GREEN BERETS React to Battle: Los Angeles | Beers and Breakdowns

Hope you guys enjoy this episode of Beers and Breakdowns, in this episode we break down Battle: Los Angeles
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[@mrjmarksman5148]

Best line ever " You dont need special Forces you need Jesus" Had me dying

[@FNGACADEMY]

Just sayin lol

[@pyeitme508]

Lol 😂

[@lukecollie443]

🤣

[@Andy-li2wz]

That’s your next shirt my dude!

[@andywagoner4869]

Absolutely

[@adxmnt1926]

"You didn't go to alien fighting school? Was it a budget issue?" 💀

[@toddkes5890]

I expect that in addition to the Zombie outbreak exercises, there are several people putting together semi-alien or other Outside-Context Problem exercises. Most of those would be using your training to counter the alien tech advantages, while getting as many civilians out in time before the Air Force Strategic craft or Naval Ballistic Missile subs decide to break out their heavy weapons. One semi-idea might be the Faro Plague from the game Horizon: Zero Dawn. You get informed of an anomalous thermal bloom in an area and you have to figure out what is going on. You have to scout out the region to find the small hackerbots, while also keeping your armored units available to deal with the combat and factory units. Oh, and if you blow up the local coal power plant the bots switch over to Biomass Reclamation making them a much nastier threat vs civilians and your troops. So it is still earth tech, just vs a machine mind that does not care for morale, losses, just pure efficiency.

[@archangelwarrior9816]

@@toddkes5890 And that game story wise as how they lost makes no sense to me because they eat biomass as fuel and the bio sphere will collapse meaning Earth becomes like mars so why not just nuke the living shit out the swarm I'm pretty sure they wont be able to run or repair themselves with 10.000 nukes to the face just carpet bomb them with nukes they should have nuked them with full force before the robots reached Europe meanwhile you have that that doctor do her work without the threat of being eaten by robots and after she is finitised the AI she created will clean the earth of the radiation voila the AI made robots to clean the oceans and the sky etc etc so she can make ones to clean the radiation and fix the biosphere.

[@toddkes5890]

@@archangelwarrior9816 You're assuming they had the nukes, instead of the various nuclear nations slowly drawing down the numbers over time. Or that Ted Faro had hidden the glitch for long enough that nukes were not an option. Also, punctuation.

[@archangelwarrior9816]

@@toddkes5890 Nah man we see them use a Nuke in the cutscene with the general I don’t know why they didn’t use the nukes more it’s like they gave up after one try and they only had 16 months to make the AI how long could Faro cover up the glitch when the doctor was called by faro immediately the next day she went to the pentagon I checked the hologram dates in the game so I don’t know why they didn’t coordinate a massive nuclear bombardment of the swarm and even if they didn’t have that many nukes I’m pretty sure it would have made more much more easily than coordinating a massive global defensive and also providing the doctor with everything she needed to build the underground bunkers for the AI. But hey if they won’t we would not be having that game and and sorry it’s just that they don’t go into details as to what they tried and haven’t tried to fight the robots

[@matthewconrad4728]

⁠@@archangelwarrior9816he idea of the games plot line is to only have tidbits of information about what happened and why. All we know was that the plague started and people fought them till the end to make time for the doctors (to put it broadly). The details of how they fought and what battles went like is very scarce. But the thing to take into consideration about using nukes is that nukes today will destroy the world if they are used. So in that scenario you have two options. Don’t nuke the robots and the world turns into a dead rock. Use the nukes and the world turns into a extremely radioactive dead rock on top of the radiation the planet would absorb from the biosphere being gone. The chances of the world engine doing it’s job right after the plague is gone would be far less if they needed to add more functions to it to clean up the nuclear mess we made in a failed attempt. Either way the world was ending and they knew that, probably why the idea of just nuking everything went out the window.

[@gochi6542]

Buck keeping a straight face on his outro monologue while everyone else is dying is gold.

[@FNGACADEMY]

Ammatures

[@stewartbrown6710]

OMG

[@pyeitme508]

@@FNGACADEMY so where can I buy the type of panda 🐼 t-shirt 👕 u wore?

[@FNGACADEMY]

@@pyeitme508 thefngacademy.com

[@ja37d-34]

Amazing. :)

[@nathanmoore8875]

As for the "3 hours to clear civilians" part, remember that the Battle of Mogadishu was supposed to be a 30 min snatch and grab that turned into an 8+ hour ordeal.

[@toddkes5890]

I thought the briefing was essentially "there are civilians in this building. Your job is to go there, count how many there are, and call in extraction for them. If we can't extract you, then make your own way out of the city. Air Force will be bombing this area in 3 hours, don't be late." Figure several platoons are being sent into the city like this to extract civilians where possible, while other units are going in to engage the aliens.

[@tokyosmash]

18+ hour ordeal* 😂

[@Melanrick]

And it was a clusterfuck. They managed to fuck that up and it was special forces. 😂😂😂

[@matthew_natividad]

@@Melanrick I’d imagine it’d be an even bigger clusterfuck with an ongoing alien invasion

[@leok7193]

Would've been a weeklong ordeal with Los Angeles traffic...

[@ChiefExec91]

The "This is what I've been training for." line was probably the funniest line in this movie. Even the Staff Sergeant was like 👀🙄😒 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@rezamirkhani4747]

"You don't need SF, you need JC!" 😂

[@FNGACADEMY]

lmao

[@pyeitme508]

@@FNGACADEMY lol 😂

[@LPM147]

HA HA! This reminded me of a scene in the 2014 Godzilla movie where the military had to retrieve the nuclear warhead that was taken by the male MUTO. It's basically sitting in a huge crater in the middle of the city, so they sent a special detachment to go get it. The funny thing was that on their way to the objective they were sneaking around from building to building in tactical formations. I'm like "Yo! You guys aren't fighting the Taliban, you're fighting a pair of 20-story tall monsters that have already wrecked half the city. I don't think you need to do CQB at this point."

[@jericho1-4]

I actually took my two sons to see that movie at the time and yelled WTF is that, even the JSDF don't do that shit when the big guy smashes Tokyo to rubble every one yelled shut up even my 10 and 12 year old sons lol .

[@AndrewJones-bj5hx]

I love you guys. My dad is a disabled Vietnam Vet, and the shit y’all do reminds me of watching ANY military movie with him. I’ll never forget watching a movie with him where one of the soldiers had a picture of his wife in his helmet, and he took it off to look at it, and my dad yells “Put that shit away man, that shit will get ya killed!” Brings me back to my childhood lmao. I appreciate you guys.

[@DonnaCPunk]

My dad was the same way. I hated watching military stuff with him when I just wanted to damn enjoy a film/movie. 😂

[@fredyllanos8972]

My son’s only 9, but I have a feeling this is gonna be our experience, when he’s older. Lol

[@christopherbrabham1774]

God how I hated that. As a Marine veteran I hated when people left their bottles everywhere

[@karynkeenan7339]

if you're going this route you have to do STARSHIP TROOPERS. absolutely. 100%.

[@The_ragingJewZionist]

Yes definitely

[@Longrangedisco]

😂 the last 5 mins of this had me in stitches. 😂😂 you guys are awesome at this 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@FNGACADEMY]

Thank you!

[@ninertactics]

During the Siege of Marawi by ISIS in the Philippines, it took more than 24 hours to rescue trapped civilians. I agree, a rescue mission of this scale against a superior force is gonna be hell.

[@TXDARKRAIN]

Before I got out of the Corps in 2010 I along with about 200 other Marines from 2/1 got to be extras in this movie. We got to meet Aaron and the actor playing the LT.

[@jamiestewart48]

Yut!

[@Autobotmatt428]

Was that you guys at the end of the film in the desert?

[@ja37d-34]

@@Autobotmatt428 No, they were in the dessert.. ;)

[@pontiacGXPfan]

so Jonathan Liebesman did make the effort to have real Marines in this film, in addition to having the movie's tech advisor appear in the movie. I didn't know that

[@collectornick4270]

I was 11 when this movie came out, and it made me want to join the Marines. I ended up never joining the military at all, but I remember being SUPER pumped after seeing this.

[@fuzzyslippers7602]

The last few minutes felt like a fever dream. You actually transitioned it into a selling point that is insane. You guys rock!

[@cbdy1358]

So for the LAV scene the actual person who was driving it was my Staff Sgt when I deployed to Afghanistan.

[@RoyalDog214]

*takes a shot*

[@mainepants]

Staff Sgt? Drinking a shot!

[@pyeitme508]

What?

[@spins321]

@@pyeitme508 They don't know that Marines call out the full rank. Be the one to call an E-6 and up "Sergeant" and see what happens.

[@JaySantana-so9zw]

@@spins321ea it seemed he definitely didn’t know that but of info on the marines. Marine or army whichever side , I personally can’t stand when someone from the army calls anyone e-6 : e-7 and up just “sergeant” I highly doubt but I hope there’s at least some in the army that agrees with me that’s a SNCO i would hope some in the army SNCO would actually like to be called by they’re full title/rank not just “sargenttt” sounds dirtbag Foreal lol

[@vikingwebproductions2627]

OMG this has to be the best review ever. Buck losing his shit on how Joe Rogan is going to get used has to be the funniest things I have heard in a long time.

[@ja37d-34]

Yeah.. :)

[@jayrivera6866]

Totally agree with you 😂😂😂

[@vanessa-8375]

"You don't need special forces. You need Jesus." 😂😂😂

[@paWANgbuaya1]

this is the best episode so far.. so much fun!! bravo guys so entertaining

[@FNGACADEMY]

thank you!

[@ericyoungstrom5745]

Ohhh they had me crying and laughing the whole Joe Rogan alien riff... LMAO

[@gendo1]

Best Beers and Breakdowns to date. I didn't stop laughing the whole way through.

[@FNGACADEMY]

Thank you!

[@ja37d-34]

Hilarious, but the outro... Man... :D

[@Fr4nk562]

I was listening to this while I worked out. I almost died from dropping a barbell on my face from laughing.

[@davidcage7501]

I did the exact fucking same 😂

[@jmanj3917]

At Parris Island we were introduced to the term "writing stick" as a pencil. A pen was an "ink stick". As in, "Grab your ink stick and prepare to copy!" This grew into "Grab your crayons", no doubt as an attempted insult. After this came the jokes about how we were such stupid, nasty POSs that we were probably eating our crayons. Whether or not that's the actual origin, idk, but that's how I experienced it on the Marine side of my enlistments.

[@MOTIV8TED1]

"Dude, I pulled a muscle." I'm dying laughing right now. Our nation's finest 🤣

[@alancranford3398]

I'm familiar with Army Time. Each Army minute has 300 seconds. I shocked my fellow soldiers and co-workers when I translated "5 minutes" into 25 minutes. If it was a half-hour, then that turned into 2.5 hours. Three-hour window? That's barely enough time to travel through Los Angeles outside of rush hour!

[@jesseincognito.]

*Alien invasion occurs* Sean: aight imma head out

[@kakarotwolf]

Best part of these videos is when they just go off track and start telling stories of when they served 😂 🔥

[@TheGosslings]

"You don't need Special Forces; you need JESUS." Best moment in thirty minutes of golden roasting. This was hilarious. Also, TruFax about Rogan. He's for sure into homo-strange.

[@415baby]

Sean legit has never been funnier or more on point than he was in this breakdown. Fukn hilarious

[@intricateinc8566]

Beers and Breakdowns should be a weekly show on television. Never a dull moment with all the story time and nonsense. Buck tell us how you really feel about this movie 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 "Battle Los Idiots"

[@curtism-w6b]

"Let's go show them how Marines do." B**** those are ALIENS! 🤣😂

[@mikecuskley8738]

Buck, you are hilarious. You deserve the success! Keep it up!

[@FNGACADEMY]

I appreciate that

[@row7820]

I recommend taking a look at a Korean war film called Tae Guk Gi (Brotherhood of War as it's known in the west). It's a great film that was number 1 Korea for a while and I think it's worth a review.

[@goarmybeatnavy841]

Totally. There are a variety of combat environments they move in too which would make for a great review for Beers and Breakdown

[@williamflowers9435]

Where can I watch that? It’s not available on Prime anymore

[@danielniffenegger7698]

“What do you think we are, rotten tomatoes?!” Of course not! I expect a detailed breakdown of plot structure and character arc!

[@LeopaldStraus]

Kirk actually has the most hilarious stories and descriptions of commanders to grunts to regular army units. Has me dying. Love from UK

[@rosshixon6796]

This was the funniest thing I've seen in awhile!! The whole Joe Rogan bit had me dying!!

[@dylanbulinsky5637]

most hilarious episode ive seen ina minuite

[@FNGACADEMY]

🙏

[@Deus_Ex_Malcontent]

Dude, you guys are fucking hilarious! Screw the movies, just turn on the camera, crack open a few beers and start talking. Fucking golden.

[@andrewmccormack4295]

Just started watching these reactions,I've never laughed so hard as I have with these guys,the comments they come up with about the movies stemming from their military knowledge is outstanding. I think this one's the best yet.

[@austinduncan5065]

Keep em coming big dogs!!! You never disappoint

[@Nightbar0n]

This is one of the best review/reaction vid from you guys :) keep up the great work, Fellas!

[@alexandermaynard5386]

Can we get more of Buck ripping on Joe? Shit was hilarious 😂

[@politicallyinsensitive4200]

Ryan Cleckner once said that at sniper school his technique to pass the stalk was to get into position and go to sleep. Here wait for someone else to fire and that would wake him up. He'd take his shot while all the instructors were distracted looking for the other guy.

[@williamswiniuch7527]

I did a version of this to pass mine. I tailed a guy who I knew would get caught and once they found him they moved away from my area

[@mbarronv1]

One of the best breakdowns so far,!! I LMAO with the Joe Rogan Alien talking Byeeeee! 🤣

[@DammitBobby619]

I love you’re guys dynamic duo

[@theMadhatter817]

Do windtalkers next

[@leok7193]

My dude, cell phones don't use satellites, they use towers (tall things vertical from the ground), sat phones bounce off satellites, but don't run Android, radios can be peer to peer or repeater, GPS runs off satellites, but need cell phone data to populate map data, to include ATAK. And yeah, I'm a former Marine and out gear is garbage. We learned land nav with compass and paper and deployed with iron sight M16s to Afghanistan. I heard Recon had optics and computerized maps in the initial wave 🤷‍♂️

[@grantpflum6844]

About the phone thing, they needed the map because the Aliens were jamming a lot of the tech. Between the signal blocks and the damage to the infrastructure GPS was unreliable.

[@tlpineapple1]

If that was the case, radios wouldnt work either. Its far more likely that the extremely complex network used to stream 4k videos to cellphones has failed than it is that the aliens are blocking some technology but is blocking the one their enemy needs to communicate (or that it just so happens that those radio frequencies are the only ones not blocked).

[@thesaltking7355]

Just had the best drive to work listenin to this

[@StudM01]

Bucky, I just need you to know... This movie was one of my favorite things... Until I heard your EPIC rant about it at the end of this video. I still like it, but now YOU'RE one of my favorite things. You are God's gift to KZbin, and you stay salty forever my friend. 😂

[@matthew_natividad]

Sean’s rant about not fighting aliens straight up killed me

[@trptguy23]

You had me at "alien fighting school"....subscribed

[@tvushington6994]

Bucks rant in the end will always be Legendary 💪🏽😂😂💀.

[@solokom]

2 minutes Battle: Los Angeles, 30 minutes how to spit 101. 😄

[@ctilson176]

I served in the Marine Corps from 2003-2015 and honestly never heard the crayon-eater thing until a couple of years ago. So I towonder where it came from.🤔

[@ironmanfanman4001]

The sleeping bag story reminds me of the video of the kid in the tank going "you're not my dad" lmao

[@eriknervik9003]

I mean my favorite was the end of the movie when the heroes get evacuated behind the lines and the Colonel tells them to get food and sleep and instead of clocking off for the day and getting fresh clothes and food and napping, they start gearing up to go back to LA. Like seriously the Colonel should’ve just ordered them to sleep. Like they’ve been up 48 hours and there’s no reason at all to keep them on the line, they’re a bigger liability then a help when that sleep deprived

[@JESSEDART187]

…@ 30:00… IT GETS 4REAL…TROOF…!!!

[@bamarine247]

Plot twist: Buck calls the Guardians of the Galaxy for help fighting aliens and Chris Pratt shows up, but it’s his character from The Terminal List

[@04swimbeav]

Absolutely died laughing from start to finish with this one! Buck’s breakdown of California was classic!

[@nathanashley5260]

Finally get to see your army humor kick in. That was awesome😂

[@michaelryan3818]

The 2 big things that got me were 1:when they trst an alien to see where to shoot it, determining that center mass is best. They're marines, they would already be shooting center mass. And 2: when they decide that taking out the aliens' communications is key. Again, they're marines, taking out enemy comms would already be way up the list, ahead of evac, but no one in command came to that conclusion.

[@lukecollie443]

“Sup bitch, look at this war Dick” 🤣 y’all got me dying over here.

[@Drewtalk12]

Just when I thought these episodes couldn’t get better…BOOM

[@odameclement2325]

Imagine Buck saying "you don't need special forces you need Jesus" in a Church.

[@CS-ww3bs]

2:19 my favorite part 😂 "I'ma do yellow today"

[@thebigblippity5221]

Buck, your insight is always appreciated haha

[@thomaskennard707]

This one seriously had me laughing so hard I had tears in my eyes. “What are we fucking rotten tomatoes?”

[@Rob_F8F]

Buck's rant at the end (30:00) was epic!

[@napalmstickylikeglue]

That's a good argument with the cell phone except you forget that this takes place in 2011. Smartphones weren't on every single person. Also, the amount of cell traffic would likely jam any communications or data usage. The aliens didn't take out radio comms because they used it as a tactical advantage. They tracked the signals of their radios to figure out their positions.

[@MorganTDaniels]

Lol, that was hysterical at the end. The whole Joe Rogan thing, lmfao

[@buckocolt6618]

Just watching two green berets laugh and bullshit over stories is truly the most entertaining part, makes me wish i had a beer and was with them haha

[@xenophone2006]

The real reason Buck didn't like the movie is because it stars Marines and not Army. Just admit it! 😂😂😂 Great review guys, I was laughing my ass off at you two

[@LT_Xander]

It’s like watching “Mystery Science Theater 3000”, but for crayon eaters. 🤣 good sh!t guys!

[@zlopeztx7376]

25:10 Director for Fast and The Furious 10: “WRITE THAT DOWN!! WRITE THAT DOWN!!”

[@magic804]

Ayyyyooooo this whole tactical breakdown is pure Gold 🤣🤣 one of of your funniest reviews.

[@doc5081]

Air force vet, everybody in our unit (REDHORSE) dipped. Copenhagen. I did for years after i got out too.

[@timeglas]

When are you going to review ‘we were soldiers’? 🙏🏻

[@normanlittle1911]

I'm a 70's guy, Elton John in pink camo singing Saturday Night's alright for fighting!

[@SirKnight1096]

Come on Buck. I know you've had a freshly minted Butter Bar. They F*(k up everything. That LA could be 3 blocks with only 30 buildings and 40 people, they'd still never find them all.

[@theenclave6254]

13:10. Tbf, the goal was not to clear and search a neighborhood. Objective was simply to make it towards the police station, get the survivors, and get out.

[@dimman77]

Omg the ending rant was glorious.

[@FNGACADEMY]

👊

[@g3tshotheett]

26:17 I can’t bruh 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@discojelly]

I've never laughed so hard as I did as the last 3 minutes of this video!

[@CS-in3pg]

This is the best Beers and Breakdowns I've ever seen man, I laughed so hard almost all the way through it and then I completely lost my sh-t when you guys got "ambush tasered" 🤣😋😉........oh man, I pulled a muscle......... it was fking awesome!! 🤩

[@Mr.SisterFister859]

"What the fuck are we Rotten Tomatoes?" -Buck

[@azrielisrael8505]

Buck @31:18: " but that being said...." bahahahaha great review guys! and can't wait for the boot drop :D

[@FNGACADEMY]

👊

[@GianWarGasm]

26:14 i just die from laughing! I was jump scared here, dude came out of fking nowhere! 😂

[@jondoe170]

The dip stories are golden 😂

[@NvincibleIronMan]

😳😳 Joe Rogan Joe Roganing alien parts, in select theaters Friday! 🤣🤣💀

[@wildcard556]

I strangely wanted to watch this movie today, this just makes it better. Oddly enough when it came to the dip conversation, here’s me with a lip in reflecting on what got me to start.. good job guys!

[@1DjScarface]

26:16 the look of fear on the faces of special forces 🤣😂🤣

[@damonddukes8266]

You guys should do The Peripheral there's some cool military and shooting scenes on that show

[@johannesdolch]

Here is how you know if you are of any use in an alien invasion: You have Nick Fury's Cell phone number and when you call he picks up in under 2 seconds.

[@right584]

As an infantry man ??

[@stewartwilliams144]

😂. Gold.."you don't need special forces.. you need Jesus"

[@kalimeet___1524]

i feel like these guys use movies as a excuse to get buzzed and talk about thier time in the Army lol, i love it

[@AbelHernandezguitar]

💯

[@matthew_natividad]

And his reasoning not to fight an alien invasion irl

[@TheKlownchez]

29:08 This is a good point. Having spent a little time in the industry in my early 30's I got a glimpse of how much they spend on continuity and accuracy consultants in bigger films and one would think they have someone of a certain experience and competence consulting on military accuracy. Do you think perhaps they did have a worthy consultant, but producer meetings just always ended up with sessions like this? hahahaha, with the consultant saying everything was idiotic and they just decided to push forward with script as written?

[@accordsamurai]

The usmc birthday was back on the 10th.😅

[@mitchpietryga5941]

I would love to see you guys do Fury or Hacksaw ridge.

[@clarencebryant8292]

Friggin hilarious!!! Best review ever

[@VictorLaszlo46]

As a born and raised Californian, my first objective in this invasion would be to get as far away from the freeways as possible. If you're waiting on the 405, 101, 10, or 91, you're just waiting to die at that point. I would hightail it to the mountains. You wouldn't need to use the freeways to get to many of the mountains where I currently am in SoCal, so that's my plan. Take shelter in the mountains, reassess, and regroup. I live in San Francisco most of the year. I would navigate the subway network and chill down there. I would stay the fuck away from every single bridge in the Bay Area that's just waiting to die. I have no military experience, but I feel like I would do better than the people in this film.

[@ctakitimu]

Buck rants are so funny!!

[@CS-in3pg]

Guys, send flowers, I asphyxiated myself laughing so hard at the Joe Rogan Bukakke story that I died and went to Alien Heaven.......

[@FNGACADEMY]

🤣