The tank guy is just the best. I mean he just loves tanks so much it’s infectious

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?

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.

I love that. “People didn’t like what I rated it before, but F that. Fury gets another 9”.

This is why I love UKposts 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

Thank you for putting all these experts together into one video! Bravo!

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.

"them paintball bullets, they hurt?" had me laughing so hard

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.

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.

Yes! More reviews with multiple operators! This is good

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

So interesting, always enjoy listening to soldiers and their experience and knowledge.

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.

This is how a real blog or vlog commentary should be done, listen and learn

They're the best at expressing their own insights. They always got something informative to say.

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.

I LOVED this. More content like this please!!!

MEPS in 83 had us strip down in a large room. No privacy. And we duck walked as a large group.

Thank you Veterans in this!

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).

Gunship guy here, we knew exactly how to take care of a VBIED

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.

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.

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!!!!

If Douglas Murray were a Tank expert he would be this guy…..love this Tank expert.

*sees the lineup*... well, I ain't going nowhere for the next two hours and 18 minutes

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.

saw it, had the OG speakers surround sound...good thing, ty Grandpa's & Grandma's.

Hacksaw ridge is a fantastic movie 🙌🏼

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.

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!

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?😂

Fantastic video… I am not sure if it’s the Specialities or Age , but the rating given each movie was very interesting and informative…

Only a man with 33 confirmed kills is confident enough to admit he's afraid of bugs.

“the 50 is so powerful that even when missing somebody you can take there arm off”

They always bring highly interesting people 😂❤

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.

My boy Lee being shown during the Marine drill instructor. YAT-YAS

In navy basic, they still teach the bow line knot for stuff like line handling when porting a ship

Don't shoot the flare at the helicopter. Good advice.

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 🙏

29:42 “It has a tank so I’ll give it a one” lmaooo

I went to boot camp in 1996 and we definitely had foot locker inspections, as well as bunk and hygiene

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.

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.

I always knew that Rambo and Baywatch were realistic

I really appreciate Gareth’s view point

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.

Son of an Army Ranger, Korea. I never served, but he had lessons that can not be ignored. 100 mile, 100 lb.....know your friends first before your enemies....sleep on high ground.....protect your 'brother'!

The Reaper is scared of bugs…. I’m callin BS 😂😂

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

Your are pretty intelligent, i love your content, thanks for your efforts

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.

Brian and Dom being described as QRF is the best thing I’ve ever seen.

That's funny because that's pretty much exactly how it was at meps when i went through minus the drill sargent.

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.

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.

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)

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

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.

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.

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.

A tank would be a huge morale boost. Morale is critical in military and business

We did our confidence course. A lot more than two times through basic training.😊

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.

One problem with WW1 and early WW2 tanks were rivets (Grants being a case in point). An explosion on the outside of the tank would send the rivet ricocheting around the inside of the tank

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

We are still taught the bowline knot in navy bootcamp. Its the only one taught for tying knots for throwing lines.

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

Still remember when I was 17 yo, being butt naked in a line with another 200 or so men waiting for medical inspection, in August. The stench was unforgettable.

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

Two of my Uncles were in the Marine Corp in the late 1960s and went to Vietnam. Thankfully both came back. And the stories they told me about the Drill Instructors leads me to believe "Hands On" training by the D.I. back then wasn't as unacceptable as it is now.

Nicky Irv the best story teller since Tom Clancy. 50bmg tears limbs off yep even yard away.....ty for the story coach.

I actually got in a little trouble in bootcamp because I had a DI slap me. I then called them out on it and had a discussion with my DIs about what happened. I told the other two DIs assigned to us that the other DI had slapped me and that would not be accepted by myself or my fellow recruits moving forward. One of the other DIs told me that I better watch what I say and check my tone. I told them that the one DI needs to watch and check their hands and my tone will correct itself if that happens. I left and nothing more was said or done. I finished 3rd in my class out of an original 82, btw.

It's almost like he didn't realize Stripes was a comedy lol

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.

the moment i saw the chieftain i knew thats gonna be a good one

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.

15:39 was my AIT company doing DNC. Never thought I’d see them on UKposts.

When the first guy said AIT being 6 months or longer, i thought about intelligence AIT and training being something like "50 weeks at an undisclosed location", back in the early '10s when i was looking at that kinda MOS.

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.

The last guy is the best, true warrior

This was a Great watch..

See the volume / Sound reverb and such on this video vs the cut up one I seen on this channel is two different worlds. That other one was nearly unwatchable. The other video was a short section of Nicholas "Reaper" Irving's stuff. Some of this same stuff, but it seemed like it was recorded in a empty warehouse with cellphone mics.

Cleaning the head ( bathroom) with a toothbrush, I do remember that. Yes, you used to get hit, and have a good marksmanship skill was over emphasized when I went to Parris Island.

Regarding the Drill Team stuff that he said happens during more advanced longer training to keep up morale. I was in the Air Force and we go from Basic Training to Technical School, where we go to learn our actual jobs. Sometimes it’s as few as six weeks for more simple jobs to as long as 1-1/2 to 2 years for more complicated, more technical jobs. My particular job kept me in school for about a year, so I was in tech school for a while. I was fortunately recruited early on by the drill team, which was made up pretty much exclusively by people with long training periods, like me. In our particular dorm (barracks) drill team was treated like the football team in a small town high school. That is, we got to do anything we wanted and had our way. We had our own hall on the dorm and we never had any inspections so it was a bit like a frat house rather than a military dorm. We chose our own members, selected from people we met. There was no other way to even apply. So no one went on the team unless we selected knew they were a good fit with us and there was zero chances of getting someone who would report every little thing we did that wasn’t necessarily by the book. If we got in trouble for anything anywhere on the base we just took it to the senior enlisted over our barracks, who saw us as his pet project, and he threw it away. We never had to do any extra duties. All we had to do was show up to formation to show we were still on base, but then we left and didn’t have to participate in the rest of formation, including PT. 😂😂 In return, we had practice several days per week, which was usually a blast, and participate in base competitions once per quarter. It was awesome!!