Fellow Legends, welcome! Today we have another epic history time lesson with The Fat Electrician. Operation Bolo took place at a point in time where the American public wasn’t necessarily happy with the Vietnam War, but that doesn’t mean there weren’t people that served and legends that did legendary things in the midst of that heat. With pressure on all sides, some people can truly make the difference and get things done. I absolutely recommend that you go ahead and check out The Fat Electrician as well as the original video to show some support for the source material!
Original Channel: The Fat Electrician
Original Channel Link: https://www.youtube.com/@the_fat_electrician
Original Video: America Obliterates Half North Vietnam’s MiG-21 Fleet In 13 Minutes – Operation Bolo
Original Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD2C1H-dzzI
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And oh, sore all of us branches will be savage towards to each other. In shit that doesn’t matter, like day to day shit talking and what not, stuff like that. For anything that actually matters, we work together extremely well, even while still giving each other shit, even more so if it’s the boniest chance to give the bureaucracy the middle finger, while doing our job and nothing wrong, just makes it even better, and more so when we get a chance to actually do our job and perform. At least at like a the unit commander and below level. Sometimes higher levels also. After a certain point an officer is is a bureaucrat whether they like it or not, or act like it or not, they have to play that game, or they get forced out. That’s why 99.99% of the time enlisted are better, especially those mod rank NCO’s or even Staff NCO’s that don’t play that game, cause they only care about the mission and the men under them. And they look out for them, in every way possible.
39:24 Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force
Also I wish I could remember the name of the episode that covered this fight, and later ones, led by him, including some batshit crazy ones, was on the history channel, at the very end of the 90’s or right before, maybe shortly after 9/11 the last era of the history channel being good, informative and teaching awesome history. And especially awesome military stuff. But they covered it, is probably on YT. As a lot of their older stuff is.
America was actually winning in Vietnam combat and firefight wise but we lost the political side of the war because America had very weak and shitty politicians who hated our military that time and listened to the people/hippies protesting 24/7.
Fun fact, before Robin Olds got "caught up" he pointed to every flight lead and told them point blank that "I will be better that all of you." This dude basically said "Im'ma get spun up on this and make you guys look like total newbs, get ready."
22:01 There have been no new American fighter aces since Vietnam. In Desert Storm, the two highest-scoring US pilots only got 3 kills each.
32:10 IFF (Identify Friend or Foe) had existed since WWII (Britain invtented it), but evne in Vietnam it wasn't completely reliable. In addition, the AIM-7 Sparrow (the radar-guided missile) wasn't super reliable either. So while shooting down an enemy beyond visual range was technically possible, positive identification etc wasn't certain.
That last documentary interview clip was definitey a vini, vidi, vicci moment.
Youth and exuberance does not stand up to old age and treachery and beware the old man in a young mans game are the best quotes fat electrian has ever said and to applies to so many things not just the military but more so for it.
Forget soldiers on the other side, politicians are the biggest enemies of soldiers.
had that problem with a chemical. We kept having to restrict it because of Risk Managers. Eventually we just switched to something else
Kip, for a really really good military analysis video, I have to recommend you watch the channel Operations Room. Specifically the Desert Storm set of videos.
… You forgot the Marines…
Literally the origin story of top gun
if you want to know about dogfighting in the modern day, your going to be looking at Dogfights, desert Aces, dogfights of the middle east, and dogfights of desert storm. free on youtube great series was my childhood, and great stories from the 1910s, all the way to late to early 90s.
Devil's advocate here. At this point in the mid-60's the United States and the Soviet Union were working to improve relations after the Cuban Missile Crisis. Tensions are still really high and holding on by a thread. So I get the reasoning behind the whole "don't attack airfields or SAM sites because there might be a foreign advisor there" holds up when the war starts, but by the time Operation Bolo happens the conflict has been going on for a while and the Americans might be able to get away with "Hey, the entire area's been an active war zone for the last three years, it's their fault they stuck around for this long."
It’s exhausting hearing tales of great warriors being handicapped by insignificant weaklings. Both the Korean War and Vietnam war were two shining examples of what could have been, had the politicians removed the regulations and let the military do, military things. Could have ended them in months not years. Same goes for our 20yr long waste of time in Afghanistan.
4:42 About the same as today, but less geriatric.
All these men with amazing mustaches starting to make me feel subconscious about my peach fuzz (it refuses to grow)
This is why Rambo asked “Are they gonna let us win this time?”
I just realized he has the ultrasound pictures of his kids On the gun save