@@legoworksstudios1why didn’t I think about that? Pyle was another great example and they didn’t play easy on him for being overweight.
@danielschmaderer5 ай бұрын
Why bubba?
@Jesus-vi4it5 ай бұрын
Bubba was a great man, he knew so much about shrimp
@1987nightrap5 ай бұрын
Yall didnt have to show the helicopter struggling to fly, lol
@johnthegreat974 ай бұрын
Heh heh heh
@deacondawg14163 ай бұрын
LOL Thanks for pointing that out! I missed it!
@christopherwellman23643 ай бұрын
Yes, they did.
@scrotooftheninefingers2183 ай бұрын
What about the overbite
@nickc68423 ай бұрын
😂
@tracyboaca66873 ай бұрын
A guy I met, from my parents, fought in Vietnam. He was “larger” and was selected as a flagger or some such, and was made to run ahead of the formation to block roads or crossings, let his unit run by, then run all the way back to the front of the unit to do it again. All the while eating less than them. He told me he lost considerable weight, after which he fought in Vietnam, came back, and gained it all back. He passed away recently. God bless.
@Killman25523 ай бұрын
@killmam, The 'flagger' position was called a road guard. One troop on each side of the formation was designated Road Guard and would block the intersection on each side as the formation passed, much like funeral processions being protected. "Road guards, Post!" would be the command given by the DI. VietVet 1970-1971 U. S. Army '68 - '72
@chuckg20163 ай бұрын
@@chuckg2016 👍🏽🇺🇲
@warehousejo0073 ай бұрын
😮 that's terrible treatment from the military.
@kylewebb54053 ай бұрын
Glad he got to eat as much as he needed (unless he gained an ED from PTSD, that would be horrible.)
@drownedzephyr3 ай бұрын
@@drownedzephyrOP said he eats less than them.
@Hell_O72 ай бұрын
The animator is an absolute savage
@rubberuke2 ай бұрын
Finally, a well-said comment about the animation. I couldn't think of anything. The full auto simulation was hilarious. 😅🤣
@contender730Ай бұрын
Why do they walk like that?
@geraldtufto86815 күн бұрын
Helicopter: Damn this is a heavy load
@thepizzaman806411 күн бұрын
Gotta imagine the big guys who survived the ordeal and training probably came back built like fucking tanks
@AINGELPROJECT6675 ай бұрын
They were the birth of the term "brick shithouse"
@8narutoshodowclones5 ай бұрын
Kinda depends. A lot of the stuff in Vietnam wasn't heavy lifting of weights and such, it was a lot of cardio from marching and sweating out the weight from the extreme heat and humidity. I'd say a lot of those guys when they came back looked a lot smaller after several months of marches, additional exercise drills, and limited calorie intake from rations
@bigbangtheory00004 ай бұрын
@@bigbangtheory0000sign me up
@bcamplite6214 ай бұрын
Most stayed fat guys
@brandocalrissian32944 ай бұрын
@@brandocalrissian3294lmao this comment makes me laugh for no reason
@gaganbhullar61374 ай бұрын
Project Nikocado Avocado
@dandy68765 ай бұрын
😭
@lewie59133 ай бұрын
Didn’t they drop him on Nagasaki or something?
@Gabe-ABNCW33 ай бұрын
@@Gabe-ABNCW3 You a demon for this. xD
@Ostnizdasht2062 ай бұрын
💀
@someguy22722 ай бұрын
Bro he said 20% larger was allowed not 2,000%
@gimmexdemxtoes66692 ай бұрын
I keep remembering the story of how they soon realised colour blind people could actually see things like camouflaged things better than normal people
@lanky25923 ай бұрын
Lol I wonder if there's a pair of colourblind glasses sitting on a desk somewhere so normal soldiers can get the same effect too
@bobthegamingtaco60733 ай бұрын
@@bobthegamingtaco6073from my understanding it's more of a trained eye thing.
@lithoplanemasters65222 ай бұрын
@@bobthegamingtaco6073 actually yes. Yellow tinted glasses. Some swat and such units wear them if the captain is not a POS. It helps you see more detail. Better than with nothing on. In daytime anyways.
@agnidas5816Ай бұрын
@@agnidas5816 cool! Guess it makes sense that they'd try to replicate the effect
@bobthegamingtaco6073Ай бұрын
Replace these guys with the politicians who vote for war and their kids.
@ikikazz13 ай бұрын
It's messed up that the people who send others to their deaths don't even have skin in the game themself.
@ArmstrongandTumblerАй бұрын
@@ArmstrongandTumbler They sort of do have skin in the game. In the form of stocks in weapons companies and lobby dollars from those companies to help fund their campaigns.
@nrXicАй бұрын
@@nrXic And it is not enough. The pain and suffering soldiers have to go through is much greater than ANY politician's. "War is young men dying and old men talking..." -Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd president of the United States of America.
@michelledelprado7851Ай бұрын
@@michelledelprado7851 Makarov was right one thing. "The corrupt talk, while our brothers and son spill their own blood"
@TheTrueKingofKoopasАй бұрын
@@michelledelprado7851War is the poor of one country deployed to kill the poor of another country for asset theft and profits by those who never expose themselves to the dangers of war, and that includes FDR who was very eager to get the US into WW Ii. Pearl Harbor was no surprise for him. The Japanese war code was already broken. The only ships he left at Pearl Harbor were the older ones slated for replacement. The newer ships were protected from the attack. FDR deliberately sacrificed 3,000 US servicemen in order to kick off war fever for retaliation.
@CyallaireАй бұрын
When I was in basic they called it the "porkchop platoon".
@perennialxennial5 ай бұрын
Sad and hilarious at the same time😂
@janglobus93845 ай бұрын
We had the Fat Boy program when I was in basic. They had different P.T., different chow. But when we graduated basic training those guys looked AWESOME! The reast of us looked malnourished 😂
@bishopp145 ай бұрын
They still do
@HighNoonSheriff5 ай бұрын
When I was in basic we called them "The Fat R*tards"
@Bird.7575 ай бұрын
Not at all the same thing.
@AnarexicSumo4 ай бұрын
“Private Pile, you’re going to combat”
@user-qk9yh1zp4u5 ай бұрын
Pyle
@Bird.7575 ай бұрын
Pyle! Oh-three hundred. Infantry. You made it!
@jaydawg74 ай бұрын
Or so we all thought. But Leonard had other ideas...
@mattmarzula4 ай бұрын
Congrats you passed
@johncollins2114 ай бұрын
PYLE
@frankcastillo86094 ай бұрын
"Full metal jacket" has the best example of this
@amirhb75312 ай бұрын
“PRIVATE PYLE!!! WHATEVER YOU DO, DON’T FALL DOWN!!! THAT’LL BREAK MY F***ING HEART!!!”
@aaronluke1993Ай бұрын
During Desert Storm, my battalion had a soldier who had been marked for separation because he was fat. Once we got our marching orders, he was "stop lossed." He deployed with us and performed his duties just as the rest of us. After it was over, however, he received no awards or commendations because his tubbiness had left him "flagged" against all favorable actions. Total BS.
@richardbale3278Ай бұрын
Thanks for your service, bro is vet officer. Mility doesn’t seem too interested in anomalies, can’t blame em?
@zoomocracy6281Ай бұрын
"I can't be drafted as I am not physically capable." _government laughs in military industrial complex_
@VultureXV3 ай бұрын
You... don't know what that is do you...
@nightspectre87563 ай бұрын
@@nightspectre8756what is it
@Fat-Queen13 ай бұрын
@@Fat-Queen1 the military industrial complex is literally just the relation between the military and the nations industry for manufacturing and innovation purposes. Which has absolutely no relation to the subject of drafting.
@nightspectre87563 ай бұрын
@@nightspectre8756seeing how every single war since WW2 America has been involved in was for corporate interests, it absolutely does.
@DudeFalafel3 ай бұрын
@@DudeFalafel No. It's been for federal income. Corporate level benefit is just a side effect. And also, research and production of military assets doesnt increase the chance of you being drafted. As a matter of fact, a lack of production would increase your chances because due to less technology they would need more bodies to make up for that downfall and the individuals decreased effectiveness.
@nightspectre87563 ай бұрын
when you select “scrapping the barrel” in HOI4
@Cykz.5 ай бұрын
Now my question is does scrapping the barrel include including women
@_vasty37765 ай бұрын
@@_vasty3776I think most of the major players in ww2 used women in military when times got tough so probably yes
@xninewxw75595 ай бұрын
@ @_vasty3776 in hoi4 it includes children too 😅
@BigBoyCarp5 ай бұрын
Nah this is all adults serve scrapping the barrel would have women and children
@borkboi94455 ай бұрын
Are the barrels defective? Why are you scrapping them?
@mattkaustickomments5 ай бұрын
My high school (small town school board) kept one kid (special ed.) in school until he was 22 years old just to avoid this sick policy. He was at first 1-Y but would have been moved to 1-A, so the town hid him from the military. When people think of draft dodgers, they always complain about hippies and Canada. But doctors and town fathers all over America were protecting their children from that pointless meat grinder called Vietnam. Often, these draft dodge enablers were WWII veterans themseleves but knew the difference between the two wars and protected their children from a stupid cold war government.
@anthonyperno13483 ай бұрын
Yes, they knew the govt wasn’t trying to win that war and didn’t want to sacrifice their sons for gains felt only by rich men who sacrificed nothing themselves.
The casualty rates (both death and combat injuries) as well as losses due to mental illness and PTSD, was absolutely sky high compared to similar units with “normal standards” for their recruits.
@josefbjornetun93893 ай бұрын
My father was a captain at this time he was sent to train some of these men. Some did really well. Some didn't. Only one guy was medically discharged. I met a few of them over the years. They all respected him. They've told me how he helped them.
@williamfranks12155 ай бұрын
Captains don't train anybody
@lawrencelaforest65454 ай бұрын
@@lawrencelaforest6545 captains can train and instruct. They’re responsible for the overall training of the entire company.
@thebassclef0074 ай бұрын
@lawrencelaforest6545 Not now, maybe. Short-handed the do what they are told.
@williamfranks12154 ай бұрын
I'll take things that never happened
@dmo5443 ай бұрын
@@kodiaxx8307 apparently captains did train men during Vietnam. Google the following for an article on one such indecent: “May 10, 1967: Army Captain Howard Levy Refuses to Train Green Berets During Vietnam War”
@mr.doctorcaptain11243 ай бұрын
“God dam it, Gump! You’re a goddam genius!”
@The67wheelman5 ай бұрын
Funniest part.
@chaosdweller4 ай бұрын
@@chaosdwellerNo. The funniest part is when he says, “The best part of meeting the president of the United States is the food. See, they put in this little room with just about anything you’d want to eat or drink. And, since number 1, I wasn’t hungry, but thirsty, and number 2, they was free, I musta had me about 15 Doctor Peppers…”
@Mautiks3 ай бұрын
Outstanding, Gump! This is a new company record! If it weren't such a waste of a damn fine enlisted man I'd recommend you for OCS!
@teebob213 ай бұрын
So funny that our government sent mentally handicapped men off to die for no reason. Hilarious really!
@johnfarris38313 ай бұрын
Thats the most outstanding answer ive ever heard you must have a god dam iq of 160 you are god dam gifted Pvt gump
@hasina14613 ай бұрын
Farm Boy strong is what we called in 80'-00's. When these cats lost 30 to 40 lbs they were tanks. You take a guy who normally walks around 25% overweight and and cut them back 10% once they stabilize they will surprise the F out of you.
@superflybguy26223 ай бұрын
For real, carrying around that extra weight puts some real strength behind those boys. I've seen em do things humans ain't supposed to be able to do and act like it was nothing
@bobthegamingtaco60733 ай бұрын
Agreed but only if they are fat and active like farm boys. Nowadays it's a lot of fat nerds with no muscle. I remember a recruit who couldn't do 1 pushup or situp. There's really nothing you can do with a 20 year old in that shape. It's pretty messed up our society lets kids get like that. But yeah, nothing like the former fat guys with calfs as big as my head. They're your best friends on a ruck march.
@tradtke101Ай бұрын
Sounds like a proof of concept for them to just draft whoever they want and figure it out later
@evanbuckley67663 ай бұрын
I took it as a test to see if the recruitment standards were too strict, giving these guys a chance to prove under/overweight soldiers are worth training
@bobthegamingtaco60733 ай бұрын
To me it honestly sounds more like eugenics - set the "undesirables" up for failure in a situation where failure will cost them their lives, and most likely before they have any kids
@Altoclarinets18 күн бұрын
@@Altoclarinets nah, if the US was that concerned about weight that we were preventing people from multiplying, it'd be cheaper and easier to just limit soda cup sizes (no big gulps) and limit how much fried food you can buy to like, 4 oz. Either way you'd be pissing off 90% of Americans
@bobthegamingtaco607318 күн бұрын
@@bobthegamingtaco6073 did you miss the part where this project also included low-IQ draftees
@Altoclarinets18 күн бұрын
I got drafted in 1970. Those who could not meet basic training physical requirements during training were sent to STC (Special Training Camp) and returned to a different basic training unit when completed.
@TrapShooter685 ай бұрын
just a question, how old are you? also thank you for your service, sir
@poopman45 ай бұрын
Outta Sight/Outta Mind ?
@michaeldalto28625 ай бұрын
I went through basic training in 2006 and they had basically the same thing. I don’t remember what it was called. They had to go into a program and complete it then return to another basic training unit and complete that.
@arkhitek22514 ай бұрын
Welcome home
@Terabit34 ай бұрын
“Special”. Love how they use the same pandering terminology as the failed education system.
@230mps4 ай бұрын
When I served in the US Army Infantry (1978-1982), fat soldiers were very rare. One was a mail clerk and a couple of others worked in the motor pool. Fatter recruits who were unfit for infantry AIT were usually recycled as cooks. Most of them were still good guys and would take care of you if you held them in mutual respect.
@robscoggins4 ай бұрын
There is still plenty of use in the military for a man who can't fight. It may seem like nothing, but cooking, medics, engineers and so many more positions are vital in maintaining where you are staying and that is extremely important to military success.
@brandocalrissian32944 ай бұрын
Fat is where it's at
@jthunders4 ай бұрын
@@brandocalrissian3294 with modern use of Military Contractors, are all branches able to (with supplies brought in) self-sustain ? Like, is feeding troops while they are abroad out-sourced or privatized nowadays ? Honestly curious.
@miahconnell233 ай бұрын
incredible, fat people are still people
@wea694203 ай бұрын
I feel like that last sentence should be more reciprocated nowadays
@exeecob34883 ай бұрын
McNamara's Folly: The Use of Low-IQ Troops in the Vietnam War, inductees of the project died at three times the rate[1] of other Americans serving in Vietnam." I just read this. This hurts a soldiers heart.
@PaleoVirus3 ай бұрын
so they wanted to get rid of the morons? i dont really get the idea behind the project to be honest.
@Abensberg14 күн бұрын
Texans to a man😂
@othmanhassanmajid819213 күн бұрын
@othmanhassanmajid8192 It's funny to you, mate? Mentally fooked blokes dying.
@PaleoVirus12 күн бұрын
And then US scream to Russia's penal units
@superspies323 күн бұрын
@@superspies32 I don't. I've grown. I've educated myself. This is unforgivable.
@PaleoVirus2 күн бұрын
A good friend of mine was drafted late in Vietnam War. Showed up overweight. They sent him home for 30 days and told him to lose 20 pounds. He gained 50. Not sure what year. He graduated high school in '67. He had 2 younger brothers in Vietnam at the time. So must have been around 1970 or a little later. Problem was he never lost it and gained even more. Gained and lost for years. Still very overweight.
@terrykeever94225 ай бұрын
Did he go to war or not? You never got to that point that you originally started to make.
@brandocalrissian32944 ай бұрын
TFTF. Too fat to fight
@AC-hj9tv4 ай бұрын
The military's threatening healthy weight as a death sentence probably didn't make it easier for him. I thought you were going to say he gained 50 intentionally.
@ProctorSilex3 ай бұрын
@@ProctorSilexyeah get fit and so we can send you to war is not a good motivator
@iamahiphopfan37593 ай бұрын
Smart man
@kathrineici98112 ай бұрын
When I entered the Army in September 1974. At that time the military would take anyone and everyone. One man in my unit only had one lung (He told this to the people at the induction center and they took him anyway.) It would be hard to miss this problem. He had a surgical scar from his throat to his navel. Other men in my unit had significant emotional / cognitive problems. It was clear that their Recruiter had falsified documents / tests so they could get in.
@jamessalomon93432 ай бұрын
They were putting their most "disposable" soldiers in the front row...
@TheFounderUtopia2 ай бұрын
Nails are not made from top quality metal. 😊
@othmanhassanmajid819213 күн бұрын
To be fair, they were drafted. It's not like they had a choice.
@Slaughterproof4 ай бұрын
75 per cent of Vietnam soldiers were volunteers.
@mikebarker69793 ай бұрын
or they dodged the draft 5 timea like donnie dumbass trump
@cl8443 ай бұрын
It's worse because they didn't have a choice, not better
@taltal11222 ай бұрын
"Land of the free"
@jakewillits46782 ай бұрын
@@jakewillits4678 pay per view...🤣🤣🤣
@cl8442 ай бұрын
Is that a jelly doughnut, pvt. Pyle!?
@thesurvivalist19965 ай бұрын
A JELLY DONUT?!!!??! (then quietly and disgusted) a jelly donut…
@michaeldalton83743 ай бұрын
I have tried to help him, but I have failed!
@lukemicsky30863 ай бұрын
And are you allowed to eat jelly donuts pvt Pyle?
@batboy5553 ай бұрын
you are forgetting the part where they died on average 3/1 normal soldiers
@VahidSlayerOfAll2 ай бұрын
Commanding officers found these soldiers reduced the fighting force instead of strengthening it. They were a danger to themselves and others and had to have a regular soldier assigned to keep them safe thus reducing the company by 2.
@jBKht9313 ай бұрын
We had a plump boy in basic who when the runs got too much would throw himself into a bush. He started to be known as bushbaby, he was doing that often.😂
@smokejaguar675 ай бұрын
During my entire service and my year in Vietnam, I remember only one guy who could be called overweight. He was my favorite landclearing dozer operator. The activity levels required didn't support excess weight. 1968-1972 12B30 Combat Engineer VietVet 1970-1971
@chuckg20163 ай бұрын
Thank you and welcome home. ❤
@AngelaKSellsHomes3 ай бұрын
@@AngelaKSellsHomes Thank you & all best wishes your way.
@chuckg20163 ай бұрын
Thank you for your service sir. If I could I'd shake your hand.
@samuelmorss51063 ай бұрын
@@samuelmorss5106 Thank you, sir, and you're welcome.
@chuckg20163 ай бұрын
@@samuelmorss5106 "service"😂
@godzilla9283 ай бұрын
Not the chopper struggling to take off. 😂😂😂
@woolseyaquatics77493 ай бұрын
The chopper struggling was wild 😭😭😭
@purpsthegreater2 ай бұрын
When draft is reinstated this will be 75% of all of them
@eddiekulp12414 ай бұрын
Only this time, women will be included. I guess that'll be "Insert General Here's 304's" or "Project Runway" or the "Tampon Platoon".
@delanorrosey47303 ай бұрын
More
@user-tx5sw4hq1h3 ай бұрын
Can of corn I’ll be fine
@jayyy44913 ай бұрын
prolly why they were so apt to test it
@cobanks3 ай бұрын
Bro 71% of the population in the US is currently over weight. So that number will definitely be much higher trust.
@heczrivz23903 ай бұрын
What a great way for the government to show you just how much they really care about you and your safety. Aholes
@theunemployedtrucker3 ай бұрын
In my company when I was in basic training in 1969 there was a fellow who was barely smarter than a dumb dog. He literally could not do anything. He was very tall, and red headed. He was so incompetent that when we went to the rife range he was never given a rifle. He also did not participate in grenade throwing.
@greendeane1Ай бұрын
One of the selling points was as an employment program. Yeah, they wanted folks in uniform, but they thought it would be a way to decrease unemployment too. SOME of these folks actually held on for full careers - and continued to screw things up along the way (I worked with a few, and they were, well, pretty dim).
@oldtop4682Ай бұрын
The helicopter struggling lol
@Edfiki865 ай бұрын
Smoke should have came out of the engine.
@brodriguez110003 ай бұрын
Truth is, you don't need to run marathons on deployment. Most of what you do on patrol is spent walking.
@mogwaiman60485 ай бұрын
Yeah but if you need to run they want you to be able to.
@Ken-fh4jc4 ай бұрын
@@Ken-fh4jc it's not difficult to do short runs crossing streets. You won't be running constantly.
@mogwaiman60484 ай бұрын
Tell that to the guys running the Mogadishu Mile at the end of Blackhawk Down! Just kidding, that wasn't real.
@Centermass7623 ай бұрын
@@Centermass762 lol yup it wasn't. It was patrolling with expediency (a speed walk) to a rally point only 800 meters away.
@mogwaiman6048Ай бұрын
My uncle told me this when I watched forest Gump with him. He one of those squads in his unit
@Jarjarfunk3 ай бұрын
You forgot that a good chunk of them were black, and of the black enlisted, most did not survive as they were basically used as cheap cannon fodder or untrained hazardous roles.
@zarryis33652 ай бұрын
Vietcong: Hides in the trees These guys: "bro that's cheating, ain't no way I'm getting up there"
@democraticrepublicofsprout72633 ай бұрын
Project 100,000 calories
@cannonfodder92485 ай бұрын
NAHHHHHH THE US ARMY TRIPPING
@rusted94835 ай бұрын
I mean, lots of people consume that in a month.
@WMUser35 ай бұрын
Gump and Bubba were actually supposed to have been apart of that program. But cut it and just left them as is because the producers thought it was too dark for audience. My grandpa fought with some of these men and needless to say it was extremely depressing to know they were there and didn't know what was fully going on. He told me onw of them didn't understand overall and died on patrol thinking he was walking home. Why you shouldn't trust the government
@rayroberts35452 ай бұрын
Oh my god thats dark. All these people making fat jokes are skipping over all the special needs people part of the story.
@iananderson47542 ай бұрын
My step dad spoke of a dude from this program. They were told to babysit him. Dad said he was like an 8 year old in the body of a giant. He died in the 1st firefight. He stood up and yelled it's not nice to shoot at people. He was shot so many times he was cut to large chunks. Dad said he blamed the army.
@Grungy13 ай бұрын
Why do I feel like this is cap
@orwoodwellson6852 ай бұрын
@@orwoodwellson685 you would think this dude was just talking straight bullshit, right? Unfortunately , its not. They forced so many young men who were absolutely not in the right position to be fighting, not only physically but even mentally as well. Including men who happened to also have moderate to severe cognitive disabilities. Some would even needed to be literally babysat the entire time including cleaning up after themselves. They did not not how to use their rifles, how to eat properly. From one account Ive read, its as if an 7 year old was sent to the front lines. And Similar to how @grungy1’s step dad story went, most of them were killed. A lot of them truly didn’t even know what was even going on. It’s truly a heartbreaking thing to learn about but gut wrenching to personally be a witness of.
@LocalBadGuy2 ай бұрын
Monstrous
@kathrineici98112 ай бұрын
Crazy how you take people that cant meet requirements for training, but throw them in combat and expect the same performance as people fit and trained. Just wild.
@zecharhiacsaszar30764 ай бұрын
It was a pretty transparent plow to remove 'unemployables' from the workforce.
@denjamin26333 ай бұрын
GI wakes up one day, fittest he has ever been, feels great, has some cereal,,goes out on patrol and is killed. What a downer!
@shermansquires39793 ай бұрын
Heavy weights can do something underweight and at weights can't do. They can keep going a week into running an gunning without a speck of food.
@geneard6395 ай бұрын
food storage
@doomjuice.16525 ай бұрын
Bullshit.
@joemccallister48835 ай бұрын
It's not mana.
@joemccallister48835 ай бұрын
@Twerkulies it's called fasting. How do you think religious people gast for days at a time
@steelnail19175 ай бұрын
@@steelnail1917 religuous people fast while sitting still and meditating, not running and hiding
@joemccallister48835 ай бұрын
Was the inverse also true of the underweight soldiers? I’ve heard anecdotes that even today soldiers on the slimmer side are usually given extra rations and MREs to pack on some weight, but this makes me wonder if they we given other benefits, such as not having to do as much running to try and avoid calorie deficit or maybe even getting more beer privileges to help put on calories.
@gokufirespit84183 ай бұрын
I know of a very underweight guy who had to drop out due to multiple fractures - the constant rucking turned his legs to powder.
@vikroy37777 күн бұрын
Despite comments, The military does still do this today. In fact the Army has special programs nicknamed Fat camp and dump camp held in Fort Jackson's 120th entry program if I remember correctly
@DarkBishop19Ай бұрын
There were also incompetant high ranking officiers and out of date NCO's known as REMF's
@georgesheffield15805 ай бұрын
My uncle was one of the overweight who was never going to do well in a combat job. He did end up in a technical job, lose a lot of weight, and serve 20 yrs.
@brianfuller7575 ай бұрын
Back in the mid 70's my Father quite High School. He decided he wanted to join up with the Navy. The Navy wouldn't take him because he didn't have a High School Diploma. The Army told him they would accept him on one condition that he get a GED. He got to the rank of Corporal. He was dating a woman from Houston where he was from. He received a dear John letter one day. Well, he went AWOL from Germany all the way to Houston,Texas. Back then if you were AWOL more than 31 days you would get an Article 15. My Grandfather made him return and as one of the stipulations of his punishment he was busted down in rank back to Private. The man went into the US Army a Private and was Honorably Discharge a Private.
@MichaelMoody-hk4ff2 ай бұрын
We just called them Fat body platoon in the Marines
@bigchillphil2 ай бұрын
Short or tall, fat or skinny, slow or fast, I thank all those who served and I’m proud to call you my brothers in arms.
@NinjaRN47314 ай бұрын
Agreed.
@lithoplanemasters65222 ай бұрын
You ain't my brother. You gotta earn that.
@JoshB-fp1qv2 ай бұрын
Helicopter struggling to ascend is crazy💀
@babooskidickerson14133 ай бұрын
“You ain’t got no legs lieutenant dan”
@wickedjesterDC5 ай бұрын
You ain't got no insulin
@DaDaDo6613 ай бұрын
That helicopter struggling to take off was straight outta pocket.
@kaiserepsilon40113 ай бұрын
Had a few of these in my basic training unit. One had SEVERE SCOLIOSIS which made it impossible for him to come to attention properly. He stuck with it but washed out in the final week of training even though all the guys in the unit helped him when we could. Another was a big Samoan who was overweight. He lost quite a few pounds. At our first duty station, he was made an M60 gunner.
@research903Ай бұрын
Ah yes, Robert "Butcher/Liar" McNamara
@counter-terrordoge33355 ай бұрын
Ah now, let us not so demean Robert ( I was always secretly against the war ) McNamara.
@lyntwo23 күн бұрын
I was 175 when I got there and I was 125 when I got home.6 foot tall i am an infantry man redcatcher 199th LIB 3/7
@samuelestepp7254 ай бұрын
6 foot. 125. Damn man, you musta been like a twig.
@Javier999994 ай бұрын
Bruh, that helicopter animation was foul 😂
@The_legendary_hunter_Zero2 ай бұрын
How is this video simultaneously extremely helpful and very funny? Earned a sub easily here
@wsmith79182 ай бұрын
They had over triple the casualty rate of their fellow soldiers
@jackbartley9565 ай бұрын
Damn; so pretty much a eugenics experiment, to get rid of undesirables? That's rough....
@NoaThePineconeTaker3 ай бұрын
So it’s like real life is what you’re saying
@bigtonytiger3 ай бұрын
Why do you think Putin is emptying his prisons for lightly armed meat wave attacks against fortified positions?
@seed_drill71353 ай бұрын
Large slower targets I'm guessing. :/
@maverickhudgins22213 ай бұрын
@@maverickhudgins2221 This video describes the 100,00 poorly. The bulk of them recruits weren't weight driven, they were the mentally incapable. Men with sub-80 IQs, many with Down's Syndrome and other developmental syndromes. It was essentially a very heartless culling, eliminating poor workers from the pool, or giving them basic skill sets from training if they survived.
@denjamin26333 ай бұрын
+5 armor against one handed bladed and blunt melee weapons 😅
@TheArklyte5 ай бұрын
"Private Pyle, what are you trying to do to my beloved Corps"
@jammiebooker6489Ай бұрын
“What’s your name fat body?”
@ScripnerАй бұрын
Ahhh my favorite fitness program. The "the trees are talking" routine
@harlowviv29682 ай бұрын
Who ordered the McUnit?
@aerodynamiccow35974 ай бұрын
Supersized!!!
@delanorrosey47303 ай бұрын
This is the real world lore for the quest in New Vegas, isn't it?
@chrislitzinger11344 ай бұрын
When the guys are in line walking, it looks so smooth, like a reverse moonwalk LoL.
@black.sasuke.uchihaАй бұрын
Next week on "My 600lb life... army edition"😂😂
@BoomStick42873 ай бұрын
And to think indiana jones meet ho chi Minh 😮.
@chimelxatrindad15165 ай бұрын
Gomer Pyle basically.
@adamarens35205 ай бұрын
And Gump.
@TheGuyFrom7Hubble5 ай бұрын
Your best fighting men have always been those from the underclass.
@jonjamj305615 күн бұрын
I saw the documentary, Stripes. Thank you for your service
@chrissmith80193 ай бұрын
This gives full metal jacket new context.
@cybergothstudios943 ай бұрын
The biggest issue was IQ (obesity wasn't as big of a problem back then). Low IQ soldiers were very dangerous and smart commanders would place them in rolls where they could not hurt anyone. McNamara was convinced he could raise their IQ by making them watch something which at the time was a brand new technology; electronic video recordings.
@erikkovacs30973 ай бұрын
Gump- "Momma they want me to be part of a special 'project 100000' in Vietnam"
@davidpetruic9557Ай бұрын
I was there didn't see any of this. I did see the greatest young men serving proudly
@ralphriffle1126Ай бұрын
Oh no I’m too overweight to go die in some random jungle
@briandozier91133 ай бұрын
In the 80s if a recruite doesn't look like he's gonna make it for whatever reason. He can be recycled or encouraged to restart. I came out a more improved soldier too.😅
@ghostdog17585 ай бұрын
That's nowadays too. I've seen a few people get recycled in basic, and in ait a few had been there for over a year.
@lithoplanemasters65222 ай бұрын
The guys that bulked and huffed glue to intentionally join this group were a both an unstoppable force and an immovable object.
@shanegreene6398Ай бұрын
Project 100,000 would probably be an ADA violation today.
@bryonslatten3147Ай бұрын
My grandad served in the Vietnam war
@kareemshivers35344 ай бұрын
Forest Gump from Forest Gump and Pvt. Pyle from Full Metal Jacket are perfect examples.
@heroicsplendid4 ай бұрын
Forrest was the example of a perfect recruit. Why would you put him in here?
@brandocalrissian32944 ай бұрын
@@brandocalrissian3294Forrest was a bit slow. And I GOT TO SAVE BUBBA!!!!
@delanorrosey47303 ай бұрын
@@brandocalrissian3294physically? yes. Mentally? Not at all.
@reallyoriginalname12212 ай бұрын
1966-1969, I never heard about this.
@ronaldweed61033 ай бұрын
Fun fact. The song named “Running though the jungle” was a song from Vietnam from the American be they were fighting in a jungle
@davbre262 күн бұрын
New meaning for "Heavy Weapons Platoon".😊
@johnchandler16875 ай бұрын
"Its a jelly doughnut" some dead guy
@charles04234 ай бұрын
The Navy told me I was pushing physical standards I did pre boot camp training and ended up FMF Corpsman holding Marine Corps PFT
@Myhandle-20243 ай бұрын
Love our corpmen!
@roberthodge833 ай бұрын
In 1973 The Air Force made anyone who had low AQE scores take a reading test. Many of the project 100,000 enlistees were given early outs if they couldn't read at the 8-grade level. Many were also found to read at the 12-9 grade level but couldn't take a test.
@stingginner10123 ай бұрын
Officially known as the "Boom-Boom chubby Choom-Choom" regiment.
@MrJmdanca4 ай бұрын
Don't forget the unit motto: Fatty, fatty two-by-four: Can't fit through the bathroom door.
@ChrisRedfieldsbloodline2 ай бұрын
Lol I love your series about obese soliders 😂
@yes123374 ай бұрын
"It's a jelly donut, Sir!" "...A JELLY DONUT!?"
@ler54782 ай бұрын
When I was in basic training back in 1967 there were a few guys that were a little overweight. But between the training and the drill instructors watching what went on their tray in the mess hall they lost that extra weight quickly. No potatoes and bread for fat boy! You hear drill instructors yelling at the cooks and server's as you went through the chow line.😊
@earlhester8253 ай бұрын
Project 100,000 metric tons
@SrubGuy5 ай бұрын
They have a large hitbox
@SeigeGoat4 ай бұрын
The "MRE" acronym is actually insane lmao
@michaellooks8397Ай бұрын
My grandpa was a bigger guy in the Vietnam war they only gave him 1 egg and 1 slice of bread for every meal, for a while and he lost a bunch of weight.
Forest Gumm and Bubba are perfect examples.
Exactly what I was thinking
Also private pyle from full metal jacket
@@legoworksstudios1why didn’t I think about that? Pyle was another great example and they didn’t play easy on him for being overweight.
Why bubba?
Bubba was a great man, he knew so much about shrimp
Yall didnt have to show the helicopter struggling to fly, lol
Heh heh heh
LOL Thanks for pointing that out! I missed it!
Yes, they did.
What about the overbite
😂
A guy I met, from my parents, fought in Vietnam. He was “larger” and was selected as a flagger or some such, and was made to run ahead of the formation to block roads or crossings, let his unit run by, then run all the way back to the front of the unit to do it again. All the while eating less than them. He told me he lost considerable weight, after which he fought in Vietnam, came back, and gained it all back. He passed away recently. God bless.
@killmam, The 'flagger' position was called a road guard. One troop on each side of the formation was designated Road Guard and would block the intersection on each side as the formation passed, much like funeral processions being protected. "Road guards, Post!" would be the command given by the DI. VietVet 1970-1971 U. S. Army '68 - '72
@@chuckg2016 👍🏽🇺🇲
😮 that's terrible treatment from the military.
Glad he got to eat as much as he needed (unless he gained an ED from PTSD, that would be horrible.)
@@drownedzephyrOP said he eats less than them.
The animator is an absolute savage
Finally, a well-said comment about the animation. I couldn't think of anything. The full auto simulation was hilarious. 😅🤣
Why do they walk like that?
Helicopter: Damn this is a heavy load
Gotta imagine the big guys who survived the ordeal and training probably came back built like fucking tanks
They were the birth of the term "brick shithouse"
Kinda depends. A lot of the stuff in Vietnam wasn't heavy lifting of weights and such, it was a lot of cardio from marching and sweating out the weight from the extreme heat and humidity. I'd say a lot of those guys when they came back looked a lot smaller after several months of marches, additional exercise drills, and limited calorie intake from rations
@@bigbangtheory0000sign me up
Most stayed fat guys
@@brandocalrissian3294lmao this comment makes me laugh for no reason
Project Nikocado Avocado
😭
Didn’t they drop him on Nagasaki or something?
@@Gabe-ABNCW3 You a demon for this. xD
💀
Bro he said 20% larger was allowed not 2,000%
I keep remembering the story of how they soon realised colour blind people could actually see things like camouflaged things better than normal people
Lol I wonder if there's a pair of colourblind glasses sitting on a desk somewhere so normal soldiers can get the same effect too
@@bobthegamingtaco6073from my understanding it's more of a trained eye thing.
@@bobthegamingtaco6073 actually yes. Yellow tinted glasses. Some swat and such units wear them if the captain is not a POS. It helps you see more detail. Better than with nothing on. In daytime anyways.
@@agnidas5816 cool! Guess it makes sense that they'd try to replicate the effect
Replace these guys with the politicians who vote for war and their kids.
It's messed up that the people who send others to their deaths don't even have skin in the game themself.
@@ArmstrongandTumbler They sort of do have skin in the game. In the form of stocks in weapons companies and lobby dollars from those companies to help fund their campaigns.
@@nrXic And it is not enough. The pain and suffering soldiers have to go through is much greater than ANY politician's. "War is young men dying and old men talking..." -Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd president of the United States of America.
@@michelledelprado7851 Makarov was right one thing. "The corrupt talk, while our brothers and son spill their own blood"
@@michelledelprado7851War is the poor of one country deployed to kill the poor of another country for asset theft and profits by those who never expose themselves to the dangers of war, and that includes FDR who was very eager to get the US into WW Ii. Pearl Harbor was no surprise for him. The Japanese war code was already broken. The only ships he left at Pearl Harbor were the older ones slated for replacement. The newer ships were protected from the attack. FDR deliberately sacrificed 3,000 US servicemen in order to kick off war fever for retaliation.
When I was in basic they called it the "porkchop platoon".
Sad and hilarious at the same time😂
We had the Fat Boy program when I was in basic. They had different P.T., different chow. But when we graduated basic training those guys looked AWESOME! The reast of us looked malnourished 😂
They still do
When I was in basic we called them "The Fat R*tards"
Not at all the same thing.
“Private Pile, you’re going to combat”
Pyle
Pyle! Oh-three hundred. Infantry. You made it!
Or so we all thought. But Leonard had other ideas...
Congrats you passed
PYLE
"Full metal jacket" has the best example of this
“PRIVATE PYLE!!! WHATEVER YOU DO, DON’T FALL DOWN!!! THAT’LL BREAK MY F***ING HEART!!!”
During Desert Storm, my battalion had a soldier who had been marked for separation because he was fat. Once we got our marching orders, he was "stop lossed." He deployed with us and performed his duties just as the rest of us. After it was over, however, he received no awards or commendations because his tubbiness had left him "flagged" against all favorable actions. Total BS.
Thanks for your service, bro is vet officer. Mility doesn’t seem too interested in anomalies, can’t blame em?
"I can't be drafted as I am not physically capable." _government laughs in military industrial complex_
You... don't know what that is do you...
@@nightspectre8756what is it
@@Fat-Queen1 the military industrial complex is literally just the relation between the military and the nations industry for manufacturing and innovation purposes. Which has absolutely no relation to the subject of drafting.
@@nightspectre8756seeing how every single war since WW2 America has been involved in was for corporate interests, it absolutely does.
@@DudeFalafel No. It's been for federal income. Corporate level benefit is just a side effect. And also, research and production of military assets doesnt increase the chance of you being drafted. As a matter of fact, a lack of production would increase your chances because due to less technology they would need more bodies to make up for that downfall and the individuals decreased effectiveness.
when you select “scrapping the barrel” in HOI4
Now my question is does scrapping the barrel include including women
@@_vasty3776I think most of the major players in ww2 used women in military when times got tough so probably yes
@ @_vasty3776 in hoi4 it includes children too 😅
Nah this is all adults serve scrapping the barrel would have women and children
Are the barrels defective? Why are you scrapping them?
My high school (small town school board) kept one kid (special ed.) in school until he was 22 years old just to avoid this sick policy. He was at first 1-Y but would have been moved to 1-A, so the town hid him from the military. When people think of draft dodgers, they always complain about hippies and Canada. But doctors and town fathers all over America were protecting their children from that pointless meat grinder called Vietnam. Often, these draft dodge enablers were WWII veterans themseleves but knew the difference between the two wars and protected their children from a stupid cold war government.
Yes, they knew the govt wasn’t trying to win that war and didn’t want to sacrifice their sons for gains felt only by rich men who sacrificed nothing themselves.
#Imperialism #USD #StrongEconomy... #AmericansBulliesOfTheWorld!
Every war past 1776, was a junk war.
The casualty rates (both death and combat injuries) as well as losses due to mental illness and PTSD, was absolutely sky high compared to similar units with “normal standards” for their recruits.
My father was a captain at this time he was sent to train some of these men. Some did really well. Some didn't. Only one guy was medically discharged. I met a few of them over the years. They all respected him. They've told me how he helped them.
Captains don't train anybody
@@lawrencelaforest6545 captains can train and instruct. They’re responsible for the overall training of the entire company.
@lawrencelaforest6545 Not now, maybe. Short-handed the do what they are told.
I'll take things that never happened
@@kodiaxx8307 apparently captains did train men during Vietnam. Google the following for an article on one such indecent: “May 10, 1967: Army Captain Howard Levy Refuses to Train Green Berets During Vietnam War”
“God dam it, Gump! You’re a goddam genius!”
Funniest part.
@@chaosdwellerNo. The funniest part is when he says, “The best part of meeting the president of the United States is the food. See, they put in this little room with just about anything you’d want to eat or drink. And, since number 1, I wasn’t hungry, but thirsty, and number 2, they was free, I musta had me about 15 Doctor Peppers…”
Outstanding, Gump! This is a new company record! If it weren't such a waste of a damn fine enlisted man I'd recommend you for OCS!
So funny that our government sent mentally handicapped men off to die for no reason. Hilarious really!
Thats the most outstanding answer ive ever heard you must have a god dam iq of 160 you are god dam gifted Pvt gump
Farm Boy strong is what we called in 80'-00's. When these cats lost 30 to 40 lbs they were tanks. You take a guy who normally walks around 25% overweight and and cut them back 10% once they stabilize they will surprise the F out of you.
For real, carrying around that extra weight puts some real strength behind those boys. I've seen em do things humans ain't supposed to be able to do and act like it was nothing
Agreed but only if they are fat and active like farm boys. Nowadays it's a lot of fat nerds with no muscle. I remember a recruit who couldn't do 1 pushup or situp. There's really nothing you can do with a 20 year old in that shape. It's pretty messed up our society lets kids get like that. But yeah, nothing like the former fat guys with calfs as big as my head. They're your best friends on a ruck march.
Sounds like a proof of concept for them to just draft whoever they want and figure it out later
I took it as a test to see if the recruitment standards were too strict, giving these guys a chance to prove under/overweight soldiers are worth training
To me it honestly sounds more like eugenics - set the "undesirables" up for failure in a situation where failure will cost them their lives, and most likely before they have any kids
@@Altoclarinets nah, if the US was that concerned about weight that we were preventing people from multiplying, it'd be cheaper and easier to just limit soda cup sizes (no big gulps) and limit how much fried food you can buy to like, 4 oz. Either way you'd be pissing off 90% of Americans
@@bobthegamingtaco6073 did you miss the part where this project also included low-IQ draftees
I got drafted in 1970. Those who could not meet basic training physical requirements during training were sent to STC (Special Training Camp) and returned to a different basic training unit when completed.
just a question, how old are you? also thank you for your service, sir
Outta Sight/Outta Mind ?
I went through basic training in 2006 and they had basically the same thing. I don’t remember what it was called. They had to go into a program and complete it then return to another basic training unit and complete that.
Welcome home
“Special”. Love how they use the same pandering terminology as the failed education system.
When I served in the US Army Infantry (1978-1982), fat soldiers were very rare. One was a mail clerk and a couple of others worked in the motor pool. Fatter recruits who were unfit for infantry AIT were usually recycled as cooks. Most of them were still good guys and would take care of you if you held them in mutual respect.
There is still plenty of use in the military for a man who can't fight. It may seem like nothing, but cooking, medics, engineers and so many more positions are vital in maintaining where you are staying and that is extremely important to military success.
Fat is where it's at
@@brandocalrissian3294 with modern use of Military Contractors, are all branches able to (with supplies brought in) self-sustain ? Like, is feeding troops while they are abroad out-sourced or privatized nowadays ? Honestly curious.
incredible, fat people are still people
I feel like that last sentence should be more reciprocated nowadays
McNamara's Folly: The Use of Low-IQ Troops in the Vietnam War, inductees of the project died at three times the rate[1] of other Americans serving in Vietnam." I just read this. This hurts a soldiers heart.
so they wanted to get rid of the morons? i dont really get the idea behind the project to be honest.
Texans to a man😂
@othmanhassanmajid8192 It's funny to you, mate? Mentally fooked blokes dying.
And then US scream to Russia's penal units
@@superspies32 I don't. I've grown. I've educated myself. This is unforgivable.
A good friend of mine was drafted late in Vietnam War. Showed up overweight. They sent him home for 30 days and told him to lose 20 pounds. He gained 50. Not sure what year. He graduated high school in '67. He had 2 younger brothers in Vietnam at the time. So must have been around 1970 or a little later. Problem was he never lost it and gained even more. Gained and lost for years. Still very overweight.
Did he go to war or not? You never got to that point that you originally started to make.
TFTF. Too fat to fight
The military's threatening healthy weight as a death sentence probably didn't make it easier for him. I thought you were going to say he gained 50 intentionally.
@@ProctorSilexyeah get fit and so we can send you to war is not a good motivator
Smart man
When I entered the Army in September 1974. At that time the military would take anyone and everyone. One man in my unit only had one lung (He told this to the people at the induction center and they took him anyway.) It would be hard to miss this problem. He had a surgical scar from his throat to his navel. Other men in my unit had significant emotional / cognitive problems. It was clear that their Recruiter had falsified documents / tests so they could get in.
They were putting their most "disposable" soldiers in the front row...
Nails are not made from top quality metal. 😊
To be fair, they were drafted. It's not like they had a choice.
75 per cent of Vietnam soldiers were volunteers.
or they dodged the draft 5 timea like donnie dumbass trump
It's worse because they didn't have a choice, not better
"Land of the free"
@@jakewillits4678 pay per view...🤣🤣🤣
Is that a jelly doughnut, pvt. Pyle!?
A JELLY DONUT?!!!??! (then quietly and disgusted) a jelly donut…
I have tried to help him, but I have failed!
And are you allowed to eat jelly donuts pvt Pyle?
you are forgetting the part where they died on average 3/1 normal soldiers
Commanding officers found these soldiers reduced the fighting force instead of strengthening it. They were a danger to themselves and others and had to have a regular soldier assigned to keep them safe thus reducing the company by 2.
We had a plump boy in basic who when the runs got too much would throw himself into a bush. He started to be known as bushbaby, he was doing that often.😂
During my entire service and my year in Vietnam, I remember only one guy who could be called overweight. He was my favorite landclearing dozer operator. The activity levels required didn't support excess weight. 1968-1972 12B30 Combat Engineer VietVet 1970-1971
Thank you and welcome home. ❤
@@AngelaKSellsHomes Thank you & all best wishes your way.
Thank you for your service sir. If I could I'd shake your hand.
@@samuelmorss5106 Thank you, sir, and you're welcome.
@@samuelmorss5106 "service"😂
Not the chopper struggling to take off. 😂😂😂
The chopper struggling was wild 😭😭😭
When draft is reinstated this will be 75% of all of them
Only this time, women will be included. I guess that'll be "Insert General Here's 304's" or "Project Runway" or the "Tampon Platoon".
More
Can of corn I’ll be fine
prolly why they were so apt to test it
Bro 71% of the population in the US is currently over weight. So that number will definitely be much higher trust.
What a great way for the government to show you just how much they really care about you and your safety. Aholes
In my company when I was in basic training in 1969 there was a fellow who was barely smarter than a dumb dog. He literally could not do anything. He was very tall, and red headed. He was so incompetent that when we went to the rife range he was never given a rifle. He also did not participate in grenade throwing.
One of the selling points was as an employment program. Yeah, they wanted folks in uniform, but they thought it would be a way to decrease unemployment too. SOME of these folks actually held on for full careers - and continued to screw things up along the way (I worked with a few, and they were, well, pretty dim).
The helicopter struggling lol
Smoke should have came out of the engine.
Truth is, you don't need to run marathons on deployment. Most of what you do on patrol is spent walking.
Yeah but if you need to run they want you to be able to.
@@Ken-fh4jc it's not difficult to do short runs crossing streets. You won't be running constantly.
Tell that to the guys running the Mogadishu Mile at the end of Blackhawk Down! Just kidding, that wasn't real.
@@Centermass762 lol yup it wasn't. It was patrolling with expediency (a speed walk) to a rally point only 800 meters away.
My uncle told me this when I watched forest Gump with him. He one of those squads in his unit
You forgot that a good chunk of them were black, and of the black enlisted, most did not survive as they were basically used as cheap cannon fodder or untrained hazardous roles.
Vietcong: Hides in the trees These guys: "bro that's cheating, ain't no way I'm getting up there"
Project 100,000 calories
NAHHHHHH THE US ARMY TRIPPING
I mean, lots of people consume that in a month.
Gump and Bubba were actually supposed to have been apart of that program. But cut it and just left them as is because the producers thought it was too dark for audience. My grandpa fought with some of these men and needless to say it was extremely depressing to know they were there and didn't know what was fully going on. He told me onw of them didn't understand overall and died on patrol thinking he was walking home. Why you shouldn't trust the government
Oh my god thats dark. All these people making fat jokes are skipping over all the special needs people part of the story.
My step dad spoke of a dude from this program. They were told to babysit him. Dad said he was like an 8 year old in the body of a giant. He died in the 1st firefight. He stood up and yelled it's not nice to shoot at people. He was shot so many times he was cut to large chunks. Dad said he blamed the army.
Why do I feel like this is cap
@@orwoodwellson685 you would think this dude was just talking straight bullshit, right? Unfortunately , its not. They forced so many young men who were absolutely not in the right position to be fighting, not only physically but even mentally as well. Including men who happened to also have moderate to severe cognitive disabilities. Some would even needed to be literally babysat the entire time including cleaning up after themselves. They did not not how to use their rifles, how to eat properly. From one account Ive read, its as if an 7 year old was sent to the front lines. And Similar to how @grungy1’s step dad story went, most of them were killed. A lot of them truly didn’t even know what was even going on. It’s truly a heartbreaking thing to learn about but gut wrenching to personally be a witness of.
Monstrous
Crazy how you take people that cant meet requirements for training, but throw them in combat and expect the same performance as people fit and trained. Just wild.
It was a pretty transparent plow to remove 'unemployables' from the workforce.
GI wakes up one day, fittest he has ever been, feels great, has some cereal,,goes out on patrol and is killed. What a downer!
Heavy weights can do something underweight and at weights can't do. They can keep going a week into running an gunning without a speck of food.
food storage
Bullshit.
It's not mana.
@Twerkulies it's called fasting. How do you think religious people gast for days at a time
@@steelnail1917 religuous people fast while sitting still and meditating, not running and hiding
Was the inverse also true of the underweight soldiers? I’ve heard anecdotes that even today soldiers on the slimmer side are usually given extra rations and MREs to pack on some weight, but this makes me wonder if they we given other benefits, such as not having to do as much running to try and avoid calorie deficit or maybe even getting more beer privileges to help put on calories.
I know of a very underweight guy who had to drop out due to multiple fractures - the constant rucking turned his legs to powder.
Despite comments, The military does still do this today. In fact the Army has special programs nicknamed Fat camp and dump camp held in Fort Jackson's 120th entry program if I remember correctly
There were also incompetant high ranking officiers and out of date NCO's known as REMF's
My uncle was one of the overweight who was never going to do well in a combat job. He did end up in a technical job, lose a lot of weight, and serve 20 yrs.
Back in the mid 70's my Father quite High School. He decided he wanted to join up with the Navy. The Navy wouldn't take him because he didn't have a High School Diploma. The Army told him they would accept him on one condition that he get a GED. He got to the rank of Corporal. He was dating a woman from Houston where he was from. He received a dear John letter one day. Well, he went AWOL from Germany all the way to Houston,Texas. Back then if you were AWOL more than 31 days you would get an Article 15. My Grandfather made him return and as one of the stipulations of his punishment he was busted down in rank back to Private. The man went into the US Army a Private and was Honorably Discharge a Private.
We just called them Fat body platoon in the Marines
Short or tall, fat or skinny, slow or fast, I thank all those who served and I’m proud to call you my brothers in arms.
Agreed.
You ain't my brother. You gotta earn that.
Helicopter struggling to ascend is crazy💀
“You ain’t got no legs lieutenant dan”
You ain't got no insulin
That helicopter struggling to take off was straight outta pocket.
Had a few of these in my basic training unit. One had SEVERE SCOLIOSIS which made it impossible for him to come to attention properly. He stuck with it but washed out in the final week of training even though all the guys in the unit helped him when we could. Another was a big Samoan who was overweight. He lost quite a few pounds. At our first duty station, he was made an M60 gunner.
Ah yes, Robert "Butcher/Liar" McNamara
Ah now, let us not so demean Robert ( I was always secretly against the war ) McNamara.
I was 175 when I got there and I was 125 when I got home.6 foot tall i am an infantry man redcatcher 199th LIB 3/7
6 foot. 125. Damn man, you musta been like a twig.
Bruh, that helicopter animation was foul 😂
How is this video simultaneously extremely helpful and very funny? Earned a sub easily here
They had over triple the casualty rate of their fellow soldiers
Damn; so pretty much a eugenics experiment, to get rid of undesirables? That's rough....
So it’s like real life is what you’re saying
Why do you think Putin is emptying his prisons for lightly armed meat wave attacks against fortified positions?
Large slower targets I'm guessing. :/
@@maverickhudgins2221 This video describes the 100,00 poorly. The bulk of them recruits weren't weight driven, they were the mentally incapable. Men with sub-80 IQs, many with Down's Syndrome and other developmental syndromes. It was essentially a very heartless culling, eliminating poor workers from the pool, or giving them basic skill sets from training if they survived.
+5 armor against one handed bladed and blunt melee weapons 😅
"Private Pyle, what are you trying to do to my beloved Corps"
“What’s your name fat body?”
Ahhh my favorite fitness program. The "the trees are talking" routine
Who ordered the McUnit?
Supersized!!!
This is the real world lore for the quest in New Vegas, isn't it?
When the guys are in line walking, it looks so smooth, like a reverse moonwalk LoL.
Next week on "My 600lb life... army edition"😂😂
And to think indiana jones meet ho chi Minh 😮.
Gomer Pyle basically.
And Gump.
Your best fighting men have always been those from the underclass.
I saw the documentary, Stripes. Thank you for your service
This gives full metal jacket new context.
The biggest issue was IQ (obesity wasn't as big of a problem back then). Low IQ soldiers were very dangerous and smart commanders would place them in rolls where they could not hurt anyone. McNamara was convinced he could raise their IQ by making them watch something which at the time was a brand new technology; electronic video recordings.
Gump- "Momma they want me to be part of a special 'project 100000' in Vietnam"
I was there didn't see any of this. I did see the greatest young men serving proudly
Oh no I’m too overweight to go die in some random jungle
In the 80s if a recruite doesn't look like he's gonna make it for whatever reason. He can be recycled or encouraged to restart. I came out a more improved soldier too.😅
That's nowadays too. I've seen a few people get recycled in basic, and in ait a few had been there for over a year.
The guys that bulked and huffed glue to intentionally join this group were a both an unstoppable force and an immovable object.
Project 100,000 would probably be an ADA violation today.
My grandad served in the Vietnam war
Forest Gump from Forest Gump and Pvt. Pyle from Full Metal Jacket are perfect examples.
Forrest was the example of a perfect recruit. Why would you put him in here?
@@brandocalrissian3294Forrest was a bit slow. And I GOT TO SAVE BUBBA!!!!
@@brandocalrissian3294physically? yes. Mentally? Not at all.
1966-1969, I never heard about this.
Fun fact. The song named “Running though the jungle” was a song from Vietnam from the American be they were fighting in a jungle
New meaning for "Heavy Weapons Platoon".😊
"Its a jelly doughnut" some dead guy
The Navy told me I was pushing physical standards I did pre boot camp training and ended up FMF Corpsman holding Marine Corps PFT
Love our corpmen!
In 1973 The Air Force made anyone who had low AQE scores take a reading test. Many of the project 100,000 enlistees were given early outs if they couldn't read at the 8-grade level. Many were also found to read at the 12-9 grade level but couldn't take a test.
Officially known as the "Boom-Boom chubby Choom-Choom" regiment.
Don't forget the unit motto: Fatty, fatty two-by-four: Can't fit through the bathroom door.
Lol I love your series about obese soliders 😂
"It's a jelly donut, Sir!" "...A JELLY DONUT!?"
When I was in basic training back in 1967 there were a few guys that were a little overweight. But between the training and the drill instructors watching what went on their tray in the mess hall they lost that extra weight quickly. No potatoes and bread for fat boy! You hear drill instructors yelling at the cooks and server's as you went through the chow line.😊
Project 100,000 metric tons
They have a large hitbox
The "MRE" acronym is actually insane lmao
My grandpa was a bigger guy in the Vietnam war they only gave him 1 egg and 1 slice of bread for every meal, for a while and he lost a bunch of weight.