we got zips in the wire down here

[@Broadwaymungo]

"Goddamn it, Lieutenant! Where you gonna pull back *to*?!? They're all over the perimeter! Now you be advised; you will stay in place, and YOU WILL *FIGHT*! That means *YOU*, Lieutenant! Bravo Six, OUT!"

[@wheelmanstan]

that line "it's a lovely fucking war" pretty much says it all

[@orangejoe204]

That is Captain Dale Dye, USMC, probably the most prolific military adviser to Hollywood ever. In Vietnam, he was a combat correspondent in the same unit as Gus Hasford (who wrote the screenplay for Full Metal Jacket). He was known for walking around with a "tall yellow flower" in his helmet, drawing fire and generally being a badass.

[@shitchops]

I was reading somewhere that dale dye was trying to crowd fund his own ww2 movie called "no better place to die" man i hope it gets made. I think he was finding it difficult to get any substantial backing from hollywood because he hasn't directed before and he wants to direct it. Interesting !

[@michaelmagee3354]

The first thing I noticed was that this guy isn't acting, he is the real deal. I was guessing Lt Colonel.

[@eldiablo3794]

He was even in the movie, starship troopers... a futuristic war movie. Anyone ever noticed Oliver Stone in the scene when the suicide bomber runs into the forward operating base and blows them up?

[@ToreDL87]

He's been in, and advised on, a lot of war movies and shows and games, most (if not many) still holds up today much due to his involvement. IMO he should get to have a solid go at it!

[@ericb2501]

​@@shitchopsI'd ❤️ to see that 🎬!! Where can we contribute??

[@southwestxnorthwest]

I played this once for my ex-girlfriend who was Japanese, she laughed and called me a "round eye"

[@ToreDL87]

Auch xD

[@Str8Rippin93]

Wow so she immediately knew😂

[@Basedlocation]

Wholesome asf

[@southwestxnorthwest]

@@Basedlocation She was awesome but I blew it.

[@Gromitdog1]

Better call in a napalm strike within the perimeter to show her who the real boss is.

[@caffeinatedbuffalosauce883]

Possibly one of my favorite scene in any movie.

[@followingtheroe1952]

This character saved lives, he stayed calm and made a tough call, and he ended up surviving right when you thought he was dead meat

[@Animal14722]

Lol. True

[@archeye1948]

The BEST scene, in THE BEST FILM! “It’s A Lovely Fucking War, Bravo 6 Out.”

[@49metal]

Capt. Harris: Be advised. We've got zips in the wire down here. Phantom Pilot: Roger your last, Bravo Six. Can't run it any closer. We're hot to trot and packing snake and nape, but we're bingo on fuel. Capt. Harris: For the record, it's my call. Dump everything you've got left on my pos. I say again, expend all remaining in my perimeter. It's a lovely fucking war. Bravo Six out. Phantom Pilot: Roger your last, Bravo Six. We copy. It's your call. Get them all in their holes down there. Hang tough, Bravo Six. We're coming cocked for treetops.

[@wokinmale4184]

Thanks😊

[@fordtrucksrule88]

+49metal For the record it's my call, dump everything you got left on my pos, I say again expend all remaining in my perimeter! It's a lovely fucking war... Bravo six out!!

[@alexcheremisin3596]

F 5 silhouette

[@williams.5158]

“It’s my call” He didn’t want that pilot to have any hesitation.

[@stuglenn1112]

COCKS TO TREE TOPS. Not cocked for tree tops. The implication is that their flying so low that if they whipped there dicks out they'd drag on the tree tops it also implies the pilots are well hung. Your post has been incorrect for 6 years please edit to reflect what was actually said.

[@geoffmcnew5863]

"Hang tough, Bravo 6"....I LOVE THAT ONE! Sorta crap they told me in Jeep on the Fulda Gap!

[@mitchjestice5016]

@Ryan Wulfsohn, it happened quite a bit. John Walton, son of Walmart founder Sam Walton, was in a MACV SOG unit that was surrounded and overrun. He called in an airstrike on his pos, which killed one and severely injured others, but the rest survived and were able to break out.

[@nmatthew7469]

Rich kid, didn't have to be out there and yet he was. Good man who died too young.

[@thebonniebluenetwork]

Best line ever in a war movie.

[@papertigero]

we got zips in the wire down here

[@bloodraven1190]

Uhh Roger your last bravo six

[@archeye1948]

It’s a lovely fucking war.... 👆🏻 I love that statement. It communicates the immediate horror, and the utter horror of life. Life is a war.

[@bobbob5007]

That dude that ran like tom brady with the grenade was wild

[@jimisvoodoochild]

danger close fire missions like that are only done in last hopes to preserve your own men by wiping out as many charlie as possible

[@baboon9er]

Something like this actually happened in Vietnam at the first battle at Dak To in 1966. Former West Point football hero Bill Carpenter, then commanding a company of the 101st Airborne, deliberately called in an airstrike on his own position when it was being over-run. The logic being that US soldiers in their holes would have at least some chance of surviving, while their were too few of them to fight off the enemy, who being mainly in the open would suffer more casulaties.

[@jasonsmith6408]

My Dad was there

[@younglock5499]

True story

[@younglock5499]

Jason Smith fuck me..What a sketch your old man was in.

[@ToreDL87]

"a tree burst above the center of the position, where the combined command groups, the wounded, and the medics were all located. It killed 42 men outright and wounded 45 more, including the overall on-scene commander, Captain Harold Kaufman. 1Lt. Bartholomew O'Leary, Company D Commander, was seriously wounded. (Company A's commander had been killed in the retreat up the slope). Chaplain (Major) Charles J. Watters, was killed in the blast while ministering to the wounded." Couldnt find anything on any Bill Carpenter in the main battle of Dak To (which was in 1967), but he was NEAR where the battle was to be fought 1 year later, and he did call in a strike on his pos. For the record, it's my call.

[@rustyshackleford3649]

So was mine Jason. Operation Hawthorne.

[@khat1397]

LOL Anthony Cumia loves this line its hilarious every time he does it on O&A

[@khat1397]

Yeah he quotes it quite a bit but you gotta dig through the years

[@GjVj]

And when the machine breaks down...

[@theguywhoisaustralian1465]

I came here to find this after listening to his home security rant haha

[@followingtheroe1952]

You also hear "You see his fuckin head come apart?" on the show My favourite is when they cover the Epic Beard Man fight and he goes "Lets do the whole fuckin bus man!"

[@barryallen8088]

Anthony brought me here

[@RepublicAgent]

"...We're coming cocked for treetops."

[@McShaggswell]

"We are coming in cocks to treetops"

[@younglock5499]

Roger your last, Bravo Six. For the copy, it's your call. Get 'em in their holes down there. Hang tough, Bravo Six. We are coming cocked for treetops.

[@whoyawith9494]

"Drop it all on my pos" is what I thought of when I took methotrexate! 🤪😂🤣

[@PardalJPR]

It is a lovely fucking war

[@paydn202]

the jet flying over that never changes direction lmao they clearly moved a photo across the screen for that shot

[@followingtheroe1952]

Omg ur right. Thats some Monty Python special effects

[@paydn202]

@@followingtheroe1952 lol they had the best intentions tho so you cant knock em for it lol

[@bobzelley5100]

Suspension of disbelief

[@paydn202]

​@@bobzelley5100 its sod when its fiction lol not when youre recreating a real world event. i understand the misconception but its totally different

[@KevinVonBorries]

The Air Force can kick some ass!

[@Frankie-O]

Broken Arrow

[@Tmp866]

Bravo Six going dark

[@gregoryrush3878]

I love the pilots last words "we're coming in cocks to treetops"

[@mynamejeff785]

Cocked from the treetops

[@vcsniper556]

@xXSgtWolfXx because they had zips in the wire

[@mattytct]

Three alpha six, how about those rounds, son?

[@herrcobblermachen]

Was always a bit confused by the profile of that close air support dropping the snake & nap'; maybe an F-5? doesn't look like a thud or any of the other century series. (LFW b6 out)

[@hansgruber8357]

Its definitely an F-5.

[@harveyclark1042]

My favorite scene from the movie…

[@GardenerEarthGuy]

What else can you do when there's zips?

[@sillybilly121212]

Lmao the fact the jet is moving so slowly ruins the scene

[@revvolutions]

Here cause of Patrice O'Neal

[@AndrewBergey]

Zips in the wire

[@sheogorath7915]

i get nape, but what is snake? cluster bombs on a chain or something?

[@paulhimmelberger8970]

Essentially iron bombs with pop-out fins to slow bomb and let jet fly out of the blast area. From Wiki: Mark 81 Snakeye fitted with a Mark 14 TRD (Tail Retarding Device) to increase the bomb's drag after release. The bomb's increased air-time, coupled with its (relatively) forgiving safe drop envelope, allowed for very low-level bombing runs at slower speed. Used commonly in the close air support role in Vietnam (prior to wider availability of GBU-series precision ordnance). Nicknamed "snake", as in the typical Vietnam support loadout of "snake and nape" (250-lb. Mk-81 Snakeye bombs and 500-lb. M-47 napalm canisters).

[@gonzalocolonia8024]

0:15

[@Asmar420_]

It's a lovely fucking war, bravo six out...

[@samuelleroy6792]

It was a lovely fucking war. that vietnam

[@jodycrawford5539]

Blow em back to the stone age,son

[@Frankie-O]

The Flintstones will blow them back to that time.

[@amitmangsulikar7153]

Brutality of war an officer request to Air force bambarding on his parameters. To save his soldiers 😢

[@kathurtado13]

So what this means is EVERYONE GETS WIPED AWAY??!!!! CAN YOU SOMEONE EXPLAIN THIS TO ME!!!!!

[@johnp556]

Drop the ordinance on my head, pilot responds, okay, take cover in your holes before we drop 2000 pound bombs on you. It's the last option to avoid getting overrun by the enemy who are inside your encampment.

[@kathurtado13]

@@johnp556 thanks!

[@younglock5499]

Last option to save something..

[@garyfrancis3305]

You know it's coming they don't, at the last second you take cover and leave the enemy in the open. It's dangerous but a calculated risk and only used as last resort.

[@kathurtado13]

@@garyfrancis3305 Damn! SMH Vietnam War was terrifying and fucking sad. This War makes me cry because in fairness, we should have never been there!

[@gregoryrush3878]

I thank God I never had to make that call. White 6 out.

[@MellowYellow.]

😎👍

[@ironeagle22a]

Trump to the good ol boys.

[@shawne02]

0:02 - 0:36 Oregon once all the crackheads get there drugs

[@ironeagle22a]

@@shawne02 still saying that today?

[@neocon4380]

You are a joke-Coward Trump.

[@xXSgtWolfXx]

@vcsniper556 I know that, lol

[@Neil7026]

ZIPS? as a asia Im offended

[@CoachKendoSlice]

none of your dam business yeah well war is awful and lots of offensive things are said and done

[@TrashGoblin824]

You're a continent?

[@freeping6194]

lmao

[@robmiller7347]

Look that was just the term used quit being offended and be quiet

[@ar15fantate]

NWB - I guess I'm the only one that got the humor. :)

[@xXSgtWolfXx]

Why would you call in an airstrike right on your position? Wouldn't that kill you and your men? But thanks for uploading this scene, great movie. I love Platoon.

[@freeping6194]

last ditch effort

[@MykeFord950]

Thats why the VC were very successful with alot of their battles & guerilla tactics ..they wanted to get so close that the Americans couldnt use artillery or fire support..without it the Americans were no match..the VC were disciplined motivated & straight killers..remember they were fighting for their freedom & had nuthin' to lose

[@mark92691]

@@MykeFord950 - They were fighting to be enslaved by their own countrymen in the form of a Communist dictatorship. I wouldn't exactly call that "their freedom."

[@MykeFord950]

@@mark92691 whatever dude Just stop with that bullshit narrative..its already been debunked Vietnam as a nation had been fighting the japanese & then the french & then the americans for their own independence for over a hundred years...it was those 3 countries that were ENSLAVING them & ruling over them..they just wanted to be left alone without outside inteference or colonist rule...its the americans & the french who divided them up..remember Ho Chi Minh would have been democratically elected by a landslide if the americans & french hadnt interfered & created that bullshit north-south divide

[@WestbustahSaucedo]

@@mark92691 fuck america

[@CC_Marauder]

First zips in the wire there, now they are within our boundaries state side. Effed up war alright. We didn't kill enough (all) of them. #VCLivesOn

[@jzenhenko]

shut up boomer

[@MykeFord950]

What you mean we?