At what point does history just become an obscure 70’s action movie?
@TheSuspectOnFoot4 жыл бұрын
Always has been
@Tonyx.yt.4 жыл бұрын
you mean 60's documentary?
@Vettejocke4 жыл бұрын
1965
@remy69784 жыл бұрын
in the 60's Africa conflicts
@ShoulderShy3 жыл бұрын
Because nothing and all it's important. We are in constant shock.
@snazzy_spaz78544 жыл бұрын
"destination: hell Reason for travel: personal business"
@Roger-rh5lu4 жыл бұрын
I will be more of a mercenary, I will enlist in the French foreign legion and after a few years I will go to private security, a.k.a mercenary
@jamescawl69044 жыл бұрын
@@Roger-rh5lu Are you french?
@whattawhaddaya65614 жыл бұрын
@@jamescawl6904 Well Non-French can join the FFL.
@jamescawl69044 жыл бұрын
@@whattawhaddaya6561 yes, but it is significantly harder for those who live in the Americas and Asia to join the FFL.
@conormori4 жыл бұрын
That was hands down the greatest thing noted about any merc in that film. Chills
@Branflakes1434 жыл бұрын
"Did the Army reject you for your various mental problems?" "Have you ever wanted to see an exotic land where you can live off your pocket change?" "Is your criminal record preventing you from getting ahead in life?" "Do you want a free FAL?"
@theflatwoods20024 жыл бұрын
Yes.
@leoz84404 жыл бұрын
You had me at free FAL
@emeraldsentinel92alpha304 жыл бұрын
Answer is fuck yes to all of these.... Should have added "Are you an outcast of society and is just waiting for a bullet with your name on it to terminate your contract with life?"
@yeeyee3954 жыл бұрын
Had me at free fal
@joshuatamayo61514 жыл бұрын
born too late to be a mercenary in the congo
@jupjup78452 жыл бұрын
A lot of those guys were WW2 vets who didn't fit into normal life after the world war. Strange to see 60 something year old guys as mercenaries. The guys who were around 20 in 1945 when the war ended would be around 40 in this footage.
@vincentgoupil1802 жыл бұрын
They were called "Children of the Highway" who had no country or family to go back to after WWII. Many joined the French Foreign Legion.
@hummerskickass2 жыл бұрын
Be afraid of an old man in a profession where people die young.
@vincentgoupil1802 жыл бұрын
Yea ... on the other hand the average age of a guerrilla fighter is around twelve to fourteen years old. Some were forced to shoot their parents before being 'recruited'. In the rebelling Simbas their leader gave them chicken bones and feathers to wear that would stop bullets. The iconic image of a fighter was a young kid with an AK-47 with a plastic garbage bag for a rifle strap. While the number of mercenaries varied at times from three hundred to a thousand the Simbas were in the thousands who had no conscience maiming their hostages, ie. scooping out eyes with a spoon or, eating them. Many commentators on this blog forget or don't know 5 Commando rescued many of these hostages. Not all but many.
@SMGJohn2 жыл бұрын
@@vincentgoupil180 Surprised this false rumour somehow still stay true to some people, like you for example. Rather ironic its 2022 and you still fall for this shit. Reality is always a little more complex than "bad guy did bad things"
@vincentgoupil1802 жыл бұрын
@@SMGJohn What rumor? Please explain specifically.
@realdeathpony3 жыл бұрын
Damn Detroit still looks the same.
@Literallyryangosling7773 жыл бұрын
Detroit ain't that green
@MikeHunt-gz9dw3 жыл бұрын
Dead ass hilarious bro
@DT-sb9sv3 жыл бұрын
Right on. But Detroit has a few more burnt out buildings.
@crazytomato48453 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@e11-f2l3 жыл бұрын
Detroit never looked this good
@quasicroissant4 жыл бұрын
Not a cell phone in sight... Just people living in the moment
@mombaassa4 жыл бұрын
...and dying in the moment.
@MnemonicHack4 жыл бұрын
@@mombaassa Well you don't go in expecting to come back out. It's a pleasant surprise if you do.
@WarScholar4 жыл бұрын
@@MnemonicHack I think you're being a over-dramatic here. These mercenaries had plenty of material support. I think most of them expected to make a bunch of money and get out just fine. They might be adrenalin junkies but many don't have overt death wishes.
@MnemonicHack4 жыл бұрын
@@WarScholar Maybe, maybe.
@WarScholar4 жыл бұрын
@@MnemonicHack Check out this list for example and see how few mercenaries were killed or wounded among the many listed. It was a fairly safe occupation. They weren't stupid. mercenary-wars.net/congo/list-of-congo-soldiers.html
@BIGIFANDYELLOWCARD3 жыл бұрын
To those wondering, this is all 100% real and not a movie. Seriously crazy shit
@eggy67453 жыл бұрын
Apocalypse now shit
@saulgoodmansentme19923 жыл бұрын
really?
@mixjik43143 жыл бұрын
@@saulgoodmansentme1992 yes. It is from a documentary film
@FDboto3 жыл бұрын
@@mixjik4314 do u know the name?
@Benny---3 жыл бұрын
@@FDboto Italian documentary called Africa Addio. The Original Italian version with English subtitles is the best, someone uploaded the whole thing on KZbin. Avoid the English/US dubbed version, it's cut down heavily, has bull$it commentary, and is just generally worse in every way.
@Ohnoitsthatguy-6203 жыл бұрын
That absolute Chad rocking that browning 30 cal with his bare hands
@davidcox30763 жыл бұрын
When you really need to clear a house and don't have any grenades, you pick up an M1919 and get to work.
@nicholasthuya76833 жыл бұрын
@@davidcox3076 pretty sure 30 cal pierces huts made from cow shit
@prakharmishra55833 жыл бұрын
@@nicholasthuya7683 pretty sure 30 cal also pierces cardboard houses like the ones you live in
@RequestAssassin3 жыл бұрын
@@nicholasthuya7683 a cracker box is a cracker box weather it's handmade from "cowshit" or an American made pressboard McMansion.
@aksmex25763 жыл бұрын
@@nicholasthuya7683 That's so mean but true haha.
@williamnother80663 жыл бұрын
2:50 -Preston Garvey, on his way to inform someone of a settlement that needs some help.
@sponge5403 жыл бұрын
*"Fuck you looking at, bi-"*
@The.Hebrew.Raider.Association2 жыл бұрын
Lmaooooo
@williamcobbett49438 ай бұрын
Holy fucking keke
@SB-1294 ай бұрын
I laugh/coughed like dying smoker.
@Jelkitosix6663 ай бұрын
Hahahahaa
@tomonaut4 жыл бұрын
The days where you could sign up for six months in the Congo.
@tomonaut4 жыл бұрын
Mad Mike died yesterday. R.I.P. to this great man. Any videos about him maybe?
@Arcaryon4 жыл бұрын
@@tomonaut I stumbled across these videos this morning for no apparent reason as as anyone with a love for history and politics was hooked and now you are telling me that this legendary figure I just learned about literally died on February 2. merly 1 day ago ?! What a crazy thing...
@tomonaut4 жыл бұрын
@@Arcaryon Know exactly what you're thinking/feeling. Been having a lot of these coincidences too lately.
@yngvebalmsteen91744 жыл бұрын
@@Arcaryon I understand the feeling completely.
@recceeboy12374 жыл бұрын
3 months in Rhodesia depending on tasking.
@ThePainterr4 жыл бұрын
My uncle Jimmy Calderhead fought with Mad Mike Hoare in the Congo as a merc. He later dispappeared and was considered KIA leaving a wife and four kids to fend for themselves. Twenty years later through my cousins persistent efforts, Europol located uncle Jimmy residing in Spain in total luxury owning his own nightclub, airfield and two tigers as pets living on his terraced roof of his mansion. He relocated back to South Africa where he once more got acquainted with his kids and apologised to my aunt Enid for dropping her high and dry. Long story short, over the last year he suffered immensely from Alzheimers and recently passed away in death. Another chapter of life finished.
@ypres19174 жыл бұрын
Great story. I just recently re-read Mike Hoare's book, Congo Mercenary (first read it back in the early 70s). Worth a read to those who have not and are interested in the Congo campaigns.
@waynencc4 жыл бұрын
Would watch that movie
@ricardoguanipa82754 жыл бұрын
sounds like a real life "The most interested man"
@RasMajnouni4 жыл бұрын
Mercenaries are shit what do you expect.
@andrealves26304 жыл бұрын
Good riddance. Fuck mercenaries
@YoursTrulyMew3 жыл бұрын
No one knew that they were actually taking orders from the parrot 🦜
@misdangered43263 жыл бұрын
To be fair there’s been times when I would have got more sensible orders from a parrot.
@guillermozepeda99673 жыл бұрын
"I'm pinin' for the fjords, mate..."
@robertdinero2853 Жыл бұрын
💀💀💀💀
@forkq57203 ай бұрын
its not a chad its a mercenary not a soldier it could be the same as a terrorist or a cartel person nowdays it doesnt have a flag, just because it has bots and a uniform it doesnt mean its a soldier its a hired gun
@rabbitA163 жыл бұрын
The "pirate" is Tiv wasalenko. Tried to find more on him because he came up on a friend's ancestory but there wasn't a lot of info. I did find comments from an elderly man who fought with Tiv. He said he went out the only way possible for a man like himself. Said he passed away in combat and he swears he saw him smiling til the very end.
@Uncl3David3 жыл бұрын
Hell yeah!
@tomsgarage44863 жыл бұрын
Good old tiv,or maybe bad old tiv,whatever, he died doing something he loved.bless you cocaine pirate.glad someone put a name to him.😀👍
@Eric-vs2he3 жыл бұрын
Can't find anything about him, can you send me a link about him?
@Gualberto_Villaroel_Oficial3 жыл бұрын
*A PIRATE'S LIFE FOR ME*
@captainenglehorn84293 жыл бұрын
@@Eric-vs2he Also looks similar to “Tim Dreyer” there is a photo of him on that page with all the mercenary’s names. Fine job dude, i know you have been researching
@reallyhappenings55973 жыл бұрын
Authentically dynamic gunfights here. All speed and mobility. They never stop moving during their assault.
@franciscomercado95343 жыл бұрын
Cocaine effects.
@yaboidex40003 жыл бұрын
@@franciscomercado9534 adrenaline dumbass
@louiscachet76813 жыл бұрын
@@yaboidex4000 both
@tdab38833 жыл бұрын
@@yaboidex4000 actually, they also use cocaine A lot
@tucolalo82512 жыл бұрын
@@tdab3883 No, they didn't. This was the mid 60's, good luck getting coke in that time period in the congo. Also, find out the background of these men, and you'll know they never touched a drug, other than alcohol, in their lives. Sad, & annoying that people think anyone with energy is on drugs, like how boomer used to say an artist that made a weird painting must have been on LSD.
@TheRealMerc4Hire3 жыл бұрын
Me and the boys murdering the unlucky side that was too fucking poor to hire us
@jbardouc8083 жыл бұрын
Always the winning side bro
@warthog913 жыл бұрын
Hahaha ,man that was so dark! Laughed my self to shit anyhow, probably gonna burn for it.
@borys19603 жыл бұрын
Most of this white chads were anticommunists, so no, it was not about the money, besides, soviets often offered them more.
@TheRealMerc4Hire3 жыл бұрын
@@borys1960 Yeah i know and got that. Point of the joke was just mercs in general
@davideb.42903 жыл бұрын
@@borys1960 what kind of ant is that? a communist ant? very intersting, never knew animals could understand economycs. Anyway, no soviets didn't offer them more, they in fact didn't offer them anything. Plus this were mercs, so, while they may also be motivated by ideological hate, if you didnt pay them, they wouldn't be fighting for you
@xSupra3 жыл бұрын
0:36 I wonder if that parrot is still alive today. They have insane lifespans
@redcompanyINC3 жыл бұрын
It is currently hiding for his war crimes in Congo, Yugoslavia and Iraq.
@Literallyryangosling7773 жыл бұрын
The parrot was a war criminal
@adrianvelez41473 жыл бұрын
@@Literallyryangosling777 "My parrot is a war criminal- Congolese patriotic song"
@CarefreeMan3 жыл бұрын
@@adrianvelez4147 *Heh, I can only imagine that being a song.*
@xisotopex3 жыл бұрын
@@adrianvelez4147 under rated comment
@averagefreedomenjoyer82093 жыл бұрын
Ok can imagine the recruiting campaign for the mercenary companies, “What would you do for an FAL?”
@semaj003 жыл бұрын
Everything
@giorgilobjanidze56673 жыл бұрын
things many in the west would find "questionable" at least
@giovannicervantes20533 жыл бұрын
Call me king Leopold cause I'll take that right arm
@Brecconable3 жыл бұрын
Merc Recruiter: What would you do for an FAL? Me: Yes.
@houseviceroy3 жыл бұрын
If i was in charge of coordinating the commercial id literally inform the audience that theyd be equipped with a state of the art reliable modern assault rifle the FN-FAL at your side
@11UncleBooker224 жыл бұрын
I talked with a guy from the Congo who was living in Maryland in 2009 that told me his father was killed in the wars of 1965-66. The man I spoke with was about 14 years older than me and when I said I was born in 1966 he said: " wow, seeing someone who was coming into the world when my father was going out really puts it all into focus. I mean to see a man almost 43 years old really shows me how much time has passed".
@johnw19542 жыл бұрын
holy shit
@VanTalion2 жыл бұрын
Was his name Norman Kamosi? All of this fit his description
@mmtravel97262 жыл бұрын
@@VanTalion old niggas living in Maryland with father's who were in wars are a dime a dozen
@krzysztofkrzyzanowski14432 жыл бұрын
Quite the story thanks for sharing.
@bobknobbe3561 Жыл бұрын
Millions can say that same thing. A ridiculous statement which was either said to impress or as a lie.
@franciscocruz84464 жыл бұрын
A perfect alternative to war aesthetics.
@fizhbing4 жыл бұрын
Look for "Mauzer"
@jaguar25944 жыл бұрын
I try and other KZbinrs try to keep the War aesthetic type videos alive. War footage and matching music is the best combination.
@EliasPoint4 жыл бұрын
I would like to make a video on war aesthetics, maybe you guys could help me find the information I need to compile a story and pay tribute
@SovietBear44 жыл бұрын
@@EliasPoint is he dead in the sense the person behind the channel died? Or did he just quit
@EliasPoint4 жыл бұрын
@@SovietBear4 he had to focus on real life stuff and his channel kept getting demonetized until youtube eventually just killed his channel entirely
@billygrey80873 жыл бұрын
0:28 oh finally someone who looks normal and relatable in this footage 0:30 never mind
@suacemanaquiatan93803 жыл бұрын
They're mercs afterall, Not surprising.
@nacho-fb1ch3 жыл бұрын
LMAOOOOO dude had 3 fucking skulls casually laying around
@localcrackhead40383 жыл бұрын
@@nacho-fb1ch he looks like he's boutta introduce them like it was an episode of MTV cribs.
@MRaaronneary4 жыл бұрын
Damn, the bloke on the camera was really in the thick of things
@lorenzobelloni12324 жыл бұрын
It was an italian doc called "Addio Africa" english subtitled. Ciao
@MRaaronneary4 жыл бұрын
@@lorenzobelloni1232 Thanks, I'll give it a watch
@recceeboy12374 жыл бұрын
Some of the incoming was danger close looked pretty real to this old troopie.
@MRaaronneary4 жыл бұрын
@Forallofus Plenty There is plenty of evidence to suggest this isn't staged. I'm not sure how you could possible stage, high velocity automatic small arms fire buzzing past your head. Regardless of your political views, this is an event that happened in history, learn from it, don't try and censor it
@scottdodge69794 жыл бұрын
@Forallofus Plenty pretty sure the shirtless got tagged crossing in front of the door. If you watch the actual documentary....actually on second thought, that document is probably beyond your PC addled brain.
@GunsNGames14 жыл бұрын
Damn, a guy was firing a M1919 hand held, talk about recoil control.
@reallyhappenings55974 жыл бұрын
not necessary, he was using it to clear buildings cqb, i.e. a close range area weapon
@sl61474 жыл бұрын
@@reallyhappenings5597 Still need to control recoil, or you'll be shooting everywhere but straight in front of you.
@xxjixerxxtgod52194 жыл бұрын
I'm assuming the Game's part of your name indicates that you play video games. Guns in a video game are not the same as how guns work in real life 🤣🤣🤣😭😭😂😂😂😂💯💯👍
@dirtydave26914 жыл бұрын
That was pretty bad ass. No gloves, eye pro................ear pro is for sissy's.
@ButsNustin4 жыл бұрын
Millard Washington wow. You wanted to say that so bad, didn’t you?
@MOOSEDOWNUNDER4 жыл бұрын
For those of you that are concerned about timing and command of these events. This was Major Mullers command, advance party circa 64 July, the 4 Germans and rest French that he speaks about in his interview, the laughing man. Specifics can be found there, he especially covers the skulls.
@thelaughingman3825 Жыл бұрын
Great man
@joaogabrielcoelho9744Ай бұрын
0:28 the Kongo-Müller?
@kyusha93233 күн бұрын
@@joaogabrielcoelho9744 i am not 100% sure, but i thinks Kongo Müller is the dude with the eyepatch on 0:32
@joaogabrielcoelho97442 күн бұрын
@kyusha9323 no, Kongo Müller used an Irom Cross and was a commander, this man is just a regular mercenary, kindly named by people as "pirate on coke"
@Swearinbag Жыл бұрын
This documentary has stuck with me for a few months now and it's so gruelingly realistic that it makes you rethink what people are capable of...
@bruhi4914 Жыл бұрын
Name?
@resadkarabudak1676 Жыл бұрын
What's the name of the documentary
@tituikabussaa Жыл бұрын
@@resadkarabudak1676addio africo
@Ramzi1944 Жыл бұрын
@@bruhi4914Africa Addio
@sixmillionisimpossible6 ай бұрын
you mean what africans are capable of. The mercenaries ironically were the ones sent to deal with terrorism by simba rebels.
@55Bentley64 жыл бұрын
I had a buddy who was an Infantry officer and a French Equitorial African Foreign Area Expert. When he retired in '96 or '97 he became a 'security adviser' to several companies with oil interests in West Africa. Three to six month tours with about a month home with his wife and two kids. Lots of money but .... His biggest worry, no medivac.
@florinivan69072 жыл бұрын
Is it really worth it to have a wife and kid if you spend most of the year away from them? Or did he get married just to fit in with societal expectations? In my view if your job keeps you away from your family for most of the year there's really no point in getting married. Lets be frank here you'll cheat on your spouse and vice versa. Your kids will barely get to know you and vice versa. In my view if you chose such jobs don't get married just stay single. Marriage is for guys who spend more than 50% of the time with the spouse. Otherwise its just someone wanting to not stick out as single.
@prointernetuser Жыл бұрын
@@florinivan6907 different people live differently. Some families are perfectly content with this arrangement (can't argue with the money). Some not so much.
@GiganFTW Жыл бұрын
@@florinivan6907 now that’s not fair. I mean what else does he have to fight for. It’s probably what makes him an effective family provider.
@pioupoi5 ай бұрын
@@florinivan6907 sometimes you have to answer the call of the wild and danger! Oh those times! Too old now
@zimbabweantrillionnaire92563 жыл бұрын
Cold War Africa is the most interesting part of 20th century history for me. idk about the rest of you. But it is horrifically misrepresented and not payed enough attention to. Fascinating time of decolonisation and politics turmoil.
@rear92593 жыл бұрын
South East Asia on a whole different level
@CaptainTripppz3 жыл бұрын
MGSV
@chrischong66133 жыл бұрын
I think it's over looked because all those conflicts were so morally ambiguous with all sides committing unspeakable atrocities, which meant they never fit in the political and national narratives of either the Capitalist or Communist nations which tried to portray their system as morally superior to each other.
@deeznutz83203 жыл бұрын
@@CaptainTripppz Yeah only game that ever mentionend it
@prind1423 жыл бұрын
@Mialisus Its desperation. Any conflict where both sides are atleast vaguely equal is a desperate fight and desperation always leads to brutality. Especially considering that losing a war in Africa but retaining independence often just led to a second war.
@eonsislept2074 жыл бұрын
That man clearing a house with a 30 cal machine gun on his hip.
@sumvs59923 жыл бұрын
Finally we knew what the "big iron" really was, not a large caliber colt revolver from the 1800s, but a 1919
@Literallyryangosling7773 жыл бұрын
Guns in video games: these potent machine guns have a lot of recoil and they are heavy Guns in real life: rambo style
@datepicnoob32623 жыл бұрын
guess you could say he had a big iron on his hip
@semaj003 жыл бұрын
@@sumvs5992 I'm pretty sure it's gigantic iron at this point
@sumvs59923 жыл бұрын
@@semaj00 that's reserved for hip firing a minigun even though it requires a car battery to run and is chambered in 7.62 NATO
@chaddusmaximus49382 жыл бұрын
This is some of the most cinematic combat footage I've ever seen
@seregill13 Жыл бұрын
It's from a Italian documentary
@magpie9-2984 жыл бұрын
There’s something about this footage, it looks like a movie.
@magpie9-2984 жыл бұрын
christoalix what’s the doc called?
@matteoprimo77544 жыл бұрын
africa addio, italian documentary
@magpie9-2984 жыл бұрын
Yeah I knew from the start it was real but there was just something about it. I watched the documentary and I finally understand the conflict and what’s going on more.
@FSKARKEL4 жыл бұрын
Because of the music. Music in movies is very powerful
@MultiSr71blackbird4 жыл бұрын
All those footages look like a movie because they were filmed with film cameras. Unlike TV cameras where it plays in a different way, like watching it through your own eyes. That's what makes the difference.
@cerberus98324 жыл бұрын
Colonel pirate cocaine cowboy is the true spirit of christmas, happy holidays
@capone80584 жыл бұрын
True 😎👍
@johnsagar11524 жыл бұрын
Happy Christmas you politically correct dickhead.Pathetic
@The_Crimson_Fucker4 жыл бұрын
@@johnsagar1152 That's "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year" you inbred fuck, you got it the wrong way 'round.
@The_Crimson_Fucker4 жыл бұрын
@Evilmike42 If that's the case, and it isn't, then they're wrong.
@joedunn18464 жыл бұрын
@Evilmike42 no we dont
@MattiasOskarsson4 жыл бұрын
That guy with eyepatch reminds me of a guy in my old unit. You might know the sort... Raving lunatic that you wouldn't trust with a dull spoon out in the normal life but in the thick of it he was incredible. He might have been stark raving mad but he was our madman and worth all the fuzz.
@-et37-3 жыл бұрын
@@historialz Well said.
@SteveIsHavingMC2 жыл бұрын
according to another guy, his name was tiv wasalenko, although i can't find much on him
@saintniccage28182 жыл бұрын
@@SteveIsHavingMC then your not to good at searching
@martinschmidt19063 жыл бұрын
White Boy summer
@remenir972 жыл бұрын
Fighting alongside Africans fighting against Maoists 🤨
@doctordoggo94642 жыл бұрын
Cringe
@timumbra24762 жыл бұрын
Schmidty gets no bitches
@boomerkobold39432 жыл бұрын
@@remenir97 what better team up could there be :)
@spacefisher14272 жыл бұрын
Exactly
@kristofp724 жыл бұрын
Every single one of these guys seems larger than life.
@-et37-4 жыл бұрын
Everyone harps about the eyepatch madman but the 2 Rhodesians always stick with me for some reason.
@sungokong85404 жыл бұрын
@@-et37- the bois that throwing grenades?
@54commando313 жыл бұрын
@@-et37- how do you know they were Rhodesian and who you on about
@-et37-3 жыл бұрын
The 2 pilots in the beginning. The actual documentary that this is taken from says so.
@kurade10963 жыл бұрын
r.e.m. reference?
@karim1409953 жыл бұрын
1:16 thats a real life rambo right there
@Literallyryangosling7773 жыл бұрын
Colonel cocaine cowboy really bad ass
@hugovader67274 жыл бұрын
the myth ... the legend ... the terror ... the crazy cocaine mustache merc .... xD
@bosskanova6854 жыл бұрын
Which one? Haha
@NoirChat1384 жыл бұрын
@@bosskanova685 cpt pirate high on benzedrine
@savagex466-qt1io4 жыл бұрын
Dont even get me started HUGO VADER . Dont even get me fuckin started man. What Id do for a trip to Syria with dope on the other side.
@admiralsnackbarkekwalice61674 жыл бұрын
If my memory correct, that's mad Mike O'hare. He was a legend around the scene, proper captain Jack type of guy. He died earlier this year at like, 100 years of age.
@konstantinr.rojdestvenskyi16264 жыл бұрын
@@admiralsnackbarkekwalice6167 Nope. Mike is a guy with 1911, who shooted the looter on 2:20
@thaneofwhiterun35622 жыл бұрын
My 80 year old Great Uncle once enlisted as a mercenary to fight in the congo. The pay was good, very good. It was like double our country's soldier's salary plus the local soldier's salary AND like a few thousand dollars up front. He said that he did it because he was young and "felt invincible and feared nothing". Luckly, the dude who was hiring them or something died or was overthrown or he something because he never came back and he never went to Africa to fight. To this day I joke to him on how he narrowly avoided dying of malaria while fighting a guerilla XD.
@norsale6176 Жыл бұрын
Ofc it's up! Mercenaries aren't just people, they're the few who can take orders, handle alot of blood and gore with a great fighting strength and mentality
@charlesriley2717 Жыл бұрын
War criminal
@thaneofwhiterun3562 Жыл бұрын
@@charlesriley2717 lol (?)
@charlesriley2717 Жыл бұрын
@Nachonen17 they supported the criminal state of katanga and later the awful regime of mobutu. Do some research. Mercenaries committed awful crimes during the congo crisis.
@MarinesMalevolentRule69 Жыл бұрын
@@charlesriley2717Almost like all mercenaries did heinous shit , learn your history.
@durnham4 жыл бұрын
Bet these fellas had some WILD stories
@matrimcauthon79374 жыл бұрын
No shit.
@drewfoster23754 жыл бұрын
@@matrimcauthon7937 dickhead
@samueljacksonactuallylaugh49064 жыл бұрын
Scott Daniels i dont think he was trying to be an asshole bud
@drewfoster23754 жыл бұрын
@@samueljacksonactuallylaugh4906 he was being unnecessarily rude, thats just how i perceived it
@justdoinmything4 жыл бұрын
I met a Merc from back then at a bar in Ireland he had some good stories. He talked about how the Africans killed a ton of nuns and missionaries and his group hunted their killers down and slaughtered all of them.
@nibblessspelledwrong43433 жыл бұрын
the camera man has balls of fucking steel
@venator04053 жыл бұрын
It's from the 1966 Italian documentary 'Africa Addio', about the decolonialization of Africa and the human and ecological catastrophes that ensued. One of the most horrific things put to film, it is sobering to say the least. It can be found in its entirety here on KZbin.
@tannertaylor94323 жыл бұрын
The two dudes who filmed this were shot at over a hundred times and literally lined up against a wall and were almost massacred. Massive respect to the lads
@kestoification3 жыл бұрын
@@tannertaylor9432 If I recall correctly, isn't it when they were about to be executed, but the rebels (the people that captured them) discovered that they're Italians, not Americans, not "white". That shit was mad crazy.
@derekobeirnes4823 жыл бұрын
@@kestoification so where all these white dudes killed in the clip?
@kestoification3 жыл бұрын
@@derekobeirnes482 if you are talking about mercenaries, probably yes, some of them died, some of them pulled through, I was trying to find info, but I only managed to find about few of them. Their leader, became a movie director and died last year iirc.
@Roger-rh5lu4 жыл бұрын
pirate on cocaine is priceless 0:33 1:07 1:30 1:36
@tomsgarage44863 жыл бұрын
Arrrrr sniff arrrrrrrrr
@cisarjosef2.8353 жыл бұрын
@@tomsgarage4486 Rolf
@cisarjosef2.8353 жыл бұрын
* Rofl
@zachprouty85953 жыл бұрын
that dive though
@crazycocainemercenary74983 жыл бұрын
Love that guy
@pyjamakid39823 жыл бұрын
2:48 Lighting a cig using confiscated war money is some hardass real shit
@denny-c4q11 ай бұрын
I have met a few Korean War Vets who knocked off a few banks while in Pyongyang during the war.
@randalldrew60449 ай бұрын
My teammates and I use to do that in Iraq.
@joehill40943 жыл бұрын
There they go, one of god's own prototypes. A highpowered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too wierd to live, and too rare to die.
@quangcaodo88643 жыл бұрын
- Hunter S.Thompson. As befitting the era
@54commando313 жыл бұрын
What does this mean
@drjellygoose94893 жыл бұрын
@@54commando31 its means they were all unique magnificent bastards. It came from the movie fear and loathing in Las Vegas
@edgarbanuelos64723 жыл бұрын
We were somewhere around Bumba along the edge of the jungle when the fever began to take hold.
@TheRealRusDaddy4 жыл бұрын
The guy getting dragged off at 2:36 burned 26 white children to death in their school and is promptly shot in the chest and head by the dude popping off his 1911 from another scene
@Keoma.14 жыл бұрын
pest control
@deathgripskaraoke93513 жыл бұрын
the fact you specified *white* children
@coffeem80113 жыл бұрын
@@deathgripskaraoke9351 and?
@Dervitox3 жыл бұрын
@@deathgripskaraoke9351 problem?
@waifupatter41933 жыл бұрын
@@deathgripskaraoke9351 you have a problem with that?
@georgecurtis64634 жыл бұрын
I met a real mercenary that fought in the Congo in the beginning of 1970. After a year and a half he told me he was leaving as he got hired. No other info. I got one postcard from him saying he was heading in. Odd that the card had no postmark. Never heard from him again.
@macn1224 жыл бұрын
What its him name?
@georgecurtis64634 жыл бұрын
@@macn122 I forget. This was back in the early 70s so my old mind cant pull it up. Besides, I'm bad at remembering names. But his pictures were certainly proof enough. Plus his action against a loud drunk in a bar one night proved it.
@macn1224 жыл бұрын
@@georgecurtis6463 jajajajaja nice, my frustrated dream is being mercenary, since a kid y wanna be one
@georgecurtis64634 жыл бұрын
@@macn122 from the pictures and stories he told, no one with a sane mind would want to be one. This is what he told me. As an example, he was with a bunch of mercenaries and natives from the guys that hired him. One night a native who happened to like him because he treated him well, woke him up at night, whispered, leave. So he quietly snuck out. Days later he found that all the mercinaries there were killed. So yes, you have to be a special kind of person to be one.
@macn1224 жыл бұрын
@@georgecurtis6463 but i dont think being one, my dream, but probably i being a bored judge or working in office
@leoflorida953 жыл бұрын
The chad mercenary vs the virgin UN troop
@Xfighter0004 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't mind a battlefield game centered around this and the Rhodesian Bush War.
@forwardobservations82224 жыл бұрын
brush? lol
@Xfighter0004 жыл бұрын
@@forwardobservations8222 You're right, it is bush. My bad.
@forwardobservations82224 жыл бұрын
@@Xfighter000 👍
@Milo_13684 жыл бұрын
Only if devs were honest enough to paint the RLI as the good guys slotting floppies
@magpie9-2984 жыл бұрын
Dude that would be awesome!
@blcklstd61564 жыл бұрын
These guys seems so much more intense then normal soldiers.
@stealthiestboy4 жыл бұрын
They sure were. Raping and killing civilians. They were just as bad as the rebels they were paid to fight.
@DeadWayfes4 жыл бұрын
@@stealthiestboy no... they ended up there cause you know they had no family. Many had family in africa and lost it all with the expulsion and hunting of whites (ever wondered why there aint whites in most of africa appart from humanitarian aid?)
@mombaassa4 жыл бұрын
Definitely more "intense", as you describe it. Under the terms of the Geneva Convention, you can kill mercenaries, even if they surrender. Hence the tension.
@Admin-54 жыл бұрын
Better pay and they don’t have RoE’s
@jimmypadilla34413 жыл бұрын
@@mombaassa interesting didn't know that
@Baathist_Brawler_15654 жыл бұрын
"They've hired out themselves and the planes for $500 a month which no one has paid for six months and a life insurance policy that up to now no insurance company has underwritten. This time, as always, before leaving they've filled out the forms at the airport in the usual manner. Destination: Hell. Reason for Flight: Personal matters." Great video but the original music actually works better. The name scrawled on their base? "Alamo".
@JacobN-hg8tv4 жыл бұрын
Just seeing him walk up to his aircraft with the sun behind him, and like the seriousness in not only his face but his walk, really epic, man had prowess.
@Baathist_Brawler_15654 жыл бұрын
@@JacobN-hg8tv Their families had been butchered by black rebels in Angola according to the docco, they had reasons to be serious. I love how it put it, all the mercenaries were exiles, ex somethings, the last of an old age of exploration who had been pushed to the edge of the world. Its like watching a western only in real life.
@MichealCollins-vr1zo4 жыл бұрын
Vlad The Impaler Did Nothing Wrong whats the doc called?
@Baathist_Brawler_15654 жыл бұрын
@@MichealCollins-vr1zo Africa Addio, Italian documentary kzbin.info/www/bejne/p2KxqZ9qjtSeo6c . Its a lifechanging video, without its precious footage the history of generations of white civilization in africa might have been entirely forgotten.
@lukasamkharadze19612 жыл бұрын
0:11 that guy was 100% SS
@mitigate3852 жыл бұрын
Which one?
@lukasamkharadze19612 жыл бұрын
@@mitigate385 one looking at the camera and then smiling.
@silverpleb2128 Жыл бұрын
From what I know there is a ex SS or Wehrmacht officer in the original doc, it is said that he always carried his iron cross on him.
@ValidLsofficial Жыл бұрын
@@silverpleb2128 Siegfrid "Kongo" Müler is the one your refering too, while he wasan't officer in the wermacht he was a colonel
@Thorr-kl6jl7 ай бұрын
More likely a veteran of the French Foreign Legion, with service against the Communists in Indochina and/or Algeria. The Congolese "Simbas" were Communists funded by Moscow and Bejing. One of the "advisors" with the Simbas was Castro's Communist henchman Che Guevara.
@wulfone59613 жыл бұрын
Makes me want to play Far Cry 2.
@cepv_23053 жыл бұрын
I love that game.
@ShutUpBubi3 жыл бұрын
This comment made me buy it on steam
@temugenie26983 жыл бұрын
@@ShutUpBubi you aren't gonna regret it
@SunnyvaleTrailerParkSupervisor3 жыл бұрын
I'll never forget the multiplayer with created maps from the players and overpowered snipers
@guillermotux6143 жыл бұрын
Good ol times
@evancooper75104 жыл бұрын
0:33 "Big Boss, is it really you?"
@Russ6684 жыл бұрын
Nothing says bad ass like a mercenary in Africa with an eyepatch, bandana and a rifle.
@scpplumbing71183 жыл бұрын
cowards shooting women and kids,real tough
@sheevinopalpatino47823 жыл бұрын
@@scpplumbing7118 Not really what they did, mate
@germanfisch3 жыл бұрын
@Galaxy Guy fun fact he guy getting dragged of in 2:36 burned a bunch of children
@germanfisch3 жыл бұрын
@Galaxy Guy 2:20 shows the guy that burned children getting executed
@erichvondonitz53253 жыл бұрын
@@scpplumbing7118 you mean "Possible combatants"
@uberfeel2 жыл бұрын
Africa addio is a great documentary. That documentary is the perfect definition of "Reality is more stranger than fiction".
@jeremybertz7962 жыл бұрын
So true.
@theocean2698 Жыл бұрын
Is confirmed that most of the images of the documentary were staged.
@aceshigh64994 жыл бұрын
See a lot of early model FALs in action.
@GlidingZephyr4 жыл бұрын
Those were very nearly made U.S. standard during the Vietnam war, when they sought to replace the M14.
@scottrobbins62164 жыл бұрын
Yes
@Luke-rt9bx4 жыл бұрын
Leland Turner yeah they where used by a lot of nato troops right? I know Canada used them till the earlie 90’s
@aceshigh64994 жыл бұрын
@@GlidingZephyr They are great rifles but a unwieldy compared today's much lighter military rifles.
@luantunez89754 жыл бұрын
Fal= Fusil de asalto ligero in argentina. Used in The Falklands war and still. Very good rifle i heard
@thanhlamnguyen68694 жыл бұрын
This is beautiful. The camera angles, the "funky" music sync in with the chaos. Overall, i like this music video. My second favourite just after "who will save the world" by Mauzer.
@fizhbing4 жыл бұрын
Yep, Mauzer creating some good stuff
@TheSuspectOnFoot4 жыл бұрын
Mauzer used the music that the Soviets play from a radio in the original footage though. Just a better iteration of the song played over the OG audio
@Obey.The.Walrus3 жыл бұрын
what song is this
@thanhlamnguyen68693 жыл бұрын
@@Obey.The.Walrus The four tops- Reach out.
@chrisbrent74873 жыл бұрын
The footage is from an Italian documentary filmed at the time called Africa Addio.
@danielcantu55764 жыл бұрын
1:36 l like that dolphin dive the pirate did 😎
@TonkaGoldman-xd5iw4 жыл бұрын
I thought it was slow and cumbersome.
@mombaassa4 жыл бұрын
The pirate pops up everywhere, in this clip. I wonder who he was and what was his story?
@fiel813 жыл бұрын
That was majestic
@shirleymasurik59713 жыл бұрын
I'm sure he winded himself.
@BoobooCOBRA2 жыл бұрын
To all the warriors out there, fighting for whatever purpose... Great thanks to Major Samm for providing us such good content.
@CK-il8wy4 жыл бұрын
I want a game on the Congo Crisis, teach people about the UN's involvement, like the Irish stand at Jadotville
@AZB20004 жыл бұрын
UNinvolved in peace
@heberrodriguez33103 жыл бұрын
Far Cry 2 comes to mind
@AlanTheBest974 жыл бұрын
My grandpa had a neighbour that fought as a mercenary for South África, working for some PMC at that time. He looks to be the most interesting old man in the world.
@gewisse_67864 жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas Major, the original mercenaries in the congo was the first video of yours I ever saw
@rudipell903 жыл бұрын
Kinda debunks the buffed tattooed bearded bad ass stereotype Hollywood portrays as mercenaries. These guys were raw killers, fit as fuck and tough as nails. Roaming the jungle is not for the weak.
@giovannicervantes20533 жыл бұрын
They were brutal bastards but being more raw than the Hollywood solder of fortune i would put good money on the mad mike types instead of mr badass cause they won't do any stand offs or speeches they are shoot on sight types who will use an entire mag and then pull a damn machete out and scalp a MFr
@tomservo53473 жыл бұрын
They did what 40,000 UN troops couldn't while drinking beer (fresh water supply problem, but plenty of beer) and smoking cigarettes.
@5.7moy3 жыл бұрын
@@giovannicervantes2053 Exactly what I’m signing up for.
@giovannicervantes20533 жыл бұрын
@@5.7moy good luck
@randomlyrelatable13723 жыл бұрын
You beard actually will get infected in that environment
@James-xv8xv4 жыл бұрын
Sorry mate it’s just not the same without Roland the Thompson gunner.
@heinzthorvald46754 жыл бұрын
True, but it's still nice
@radarradarovic20764 жыл бұрын
I liked the version with Lawyers, guns and money better... now it's gone 😐
@KerazyJoe4 жыл бұрын
I like that youre pushing out content but Roland Thompson is a piece of art that needs no remix
@mistervanwyk74054 жыл бұрын
@@radarradarovic2076 The 3 of them are on Facebook, add me on Facebook. What's your FB account name ??
@mistervanwyk74054 жыл бұрын
@@radarradarovic2076 I post them on my page regularly
@eman00614 жыл бұрын
The definition of "Freelance" these guys got to live, truly live
@John.McMillan3 жыл бұрын
Aye, Sad that the soldier of fortune is a rapidly dying business, Now its the private army. No fun to be had. No wars to be fought. Just the dirty work of nations who dont want their hands dirty.
@DarylNorthrop3 жыл бұрын
@@John.McMillan and why exactly do you think they hire mercenaries???
@John.McMillan3 жыл бұрын
@@DarylNorthrop The reason stated.
@giovannicervantes20533 жыл бұрын
@@John.McMillan the gold age is gone ah well
@alvaro7013 жыл бұрын
@@John.McMillan Shit now are less wars and less people killing people... How bad
@notrightmeow33574 жыл бұрын
I remember reading Soldier Of Fortune magazine back in the day.
@GlidingZephyr4 жыл бұрын
I used to dream of going into Central Africa or the South Pacific with just a Sten Gun, a few hundred dollars and a carton of Winston menthols.
@fhlostonparaphrase3 жыл бұрын
I've been binge-watching your channel for...probably hours now, I came here via a Rhodesia doc/interview, and found myself enthralled; however this is perhaps your best edit so far!
@MajorSamm3 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot man, out of curiosity, which doc/interview was it, I've had a couple of people mention finding me via one recently.
@kilU7132 жыл бұрын
Love the absolute fk oitta this mashup
@TPBXDRicky4204 жыл бұрын
0:16 that is what trusting your fellow brother in arms with your life looks like.
@robertoelizondo29224 жыл бұрын
FN Fall, 200 rounds, pair of boots, summer shorts and a t-shirt. Those guy really like the action
@Kevin-fj5oe4 жыл бұрын
Teacher : we're going to africa Girls: yay, i can't wait to see all the beaches and culture Boys:
@herruntersturmfuhrer57314 жыл бұрын
African culture... Damn, nice joke.
@goober28324 жыл бұрын
@@herruntersturmfuhrer5731 Uhhh, Baste?
@randomzebraontheinternet77794 жыл бұрын
@@herruntersturmfuhrer5731 HAHA BRO REAL EDGY JOKE, MAYBE YOU SHOULD PUT YOUR "COMEDICAL PROWESS" TO SOMETHING PRODUCTIVE BRO HAHA FUNNY LE MEME
@WomanBettar594 жыл бұрын
Professional Zebra ok liberal
@jonathanbastard46294 жыл бұрын
@@herruntersturmfuhrer5731 I changed this comment so none of the replies make sense, LOL wut?
@thiniceking123 жыл бұрын
0:24 dude pretty much just stares into your soul.
@derstratege12913 жыл бұрын
Greetings from the Merchants Guild.
@Baathist_Brawler_15653 жыл бұрын
"Le ironic" racism, by someone who is only allowed to get away with because he is actually a member of the tribe. Gay. You are literally a member of a Merchant's guild I hope you know.
@ANSELAbitsxb3 жыл бұрын
Our favorite namibian
@gamerito1003 жыл бұрын
@@Baathist_Brawler_1565 At least he has fun, unlike you...
@Baathist_Brawler_15653 жыл бұрын
@@gamerito100 Do we need "them" to entertain us? Doesn't that invalidate such a political stance, if it is earnestly held? Anyways, what about the current situation is actually fun? It seems damn awful and nothing to laugh at, especially when it "them" doing the laughing. I guess being committed to one's political values, and not wanting them co-opted, means being a party pooper.
@Baathist_Brawler_15653 жыл бұрын
@@gamerito100 Ill add that I dont actually want to ruin everyone's good time, but Seth's BRAND of humour seems especially dangerous, making light of a movement that, for all its humour, is genuine and organic. People should remember what the stakes are here... our future.
@edison73000374 жыл бұрын
watching solders lighting cigaret with the banknote is quite a peaceful yet shocking moment... you don't need a historian to tell you that the country is basically fucked..
@ratscoot4 жыл бұрын
It"s actually 1964, libreration of Stanleyville by Belgian paratroopers and international mercenaries during the Simba rebellion. Simba's were a tribe and their rebellion was led by marxist's and supported by the USSR. They fought the Congolese national army under Mobutu, a cruel corrupt dictator supported by Belgium and the US. When Simba’s began starting slaughtering whites there was a intervention to relief them.
@MrRedsjack4 жыл бұрын
@big K k Africa blood and guts is a very bad edit of Africa addio. You need to watch Africa addio because Africa blood and guts it's a shitty edit of the Italian documentary to be more splatter and cutting away many historically relevant scenes.
@andrebarbosa2244 жыл бұрын
@John Macmillan yeah the US believes in self determination only if it leads to privatization and a capitalist class of overseers so wealth can be funneled out of the country. This is true even when the government is elected traditionally AND is western and liberal (as was the case with Iran in the late 50s, after the election they put the Shah in and that went well).
@AwesomeDude2724 жыл бұрын
Both sides were cruel and brutal as hell...not humans anymore
@12vscience4 жыл бұрын
Check these out: Katanga Crisis: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qKfKc6mtm7xoetk Ideological subversion: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j2q3p5x_qr2Diac
@sugarnads4 жыл бұрын
@@andrebarbosa224 nice regurgitation of your marxist indoctrination
@simonTrevor-h9oАй бұрын
When I left school in the 1960’s I traveled completely overland across Africa from London to Cape Town to seek adventure. I found it in ‘spade loads’ in the Congo! I often stayed at Christian Mission stations and spent two days in Stanleyville (now called Kisangani) staying with a Greek shopkeeper. None of my friends believe me when I tell them as to what a completely and utterly crazy place the whole of the Congo was and probably still is today! I think I was pretty lucky to have survived to have reached Cape Town and then returned home to the UK a little older and somewhat wiser. It certainly turned out to be a ‘gap year’ with a difference! Incidentally the mercenary at the end of the film sitting at a table with bundles of money on it lighting his cigarette with a bank note obtained it all by blasting a safe with a bazooka! Who knows he might still be alive today and living in Monaco! I am a Senior Citizen and after a bout of nostalgia for times past [it happens to all of us someday] I came across this re-mastered film quite by chance on KZbin. Everything you see in the film is completely believable and certainly captures the time this film was shot. Not shown fortunately is the absolute horror of such episodes as to when I went into an African hut and found it stacked with human limbs and also when I saw a dead Belgian Nun floating down the Congo river. All very tragic I am afraid.
@FumblsTheSniper4 жыл бұрын
Each and every one is a character that I want to know more about.
@-et37-4 жыл бұрын
Honestly you couldn’t fill 1 book for each of their stories.
@FumblsTheSniper4 жыл бұрын
@@-et37- life’s a story Write it.
@congo64bukavu374 жыл бұрын
I served with 5 commando in the Congo in 1964 -65. With Colonel Hoare after serving 3 years in the Rhodesian Army.
@giovannicervantes20533 жыл бұрын
@@congo64bukavu37 what was he like mr Hoare
@teufeldritch4 жыл бұрын
"His comrades fought beside him, Van Owen and the rest But of all the Thompson gunners, Roland was the best"
@KingKhanate19974 жыл бұрын
A thoroughly mad group of individuals. I wonder if the world will ever see their kind together like this again.
@Terabit33 жыл бұрын
I have a feeling we'll see them again sooner than we'd expect
@yaboidex40003 жыл бұрын
@@Terabit3 wym
@brucekaren66933 жыл бұрын
Don’t worry. We will. And far sooner than most people expect.
@sirmount26362 жыл бұрын
They lost then & they’ll lose now
@luiscarlospallaresascanio2374 Жыл бұрын
They will do so when the white West sees its supremacy over the other races threatened.
@jameslebron24033 жыл бұрын
All jokes aside, this is incredible footage.
@gman10424 жыл бұрын
I thought the clips from part 3 would be lost forever, thank you so much.
@aghtu4 жыл бұрын
The 3th part was little different... Major cut the executon scenes as well as many more. And music is also different.
@houseviceroy3 жыл бұрын
Everything about this video fits so perfectly, the footage , the song ...it all goes together so well... terrific work #majorsamm
@YKlab24 Жыл бұрын
"AK 47 are for bad boys " FAL owner :
@westentrance2 ай бұрын
The Rhodesia bush war was Rhodies with FAL’s (and an occasional UZI and Colt 45) vs Commie insurgents with AK-47’s. Quite a fray.
@drewcatch51713 жыл бұрын
Those mercs were so close to saving stanleyville’s people.
@stokesseegers50124 жыл бұрын
What the f*** did I just watch? Don't get me wrong I can't stop watching it though.
@affectionatepunch3 жыл бұрын
You need to watch the full documentary it's gruesome
@XA-lm5oz3 жыл бұрын
@@affectionatepunch what is it called?
@Kata-cl5jb3 жыл бұрын
@@XA-lm5oz Congo 1966 but beware some footage can be realy hard to watch kzbin.info/www/bejne/rmqzdJibd9WXq5Y
@silverpleb2128 Жыл бұрын
@@XA-lm5oz Africa adio
@lemmino18463 жыл бұрын
“Come on they’re only 150 Irishmen we’ll be home by night fall”
@dannycrockett98784 жыл бұрын
Landed in Rhodesia in 77 with several Christian U.S Vets to set up safe camps for civilians. I've always had a hole in my heart for what's happened to that beautiful country
@RPM17762 жыл бұрын
@Gabe Shaw It wasn't the natives who ruined it, it was communists
@talltexan64322 жыл бұрын
@@RPM1776 100% true!!! Mother F-ing communists are still around and must be dealt with.
@vahif.ahiulmamedov8092 жыл бұрын
Danny Crockett, Rhodesia never die 🇳🇬❤️⚔️.
@adolfhipsteryolocaust34432 жыл бұрын
@@RPM1776 it definetly was the natives
@noxaeterna22 жыл бұрын
@Anitaku who coincidentally were communist governments financed and supported by the Soviet Union? The state of Africa nowadays is disgusting... the birthplace of humankind ravaged by war and poverty.
@southern_gentalmen3 жыл бұрын
These guys are living life to the fullest
@ssechres2 жыл бұрын
This film makes the mercenaries seem almost like pirates. But much this film also appears in the liberation of Beontre. An incident where the mercenaries interrupted and stopped an ongoing massacre that included women and children and would have resulted in hundreds of innocent deaths if not stopped. Mercenaries have a bad reputation in the West, but these men were employed by a Black African government who’s regular forces were not up to the task.
@sundancetitan56752 жыл бұрын
This is s documentary of the mercs it’s all real
@ssechres2 жыл бұрын
@@sundancetitan5675 no problem. Didn’t know there was one.
@archerpiperii26904 жыл бұрын
The music for this is f*ckin' brilliant!
@garyowen90442 жыл бұрын
I served with the guy in the beginning of the clip (blonde hair, handlebar mustache adjusting skull). He was a legend.
@ChodeMaster2 жыл бұрын
Tell me other fairy tales
@nightman41422 жыл бұрын
What was his name
@TheNaitsabes962 жыл бұрын
Dude, we need to know more about him
@garyowen90442 жыл бұрын
@@TheNaitsabes96 he was a legend in the Cav. We were both in the same unit for a very short time in Germany, we did Caravan Guard, and a gunnery, he PCSd shortly after. Ok, three stories - 1) he deserted the US Army in Vietnam because the Army wouldn’t extend him. He hooked up with French Foreign Legionaries, and fought along side them until the MPs found him. Apparently he was enough of an asset, all was forgiven. He may have had a break in service. 2) The story around Squadron was he was playing poker late into the evening, had a nice hand, and also needed to defecate. Rather than fold, and go to the latrine, he lifted a leg and crapped himself. I don’t know if he was an 11Bravo, or a 19Delta, but he was assigned to our Squadron in Germany. I’ve shared this clip with men from my former Unit, and it’s him. His mustache was legendary, and way outside AR670-1 regs, but no one cared. When I knew him he was an E7 SFC, don’t think he had a platoon. 3) At our gunnery, he was the NCOIC of the MaDuce range. He was beating me on the helmet with a big spoon screaming “Gooks in the wire, Gooks in the wire, Down a piaster!” I don’t know his nom de guerre, and I won’t share his born name, but it’s him.
@RPBolfork2 ай бұрын
Why do these guys look like they were having a blast? This could very well be the intro for a 90s sitcom.
@oellappen2692 ай бұрын
Mercenaries. These guys love it.
@williamsmith87904 жыл бұрын
That guy rushing with the .30 caliber air cooled has a testosterone level that would power three “soy boys” in the 2020’s.
@theredstag37434 жыл бұрын
More like ten soy boys minimum.
@sircarl2stlordofcarltoncou744 жыл бұрын
Possibly hundreds.
@pikebasss4 жыл бұрын
There were some buzfeed boys that tested their testosterone and they were at 1/8th the level of the avg 80 year old man.
@williamsmith87904 жыл бұрын
pikebasss It’s hormones in the food and water that have been emasculating them for years.
@korpiklaaniband22774 жыл бұрын
Could you do that though
@sonnydsantana7704 жыл бұрын
as a vet of 3' foreign conflicts , the 1'st for my great uncle scammy and the other 2' for $$ all wars are cold dark and ugly , not trying to justify any one's odd behavior , but if you've never faught or been in a bad place where ugly happens don't be so quick to judge
@Jack-pw4rz4 жыл бұрын
“Never judge in leisure what others had to do in haste.”
@22mambo274 жыл бұрын
How did you became a mercenary?
@therightway14134 жыл бұрын
22 mambo join a PMC (private military corporation) like applying for any other job. You need a good CV so ex military or SF. You need to have a lot of money at home before you join though. That’s what I’ve heard
@Jack-pw4rz4 жыл бұрын
The Right Way gone are the days of ‘have gun will travel’ or Ads in the back of soldier of fortune magazine
@therightway14134 жыл бұрын
Jack Burrows it looks like a good job. Like a holiday with the risk of death
@sethleoric2598 Жыл бұрын
The people who shot this documentary legitimately almost fucking died. Considering some of them were captured by rebels, i think some of them actually DID die making this documentary.
@norikofu509 Жыл бұрын
Back when people who made documentaries actually had the balls to show the true no matter the cost
@sethleoric2598 Жыл бұрын
@@norikofu509 ye
@seregill1311 ай бұрын
They nearly got executed until the communists realized they were Italian. They let them go because they don't consider Italians to be white.
@richmondlandersenfells22384 ай бұрын
I think one was literally chased by some shirtless rebel whilst during a skirmish and the guys who were with him were either busy or just didn't care.
@westentrance2 ай бұрын
They were an Italian film crew. Don’t know if any died making this doc but one did die in Sudan while filming years later.
@soldieron99659 ай бұрын
One of the craziest videos I’ve ever seen on KZbin, and I grew up in south Chicago in the late 90’s. And I am also a 2x Iraq war veteran. Pure insanity. 🤯😎
@Terabit33 жыл бұрын
Am I crazy for thinking that traveling around the world, fighting in different wars until I die in the street somewhere sounds like the life?
@th3highwayman3 жыл бұрын
You’re not crazy.
@Ashraf-Hrira3 жыл бұрын
that is more interesting life than being a wage slave
@5.7moy3 жыл бұрын
Seems like the good life.
@CocainePirate3 жыл бұрын
Im down
@anonoutlawed18113 жыл бұрын
its actually a good life, living life in the moment, not sitting in some building making bare minimum and living off each pay
@ChodeMaster3 жыл бұрын
This song is beyond catchy
@Dubbelehalvezool Жыл бұрын
This is from the Italian movie Africa Addio, for those interested. A real (and grim) movie about Africa during the decolonization wave of the 60s. Lots & lots of mayhem in that movie, worth a watch (if you can stomach it)
@abandonthis Жыл бұрын
thank you very much
@sundancetitan567511 ай бұрын
Documentary*
@seregill1311 ай бұрын
Not a movie, a documentary
@pelleban Жыл бұрын
With all the videos from ukraine capturing the horrors of war we think we for the first time can first hand experience soldier life in the moment of combat, but have to say this is old clip gets it all, and better. The constant awereness of surroundings, harsh treatment of prisoners, gun fire and an actual feel of soldier life. I keep returning to this clip, can't explain why but it stirs a feeling in me I haven't felt since my army training. Never experienced real combat but man this captures soldier life right in the feels.
@abellcrib973 Жыл бұрын
Y hay muchos pendejos que creen qué la guerra es un acto de valentía por querer experimentar eso. Cuando la realidad es muy diferente y horrible. Sumando al hecho de que tu cabeza quedará jodida de por vida
@vladvalo10 ай бұрын
oh cool (get over yourself watching footage of war over and over isn’t good for your soul so grow up)
@pelleban10 ай бұрын
@@vladvalo What? Mb directed towards a deleted comment and not me lol?
@joeyphaahla2 жыл бұрын
2:18 lots of people are wondering who that guy is, well some people might know that Britain sent troops to the Congo 🇨🇩 (Ireland not included), that guy is an Australian Soldier with the Commonwealth forces in the Congo 🇨🇩 he was in the Military Police from ‘49 to ‘64 (got shot and discharged), also he lived up until December 2020. The Commonwealth Forces there included troops from Australia, Britain, NZ, PNG, Fiji, Rhodesia, South Africa, India & Malaysia.
@Archer632702 жыл бұрын
Do you reckon you could give me a source to this because I want to look into it more
@s_3694 жыл бұрын
With everything going down in South Africa 🇿🇦 we may see them mercenaries boys back in action someday.
@SwedishEmpire17004 жыл бұрын
Africa is always "going down", i dont see the point in sending them relief aid anymore, its just sucked up like a sponge and their shit continue.
@Admin-54 жыл бұрын
Sign me up! Will do goon shit for money
@snazzy_spaz78544 жыл бұрын
@@Admin-5 being a Merc is illegal
@MrOneWay50004 жыл бұрын
Nope. Those days are over
@snazzy_spaz78544 жыл бұрын
@Abdullah Mohamed those are PMC s, not mercs, slightly different thing
@tomservo70054 жыл бұрын
These guys were BAD ASS DUDES. It looked like they had some competent officers in command. Perfect song for the vid.
@budgetmicro53874 жыл бұрын
These guys are war criminals
@tours73254 жыл бұрын
@@budgetmicro5387 not all. The majority were just looking to get paid
@Cairo400004 жыл бұрын
@@budgetmicro5387 they're mercenaries. Morals are out the window
@AqvaSerpentis4 жыл бұрын
@@budgetmicro5387 not all of them, I don’t know if you know this but the people they fought were actual war criminal, burnt kids alive and stuff like that.
@Cairo400003 жыл бұрын
@J Thorsson Yeah I know but I've never seen any goody two shoes mercenaries before
@flechette3782 Жыл бұрын
You can just feel the PTSD insanity oozing out of this clip.
@richmondlandersenfells22384 ай бұрын
That is true.
@Racoon_UK2 ай бұрын
PTSD don't exist , it's like safe space idea ,now ASMR they don't like loud people...😂 Go and read about revolution in grammar and who fund that... They create new words of thin air😂