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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?

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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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.

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.