The Sad Story Of General Shepherd's 30K Marines in Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare...

The Sad Story Of General Shepherd's 30 Thousand USMC And US Army Men in Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare OG and Campaign Remastered (2009-2016)
Modern Warfare 2 And 3 Events Which Are Related To This Event Are Also Mentioned Here (2009-2011)
This Video Is About The Fate Of the USMC Soldiers Specially Paul Jackson, Lt Vasquez And Ssgt Griggs...
Parts:
00:00 Begining
00:25 Charlie Dont Surf
04:55 The Bog
0:44 Warping
14:39 Shock And Awe
20:13 Nuke Scenes
21:15 Aftermath
24:43 Griggs Saves SAS Team
25:07 Griggs Death
25:34 Conclusion
#cod #callofduty #mw2

[@KillerFromTG]

Can we get a round of applause for this guy? Because he fr took the time to edit and play this game from every mission dealing with the marines fucking props to you man we finally have an understanding

[@maroofbaloch1008]

OG shepherd: I lost 30k men😡 Reboot shepherd: I lost 3 missiles 😢

[@MajorAlex]

Lmao new shepherd 🤡

[@maroofbaloch1008]

Btw u explained it very well, good job and nice video. Keep it up

[@is0latedplays453]

New Shepherd be like: "When we shit, we bury it." Lmao what???

[@maroofbaloch1008]

@@is0latedplays453 yea xD

[@SpecialOperator]

​@@is0latedplays453 Probably meant that when he does something shady he has to hide it. He has to tie up loose ends

[@AeroHybrid]

To this day it’s still heartbreaking how the OG Shepard lost all his men and women; all loyal to him because of the nuke that Makarov triggered

[@ChangedCauseYT-HateFoxNames]

Motive, character and reasoning. All things needed for a good antagonist. I wish the cod devs remembered this.

[@MartiFarabundoSandinista]

In real life Marines are known to be the most loyal Armed Forces Branch, you can see they guard Embassies, Monuments, and White House.

[@Deathmare235]

@@ChangedCauseYT-HateFoxNamessomething the reboots severely lack

[@mozambiquehere5903]

3:10 Actually, Devil Dog is a nickname for the USMC. They've earned it during the Battle of Belleau Wood during WW1.

[@edm240b9]

That’s just propaganda. There’s really no actual historical evidence that the Germans called the Marines “Devil Dogs.” That being said, Belleau Wood was a very important battle for the Corps. In France, it’s literally called Bois de la Brigade de Marine; the Wood of the Marine Brigade.

[@elavatedqauser3685]

This guy has a few discrepancies like this in this video.

[@mozambiquehere5903]

@@elavatedqauser3685 I could see that too.

[@kewlkat2712]

Bro that's such basic knowledge. How did he not know that?

[@mozambiquehere5903]

@@kewlkat2712 Idk, honestly. There's probably some who didn't know significance of the nickname.

[@Rage_Battle]

"I know you understand "

[@jclefmusictutorial6238]

Yes I understand what your saying

[@hyouka_unforgiven]

No, right after you killed and betrayed Roach, Allen, and Ghost.. I WON'T FORGIVE YOU!!!

[@Rage_Battle]

​@@hyouka_unforgiven"choices have consequences "hence proved

[@hyouka_unforgiven]

@@Rage_Battle and some consequences will lead to death if you do the wrong thing

[@hyouka_unforgiven]

@@jacobsow8202 I understand that he did the right thing to avenge the deaths of his men (including Jackson, Lt. Vasquez, and SSgt. Griggs). But that doesn't mean he has a right to kill and betray his own allies, such as Task Force 141 and even Private Allen. He was supposed to blame Makarov, Al-Asad, and Zakhaevh for this. That's why "justice" will never forgive what he has done.

[@pluto7402]

Not trying to say who's better or who's worse here but Is nobody gonna talk about how, when the Marines were retreating, the NEST team was directly beside the nuke, trying to disarm it under the threat and stress of being vaporised along with thousands of other lives if they're late by even 1 second. Dudes were trying to save thousands of lives by going towards threat that they knew that if things go wrong, not even their ashes will be left.

[@robcoopz2444]

"Thousands of souls extinguished, by the push of a button..."

[@jasonx1174]

"Understand Yuri. This is only the beginning."

[@YoutubeWriter._.]

"This wasn't war, it was madness!"

[@altalt1250]

Man, this reminds me when the MW series wasn’t based around like 4-6 people at any given time

[@alexanderscout]

i think randomly generating them allows you to feel the way any soldier would remember it, the friends are named clearly but the comrades they wouldn't remember them much at all, this also includes important people hated or not they would still be remembered more clearly then anyone else, it also could be people who remember certain characters that are involved depending on the context, since there have been times where people were awarded with medals after they died

[@blas610]

Forgive your enemies, but remember their name😊

[@Normalnyczlowiek]

- JFK "The best zombie killer"

[@blas610]

Fr

[@ReznovRulz]

I remember hearing the uniquely terrified voice of the Cobra Pilot as a 11/12 year old kid when this game was new but simply thinking she was scared of being killed. Now with a more adult understanding, and reading news stories and wikipedia articles of how the bad guys treat women in that part of the world, I now know why she was so uniquely terrified of being apprehended by the OpFor.

[@mesiiahe7350]

Nobody’s Callsign is Devil Dog. That’s a general name for all Marines. The Germans referred to us as “Teufel Hunden” in the past, and Marines stuck with that.

[@trashman5694]

Can still be a call sign

[@MrElis420]

Try having that callsign in the Marines, get shit on by every Marine who hears it lmao.@@trashman5694

[@JollyGiuseppe]

@@trashman5694 That'd be stupid it isn't.

[@Michael-uc2pn]

​@@trashman5694it would never be someone's call sign because that would be way too confusing. It would be like a special forces soldier's call sign being "green beret". The entire unit is special forces, they're all green berets. Now a lot of times video games have the main character addressed by some generic name like "devil dog" or "marine" or "spartan", but the whole point of that is to NOT have the character addressed by a unique name, and help the player identify/self insert with the character. In real life, Squads might have their own internal informal calls signs/nick names for squad comms, but if your squad nicknames you "devil dog" as a term reserved to refer to you and only you, you're either master chief/doomslayer levels of badass and probably have some serious combat medals to the point where you're seen as the epitome of a marine, or you're the most boot boot to ever boot, and they're making fun of you and probably hate you.

[@seanpalmer3982]

@@trashman5694 no it cant, and it never has since ww2

[@darkaidenalex3551]

I wonder what Shepherd was feeling during the 5 years before MW2

[@ashassassin7153]

Sad

[@YoutubeWriter._.]

Guilt and remorse

[@ebonkinght]

i liked to think he had extreme Survivors guilt and went into a deep depression and maybe went into alcoholism before MW2

[@Deathmare235]

Determination, he was planning everything when he created 141

[@darkaidenalex3551]

@@Deathmare235 I mean it still definitely left a permanent scar he will never forget

[@jedicoolgamer5517]

About time someone made a video about the Marines in cod4 Modern Warfare.

[@BlackEnglishmen]

Never forget how compelling the original story was. Shepherd was not evil. He was devastated. He wanted Makarovs head by any means. And he needed his marines replaced. I’m sure he got his men, price made certain there would be no shortage of Americans willing to fight for their country again after New York.

[@hurricane7727]

Pre Nuke Shepard was Very Different from Mw2 Shepard

[@Deathmare235]

Shepherd is completely evil, doesn’t matter his reasoning for his motives, he wanted a war with Russia just to put the us at the top

[@jiwachandran9621]

If you think about it,if Price killed Zakhaev in all ghilled up,the og mw trilogy won't even would've happen.

[@MajorAlex]

Nah Makarov would want revenge For Zakhaev's Death ..Price had to kill Makarov First...

[@DylanoRevs]

​@@MajorAlexThat or Victor would get his vengeance. Possibly from Makarov influencing him to avenge his father

[@MAFISOXL]

@@MajorAlexmw3 takes place before mw4?

[@MajorAlex]

@@MAFISOXL COD 4 MW not MW4 LOL

[@MajorAlex]

@@MAFISOXL that means COD 4 is Modern Warfare 1 ..Always remember that

[@r.octavoc.r]

If Zakhaev died in One Shot, One Kill, His son will Avenge him

[@MajorAlex]

And Makarov as well lol

[@hyouka_unforgiven]

And then Yuri will be the one to kill them

[@gura_dura]

wow, the detail and analysis is astonishing, also brings light to tiniest details. oorah Major, I dropped a like too.

[@aidenheck2944]

A few things, the Blackhawk is the UH-60. Not the UH-1. The UH-1 would be a Huey or venom but there are none in this game. Also, it was also strange to me how they use blackhawks (an army helicopter) on an amphibious operation. They could’ve used UH-1N SuperHueys or MH-60 Seahawks but they didnt. I’d like to add that the 30,000 military members were likely not all Marines. A lot were probably Army, and a lot of sailors too. Edit: “Devil Dog” is the nickname for any US Marine.

[@kungpowdan9632]

The Marines would use the CH-46 Sea Knight for an amphibious (Air) Assault. Couldn't agree more with the other corrections you mentioned.

[@aidenheck2944]

@@kungpowdan9632 Back then the CH-46 would probably be the best option but the Sea Knight has been retired, would probably be the MV-22 today, no?

[@kungpowdan9632]

@@aidenheck2944 if it were today, yes, the Osprey would be the airframe of choice.

[@aidenheck2944]

@@kungpowdan9632 Also I meant that at the time, the UH-1N was pretty much the Marines’ equivalent of a blackhawk

[@thediciple40channel11]

It will forever bug me how an ARMY Lt. General would be in charge of MARINES

[@Trollolololdad]

Joint Chiefs and joint command. The Marines Jackson is attached to is part of a larger task force you as the player might not have seen in the game. A regular MEU that took part of Al-Asad consists of roughly 2500 Marines, so I'm positive other units from the Army, Air Force, and possibly even other foreign forces such as the British, Australians, etc were a part of the 30k men who partook in the battle. Think of 03 Iraq during the invasion.

[@tetov1620]

US marines can reenlist to other branches, skip boot camp, and keep a relatively similar rank, so not completely unrealistic

[@thriddy8191]

I was under 2nd MARDIV when I was down at the border, and I'm Army. Its quite common that other branches are under control if a certain Branch controls or runs that AO. Or if its a large scale invasion (like Iraq), it will primarily the Army calling the shots, due to them being the prime ground fighting force.

[@rumrain838]

That's how it works in the military, even including NATO allies under other commanders from other countries.

[@hurricane7727]

Cod 4 Shepard I think was a Higher Rank than Army General. I think he was a 4 star General before he was Demoted

[@yanke3564]

As someone who used to play the marine missions on repeat this vid is great man

[@deusvult1202]

Keeping Massey alive during Charlie Dont surf is still a greater achievement for me than graduating from architecture school.

[@Marauder623]

In Shock and Awe, if you take out both choppers with the 203 a marine will yell "Hell yeah!" After Deadly says "did you guys miss me?"

[@vadom2214]

Now I understand this story games in long time ago since i was kid and that how much fun i've had played it. Thank you for show explained.

[@mt2oo8]

It's simply just the amount of deaths the marines faced during the Shock and Awe mission with the nuke. A source says "during the mission "Shock and Awe," a nuclear bomb explodes, resulting in the deaths of 30,000 U.S. Marines, including the player character, Sergeant Paul Jackson."

[@hurricane7727]

Also Thousands of Al Assad Forces and Thousands of Civilians who were in the City

[@CoolSmoovie]

Back when you just played as a cog in the vast machine. COD needs to bring this feeling back

[@homefront1999]

OG COD was truly a masterpiece. I wish we could've gotten some more storry centric scenes or so. But OG COD was so good.

[@gura_dura]

Incredible storytelling by the way..

[@Velikan-0-9]

Those marines were one of his real sodiers not 141, 141 have there own soldiers they are just tryna help those marines

[@Killerbnizz]

Except it doesn’t make sense because Shepards an army general 🤔

[@hurricane7727]

​​@@KillerbnizzDifferent Branches of the Same military.

[@Killerbnizz]

@@hurricane7727 trackin all big dog forgot that the 4 stars run all the shows

[@hurricane7727]

@@Killerbnizz The Command in the Usmc Missions in Cod 4 sounds like Shepard to me.

[@Killerbnizz]

@@hurricane7727 idk either way it must have been him calling the shots if “he” lost 30k men in the blink of an eye as he says lol

[@doreldranga6769]

30k marines rest in peace

[@kellerweskier7214]

fun part. in classic MW, they are marines, using USAF desert digital camo, running the M4A1 that the marines wouldnt have in full service till later in 2016, running equipment used mainly by SOCOM mainly the SOPMOD, riding in on a helicopter used by the Army, being supported by the M1A2 (A tank the Marines never used, sure the army and marines have done support for each other before, but not like, mixing infantry and armor units together is a bad cohesion, usually an armor unit would support an infantry unit from a distance in combined branch operations.) good vid on explaining things though!

[@AlexandruMuntean17]

I noticed that in OG Version of CoD 4, Vasquez looks like he has a buff body and Griggs is a bit skinny, but in Remastered, Vasquez looks a bit skinny and Griggs looks buffer.

[@augustsiegmund5199]

You should do a video on the Rangers in MW2. Probably my favorite group of guys after the Marines.

[@MajorAlex]

Sure thing

[@augustsiegmund5199]

​@@MajorAlex thanks!

[@azuredragon9928]

​@@MajorAlexyeah the US army ranger in the next video especially all of the names, callsign and mission they went in the mw2 timeline

[@bishop357]

What about delta?

[@jcd_2380]

@@bishop357tbh they should have stuck with the rangers, they really stuck out to me. Sandman and the Deltas had no personality.

[@nathanhighvoltage5259]

Cod 4 had this mystic about it that new cods just can’t replicate. 2007. Was a master piece

[@Solider7]

The horrific incident that drove Shepherd mad enough to trigger WW3.

[@skullyskaric7779]

a good soldier never leaves em behind. shepherd is not what people think of him. he's someone i rather stand with. his hatred his bitter. most importantly his loyalty.

[@pitt96ful67]

We forget a little too quickly the civilians who lived in this city and who suffered the same fate as the people of Nagasaki. There would be hundreds of thousands of losses and I'm not talking about the thousands of enemy fighters who defended the areas which did not have the most joyful fate.

[@crusaderman4043]

The city was mostly evacuated, but as Fallujah has shown, there's plenty of people that won't leave their homes no matter what happens.

[@hurricane7727]

Death Toll would be Massively High

[@kendrickuykingtian0726]

It’s Makarov. He caused this to happen. In Modern Warfare 3, it was this event that caused Yuri to slowly betray Makarov.

[@YourLightning28]

Devil Dog is the nickname of the USMC that they got at Belleau Wood in WW1 due to how fiercely and ferociously they fought.

[@ravenops2323]

Thank you Major Alex for your heart ❤😊

[@thog8385]

ngl. best cod video ive ever seen

[@ThatGuy-mg3qv]

25:43 you see those cinder blocks, they where used in the original cod4 and was used in mw3 all that time later. (I made csgo maps and made one based on the usmc missions in cod so I spent hours importing and looking at cod4 textures that if u showed me one I could tell you the name)

[@murdichtv7698]

do you know what happent to 1st force recon and US snipers on the last missions i forget the name of missions but snipers you know and the guys who later arrived in black hawk when you are going inside were they all went or conspiracis by the way Very good video i can see you put a lot of time and effort in theis video keep up the work man👍sorry for the gramar

[@stone3640]

@ 3:14 , I want to clarify that "Devil Dog" is simply a term used by marines to refer to other marines

[@Aegon1]

Old Shepard > New Shepard Infinitely better in every conceivable way

[@Shjankee]

RIP Griggs the biggest and baddest of em all. Dude made me want to go 0331😂

[@Le_reaper]

I miss these types of missions in cod. I wish they would make more types of these missions in the newer cod games.

[@Nexus_Simulations]

That's a 30,000 killstreak lmao. New record. Probably camped for that nuke.

[@MajorAlex]

At once

[@Nexus_Simulations]

​@@MajorAlex lol, either way good job on the vid.

[@seulbilee1025]

Makarov for the win

[@liamh8926]

The mission where you rescue the tank crew was always so funny to me, because on the harder difficulties dozens of randomly generated marines die on the way there. What gets me is during the mission briefing you can see that tank has infantry support when the mission starts, so even though the tank was inoperable the crew could have ditched and retreated. Also when you finally get to the tank the infantry support is nowhere to be seen so presumably they all died defending it instead of just making the crew scuttle the tank. 10/10 mission would play again.

[@liamh8926]

Oh wait in the remaster it looks like the infantry support actually survives, but I swear they werent there in the original.

[@MajorNomad]

Oh, what I would give to officially make them the new stories they deserve in the reboot trilogy.

[@hurricane7727]

Also they should appear if we have a Ghoat 2 since that's a Different Universe

[@Zachattack6731]

Charlie dont surf and war pig were my favorite missions

[@optimize26]

From this video's Point of view, Gen Shepherd should have been made the good guy in the entire game. Not a villain. I hate that he was made a villain.

[@hurricane7727]

He was a Good Guy in Call of Duty 4. He was Command in that Game.

[@battlefrontnews4035]

Charlie Don’t Surf is single handily my favorite COD mission ever

[@drinny2214]

Back when the developers and writers actually put time and effort into making a good campaign.

[@Donny2200]

Js saw it, don't feel like finding the time stamp but the assistant principal at my school was named dunkelberger and one of the marines that was promoted to cpt was also named dunkelberger😭

[@1999200020012011]

I played the original MW as a little child and I remember being in complete disbelief that my character had just died....

[@MrSocomDude]

0:46 Those are UH-60 Blackhawks not UH-1 Iroquois/Hueys. 1:02 There’s two variants of Cobras in game. The Cobra (J variant) and Super Cobra (W variant). 3:12 Devil Dog is a nickname for the Marines not a callsign. 14:28 The CH-46 is not a older model of the CH-47.

[@DRourkey]

Great video but could you please add like 3 seconds to every sentence you put over the screen. Also devil dog isn't a call sign. It's a nickname for marines. They earned it in WW2 when the Germans said the marines fought like hounds from hell and they adopted the nickname devil dogs

[@u.s.s.r.1347]

Video topic:…30k marines… Me a Horus heresy fan:"…and here I am, bamboozled. "

[@bishop357]

Shepherd is in cod4 command sounds just like him.

[@themajesticspider-man6116]

Fun fact: Griggs makes a return as the main leader for the marines in MW 2019.

[@GodOfWar221]

Realistically, since General Shepard is a three star in the US Army. The forces being deployed in the game, should have been Army Rangers/ Regular Army. Would make more chronological sense. Not sure why a General of the Army is in command of Marines.

[@rumrain838]

This happens more then you would think in reality.

[@hurricane7727]

In cod4 in Shock and Awe I feel he was a Higher Rank than Army General because Mw2 Shepard couldn't control the Navy but Cod 4 Shepard has Control of the Entire Operation

[@VaugeComet]

MW1-MW3 remastered could have been made its own game and still be considered a good game in 2024

[@Janswat234]

UH60 "blackhawk", 8/12 chairs, 1/2 mg Minigun (or in doors or in windows) brother of UH1 huney

[@Simon.GhostRiley-yd3tc]

30K men nah this gonna take lots of years to finish💀💀💀

[@ianianotorius1027]

"stay frosty" used by military as their comms, which means "stay vigilant/alert".

[@BruhMoment-dm7rs]

No shit

[@Ship-security]

Sweet T2 reference.

[@FirstKenpachi007]

The title of that song is Church By Sean Price.

[@Kratos1400M]

10:41 Lt. Vasquez: Oorah? Pvt. Dunn: Oorah…!

[@JedeeFlojio]

Makarov's head at the end twisted

[@dusanivkovicc]

I have seen 2 Roycewicz in this mission Sgt. and Pvt.

[@SolarWolf853]

i only want to make a correction to the Abrams tank and that being the marines used the M1A1 and the army uses the M1A2 and sep variants but this video is great tho

[@JacobbbXD]

Now im in the marine corps, I realize that the marines in this game is represented only by the eagle and globe with no anchor😂😂

[@Igoruhandchu]

Dude I’m a speed reader WAYYYYY to fast on the subtitles. Good video though

[@whitetigerproductions8655]

Griggs didn’t die in the nuke, he died on the bridge with the SAS guys

[@D-Day867]

Lt.Volker's reaction look so real when the nuke went off in cod4, time is right here: 20:55

[@totalmentemad]

Playing Call of duty used to be so much fun and interesting.

[@ogmeatwad-fy1th]

The Og modern warfare campaign was so good. Same for Og Mw2

[@joey3654]

This was COD in it's prime

[@Drunkik14]

Oh did you remember me😂

[@jayazrael35]

Devil dog isn’t a call sign that’s just what we call each other marines. It’s our nickname

[@colinbutler9882]

Devil Dog is a term common amongst us Marines. It’s not a call sign.

[@captainpelayo7937]

5 years ago I lost 30,000 man in blink of an eye and the world just fucking watch

[@elijahullmann6231]

Devil Dog is a nickname for any US Marine. The name goes back to WW1 when the Marines fought in France against Germany.

[@horseclock6454]

You missed the part were Griggs runs into enemy fire with no weapon, gets on top of the disabled tank and starts doing the "C Walk" while his men are screaming. "GET DOWN!! SIR GET DOWN!!"

[@sleepyScush11ie_]

I like the video, I don't like that I have to pause a lot because the text is too fast.

[@StillVolfeCakes]

can't believe they nerfed Griggs' music

[@thebluetrooper15]

I see a thingy where the original cod 4 mw had more animation then the remastered. What do I mean is like where major Alex shows us ssgt Griggs in the remastered he was just standing when he was talking, while in the original ssgt Griggs had unique animation and more character depth. Maybe is just me but the remastered had better graphics and other better stuff but in the original It had more... realistic? Idk I just type all of this

[@Idonthavetheis-7]

Shepherd : I lost 30k men OG Makarov : ....

[@craftynait]

Yoriichi - split in half Gojo - Split in half Simp Cameraman - Split in half Plunger Cameraman - Split in half Audi Rs6 Driver - Split in half Deadpool - Split in half (old version)

[@Boy_TV984]

R.I.P. Sgt. Paul Jackson

[@joshuamumma6162]

Great video but that text goes WAAAAAAAAY too fast

[@SekitoHaniwa8318]

Oh, It was Makarov. Which is claimed responsible for nuked 30k USMC Marine in Middle East.

[@IsaacRousu]

Bro you gotta voice this over. Makes it a paying to try read and watch jt.

[@itsrockyiv8209]

Deadly, my first love.

[@dun0790]

I love the cobra but always was curious why they went with that rather then the more id say iconic apache? I mean i know there marines and that's what they use but still a few in the background would be cool

[@Eliri1999]

Damn man making me feel like a kid again.😢 these games will forever be elite.

[@FBI_AGENT585]

well you know how soap bled out in Modern warfare 3? HE GETS SHOT IN THE NEW ONE IN THE HEAD. and he go turned into ashes! but they put his ashes into the air. and that's it. (also yes this is a spoiler if you haven't played the new one yet I am so sorry.)

[@briarelemino7439]

The og death of soap was iconic.

[@FBI_AGENT585]

@@briarelemino7439 true true

[@AJayZy]

@@briarelemino7439 Price, Makarov knows Yuri!!

[@hurricane7727]

In German Shepard in Cod4 is Called Kommando.

[@threatlevel_TACO]

Never understood why this game got so much right... yet decided to put an LT as a crewchief on the helicopter. Its an enlisted position lol