WWII ARMY GROUND FORCES TRAINING FILM " HOW TO GET KILLED IN ONE EASY LESSON " 1943 85834

[@Claggyt]

The camouflage was amazing in those days. Everyone wore gray and blended into the gray background.

[@fakenews8324]

Lol

[@catalintimofti1117]

warning trees dont move

[@HiddenFronts]

Underrated comment

[@PowerUpJohn]

haha

[@vancouverman4313]

People in those days only saw in black and white.

[@GreySlasher63]

It’s smart to portray the enemy as smart and clever rather than a stereotype, one of the quickest ways to lose a battle is to underestimate your enemies.

[@harrisn3693]

Exactly, they US thought that they can impress Afghans with American war tech when many have had training on more advanced Russian war tech such as SU-27 and STERLA missiles

[@Tipperito]

@@harrisn3693 not to mention many of those afghans were already fighting when the US troops where still learning to walk

[@Mehlogical]

@CJ96 yeah I'm not sure where he got that from

[@carsonkouts]

@@harrisn3693 that's strange because throughout 7 rotations in and out of Afghanistan I've yet to see them utilize a single thing you just talked about. you want to know what they really use? RPGs, RPKs, DHSKs, and c4 stuffed into soda cans. they follow their comrades into the line of fire from m134 miniguns, watching the bodies pile up and continue to throw themselves out there. they blow themselves up with RPGs, they fire from the hip like Rambo at aircraft 5000 feet in the air with small arms.

[@carsonkouts]

@@harrisn3693 On top of that, we actually do scare the shit out of them despite the propaganda they create. During my second deployment they stopped shooting at us, later on in a brief we were told the taliban leadership told their forces not to shoot at the black helicopters that came at night, because if they did we would kill them all and take the survivors into the darkness. They literally called us green eyed demons because of our NVG glow

[@Stadtpark90]

What I learned? You have to be especially careful, when the music gets suspenseful. Always have your orchestra with you, they give important clues.

[@asherwoodrow7471]

you learn that from left for dead as well

[@jonasfernades241]

genius

[@charlesklimko492]

As The Saying-Goes, "One of the problems, with life, is that there's no background-music."

[@Fuzzamajumula]

😂😂 You win!

[@daedalusb9548]

@@charlesklimko492 only players get background music. Doesn't work for npcs

[@MannChild9]

The friendliest, enemy vs enemy, verbal exchange EVER. I’m also impressed with his English. Very clear n on point. What nice guys.

[@forestcityfishing4749]

Germans and Japanese were and are nice guys....it was and is the other side that pure evil...why do you think they tried to stop them? Now the J owns everything and everyone...

[@criminallyautistic8372]

Lol its still portrayed as broken "Tarzan" English because they were seen as subhuman. "Me Japanese talk like Tarzan. Eat fortune cookie and train teenager."

[@Beuwen_The_Dragon]

@@criminallyautistic8372considering most people dinae speak languages outside of their own, especially in the 1940s, I’d say they did pretty good. If real life isn’t a Hollywood motion picture, where everyone speaks perfect American English for the sake of the audience.so take your ‘they dinae speak in perfect English, therefore they’re seen as subhuman” projecting elsewhere.

[@Alexander-cg1ey]

​@@Beuwen_The_Dragon they couldve just been Americans

[@antoniothegunexpert5955]

"DO YOU SPEAK JAPANESE?"

[@bruceccorwin]

I had no idea that Japanese soldiers were so friendly, helpful, cooperative and easy to capture.

[@GhostSal]

Not to mention so little of a threat you could basically have your guard down while taking them into custody… and no need for a real pat down, just a couple of pats around the waist will do.

[@medexamtoolscom]

Sounds like he took out a lot of people before being captured. And he's not really being cooperative, he's not actually telling them anything they don't already know, he's just rubbing in their incompetence.

[@macobuzi]

Probably Japanese volunteers who lived in US.

[@JohnJHawke]

Luckily, they spoke good english too.

[@lifeofxyco7633]

They were Chinese. Japanese have different accent.

[@ЯБезымянный-о5ф]

Gotta give the props to the sergeant. Standing there listening to an enemy soldier roasting his fallen comrades, he's got the patience of an angel.

[@nottherealpaulsmith]

Props to the Japanese soldiers nearby too for not shooting an American who was standing out in the open for story time!

[@roguishpaladin]

@@nottherealpaulsmith Honestly, if I were a Japanese soldier watching it, I'd let them keep talking. That captured soldier was giving better burns than a flamethrower.

[@Night-Owl-]

I would've heard him out too. Its not like he's lying.

[@schwarzerritter5724]

He learned the most important lesson about what is the best way to deal with a talkative enemy: Let them talk.

[@APersonOnYouTubeX]

Remember: learn from mistakes The guy may know more than u think

[@ma32851]

I never knew enemy encounters between the Japanese and Americans were so cordial and informative!

[@irfanabbass]

🤣🤣🤣

[@millomweb]

It's the background music - puts them all in a good mood.

[@cmoney220]

Yeah and the Japanese soldier had a pair of brass balls on him. "American Soldier, very dumb. Japanese Soldier, very clever. "

[@mayhemmacraider4737]

Stan Lee wrote some of these.

[@kellyrayburn4093]

When they weren't actually fighting the Japanese were very polite. Of course the dialog here was written by a script writer, but I can see something similar actually being said. The Japanese had a lot of respect for the enemy who proved worthy. The Americans depicted here were *not* worthy. If they were, they wouldn't have been so easy to kill.

[@oldcop18]

I paid close attention to all the combat training we got prior to being deployed to Viet Nam. While I’m not sure if it saved me I’ll be celebrating my 77th trip around the sun in a couple of weeks.

[@97stratocaster21]

Happy early birthday to you, sir. Welcome Home.

[@HazySkies]

Early happy birthday, and thank you for your service. Great respect.

[@white6505]

happy birthday. Im twenty now, and might just see a war myself. i hope i can make it to 77 aswell.

[@Bill-ij4wh]

Happy birthday! Glad you're still with us.

[@Diamond_Dom95]

You're luck must be pretty good, you'll probably get quite a few more.

[@hydraulichydra8363]

"10 good American soldiers..." "Good American soldiers are hard to hit. These were easy." - I'm sorry, but that was a damn good roast.

[@Apotrix]

Made me laugh 😂😂 I'll find a way to use this kind of line.

[@MassiveHappyClapper]

They are better at hitting each other with friendly fire

[@apollomars1678]

10 good american soldiers walked up a hill, one look over a log, now there were nine 9 good american soldiers walked up a hill etc

[@KevAng039]

Mic drop moment for sure.

[@steffen5121]

Finest blend

[@AnakinSkyobiliviator]

To be honest, Sarge here only lived due to sheer plot armor.

[@loganbarnes9672]

Lol yeah.

[@laurenceperkins7468]

The ammunition for the Arisaka was terrible. Way overlong. Doesn't even look right. The bullets tended to tumble. Know a fellow who tested some as a starting point for trying to make one shoot decently. Bullet curved over forty degrees off the point of aim and went sideways through the backstop. With a decent load the rifle itself shot pretty well. But the stuff they were issuing to their troops was utter garbage.

[@MagronesBR2]

That was Naruto-tier of Plot Armor

[@Lazyguy22]

@@laurenceperkins7468 Does ammunition age?

[@laurenceperkins7468]

@@Lazyguy22 It can. Usually the primer ceases to ignite and they turn into duds. But even when it was new it didn't work that well (at least, according to my grandfather, who brought it home from the war.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6.5%C3%9750mmSR_Arisaka#/media/File:6_x_50_mm_SR_(Arisaka).jpg See how long that bullet is? That's the problem. It ends up being terribly unstable. Modern runs of the cartridge use a shorter bullet and don't have the same problems. The rifle itself is pretty decent. And, in point of fact, it's the strongest mass-produced rifle action ever last I heard. Maybe somebody's surpassed it in recent years, but the Arisaka action was commonly re-built into things like elephant guns after the war. But some of the cartridges issues over the course of the war were just horribly bad.

[@blackoutlol2857]

Probably the smartest thing about this training film is that it doesn’t portray the enemy as being stupid because the fastest way to die in combat is to think you’re better than them.

[@yeet--]

@mb AMONG US

[@PanzaFax]

@mb WHAT IS AMONG US AND WHY DO I KEEP HEARING ABOUT IT

[@miltonbuu]

@@PanzaFax dont bother

[@dragonskulls_4813]

@@PanzaFax Stay away from that. That’s all I gotta say.

[@Milangasor]

@@PanzaFax sussy baka

[@kongmenglee522]

Im a US Army Veteran...from during the Gulf War...this clip reminds me of the Iraqi soldiers that volunteered to surrender...cause they didnt have any food or water, their morale was broke, and surrendering was guaranteed to not get a bullet in the head...but most of all it meant, food, water, a warm bed, a opportunity to not go home in a body bag, and piece of mind that the fighting was done...I HATE WARS!

[@tibbygaycat]

Glad you made it back! Nobody should have to go through that

[@infinitecanadian]

Thank you for your service.

[@PlaneGuyProud]

❤

[@ChuckDeniyo]

Tell that to bush.

[@T1A4437]

How was the war and were you in infantry and in what company were you i will do research what happened to the company (squadron) and thank you for your service O7 (O7 is a short way to salute in the internet)

[@miketacos9034]

“Well you’re not so smart. I got you, didn’t I?” “Yes, but you didn’t get the machine gun on your flank.” “On my wh-“

[@neurofiedyamato8763]

That would be hilarious considering he mentioned the machine gun in his story so there is in fact a Mg nest there ahahaa

[@allseriousness]

I was half expecting this

[@jamesseger6265]

😂😂😂😂

[@mikesmyth8330]

I've come back to this comment a half a dozen times, and I still keep laughing.

[@ArmyJames]

BRRRRAAAAAP

[@Denzie53]

How to get killed: Standing in a clearing in a free fire zone, without backup, and chatting with a couple of enemy soldiers who haven't been searched. Perhaps they were impressed by his clean, crisp looking uniform.

[@lawrencemiller3829]

I was waiting for it too, but I guess that was not the point of this movie.

[@edwardstowers7272]

It was classic 1943 dialogue😄

[@TheDeadbone1961]

Yep. Works for me :)

[@glenchapman3899]

Well he was a sergeant. They were just being respectful lol

[@cockula776]

Or they had his brand of smokes lol

[@pfg5617]

"Hey O'Malley, wipe that dirt off your bayonet. I want that steel so shiny I can see my face in it!" "Okay, Sarge."

[@todd3205]

That's the wittiest shit I've heard all week! Good-O!

[@hfarthingt]

*dies*

[@lumtaroc]

That is the funniest comment here. i was laughing.

[@xanderk84]

Some of the standard issue combat knives in WWII had black enamel for a reason. Should've done the same with the bayonets.

[@michaeloreagan9758]

@@xanderk84 they didn't have black enamel. Most bayonets were parkerized early ones were blued. Never enameled

[@Guhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]

“You see? Very dumb soldier; very dead too.” 💀

[@Brandon_Fears]

😂😂😂

[@obirato]

that was a good one😂😂

[@RedstoneMiner18]

Emoji checks out

[@BD-xn2dp]

Gee, war doesn't seem too bad. A couple of missed shots, a pleasant conversation, some back ground music. Seems like an overall pleasant experience.

[@favoritemustard3542]

Yeah. You don't hafta smell your 1Ø buddies' farts, ever again. Good call, bd.

[@oobleck147]

r/cursedcomments

[@sevinkayne]

@@oobleck147 r/stfu

[@Sparples]

Yeah, sounds good.

[@CarlosianBigWang]

We’re probably gonna get a crack at it.if you take anything away from this, let it be don’t be stupid stupid

[@AgarthianTrapstar]

"They were good soldiers, all of them!" "Well uh, not quite. In fact, let me tell you about all the tactical mistakes your men made while you point that rifle at me."

[@ant7699]

Thanka

[@bigman1163]

I'm glad to see such an old film not stereotyping Asians, cus this bitch dumb as hell

[@supremememe4340]

Based

[@j.t.1280]

Well it's not like he could kill them if he wanted to, it's a war crime to kill a surrendered and unarmed opponent

[@bigman1163]

@@j.t.1280 yep, and we all know that NO war crimes were committed during WW2

[@dougwigley8072]

I remember my Dad telling me that he was trained not to seek cover in a ditch when under German mortar fire because the Germans had mortars already sighted-in for the ditches knowing that our soldiers would use the ditches for cover. He said that, in spite of their training, some soldiers would panic and go into the ditches where many died.

[@agalie7139]

Exactly what I learned in the army , if there is not a ditch or a path ,create one and preferably in the direction of a machine gun ( indirect fire ). Preparing a defense position is also preparing the ground in front of your position ( cutting trees that blocks your view,blocking some paths,clear some areas of high grass, concealing your position by creating dummy positions...).Evidently the modern war is more complicated but a good preparation can save you.

[@tsunderella5826]

Also WW2 soldiers were told that the MG42 was a highly inaccurate machine gun

[@weirdsciencethe2nd205]

I saw some dudes in the Ukraine like 3 or 4 years back and they had the craziest cover use I've seen they were laying on there back and doing a sit up pop a few of then lay back using the kerb as cover with return fire obviously kicking dirt up near em but it was cool to see but I felt bad for em using an old ak with just a crap kerb I don't care what side they were on that was still the most brass balls soldiers I've seen irl

[@agalie7139]

@@tsunderella5826 actually MG 42 it was slightly inaccurate comparing to Browning but the tactic of use was different. MG 42 has almost double the rate of the fire and actually is spraying a wave of bullets in a certain area.Also the germans were masters of indirect fire. The propose was not specially to kill but to deny a area to your enemies.The allies were forced to destroy first the machine gun nest before advancing.

[@Кремень-ц8ю]

(edited) Before you write me a silly comment, read the thread to the end. There is a high probability that your -idiotic- question has already been written / answered MANY TIMES. And I got tired of it for a long time. This is especially true of those strange people who draw knowledge from games and films. (end of edition) Either your father is a fool, or you don’t understand anything. Or both, which is not surprising for Westerners. Aiming to hit a small target from a mortar is unrealistic. Even if you do not change aiming, but simply throw shells into the mortar barrel, the natural dispersion during firing will be many tens of meters. The mortar, in principle, is not intended for marksmanship. Its task is to create a sufficiently dense fragmentation stream in the air in a certain zone, and make it impossible for the free movement of infantry there. A soldier in any hole in the ground is a fairly difficult target to hit. On the Soviet - German front, ditches, craters from explosions and so on were used by everyone and always. The Soviet infantryman (up to our time) always had a small sapper shovel in his equipment. If, during the attack, the enemy's resistance becomes too strong, then the soldiers are ordered to dig in where they are. In 1-2-3 minutes, a lying soldier, without lifting the body from the ground at all, digs a shallow trench for shooting from a prone position. Then the trench is knee-deep, waist-deep, in the evening - an individual trench in full growth. Already starting from the middle depth of the trench, only a direct / close explosion of a projectile, or a very unsuccessful fragment of a projectile arriving along a ballistic trajectory, can kill a soldier. Or are Western soldiers so dumb that they stand in a ditch to their full height, instead of lying there? ))

[@shiv421kobra]

"One group of men bunch up together, maybe they get lonesome" was hilarious😂😂😂

[@retiredyeti5555]

My dad used to tell me about these training films. He said a lot of the soldiers laughed at them, and a lot of those men died because they did not pay attention.

[@pancytryna9378]

Sounds like me Good thing I wasnt in the US back then

[@markwright760]

You Dad must be 100 years old then; WW2 ended in 1945.

[@pancytryna9378]

@@markwright760 Uh... He literally said he "Used to tell" him

[@retiredyeti5555]

@@markwright760 - Dad died in Jan 2013 at the tender age of 95. He was born in 1918., Heck, I turned 78 a week ago! Time marches on!

[@markwright760]

@@retiredyeti5555 Damn! That's awesome that your Dad served during WW2. I bet he had all kinds of war stories to tell. I wish nothing but the best for you brother.

[@thaddeuswilson654]

Tojo came down like it was the price is right, and then talked smack like it was no big deal. Gave me a good laugh

[@fishfingers4548]

Must admit I thought this was an episode of blind date than an actual warzone; me sitting in the background chanting kiss kiss... In RL snipers don't get captured, in videogames snipers dont get captured. Sniperz are not poggers :S

[@no-barknoonan8798]

You bet your sweet bippy they would do a nice bayonet charge.

[@zefdin101]

Very ballsy of the military to be brutally honest to get better. In affect calling the dead people stupid. But THAT brutal honesty is what it takes to get better.. to learn from mistakes. I’d be curious to see, in this whimpifing cancel culture, if we are smart enough to be that honest? Or would we just die, go into slaughter- one by one.. rather than offend anyone? Good stuff!

[@no-barknoonan8798]

@@zefdin101 Well back in the day they weren't using Pavlov style conditioning to make people into killers either, it was after WWII that they started doing that.

[@jaykay9836]

He was correct though, " not very good soldiers".

[@KiraPlaysGuitar]

I like how the Japanese solider looked proud of the American who got in the ditch and then crawled to a different position.

[@rocksteady9826]

Tough love

[@lukelawall2133]

That was they're sergeant the man takking to them

[@jimreadey4837]

Intelligence respects intelligence...

[@brunnomenxa]

Well, it's a solider position.

[@woodgrainstudios7321]

well, it was a training video on how not to get killed...he did better than everybody else.

[@conradsutton]

One of the most important things I still remember from boot camp was the difference between cover and camouflage...and how to use both.

[@kennyworth007]

I think you're referring to cover and concealment training. Both useful. But concealment doesn't stop bullets. Cover does.

[@conradsutton]

@@kennyworth007 Yes, concealment...thanks.

[@geometricart7851]

Yeah Cover and Concealment.

[@PeterMasalski93]

Let me break down the video for you. - Don't peak your head - Don't wave or make sudden movements, especially with objects - Don't run towards your enemy - Don't engage in conversations in mid-battle - Don't reflect sunlight off metal or glass. - Don't hide behind non-bulletproof layers - Don't stay in the same position or come out of the same position where enemies have their guns pointed at you.

[@paulchapman603]

Bugs me that the video is all about what not to do. They don't tell you the good things to do to keep yourself alive.

[@rancidworkplace]

Use your head and utilize your training?

[@melmelxd5731]

@@paulchapman603 the video is called "how to get killed", what do you expect?

[@matiasrisatti670]

Stay hidden. And if they see you, don't get shot.

[@epicgaming7813]

@@paulchapman603 of course the video is about what not to do, it’s called “How to get killed” I’m not in the military but I’m assuming this isn’t the only teaching method they use

[@antonmoric1469]

Classic. Sound and light discipline, don't bunch up, don't be predictable, don't mistake concealment for cover - all gold for an infantryman.

[@philipinchina]

Ho little the basics change. Shadow, shine, shape, sound and smoke.

[@dalevaughn9446]

@@philipinchina True. 5 is the number of death, 7 is the number of completion!!!. Basic infantryman training, --( BASIC),--Learn them or you're dead!!!!!!!.

[@zaynevanday142]

@@philipinchina who are you calling Ho 😂

[@zaynevanday142]

@@philipinchina nope Sound Shape Shine Silhouette Surface And Movement

[@zaynevanday142]

@@philipinchina the Five S’s and an M

[@AccordionJoe1]

I remember during basic training in 1963 that 10 trainees were sent into an open field with grass no taller than 6 inches. All 200 in my company were told to turn around and find these 10. We spotted just three. The rest were told to stand and one was within 10 yards of me. I knew then that, despite my skill with a rifle and grenade, the odds of not being killed by some VC in a rice paddie or the jungle would be slim to none. How I made it home in one piece was nothing short of a miracle.

[@PasteGames]

My mans was scanning left to right instead of right to left

[@drainfar1587]

Buddy I checked ur channel and ur 15 TOPS lmaooo

[@TheBelldiver]

Remember these soldiers already had more than ten years of combat exlerience when we got there. Any time you move through anything as a platoon you become a bill board. I recall getting hell in a training exercise for running around the entire enemy lines and coming up.on their rear and shooting all my blanks into them. I caught real hell for not running straight into their trap as the rest were don't be for the umpires stopped the exercise to jump all I've me. I knew right then; they don't want to accomish anything but what they say. If that was real I wonder what would have really happened had I survived such a stunt. I thought war was about winning until you might be killed or wounded or kill every MFer in front of you. No wonder so many men die. Full frontal assaults for what?

[@drainfar1587]

@@TheBelldiver dope but the person who made the comment above is lying lol

[@mechamoto6102]

Right on. Could very well be a true story, but it’s not yours kid.

[@theduke7539]

lot of respect to the japanese americans who had to endure all that prejudice but still chose to help make films like this which no doubt saved many lives

[@anivicuno9473]

I'm sure they all chose to "volunteer" and leave their cushy concentration camps.

[@theduke7539]

@anivicuno9473 Even still, takes a lot of strength to find pride in helping a nation thats being that mean to you because you still believe you can make it better

[@kenneth9874]

​@@anivicuno9473quite a few joined the army and fought bravely against the germans.

[@ginachiaverini]

I thought they were portrayed very fairly here.

[@FormerBunsenBurner]

@@kenneth9874 In fact, one of the most decorated American units of the war was comprised of Japanese Americans

[@olwens1368]

I was waiting for the American soldier to discover that there was a third Japanese sniper he hadn't noticed.....

[@twokool4skool129]

"This other American decided to take prisoners by himself in an active combat area and them stand around listening to stories. Nice guy. Nice and dead too."

[@PineappleLiar]

I was waiting for one of the two guys to pull out a grenade and take the us soldier down with him. On the Pacific Front in particular it was notoriously difficult to get Japanese PoWs, part of that being caused by training that valued suicide attacks over capture. It’s reflected in the PoW statistics too, with Japanese troops having the smallest number of PoWs out of any major combatant of the war (at least until the Soviet Union moved into a bunch of Imperial Japanese territory at the end of the war).

[@cuebj]

Exactly - or shout so Japanese gunnery spotter could work out their position. My father in Burma campaign after Kohima. Silence was essential. Every dead or wounded Japanese booby trapped. Until very end, when they had no ammunition and were starving to death, no PoWs. They had a death cult - almost wanted to die in battle more than win. Burma turned on realisation that Japanese were actually bad soldiers badly led, as in recklessly prepared to die charging machine guns rather than live to fight another day or not bothered with logistics of supply lines to feed troops while assuming they would capture allies' food dumps. Intense training from 1943 meant allies were smarter jungle fighters than Japanese in 1944-45. Allies in Burma were Indian, British, Naga, African, Nepali, US pilots of Dakota transport planes

[@adamgfleming5397]

I was waiting to get Rick rolled.

[@lizettewanzer8650]

I was waiting for that, too!

[@jaydawg2357]

LMAO! My favorite was ,"He talk himself to Death." Then second was "They get Lonely so they all Die together."

[@andrewmeyer169]

there was no need to hire such awesome writers for training film

[@srujan00]

they are still there

[@globaladdict]

@@andrewmeyer169 this is awesome writing tho

[@harrisn3693]

Soo much lulz 🤣🤣🤣

[@seandafny]

@@andrewmeyer169 lol

[@ThatOneGuyFromSchool]

Judge: you're being accused of murder Japanese guy: he committed suicide

[@Woodburnworks]

Best comment i seen yet lmfao

[@CandySweetUY]

Hahah

[@cloudstrife6911]

He walked into my bullet your honor

[@userequaltoNull]

Epstein's friends be like:

[@medexamtoolscom]

I don't think soldiers were charged with murder for killing the enemy by the US, it was understood that both sides were doing the same thing. POWs were treated badly while the war was going on by both sides, ESPECIALLY by the Japanese, but once the war was over, I don't think the US at least would have the audacity to charge POWs with murder.

[@CrossbredManiac]

Damn this is good Wish we still had films being made like this. Not only does this educate a soldier or a survivalist, but it teaches common sense in such a succinct manner. Music is perfect and the actors were great!

[@IronWarhorsesFun]

its aso great humour which makes it perfect as a teaching tool.

[@bgt63]

COD teaches the same thing

[@yikes6969]

​@@bgt63 cringe

[@rockoyhead]

@@yikes6969 Its true tho 💀

[@squidwardo7074]

@@bgt63 a whole generation of people know the difference between cover and concealment because of cod

[@paulcoy9060]

"This man stupid" is such a schoolyard insult, but juxtaposed against the horrors of jungle warfare makes it funnier than it should be.

[@historyandhorseplaying7374]

Beg pardon.

[@brad506th]

Yeah, in reality that tree line would have been raked with sustained fire. Backed up by 60mm indirect fire support. Followed by a battery fire for effect mission 155mm HE air burst. Then walk the fire line back and shoot anything still breathing among the remaining chunks of the enemy....there translated it for you. Cheers Mate! 🍻

[@Bon-Apart]

@@brad506th Maybe they lonesome?

[@measl]

@@brad506th *Not much of the Euro theater was coverable by indirect fire support. WW-II was largely a group on group engagement: very nasty.*

[@EchosTackyTiki]

@@Bon-Apart They not be lonesome if they hang out back at foxholes after done fighting. Stupid fellas.

[@solkaz4175]

I thought the Japanese guys were gonna jump him as a lesson on not having a battle buddy.

[@daryllemans9473]

Hey me too, but who knew they knew how to rap?

[@stefanschleps8758]

"Kill or Be Killed". by Rex Applegate A timeless tome on surviving in combat. I got my first copy from my dad, a WWII vet, when he passed away. I completely recommend it to everyone, from the infantry man to law enforcement, state or federal. It is the one indespensible book on self-defense. Better than the "Bubishi." Laoshr#60 Ching Yi Kung Fu Association

[@bencarvalho7126]

"Lay down, you're dead! You're dead, you're dead because you don't have a battle buddy, SAFETY IN NUMBERRRRS!"

[@Bullzeye1000yds]

The Garand was a 30.06 cartridge. 170gr. 8 rounds. All of the G.I.s learned quick, how to shoot from the hip. They'd have died real quick. My Granddad told me that in close combat, the G.I.s carried empty stripper clips. They'd fire, then toss the clip to simulate being empty. It worked well, more often than not.

[@Sir_toaster]

@@Bullzeye1000yds ah yes the old bollocks talking about empty clips.

[@bhangrafan4480]

The most famous last words of all time: "I know what I'm doing."

[@mirrorblue100]

The most second famous last words: "Watch this."

[@spaceflight1019]

That didn't work out too well for Bubba Zanetti!

[@Shojikitsune1]

@@mirrorblue100 What if you say, "I know what I'm doing - watch this!"

[@wills5159]

i thought it was "hold my beer"

[@spaceflight1019]

@@Shojikitsune1 , might as well put a red shirt on...

[@zhizunbao333]

I'm living in south of Chicago, I find this film very informative and helpful!

[@alfredeneuman6966]

My father-in-law fought in the Pacific theater. The stories he told were pretty horrific. The Japanese rarely, if ever, surrendered. At times he said the fear and stress was so great - he thought, "why don't they just shoot me - get it over with?" He came home with a bronze star. My mother-in-law asked me not to talk about the war any more as he would have nightmares (PTSD). So, I did not.

[@BRBMrSoul]

My grandfather was a British paratrooper officer with Gurkhas in Burma. First night there they cut his shoe laces and woke him up, point being: “be a light sleeper” (to day he passed away he was too, and always made his bed, even check socks for snakes and bugs still out of habit, and we live in Canada) And ya, he said never surrendered theyd hold out to bitter end, hide in rice barrels holding pinned grenades waiting for top to be opened etc(so get habit always shooting or stabbing those), and far worse things/experiences he never told us about only my uncle. There they were desperatly trying hold out as essentially been cut off from Japanese supply lines but ya, he um, never got one to tell him a story and if weren’t for expertise of Gurkha guerrilla fighters, prob never made it home.

[@jamilsmith6571]

@@hellatzenah you can’t make this up..

[@jonathanogilvie2480]

My grandfather gave away all of his Vietnam medals to kids on Halloween

[@InsertMyChineseUsername]

@@hellatze Wars aren't exactly an uncommon experience

[@aethlred7380]

@@hellatze WW2 was massive. You likely have multiple grandfathers or great grandfather's who saw active combat. My great grandfather on my dad's side was a tanker. He lost 3 tanks and on the third one lost an arm. If that shell landed slightly more over I wouldn't be here today. If you think about the number of wars your ancestors have fought through its a miracle that out of the millions of chances for you to not exist somehow luck has turned out that you still exist.

[@RsRj-qd2cg]

Lmao when the Japanese soldier said "I've gotten thirty Americans" I was expecting him to follow it up with "and you're thirty one", and then a third sniper would pop out and shoot the GI.

[@InariAlchemist]

Twenty-one would be the ranger with the big iron on his hip.

[@xxtesticals4863]

cheesy af

[@RsRj-qd2cg]

Seriously, when a Japanese soldier surrendered, especially if he wasn't incapacitated, there was a very good chance that he was hiding a grenade, or other hidden Japanese were waiting for the Americans to lower their guns.

[@giarivers1511]

being japanese a grenade would do, or a blade i guess

[@sorenweber5684]

@@InariAlchemist Big Iron on his Hip.

[@r0cknr0ller27]

You know. This is actually pretty scary to watch especially if you're actually going into war. It shows just how easy it can be for you to just get killed. Any small mistake or even a regular bodily function you do everyday, can be your last..... so eerie

[@Maria_Erias]

Something my dad (a Vietnam vet) told me once: "Everyone gets used to the idea that they're going to die. What starts to matter is making sure your buddies don't. What's really terrifying is thinking about being wounded, losing an arm or a leg, and suddenly you can't protect them and they're putting their lives in danger to save yours."

[@jackhazardous4008]

The invention of gunpowder has been a neverending disaster for human kind

[@adrianmizen5070]

@@jackhazardous4008 Humanity was all peace and love before guns were invented [/sarc]

[@jackhazardous4008]

@@adrianmizen5070 all I'm saying is at least you usually saw it coming and could fight it. Nowadays you can get your head blown off and your family blown up from miles away and never even see it coming

[@MP-tz2yn]

@@jackhazardous4008 or was it? imagine how much more bloody and gruesome everything would be if it was still close range pointy stick combat. a death by bullet, if hit in the right place, can be quick and painless, or if not lethal could be healed

[@micahphilson]

I love that opening. Two snipers take 3 shots and miss, our American hero takes one shot and strongarms both of them into surrender. One good thing about the good ol' japanese soldiers, though, they were always very helpful and friendly when they were captured!

[@CodaMission]

- Don't take your time when you pop up to look. Take one quick glance and pop back. - Don't transition to obvious places. - Concealment is not the same as cover - Concealment doesn't work if parts of you can be seen outside it. - The enemy can see where you entered cover or concealment. Don't pop your head up where they'll expect you to. - The enemy can hear you, and they don't need an exact location to use it against you - Space out. A crowd is an opportunity

[@SharpForceTrauma]

Addendum for occupying territory: -Don't salute your CO unless you want to see his brains. -Don't leave your fancy equipment for the enemy -Be extremely cautious of anyone that lives outside your base. The enemy will use civilians to their advantage. -Take security seriously. Don't tell anyone that doesn't need to know, don't fall asleep on watch duty, don't leave the gate unlocked.

[@tallesttree4863]

Basic tactics that people even in fps games can't grasp

[@eduparada970]

​​@@tallesttree4863Because in a fps you really suffer no consequences for dying, you just gonna respawn or even if you lose is just a lost game, however in war you have no second opportunities, however many kids nowadays believe war is like cod :/ I lost.count of all the comments I've seen of kids saying "wow his aim suck" unironically in combat videos where the POV is a machine gunner giving suppressive fire

[@juki6377]

i remember my dad saying to keep moving, and not run and hide behind a rock, just like in this video its known where you will pop up

[@sir2657]

​@@eduparada970 I play bf4 which (hardcore conquest) mode has some realistic combat moments and firefights and with real tactics such as simple suppressive fire it kinda works...I am an ex greek soldier and I always try To use tactics but then it all goes out the window because a tank suddenly is behind you or 10 players etc etc...irl you would have known etc

[@ericthered760]

The soldier who captured the snipers was Stephen McNally, who went on to become a famous Hollywood star in the 40s and 50s. The sergeant who collected the snipers was Barry Nelson, another actor who became quite famous.

[@cobymichaels7863]

They were already famous when they filmed this. Which is why they used them.

[@ElBrooklyn1]

Almost all of the training films were produced by veteran Hollywood filmmakers and actors who served as communications specialists. They made all manner of films, radio broadcasts, propaganda and intelligence reports. The most famous among them was probably director John Ford, who worked for the Navy and OSS. He accidentally captured the battle of Midway while on assignment and later filmed during the invasion of Omaha Beach. He won an Oscar for the Midway documentary. It’s also why his post-war film They Were Expendable had so many realistic battle scenes: He had witnessed the real thing and his armed forces connections meant he could muster just about any fighting material - planes, PT boats, supplies, weapons - he could think of. By today’s standards it still seems pretty Hollywood, but for 1945 it was somewhat groundbreaking.

[@sollux13]

@@ElBrooklyn1 Super interesting thanks for sharing!

[@1983jblack]

Barry Nelson will always be Ullman from The Shining to me

[@epiphany2927]

Several Hollywood actors actually fought in WWII. These two, however, apparently did not.

[@IrishCarney]

Tojo's pretty smug for a guy who hadn't properly cleaned and maintained his rifle, and then disgraced his family and Emperor by surrendering without even being wounded.

[@MrFrinZy]

Lol you’re demeaning a fictional character designed for rhetorical purposes... 🇺🇸

[@MrFrinZy]

@James T. Respect your enemies. Fighting to the death for your cause isn’t a lighthearted matter.

[@JulsLittleBeirutAnarchy]

I thought, they were supposed to be like good samurais and stab themselves if ever they were taken captive?

[@Parents_of_Twins]

@@JulsLittleBeirutAnarchy Had a great uncle that fought in the Pacific. He said the Japanese would wrap themselves in cheese cloth and charge the machine guns and the only way to stop them was a head shot.

[@hicknopunk]

😂😂😂

[@shootashoe]

I like this because there really is no “what to do” in a war scenario but a what not do to could save ur life

[@localnyraccoon]

As an average citizen of New York, I find this to be very helpful and informative.

[@Thirzy]

ya never know

[@waynebrown616]

Thank your Democratic Mayor for your " target rich " environment. Here's the twist. The good people of NY are the targets, not the thugs!

[@birdrunner4069]

😂😂🗑️ you would be one of the dumb soldiers. 🐑🐑🐑🐑

[@totally_not_putin]

Honestly that place looks nicer and friendlier than nyc

[@NandigamS]

As a Bangalorean we find this video useful in case the IT companies declare war on the citizens of Bangalore

[@1notgilty]

I never knew Japanese snipers spoke such good English and gave American GI's such good advice. So sorry!

[@WhatWhy42]

Lol

[@Tr3yM34]

Yes this should have been explained in japanese

[@roberttompkins9991]

They call it Ingrish.

[@Louis_Davout]

So Solly!

[@EchosTackyTiki]

Hey, you never know, he might have been an officer. So sorry! (*bows with a stupid grin)

[@kagobonestalker1487]

"Very dumb soldier. Very dead too." That's poetry.

[@dgerdi]

And bloody good soldiering

[@koopanique]

So sassy.

[@thinkprozac]

Very dumb soldiers, get out of cover always, they very dead too Good haiku

[@ryanouellette2082]

Pretty sure that was Edgar Allen Poe that said that

[@211q1]

A easy way to get kill is suicide as it easily done and u died

[@hangten1904]

These lesson videos from the 40s 50s are concise, logical and straight to the point

[@48917032]

Man, that Japanese sniper burned those dead guys so hard he practically cremated them.

[@mokonono5903]

And I thought the Japanese didn't have a flammenwerfer..

[@peterking2651]

They didn’t point out the absolute dumbest place for a sniper is up in a tree. Once spotted they have no escape, also they have very restricted movement because they are likely to expose their position. A sniper should be able to get in to position, identify the high value target, kill the target and withdraw undetected. Killing a rifleman is not a high value target.

[@crabbyboi9127]

no, he just pulled a trigger, very simple.

[@erichogan9769]

@@peterking2651 the ones in trees got a lot more kills than those banzai charges tho. And sometimes they did wait for high value targets.

[@Bangin0utWest]

@@crabbyboi9127 😂😂😂

[@jrtien]

Gotta appreciate an enemy who explains how he is defeating you. The fact that you are still alive to listen to it is no small blessing either.

[@Jambuc829]

It’s not real it’s a training video

[@jrtien]

@@Jambuc829 ya think? Thats the whole point of sarcasm, but I guess its hard to catch online.

[@dyslexicboogaloo]

James Bond feels that way all the time.

[@raiden6428]

"He popped his head out. Hard to miss. He committed suicide. He was a good fella....Very dumb soldier. Very dead too." Whoever directed this has a good sense of humor, if a bit morbid.

[@majordbag2]

That's why I'm pretty positive this was only shown to enlisted soldiers and officers and never to the general public as the jokes are way too dark for the Hays Code era.

[@achimrazvan6793]

People back then weren't triggered by such humor, only recently the society became pussified

[@theartistformallyknownas2677]

@@achimrazvan6793 they were... that's kinda the point

[@Mipetz38]

I love how it sounds like modern google tranlator

[@majordbag2]

@@achimrazvan6793 While I agree that we have become too sensitive these days, TV and movies were way, way more heavily censored back then they are now. For example, on I Love Lucy, they had to say Lucy was "with child" on the episodes where she was pregnant because "pregnant" was considered a word too obscene for television.

[@DonPayne-vt9rq]

I love these old training movies I can watch Periscope all day long.

[@kjamison5951]

Reminds me of my training… when you hit the dirt, scuttle away on your belly from where you went down. Pop up somewhere else. Apart from confusing the enemy, they think there might be more of you than there are.

[@rutabega2039]

"Pop up somewhere else." Like Iowa.

[@millomweb]

Ahh, you've been watching Carry On Cowboy !

[@destubae3271]

Classic Art of War trick

[@michelfrangos5160]

"Hit the dirt" elbows first then knees get your weapon up rollover twice I think then scramble to a new spot to pop up at 👍

[@allhopeabandon7831]

Fire and manuever...ah, the good old USMC infantry days of my youth. "I'm up. He sees me. I'm down!"

[@stubmandrel]

"I killed 10 of your dumb soldiers" "No, that was me ten times, I just kept re-spawning until your gun jammed."

[@jackhazardous4008]

We'll clog their weaponry with our bodies

[@MisterJohnDoe]

“How are we going to stop Jack? By cramping his trigger finger?” -Brick, Borderlands 2

[@BonusCrook]

Modern problems require modern solutions

[@lostonearth7856]

Gamers on the Frontlines be like:

[@Link2edition]

Damn campers man

[@FawleyJude]

This was interesting. My uncle was in combat in the Philippines during WW2, I guess he would have seen this film or others like it. He didn't talk about it much until he hit about 90 years old, then he told a little bit about it. As he said, "It really changes your outlook on things when you're there and you realize those people are trying to kill you."

[@thestone7455]

JUDE

[@BorbonRooster]

Well the fact is you're trying to kill them, too.

[@mariekatherine5238]

My uncle was the same way. The war was the elephant in the living room. He fought in the Pacific.

[@thestone7455]

@Space Lizard true

[@thewinesmith]

​@@BorbonRooster kill or be killed.

[@Ancient_Astronaut_Theorist]

Look at the year this film was produced. No telling how many of our fathers, uncles, grandfathers actually watched this very video before going into combat.

[@MrChickennugget360]

its actually a pretty effective technique. The disrespect the Japanese soldier gives to the dead Americans stresses the ruthless nature of the enemy who won't hesitate to take advantage of any mistake a soldier does to put them in a grave. It does not pusy foot around or try to build up their ego about how awesome American soldiers are. I wish more training took that kind of cold approach.

[@Marathonmapu]

“Make it snappy or ill blast ya down” the most gangster thing I’ve heard.

[@IIISWILIII]

That generation didn't have much use for strong language or posturing. All business.

[@IronWarhorsesFun]

ya like Hollywood gangsta. nobody talks like that LOL.

[@nommadd5758]

@@IronWarhorsesFun : Not anymore. Big difference between 'gangster' and 'gangsta'!

[@cosmiceyness]

@@nommadd5758 yeah gangster is more al capone type and gangsta is more tupac type

[@idiotwind2248]

A little Cagney language for effect in a training film

[@smishdws]

Knowing the historical context of anti-Japanese propaganda, it's really interesting seeing an American video that depicts Japanese soldiers as competent and intelligent equals. Makes sense since it helps reinforce the concept of "don't be stupid during battle".

[@favoritemustard3542]

The soldiers had to face each other. Orders. It was each nation's public that needed convincing...

[@williamt.sherman9841]

this is not anti-Japanese Propaganda. its a training video. its purpose is to instruct basic survival tactic to combat troops.

[@_wanted_outlaw3007]

@@williamt.sherman9841 if anything it actually makes the Japanese look better

[@michaelwoods2672]

@@williamt.sherman9841 He never said it was, in fact he said it was interesting that it wasn't.

[@wombatburrito5896]

Great insight I wouldn’t t have picked that up if not for your comment. InterestinglyI live 80 miles from underground Japanese internment camps. (Oak harbor)

[@BrokenBarBox]

Film Producer at Japanese internment camp: “Hey, anyone want to be in a short movie? We’ll let you out for a couple days! “

[@sertandoom4693]

There were quite a few Japanese Americans during WWII and they did a lot more than people realize.

[@willybingusthealien]

@@sertandoom4693 what does that even mean? You're not even saying anything.

[@daynarisbarathion8602]

those actors were from Calif.

[@amjroid5291]

@@daynarisbarathion8602 pretty sure he meant Japanese American internment camp, where they interned Japanese Americans from places such as California during the war.

[@daynarisbarathion8602]

Those camps were bc of the low morality. They begged for a safe location to be protected at. They wanted to escape their people's reputation. Nihon's warmachine was not a cute little catgirl.

[@Matt2chee]

My dad shot a sniper saving his patrol. I didn't know this until he passed away and one of his friends told me at the funeral home! He didn't talk about the war much, but he did tell stories about him and his friends.

[@sonicimperium]

Good thing GI Joe only winged Tojo, otherwise he wouldn't have learned the ancient Asian secrets of not dying.

[@JackMueller23]

I laughed at this a lot harder than I should have.

[@jayfrank1913]

@@JackMueller23 Ancient Cantonese secret.

[@laatangel4085]

Lol

[@Wolfboy_109]

ANCIENT ASIAN SECRET as asian I approved this msg

[@superdave8248]

Anybody who has seen propaganda from WW2 would know, I assumed about one minute into this video that it was about the dos and don'ts of taking multiple prisoners alone. Especially Japanese prisoners. Not a crash course in duck and cover.

[@milesclaussen3689]

The most 1940s line ever: “come on make it snappy, ILL blast you down” lmao

[@audreyazwell]

for real it sounded straight out of a looney tunes cartoon lololol

[@milesclaussen3689]

@@audreyazwell or a old time western movie

[@kramalerav]

Bogart couldn’t have said it better.

[@theboomerangbiker1966]

He forgot add... "what are ya, some kind of a wise guy?"

[@badger509]

@@theboomerangbiker1966 Why I oughtta...

[@rfletch62]

I was waiting for the unsearched prisoners to drop a grenade.

[@gregsmith5695]

Me too. Different training film. But enough of a phenomenon to require inclusion in a training film.

[@cat_city2009]

I hope they trained infantrymen etc to search prisoners and not just the MPs. I don't think they would actually have doctrine that stupid.

[@gregsmith5695]

@@cat_city2009 They did to some degree.A lot of that experience was a new enemy from a different culture. Prior US experience was WW1 and the Banana wars. There were for sure incidents of duplicty in WW1 but surrender was sort of on chivalric principles on both sides. The Christmas armistice really did happen. The Japanese saw anyone not Japanese as beneath them and as far as the allies learned quickly it was safer to shoot them. Prisoners were taken on both sides but it was a crap shoot for treatment. If you were Japanese and made it to the rear you were treated very well. As for Americans and ANZACs I don't think you need to look far to find what that experiance was.And I edit because I am remiss.The British, Indians, Gurkha and Chindits as well.The Chinese had their own special hells at the hands of the Imperial Army.

[@IARRCSim]

That would have been a great ending. Their ghosts hang around say, "That's another way to kill yourself. Not searching a Japanese prisoner who would rather die than get captured and then getting blown up."

[@twocentproductions5326]

@@gregsmith5695 oh ya, that happened often few survived no one really knew, i think it was good info in the vid for boys of that horrible era. Just think how green and young the infantry was, off the farm, these vids were part of boot camp combat training army. I bet foremost of them it was prob the first time they CD an asian,, and a decent scent of face to face combat coming their way, their future orders. This vid would of sobered me up at the age of 17,18

[@ollanius_papyrus80]

My main takeaway: Step 1 of not getting killed: don’t reposition, don’t advance, don’t move at all. Japanese soldiers’ vision is based on movement.

[@tkbill86]

Respect for the enemy is necessary to survive. Teaching your soldiers that your enemy is smart just might help them survive.

[@michalsoukup1021]

And safter the war it remains neccesary if you aim to show propper respect to your own soldiers. Thats why I hate war movies where Axis troopers are shown as idiots marching into killzones and beingt totally incompetent. We lost many thousands of our best men fighting those people, thus either they were VERY good at what they were doing or our troops were not that good at what they were doing.

[@robertcarmosino6563]

Know your enemy, and never underestimate

[@texaswunderkind]

Propaganda on the home front tends to dehumanize the enemy and present them as mindless automatons. I'm sure the first job in boot camp was dispelling these myths.

[@agentsmithmememe]

@@michalsoukup1021 German ShockTroopers(Stoßtrupp) were highly trained and skilled troops, to portray them as anything less is a travesty

[@hedgehog3180]

@@agentsmithmememe That's not how you spell that word at all in German, it'd be Sturmtruppen.

[@bartomiejkumor9375]

"Your men kill themselves, all we do is pull the trigger" reminds me of stories my great grandpa who fought on the Eastern Front used to tell. When Rasputitsa (a period of the year when rural roads are muddy as hell) came many people died not because the shooter was better, but because them (or their command) tried to walk through the mud at the wrong time.

[@mikoajbiakowski4624]

Dziadek był w armii Berlinga?

[@ViolentPacifism_SlavaUkraini]

@@mikoajbiakowski4624 likely Soviet soldier

[@MrWhite-vp4xz]

@@ViolentPacifism_SlavaUkraini , Soviet soldiers didn't call the front they were at Eastern. German soldiers did.

[@bartomiejkumor9375]

@@MrWhite-vp4xz He was Ukrainian. And yes, he didn't call it the "Eastern Front", most of the time he just called it "the War." But I said Eastern Front since that's what most people on KZbin call it.

[@OpiatesAndTits]

@@bartomiejkumor9375I’m sorry this must be a hard time for you and your extended family :( Your grandfather ever talk with historians or get his story copied down? I know there have been projects to do that but I often wonder if certain soldiers get missed in these projects like Ukrainians due to where abs when these sorts of projects get funded.

[@Poenix21]

"It's easy to tell a good and a bad soldier apart!" "Yes? How?" "The good one is still breathing after the battle."

[@imanrobota4849]

Or just the lucky ones. You can work yourself up thinking about every possibility, but it does no good.

[@mazze00]

Me too. I like soldiers who DON'T get captured or killed. For those I have respect!

[@colehampton4579]

I suspect, no disrespect meant, that the vast majority of the surviving combat infantrymen, well, they do what they’re told and stay under cover and not so much shoot to kill but provide covering fire and conserve ammo…. For the guys who actually do the killing- and the dieing

[@masakari]

@@mazze00 Lot of posthumous Medal of Honor winners you must not respect.

[@armija]

In order to stay alive in battle, you need a lot of luck too not only to be a good soldier... Many good soldiers died and many fools survived, your comment is disrespectful...

[@surlyjerk8031]

I guess FDR approved a day pass for the two Japanese actors from the interment camps to film this beauty.

[@scottydog62]

I was thinking the same thing😅

[@raphaelboily5925]

I am in the CanadianArmed Forces and this film is more useful than our whole basic training.

[@alphabravo3566]

Thats a fact. We canadians lost or army after Afganistan.

[@jasonyao3753]

Well if it makes you feel better Taiwanese army basic training involves practicing throwing grenades by ways of imagination... the officers didn't even bother getting the dummy grenades for us and we instead swung our arms like a bunch of goons.

[@senorpepper3405]

Card carrying canucks

[@bonedoc4556]

Lol. Great comment section. At least you all weren't russian mobiks. They get one mag of practice shooting, and then it's off to the front.

[@nationalcollateralservices3643]

You can tell it's old because he never asked them what their preferred pronouns were.

[@23gt17]

Damn, the tutorials in the new Call of Duty: Friendship is Magic are on point!

[@Alex-yy5wo]

My sides

[@E4439Qv5]

You joke, but I actually remember seeing a video along those lines. CoD voice chat, but they used Nowacking's dub of Vinyl Scratch. Hilarious stuff.

[@bane2988]

@@E4439Qv5 I love how 12 years later I still find random pony people on random videos /)

[@E4439Qv5]

@@bane2988 /)*(\

[@AmbientsonarVA]

As both a COD and MLP fan, I approve

[@richardpate4732]

"That man talk himself to death"! Lmfao! Sounds like a lot of our KZbin commandos

[@nonotgivingittoyou7054]

Woohoo getem mr KZbin commando

[@robertross45]

"Have you ever faced a team of youtube commandoes? Not many have."

[@tomdreu8455]

You sound just like one

[@robertross45]

@therealDale "Not without an airlift!"

[@dc6758]

“Not me, I know what im doing” lmao

[@stillededge]

I love this kind of stuff. The list of things you should do to survive is EXHAUSTING...THEN you gotta get LUCKY.

[@daveslow84]

As an average Escape from Tarkov player, I feel I have the whole "how to get killed" thing nailed.

[@R4in46]

so with this video you have learned how not to get killed

[@belonn6121]

I know what I'm doing

[@Gonky]

Russian noises from behind car door make vert scary rocket noises

[@Gonky]

@@angels22faz i mean if you play tarkov of for sure lmao see that grass over that wait minute it'll make Russian noise is what plays in my head everytime now

[@angels22faz]

@@Gonky not just tarkov, tarkov didnt teach me anything new about shooters. not peeking the same spot multiple times, dont group up, watch your sound, cover vs concealment, these are all things you need to learn just from playing any fps. like the only time this video would have actually taught me something, is before i discovered AI bots in cod 20 years ago on my gamecube.

[@smeagol92055]

"your men kill themselves, all we do is pull the trigger. very simple." As someone who was in a war, this is still 100% accurate to this day.

[@austinlane5533]

So if you walk in front of a gun, and someone pulls the trigger, it's the one who catches the bullet to blame? 🤨

[@420funny6]

@@austinlane5533 yeah actually in some cases

[@austinlane5533]

@@420funny6 Yeah, it's people like you that make it harder for people like me to own firearms.. You must be a biden voter. Have a good one! 👍

[@420funny6]

@@austinlane5533 that's really a stupid insult😅 and no But keep being stupid

[@austinlane5533]

@@420funny6 My reply was completely logical.. It's simple, thoughts from fools like YOU make it harder for clear minded sane individuals like myself to own firearms.. ill spell it out again if you need. How tf in your mind do you see the person catching the bullet to be there one to blame? I'm genuinely curious.. please, let's hear it..

[@Honkers716]

"Maybe they get lonesome. One Japanese shell, no more men." 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Holy F. Savage

[@alumpycow6694]

Well considering how deadly blasts are especially on top of you there is a good chance the pieces would be so small that there might actually be no more of them lol

[@MacheteJake]

Had one instructor in basic training who always had teachable moments on “how to get dead”

[@cyberspore00]

“Hey, slow down Tojo. I can’t write that fast.”

[@crunchwrapsupreme9372]

“While you busy speaking, I steal pen! You dumb soldier!”

[@RivetGardener]

My dad was a machine gunner in the Army, South Pacific. Thank goodness he came back alive and in good health. Hated SPAM for the rest of his life, though.

[@jenfiles89]

why did he hated it?

[@willong1000]

Both your father and mine beat their life expectancy by a great deal just by making it home. My late father was a Heavy Machine Gunner (MOS 605) in 163rd Engineer (Combat) Battalion. He saw action in Europe from a couple days after D-Day through to the end of the war. Dad never got wounded despite being blown off a truck by a close mortar strike in one instance. Dad used to talk quite candidly about the war--only in recent years have I become aware of how unusual that was--and he told me that a machine gunner's life expectancy in combat was nine minutes. When a fellow dorm resident at University of Alaska in 1969 said that his brother had been a machine gunner in Nam, I mentioned that statistic to him. "Yep, that's about how long my brother lasted." said Richard. (It's been too many years for me to recall his last name; but I would exclude it for privacy even if I remembered.) It was a foot in mouth moment that I'll remember to my own dying day.

[@RivetGardener]

@@jenfiles89 Because the resupply ships to his islands kept getting sunk by the Japanese and they had to resort to the backup rations they brought with them to the beaches: meaning Span, oil, dehydrated potatoes and other basics. This lasted for several years. SPAM hatred is a common theme in all South Pacific Veterans.

[@RivetGardener]

@@willong1000 Thank you for sharing that difficult time for you. Yes they beat their life expectancy by a long time, my Dad passed at 94 years old. I appreciate you commenting, Sir.

[@ThatPianoNoob]

We all hate spam

[@jonnyhernandez4502]

As someone who currently serves, i am severely disappointed at our drop in quality of training videos after seeing this. Lmao

[@EmptyZoo393]

Oh? Poor tactics, poor production, or poor transmission of information?

[@jonnyhernandez4502]

@@EmptyZoo393 yes

[@nhibbard89]

Now it's death by PowerPoint

[@toasterowens8916]

Ironic as another comment said people laughed at these too much and ended up dying in battle from not taking it serious

[@PhoenixFires]

Back in the 90s they often showed actual footage of gory accidents and injuries to point out how to not be stupid and get yourself killed. Is that not still the case?

[@TheGeezzer]

A lot of wisecrack comments below but these movies were to instill the basic idea of warfare into raw recruits. They had no video games and not a lot of war movies to go by back then, so had little idea of what they were letting themselves in for. These little "periscope" films gave them some gumption.

[@Terry-g9j]

Yes war films are great for any aspiring soldier learning about warfare , which is why after watching Saving Private Ryan that when asked to go to the Ukraine I told them to get lost

[@t.j.mcfadden7993]

A lot of clever comments about how unrealistic it was- guys, it's a training film and it's giving some good, practical lessons in how to move under fire. No one descrbed it as a documentary. For what it's intended to do, it's a good film.

[@thereinthetrees_5626]

Exactly “I didn’t know Japanese snipers spoke fluent English” Okay so, do you want them to speak fluent Japanese so anyone watching doesnt know anything their saying?

[@cyberus1438]

@@thereinthetrees_5626 your average KZbin commenter, very stupid

[@AllUpOns]

Eh, the criticism is justified. A real "how to get killed" guide for the pacific theater would have "trying to take a Japanese soldier prisoner" pretty high on the list.

[@poyloos4834]

@@AllUpOns this was a real how to get killed guide, what’re you talking about?

[@thereinthetrees_5626]

@@AllUpOns it was just a 1940s morale boosting opening to a training video, what criticism can you make valid?

[@900bcy6]

"if you're gonna shoot, shoot....don't talk". -- Tuco

[@DelgueAdventures]

Best advice!

[@Easy-Eight]

@@flatline827 Seven years of college down the drain. Bluto Animal House

[@ffjsb]

If you save your breath, I feel a man like you could make it...

[@pasaesballard3601]

Good bad ugly

[@andrewyoung2796]

I bet he had no clue he'd be quoted millions of times

[@notmenotme614]

This was actually a good educational film. I love the script. “the dumb soldiers killed themselves”

[@Win090949]

”Very dumb soldier, very dead too.

[@domeyeahaight]

Unintended comedy was amazing. He goes Hey bud those were my pals. Another crack outta ya and I’ll blast you !

[@PatRiot-]

Such a simple concept. But so helpful to know. I feel like I get myself killed regularly in video games… I will apply this strategy next time 😂 I

[@cgrooney9945]

"This soldier talked himself to death" I liked that one lol

[@voidremoved]

@@PatRiot- apply what strategy? This is a video about how to get killed. You trying to improve your technique to die with more efficiency and style?

[@lonerinthesticks]

I wasn’t confident in myself to not be killed, but thanks to this training program, my odds went from immediate casualty to a 50/50 chance of coming home in 1 piece. Thanks, Uncle Sam!

[@82dorrin]

I feel a lot better about my odds of surviving a WWII Pacific Theater battle after watching this.

[@Playingwith3D]

yup, I'd say your odds are pretty good at this point. lol

[@AtomicCortex]

>Go to play world at war with this new knowledge. >Immediately get fragged by 6 grenades.

[@NathanRobinson-cy2ln]

play enlisted it is free on xbox and pc. It rules.

[@BryceByerley]

Until Dysentery get you.

[@MrJH101]

Still relevant tips, just in case you’re drafted into the next war that comes around. A few more need to be added in there, but these cover some basic fundamentals.

[@jameservinmedia]

The film also makes a great case for wearing camo in combat.

[@Yo_AB_Breaks]

And keeping your rifle clean and bayonet dirty af.

[@faceripper77]

Id say thats one of the scariest things about this clip...how well their camo works and the fact that they did that in real life but ten times better.

[@gorillaau]

Probably helps to have a grubby uniform, rather than clean, crisp lines.

[@real_dddf]

@@Yo_AB_Breaks keeping your bayonet dirty also helps give enemies you injure tetanus and other infections, keeping them out of battle longer.

[@mythicdawn9574]

@@gorillaau Soldiers made a habit cleaning their uniforms (despite the fact they will dirty them quickly). One of the reasons is because if they get wounded and can't be evacuated and treated fast, the injury will not get infected as quickly as if they had dirty uniforms. It's the same reason why you would want your bayonet to be dirty, in case your target survives you increase the chance he will be disabled for a while with infections.

[@zachfarrell234]

I wasn't expectong such a cordial relationship between the american soldier and the enemy snipers who just killed 30 of his buddies. It was so sweet of them to explain so clearly how to not get shot by them.

[@jwchampagne1]

This film must have been shocking for its time, even if it was intended only to be seen by soldiers. It depicts Japanese (usually a faceless enemy from an utterly foreign culture) not only outsmarting Americans on the battlefield, but explaining how they were outsmarted. Not exactly a patriotic morale boosting exercise. In fact, a rare degree of respect shown to an enemy all too often underestimated.

[@theophrastus3.056]

True. But in fact very few Japanese prisoners were taken, and certainly not as carelessly out in the open as was depicted. But the point of the film wasn't capturing the enemy, it was avoiding mistakes.

[@mightymystery9204]

Reality is, the surest way to die is to enter combat assuming your enemy is stupid or weak or unskilled. This is why the American Indian Wars were so long and bloody, why the first battles of the Civil War were disasters for the Union, and why the first months of the war with Japan were disastrous for every Western power. By 1942, the United States had learned that Japan was a resolute, sophisticated enemy whose every combatant, every citizen, had been taught that surrender was intolerable. The surrender of the Phillipines was the result of two bad assumptions by MacArthur and Wainwright, about the lack of adroitness and the lack of civilization by the Japanese. Those errors led to early disaster and a protracted struggle in the Pacific. We learned, and taught new recruits accordingly.

[@SoloRenegade]

A smart soldier respects his enemy and the lessons to be earned from him. Even in my own personal experience, the hatred going into battle doesn't continue after the battle. More so you "hate" the enemy to get yourself psyched up, but the hatred isn't typically personal. Some Americans and Japanese who fought in WW2 became best of friends after the war. This is not all that unusual in history.

[@johnbanks4761]

looks to me like it was designed with a side effect of goading them into hating japanese soldiers before getting anywhere near them

[@myview5840]

@@johnbanks4761 can't get normal people to kill one another if they think they are similar

[@RiversInTheDesert]

Thanks!

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[@kadevohn]

Hey cool. that was nice of you.

[@momo7gato]

I have always enjoyed and respected these training films. They may seem to be archaic or outdated, but the knowledge presented is always informative and extremely useful.

[@BlindxSide]

Definitely not outdated. These lessons still apply today.

[@4zdr456]

Is there more out there?

[@milquetoaste7144]

Outdated? Lmao the western world today is retarded, they would be exchanging pronouns before shooting if this was made today

[@orfeo793]

@@4zdr456 plenty, just google em

[@leiffitzsimmonsfrey4923]

Informative? Yes. Interesting? Definitely. Useful? Well, maybe your life is more interesting than mine, but I hope I never find this information useful.

[@templar23]

1:55 going from crawling to full standing in hostile jungle, that's how you get killed xD

[@stickyfox]

The 90s version of the Army "Smart Book" has a diagram illustrating the various individual movement tactics (IMT) with a pretty graphic illustration of a soldier who "should have used Low Crawl." I don't know how much they've updated it since then but it was a pretty effective delivery at the time!

[@xunk16]

And now I know where "The Art of Not Being Seen" came out of. Thanks Monty Python, for pushing the lesson one bit further.

[@JIMJAMSC]

I watched a US sniper test which was basically a final exam. They had to crawl along inch by inch across a clearing and not be spotted. Lack of sleep, stress, blazing sun/heat, bugs, dragging along for hours. What sucks is they have a person standing right next to you with a flag so the instructors know exactly where you are. A reflection/ branch movement/ a crackle = point deduction and possible fail.

[@mzmadmike]

The instructors aren't right next to them, but are on the range and will respond to spotter instruction. The spotter has to direct the guide right next to the sniper for it to count. They hammer them on moving straight, bunching up, lining up, and dislodging vegetation. The sergeant's approach in this was pretty good.

[@graceyjewels7148]

Must have been a very long day for the instructors too.

[@jimmylim5015]

Went through certain combat training before going to Iraq, called Fieldcraft Hostile. I was glad I never had to draw my M4 or M9-just basically had to stay alive not being hit by random mortars or RPGs being fired from outside the base. Also being the air force helped lol

[@isustudent514]

Chairforce you mean. :p

[@jimmylim5015]

@@isustudent514 sure thing, I don't mind going back to Iraq again though

[@Myranos]

​@@isustudent514cant stand in a jet can ya? 🗿

[@Joethesensei]

The Japanese soldier was clever using that Chinese accent to communicate fluently in English.

[@colehampton4579]

Lol

[@jadonlewis9992]

You forget, japan invaded china 7 years before the war started, so dont you think some of the Japanese soldiers were Chinese?

[@Joethesensei]

@@jadonlewis9992 いいえ

[@colehampton4579]

@@jadonlewis9992 You forget there is an intense racial divide. They still hate each other. Just like the Germans and russians.

[@jadonlewis9992]

@@colehampton4579 that, my friend, is not even a little bit related to what is going on with this video. You are talking 80 years difference. While I am aware of that situation, it has no relation

[@Keithf1]

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[@rhodesy937]

“All grouped together. Maybe they get lonesome…” 💥 This POW is savage lol

[@micahphilson]

Very good to know exactly how to get killed! I'll be putting this into practice daily throughout my career in the navy. Sure to be of good use!

[@Vesnicie]

Safety is always an illusion. Things rarely pan out the way you think they will or should. My grandfather, in an exposed position on a Pacific beach, managed to get himself and his men to safety without a single casualty. His younger brother, on a great big destroyer not so far away, was one of only a handful killed one day under some "light" enemy fire. Fate smiled on one and not on the other, and that is the backbone of any soldier's experience. If your number is up, it's up. Do everything right, be the cleverest and bravest of all the men, and you can easily still go home in a body bag.

[@PackinForSuperbowl]

You're saying it doesn't matter if one uses sound tactics or not. That's nonsense. "luck is where preparation meets opportunity"

[@Vesnicie]

@@PackinForSuperbowl No that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that luck and circumstance play a much more decisive role in combat than most are prepared to admit. Of course tactics matter. Bad tactics will mess you up for sure. Good tactics should increase your odds of a positive outcome, but by how much is up to a great deal more than tactics alone.

[@PackinForSuperbowl]

@@Vesnicie that's true about literally every aspect of life.

[@Vesnicie]

@@PackinForSuperbowl My, you are a bellicose little thing. I will have to hazard disagreeing with you on that last point. Not everything has the same appalling lack of logical cause-and-effect as war, nor is it characterized by the same level of catastrophic consequence.

[@PackinForSuperbowl]

@@Vesnicie did you make a decision of where, when, and to whom you were born? Just to stay...