Think like the “bad guys”

For every NATO exercise, there’s a blue team - the “good guys” who come to train and test their skills - and the “bad guys”, who put them to the test by taking on the role of the enemy.
At the US Army’s Hohenfels Training Area in southern Germany, the bad guys are One-Four - First Battalion, Fourth Infantry Regiment. Based in Europe, their full-time job is making sure NATO Allies get a bracingly realistic training experience. Far more than walking targets, One-Four’s soldiers simulate everything from conventional warfare to hybrid tactics, working day and night to keep the training audience on their toes. They make sure that NATO’s forces walk out of Hohenfels sharper and better prepared than when they walked in.
NATO video producers joined One-Four during Exercise Saber Junction 22. They signed on with the unit’s infamous Scout Platoon, which is often tasked with probing Allied defences under the cover of darkness. Over the course of 24 hours, they found out exactly what it takes to fill this demanding - and for Allied forces, crucially important - role: creativity, stamina and a good sense of humour.
The exercise Saber Junction 22, involved more than 4,400 participants from Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Italy, Georgia, Hungary, Kosovo, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Romania, Slovakia, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States.
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[@DonPatrono]

love that ever since the 1950s the "unofficial uniform" for the OPFOR units in NATO was a black-dyed uniform, to the point they now use it for garrison duties

[@shoeby9273]

Old school tigerstripe is also badass.

[@lebigeon]

"The more experienced your troops are the less likely to fail at their task they will be" -Master Yoda

[@yep537]

Inspirational

[@patriots1263]

Wise person 😂

[@eckasas]

That's debatble.

[@EzioAuditore]

NATO general yoda is wise beyond his years

[@quinnard9750]

Goofy. How is this even an inspirational quote lmao.

[@Goettel]

They make far better bad guys than the actual bad guys.

[@oliveryt7168]

Yeah, they proved this several times already..

[@Cris_the_coder]

yeah if they really want to act like bad guys they should dirnk a whole bottle lmao jk jk

[@maciekzindonezji]

It's better to overestimate your adversary, rather than to underestimate it. Like *cough* some people did.

[@Ignash]

Always good to train against the best "bad guys".

[@bagelhunt]

That's the point. Prepare for the worst.

[@RoAF_Dev_Team]

Very glad the Romanian military did well to keep their guard during the night! We are NATO!

[@AnIdiotsLantern]

Romania did its Allys proud!! Point to NATO

[@bay0r]

let's go romania. we are all in this.

[@Smytjf11]

I just got to that point! Rock on 🇷🇴!

[@corvanphoenix]

Don't doubt it. There is no weak link at the pointy end of NATO. You don't need a US defence budget to have highly trained & motivated grunts. 🇷🇴 are an asset to NATO!

[@j.b.macadam6516]

I was a Scout in 1/33 Armor from 1977-1978. During maneuvers at Hohenfels, Reforger '78 and other sites, we spent much of our time behind 'enemy' lines, gathering intel, and wreaking havoc! Although the regulation uniform was OD green (Vietnam era uniforms), we were allowed to wear woodland camo when in the field. Great times! Scouts out!

[@NATOHistory]

Have a look at this video from back then: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jmWsfWiap6lnZtE

[@Wuestenkarsten]

@@NATOHistory Good old Times-......so nice to watch it!

[@Tyrfingr]

Scouts are badass!

[@brentbarham3157]

if nato agreed with me i’d develop a real ego 🤣

[@SAMWHO1]

Wreaking havoc? "flame-throwing combatants, defending they're country" God bless you sorry for your loss.

[@aziirax3400]

i cannot believe i live at a time in the world where i see Russian generals fighting for their survival while NATO generals record vlogs

[@HGodwin1]

Most intelligent Russian simp above. Maybe the Russian generals wouldn't be fighting if they hadn't invaded a neighboring country. Idk, just a thought.

[@RichRacc]

I know right, its crazy.

[@eckasas]

That's the point, russian generals are retarded or incompetent. One way or the other I am pretty sure shooting kids ( what the ruskies are doing) isn't in our doctrine.

[@FancySeeingYouHere]

He’s not a general lol

[@user-lv9ob2by7o]

Are they fighting for survival tho?

[@michaelmichelsson]

When I served in the Finnish army, the most important lesson was that, after being given a task, doing it is improvisation

[@shoeby9273]

Perkele. Welcome to OTAN, brother.

[@TeaRex]

Scandanavian command structure is really interesting, examples of commanders taking intivtive and improvising was shown a lot by NordBat 2 in the bosian conflict

[@EterneM8]

i would assume very often your "task" doesn't go according to plan.

[@TeurastajaNexus]

@@shoeby9273 You mean NATO? :D

[@TheDavidlloydjones]

@michaelmichelsson That was one of the main lessons of the excellent 19th century Prussian officer corps. Churchill incorrectly used the word "Prussian" to mean regimented and without imagination. In fact, the German word kreigspiel really meant play, not just imitate. Prussian officers played with a lot of different possibilities in the course of their training, and were expected to be able to make it up on the fly when crisis time came.

[@randominternetguy8735]

This is why NATO is the most effective military alliance on Earth. They coordinate effectively and constantly probe their own forces for weaknesses.

[@mariadekelver2240]

These guys take role playing to a whole new level.

[@RaptorTroll360]

Hey the best kind of training basically is mentally and physically exhausting, educational LARP

[@tellurium-128]

I LOVE CORN SYRUP

[@fncthebest]

Welcome from Romania

[@antoniothegunexpert5955]

Hi fellow romanian

[@lugojanu]

Sau "multumim Romania, pentru ajutor in protectia NATO" / Or "Thanks Romania , for help in protecting NATO ".

[@gamer1q658]

What do you want to say? 🤨

[@canuzzi]

I liked the part of the video, where the first OPFOR raid failed due to Romanian soldiers were allert and guarding thier positions well despite bad weather conditions.

[@Thelegend-op2bj]

Tiger Stripe camo is badass & timeless 😎

[@LordNinja109]

And it works. You can see several shots where they blend it really well?

[@kekkoinen]

you dont have to try that hard when the enemy can manage to bring a single t34 to their biggest parade all year

[@rozkaz661]

Good on the romanian forces for keeping guard and a good lesson for the artilery dudes

[@TruDeinoz]

1:28 No, you accidently enlisted in the Russian army. No training, you'll learn on the job. You leave for Bahmut tomorrow.

[@threestrikesmarxman9095]

"...can I have a rifle at least?" "No, you get stick. Shovel if you're lucky. Bring your own food. We ran out months ago."

[@greengarnish1711]

xD

[@Usonan-Foderation2016]

Sorry to correct, but it's Bakhmut

[@Dreaming_Cat404]

Oh no

[@andity2262]

That sounds more like Ukraine😂😂

[@seangutierrez1337]

“To know your enemy, you must become your enemy.” -Sun Tzu

[@LannyRoe]

“What even is a Philippines.” - Uncle

[@MENDEZ-cg5yq]

6:26 nice frwd windbreaker gotta stay drippy

[@dubon9999]

Thanks to all NATO soldiers 🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠 Together we are stronger and together we will fight the bad leaders, we will face our enemies and we will win 🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠

[@AnIdiotsLantern]

Defending democracy and the right to argue with each other about stupid stuff!😂 that’s freedom unironically

[@josephwheeler2611]

Starship Trooper vibe

[@ovidiugheorghe2126]

Românii luptă ca leii si nu se predau niciodată !.....ca strămoșii lor dacii .🥰 Este o plăcere să lupti alături de ei !

[@alexandrudorobantu7260]

D aia am intors armele🤣 lei sigur nu suntem

[@mute.gaming]

welcomes from finland

[@USA5]

Thinking like the bad guys, meanwhile the bad guys are thinking how to avoid mobilization 😂

[@revenge1164]

6:59 Romania 👏👏

[@THEPITZU]

🇷🇴 Felicitări

[@sampletext3433]

It's so entertaining and educating to play the bad guys. You literally see the mistakes being made from the opposing perspective. And it's this "I know what needs to change" moment

[@butchhaight]

My drill sergeant in basic spent 4 yrs in Nam as a LRRP. He was uncanny and spooky!!!

[@butchhaight]

He was as quiet as a mouse and could see like a cat.

[@fi6ue-traitor]

I honestly think I got better training while doing OPFOR. You rely on your own devices with some more senior NCOs to sabotage a real capable unit. It develops more personal sense on the battlefield. Everyone should have the opportunity, even if only occasionally. 💪

[@michaelwalters7110]

It's units and training like this that keep us at the Tip of the Spear. Thank you for the insight.

[@jamiew.2718]

lmao that cam cream application is wild, shreck is coming

[@passioncla]

SUPPORT From Romania! ✊

[@flugel5554]

i want a whole show of the opfor training, its so awesome and interesting

[@thedudeyoloswag4616]

Was stationed at hhc 1-4 in 05-07. Loved it there 3 weeks of the month out in the feild being opfour. A expance like no other.

[@_Peperek]

Just realized NATO has a channel + it surprisingly isn't bad

[@dr.ludwig8189]

lol I love how the only two available subtitles are either English or Russian

[@mr.marius5094]

My Romanian brothers don't play games 😂

[@Yoyo-me]

Yes Sir! 💪💪💪💪🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴💪💪💪💪

[@BapadapTV]

I thought this was a joke initially, but nope. it's to official NATO KZbin channel.

[@mihGG]

ROMANIA POWER 💪🏼

[@Mars_0191]

Tiger stripe camo is the coolest one there is!!

[@photomares57]

I did OPFOR in two different MOS's. 11B and 16S 👊 BEST JOB I EVER HAD 💯

[@Eminentharp]

"Are we the baddies?"

[@dangthatstuff6887]

I couldn’t even imagine what that dude who they woke up looking for rios was thinking 😭

[@Lucianflv]

Romanian on duty 🇷🇴

[@nmc052able]

Thank u for a Great documentry!

[@helltrooper131]

My Romanian Brothers where trigger happy and waiting for a ducker to try them. 🤣 P.s You Don't steal from us, we steal from you, we are basically the Mexic of E.U. They tried to build a wall,we had stolen the bricks. ✌🏻😁

[@valym2557]

The Best army NATO & SUA & EU & ROMÂNIA 🇺🇲🇪🇺🇹🇩👍👏💪

[@GRICX]

Much love to Romania from America

[@Arbiter55555]

Had some great memories fighting these guys. Between my 2 MGSs, and 1 ATGM (I gunned on one of the MGSs) we held a hill against over a company of their Mech and Tanks. The lead OC told us their company CDR was after us after smoking him and his guys by ourselves. Following day, we met and after killing all of his BMPs and T72s, they called in a HIND-D which finally got us. (Helicopter kills are complicated, and though I shot it with an HE 105, the MILES is radio-in with grid to kill.) Later, another truck from our PLT got him down the road. Sad to say, the Army no longer uses the Stryker MGS, and that unit was disbanded. Good fight 1-4! "Sabre Recon" "Fight the Truck!" -Qtrp 4/2CR

[@snowdevil002]

are you roleplaying or

[@AmericanIdiot7659]

@@snowdevil002 tactical roleplaying

[@jamesgreen5298]

These guys are no joke. Faced them in October 2020.

[@jaybeak9855]

the *BAD BOIS*

[@chrismcfarland1730]

Hey nato I’m a big fan

[@tacitus2672]

NATO now have a new member, Finland. NATO becoming the most powerful military alliance in the world. Not like CSTO, most of their member it seems not support each other, their teamwork also bad and not solid. CSTO is failed, NATO is Success. 😁

[@Halogamething]

NATO was already the strongest military alliance but I get your point.

[@chadgaming8071]

CSTO is a bad one

[@seangutierrez1337]

That’s probably because NATO is based on mandatory collective defense in accordance with Article 5. Meanwhile, Armenia, a CSTO member, gets attacked by Azerbaijan, and CSTO is MIA.

[@JonathanBell-xl4dl]

@@chadgaming8071 it's kind of an unfair comparison. most of the stans are either failing states or have weak economies and militaries. russia's issue is a not particularly powerful economy and issues purging corruption. the East generally does not unify, it divides and the nations destroy one another.

[@dashikashi4734]

Hell, CSTO didn't even save Armenia lmao

[@laxkid38]

I already know how NATO thinks

[@bijanbehzadi5244]

6:27 dude's wearing a FOG Anorak

[@someguyiguess.]

wait NATO has an official channel how did this only just get recommended to me now

[@sonnyburnett4322]

Thumbs up for tiger stripe. It is not used by the bad guys but by bad asses ;). The bad guys use all variety of Soviet/Russian vomits mistaken by them for being a camouflage.

[@razvancosmin8188]

Couldn't have said it better myself 😅 👏

[@gerryhildur1345]

dont underestimate russian camo, a lot is very very good sometimes way superior than multicam

[@anggastapratama2370]

​@@Blexg and it works so why not

[@jephthecommissar1634]

Classic russian Camo's absolutely slap in terms of practicality

[@luckygjv872]

Bro NATO is gaining subs fast. I remember just 6 months ago they had only 200K. Now almost 330K. Maybe by the end of this year it will be 700K

[@spacemansam3416]

Andy from the office joins the military

[@Goon1047]

Did I just get reccomended a video from NATO?

[@waffleblitzkrieg1765]

foreshadowing.

[@skincelled]

Yes. Yes you did.

[@electricink3908]

❤NATO keeps us safe here in Poland❤

[@MsOdingod]

Great video!

[@geopolitix7770]

What's the bet that there's always at least one pair of lads on the Opfor team that give it the "Hans... are we the baddies? "

[@exentr]

Great to know that you're protecting us or we protect us as we can continue to live in free democratic countries with equal rights!

[@TOO_TALL305]

BASED

[@talassaXXI]

Great unit!

[@OCOMEDOR]

Ukraine + NATO = Future of World ❤

[@georgecatana9081]

NATO saying " Think like the bad guys ” will be remembered for generations

[@victormonte5881]

Just as the bad guys will also be remembered as the bad guys ie russia china

[@heb2024]

That is the only way NATO members are able to think like.

[@ErinBunny24]

@@victormonte5881 ye im sure the west will come out ontop when they failed to win in afghanistan and got smoked by men in dresses armed with 60's weapons. good job.

[@Smytjf11]

Look, it's hard for us, we gotta focus to do it, OK

[@ExHyperion]

@@heb2024 nato has to try, it comes naturally for Russia and china it seems

[@Vlad-yi6oo]

🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

[@chrisdelaplante5515]

The "good guys" and the "bad guys" ! Lol, and who are the good guys ?

[@roombussr5676]

CSTO and BRICS Are equally worse

[@daddyfoskett6928]

there is no such thing as good guys and bad guys.

[@skincelled]

@@roombussr5676 how are security and economic alliances equally worse? are you aware of what you're saying or do you believe safety and self-interest is just as bad as invading another country?

[@ThisGuyAd.]

I have all the love and respect for these guys keeping us free 😎👍

[@penguinshoes7928]

What if you are the bad guys and just aren't aware of it?

[@baneofbanes]

Well I’m pretty sure I’m not a Russians so I’m at least not that bad guy.

[@soltier8965]

What if the bad guys is just the friends we made along the way?

[@usul573]

Why wouldn’t you be aware of it?

[@skincelled]

@@baneofbanes So, to put it simply, you're not Russian, so you're not a bad guy? What???

[@TheGixernutter]

Impressive

[@16andbraindead]

Proud to be Romanian, well done Americans, but you can't fool us!

[@dienar3717]

Be carefully not to become the 'bad guys'

[@isaacoliveira33]

They got a pretty cool kit

[@MiroslavBarzashki]

I appreciate the tiger stripe

[@Kush-ii]

Tiger stripe is so nice.

[@blackphilip8369]

I've been quite concerned about the war, lately. Videos like this make me feel a lot safer. I really hope that ukrainian people will have this kind of protection in the near future.💙

[@LezSpringfield]

ARE YOU INSANE IF THEY GET THIS AID WWIII WILL START BSJWIXJEKQ

[@ProfessorShnacktime]

@@hagscock Who the hell would try to invade the US? It would be suicide no matter who attempted it. Even if you gain military victories (literally impossible) the American civilian resistance will be unstoppable.

[@Frixworks]

@@LezSpringfield Oh quiet.

[@blackphilip8369]

@@hagscock lol. The States alteady have NATO protection, actually I am not in the States btw.

[@blackphilip8369]

@@LezSpringfield fine then. Let's kick their asses for real

[@muhammadpk3851]

Subscribed

[@ultimativeslexikon5436]

I must say they have a very good music taste ;) ( 6:35 bluetooth in the Car )

[@alessandrocanale6189]

Bad enough to kill the invaders and good enough to defend our pepole Respect nato from italy 🇮🇹❤️🇪🇺

[@shoeby9273]

(the sketch was beautiful)

[@daddyshrek2295]

✊GO NATO ✊

[@robertmaheu7583]

did op4 in canada for 2 years loved it did all sorts of awesome stuff best job in the forces next to spec ops door kickers

[@isakberg3490]

Terrible face camo😂But kudos for Great video!

[@logintogingod]

N.A.T.O. Never dies. 💪

[@M_14_188]

ROARMY!!! 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

[@scottd9448]

That is a cool unit. Pity I'm too old for that now.

[@giovannifontanetto9604]

What a nice drawing

[@FrankBenlin]

Seventy four years of keeping despots awake at night.

[@zenon7094]

Si vis pace, para bellum!

[@NoSuffix]

Do guards/patrols of important assets such as military bases still rely on only human's sensory inputs? Should be equipped with at least some heat sensing and aerial surveillance device, or even better, automatic systems.

[@siouxmanche1697]

5:02 Forward. 🏴

[@phantom4E2]

in war there is no good or bad, just enemies

[@cezarstefanseghjucan]

Hah, funny, then why fight anymore?

[@romaniafamily7762]

Romaniaaa❤

[@bikechainmic]

Used to enjoy playing the BAD guys, we always cheated! Still after time we got our butts kicked, but good lessons learned all round.

[@ContraIsBased]

1:48 OPFOR uniforms are fucking sick

[@greengarnish1711]

Very cool

[@BowlineBandit]

the fog jacket lol nice

[@bobearly3653]

Those who do don't talk. Those who talk don't do.

[@joebee1842]

Staying as still as possible, holding a cam up, was the cam vegged up at least?

[@ResistenzaEuroAsiatica]

❤❤❤

[@fritzki1]

Is One Four also a conventional fighting force?