Rambo’s “Real” knife

not2sharp said:
I wouldn’t expect much from this. Making a Rambo prequel would be exceedingly hard. The Vietnam war is real history and the larger than life characters would have to be inserted into that conflict. Rambo and Trautman would both need to be in it, and a cameo from Teasle would be fun. Unlike in the Star Wars prequels, Rambo would need to be associated with known units and battles, none of which would parallel what we know about John Rambo. Add to that, the lead star is not returning, and you end up with another Vietnam War b-movie flop.

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The Jet Pilot’s Survitamm knife would be another good practical knife.

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I’ve been trying to think of away it could be really creative.

Go back to his childhood. Stand by me, The sandlot, Goonies, Home Alone Lol. They all could be his story.

Maybe a homeless kid fighting to survive the mean streets. The movie ends when he joins the Army to evade the life that was consuming him.

I agree another VN movie might not go over well. But look at Titanic, I thought that was the dumbest idea for a movie. I mean we already knew the ending.

Even Saving Private Ryan, I didn’t think another WW2 movie would be well received.

So who knows? I hope it’s great.

The last Rambo movie was one of the most disturbing movies I’ve ever seen. I figured it would be another rehash. But it was pretty epic.
 
not2sharp said:
I wouldn’t expect much from this. Making a Rambo prequel would be exceedingly hard. The Vietnam war is real history and the larger than life characters would have to be inserted into that conflict. Rambo and Trautman would both need to be in it, and a cameo from Teasle would be fun. Unlike in the Star Wars prequels, Rambo would need to be associated with known units and battles, none of which would parallel what we know about John Rambo. Add to that, the lead star is not returning, and you end up with another Vietnam War b-movie flop.

Back to knives:
The Jet Pilot’s Survitamm knife would be another good practical knife.

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Wouldn't be too hard. In FB, Trautman identified himself on radio as a "Covey Leader", which was a SOG Leader that directed inserted teams via air, which would make Rambo a member of MACV SOG/OP-35, and open the door to all sorts of "Covert" storylines...
 
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What if it was a time travel movie with Jean Claude Van Damme playing young a young John Rambo? He could go back to Korea or WW I and bust out his iconic lines.
 
I worked with a guy named Billy Joe in the early 1980s who was a viet nam vet and he was a tunnel rat. The tunnel rat went into the tunnels with a knife to take out the enemy. Billy Joe used a Buck 119 and used it judiciously. My brother had a co-driver when he was an over the road trucker and his co driver was a special ops in viet nam and he used a couple different blades but one was a Buck 119. I can’t remember what the other was that broke, He preferred the Buck as it was tough and held up in hard use.
 
Lesknife said:
I worked with a guy named Billy Joe in the early 1980s who was a viet nam vet and he was a tunnel rat. The tunnel rat went into the tunnels with a knife to take out the enemy. Billy Joe used a Buck 119 and used it judiciously. My brother had a co-driver when he was an over the road trucker and his co driver was a special ops in viet nam and he used a couple different blades but one was a Buck 119. I can’t remember what the other was that broke, He preferred the Buck as it was tough and held up in hard use.
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I always wonder about stories like that. Whether they’re true or not since you’re going off the guy’s word. Especially if they like talking about it a lot
 
Hard to tell, right? I met a guy years ago through a series of very bizarre circumstances who was living in a travel trailer in the middle of the woods, you couldn't see his trailer till you walked up on it 15-20 ft away.

Very long story short, he said he had been in the Special Forces and had to live in the woods because he was worried there might be reprisals for some of his past actions in the war (Vietnam) and some PTSD issues.

After another bizarre turn of events, I found out he was on the run from the law after exposing himself a number of times at different Ryan's Steakhouse locations. Strange world, and who knows which part of what was true.

Sam⚔️⚔️

Wishfulthinker580 said:
I always wonder about stories like that. Whether they’re true or not since you’re going off the guy’s word. Especially if they like talking about it a lot
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Thank goodness it came along when it did...

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Sam⚔️⚔️

Crag the Brewer said:
They didn't have Photoshop back then....
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Wishfulthinker580 said:
I always wonder about stories like that. Whether they’re true or not since you’re going off the guy’s word. Especially if they like talking about it a lot
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Do you think things like this never happened? The war in viet nam was very brutal and sometimes in the jungle in close proximity to the enemy. Hand to hand combat was not uncommon especially when gun fire would draw attention to their location. I saw both of these guys medals and commendations for bravery in their parents homes. I have no reason to doubt their word or their stories. They didn’t talk a lot about it only when asked where they served and what their experience was and even then it was not lengthy comment.
 
Lesknife said:
Do you think things like this never happened? The war in viet nam was very brutal and sometimes in the jungle in close proximity to the enemy. Hand to hand combat was not uncommon especially when gun fire would draw attention to their location. I saw both of these guys medals and commendations for bravery in their parents homes. I have no reason to doubt their word or their stories. They didn’t talk a lot about it only when asked where they served and what their experience was and even then it was not lengthy comment.
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I’m not saying they never happened. I’m sure stuff like that did happen. I’m just saying I take any personal claim like that with a huge grain of salt. If they received bronze star medals then that obviously means something and makes them more believable to me.
 
Sort of like how some vets started "remembering" being spit on after coming home from Vietnam but only decades later when that became a common scene in movies. No contemporaneous reports of anti-war hippies spitting on Vietnam vets have been found.
 
Synov said:
Sort of like how some vets started "remembering" being spit on after coming home from Vietnam but only decades later when that became a common scene in movies. No contemporaneous reports of anti-war hippies spitting on Vietnam vets have been found.
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What exactly are you saying?
 
Synov said:
Real events spawn myths which can then become integrated into witnesses' memories of those events.

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Myth of the spat-on Vietnam veteran - Wikipedia

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ALL of My experiences with veterans have been sincere. I've been incredibly humbled by their experiences....I'm incredibly (not happy) with the direction of this conversation, and I'm leaving before I get into it

Throwing Any shade like that before this upcoming Memorial Day stinks!
 
I don't care what Wikipedia tries to cover up, plenty of stories out there.

A book about what it was like, for troops returning from Vietnam.

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I was good friends with, until his passing 6ish years ago, one of the more famous members of the LRRPs. We shot together, traded guns, raced cars, etc but to my regret, don't think we ever talked knives. I am still friends with his old best frIend. I'll ask him if he knows what he carried in Vietnam.
 
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