This content discusses legendary Special Forces operators, specifically focusing on Billy Wah, the "godfather of the Green Berets," and his extraordinary career, while also touching upon the unique training and experiences of other elite soldiers.
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I've so I'm like I haven't uploaded in a
long time because I'm working on like a
two-hour long fat electrician video. I'm
looking I'm working on about probably a
45 to 50 maybe an hour long minute
video. Tell me tell me yours then I'll
tell you mine. So much more. Uh so it's
about uh his name's Billy Wah. He's the
godfather of the Green Berets. I'm just
going to read you his rap sheet. We
definitely don't have enough time for
Billy. Is it Is it Ro Y? Is he like a
Frenchman like Patrick Wah? Uh, w A U G
H. He's from Texas. I was like, I've
never seen a last name like that. W It's
pronounced Wah.
Yeah. I mean, from Texas, it'd sound
Whatever. Anyway, potato. Either way,
uh, so Billy Wah joins during right
before the Korean War. Serves from the
Korean War through Afghanistan.
God damn.
Awards. One silver star, four bronze
stars with V device, four accommodation
medals, 14 air medals, two army combat
infantry badges, eight purple hearts,
helicopter crashes survived, three plane
crashes survived, two decades
64 men of note that he has hunted down.
Uh Edwin P. Wilson, who was like a rogue
CIA guy. Uh General Gap, the top dude
for the NVA during Vietnam. Carlos the
Jackal and Osama bin Laden. Hold on.
That last one sounded familiar. Who was
that again? Osama bin Laden.
You've seen this guy. Have you ever seen
the picture of the old man holding up an
integrally suppressed MP5 with his old
man glasses smiling? It's like a meme.
That's That's Billy and he's 72 years
old. And in that picture, he was
actively hunting Osama bin Laden while
he was in his 70s in Afghanistan. I I'm
going to I'm going to look him up
because I want to I think I know you're
talking about his name is Billy, right?
Yep. W A U G H. I just, you know, this
is all I could think of while you were
listing like all the the accolades of
where he's been, all the plane cr or
like crashes, the eight purple hearts
and all that [ __ ] And like all that was
going through my head was the I don't
know if it was the army or or Pete
Hegath the new thing that they're
pushing. It's like being strong makes
you harder to kill. Have you seen that?
Apparently. Yeah.
People hard to kill. I've seen the photo
of him with the uh with the MP5. It
doesn't have a magazine in it.
Have you seen the picture of the Navy
Seal jumping out of an airplane with a
W54 nuclear warhead strapped to him? No.
He was also part of that during the
60s. So he literally was like one of the
first special forces dudes ever before
they were called a Green Beret. And in
the 1960s when they were doing all their
crazy nuclear weapons [ __ ] they're
like, you know, would be cool if instead
of, you know, having to haul a big
artillery piece or a jeep with a big
bazooka, what if we just like trained a
guy that could jump out of a plane with
a nuclear warhead strapped to him and he
could sneak it behind enemy lines and
put it in the right spot and [ __ ]
run. They were called green light teams
and he was one of them. He led an entire
green light team. I I've got an old
photo of him in in the pickle suit, like
the green utes. Yeah. And he's got like
it looks like master sergeant rank on or
it's I think it might be E7 sergeant
first class rank on. He's got the green
beret and it says the giant killer.
Special forces legend Billy B. How did
he How did he get the nickname the giant
killer? I don't know that that's
correct. The giant killer is a different
guy. There there's a lot of articles
that just bring up big heroes. There's
another guy that was like [ __ ] 411
that was an SF guy that was called the
giant killer. I forget his [ __ ] name
right now, but they always do stories
where they just like compile them
together so the nicknames get mixed up.
He's the godfather of the green berets
is his nickname. I got trained by So my
my first tour when civil affairs still
fell fell under SOCOM. It's all all the
all civil affairs and SCOPS reserve
active component. It all fell under
SOCOM and it was awesome. It was a great
time. So my first tour was a SOCOM tour
and we're at Bragg were mobing and we're
getting firearms training by a bunch of
Green Berets and one of the guys that
trained us uh and I still use this grip
uh for my M4 because it's phenomenal if
you're doing you know if you're if
you're at the range you're doing long
distance shooting.
Um, he was like 5 foot flat and he had
baby fingers. I'm talking like he was
just barely enough above dwarfism to get
in. And he was a green beret. And his
hands were so small that he would take
his three fingers on the uh pistol grip
of the AR-15 and he would stack them. So
then they'd be like a claw almost and be
like hugging the grip and the m and the
uh trigger guard and then you would put
your whole [ __ ] finger in that uh um
the trigger well and you would just
squeeze your hand a little bit and dude
it like it like your grip was tight.
Tucked it into your shoulder like
nothing was [ __ ] your trigger squeeze
wasn't flapping anything backing around
with that. It was awesome. And I wonder
if he was one of the OG guys that you
just you don't know who he is until you
hear about him.
God, what was that guy's name? I
couldn't remember this guy's name if you
[ __ ] shot it through my brain, but I
just remember he was literally almost a
dwarf and he was an SF guy with the
tiniest strange baby hands I've ever
seen. Cuz there's a [ __ ] uh his
name's Richard Flity is the giant
killer. And the book about him is
written by a police officer because the
cop and I think it was in New York. The
cop ended up like knowing this friendly
homeless guy that was [ __ ] tiny. He
was 4 foot n and he would, you know, the
dude seemed completely altogether. And
then one day he like tells this cop
buddy that like, "Hey, I was a elite
[ __ ] tier one operator for x amount
of years, blah blah blah blah." And the
dude's like, "Yeah, okay, right, blah
blah blah." And the cop actually goes
and like [ __ ] googles it and he's
like, "Holy [ __ ] that's real." And like
that's how the book came about. That's
kind of like what made him How do you
add up a homeless guy that's like a
special forces cat? Like you can't put
your training together and be like, let
me go work at McDonald's so I can, you
know, get an apartment.
I mean, Billy Wah uh was in Vietnam the
entire time. He showed up in Laos in
1961 and he didn't leave Laos, Cambodia,
Vietnam era until the war was over. Mhm.
Like he didn't set foot in America until
he got sent back to Walter Reed when he
got all [ __ ] up. So like he was in
country for like six years straight. So
like I think some of these dudes just
get so used to being so uncomfortable
and just living these weird conditions
that they're just like, "Yeah, [ __ ] it."
Well, I mean, I I was I was hearing
about something like that might kind of
give some validity to that and it was a
it was a mental health provider I was
talking to and it's like people in the
military in general, obviously they
experience it on such a high level
compared to like just me. Um, but the
thing is that your your body and your
mind get so used to constantly getting
bombarded by adrenaline that like when
nothing's happening, you immediately
panic just because your body is so used
to just being cranked up to 11 all the time.
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