The big difference was Australians had been fighting anti insurgent warfare constantly from 1955 to 1965 in the Malayan Emergency and the Indonesian confrontation. They used proven tactics and were well trained and led by experienced Officers and NCO's.

🦘🦘🦘 Hi from the Land Down Under (PERTH WESTERN AUSTRALIA) VIETNAM VET.

So basically, the American generals were no longer effect leaders, but just political hacks who wanted good press; which all caused American soldiers' lives.

Thank you to all the ANZACS over there for your service thank you why is it so hard for people realise the Aussie or ANZACS where the best fighting over there even the USA were asked for help to the men who died LAST WE FORGET

The whole Task Force was no ordinary soldier.The sappers were the unsung heroes in Vietnam 49 good men didn't make it home alive.

Wrong Maquis is French, Vietnamese said they were called Ma Rung, means Phantoms or ghosts....

I'm annoyed by the claim that Australian SAS used the reliably unreliable M16 on missions in Phuoc Tuy province where they operated. As far as I'm aware, they used either WWII Owen guns that were not only reliable in usual use, but also in driving, tropical rain deluges, after being left in water or carried under water, after being buried in sand or used in a sandstorm (WWII experience); or even after being submerged in mud for days. In all instances (99.8%) the Owen gun fired when required. Owen guns are short barrelled. Long barrels were almost useless, or at least a challenge in very thick jungle where contact occurred at a distance of metres, not hundreds of metres where a long barrel is required for accuracy.  They also used sawn off versions of the SLRs issued by the Australian Army, and often had a sawn-off shotgun in each team. They even used or preferred VC or NVA (Chinese or Russian) stripped-down jungle fighting weapons rather than the dangerously unreliable American issue weapons. They used the Owen gun or SLR sparingly, making each shot count. A definite kill. The M16 was a spray weapon, requiring a lot more ammunition to be carried, shooting into the jungle rather than at sighted targets. The Owen gun and SLR had distinct reports when fired. When used, the VC or NVA tended to disengage and retreat as those reports indicated Australians in the area. The Mahroon. M16s indicated Americans and the VC-NVA had no fear of them. Also, the Maquis were the French resistance to the German NAZIs and Vichy NAZIs in France. NOT Vietnam. The SAS were called the Mah-rung, the phantoms or ghosts (of the jungle), who moved through the jungle like mist.
I'll be meeting some Vietnam SAS veterans this Friday evening. If they're there (where we'll be) I'll ask them about this. They usually meet at the same venue on Friday evenings.
Also, almost all the photographs presented are of Americans in Vietnam.
BTW, the Australian SAS didn't use helmets, neither did the more conventional Royal Australian Regiment present in Vietnam. They didn't wear the big clumpy leather boots, but wore slashed, black and green canvas boots with reversed or improvised soles to disguise any tracks left behind.  Even substituting the Australian army issue jungle boot soles with VC-NVA rubber car tyre boot treads to disguise their presence. Or they went barefoot, no boots at all to ensure complete silence, feel and almost indectable passage through the jungle. They wore black and green tiger stripped jungle camouflage, certainly didn't go on patrol in fresh, clean and pressed single colour tan or khaki green uniforms. They didn't wash for days before going on patrol, no toothpaste, no aftershave, wore soiled ready-to-go smelly uniforms, ate Vietnamese food to disguise their perspiration smell, wore camo paint on exposed skin, didn't smoke. Completely different to what the photos presented in this video show.

Seriously, all the pictures in this presentation were of US troops, are you saying there were no pictures of Australian forces that could have been used in this presentation?

M16? SLR surely.

My be why you didn't see any Aussies is they were trying not to be seen and they were to good

First, you said all the enemies in the ambush had been killed. Moments later, you sai they had a captured wounded logistics officer
You cannot get your story straight

Not allowed to win

America seems to forget that they used  gorilla tactics  in battle for independence

I served in vietnam and never did see any austrailian troops. South korean soldiers worked at  bridge on hwy 19. My unit busted brush and found vc base camps always next to a village. 4th div. 45 troops in B co. 1st platoon.

A talking hat???

so their using m16s are they thats when i new it was bollox
the slr was the aussies weapon of choice
so this is crap

"Ma-qui" sounds suspiciously like the French word Marquis ..... undercover resistance fighters in France and Belgium from around 1943 onwards. The Vietnamese were previously a French colony.... I suspect that the word crossed over into Vietnamese military speak between or during the Second World war and the Vietnamese war. Loosely translated... 'hidden fighters' is my best guess.

Very repetitive with the story structure of a 10 year old

This is one of a multtiude of posts extolling the virtues of the Australian SAS in Vietnam..(the fact that it was a dishonorable war is never mentioned), remember this for is clicks, likes and ADs..enough said