The Cobras were “working out”. Damn, been a while since I heard that term! My entire platoon was forced into a defensive circle by a 360 degree assault on the hill we were “ camping” on. Everyone popped smoke, tossed them out a few yards. The smoke rose thru the trees and made a ring. The Cobras shot the shit out of everything outside the ring. I could see the mini gun rounds ripping the trees and ground 10 feet in front of me, did I mention I was dumbstruck by the noise, the fire, those birds diving on the gun run then pulling out right over my head Not one Grunt, not one would say a word to disparage that noble beast. The men who flew those missions were like super man. Thanks my friends for pulling my chest nuts out of the fire more than once.
@sirchromiumdowns2015
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for going over there Mr. Mills.
@robertmills2375
2 жыл бұрын
@@sirchromiumdowns2015 thank you for saying so. Peace.
@davidstaudohar6733
2 жыл бұрын
God Bless our Grunts 🦅 Call sign," The Kid" in honorable memories of Lancer's air tactical command ♦️♦️♦️ and keep in mind I served on the ground with Delta Special Forces, I served in the air with the Lancers, 🇺🇸❤️👌‼️
@jrsmith1008
Жыл бұрын
I'm glad you told of us your experience I want future generations to know what you had to do my kids (millennials) don't remember and Gen Z dont know as long as I'm alive I won't let them forget
@philbrown9764
3 жыл бұрын
As a Marine Nam Vet, Chu Lai 68-69 1st MAW MAG 12 , I got to see a Cobra, at night, shoot at the hill that was near our air base. The tracers looked like a bright red ribbon hanging down in the sky, since I couldn’t see the Cobra. It was cool looking.
@LongBinh70
3 жыл бұрын
I was at Long Binh 70-71, and we had a hill about 5 clicks SE that Cobras and F4s would work over routinely. We called the night minigun fire "pissin' on the enemy"!
@pjdurkin8582
3 жыл бұрын
You guys did awesome who went. Some of us really respect and appreciate you
@bigahr-gu7ei
8 жыл бұрын
My step dad, recently passed away, flew the cobra in Vietnam. Absolutely amazing, he was capable of doing anything and flying a cobra was one of those dreams.
@FuttBuckerson
6 жыл бұрын
Rusty Nail Your step-dad was a badass, may he rest in peace.
@edheynoski2231
6 жыл бұрын
Rusty Nail ... my father was also a decorated cobra pilot in nam... I LOST him 7 14 1972 ... my blessing to all VETS n their family's
@rohailahmed7366
6 жыл бұрын
Friend so sad my father Pakistan army pilot
@rsar61
6 жыл бұрын
Rusty Nail sorry for your loss brother
@CHUUMPASS
5 жыл бұрын
god bless him !
@bernardanderson7569
4 жыл бұрын
My pass Uncle flew The Cobra Gun ship during the Vietnam war and got fired upon many times after transitioning from the Blackhawk and he flew a lot of medivac missions during that era. I'm glad I got to hear the stories of the flying he and others did and every time I hear a Helio or more flying overhead I know that our Military of all Branches are on Guard to defend our country of the United States of America 🇺🇸.
@choprjock
3 жыл бұрын
Blackhawks did not enter military service until after the Vietnam War ended.
@mikeappignani4383
3 жыл бұрын
God bless you all. Who. Served. Men. And. Women. Doctors. And. Nurses ❣👍
@CapstoneTider
7 жыл бұрын
I was in the army during the transitions from the Huey to Black hawk, Cobra to Apache (My MOS), The Jeep to the Humvee......seems like all this happened in a 2 year period. Even the tankers upgraded. Still had my old 2 1/2 deuce in the motor pool for normalcy. But what an upgrade we had in the mid late 80's, everywhere. I saw a small part.
@andrewgiordano5275
5 жыл бұрын
It's called a deuce and a half not a 2 1/2 deuce.
@DonnielSeymour
3 жыл бұрын
Qtr ton worked better know jeep 1988-1990 It was a winner.
@berzerker1100
3 жыл бұрын
@@DonnielSeymour Oh Jeepers ! 😁
@berzerker1100
3 жыл бұрын
Old Army: if you can't find them Grind them !
@jeffsanders663
3 жыл бұрын
And steel pot to kevlar. I remember those days.
@richardleetbluesharmonicac7192
3 жыл бұрын
My friend flew a cobra. They took a lot of fire from the rest. He took tubing and welded a machine gun on the back producing the first rear firing chopper. It was very effective.
@tonynewburey8900
3 жыл бұрын
Old enough to remember the AH (Cobra) when I joined wanting to be a Pilot. glasses ruined that dream. In Europe and Korea on Boarder duty. Loved the sound and the sight of the Cobra. As well as in 91 the Cobra and the A-10 awesome team....... CAS at it's finest.....
@joshmyers30
3 жыл бұрын
Sheeew the stuff you fellas musta went through...thank you thank you
@michaelcarmean4906
3 жыл бұрын
I Had a PRC 74 / M-16 and a Cobra ✅ That’s All I Needed 🇺🇸 101st Airborne - Recon 🇺🇸
@docholliday3273
3 жыл бұрын
Huge balls and GREAT guys!!!! Those and the guys with the Seawolves.....THANK YOU ALL!!!!!!
@jayoutdoors1534
Жыл бұрын
My grandfather flew the cobra from 67 to 71 when he got outta the army. Never talked about his service only learned about what he did after he passed away.
@opposed2logic
3 жыл бұрын
fun fact, the usa had a far superior helicopter design that was going to be introduced around this time but due to american bureaucracy it was cancelled. the army was the branch ordering it and the airforce took the matter to court (with support of Bell who makes the cobras) and insisted that the helicopter breaks the rules of the military as it was so capable it replaced the necessity for airforce support, even the A10 was considered mostly obsolete (this legal fight carried on for long enough to go into the age of a10s). so USA could have had a tool far cheaper than an A10, far easier to position in a way that it can quickly support troops and even more capable than the A10, something that would save countless american lives in combat, but the entire thing was scrapped in the interest of money (bell, fairchild) and of power (airforce being salty).
@douglaskirbyl4684
6 жыл бұрын
Gentlemen, this is a nice vid. Those Apaches in Iraq where awesome. Those hell fires put off a blast that was ultrasonic. The Cobra was a great aircraft too.
@dondressel452
3 жыл бұрын
I respect all you Vietnam vets You are the best of the best Kids today need safe spaces while men like you were out there putting your lives on the line
@woodsmith8439
3 жыл бұрын
Hey, John Losure, if you see this, how’d your life turn out? Appreciate what you did for this country.
@JimmyBahia
5 жыл бұрын
April 19, 1968 while on an S&D with the Big Red One in the Iron Triangle, we got ambushed and minutes later, a Cobra gunship came out of nowhere and started shooting us up with the mini-gun and then the 2.75s. Read years later that the pilot was court-martialed. One of my buddies got hit directly with a rocket and what was left of him landed on top of me. I kissed my ass goodbye that day, survived with out a scratch and came home May 3rd! R.I.P. Juan Gomez
@americanoutdoorsman_1133
5 жыл бұрын
The Cobra is still used today mostly by the US Marines and has several upgraded features. The Apache is more advanced indeed but is slower than the Cobra. Several Apaches were shot down in Afghanistan and Iraq because it was slow to maneuver and is a bit wide while the cobra was slim and faster. The Cobras were indeed the NVA and VCs worst nightmare!!!
@larrylinn8589
5 жыл бұрын
They Cobras were only as effective as the forward observers. I was a common 11B Infantryman in the Operation Cliff Dweller IV operation at Nui Ba Den, in January, 1969. A Cobra received the wrong commands, and strafed my platoon. Three of them died. There is no mention of this which I can find.
@americanoutdoorsman_1133
3 жыл бұрын
@@larrylinn8589 sorry to hear that sir. Sadly friendly fire happens still in modern warfare a few cases of it in Afghanistan and Iraq
@michaelashcraft8569
3 жыл бұрын
In a nutshell it was go to Prison, or, go to Vietnam for too many Soldiers, Sailors,Airmen, and Marines, many of us died, or, were wounded. Doc Mike USN
@phapnui
4 жыл бұрын
I volunteered for Cobra school as I heard they had an air conditioner. What better way to spend a tour than in air conditioned comfort above the hot jungle? Only problem was that in every Cobra I flew the ECU, environmental control unit, would spit out ice chucks and you had to use your visor. So we never used them. Same with windshield wipers in Hueys. Never used them because they's scratch the windshield. Piss tubes in Hueys, crewchiefs wished pilots never used them...
@topgunsnake720
5 жыл бұрын
'REDSKINS' Company D (Attack Helicopter), 158th Aviation Battalion (Assault Helicopter), 101st Airborne Division. 1971 Camp Evans, RVN
@topgunsnake720
3 жыл бұрын
Yes. Phu Bai and Eagle were south of Evans and Hue. Fifteen to twenty miles.
@josephfuselier6997
3 жыл бұрын
Badasses during Vietnam. Hunter Killer team with OH-6 Cayuse or OH-13 Bell 47 Scouts. These guys made the took a shit their pants in a millisecond! Brave guys because you were exposing yourself in the line of fire.The enemy never underestimated you! Aircav! Oooorah!
@GoldenGod69
10 ай бұрын
What is this documentary called?
@aa64912
6 жыл бұрын
VC hated the cobra. We loved it
@alanc745
5 жыл бұрын
I was commo chief in artillery bty got to see cobra unloading fireworks pretty awesome weapon!
@alphawilliams984
5 жыл бұрын
Walter Johnson I was ChuLai 70-71 and was crew chief on a cobra awesome bird
@booter-tw7gd
4 жыл бұрын
Cant believe my grandpa went into this war
@flash5ist
11 жыл бұрын
From what i've read the North Vet and their allies called these corbras of that era wispering death and advoided a duel with any of these things if they could ,so i'm sure that Vietnam suck,However a lot of service personnel owe their lives to the corbras when they were on station.Finally their desendances are as bad as they were back then.
@markgorney4268
6 жыл бұрын
What?
@TCOMC32
4 жыл бұрын
I just found out today that my Dad flew in the Cobra and Apache helicopters and the transport ones as a door gunner
@ricardoexito7634
5 жыл бұрын
HOOAH SEMPE FI
@tootired76
7 жыл бұрын
The Apache is so much more capable! Apache is Frau Blenker! Yet The old school Cobra is soo sexy!!
@bluemarshall6180
4 жыл бұрын
tootired76 What about the Super Cobra.
@multitieredinvestor183
3 жыл бұрын
Got to ride front seat and pilot let me fire weapons into Nui Ba Dinh early 1970.
@FrankieD92
3 жыл бұрын
Was a 35th Scout Dogs and worked the Black Virgin in early 70. Working op when file was hit by RPG , dust off came for wounded and brought big brother to ride cover. We will sitting in a Rome plow and hotshot dove on us and buzz the troops, scared the crap out of me...
@richardbuys4241
6 жыл бұрын
I'm a cobra gunner. Impossible to tell the feelings and emotions when being behind the the shotting station or having the ability to use your cross hairs to shoot a target from so far away and know you took out your target, hoorah
@caseykennedy9434
5 жыл бұрын
YOUR FULL OF CRAP
@phapnui
4 жыл бұрын
Only problem is Cobra did not have gunners.
@rvnmedic1968
4 жыл бұрын
@@caseykennedy9434 Another stolen valor imposter. Asshole.
@caseykennedy9434
4 жыл бұрын
@@rvnmedic1968 screw you prick 2 tours of nam 70-71-72 ,,67A1F KMA
@rvnmedic1968
4 жыл бұрын
@@caseykennedy9434 Whoa, pardner! I was agreeing with you on Richard Buys BS. Welcome Home, anyway!
@punisher7.62mm2
5 жыл бұрын
helicóptero de ataque cobra , quando o inimigo o via já era tarde, morte silenciosa.
@CHUUMPASS
5 жыл бұрын
every once in a while, I sure could use close air support from above from one of these. :-)
@lordred4116
3 жыл бұрын
I was waiting for "fortunate son" to kick in.
@mountainryder3056
3 жыл бұрын
Snakes....Death from Above
@ColonelBummleigh
4 жыл бұрын
Super weapon for the time.
@bluemarshall6180
4 жыл бұрын
Manic Mailman This old Cobras are still effective until now.
@AgradRorwelz
11 жыл бұрын
Great outtake.
@sailingyemaya9781
5 жыл бұрын
The Washington state DNR has a few cobras. Probably for chasing down dirt bikers with expired tabs
@merlemorrison482
3 жыл бұрын
rockets don't make it stop, but it sure slows them down!~!~!
@Luwab
6 жыл бұрын
HAVE SOME NAILS
@chris-sf5uy
6 жыл бұрын
Keep posting bong hit
@southtownj382
4 жыл бұрын
Looked like a mosquito coming in and lurches when it fires
@punisher7.62mm2
5 жыл бұрын
DE OPRESSO LIBER
@sallybrown1459
3 жыл бұрын
We know all about that. THANK YOU, SF.
@denizdogan5087
5 жыл бұрын
Hiç birşey kolay değil.................... Zor .
@PANCHOSR
5 жыл бұрын
Get some Corba
@judeodomhnaill9711
3 жыл бұрын
Googled these Vietnam vet names, most died from cancer, one in 2010, the other in 2013. Sucks.
@judeodomhnaill9711
3 жыл бұрын
@DONT BE SHEEP sorry to hear man.
@davidstaudohar6733
Жыл бұрын
🦅🇺🇸🦅 David Staudohar USMC USN SS USCG ret inculding Delta special Forces and Lancers air tactical command I Corps company B 🦅‼️
@misterbd
11 жыл бұрын
nice
@punisher7.62mm2
5 жыл бұрын
U. S. ARMY GO !
@marioGarcia-du9eh
3 жыл бұрын
MARHUK HMA369
@montellwilliams811
3 жыл бұрын
💪 👀 👈
@billschaffer8633
5 жыл бұрын
H
@extrasolar213
6 жыл бұрын
lol
@57silverwings
Жыл бұрын
On hard target or prairie fire. Salvo those fekers..
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