Soldiers Who were Intoxicated in Battle

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[@stoptrudeau42]

Bud light? Then they went down on each other after battle

[@BenRester]

@@stoptrudeau42haha after they put on females clothes 😂

[@ronnalscammahorn8002]

Civil War Pabst Blue Ribbon was available , how else would a grown man walk in line towards open cannon fire .

[@MikeStivicATS]

IN THE ZONE

[@MistaTea247]

Fax

[@tomfox9083]

As a pot smoker I can promise you that as soon as the fight started his buzz was gone.

[@user-sb7ft5gd1b]

Facts

[@Gameprojordan]

Especially the stuff they smoked back then. It was extremely tame compared to the kind you can buy nowadays

[@borregoayudando1481]

enlisted and fieldgrades know this. the only people having issues with this are lieutenants, captains, majors, first sergeants, and sergeant majors.

[@69Jackjones69]

Depends on how high you are. If you're super baked and the adrenaline kicks in, you'll still be high but the herb gives you a laser focus on the action

[@howardlloyd9183]

For sure. I smoke every day b4 work but when it's time to rock it out. Not high anymore guaranteed.

[@markr8755]

My stepdad had a few stories from his tour of Vietnam. One he told was about getting black out drunk one day in Vietnam and waking up the next day in Cambodia. While he was drunk his unit moved into Cambodia. A few days later he was awarded a Bronze Star for taking out a machinegun nest single handed. He had to ask other in his unit what it was for. He was so drunk, he charged the nest firing his rifle and throwing grenades, "like something out of a John Wayne movie" per his fellow soldiers.

[@Rays_Bad_Decisions]

Murica!!

[@believeinmatter]

I recommend looking up his name, there’s a pretty comprehensive list of Bronze Star recipients, you might learn something you never knew about his service.

[@tylergooden2183]

We didn’t have parties like these. Usually it started the same way but me and Pete would end up in a fistfight and Roy would usually end up vomiting on himself

[@huithu]

Stop the cap

[@michaelpacinus242]

Did you kiss him?

[@ryimscaith1593]

As a veteran, I have a question. There are sober combat soldiers?

[@asdf9890]

I’m not a vet, but can’t imagine going through war sober. Got to have some release from that!

[@cristsan4171]

Desmond Doss is never able to save anyone due to alcohol and medical drugs (medicines) keep disappearing

[@timkeenan7419]

I'm a Canadian combat veteran, I never went to a firefight without my little buddy, my one pint flask. After I got my boys situated I could sneak a little nip every now and again. I retired 5 years ago and haven't had a drink since.

[@jesserobinson20]

​@timkeenan7419 fantastic that you don't drink anymore. I've known enough veterans to know that it goes the other way far too often. Happy retirement!

[@brokens1097]

Thank you for your service and for making that point.

[@kylejefferson1547]

A high soldier receives the “HIGHEST” army award 😂

[@stevegaza1495]

Most underrated comment!!! Lmfao

[@borregoayudando1481]

a red green and yellow ribbon with a cast aluminum (so it oxidates white) medal in the shape of a joint.

[@fook-joby-den6172]

Got get high to get high awards I guess. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@TheCollector1987]

as an iraq/afghanistan veteran that smokes a lot of weed that guy is literally my fucking hero now

[@lukaswilhelm9290]

In one hand while you high or drunk you could fight to your optimal limit but in the other hand you could also fight like Austrians who lost a retreating battle against themselves while also drunk.

[@Gameprojordan]

It really depends on how high or drunk you are aswell. If you have a good buzz on it's easy to sober up when the adrenaline kicks in, but if you're plastered then good luck. Same with weed

[@m4a1_delta66]

I bet when the first bullet flies at you you don’t feel none of it sober up 100% I’m sure but when the adrenaline wears off

[@liamhughes1532]

@@Gameprojordan this delusion is why folk drink/drug drive. Adrenaline does not sober you up, it makes you feel energetic and stimulated, but a cognitive test would still show reduced hand-eye coordination, slower reaction time,etc, all while the subject would be reporting "feeling sober"

[@davidmoore3479]

​@@Gameprojordancan't get plastered on weed , you just get tired.

[@EC-dz4bq]

@@davidmoore3479 says someone who has never over done edibles

[@corymorimacori1059]

“I might be battling you even though I’m toasted, but tomorrow I’ll be sober and you’ll still be roasted!” Winston Churchill

[@johngault4790]

The real story goes a woman called Churchill drunk and he replied "I might be drunk but you're ugly, in the morning I'll be sober but you'll still be ugly"

[@DUKEHadToDoItToEm]

​@@johngault4790which is hilarious because Churchill was nothing but a fat stinking drunk alcoholic zionist who was never sober

[@houseplant1016]

​@@johngault4790😠they should have impeached him

[@vacuousericb1118]

"My perents died when they were young and it was morbid, but at least they didn't ditch me when they were alive like yours did." Teddy Roosevelt

[@Welsh7133]

@@vacuousericb1118OOoooh, world war 2 soon?

[@AutonomousVII]

Some fellow vets I know are still battling meth addiction from being given amphetamines in Vietnam. They were issued big bottles of speed each month and getting a new bottle because someone “lost” theirs was a common occurrence. When they got back to the states they would either keep up with the amphetamines or move onto meth. The fact that they were treated like filth when they got home didn’t help at all either.

[@cjwilliams3296]

It’s a small thing, but at the 12:00 mark you make a comparison between adrenaline and methamphetamines. You said unlike adrenaline, methamphetamines don’t affect blood pressure and that is incorrect and potentially very dangerous misinformation. It should read: “Adrenaline is short lived and quickly metabolized causing short but high spikes in blood pressure. By contrast, amphetamines and methamphetamines cause a less severe increase in blood pressure while activating the same neurological receptors and is metabolized more slowly.“ It’s not a big mistake. But it’s a small one with the potential to cause an oversized amount of harm.

[@Sniperboy5551]

I don’t think anyone who’s planning on doing meth is watching this video

[@gabriel199714]

​@Sniperboy5551 That's probably true, but meds like Samexid(adhd medicine) are derivated from amphetamine. That's why I can't have energy drinks or more than 2 cups of coffee while on Samexid. If I do I run a very high risk of tachycardia, arrhythmia and even a full blown heart attack

[@kainraab2589]

@@Sniperboy5551I am

[@pakmatherdiverb]

Agree Also “Took pot” What times are we in, reefer madness?

[@MarieAntoinetteandherlittlesis]

@@Sniperboy5551Um, speak for yourself. I have a long day to get through tomorrow.

[@theskullboy8700]

Random drunk: what did I miss Sober soldier: well. After you drank that beer your found by the fridge. You grabbed a sword and just decapitated the entire enemy squad

[@tincan8979]

demoknight tf2

[@joshuavelazco4382]

That from piemations team fortress 2 demoman

[@theskullboy8700]

@@joshuavelazco4382 damn right

[@azimisyauqieabdulwahab9401]

Drunk

[@thewafflegamer6152]

GET THEM YOU BLEEDING IDIOTS

[@NotConsumed]

true friends can cross the fucking earth to give you a beer while you’re at war. I want a friend like that.

[@jasond5028]

"He took marijuana" LOL

[@ReplyNotificationsMuted]

Square identified

[@kingredskin4318]

Back then it was called "Reefer"

[@bbracing3925]

Peter lemon was in a fog, let's call it a "lemon haze" 😅

[@FloridaManFrank]

By the way that fin soldier didn't intentionally take the whole supply of pervatin the pills had melted together as one because of his body heat and he just ate the whole lump of what was a pill and then he tripped mega WW2 balls and when they found him he was like 20 lbs lighter, dehydrated, starving and probably so confused it felt like he was dreaming for 2 weeks

[@matthewsmiley3630]

Yea, I have a theory that he wasn’t consciously making decisions anymore. His brain saw skis, so it decided to ski. I don’t believe he used his gun at all the whole time, but at the point he was at, he probably would have thought a rifle was just a stick. He was completely blacked out for most of it I believe lol

[@user-sb7ft5gd1b]

@@matthewsmiley3630watch the fat electrician he covers the story better

[@user-sb7ft5gd1b]

@@matthewsmiley3630and yeah everything at that point was probably just instinct reaction and ingrained training that helped him

[@ImGoingSupersonic]

He was like 70lbs lighter. He weighed around 90lbs at the hospital.

[@shawnpawlowski1436]

It’s called automatism. His mind was functioning on simple inferences.

[@smtoonturkce]

*Simple History putting their videos together into one compilation video is amazing*

[@wweminehead5458]

"Die with your hands around the throat of the enemy" Victor Reznov CoD WAW

[@JuriSins]

Speaking of COD, Ultimis Nikolai basically went through the maps and easter eggs drunk 😂

[@danscott3880]

It is happy hour vodka for everyone. Nikolai world at war..

[@josephperrelli8308]

how does the story about that finish soldier get more insane every single time I hear it? I swear every single time I hear it a new detail is added that makes it even more insane.

[@nickyboy22071989]

While I was doing missions in the navy I never got caught operating weaponry while drunk. I did.... I just never got caught.

[@Colorfullll]

Lol

[@somepogger8321]

Bro could of caused a war💀💀

[@d.b.1176]

That’s why it’s called the “Never Got Caught” ribbon.

[@briguy459]

Not much different. You can either have a lack of sleep and be drunk on watch or just be tired and bored on watch 😅

[@michaelpacinus242]

Must be a real tough guy

[@Spartan265]

To be fair adrenalin can easily sober you up after smoking bud. I also imagine a gunfight would be quick to sober one up as well. I know for sure adrenaline can sober you up fast as I've experienced it first hand lol.

[@howardlloyd9183]

You nailed it. Being high on weed will fade real quick when being shot at.

[@tripplesthreat]

Kind of a funny story from where I'm from. During the War of 1812; the first siege of Ft. Meigs. The fort wasn't complete when the British laid siege to the fort. To get the soldiers to finish building the ramparts, the for commander, General Harrison, authorized extra rations of rum to get the soldiers to continue working while being shelled. Guess it really is liquid courage.

[@hiddentruth1982]

Meth wasn't new in the 1930's. It had been around since the 1890's. Germany did make it in to a pill form though.

[@EEL67]

All this and it was the Japanese that created it in the 1880’s with the synthesis of ephedrine. Then I’m 1885 Nagayoshi Nagai isolated the herb that the Chinese herb ma haung, that the Chinese used for thousands of years as a stimulant. And in 1893 a similar substance was synthesized in a lab and methamphetamine was born.

[@myyoutubename1756]

Japan didnt create it. They created the precursors. Germany did

[@michaelshearer5105]

Yeah Germany will not be living this down... it's one thing to make a drug but a different thing to implement it into your military tactics.

[@MiniUsyk]

Pvt Bill Speakman, VC, Korean War. Threw beer bottles at enemy when ran out of ammo.

[@generalmalice7941]

That's fucking gold

[@jc-tu6pg]

i like how the animations are janky and not janky at the same time

[@ThrasherGnar]

“Took marijuana” 🤣🤣🤣

[@B0tch0]

Weed from the jungle was nothing like the stuff available nowadays... Fermented beverages were the safer drink for thousands of years (water, not so much)

[@KnOnHeavensDoor]

They grow some of the best in Asia and turn it into hash .It was good stuff , not reggie brick from Mexico. My dad stayed high in Vietnam. Edit also thousands of soldiers became junkies shooting heroin in Vietnam.

[@John-kj5wh]

Alcohol is safe in moderation but not so much in excess.

[@CivilizedWarrior]

@@KnOnHeavensDoor my uncle also smoked weed and hash in Nam, and continued doing so when he got home, right up until he passed away in his 80’s. From what I heard, he paid for the downpayment on his house by smuggling dope home from Nam when his tour was over. Of course, this was the mid to late ‘60s, before the CIA realized they could get rich doing the same.

[@menwithven8114]

You know how many thousands of these stories we will never know because soldiers were scared to say lol

[@briansacco3181]

Im one of them lol

[@willnotquit]

I love that the first guy has a joint sticking out of his mouth for the whole story…like he was super stoned!

[@Anti-furry_soldier87362.]

Bud fight💀💀

[@Jahr_1974]

Bruh 💀

[@nursestoyland]

bud fight

[@maxhao8660]

Ah bud fight good stuff

[@owenchan3226]

Man I really want some bud fight rn...

[@arkad6329]

Piss water

[@Average_FoxDoge]

Great video lol. I wasn't expecting a video on intoxicated soldiers lmao.

[@randomlow]

The 1911 replacing the m1892 as mentioned is incorrect. It was replaced by the colt 1909 new service. Simple history researcher was asleep on that one.

[@MalleusSemperVictor]

It was probably easier to gloss over that fact than say they used the M1909 for 2 years until the adoption of the M1911. A layperson might also be unaware of other firearms like the M1941 Johnson Rifle or even the M14's service in Vietnam. Some might say you're technically correct, which is the best kind of correct.

[@AceHimalayanX]

There was also a German Soldier equipped with an MG42 shooting it like an assault rifle

[@baconater4199]

@@MalleusSemperVictorthat’s the answer this guy is just being a stickler

[@CivilizedWarrior]

@@MalleusSemperVictor everybody say Jamaica, Jamaica!

[@davidwells2515]

If I’m in war and presented with some bud, I am smoking it with my buds.

[@CWREDnYELLA816]

Haaaaaa! Oh man

[@user-kr7yh8vw9m]

12:07 my therapist: Heer soldier on drugs isn't real, he can't hurt you. Heer soldier on drugs:

[@maxhao8660]

fr

[@randompoigon4583]

And 10:50

[@leylo420]

I am scared.

[@leylo420]

And 21:48

[@PerceptionsProphet]

Man got so high he went to an award ceremony in another country

[@bruhmoment787]

First guy was like "oh they're in the tree? I guess I'm smoking the trees"

[@vincedibona4687]

It is said that on that day, whilst most of the troops were on maybe one marijuana, Sgt. Lemon had taken at least 3, and maybe even 4, marijuanas.

[@joelxyso]

The thumbnail has me dying 😭 "Bud fight"

[@savagefurry]

Lmao the first story made it sound like you get obliterated when you smoke weed. 😂 The adrenaline from a situation like that would kill your high faster than a light turns on. Lmao

[@baconflakes3345]

0:16 they call him the weed whacker

[@anarchy_79]

Fresh pine needle shoots are very nutritious and every Northerner learns about this from childhood. It's a great source of vitamin C, you can brew a tea on them. Pretty refreshing too.

[@corngreaterthanwheat]

Lemon brought a new definition to “420 blazing.”

[@rogerauger7766]

LOL Good one!

[@Ody21]

As a veteran once said "When you're in combat, you fight for your brothers to your left and to your right"

[@davidwas77]

I’m glad you made a shortened version

[@sleuthchipperson7415]

after death lemon was posthumously awarded the purple cross of dankness

[@danielcurtis1434]

I think people don’t understand that drugs including alcohol or marijuana can have extreme performance increases!!!

[@physetermacrocephalus2209]

Grant was drunk on Liqour the entire Seige of Vicksberg. He won the war and we elected him President because of it. Im not saying a drunk army is good thing because its not....but sometimes....in particular situations....

[@tomhenry897]

Not really Didn’t drink anymore then others And lot less then others It was misinformation by those jealous of him to get him relieved He won battles others couldn’t so Lincoln kept him

[@physetermacrocephalus2209]

@@tomhenry897 Nah it was the Whiskey. If you know you know.

[@davea6314]

There is the question of how much alcohol General Grant drank during the US Civil War.

[@jimbob465]

Most of it

[@drunkenmmamaster419]

Just a drunk depressed guy

[@dwightchaos9449]

@@drunkenmmamaster419 He was sending young men to kill and die.. that job would be easy to get depressed about.

[@Mike-sr6gd]

Just enough

[@Btester2]

Yes

[@nevasoba5953]

To be fair, I learned how to drive stoned, I learned how to frame houses stoned. I get stoned nearly everyday , so it’s not that significant that people can fight a war high on pot.

[@necrophagus9]

Not to be pedantic but, methamphetamine was synthesized from ephedrine in 1893 by Japanese chemist Nagai Nagayoshi. Three decades later, in 1919, methamphetamine hydrochloride was synthesized by pharmacologist Akira Ogata via reduction of ephedrine using red phosphorus and iodine.

[@gaoxiaen1]

Before that they used cocaine.

[@geordiedog1749]

“Hey Lemon, Get that Pig going!” Puff, puff, puff “Er, yeah. Give me a minute, yeah?”

[@adrianbeckmann3778]

Dude was a terminator!

[@user-vc6hj4xr3n]

I don't blame him like so many people who have left their own country for the American dream and they had shown what loyalty to this country by fighting for this beautiful country and to some of them had shown what a true American is

[@trelard]

Paddy Mayne is a legend.

[@gamernoob174]

Pov: 0:41 Canadians without Maple syrup for months

[@horseclock6454]

I like the fact that you animated him smoking his joint on the way out lol, very nice.

[@Witchblood]

That machinge gun scene was sick

[@bigfootclouds]

Honestly if I was in Vietnam I woulda needed that Za too 😭

[@Ulysses1994XF04]

I don't think anyone is topping the Finnish guy who took ALL of the meth.

[@kevinabraham9260]

I love the first one where he has a joint in his mouth in every scene 🤣🤣🤣, I’ve seen the Finnish soldier Aimo Koivunen story on a whole pack of meth(pervitin) 100 times and cannot stop laughing dude tried to die on accident so many times 🤣🤣 savage

[@FloridaManFrank]

Training and survival instincts kick in no matter what you are on

[@nathansorlien2296]

Reefer wouldn't affect anyone that much maybe wreck the rations but that's it

[@fernandoalegria4240]

As a proud Viet Nam Marine vet, I would say that from Feb68 to Oct69, as an infantryman, I never witnessed any drug or alcohol use while I'm on patrols or operations, his fellow Marines would not tolerate it.

[@tomhenry897]

That’s BS Every veitnam vet marine and army I served with talked about the drug use

[@Jordizzan]

You’re the only squad who behaved I guess pal.

[@EnigmaticLucas]

I'd imagine it was more common in the Army since fragging was more common there

[@georgesears2916]

To be fair I imagine moral was slightly higher in 68 to 69 than it was in the last 5 years.

[@JamesRowell-fj7uq]

SEMPER FI BROTHER

[@Brunzy1970]

I love your channel and just resubscribe after watching everything twice atleast. Great channel

[@michaeldalessandro3020]

Another awesome video 👏

[@kolasillers7776]

I was intoxicated in Soviet army very often. We were drinking moonshine near Bryansk every week.

[@jondevere4918]

Hitler was also a morphine addict. The combination of strong opiates and methampet Resulted in Hitler’s poor decision making leading to the ill-considered invasion of Russia

[@j0shi3]

LOL the cracked out german busting through the wall at 18:14 I lost it 🤣😂

[@spikelee5716]

I tried many stuff in my life in many diff situations, but 1 thing is for sure, once a fight for your life starts all the buzz goes away, all you get is a high focus on whatever you are doing, you get shot you feel a cold burn, but the pain is numbed so you keep going till the body collapse, but theres nothing the brain can do to make you stop, all pain inducers are numbed and you keep pushing.

[@Vang2009]

Pullo was hella drunk since he didn’t stay in formation that one time in Gaul.

[@Arukan]

Weed never made it more difficult to do anything I was already doing.

[@chef7658]

Except for acting sober😂

[@rickybobbyinc293]

Fighting on weed is like fighting on Tylenol. It wouldn’t matter in the slightest!

[@rickybobbyinc293]

Unless it was amazing weed and was the first time you ever done it.

[@cooldude3856]

probably half of the viking berserkers of the middle ages were high on mushrooms they found in the forest

[@maruzencentral]

Id be popping a couple benzos before each battle lol

[@crf80fdarkdays]

That would be pretty silly, take enough and you wouldn't have the energy to fight.

[@Dawidson_CZE2521]

5:20 *April 1st* American soldiers: But why at night?! Viet Cong soldiers: *It's just a prank*

[@semperparatus678]

My dad was telling me that most smoked weed. Vietnam prices were a coffee can full of weed was about 5 dollars.

[@ZorinZato]

I love all the film references tucked into the animation

[@bobbyread6883]

Nobody stays high that long with that much adrenalin on pot, lol !

[@tuxedomask7892]

Making the weed sound like it’s the most intoxicating drug in the world 😂

[@hikerzeek8844]

When things go crazy your high definitely goes down and with some disappears

[@awol1561]

this is my new favorite video

[@aevenova9780]

Nobody is drinking bud light anymore 😂

[@julianstone1192]

I’ve never been a soldier, but in my limited experience yeah in a fight being drunk and on drugs, you go pretty hard and crazy, fight multiple dudes at once, good thing I’m trying to get my life back on track

[@TheBerendir]

Same here but most of the time the multiple dudes I was fighting didn't exist 😂.

[@dwightchaos9449]

Fighting a drunk person sober makes you feel like a Jedi.. any other drugs I could see it might help.. but fighting drunk has you all slow and off balance.

[@Btester2]

I smoked so much weed once I passed out in a field and lost my phone while on the way to a strip club.

[@NashmanNash]

I like when drunk people pick a fight with me :D

[@dwightchaos9449]

@@Btester2 well I was gonna say it saved ya money.. but if you had to buy a new phone maybe not… strip clubs have are a waste to go to for me anymore. It did serve a purpose one time though.. 😝

[@Dutch.W]

Narrator really thinks pot makes people less able to kill

[@Frosty_tha_Snowman]

The thumbnail is fantastic lol

[@markdavids2511]

I read a story about a group of British soldiers in Afghanistan who whilst out on patrol had stopped for a rest or whatever & they all sat down amongst high grass, after 10 mins they were found to be smashed as they’d taken their break in a farmers cannabis field which were in flower & maybe pollen had made them fall asleep.

[@crf80fdarkdays]

"pollen" being an excuse for smoking the erb

[@cesarvidelac]

Russians on vodka, since forever and now

[@SuzannaK-uk9vm]

Excellent video

[@Riot_unit]

Simple histery is da best channel

[@coltoncawsey3620]

As a Canadian I loved how the beginning was a born canadian smoking weed 😂 represent

[@bigj1905]

“What makes me a good Demoman?”

[@Countrydurham]

Great videos

[@CanadianOutdoorsBc]

I love this story about Peter C Lemon. Thank you 👍

[@warpartyattheoutpost4987]

It's... it's a... *(hic)* it's a tradishun... I'm not drunk YOU ARE!

[@Drew-dd5nh]

Everyone needs to go with Bud Light I see. What, are you ALL in on this now? Nobody drinks Bud Light, other than dudes who bite pillows.

[@Upflickk]

It's - 30°c in central Finland, about - 25f and it's so hard to believe that he survived all that. I go outside and almost slip into a coma 😂

[@anthonykintz5936]

I love how absurdly large the joint is shown to be.

[@dominicbrunsmeier]

Ah he's from Canada, that explains marijuana thing.

[@fook-joby-den6172]

The problem with sleep deprivation is when pushing 60+ hrs no sleep auditory hallucinations can kick in making you lose your GD mind….

[@crf80fdarkdays]

Yep, not to mention the shadow people witch will cause distraction

[@Dr.Z73]

My friend is really really good at COD playing extremely drunk. Drunken Master.

[@NooffenceBut_]

I would be more surprised by a list of soldiers who weren't high on something.

[@billphelps6191]

You ever seen the backbof a 20$ dollar bill? On Marijuana? You ever fought off a battalion of nva on Marijuana?