There is beauty in 'efficient simplicity.' But the 'efficient' part is important... because something simple can also be really, really bad. For example, the Zip gun may well be very simple, yet it's also seemingly very unreliable and dangerous, given in order to cock it you damn near have to kiss the muzzle with your finger. Such a shame, though... I REALLY like the concept of, if I may use an old and long-dead meme, "Yo dawg, I heard you like guns, so I put a gun on your gun so you can gun while you gun." ... Actually I don't care if I can use that meme or not, I stand by that statement, because I in fact DO desire to gun while I gun. Someone needs to make a Zip that doesn't RIP.
@@atadbitnefarious1387 And don't even get me started on the _southern reenactors_ You'd be *real' surprised* at what they are (If you let them talk for long enough anyway)
@@ThatTallBrendan I knew a guy who fought for both sides of the civil war. He's probably died and switched sides over a hundred times lol. He's part of the group that does reenacting in Gettysburg. He used to be a flight paramedic with us before he retired. We called him "Pop Pop" dude was a fossil.
As a 22 years Army medic, I can agree that it's EXCEEDINGLY tiring to carry a litter for an extended amount of time. But one thing we do now is EVERYONE has their own first aid equipment on them, EVERYONE knows how to use the contents of that kit (so you can apply it to yourself or your buddy rather than wait for one guy to run through enemy fire), and EVERYONE is part of the casualty evacuation plan by creating aid and litter teams, not just the medic.
That doesn't change the fact that litters suck to carry. They still need littered out. We need these again! I've also been a medic 22 or 23 years. Went to 91B school in 2000 at Echo 232. I've never seen these but wish I had!
My grandfather was a medic, at 16 in ww2. He was a terrible soldier, uncoordinated as hell. Just before they were about to Chuck him out as being useless from the RAF reg, they made him take a first aid test- he aced it. 100% pass. Then they told him to take another. He passed that with 100%. Then they gave him another and told him to prepare for it. Two days later he aced it again. So he ask about the exams. Accord to his officer he’d just done 3years of medical school in a week. They didn’t know that from aged 12 he had worked at a hospital, and had even been a lab tech for Alexander Fleming- who discovered penicillin. A couple of weeks later he landed at Tunis- saw 11 country’s over the next 6 years. Excluding a spell in hospital himself after being blown up.
Lmao if this isn't the whole value in the eye of the beholder and the antique watch worth $200k going around to randoms with wildly different valuations story...
The medics kit was also designed to access his pouches with medical equipment while still carrying a patient. Those pouches on your hips carried the medics full load split between the pouches. Each medic packed their kit in identical fashion so if another medic picked up the kit the necessary items could be immediately found.
That's something important regarding a lot of things. Not just medic stuff, but I've noticed with off-roading groups, everyone keeps their kit packed essentially the same way, so no matter whose vehicle you go to, you can grab the gear from the same place.
That is SOP amongst Paratroopers (and Leg Infantry too). Every Frontline soldier would carry 100 rounds of machine-gun ammo, a poncho (can also used as an emergency litter), etc.
My dad was a USN Corpsman assigned to a platoon of US Marines in the European & North African theaters of operation for most of WWII. The litter straps freed up dad’s hands, something that saved his life (and the lives of those to whom he lent aid) on more than a few occasions. They also allowed him to drag wounded men to safety when assuming anything more vertical than either a prostrate or supine posture would have gotten one killed. Simple yet eminently handy contrivance were those straps.
When inventions and technology from 1940-45 seems way smarter than the shit we have today: Edit: A better word would be "ingenuitive" instead of "smarter".
Soldiers in big wars throughout all of history (even today) were generally young, from the middle ages to the Napoleonic Wars, a lot of the solders were virtually in their 20s (mainly due to conscription and low life expectancy of the period) Even today a 20 year old can be a Lieutenant of a Tank platoon or a company (if he passed the military academy and got promoted from 2nd Lieutenant)
One of my dad's neighbors when he grew up was the Sgt of his squad as he was the only one 18 or older and could then sign off on things such as orders.
Absolutely! Same in UK military, only time you'll definitely get your payments are if you lost a limb in service. Otherwise, get ready to fight for every penny of pension and compensation
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I definitely prefer the 2 piece Stokes Basket & backboard combo and the Scoop Stretcher for patient extrication from various situations. Stokes and/or backboard for removal from difficult terrain (embankments, deep in the woods, etc.), and the scoop stretcher for removal of patients inside a home with tight quarters to pass through on the way out to the ambulance.
I was in the Army for 17 years and never knew what those extra wide straps were for. I was even issued some back in the early 80s and never questioned the setup.
He really only told me one story from his time They where at camp. Got a call that a squad or platoon got ambushed. My grandad being 127 soaking wet. Got a core man. Jumped in a jeep drove to the men. Behind now enemy lines. He made several trips back and fourth with the injured. And I believe that’s when he got hit. For the purple star.
my father was a ww2 combat vet and fought with Audy Murphy. After he was wounded the second time he thought he would go home but instead they made him a medic. After losing his left bicep at Anzio and almost his arm he was sent back to USA. It's a miracle i am here.
We practiced with a team of about five. If one person got tired they were replaced by the other medic carrying the opposite and diagnol handle of the stretcher. It was like a relay and we did this without lowering the stretcher.
Soldiers today use those same systems. Its called a yoke (In the British army anyway) Whilst we have systems such as the Osprey and Vertus modular armour systems, we still use the yoke and a modular webbing belt for lightweight training and duties. It's great for distributing weight away from the hips allowing for full range of motion which in turn, aids physical endurance. Fully laden webbing belts can really be cumbersome when running or even walking so the yoke really helps.
The webbing also seemed to be issued to OSS agents and soldiers on covert airborne ops, especially snipers... Mainly because they were expected to jump out of an airplane with a drawn weapon (meaning the weapon is not in a bag or case as in the case of paratroopers), so the sling and the gun may be 'hooked' in the webbing without any fuss or worry that it might tangle on your body. Also the M1A1 carbine having a folding stock makes it easier for the same webbing to keep the weapon on your chest.
Can we all appreciate the aesthetics of WW2 soldier uniforms? They are much more aesthetically pleasing than even todays uniforms. They sure got style back in the 40's.
I learned something new today 🤔. It's why I subscribed to this. I know a lot about WWll, but your showing the little thing we seen, but had know idea what it's for. Keep up the great work and keep showing the little things that matterd back then.
As someone who did first aid in the middle of the bush with various industry crews this was a phenomenal short to see. Nobody ever talks about how tiring it is to carry a stretcher with a person on it out of a location. Those straps would be hella handy.
There are a couple caveats, the medic has to wear the insignia of a medic for the protections to apply, and if they engage in combat themselves, those protections are dropped and they are considered combatants.
I used to play airsoft a couple years ago and for a milsim event we had to carry an "injured" teammate on a hike through a forest for like 30min without being spotted. It was ungodly brutal and we even had someone almost pass out from pushing themself too hard (the guy wasn't even out of shape) and on top of that the "injured" teammate was like 14 not even an adult! I couldn't begin to imagine the dedication it would take a medic to do constant trips back and forth.
I was a combat engineer and a military policeman in the Australian Army but the toughest thing I ever did was the medics final challenge activity. Basically carrying a wounded guy on a stretcher... for 5km through a creek, under a road via a culvert and across a lake. We were lucky; nobody was shelling or shooting at us...
I'm non-english speaker and those videos help me a lot not just to learn some cool stuff from ww1 or 2, but also to learn more vocabulary, appreciate it buddy!
Fascinating . Thanks. I just figured it was simply a different style for heavier loads. Stretcher bearer never came to mind. I appreciate you explaining this kit to us. I'm 57 and always happy to learn.
You look very young which makes the amount of knowledge you have on ww2 topics that much more impressive. Very cool channel. Keep up the good work my friend.
I’ve gotten sucked into some incredible historical fiction books & your content is helping me learn so much more about that time period. Thanks for sharing!
When my nephew was in the Army a few years ago, he was the "casualty" on the stretcher during a training exercise. He's a big guy and got "accidentally" dumped off the stretcher. He ended up with a concussion and became a real casualty.
that's so horrible. I am sorry for your loss. in my basic training my commanders put a 110kg guy on it, and made us walk at night, on a forested, broken, steep hillside. we were 3 week of training. 2 guys dislocated their shoulders and one damaged his ankle, and it's a true miracle it wasn't worse. the treatment was to tell the firsts to fire with the other arm at ranges, and the latter to just jump on his good foot during exercises. I got permanently bed-bound as a result of this kind of treatment (in other incidents). armies treat people like sh*t, and conscription armies even worse.
@@iddomargalit-friedman3897 He's also had life-long experience getting dropped from a height. As an infant, he rolled off the changing table when his dad moved his eyes away from the baby for just one second. My nephew broke his tibia and had to be in a cast for the next eight weeks. A big baby in a waist cast on both legs is not a happy creature. Also, not fun to attempt to diaper.
Awesome presentation. I was taught, ages ago, in the Army to have my own Load Bearing Equipment (LBE) harness to carry all my gear because of just the reason in your presentation. Years later when I served as a doctor in Iraq War 2003-2004, I used my own harness over my body armor and could do this while the newer LCE vest could not.
Im currently a corpsman, and it boggles my mind that GWOT gear and dogma doesn't really have this innovation. Carrying a litter is fucking heavy, especially now that we wear so much gear compared to WWII. But now the old heads basically say, "Just get stronger" Lile bro, you have to carry a litter further than a football field in an actual evac. Ain't nobody farmers carrying that without a break. The stokes liters have these and so do SAR litters. Supposedly the talons do as well, but we're never issued them, or they're lost. I guess our egos are more valuable than the patients life.
It’s cool that they did the research to make sure the medic uniform was correct and didn’t just give him a normal GI uniform and paint a Red Cross on his helmet.
im glad there is not that much fast food at that time and they do alot of excersise in training because i will beg the high command to put me everywhere other than being strecher carrier
Wow, answered a question I didn't even know I had AND in an incredibly succinct, satisfying, and thorough manner. Nice! Super effective use of a short :]
I just bought a vietnam and ww1 stretcher, and me my brother and my friend decided to try it out, and I can confirm that trying to carry someone is a hassle.
I love your videos Man, some great insight to our world war II veterans 🇺🇲 🫡 my uncle served in world war II during the Battle of the bulge he earned the bronze Star. He passed in 1978 and as he was being laid to rest, it began to snow and that snow turned into the Blizzard of 78' that blanketed the East Coast. My uncle always liked the winter, so we considered the blizzard a last gift from him. 🙏😇🙏
Simple solution to a common problem. Neat, I learned simething new today. Thanks 😁. To be honest I did not even noticed ww2 medics had specialised suspenders.
Horror game crossover right here. Aliens infect a republic Venetor and you attempt to survive as a commando. Perhaps aliens vs clones multiplayer would be cool
Until recently I worked as a 'removal specialist' for a Mortuary and I can attest that, even with two people, carrying a modern stretcher or backboard with a body on it, even a small adult, is very tiring.
You're absolutely right son I'm glad you're enjoying your reenacting and was interested in doing World War II reenacting as well but decided to do Civil War reenacting and did it for 14 years I am so thankful for the Hobbies I've met some long life friends because of it godspeed ✝️to you young man and keep your powder dry🇺🇲 I do enjoy your videos👍
As a kid in Denmark I had a few items of WW2 surplus equipment. An entrenching tool like yours, a belt of spent Machinegin Ammunition, a military torch & a German Helmet. In the 60s there was a lot of it about.
Simple minimalistic and effective.
Your first 2 are synonyms
@@hotelhopper681 Something can be minimalist without being simple. A watch is a good example.
There is beauty in 'efficient simplicity.' But the 'efficient' part is important... because something simple can also be really, really bad. For example, the Zip gun may well be very simple, yet it's also seemingly very unreliable and dangerous, given in order to cock it you damn near have to kiss the muzzle with your finger.
Such a shame, though... I REALLY like the concept of, if I may use an old and long-dead meme, "Yo dawg, I heard you like guns, so I put a gun on your gun so you can gun while you gun."
... Actually I don't care if I can use that meme or not, I stand by that statement, because I in fact DO desire to gun while I gun. Someone needs to make a Zip that doesn't RIP.
@@ejtattersall156 i wasn't sure i agreed ay first, however that's a great example you have a good point
@@mattyice2889 A changed mind! This is a rare moment on the internet indeed. :D I appreciate your response.
You are by far the most WW2 soldier looking person I have seen on socials. Somebody get _this_ guy a role
Lol, most reenactors I've ever seen are either out of shape old dudes, or scrawny teens.
You're right, this guy actually looks the part.
@@atadbitnefarious1387 And don't even get me started on the _southern reenactors_
You'd be *real' surprised* at what they are (If you let them talk for long enough anyway)
@@ThatTallBrendan lol nice generalization.
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@@ThatTallBrendan I knew a guy who fought for both sides of the civil war. He's probably died and switched sides over a hundred times lol.
He's part of the group that does reenacting in Gettysburg.
He used to be a flight paramedic with us before he retired. We called him "Pop Pop" dude was a fossil.
As a 22 years Army medic, I can agree that it's EXCEEDINGLY tiring to carry a litter for an extended amount of time. But one thing we do now is EVERYONE has their own first aid equipment on them, EVERYONE knows how to use the contents of that kit (so you can apply it to yourself or your buddy rather than wait for one guy to run through enemy fire), and EVERYONE is part of the casualty evacuation plan by creating aid and litter teams, not just the medic.
True, I feel like this has helped save more lives than many realize.
That doesn't change the fact that litters suck to carry. They still need littered out. We need these again! I've also been a medic 22 or 23 years. Went to 91B school in 2000 at Echo 232. I've never seen these but wish I had!
And then there's the Skedco litters. You've been shot? We'll just drag your butt across the ground!
@@tnwhiskey68 it's a great idea, I don't see what's keeping anybody from bringing these to the field or creating makeshift versions
I’m no medic, but I can agree from the combat care classes it’s definitely a work out 😂
My grandfather was a medic, at 16 in ww2. He was a terrible soldier, uncoordinated as hell. Just before they were about to Chuck him out as being useless from the RAF reg, they made him take a first aid test- he aced it. 100% pass. Then they told him to take another. He passed that with 100%. Then they gave him another and told him to prepare for it. Two days later he aced it again. So he ask about the exams. Accord to his officer he’d just done 3years of medical school in a week. They didn’t know that from aged 12 he had worked at a hospital, and had even been a lab tech for Alexander Fleming- who discovered penicillin.
A couple of weeks later he landed at Tunis- saw 11 country’s over the next 6 years. Excluding a spell in hospital himself after being blown up.
such a nice story
Thanks for sharing.
Lmao if this isn't the whole value in the eye of the beholder and the antique watch worth $200k going around to randoms with wildly different valuations story...
My parents met Dr. Fleming at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, LA, eating lunch with him. Mom was a nurse and Dad a doctor.
Need this war/bio pic
The medics kit was also designed to access his pouches with medical equipment while still carrying a patient. Those pouches on your hips carried the medics full load split between the pouches. Each medic packed their kit in identical fashion so if another medic picked up the kit the necessary items could be immediately found.
That's something important regarding a lot of things. Not just medic stuff, but I've noticed with off-roading groups, everyone keeps their kit packed essentially the same way, so no matter whose vehicle you go to, you can grab the gear from the same place.
That is SOP amongst Paratroopers (and Leg Infantry too). Every Frontline soldier would carry 100 rounds of machine-gun ammo, a poncho (can also used as an emergency litter), etc.
My dad was a USN Corpsman assigned to a platoon of US Marines in the European & North African theaters of operation for most of WWII. The litter straps freed up dad’s hands, something that saved his life (and the lives of those to whom he lent aid) on more than a few occasions. They also allowed him to drag wounded men to safety when assuming anything more vertical than either a prostrate or supine posture would have gotten one killed. Simple yet eminently handy contrivance were those straps.
I didn't know that Marines served in Africa and Europe.
When inventions and technology from 1940-45 seems way smarter than the shit we have today:
Edit: A better word would be "ingenuitive" instead of "smarter".
Yess and now, back then the problems were just different
I.E. autoloaders that are very picky in regards to angles, and don't like to work when you need them to.
Now we just use infantry lol
@@garrettrainbolt1344 US tanks don’t have autoloaders. Only MGS.
Nah for real. Carrying a litter now is excruciating. Luckily we do it all the time for PT so that we get maximum excruciation day to day. Lmao.
I can't believe how young this ww2 soldier looks. Amazing.
Soldiers in big wars throughout all of history (even today) were generally young, from the middle ages to the Napoleonic Wars, a lot of the solders were virtually in their 20s (mainly due to conscription and low life expectancy of the period)
Even today a 20 year old can be a Lieutenant of a Tank platoon or a company (if he passed the military academy and got promoted from 2nd Lieutenant)
One of my dad's neighbors when he grew up was the Sgt of his squad as he was the only one 18 or older and could then sign off on things such as orders.
A smooth-faced kid is much more historically correct than a pudgy, middle-aged man.
He’s probably 17yrs and his mom had to sign a waiver so he could enlist.
I like how no one got your joke lol.
As a current day combat medic, I have no clue why we stopped this
Be cause we are sophisticated and advanced. Good lesson: functional history is good.
“Sorry but your shoulder pain isn’t service related”
ugh.
Absolutely! Same in UK military, only time you'll definitely get your payments are if you lost a limb in service. Otherwise, get ready to fight for every penny of pension and compensation
Nothing in war and in military is random! Thank you for posting 😊
this guy is the coolest WW2 history teacher ever.
It's kinda bizarre seeing a normal kid in this gear and realizing just how many men with such young faces did what most of us could never imagine.
Amazing piece of knowledge
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9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
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@@alexanderbrown2717 Godammit.
As a combat medic I don’t know why we still don’t have these
Because we don't need to bother with pretending to care anymore.
@@gratefulguy4130 Wrong one dude, it's not a video about the USSR or the Japanese Empire
As an EMT sometimes I forget that a lot of medics don't have the luxury of having rolling electronic stretchers and stair chairs.
No same… the urge to quit when you walk in and there’s a backup medic with the prongs and antlers setup…
I definitely prefer the 2 piece Stokes Basket & backboard combo and the Scoop Stretcher for patient extrication from various situations. Stokes and/or backboard for removal from difficult terrain (embankments, deep in the woods, etc.), and the scoop stretcher for removal of patients inside a home with tight quarters to pass through on the way out to the ambulance.
These medics were the stuff of greatness. Respect for all who served.
I was an Army Medic from 1993-1997. I didn’t know this information. Very informative. Thanks
I was in the Army for 17 years and never knew what those extra wide straps were for. I was even issued some back in the early 80s and never questioned the setup.
Did you just never use them?
My dad was a medic in Italy. He came home with his medical bags. It was very interesting to go through them. My hero, RIP dad😢
That's a men's man
Grandpa was a medic in the Philippines bronze star purple hart. He was a hell of a man.
Have any stories from him you’d like to share? I love hearing stories from veterans.
Indeed tell the stories I'll never return to, but can be seen by others who are intrigue
He really only told me one story from his time They where at camp. Got a call that a squad or platoon got ambushed. My grandad being 127 soaking wet. Got a core man. Jumped in a jeep drove to the men. Behind now enemy lines. He made several trips back and fourth with the injured. And I believe that’s when he got hit. For the purple star.
@@godfreywobblewitit5074 Yep that story is everything I wanted it to be. Your gramps is a legend!
tell your grandpa "thanks for returning to us when we needed the most"
regards, a Filipino
my father was a ww2 combat vet and fought with Audy Murphy. After he was wounded the second time he thought he would go home but instead they made him a medic. After losing his left bicep at Anzio and almost his arm he was sent back to USA. It's a miracle i am here.
Not just that, but the fatigue on your hands from carrying all that weight. 😮
Thats actually what he just said, the straps are for tired medic hands
@@imadrifter yes, also dont forget the fatigue in the hands!!!!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@fortnex9972 another thing to think about is the fatigue on your hands
@@imadrifter 🤣🤣🤣🤣Ok. I"ll stop here or it will be ethernal!!!!
(But dont forget the hands thing 🤣🤣🤣🤣)
We practiced with a team of about five. If one person got tired they were replaced by the other medic carrying the opposite and diagnol handle of the stretcher. It was like a relay and we did this without lowering the stretcher.
Soldiers today use those same systems. Its called a yoke (In the British army anyway) Whilst we have systems such as the Osprey and Vertus modular armour systems, we still use the yoke and a modular webbing belt for lightweight training and duties. It's great for distributing weight away from the hips allowing for full range of motion which in turn, aids physical endurance. Fully laden webbing belts can really be cumbersome when running or even walking so the yoke really helps.
The webbing also seemed to be issued to OSS agents and soldiers on covert airborne ops, especially snipers...
Mainly because they were expected to jump out of an airplane with a drawn weapon (meaning the weapon is not in a bag or case as in the case of paratroopers), so the sling and the gun may be 'hooked' in the webbing without any fuss or worry that it might tangle on your body.
Also the M1A1 carbine having a folding stock makes it easier for the same webbing to keep the weapon on your chest.
That’s why some of them wore it on their chest😉👈🏾
Can we all appreciate the aesthetics of WW2 soldier uniforms? They are much more aesthetically pleasing than even todays uniforms. They sure got style back in the 40's.
I learned something new today 🤔. It's why I subscribed to this. I know a lot about WWll, but your showing the little thing we seen, but had know idea what it's for.
Keep up the great work and keep showing the little things that matterd back then.
As someone who did first aid in the middle of the bush with various industry crews this was a phenomenal short to see. Nobody ever talks about how tiring it is to carry a stretcher with a person on it out of a location. Those straps would be hella handy.
My guy looks exactly like a WW2 american soldier
Reincarnation.
He looks like that skinny ass verison of captain america
@@maskcollector6949 😂
I was Raised in a military family, but I Didn't Know about 75% of what you told us... Thank you...
My dad was a medic in world war 2 Normandy invasion. His shoulders were totally trashed in his adult life from carrying stretchers.
Fun fact: it's a war crime to kill a medic in war
Yes, and to be honest I'm surprised so few people know this.
There are a couple caveats, the medic has to wear the insignia of a medic for the protections to apply, and if they engage in combat themselves, those protections are dropped and they are considered combatants.
Best one yet. I like this channel very much, and this may be the most intriguing thing you've revealed about WWII.
I used to play airsoft a couple years ago and for a milsim event we had to carry an "injured" teammate on a hike through a forest for like 30min without being spotted. It was ungodly brutal and we even had someone almost pass out from pushing themself too hard (the guy wasn't even out of shape) and on top of that the "injured" teammate was like 14 not even an adult! I couldn't begin to imagine the dedication it would take a medic to do constant trips back and forth.
I was an Army medic and carrying a big guy on a litter was a huge workout if you did it over a long distance.
I think i found my new favorite channel. My grandfather was a WWII legend and POW and I'm exceptionally intrigued by the war. ❤
Remember kids, work smarter not harder.
I was a combat engineer and a military policeman in the Australian Army but the toughest thing I ever did was the medics final challenge activity. Basically carrying a wounded guy on a stretcher... for 5km through a creek, under a road via a culvert and across a lake. We were lucky; nobody was shelling or shooting at us...
If I had a history teacher like you I would’ve paid a hell of a lot more attention
I'm non-english speaker and those videos help me a lot not just to learn some cool stuff from ww1 or 2, but also to learn more vocabulary, appreciate it buddy!
Bruh that would be so nice. I’ve carried people for literal miles and it felt like my fingers were breaking!
The Mogadishu mile would be cake walk with these lol
As a combat medic myself I can confirm that it is super tiring to carry someone on a stretcher.
My mother was a paramedic for 4 years and she says that pushing/pulling a stretcher can be tiring. So she knows their pain... kinda.
This guy has the iconic look of someone from the 40s. Can't describe it, but he looks like someone from that era.
Short, precise, and informative. Well done and thank you.
Fascinating . Thanks. I just figured it was simply a different style for heavier loads. Stretcher bearer never came to mind. I appreciate you explaining this kit to us. I'm 57 and always happy to learn.
You look very young which makes the amount of knowledge you have on ww2 topics that much more impressive. Very cool channel. Keep up the good work my friend.
I’ve gotten sucked into some incredible historical fiction books & your content is helping me learn so much more about that time period. Thanks for sharing!
God bless the men and women who worked as medics and nurses. Literal angels
I'm loving these shorts. I wish my Dad was still alive because he was a WW2 historian and would have loved your channel.
Fuck me , why’d they discontinue this. It would have saved me so much energy during my medic training
Thanks for this. I wish we had more medic focused histories. My grandpa was a WWII army medic in the Pacific Theatre. He didn't like to talk about it.
When my nephew was in the Army a few years ago, he was the "casualty" on the stretcher during a training exercise. He's a big guy and got "accidentally" dumped off the stretcher. He ended up with a concussion and became a real casualty.
that's so horrible. I am sorry for your loss.
in my basic training my commanders put a 110kg guy on it, and made us walk at night, on a forested, broken, steep hillside. we were 3 week of training.
2 guys dislocated their shoulders and one damaged his ankle, and it's a true miracle it wasn't worse.
the treatment was to tell the firsts to fire with the other arm at ranges, and the latter to just jump on his good foot during exercises.
I got permanently bed-bound as a result of this kind of treatment (in other incidents).
armies treat people like sh*t, and conscription armies even worse.
@@iddomargalit-friedman3897 Oh he's not dead. He just had to leave the exercise as a genuine casualty instead of just playing one.
@@iddomargalit-friedman3897 He's also had life-long experience getting dropped from a height. As an infant, he rolled off the changing table when his dad moved his eyes away from the baby for just one second. My nephew broke his tibia and had to be in a cast for the next eight weeks. A big baby in a waist cast on both legs is not a happy creature. Also, not fun to attempt to diaper.
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Glad to hear! Still sucks.
Such training have to be done very very gradually, but many commanders don't have the patience.
Easy to do
Awesome presentation. I was taught, ages ago, in the Army to have my own Load Bearing Equipment (LBE) harness to carry all my gear because of just the reason in your presentation. Years later when I served as a doctor in Iraq War 2003-2004, I used my own harness over my body armor and could do this while the newer LCE vest could not.
It’s like someone back in time and brought you back to tell us this lol
he really did dress the full costume for this video... talk about dedication
It was a great invention, ww2 inventions are very surprising
Im currently a corpsman, and it boggles my mind that GWOT gear and dogma doesn't really have this innovation.
Carrying a litter is fucking heavy, especially now that we wear so much gear compared to WWII. But now the old heads basically say, "Just get stronger"
Lile bro, you have to carry a litter further than a football field in an actual evac. Ain't nobody farmers carrying that without a break.
The stokes liters have these and so do SAR litters. Supposedly the talons do as well, but we're never issued them, or they're lost.
I guess our egos are more valuable than the patients life.
This is actually useful because even in a skirmish this would save the medic a lot of time.
Hacksaw ridge is one of my favorite WWll movies
That's really interesting I didn't know medic suspenders worked like that. 👍
Picking up and carrying dead weight is very hard no matter how strong you are.
Great piece. Love you enthusiasm. I’ve studied WW2 for 40 years (I’m 51). New sub 👍🏼
“Your back problems are not service related”
Bro explained a detail we didn't needed
Thx
Well done young man. If only more young people were interested in learning history instead of erasing it.
As a medic in the army today, this would be extremely useful.
This is awesome possum to know . Keep up the good work
Thank you!
As a modern army medic, I genuinely have no idea why we got rid of these, litters SUCK to carry
It’s cool that they did the research to make sure the medic uniform was correct and didn’t just give him a normal GI uniform and paint a Red Cross on his helmet.
Awesome 😊 thank you for educating us all
im glad there is not that much fast food at that time and they do alot of excersise in training because i will beg the high command to put me everywhere other than being strecher carrier
😂 true. Those guys grew up during the Great Depression, so they were a lot smaller
@@WorldWarWisdom wear you got this medic clothing at do you have link this
...So if a stretcher's a litter, an ambulance must be a litterbox
Nowadays we (Corpsman and medics) just make other people carry litters 😂
Keeping history alive and well. We love to see it!
Bro used the time machine just to explain small details to his grandchilds
The stretcher bearers musta been really tough! Can you imagine doing that all day!?
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Wow, answered a question I didn't even know I had AND in an incredibly succinct, satisfying, and thorough manner. Nice! Super effective use of a short :]
Thank You! Great Content! 👍🏻
I really wish we had those. Carrying litters on your shoulders for hours and hours hurt so bad
I just bought a vietnam and ww1 stretcher, and me my brother and my friend decided to try it out, and I can confirm that trying to carry someone is a hassle.
Man this would be a saving in my time in the military
Quick, Interesting, Informative. I love this dudes shorts
I love your videos Man, some great insight to our world war II veterans 🇺🇲 🫡 my uncle served in world war II during the Battle of the bulge he earned the bronze Star. He passed in 1978 and as he was being laid to rest, it began to snow and that snow turned into the Blizzard of 78' that blanketed the East Coast. My uncle always liked the winter, so we considered the blizzard a last gift from him. 🙏😇🙏
They need to bring that type of ingenuity gear back to the current Army.
LOVE THE INFO AND THE DELIVERY! THANKS!
4 years as medic and we didn’t have anything like this 😂 that would’ve saved so much energy
My grandfather was an Anzac stretcher bearer in PNG, I can only imagine how hard that must have been, especially in that terrain.
Simple solution to a common problem. Neat, I learned simething new today. Thanks 😁. To be honest I did not even noticed ww2 medics had specialised suspenders.
Very informative channel. Thank you.😞 & Blessings on all our brave people in uniform.🙏
Horror game crossover right here. Aliens infect a republic Venetor and you attempt to survive as a commando. Perhaps aliens vs clones multiplayer would be cool
Well done dissertation of historical events of combat across the military of that WWII era.
Until recently I worked as a 'removal specialist' for a Mortuary and I can attest that, even with two people, carrying a modern stretcher or backboard with a body on it, even a small adult, is very tiring.
You're absolutely right son I'm glad you're enjoying your reenacting and was interested in doing World War II reenacting as well but decided to do Civil War reenacting and did it for 14 years I am so thankful for the Hobbies I've met some long life friends because of it godspeed ✝️to you young man and keep your powder dry🇺🇲 I do enjoy your videos👍
Thanks for carrying forward histories stories to today’s young generations
You shouldn’t have revealed the shovel, I was completely fooled
Thanks for the info, I love when neat little historical facts show up in my feed.
I"m so glad to know this! Thank you!
As a kid in Denmark I had a few items of WW2 surplus equipment. An entrenching tool like yours, a belt of spent Machinegin Ammunition, a military torch & a German Helmet. In the 60s there was a lot of it about.