Privileged to hear from two Vietnam Veterans who are comrades and brothers chuck hagel and tom haeckel both volunteered to go to the war and fought in the same Army Infantry unit. From Middle America to the vietnam war and then home again. As we observed we are privileged to hear from the two eyewitnesses. Retiring as a Lieutenant General commanded troops both in afghanistan and iraq earning a five star medals in combat action badge as a contributing editor for the magazine and the author of eight other books. He currently teaches history at North Carolina state university. He was the secretary of defense from 2013 to 2015 and beforend that, a u. S. Senator from his home state ofeb nebraska. During the vietnam war, he served in combat as the army and earned two purple hearts in the combat infantry badge and vietnamese gallantry. After graduating from the university of nebraska at omaha he worked as a staff assistant, cofounded vanguard cellular and served as the head of the administrat
Were deployed to vietnam marking the beginning of the u. S. Ground war. By the end of 1965, almost 200,000 americans were in the country. When the war ended in 1975, nearly 3 million americans had served in the conflict and more than 58,000 lost their lives. Up next, the screaming eagles in ves nam, a u. S. Army the big picture episode documenting the activities of the 101st Airborne Division from its arrival in the spring of 1965 through january of 1967. Okay. Move out. From out of the skies over vietnam come the screaming eagles, the heroic pair troopers of the 101st Airborne Division. Their fabled exploits during world war ii can never be forgotten. In december 1944 outnumbered and surrounded by the germans at bastogne, the men of the 101st courageously fought on. When the germans ordered them to surrender or be annihilated, their acting commander gave the historic reply, nuts and they stood until the germans were defeated. It is in this same tradition that the men of the screaming
200,000 americans were in the country. When the war ended in 1975, nearly 3 million americans had served in the conflict and more than 58,000 lost their lives. Up next, the screaming eagles in ves nam, a u. S. Army the big picture episode documenting the activities of the 101st Airborne Division from its arrival in the spring of 1965 through january of 1967. Okay. Move out. From out of the skies over vietnam come the screaming eagles, the heroic pair troopers of the 101st Airborne Division. Their fabled exploits during world war ii can never be forgotten. In december 1944 outnumbered and surrounded by the germans at bastogne, the men of the 101st courageously fought on. When the germans ordered them to surrender or be annihilated, their acting commander gave the historic reply, nuts and they stood until the germans were defeated. It is in this same tradition that the men of the screaming eagles first brigade today serve on the jungle battlefront of vietnam. On a warm spring day in 1965
Up next, the screaming eagles in ves nam, a u. S. Army the big picture episode documenting the activities of the 101st Airborne Division from its arrival in the spring of 1965 through january of 1967. Okay. Move out. From out of the skies over vietnam come the screaming eagles, the heroic pair troopers of the 101st Airborne Division. Their fabled exploits during world war ii can never be forgotten. In december 1944 outnumbered and surrounded by the germans at bastogne, the men of the 101st courageously fought on. When the germans ordered them to surrender or be annihilated, their acting commander gave the historic reply, nuts and they stood until the germans were defeated. It is in this same tradition that the men of the screaming eagles first brigade today serve on the jungle battlefront of vietnam. On a warm spring day in 1965, several Army Aviation companies arrive in vietnam aboard the uss iwo jima. It is the first of the assault helicopters which soon will fill the air over this e
Ves nam, a u. S. Army the big picture episode documenting the activities of the 101st Airborne Division from its arrival in the spring of 1965 through january of 1967. Okay. Move out. From out of the skies over vietnam come the screaming eagles, the heroic pair troopers of the 101st Airborne Division. Their fabled exploits during world war ii can never be forgotten. In december 1944 outnumbered and surrounded by the germans at bastogne, the men of the 101st courageously fought on. When the germans ordered them to surrender or be annihilated, their acting commander gave the historic reply, nuts and they stood until the germans were defeated. It is in this same tradition that the men of the screaming eagles first brigade today serve on the jungle battlefront of vietnam. On a warm spring day in 1965, several Army Aviation companies arrive in vietnam aboard the uss iwo jima. It is the first of the assault helicopters which soon will fill the air over this embattled land. Even as the poi pi