Not a Vape, but this is probably much more dangerous

These life belts are most infamous for their use on D-Day, where many soldiers were carrying plenty of heavy gear and were dropped into deep water with only these belts to keep them afloat.
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[@GilbertoD]

“Vape? no…” *US M1926 LIFE BELT*

[@Kohei536]

reject vape ENBRACE M1926 LIFE BELT

[@law4421]

​@@Kohei536Amen brother

[@KEn-gy1id]

Cocaína? No, flour…

[@Dutchenter]

My vape is my life saver ❤

[@EggMartAdmin]

@@Dutchenter i prefer air

[@frankm.2850]

Imagine being an NCO, and half your men drowned because they wore their fucking life preserver wrong.

[@andrewyoung8550]

But did they have there PT belts on?

[@becsterino]

​@@andrewyoung8550glow belts sir. We all know how important those bright neon belts made the biggest difference when we could only see black and white during those days

[@wowMush]

we can imagine but it didnt happen like that lol

[@stunnin420ify]

I would’ve been thinking “shit it would’ve been better sending them without the damn belts”

[@Brando2Hot]

@@wowMushbro thats kinda basically exactly what he already said you just said it in the “i ruin parties” way. And if you are serious, how the fuck are you sin

[@assettocorsa458]

My grandfather told me about these when I was young. He said that people wore them round the waist, but then put them up into the position they were instructed to put them in before they were dropped. It was common for the higher ranks to tell people to do this, as they knew of the risks.

[@catscratchfever1473]

Yeah it’s irresponsible to try to build history on conjecture like in this video. I liked the video except for “we don’t know how many soldiers died that way but probably a lot based on nothing but my imagination!”.

[@catscratchfever1473]

And now I’m trying to make it your imagination too 😂

[@TheRandomCone227]

@@catscratchfever1473I mean he didn’t say his opinion was factual you just interpreted it that way

[@introvertedfeeler2215]

@@TheRandomCone227 Nah, you're trying to do an ackshually. Context matters and he implied his perspective is fact

[@justmeep3847]

@@introvertedfeeler2215he said “I have no concept” not “we have no concept”.

[@user-xj9ep6fx2u]

PRIVATE ARE YOU VAPING!!? “No, US M1826 life belt🤓”

[@Legend_Jayy]

Um actually it's USM1926 🤓

[@euaf-crimson1730]

Gonna pull this on my SAI next year.

[@norokodven4768]

You forgot the sir, your screwed now.

[@nabranestwistypuzzler7019]

Bruh it’s 1926 and vapetardation didn’t exist back then

[@Mr22002]

@@Legend_Jayy Um It's actually M1926🤓

[@Emidextrous]

He just pulled a "Cocaina, no, flour" on us.

[@LockheedC-130HerculesOfficial]

Someone asked me why i hate the military

[@damianosplay9457]

@@LockheedC-130HerculesOfficial why

[@douwenagel1]

My boy Martin Cabello the third

[@_hi_pwr]

​@@damianosplay9457military industrial complex headed by lockeed-mArtin

[@SyntaxErr19287]

I’ve been on live with that dude 3 different times somehow ahhaah

[@joshuakely9237]

Pulled the classic *not a vape, but a life preserver* prank on us

[@obiwanfisher537]

Classic

[@HarmfulYoutube]

Can it be

[@dembuckeyes]

A prank i can actually approve of

[@DragonTamer31K]

Classic tale of bewilderment

[@Subsrcibe.]

Fr

[@KB0W11]

“Vape no” “Hotel trivago yes”

[@veteranofssb2]

why is this joke still alive and funny? 😂

[@KB0W11]

@@veteranofssb2 idk but that’s all I thought about when I watched this🤣😂

[@SweeTeasGarbageDump]

Average flavored air fan VS chad M1926 Lifebelt User

[@13film55]

It's drip or drown, And brother I'm *FLOATING*

[@damilkmann3088]

😭😂😂💀 this comment is underrated

[@MrEZBaked]

🏆

[@Jack_77990]

W

[@lucasgawor7471]

???

[@lucasgawor7471]

​@@damilkmann3088 it makes absolutely no sense.

[@epicedits3080]

This dude is an absolute boss for catching feinds attention to educate them

[@soufyanl1227]

Fr

[@BigMan-oz8re]

got hella called out

[@yetanotheraccount3361]

I thought it was a meme compilation:(

[@Person0fColor]

“Educate them” You’re part of the 90% of Americans that don’t read and that’s why the world is fukkked 😂

[@AngelRivera-de1lq]

Fr

[@Authorized_Personnel]

"Captain Miller, we need to take this hill but we're pinned down by mg42 fire!" "Oh? I gotchu bro" **Vape cloud smoke screen**

[@TheSteelWheel]

the intro felt like the beginning of a vsauce video

[@TrueMobsters]

''Vape? No, 2008 honda civic-''

[@KaydenceBernard]

I thought the nicotine addiction comes with the 2008 Honda civic with a ricer

[@chillinoutmaxin4630]

Hotel? No, Trivago.

[@jfe-z]

“Two Zero Zero Eight Honda See Eye Vi Eye See”

[@user-bh3uv6vx9g]

I fucking laughed way too hard not enough likes on this one 😂

[@Ze12365]

A 2008 Toyota Corolla. [Meet the Sniper theme]

[@taxi_vader]

Imagine storming a beach and looking back to see half of your squad floating upside down with their legs in the air

[@JimboFisher151]

That's what happened

[@HEADKICKMMA]

Yeah most of those guys didn’t know how to swim

[@HEADKICKMMA]

Shit even people on the navy during world war 2 didn’t know how to swim 😂

[@quincyharris2512]

​@@HEADKICKMMAmy coworker was telling me about when he was in the navy and the majority of people had to learn to swim 😂

[@mikexxxmilly]

@@HEADKICKMMA Larger population centers like New York City etc I would imagine have a larger per capita number of people that cant swim due to access to pools or bodies of water to consistently swim in. Also, its one thing to wade around a pool but trying to survive in the choppy ocean with sharks around is another beast.

[@Merryweathergaurd]

This is why I scroll on KZbin shorts and TikTok to hopefully see fun interesting videos and this is a great example

[@Krawbs]

They probably put them in proper position when they needed to be used. This is like saying, "Going by pictures of how their food was in tin cans which can not be eaten, we can assume many soldiers starved to death."

[@dothatjustin]

Which would be true if they needed to eat. Going by the picture, do you see any of them hungry?? Just saying 🤫🫢

[@user-wr9ej6xe4j]

You're assuming common knowledge we know now to have existed 80 years ago.... Not to mention many were shot and killed on the beaches of Normandy as soon as they arrived, making any primitive life vest useless anyway

[@ForestsAndSunsets]

The comparison isn’t quite accurate, but I agree with the first part of the sentence

[@TeyTey428]

i have a friend who's a ww2 re-enactor and they were doing a beach landing thing and they had those. he wore it at chest level where everyone else wore it at waist and a ww2 vet was there and actually thanked him for wearing it properly as he lost friends because of the belts being worn improperly

[@malt____fries7002]

where are yall doin an actual recreation with people dying bruh

[@AMinnesotan]

@@malt____fries7002it’s more like role playing WW2

[@criswellpictures]

​@@AMinnesotanhistorians are usually into it for accuracy. One I know really likes civil war reenacting

[@krieger8825]

Natural selection fr

[@bloxer9563]

​@@criswellpictures☠

[@user-kz9hx3gn2m]

Grandfather of my friend told us that this only happened when someone got knocked out. It was like that because almost everyone wore them loose and in water it slides to your armpits.

[@the-nm3xn]

Also I just think you could just float on your back

[@nellyprice]

Very dependent on angle hit water . Buoyancy will take easiest route and coukd flip, we use dry suits and have to make sure squeeze air out of them or they will flip you upside in water too

[@xinniethep00h]

@@the-nm3xnyou definitely wouldn’t float on your back unless you had your equipment evenly distributed across your body and legs and had a strong enough floatation device. Imagine a stick with a rock taped to one end. Throw that in the water and the end with the rock will go under water first, and it’ll also be the end stuck to the bottom because of the weight and the unweighted end would be sticking straight up vertically. If you look up first hand accounts from some of the guys that made beach assaults, like d-day, they talk about how if they were dropped too far out some of the guys that made it to shore wouldn’t have all their equipment because they had to quickly cut it loose because it was basically like a rock strapped to their back.

[@penskepc2374]

​@@nellypriceyou'd still have the ability to shove it to your armpits even if you bobbed head down for few seconds.

[@theworldofnexttuesday2802]

Exactly what I thought when I saw it. If something like that is on so tight you could get stuck upside down, you're probably having breathing issues outside the water. I'd assume for the most part you end up slipping up to your armpits or, in cases of going upside down, you just fall out of it.

[@technonevahdies4578]

"Vape? No, 100mm tank canno-"

[@hongkongboy2018]

Not to mention drowning in saltwater is far worse than freshwater. Not only does it take longer, but because of how it reacts in your lungs you end up drowning in your own blood. Never forget the fallen ❤

[@santipiola2752]

"Vape no" absolute chad

[@RyManZZ]

chihuahua

[@jetblackwings4803]

Vape, nein… Königstiger

[@santipiola2752]

holy cow 367 likes?!?!?!? 1. how? 2.why? 3.thanks

[@legendofman12]

@@santipiola2752it was funny and relatable

[@cupid2fendi]

cornball

[@maybemanidk]

That's why they always say "If you stick to your training, You're gonna be fine."

[@donut9301]

Unless you were trained to be cannon fodder lol

[@Opr8rKaz]

They said that before the battle of Ia Drang, didn’t go too well

[@mikexxxmilly]

If you train consistently enough your chances are higher. Thats the one thing that will potentially save you when that adrenaline dump hits. Your brain shuts off and you just start going through the motions.

[@darkhammer2078]

@@thecommonloonyeah that’s true

[@darkhammer2078]

@@Opr8rKazla drang was more of a win than a loss but with that being said garyowen

[@AndreasYTTV]

That fate to all these soldiers because of improper use of those inflatable belts is just so sad... 😔

[@TryGuy_Yes]

Bros got them Tom Cruise teeth 💀

[@Rena152]

Me hitting the U.S M1926 life belt in the school bathroom

[@creeperminecraft294]

then a teacher comes in and catches you using the US M1926 life belt in the bathroom

[@Almighty_Glitchy]

😂😂😂😂

[@Almighty_Glitchy]

100% in juvenile detention lol

[@infamousgold8576]

​@@Almighty_Glitchyhitting a vape isn't a criminal offense. Now if you do what people were doing in my middle school and bring pot brownies - now that is a crime😂. Shit happened to many fucking times. Only person who got in trouble was a kid they found pot on. He wasn't even the one who brought the brownies💀.

[@khaledshanti822]

@@infamousgold8576why were brownies banned?💀

[@Sahalathepatahta]

As a fellow history nerd I know this dude got bullied for his fascination with war history. So much respect for him still doing his thing

[@davidelectrictreadmillguy]

Same

[@Nxxycc]

Same here brother

[@davidthompson639]

History nerds unite🫡

[@crazy_adventures6326]

Yeah, I get bullied a lot. High school fucking sucks.

[@Nxxycc]

@@crazy_adventures6326 just remember, it’s only 4 years. Get through those and real life begins. I graduated 2018, you won’t ever see those people again so don’t be too rough in yoursel

[@overman138]

"Back in my day we used smoke grenades as vapes"💀

[@user-ft7ub6od7k]

“You Vaping no i am smoking shisha”

[@raymondraptorclaw2901]

They should’ve called it the Life Bra

[@greenboy9943]

So true

[@atlas2296]

Well to be fair a belt is any kind of fabric or leather that is in a circular shape around an object, think Conveyer belts, it doesn't have to be around the waist

[@isrulius]

I cant imagine going into battle, and instead find yourself drowning from a misplaced life belt

[@v4riab1lity77]

And your last thoughts floating somewhere around the fact that it was entirely your fault too 😭 imagine your last thought being “I’m such a fucking idiot” before your ill-prepared life preserver kills you 🌊💀🛟🌊

[@HoppingSnake290]

All that training and preparing only to not fire a single bullet

[@be3esdb335]

The soldiers that happened to were liability’s and would have friendly fires there first bullet! “Everything happens for a reason”

[@dismantledbrain5910]

​@@HoppingSnake290 This was the fate of many of those who did make it to the shore

[@Wetnapkin69]

​@@v4riab1lity77💀😂

[@pom1639]

“Stop vaping it’s bad” HIM: I don’t vape this is a US M1926 life belt

[@linglingtheasian]

bro has the vape of death

[@SEricG]

Vape: ❌ US M1926 Life Belt: ✅

[@kiggs-piggs]

"vape? No, U.S M1926 life belt"🗿 Edit: im famous (kinda) 🗿

[@holdenbrown8225]

Absolute Chad 🗿

[@Mrmemer7777-sm8dh]

Yes 🗿

[@Joe-yp8cx]

Fr 🗿

[@RetroFoamStudios]

Chad 🗿

[@Crosbie85]

@@holdenbrown8225 absolute corn ball

[@ReelK77]

Vape? no... omv diesel

[@lehuadudoit8034]

Imagine seeing your fellow soldier in D-day just bobbing around legs up getting torn to shreds by MGs

[@poptartzzz9735]

dude you are not a real fuckin person

[@nicholashodges201]

One vet I knew said a lot of guys in his company did that on D-Day. He said less than half of them made it to shore and most of them had to lose nearly all of their gear to survive. Several didn't even have weapons

[@phoenixham3166]

Crazy bro

[@wadabid6165]

Goddamn I'm so grateful to be born in this era

[@nicholashodges201]

To clarify what exactly made it so bad was that when the assault was planned the water they were getting dropped off in was about 3 ft deep at the planned time of day. Because of the limits of saturation bombing at night in the 40's many bombs were dropped in the landing area so my friend and his cohorts stepped off of the landing craft expecting belly deep water only to drop into submerged bombs craters. This happened at almost all of the landing beaches that day and more than a few landing craft swamped because they opened over deep water. And to think the soldiers and Marines in the Pacific did it on a *weekly* basis

[@Remhad]

Literally my worst nightmare explained via the misuse of a life belt.

[@wiktoriajakubowska5894]

Fr

[@tomlxyz]

My worst nightmare would be putting this on correctly but in a location where no one finds me

[@thebrickinquestion]

My guy looks like foot soldier from garden warfare

[@Jesusisking408]

Vape? No… Us Bishmark with a side of Titanic

[@86medic1]

My grandfather was at d day dropping the guys off at the beach. He told me a lot of guys actually had them under most of their gear so they just wouldnt inflate either way. So the shorter guys who couldnt swim just went right to the bottom.

[@Rekhan4242]

That is dark

[@curtiswestlake5009]

It is at the bottom of the ocean

[@BLOODYTHECLOWN666]

Damn…everybody 😳

[@youtubeadministration8037]

​@@curtiswestlake5009the depths of the abyss

[@miproduction6196]

We’re the taller dudes jus so tall they head poke out the water?

[@josephmcgee4639]

Sir you can't vape in here.. *HIM:*

[@user-iw7ne7sy5q]

Sir, you can't use a USM1929 lifebelt either.

[@AgentWashington28]

I figured they wore it lose enough that it would slide up to their armpits when it actually was in water

[@GhostKnightofficial]

“Vape? No. DEWALT 2000-Lumen LED Battery-operated Rechargeable Portable Work Light.

[@Tybalt_Capulet]

My teacher is gonna be downright flabbergasted when she sees me hitting this in fourth hour 💀

[@Mr1121628]

Fourth hour? Wtf.

[@Swiftymvm]

@@Mr1121628 ikr we had 4th block fuck the hour shit.

[@obscure.reference]

@@Swiftymvmits a british or something. anyway its period not block.

[@aversiac-2]

@@obscure.reference Whether its a local thing or not, calling a school period a "block" exudes prison vibes in a system that already kind of resembles prison.

[@obscure.reference]

@@aversiac-2 they’re all just references to a division of time dont think its that deep

[@evanlucas8914]

It's funny because most lifejackets of the time weren't much safer. They used foam which floated wonderfully when dry, but when it got wet it became heavier than water. So the foam had to be contained in a water proof bag but if that bag got punctured or turn, as things do in combat, it would soak up water and pull the wearer under.

[@taki7984]

Then wear a dry one 😭

[@ItsJappyHAH]

​@@taki7984bro just didn't read the comment

[@serbiansleeperagent]

​@@taki7984this is the equivalent of saying go to the sun at night time so it doesn't burn us

[@cocotheix2664]

isnt the super simple fix to just chamber it so if one spot gets puncured only one spot soaks up water? took me literally 5 seconds to think of this

[@jestershyper]

@@cocotheix2664 yea thats why the ones used now are foam with layers. Because if those in the video are punctured, the air leaves and you drown, chambering foam means no need for air, cheaper, and works better

[@thunderplays957]

“Vape? no…” North American P51 mustang

[@04LJbaby]

this is the guy that rick harrison sells all that random shit too from pawn stars

[@Elijah_Elias]

Hire this man for a WWII movie

[@evilweevil58008]

he does reeinactments

[@CondorTheBird]

For what?

[@Vadnarr]

A veteran of WW2 did say he thinks it killed more than it saved and that he saw many like this. It was a good idea that was horribly implemented

[@coltonrognrud3528]

great implementation, all deaths are the results of user error. thats like putting a chainsaw chain on incorrectly and getting mad at the chainsaw or chain company. these guys were told how to use it and then used it improperly hate to say it but thats on the user.

[@pedromarchiori8229]

Vape no, mustard gas 💀💀

[@TheCopyNinja733]

It was implemented well and they were surely all trained and drilled on how to properly wear, deploy, and make use of just another piece of your equipment. It’s entirely the result of user error and whoever named it.

[@posernaphtali19]

I researched it myself this is not a commonality this guy says I can only imagine that you'd be upside down with your legs in the air and that never happened

[@posernaphtali19]

​@TheCopyNinja733 this guy is full of shit I researched it myself. This was never a commonality of people drowning by wearing these Such BS this guy is spouting is disgusting

[@貪]

"Vape? No." US M1926 LIFE BELT.

[@jimbo44556]

I had a history teacher who told a similar story about his grandfather. Said he had to ditch all his gear and take gear off fallen soldiers when he got to land

[@LordOfTheCosmos]

this is sad but also the most informational piece of content ive seen in a while

[@ok-kk3ic]

So you learn so little that this tiny youtube short is the most you’ve learned in a long time huh? Crack open a book bro.

[@Daan-yt7ry]

This is not informative at all he says he has no idea if even 1 person died from this. He has literally no information so its not informative😭😭😭

[@screwyouguysimgoinhome1043]

​@@Daan-yt7rycap, this dude did in fact provide information regarding the item he's talking about (🤓)

[@SonaNerikov]

Fucking cap. There's no sad shit about American soldiers. They bring themselves into the war

[@trdestruction6678]

You would think you’d see survivorship bias here, but a lot of them with lower belts survived. It’s suspicious; something might be missing here.

[@vahidmoosavian6313]

Dang. I remember an article debating one scene in "Saving private Ryan" where MG bullets hit the American soldiers under water (they lose velocity due to water density), saying they were more likely to drown instead; and i was like: "did nobody think this would happen?" Looks like somebody did, but with soldiers being soldiers and war being war... 🙁 Edit: Obligatory "Whoa!" For the 1k likes, and it seems we have a bit of a (still pretty civilized) skirmish going on in the comments 😅

[@spaman7716]

Tha ballstics of bullets hitting water (especially at that distance) are equivalent to a bullet hitting a concrete wall at these speeds. It slows dramatically within the span of half a second or so, to the point where if you are under 2 feet of water, worst case injury you would likely get is a scratch or small bruise, if that. The drowning was also very present on beaches like Omaha, where they met heavy resistance and were forced to jump over the sides into the water that was usually 3 or 4 feet deeper minimum then the front of the craft near where the ramp touches down. Like mentioned in the video, there were probably a good amount of soldiers who died drowning because of their belts being worn improperly, a lot of these boys were from the South or Midwest, and had never seen the ocean before let alone go swimming in it during bad weather conditions. So when you strap 70+ pounds of equipment onto their backs, yeah its not going to end well, unfortunately. To the army's credit they did try and do everything they could to minimize unnecessary non combat related deaths, but at the end of the day Operation Overlord was about as brutal of a plan as it was old: Send waves of men to basically drain all the Germans of ammo or swarming their positions. They anticipated much higher casualty rates but (luckily) the Germans were too spread out to be able to pull off an Omaha type situation on every beach.

[@foundationuser5043]

⁠​⁠@@spaman7716 Exactly. I don’t think people realize how badly operation overlord could have gone if the Germans were more prepared and not occupied with “other” things. If the beaches were even mediocrely guarded the causality rates could have been enormous for the allies, and the lack of experience with landings didn’t help either because there was so many problems they had on those damn beaches. But like I said, their very lucky Germany didn’t have the manpower or resources to capitalize on these problems.

[@gingerharm]

@@foundationuser5043 but then again, how could germany have defended itself better? more troops? it would not have been realistic for germany to have many troops everywhere on the shoreline. more reserves witch could be activated during the day? the panzer reserves got there late because of allied air power witch made them move during the night. so there are more reasons why the germans would have failed other then underprepaired, witch they were not.

[@foundationuser5043]

@@gingerharm When Rommel was put in charge of the Atlantic Sealine, his first reaction was disbelief at how lightly defended it was when it was supposed to be this impenetrable line of defence. So his first order was the construction of more fortifications, but even then it wasn’t enough since they had limited manpower and resources to build with. So that just shows how much of a difference it could have made if they had the necessary defences. Plus I think I mentioned that earlier, the biggest problem was the Germans were more focused on other fronts and didn’t even have enough troops or regiments for D-Day, so they were overwhelmed.

[@gingerharm]

@@foundationuser5043 i think the Atlantic wall was stupid as a concept. to much concrete and only stationary positions. the germans could have never finished it in time. and even if they made it very strong the allies would have just landed somewhere else like south france, Italy, greece. even with more troops, thats a lot of coast to guard. even if germany would have never attacked russia and focussed 100% on the west (witch would be very unrealistic btw and you would be talking about a very different war) then still Germany was never in a state to rival the us war industry. d-day did not succeed because of german incompetence but only because of allied strength and strategy witch played into the perceived weaknesses of germany witch was all intentional on the allied side. TLDR you can just choose not to land in front of a bunker and germany never stood a chance.

[@JackKaylor-rg4hm]

A healthy vape for the whole ship

[@legendalt123]

Dude is majestic

[@FollowHimNotMe04]

Bro got that ww2 drip 💯

[@ryanhumpyy7864]

I found one when I was 11 on Utah beach, it had just washed up in front of me and had been cut away by a knife and rusted at the metal part, only a small section but a very cool find 👌🏻

[@McPug8842]

Imagine jumping in the sea with your friends and getting to the beach and saying oh well I guess Jimmy didn’t make it. War is really cruel and you can die bc of any part of your mission.

[@KingKatura]

WW2 My Grandfather was dropped off ship, He sunk to the bottom because of his gear. No one came to get him so he started walking towards land & he survived after being under water for longer than what people claimed was even possible. Once you hit the water he said it was pretty much impossable to get the gear off before you hit the bottom. Luckily he wasn't to far out had he been he'd probably of drowned.

[@Firstname137]

Modern uniforms or at least the ones we wore in the Marines can also be used as a flotation device.

[@andreapehjerne8490]

How ?

[@jareds8176]

​@@andreapehjerne8490 not sure exactly what he's talking about, but in scouts and atleast some military training they teach you that just about any pair of trousers can be taken off, legs tied together and put around your neck, then you kick up and catch air in the waist on your way down or do a lift and scoop kinda technique to inflate them. Doesn't work great with jeans or some fabrics, but bdu style trousers are pretty effective. Definitely wouldn't be my first choice in the middle of an amphibious landing, but if you go over out at sea it'll keep you alive till the sharks show up

[@Firstname137]

@@andreapehjerne8490 This is how. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZOwe4h3or2qrJI

[@patrickstewart3446]

@@jareds8176It actually works very well with dungarees. In boot camp you actually had to do it. 😅

[@AdamErwin-uk7uj]

Had to do the same in Navy. And boy scouts. Good skill to have

[@polkbritton]

Knew a guy who used one. He came ashore at Utah Beach on D+1 and waded ashore through waist deep water. He said he ditched it as soon as he got off the beach (along with his gas mask).

[@MacKennaTheGoddessofRadiation]

Yeah the M5 Assault gas mask was basically useless because of the rubber they used to make them (it was hard to form a seal). Most troops ditched them after landing since they realized "hey no gas" and now they're really rare. The bag is more common tho since it's water proof and thus was kept

[@lancejackson3524]

​@@MacKennaTheGoddessofRadiationu

[@qcnp29]

I’m just imagining a bunch of legs floating around in the water

[@10_Lives...]

An alternative to Vape 😂

[@poka26ev2]

Exhaler

[@NickC_222]

When I was a kid, maybe 8 or 10, I was at a pool party and I was doing this cool trick where I would dive through the middle of an innertube that was floating on the water. I did it three or four times and then eventually it didn't work out so well and I got stuck floating upside down just like you describe. No matter how I flailed or struggled I couldn't recover out of this death trap. I absolutely would've drowned and was probably getting pretty close, but thankfully some guy was watching and lifted me out of the water by my ankle and saved my life. I can't even describe the sheer terror of being stuck in a situation like that, knowing "Well, I really fucked up and now there's nothing I can do about it." I hope those dudes with the floatation belt around their waste didn't end up bobbing upside down. It was a horrific feeling.

[@tfk_001]

Engineer here, can be simplified as "belt is below center or mass... center of mass tends to go lower than center of buoyancy"

[@funkyatomicmonkey]

literally just had to change the name from Life Belt to Life Harness and this whole issue would’ve been resolved lol

[@ddsvelder9866]

My grandpa told me a kid in his platoon died like this and so the lieutenant would always say "Don't be like Private Davidson" for the entire rest of the deployment

[@Xenite_51]

I was in ROTC and our instructor brought one of these in and told us about how a lot of guys died because they weren’t wearing it right. Terrifying but a prime example of pay attention in class.

[@dudebro1277]

Yup and just like a typical clown officer, he lied haha...

[@JacobPrater]

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[@willroth7521]

@@dudebro1277 how was he lying? Basic physics says this would almost definitely kill you

[@johantaube3022]

Thankfully the upwards force of the life belt would often cause it to slip upwards and into ones armpits anyways. The challenge was probably to keep your arms down, so it doesn't slide over your head as well

[@nabtig5586]

But. If you're upside down wouldn't it just slip off your waist

[@LALopezWei]

​@@nabtig5586 not with a cartridge belt on.

[@MuddyBubby]

Yeah let's see that slide over all those pieces of kit.

[@risenfromyoutubesashesagai6302]

How would it slide up and over your shoulders and arms?

[@bobnewton1064]

@@risenfromyoutubesashesagai6302did you not know that the ymca was the d day anthem while the soldiers landed. Once the “y” portion of the song was danced well, You can figure out the rest.

[@Dxldagoon]

Ever need help for a history exam this is your guy

[@denterdall7117]

girl in a party: Are you vaping? Him: no! US M1926 LIFE BELT

[@albertrongaming7553]

i see what he did there, he got my attention with the lil vape trick he did and then schooled me about some history and how the soldiers had floaties😭

[@memenazi7078]

“I have no concept of how many people actually met this terrible fate”

[@posernaphtali19]

Right f-ing there!! Don't you people get it?? He has no concept because HE DID NOT research the subject but I DID!!! Soldiers did not die because of this M1926 Lifebelt. This was never an issue or a conflict. Why the hell did 27 people give a thumbs-up to this quote from him?? He is straight up telling you he has no concept. Cause he didn't bother to take the time to look it up. Shame on this guy. I give a big thumbs down.

[@BENZYuno]

Alot of soldiers died from panic once they left the boat. Bunch of those dudes were just kids.

[@YHWH711]

Fighting someone else’s fight that are intentionally killing your family is ludicrous

[@gunblazingmutant]

Fuck that shit. Imagine surviving the barrage of bullets just to end up drowning upside down.

[@rodiculous9464]

If you "survived a barrage of bullets" you'd already be on the beach

[@wildchildliving]

God: *Flips computer monitor towards you and plays death cam*

[@Conscientious_Objector7104]

*god just sitting there with his face in his hands*

[@wildchildliving]

@@Conscientious_Objector7104True bahaha

[@v4riab1lity77]

@@Conscientious_Objector7104na he’s just blank staring like 🫥

[@hgamingpro]

Bro's helmet is bigger than his face😂😂😂😂

[@Internal_Revenue_Services.]

"Bro, your addicted to vaping, stop." "Nah, I'm smoking the *M1926 LIF BELT*

[@noahlarson1861]

Never heard these mentioned, but my great-grandpa was at Pointe Du Hoc on D-DAY. He told me several guys couldn't swim during training, so the other guys helped them fake it. Some of them drowned because they dropped the ramp right on top of underwater bomb craters and couldn't get out of their equipment fast enough. Damn shame to train for years to go to war and end up drowning as soon as you step off the boat.

[@Chongosaur.]

genuinely incredible explanation, especially at the end explaining how it's unfathomable how many people it killed

[@braidensheets7665]

“Vape“ no full-fledged history lesson

[@thedisconnect5769]

My gramps was 16 when he enlisted in WW2. He said once to me "The germans were strong but they werent really a threat we always had other options to completely end the issue but it was on our end. It was the way we organized the equiptment we chose." he said basically he and other soldiers at the time thought they were intentionally giving them ill-thought out gear for a higher body count to keep the media humming and the war effort high

[@Jellywelly498]

That is sad how many people could have died 😢

[@basedmax9029]

Or did die. It was d day after all.

[@GazB85]

@@basedmax9029 Not just D-Day, they’ll have used them for island hopping in the Pacific and invading Southern France.

[@AverageImp]

i'm sorry, but if you put something inflatable and something heavy on two opposite ends it's gonna have the heavy end under the water. that's basic logic (unless it slid down from your chest for X Y and Z)

[@whichDude]

This thing would definitely just be pushed by water pressure under soldier's arms regardless of wearing them on waist. Put on a tight pull inner tube around your waist. Unless you have a huge gut blocking it then it will almost always travel up your body under your arms once you jump in water.

[@Sffker]

@@basedmax9029yeah, right. It was a slaughterhouse back then. It wasn’t like today where we could just tactical nuke MG emplacements, they had massively reinforced bunkers just watching over those beaches, which is crazy to just think about, you see all the dead people who had gotten mowed down by the enemy and your job is to just do exactly the same thing they did, but hopefully survive and get somewhere

[@heliri484]

Now imagine being in the Wehrmacht for the D Day and see only legs out of the water struggle with confusion

[@ramstacp]

They were too far away to see anything like that

[@notownable]

History note Used by assault troops during the beach landings in Normandy. The lifebelt was automatically inflated by triggering two small carbon-dioxide bottles attached via the screw cap ends. Inside the screw caps were two sharp points surrounded by a spring which held the bottles away from the points until activation. As a safety device, the tubes could be inflated manually in case of malfunction, by blowing air through the Schrader one-way valves fitted to the two thinner black rubber tubes. A significant number of assault troops were drowned on account of the belt being worn too low on the body. Their body and equipment weight tended to turn them upside down in water

[@tedhubertcrusio372]

Fun fact: Many Floridians, who were accustomed to swimming deep, who were assigned to the Navy Beach Battalions, discarded the belt altogether and swam with their equipment tied to the belt, secured by fishing lines. The Navy Beachmasters then pulled their equipment ashore, resulting in 95% survival rate.

[@Wmanz1]

Bro should be a social studies teacher, And I prolly wouldn’t fall asleep in his class

[@elienidsanchez6612]

“I feel like I’m forgetting something.” Last words before disaster.

[@SlikDewd]

Vape? No, its the all new 2024 chevy silverado-

[@Firefight_]

When my mom was a kid, she thought she could walk on water if she tied her life vest to her feet. Damn near drowned.

[@Itsmeyourfather]

Both a vape and a life belt can make you not breathe

[@SirPlusOfCamelot]

So can a gun. What's your point?

[@ibarelyupload7648]

one if you use correctly can save you, the other whether you use it correctly or not will kill you

[@harms123]

@@SirPlusOfCamelot Jesus christ it's just a funny remark man chill

[@user-nl9xf1he1m]

@@harms123 you need to chill.

[@harms123]

@@user-nl9xf1he1m What?

[@strike3z548]

The quiet kid in school: vape? No, Glock 19

[@CⒶDETRIPLE9]

Also the quiet kid: Glock? No, 50 inch rope

[@TheTemper-King]

Okay buddy. You are NOT Martin Cabelo

[@Mysterious_lynx]

-How did you die? -A fucking floater -💀🤣

[@GiuseppeCafina]

When you ask the quiet if he's vaping:

[@slyllamademon2652]

Yeah. This is why as an ex lifeguard I cannot in good conscience say that you should use a flotation device that wraps around the whole of your body. Because if you’re top heavy you will drown. Which is why you should never give kids inner tubes they can put their bodies through.

[@brani9504]

I’m curious what you recommend then

[@YouNightEagle-lr5dm]

My great grandfather was in World War Two as a paratrooper and he got these books that were published to show how horrible WWll was. And I looked through them and I saw a lot of people with their legs in the air in the water. I don’t know the exact number but a lot of people died from it.

[@lewistan4923]

When he said lower than chest, I expected what's coming. Laugh the shit out of me 😂😂😂