Sgt Reckless - Korean War Horse Hero

[Feuer Frei!]

Story of Sgt Reckless, a horse so heroic during the Korean war she was promoted to Staff Sergeant by the Commandant of the US Marine Corps, and is listed alongside George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King, Mother Teresa and John Wayne as one of our all-time heroes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIo3ZfA9da0&feature=player_embedded

Shame about the soldiers with their M-16's, which were invented after the Korean war.
Ah well. Artistic video license, anyone?

[Anthony W.]

Brings a tear to your eye...

[Ducimus]

Shame about the soldiers with their M-16's, which were invented after the Korean war.
Ah well. Artistic video license, anyone?

Looks like someone spliced in a segment of the movie Hamburger hill.

[SgtPotato]

Looks like someone spliced in a segment of the movie Hamburger hill.

It is from Hamburger Hill. Irony, it have nothing to do with Korean War...

[Sailor Steve]

Then they should have used Pork Chop Hill, which was.

[Stealhead]

Yeah dont know why they did not use Pork Chop Hill:hmmm:

Wonder why you never see any modern Korean War movies? Oh because it is the Forgotten War.

They really should make a good movie about the Korean War and MASH does not count seeing as it was really the first movie to touch on Vietnam even though its setting was another war.

[Sailor Steve]

Forgotten War.
JAG had a couple of episodes about Korean War veterans. I agree about a modern movie though, and M*A*S*H doesn't count for the reason you cited, and also because it wasn't really about war at all, but doctors in a war zone, and most especially because it's now 40 years old, which makes it less than modern.

[Stealhead]

I do not really watch regular TV to be honest but I am sure many people saw that JAG episode and where thinking "Korean War? man Hollywood comes up with everything these days."

Korea gets forgotten I suppose because it was the first "modern war"(police action,limited war) and was over shadowed by WWII on one end and Vietnam on the other.Few people know that Korea was a much bloodier war than Vietnam something like 54,000 in less than 5 years.Also once it became clear the whole thing was a stale mate the general public already began to put it out of mind I assume because it was clear that there was not going to be a total victory(all of Korea free) I mean Eisenhower got elected largely because he promised to end the war.Not say that what was done was in vain or anything like that and Korea was the first time the US fought as a fully integrated military the Army and Marines still tried to cling to the old ways but the Navy and the Air Force did not the AF was integrated from its start because the Act that made the USAF also made integration the policy of the military there there where was a black Corsair who crash landed and his wing also crashed to in order to aid him and that man revived the MOH though the black officer died from wounds at least he was not alone.Korea had the highest number purely altruistic MOH recipients there where several who stayed behind alone to face certain death so that the rest of their unit could fall back.It is one thing to go above and beyond in a sudden action it is even something more to willingly do so when you know for certain what is coming for you and still say that you will stay when you know that you are very likely going to die when you could easily fall back with the others and probably survive.

My old JROTC instructor was in Korea and he once said: "you do not know fear until you hear the trumpets of a Chinese human wave attack and see an entire hillside running at you."

Interesting side note: If you where ever posted in South Korea from 1950 right up to today you are allowed to join VFW.

[razark]

Yeah dont know why they did not use Pork Chop Hill
Because to most people, all wars look the same.

If the enemy is Germans, it's WWII. If the enemy is Asian, and the movie is B&W, it's WWII. If the enemy is Asian, and the film is color, it must be Vietnam.

[Stealhead]

In the context of this clip above your statement makes no sense at all because the person who made it obviously
knows the difference between Korea and Vietnam he just must not have had
Pork Chop Hill available to him when he made the clip about Reckless so he had to use what was best available to him.

People are ignorant about wars because we are taught very little about them in official education so folks are ignorant because our education system allows them to be.Though movies are "Hollywood" they are not really a bad thing in my opinion because at least some people who see them that knew nothing before will decide to learn more on their own.

Platoon was a godsend(in a strange way) to many Vietnam Vets I read some place because some of the combat scenes where realistic enough that vets(ones that had been in real combat) had PTSD issues after seeing the film and sought help so it helped raise awareness to Vietnam Vet issues.