19:35 - Remember, _Starship Troopers_ was written by Robert A. Heinlein, who was a Naval officer from 1929-1934....meaning that he certainly knew the story of Dan Daly from first-hand accounts. After all: Don't argue with a guy who wrote confidently about cutlasses, because they were still kept aboard ship in those days...Just in case.
Yeah, sadly they ruined the movie version, I mean, is a very entertaining b rated sci fi movie, but woulda been better if they made the movie with a different name, also love the book and most of Heinlein’s books, have a about 3/4 of them I own, books just cost too much, on top of everything else I need and want, so I slowly build up and get them. Him and Jules Verne, got me into sci fi after I read some of their books, I don’t know how many books, but I I filled two footlockers worth with just sci-fi mainly military type, a good couple hundred pounds worth, haha. Plus all my other books. I got probably a good 5-600 lbs worth of books, but yeah, wish a good, faithful movie of starship troopers was made, and I still want the MI’s powered armor, wasn’t it the Marauder suit? Been years since I read it. Plus you know man portable nukes are baller.
The craziest thing about Sergeant Major Daly? He was never wounded! This embodiment of the name “Devil Dog”, earned the Medal of Honor three times (Yes, he earned it that last time, I don’t care what Congress says!), and was never! Even! Scratched!
Dan Daly was the kind of glorious bastard that if he were in WH40k, he would wind up retiring from the Imperial Guard and die peacefully of old age because the Chaos Gods knew they could never take any planet he was stationed on. And there would be a veritable civil war in the Adeptus Ministorum, not about whether or not he should be declared an Imperial Saint, but what he should be declared the Imperial Saint _of,_ because I don't think most of the Ecclesiarchy would accept 'Imperial Saint of Getting Shit Done' as a proper title, but some people would. Granted, I guarantee you Dan Daly would be competing with Commissar Yarrick and Caiphas Cain for that distinction if that was an actual title, but still.
Honestly given his opinion of being a commissioned officer I would half expect that he would be a guardsman. But him and his unit are so incredibly skilled and badass that their feared by the forces of chaos and are actually highly respected by all of the space marine chapters.
The leaders of the cult would shoot blanks at their men to "prove" that they were bullet proof (unless they didn't like someone and just shot him with a regular bullet and told the others that he didn't have enough faith).
I was trying to come up with something snarky to say in response to their belief that they were bulletproof, but there's no topping that slow motion facepalm followed by "mistakes...were made".
@@gilmadreth680 it’s like what do you say to that? It’s the height of stupidity but feels like from a cartoon, it’s legitimately so hard to believe anyone can be that dumb
Also: Daly's weapons in Peking were an M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun (aka, the "Potato Digger"), and the M1895 Winchester-Lee Navy Rifle (US arms designations were screwy for decades). Gun Jesus at _Forgotten Weapons_ has a great video on the rifle; I think C&Rsenal has a bit on the machine gun, but I'm not sure....neat gun, but not something I would want to have to baby around with.
Well as a reply to both, your only choice for a machine is the 1895…or nothing. This ain’t the army. Or the Brit’s, or imperial Germans. Or the Russians. There is literally no other option as they wouldn’t buy maxims for the USMC, so it’s that, or no machine gun. Yeah I’ll take the 1895, thank you very much, and we’ll you can’t listen to or trust the bureau of ordinance as they were primarily idiots and bureaucrats, that didn’t know their ass from a hole in the ground. Or listen to experts and experienced men, who were successful in combat. The bureau’s track record was and will forever remain garbage. Also they clearly never personally met or knew Marines. Saying it’s unuseable at night…if they would let us Marines man subs in WWII, there never woulda been a public Mk 14 fiasco, as we woulda just made them work, somehow, that’s what we do. We woulda figured out to tinker with them, improve them, or just flat out rip out shit and modify them, until they worked to our liking. And likely put even more explosive filler in them. And made them go faster and longer range. Or at the very least, but a big ass, barbed spike in the end, so it’d punch a small hole that leaked water. And weighed down the ship, if it didn’t blow up, haha. And then probably attacked a spare anchor, to a line, so when it caught bottom. It’d rip a huge gash into the ship, below the water line, cause we do dumb/crazy shit along those lines, or we’d just drive up alongside them, tie off and away boarding parties. Then take their ship from them. Some may doubt that, anyone who knows US Marines, knows wholeheartedly that we’d do that, cause we can, especially if we can make the torps work. And the whole world would be like, behold the Marine, submarine, they use it o my as a boarding vessel, because they are extremely crazy, and stupid, but they took the most ships in world history, capturing thousands of combined ships of military and logistical nature, because they are insane and they only lost 200 Marines in all of WWII, stealing thousands of ships. Everyone knows that we’d do that, if only allowed to.
As someone who is currently writing a paper on Daly, his CO actually was worried about Daly (he volunteered to hold the fort) in the legation center, but Daly being a Chad basically says “See you in the morning”.
As far as the war thing, it's important to note that there have been long stretches of time when we didn't have a war officially declared, but that didn't mean we weren't fighting someone somewhere. The boxer rebellion is actually a decent example. We weren't really at war, because the enemy wasn't a nation, but military sponsored violence still happened.
17 years... out of 248. That is how long the US has managed to actually not be shooting SOMEONE. And then they ask why Americans cannot give up the addiction to guns. Dudes, you would get further talking Germans out of BEER.
"Do you want to live forever" it's one of those phrases that come up from time to time actually. I know there's others that I can't recall. But Fredrick the Great said it in a battle in the 1700s.
As a USMC 'alumnus', I'm so glad to see Dan Daly getting the spotlight outside the Corps. We all get taught about him, Smedley Butler, and a list of other notable Marines in Boot Camp, because, aside from being good examples to emulate, they also deserve to be remembered for their heroism and sheer guts. About the only notable Marine I didn't learn about while in the Corps was SSgt. Reckless, but... Fat Electrician covered her, so I expect you'll get a chance to acquire that knowledge yourself once you get to that video :P
10:51 Search "Defence of foreign legations, Peking, China, June 20th to Aug. 14th, 1900. " in google, library of congress. It's a map of the Legation District with built fortifications outlined in red. The map can be a bit tricky to read because part of it is doubled, so it requires a bit of mental transposition. For a bit of context, the Tartar Wall is one of the defensive walls encompassing Beijing city. It is ~45ft high and ~40 wide. The position then Pvt. Daly was defending was one of the barricades atop this wall that were set up to deny the Boxers (and later the Chinese army) access to the advantageous position it would grant next to the American, Russian, and German Legations, which were positioned nearly against this wall. Barricades were erected facing roughly east and west on the wall, with the western facing barricades being manned by US Marines and the eastward facing barricades being manned by German soldiers (initially, Marines eventually manned both directions).
Marines were issued during the Boxer Rebellion with M1895 Lee Navy rifles in 6mm Lee Navy caliber, the machine gun issued was the M1895 Colt-Browning that also fired the same 6mm ammo
11:58 that scene your referring to was actually done that way because Harrison ford got pretty sick and developed dysentery while on set. He was supposed to have that long drawn out fight scene, but felt so bad that he decided to just make it end early by pulling his gun and shooting the guy instead. It ended up looking funny enough to the leading group that it was kept in and was even referenced in the temple of doom…
i wanna see the fatelectrician do a video on that dentist from ww2 who stayed behind to cover his wounded as japanese charged and overtook the field hospital, sadly he did not have dan dailys plot armor but he gave it a damn good try and died for a good cause
In response to the large number of requests, maybe you can start at the beginning of his videos, which were mostly describing military branches and units. Maybe do four or five in one videos and start systematically reacting to chunks of his content. Just an idea, but it might help
I remember watching this video when it first came out and laughing so hard when he made they holey joke. To rewatch it in a reaction video once again and sharing a laugh hard enough to cry. Was an amazing reaction😂
Dan Daly... the man who we COULD not make a movie about, because it is too unbelievable. To your statement of we have been at war... we are almost 250 years old... Wiki lists only 17 years that we have not been at war.
@@raikbarczynski6582No joke, when Ronald Reagan gave Master Sergeant Benavidez his Medal of Honor he told him that if they made a movie about him, no one would believe that what happened actually happened.
Dan Daly shouting: Come on you SoBs, do you wanna live forever? could be seen in two ways. First: like a question like in: do you want to get our of here? Then follow me, lets win this and then we can go back home. Or second like: You want to be remembered as heroes? Good follow me, lets kick ass and win this shit and everyone will know our names even if we die.
I've always interpreted it as a sarcastic and backhanded insult about how cowards would avoid danger to try and stay alive. So put another way he'd be asking 'Do you want to live forever in shame?' rather than 'Do you want to live on forever as a hero?', and was essentially daring everyone to come die with him. Kind of like how the phrase 'It's a good day to die.' is meant to be used sarcastically or ironically with the intent that it's NEVER a good day to die, rather than as a declaration of one's willingness to die in any given circumstance. But again, that's just my interpretation, and the wording kind of invites individual use.
If you want to do a 5 minute lore video, it should absolutely be about the second guy to win two medals of honor: Smedley Butler. Don't mock the name; if you have played a Call of Duty game, you played as Smedley Butler.
how have I not heard of this guy? we need more people like this in our history lessons. also I'd like to recommend Fat Electricians 450 marines vs the japanese imperial navy video. I can almost guarantee you'll like it.
You should see about finding a friend to Help take the pressure off someone who can react for you so you can make a video and the other person can react and make it less stressful
This isn't the first time groups of men willingly walked and ran into machine gun fire I forgot the battle but I know the Germans during world war I marched into machine gun fire in formation and they were seeing the front lines get mowed down and they kept on marching forward in formation until orders told them to retreat 😬
I may be wrong but that may of been the first battle of the war. Where within a minute the British killed an entire battalion marching into them in the first shots of the war.
Being from Texas and having been born and raised in Houston, a stones throw from where it was moored till just recently, check out his Battleship Texas video.
Fun fact: that scene from Indiana Jones only happened because Harrison Ford had the flu. He was originally supposed to beat the other guy with his whip, but with Harrison having the flu, he did this instead, and it made the scene infinitely better.
In March 1911, Daly was on the USS Springfield when he managed to put out flames from gasoline that had caught fire before the general alarm could be sounded. If the fire had continued, the powder magazines on the ship could have exploded. Daly received commendations from his commanding officer and the Secretary of Navy for his quick thinking.
You react as if were chilling having a cup of coffee at the local diner. Just people having an open conversation in terms that anyone could understand. Binge continued! Keep killing it bro.👍🖖
The scene with harrison ford shooting the sword guy was supposed to be a big fight but they had to shoot it that way because Ford was sick at the time and couldnt be away from the toilet for more than a few minutes.
From what I understand that scene in Indianna Jones, Harrison Ford was actually not feeling well on set that day. And because of this, he didn’t feel up to doing the whole fight, so he simply pulled the gun and fired. However, the director loved it so much they kept it in.
Robber: “Everyone hand over your wallets, this is a robbery!” Dan Daley: *racks shotgun* “Boy, you just done made a big mistake. I suggest you start a-running.”
Your actually a little wrong about Indiana Jones shooting the sword guy. Harrison Ford and much of the film crew was sick with dysentery at the time. Ford felt absolutely horrible and shooting a long fight scene would be too taxing on everyone. So Ford asks Spielberg if he could just shoot the guy and get the scene over with. Spielberg thought it would be a funny scene and knew the crew was sick he gave the go ahead. You are right about the guy being mad through.
The scene in Indiana Jones was shot after they had re-filmed and reshot that scene a LOT of times and everyone was tired. Harrison Ford was tired, the crowd was tired, the guy with the sword was tired and they all went along just to end the day. Now the guy with the sword must've been pissed that they picked THAT scene for the movie, but in the end, if he would've stayed up, the scene would've been useless anyway.
Ask and you shall receive, the machine gun used by Dan Daly during the Boxer rebellion was an M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun. (It's also known as the potato digger for the way it operates. If fired from a bipod the lever mechanism kicks up dirt and dust as it scrapes the ground.)
so back in those days it was more then likely a water cooled maxim machine gun it would take 2 people to carry the gun and 1 to carry the tripod and 1 to carry the water to cool it he was stuck in one spot
I dunno what machine gun he was manning, but given the time. It woulda had to been a maxim or a colt 1895 ‘potato digger’ and the rifle woulda been the weird like 6 something mm that only the Navy and US Marines used, I can’t remember the name of it, but it was stupid high velocity, and just ate barrels a great rifle of they had 50 years or so technological advancement in metallurgy, it was pretty low recoil, long and fairly heavy bullets going something 2900 or 3000 fps if I remember right. Was the first adopted rifle and round of that type. It was the Lee something, or something Lee. If you recreated it today. You’d have something like the 6.5 Grendel or whatever similar round. Which essentially what they did, whether or not they knew they did that.
The only thing the Fat Electrician got wrong in this video was Dan Daly's age when he signed up. He was actually 25 when he enlisted, not 16. Also, interesting fact about the Boxer Rebellion: The reason so many Chinese people had such a hate-boner for Christian missionaries in particular was not necessarily because they were spreading a Western religion, but because Christianity had developed a reputation in China as a religion of pure evil. This is because after the end of the Opium Wars, one of the concessions the French forced on the Chinese government was a requirement that Christians in China must be immune to prosecution under the law. This was intended to prevent the kinds of official or semi-official persecution of Christians that had happened before in both China and Japan. Instead, the result was that every two bit rapist, murderer, bandit and slaver officially converted to Christianity and became instantly above the law in China. Across the country, gangs of "Christians" tormented people with impunity, and to the average Chinese person it looked like Christianity had created a massive wave of banditry and crime, and so everything to do with Christianity came to be considered completely, irredeemably evil by a huge swathe of the Chinese population.
FE covering the Baltic Fleet would be amazing, then again there are several others that'd be amazing. Attack of Osoweic Fortress is the next thing that comes to mind.
No, he wasn't a movie hero. No script writer would pen those scenes because they are too unbelievable. Just look at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields in LOTR. A seven thousand light cavalry Rohirim charge. Huge. What about historically? Glad you asked. The Relief of Vienna. The decisive blow was an EIGHTEEN THOUSAND horse charge of heavier than the Roherim cavalry, including THREE THOUSAND elite Winged Hussar heavy lancers. Who probably could have beaten the seven thousand Rohirim, with how badly Peter Jackson nerfed them. I will never forgive Jackson for what he did to Aragorn.
Oh also, lots of if not most people just laugh when you say something like they believed they were impervious to bullets, but from a military standpoint that’s terrifying, they are highly trained, motivated, dedicated individuals, that believe that and are in fact fanatical, who out number you, are looking to fight you in a city, mostly at night…in the 1890’s, flash lights aren’t a thing…better have a fire lit, for extra light, but they will wreck your ability to see completely, so no go on that. Unless it’s a couple hundred yards away, and you get a small area of light, but someone has to maintain it, militarily you completely blind at night in that era, except a dozen feet or so. Sure a city back then and rioting. Probably with fires lit, you can see further, but not far. And you touched a little bit on it, then being trained and fit, and fanatics. That makes them very dangerous, as they will attack long after others woulda gave up.
19:35 - Remember, _Starship Troopers_ was written by Robert A. Heinlein, who was a Naval officer from 1929-1934....meaning that he certainly knew the story of Dan Daly from first-hand accounts.
After all: Don't argue with a guy who wrote confidently about cutlasses, because they were still kept aboard ship in those days...Just in case.
It's such a great read it's my 2nd favorite book right after all's quiet on the western front
Naturally, I started humming Klendathu Drop at that moment
Yeah, sadly they ruined the movie version, I mean, is a very entertaining b rated sci fi movie, but woulda been better if they made the movie with a different name, also love the book and most of Heinlein’s books, have a about 3/4 of them I own, books just cost too much, on top of everything else I need and want, so I slowly build up and get them. Him and Jules Verne, got me into sci fi after I read some of their books, I don’t know how many books, but I I filled two footlockers worth with just sci-fi mainly military type, a good couple hundred pounds worth, haha. Plus all my other books. I got probably a good 5-600 lbs worth of books, but yeah, wish a good, faithful movie of starship troopers was made, and I still want the MI’s powered armor, wasn’t it the Marauder suit? Been years since I read it. Plus you know man portable nukes are baller.
The craziest thing about Sergeant Major Daly? He was never wounded!
This embodiment of the name “Devil Dog”, earned the Medal of Honor three times (Yes, he earned it that last time, I don’t care what Congress says!), and was never!
Even!
Scratched!
Fuck the us congress for this one
He has 2 purple harts so he was wondering at some point.
@@eeduranti Proof, please.
@@TheAKgunner Wikipedia source is the national archives so if you want proof that's where to look lol
@@999maza Good to know. Thank you.
Dan Daly was the kind of glorious bastard that if he were in WH40k, he would wind up retiring from the Imperial Guard and die peacefully of old age because the Chaos Gods knew they could never take any planet he was stationed on. And there would be a veritable civil war in the Adeptus Ministorum, not about whether or not he should be declared an Imperial Saint, but what he should be declared the Imperial Saint _of,_ because I don't think most of the Ecclesiarchy would accept 'Imperial Saint of Getting Shit Done' as a proper title, but some people would. Granted, I guarantee you Dan Daly would be competing with Commissar Yarrick and Caiphas Cain for that distinction if that was an actual title, but still.
Honestly given his opinion of being a commissioned officer I would half expect that he would be a guardsman. But him and his unit are so incredibly skilled and badass that their feared by the forces of chaos and are actually highly respected by all of the space marine chapters.
Dan Daly could fend off a tyranid invasion and not lose a single man.
Dan Daly is the type of man to instill fear into the hearts of the Death Korps of Krieg and still get shit done
Commisar? Nah, Dan Daly!
Naw, he would be the guy that kicked Leman russ ass.
Daly would have been a Cadian.
The look on your face when he said the believed they were impervious to bullets just speaks to me...
The leaders of the cult would shoot blanks at their men to "prove" that they were bullet proof (unless they didn't like someone and just shot him with a regular bullet and told the others that he didn't have enough faith).
I was trying to come up with something snarky to say in response to their belief that they were bulletproof, but there's no topping that slow motion facepalm followed by "mistakes...were made".
@@gilmadreth680 it’s like what do you say to that? It’s the height of stupidity but feels like from a cartoon, it’s legitimately so hard to believe anyone can be that dumb
Then "Yeah" The Fat.
"i only quit firing because they quit coming" is the hardest line ive ever heard
Also: Daly's weapons in Peking were an M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun (aka, the "Potato Digger"), and the M1895 Winchester-Lee Navy Rifle (US arms designations were screwy for decades). Gun Jesus at _Forgotten Weapons_ has a great video on the rifle; I think C&Rsenal has a bit on the machine gun, but I'm not sure....neat gun, but not something I would want to have to baby around with.
Especially not something you’re moving by yourself in combat
Aaahh... The M1895 Colt-Browning. The machinegun BUORD described as "Unusable at Night". Guess the Mk14 wasn't the first time BUORD got it wrong.
Well as a reply to both, your only choice for a machine is the 1895…or nothing. This ain’t the army. Or the Brit’s, or imperial Germans. Or the Russians. There is literally no other option as they wouldn’t buy maxims for the USMC, so it’s that, or no machine gun. Yeah I’ll take the 1895, thank you very much, and we’ll you can’t listen to or trust the bureau of ordinance as they were primarily idiots and bureaucrats, that didn’t know their ass from a hole in the ground. Or listen to experts and experienced men, who were successful in combat. The bureau’s track record was and will forever remain garbage. Also they clearly never personally met or knew Marines. Saying it’s unuseable at night…if they would let us Marines man subs in WWII, there never woulda been a public Mk 14 fiasco, as we woulda just made them work, somehow, that’s what we do. We woulda figured out to tinker with them, improve them, or just flat out rip out shit and modify them, until they worked to our liking. And likely put even more explosive filler in them. And made them go faster and longer range. Or at the very least, but a big ass, barbed spike in the end, so it’d punch a small hole that leaked water. And weighed down the ship, if it didn’t blow up, haha. And then probably attacked a spare anchor, to a line, so when it caught bottom. It’d rip a huge gash into the ship, below the water line, cause we do dumb/crazy shit along those lines, or we’d just drive up alongside them, tie off and away boarding parties. Then take their ship from them. Some may doubt that, anyone who knows US Marines, knows wholeheartedly that we’d do that, cause we can, especially if we can make the torps work. And the whole world would be like, behold the Marine, submarine, they use it o my as a boarding vessel, because they are extremely crazy, and stupid, but they took the most ships in world history, capturing thousands of combined ships of military and logistical nature, because they are insane and they only lost 200 Marines in all of WWII, stealing thousands of ships. Everyone knows that we’d do that, if only allowed to.
As someone who is currently writing a paper on Daly, his CO actually was worried about Daly (he volunteered to hold the fort) in the legation center, but Daly being a Chad basically says “See you in the morning”.
Dan Daly "Do you wanna life forever?" is a real life instance of someone starting a WAAAGH!
We Marines have WAAAAGH! energy
@@ismaeljimenez6562whole new meaning to the green tide
Warboss Dan Daly getting umies hopped up on WAAAGH energy out here. 🤣
Seabees with that latent Ork psychic energy too
As far as the war thing, it's important to note that there have been long stretches of time when we didn't have a war officially declared, but that didn't mean we weren't fighting someone somewhere. The boxer rebellion is actually a decent example. We weren't really at war, because the enemy wasn't a nation, but military sponsored violence still happened.
17 years... out of 248. That is how long the US has managed to actually not be shooting SOMEONE. And then they ask why Americans cannot give up the addiction to guns. Dudes, you would get further talking Germans out of BEER.
Exactly
Barbary Wars are the first example of this.
That's why FTE didn't say war, he said armed conflict.
@@KairiPrime Was more responding to how the reactor phrases, FTE did fine.
Dan Daly is the example of what happens when you get every video game achievement IRL.
"Do you want to live forever" it's one of those phrases that come up from time to time actually. I know there's others that I can't recall. But Fredrick the Great said it in a battle in the 1700s.
Dan Daly. Next to Chesty Puller, he forms the top tier of the Marine pantheon. Oorah, Sergeant Major!
oohhhh Chesty...would have to be a whole series
As a USMC 'alumnus', I'm so glad to see Dan Daly getting the spotlight outside the Corps. We all get taught about him, Smedley Butler, and a list of other notable Marines in Boot Camp, because, aside from being good examples to emulate, they also deserve to be remembered for their heroism and sheer guts.
About the only notable Marine I didn't learn about while in the Corps was SSgt. Reckless, but... Fat Electrician covered her, so I expect you'll get a chance to acquire that knowledge yourself once you get to that video :P
Harrison Ford also had dysentery at the time they shot that scene which is the reason he did that.
When the Archangel Michael has his choice of special projects, you get Dan Daly.
10:51 Search "Defence of foreign legations, Peking, China, June 20th to Aug. 14th, 1900. " in google, library of congress. It's a map of the Legation District with built fortifications outlined in red. The map can be a bit tricky to read because part of it is doubled, so it requires a bit of mental transposition.
For a bit of context, the Tartar Wall is one of the defensive walls encompassing Beijing city. It is ~45ft high and ~40 wide. The position then Pvt. Daly was defending was one of the barricades atop this wall that were set up to deny the Boxers (and later the Chinese army) access to the advantageous position it would grant next to the American, Russian, and German Legations, which were positioned nearly against this wall. Barricades were erected facing roughly east and west on the wall, with the western facing barricades being manned by US Marines and the eastward facing barricades being manned by German soldiers (initially, Marines eventually manned both directions).
Marines were issued during the Boxer Rebellion with M1895 Lee Navy rifles in 6mm Lee Navy caliber, the machine gun issued was the M1895 Colt-Browning that also fired the same 6mm ammo
11:58 that scene your referring to was actually done that way because Harrison ford got pretty sick and developed dysentery while on set. He was supposed to have that long drawn out fight scene, but felt so bad that he decided to just make it end early by pulling his gun and shooting the guy instead. It ended up looking funny enough to the leading group that it was kept in and was even referenced in the temple of doom…
Dan Daley - Spartan Mark 1
i wanna see the fatelectrician do a video on that dentist from ww2 who stayed behind to cover his wounded as japanese charged and overtook the field hospital, sadly he did not have dan dailys plot armor but he gave it a damn good try and died for a good cause
In response to the large number of requests, maybe you can start at the beginning of his videos, which were mostly describing military branches and units. Maybe do four or five in one videos and start systematically reacting to chunks of his content. Just an idea, but it might help
Marines like myself are essentially 40k orks
5:32 "ABANDON REASON, KNOW ONLY WAR!" - America, probably.
I remember watching this video when it first came out and laughing so hard when he made they holey joke. To rewatch it in a reaction video once again and sharing a laugh hard enough to cry. Was an amazing reaction😂
Dan Daly... the man who we COULD not make a movie about, because it is too unbelievable.
To your statement of we have been at war... we are almost 250 years old... Wiki lists only 17 years that we have not been at war.
just like Roy Benevidez. absolutely bonkers story that guy had.
@@raikbarczynski6582No joke, when Ronald Reagan gave Master Sergeant Benavidez his Medal of Honor he told him that if they made a movie about him, no one would believe that what happened actually happened.
@raikbarczynski6582 Fun fact: Rambo is based off of Roy Benavides.
Reminds me of Hacksaw Ridge(based on Desmond Doss) which said to have omitted some scene because they though it is too unbelievable.
i know. and i watched his MoH ceremony, @@insanehiker5587
He has a very engaging way of talking, like he is talking to you and not talking at you.
Thank You...I just couldn't figure it out, that's what it is, that's why his content radiates with me.
Sabaton made a song about bellau woods battle "devil dogs" and "come on you sons of bitches, do you wanna live forever" is in the song at some point
Dan Daly shouting: Come on you SoBs, do you wanna live forever? could be seen in two ways. First: like a question like in: do you want to get our of here? Then follow me, lets win this and then we can go back home. Or second like: You want to be remembered as heroes? Good follow me, lets kick ass and win this shit and everyone will know our names even if we die.
I've always interpreted it as a sarcastic and backhanded insult about how cowards would avoid danger to try and stay alive. So put another way he'd be asking 'Do you want to live forever in shame?' rather than 'Do you want to live on forever as a hero?', and was essentially daring everyone to come die with him. Kind of like how the phrase 'It's a good day to die.' is meant to be used sarcastically or ironically with the intent that it's NEVER a good day to die, rather than as a declaration of one's willingness to die in any given circumstance. But again, that's just my interpretation, and the wording kind of invites individual use.
Even if I was physically capable of joining the military, I probably wouldn't because I'd be the little shit yelling back, "That's an option?"
I know you already saw a video on Aimo Koivunen, but TFE did one too, in more detail, and I was dying laughing 😂
..because meth
@@howlingbreeze7078 *1990s superhero sound*
If you want to do a 5 minute lore video, it should absolutely be about the second guy to win two medals of honor: Smedley Butler. Don't mock the name; if you have played a Call of Duty game, you played as Smedley Butler.
how have I not heard of this guy? we need more people like this in our history lessons. also I'd like to recommend Fat Electricians 450 marines vs the japanese imperial navy video. I can almost guarantee you'll like it.
One of my favorites from TFE. You should check out habitual line crosser as well. Might need to do a few at a time, though. They are pretty short.
You should see about finding a friend to Help take the pressure off someone who can react for you so you can make a video and the other person can react and make it less stressful
lol, I want to get back ahead like I was a few months ago so I can work on my lore channel again!
This isn't the first time groups of men willingly walked and ran into machine gun fire I forgot the battle but I know the Germans during world war I marched into machine gun fire in formation and they were seeing the front lines get mowed down and they kept on marching forward in formation until orders told them to retreat 😬
I may be wrong but that may of been the first battle of the war. Where within a minute the British killed an entire battalion marching into them in the first shots of the war.
Pretty sure that was the British who were so cut down.
For Christmas you should do his favorite Christmas story
loved that one
Being from Texas and having been born and raised in Houston, a stones throw from where it was moored till just recently, check out his Battleship Texas video.
Fun fact: that scene from Indiana Jones only happened because Harrison Ford had the flu. He was originally supposed to beat the other guy with his whip, but with Harrison having the flu, he did this instead, and it made the scene infinitely better.
Dan Daly was actually 25 years old when he enlisted. He was 27 during the Boxer Rebellion.
I looked it up, of the 239 years the US has been around, we've been at war for 222 of them.
*rampant gas mask noises*
In March 1911, Daly was on the USS Springfield when he managed to put out flames from gasoline that had caught fire before the general alarm could be sounded. If the fire had continued, the powder magazines on the ship could have exploded. Daly received commendations from his commanding officer and the Secretary of Navy for his quick thinking.
Sargent major Dan Dailey the orginal devil dog, "come on you son's of bitches you want to live forever!
Harrison Ford had food poisoning during that scene a director or something did a commentary on it
We have been at war forever because it's one of the few we're really good at.😂
Marines: We're just built different
I too would love his coverage of the 2nd Baltic Fleet... though Blue Jay's video of it is pretty good as well.
As a Chinese
What were those Chinese thinking?
That’s like being able to dodge bullets because you can Naruto ru- oh
I can say only one thing about Dan Daley, the military needs a billion more like him.
You react as if were chilling having a cup of coffee at the local diner. Just people having an open conversation in terms that anyone could understand. Binge continued! Keep killing it bro.👍🖖
The reason Harrison Ford did that, was due to him having a Fever of 104, and not feeling like going through an extended fight scene shooting. lol
He had dysentery, as I recall, because they were *actually in the Middle East.* Dude was spewing from both ends. I'm impressed he made it to the set.
The scene with harrison ford shooting the sword guy was supposed to be a big fight but they had to shoot it that way because Ford was sick at the time and couldnt be away from the toilet for more than a few minutes.
From what I understand that scene in Indianna Jones, Harrison Ford was actually not feeling well on set that day.
And because of this, he didn’t feel up to doing the whole fight, so he simply pulled the gun and fired. However, the director loved it so much they kept it in.
"Oh, my God. This is not what we meant when we said we want to make these people more holy."
Is great as this story ends up it still blows my mind that that they didn't at least leave him with an a gunner
Robber: “Everyone hand over your wallets, this is a robbery!”
Dan Daley: *racks shotgun* “Boy, you just done made a big mistake. I suggest you start a-running.”
New sub, love the videos. You seem like a dude I could share a few beers and a blunt with and just vibe out
Your actually a little wrong about Indiana Jones shooting the sword guy. Harrison Ford and much of the film crew was sick with dysentery at the time. Ford felt absolutely horrible and shooting a long fight scene would be too taxing on everyone. So Ford asks Spielberg if he could just shoot the guy and get the scene over with. Spielberg thought it would be a funny scene and knew the crew was sick he gave the go ahead. You are right about the guy being mad through.
... he was likely talking about a little guy from Texas, but Dan Daly fits too. (Audie Murphy, of course.)
The scene in Indiana Jones was shot after they had re-filmed and reshot that scene a LOT of times and everyone was tired. Harrison Ford was tired, the crowd was tired, the guy with the sword was tired and they all went along just to end the day.
Now the guy with the sword must've been pissed that they picked THAT scene for the movie, but in the end, if he would've stayed up, the scene would've been useless anyway.
19:41 I also found out this line is in cod advanced warfare campaign recently lol
Ask and you shall receive, the machine gun used by Dan Daly during the Boxer rebellion was an M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun. (It's also known as the potato digger for the way it operates. If fired from a bipod the lever mechanism kicks up dirt and dust as it scrapes the ground.)
He had the high ground, up on top of a wall.. 2esh floors..
Love Fat Electrician's videos, even his early ones that use to be on Vine.
It's stories like these that have convinced me to join the marine corps
To all Marines, Dan Daly is, the war God, or at least a demigod.
About the real life lore videos, how about 'History Rage Rant', I mean it's a crap idea, but it's an idea...
Kung fu fighters "OWW bullets my only weakness!!!".
18:16 Death Korps of Krieg without their Commisar!
He started a waaagh
That fucking skill streak got like what 4 gun runs?
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so back in those days it was more then likely a water cooled maxim machine gun it would take 2 people to carry the gun and 1 to carry the tripod and 1 to carry the water to cool it he was stuck in one spot
I dunno what machine gun he was manning, but given the time. It woulda had to been a maxim or a colt 1895 ‘potato digger’ and the rifle woulda been the weird like 6 something mm that only the Navy and US Marines used, I can’t remember the name of it, but it was stupid high velocity, and just ate barrels a great rifle of they had 50 years or so technological advancement in metallurgy, it was pretty low recoil, long and fairly heavy bullets going something 2900 or 3000 fps if I remember right. Was the first adopted rifle and round of that type. It was the Lee something, or something Lee. If you recreated it today. You’d have something like the 6.5 Grendel or whatever similar round. Which essentially what they did, whether or not they knew they did that.
The only thing the Fat Electrician got wrong in this video was Dan Daly's age when he signed up. He was actually 25 when he enlisted, not 16.
Also, interesting fact about the Boxer Rebellion: The reason so many Chinese people had such a hate-boner for Christian missionaries in particular was not necessarily because they were spreading a Western religion, but because Christianity had developed a reputation in China as a religion of pure evil.
This is because after the end of the Opium Wars, one of the concessions the French forced on the Chinese government was a requirement that Christians in China must be immune to prosecution under the law. This was intended to prevent the kinds of official or semi-official persecution of Christians that had happened before in both China and Japan. Instead, the result was that every two bit rapist, murderer, bandit and slaver officially converted to Christianity and became instantly above the law in China. Across the country, gangs of "Christians" tormented people with impunity, and to the average Chinese person it looked like Christianity had created a massive wave of banditry and crime, and so everything to do with Christianity came to be considered completely, irredeemably evil by a huge swathe of the Chinese population.
Wonder where TFE got 16 from.
FE covering the Baltic Fleet would be amazing, then again there are several others that'd be amazing. Attack of Osoweic Fortress is the next thing that comes to mind.
Is that the one where the US army, the wehrmacht, and a bunch of political prisoners, including a freaking *tennis player,* fought off the SS?
@brigidtheirish Baltic Fleet is the most incompetent fleet ever, and Osoweic Fortress is better known as Attack of the Dead Men.
@@isaacgraff8288 Ah! Now I wonder which battle I was thinking of. (checks) Battle of Castle Itter! Got it!
"This guy is hardcore". Hardcore or Hard Corps is the only way the Marines know
18 years. America in the modern day has only been at peace for 18 years.
No, he wasn't a movie hero. No script writer would pen those scenes because they are too unbelievable.
Just look at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields in LOTR. A seven thousand light cavalry Rohirim charge. Huge.
What about historically? Glad you asked.
The Relief of Vienna. The decisive blow was an EIGHTEEN THOUSAND horse charge of heavier than the Roherim cavalry, including THREE THOUSAND elite Winged Hussar heavy lancers.
Who probably could have beaten the seven thousand Rohirim, with how badly Peter Jackson nerfed them.
I will never forgive Jackson for what he did to Aragorn.
If I’m not mistaken, Harrison Ford was really sick that day. He improved the scene because he wanted to go back to his trailer.
Fresh off The Grill
The nachinegun was a 1895 Lee Navy it was a 6mm
I actually started crying with patriotism.
I looked it up. We have had 15 years of peace. Anyone ever wonder why civilians are tired of war?
Dan Daly was born on November 11, 1873....which would make him 25 when he enlisted....not 16 :P
To be fair, the Korean War isn't over, it's on extended hold.
TFE forever, love the reactions
You should watch the episodes of Unsubscribe Podcast with The Fat Electrician as a guest.
those are freaking hilarious
@@howlingbreeze7078 And now he's one of the hosts, it's even better.
@@Tar-Numendil yup
Oh also, lots of if not most people just laugh when you say something like they believed they were impervious to bullets, but from a military standpoint that’s terrifying, they are highly trained, motivated, dedicated individuals, that believe that and are in fact fanatical, who out number you, are looking to fight you in a city, mostly at night…in the 1890’s, flash lights aren’t a thing…better have a fire lit, for extra light, but they will wreck your ability to see completely, so no go on that. Unless it’s a couple hundred yards away, and you get a small area of light, but someone has to maintain it, militarily you completely blind at night in that era, except a dozen feet or so. Sure a city back then and rioting. Probably with fires lit, you can see further, but not far. And you touched a little bit on it, then being trained and fit, and fanatics. That makes them very dangerous, as they will attack long after others woulda gave up.
without looking it up he was probably using a Maxim machine gun, time period is about right, Marines do many things and giving up is not one of them
I consider Daly to be the only service member to earn the Medal of Honor three times. He should've got the third but didn't because of politics.
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He was 135 lbs when he joined. So during the Cuba and WW 1 times it’s doubtful he was still 135.
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Try the one about ice cream
China today needs to calm down elsewise we are going to end up with a new rendition of the classic song.
Introduce the Reds to "55 days in Bejing"
Gun Fu vs Kung Fu. Gun Fu wins every time.
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So this fair and trophies for everyone started in 1918. That shit because you should not deny the dude for being a badass
Do the one he did on jake mcnasty mcneseis
But they weren't solders they had no military training