Cheating Death In The Jungles Of Vietnam
Morning Wire
The Daily Wire
4.9 • 26.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Right, home from work, walk the dog, kids are back. |
| 0:04.4 | Mom! |
| 0:05.0 | Up the stairs for something. |
| 0:07.8 | Ugh, back down, no idea what I went up for. |
| 0:12.0 | Mom, what's for dinner? |
| 0:13.6 | Chop, sizzle, done. |
| 0:17.1 | Hello, fresh, can't slow life down, but it makes bringing everyone together around the table a whole lot easier. |
| 0:23.4 | So its phones down, forks up. |
| 0:25.5 | Hello Fresh. Bring back dinner time. |
| 0:32.6 | We went out and came to a hover, lowered the cable, and again they opened up. |
| 0:40.3 | The bullets, you know, came through. |
| 0:42.3 | One hit my side, one hit me in the arm. |
| 0:44.3 | Engine failure is pretty imminent. |
| 0:46.3 | So if we stay there to try to get the wounded, the risk is that the aircraft will crash on the friendly troops. |
| 0:52.3 | That was Art Jacobs, retired Army helicopter pilot, talking about the moment his chopper was shot down over Vietnam, as his team was attempting to rescue fellow soldiers. |
| 1:02.2 | Jacob served in both Korea and Vietnam, where he repeatedly volunteered to be on the front lines to serve his country in its campaign to push back against communist aggression. For this Memorial Day episode, we sit down in studio with Jacobs to discuss what |
| 1:16.3 | he experienced during his lengthy service for the country and what he's doing now to continue |
| 1:21.1 | to support his brothers in arms. I'm Daily Wire, executive editor John Bickley with Georgia Howe. This is a special Memorial Day edition of Morning Wire. |
| 1:30.2 | Joining us now in studio is Art Jacobs, an Army helicopter pilot who flew rescue missions during some of the fiercest fighting of the Vietnam War. |
| 1:39.3 | Or, thank you so much for joining us. |
| 1:41.3 | My pleasure. |
| 1:42.5 | So you had experience, obviously, as a helicopter pilot, Medevac in particular, in Vietnam. |
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