The Most Gangster Marine Of All Time - Dan Daly
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Yet another longer video. one day I'll get back to making short ones.
I love the longer format. Helll you could do your own podcast
I like these longer format videos. Keep ‘em coming!
I didn't have a problem with the length of time. It was a good video. Semper Fi!
Hell with that i want the history lessons 😂
Please don't! I absolutely love the longer videos. I feel we gain more knowledge (and entertainment) with them.
Being denied the medal of honor because of politics might be the exact opposite of a participation trophy.
It was a damn insult to a war hero. As far as I'm concerned, he got the medal three times.
So like Jokic, should've won a 3peat in the award but didn't
sort of a participation untrophy if you will.
Yeah, I still want to know why Giles McCoy didn't get a CMH. Eighteen of his USS Indianapolis shipmates could've testified the Marine fended off shark attacks with no more than the heel of his boot.
In today's Corps he would've gotten an LOA and maybe a NAM
To be fair, “Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists” is an absolute baller name for a rebel group
Agreed.
That’s Chinese names for ya.
😅 The Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fist, sounds cool But Marines already have been called "devil dog, war mongers, spartans" and other cool names as well So would you wanna fight "the undying devil war dogs?" Cuz that's the question being asked, just not the way the question was phrased 😂
It sounds like the most badass punk band ever
Haha, for me it sounds like one of those special fighting styles you’d learn in a dojo, that you’d usually see watching anime, or reading manga.
Fun fact: William Thomas Doss fought at the Battle of Belleau Wood and received the Silver Star. His son, Desmond Doss, would receive the Medal of Honor for his actions at Hacksaw Ridge in WWII.
And then Andrew Garfield (fuckin spider-man) would end up playing Desmond
@@KRDecade2009and Hugo Weaving (fucking Agent Smith) playing his father
I would watch a TFE video on them
Aka the “Devil dogs” to quote Sabaton : kill fight die Is a soldier supposed to do Top of their game Earning the name They were the Devil dogs
@@KRDecade2009he did a good job though I liked him more in that movie than as spiderman
The most bad-ass thing about Daly is the fact that he turned down a comission as an officer. Dude was a warrior to the end.
most First Sgt.s would not become officers is it was offered to them
As a Navy Officer Veteran, that wasn't even in his top 100 of that day. Having a good NCO is a gift from God and keeps every military afloat. Having one as badass as Daly is too important to waste as a zero. He was needed to train those 18 year olds in how to fight, kill, and die. And he was needed to train those j.o.'s in how to give orders and lead. We would have lost too much if he had taken a commission.
>Implying officers aren’t warriors Chesty puller would be mad
@@devildog2378 Who said anything about Chesty? Chesty would agree with me, he LOVED his NCO's
I love how the Germans used devil dogs as an insult and the US just went "that sounds cool, let's use it"
Sounds like a US thing to do, did the same thing with the nickname Yankees
We seem to do that a lot.
The Aussies had the "Rats of Tobruk" name given to them by the Germans as well. Maybe not as cool as Devil Dogs, but still worn with pride.
We are the land of trolls. British regulars: let’s play Yankee Doodle to make fun of them. Continentals regulars: that sounds cool let’s use it.
And that's why we've won 2 world wars and they lost them
Ah yes, General Lajeune, the Marine's patron saint of clean drinking water.
jfc lol 😆
If there's three things General Lejeune liked to be known for it was his Birthday spirit and his drinking water. Oh I almost forgot the third thing, weapons.
I heard Flint Michigan posthumously gave him the key to the city for his advancements in water purification
They just didn't wanna tell the boots that they were trying to make them all modern day captain America's via joker water , but it back fired and made them into captain cancer, coughing up blood and and keeling over dead in a single bound : for america!
Clean?... I thought it was just water... by the barest of definition of 'water'...
10:59 "Kill, fight die, that's what a soldier should do! Top of their game, earning their name! They were the Devil Dogs!"
Sabaton, baby.
You do not win a war by fighting and dying for your country. You win a war buy making that other poor bastard fight and die for his country! US General George Patton
In a war machine they were the U.S.A marines
@@calglider13Absolutely true, but that was a quote from the song devil dogs.
1918 USA intervene until now they were mainly observing @@RakRescue
I’m a 45 year old man that watches way too much KZhead and I’m highly pissed that I just found your channel. You’re a hilarious story teller and you tell stories that actually matter.
Better late than never. I'm almost 49 and I only found this channel a couple months ago.
It matters to Marines to God bless America and Texas semper Fi
Fifty-four here and just found it. Two words: Binge watch! 😅
Gotcha all beat! 67 yo Army retiree and just found the channel today
The fact that "COME ON YOU SONS OF BITCHES DO YOU WANNA LIVE FOREVER" is emblazoned in stone in the atrium of the Marine Corps museum in Quantico is a testament to how worshipped Dan Muthafukk'n Daly is by the Marines. Gives us devil dogs a warm and fuzzy every time😁
Agreed brother, it’s beautiful
As a side note, the quote also appeared in a "Conan the Barbarian" battle scene.
It also appears in Starship Troopers more than once
It also appears in Heinlein's Time Enough For Love as a chapter title, although RAH cleaned it up to "C'mon you apes! You wanna live forver?!?".
Oh My Gosh! Defund the Marines with a precedent of April 1783. Who would call the mother of dead Marines the B-word? Trigger words inflame feelings, don't you know.😉 That language is so inappropriate in Virginia these days. Someone is sure to take offense. Marines need to become more politically sensitive, especially so they don't get caught up in Charlottesville Tiki Torch and Capitol Hill insurrection hooliganisms of soon to be a centennial November 1923 Nazi Beer Hall Putsch. With a title like a Hogan's Hero Colonel Klink, there's a Jungian Thing acausal cognitive link to Stalag 13 C-word Commandant recollections of Nazis. Commandant will probably get renamed like the 9 bases honoring Confederate States of America (CSA) politicians and warriors and the rename of Jefferson Davis Highway at the Quantico Museum. We need to honor President Ronald Reagan, who said Tear Down This Wall, with a Cancel Culture of the CCCP/USSR Soviet Union, and tear down that vile and vulgar b-word language emanating from obscure French woods prior to women in combat. Senator Barbara née Levy Boxer (D-CA) was called the B-word [and the C-word] when, as a feminist, she asked not to be feminized as a Ma'am. Statues have been coming down all over the place. Under the Biden/Harris administration we are sure to see replacing Sergeant Major Daly with the imagery of Admiral Rachel L. Levine who has the real courage to whack off her weenie and become a non-menstruating wombless woman as the real gangster defying the Laws of Nature where Sirs conform to the norm to Sire and Ma'ams are Mammals with Mammary glands for suckling the young... but that would be conflating mating, breeding, and breastfeeding virility and fertility with lethality using the FCC obscene excretory and reproductive organ genitalia observed at birth as rational for calling officers by their gender identity for respect and honor, while socially castrating the enlisted and NCOs with virtual orchiectomies --defined under the Umbrella Terms of Class-Conscious Transgender Marxism ☂🏳⚧ who vigorously proclaim Don't Call Me Sir I Work for a Living. Linguistic supremacy affirmation of subservience and subjugation, Don't Call Me Sir, loyalty demonstration virtue signaling know your place in the socioeconomic status hierarchy is Critical Race Theory (CRT) “Words That Wound” like the OCEAN personality trait characteristics N-word [neurotic] at the Google Goolag Ideological Echo Chamber along with other variants of the n-word for sub-cultures too sensitive to talk about, lest we trespass taboos where SIR is an acronym for Slave-I-Remain and Systemic Institutional Racism.
"This is not what we meant when we said we wanted to make these people more holy"..... that line slayed me like a kungfu rebel.
I laughed out loud at that one
12:50 I’m convinced that’s where Starship Troopers got the line from.
It was. Also, the ship Rodger Young was named after a Medal of Honor recipient from the Solomon Islands campaign.
Considering Heinlein was a navy vet of ww2 he would be well acquainted with Daly's story.
"On 31 July 1943, the infantry company of which Pvt. Young was a member, was ordered to make a limited withdrawal from the battle line in order to adjust the battalion's position for the night. At this time, Pvt. Young's platoon was engaged with the enemy in a dense jungle where observation was very limited. The platoon suddenly was pinned down by intense fire from a Japanese machine gun concealed on higher ground only 75 yards away. The initial burst wounded Pvt. Young. As the platoon started to obey the order to withdraw, Pvt. Young called out that he could see the enemy emplacement, whereupon he started creeping toward it. Another burst from the machine gun wounded him the second time. Despite the wounds, he continued his heroic advance, attracting enemy fire and answering with rifle fire. When he was close enough to his objective, he began throwing hand grenades, and while doing so was hit again and killed. Pvt. Young's bold action in closing with this Japanese pillbox, and thus diverting its fire, permitted his platoon to disengage itself, without loss, and was responsible for several enemy casualties." www.cmohs.org/recipients/rodger-w-young
😂😂😂😂
I’ve always thought that the best testament to Dan Daly’s valor is the aside at the end of his Navy Cross citation. After outlining the action for which he is being honored, there is an extra sentence (which I like to think was scribbled at the bottom in pencil) adding, “Oh, yeah, earlier that day he carried in wounded under fire.”
I swear, NCOs are what makes the military run as "smoothly" as it does. On another note, we should make a petition to posthumously award him that 3rd Medal of honor.
Well, if you don't have NCOs you end up with shit like Russia where generals are killed because they constantly need to move to the front to maintain organization.
I'll sign it.
If you do he’ll be the only man in the world to receive his country’s highest military honor three times
I don’t think the military is running as “smoothly” anymore
He earned it, I'd sign that
A German General said "The most dangerous weapon in the world is a United States Marine With his Rifle." And Germany wept with tears of joy that they didn't have to face Marines in Europe again!!!. I love the story of American's marching to Layfette's tomb and shouted "We are here Layfette!!" We have come to save France" in world war I. The debt was paid twice over!!!
Wrong. It was General Black Jack Pershing, Commander of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF), the commander of all American forces in France in WW1, who said that.
@@MacFinn-wp2vn he said americans.. I don't think he was wrong but thanks for letting us know who it actually was though!
Nice
@@marcanthony8475 Wrong part, “The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle,” Gen. John J. Pershing, 1918 not A German General.
Yeah but the Germans were right about everything
Sparky, I read a book about the Medal of Honor winners when I was a young boy in high school. Dan Daly was the first one talked about, one fact that has always stuck with me was that there was some hand-to-hand combat involved. Daly was on top of the wall approx. 6' wide so he was able to keep the Boxers in front of him. Besides the machine gun, he had a bolt action rifle with his bayonet attached. When the sun rose, he had a pile of 13 bodies at his feet. The book described how he was a whirling dervish, spinning, kicking, and stabbing. When his bayonet would get stuck he would pull the trigger and blow them off. He did this all in the dark. Thank you for all your efforts in bringing these stories to life.
"this is not what we meant by making these people more holy" had me crying 😂. Nice one.
How long has he been waiting to use that line?!
Hole-y
Me to
And me. 😂
I am a retired Marine GySgt, and I already knew all of his story. This was the best version of someone telling it. Your style describing this Marine Legend is spot on. Semper Fi, Fair winds and following seas.
Retired SSgt and I agree 100%. Most Medals of Honor are awarded posthumously. Dan Daley lived to get two and be cheated out of a third. I met SgtMaj Kellog (MOH for diving on a grenade to save the others in his position) at Non Com academy at Camp H.M. Smith. Shaking his hand was an honor and inspiring.
Semper Fi. This guy needs to be hired by the marines and teach usmc history in boot camp!
Gunny, how about getting this one for recruit training, maybe even enlistment
All his story telling and recanting of history is amazing. He should be teaching our youth....He brings history alive. Plus he tells it with passion and humor. Young folks would love it.
How does it feel to be addressed as Gunny?
When I was in highschool I did 4 years of jrotc. My sergeant major being like late 50’s early 60’s(never knew exactly) taught us about a lot of marines but Dan Daly was one he quoted the most. Crazy old dude but one funny guy I wouldn’t mess with. I never continued to join the military but the 4years I spent in rotc and learning about the marines, Dan Daly quotes were some that stood with me. I forgot about them till I watched this and screamed “retreat!? Hell we just got here”.
The "Retreat. Hell!" qoute is attributed to US Marine Captain Lloyd W. Williams. Captain Williams was later posthumously promoted to major and awarded 3 Silver Stars for his actions at Belleau Wood. In his honor, 2/5 Marines use Retreat Hell as their unit motto and are the most decorated unit in the Marine Corps.
Daly has earned his place among the national heros, like King Arthur, Sigurd, Musashi, Beowulf, or Leonidas. And ours is a verifiable badass. The legend is real.
I knew an older gentleman once upon a time named Melvin. He was a man of small stature and lived down the road of my grandparents. He was my father's schoolbus driver. My grandfather and I were visiting him now in his 90's and I was rooting around through his closet as kids do. I came across his military shadow box. I pulled it out and sure as shit even I knew as a kid what a medal of honor was and looked like. I grabbed the whole box and went out to the porch where they were. Apparently this 5'4" 155lbs soaking wet dude trudged out a mile and a half into waist high mud littered with barbed wire in France and pulled 9 grown ass men out by bear hugging them and falling backwards one by one for 3 days straight under machine gun fire. He tried to turn down the medal but the 9 men he saved basically forced him to accept it. You just never know who the fuck someone really is. Miss him very much. Sweet old man.
Did his name happen to be Melvin Bittle? Or Mayfield
@@robertmahaffey3574 I honestly don't know what his last name was. And I don't know if melvin was a nickname or not. I just knew him as Mr. Melvin. I've tried finding it myself and couldn't find a story that matches his but I swear I ain't lying.
@@timeis247 i looked it up cause i was curious. Both Bittle and Mayfield had interesting stories. Thanks for mentioning him.
@robertmahaffey3574 ya I came across them too when I was curious myself but both of their stories didn't match up. However he could have been a lying old man who didn't want to admit to his neighbors he killed a bunch of people so he made up a more pleasant story. Idk man.
He saw too much of humanities ugliness to want to spread it.
The man single handedly created the modern Marine Corps.
They implemented the "hands off" policy now, Marines aren't the same, brother.
Out-fu..ing. standing video. The 82 year old Marine who served from Sep 1959 to Sep 1968 applauds you for this video and others that relate the dynamic spirit of the Corps. Semper Fi.
If I have to homeschool my kids again this guy will be their history teacher
He should be US history, he's amazing but he definitely specializes in US history.
dan carlin
So basically without this guy, the Germans likely would have won at Belleau Wood, and pushed further, accomplishing who knows what. Insane.
They would accomplish nothing, the war was won by the British, French and Italian forces mainly. The US only came for the participation award because the war was mainly over. The only true americans who did most was the Harlem Hellfighters.
I mean possibly? Mabye some other marine commander does it but it’ll likely end up more in a stalemate consdering the way it was going
I've known about Dan Daly for a long time but I think it's high time we start petitioning to posthumously make things right and get him that third medal of honor. The actions in question were from before the rule was passed, if anyone deserves a third it'd be the fightenist Marine.
And a big ass statue!
I disagree. Pretending to de-wrong, or re-write, history is nothing more than a useless virtue signal. Better to just teach and learn from history and do better in the present.
@@tvh300 I disagree, by corecting past wrongs it honours his memory and tells present and future soldiers to trust that good men will fix things, even after death.
@@tvh300do you say the same thing about all the soldiers who were denied medals based on race and other political bullshit? For example maj dick winters SHOULD have gotten a MOH for his actions at brecourt manor bit it was downgraded to a DSC because the top brass passed a rule allowing only one MOH per division during operation overlord.......and it went to a colonel for the 101st.
Ya and they have been fixing that @@Banthisyoutube-zs6sx
Dan Daly wasn't 16 when he enlisted in the Marine Corp. He was 25. Daly was born in 1873 and enlisted in 1899. He was 26 when the Boxer Rebellion battle happened.
Makes the World War 1 actions even more impressive.
At 5' 6" and 135 pounds, Daly seems to have been a Nepalese Gurkha spirit born into an American body. I am certain that either party would have loved fighting alongside the other.
Actually very well put, that about pretty much sums Sgt. Maj. Daly up to the 9s
"We have this gun and we wanna build a plane around it but don't have inspiration...." "Build the plane with the personality of Dan Daly" And the A-10 was born.
Nice ! Most original and unexpected, Yet apropos comment. In a highly original comment thread! I believe you have set the bar very high my friend! Oo - Rah !
No wonder other countries haven’t replicated it. The A-10 is fueled by Dan Daly’s ghost!
@@Aredelomparing the a-10 to Dan Daly is an insult considering the A-10 would be pretty shit in a near peer fight.
So sayeth the lord
@@peqbox a near-peer fight? With what? It’s a CAS plane, it’s not supposed to be fighting other planes.
Semper Fi. Dan Daily is legendary, dominating the history portion of USMC boot camp. 30 years later I still remember the drill instructors telling us “bedtime stories” about the man.
My dad went through bootcamp in 69. Said every Marine knew who dan Daily and Chesty Puller were.
@@fox2102 Same in 1979 . Dan Daly's exploits were ingrained into our memories in a Highly Motivated Manner ! Semper Fi!
In 2008 they still were 😂 Semper fi
I'm active Navy, and I went to A-school with a bunch of Marines. As of 2019 Marine bootcamp was still telling all the stories of Chesty Puller and Dan Daily.
I'm guessing "bedtime stories" were doing push-ups in the rain at night?
Marines: Nobody likes to fight but somebody has to know how. Dan Daly: chuckles, fixes bayonet.
70 year old lady here and I just found out about your channel and boy am I mad!! Just think of all the great stories I have missed. Just watched the one about Dan Daly and wow, what a gutsy man.
Simply thank you for making this video. My dad was is forever going to be my hero. He was a combat engineer that was Marine through and through (so is my mom, they met at Camp Lejeune while both serving) and because of that I have always enjoyed any and all history of service members, battles, etc with particular interest in anything Marine related. He passed away this year after two years of battling two different service related cancers and that's the only fight he ever lost. He would've loved this video, so thank you for doing this, and please keep making more and more long videos showcasing the grit and determination our forefathers had that we need to regain these days. These legendary people from your videos can teach us a lot. My dad did for me personally, and these just add to it.
I can firsthand verify that love is indeed still in the air out at courthouse bay to this day...
I am living these longer individual story videos Nick please keep ‘em coming. Lots of love I hope one day I can teach history they way you do.
hopefully you like this one to!
@@the_fat_electricianhey man can you make a Video about the 28th EOD Company and Recon Marines or my All time Favorite the 75th Ranger Regiments RRC
@the_fat_electrician as a prior service marine machine gunner I would love it if you made a video on Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone
@@the_fat_electrician I really did thanks a lot
@the_fat_electrician definitely need to continue to make longer videos
My Dad and Brother served in the USMC. Dad from 66-69 and Brother from 91-17. 6 deployments. I love these Marine Corps stories. My Dad was my super hero. He passed due to agent orange and his Marine buddies came to the funeral and told stories of Vietnam. To hear how my dad was a badass and saved his buddies was a shock. My Dad never mentioned what he did. God Bless Our USMC.
Most Vietnam vets don’t talk about their experiences there. My wife’s uncle will only say that out of his platoon, only he and two others came home. And don’t sneak up on him.
@@STRAKAZulu only time my Dad mentioned what he did was because I did a fifth grade book report about Vietnam and had to ask him questions. He served with the 3rd Marines during 66 and medivac out in 67 separated in 69.
@@dustynpierson5924 if he was still with us, I would thank him for his service. My dad was Navy during that time, and got his discharge papers a week before his ship was sent to Vietnam. He avoided one warzone, only to come home to become a police officer, and fight a different war. Gang violence in the late 60’s.
You are blessed to have had a solider like him for a Father. God rest his heroic soul!
Gramps had a silver star citation shoved into a book shelf no one knew about. I found it a few years ago helping my grandma move some stuff. Looked at the date of action and it was during the Tet offensive which peaked my interest. Asked my mom after i left of she knew gramps had a silver star and she didn't know either. Would have never guessed it from looking at my 5'4" 120lb soaking wet grandfather. I mean i literally TOWERED over that man and he could still scare me shitless. He never would tell me the story about it though i asked 2 times and was shut out cold both times. My uncle told me he got it for holding off a VC charge on the huey gramps had been in when it got shot down. Supposedly gramps jumped on the door gun and stacked bodies until CSAR showed up. Sadly i probablly will never know the teuth cause gramps took it to the grave with him. We started finding out after the fact that gramps was a bonafide badass. He was with the 131st surveilance wing in germany and later out of phu bai vietnam. He had a bounty of 10k us dollars on his squadron for any pilot or crewmen. When he was dating grandma in germany he was flying recon over the iron curtain. He had to wear a specific outfit when they went out and he had plainclothes tails on him and grandma because of his cryptoclearance. If you looked at him he just looked like a normal blue collar man working to many hours to provide for his family. Me and the old man never saw eye to eye, i never felt any respect from the man till dad jumped ship and instead of running away at 19 to greener pastures i stayed and provided for my mom and little aister while putting myself through college........first time he ever said he was proud of me and i felt 20 feet tall
REALLY glad I wasn’t drinking anything when you dropped that line: “the missionaries were like ‘That’s not what we meant when we wanted to make them more holy…’”
I went to High School with a Marine...that sounds just like this guy. These Marines are truly another breed of warrior a step above anything anywhere anytime.
The story of his solo stand during the boxer rebellion reminds me of Ben Solomon, the deadliest dentist. During WWII he was helping as a combat surgeon for the marines, and in one of the largest attack's of the pacific theater his position became overwhelmed and the Japanese began executing the wounded men he had just saved. Upon seeing his patients getting killed he grabbed a gun and began taking out the incoming Japanese, eventually he realized that they could no longer stay there, so he orders everyone to evacuate while he grabs a machinegun and holds off the incoming horde. The next day when people are able to return they find him slumped over his machinegun surrounded by 98 dead Japanese soldiers. Despite this heroic action, the government decided that they didn't want to give him the medal of honor, because he was a dentist and dentist's shouldn't be fighting, so it took until 2002 for him to finally get his medal, becoming the only dentist to receive the medal of honor and proving to the world why you should always be afraid of the dentist.
Excellent writeup
That last line bro😂
Thanks for posting that info. Well done.
There's a video depiction of this story. Truly badass.
9 out of 10 dentists recommend things. He is the mythical 10th dentist.
This man literally made and lived a COD plot line that most critics would think impossible to survive. Good lort
Just stumbled onto your channel last night. Really appreciate your humor and storytelling. Backtracking through your content as we speak. Thanks!
Epic, his story is required basic knowledge for every Marine but you filled in some blanks. Your narration style is outstanding! Semper Fi...unbelievable details, WOW
🎶 In 1900 on the Peking Wall, Private Dan Daly answered the call. At the Rebellion he took the lead, and by himself he did the deed. In 1914 he won one more, fighting the Haitians just to settle the score. Gunnery Sgt Daly passed the test, he captured and destroyed a machine gun nest. 🎶 Sang that cadence quite a bit in navy boot camp. He’s pretty revered.
My whole family is and was in the military My dad was a mechanic in the air force I never joined but I’d be lying if I sayed I wasn’t singing it as I read it lol I don’t know the whole thing, but one of my favorites is ( I want to be an airborne ranger live the life of sex and danger)
Don’t know why but I can see Sabaton using this cadence in a song about him.
No lie, this sounds like a corrido "El Corrido De Dan MF Daly"
"surely something is going to pop off soon"
@@launcesmechanist9578 Sabaton did have a song called Devil Dogs. Which, because of Sgt. Dan Daly, became the nickname of the USMC.
The USS Daly named after Dan Daly had a great record in WW2 as well, never took much damage, was there for many major battles, did it's damage, and saved many sailors and marines. The ship ending it's service with 8 WW2 battle stars and 1 Korean War battle star. I think Dan Daly would be proud of the ship in his namesake, and more so for the crew that served her.
I had heard of Dan Daly from a marine buddy. But didn't know the whole story. Thanks for sharing this.
Nic, another Marine up there with SgtMaj Daly is Chesty Puller. Enlisted as a Private, earned the Navy Cross 5, yes 5, times along with numerous other awards, and retired 37 years later as a Lt. Gen. Just a few of his quotes: Upon being surrounded in Korea “Great! Now we can shoot at those bastards from every direction.”, or when a young Marine asked for permission to get married, “Son, if the Marine Corps wants you to have a wife, they’ll issue you one.”, or perhaps when he was at a flamethrower demonstration and asked “Where the hell do you put the bayonet?” because you know you gotta be ready to stab the guy you just set on fire. If you haven’t already check him out. A true Marine’s Marine. Love the videos!
Hahaha!! Heard the rest of ole "blood & guts" Chesty Puller's stories & general "lore" except for the part about what he said whilst attending a flamethrower demonstration... yeah. Sounds just about like the most Marine-ist shit [any]one could say about a fuckin flamethrower! Semper Fi
Dan probably had one of those inspirational auras and a battle cry skill that gives you 50% speed 50% attck speed 50% evasion 50% dmg The ultimate bum rush buff 😂
"We didn't hear the machine gun anymore, we thought you died!" "Nah. They ran out of bodies before I could run out of bullets."
You have a great way of narrating your videos and describing the events from history. So much so, that I didn't realize how long it was. Very engaging!
Epic Video. I love watching and listening to you tell the stories of Marines. as a note the author of Star ship Troopers was a Navy Man as well., I am sure he knew who Dan Daly was.
“Dan Daly the original Doom Marine.” - God (probably)
Wouldn’t doubt it
Level one: lots of fodder enemies with limited weapons Level two: competent enemies you best with the cool new weapon you acquired Level three: "against all the evil Germany can conjure, we will send unto them only you. Rip and tear until France is free"
Omfg bethesda and idsoftware need to make a collab that tells the doom prequel / cod xpac that is dan daly.
Dan Daily, the original Doom Guy
Nice
One of the legends that every US Marine is taught about in Boot Camp. His name is immortal and his exploits enshrined forever, as long as the Marines exist!
That was absolutely the best video ever, thank you bro. You are the greatest military history teacher ever. The fifth marines salutes you. SEMPER FI!!!!
You, my friend are an awesome historian and maybe even the best storyteller on badassery American warfighters I’ve ever heard. Subbed
I dont't know if he counts as an American, but Leo Major, the most badass canadian soldier of all time, was born in the US. He landed in Normandy on June 6 1944, single handedly captured dozens of Germans, got blown up by a land mine and broke his back, got back in the fight, lost an eye and, again, single handedly, liberated the town of Zwolle. And that's just during WWII. In the Korean war, him and 18 of his men, captured and defended Hill 355 from 2 divisions of the Chinese army. He was nominated for 3 Distinguished Conduct Medal, but declined the first one because according to him, General Montgomery (who was to present him with the award) was "incompetent" and in no position to be giving out medals. I'd love it if you'd tell his story.
He was Canadian
The USC is the second closest you can be to american without being one. The second is the USB.
Canada has soldiers?
@SSMr920Elite ya, you might remember us from such hits as "burning the white house down and chasing your president and the us army out of Washington. Sorry about that 😊
@@920WASHBURN Like 3/4ths of the Geneva Convention's warcrimes list exists because of Canada.
My great uncle was one of those eighteen year old kids at Belleau Wood. He died when I was about six. He was a real nice guy and my brother and I loved him. He was deaf as a post from the shelling, though. He never talked about the war with little kids like us, but I remember all the little ribbons mounted to his coffin.
im learning a lot of history from your videos! thank you for producing these, I love it!
You truly know how to tell a great historical story! I love it
Dan "THE MAN" Daly is part of the reason I stayed in as long as I did. True inspiration this man was!
Rah! Same here bro!
"nah I quit firin because they quit comin"
Crazy how this became an American saying till this day!
"Have not been in armed conflict for like.. 45 seconds" Nic's story telling attention to detail is so good he looks at his pocket watch as at that time the wrist watch had not been invented yet 👏👏👏
Semper Fi, brother.
7:48 The Lord works in mysterious ways.......
You Sir. I believe did a Great man, a great deserved honor in your rendition of his achievements of Heroism! Thank you so much for honoring a man who we all should strive, and would be honored to even be as good as his pinky toe!
It should be mentioned that Gen Chesty Puller won 5 Navy Crosses. He started as enlisted and ended up as a General. That’s pretty Gangster! Not a Marine here, but a legend is a legend no matter which branch you served.
for sure but I'm still giving that title to an NCO lol
@the_fat_electrician you could at least say "the most gangster Marine officer of all time" 😏
A badass mustang still gets respect. At least they earned the title.
@@the_fat_electrician you should do a video on him, he has the famous quote of "All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us…they can't get away this time.” and the just as famous quote of “Take me to the Brig. I want to see the “real Marines.”
Dan Daly, Smedly butler, chesty puller, Carlos hathcok, Few names I know. But there are so many legendary service members.
Dan dally is legitimately the definition of a one man army
One man Corps
That was a long one. I didn't move and loved every minute of this. Semper Fidelis. Yes, great complement to be thought of as U.S. Marines.
Well. Thank you. I've heard bits of all of this my entire life (56 now). I've never heard it all in one place...like this. Good work.
Dude deserved his third Medal of Honor. That would completely cement him as the greatest Marine of all time, hands down, no argument.
Difficult argument, though there's a reason he's a legend. Just reading through confirmed exploits of Daly's contemporaries like Smedley Butler and Chesty, the early 20th Century Marines really does just look like some ancient war god favored them all.
Imagine an MoH Leaderboard...
What if we all just start referring to him as the man who won 3 MoH's, and eventually just... pressure the US Govt into givig it to him
@@bordenfleetwood5773War will always favour the bold , the courageous , and those too stupid to know the odds. After all only an idoit sends smart men to war.
What i love is that sabaton actually uses his quote in one of their songs, great band, honoring some of the best heroes in ww1 and ww2 history
sabaton rocks.
and the song in question is Devil Dogs which is about the battle of belleau woods
Also their only song with a curse word in it. They refused to change it for the label because authentic history is more important to them.
Ooh Rah!! You did right by SgtMaj Daly with an awesome retelling of this time honored & sacred piece of Marine Corps history. Semper Fi!
You are to War History the way Mr Ballen is for strange dark and mysterious and Donut Operator is to police breakdowns. I’m a new sub, love your content.
The author of Starship Troopers (Robert Heinlein) graduated from the Naval Academy in 1929. The same year Dan Daly retired. I'm sure he would have been well aware of such a legendary Marine.
"Come on you apes! You wanna live forever? "
Explains a lot
Dan Daly inspired jean rasczak character Michael Ironside
@@dantheman1744 And naturally, when he shouts that "Do you wanna live forever" line before charging the Germans, I had Klendathu Drop playing in my mind
and also the fact that the whole plot point of going around sweeping clear the planets around Klendathu is just the WWII Pacific "Island Hopping campaign" in space.@@LanderKoenig
So, not only have I met a dog that outranked me, I actually served under his Great Great Grandson, also named Dan, in the late 2000s.
9th Crime?
HEY there, MARINE! Thanks for my freedom.
@@CrownVictoria-zl6dh We both came from there. We were on the 15th MEU 07-08.
@@camerontillery3331 I'm pretty sure you served with my dad and also tanks for your service I have the utmost respect for anyone that served in are military
@@CrownVictoria-zl6dh Small world. Tell them I said hello. Appreciate it.
I just started watching your videos this week. And I am a huge fan. Greetings from South Africa
Smedley Butler is also up there as a complete marine badass. He racked up an insanely long list of conflicts he was part of in his career and wrote War is a Racket.
dont forget his chest sized moto tat
His book is a must-read.
Also stopped a fascist rebellion in our own country after he retired.
Gotta admire someone that growing up his inspiration was Teddy Roosevelt, and he lived up to him with even more crazy adventures
Hell yeah man!
Its rare that i watch youtube videos more than once but ive seen most of your videos at least twice and this one i think ive watch 4 times now i love your channel
i just want you to know that i spent an entire 8 hour work day binging your videos!! lol incredible work brother. thank you
Imagine being so badass that you had a Medal of Honor nerfed to two other extremely high ranking medals, and then a law be put in place(for all intents and purposes because of you) so that no one else ever could ever be awarded more than one Medal of Honor
Realize that by this point there several double MOH recipients including some who had earned one each/from in different service. I would be more inclined to believe it was purely political and nothing to do with just one man
It is the Marine Corps job to fuck shit up, so I am not surprised in the least Dan Daly is the reason 3 CMH denial is because of the Suck. Semper Fi
My inspiration to join the Corps 54 years ago, I decided to be a United States Marine when I was 10 years old, I spent the summer of 1960 at Camp Lejeune, my brother in law was a Marine and my sister worked at the "Snack Shak" on base(the poggy bate shop) and I spent 5 to 6 days a week there with her as a 10 year old adventurous kid. One day a Gunnery Sargent came in in "Dress Blues",,,I learned all about the Marine Corps from every perspective,,,that Gunny took me on tours of the base a couple times,,,I hear from the real "Old Corps Salts" ,, I heard from FNGs,,,everybody,,,I said "thats for me, I'm going to be a United States Marine" and I am a United States Marine this very day,,, THANK YOU SARGENT MAJOR DAN DALY FOR SHOWING WHAT COURAGE LOOKS LIKE UNDER FIRE WHILE REMAINING CALM AND IN CHARGE,,, AND THANK YOU MAJOR GENERAL SMEDLEY BUTLER FOR YOUR LEAD FROM THE FRONT, HEAD TO THE SOUND OF THE GUNS, LOCATE CLOSE WITH AND DESTROY THE ENEMY TACTICS,,,GOOD NIGHT GENERAL CHESTY PULLER,,,WHERE EVER YOU ARE...
SEMPER FI MY BROTHERS!!!
This is the EXACT REASON I am unable to work with civilians. To quote Chesty; Old Breed? New Breed? There’s not a damn bit of difference as long as it’s the Marine breed.” Yes I have a serious attitude problem! Semper Fi
Thank you for kicking ass and taking names, Marine. Sure 'preciate y'all. Cheers and beers.
I am a United States Navy Sailor! I appreciate your story! I can almost relate. I have had a passion for the military when I was very young,at least 12 years of age and Im 29 now. My Pawpaw(grandfather) served in the Navy for 25-27 years as Dential Tech. Anyways, It is because of him, the endless stories he has shared with me, and following along his death( 1st OCT. 2020) is why I am an active duty United States Navy Sailor today. He made Chief in 1986, He Joined 1961. He had the luxury in working with, Pting with The Marines, and working along side of them.That man is my heart and soul. I plan on doing 20 years, I have done 2 years, only 18 more to go! Thank you for all that you have done with The Marine Corps sir.
You Do know your sister was the Snack on sale, right? Women on base even 20 years ago were (largely) rightly assumed to be fishing for a husband using their fishy bait, and cast a WIDE net.
Hey brother randomly found your channel love your story telling it keeps me going at work. Some of the saying I got some references and immediately thought starship troopers haha and you cleared that up at the end. I’m going down the list of your vids.
Happy birthday to the Marine Corps and Sgt Major Daly. Had to revisit this one today!!
I actually served with a Marine named Daly, from Ireland, with the first initial D. Absolutely Mad as a damned Hatter, but a damned good Marine. You know the old Stereotype; Irishman emigrates, becomes either a Cop or a Marine or both, and later buys a Bar? It exists for a reason.
So you met his reincarnation?
@@mugenokami2201 met, drank with, deployed with. Hell, he introduced us all to the great game of Hurling, which led to several drunken games behind his Bar, and a few guys going to the Hospital for broken arms, and one broken leg. Kid was born with Larceny in his heart; we needed new engines for our Zodiacs, the Corps wouldn't pony up so......yeah we wound up with 8 new 50HP outboards(all haze Grey)that somehow had the old data plates and serial #'s the next Monday Morning. He also received the Raider Dagger for graduating 1st in his Class at Amphibious Reconnaissance School. Man I miss Den; Mad Bastard that he is I hope he's doing good these days.
Lance Corporal underground in full force, it seems
Bro woke up and casually became lvl 100 marine boss who received medal of honor *TWICE*
stumbled on your channel and your are currently what is watched between CoD matches. I've watched your stuff and done half the forged camos
I really enjoy this hist-stories you tell and they way you tell them. Keep'em coming.
As a marine , I approve of this video. A little note to the story. You flashed a image of a painting that showed marines fighting with bayonets. That is part of a life size mural in the admin building at the rifle range at Camp Pendleton. When a young marine goes there in boot camp, it slaps your mind to what the reality is of our job. A brutal painting of Belleau Wood. To Marines, Dan Daily and a few others are the GOATs. Love your vids. Do one on John Basilone. He should have gotten two MoH’s
Funny story. I'm 5ft9 130-140. I was probably closer to 130 when I joined the Marine Corps at 17. Dan Daly was my inspiration when people told me I was too small to survive recruit training. They forget. Marines don't fight fair! OOHRAH!
If you're fighting fair, you're doing it wrong.
Same here. Went to Bootcamp with the mentality that they will have to kill me to get rid of me. Somedays, I thought that was the plan. Semper Fi
I'm watching this for the 3rd or 5th time drunk after LSU Won 52-35 over Florida and it's the beat damn thing that I have ever seen. Also it's a great coincidence that it's Veterans Day and Dan Dalys birthday. Keep up the great work and keep kicking ass. I hope to read your history books Mr Chubby Electrician soon.
Excellent presentation. Well written and presented. Kept me glued to my screen. Retrieving the machine gun from the dead horse at the bottom of the river is one hell of a story.
I had a chance meeting with a MOH recipient. He was a token guest and I was just a personal security of one of the attendants. As the event was drawing to a close, I walked to this MOH recipient and told him how proud I was to be in his presence. The next 30 mins was a conversation about life and duty. It was one of the most rewarding 30mins of my life and some of his advice I use to this day.
What an honor.
Who was watching your client while you were chatting him up?
The MOH recipient of course!
You impart any wisdom on any of us kids scrolling through this comment section
@@jmsmeier1113who cares?
Another excellent sermon in the Church of Uncle Sam. Thank you Father Electron.
Your videos are great. Fast paced, funny and accurate. Just subscribed
The coolest part of this video for me is that your history lesson taught me something that made me understand a reference to the boxers that I didn't understand before.
As a Marine myself (OAM,AAM), I found Dan Daly much more inspirational than Chesty Puller, and I still loved Chesty's story. Because Daly was enlisted and such a badass, I found him so much more relatable that Puller, as becoming an officer is not why I joined. Chesty was a great Marine Officer, But Fightin' Dan Daly was the embodiment of the Marine Corps. Tough, adaptable, reliable and highly motivated. If you ever wondered why Marines are so full of righteous pride, so determined and so damned hard to kill, it is because Dan Daly was the prototypical of the Marine persona. If ever there were a person that should have been the subject of hero worship and had many movies made about him, it was Dan Daly. If T. Roosevelt was president during WWI, Dan would have gotten that third MOH. So, here's a challenge to the movie making machine... how about doing something memorable, and significant, that would have the same gravitas as Saving Private Ryan or Full Metal Jacket? Make it a 2-part series. Open with his enlistment and up to what happened in Haiti for the first one, and then close it out with WWI Marines and the Battle of Belleau Wood and that entire story. That would be a well watched film set. Dan Daly is America's Achilles, without the ankle wound.
Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Too bad Hollywood is so commie Chinese anti American now…. they are unable to produce anything worth while….
Will never happen......we are not allowed to preach american exceptionalism anymore. Only mediocrity and shame.
Smedley Butler was the officer equivalent of Dan Daly. I've met Marines who served under Gen. Puller and I was told Chesty was all about his own glory at the expense of the Marines under his command.
Great comment!
Can we start a petition to honor Sir Daly a 3rd MoH post-mortem?
From this British veteran, you are the best you tuber on planet earth. Keep up the good work :)
Excellent video, thank you. Semper Fi from another Marine from Long Island.
I've heard of this guy before, but never knew the story. But hearing the term: "Self-offense" might be the most Marine thing I've ever heard
The enemy can't attack your position if they're retreating from theirs haha
The Boxer rebellion goes down in History as the GREATEST international jumping in world history. Britain, France, Russia, Japan, Italy, Germany, Italy, and AUSTRIA HUNGARY (apparently they had a colonial presence out side of the Mediterranean and Black sea, who knew) decided "nah, you think you're gonna mess with us? Get my maxim gun they're about to learn about the industrial revolution."
I know this is your video, but I was thinking the same thing the whole time about the character in Starship Troopers who was based on Dan Daly. Enlightenment never felt so good!
really enjoy your vids .I would like to see your take on the Navaho code talkers . keep up the great work