Spec Ops Answer Strange Military Related Questions

[@MobiusCoin]

Every time Israel talks about HALO school you can just start to see the steam coming out of Cameron's ears. It's hilarious.

[@tree_addict280]

Is that because Rangers don't HALO? edit: nvm I just saw the part of the video.

[@reckless6869]

how high is halo? highest I've jumped is 16,000... I imagine halo is like 30.

[@tree_addict280]

@@reckless6869 I believe HALO is around 30 to 40 thousand.

[@CAP198462]

Really? I imagine him humming the Halo theme music, but I’m a weirdo.

[@Sevisstillalive]

@@reckless6869 Is the role of a Combat Controller Important ? ( I know every mos is important ) I was just curious as my friend was one....

[@ExUSSailor]

Personally, the skill from my military service that I regret losing, is the ability to fall asleep whenever, where ever.

[@nuru666]

I never served (Thanks for yours, though) but I miss being able to do that too, I could be like "Oh, I got 20 minutes?* Lights *OUT*

[@DaveSmith-cp5kj]

Something that helps is to just do a workout you just don't want to do. After doing that then you suddenly are really motivated to fall asleep and not care about anything else.

[@lukewiegand9001]

The way Israel explains how he wants to see ghost and demons makes me think he hasn’t played doom

[@altechelghanforever9906]

yet

[@tobinwinfieldiii3676]

What are your thoughts about the Army’s NGSW (next gen squad weapon)? Good, bad, history repeating itself (see M14)? On a similar note, what about the Army’s new optic? I heard it tells the humidity and has a built in rangefinder and all sorts of gizmos built in.

[@jeddpires]

I hope they have the opportunity to test fire it.

[@burgercitron3653]

I want to see they’re opinion and reaction

[@Specialfella-19]

Imagine voice commands on an optic "Cortana, tell me how far that guy is"

[@levipass9893]

Ya voice commands be like hey lock on to that guy hurry

[@Katurodrake]

The rifle seems like it could be alright. Not a fan of the optic. It's too technical, it'll never last. Or the only guy that's gonna have it is your squad leader or platoon leader. Also expensive optic, already were cautious about NODs and Thermals. Former infantry. There's a Grand Thumb video about the rifle itself.

[@Angellance7]

Cameron's c17 story is probably one of the most lucky/unlucky things I've ever heard

[@DJWeapon8]

Seriously, man. The images I've imagine as Cam told the story looks like something out of Luck Or Skill GTAV clip. My god.

[@yuhaoliu7840]

Heard you talk about working with the British SAS a few times, what was your experience working with them and other foreign special operation units?

[@teodorteisberg8344]

They wear badass gas masks from what I've seen in Rainbow Six Siege. I want to know this too

[@MichaelsTightPants]

@@teodorteisberg8344 s10 respirator is a nightmare. It's the s10 that thatch uses.

[@nuru666]

SAS are fucking legendary boys

[@farhanmahmood56]

@@teodorteisberg8344 Mate, they don't use gas masks all the time, only in biohazard operations or in operations where there's tons of explosions going off, etc. The SAS mostly uses civilian clothing with vests, helmets, belts. They also use full blackout uniforms (rarely.)

[@jessewarr1277]

@@nuru666 they ight

[@jerrysmooth24]

13:10 my grandfather had this happen to him during the Tet offensive at Khe Sanh as a e7 in the air force he got up at 5:00 am right before the NVA started their creeping barrages when he heard the sound of incoming mortars he ran in to the bunker dugouts and fell on his knee since he was wounded in combat he got a probably undeserved purple heart.

[@BattleManiac7]

Ngl, I got goosebumps just imagining that night time HALO jump. It must have been an amazing thing to experience in person.

[@patrii9100]

I can't explain how much I've laughed with these two. I could LITERALLY watch them every day and I wouldn't get bored.

[@chuckgreen3629]

4:43 he's talking about Luke Sommer and his accomplices. I've heard there were robberies by other Rangers too. Also the Ash St Shootout in Tacoma where a squad of Rangers shot it out with a gang, 300 rounds fired, no one hit.

[@benhislop1458]

Thanks for clearing that up

[@michaelbruv240]

40+ minutes long… fuck yeah!

[@snillzsru3323]

Fr!

[@munskinman]

Have you ever come across other sf guys or delta guys that had super cool or advanced equipment that made you jealous.

[@nuru666]

Oh dude, I smell funny stories if your question gets picked

[@brandongiang7335]

Question: What was your favorite Cadence during training? was there one that really impact you? and do you still use that cadence in your life for Motivation or anything?

[@makukawakami]

Mine (and probably the internet) would be "I left my home" (thanks DS DePalo) and Hard Work

[@ronin_7773]

Mine was "My girl's a vegetable" and "240B"

[@MisterNi]

Great Q&A guys. Your stories actually made me remember some of my own stories as well. 🙂 As a Korean-American, I'm glad you two enjoyed Korea, when I went there while in the military, it was really more of a temporary detour while on my way to China, then Indonesia, Malaysia, Cambodia, Thailand, Japan, etc. It was nice and all but I think Korea is better to visit as a civilian than while in the military. Glad the both of you enjoyed your time there anyway and thanks for these videos/stories and keep up the good work. 🙂

[@a7t0r98]

I feel bad for the guy with the allergic reaction to the ant bites and then someone uses him as excuse to sleep. I can’t imagine Cam getting this angry over someone since he’s always so nice.

[@babayaga1644]

As a Canadian thinking about joining the CAF, I appreciate your stories and honesty. Keep up the good work! much love from Canada!

[@johnmarks9994]

Are you aware the RCMP is more powerful than the military?

[@djamondaxuzm4712]

The reason the dogs would react to the IR laser's being shined into their eyes is because even though dogs and humans alike cannot SEE IR, it still hurts as much as getting a military grade laser shined in your eye

[@DaveSmith-cp5kj]

I think they also have IR radiation sensors in their nose, although it is for detecting heat signatures for stalking prey (like when they sniff the ground). I'm not sure if the laser, even the full power gov beams can produce enough heat for them to actually sense that though. They could also just be hearing the movement of him swinging the rifle around since clothes make a lot of noise.

[@szariq7338]

I've got culinary related questions: 1) Did you have any problems with food served on your "plate" during your service? On example whole unit getting food poisoning or just preferring to go around jungry becuse of its awfulness. 2) Do you think you'd be able to cook here any of your favourite foods from military? If yes, please try doing it in the next episode.

[@benhislop1458]

Yes! I got my question read! Here’s another: you were probably around a a lot of vehicles during your time in the military, what was the worst and why?

[@Oeraja]

Question: Did you ever show an enemy mercy? Or the opposite, were you ever ordered to kill an enemy when you didn't want to? Also we love your channel. Keep up the good stuff!

[@makukawakami]

13:10 I think that battle tactic is called the Celtic battle armor lol

[@domingopgarcia8391]

I love how Cameron changes haircut every 2 videos and Iz just has the same hair for years

[@Swogfish]

16:15 A friend of my Dads served in the Airforce over in Afghanistan in the early 2000s. To this day he swears that one of the flights he ran involved transporting a dead giant. Its been a while since I've looked up the topic. It was an incident that happened in 2002 in the Kandahar Province of Afghanistan. some soldiers went missing in the mountain regions of Kandahar, and when they couldn't make radio contact, they sent out a special forces team to search the area. That was when they came across a cave, in which the supposed giant lived. I want to believe, but its kind of hard coming from him, with all the Dungeons and Dragons they played. side note, tried searching the Wayback Machine for the deleted interview video of the incident, but it wasn't saved.

[@MrCashewkitty]

There's a History Channel series about giants. They have letters from the Smithsonian regarding not letting the public access them. They also reportedly have multiple sets giant skeletons. One of the episodes is in Arkansas not too far from me and a giant skelly was unearthed there many years ago. I remember my grandpa telling me about it years ago. I don't believe the Afghanistan giant story as all the remains that have been found are 1000s of years old. Weird weird stuff

[@DaveSmith-cp5kj]

I died when you mentioned the part about D&D, lmao.

[@DaveSmith-cp5kj]

@@MrCashewkitty These days history channel is all made up, like that alien series. I missed when they actually covered real historical events. Even future weapons series was better.

[@shawnmorgan7834]

If this was a 6 hour video I’d watch it front to back. Much love as always and thank you guys!

[@yeohglenn]

I'll be enlisting in the Singapore armed forces on the 17th this month and I'd love for ya'll to try our MRE. Ya'll are my inspiration and I enjoy listening to the crazy and awesome stories and I am super hyped and happy to have stories of my own later down the road! Thank you soo much for your service!

[@llyh8023]

Yo fellow Singaporean 👋

[@josephdurham4950]

For sure one of cams most humble intros 😆 🤣 😂 I love it you guys are the best

[@behnamsaeedi]

@8:17 They can't see IR but they can sense it. IR transmits a lot of energy with it in form of heat and warms up anything that it hits. I learned this working with IR laser cutters and etchers. There is this tiny gap between the two sides of cats and dogs nose called "rhinarium" that stays wet and they lick it wet. it is sensitive to that heat and that is how they can detect it. The reason they freak out is because there is a weird sudden heat they are sensing.

[@TheLegoxD]

2:54 i didnt even kew that wallnuts grow like that :D

[@hammeredtravis]

What motivated you guys to join the special operations community? How did group/regiment life differ from the expectations you had prior to enlisting?

[@larsvanelewout3942]

Dogs have dichromatic sight. They can see yellow and blue. But not red or any shade of red. However like many animals they can sense infrared. More likely the heat source coming off infrared light. And that is what they react to. Thats why a lot of animals more often than not look into the camera at camera traps. They can sense the infrared coming off of it.

[@musyna]

Question: How much of the military is knowing acronyms? What are some of your favorites or most used?

[@MichaelsTightPants]

I love watching this channel izzy and cam are like chalk and cheese, izzy is this calm none sweary type although he wasn't calm on Mondays twitch stream(BritishPtsdGamer). Cam swears like a sailor and seems more hyper.

[@IsraelWright]

Eeeeey! Great to see you here. See you soon!

[@MichaelsTightPants]

@@IsraelWright see your stream on Friday after my law exam. Have a good stream today

[@sorenkazaren4659]

Cameron I wouldn’t be embarrassed about stuff like the leg cramp. I know it probably feels that way because of where you came from, but trust me you’d probably still outperform 90% of all civilians in fitness.

[@DaveSmith-cp5kj]

Same, people die in water from cramps, so it clearly isn't something that is a solely a matter of will power.

[@40grams1990]

You guys are the perfect duo, Israel is a old school badass and Camron is Modern Warfare’s “Roach” ❤️👑👑❤️ I *🦆QUACK🦆* love it 😆😂

[@SL4PSH0CK]

this needw more views as how underrated it is to take a peek in in their background.

[@canoodlepoodle7892]

Israels so real for saying he'd respond with "Aw man that sucks... I'm gonna play video games" to his teammates house burning down

[@resentfusion5634]

Thanks for the great vid glhf. This one was especially entertaining

[@jacobl6714]

Oh man, Cam got to use a SCAR? That's awesome, real high speed cool guy stuff, love it : p Also, I wish more of the military commercials had some guy saying "If there's one thing the military taught me, I've seen every kinda dong there is, I've seen long penises, short penises, red penises, blue penises, a penis on a bus or on a train, a penis in a truck or on a plane...." etc. Never heard Jocko or Tim Kennedy talk about that lmao

[@orderlyhippo1569]

I have been entertained for nearly 45 minutes. I like.

[@Deltron1337]

The quality of yalls content has skyrocketed. Keep it up

[@kawaii_akuma9267]

I love these videos The more I learn about you guys the more I appreciate and respect our military Please don't stop making them

[@merdas2556]

Congratulations on reaching 100K!!!! 🥳

[@SilasGray-lc5wh]

I have a lot of family members that were in the military and their stories are just amazing. Also my brother is joining the military so more fun stories are waiting in the future.

[@sorenkazaren4659]

5:21 God that would’ve been funny. To have been a fly on the wall when that happened. “Hey bud.” “Yeah man?” “You uh… you remembered to take the license plate off first right?” *winces* “yeahhhh… about that…” “You fucking idiot.”

[@BaneofAtriox]

speaking of the paranormal things ect. you guys should react to Mr. Ballen's video on the Khandahar Giant. its really cool

[@themasterchef9784]

Great to see you guys again!!! Keep up the great Content!!!’😁

[@SmashingSnow]

These are some of your best videos. Keep these coming

[@2clean2care85]

Love the long vid need more of these 🤍

[@nighteye6065]

Yeeees back at it!!! The amount of content they realise is incredible love it🙏❤

[@TheVikingKitty]

I would love to see a video where Izzy and Cam race to see who can make a shelter in the woods and/or hotwire a car fastest lmao

[@MisterNi]

Hahah, I nearly forgot about learning how to "commandeer a vehicle". While I've never had to do so, I have been in a situation where I was with two guys and we... borrowed an SUV for a few miles. Mainly because it was getting dark and we didn't want to walk back to base while I supervised as the NCO at the time. It was funny in retrospect, watching two super serious military guys, who've probably never so much as stole a piece of nickel candy as civilians, coaching one another on how to hot wire up an old '80s Toyota SUV. 😂 We drove it a few miles then left it on the side of the road with a few bucks in the glovebox to compensate the owner for the gas and made it back to base before dark. 🙂

[@jakedill1304]

If you hotwire the car that is your shelter. And also your ticket to a better shelter LOL why build when you can take what's rightfully yours.. I mean if they wanted to keep it they probably shouldn't have put it in the middle of the woods.. just for anybody to hotwire and take by right of passage and Dominic claim.. but I would like to see the follow-up video where they have to fight to get it back like in some sort of ring naked. And get the the guy to referee and no round time limits.. just go 10 hour long rounds till you know somebody either gets a car or never really wanted a car in the first place cuz they just they just they just let it go gave it away practically at that point. Twice twice LOL definitely not their car anymore..

[@MI-lk6jg]

I like how long it is more like this

[@shubhammakhija6205]

congratulations on your engagement man

[@skill_heist]

Yea, Israel talking about HALO school , stuff shit etc, and Cameron is like ,what should i eat or drink after video :))

[@DXNI.]

Honestly one of the most interesting channels out here! Keep it up

[@Wile_E._Wolf]

I was on piquet one night in Afghanistan. It'd been quiet at this post for weeks so I went on piquet wearing shorts, t-shirt and thongs (flip flops) with my helmet and plate carrier. Long story short we took contact and had to manoeuvre to pursue/search for the enemy. Carrying an F89 Minimi running over rocks and up mountains in thongs was not a great experience. Pretty comical amongst the other guys and jokes were made for the rest of deployment and beyond.

[@falloutnuke_9259]

Times I've been scared in the infantry When you f up and your team leader says "we'll handle it when we get back to the company".

[@bhargabbaibhab2855]

I have two questions. 1) do you have techniques to jump safely from heights of 2 storeys or more 2) what do you do to regain energy if like you get about 15 minutes of free time

[@bobjoe5851]

I love the longer episodes guys ! If you started a podcast I’d listen to you two talk about literally anything hah

[@fakayu4363]

Israel is slowly becoming captain price with that beard. Good video once again guys keep em coming

[@Floridian_Kole]

Absolutely amazing!! The content and duration 🙌 keep it up guys. Love the channels and can't wait for season 2 of PCFM🤟

[@HrlesCharlie]

40 Minutes?? Awesome I’m hype!

[@JuniorJoe2000]

I appreciate the longer video for this.

[@Praetorian-oc5cm]

Do you guys consider becoming mercenaries after serving? If yes then where do you see yourselves working and what kind of work as mercenaries?

[@MrDylanm842]

Contractors* Nobody really says mercenaries now

[@MrCashewkitty]

You've been listening to too much Dale Comstock! Haha

[@AlexKS1992]

@@MrDylanm842 I call them mercenaries. Military contractor is a PC word to those that don’t want to admit that they are a thug for hire.

[@fredrikmagnusson6469]

Great as always guys! Greetings from a fan i Sweden.

[@ronin_7773]

Question: What was your favorite pair of boots? Did you have a specific brand for rucks and fields or all purpose to wear at work too? In AIT I had friends that bought Rocky's and they all got blistered up feet after an 8-mile ruck even though they broke them in weeks prior. I only ever bought Garmont's but I swear by them. Their light, super comfortable, basically great for everything and never got blisters wearing them.

[@TheKapateze]

Great video, keep up the good work!

[@davem1951]

My wife and I really love your channel, especially the Interrogations. Okay, here are some Contractor questions I hope you find interesting and worth a pick (pick most interesting one): What was your best and your worst experience with a Contractor? What was the stupidest thing you've ever seen a Contractor do? Did you ever cross paths with or receive the benefit from a Contractor's work where you found yourself thinking "Better them than me" :-) Did you ever work with a Contractor(s) and found yourself thinking "How the &%*#@ did they GET this job?" What's the funniest thing you've ever seen a Contractor do?

[@DaveSmith-cp5kj]

As far as the stupidest thing, one that was here in the states after I got American citizenship was a guy getting in a hot tub with the client and flirting with her, the second was during the EU coup of the Ukrainian government where a group (not our specific company) went into town to buy drugs and prostitutes and got arrested in a sting operation. Which is also hilariously bad luck because if you know Ukraine it is notorious for widespread sex tourism and virtually nobody gets caught because the politicians are in on it, including our politicians like the Clintons and apparently the Bidens based on recent events. Both situations obviously the guys were fired and blacklisted and will never work in such a job ever anywhere in the world ever again. It's especially stupid because the pay was amazing and they weren't dangerous jobs.

[@SomethingScotty]

Dean: "UFO! UFO!" Sam: "Woah, dude. Stop yelling you're breaking up." Dean: "Close encounter! Close encounter!" Sam: "Close encounter? What kind? First? Second?" Dean: "They're after me!" Sam: "Third kind already? Better keep runnin' man, heard the fourth kind's a but thing." Dean: "Empathy, Sam! Empathy!" *drops phone, pulling out a pistol and a knife*

[@snillzsru3323]

Thank you for the longer video!👍

[@2ndrangerbattalion]

Is there any way to explain the excitement that is felt when an “aggressive support” (ie air strike, artillery or mortar) hits its mark?

[@DaveSmith-cp5kj]

Imagine you're stuck in a dark room and the chick from the ring appears but she just stands there facing you for like 30 minutes. Then suddenly Terry Crews bursts through the wall and flattens her with a jet ski and shouts at you about the power of old spice. Kind of like that.

[@BOSSH0GG1N]

Love the longer videos!

[@2AGear]

Yall need to get your hands on the NGSW sig offerings and compare them to what yall trained with. I'd be delighted to know what you guys think about it considering the fact that you both have Spec Ops backgrounds and get the new toys first.

[@mywonderland826]

love the longer video!!!!

[@dennismilburn635]

I love the longer question episode!!

[@yeahnahmate8098]

Love to see you two colab with Garand Thumb!

[@MrEnriquez09]

Have you had any close call Moments where you think afterwards, “that could of been very Bad”

[@RaShaunGaming]

Love the content 🖤

[@dankestduck1775]

Love the long eps!

[@nuru666]

But Cam, you could work for a Repo Man and steal cars legitimately! You'd get all the fun! Danger, bein sneaky, stealth infiltration, hotwire the car and drive off laughing

[@jinkazama9999]

doood omg paranormal military stories are my favorite thing.idk it reminds me of resident evil or something

[@davidanton2884]

Any experience with German and/or Austrian (Special-)Forces (KSK/Jagdkommando)?

[@HeyItsJoe1]

Izzy = classic ice man in combat. Ya'll should react to some generation kill

[@Majd664]

question: did you have ptsd? If yes, how did you manage to face it? do you sometimes have some nightmares or thoughts about it? Does talking about the events of your career in the army make you feel more comfortable or the opposite?

[@chriswaring2569]

The real question is .. when you were going through the FTX in basic .. did second platoon decide to have the most lit red light rap dance party .... Somehow.. I know there had to be a drill sergeant watching us.. but we danced our ass off... There was no music..

[@ollieduracell]

I see these lads upload, I click. Standard procedure! Great content every single time

[@OSK_MikaVista]

Would love to see you guys hear some of MikeBurnFire and ZachHazards military stories

[@maahir44]

Question: i wanna join the 75th ranger regiment when im older. Anything i can start doing from now so i don’t find rasp/ranger school too harsh? Im 14 btw

[@Drazee123]

Never seen you guys answer this question or maybe I missed it. How did you guy first meet? Seems like there is a quite a bit time difference between your service years so kinda curious about that.

[@CAP198462]

FYI, CQ stands for Charge of Quarters. It’s guard duty when they let the Army come indoors.

[@shawnmiller508]

Showering in the monsoon reminded me of the scene from The Pacific

[@seanthecool5823]

I remember my barracks in the school house for USMC HE Mechs was haunted. I was on firewatch alone on 2nd deck and i kept felt like someone was following me or walking behind me. I could of sworn i heard footsteps. It was the only time i never stood in one spot on watch. I went up to third deck to see if they have had anything and they said no. 10 minutes go by and im still on third deck when the maytag door handle starts jiggly and then the door keeps opening and closing. We went into the dark rook after and no one was there.

[@AJPMUSIC_OFFICIAL]

Did you have to conquer a fear to pass training? Eg fear of heights and learning to parachute or open water and river crossing or similar. Also so funny that the green beret isn't scared of ghosts.

[@SilasGray-lc5wh]

I love your videos thanks

[@hunorgal2632]

Hi guys! Really fascinated by your stories. I have a question for you: have you ever tried airsoft? What’s your opinion on it?

[@ik5852]

i like how this was a long one

[@nicorusso1526]

I like how Israel refuses to curse and the other one does so every two seconds

[@tylerburkham2382]

coming from Ft. Lewis, the rangers who robbed the bank took the license plate off however they left the 2/75 scroll sticker on the back glass

[@thehastywombat]

It's interesting that you say that a lot of the time foreign services wouldn't listen to your SNCO's, as that's often something we find when dealing with American's. So far as that we (the Australian Army) would have some of our SNCO's wear Officer rank slides or field promoted purely because we didn't feel American Officers took us seriously unless we were Officers.

[@ilirlir]

Has there ever been a "Dear John" situation that you have witnessed, if so how did you react to it?

[@Syl518]

19:18 My one plan in the afterlife, if ghosts were real (Don't want to be, but I am a skeptic), is "chaos." I'll be smart and conserve this "energy" that other ghosts use on doors or radios, and actually do something. Expect a legion of undead a few years after I die.