How to Survive the Vietnam War
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So it is the mid-1960s and you are a raw recruit who has just arrived in Vietnam.
The country is involved in a bloody and intense civil war, so how do you survive this experience?
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Simple History are you going to do vietnam war agent orange?
cool
Simple History May you do the Troubles in Northern Ireland of 1968-1998
Very good video, continue the nice work, you are fantastic youtuber.
"How to Survive the Vietnam War" *This Video is 65 Years Late*
no its about 3 months 5 days 8 hours 26 minutes and 35 seconds as I speak to early
Dead solider in heaven: damn you
so true
Thats what i what I was thinking lol
Oh just wait for February 2021…
The best advice I heard about surviving in Vietnam: “Get down!” “Shut up!”
Yes, Lieutenant Dan, Sir!
Forest Gump 😭❤️
Something bit me
Lieutenant Dan, I got Ice cream!
Change your socks
US citizen: *i graduated from high school can't wait to get married* US Military: *Looks like your going to Vietnam Jimbo*
Also US Citizen: *Disaapears to canada*
@@ndhart3213 Adios
@@ndhart3213 US Government: well Jimbo looks like you’re a draft dodging traitor and can’t come back
"Wait this isnt the shadow realm?!"
@@squirtle53 I wouldn’t mind that
Fun fact: the best way to survive Vietnam is by playing fortunate son. It gives 30% boost to attack and defense
If you don't have access to Fortunate Son, Flight of the Valkyries or any Rolling Stones song will do in a pinch.
or play run through the jungle it will mark all Vietcong traps and give you a 80% speed boost
Or green river
Playing All Along the Watchtower gives you sniper abilities that are on par with the white feather not to mention it also gives you the ability to see all enemy traps as well as give you a 40% accuracy boost
Play Elvis Presley - Suspicious minds in Vietnam would give you 15% accuracy, 40% reduced trauma from the war, 70% of girls wanting you when you came back. Playing Miss you from Rolling stones will give you instantly a M60 with full ammo, 30% reduced time of reload, badass cinematic entrance, you would be able to saw nearby Tunnel rats, mark enemies at the trees. Playing Frank Sinatra will give you airstrike, napalm, agent orange, huey support and paratroopers...
"First piece of advice for surviving 'Nam" SimpleHistory: Don't go
Lol
@@josukeh.7658 simply don't go
@@josukeh.7658 run
Viet Bui burn the card and hide out in Mexico or somewhere also just don’t mention it to anybody.
@Aaron Z. y e s
US Soldier: takes a piss* Tree: eew US Soldier: ... Tree: ....
US Soldier: What? Tree: What?
Everybody gangster until the tress start yelling in Vietnamese....
USA soldier:ghosts! begins shooting the trees* shoots another tree* tree:ayyy cyka blyat US soldier:0_0 US soldier shots himself*
"More daddy"
You have now lost pp privileges
“The easiest way to survive the war was to not be there” wow what an idea why didn’t I think of that
Some don’t have that choice.
The draft
@@jadendorsey3472 yeah I know it sucks but still it was kinda funny how they said it
@@starkiller5857 it was 😂
I like this nontoxic space, thanks for being you, guys
My great uncle was in Vietnam. 68'. I remember my grandma telling when he got home, no one could walk up behind him for weeks. He became a drunk, and died a few yrs back from complications from agent orange. The war fucked his mind up for the rest of his life. Salute to all vets🇺🇸🦅⚔🛡⚓
If your story is true (because I've seen a lot of fake ones) than I say Rest In Peace your Uncle and all the other veterans who had to go through that he'll, thankfully my father wasn't born anywhere near the war (he was born in 1981) and didn't have to go through all that, he passed away in 2019
my grandad also died due to agent orange
@@josh_the_alien your whole post confuses me 🤷♂️😂
@@josh_the_alien Sorry for your loss, son. We fathers love our children beyond your imagination, so believe me when I say he is somehow with you even now. Grow up and be a good man, make him proud.
Should have done a mass revolt and refuse
Non college educated American Male in the 1960-1970's: Exists. Robert McNamara: Imma end this whole man's career.
Didn't end enough careers to stop the communists from infiltrating the universities and higher education.
@@s0nnyburnett chud
This is the only “end this mans career” I’ve ever laughed at.
non college educated is an understatement
That's actually sad.
Man: healthy American citizen President Lyndon B. Johnson: Alakazam have fun in nam
'I will not send your bois to fight in a ...in a war across the ocean to some country we don't even know of' LJB
@@sebastianlazer8570 it was actually I will not send American boys 8 or 10000 miles around the world to do something Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.
@@harshbansal7982 oh yes. You're right:) Nice one ;)
@@harshbansal7982 But they did
@SgtBaker16 care to explain how he did the opposite?.
Thank you Simple History. I waited 65 years for your video on how to survive the Vietnam War. Now I can safely survive it.
I think you’re a bit late
multizerz i agree
Vietcong: *watches video* “Well this didn’t help me at all...”
NVA: we also did not find this video useful
Vietnamese civilian: "Is this a joke I'm too poor to understand?"
@@JonatasAdoM *North Vietnamese civilians and South Vietnamese civilians in 1968
I heard jim gaffigans voice when I read that haha
Didn’t give any advice on what to do in the event of a napalm, or agent orange, strike.
How to survive any war (if it’s inevitable): get really fcking lucky.
That's another story
Or just don't get involved
That was not an option in there case
Or die when you come home... seen that
OFC, You should not be Frontliner
"Put your head down and keep moving !" -Random COD WW2 NPC
Then he dies because he didn't put his head down
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JupiterKnight kkk
@@catgamingftw8239 (;
"Don't be American" Me, an Australian: Yeah... that ain't gonna work, chief
Or be american just be born before the war
How to survive? Refuse to go there and head to Canada.
@@GothamsBatman or after like my dad was born in 1981
Didn't work too well for the Vietnamese either.
Born in 1978
US Citizen: “Wow, I just graduated from high school. Can’t wait to start a family with my GF from school. US MILITARY: *”Well guess what muthafucker”*
1:48 Here’s your skip ad button, folks. You’re welcome
You are a good man. Thank you.
A true American hero
40% of this video is an ad
You are like the most good man in the world.
Thank you your help will be remembered
“How to survive the Vietnam War?” “Be a politician.”
be born with a silver spoon in your hand
@@miliba oh don't they help themselves
And taxmen comes to visit The whole place looks like a rummage sale, lord
@@miliba And when they ask you how much should they, you should answer: More! More! More!
jhon f kendy
Me: How do I survive Vietnam? Simple History: Don’t go. Me: My goodness, what an idea. Why didn’t I think of that?
whats the safest way of going skiing?
Just nuke the North, with no people to fight you have nothing to worry about.
@@williamdissing1041 don't go!
Nice Panther Tank you got there, HistoryFan. 👌
My grandfather was one of the 30,000 Canadians who volunteered to fight in Vietnam. It would be interesting to see a video covering the topic of Canada in Vietnam as this is mostly forgotten even by Canadians
Rocketensky my 1st commander was aCannaden BlackWatch major he was one of smartest men I ever served with in 68. Let us do or thing in Jungle and didn’t micromanage us. Didn’t care how we got job done. A pleasure to work for.
@MATTHEW JOHNSON Where was the Canadian s as military unit stationed in Vietnam? The only one I saw or ever met was my Cpt. Who served in U.S.Army in combat unit. I did 5 tours and only ran into civilian s and sob reporters. Saw pictures of ships in Hypong Harbor flying the Maple Leaf granted civilian ships. I was in II Core to IV Core maybe they were in I Core.
It needs to be known. Thank them properly. From V N. US of A. Nam vet.
Mine too
"The best way to survive the vietnam war was to not be in it in the first place" *every sixty seconds in africa, a minute passes*
*Together we can stop this*
The best way to survive the Vietnam war was being a „fortunate son“
I ain't no fortunate one
Or having bone spurs
You people got these songs from black ops 1
Or being Bill Clinton
Or just go back to your Homeland
“Vietnam is home to no less than 37 different types of snakes” Aussies: that’s cute
"Enjoy the war, because the peace will be terrible." And for many vietnam vets, it was.
My grandpa served in the Vietnam War, as a sergeant, and he told me stories of these type of things.
My grandpa was in nam he served for 5 years
Wow
my great granpa served in the vietnam war too,as a viet cong soldier.he told me US army was weak in jungle and they didnt have any experience in battle in jungle not like south east asian army.
Lucky, you get to get told stories about that.
My grandpa was a sergeant in the army in vietnam. He told me that his truck he was driving turned sideways on a road and it almost fliped. Then he told me he saved it
Survived the war PTSD: Remember this scene....
"Remember when your entire platoon got gunned down?"
Lol
*George will remember that*
lucky my grandfather did not get drafted and we still have him here today
Lucky indeed, my grandfather went to nam. He wasn’t the same afterwards, he was home but his mind never really left the jungle.
@@nonameman7114 same man, my grandad wasn’t even on the frontlines, he just got drafted in nam to repair trucks, I guess most of his buddies didn’t make it back in those trucks he had to fix bc he’s never been the same.
How to survive 'nam Step 1: be a woman Step 2: don't be 18 Step 2: that's it
Or simply: 1. Don’t be born between 1955-1975
@@user-pf3uk2lv3e More like 1940 - 1950.
Get a dishonorable discharge
Step 3 : born in 1965
Step 5: not borned
If the Lorax got drafted: “I am the Lorax, I speak for the trees, The trees said something in Vietnamese.”
Omg I’m dying that was hilarious I laughed for 4 straight minutes
The lorax fought on the Vietkongs side though
lmao
Nice translator mate
Send Napalm on my location
"Get down and shut up" According to my dad, who served in Vietnam, stated that at one time, he got the butt of the gun, hit some guy on the mouth just to get him to shut up. According to him, he stated that after that day, the guy never spoke again unless instructed to do so.
That’s fucking hard core
That's mean
@@jacobsaccount9353 It what was required to keep him alive
Soldiers aren’t trained the way they used to be..
Ok bud ok u don’t need to lie 😂😂😂😂😂
'Say no to drugs.' WWII Germany and Finland: 'Wait, it's possible to fight sober?'
*drugs*
@@tuuresarolahti7291 *Gustav, I'm high*
One crucial tip is knowing CCR's other awesome songs so you don't go crazy listening to Fortunate Son on loop.
"Easiest way to survive the Vietnam was not being an American" Me: *mission accomplished*
-the war ended tho A long time ago
or just do the same as the president : fake having bone spur
"We did boys Vietnam is no more"
How about being a Vietnamese.
South Vietnam is America’s ally I’m not American
"First dont be American" Me a non American: we did it bois, Vietnam War is no more
Yesh
It’s “well boys, we did it, Vietnam war is no more”
other countries also fought in the Vietnam War
H J oh s(it
Me a canadian:yeah yeah!
3:45 Haven’t seen somebody hold a fire extinguisher that way since the first mission of Medal of Honor: Rising Sun.
I was looking for this comment! You sir are a man of culture😁
“How to survive the Vietnam War” in summary; You can’t
American Soldier: I think I'll take a break in here seems quiet. Trees: Buổi sáng tốt lành American Soldier: ...
Translation of the Vietnamese quote?
@@michaeltheundeadmariachi4494 it means good morning.
@@emperorsblade2786 good morning vietnam -cartoonz
American air support: cleanse it with FIRE!
@@emperorsblade2786 nah in Vietnamese good morning is chào buổi sáng
How to survive the Vietnam War: Wait till they issue the A1 variant
the best way to survive is never being there in the first place. “Bell, we got a job to do.”
Bell, do what i say take the right path not the left
I always like the endings of these videos. It's always silent or with minimal sound and kind of give you a moment to reflect on what you watched. It adds a lot of gravity
1. Learned to speak Vietnamese 2. Get inside a bush 3. Yell "Người Mỹ! Người Mỹ!" 4. Profit?
Sounds much better of being a translator
The Vietnamese word say AMERICAN AMERICAN
Sok Pov That's the point
It means, "American Person! American Person!".
Nah, we say "lính ngụy tới! Lính ngụy tới!" It means something that the army of south Vietnam comes
Soldier: “WE NEED AIR SUPPORT ON SECTOR CHARLIE” Johnny Cash: “Oh I’m a pilot, that’s the way I’m gonna be, killing VC with jet engines behind me”
Song?
🤣🤣🤣
lol
what's this from?
polar jet i agree
My great uncle actually met Elvis when he was in the army, and apparently the officers at the base were thinking about having him preform for the other men there.
Simple history 5 years later: how to survive vovid in 2020 All of us as adults: this is how i survived son
Joins the airforce: Ends up a pilot. Joins the navy or coast guard: Ends up ferrying SEALs behind enemy lines on a PT boat. Joins the Army or Marines in a non combat role: Still gets mortared and shot at by snipers. You really couldn't win in Vietnam.
My grandpa fits that exact Navy description
@@TyrannoJoris_Rex War sucks man, I am glad your Grandpa made it out ok. so that he could end up making an absolute badass baller like you. If he is till alive, please thank your Grandpa for his service for me. Your Grandpa was a badass my dude and so are you.
Join the Dental Corps "This is my rifle And these are my gums!"
I don't know... I think ending up a pilot could be considered something of a win, depending on what aircraft you were flying anyway.
French lost After 10 years WITH 50000 zoldiers.usa 500 000 soldiers,😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
How to dodge a US draft: Step 1: Be rich Step 2: Pay a doctor to diagnose you with bone spurs Step 3: Profit
That was my answer bone spurs.
Muffin_man17 hmmm donald trump
@@felixdeneve3090 if you had enough money to avoid a forced war, you'd do the same thing Trump did.
I thought leftists were against the war so Im confused as to why they are mad about trump avoiding it
STONKS
Eugene Stoner and Jim Sullivan: Here's the M16, a rugged and reliable rifle as long as you give it the minimum maintenance you'd give any rifle and use the right ammo in it Borderline saboteurs in US logistics: Haha no cleaning kits and overpressured rounds go brrrr
Your F4 cockpit animation was spot on. Well done.
Next episode how to survive coming home :(
Mike Jones sad times man
My grandpa was a sailor in the Vietnam war. He told me that sometimes sailors had to fight on ground with the marines. He told me many things and some stories that he had when he fought on the ground
Simple History: How to survive Vietnam Jim Morrison: I told em I was gay
How to Survive Vietnam War: Find Carlos Hathcock and stay behind him no matter what
👍
Or steal a boat lmao and escape if possible
Or maybe be save by Benavides
@@cay7809 if you're a Green Beret go to Benavidez, but if you're a Marine you go find Hathcock.
tip: look at the trees edit: they can’t use the jungle if there is no jungle edit 2: watch out for the Lorax while burning the trees
If they’re speaking Vietnamese, run and scream “no please.”
And then you fall In a spike pit
Someone will use wall hacks so it won't work
Napalm the trees
That's why you burn it down.
I’d prefer to be labelled a “draft dodger” for avoiding the war, than being labelled a “baby killer” after suffering their the actual war.
Yes it was a stupid war by stupid politicians seeking only to advance their own careers and personal lives who didn't even have the backbone to decently support the people they were sending to die for them.
@@KandiKlover Muhammed Ali made the right call at the time.
We should just have the politicians fight each other on their own even though it might not be fair for some cases. Abraham Lincoln was actually a wrestler who played 300 matches and lost once. He’s even in the wrestling hall of fame. He might end up breaking Jefferson Davis’s spine.
@@gilgamesh310 stop glorifying religions fool
@@arushreddi5419 Where did he glorify religions?
Well damn this video would have been useful to my great cousin, he died in a punji trap. R.I.P. 😭
L
@@Ayr-me7vb bruh
What a terrible way to die.
Rest in piece
Peace*
How to survive the Vietnam War: Don't be American Vietnamese people: Am I a joke to you?
Be german or literally anything else, lmao
@@25blitzer11 ahaha.....
Hahaha this one
You got me 🤣🤣
Imagine you were drafted but you're Vietnamese who live in US
Glad I found this video really helping me fight the war
Great video keep up the great work
My method for surviving the Vietnam War: being born in 1974.
How to survive life: Don’t die
I think what is most appalling is how Vietnam veterans were treated when they got home. “Baby killers” they called them. They were harassed and abused for being involved in a conflict that they didn’t even start. It’s shameful.
Or even wanted to be in
Damn.....the soldier that got back home and got called a baby killer must be super stress out and felling despair..........
@@Bravo_99 so......the Vietnam war.....U.S. soldier force to sent in there.........
Little Coward this comment is extremely ignorant both sides commited countless gruesome warcrimes, we shouldnt blame one side
@@Mr-Ad-196 probably already killed himself
Girls tend to speak iin a higher pitch when around someone they like Girls speaking to me: 0:03
Lmao
Underrated comment
I talked to a vietnam vet and he said he hated the m16 but loved the m14
"How to survive the Vietnam War?" Just be the son of a rich person.
Like Trump
@Nospam Spamisham Nixon and Kissinger were Democrats?
George Emil LBJ... 🤦🏼♂️
"It ain't me... I'm no fortunate son..."
Be gay
Don’t listen to the trees and you will be fine.
but then you won’t know when you will die
Thanks you I needed this
"If you want to survive you need to be good bro" -tree *wat*
How to survive the Vietnam War Step 1: Don’t get drafted Step 2: Repeat Step 1
Dang, why didn't the people who got drafted think of this?
How to singlehandedly win the Vietnam War: Get 25 kills without dying and call in nuclear airstrike.
Life is no Nintendo game
@@TomFromKZhead *boomer spotted*
@@blank3683 where?
@@TomFromKZhead it is you
@@blank3683 nah my name is Tom. Not boomer.
Thanks! I will make sure to use these tips!
When I was fourteen I had a paper route during the late 1960's. I would collect money at the end of the month and stand in the doorway to wait. The nightly news would usually be on in the living room and I would get a bits of the war. There would be updates on how many US soldiers died in recent action as well as how many of the enemy were killed. I remember watching/reading about Tet and Hamburger hill and wanted no part of that. When I was younger I had strong allergy attacks and went to a hospital twice a week for shots. My mother was fairly certain this would keep me out of the army and had the necessarily documentation. At the time the war was raging and there was on end in sight.
“The safest way to go skiing is not go skiing at all”
Oh, I didn't realize it was a trick question.
But that doesn't make sense, you said "to go" meaning the individual had to be there.
avoid the military draft by escaping to canada !...as i know half a million American men done that during the war !
how to survive Vietnam: almost get your name drawn during the "lottery" right as it gets interrupted by a special announcement from the government saying it's putting a permanent halt to the draft. Based on a true story, My dad was watching the broadcast and the initials of his first name and full last name along with part of his social was just barely inches on-screen when the broadcast was interrupted by a special announcement from the president declaring the official cancelation of the draft, making military service voluntary only from that point on.
My grandpa was in the marines in Vietnam his job was running supplies to troops on the ground and get back on chinook and head back to get more supplies one day he was coming back from a mission they got shot down everyone was killed except my grandpa he craw out of the crash everyone was killed he started crawling he almost craw into a Vietnam minefield but passed out and woke up in a hospital he told me he always blame him self for being a live when everyone was dead but he he over come the pass and he had my mom and my uncle and me and my sister he is the nicest person you ever met I’m grad I have a great grandpa like him and thank you for all the men and women for your service
Everybody gangsta until the Vietnam sniper starts camping harder then Anne Frank
Or gamers in call of duty and battlefield
Bro all the ghost of the vietnam war be watching this like “ oh why did I not think about that”
'don't be American' 60000 American ghosts: 'damn why didn't I think of that'
This comment deserves more likes
Step one: Burn down all the trees Step two: Don’t go near any trees Step three: if the trees start speaking Vietnamese, Napalm and run
true
But how survive if you are Vietnamese and you see a Jet incoming?
@@toyue4201 ask a Russian supervisor if you shoot the missile now or in a few seconds
Just be careful cause our special force can now can disguise as grass and mud to
"My name is Nguyen, and I speak for the trees!" "I've got the napalm, and I'll do as I please."
"You are in the US Marines or the US Army" - basically, you're screwed
Very helpful tutorial thanks
How to survive the Vietnam War: Move to Canada.
Fisher should be easy, I already live there
as i know half a million American men done that during the war !
How to survive the Vietnam War Step 1 : Run Step 2 : Just keep running
Zane ! Bullets run faster
@@wisewordsofall9646 just don't get involved I think that would work
What about the snakes and punji sticks?
and keep hoping that Jenny will be your bride someday
Step 3: Trip a mine.
Thanks, i'll keep this in mind next time I time travel to the 60's
thxxx so much, my grandpa watched this video before going to vietnam so he survived all thanks to you
Sponsor people: how many ads do you want? Simple history: yes
I only seen 2
Cohan Does stuff to be honest there want that many ads in the first place
He does give good content
And thats when the big bucks start rolling in
Moral of the video: don't try to hide in the rice fields while you're in a Vietnam War
Hi so u watch doraemon
The best choise is join Vietnamese's people army
Thx for the tutorial 👍
Step 1: Be born 40 years after the war ended
4:58 Anyone else getting flashbacks to Medal of Honor: Rising Sun?
Yes dude lmao
Ryan yep
Yes.
yeah that's funny
Yeah except that was WW2 against Japan
About to watch this with my great-grandfather who fought in the pacific in WW2, korea and Vietnam
Thank you i will make sure to use this next time vietnam war happens
Thanks man, I builded a time machine so this will be helpful
US Marine: Oh, hi trees Tree: Shh... I'm amBUSHing US Marine: Right.....
oh yes what if your grandfather was a tree
This Pun doesn't sounds good
"One of the deadliest Snipers of the vietnamese forces is a woman called apache" *laughs in White Feather*
What's that?
Whites feather killed her while she was taking a piss.
Though the whole issue has never been confirmed. We Vietnamese expresses serious doubt over this story.
Simo hayha ?
@@anpro2104 no that ww2
I would survive because of you of how much information you’re giving us about Vietnam and World War II
"Say No to Drugs" Everyone including Me: *Anti-Drug ads and all, being nostalgic
This is crack
4:50 Medal of Honor: rising sun first mission flashbacks
Ok
That was a good game
I have family members that were Nam Vets. Thank you and welcome home to all that served over there
The first person M16/animations view was beautiful. How did you do/draw it?
Simple History in 5 years: How to survive COVID-19. Also Simple History in 5 years: What COVID-19 was like.
Q: How To Survive the Vietnam War 1. Make friends with Master Sergeant Roy Benavidez. 2. Give him your morphine stash, a bayonet and a stretcher... and then stand way, WAY back.
Wut
True
Logan Parent Roy Benavidez is a badass Medal of Honor recipient
Make friends with Roy Benavidez and Lauri Torni
avoid the military draft by escaping to canada !...as i know half a million American men done that during the war !