lets have a Vietnam thread. post music, pictures, and storie

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This is now a Hitler thread

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>It Ain't Me starts playing

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>>33845652
them folks are born

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>>33845677
made to wave the flag

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>>33845685
ooh that red white and blue

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I really want to do a vietnam 3 gun
>Colt SP1 or A1 build
>70 series Colt
>Ithaca 37
>GI uniform

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVgoOVl6cb4

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>>33845695
and when the band plays "hail to the chief"

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>>33845713
ooh they point the cannon at you

A guy I work with was just telling me about his time in Vietnam. He was a tracker and his main objective was to find the enemy and make contact. Any time his squad was sent out on a mission they knew they were going to get into a fire fight. He didn't really go into details about all of his missions but he told me about a time when he was just talking to one of his buddies, joking around and what not, when there was an explosion and his buddy was just gone. He was covered in human remains an just flicking it off himself like he was covered in mud.

Every once in a while they would pass a tree covered in goop and someone would go up to it and stick their hand in it and say "Look at this tree! What is all this shit covering it?" He would reply " Get your hand out of there! That's human remains! You don't know what they have if they had hepatitis or some shit! Don't touch that!"

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It ain't me

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>>33844026
>tfw locale ROTC still issues M16A1s for training

>>33844026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

>>33844026
>>33848061
seriously though, vietnam fucking sucks as far as history goes. try joining the 21st century some time. shit loads of incompetent soldiers getting there asses shot to hell all the while fueling the hippy liberal movement in the states. LBJ should have just nuked the shit hole and never look back.

The Lost Cause v2

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https://youtu.be/yOTsMHTwshg

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y48NzEOueds&list=PLcifmF_XlN4_ZVrhr_JVOGjUb0kajXspJ

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I saved up a ton a photos

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2hR-rOukbU&index=2&list=PLcifmF_XlN4_ZVrhr_JVOGjUb0kajXspJ&shuffle=193

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I got some spicy vietnam-era gas masks in my collection I'll dump.
First up - ABC-M17 Field Protective Mask. The early canvas M15 carrier with this example has the "US" graffiti'd over with the mark of some local law inforcement agency.

tfw this carrier could have been used to kick in hippie teeth.

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>>33848570
Next up is an M14A1 Tank Crew Mask. Very hard to find mask nowadays. Also my most comfortable mask. has a special coupling on the filter that a hose from the tank's supplied air system couples with and a built-in microphone to use with the tank crewman's helmet (shown is my T-56-6 CVC Helmet).

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Here's my contribution

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>>33848596
Last one for now and a rather odd one - M13A1 Hosptial Collective Protector. Literally a plastic bag with threads for a supplied air hose (late production M11 filter is pictured for display purposes) and an outlet valve. Designed for headwound patients who cannot wear a standard gas mask. Designed in WWII and still in use today.

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Need more dank helmet art pics pls.

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>>33848660

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Shooting some clay

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn5Pbug5nRw&index=34&list=PLcifmF_XlN4_ZVrhr_JVOGjUb0kajXspJ

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn5Pbug5nRw&index=34&list=PLcifmF_XlN4_ZVrhr_JVOGjUb0kajXspJ

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoJq6AGkWjc&index=37&list=PLcifmF_XlN4_ZVrhr_JVOGjUb0kajXspJ

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRlCXFUoT7Y&list=PLcifmF_XlN4_ZVrhr_JVOGjUb0kajXspJ&index=38

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBxK3CcOQD8&index=42&list=PLcifmF_XlN4_ZVrhr_JVOGjUb0kajXspJ

Anyone has that pic where a helicopter crewman took a bullet ?

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>>33849397
This one?

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Someone posted a bunch of slides here a while back

The fuck is on that shotgun?

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>>33851804
gas station in Vietnam, found it interesting how the color scheme of Shell and the South Vietnamese flag matched

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>>33844026

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>>33844026
>about to run a Vietnam game for my TTRPG group where they get drafted into Vietnam
>they're playing themselves, straight into the draft
>mfw I was planning on using tons of period music to set the mood throughout the game and see this thread

Awesome thread guys, thanks for the extra inspiration

>>33851855
Make sure to practice your radioman voice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gZPe_gJ6Us

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>>33851855
http://vietnamvetradio.com/

this is a pretty good station, plays a lot of period music and even has old PSA's and CHICKEN MAAAAAAAAN! (he's everywhere, he's everywhere)

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>>33851855
Bring us back some stories if you can, huh?

>>33851925
I actually have the movie soundtrack on cassette, may play it while they're in the base

>>33852076
nice, I'll give it a look
>>33852297
if this is around Saturday I will

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I want to post all of my dad's Vietnam pictures but I don't want some fag to pass them off as his own

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>tiger stripe jungle fatigues

>>33845916
dope lookin gun

>>33851864
ushankas?

Australian here. My grandfather lost 3 limbs from an RPG blast while leading his squad and was saved in a US Army hospital. He's one of the funniest blokes I've ever had the privellege of knowing.

>>33844026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMUBWKJ5A_0

HOW THE FLYING FUCK HAVE NONE OF YOU INCLUDED THIS YET

>>33853492
Post pics of ol Sergeant Stumpy

My Grandfather told me the story of how his best friend died many Christmases ago. Apparently they were traveling through a village when a Vietcong mine went off on a side street. My Grandfather had to scrape pieces his best friend's legs off the outer walls of a hut. According to Gramps the rest of the war was spent in an unfeeling haze, shooting any gook he could...

>>33844026
My Grandpa was in the Navy working as a mechanic working on jets all day.

As far as the freak grenade incidents, and the 12 hours on 12 hours off stories I've only got one more.

Apparently a pilot was having trouble getting his jet working right. Theres two ways to start said Jet, one is with a large canister that you ram into the bottom.

Grandpa strips down to underwear and crawls into the nose of this jet. Tapes an allen key to his finger and a flashlight in his mouth he crawls in and adjusts something to get the feel right for the pilot. After finishing he hops out while the engine shuts off and there stands a major, and several high ranking officers

wtf.png

he got his ass chewed out.

>>33845570
not again fucker

Where can I get one of those sleeveless shirts those boys used in nam?

>>33855371
>Find similar shirt
>Cut off sleeves
It's really not that hard unless you're looking for something issued that way.

>>33855371
Maybe you're talking about the flak vest worn with no shirt under it.

>>33854666
checked and he was tightening the throttle line? pilot probably called it loose, had some give before it was adding fuel

>>33853492
NZer living in burgerland here. Used to know this 50 something dude through a mutual friend around the late 2000s/early 2010s. Dude was a rough and tumble sorta dude with scraggly long white hair a lot of limps and health issues. Still hard though. Found out he was ex-Nam, and asked him a bit about it over the handful times i met him at a friend's place. Dude was in all sorts of trouble as a young man: fights, hated authority, lawbreaking, troubled upbringing type shit: During Nam War got the old "it's either sign up with the NZ army or go to prison" ultimatum, after several arrests. Signs up. Ends up qualifying for NZSAS (like i said, very hard cunt, definitely scrappy, knew how to use his fists). Tells me a few anecdotes like hiding in swamps along jungle supply trails, ambushing dudes and slitting their throats with bowie knives etc. Wasn't the type to go round bragging about it or anything. Had to kinda make a point of asking him about this stuff. When i knew him he was still tangled in a lawsuit against the NZ government for all his health issues caused by agent orange over there. He died a few years back. RIP 'K'

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NZ Boys

>>33855371
>>33855882
>>33855962
Better yet just go shirtless and embrace the lean physique

>>33858027
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urtiyp-G6jY

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Some Czechnology right from Nam

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My uncle Jimmy was in 'Nam, serving in the Marines at the time. He had 2 stories he would tell about the war. The first one was when he was on patrol through the jungle and the second one was from when he was at the Tet Offensive.

First one:
>walking through jungle with group of bout 12 marines
>Jimmy was in front, about 100 feet in front of the other guys, said he was doing "platoon recon"
>walking through the shitty jungle for hours
>the group calls out to tell him they're sitting down for a moment
>Jimmy keeps on walking with his M14, just looking around for any gooks who might wanna ruin lunch break
>Jimmy gets to a stream/small river, he's about 150-200 feet ahead of the group
>He sees a gook crouched down over the stream, taking sips of dirty mud water by bailing it out with a US helmet and sipping from the helmet like it's a cereal bowl.
>this motherfucker killed one of my people and stole the man's helmet
>Jimmy gets his M14 hip-level and pointed at the gook
>gook stops, looks up, drops the helmet in the stream and snatches his SKS off the ground
>At this time Jimmy shouldered his M14 and is looking at the gook through the iron sights
>realizes that this gook kid is like 13 years old and his SKS still has the bolt open
>neither one of them wants to fight, they just stare
>deafening silence for the next 30 seconds
>both young men who signed up to die for their country are now about to see how far that can really go
>gook quickly cocks the charging handle back and as it slides forward, tries to lift SKS to aim at Jimmy
>21 rounds of 7.62x51 blasting out of the M14 on full-auto as Jimmy dumps the whole fuckin mag into the gook kid's gut
>kid falls forward onto his stomach
>Jimmy yells for the rest of the platoon to come check it out, then rocks in a fresh mag in his rifle
>Jimmy goes to check the dead VC by kicking his shoulder to roll him over
>the gook kid's top torso rolls over, the legs and waist just stay facing down, entirely separated

>>33858239
same anon here. cheers for the link. never heard that tune before.

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>>33858628
This next one is a lot shorter, I would have included it in the first post but I ran out of space with the first story itself.

Second story:
>be Jimmy, hanging out at base during Tet
>gunfire. big time.
>the gooks really did it now
>Jimmy's wearing his BDU pants, no shirt and no helmet because he was in the middle of shaving gen the shit went down
>Jimmy rushes over to the frontline defense and helps some guy feed his M60
>before the time to reload even occurred, Jimmy noticed the guy next to him wasn't firing anymore
>a slug must've hit him somewhere good because he just suddenly slumped down and died in one second
>Jimmy pushes the dead marine over, calls for a medic just in case he's still got a chance
>Jimmy on the sixty
>just sprays full-auto at all the gooks that are moving, lining the sights on them one at a time and spraying until they're on the ground and dead still
>said he killed at least 30 gooks that night and each kill was easier than the last

He also said he did some "teepee sweeping" in some villages, but he said those were really horrible and some really grimey shit went down. He won't talk about it, but he did say that there was a VC they captured during a village raid, and the VC was unarmed and holding his hands up to surrender, but before they could put him on the helicopter to take him to the POW camp, one of the pulled out his 1911 and shot the gook kid in the face, and all the marines around him just looked on as if they all felt that it was something that just had to be done.

>>33849088
Dammit now I need to search for these centerfolds.

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No one posting SF shit?
sad!

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>tfw will never hold a VC at gun point

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>>33858849

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Waiting to see this cutie

>>33854387
man, i love super tucanos

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>>33858869
you wanna hear something real fucking sad?

All the dogs in the Vietnam War were left behind because they alot of them carried viruses and bugs.

So they were just abandoned and most were eaten by the Vietnamese.

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>>33858849

>>33859079
>you'll never LARP this hard lads

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Best war

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If there wasn't a fucking cool down on posting id unload my 300 pic folder till this thread capsized, but there is a cool down so I'll only do it until I'm sick of waiting.

>>33859070
F

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>>33859070
Sad

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>>33859070
Yeah I read about that. It sucks they were abandoned like that.

>>33844026
Sone Mormon students did a oral history about my dad when I was real young. It's actually some really crazy shit.


https://www.google.com/search?q=bruce+mathieu+vietnam&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS690US690&oq=bruce+mathieu+viet&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j69i59.8380j0j8&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#spf=1

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>>33860179
holy shit those are some nice finds

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Last one

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>>33860199
Thanks. This is the only other similar I've found this far.

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Eh I've got a few more

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>someone already posted the son tay raiders

Caught me off guard lol

>Vietnam thread
>No Napalm sticks to kids
I am really disapponted...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9eybY9qFfY

Mandatory

https://youtu.be/GKaYOW9zMoY

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>>33860090

thats a unique picture

>>33860107
>all those canteens
hydration can be a bitch, huh

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>>33860316
Yeah, almost seems smarter to carry filters or purification tablets.

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Some snake eaters

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>the first captcha is always wrong

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>>33860449
Nice

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Last for pickled weiner

>>33860400
lel looks like muh OP4 squad in the 90s. good times.

>all this woodland camo

I didnt know this stuff showed up in nam. I thought woodland didn't get introduced until after the war?

>>33860633
It's ERDL, first started showing up around 1968 after being developed for years. Went through transitional period in the 70s (RDF ERDL) and then finally M81 woodland in the early 80s.

do you mean songs about vietnam or songs from the 60s? because the 80s were a golden age for songs about vietnam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZD4ezDbbu4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlHQSIMHqjA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcFFEjq5Ap8

>>33860701
And movies about nam

>>33855962
Yes this was it thank you

question for the 'nam friends
normalfag here, my view of vietnam has basically been shaped by tim o'brien (the things they carried, going after cacciato), apocalypse now, and other assorted shorter stories (some of them greentexts from the chans). do i have a pretty good impression of vietnam as is, or is there more to see? notwithstanding that there is always something new to learn about the war in fucking viet nam.

>>33860221
trigger discipline on that center guy

>>33858797
you find em?

>>33845652
>it ain't me
Cringe

>>33848856
>crystal blue persuasion
my nigga

>>33845570
I'm all for the great man, but have some respect for the thread.

>>33861927
what's wrong? it aint me is the best vietnam song

>>33862400
It was a joke, OP posted the same thread on pol and within a minute someone turned it into a Hitler thread. He then posted it here.

>>33862435
It's titled "Fortunate Son"

>>33862493
Holy shit look at this guy, he thinks he knows something.

Let me fill you in, bub. Its called "it ain't me" by the Fortunate Sons, from their album Creedence Clearwater Revival.

>>33852761
did anyone else notice the dead chicken on the hood?

>>33861927
Fuck off and die, Reddit.

>>33862541
please be troll

>>33862973
Don't tell me what to do.

>>33862493
>>33862973
newfaggot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0Z6bju7DeE

brutal fucking shit.

>>33844026
Is the guy on the right the same as >>33852039

>>33863317
The guys in the OP are Marines,
>>33852039
Is army

>>33845916

It's...rubber...

>>33845643

Are they gonna eat that tiger?

>>33849088

Fucking hell they don't make them like that anymore. I still can't get over the body shapes and those sexy tan lines.

>>33844026
The music in this thread is fucking gay, get rid of it.

>>33858628
>>33858796

>My uncle
>Navy Frogman UDT
>get a call for unexploded ordinance on land
>get choppered in with team
>squad captain who found the bomb is arrogant prick
>tell prick we're going to blow this thing, get back
>prick steps back a few feet
>no, you need to move. this is going to blow big.
>prick moves back a hundred yards
>send team member to tell prick to keep moving
>prick just stands there with his squad
>ohwell.jpg
>set the charge
>run our fucking asses off
>pass the prick and his squad full throttle
>prick shits his pants and gets his squad in gear
>kaboom
>hit the deck
>glass shards from molten sand landing all around
>maybe you'll listen next time, prick.

>>33845652
>>33845677
>>33845685
>>33845695
>>33845713
>>33845719
kek. I'm gonna go listen to that song now.

Any good 70s songs?
One from me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx45KHrwWf8