The Darkest Moments of War with a MACV-SOG Veteran | Official Preview

[00:00:03] finally caught him in in the makeshift [00:00:05] bait camp and raided them. Killed all of [00:00:08] them except about maybe 10 or 15 that [00:00:11] escaped out of the net. [00:00:13] >> You were on that? [00:00:14] >> Yeah. [00:00:14] >> How many of them were there? [00:00:21] >> Uh, a little over a hundred. [00:00:27] >> Holy [ __ ] So you guys killed [00:00:29] >> and they 85 90 people. [00:00:31] >> They were no match for the the the [00:00:33] Bolivian Rangers. [00:00:37] >> I thoroughly enjoyed special forces [00:00:39] training and I thoroughly enjoyed the [00:00:41] process by which I finally finally got [00:00:44] on an A team. [00:00:53] They were terrorizing the countryside [00:00:55] because nobody, the militias really [00:00:58] didn't have the firepower to stand up to [00:01:00] them. And they were vicious. Vicious. [00:01:02] Absolutely. They kill the children and [00:01:05] throw them down the well. [00:01:08] Guy came up on me in the elephant grass [00:01:11] and I let loose at about 8 ft and his [00:01:16] legs were there and his top of his body [00:01:18] went there. [00:01:19] How many times were guys sneaking up on [00:01:21] you? [00:01:22] >> I think three times that I actually had [00:01:24] to had to use the shotgun cuz I was [00:01:27] quick reloading that gun. [00:01:29] >> For it seems now more certain than ever [00:01:31] that the bloody experience of Vietnam is [00:01:34] to end in a stalemate. [00:01:36] >> What was it like coming home for you? [00:01:38] The only rational way out then will be [00:01:42] to negotiate not as victors but as an [00:01:45] honorable people who lived up to their [00:01:47] pledge to defend democracy. I was only [00:01:50] spit on once. Total decompression. [00:01:57] Coming back to the states, you have [00:01:59] nothing in common with your high school [00:02:01] friends. [00:02:02] >> And now they are home. [00:02:12] two weeks of being home, I really [00:02:15] started getting itchy feet. I wanted to [00:02:17] go [00:02:19] around people that I I knew. I didn't [00:02:22] want to trust somebody that hadn't gone [00:02:25] through what I went through. [00:02:30] >> Did the killing bother you? Did it get [00:02:32] to you? [00:02:34] >> No. Um [00:02:38] Most of them were jumbled together. A [00:02:41] 16year-old, 15, 16 year old kid NBA. [00:02:46] Um [00:02:47] he had uh [00:02:52] uh [00:03:18] >> [music] [00:03:19] >> and they got in a hellacious firefight. [00:03:21] They pulled Sammy Hernandez out on [00:03:24] strings. [00:03:31] >> [music] [00:03:36] >> How would the ghost appear to you? It'd [00:03:38] be a nightmare and he'd he'd be like I [00:03:42] last saw him with his head caved open [00:03:45] and one eye falling out and he would [00:03:47] wake me up. [00:03:51] In in the book, I I described one of his [00:03:55] visits. [00:03:58] I'm I'm on the lake in Minnesota and I'm [00:04:02] fishing with my little brother [00:04:09] and he's fishing. He's got a line in the [00:04:11] water and that and he's sobbing. [00:04:25] Sorry. [00:04:26] >> It's okay, Nick. [00:04:31] >> Shut [ __ ] [00:04:33] >> It's okay. [00:04:35] >> Anyway, I reach over to touch his [00:04:38] shoulder to find out why he's crying and [00:04:40] he turns around and it's the kid, not [00:04:43] him. [00:04:47] You know, I have a really good friend of [00:04:49] mine. His name's [snorts] Chris Fettis. [00:04:51] He was a sniper for uh Dev Group, [00:04:56] and I had him on [00:05:01] and he had to kill two kids on a hostage [00:05:05] rescue mission. [00:05:08] Then he has nightmares similar to that. [00:05:10] >> What I didn't know, [00:05:12] what I don't what I think I didn't know. [00:05:14] Oh, I still go through this to go, did I [00:05:17] know? Did I not know in that moment that [00:05:22] two out of the five [00:05:25] males were kids? [00:05:27] It's okay. Yeah. Well, I don't want to [00:05:30] be a [ __ ] I didn't want to go there. [00:05:36] [music] [00:05:40] I was talking to our mutual friend John [00:05:43] Striker Meyer. He had a couple questions [00:05:46] for you. He wanted to know about the pet [00:05:48] monkey at CCN. [ __ ] monkey. [00:05:54] [music]