Military Experts Rate 70 Military Battles In Movies And TV | How Real Is It? | Insider
Some of the top experts across the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines rate battle scenes in movies and television shows for realism.
Dakata Brodie flew for the US Coast Guard for 13 years as a search-and-rescue helicopter pilot and the US Army for eight years as a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter pilot. He breaks down several Coast Guard rescues.
Former Royal Marines Commando Gareth Timmins dissects "Jarhead," "Sicario: Day of the Soldado," and other desert-warfare scenarios.
Nicholas Irving, a former special-operations sniper and an author, rates the realism of sniper shots from "The Last of Us," "Extraction," and more.
Former United States armor officer and tank historian Nicholas Moran discusses tank scenes in "All Quiet on the Western Front" and "Band of Brothers," among others.
Lamont Christian served in the US Army for 33 years as a combat infantryman and retired in 2018 as the command sergeant major of Fort Jackson, the Army's main training center for basic combat training. He looks at various drill sergeant scenes.
Retired US Army officer and researcher John Spencer analyzes tactics in "Black Hawk Down" and other urban-warfare clips.
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00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:40 - Drill Sergeant
00:20:21 - Tanks
00:41:09 - Sniper
1:01:53 - Bomb Disposal
1:23:37 - Coast Guard
1:40:17 - Urban Warfare
2:00:41 - Desert Warfare
2:18:15 - Credits
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Military Experts Rate 70 Military Battles In Movies And TV | How Real Is It? | Insider
My dad said the scene from Forrest Gump, where they were grilling outside with the palm trees, and the Hueys were flying overhead in Vietnam gave him goosebumps. Whoever put that scene together was there too, and it was perfect.
scenes like that happen when the technical advisors of movies are honored and paid attention to. What happens when they dont, is stuff like " Danger to Manifold , and the floor pan falling out" of Brians Eclipse in The Fast and Furious. Funny how both some how end up making iconic scenes, just for Very different reasons lol
@@crisnmaryfam7344one of the most aggravating things, to me, is movies/shows that show the most unrealistic flying/plane, scenes. There are so many wild and crazy TRUE flying stories, there is no need to egregiously create such horrible fiction. 39:14
They filmed that scene in my hometown Beaufort SC.
All the PTSD from him killing innocents come up?
Captain Richard Flaherty, 'The Giant Killer', 4'9", 97lbs. Silver Star, 2 Bronze Stars, 2 Purple Hearts and yet wound up homeless. How does a country let that happen to it's heroes?
We don’t have the greatest attitude towards mental health today much less the 1950s. Add in an even more intense concept of toxic masculinity. There was nothing there if he had any inkling of PTSD. Then there the layer of fame and hero worship. Possible imposter syndrome. That tears down ppl in entirely different ways. Survivors guilt? It that era, how were they going to fix something that’s isn’t supposed to exist
Because that costs money and the US has other priorities apparently
Unfortunately there is not a lot of profit to be made in helping people. If there was, nobody would be living on the street.
To be fair, like usual, while all that was going on with him, Congress made sure they got their pay raise successfully and on time. Expanded their tax payer funded government healthcare and increased the budget for their taxpayer "privileges" like travel. Another big push I have seen though mostly at state levels is the push to pull from veteran benefits and privileges to give to ILLEGAL immigrants, that has been fun to watch. In NY they denied an increase in college tuition aid to dependents of fallen military in duty and a month later, they created a program with an increased budget proposed for children of ILLEGAL immigrants to go to school instead stating when I asked my representative "Military and Veterans already have so many resources to pull from(BS by the way, just look up the horrible and corrupt history of the VA) that the impact would be minimal for military and their families but substantial for the children of these innocent 'refugees'." Don't feel bad, having trained and deployed with both UK, Canadian and Australian military, I have kept in touch with many veterans there and they are going through the exact same things. Governments love shytting on their used up and tossed away military, the days of Ancient Greece and then Rome where military merit and service is respected, rewarded and honored is long over.
@@eddeddeeddee6491 We spend more time letting other nations use us in place of their own defense, forcing us to fund European and Asian nations security while they pour that money into social programs, that yes, we don't have much left to take care of our own among other reasons. Same situation with medical research and study, academics, and trade. This recently has bitten at least Europe in the behind now that they see first hand NATO and the US cannot effectively guarantee their safety with multiple conflicts kicking up and they are all struggling to catch up now with many things like simply obtaining Gen5 aircraft that cannot be produced fast enough even as Gen6 is on the horizon, but it is what it is. Our only hope is to tell the UN, NATO, EU and everyone else to go F themselves and focus on recovering and getting out of debt before reentering the international BS of the world, but that will never happen because Europe, Asia, and Middle East will politicize it as some betrayal(Just look at the Flak UK got for leaving the European Union) and US politicians will argue against it because it makes them so much money and why make millions in office when you can make hundreds of millions.
The tank guy is just the best. I mean he just loves tanks so much it’s infectious
He has a youtube channel, it's called "The Chieftan".
Also The Chieftan Nicolas Moran is still a serving US Army Armor Officer. Currently a LT. Col of the 1st Armored Division. 24 years of service thus far.
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I love how I was like 11 or 13 when Band of Brothers came out and it was immidietly my favorite Show for Years and Years and YEARS and that it still holds up so accurately after almost 20 years and always get's a NEAR perfect rating just goes to Show how much Love and Time went into that Show. Everything about it was great. The Warscenes, The dialogues, The Actors. All of it.
You should check out it's companion show, "The Pacific"
It's not that realistic it was Hollywood hype
Generation kill is a must see series. It’s Band of brothers for the Marines. Pacific is the best one I have seen for the pacific theater in W.W.2
Band of bozos
@behindthen0thing525 I mean the veterans were on set for it to ensure accuracy but whatever
I love that. “People didn’t like what I rated it before, but F that. Fury gets another 9”.
And the F is for Fury
@@wrestlerecap1324 It's good to keep in mind the experts are rating individual scenes, not the whole movie and also might miss vital context that they weren't told.
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@@wrestlerecap1324if good tempered civil workers are available
I feel like R. Lee Ermey is pretty unassailable as a DI. His behavior might not follow protocol or be of its day, but it was authentic considering it really was his job. He became the inspiration for so many.
Your argument falls apart when you put one ounce of thought into it. He isn’t being critiqued by a military historian
@@Studawg30 Historian…..as opposed to actually doing the job he depicts in the role Tacitly getting carte Blanche from the director to perform the role as he see fit? Ermy was a DI during the Vietnam war, that’s not a historian who studied the event, he lived it
That whole first scene of insults. Was half stuff he’s said to recruits before and other lines he came up with on the spot. He actually was hired as a consultant. The guy in the chopper shooting civilians was originally picked for the role. So Ermy made moves to convince Stanley to pick him for the role. Imagine being that helicopter actor. Thinking you’ll be a major part of a Kubrick movie. Then get reduced to one scene, where you are killing innocent farmers.
@@stevievannailinpalin4583 yea, but then you see Ermey in the role….how pretentious would you have to be to think you’d do better as a civilian
@@Menuki very true. But was just putting myself in that guys for a second. Being framed up to be a major part of a gigantic Kubrick movie to a passing moment. You’d most likely see it worked out for the best a while after everything panned out. But that initial week or longer is gotta be tough
because you mentioned older fuses, in germany we even to this day run quite often into remains of WW2, the worst thing to encounter are bombs with chemical fuses. They use an acid to break membrane, however when this didn't happen on impact or as planned these bombs stay in the ground and could potentially go of every second, it's why they have to be exploded on the spot. To minimize damage they get covered in straw and rubber mats and the area gets isolated with shipping containers to prevent shrapnel and burning bales to fly to far of.
Why not cover them in water
I have to guess, but to stop shrapnel from a bomb you need a lot of water. Imagine a bomb found in a city not too deep in the ground, you'd have to build a dam around it to get the water deep enough. And when it breaks you flood the neighbourhood. But I am no expert, so this could be completely wrong😂
This is why I love KZhead premiums, almost 2 and a half hours of good ad free content. Don't need Netflix or the hundreds of other sites anymore, at least for myself.
Same I haven't watched conventional cable or any streaming sites in like 5 -6years now
A sniper known as 'the Reaper' and he says 'I'm scared of bugs'. Sir, you made my brother's day. He's retired military and was watching this with me, and the laugh he gave as he agreed with you was just precious. Thank you all experts for your service and sacrifice and just for your expertise. Movies should be hiring you guys to get their movies right.
The reaper said if it moves shoot it but a guy who is a medic you don't shoot. He said he would have taken that shot. Instant war-crime don't shoot medics even as the Germans and Japanese did it, we do not, and all sniper weapons have floating barrels Bollix some do but some don't I fired the British L96 hit targets at 1000yds and I ain't no sniper as on operation banner and a home service Royal Irish regiment and Ulster Defence Regiment's we didn't have snipers but we did have COP teams witch I was a member of the first one in my regiment.
@@harry9392I have a weird theory that sniper guy they have on here is stolen valor. He was on another video saying that a 50 cal beretta would “take your arm off if few within a few feet of you.” Spoken like someone who’s never touched a rifle in their life.
@@harry9392Honestly in the movie Mr Doss couldn't easily be identified as a medic And medics are allowed to be shot if they carry weapons (Wich Mr Doss of course wasn't) And the whole floating barrel issue I have honestly no knowledge on
@Skaffa_Duck hacksaw ridge excellent movie medics were not to be engaged by the enemy , if a medic is shot it would be a war crime, but that was the Japanese in WW2 Didn't care about the Geneva convention. A good friend was murdered by the IRA on an attack on Musgrave Park Military hospital in Belfast, they didn't care who they killed,
It vibrates and moves freely during the shot process in a normal manner without interference from the stock, therefore allowing performance to be more consistent and accurate by letting the barrel process that shot naturally and not be held back by any hard contact during the shot process There fore more accurate
My father was a Marine who served in Vietnam told me a lot about his experience at basic and their reception when they got home but wouldn’t go any further than that. Unfortunately he passed away due to pancreatic cancer a few years ago rather quickly and I never got the chance to talk to him about it anymore. He did say boot in the Marines was brutal back then. They took a young boy and turned you into a Man. He spoke about a big guy in boot who was a mouthy bully to some of the guys. One day he was called away and returned later a different person. Later they found out he had been beaten pretty badly when they noticed all the bruising to his body but the only thing he would ever admit is that it was a training accident. But everyone knew. My Uncle served in WW2 in the 101st Airborne 501G He’s been in several books and even received several additional medals years later during his funeral issued by then President Clinton. He never talked about his experiences either but I was young at the time and didn’t understand. A few years after his passing I got to read his memoirs which some were included into published books as well as watched some interviews with historians and such for movies, other books and so on. He was even asked to be a part of the making of Band of Brothers but declined. He came home after the war became a farmer and lived the rest of his life in peace. He was an amazing man and gentle but he wasn’t to trifled with either.
He lived one with distinction…. And that should not be forgotten, may he rest In peace
@@jackthorton10 Never forgotten! Thank you very much! Semper Fi
There is seldom a more dangerous animal on earth then a man who’s been to war and just wants to live the rest of his days in peace and solitude, when you force him to get involved in something he has no interest in getting involved with, never underestimate the quiet old vet who sits in the corner trying to keep to himself.
@@louiswolff9382 without a doubt. Both my dad, my grandfather and uncle were that way. I’d only ever seen my dad get into on fight and that was due to my aunts (his sister) boyfriend had beaten her and my dad confronted him about it and the dude got hostile and mouthy. Needless to say dude got his rear end handed to him and never touched my aunt again. My uncle had found a diary belonging to a German officer and brought it home with him because he found a picture and an address to the person in the picture within the diary. He sent it to the woman who replied back asking how he had gotten it. Anyway he found out the officer made it out alive and was the one who responded. They became very good penpals over the years. The crazy thing about it is that my uncle kept trying to get him and the officer had put a reward out against my uncle. It’s so awesome knowing that two people who were actively to kill the other for almost a year became very good friends after the wars end. I’ve been very honored to hear some of the stories from my father (Vietnam), grandfather (WW2 Pilot Japan and Korean War) and my Uncle (WW2 Europe and Japan). Thank you for your reply and for your service! It’s still my biggest regret to this day that I didn’t get to do my part and serve like my family and so many others before me. God Bless!
You're bringing back memories... When I was in basic, we had one D I almost everybody looked up to, maxed out every PT test. Well, he had a distinctive voice that I could mimic, I probably don't have to go further. But one of my buddies had glasses like his, we stole his brown round and I went room to room imitating him for morale, we had a rough week or so. I get to the last group of guys to prank, walk in the room, everyone that saw me, at ease, I went into my spill, got a laugh, and heard, at ease, stop stop, I said, we've done that already. After lookin at the fear, mostly for me, on all of their faces, my heart fell to my feet. Needless to say, I got a workout of a lifetime. In that process, he told me how he felt about me putting my grubby lil private hands on his brown round. He also told me, he respected why I did it, afterwards
Thank you for putting all these experts together into one video! Bravo!
When I went through boot camp at Paris island, the Drill Instructors were some of the funniest people I ever met. But you couldn’t laugh other wise they’d haze the soul out of our bodies.
"them paintball bullets, they hurt?" had me laughing so hard
I went to a mostly Marines reform boot camp when I was 17 as an attempt to get me out of the life I was spiraling down into. There were a couple Army guys, and one Air Force, but the majority of the DIs were Marines. It was completely ran in the military format, minus weapons, and all the fun stuff. I don't ever remember cursing, or touching. There was the brim of the round cover when you were getting swarmed, but that was about it. Unfortunately, I didn't learn the lessons I should've at the time. Cleaned me up for a couple months before I ended back up with the same friends, doing the same stupid stuff. Took me a few years to figure it out, and clean up. Funny enough, the lessons I should've learned back then didn't come to me until afterwards. I still remember the Drill Instructors, name and face. Some really good dudes that actually gave a damn about us youngsters, and misfits.
My only criticism is the ripsaw tank is actually as sick as it looks and can do what he was saying it couldn't on ice. They are made in my state and ive seen it in action personally and its nuts!
50:27 are you telling me that my battlefield k/d ratio was in double digits because I was setting up and moving like a real sniper?😂
For the bomb defusal with the stethoscope, it's entirely accurate. I work on vehicles and diagnose problems. And sometimes in order to determine what is going wrong, such as a clicking noise or a mechanical failure, we have a form of a stethoscope that we can use to find what part(s) are clicking, rubbing, or just mechanically functioning incorrectly. So I'm glad that it was talked about, as well as it being shown in MASH even though in the film was shown as a gag.
Uh, what? You tinker with cars, so you think you know that you use a stethoscope to defuse a bomb lol?
@@TzunSudude just shut up
@@TzunSuMate, go pound sand.
Tools are tools…. Most have multiple uses, except the tools that car companies make for that “one” bolt that just had to be different. Moral of the story….. don’t be a dick just because you don’t know what you’re talking about.😎
Gunship guy here, we knew exactly how to take care of a VBIED
To Mr. Moran While training at NTC back in the early 80s we did indeed attach grappling hooks /w rope to our tracks(M-113 type). The plan was to drive up to the wire toss the grapple over the wire drive back taking the wire with us opening up a gap for the rest of the company.
Combat engineers would absolutely do that. infantry or cav, not so much
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I really enjoy Nicholas Irving’s analysis and stories. Not taking anything away from the rest of the folks. I just find the sniper analysis fascinating and I’ve heard other stories from Irving before. He does a great job! These videos are great and I enjoyed everyone’s analysis! Thanks for putting this together. Happy New Year and God bless…
He's also perpetuated a lie about the .50 that it could take your arm off with out hitting it.
@@Patriot46426 - Oh. Okay.
@@Patriot46426 no he dint you saw a small clip edited by another guy specifically to discredit Irving if you watch the full video he was talking about the perception of the weapon in movies and TV shows not the real thing
In the 80s, in the Army, they called the O-course, a "confidence course". It built confidence in yourself when you were able complete it in good time.
In the late 90's, you had the O-course and the Confidence course. The O-course is meant to be fast. The Confidence course is dangerous and done slowly.
It was still the confidence course in 2010 when I went through.
You can thank USMC Captain Dale Dye for so many of these movies and shows scenes historical and realistic accuracy that he was a technical advisor on. He was the baddest of the bad, three tours in ‘Nam, a Bronze Star w/ Combat V recipient, multiple Purple Hearts.
57:38 My dad, who was a Master Gunnery Sergeant often said it was typically easier to teach and train women to shoot at the range than it was guys, because typically women would listen more carefully to what they're being told/taught and were more patient about taking their shots. Furthermore, he said the criticism that women tending to second-guess themselves more than men is an asset for women in regards to accurate shooting, because if you think you can do a better shot than what you're dialed in at at that time, you should absolutely reassess rather than just going for it, and sharpshooters, snipers, what-have-you are experts at doing that--obviously far more than your typical person who knows how to shoot a firearm.
Interesting! I couldn't win an arm wrestling conest when i hung out with my guy buddies, and I knew it. My inability to match them physically made me focus on sports that i felt put me on a more even standing. I put so much effort in perfecting my aim that i excelled in anything with a target involved to the point where even I was surprised. We all need to find our strengths and use it to whatever advantage we can to contribute. Your dad is a gem for spotting people's strengths and interpreting it to such an analytical degree.
When was the last time you see a guy read the instructions for anything? I built a galvanized steel shed, 10x12 in the summer heat. Built a base with 2x4 and plywood, I winged the entire thing. Had to backtrack a few times because I didn't read the instructions thoroughly.
@@2shy1151 not in 2024. Women are just as strong as men now. There was a street interview and they asked women if a woman can beat Floyd Mayweather in a boxing match. The women said yes, if they were the same weight. This is Floyd, the undefeated boxer, regarded as one of the best boxers of all time. I was 135lbs at 19 and was bench pressing 180lbs. Waiting to see a 135lbs woman do that. But you're right, find what you're strong at and focus on it and not try to have a pissing contesting at every chance.
this is literally evolution, women are more precise and men have more burst strength. basically men can hit really hard really fast, and women were really good at throwing spears and dealing precise death blows, if you want to get into the loadouts of ancient cavemen and women@@2shy1151
to add on im not saying women were the only ones good at it, because humans in general evolved to throw things, but historically women had more precise eyes, for distinguishing tiny details in plants that lead to life and death, picking berries, and likely had better precision because men are designed to be hardy and heavy compared to the same size woman
Shark Attack was way better than "the first 100 yards." Speaking as one who recieved the shark attack in 2010, and as a D.S in 2021; our recruits did worse discipline wise with the first 100 yards.
In navy basic, they still teach the bow line knot for stuff like line handling when porting a ship
Hazing was alive and well in '89, but not until you got to your unit. About 92 some guys got hurt at the 82nd and the Army said to stop, but it went on for years.
And I can vividly recall the shark attack because at reception bn some guys were rough housing and gettin mouthy with the female DI. So she said, "okay you MFers" and called over to the basic training company in front of everyone. She goes, "I got some hard headed jack asses coming to you who need corrective training." Then looks at the ring leader and says, "Especially Jackson. He thinks he's all that." Hangs up the phone and walks away humming to herself. And 3 days later... Man, we got off that bus and it was pitbulls on raw meat. Lasted about an hour I think. You knew you weren't in Kansas anymore after that.
Some pretty brutal hazing still goes on in the 82nd to this day, regardless of what big army says.
The guy that was a sniper gave me more information than I’ve heard before. The best part was he did all while being a super cool guy!!!!
There’s something off about him, he was on several other videos saying things that were verifiably false and would be easily known by an actual sniper.
They're the best at expressing their own insights. They always got something informative to say.
But many forget these are just films meant to be fun
@@supermike3529but the whole point of this show is to asses how realistic the movie/show is
@@supermike3529I’m going have to respectfully disagree. It’s very obvious in many of these films that they put in a ton of effort to be realistic. It’s pretty clear that most hired veterans to get the best insight. lol However at the end of the day the film has to be entertaining so things get changed because it’s Hollywood. Personally I don’t mind.
@shaun5047 well then we agree mt friend mt comment is in agreement that the hollywood changes can be for fun
MEPS in 83 had us strip down in a large room. No privacy. And we duck walked as a large group.
It’s changed a lot then. MEPS in 2015 and I duck walked with like 10 other guys in our underwear and then they brought us to a back room where a doctor checked every square inch of us.
@seanharris8419 03 probably around the same 10 to 15 of us
Same in 92.
*sees the lineup*... well, I ain't going nowhere for the next two hours and 18 minutes
So the navy’s final test is called “battle stations” and it’s held on a simulation ship that can test all aspects of casualties that would happen on a ship in battle. And as for the sailors, we aren’t fighters first, we are firefighters first.
This is how a real blog or vlog commentary should be done, listen and learn
I'm 45 years old and I still hate the fact that I can't serve my country because of my Disabilities. I begged my dad to enlist me when I was almost 18 but was denied because I have Scoliosis and a weak left knee. Still to date I think I could have worked in the Bay cleaning or kitchen cooking. That really hurts. It really sucks on a every day basis.
Yes! More reviews with multiple operators! This is good
I went through Parris Island in 1969 and the boot camp scenes from Full Melat Jack brought back memories that made me laugh today but during training, there wasn't any laughing going on.
I had very little, if any, drill and ceremony at Tigerland, Infantry AIT in 1967! It was most double time everywhere, loaded down with weapons and equipment in the blazing heat and humidity. And, if you got there early, you would double time in place!
saw it, had the OG speakers surround sound...good thing, ty Grandpa's & Grandma's.
A buddy and I got pinned down by a sniper in '04 off Route Grizzlies Sadr City. Luckily for us a Bradley counter sniped him with 2 rounds of HE from the Bushmaster.
That is wild homeboy got misted by an autocannon lmao i respect you guys more than words can describe id love to see a bradley in action one day
@@DeathDealer1825 during this battle that lasted 18hours our Platoons Bradley's went through three basic loads of HE. We killed around a hundred or so of Al Sadr's Mahdi militia. It got a bit harry for a bit as we were completely surrounded.
@@mikebrase5161 nothing but respect glad you made it out safe brother you guys are badasses
@@mikebrase5161 Was a gunner on a Brad for 5 years, got pretty good at it. Thanks for sharing man, stay safe.
Thank you Veterans in this!
They always bring highly interesting people 😂❤
The EOD guy said if they didn't have time they would just get it as far away as possible..... that's wild. I know soldiers are kinda supposed to not know if they are coming back.... but like running a bomb as far away as you can get it and knowing you probably aren't coming back.... Damn.... just Damn.... What's even more crazy is there's a lot of people who have sacrificed themselves for other people/buildings/ important stuff (for lack of a better word). Jah Rest Your Hero Bones! R.I.P. Brothers 🙏
The tumbler wasn't designed as a Frontline attack vehicle. It was designed as an Engineering vehicle. The jet engine was equipped on it for jumping rivers and pulling anchor lines for putting up bridges for actual tanks to cross. They even go into detail about its actual use in the movie.
Hacksaw ridge is a fantastic movie 🙌🏼
So interesting, always enjoy listening to soldiers and their experience and knowledge.
I went to boot camp in 1996 and we definitely had foot locker inspections, as well as bunk and hygiene
My drill sergeant made me do 100 push-ups for putting a MK-19 grenade launcher back together before he said to. It was a fairly simple device. I don't understand why he got so heated over it.
My boy Lee being shown during the Marine drill instructor. YAT-YAS
I went through MEPS in 1998 and we absolutely did it in an open room just like that. Probably less walking at once, but definitely accurate to what was shown.
I LOVED this. More content like this please!!!
29:42 “It has a tank so I’ll give it a one” lmaooo
Fantastic video… I am not sure if it’s the Specialities or Age , but the rating given each movie was very interesting and informative…
Great breakdown.I was really hoping youd look at the movie ' Enemy at the Gates' in the sniper section.And Cross of Iron' - Sam Peckinpah movie.Good to see a clip from M.A.S.H in there.I used to love that show.Keep on pumping out the good content.I havnt seen any Saving private Ryan and ' The Thin Red Line which is my favourite war movie and of course Apocolypse Now and Platoon.Lock and load from New Zealand.
If Douglas Murray were a Tank expert he would be this guy…..love this Tank expert.
I've watched many of his videos, superb content.
He reminds me of a few Warrant Officers I met in the Army. Technically they were SOA (Subject Matter Experts) so they were really knowledgeable on the systems we used. However a few of them went ridiculously deep into the material. lol Picture yourself making a comment about something cool you noticed on a design and then this guy going giving you a random lecture about the history of the system. 😂
They even showed us Band of Brothers in basic training (2005)
With reference to Segment #1, Timestamp 20:01 - "Every Soldier receives hand to hand training and Pugil Stick Training" THAT IS A LIE!!! I was VERY tiny for my age and was born in early November of 1961 and started Kindergarten in 1965. May 16th near the end of my Sophomore year in High School - The Lehighton Area School District in NE Pennsylvania conducted their annual height and weight recordings and I was a WHOPPING 4"8" tall and weighed 84lbs! I didn't even start puberty until I was 16 1/2 years old! I was bullied ALL THE WAY THROUGH SCHOOL even by the girls initially! No matter how many times I complained to my parents; their oblivious attitude was, "Oh it can't be that bad or we would've heard something from your teachers". I remember this like yesterday and I'm in my 60s! In Third Grade; Mary Hunsicker (straight A student), and her cousin Leslie Hunsicker (also straight A student), their cousin Laura Rebold (troublemaker), and their Tom-boy friend Susan Haas (daughter of my Cub Scout master - also a troublemaker) would gang up and pick on me during EVERY recess hitting me best as little girls could and chased me all the way home from school one day which ended directly in front of my house 4 blocks from the Third Ward Elementary School and I finally had enough! I turned and faced them and issued a challenge. "I know where every one of you lives and you'll always win a four against one, but I can probably beat any one of you one on one. I want you to decide which one of you will fight me and if you win you can keep on picking on me, but if I win, you have to stop because if you don't, I'll hunt every one of you down one at a time and beat you worse than you've ever beaten me. They chatted and put Susan Haas forth as their champion and we began to fight. I put everything I had into it and had Susan down on her back on the sidewalk with me sitting on her while straddling her stomach and repeatedly hitting her for everything I was worth waiting for her to give up. My mother heard the commotion and came out and grabbed me by my hair and dragged me into the house and gave me the worst beating I had ever received for the simple fact that she saw me hitting a girl. Well at least those girls stopped bullying me; but the bullying still continued from all of the boys at school. Because of my tiny size, I always ran from fights because I knew I didn't stand a chance to win. Because I always ran from fights, I never really learned to fight! I joined the Army in December of 1978 with 10 months of Delayed Entry for two reasons (#1 -with 7 kids in the family, I wanted an education in Electronics and didn't want to burden my father with college expenses & #2 - TO LEARN TO FIGHT!) and went on Active Duty for Basic Training at Fort Dix, New Jersey. My Basic Training was the FIRST CO-ED Basic Training at Fort Dix where women and men would be trained side by side AND THOSE BASTARDS IN THEIR INFINITE WISDOM, REMOVED ALL HAND TO HAND COMBAT TRAINING AND TRAINING WITH PUGIL STICKS TOO because they didn't want to get anybody hurt (the women obviously)!!! WHAT THE HECK WERE THEY THINKING??? I started Basic on Sept 3rd of 1979 at 6 ft tall and only 117lbs! If you only weigh 117lbs, it really doesn't matter how many times you get dropped for pushups. - there isn't enough weight there to really build any muscle besides the fact that I stayed out of trouble best I could and rarely got dropped. Even though I needed to eat much more than what we were served for meals, I got treated the same as everyone else in that regard. I barely met the minimum weight requirements for graduation on Oct 31st at 6ft tall and 131lbs with a FULL WAIVER by not taking a crap or even peeing everything I had in me that morning and drank as much water as I could at the water fountain in the barracks hallway before I was checked for height and weight because if I didn't weight 131lbs I was going to have to repeat Basic Training! If I ever had to go into battle and it ever came down to hand to hand combat I WAS DEAD! I've been in only one real fight in my entire life (if you can call it that) and that fight was with Susan Haas when I was 7 years old (I started Kindergarten at age 4).
The Reaper is scared of bugs…. I’m callin BS 😂😂
The first Guy was Great🤙. Positive, and straight to the point also super cool he has ties to the 506th.
Cursing WAS very much the thing when I went through basic training, also "woody woodpecker" (drill sergeant getting in your face and tapping the bridge of your nose with his Round Brown), we also did platoon compatition which was Drill and Ceremony (marching in formation and facing movement along with rifle drills )
Say what you will about the realism of Stripes, it is a comedy. But it is still a great movie. That parade bit shown here actually impressed my father. He served 2 tours in Vietnam then became an instructor when he came back. He was impressed given that those were actors doing it. Obviously it is sloppy compared to the people you see in military and civilian competitions. But given the limited time to learn the movements, he thought they did a pretty good job (even with it being a movie and all that comes with it, such as multiple shots). addendum: Off the top of my head I do not know the details about what my dad did as an instructor. What I do know is that it was special forces stuff as he was a Green Beret and the training had to do with that... As soon as I was old enough to want to know about his time in the Army, I also understood not to ask a lot about it. He told be a bit about the time after he came back from Vietnam years and years ago when I was young. So my memory about it is fuzzy.
You are wrong on the “foot lockers” In the time period of Full Metal Jacket all the way through the 80s when I went and on into the 90s we had Sea Chests. and the movie very accurate.
I've heard so many army DS talk about how much they hate the fact the army got rid of the shark attack. Weird to see the face of the guy that so many DS hate.
Right? And no cussing?
How you gonna say hazing had never been accepted? It definitely has. After the 60's or so, it might have been not so tolerant, but it was tolerated when needed. How do you explain IT in the Marines and otherwise
15:39 was my AIT company doing DNC. Never thought I’d see them on KZhead.
When I did initial training @ ft Jackson Jan-May 2003, the final event in basic training wasnt called the forge. We called it the ftx (field training exercise)
Forge is the new thing, changed in the 20teens, I think.
Don't shoot the flare at the helicopter. Good advice.
We are still taught the bowline knot in navy bootcamp. Its the only one taught for tying knots for throwing lines.
there's a sniper scene in Ghost in the shell Stand alone complex season one...around the mid season where Saito meets the major for the first time.... It'd be cool to get the sniper's reaction to that scene
Did mister Lamont Christian just casually drop that he sang the hard work cadance? The same one AngryCops uses as his end card music? The one that gives me goosebumps when I hear it, even though I live almost halfway across the world from the USA? Cause that would be amazing.
The immediate drop to a prone position is good to drill into the head, but that may change as drones become more prevalent on both sides. Going prone provides a restriction to movement and provides a larger area for attack from a weapon controlled by someone who isn’t going to get killed if someone shoots back. It's going to become a difficult situation for sure as there is no go to tactic at that point.
I always knew that Rambo and Baywatch were realistic
That's funny because that's pretty much exactly how it was at meps when i went through minus the drill sargent.
We did our confidence course. A lot more than two times through basic training.😊
Our country is on its knees especially when it comes to our presence on the world stage. I agree w almost all of your points. And to drive the most important of them home. Don’t just read “situational awareness “ but make an attempt to really understand what that means and put it into practice. Clocking exits and individuals will come automatically w enough effort. Stay safe everyone great video.
Pugil fight was conducted after Bayonet training to use the bayonet skills (Butt strokes or stab). However the Army did away with bayonet training early 2000’s and replaced with Army Combatives (similar to Brazilian jujitsu) but we kept pugil fights to teach confidence, courage, and yes- it was fun to watch
When I was in basic training back in mid '70s I saw a drill sergeant strike a trainee once. He was from Korea and a former rok infantryman. And at the very beginning of basic training one drill sergeant slap him several times and it got all of our attention. I talked to someone later on and they said it was something he probably expected after being in the Korean infantry.
I served active duty army in South Korea around 2017. There’s a program where every platoon has one ROK soldier aka a Katusa. Apparently that sort of stuff still happens to this day. All the katusa’s say the way we live is nice. 😂 A lot of the ways they work is still very old school. Their army also has a lot less money so they often go without many of the “luxuries” us Americans do.
@@shaun5047 KATUSA - Korean Augmentee to the US Army
When I went through basic in p5 my DS slammed a dude and pushed several of us over the course of training. The official line was no touching but it still happened and no one said anything
@@CubeInspector That’s dumb imo. It’s not like putting hands on recruits did anything good. The Drill Sergeant that I respected the most barely even yelled at us. lol I’m the type to be much more motivated if I disappointed my leadership rather than be scared of them.
The ROK army doesn’t have our rules. In the mid 90s when I was there , a katusa would be bawling if they screwed up and were going back to the ROK. The things they did to soldiers was not pleasant.
At 8:21, and I've made this comment to CSM's original video, the only thing wrong with that scene in my experience is that the potential trainees were standing in the room still clothed. Now, granted, I went through MEPS in 2008 in Upstate NY, so things may have changed or it may be different depending on the state, but we were told to walk into the Duckwalk Room and strip to our underwear immediately before sitting down and waiting for the other potential trainees. I don't remember how many of us were in the room, but we definitely didn't all duckwalk at the same time. They had six or seven us of line up and duckwalk back and forth once.
lol I went through MEPS in 2013 and I have to be honest the only thing I remember was everyone in our underwear in one big room. Then (I hope) in private having to spread my butt checks for the doctor. 😂 I think at one point he checked our junk out too. I assume to make sure everyone were legitimately males?
@@shaun5047 "he checked our junk out too" He was checking for hernias.
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I don't know why I laughed so hard at the sniper guy going from talking about the combat experiences he's had, including being pinned down by another sniper, to just casually mentioning he was afraid of spiders.
"I'm scared of bugs", says the Army Ranger sniper with 33 confirmed kills. I feel you Mr. Irving.
“the 50 is so powerful that even when missing somebody you can take there arm off”
Thirty-three confirmed kills... still scared of bugs 😂 WILD
Only a man with 33 confirmed kills is confident enough to admit he's afraid of bugs.
I was in the Marine corps went through training on Parris Island and we did stand on the foot Lockers. Now this was 1971 when I went through there.
Cool video! Bush Hat is wild though 😂😂😂
the flare is meant to be seen not caught...... lol I'm dying 😂😂😂
I came into the Army August 1983, this was the end of beatings, but the beating happen ever once in a while. Cussing was still part of the basic training.
It's almost like he didn't realize Stripes was a comedy lol
When I took my hunter's license ( it takes a full year) When shooting a side moving target, you follow through your motion while and after squeezing off. Then you don't have to hold in front or anything. Just move with the target while squeezing off and not stopping the rifle until after you shoot. Smooth movement. Follow through the motion even after squeezing off. So much more accurate
Somebody needs to tell that CSM that hands off on recruits might be something new but it definitely was not “frowned upon” in the mid 80’s, I watched the drill Sgts on more then one occasion take a recruit “behind the barracks” for some intensive “hands on” training, another one we were about a week out from graduating and this one kinda heavy kid just gave up, he refused to get out of his rack in the morning, there were 4 Drills’ one on each corner of his bed, they lifted the bed up over their heads with him still in it and flipped it causing him to drop about 7 foot straight down on his head on that tiled concrete floor, at which point they ordered us out and to form up on the drill pad, we never did see him again, by the time we got back after morning PT his rack was empty and wall locker cleaned out, it was good times though, I happened to be the only kid from NY, Long Island to be exact, and everyone else was either from the Midwest or south so every morning they gave me a sentence to say while standing in front of the whole platoon to laugh at my accent, that didn’t bother though any, I took it all in stride lol
No longshoreman were involved here. Line handlers association did that work. I'm glad to see the MV Carmen got out. She's the last ship we worked on Monday the 25th.
This drill sergeant is describing a boot camp that is WAY different than the one I remember
My Grandfather was in WWII, and he told me a handful of stories that he felt were reasonable to share (he obviously didn't talk about any of the worst stuff). I try to incorporate bits of what he told me, in my writing. He was in the Royal Artillery, and one interesting story he told me was when he and some fellow soldiers were covering their duggouts, and some of them used corrugated metal sheets, and he used railway sleepers because he knew they'd stop any rounds where they'd go straight through the metal sheet (they were obviously near a railway station or something similar!). They had a bet and tested it, and obviously he was proven right. 😉 I incorporated the story into my book, recited by a character's great grandfather, and one person told me it was totally unrealistic as troops would never make that mistake! 😂 But I think it was a different time. We're saturated with movie and TV to give us an idea of these things now, but at that time most of these lads would have had little idea about such things, and I think it would be an understandable mistake in context of the time.
"but it's Tom Cruise so it's probably really accurate". This guy is great and I fear him (the reaper).
I couldn't believe how highly regarded the hurt locker is after i watched this movie. I have nothing to do with bombs and i knew it was ridiculous.
They also stop mid-movie to go sniping for some reason, like bomb disposal experts also go sniping enemies regularly.
Yeah, when he was ripping wires out of the car bomb like he could read the bomb makers mind I totally knew that was Hollywood bs.
I agreed with all the veterans (I'm a veteran myself) except for the SAS dude at the end. The Geneva Convention does not ban bounding land mines. In fact the United States still trains engineers to use M16A2 Bouncing Betties (yes that's the nomenclature...same as the rifle). I trained on that mine and honestly it scared me more than any other landmine setting it up. One mistake and you're toast. At Ft. Leanordwood where I originally was trained on that mine, they showed us pictures of training accidents and what happened to soldiers who screwed up arming that mine. The UK may have signed a treaty to not use such mines, but not the U.S.. A few of his other comments also reflect the UK military's different rules of engagement and fighting doctrine compared to what U.S. forces used. But most of what he said was fairly spot on.
The CSM is more concerned about hurt feelings than preparing the soldiers for the chaos of war. I wonder if the soldiers will thank him for not mentally preparing them for war. Needless to say if you can’t mentally withstand a shark attack you aren’t fit for combat.
Infantryman here. Completely agree...
Yeah, I was thinking I never learned rope tying in basic training lol
Sh*t, I had to pass knot tying, lol. All that "rabbit goes down the hole and back up" didn't click at all. 😂😂
Ive always wondered why no one has attempted a ballistic suit with a neck brace connected to the torse with a swivel mount they keep talking about neck taking the load of the impact but the only way I see that being fixed to to stabilize the neck to the torso