𝐄𝐮𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞 𝐒𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐖𝐚𝐫 𝟐

God Bless you Sledge Hammer

[@ftx453]

Props to this guy. He survived Jurassic Park as a kid and WWII as a teenager.

[@berniegores2083]

Jurassic park was 20 years before the pacific

[@ftx453]

@@berniegores2083 props to this guy for time traveling! Both Jurassic Park and this miniseries involved islands in the Pacific.

[@translucentorb]

Then became the bassist for Queen

[@ftx453]

@@berniegores2083 Jurassic Park was in the Pacific too. He fought velociraptors and Japanese soldiers.

[@yeastori]

What if the Japs had velociraptors and they did banzai charges through tall grass

[@dougthealligator]

What sledge actually said was better than what went into the show.

[@mattkennedy6115]

What show was this?

[@ryankelley8318]

@@mattkennedy6115 The Pacific

[@djayk9692]

@@ryankelley8318 don’t hesitate to watch. Start TO-NIGHT.

[@KDC41]

I think the opposite is true. But both were great responses.

[@FunkBastid]

Ya, the show made it sound like Sledge was trying to be cool. Real life Sledge was just exasperated by a well-meaning, but ignorant question.

[@travishabursky4362]

College Admissions Clerk: Son, did they teach you anything in the Marine Corps?... Dr. Sledge: Ma’am, they taught me how to stack fucking bodies.

[@AngryTruthSeeker]

...Real pretty like

[@nightflyer3242]

Employer: So the skills you've learned in the Marine Corps were stack bodies, eat babies, and get bitches? Sledge: Kill...

[@rithvikmuthyalapati9754]

Still college admission is messed up

[@dylanhealy8126]

Issuing out dirt naps

[@willburchett4667]

Comment of the fucking century

[@miketacos9034]

"Did you do any accounting?" "I counted quite a few bodies."

[@ryanconnolly426]

Debited the bodies account, credited the munitions account

[@swlyons]

"Did you do any Journalism?" "I reported enemy positions on recon missions."

[@toasterr4238]

@@swlyons Engineered the destruction of the enemy

[@toasterr4238]

Not to mention geography skills

[@HaasGrotesk]

@@swlyons Haha! What a perfect comment!

[@trainknut]

The actual quote makes him sound a lot less... Psychopathic, and a lot more like a traumatized young man.

[@ampolcyn1]

What’s the actual quote?

[@trainknut]

@@ampolcyn1 0:25

[@ampolcyn1]

@@trainknut lol I thought this was just a clip form the pacific I guess I should have watched the video

[@Mess316]

well yeah i think it was intended this way to have a little suspense going on, keep the audience guessing how this whole snafu sledge dynamic would continue after eugene got back home, ie. if sledge would pull himself out of it or go the meryll route. The payoff of that is the hunting trip where he breaks down, or one might also say, lets himself go. I think the contrast of this psycho stuff is necessary to frame the hunting scene in the right way. Imagine if sledge would´ve started sobbing upon returning home. Doesn´t have quite the same ring to it.

[@nathankindle282]

How dies he sound psychopathic in the clip. He's obviously frustrated with her ignorance and utter naivete, so he states facts. Both the actual quote and the one from The Pacific are damn near one and the same

[@texaswunderkind]

The series ends with Eugene Sledge struggling in civilian life. He ended up getting a degree in Business from Auburn in 1949. He got married in 1952 and had two kids. He got a PhD in biology from the University of Florida in 1960, and was a college professor for the rest of his life. He also published his biography _With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa_ in 1981. I was happy to read that he had a full life, and didn't struggle with PTSD to the point of not being able to function in life.

[@gonzarellious6102]

I've read With the Old Breed. Fantastic book.

[@AngryMarine-il6ej]

I read 'With the Old Breed' when it was first released. But I noticed that 'The Pacific' miniseries fails to even mention this. The 1st Marine Division did not go home immediately after Japan surrendered. Sledge stayed with the Division when it was assigned occupation duty in China to oversee Japanese prisoners being repatriated, look up 'Operation Beleaguer'. That was not until 1949.

[@lynnmartinez2506]

What movie or series is this if you don't mind me asking? I'm very interested in seeing this series!

[@Canadianmatt3]

@@lynnmartinez2506 HBO's The Pacific(2010)

[@indraneilpaul1309]

@@lynnmartinez2506 It's The Pacific

[@CodaMission]

Ironically, as a mortarman, he ABSOLUTELY learned things he can continue in school. He was taught how to set up and handle explosive materials, surveying, hell he learned calculus, trigonometry, and trajectories!

[@realcheeks5248]

You wanna try going to a school and passing that off? 🤣

[@CodaMission]

@@realcheeks5248 no idea what your trying to say

[@purplefood1]

@@CodaMission I think he is implying that attempting to apply to a school explaining that your previous profession has taught you a number of things which you otherwise lack academic credentials it can be a challenge to get them to take you seriously.

[@CodaMission]

@@purplefood1 That's literally the whole point of what is happening in this scene. They EXPECT him to tell them what he did in the Corps, so they can figure out what training he received transfers over into coursework. The military and schools still do this today. So yeah, he learned trigonometry, surveying and calculus.

[@purplefood1]

@@CodaMission Yes I understand that thanks, what I was explaining to you is the other dude's comment which you can tell when I started the sentence with "I think he is implying". I don't agree or disagree one way or another, I do know the GI Bill allowed millions of veterans to attend college and vocational training so clearly someone learned something.

[@constipatedparker5879]

Sometimes I forget this is the same kid from Jurassic Park.

[@Moneysreal]

Ho-lee-fuck. Just blew my mind. I had no idea.

[@cervezadog6957]

@@Moneysreal Me too. But after reading the comment I totally see it.

[@dustpanandthebrush5293]

Bloody hell no way !!!!

[@BigIronEnjoyer]

"Trying to survive a dangerous situation on a remote Pacific island" has got to be the weirdest typecast out there.

[@Soggersnuggets]

It's surprising the amount of people who didn't realise this

[@FreshTillDeath56]

This series of mixing real quotes with hollywood portrayal is incredible, please make more. It's really awesome.

[@michaelanderson3813]

You hear about the new series there making?

[@zachprouty8595]

@@michaelanderson3813 no what is it?

[@michaelanderson3813]

@@zachprouty8595 oh good afternoon. Same as The pacific and Band of Brother only its about the Air Force

[@michaelanderson3813]

Same people making it

[@hanifsiraj7657]

@@michaelanderson3813 sounds interesting, any words on when will they release?

[@sblack48]

The scene where he goes hunting with his Dad is so well done. His Dad, being a Dr who had worked withwAW1 vets, was one of the very few civilians that understood. Most would have just asked what the hell is wrong with you.

[@gudhaxer41343]

AW ?

[@Mrbumbons1]

I had a tough time with that scene. It’s real.

[@Sneakleak96]

@@gudhaxer41343 I think it refers to WW1 American veterans

[@johnshields9110]

I was a small child waiting with my Mother in a Doctor's lobby, and a WWI vet (who was 'shell shocked') trembled and acted funny; it scared me so I ran to my Mother. It hurt him badly that I was afraid of him. He and my Mother explained why he was as he was. I never forgot that. Later, as I watched my friends return from Vietnam, I could sympathize with what they must have faced a little better than most.

[@sblack48]

@@Mrbumbons1 me too. Anyone who has had a panic attack would look at that and go yup, that's what it is. But back then nobody on the home front really got it. I guess that's why these legion and VFW chapters became so important. Guys who had been through it would have less of a tendency to judge.

[@davidcrisell5744]

"Did you do any accounting?". "Only rounds expended"...

[@nitroxide17]

And bodies stacked 😎

[@migueldelacruz5054]

lol good one

[@The6thRonin]

" well, I had to calculate rounds left, compared to rounds needed , times how many Japanese were left to kill... does that count missy"

[@ErikPT]

@@The6thRonin lol that's logistical inventories xD

[@robertc7232]

As a former infantryman myself, I can relate to this man for fighting a war and coming home to find that civilian employers are largely not impressed by a resume that primarily reads "Combat Arms Specialties." I remember feeling helpless for a time, until I joined the Sheriff's Office and found my purpose again. After that I got married, bought a house and I'm traveling every year with my wife. I've survived two wars now: the war in Iraq and the war to assimilate back into society in spite of the obstacles I had to go through. It's our duty as Americans to ensure that every veteran gets the help they need to reach success back home.

[@rune.theocracy]

God bless you sir, thank you for your service It's heartwarming to hear vets such as yourself are able to live a good life after service, I wish you good health!

[@BlossomField91]

That's what the GI Bill is for though. You use it to pay for college, trade school, or whatever to train for your next career.

[@robertc7232]

@@BlossomField91 yes, but the GI Bill wasn't law until 1984.

[@mustangbrand1159]

Same as my Father- WWII, Korea- Home was tough , became a sheriff. Then got a job in sales and transitioned to Sheriff reserve. The police force offered him a chance to ease back into civilian life. Happy travels friend.

[@williamturner1517]

Dr. Sledge gave me a signed copy of "WITH THE OLD BREED". A treasure.

[@teamwpventure]

That is wonderful! I must have read it 20x now.

[@cfinley81]

One of the best books I ever read.

[@chestypuller171]

I got my signed copy at Camp Pendalton in the late 70s

[@scottjohnson3226]

@@chestypuller171 Impossible, as the book was originally published in 1981.

[@Younglambs]

Roy Benavidez, the Army Green Beret Medal of Honor winner during the Vietnam war was at Yokota Air Base Japan I was stationed there in the early 90’s When he visited. The pleasure was mine to listen to his speech and then stand in a long line to have him autograph his book. That book is different than the one being sold on Amazon now. I still have that book in mint condition. Next to the picture Chuck Norris signed while I was stationed at Clark Air Base in the Philippines in the 80’s He gave it to a family member to give to me when he heard I was a fellow Air Force guy who was also at Osan Air Base Korea. Didn’t get a chance to meet him like I met Roy.

[@ardshielcomplex8917]

I retired after 37 years in the Army, a while later at a social gathering someone suggested I should apply for one of the " Risk Manager" (theft prevention) positions being offered by a major Supermarket chain. Seeing the funny side of it (as Soldiers do) I replied " well Im a trained Sniper so Id fit right in there" . Sadly everyone looked horrified, and I had to clarrify it as a joke.

[@nordicpoet1833]

Did you ever realize that you were basically a mercenary for the United States in corrupt wars? We haven't had a real war since Korea. You should just apply for a security position at a corporation, you'd fit right in.

[@fintancoyle9696]

@@nordicpoet1833 you realise it’s not his fault that the US engages in illegal wars

[@placeholder2030]

I thought it was pretty funny .

[@nordicpoet1833]

@@fintancoyle9696 No but it is a citizens fault for volunteering to fight for their corrupt wars. Ignorance doesn't excuse wrongdoings either, otherwise we can excuse the whole German military from 1939-1945.

[@jeremyoleary5788]

@@nordicpoet1833 it’s also the citizens fault for keeping its government from going to these wars in the first place. If you going to blame people for volunteering I’m the military and going to war because the government said so then you should also blame the citizens who allow this to happen in the first place. Don’t blame people for volunteering if you are just going to sit on ya ass and not keep the government from going to these corrupt wars.

[@duswil3934]

"What kind of degree are you interested in?" "This one ma'am." "Ok, here's a list of the courses required." "Thanks."

[@larshinrichsen6581]

This young man became a university professor for ornithology later. What a peaceful carreer for somebody how had to withstand all these terrible things during WWII. We all can just guess how many brilliant minds got lost in the numerous battles on each side or later did not get the chance to show their non-combat capabilities.

[@Indomitable_Alykat]

Absolutely. He gave up hunting when he returned & substituted it for birdwatching. Warmed my heart to hear, in a way, that he wanted to admire the beauty of the lives around him rather than take them 🥺💖

[@TheIroncross6]

Exactly. And his brutally honest and haunting books is one of the best war memoirs ever.

[@tomcat2285.]

For anyone who doesn't recognize him, that's is Joe Mazzello who played Tim in Jurassic Park. The Pacific is a great follow up to the series to Band of Brothers and I highly recommend it.

[@BGRANT777X]

Holy shit, so many year later and I had no idea it was him

[@monsieurcondottiero2685]

🤯

[@dakotamar45acp]

now i see it.

[@Chatta-Ortega]

He also play John Deacon in Bohemian Rhapsody.

[@jefflo4460]

Hooooooly shiiiiiiit

[@guyholladay1258]

In Vietnam we joked that we were well prepared for being a button man for the Mafia

[@billmcneely4828]

The best Mafia hitman called The Iceman qas in fact a vietnam era sf veteran

[@The6thRonin]

@@billmcneely4828 One of the guys were served with was SF. went home on leave, later found his body in a trunk of a vehicle. He was also in that life and it caught up to him.

[@The6thRonin]

@Zero Privacy True, he wasn't, And in fact, many in the life also state that he was lying about almost everything else too. Except for the fact of his father and brother being like him.

[@nolaanderson8770]

He ended up getting a degree in electronics, then playing bass a successful rock band.

[@nevilleneville6518]

And when he was a small boy, his mother married CS Lewis. Probably where he learned to write so good

[@thierrywashington9861]

Wait he played basss for a band ?

[@jammybizzle666]

He ended up a famous musician in sister sledge

[@DalonCole]

@@thierrywashington9861 negative. Professor of Biology

[@DukeOfDiabetus]

@@thierrywashington9861 He is referencing The Queen movie Bohemian rhapsody. Where the actor that plays Sledge is in the band.

[@THEbadlnb]

I had an uncle who was in the Army and fought in the South Pacific. He fought in Papua New Guinea and Layte. He earned a Purple Heart on Papua and The Bronze Star on Layte. He did not ever talk about it. Sometimes his experience would crack through. When I was 15 at a family New Years Eve party my uncle was at. He was drunk. He asked me to get him a slice of pizza, so I did. When I handed him the plate, he did not have a good grip and the pizza fell on his shirt. He looked at me in the eye and said (I will never forget) “Boy I have killed people for less, get the fuck out of my sight”. I did. I stayed in the next room. I knew he was not kidding and that scared the hell out of me. He probably did. At any rate, the next day when he sobered up he felt bad, but did not tell me. I stayed away from him for a full year. Nothing was ever said about it again, but my uncle did tell me after that incident, he never drank again. This scene reminds me of how and what my Uncle said to me that night. I loved my uncle, hard to believe he was ever in a war. He was always my favorite uncle. He died in 1997. I miss him.

[@markfryer9880]

It looks to me like he saw the look of fear in your eyes and the way that you avoided him, cut him down to his soul. He knew full well that you didn't deserve that comment and that his being drunk let that comment out. He saw that he had a bad relationship with alcohol and ended it right there! You probably added years of enjoyment to his life that day.

[@THEbadlnb]

@@markfryer9880 you are probably correct. He was my favorite uncle, great with kids and very talented and smart. Overall, to me he did not seem like someone who suffered in combat. He did. He had nightmares the rest I of his life. There were relics he left behind that I saw growing up; a Purple Heart he got in Papua and Bronze Star Metal he earned on Layte. The other thing he brought back was an Arisaka bolt action rifle he brought back from occupied Japan. Never talked about how he got the Purple Heart. I know how he got the bronze star. Not sure how he got the rifle back. In the years since he died, I read lots of books on the the Pacific War with Japan. I understand now why he was the way he was. I respect him and I always have. He made the most of his life when he came home at the end of the war. I miss him really. What I would not give to spend a day with him telling me about all his travels and giving him a big hug. His name was William Donald Myers (1922 to 1997) He was my mom’s oldest brother by 17 years. He was a loving husband to his wife, a caring dad to his daughter, a protective older brother to his little sister and the best uncle a kid could ask for.

[@THEbadlnb]

@@markfryer9880 my grandma used to tell the story about when My uncle came back from the war. When he left, my mom was not even a year old yet. When he finally came home, she was 4. It was late at night when my Grandaddy picked up my uncle from the bus station in Madisonville Texas. When they got home, my uncle rushed up to my moms room and opened the door. My mom was sleeping in her bed. My uncle stood in the door to her room, back lit by the hallway light. He dared not enter and disturb her sleep. My grandparents herd crying. They went upstairs to find my uncle sobbing. My uncle through tears said, “I never thought I would ever see my sister again.” Yet, there he was and I think that was the point where he realized he made it. He had survived and he was home. It must have been surreal for him; the volume of his life turned down and found life at home when on; a life he never thought he would see again, a life that stopped existing on patrol and hunkered down in foxholes in Papua and Layte. Since he came back so late from the war (he was ordered to Japan after they surrendered for several months), he had a hard time finding a job since he was late coming home. A month after he came home, he left for Guam to help rebuild the island and was gone for a couple of years. When he came home, he married a local girl a few years younger than him. They were married for life and are buried side by side as they lived in a small cemetery in Grimes County Texas.

[@artificialingredient]

@@THEbadlnb What did he do for work after he married? Thanks for sharing his story.

[@THEbadlnb]

@@artificialingredient he got his college degree and then got a job in oil and gas building off shore oil platforms all over the world. He worked on every continent in the world except Antarctica. He spent a lot of time working in Argentina in the 1960’s. In the 1970’s He was in Indonesia and a brief time in Nigeria (he hated it there). Spent time in Hong Kong, Japan, And Panama. He said his title was an “Erection Specialist” which he took great pride in with a goofy smile in saying that. He made a lot of money. He met a lot of people in Argentina who disappeared in the 1970’s (interesting story).

[@miguelmagallon7863]

He should of reacted the way real sledge did it would of shown the gravity of his sitiation

[@Theakker3B]

For this episode, having this be the big emotional outburst would not feel right. The writers were smart to have that be the climactic scene where Sledge goes hunting with his dad.

[@wilhelmrk]

@@DS-ld4uv Yes, but that does not mean that people who didn't take those offers DURING their service should be penalized, they should be handled just the same as someone coming from a school who also won't have additional qualifications for the field of study they want to enter (apart from receiving a bonus for doing service)

[@johnboy2349]

@Falhawk73 I don't think his brother was in the Air Force. I think he was in one of the armored divisions.

[@moappleseider1699]

@Falhawk73 Well yeah if they made it back from their mission they got to eat hot food, probably have some whiskey, and sleep in a cozy bed at night. They still had to face flak, enemy fighters, accidentally being shot down by their allies, mechanical failure, weapons failure, bird strikes, getting lost, shot down and captured etc. Also if they weren't well rested and in a good frame of mind they couldn't do their job properly which would be a detriment to the ground troops they were supposed to be helping. Living like savages on the ground/in the jungle helped the ground pounders fight, well, like savages. If they were going home every night they wouldn't be as effective.

[@siler7]

Have. Not of.

[@johnneill5960]

I feel your pain brother . I have PTSD and I was going to therapy and one of psychiatrists asked me, with my wife there , " do you have any guns " I just looked at her and laughed . She said " what's funny " , my wife said" he was a bomb tech ! If he really wanted to hurt us he doesn't need guns " . I looked at her shook my head and said I'm not gonna hurt anybody , unless they try to take my guns . You know she never brought up guns again . There's this saying this Gunny I used to know used to say "Always know your audience."

[@jollyg83]

I started counseling yesterday for PTSD after 20 years as a firefighter. The counselor is a former Marine and firefighter. We talked about guns for a good half hour during the session. It helps to open up when you talking to a guy whose been there and done that.

[@Dfire79]

@@jollyg83 I wish you the best brother I was a air force fireman and a city fireman for 15 years now I’m a Nurse. I also have ptsd from a lot of things I have seen, but over time it gets better.

[@herbertgomez4112]

I can relate to your story, after three tours overseas I came home looking for a job, at the employment office the girl ask me "If I had experience with heavy equipment" I told her I was responsible for millions of dollars of equipment overseas surely I can drive a forklift..

[@jollyg83]

@@Dfire79 thanks brother. I’m in good hands and recognized the signs before things got out of hand. I’m just starting my journey but I know I’ll come out better in the end.

[@johnneill5960]

Southern83fire I went to one in patient in Denton TX ( voleenterly ) for about 3 -4 weeks it was eye opening. I was the only one that was out of service , but everyone was active service. There were 21 of us . 10 were being treated for alcohol and drugs . 11 for PTSD with 3 for combat related and 8 rape . Of those 8 it was even 4 and 4 men and women. That was the eye opening part for me personally. I had no idea that many men had been sexually assaulted. Crazy shit . Now , obviously I got more out of the 3 combat vets but did get something out of the rape victims because believe it or not trauma is trauma. What I didn't relate much too was the the few guys there sent buy there commands for alcohol or drugs that had no desire to be there . It was kinda a shock when I first showed up and they were like taking my belt and shoes and all that crap , because I'm not and never have been suicidal. Eye opening experience. Every day the same damn questions as well . Are you depressed ? Well of course !!! I've got Chronic PTSD .

[@KarlPHorse]

"That's alright I know you don't understand." If there were anymore reason to hate Tojo and Hirohito aside from the obvious, it is the fact that their actions made this sweet man have to go to war.

[@theofficialdanielmunozbaut2277]

At least he lived through it

[@KarlPHorse]

@@theofficialdanielmunozbaut2277 True, I am glad he made it out alive.

[@lekal6247]

love that he said that lol

[@tonymanero5544]

I feel that way when Dick Cheney lied and sent our troops to a Iraq in 2003 looking for nonexisting WMDs after it was confirm Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 which was carried out by a group as Saudis.

[@NarcolypticNinja]

@@tonymanero5544 You shouldn't make it up as you go along. First of all, WMD's were both found late in the war or afterwards. Both the coalition and ISIS discovered it. Plus there was a terrorist group in northern Iraq that had ties to Bin Laden and were close to capturing Iraqi stockpiles because Saddam couldn't stop them. It's one of the reasons why northern Iraq was invaded by our special forces. Second, you cannot change history and make unfair accusations because of ignorance mixed with an obvious very based feelings. Please do not use any more false narratives. You really should fact check first. And third, you are reaching with three fallacies: Straw man. Appeals to ignorance. And stretching the goalposts. Not any of what the OP said has anything even remotely close to what the you're misinformation is attempting to do, because neither are mutual. As an OIF vet, you do not speak for me or the rest of us. Be better than this, stop being divisional. You can rebuttal, but it won't be doing you any good because my alerts are turned off and I really don't care to get internet serious with anyone because nothing is going to change, only a false sense of a "win" due to an ego wanting the last words. Good day.

[@indeed8211]

i'm 29 i had this exact situation when i was trying to get into university after almost a decade in the infantry

[@stevefambro189]

Keep at it! I started university at 30 y/o on the GI Bill and your experience will give you a focus and resolve that few can appreciate.

[@johnneill5960]

2006 I was in Ramadi, 2007 I was taking some college classes and English professor asked " what did you guys do over the summer " and wanted us to write a paper over it . If you were in the infantry you can guess how that turned out .

[@Chewcudda]

I went back to college later in life (not from military service) and usually ended up hanging out with the GI bill guys because they seems to like talking to someone who did not ask questions about their service but wsould listen if they wanted to talk about it.

[@chuckfinley4292]

@@johnneill5960 I've gotta know how that went

[@johnneill5960]

Chuck Finley well it was a liberal college professor. I mean ,I guess has there ever been a English college professor that wasn't a liberal ? But , I suppose you could say she was shocked and not a fan of mine . Let's just say I didn't make an A in that class and the rest of the 18-19 year olds where a bit dismayed at having me in their class . Suffice it to say , I'm I'm certain there were no volunteers to join The military that came out of the class . As a remember I did end up writing a paper on why I think ALL High school grads should serve two years in the military, didn't do well on that one either as I recall lol , and the class was not a fan of mine . In the end , my carefactor was zero as I never have been one to be judged by people that don't have any skin on the wall,or haven't done a fucking thing in their lives .

[@westlands703]

Alabama Polytechnic Institute is now Auburn University.

[@christiandoran7314]

War Eagle to that

[@slecroix]

War Damn Eagle!

[@glennbrymer4065]

I remember 1971 to 75. I'd just been medically retired out of the US Army, I was 19 years old. I was a stranger in a strange land. I just never fit back into society. I didn't understand any of it anymore. Work was hard to find. I was in constant pain. I was suffering from Ptsd but didn't know it. It was a real drag. But, I was alive.

[@saltygoose2943]

I hope that your hooked up now with people that do understand.

[@davidgray7893]

This is for my brother and sister Veterans out there, keep pushing to achieve your goals after leaving the service. What you learned in the Military might not look like much on an application. But you cannot quantify Leadership, Integrity, Mission Focus, Dedication, and Drive. Don’t let a civilian make you think you got nothing out of your service to our nation. Keep on pushing.

[@BobSmith-dk8nw]

Oh yeah. There are a lot of guys who went in the military as a boy - and came out a man. A very maturing experience. The other thing, I used to tell this college buddy of mine who wasn't a veteran - was it gives you perspective. He'd be all pissed off about some little thing - and I'd tell him he needed to go serve in the military and - gain some perspective ... .

[@stevenobrien557]

Yes we civilians just love it when some blowhard ex military coworker starts blabbering on about something that was half interesting the first or second time we heard it but now doesn't really have much to with this actual immediate issue we are trying to sort out right now.

[@zachprouty8595]

@@stevenobrien557 what

[@stevenobrien557]

@@zachprouty8595 for further information, please reread.

[@davidgray7893]

@@stevenobrien557 even veterans dislike blowhards who don’t focus on the task at hand. However, being a blowhard is not a trait exhibited by veterans only.

[@jebbroham1776]

How these men who were basically still teenagers when they shipped off to fight the most brutal and dangerous enemy America had ever faced managed to simply come home and resume normal lives is beyond me. The horrors they saw are unimaginable, yet they readjusted somehow in civilian life.

[@nonameman7114]

Also tasked with leading other teenagers into the battle and being responsible for their lives. Must’ve been a hard burden for them.

[@RivetGardener]

This show was spot on. This was exactly the kind of "help" I got from the 82nd Abn "discharge assistment program" and the North Carolina "assistance offices for discharged veterans" when I was honorably discharged from the Army. Absolutely no help and blindingly clueless clerks who had zero concept of what an 11B did in in training and in combat.

[@CodaMission]

Okay, but a good part of this is Sledge not knowing what skills transfer over. As a mortarman, he ABSOLUTELY learned things he can continue in school. He was taught how to set up and handle explosive materials, surveying, hell he learned calculus, trigonometry, and trajectories!

[@markfryer9880]

Clueless clerical staff all comes down to the employment profile when the organisation was established. If they had employed former services personnel or veterans or reservists then they may have had a better understanding of your job description. I don't know what exactly your job description was because I live in Australia, but 82 Airborne tells this former Australian Army Reservist something. You like to jump out of perfectly good aircraft just so that you can land faster. Chin up mate, there are plenty of dickheads in this world. Just make sure that you don't work for one. Mark from Melbourne Australia

[@therevolvingmonk]

A couple pertinent excerpts from Sledge's book, With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa, about the fighting conditions on Okinawa: "I had my first opportunity to look around our position. It was the most ghastly corner of hell I had ever witnessed. As far as I could see, an area that previously had been a low grassy valley with a picturesque stream meandering through it was a muddy, repulsive, open sore on the land. The place was choked with the putrefaction of death, decay, and destruction. In a shallow defilade to our right, between my gun pit and the railroad, lay about twenty dead Marines, each on a stretcher and covered to his ankles with a poncho - a commonplace, albeit tragic, scene to every veteran. Those bodies had been placed there to await transport to the rear for burial. At least those dead were covered from the torrents of rain that had made them miserable in life and from the swarms of flies that sought to hasten their decay. But as I looked about, I saw that other Marine dead couldn't be tended properly. The whole area was pocked with shell craters and churned up by explosions. Every crater was half full of water, and many of them held a Marine corpse. The bodies lay pathetically just as they had been killed, half submerged in muck and water, rusting weapons still in hand. Swarms of big files hovered about them." "The mud was knee deep in some places, probably deeper in others if one dared venture there. For several feet around every corpse, maggots crawled about in the muck and then were washed away by the runoff of the rain. There wasn't a tree or bush left. All was open country. Shells had torn up the turf so completely that ground cover was nonexistent. The rain poured down on us as evening approached. The scene was nothing but mud; shell fire; flooded craters with their silent, pathetic, rotting occupants; knocked-out tanks and amtracs; and discarded equipment - utter desolation. The stench of death was overpowering. The only way I could bear the monstrous horror of it all was to look upward away from the earthly reality surrounding us, watch the leaden gray clouds go skudding over, and repeat over and over to myself that the situation was unreal - just a nightmare - that I would soon awake and find myself somewhere else. But the ever-present smell of death saturated my nostrils. It was there with every breath I took. I existed from moment to moment, sometimes thinking death would have been preferable. We were in the depths of the abyss, the ultimate horror of war. During the fighting around the Umurbrogol Pocket on Peleliu, I had been depressed by the wastage of human lives. But in the mud and driving rain before Shuri, we were surrounded by maggots and decay. Men struggled and fought and bled in an environment so degrading I believed we had been flung into hell's own cesspool."

[@samnigam3451]

This scene from the Pacific episode 10 is crazy powerful n really goes to show that civilians dont understand shit what soldiers go through during War esp PTSD. Respects from India. I have lost my uncle to War 1965 India Pak War. Another uncle survived 1971 War n is still alive. 65 was the year America went to War in Vietnam. In 65 India Pak War 80 enemy kills to his unit n bravery medal. Died while stepping on a landmine during search n rescue mission last days of the War. WAR NEVER ENDS QUIETLY - FURY BRAD PITT. Cmdr Genda Aircraft Carrier Flagship Akagi - pilots are in excellent spirits. Admiral Nagumo replies - 'They are excited but they don't know the horrible sights n taste of Battle' - Admiral Nagumo Pearl Harbour n Midway 1941-42.

[@London755]

Let us beat our swords into plowshares.

[@johnmagill3072]

General Robert E Lee once said. It's a good thing war is so terrible, or we should become too fond of it..

[@daniellap.stewart6839]

Rip your uncle

[@samnigam3451]

@@daniellap.stewart6839 Thanks a lot Danielle. RIP all those American soldiers Airmen n Marines who fought for America right from WWII Korea Nam Iraq n Afghanistan... I thank them for their service to a greatful Nation USA.

[@samnigam3451]

@@johnmagill3072 Robert E Lee was a Brave Shrude Candid General but fighting on the Rebel side.... I have regards for George S Patron Mac Arthur n Erwin Rommel. World should never forget. Respects from India

[@tony3313]

At the end of this episode when he and his father went hunting. You could feel his anxiety of holding a rifle again, that he broke down crying. Then his father held him in his arms trying to comfort the trauma that his son endured. It was very moving.

[@JayKayKay7]

I remember reading about some WW2 vet going to college after the war and some upper class man asked where his freshman beanie was. The vet gave him his thousand yard stare and that was the last he heard about freshman beanies.

[@hlynnkeith9334]

The school I attended still had freshman hazing in the 70s. A Vietnam vet was asleep in his dorm room when a gaggle of upperclassmen let themselves in with a key. They grabbed him. What they did not know is that he slept with his right hand wrapped around the hilt of a bayonet. He woke up wild eyed, screaming, and slashing. The upperclassmen dove through the door and barricaded themselves in the room across the hall. The vet carved a hole through the door. The upperclassmen crawled out the window onto the ledge and cried for help. Did I mention this was on the 4th floor? One of the campus cops was a Korean War vet. He talked the Viet vet down and got him to go back to his room. Result: The Vietnam vet suffered no repercussions. The school decided that he could keep his bayonet. (I heard they tried to take it away from him. That did not end well for them.) In an exception to school policy that required all freshman to live in the dorms, he was permitted to live off campus. Freshman hazing was immediately outlawed. (I knew the vet. Twitchy dude. I heard his story from a medic who came to visit. The vet was the door gunner on a Huey in the early days of the war before choppers specialized. One day they landed and were told to dismount the guns and slap a red cross on the nose to go out for a medevac mission. The whole squadron -- 16 birds, 4 crew to a bird -- flew out. They were 20 feet off the deck when the LZ lit up. The whole squadron went down. Only he and his pilot survived. He spent a year in Guam, Japan, and the states learning to walk again.)

[@SamBrickell]

That freshman beanie thing definitely happened at Ohio State University (it may also have happened other places).

[@SapphireCrusader1988]

@@hlynnkeith9334 Jesus, that's quite the story. I hope that he managed to graduate and have a good life.

[@hlynnkeith9334]

@@SapphireCrusader1988 Yes, he graduated. I knew him well. I considered him a friend. He had no shallow relationships. Met some fascinating people through him. He was still twitchy last I saw him.

[@SapphireCrusader1988]

@@hlynnkeith9334 Glad to hear that. I'm in the Army now, serving in the 170th MP Company, 504th MP Battalion, 42nd MP Brigade, and I have nothing but the greatest respect for those who went to war but didn't come back whole. I haven't seen action myself, but I hope I never have to go through what they did. I hope no one ever has to.

[@Will-SFC06]

Truth be told, laying in a mortar requires some pretty hardcore math... But it's an awesome example of the separation, the divide, between military and civilians, and in this video, movies and history.

[@NYG5]

there is so much math involved in artillery and aviation, it's nuts, it's no wonder napoleon was a genius coming out of their artillery service

[@Spider-Too-Too]

The quiet professional, there is nothing about the war to talk about cuz they won’t understand. All the news and radio must be sharing story like how baslon killed 1000 enemies or cartoon Japanese soldiers on the box of soaps

[@Courtesyflush52]

I dont really think the math involved with mortars is going to prepare you that well for college level math beyond trig and geometry

[@NYG5]

@@Courtesyflush52 I would put money on it being a better building block since it was an applied study compared to the bullshit we get taught in high school these days

[@Courtesyflush52]

@@NYG5 i dont think either high school or artillery would be comparable to college math. Youre not using differential equations or derivations or compressible fluid mechanics. By virtue of it being applied math, its most effective if its made easy for the soldier rather than complex

[@southronjr1570]

My dad shot with him for years in the N-SSA, mostly at the Brierfield State park outside Montavello, and I remeber seeing him and talking to him on occasion as a child and never ONCE knew what he had done, or even that he had written books about it. In that organization, it seems you can't kick a rock hard and not hit a Veteran or Public Safety of some type so no one really talks about it, unless inter-service rivalry gets brought up, usually around the camp fire with one or two adult beverages mixed in, and yes, we have marines, so they usually get fired up after a case or two but it's always in good fun and a family-ish atmosphere. I wish now I had talked with him more because it seems some of the greatest are leaving us way too soon these days. And if anyone wondered, someone once tried to count up the major medals just sitting around a campfire I was at back in the mid 90's to see who would be making the beer run, ended up being 3 CMH recips, about half a dozen silver stars, and they gave up when it came to counting up the Bronze star recips. My dad said don't worry about it and he made the run.

[@stevefowler2112]

Very interesting...I can only imagine what those young WWII Marines went thru in adjusting back to the real world. I was in The Corps just as Vietnam was ending ('74 - '78 in 2/7 and 3/1) and though we were being trained as expecting to go back, I never had a shot fired at me in anger in my four years. As a young Marine I wanted to go to war but in retrospect I am glad I never did. I had already been accepted to Engineering College (FTU which is now UCF) before i made the decision to enlist and they honored my SAT scores (perfect 800 on the Math portion) from H.S. and readmitted me. I took a month off after being discharged at Pendleton and drove cross country, stopping in every Honky Tonk bar I found and chased skirts and drank brown whiskey all the way back to my hometown of Cocoa Beach Fl. By the time I got home I had shaken off enough of my Marine Corps ethos that I was ready to turn to academia and was a freshman Engineering major at the next term at UCF ( a recently retired Ph.D. Aerospace Engineer who worked 35 years at a large American defense contractor's Missile Systems company in central Fl.).

[@usmc-veteran73-77]

I was on Okinawa Aug74-Sep75. As you know Sagion fell April 1975. I was scared to death we were going to defend Sagion and go to war. I was TAD to H&S Co 1/9. Semper Fi from an old Marine Sergeant

[@garygallant5390]

Yes ma’am I went to war to get college credits.

[@milt6208]

Unimaginative horrors these young men went through.

[@calum0123]

*unimaginable

[@XaviRonaldo0]

Apart from the freezing cold of the battle of the bulge the guys who only served in Europe really had it good compared to their Pacific bretheren

[@milt6208]

@@XaviRonaldo0 I beg to differ. War in any condition sucks. Maybe in Europe it sucked a little less. But the Germans were very good at what they did too. It all sucked no matter where you served.

[@XaviRonaldo0]

@@milt6208 yeah but at least the Germans respected medics as non combatants and didn't go on suicide charges

[@soldat2501]

To this day, I try to mentor former infantry Marines as best I can. So many of them come out thinking the same think. “They taught me how to kill.” Or “ I learned how to blow shit up.” No. They taught you to problem solve, using available resources. How to lead small teams, obey orders, but be flexible to improvise when necessary. The importance of logistics and support units and how they make up a team. Respect to others and to the chain of command. You learned resilience and perseverance. That there is no such thing as quitting and there’s always one more thing you can try. Support your coworkers and help out when needed. They taught you to take pride in your work but make sure others got an equal amount of credit. Take care of your equipment and keep it functional as long as possible. Don’t waste resources and ensure your team has what they need to succeed. Most of all, you have a sense of maturity and responsibility way beyond others your age. They can trust you to do the right thing because you understand how important loyalty is. That and so much more.

[@maineduboisesq.7528]

Well said.

[@stevenlarrabee3438]

I was in the Army Infantry. Every MOS has a "mission statement". A cook's might be "To prepare healthy nutritious food. Ensure cleanliness standards are met or exceeded. Take account of supplies available and expected needs, etc, etc, etc. Most are about a page to a page and a half long. The Infantry Mission statement was one sentence. "To close with and kill, capture or destroy the enemy." I understand it has been changed since I was in.

[@ErikPT]

In a sense the Marines taught you to be a leader and how to utilize critical thinking skills for transient tasks.

[@Soccerstu44]

I can only imagine the restraint it takes for veterans who’ve experienced the most horrible savagery of war to not go berserk in situations like this.

[@kikealvarado3237]

Love it wen u mix the series with the real interview

[@The105ODST]

Got dang that was quite intense between the interview and the what the show had.

[@user-qt4ee4nb1h]

Kinda reminds me of late Feb. of 71' when i got back to Mobile.

[@merrylmarsh9037]

Pacific was a great production and all the young actors delivered excellent performances to honour the WW2 vets they portrayed. I watch the series every year. Lest We Forget ❤

[@imapaine-diaz4451]

I had the same kind of feeling when I got back to the world in 1972. I think I became pretty good at what I did in the army, but the skills were frowned on in the civilian labor market. Had to learn a new trade, but those skills are still a part of me to be brought to the fore at need. the enemies of freedom should remember that there several millions of men in our country with those skills!

[@Cripalani]

"the enemies of freedom" part was hilarious lmfao

[@bobgasm1471]

@@Cripalani everyone's a badass on the internet, when that first bullet whizs past your head, it doesn't seem that funny.

[@eq1373]

​@Cripalani you must be one of them

[@alanleblanc1763]

​@@Cripalani obviously the only one who thinks it's funny

[@imfatloser1958]

It’s still like this today

[@larrysmith1568]

I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Sledge. A wonderful gentleman.

[@tom-lw3gv]

if only hollywood had used the real interview for the movie, it would of been better haha

[@philipsmith3084]

I am so grateful that HBO did this series. It was so relevant to my family. I only wish I could have met anyone of these heroes. Eugene Sledge died in 2001. This series should be a mandatory activity for school.

[@danw7156]

When I got out of the US Army as a Grunt, I went to the junior college. Figured I could get a job as a hit man or a cop. I found out the cops had better retirements

[@_Jaspy_]

Good one sir😂

[@ErikPT]

Many veterans I know go the route of 'reserves' and or 'Guard' while doing some part-time jobs like private security firms

[@scroggins100]

I can totally understand Sledge. I did too many years that didnt give me squat towards a worthwhile career in civi street. They were hard times! Bless em all eh!

[@fredflintstome6532]

Thanks Eugene, I'm glad you found some form of peace and had a good life.

[@tieroneactual2228]

A few years ago, we had the honor of meeting a former Marine who carried a flamethrower as well. And after watching some of his stories that were on videos, it was obvious that he too was very good at it! He ended up on Iwo Jima along with his fellow Marines and his actions saved a lot of their lives.

[@roderickstockdale1678]

Know who he was with?

[@ronaldmcdonald3965]

Around 2002, in the run up to Gulf War II, a young woman said "It is their job to get killed". The context was that I was hoping we did not send our troops into urban combat in Baghdad. She had no clue about sending people into combat.

[@MercSambo]

Great series, awesome character portrayal. Respect for any military personnel 🙏

[@dogboy0912]

If you've watched The Pacific but never read With The Old Breed, which is Sledge's portion of the story, I highly encourage you to do so. It may just be the most depressing book I have ever read.

[@lycaonpictus9662]

One of the best accounts of combat ever written by an enlisted man. I'd also highly recommend Robert Leckie's Helmet for my Pillow, which along with Sledge's book was also used as the basis for The Pacific. Leckie was a professional writer & had been a sports reporter prior to the war so it is many respects a very different sort of book, but just as haunting as Sledge's account. A sample... ..."an unattached hand, or rather a detached one. It lay there alone - open, palm upwards, clean, capable, solitary. I could not tear my eyes from it. The hand is the artisan of the soul. It is the second member of the human trinity of head and hand and heart. A man has no faculty more human than his hand, none more beautiful nor expressive nor productive. To see this hand lying alone, as though contemptuously cast aside, no longer a part of a man, no longer his help, was to see war in all its wantonness; it was to see the especially brutal savagery of our own technique of rending, and it was to see men at their eternal worst, turning upon one another, tearing one another, clawing at their own innards with the maniacal fury of the pride-possessed.”

[@patrickmccrann991]

Sledge's books were written as part of his treatment for what is now called PTSD. He suffered from it greatly until a psychiatrist had he right down his experiences during the war. Those notes became the outline for "With the Old Breed" and "China Marine".

[@nopejoeandangie]

i read with the old breed but it just seemed to end super fast. like abrupt. i don't know why. JDFDSjiDS

[@njebei]

I read Leckie's book and Sledge's book in anticipation of the series. Both are good but Sledge's puts you into the muck and terror of war. Peleliu was bad enough and then he got to the part about Okinawa. His description of trench warfare there is haunting. I've never questioned the use of the atomic bomb after I read his account. The whole world had lost its damned mind and the brutality on all sides changed the limits of what was once considered moral. It's a lesson all leaders need to remember when deciding to send soldiers off to war.

[@haroldanderson7327]

I agree, I listened to it as an audio book on a trip, there were many times that I had to turn it off just to process what I had heard. The sheer amount of savagery and horrible living conditions they went through is hard to comprehend.

[@robertprice9052]

My grandfather attended API after he got back from Europe. My Dad attended after Vietnam when it was Auburn, and I split my service time to go to Auburn! Traditions- Auburn and the Army

[@yourstruly4817]

Did they attend any special schools while in Europe/Vietnam?

[@robertprice9052]

@@yourstruly4817 Both were Paratroopers. Grandfather was at D-day invasion and battle of the bulge. Dad was a PL during Tet.

[@calidevildawg08]

I learned in the Marines that being a Janitor is a life long skill

[@pauldehart744]

That is so true for all us who served, no matter which branch. Wax that floor to a high shine and don't walk in the middle of the floor.

[@Tiger74147]

On the one hand, you don't want people to understand. You want them to keep living a peaceful life. But moments like these are when the madness can set in.

[@twomouse5572]

Sledge would be a great foreman on a mountain highway blowing up mountains during the 50s-70s

[@rifelaw]

Reminds me of a scene from "Best Years of our Lives".

[@smokeyxdaxbear97]

This is still relevant today, we start college with a handful of credits and at least four years behind our peers.

[@BrassBashers]

This scene was stuck in my head while I was driving yesterday, I meant to look it up but never did... Is the algorithm reading my mind now????

[@michaelcodelmar9547]

His life was a reminder of the extremes. First had to undergo the horrors of war esp in the battle for Okinawa then later being a professor and teaching to the young kids who didn't have to undergo what he went thru in the fight for freedom..Respect!

[@davidcarrasco118]

There was a scene that STILL gets me any time I've the occasion to come across it, where his father hears him having nightmarish cries and screams....and he sits by his room to sorta watch over him.....This HAD to have been often. It's what a Father does.......

[@nickcardone2206]

My grandpa was a marine after the war, he was a master marksman with the .45 and a artillery man….he said this was how his interview at a GM auto college went. He said that was tough but seeing this reminded him of his Sgt who had been in Okinawa. Couldn’t even mention ut

[@garthsnidpick4151]

goose bumps..............real goose bumps...............took my breath away

[@Chickennss]

Knowing that my grandad did the same thing and you wouldn’t have known it. He was a fantastic person and I was to young to understand his history at the time.

[@MercSambo]

Your life is my life; a grandpa who did what he had to; then lived a simple, humble life. After he died I found out he was a forward scout in papua new guinnea

[@deafsmith1006]

Sledge was just a nice kid who wanted to server his country like his brother was doing. He wanted to do his part. He just didn't know that war is really hell... and the war of annihilation with Japan was the worst hell. And the Marines were hip deep in that hell. And coming back was just hard.

[@johndefelice9365]

What those heroic marines went through for us then is something we cannot fathom. Thankyou for showing us.

[@JohnAdams-1]

Thank you for your service,

[@dogtownlord1241]

I felt this. What did the Marine Corps teach me? They taught me how to reach out and touch someone so well, that giblets would be all thats left. Also Pythagorean theorem. Yup, I actually used algebra outside of school. Artillery was full of surprises.

[@nonombre7159]

I would've admitted him to the school purely on the basis of that line alone.

[@conpop6924]

Well he did end up going to the school

[@stevenobrien557]

You would have been tired of that crap by 1946. Really tired.

[@johncouch587]

“Alabama polytechnic is the best” War Eagle Mr. Sledge. He’d be proud to see his display opened this past year in the Veterans Affairs center at Auburn.

[@jte7438]

This video directly led me to search out for and read "The old Breed" by Eugene Sledge. I was still 2 years older than he was when he experienced this, and his story felt deeply personal and yet entirely alien to me. Even though this scene doesn't show exactly what happened in real life, it still captured the spirit of the incident. I can respect that.

[@mrz3r012]

I remember asking my dad if he could teach me how to fight like they taught him how to fight in the Marines. and he said "guy, they didn't teach me how to fight, they taught me how to kill". He was a Marine, a Vietnam Veteran.

[@lubov5208]

My father was also part of the army. I asked him to teach me how to fight so I can walk safe at night. He said “I was thought to kill with the first punch.”

[@michaelcasey5155]

Eugene Sledge….an American hero and a great Marine.

[@MG-wk2eh]

He was a true gentleman too, despite his horrific experiences. You can tell from his book ("With the Old Breed") and the various interviews he had. Not like Chris Kyle, he was an awful human being. By the end of his book I honestly felt schadenfreude when I learned he was killed by some deranged ex Marine on a shooting range. It's not because he was a sniper who killed people in war, he just came across as a total sociopath and a racist who delighted in killing Iraqis. He felt self-righteous about it, even though it was America that invaded their country. He also bragged about sniping looters in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, American civilians that he supposedly served to protect. Even though it was false, it just shows you he was a POS.

[@ElNegroMasGuapoDeMexico]

Thank you for your service.

[@marciebalme588]

Of all the soldiers of the American Army my Father in Law spoke about, it was the Marines he had the highest regard for , My beloved Father in Law was an Australian Soldier who spent 18 months on the Island of New Britain with the 29th/46th Australian Infantry Battalion where he was a Infantry Corporal

[@Irish381]

Just finished watching the Pacific, as a retired MARINE CORPS Infantry GySgt 26years of service most of it in Iraq and Afghanistan, I was lucky to have come home. But never enrolled in junior college. Took the money from the GI bill to pay for physical therapy and help others to find housing and employment opportunities for the disabled people.

[@Snugggg]

the scene in the show makes him look like a jerk, when in actual fact he was a very polite and respectful man who had lost his temper for a moment and immediately cooled off and apologized. appealing to the emotions of the modern audience. I wish they had told it true.

[@tomwelshshore]

exactly why movies today are shit they treat yuo like a toddler and cant just act it out

[@writereducator]

This is such a moving scene. I wish there would be a movie just about Eugene Sledge. His memoir is incredible.

[@joeyluna8695]

Two worlds collide. One was real! The other? Harmless. Grateful to Mr. Sledge! God Bless Sir!

[@mikeseigle5560]

Leadership experience, handle stress well, seriousness when the situation calls for it. I taught a fair number of students on the GI bill most did very well.

[@koolaidria4801]

And then she immediately became pregnant.

[@juniorslothsix5562]

What the fuck

[@CodenameHaswelly]

what an incel comment

[@koolaidria4801]

@@CodenameHaswelly Can you explain why? Or are you just trying to be edgy.

@@koolaidria4801 Misogyny-y-y! (sung to the tune of ms.dynamite)

[@stuckingachahell]

well i thought it was funny

[@burtvhulberthyhbn7583]

Sledge was only 1 of so many that did the job we will never be able to thank them for. He'd never admit it but he was just 1 of those heroes.

[@SuperSqueakyboy]

We have 10 point veteran preference now when applying for a job. It puts me up over another with the same experience.

[@Anthony-ot8vl]

I'm so glad they addressed PTSD. My grandpa was a marine in the pacific. He suffered nightmares for years and was distant.

[@julianvilla5536]

My dad is a retired Sgt Maj usmc. When I was 1 years old 9/11 happened so he was in Iraq and Afghanistan. He told me when he got home him and my mom (still together) went out and some guy tried hitting in my mom. The guy told my dad “I’m in the marine corps” to try and boast. My dad said what his mos was and the guy was a “0111 admin”. My dad said “ fuck off office pog I know you heard stories about fallujah and Ramada or else I’ll make you experience them”. My recruiter messed up my contract so now I’m a office pog 3432, my dads happy that I have that job because he was pissed when I signed infantry. He sometimes jokes around calling m an office pog.

[@brittsmith8260]

Doesn't matter the job, you are serving our country and my friend that is what counts. I spent thirty years as a Broadcast Journalist and Senior Public Affairs Specialist. I retired as a First Sergeant (Army) and my job was to tell the Soldier's story so that the rest of the world knew what our wonderful war fighters endured both in war and peace time. Your pog office job is very important, when you CORRECTLY prepare the paperwork for your fellow Marines and their career advances as it should, you have performed a great service to them. Drive on.

[@bradmuehlenbein]

I LOVE how the actual interview is included with The Pacific(Hollywood) footage to show contrast and authenticity.

[@ryanstuckey8677]

god bless dr sledge and all of those who served and sacrificed to save others

[@ryankelley8318]

With the Old Breed by Eugene Sledge is a must read

[@TXMEDRGR]

Great book!

[@richardswann5300]

One of the most accurate and detailed books written. Get it, and read it !!!! You'll learn a lot !

[@ScoobyDoo44797]

Three of my Great Uncles were in the war efforts or served in WW2. Uncle Tony Pardo studied the Foreman’s test since he was too old to serve and eventually became the assigned Foreman in the Brooklyn Navy Yard for the USS Missouri BB-63 and the USS Kearsarge CV33. My Uncle Joe Pardo was Stateside for the US Army. And my Uncle Carl was in the Marines as a Corporal at 18 years old with the 3rd Marine Division, 34th Replacement Battalion, 21st Marine Regiment on Iwo Jima. My Great Uncle Tony actually cleaned the blood and guts off the Missouri when she returned from the war. My Great Uncle Carl brought home a sword and rifle from the Island from the Japanese that he found in a foxhole. He didn’t speak of the war till I was around in 2010. Before that when something would fall from the table like a fork he’d jump up like someone started shooting at him. After he opened up with Me and my Father He then wrote a book with his best friend Tony Joswick. They all passed away some years back.

[@exactinmidget92]

I was in the same boat when i got out in 2016 and it sucks to not know anything.

[@TXMEDRGR]

It breaks my heart to think about what those young men had to go through and then deal with when they returned home. The G.I. bill was one of the good things to come out of the war.

[@acer3573]

I've not watched the series but I read his book "With the Old Breed" up to the Battle for Peleliu. He was placed in a special training course at the start of his enlistment, but intentionally failed so he could see combat.

[@BobSmith-dk8nw]

If you listen to what she says here - she is looking for something that she can give him college credits for. For myself - the fact that I was a veteran - meant that I got college credits for taking the Health and Safety Class which was a General Education Requirement. My friend who hadn't yet served in the military - had to take that class. By the time of the Vietnam War - this was automatic. If you were a veteran - you got credit for that class. I sent in a copy of part of my Service Record with my college application (like they said to) and this was just automatic. There could have been other classes the military gave - that might have qualified for other class credits but Artillery Weapons Repair - wasn't one of them. Oh yeah ... that's right ... almost forgot ... I didn't have to take a PE class either ... The thing is here - is that in order for Sledge to get credit for a class - it had to be one that that school offered. So - if it offered a class in Journalism - and he had received military training in Journalism - they would have given him credit for that class. College's didn't have classes on the use of weapons - which is what his training had been with. IF he had been trained as a Journalist - which the Marines did have - then he would have gotten credit for the class this school offered on that subject but it didn't have classes on killing people. So - that's what she was doing - here _in the HBO Series_ ... what relation that had with what prompted Sledge to have that outburst IRL ... I can't say. Now - the other thing I got credit for - was that the base I was at allowed us to take a night class at the local Community College and I had done that for one semester. Here - I had something from the Jr. College giving me credit for that class - so that wasn't part of what I'd gotten out of the service - it was just an extra thing they had allowed me to do. I also signed up for a Correspondence Class while I was in but I didn't like it so I didn't complete it. .

[@frankieelder3210]

Bob Smith PTSD made him have the outburst not her, same as the hunting scene.

[@BobSmith-dk8nw]

@@frankieelder3210 Oh yeah. PTSD was the underlying cause but her not being able to give him any credit for the things he had trained on - was what triggered it. It seems like she was trying to help him but was frustrated that he hadn't done anything she could give him college credits for. My guess would be that he was as much motivated by her frustration - seemingly with him - that caused him to say something. Once she was embarrassed that she had triggered that response - he calmed down and told her that she just couldn't understand - which she could not. The thing is - like I said - college's just didn't give you college credit for learning how to kill people. He probably didn't understand how all that worked. I'm just speculating here - but it could have been a reaction something like "you'll give me credit for being a journalist but not for doing the things I had to do to fight a war?" To him - the things he did know how to do - were a lot more important than being a journalist - but - that just wasn't how things worked. When you get out and get exposed to things like that - there is a lot you don't understand at that age and the ins and outs of collegiate bureaucracy ... was one of them. He was taking offense where none was intended - and yes - that would be the PTSD. The things he had been trained on - helped him keep himself and his friends alive - all while taking the lives of his enemy. These were things in the course of his life - that when they were needed - were far more important than anything he was ever going to learn in college ... they just didn't matter any more once he stopped needing to kill people as part of his job. Sometimes - there is a real adjustment in life - to things that were extremely important but - because things changed - were no longer important any more. I've seen that happen at work when knowledge that was very highly valued became obsolete because the technology it was based on was going away. Someone who had been a highly valued expert ... was reduced to being ... washed up. I've seen peoples lives ruined by that when they couldn't adjust but the electrons don't care. .

[@frankieelder3210]

Bob Smith Absolutely, as a veteran myself I agree with you.....you explained it well and I appreciate your reply.

[@BobSmith-dk8nw]

@@frankieelder3210 No sweat. .

[@ChrisParadise-wv5iz]

As someone dealing with PTSD myself, even the slightest misuse of tone of voice sets me off. I still to this day do not get along well with society because I feel useless. Something that some see as helping, others like me see as condescending. My outbursts are nothing personal just like this young lady meant nothing personally. Seeing this scene hits home, as does his night terrors. I cannot identify with the hunting scene as I already tried to use my own against myself. So no hunting or weapons for me.

[@Raul_Menendez]

Atleast the after WWII they respected those who served.... Too bad about the Nam' Vets.... They get nothing but hatred by their own people....

[@stevenobrien557]

Helps to actually win a war.

[@stevenobrien557]

nice sneaky delete @Vitas

[@mcmarkmarkson7115]

The republicans are even worse, they talk up the military all the time, but they leave the vets in the dumpster when they need help most.

[@Raul_Menendez]

@Christian Lopez Wars must go on. Where else can you test weapons? -Every Politician or Military General in the world

[@smallbug4585]

This is why there's a G.I. Bill. God Bless Our Troops. 🇺🇲🐌

[@frankm2588]

I read his book, "With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa" , considered one of the best first-person accounts to come out of WWII. A great read.

[@billyruprecht9581]

Make sure you get the sequel book by Eugene Sledge called China Marine.

[@bob10099]

@@billyruprecht9581 I was just going to comment the same thing. "China Marine" was an amazing read and a part of his history I did not know about till I read it recently. I almost enjoyed it more then "With the Old Breed".