Not tryna sound too naughty here mate but did any trains happen in SE Asia? The Aussie 2CDO on their last Afghan deployment...6 operators with NODS, 1 US army nurse in a pitch black room.
3rd Group wasn't always known for its combat prowess... Back in the day, it was sometimes called the "ash and trash Group" back when it was reactivated in the early 90s . Sometimes called the "Purina dog chow" Group because of its multicolored flash that loosely resembled the Purina brand symbol, the rumor was that 7th Group, who was on Bragg with 3rd Group, sent their weak links to fill out 2nd Bn 3rd Group when it stood up. A lot of guys from the Reserve SF Groups at the time (especially 11th SFG) also helped fill the ranks. In those early days, 3rd Group always was considered the newbies, and a lot of SF guys on Bragg wanted to be in 7th Group. In those early days of the 1990's, 3rd Group leadership decided they would make a name for the Group by accepting any mission and doing it "on the cheap." While guys in 7th Group were getting max per diem down south, 3rd Group was living in tents. It was a source of contention for the Group, for example, the first unofficial 3rd Group T-shirt had an SF crest with 3SFG on the front and the words "dirty deeds, done dirt cheap" on the back. Team rooms would simetimes have MRE boxes hung on the door with "we'll do FID, for food" scrawled on it. All done in good humor, but there were some in the Group that had a real issue with the Group's money saving efforts. At one point, an underground news letter started circulating, criticizing the Group leadership, especially targeting the Group Comptroller, who was blamed for the austerity measures. On one flyer that circulated there was a drawing of a clown with an MP-5. Below it read, C.L.O.W.N. Clandestine Liberators of Wimpy Nations. Around the borders of the flyer were made up quotes from Gen. Schwartzkopf saying "send in the C.L.O.W.Ns" and from Gen. Colin Powell, "who are these C.L.O.W.Ns?" Of course, all of us on the teams thought it was hilarious, but the Group leadership was furious. They tried to find the source of the underground paper, but as far as I know, they never found the source. This was all back in the 90s when the Group did a lot of FID in Africa and the Caribbean. It seemed in those early days 3rd Group was always trying to prove its worth, doing everything from supporting the African Crisis Response Initiative, participating in Operation Joint Forge in Bosnia, to supporting Joint Task Force Six along the border with Mexico. After 911, the Group really came into its own and became the outstanding Fighting Group it is today!
Met Smitty from 7th when on a civilian range in Florida once. Let’s just say he didn’t fit the mold I had imagined a SF guy would look like being an infantry marine myself. I was so unconvinced I even went as far to verify him through POW network. He was a cool dude. Total SF vet
3rd and 5th are where guys went who wanted to fight and fight alone. The other groups fought, but spaced with awesome trips to good locations. 10th got all the could handle at the end of Afghanistan when 3rd took back Africa, before that they supplemented Iraq and worked a crappy Afghanistan deployment arrangement with NATO. 7th did a lot of good rotations in Afghanistan alongside 3rd. 1st supported Iraq much more in the beginning and some good trips to Afghanistan like in Marjah.
As a former Marine and former New Yorker(Spanish Harlem) I'm going with 7th Group if I had the opportunity to go. I heard that 20th Group pretty much does the same thing but is a NG unit. S/O to you Jay for this hilarious episode. 😂😂😂
‘05 Med group at Ft Lewis, back from down range,….hospital was in charge of feeding us,…. And not very much. A 1SG from 1st Group (wish I remembered his name) took it upon himself and brought 2 busses to our med hold unit, loaded us up and took us to the 1st Group DEFAC, and said,… “Go for it”! So much respect for those of 1st group in late 05! AIRBORNE!
As always fire content coming from the green beret chronicles 🔥🔥 Can you a video about what we can from our failures in Afghan from an evaluation perspective given the fact that the army collapsed and how we can improve SOPS to ensure that this doesn't happen again thanks Jay
Happens at BN level from what I seen, likely because they're scattered across a number of states. I was with 2/19th out of WV and we would poke the RI guys (A Co.) because they reminded us of the Jersey Shore cast at times. When deployed we would get guys attached from group out of Utah, and it was too easy to poke at the Mormons. Had a few attached from Colorado and poked at them for being too laid back. I'm sure they poked at us being out of WV.
@@tonyd8936hey brotha could you give me some info on 19th group wv and 20th co im a 11b but possibly doing a IST for sf support i was thinking on reclassing to 35 series ive allready spoken to a recruiter at the unit that will help me with the process im also looking at sfab ive not decided which route to go yet only reason ive not pulled the trigger yet is because flying to drill seems shitty but there is cheap flights regularly to Colorado from wear i live Minnesota anyways any info you can give me would be very much appreciated 🙏🙏🙏
My dad was 5th SF group in Vietnam, when I joined in 99,I went to Airborne school, but then got stuck in big Army. But my CO,was very cool with me,got me in Ranger school in 01,and Air Assault school. But I went SFAS / SFQC, and my 3 groups I was hoping to get in was,5th,3rd,and 7th. But I got stuck in 10th,I had 2 deployments, but I did the shortest time,you could do while I was on a group. But when I got to Ft Carson, at frist I did see alot of 10 groupers,without a combat patch. Two of my friends got into 5th group, I was pissed, but I had to play it,like 10th group was the group I wanted to be in.
@droman608 Nope, I wanted to get into 5th, or 3rd group. But I end up in fhe group, thar has mountains, and tons of snow. Which I was terrible skiing, was fun riding snow mobiles. But my military time,didn't go as I planned it. If I new about the Air Force ccts, before I joined the Army, I would of tried to go threw the cct pipeline. I ended up leaving 10th group,because I wasn't going to reup,and finished my last 8/9 months,in a Infantry unit.
Nobody cares about us. We do have allot of Mormons though. (19th) Allot of dudes in 19th and 20th were former active duty guys. So I guess the NG groups could be considered a fruit salad. We got a little bit of everything.
@@tobigforyou I'm about to go 18X and I'll be living in Florida. Going to 20th is a given for me. I personally know a guy from 20th and tried to pick his brain last year. He's given me bad info. Stated that SFRE, SOPC and 18X don't exist, stuff like that. Wargaming is a nasty habit I'm trying to break bc I dislike walking into things blind.
Team Daddy, you forgot 19th and 20th Group. 19th Group, dudes that live in super high BAH zip codes. 20th Group SF Guard guys that are always trying to get deployed because their cop job in the south pays half as much as what they make as an E-6.
I'm late to the party. I served in 1st & 7th group. Late 2016 ODA 174 MFF deployed to Iraq. A RPG hit our position injuring ten of us. A soldier and I were the only two out of the the twelve of us not injured. Early 2017 I got transferred to ODA 7223 and deployed to Afghanistan. I don't know which I like better, just honored to have been apart of the two groups. 🇺🇲📜🗽🎇
Not sure why there isn't a 2nd 4th 6th 8th or 9th group, any insight on to why this is? I've always wanted to be a green beret but I ended up joining the NAVY!
I heard 3rd group was super toxic and nobody wanted to be there, this being because it was closer to the flag pole so leadership was always under the eyes of DC.
Retired 1st group here. Don’t worry about what we’re doing in Thailand, mind your business.
I laughed soooo hard at this. Being from 5th Grp its been Iraq, Iraq, Iraq, Iraq, Oman, Jordan,Iraq,Syria, Israel...Iraq...lol
Lmao!!!😂😂😂
Man Jay hitting below the belt. He calling us a bunch of 🌈🌈🌈 ‘s
Not tryna sound too naughty here mate but did any trains happen in SE Asia? The Aussie 2CDO on their last Afghan deployment...6 operators with NODS, 1 US army nurse in a pitch black room.
@@johnnyd5537lmaoooo
3rd Group wasn't always known for its combat prowess...
Back in the day, it was sometimes called the "ash and trash Group" back when it was reactivated in the early 90s . Sometimes called the "Purina dog chow" Group because of its multicolored flash that loosely resembled the Purina brand symbol, the rumor was that 7th Group, who was on Bragg with 3rd Group, sent their weak links to fill out 2nd Bn 3rd Group when it stood up. A lot of guys from the Reserve SF Groups at the time (especially 11th SFG) also helped fill the ranks. In those early days, 3rd Group always was considered the newbies, and a lot of SF guys on Bragg wanted to be in 7th Group.
In those early days of the 1990's, 3rd Group leadership decided they would make a name for the Group by accepting any mission and doing it "on the cheap." While guys in 7th Group were getting max per diem down south, 3rd Group was living in tents. It was a source of contention for the Group, for example, the first unofficial 3rd Group T-shirt had an SF crest with 3SFG on the front and the words "dirty deeds, done dirt cheap" on the back. Team rooms would simetimes have MRE boxes hung on the door with "we'll do FID, for food" scrawled on it. All done in good humor, but there were some in the Group that had a real issue with the Group's money saving efforts. At one point, an underground news letter started circulating, criticizing the Group leadership, especially targeting the Group Comptroller, who was blamed for the austerity measures. On one flyer that circulated there was a drawing of a clown with an MP-5. Below it read, C.L.O.W.N. Clandestine Liberators of Wimpy Nations. Around the borders of the flyer were made up quotes from Gen. Schwartzkopf saying "send in the C.L.O.W.Ns" and from Gen. Colin Powell, "who are these C.L.O.W.Ns?" Of course, all of us on the teams thought it was hilarious, but the Group leadership was furious. They tried to find the source of the underground paper, but as far as I know, they never found the source.
This was all back in the 90s when the Group did a lot of FID in Africa and the Caribbean. It seemed in those early days 3rd Group was always trying to prove its worth, doing everything from supporting the African Crisis Response Initiative, participating in Operation Joint Forge in Bosnia, to supporting Joint Task Force Six along the border with Mexico.
After 911, the Group really came into its own and became the outstanding Fighting Group it is today!
incredible history. thanks for sharing
Sounds like they were the proverbial resourceful misfits group back then.
Spot on!
This. Is. Awesome. Thanks for the write up
I was RA, any SF is top tier to us.
It is a cold fact 7th groupers have regularly had 2 families! From Sgt.Majors down. Seen it first hand
Truth
Facts 💯
My brother was in 7th group and has been married 5 times.
Does 20th group have the same stereotype, given that they share the same AOR?
Plenty in 1st group did too. Confirmed firsthand.
Met Smitty from 7th when on a civilian range in Florida once. Let’s just say he didn’t fit the mold I had imagined a SF guy would look like being an infantry marine myself. I was so unconvinced I even went as far to verify him through POW network. He was a cool dude. Total SF vet
Served in 1st Group and I cannot confirm or deny the stories. LOL
As the current 1st group CSM likes to say, sometimes you just need a little stick time.
@@ValhallaVFT - LOL
Lol, I will say the same thing about 10th 😂.
Retired and seen plenty of 7th group guys with 2nd families, all kinds of fun to have down there when not putting the work in.
3rd Group is known for being in all the Swingers Clubs in Fayetteville !
And any Swingers/BDSM groups in NC, parts of VA & SC too!
@@savagecub you were with 3rd Grp?
@@marc2397
No…………but thanks for asking.
To be fair there's not a lot else to do in Fayetteville...
I hear F-ville has changed a lot since I was stationed there in the mid 80's.
3rd and 5th are where guys went who wanted to fight and fight alone. The other groups fought, but spaced with awesome trips to good locations. 10th got all the could handle at the end of Afghanistan when 3rd took back Africa, before that they supplemented Iraq and worked a crappy Afghanistan deployment arrangement with NATO.
7th did a lot of good rotations in Afghanistan alongside 3rd.
1st supported Iraq much more in the beginning and some good trips to Afghanistan like in Marjah.
Back in '68 in the Nam we had one hell of a good time and we LIVED HARD, FOUGHT HARD and PARTIED HARDER!!! That was the 5th GROUP!!
Met alot of 7th group guys
Cool dudes love to party n chase them skirts😅
Respect from Guyana 🇬🇾
My brother was in 7th group and just perfectly described him😂
Man Jay you really kicked that can of WTF! LOL!
As a former Marine and former New Yorker(Spanish Harlem) I'm going with 7th Group if I had the opportunity to go. I heard that 20th Group pretty much does the same thing but is a NG unit. S/O to you Jay for this hilarious episode. 😂😂😂
Third group when I was in Bragg was conducting swinger parties party real hard but then they deployed a lot.
They look so pissed off because they’re a campbell ornament… they’re sick in the middle of post.
‘05 Med group at Ft Lewis, back from down range,….hospital was in charge of feeding us,…. And not very much. A 1SG from 1st Group (wish I remembered his name) took it upon himself and brought 2 busses to our med hold unit, loaded us up and took us to the 1st Group DEFAC, and said,… “Go for it”! So much respect for those of 1st group in late 05! AIRBORNE!
Love that this happened!
Can we get any crazy wildlife stories after serving in AFRICOM?
So what your saying is 7th is the way to go
As always fire content coming from the green beret chronicles 🔥🔥
Can you a video about what we can from our failures in Afghan from an evaluation perspective given the fact that the army collapsed and how we can improve SOPS to ensure that this doesn't happen again thanks Jay
I wonder if this same fun banter happens between 20th & 19th group.
Who? Oh! Tim Kennedy. Oh hea
Happens at BN level from what I seen, likely because they're scattered across a number of states. I was with 2/19th out of WV and we would poke the RI guys (A Co.) because they reminded us of the Jersey Shore cast at times. When deployed we would get guys attached from group out of Utah, and it was too easy to poke at the Mormons. Had a few attached from Colorado and poked at them for being too laid back. I'm sure they poked at us being out of WV.
@@tonyd8936hey brotha could you give me some info on 19th group wv and 20th co im a 11b but possibly doing a IST for sf support i was thinking on reclassing to 35 series ive allready spoken to a recruiter at the unit that will help me with the process im also looking at sfab ive not decided which route to go yet only reason ive not pulled the trigger yet is because flying to drill seems shitty but there is cheap flights regularly to Colorado from wear i live Minnesota anyways any info you can give me would be very much appreciated 🙏🙏🙏
I was with the7th group when we were in ft Davis panama
Barry Sadler 7th group…my father was with the 7th…ft bragg
My dad was 5th SF group in Vietnam, when I joined in 99,I went to Airborne school, but then got stuck in big Army. But my CO,was very cool with me,got me in Ranger school in 01,and Air Assault school. But I went SFAS / SFQC, and my 3 groups I was hoping to get in was,5th,3rd,and 7th. But I got stuck in 10th,I had 2 deployments, but I did the shortest time,you could do while I was on a group. But when I got to Ft Carson, at frist I did see alot of 10 groupers,without a combat patch. Two of my friends got into 5th group, I was pissed, but I had to play it,like 10th group was the group I wanted to be in.
Did you eventually get into one of your group choices?
@droman608 Nope, I wanted to get into 5th, or 3rd group. But I end up in fhe group, thar has mountains, and tons of snow. Which I was terrible skiing, was fun riding snow mobiles. But my military time,didn't go as I planned it. If I new about the Air Force ccts, before I joined the Army, I would of tried to go threw the cct pipeline. I ended up leaving 10th group,because I wasn't going to reup,and finished my last 8/9 months,in a Infantry unit.
Any chance you can do an active vs. National guard video? Pros and cons
I know they're NG but what about 19th and 20th?
Nobody cares about us. We do have allot of Mormons though. (19th) Allot of dudes in 19th and 20th were former active duty guys. So I guess the NG groups could be considered a fruit salad. We got a little bit of everything.
I can’t really speak for those guys
@@GreenBeretChronicles roger that
@@tobigforyou I'm about to go 18X and I'll be living in Florida. Going to 20th is a given for me. I personally know a guy from 20th and tried to pick his brain last year. He's given me bad info. Stated that SFRE, SOPC and 18X don't exist, stuff like that. Wargaming is a nasty habit I'm trying to break bc I dislike walking into things blind.
I was in the 20th for years under (ret) sgm patterson. They are some hard charging guys with a stellar sense of humor. Good luck mate
You forgot to mention 19th and 20th group! I’m a 19th back in the 90’s
Team Daddy, you forgot 19th and 20th Group. 19th Group, dudes that live in super high BAH zip codes. 20th Group SF Guard guys that are always trying to get deployed because their cop job in the south pays half as much as what they make as an E-6.
I'm late to the party. I served in 1st & 7th group. Late 2016 ODA 174 MFF deployed to Iraq. A RPG hit our position injuring ten of us. A soldier and I were the only two out of the the twelve of us not injured. Early 2017 I got transferred to ODA 7223 and deployed to Afghanistan. I don't know which I like better, just honored to have been apart of the two groups. 🇺🇲📜🗽🎇
I'm a female Navy vet. My son is in the Army. Just wanted to say I love this content. It's just that good.
Thank you
1:56 Phil figured it out before Stu 😂😂
Can you move around to different groups like you might PCS in big Army?
Every group is different you might think you know what we do but ya don’t.😂
Keep it light keep it light
Like dam neck is known for war crimes lol i get it
Not sure why there isn't a 2nd 4th 6th 8th or 9th group, any insight on to why this is? I've always wanted to be a green beret but I ended up joining the NAVY!
Love this
Subbed- because you're _NOT_ a "SEAL who wrote a book that was turned into a big movie".
You missed 3rd Group. 😂Never heard of the fighting group.
Yep, 3rd and 5th man, the combat groups
@@GreenBeretChronicles😂
@@GreenBeretChronicles I think the stereotype of 3rd group is that they’re the Swinger group
Do green berets conduct PSD missions ?
What about the 19th and 20th Groups?
What Grp you in??!!!!
@@Nnonyabizhaha ok bro f u
"3rd is the Nerd"
~ the🧠🥋's
I heard 3rd group was super toxic and nobody wanted to be there, this being because it was closer to the flag pole so leadership was always under the eyes of DC.
Strength and honor
Can we see different NG SF states compared?
Nice
Have you ever eaten a Snake 🐍 😂
What about 19th and 20th Groups?
What do you think of the ng groups? (19/20)
I wanna be in 1st group
I am surprised that 10th Group does not have the stigma of marrying european blondes😂
5th Group is always upset because the deployment is Afghanistan, Oman, Iraq, Iraq, Iraq, Iraq, Iraq, maybe Siria, Iraq, Iraq, Iraq, Iraq, Qatar, Iraq, Iraq, Iraq.
Jay what was your MOS?
18C, 18Z, 12B
@@GreenBeretChronicles Bet
Naw, we in cars9n definitely been in Afghanistan 😂
lol you are funny.
There is woman in Green beret
I would like you to name the groups; not just number them.
There wasn’t no such thing as first group in 1962
Everything 3rd touches turns to shit
Just hilarious 😂 young snake eater.👊🏾🪖🇺🇸✝️
Glad you like it