_"Some days it's hard to know where I stop and the voices take over..."_ *"Your injuries are not service related."* _"...other days it's all too easy..."_
HLC: “You know your me.” Grandpa Buff: “Ya, but they don’t.” The fourth wall break and simultaneous looking the cameras had me bust out laughing. Epic delivery and editing!
Why is it so hard for people get your and you're right? Your: possessive You're: contraction of you and are Example: Your ignorance is a sign that you're poorly educated. But hey, at least you didn't use "ur."
@@CrazyKidXXI for every comment there is a GN which suggests that education isn't as bad because there is a lot of them and they like each other so that's just factually incorrect that no one likes them
@@StudleyDuderight Yo, ur being a dick over semantics. Your sense of superiority regarding English grammar is needlessly pedantic, these are youtube comments, not the forum floor in ancient Greece. You're only going to get yourself mocked for being a grammar nazi my friend..
After 73 years, they have discontinued PS magazine. This publication was probably the single most effective program in the history of HQDA. There is no telling how many millions of dollars it has saved through maintenance, transportation costs from turn-ins, etc. Really feels like a bunch of people at HQDA/ DOD forgot how the mainline Army works with many of the decisions that have been made lately. They are going to find out real quick when expenses start shooting through the roof for dumbshit.
Yeah, really sad. Fun fact though; one of the guys that did some of the artwork on PS Magazine, Joe Kubert, also did a lot of war themed comic books like Weird War Tales, Star Spangled War Stories and SGT Rock.
My mom was DOD GS accountant for 30 years. I asked her about military spending one time and she said, "Why do we spend so much on the military? Simple we want to make sure we win."
This is so fun having you interact with the other yous. Enjoyed the knowledge. Good to know at least some things haven't changed since I left the Army in 1996. They still spend a lot of money. 😂
Yep. Tech progress is really difficult to share across borders, not even EU countries can really manage it, so America being 50 countries that do a really passable impression of a single unified country, at least for defence spending, is a massive force multiplier. Also, if you're doing shit nobody else has seen, you're probably buying parts from someone who has a monopoly and you want to keep from thinking about selling to anyone you wouldn't go on a Thai night out with the boys with
I mean, that’s pretty much why I love the MIC. Between them and Elon Musk, that’s our best shot at living in true sci-fi instead of the half-baked version we have now.
First thing I thought about the US's "Space Force" was: "Okay, will we need a 4x or a 5x multiplier on the current cost of our Air Force to accomplish this? Or do we just need to glue our current NASA spending onto the Air Force and say 'go'?"
I loved, loved, loved this. Best of both forms and an excellent way of explaining spending. Sarcastic Kid is my favourite. He sometimes is this emotionally vulnerable toddler, but this shows his lean mean killing machine purpose. Grampa Buff is the heart of it all. People don't understand that one of the most important US exports is security. When they fanny around(looking at you Baboon House) it calls that into question, they don't increase home security. They diminish it. If you are soft abroad, enemies will question your strength at home.
THANK YOU for this!!! I called into a SiriusXM radio last week to bring up the fact the money will allocate for aiding Ukraine isn’t all just shipped to their country and spent on their needs. How much would you estimate gets put back into our own US economy by way of manufacturing jobs created and sustained?
As a former radio operator for an artillery battery this is true. We would do field exercises as a battery or battalion at at least once a month, then spend about a month in 29 Palms doing a regimental training twice a year and then a couple weeks on moving around base doing the same regimental exercises. On top of that rotating out units for Marine Expendtionary Units or Unit deployment program to Okinawa.
Here in Topeka we have Forbes and the 190th. We own The Blind Tiger and the 190th has their own table here designated by the broken wind shield from a refuler that they gifted us hanging on the wall. We are a craft brewing/restaurant. ALL SERVICE MEMBERS past and present get their 1st beer on us. We've had gatherings at the house when there have been touch and goes and folks not from here ask whats that our reply " thats the sound of freedom baby". Sometimes it sets the garage door opener off. Kansas ALSO home of the Big Red One. Money well spent.
HLC, you had your unique niche that made you loved already. Now you've improved that niche with your character visits. This is amazing and hilarious. I hope you break the 1 million subscribers mark before 2024 is over
Why is the defence budget so big? 1. When it’s not you end up like Russia struggling against a small country. 2. You end up like Western Europe and Canada and Australia for most of the last 50 years. Almost entirely dependent on the strength of another country for protection, which leads inherently to a dominion status. 3. It’s the only way to overcome any corruption. Which would end up making you like china. Where recent reports say their missile silos are in such poor condition that the doors don’t open, their fuel supplies are so low that they fill the tanks with water to create the illusion of being at capacity.
It's funny, a month after I visited Duxford Air Museum and saw a BUFF in the American hanger I discovered your videos and now next time I go, I am just going to hear all the voices in there.
Long form with green screen hits? Your content is about to become a controlled substance because it is so addicting to watch and I am waiting for the next hit. And of course, you delivered. Thank you so much for this.
In love with the new format. Between yourself, Chief and MFD I have so many characters inside my head 😂 I had someone tell me they were going to Panama and I had CW5 Friendly and BUFF telling stories about 'Panny-ma'. Great content keep it up!
It's like show and tell at kindergarten, where it's necessary for the teacher to constantly remind the class how important it is to learn to get along with each other.
I love this. It's both educational and entertainment. HLC you know how to do Edutainment, your content especially your Green Screens, remind me of a show I used to watch as a kid called Mighty Machines Keep up what you do and never stop being funny
I want to give you feedback real quick. Your combination of green screen and normal educational video is perfect Please keep doing this kind of format.
As soon as I saw “BUFF” drop in I knew this was elevating to a “Whole Notha Level!!!” Then “22” and NGAD savage!! I learned interesting facts and was laughing long after the video was over. Please continue this format sir. IMHO it’s a winner….
Hooray! Someone in my vicinity who DOES know that most of our oil comes from Canada! It's freaking exhausting having to explain that. Also,, Grandpa BUFF would have some stories to swap with one of my Navy veteran uncles, as he also accidentally picked up a kathoey while in Thailand.
Point people to the Energy Information Agency (EIA) for all the energy statistics, including oil, natural gas, and petroleum products. You can see imports by country of origin, exports by destination country, crude oil production by state, imports by method of delivery... everything you could want to know.
I’m always conflicted when people complain about our defense budget, because on the one hand it is objectively huge and it’s hard to see money get so easily approved for the military while other stuff is always “too expensive”. But on the other hand… I kinda like having the strongest military force on the planet.
The problems of being Global Hegemon tend to be worth the value of being Global Hegemon. But we're still gonna gripe about it, Free Speech is handy like that.
This is my favorite channel on TH-cam. I giggle like a little girl every time I see a new video is available to watch. Your characters are solid. And I get most of my "current events" updates from these vids. Keep up the great work. We of The United States Navy salute you and your good works, sir.
I Will say that the general spending budget is vastly overinflated. a buddy of mine was told that it was required for his unit to get new desks, chairs, machines in order to spend the total budget for the unit. we're talking an office building getting 1,800$ desks every year. That single IT department for brigade spends a quarter of a million every year in office furniture.
HLC, well done! Combining green screen characters with your educational videos is a great way to teach everyone from crayon eaters to engineers about any number of topics. Side note: Is that a bayonet at 6:52 ?
I love how the raptor is portrayed as unstable. I go to church with a retired test pilot who flew 3 out of our 4 stealth aircraft, the raptor (both YF22 and F22) being one of them. When talking about "stability" he said "there are virtues to instability: when an aircraft is naturally stable in all three axes, it's harder to maneuver, because it wants to stay stable. When an aircraft is unstable it's very easy to make it highly maneuverable, it's more like you're unleashing it". If that doesn't fit with HLC's raptor idk what does lol.
My answer to this question is always “So big compared to what exactly?” There are lot of wolves at the door (whether or not they’re competent) and not a lot of other countries willing spend what’s necessary to oppose them or even protect themselves.
4:58 more like 6,000 miles and two weeks, according to Perun. On that third point a minute or two later, it's worth keeping in mind that, while we were distracted with our own stuff from 1861-65, the French swooped in and set up the Emperor Maximilian in Mexico.
Poor Max didn’t know what he was getting into. Its one of the crazy stories from 19th century Mexico. My favorite is Santa Anna and the pastry war, though.
Okay... you need to do this more often! 😂 Letting the buff talk with you id is funny.. i mean i get it, basically arguing with yourself, but still great content!
As someone who comes from a military family and wanted to join the military, but never got the chance to and who is too old now to join, I thoroughly enjoy your videos and get excited when I get the notifications. It's like listening to my uncle's and cousins when they come home. Thank you for what you do. 🇺🇸🫡
Curious - with Raptor (and the rest of the boys) and their "operational cost" - does that include the time of the maintainers (in addition to parts and consumables)? And are they doing just the hours or the hours, food, lodging, etc... would be a little "off" since those costs are already part of the budget . Love the training hours in the Cold War and just past - then the fun times flying over various "Stans" putting it to work.
@@thedyingmeme6Nah, Uncle Sam's Misguided Children don't eat crayons, but they are rumored to drink the blood of their enemies. So by default, anyone who wants to F-A with Marines must be about as dumb as a box of sh't. So the genetic quality of said blood is questionable.
Part of it, but a lot more is self-inflicted. The Canadian government spends approximately the same amount of money _per capita_ (per person) as the US government on health care. And Canadians get it mostly for free! That's how messed up the US healthcare buerocracy is.
You don't want "free" socialized healthcare. Coming from a Canadian whose spent more than his fair share around hospitals, the system is so broken it's effectively triage care with a decent chance of dying before you can get a procedure.
This is mostly wrong. Canada has a 20% average copay in hospital, and 80% for medication. Furthermore their system is so overtaxed that maid exists. Both need work.
@@TheEDFLegacy This is so laughably wrong it's hilarious. It's not free, our taxes are mental, with the highest combined rates hitting more than 50%. It's not free, and the health outcomes and service delivery are terrible. Just quit while you're behind man, you're not gonna win this argument.
I think one of the other reasons is that you have conflicting goals (which honestly is probably a good thing). On the one hand many citizens don't like the government to have a huge budget, and of course with defense there are a lot of large prices tags attached to everything, so it kind of naturally falls under a lot of scrutiny. On the other hand, a lot of that money goes to paying hundreds of thousands, if not millions of employees of not only defense contractors, but also all their sub-contractors, sub-sub-contractors, etc. This provides not only direct payment to these companies, but also helps to stimulate activity in the private sector, since many of the people who produce tools for use in the defense chain of production can sell those same products in the commercial market, create modified versions, or at the very least develop expertise and knowledge that can then be used to create other products they can sell to the public or other businesses. Again, I don't necessarily think having those two conflicting forces at play is a bad thing. Additionally, I think one aspect that will help things going forward is that during the Cold War, the U.S. threw a lot of money to develop technologies such as stealth and early military grade microchips that were very much in their infancy. Now however, we are seeing that we have significantly improved on our production of these processes. Planes such as the F-35 & B-21 which have significantly cheaper maintenance schedules than the F-117, B-2, & F-22. For chips, we have of course had decades now of massive improves in the lithography space, which has not only brought massive performance & power improvements, but also done so at a cheaper scale. Yes of course, the DOD will always end up paying a higher price, but comparing the development of lithography in the NATO & NATO friendly countries against the communists during the cold war, shows that A) The DOD will get a better product than if the commercial market didn't exist B) It will still be cheaper than what they would have otherwise gotten.
Honestly, military spending has never been a problem for me. I’d far rather have the DoD sprinkling our cash back into the system, even if it is via the MIC, than to watch it go into the pockets of the clownshow that largely runs DC atm. Hell, I pay high taxes on gas in my state, but we get some of the nicest roads you’ll ever drive on and that makes the extra cost worthwhile. Especially when I have to drive across state lines and see what others have to contend with.
would you agree that giving some of the m.o.s. to civilians also increases the cost? My m.o.s. (3513 body repair light wheeled vehicles) was removed from the marine corps and givin to civilians (who i'm willing to bet got paid more). and I understand there's a lot more that have done the same.
Well that helps alot. Now its easier to explain to fellow students that the military budget is not just a black hole money is sucked into screwing over the other departments and their budgets.
Currently Westinghouse is working on a transportable reactor. The company I work as has a sub contract with Westinghouse helping develop it. Look up Westinghouse evinci. It's still aways out.
Considering the cost of human lives, I wonder why more militaries don't invest in systems that increase the life expectancy of a soldier in combat? The US has the right idea, because a human takes at _least_ 18 years to prepare, and their deaths (or, heaven forbid - economically speaking - a permanent injury that takes them out of the economy and adds costs to it), you're losing out on years or even _decades_ of economic return. Of course I'm just speaking of the economic impact; the social impact is just as severe. But on the economic side, in the long run, a human will likely cost more to lose than almost _any_ military system. And if the dead soldier never had any kids? That's a permanent, _generational_ financial loss.
People complain about how much we spend, but they forget that we are the largest economy on the planet, so even if we spent just the NATO minimum 2%, that's still more than $400 billion. Also I love you too Raptor!
I love our military and I love that our military budget is so robust. This taxpayer his happy to give our military whatever it needs to protect our troops and our allies. Much Love Merica!
Let's not forgot absolutely ignorant cost and time management. A guy i know that works for boeing said that when he orders a sheet of plywood by the time it goes through 3 different communication chains, gets approved, someone finally goes and gets the plywood, and it finally ends up in his building its now a $5000 sheet of plywood because he can't just go get it himself. We did some work with an airforce base that has a manufacturing facility. All jobs and tasks are given time quotes for how long that thing should take. A mundane task that takes our guys 30 mins or less to do was quoted 8 hrs at that place. And those guys somehow manage to make it take that long.
I feel like I’m watching an adult military themed muppet show . Absolutely gold.
This is how modern training videos should be done. Hey, HLC, ever considered becoming a contractor and doing what Disney did during WW2?
You know, HLC does remind me of Kermit.
That or blues clues
A is for AMRAAM
B is for Ballistic
C is for Camo
...
It's time to play the music. It's time to fight the fights! It's time to meet the planes on the HLC SHOW tonight!
_"Some days it's hard to know where I stop and the voices take over..."_
*"Your injuries are not service related."*
_"...other days it's all too easy..."_
I'm loving this video format with the characters coming in and putting their 2 cents 🤩
It's hard to make but I hope everyone likes it
@@habitual_linecrosserwe certainly do. Keep up the great work!
@@habitual_linecrosserITt was hilarious! 😂
@@habitual_linecrosser yes it’s hilarious, please continue!
@@habitual_linecrosserfucking loved it bro.
HLC: “You know your me.”
Grandpa Buff: “Ya, but they don’t.”
The fourth wall break and simultaneous looking the cameras had me bust out laughing.
Epic delivery and editing!
Why is it so hard for people get your and you're right?
Your: possessive
You're: contraction of you and are
Example: Your ignorance is a sign that you're poorly educated.
But hey, at least you didn't use "ur."
I thought he said "you Know your mean" and grandpa was like "Ya, but they don't" XD
cuz no one likes grammar war criminals from ww2@@StudleyDuderight sorry to harsh.
@@CrazyKidXXI for every comment there is a GN which suggests that education isn't as bad because there is a lot of them and they like each other so that's just factually incorrect that no one likes them
@@StudleyDuderight Yo, ur being a dick over semantics. Your sense of superiority regarding English grammar is needlessly pedantic, these are youtube comments, not the forum floor in ancient Greece. You're only going to get yourself mocked for being a grammar nazi my friend..
The F-22 giving the begging puppy eyes while saying "I just want to intercept something🥺" hit me in the feels lol
After 73 years, they have discontinued PS magazine. This publication was probably the single most effective program in the history of HQDA. There is no telling how many millions of dollars it has saved through maintenance, transportation costs from turn-ins, etc. Really feels like a bunch of people at HQDA/ DOD forgot how the mainline Army works with many of the decisions that have been made lately. They are going to find out real quick when expenses start shooting through the roof for dumbshit.
I saw they were shutting it down sad day
Yeah, really sad. Fun fact though; one of the guys that did some of the artwork on PS Magazine, Joe Kubert, also did a lot of war themed comic books like Weird War Tales, Star Spangled War Stories and SGT Rock.
Well, I look forward to the revival, once the fools who made that decision are quietly 'promoted' to a place they can do (hopefully) less damage.
This "hybrid" format rocks, more of this!
Grandpa BUFF 's pictures from his visits to Asia in the 60s and 70s are why we want to spend the money.
Impressive integration with your characters. Well planned and executed!
My mom was DOD GS accountant for 30 years. I asked her about military spending one time and she said, "Why do we spend so much on the military? Simple we want to make sure we win."
ah yes, the US playing pay-to-win since WW2 😂😂
To quote Buff..."tip your.....well fuck it, everyone these days"
I admit that one caught me off guard. I laughed waaaaaayy too hard. 😂
This is so fun having you interact with the other yous. Enjoyed the knowledge. Good to know at least some things haven't changed since I left the Army in 1996. They still spend a lot of money. 😂
Thanks for mentioning Canada's energy industry. I work in IT in Alberta and have supported several companies maintaining those operations 🙂
Dude if you have a patron this video alone convinced me to sign up. This whole format with the characters was … gold.
I'd imagine innovation costs + global power projection both being extremely expensive to maintain.
Yep. Tech progress is really difficult to share across borders, not even EU countries can really manage it, so America being 50 countries that do a really passable impression of a single unified country, at least for defence spending, is a massive force multiplier. Also, if you're doing shit nobody else has seen, you're probably buying parts from someone who has a monopoly and you want to keep from thinking about selling to anyone you wouldn't go on a Thai night out with the boys with
"Why do you spend so much?"
Dunno 'bout the rest of y'all, but I want to live in a sci-fi.
Better than living in the real world
I mean, that’s pretty much why I love the MIC. Between them and Elon Musk, that’s our best shot at living in true sci-fi instead of the half-baked version we have now.
First thing I thought about the US's "Space Force" was: "Okay, will we need a 4x or a 5x multiplier on the current cost of our Air Force to accomplish this? Or do we just need to glue our current NASA spending onto the Air Force and say 'go'?"
I loved, loved, loved this.
Best of both forms and an excellent way of explaining spending. Sarcastic Kid is my favourite. He sometimes is this emotionally vulnerable toddler, but this shows his lean mean killing machine purpose. Grampa Buff is the heart of it all.
People don't understand that one of the most important US exports is security. When they fanny around(looking at you Baboon House) it calls that into question, they don't increase home security. They diminish it.
If you are soft abroad, enemies will question your strength at home.
0:56 awww that's cruel 🤣
I love how they have all become sentient. And self-aware. This feels like the start of some split personality disorder.
THANK YOU for this!!! I called into a SiriusXM radio last week to bring up the fact the money will allocate for aiding Ukraine isn’t all just shipped to their country and spent on their needs.
How much would you estimate gets put back into our own US economy by way of manufacturing jobs created and sustained?
Dad used to work in Training Technology in Canada. He told me just how much of their business was from the US Military. Absolutely insane.
Build a bitch workshop!
My god I spit my coke out laughing from that
As a former radio operator for an artillery battery this is true. We would do field exercises as a battery or battalion at at least once a month, then spend about a month in 29 Palms doing a regimental training twice a year and then a couple weeks on moving around base doing the same regimental exercises. On top of that rotating out units for Marine Expendtionary Units or Unit deployment program to Okinawa.
Something about hearing the Kid say “every single one of you is amazing” is really heartwarming.
Here in Topeka we have Forbes and the 190th. We own The Blind Tiger and the 190th has their own table here designated by the broken wind shield from a refuler that they gifted us hanging on the wall. We are a craft brewing/restaurant. ALL SERVICE MEMBERS past and present get their 1st beer on us. We've had gatherings at the house when there have been touch and goes and folks not from here ask whats that our reply " thats the sound of freedom baby". Sometimes it sets the garage door opener off. Kansas ALSO home of the Big Red One. Money well spent.
I absolutely love the long form mixed with green screen. Great idea!
Kudos to new format! Love the 'perspective' each one brings to the table.
HLC, you had your unique niche that made you loved already. Now you've improved that niche with your character visits. This is amazing and hilarious.
I hope you break the 1 million subscribers mark before 2024 is over
Why is the defence budget so big?
1. When it’s not you end up like Russia struggling against a small country.
2. You end up like Western Europe and Canada and Australia for most of the last 50 years. Almost entirely dependent on the strength of another country for protection, which leads inherently to a dominion status.
3. It’s the only way to overcome any corruption. Which would end up making you like china. Where recent reports say their missile silos are in such poor condition that the doors don’t open, their fuel supplies are so low that they fill the tanks with water to create the illusion of being at capacity.
Dude, this is absolutely perfect. It went from basic flat breakdowns of The military straight to military Sesame Street for adults
Which is both perfect
It's funny, a month after I visited Duxford Air Museum and saw a BUFF in the American hanger I discovered your videos and now next time I go, I am just going to hear all the voices in there.
Actually blushed when the Kid said "every single one of you is amazing"~
"You speak in riddles, I speak in missiles!"
That line makes the temperature at cruising altitude feel warm 🥶
A huge THANK YOU to all the military men, women and families. THANK YOU for you sacrifice. THANK YOU for my FREEDOM.
Long form with green screen hits?
Your content is about to become a controlled substance because it is so addicting to watch and I am waiting for the next hit.
And of course, you delivered.
Thank you so much for this.
Love how he included the characters in the lesson. Learned a lot.
In love with the new format. Between yourself, Chief and MFD I have so many characters inside my head 😂 I had someone tell me they were going to Panama and I had CW5 Friendly and BUFF telling stories about 'Panny-ma'. Great content keep it up!
Grandpa Buff: *_"Going out with the BOIs..."_*
😆😆😆
I love this format watching HLC talk to himself is hilarious
The exchange between the 22 and the 44 made me laugh at work, so hard i got in trouble. Thanks Linecrosser!
It's like show and tell at kindergarten, where it's necessary for the teacher to constantly remind the class how important it is to learn to get along with each other.
Thank you for the 22 comment. Also “build a bit*h workshop” was one of those gold standard moments. And this one had a lot!
I love this. It's both educational and entertainment. HLC you know how to do Edutainment, your content especially your Green Screens, remind me of a show I used to watch as a kid called Mighty Machines
Keep up what you do and never stop being funny
Absolutely awesome far better info on world events than any news networks and hilarious to boot
It’s so big because why tf not 😂😂😂
yes
If there is a ww3 our enemy will fight it the shade created by the insane amount of planes copters and missiles in the air
@@AC130boi But actually no.
thankyou USA for you're service and all you do!! From UK :)
I needed this after a day I had. Thanks for bringing the best and most entertaining yet informative videos!!!!
I want to give you feedback real quick.
Your combination of green screen and normal educational video is perfect
Please keep doing this kind of format.
Honestly i love both the skits and just you bsing around and having fun so having both just makes it that much better
As soon as I saw “BUFF” drop in I knew this was elevating to a “Whole Notha Level!!!”
Then “22” and NGAD savage!!
I learned interesting facts and was laughing long after the video was over.
Please continue this format sir. IMHO it’s a winner….
Hooray! Someone in my vicinity who DOES know that most of our oil comes from Canada! It's freaking exhausting having to explain that.
Also,, Grandpa BUFF would have some stories to swap with one of my Navy veteran uncles, as he also accidentally picked up a kathoey while in Thailand.
Point people to the Energy Information Agency (EIA) for all the energy statistics, including oil, natural gas, and petroleum products. You can see imports by country of origin, exports by destination country, crude oil production by state, imports by method of delivery... everything you could want to know.
Well, not exactly. Most of our oil comes from domestic production.
Most of our *imported* oil comes from Canada.
@clapanse Very true, I should have elaborated. Thanks! 🙂
The 4th wall breaks have such Deadpool energy in the best of ways
We're preparing for a fight everyone else isn't. Gotta make sure those aliens know what's up.
This is perfection in its most perfect form.
I’m always conflicted when people complain about our defense budget, because on the one hand it is objectively huge and it’s hard to see money get so easily approved for the military while other stuff is always “too expensive”. But on the other hand… I kinda like having the strongest military force on the planet.
The problems of being Global Hegemon tend to be worth the value of being Global Hegemon. But we're still gonna gripe about it, Free Speech is handy like that.
This is my favorite channel on TH-cam. I giggle like a little girl every time I see a new video is available to watch. Your characters are solid. And I get most of my "current events" updates from these vids. Keep up the great work. We of The United States Navy salute you and your good works, sir.
Is this turning into a DoD version Sesame Street with military equipment instead of muppets? Because that'd be pretty dope.
I Will say that the general spending budget is vastly overinflated. a buddy of mine was told that it was required for his unit to get new desks, chairs, machines in order to spend the total budget for the unit. we're talking an office building getting 1,800$ desks every year. That single IT department for brigade spends a quarter of a million every year in office furniture.
HLC, well done! Combining green screen characters with your educational videos is a great way to teach everyone from crayon eaters to engineers about any number of topics.
Side note: Is that a bayonet at 6:52 ?
That would be the towing attachment for the M-777 towed artillery. Do an image search on "towing M-777" for a visual.
I love how the raptor is portrayed as unstable. I go to church with a retired test pilot who flew 3 out of our 4 stealth aircraft, the raptor (both YF22 and F22) being one of them. When talking about "stability" he said "there are virtues to instability: when an aircraft is naturally stable in all three axes, it's harder to maneuver, because it wants to stay stable. When an aircraft is unstable it's very easy to make it highly maneuverable, it's more like you're unleashing it". If that doesn't fit with HLC's raptor idk what does lol.
Cool to hear that story.
I’ve heard news reports during fighting of stealth craft instability. Makes a lot more sense now!
My answer to this question is always “So big compared to what exactly?” There are lot of wolves at the door (whether or not they’re competent) and not a lot of other countries willing spend what’s necessary to oppose them or even protect themselves.
I need all my news delivered in this style.
4:58 more like 6,000 miles and two weeks, according to Perun.
On that third point a minute or two later, it's worth keeping in mind that, while we were distracted with our own stuff from 1861-65, the French swooped in and set up the Emperor Maximilian in Mexico.
Poor Max didn’t know what he was getting into. Its one of the crazy stories from 19th century Mexico. My favorite is Santa Anna and the pastry war, though.
You, AK Guy, Donut, Scott, and Demo are a very good reason I did not become part of the 22 a day stats. Thank you. Love ya Brother!
Okay... you need to do this more often! 😂
Letting the buff talk with you id is funny.. i mean i get it, basically arguing with yourself, but still great content!
The characters sneaking in had me cackling. Great work!
I didn’t think anything would top Grandpa Buff’s Taiwan story.
Then The Kid drops Build a Bitch
That was 👌🏽🔥👌🏽
I’m still watching but laughing at the Buff so hard I’m trying not to pass out on the shitter🫡🇺🇸👍🏻🤣
Yooo that's some big balls scripting and editing skill there! Brilliant man! Brilliant!
As someone who comes from a military family and wanted to join the military, but never got the chance to and who is too old now to join, I thoroughly enjoy your videos and get excited when I get the notifications. It's like listening to my uncle's and cousins when they come home. Thank you for what you do. 🇺🇸🫡
Grandpa buff shows up I listen
Anyone else hear the F-22 laughing his ass off or would he be laughing his tail off?
Curious - with Raptor (and the rest of the boys) and their "operational cost" - does that include the time of the maintainers (in addition to parts and consumables)? And are they doing just the hours or the hours, food, lodging, etc... would be a little "off" since those costs are already part of the budget . Love the training hours in the Cold War and just past - then the fun times flying over various "Stans" putting it to work.
Typically operational costs, especially cost per flight hour, isn’t just fuel and flight crew, it does include the scheduled maintenance items.
This has MIC Mr. Rogers vibes, and I am *all* for it.
Because America that’s why
The cameos deffinetly adds to your videos. Keep it up!
Well described. I think the only people who couldn't understand your break down of how our military's budget works eat crayons all day.
Marines
@@thedyingmeme6Nah, Uncle Sam's Misguided Children don't eat crayons, but they are rumored to drink the blood of their enemies. So by default, anyone who wants to F-A with Marines must be about as dumb as a box of sh't. So the genetic quality of said blood is questionable.
Aww cmon. F22 emits marine aura. Give ‘em a bit of credit.
Marines aren’t _that_ dumb. Besides, everyone knows X and Reddit users typically consume drywall and basement mold.
@@OneBiasedOpinion OK, that was pantsh'tingly funny.😆😂
The way I understood it, we train as if we're at war so that if war happens, we're already ready to go.
So thats why the US Healthcare is…
You know
The us spends more on healthcare than on the military. By a factor of over 2. Per Capita the fed spends more on healthcare than many European nations.
Part of it, but a lot more is self-inflicted. The Canadian government spends approximately the same amount of money _per capita_ (per person) as the US government on health care. And Canadians get it mostly for free! That's how messed up the US healthcare buerocracy is.
You don't want "free" socialized healthcare. Coming from a Canadian whose spent more than his fair share around hospitals, the system is so broken it's effectively triage care with a decent chance of dying before you can get a procedure.
This is mostly wrong. Canada has a 20% average copay in hospital, and 80% for medication. Furthermore their system is so overtaxed that maid exists.
Both need work.
@@TheEDFLegacy This is so laughably wrong it's hilarious. It's not free, our taxes are mental, with the highest combined rates hitting more than 50%. It's not free, and the health outcomes and service delivery are terrible. Just quit while you're behind man, you're not gonna win this argument.
“ See you in the sky soon “
I BET YOU WONT 😂
I’m 54 seconds into the release of the video and it’s already got 30+ likes and a dozen comments. Woohoo
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I think one of the other reasons is that you have conflicting goals (which honestly is probably a good thing).
On the one hand many citizens don't like the government to have a huge budget, and of course with defense there are a lot of large prices tags attached to everything, so it kind of naturally falls under a lot of scrutiny.
On the other hand, a lot of that money goes to paying hundreds of thousands, if not millions of employees of not only defense contractors, but also all their sub-contractors, sub-sub-contractors, etc. This provides not only direct payment to these companies, but also helps to stimulate activity in the private sector, since many of the people who produce tools for use in the defense chain of production can sell those same products in the commercial market, create modified versions, or at the very least develop expertise and knowledge that can then be used to create other products they can sell to the public or other businesses.
Again, I don't necessarily think having those two conflicting forces at play is a bad thing.
Additionally, I think one aspect that will help things going forward is that during the Cold War, the U.S. threw a lot of money to develop technologies such as stealth and early military grade microchips that were very much in their infancy. Now however, we are seeing that we have significantly improved on our production of these processes. Planes such as the F-35 & B-21 which have significantly cheaper maintenance schedules than the F-117, B-2, & F-22. For chips, we have of course had decades now of massive improves in the lithography space, which has not only brought massive performance & power improvements, but also done so at a cheaper scale. Yes of course, the DOD will always end up paying a higher price, but comparing the development of lithography in the NATO & NATO friendly countries against the communists during the cold war, shows that
A) The DOD will get a better product than if the commercial market didn't exist
B) It will still be cheaper than what they would have otherwise gotten.
Honestly, military spending has never been a problem for me. I’d far rather have the DoD sprinkling our cash back into the system, even if it is via the MIC, than to watch it go into the pockets of the clownshow that largely runs DC atm. Hell, I pay high taxes on gas in my state, but we get some of the nicest roads you’ll ever drive on and that makes the extra cost worthwhile. Especially when I have to drive across state lines and see what others have to contend with.
A lot of people don’t realize how much of the budget just goes into covering wages.
would you agree that giving some of the m.o.s. to civilians also increases the cost? My m.o.s. (3513 body repair light wheeled vehicles) was removed from the marine corps and givin to civilians (who i'm willing to bet got paid more). and I understand there's a lot more that have done the same.
Well that helps alot. Now its easier to explain to fellow students that the military budget is not just a black hole money is sucked into screwing over the other departments and their budgets.
And people wonder why the army wants to create a transportable Nuclear Reactor. The amount of logistics that saves alone makes it worth it.
I thought the US Carriers already had... oh, the ARMY. Sorry, my bad. :)
Maybe someday such things will become practical in the regular world as well, I can't wait for it
Currently Westinghouse is working on a transportable reactor. The company I work as has a sub contract with Westinghouse helping develop it. Look up Westinghouse evinci. It's still aways out.
@@anarionelendili8961 I wouldn't exactly call a nuclear carrier "portable" just mobile
Wasn’t rolls Royce making one?
Love this Mr. Rogers format
Considering the cost of human lives, I wonder why more militaries don't invest in systems that increase the life expectancy of a soldier in combat? The US has the right idea, because a human takes at _least_ 18 years to prepare, and their deaths (or, heaven forbid - economically speaking - a permanent injury that takes them out of the economy and adds costs to it), you're losing out on years or even _decades_ of economic return.
Of course I'm just speaking of the economic impact; the social impact is just as severe. But on the economic side, in the long run, a human will likely cost more to lose than almost _any_ military system. And if the dead soldier never had any kids? That's a permanent, _generational_ financial loss.
"you speak in riddles, I speak in missiles" 🤣
now that's a 🔥
because AMERICA #1!!!!!! RAAAAAH
People complain about how much we spend, but they forget that we are the largest economy on the planet, so even if we spent just the NATO minimum 2%, that's still more than $400 billion.
Also I love you too Raptor!
Fencing championship hahahah
I love our military and I love that our military budget is so robust. This taxpayer his happy to give our military whatever it needs to protect our troops and our allies. Much Love Merica!
Moar buff!
Let's not forgot absolutely ignorant cost and time management. A guy i know that works for boeing said that when he orders a sheet of plywood by the time it goes through 3 different communication chains, gets approved, someone finally goes and gets the plywood, and it finally ends up in his building its now a $5000 sheet of plywood because he can't just go get it himself. We did some work with an airforce base that has a manufacturing facility. All jobs and tasks are given time quotes for how long that thing should take. A mundane task that takes our guys 30 mins or less to do was quoted 8 hrs at that place. And those guys somehow manage to make it take that long.
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1:00 in, and im already laughing my ass off. Good luck with all your future endeavors.
This channel has made me so patriotic
Hats off and listen when grandpa buff speaks! Signed The Kid.