Restrepo/Korengal Review: Welcome To the Valley of Death

[@hilotakenaka]

“MOOOOM, LOLI IS USING THE SPASTIC WOODWIND MUSIC FOR THE INTRO AGAIN! MOOOOOOM!!!”

[@DylanJo123]

Hes excited for Uzumaki i guess

[@lunebadru5997]

Stop you're complaining it's lolis channel. Now go do your homework

[@epiczombiedoctor5961]

The music of my soul!

[@parkerhuff9995]

You mean the super cool guy music?

[@SL4PSH0CK]

the KINO music

[@irish-italianintrovert.8600]

Shout out to Kirsche for helping Loli.

[@thecrimsonmeteor]

Even if she's a schtizo

[@tylercoon1791]

Based Foxu moment

[@shortbushero]

Now Loli must take up weightlifting, HE HAS A IN BOYS.

[@tylercoon1791]

@@shortbushero he must become a himbo

[@seg162]

​@@shortbushero he has to take BACK up weightlifting maybe Shota should take him to the gym and put him on that "wrestle coked-out berserkers" regimen

[@Jon-cz2vd]

I was deployed to iraq in 2008 with the 4th ID, ive deployed to africa in the horn in 2012. I served in the army and i was an infantryman. Thank you for this video. You are 100 percent correct on us, how we are, what we are, and that yes the military is like a blue collar job. When deployed over seas though its pretty bad. If you would ask me where i could be right now. I wish i was back in iraq with my brothers. That was real. Now im a 42 year old broken man. Health issues non stop and bullshit. But back there i was doing something good. Helping people and with my brothers.

[@turbo6328]

This cuts deep, I always had a very strained relationship with my father because of his time in the army, I tried my best to look past it and get along with him, but maybe it wasn't meant to be. I knew he went through hard times, and had a hard time adjusting, but until reading your comment, I never *understood* what he went through, and I may never really understand, but thanks to you, I feel like I had a glimpse. Bless your soul.

[@History_Coffee]

@@Jon-cz2vd 4th ID 2008? You might have been part of the unit that relieved us in zambraniyah. It was either 4th ID or 10th mountain I can't remember which. I was 3rd ID 4th bct 6/8 cav

[@gravityiswack9666]

4th ID, 1-8 in. Where dreams go to die.

[@johndoe7270]

I went to Iraq 07 - 08 and was with 3rd ID but attached for 6 months to 4th ID.

[@stellviahohenheim]

Invading other people's country isn't "doing something good"

[@VolturetheSpiky]

Lots of great moments in both of these docs, but the part in Restrepo where Specialist Misha recalls how he had to hold back his emotions about his fallen comrades when calling his mother on her birthday was especially harsh. Definitely a sobering watch.

[@alexkogan9755]

Kirche is awesome for helping. Hope we’ll get a collab eventually.

[@brainiac.computer]

I’m getting chills. Like as if something catastrophic (maybe even monstrous) is about to transpire when our beloved Loli collabs with a well beloved autist.

[@IceNinja2007]

Happy that Cherry Fox was able to help you out 🤙

[@History_Coffee]

This was a perfect summary of what the early gwot was like, no coherent strategy, no idea why you're there or what you're supposed to be doing, just trying to keep yourself and your buddies alive until you can get back home only to do it again and again.

[@jonathanramos8414]

Restrepo was filmed in 07. It was mid gwot

[@JohnNumber1]

Remembered you mentioning you were gonna do this a few months back. Glad you’re doing it finally. One of the best modern war documentaries.

[@MusicaX79]

'You hand them bags of rice and that night he goes into the hills and fires RPGs at us the next day he comes by with his cow smiling like he's our best friend, $%^& their hearts and minds' I can't remember the exact quote but that is what made me find this documentary. The disconnect between the US and the Afghan people was so absurd in the documentary. Americans believe in truth and not lying, and the Afghan people did basically everything to scam the US soldiers. "When are you going to release my son from his false imprisonment" - Afghan civilian "We caught him on video beheading two us soldiers, he’s going to prison” - US Soldier “So when is he being released” - Afghan civilian “He murdered a two US soldiers he’s not being released” - US Soldier *begins arguing. - Afghan civilian “I don’t care I saw the video he did it and is not being released.” - US Soldier Just a huge culture shock.

[@jonathanramos8414]

Yeah completely different societies and world views clashed together. Their is a reason why we couldn't re build Iraq and Afghanistan like we did with Japan and Germany post WW2.

[@MusicaX79]

@@jonathanramos8414 Exactly

[@randomcenturion7264]

I cannot even begin to imagine how, on top of dealing with getting shot at and the usually beaucratic bullshit, the mind numbing FURY of having to deal with asshate that not only lie, but get angry at you for not being stupid enough to fall for their lies.

[@g00gleisgayerthanaids56]

@@jonathanramos8414 well, afghanistan was an exercise in futility, you cant nation build when the people have no national identity. I cant really speak on iraq because i never went there.

[@jimjamauto]

Vice made a really good documentary called "This Is What Winning Looks Like". It's about US Marines attempting to pass the responsibility of security of the country to the Afghan National Police and National Army. The Police are basically a gang. Instead of performing their duty, they use their guns and authority to kidnap and kill people they don't like. They also sell a lot of their equipment at the flea market and are constantly smoking ganj or opium. The Army actually does their job but are incompetent and reckless, and the Army CO featured seems very shady. The US Marines can do nothing but tolerate all of this, as well as the hopeless political situation, corrupt local leaders, and Afghan men having relations with little boys. This was all 10 years before the Taliban took Kabul and it's a joke that "nobody saw it coming".

[@bigblue344]

5:42 This hits HARD. Too many sheltered people look at the outside group and think they are all good hearted because they are victims when the outside group will do the most heartless and cold blooded stuff ever then act as if its not a big deal and smile at you smugly.

[@leviticusprime4904]

The oppressed of today will become tomorrows oppressers

[@DeadpoolX9]

@@leviticusprime4904 Yep, I always ask "if the positions were switched do you think we'd be having this conversation?"

[@randomcenturion7264]

It must have been so aggravating getting all that shit from people back home, meanwhile dealing with absolute scumbags.

[@g00gleisgayerthanaids56]

​@@randomcenturion7264you honestly have no idea. Sure, it wasnt as bad as what the vietnam vets got, but still, there is a lot of vitriol thrown at gwot veterans. I myself was called a babykiller, i served as a combat medic, i only saved lives in afghanistan, mostly afghan civilians, which always falls upon deaf ears when i tell the braindead civvies who criticised my service.

[@spencerpatton667]

Man, I come from a military family with friends who've served and I really appreciate the way in which you covered this.

[@danbackslide2957]

One of my drill sergeants in basic training deployed with the 173rd to Afghanistan straight out of infantry OSUT between like 2011 to 2013. One story he told us was of his first day in Afghanistan, almost as soon as he arrived he witnessed a truck bomb detonate that killed over 100 Canadian and Jordanian soldiers deployed with US troops. His job was to assist in the clean up operation, which involved policing up body parts left strewn all over the blast zone. He was 18 at the time.

[@g00gleisgayerthanaids56]

What was his name? I was with 2/503 of the 173rd during those times.

[@CatBxtchNami]

That's some raw stuff to see.

[@danbackslide2957]

@@g00gleisgayerthanaids56 DS Molina

[@reallifewalrus9775]

Damn, I remember watching this in BCT. Our ruck march got delayed due to hail, so we just went to the classroom and watched this and 13 hours. Thank you for covering this

[@stardust_2339]

The amazing Fox Woman helping out and the others as well is an awesome thing. Loli, as you may have some Eurotrash like me watching, have you heard of Accursed Farms' stop killing games initiative?

[@jameshayden6891]

I spent a year at Restrepo with Viper Co (B-Co) 1-26 1st ID. We replaced the 173rd. I knew Tim well. He stayed with us for some time after Battle Co left. God rest his soul. Thank you for keeping our story alive. Some 1000+ firefights in the Gal while we were there. I'd go back in a second.

[@maxiargos1971]

dude you saying we should treat these people who go through these situations, that change there lives forever. Reminded me of a talk I had with my ex boyfriend. He was very social justice warrior, hated the military, and oddly pretty sexist to men. during one of out talks I told him how crazy it is, and hard it must be for these people to go to the army, and do what they do, and he just shit talked them, and said we shouldn't have any wars. Missing the point completely. Sad some people no matter what you tell them about how hard it is t make the choices of going, and staying, as well as doing what needs to be done is crazy how much these people are just put in the bad box, and no one caring about them to the point of saying, "Well our government should do the work to help them, since they put them there" or "Just no war." And yeah. Shows they really do not care about these people. My ex believed he had it worse then anyone else, and the moment anyone struggling in his life or that he knew was seen as nothing compared to his problems. These people are beyond help that I wonder how there brain functions where they feel they are a good person, but do no good for others.

[@averymicrowave1713]

That sounds an awful lot like a lot of anti-military people I knew. Hell, they've started reviving the idea that soldiers are nothing but uniforms because "they volunteered to participate in an institution of violence and oppression" or some other BS. It also doesn't help that a lot of guys who serve have or developed a genuine sense of loyalty to the nation - not necessarily to the government but to the idea of their nation. From family members in Canada to buddies in the States, they're the only guys I've heard of that have made jokes about "if the government goes too far" and I legitimately believe they are capable and willing to actually do that stuff. So yeah, the clique your ex belongs to hate any servicemen or veteran with a passion unless they can use them to further their ideas.

[@leviticusprime4904]

@@averymicrowave1713these types of people live in a fantasy world, they will never know the pain of killing someone or hell of being shot at, so let them say their shit because the people who died to say have more guts they will ever have.

[@leviticusprime4904]

“Have no war” I’d like to hear his ideas on how he would accomplish that?

[@DeadpoolX9]

@@averymicrowave1713 I don't think war should be glorified but I do respect the guts to help out the nation. Them I absolutely respect. I do not respect people sending them into wars for vested interests. They do whatever is best for the nation.

[@fakesmile172]

You make me interested in things I've never heard of; you make great videos, keep it up.

[@jiriprokopec3226]

I love every single one video that you make thx so much honestly favourite channel on yt

[@Snakedude4life]

It does something to the human mind when you are in a strange location and your entire purpose is to sit there and get shot at. Harden or shatter. Sometimes both even. 🎩 🐍 no step on snek!🇺🇸🇭🇰

[@cole-rg1qz]

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[@Snakedude4life]

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[@cole-rg1qz]

@@Snakedude4life "okay, agent." -absolutely glowing fed with the worst attempt at a based photoshopped skull mask pfp

[@Snakedude4life]

@@cole-rg1qz Two years, zero subs and a movie still pfp. Are you done, Agent Goldberg?

[@cole-rg1qz]

@Snakedude4life glow harder, agent glowstein.

[@jizzwizard4077]

In a similar vein is "Citizen Soldier" which follows the deployment of the 45th IBCT, a national guard unit. It's an interesting look at the citizen soldier and a deployment of people who aren't full time soldiers.

[@colin1818]

Seriously, screw that place.

[@markhirsch6301]

I don't understand our belief that if we help people that take advantage of us and hate us, that they'll somehow change for the better. That soldiers interview about the dude using his daughter and wife as shields also shows how little women are valued in Islam

[@colin1818]

@@markhirsch6301 - The truth is that not every Afghani is a bad person. Or took advantage of us. For instance, there were a lot of interpreters that worked for us and were amazing assets. Many of those were brought to America and got their green cards. Many many others were abandoned by the Biden Admin a couple of years ago. That said, Afghanistan was a difficult war to peg from the beginning. We didn't go in with the goal of wiping out the enemy and conquering it wholesale. We wanted a light presence and initially supported the anti-Talib groups (namely the 'Northern Alliance" and the groups formerly aligned under the Lion Mahsood) in their quest to retake the country. So from day 1 it was about coalition building and support of the new gov't. Only after their new gov't proved ineffectual did we increase troop levels in order to ensure GIRoA didn't fail. The military has never been a great tool for nation building. We prefer to break things. But after the Marshall Plan was so successful in the 1950s there is a prevailing thought that we can make it work in unindustrialized nations with engrained tribalism (a la, Afghanistan). But the reconstruction of Germany was the exception, not the rule. Since the king was deposed in the early 1970s, Afghanistan has been a mess with rampant civil war and authoritarian gov'ts. You don't overcome an entire generation raised war and chaos and make them tax-paying model citizens by stationing foreign knuckle-draggers on the street corners. Even in a bubble that wouldn't work. But with groups like the Taliban, the Haqqani Network and other outside, anti-American, influences encouraging and paying the common man to become a mujahideen it was always going to be a struggle. Nobody has ever been successful at subjugating Afghanistan through military conquest - except one. Alexander the Great failed, the British failed (3 separate times), the Soviets failed, the Americans failed. Only Genghis Khan has been successful, and he did that only by violently depopulating the nation. Such tactics were never a viable option for America.

[@theberserker6000]

​​@@markhirsch6301 Dont get ahead of yourself. One inbred tribal fanatic in a warzone isnt enough to paint a whole group of people and as diverse in Islam or any religion really. War does something to everybody involved, allies and the enemies get the shit end of the stick.

[@jurtra9090]

Oh so we're blaming an entire religion now instead of that specific guy? What about a story of an Afghani father who struggled to bring his daughter to a school every day under the rule of both the Taliban and the America-backed Afghani govt? ​@@markhirsch6301

[@jonathanramos8414]

​@@markhirsch6301yeah we can't reform certain elements of Islam. They have to go through an enlightenment phase themselves. Just like how Christianity was able to securalize in the modern age. Name one free democratic Islamic nation . Lebanon? Iran? Syria? Saudi Arabia? Somalia?UAE?

[@ispgravy4233]

Amazing video bro

[@jameswasdin654]

I remember watching Restrepo a long time ago when my father was skimming through military documentaries to watch since he himself was also a army veteran. Never saw Korengal, though. Definitely need to watch these two back to back sometime. Thanks Loli!

[@sainterasmus4545]

You sound like such an average dude, as civilian as they come, but you have done an incredible job at breaking down the documentary. Subscribed for sure, brilliant content.

[@randomcenturion7264]

I think that's one of Loli's best strengths. He's able to break down such fascinating, complex and tragic shit and make it understandable to normies like me.

[@neroknight11]

Crazy Fox mom saved da loli! Yay!

[@arthurjones4027]

Shout out to my NCO SSG Peterson who was in that movie. He was lower enlisted at the time of the film. To those who made the ultimate sacrifice we remember

[@FrankStallone42]

Sky Soldiers never die, they just slip away... RIP to those who made the ultimate sacrifice

[@gangawerks]

perfectly put together

[@RankaZer0]

That feeling of being needed hits hard speaking as someone with a job where anyone could replace me with no trouble.

[@bigblue344]

And that is by design as well.

[@gravityiswack9666]

OIR vet from 2017 to 2022 during the "boring" time of the Army. This was the documentary that made me sign up back in high school. RIP to all the 173rd, boys.

[@luliu4572]

I wasn't at Ground Zero in New York as a civilian. I never went to Afghanistan as a soldier. But the occupation of the Middle East years before I was born had a negative effect on my life. The War on Terror ruined a generation of military families. And it was ultimately for nothing.

[@g00gleisgayerthanaids56]

I walked through blood and bones looking for my brother on 9/11 He was up in canada...

[@jimjamauto]

As someone who watched it all unfold on live TV, we lost

[@g00gleisgayerthanaids56]

@@jimjamauto spoken like a true sheep. Bet you believe the mainstream media narrative of "no wmds in iraq, uh hurr durr" too. Nevermind the 600 metric tons of chemical and biological agents we found in iraq... "NO NOT THOSE WMDS! THOSE DONT COUNT!" lmfao if its in the CBRNE acronym, its a wmd.

[@RRIMu-l2c]

​@@g00gleisgayerthanaids56 inside job your own government done it

[@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

@@RRIMu-l2c there were 600 metric tons bro

[@Mr66D]

If unflinching war documentaries are your thing, keep an eye open for Max Fadeev's 'At the Egde of the Abyss', assembled from footage he shot while embedded with the Donetsk Militia Battalion 'Somali' during the battle of Mariupol. It should be getting an English sub version at some point, and a 20 minute promotional excerpt is currently on KZbin.

[@johnnyboy2537]

I brace myself for the ad and how inappropriate it will end up being and they still make me chuckle and catch me off guard.

[@feliperisseto9113]

I think this glorification some people have over tribal or primitive culture is misguided, but there is actually a point in that: People need communities. What we most need is real connections with real people that actually care about us and lift us up.

[@randomcenturion7264]

For real. Even without the tribal stuff, I visited my brother in London for a few weeks and already felt off. Once I got back to my hometown, I realized just how much little things like people actually stopping to chat in the street and places where you felt welcomed meant.

[@bababooeydude]

I was in 10th grade in 2001 i watched a lot of guys from school enlist after 9/11. I saw this restrepo documentary when i was probably 26 and it completely changed my outlook on our troops. For better or worse agree or disagree these are just young men fighting a rich mans war. Every politician should be made to watch these documentaries.

[@gojira7824]

Nothing beats a camping trip with the boys

[@tardar24]

I am constantly impressed witness channel

[@bennettroberts4155]

Kearney was a glory hound. There’s a few books that criticize the way he did things in pretty depth. Many of his men weren’t a fan of being bait over and over again.

[@g00gleisgayerthanaids56]

Say what you will, but taliban was never the same after the ocho (2008 deployment) all future 173rd deployments benefited from these boys' actions. I was a combat medic paratrooper, deployed with d co 2/503 of the 173rd and hajj was deathly afraid of us every time we came back to afghanistan after 2008. They knew we were not to be fucked with. It wasnt just for glory, that fierce fighting likely saved a lot of lives for those of us that deployed in that same AO after those guys.

[@deadwar2012]

Watched this movie on your recommendation before the vid. I loved this movie. Still haven’t seen korengal yet.

[@markhirsch6301]

Kinda wild that our governments ego thinks it could have placated and played both sides. One by our obvious support for isreal, and trying to help Afghanistan when we shouldn't have. Us fleeing Afghanistan shows the futulity of this idea and all we got were dead men ans politicians who are so incompetent it feels almost intentional

[@bjorntheviking6039]

"almost"

[@DogeickBateman]

We should have left the instant US-SOF finished off the Taliban, or at the very least stayed with the Northern Alliance as purely observers, advisors and force-multipliers. Adding more boots who weren't them began to create a sunk cost fallacy. Besides hunting bin Laden and AQ of course, but they were in Pakistan for quite a bit.

[@g00gleisgayerthanaids56]

An important distinction needs to be made, we didnt _flee_ from afghanistan, OEF always had a 20 year time limit as all conflicts called by the executive branch have 20 year time limits, thats why we left vietnam as well... if the conflict isnt popular then it will not be extended or even put to vote before congress. Remember, the USA hasnt formally been "at war" since ww2... we didnt lose in vietnam or in afghanistan, we left because we ran out of time, if we were officially at war then we could stay there indefinitely if we wanted to. The futility was in nation building a puppet regime in a land where people lack a national identity. An afghan is a blanket, not a person...

[@ChucksSEADnDEAD]

The US has managed to get a lot of Arab states and Israel to improve their relations. Which is exactly why Oct 7 happened, to drive a wedge again.

[@Marti_Docus47]

We actually have a lot of great movies that most don't know other than the people in Denmark. Armadillo was a great look at a Danish unit, there was also a doc about a Danish man making a deal for blood diamonds in Africa and secretly filming it all, just to show how easy it is. A movie called R about the prisons of Denmark, shot with at the time 1 actor and all the others were people already in the prison, if I remember correctly, showing just how grusomme it can be even over here, of course we have the most well known, the Pusher trilogy, The Hunt, Last Round, The Celebration, the list goes on, still would love to see more attention being shown to those movies, just like for Elite Squad

[@theskreb6649]

9:27 Randy "Ghost Squad" Stair jumpscare

[@brainiac.computer]

0:44 COLIN STETSON IS A GOD, AND LOLI IS ONE OF HIS PROPHETS. In all seriousness, I cannot wait for the Uzumaki OST.

[@Thunderbolt22A10]

You should also look at Combat Obscura, it's right up there with Restrepo. A buddy of mine who was in Marjah said "it was exactly how his deployment went".

[@eman1171]

The hardest part isn't even the deployments it's trying to be normal afterwards

[@Marti_Docus47]

As a Dane myself I would love to hear your take on Armadillo

[@grejsancoprative]

The sentiment resonate with me how military life can give people a sense of purpose and belonging, and how modern society break people up down to their core. Before I got my dog Boris, or rather why I got him was because I hade a sensation that I would do something very stupid.

[@g00gleisgayerthanaids56]

As a combat veteran of the gwot, my bloodhound, ladybird, also saved my life. The solution to male loneliness is dog ownership!

[@KingEgyptian]

Using your own kid as a shield. Absolutely disgusting.

[@LeolaTheElf]

And they won in the end. It sucks!😡🤬

[@Mr.Ambrose_Dyer_Armitage_Esq.]

If it works, it works. That's why you shouldn't attempt to wage "moral" wars; the only morality is victory or defeat, success or failure. They won, all sacrifices incurred are justified. That's partly why we lost in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan; we weren't permitted to wage unrestricted warfare. If they know you're going to hesitate because a child is present, they'll use that to their advantage, and your "nobility" becomes meaningless because they survive to get another shot at you and your Kameraden. Ask our vets what ANA soldiers did with boys while they stood by and watched.

[@ChucksSEADnDEAD]

​@@LeolaTheElf They won against the ANA. They won against themselves.

[@ChucksSEADnDEAD]

​@@Mr.Ambrose_Dyer_Armitage_Esq. But it didn't work. What worked was managing to flip the right to be anti war.

[@g00gleisgayerthanaids56]

@@Mr.Ambrose_Dyer_Armitage_Esq. you have no idea, while us gwot veterans fought with our hands tied behind our backs, vietnam veterans were under no such constraints. You fail to realize that these "conflicts" were never formal declarations of war, they were purely executive actions and any conflict born out of executive action has a 20 year time limit... vietnam hit that time limit, same with afghanistan, thats why we ultimately pulled out, and not for any other reason. The Afghan government failed to stand on its own 2 feet the minute they were supposed to, thats not on the us warfighter.

[@toysoldiernerio7172]

RIP Restrepo

[@AwesomelyNumb]

I hear that Black Powder Red Earth music in the background 😂

[@masterofrockets]

3:00 a documentary with a little war footage is “African Blood and Guts” a documentary covering the transition from colonialism to

[@youngthinker1]

It comes down to purpose and results. We need to establish ourselves a purpose and see clear results while doing that purpose. For example, handing out food to the hungry produces clear and immediate results, in comparison to a typical desk jockey position where any work you do, good or bad, may not be noticed or appreciated by anyone, especially by the company that hired you. So to go from a place, while dangerous, gives each man a clear purpose each day, with clear results from each of his actions, to a society that does not care and actively hurts them, yeah those men will want to go back any day, at any time. Death is not the worse thing that can happen to you. It is wasting away, bound to a single place, while everyone around you lies to your face, and steals from you, and you are powerless to stop it. Such a hell, once experienced, motivates you to escape it even simply game over'ing to do so.

[@user-xw5yr3fh8i]

Hey man, I really like the video.

[@Madaseter]

"RAAAAH WE NEED A HELLSING VIDEO REVIEW"

[@alpha48z]

Watched this on netflix when I was 12 and it irreversibly altered my psyche.

[@audiosurfarchive]

Hey I actually remembered seeing this when it came out

[@Rucka_Inc.]

"We have a lot to go over" >video is 21 hours shorter than the berserk video Yea, ok, Loli.

[@-TakingSomeLs]

ITS TIME FOR CINEMA

[@MrSnakenoob]

Friend of a friend said that Captain Kearney really fucked up everything. I can see his perspective given the documentary and think that everyone has to figure how the situation looked to them about the time. On the redskin thing, I think it's an apt comparisson in far too many ways. It's true that those on FOBs and COBs are not nomadic, but they are somewhat semi-nomadic given they go on patrols and may conduct other operations. Also, I've never been in an infantry platoon that didn't have a totem or "platoon stick" of some kind so he's definitely scrapping some kind of truth.

[@g00gleisgayerthanaids56]

Kearney may not have been appreciated for what he had his men doing but all future deployments with the 173rd to that ao were never under the same threat after that 2008 deployment. Hajj was terrified of trying to fight with us after that. I know from personal experience. They wanted nothing to do with us, and kept their attacks to a minimum when we were there because they knew we would absolutely fuck them up.

[@FrankStallone42]

Crazy how you just ignore firsthand perspective when it completely dismantles your entire argument.

[@FrankStallone42]

Why make this comment if you wont even defend it?????

[@FUMOFFU666]

I have to confess i only watched korengal because youtube pushed "enjoy firefight " in the middle of an irish punk playlist. And i wasn't realy ready for the tone of the movie. I mean, i was expecting generation kill or jarhead more than 3 kings for exemple, and it make me reread a retex from the french army book named "d'une guerre à l'autre" and another one about the balkan war vewed from recon and targer designation troop with adendas from light bomber pilots and (i wish i was joking) k9 paratrooper (yeah, the madmens, they airborned the borkbork nomnom).very depressing stuff.

[@LinTekKim]

Watched it with my bois, some pretty heavy stuff man. Esp after talking to my ssgt about his time there.

[@Slamspiffy_III]

Does anyone know where to stream, buy, or rent restrepo? Cant seem to find it anywhere

[@averageweeb8951]

Cool cherry foxu helped! Both the doc sounds really cool! Ill try pirating both of them!

[@burtbiggum499]

Everyone should go watch Combat Obscura

[@SauloA333]

I saw both of these along Armadillo thanks to a friend from Denmark I met online, I was curious on what the fuark was happening when the USA boys where in Afghan lands and what the ever loving duck where Danes doing in this fustercluck mess... It was heavier than I thought so, way heavier. It gave a different idea to what a Marine and NATO service men do in these affairs, but more respect to the people who work and got to survive the Hell fire that these operations meant, as well of the suffering of the Pashto people. I also saw next to them Kriegen (A War) which covers the life of a Danish soldier during and after his service in Afghanistan, and what he did there, not very good stuff for the soul, you guys should check it out.

[@g00gleisgayerthanaids56]

Are you actually curious? I can tell you exactly why we went there and were doing what we did, if you really do care to know.

[@jurtra9090]

10:32 But for someone like BadEmpanada, he cannot see the military as anything more than an evil institution

[@PaperthinProtestant]

Based review of a great documentary!

[@topcat59]

Cool vid bro.😺

[@alfarouqalderwish1336]

For the Love of god, (this is a request) I need someone to review and watch this documentary "The Volunteers" By Ricky Schroder. It's a two part documentary, it's based on Syria. Pretty much in context is just Medical volunteers from America/Europe trying to tend Aiding the victims in the chaos and it's very graphical but eye opening (Not in a bad way), its on youtube sitting on a 120K views. And I can tell you that it's something phenomenal, it's heart breaking and represents the toll of war. I've watched it back when I was 17, and I did experience conflict back when I was young. It kinda is attached to me personally, and I do wish the documentary can be shed to light once again. This is pretty much a personal request to you thealmightyloli, I love your videos man. I doubt that you would make a video about it. But either ways, I do recommend anyone who has a strong stomach to watch it.

[@g00gleisgayerthanaids56]

Bring it up during a livestream, thats what i did a few weeks ago in regards to restrepo, and here we are... im not sure if tal reads these comments, but he reads most tagged comments during the livestreams.

[@musicalDrebin]

been waiting a long time for this one! hell yeah! let's get depressed!

[@FirithPanda]

By the way, is this a re-upload? I swear you covered Restrepo before.

[@kovacsnovak6745]

It was the outpost vid but it was mentioned a bit

[@FirithPanda]

@@kovacsnovak6745 Ah, now I remember

[@jerryseinfeld-]

If you're ever starving to mull over more coverage from the sandbox akin to Only the Dead or Restrepo, you should really check out Combat Obscura; really solid watch!

[@orllyfools14X8]

I wish you would do a video on City of God or This is England.

[@fernamdojuarez9858]

You should do a review on the valley of tears miniseries it’s about the Yom Kippur war in Israel perspective it’s pretty good and good video 👍

[@CornPop2]

Book and movie both awesome

[@ericweisseman]

Paraphrased from stories from a Marine stationed in the FOB next over from Restrepo: Captain Kearney and his band of prancing f****ts did more harm to the fucking valley than a fucking B52 could (and not in a good way). He (the marine) said the captain in command of Restrepo was a charging hard Captain America with room temperature IQ who did more harm than good. The Marines had spent considerable time & resources to get a good working relationship with the locals in the valley, but Captain America ruined everything by being insulting towards the locals and encouraged his men to be trigger happy. Restrepo tries to claim they were the most harrowed FOB in A-stan, but there's a reason why the enemy preferred to attack them instead of the ANA with US Marine support on the next fucking mountain... So take Restrepo "the documentary" with a serious grain of salt. It paints a very one sided picture. (The Marine in question is legit, posted photos of him, one with Kearney, to prove it. If you know the site this is from you can verify easily enough)

[@SauloA333]

Thanks for this comment man. I didn't knew that about this little fact. Even If when I was watching the doc I did felt "Damn this guy thinks he's some sort of Master Chief or what?"

[@koulikov4163]

Thats accurate considering kearney. He was my battalion commander.

[@jonathanramos8414]

Regardless still great combat footage

[@g00gleisgayerthanaids56]

Get fu*ked, this is bullshit slander. Kearney and the other soldiers of the 173rd during the ocho put the fear of god into hajj. They were NEVER the same after this deployment. I think your marine buddy was just jealous that they didnt get in the shit as much (VERY COMMON in combat arms roles). Hajj feared the 173rd patch after this deployment, i know because i fucking wore one and reaped the benefits of it in afghanistan. Hajj wanted NOTHING to do with us because they knew we didnt play fuck fuck games. The Tangi valley was literally a taliban village, so there was no rapport building with them, they were literally the fuckin enemy. Of course the crayon eating marine would spout this bullshit, he had no idea they were fraternizing with the enemy. Everyone here should take this secondhand account with a huge grain of salt because it pales in comparison and contradicts my FIRSTHAND experience.

[@g00gleisgayerthanaids56]

​@@koulikov4163oh please, almost all battalion commanders are hard charging capt america types, especially paratroopers. My battalion csmaj was a tabbed and scrolled ranger when i was in the 173rd, we had a bad jump in italy with winds gusting over 22knots, and i remember him saying verbatim after we jumped and a lot of people got hurt, "idgaf nobody is going to the hospital" thats part and parcel with being a goddamned paratrooper.

[@truckerjesus8633]

I've noticed a lot of colin stetson in your recent videos.

[@xyzero1682]

good stuff

[@killian9314]

Can you review Genocidal Organ? It is a pretty divisive movie so i wonder what the Loli has to say about it with proper context.

[@TheFirstVonGunther]

I did my time in Iraq at the same time as the Outpost and this documentary. My unit deployed early 2012 to afghanistan after I left and I still feel like shit for leaving the new guys to go through some rough firefights. Watch the documentaries and see what these bastards fought through. Afghanistan post 2008 was a rough one.

[@g00gleisgayerthanaids56]

Afghanistan after 2008 wasnt really "rough" the work these boys did put the fear of god into hajj, they were never the same and conflict died down considerably after this deployment. 2008 was the height of oef. I was there in 2012-13, most of our deployment was spent breaking down and handing over to ANA/ANP, very few firefights across the board.

[@jonathanramos8414]

Dude if you liked these documentaries than you need to check out a documentary director called mathew heinemen. He directed a documentary about the drug war in Mexico called cartel land. He embedded himself with the self defense militias that rose up in arms in against the cartel that was wreaking havoc in their communities. He also recently did retrograde which was about the final months of the war in Afghanistan and the withdrawal. He's actually friends with sabastian junger. He's sort of like a young version of junger in a way. You should definitely review his documentaries on your channel please!

[@bigsauce1116]

Where can i watch these docus?

[@Khornite_Slayer]

I think he wants us to buy his shirts.

[@killian9314]

Korengal, Valley? Is this about what the Outpost is based on?

[@Nimbasa180]

You really need to check out "First Kill" It's about the Vietnam war, & interviewing veterans about killing.

[@mm-tb4sj]

Did you already reviewed this?

[@randomcenturion7264]

No, that would be "Outpost." Very similar except this is a documentary.

[@JM-er9ry]

Restrepo was great

[@thunderstruck6647]

Another War Documentary is Afghan The Soviet Experience. Odd and interesting of that conflict.

[@thegamingagent6822]

When is my berserking time video coming.

[@FirithPanda]

AMERICA, FUCK YEAH

[@Boxmediaphile]

I have Restrepo on blu ray

[@AnthroTsuneon]

'Trying to lift it out of tribes' Meanwhile, 80s Afghanistan with dresses and miniskirts

[@jonathanramos8414]

That was 70s Afghanistan. The USSR coming in just radicalized the tribes into more hardline Islamic dogma. And of course the CIA didn't help either with unintentionally supporting them

[@g00gleisgayerthanaids56]

You mean the 60's... not the 80's. The soviet invasion threw that place back to the stone age. When we propped up the mujahideen they took that power and ran with it, and after the soviet invasion, afghanistan was a nation dominated by tribalism with a complete lack of any kind of national identity. Afghanistan and Iraq were both exercises of us having to clean up messes our predecessors made. We propped up these brutal regimes to defend thenselves from their aggressive neighbors, mujahideen in afghanistan and Hussein in iraq... how do you think saddam got the chemical agents he used ti gas the kurds and how did we _know_ hussein had wmds??? We sold them to him, some 200 metric tons of the shit which is now declassified but at the time in secret deals. He used that to develop his own wmds, and we found over 600 metric tons of chemical and biological agents after the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

[@MrReaper071]

1:38 Oh man, you got bit HARD by the BPRE bug. Lol

[@Darkcide-tl7kl]

They made a choice.

[@JaMeshuggah]

4:55 "special relationship with Israel which isn't exactly a good thing -" it's good stopping there.

[@Suiki1]

How does one join Loli's Discord?

[@mark9960]

Is loli ok? bro sounds sick.

[@TheAlmightyLoli]

Allergy season is starting. It sucks.

[@unavailable8282]

Kirsche is best foxu

[@mr.wonderfulwisdomouswonde2991]

I just finished watching lolis military reviews now we got more

[@MakeLoveNotWar687]

Damn

[@andrewhart6200]

Loli are you ex military - I'm a former Navy Corpsman(medic) - jw.............If you weren't......I think you did a great job -- Continue to trust your gut....first instinct is the right instinct 2 to 1