US Army Vet Reacts "Unstoppable 77th Infantry Division - Old Age & Treachery

US Army Vet Reacts "Unstoppable 77th Infantry Division - Old Age & Treachery | The Fat Electrician"

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@stevep2380 8 ай бұрын

What nobody has mentioned is how many lives the 77th probably saved going that hard at the young division during the war game. They taught those kids some very valuable lessons.

@newbdestroyer9997 7 ай бұрын

Undeniable facts. Those boys learned easy and hard at the same time. All that got killed was their pride and ego. I'm absolutely certain 99/100 of them took those lessons to heart and used every nasty trick they had pulled on them.

@nohbodyhughno1121 7 ай бұрын

THIS

@PAT8888-is2pd 6 ай бұрын

You have now, so I won't.

@skyjimmy1971 Ай бұрын

Absolutely 💯

@lindadianesmith6013 8 ай бұрын

“Be careful. The older I get, the less a lifetime sentence is a deterrent “. Unknown

@ghomerhust 7 ай бұрын

an alternative to that one: "i have no problems going BACK to prison" haha. i think that was the "here's your sign" guy, bill whatever

@cameronhermann9400 Ай бұрын

Very wise

@dreamboards1056 7 ай бұрын

Im 53. Bit of training. Went paint balling with my teen son and his friends. One kid cried. I had fun.

@elizabethannedavis5176 6 ай бұрын

This made me smile HUGELY. Much love for a great parent, teaching your child and their friends VALUABLE life lessons all while getting a laugh out of it. Love from Palm Beach, Florida 😂❤

@robertlombardo8437 6 ай бұрын

Haha!! You're like that 50 year old enlistee to the 77th Infantry. You're not a Gulf War vet are you? 😂

@SargNickFury 2 ай бұрын

You didn't whip out the gerber to save ammo did you? (one old man to another)

@bphat68 2 ай бұрын

Perfect. Had a similar experience with a game of laser tag. No crying, but a severely lopsided victory for the great-uncle!😂

@stevebriggs9399 Ай бұрын

Same. Fortunately, my grandson's friends were quick learners and grasped the concept of bounding movement with covering fire as a team. That day, a group of twenty-somethings fully kitted out with custom gear got their asses handed to them by sixth-graders with rental equipment.

@undercovers2006 7 ай бұрын

As a great scholar once said. "The US is like 50 war tribes in a trench coat with a defense budget big enough to fight god."

@JB-423 7 ай бұрын

Habitual line crosser

@michikoallan6244 6 ай бұрын

Love that guy 😂

@ClericOfPholtus 5 ай бұрын

Ah, a fellow of culture

@johndial3018 7 ай бұрын

My great grandfather was 77th through all the things described. He finished WWII at 35 years old. I love this original video because it’s something I can share with my family about history. I’m blessed to be retired from service and staying here in Okinawa. Land and sea fought for by my great grandfather and my great uncles in the Navy.

@alexmajor6579 7 ай бұрын

Hes the history teacher we all wished we had in school

@ravenhurst96 7 ай бұрын

I keep telling my mom that if my teachers taught and told stories the way Nick does, I would have been a better student and I would have paid better attention and she agrees with me.

@AniwayasSong 7 ай бұрын

My last History Teacher in H.S., was an actual D-Day Veteran (Normandy). He was a very calm man with a razor's edge wit, and had a way of talking/explaining things to us Students that compelled us to do our own research, and was more than willing to allow us time to introduce our own thoughts, including 'Current Events' going on. R.I.P. Mr. Kwoka! Heaven's streets are made safer with your presence!

@wandapease-gi8yo 7 ай бұрын

You are now the student that your teacher desperately wanted when you were young and overpowered by hormones!

@gabby15107 6 ай бұрын

He's studying to be a history teacher, because he was sick of hearing what was being taught currently.

@rolder50 7 ай бұрын

Regarding the Okinawa surrender stats, I saw in the comments on another video that the Japanese soldiers did some torture to some 77th PoWs and once the 77th learned of that, well...

@robertlombardo8437 5 ай бұрын

People love to hate on US soldiers in the Pacific Theater for taking skulls as prizes. They neglect to mention where they learned that from. I don't like it either, but Mr. Tojo has to expect a little turnabout after three decades at war!

@SargNickFury 2 ай бұрын

FAFO

@rodeotrickster6037 2 ай бұрын

No they tortured them where they could hear them and weren't able to do anything yet

@MichaelCook-f8y 7 ай бұрын

I'm 62 and every time any cheeky youngster calls me grandad I just say "I don't know, what was your grandma called?"

@ravenhurst96 7 ай бұрын

Best response, sir! 🤣🤣🤣

@stuartkelly4812 4 ай бұрын

56 and I've done the same. Look at them for a second then "Could be, what did she look like, where'd she go to school "?

@AniwayasSong 7 ай бұрын

As a sixty year old USMC Veteran, disabled, I know for a fact I'll never again have the strength/stamina I did when I became a Marine at the age of 18. THAT said, I also know the two Tours I 'Enjoyed' and the decades that followed, all the life experiences I've enjoyed, gives credence to the phrase- "Old age and treachery will surmount youth and exuberance!" Damned right! ;-) LOVE Nick, and his style of Oration/Teaching! Whoever gets him as a Student is Blessed!

@jmoliere1207 7 ай бұрын

ill bet your meaner now then back then

@AniwayasSong 7 ай бұрын

@@jmoliere1207 Ever see that old B/W TV Series- "The Beverly Hillbillies?" I'm 'Granny!' ;-P

@nerddotcom5817 6 ай бұрын

"Not as lean, not as mean, but damn sure still a Marine." -bumper sticker

@AniwayasSong 6 ай бұрын

@@nerddotcom5817 ^5!

@TheRagratus 8 ай бұрын

That old man "greeting" people at Walmart that you made fun of? It is entirely possible the he patrolled the I Drang Valley with The 1st Cav. "We Were Soldiers Once and Young".

@toddnesbitt3113 8 ай бұрын

Yeah, they don’t let them wear their patches they earned, so concealed badass.

@JeremyCheuvront 7 ай бұрын

My friend had the privilege to be in the movie We Were Soldiers. I got to meet a man that was there the next year. He had a silver star and two bronze hearts plus the Purple Hearts. He said it was a hard year when he was shot twice. He was a genuine badass

@brotherscoobs 7 ай бұрын

I live next door to ft. Bragg...yours is a true statement

@popuptarget7386 6 ай бұрын

Used to work at wallyworld right after I got back from desert storm. Two guys were WW2 combat vets, one was a Korean war vet, and another had jumped into Panama.

@BSE1320 7 ай бұрын

Here's the thing; all of those older guys were likely working class men during the Great Depression. They probably looked at military training and combat as, "Well, shit, this sucks, but at least we get fed and have a place to live and get paid."

@jonathanbair523 7 ай бұрын

Or "Don't threaten us with a good time." Knowing they will get to see the world and not pay a dime...

@danielwaters2132 7 ай бұрын

I volunteered to be a number for my country in 1968, Sent to Southeast Asia. My dad volunteered to be a number in 1941, sent to South Pacific. Many of my friends did the same as their dads did before them. My father ended his service at Okinawa. I ended my service at Okinawa. Thanks pop! Okinawa was a much different duty for me thanks to you and many other brave guys who were numbers for their country.

@Gregg52680 8 ай бұрын

38:38 original quote “all your base, are belong to us” it’s a very bad translation from Japanese on an old video game

@LegitHarpyHunter 8 ай бұрын

Oh no... A trap... They have set up us a bomb!

@gilliganallmighty3 8 ай бұрын

Zero Wing. One of the original KZbin meme songs.

@chrisf2636 7 ай бұрын

@@gilliganallmighty3also used as a cheat code by Blizzard in Warcraft:Orcs and Humans, Warcraft II. Can’t remember.

@Anubis78250 7 ай бұрын

OK, now I'm picturing the Emperor sitting at his desk... "What happen?" "Somebody set up us the bomb!"

@chrismaverick9828 7 ай бұрын

One of the greatest old-skool memes of all time. Even made TIME magazine cover.

@Scorpious187 7 ай бұрын

"Number 1 seed in the tournament gets a bye, don't hate the player, hate the game" is a criminally underrated line. lol.

@stonecoldku4161 7 ай бұрын

What's even crazier about Doss saving 75 men is that is probably not the accurate number. The army wanted to credit him with 100 men saved. Doss said he felt it was actually closer to 50 men that he lowered down, so it was decided to split the difference and credit him with 75.

@ghomerhust 7 ай бұрын

in either direction, he was an absolute legend, one of the biggest heros in our country's history

@jmoliere1207 7 ай бұрын

he was also the youngest at 26

@patrickmessinger7040 8 ай бұрын

My only wonder is how many of the 77th failed their eye exams? (:

@trishc3099 8 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@Mr.Schitzengigglez 7 ай бұрын

That's when the Army developed those cheap ass, never get laid glasses.

@ravenhurst96 7 ай бұрын

If you know, you know. 🤣🤣🤣

@voraciousblackstn 7 ай бұрын

Birth Control Glasses BCGs or Grape Prevention Glasses RPGs. Still have 2 pair. Still actually wear them. They do not die.

@jonathanbair523 7 ай бұрын

Back then it was the papper test, it was well known to memorize the sheet... Like he did in the movie "Pearl Harbor".... You should look up the vid on the guy who used his battle ship like a sniper riffle... Navy said he had bad eyes, he went to a rifle shooting event and got the gold medal in the morning then for the fun of it he entered the pistol event and taken the gold there too.... LOL...

@nancycaffee6192 7 ай бұрын

Also just a point to remember is that the older men had already lived through the Great Depression and understood more about hard living than any other generation since. My father was in the Navy in the South Pacific on an island repairing fighter planes, he was 23 when he volunteered he was already an airplane mechanic.

@Heegaherger 8 ай бұрын

To use a military phrase: “Go shit me a couple of divisions.”

@freelancespartan 7 ай бұрын

Navy basic, 2016, we had a 34 year old guy named Chang, we called Grampa Chang, he was the guy you asked how to fold your rack sheets into 45s and shine your boots and dress shoes. And he was the one to teach us how to use an iron to get the creases. None of us ever had to use one before.

@TheRagratus 8 ай бұрын

What's the difference between a "War Story" and a "Fairy Tale"? A "Fairy Tale" starts with "Once Upon a Time", a "War Story" starts with "Now This Ain't no Bulls*it" (although sometimes it's "And There We Were").

@paulvamos7319 7 ай бұрын

Let me tell you something! 😂

@Darkinu2 7 ай бұрын

So, no sh!t there we were...

@voraciousblackstn 7 ай бұрын

"No shit, there I was" is the most common. No shit, there I was. First day in Iraq. Flight from BIAP to FOB Hammer. We start taking fire over Sadir City. Look out the window and see sparks flying off the engine from getting hit. We land at FOB Hammer and the Chinooks take off again to grab the next Stick. 20 minute flight. 3 hours later they show back up with the next Stick and new Chinooks. Aparently they got deadlined when they got back to BIAP.

@josephivan5094 7 ай бұрын

Navy sea story starts with this is a no shitter.

@Dsmwarrior1996 8 ай бұрын

Or as Wyatt Earp said "speed is fine, accuracy is final"

@ravenhurst96 7 ай бұрын

Vice Admiral Willis "Ching" Lee said something similar, didn't he? "Speed is fine, but accuracy is final. You have to learn to be slow in a hurry." I remember that quote from the video Nick did on Lee and I know that's what Earp said, but I can't remember what Lee said in his book. I just know that Lee said essentially the same thing.

@Dsmwarrior1996 7 ай бұрын

@@ravenhurst96 Lee said something similar, but I can't remember his quote exactly

@ravenhurst96 7 ай бұрын

@@Dsmwarrior1996 I'll have to rewatch the video. It's been a minute.

@Dsmwarrior1996 7 ай бұрын

@@ravenhurst96 agreed, I might find another reactor that did a reaction and find out too, I watch just about all the reactors after watching his video lol

@darrylkoehn-ec8mk 7 ай бұрын

My late father, who was 28, almost 29 years old, enlisted in the US Army in early 1943..He was the second fastest runner in his company! He served in a medical unit until 1946. He barely survived & helped feed & treat many concentration camp victims.Yeah, these spoiled entitled college brats are clueless fools! Miss you Dad!

@danielpalmersheim4252 4 ай бұрын

Sounds like a damn good man. 🙏🏻

@rudymarmaro 7 ай бұрын

I graduated high school in 1979, and while I was on school, there was a Japanese soldier who was found on some small island who still didn't know that the war was over.

@_Sporkz_ 7 ай бұрын

This is why most people in the US I feel respect and admire our soldiers and veterans. Those who join the military sacrifice their lives, their time, their dreams to further the American Dream as a whole. One can only hope that those who don't will get the opportunity to realize it and be thankful.

@peachyykeen80 7 ай бұрын

It's an interesting thing, actually. I totally understand thanking the folks in the military and the vets. It makes perfect sense. My dad went to boot camp a month or so after I was born and retired from active duty when I was 23. Any time it comes up and I mention I'm a military brat, I get thanked too. I didn't do anything! I don't really know how to respond cause seriously, I didn't do anything, other than have minor panic attacks at the start of desert storm and 9/11, cause of the oh shit, there are gonna be deployments realities.

@jmoliere1207 7 ай бұрын

@@peachyykeen80 i dont know who it was harder on when i went ther e me or my family

@peachyykeen80 7 ай бұрын

@jmoliere1207 thankfully, my dad never got deployed in desert storm, probably cause he was essentially a load master, so he basically just loaded up everything heading to the middle east and he was on permanent station assignment on 9/11 cause my mom had cancer and was still in treatment. I would imagine it would feel different for me had he actually gotten deployed though.

@jasonmatkovich6342 7 ай бұрын

These guys are essentially Special Forces with all the training they went through. They had HELL MONTHS not just Hell Weeks

@Aloh-od3ef 8 ай бұрын

Ukraine are currently using their middle aged men to fight against Russia. They have more life experience. Better living with hardship. They panic less. While also saving the young to rebuild the country, once the war is over. The average Ukrainian soldier, on the frontline is 43 years old!

@ghomerhust 7 ай бұрын

and they are kicking ass hardcore.

@johnking1896 7 ай бұрын

Russia is drafting more recruits and they will run into the Hacksaw that will have so many that have been, and done shake the head and wonder how they lost so many when Ukraine Has so many more reserves just out of range yet close enough to show up and say " HI we heard you want to hold a 'mental incompetency' test, stand up and we will count you ", LOL and the world is watching.

@appaloosa42 6 ай бұрын

When the US goes down forget ‘red dawn’ scenarios. The deer hunters and old goats will go to bat.

@brandenantonino23 4 ай бұрын

@@ghomerhustno they weren’t and they still aren’t Russia will defeat Ukraine

@p_serdiuk 4 ай бұрын

ehehehe, so funny to see tankies simping for Russia right before Russia gets invaded and loses more territory in a week than Russia gained in a year :D Treachery indeed.

@willarth9186 8 ай бұрын

When I was in the military and if you went to the beach and got a severe SUNBURN that kept you from working (in uniform) then you were eligible for a Captain's Mast for 'damaging military equipment'. Seen it happen with a reduction in pay for two months.

@ghomerhust 7 ай бұрын

yep, carelessness was punishable. not only did we have to complete the tasks for exercises and such, but we had to not screw up the normal human maintenance of taking care of ourselves in that ordeal. it was great training

@sike2399 7 ай бұрын

18yo's = cannon fodder. 30yo's = war fighters.

@ghomerhust 7 ай бұрын

those of us in the green uniform sometimes refer to the young marines as "bullet catchers." it's dark, but also really accurate.

@Catechuman23 7 ай бұрын

Nick is by far the best history channel on the internet. The humor/punchlines are 🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼

@justinc882 8 ай бұрын

When I joined the Marines at 23 I had to laugh to myself as the DI took all the recruits and had a teaching session on how to shave. Blew my mind how many guys had never learned how to shave properly. I'd take the 30 year old's to war every time.

@EgyptianAnubis 7 ай бұрын

something else to take into account is the marksman scores of most of the 77th its hard to leave many pow's when your taking the head and shoulders off every enemy you come across.

@persephonebonner5733 7 ай бұрын

I did not think of it until Daniel mentioned it, but yeah, they 77th was practically getting SF training with these various "experiments". Great observation!

@kunarmakun793 7 ай бұрын

im from the philippines .. and i just realized😅 theres a monument in leyte named "the landing" .. it depicts the historic amphibious landing of general mcarthur, and the completion of his promise when he left the country years earlier, his promise to the philippines is probably one of the most famous quote in philippines history! general mcarthur promised to the philippines "I SHALL RETURN!" .. and he did! AND I THINK HES WITH THEM OL' BASTARDS ...

@Wunderturd2 6 ай бұрын

He wasn't with the 77th.

@ScyBlade 7 ай бұрын

40yr old in the US Navy. Back in March (2024), got hit by a car while walking to my car. Fractured (not broken) tibial plateau and a need for my meniscus to be repaired. Mostly annoyed because I was planning to fly home for leave the next day. We ‘old folks’ can be quite tough.

@gregoryrush3878 6 ай бұрын

I went through Parris Island when I was 23. I was older than one of my Drill Instructors. As a parody on the nickname given to John H. Lejeune, who was Commandant for so long he tried to sell his official residence upon retirement. So i was called "the Grand Old Man of Recruit Training "

@jasonnelms4556 7 ай бұрын

When I was at MEPS in Sacramento joining, one dude that was part of our group was in his late 40's. Which I thought was past the max age.

@sowhat1998 7 ай бұрын

I've had 40+ years of contemplating the most diabolical ways of hurting someone who wants to FAFO

@TNTGAMERtheofficial 8 ай бұрын

Robert Duvall in diner on Second Hand Lions, and Colin Firth in bar on Kingsman. FAFO

@ravenhurst96 7 ай бұрын

I watched Second Hand Lions in Film Production during my freshman year in highschool and I absolutely fell in love with that movie. The story and the acting was so amazing.

@thatpatrickguy3446 7 ай бұрын

What always got me was 43,000 CONFIRMED kills for the 77th ID. A lot of the island warfare included flamethrowers and explosives, meaning a lot of demise and burial all in one lit fuse, and once they're buried there's no confirmation counting done. So that total kills number is potentially significantly higher, meaning their ratios were potentially more impressive. But, hey, they weren't here for the trophies, they were only here to get the effing job DONE and get the eff HOME. Dad's got better things to do than spend all day dealing with your penny-ante bullsh!t. Just get done so I can go do the important stuff at home!

@FrogmanAnime 8 ай бұрын

All your islands belong to us is a gaming reference. All your bases belong to us. I think it originated in StarCraft in reference to the Zerg rush tactic… but I could be wrong about that, but it is a gaming reference.

@chrisf2636 7 ай бұрын

Zero wing meme is the original. Also used as god mode cheat code in Warcraft: Orcs and humans or Warcraft II the RTS games.

@ghomerhust 7 ай бұрын

"main screen turn on" "what" "how are you gentlemen?" "all your base are belong to us." "you have no chance to survive." "make your time."

@Scorpious187 7 ай бұрын

@@ghomerhust "Take off every Zig for great justice!"

@Zaximillian 7 ай бұрын

*cue the meme music buildup for the video montage*

@buddystewart2020 7 ай бұрын

I was 29 when I joined the Navy, the cutoff at that time was 34. Most of the guys in my company at bootcamp were 17 to 22. They looked at me like I was an old man, lol. I did a lot less pushups than most of them, because I knew how to keep my mouth shut. lol. Our Company Commanders, a couple of 1st Class Petty Officers, wanted me to be the recruit company commander. But they couldn't force me to, I had to volunteer to do it. I quickly saw that the first three guys that tried did more pushups than anyone else, so I was like, no thanks. I know how to do a pushup. They saw in my records that I was a Drum Major in my High School Band, so I knew how to give directions and I knew how to march. I would have done a good job, it's just all those pushups you had to do when someone else fucked up, nah. I'm good.

@saplingthrasher23 7 ай бұрын

I played trombone in marching band during high school. Drill Sergeants found out and had me step up as guide on bearer because the idiot that volunteered didn't know wtf he was doing. Our company won every streamer for marksmanship ship, drill and ceremony, obstacle course etc.... so the wind drag while running did get worse after each new streamer was added😮. Being first to chow every day made it a little better though.😊

@2strokinit527 5 ай бұрын

I'm 46 and have been in pain for 26 years. My nephew came to live with when I was 38, I' sure he is stronger than me now but he knows how far I will go if needed and he is unwilling to test it.

@randomlyentertaining8287 7 ай бұрын

The one thing I always hate with people claiming that America came in late or something is that it was only 6 months before Pearl Harbor when the Soviet Union was invaded by the Germans. The war wasn't over, it was only just getting started. The "America came in late" argument only really works for World War 1. And yet, despite "only" entering the war with 4 years left to go, in that time the United States went from the world's 19th largest military to the world's largest and most powerful military by far, the latter being a title it still holds to this day. All while also supplying the British, Australians, Canadians, AND the USSR. For a reference for the age, the Army currently only accepts a recruit up to the age of 35 and the Marines go to 28.

@Davey-Boyd 6 ай бұрын

I agree, except the Soviet Union had the largest military by the end of WWII, not the US.

@TerrenceHemcher-kd4rg 5 ай бұрын

@@Davey-Boyd that is debatable when you consider the size of the United States army you know that includes the United States airforce not yet a single service and the United States navy I would say at the end of world War 2 the United States had the largest military the soviet union mostly had a huge army behind the United States and then throw the United Kingdom in there our best friends across the sea

@Silverbell_TTV 7 ай бұрын

The phrase "All your base are belong to us" is a venerable old meme from the 90s, apparently from an old badly translated game called Zero Wing. It was even used as a cheat code in, if memory serves me correctly, Warcraft III, along with another line from Zero Wing "Somebody set up us the bomb"

@dustinjones1346 7 ай бұрын

You guys should do his video on the last war chief, Joe medicine crow. As a montanan that's part native, I have a regional and cultural pride from his story. It's not as popular on reaction channels but it's so worth it

@xx5thravenxx667 7 ай бұрын

37 and 32? I'm right there with y'all! I'm 35, but damn... Us old dudes can throw down! Can't wait to see what y'all got going next! Love you guys, and stay safe, and keep your arms close and maintained for the next one!

@honestabe5331 6 ай бұрын

I'm 50... I ain't no gramps. Old man strength and decades of training boi. Lol

@tyforestreacts 6 ай бұрын

38:23 It’s a classic meme. An old game (I can’t remember which one) got translated poorly when sent to America, and the most famous kind from it is “All your base are belong to us.”

@lateefpou2986 6 ай бұрын

I was 30 when I joined the army lol. Hell yeah old age and Treachery. I love it. I'm 52 now

@Flash_Flood44 8 ай бұрын

His merch for this video is outstanding!

@antwanalston4773 8 ай бұрын

I was waiting on this one. Nick is great

@Cody38Super 7 ай бұрын

"Why is there always time to do it twice, but not enough time to do it right the first time!" - my mother.

@spdbggy9675 5 ай бұрын

Old Man strength Is a real thing!

@stephanieraebel8160 8 ай бұрын

I monitor you guys daily waiting for these reactions....still waiting for the man hole cover story😂😂😂

@Whistor 7 ай бұрын

Going to a newly stood up division was probably better for the AARP division since they did not have to modify existing practices to play to their strengths but instead got to use their experience to figure out how to complete the mission. And it was "Be all that you can be" that was the siren song of my enlistment.

@Restoferkin 7 ай бұрын

I joined the US military 3 times, 1st hitch was in the Army at 17. 2nd was Navy at 27 and 3rd was 31 in the Army. I can fully relate with everything Nic is talking about, because I went through it. The 2nd and 3rd times I was called everything from Old Man to Grandpa.

@larrysidenstickii3766 7 ай бұрын

Nic is funny asf great reaction guys. Yeah the Bismarck sunk on its maiden voyage but man it sunk the hms hood In like 6 minutes and there was only 3 men that didn't parish 1415 went down with the ship

@stalker7028 Ай бұрын

Thats the kind of story telling that i can listen for hours over a campfire while having a drink

@MKitchen75 8 ай бұрын

I love your channel guys and also Fat Electricians channel.. you have brought so much joy to life and also information.. Kudos to you...

@Bryan-b8b 8 ай бұрын

My take on the taking of POWs is these guys probably got families and by the time they got to the Pacific and knew the Japanese fake surrendered a lot, so why take the chance.

@salamanca1954 7 ай бұрын

Right. As documented in the book, The Rise of the G.I. Army, 1940-1941: The Forgotten Story of How America Forged a Powerful Army Before Pearl Harbor, America DID have a battle doctrine by Pearl Harbor, at least for the war in Europe. America DID have the command structure of a modern army, forged between 1940 and 1941 through a series of massive war games all across the South that essentially contributed to the formation of the army that would wage war in World War Two with the generals already sorted out, Patton and others among them, with a lot of career noncoms still with their units, even though many of the recruits left at the end of their enlistments, that was soon to change when the war broke out. Many of those recruits came back because of the draft and because of recruitment. The ranks were there, the divisions ready to be filled and trained, the order of battle already determined, tactics, logistics, already tried and improved upon. All they needed was troops and materiel; the structure was already in place. That is one of the huge misunderstood facts of World War Two. We weren't unready. We had been preparing for two years. The United States was far more prepared to go to war at the time of Pearl Harbor than the media portrayed at the time, and that historians have often missed.

@Bryan-b8b 8 ай бұрын

Sweet been waiting for this reaction

@alibennett78 8 ай бұрын

Looks can be deceiving

@Kalvirl 5 ай бұрын

America at the beginning of WWII: Oh no! A world war started and we aren't ready? Well, guess we have to make sure that never, ever happens again...

@gregnm369 Ай бұрын

38:37 wait… yall don’t know the “all your base are belong to us” reference!?

@markcoyle1930 5 ай бұрын

He needs to be a History teacher. Our kids are lacking there and he puts in a way they will listen too.

@cojones8518 6 ай бұрын

53:00 "Take no prisoners" is a war crime. The most likely reason for the high ratio is that remember All of the 77th were considered Expert Marksmen with a ton of experience. They were likely getting more lethal head and chest hits than the average grunt. Hard to take POWs if everybody's first shot kills the other guy. Also, the 77th was going through them so quick that the Japanese leaders didn't have time to realize how bad they were screwed and choose to surrender. The average Japanese soldier wasn't big on surrendering without orders in triplicate from somebody really high up the chain of command. Some didn't surrender even on orders from the Emperor.

@khrisbreezy3628 7 ай бұрын

The old guys that can whoop your ass trope rocks hard in RED Retired Extremely Dangerous, yall should watch it (even casually if not as a reaction) it's a fun movie that I love rewatching on occasion and it's got a stacked cast!

@Deckape75 7 ай бұрын

Everyone seems to miss the chapter 1 title joke... It's the first line of a cadence that has been around for a long time. We used it in the '93 at RTC San Diego. My division was the last through it.

@williammelaniegappmayer2655 6 ай бұрын

The "I shit you not" stories are some of the best.

@hankhaney3785 7 ай бұрын

Plus there was a lot of "isolationism"...I>E> A LOT OF Americans didn't want to get involved in another war. That's why America didn't come "militarily" in the picture until 43.

@salamanca1954 7 ай бұрын

And a lot of those 30-year-olds had taken part in the '40-41' war games, and had then mustered out. But they had already been blooded, often literally in the war games, which amassed their own casuality toll. A lot of these guys knew the job already, and were ready to fight.

@erikfacundo786 7 ай бұрын

Wait a damn minute, I'm a 54 year old Desert Stormer now Texas State correctional officer, anyone want to test me?

@wandapease-gi8yo 7 ай бұрын

The National Guard of several States were activated by the President or their Governor and sent to Iraq and Afghanistan. Men 55! They still fight and show youngsters how not to die when possible.

@jessiechen279 7 ай бұрын

Lol, i joined at 36 and almost instantly got the name "Old Man Penn"😂

@ianjardine7324 7 ай бұрын

The statue of liberty patch was used during the first world war for the liberty division check out the Sabbaton song the lost battalion from their last stand album there's definitely something in the water them their yankees be drinkin.

@twylanaythias Ай бұрын

"All your island are belong to us" is a take on one of the OG memes. The 1990s was the 'Second Boom' for video games, led by companies like Nintendo and Sony; the dominance of Japanese consoles in the US market led to a corresponding dominance of Japanese video game titles. As a result, most games were developed entirely in Japanese and then translated (aka localized) into English wherever needed. It probably goes without saying that many of the translations were hilariously bad - so bad, in fact, that they spread like wildfire across the early world-wide web. "You are died! Not big surprise!" is but one example off the top of my head. The game Zero Wing (Namco, 1989; English translation in 1991) opened with a then-impressive cinematic where the enemy leader 'calls in to gloat'. Among this opening dialogue is the enemy leader's declaration "All your base are belong to us!" While hundreds (if not thousands) of such poor translations became memes unto themselves, this particular line took off like wildfire - aided in no small part by Bad_CRC who tracked (an OG music format) a techno remix and created a Flash music video encompassing many of more popular memes originating from this title. This meme was so big that "All your base are belong to us" has its own Wikipedia entry, has long since attained Meta Status (as in the Fat Electrician's video), and remains popular (almost beloved) to this very day. I think it would be an absolute blast if you guys were to do a blind reaction to the original meme video - assuming you can go more than three seconds before having to pause because y'all are laughing too hard.

@boogieboo5085 4 ай бұрын

"All your Island are belong to us" is a play on words of "All your base are belong to us", an infamous Internet meme back in the early 2000's. It's based on a poorly translated phrase from the opening cutscene of the Japanese video game Zero Wing ported to the Sega Saturn in the 1990's. Long story short, an overwhelming force just took every single base you had and there's not a damn thing you can do about it.

@appaloosa42 6 ай бұрын

Love your posts. Mama wanted to be a Marine but would have been a clerk in the Navy… Dad always felt cheated: had triple deferment: born ‘1914, functionally blind in left eye, making steel decking that ended up in LST ‘s. My choices in 1969 were nurse, teacher & mother. ( so I do all 3)

@tomerickson3155 7 ай бұрын

"All your base are belong to us" is a phrase from an old game that spawned a weird moment in pop culture in the late 90s

@bugvswindshield 7 ай бұрын

there is a difference between a "personal problem" and a "we problem" .

@RobertLindenbaum 5 ай бұрын

And God bless AMERICA

@brianjohnson5272 6 ай бұрын

Whats scarier, A bunch of young men that need to prove they are him? Or the old men that KNOWS he's him?!

@bugvswindshield 7 ай бұрын

slow is smooth and smooth is fast. I learnt this way before I went into usmc marine corps boot where? my grandma and grandpa. " a stich in time saves nine" we fixed our own clothes, grew up poor. fixed our own shit. In bootcamp, i could not believe how many pussies would cry at night. I slept like a babe. I was in San Diego, even slept through a few earthquakes I felt so at ease.

@diggernash1 6 ай бұрын

A Vietnam vet I knew who was put in logistics, and eventually got to pick which helicopters he flew on, told me a valuable piece of advice...fly with guys that have grey in their beards. He said they will fly high, while the young guys fly low looking for something to shoot at...but also getting shot.

@spinalobifida 6 ай бұрын

I have a step uncle who was in Nam. He would tell the most hilarious stuff. Even when he was in a real fight, he'd make it funny. I haven't that long since then.

@Chris-f8x 6 ай бұрын

The way they trained back then and we wonder why they were so tuff to beat .

@ram2791 6 ай бұрын

I knew two guys who got Article 15ed for getting sunburned. Charge was destroying Government property. Both got fined and 2 weeks of restriction.

@clemjoke7609 7 ай бұрын

I was twenty eight years old when I was at Benning. Even one of the drill sergeants called me grandpa. 😁

@edwardloomis887 5 ай бұрын

The other thing about guys averaging 32 years old in the early 1940s: those dudes spent their young adulthoods in the Depression, being out of work, maybe one of the many thousands who got a job in the Civilian Conservation Corps (which, oh by the way, was run by the U.S. Army). Many of them were intimately aware of what doing without was all about, which is almost a job requirement for military success. Just ask the Marines.

@scottgorski7931 7 ай бұрын

Suggestion: watch The Limping Lady. The story of the American spy that drove the Nazi's crazy. Fat Electrician does "as usual" a great job. They made a movie about her called "A Call To Spy" but the movie seems more Hollywood than factual. And Nick covers more of the story than the movie does.

@henryward4783 2 ай бұрын

Those men did not have PTSD, they had nostalgia.

@diggernash1 6 ай бұрын

Old men have a much bigger hate tank...and it's full.

@deannamarie8389 7 ай бұрын

"All Your Island Are Belong To Us" is a play off of All Your Base Are Belong To Us.

@utahraptor1578 6 ай бұрын

When will you learn When will you learn That you dont touch the boats

@cojones8518 6 ай бұрын

"All your island are belong to us." is a paraphase of an ancient meme "All of your base are belong to us." from the a badly translated Japanese game for the Sega Genesis called Zero Wing.