckon immediate reaction. Diplomacy has a limit, and when you praise the death of an American soldier, you usher in wanton repercussions.

[@ScoutSniper3124]

Iraq's ally Kuwait... well that didn't last long.

[@gianniformica8235]

I wonder how they lost that chopper ? If it was via an Iranian ordnance or if they, somehow, got lost ?

[@usnavydeepsea6836]

It wasn't shot down as there was no visible damage to the Cobra other than the rotor and part of the crew canopy when recovered. It looked almost flight ready to me. The two recovered pilots, Capt Leslie and Capt Hill were strapped in their seats. The Cobra was flying at night low to the water and may have been evading fire when it crashed, intact, into the Persian Gulf.

[@johnsoule2417]

The video is misleading, as it implies the Cobra was shot down while engaged with the forces on the platform.

[@johnsoule2417]

@@usnavydeepsea6836 Totally correct.

[@gmurra1]

@cadmus98 If they were done under military command the individuals wouldn't be tried, but instead would be awarded metals. You want justice: when Benjamin Haas intended to burn an American flag and the students of LSU crippled his attempts, that was justice; when members of the Westboro Baptist Church are attacked and left crying and bloodied for protesting a funeral, that is justice. I look to these events as acts of true justice. If you would, answer the question to my example.

[@estellemelodimitchell8259]

In hindsight, US Navy should have launched a Harriers, dropped a couple of 500lbs bombs without breaking a sweat and the crew of that cobra need not be lost.

[@johnsoule2417]

The video is misleading. The Cobra was not lost during the engagement with the platform. It crashed later that night while operating from the USS Wainwright while on security patrol. It was not shot down.

[@_Babak]

"One Cobra helicopter and crew never returned home", not bad, my friend's father was on the other side guys, he died with respect, defending his homeland, I hate war though!

[@gmurra1]

@cadmus98 You are precisely correct that the laws instituted by my elected government define the line of lawful and unlawful. Let me rephrase, any individual that feels the urge to publicly speak fondly of the death of an American soldier will be greeted by my utmost brutality. To defuse your example, when a soldier acts outside of the confines of orders, that individual is no longer an acting member of the U.S. military, but instead a mercenary working towards their own agent.

[@gmurra1]

@gmurra1 If we lived in a different time I wouldn't feel such a strong desire to establish my own form of judgement, but instead any offender that spoke so happily of the death of U.S. soldiers would be quickly detained and convicted of treason. But times are different; the law gives understanding to those that see themselves as holding some right of entitlement to any horrific thought their anti-American mind can conceive.

[@gmurra1]

@gmurra1 In regards to my decision to punish an individual's spoken disgust for American soldiers that have given their lives for American freedom, I am fortunate that I live in a country where, if I were to disable a flag-burning protestor, or dismantle an act of terrorism, or silence the opinion of one who cherishes in the death of an American soldier, I might be excluded from such laws that define the line, and instead might be called a hero if my actions are severe enough.

[@MrHelmyabdullah]

@AmericaFckYea My Salute to Captain Leslie !

[@gmurra1]

@gmurra1 They shall be prosecuted as a criminal, but more severely because of the responsibility they had previously been upheld. But considerations will be given in light of the fact that war changes men, especially when the enemy is of an inhuman nature and without moral fiber, redefining the necessary avenue of appropriate warfare.

[@hamzahgeek]

@gmurra1 Nice insult dude.