Thank you for your honesty. There's nothing wrong with a "rewatch" reaction to someone we haven't seen for years. It really bugs me when two people include "First Time Watching" in their title and then constantly make remarks like, "Oh yeah, I remember this scene."
Totally get it and I think Band of Brothers is one of those series that "SHOULD" be a rewatch because it's important history and important to remember those that fought in WW2
You should watch TO HELL AND BACK the Audie Murphy story. Audie was the most decorated American soldier (Marine) of WW2 . Bronze star, Silver star, Purple heart, Medal of Honor multiple times he even won medals from France. After the war Audie became a Hollywood actor making about 70 movies and TO HELL AND BACK so Audie Murphy play's himself in his own life story about how he won the medal of honor.
Winters' s problem with Compton is that Compton is a wealthy officer gambling with poor enlisted men. As long as Compton is losing and paying up, it's just "fun and games". However, if one of the enlisted loses, it can create issues. He might not be able to pay up or he has to use money that he was supposed to send to his family back home. Also if Compton is friends with a group of enlisted, other soldiers might think that he is playing favours. It might lead to resentment and trust issues in the platoon. Winters feels that it is a bad risk for an officer to take. I think Winters was right but opinions vary.
Army Veteran here. I love this series. Watched it more than once, every time made me cry. Another series I think you should check out is SEAL Team. Great show. Has 7 seasons, unfortunately the last season has recently finished.
Another great video, congrats on your Hacksaw Ridge video killing it lately. Your channel quality has improved drastically and it's awesome to see someone so genuine doing well. Keep it up man 👊
Good to see you doing this the second time around! I'm sure you'll pick up details that you'll likely have missed during your first watch through - I know I did. This is the kind of series that, for me, just gets better and better each time I rewatch it. Looking forward to following this (again) with you! Currahee!
As a Marine, there are a few movies depicting other Branches that I respect. This Series is right at the top! While all Branches 'Served' and did their duties, the way this story unfolds, episode-by-episode, and the individuals who comprise it is second to none. I consider 'Band of Brothers' and 'Saving Private Ryan' to be such stories, and the way they're put on film is incredible.
Yes, 👍 If I've seen it once I've seen it over 100 times and it never gets old. TYFYS. I wish the The Series Masters of the Air had been as good. My Father was LeMay's Crew Chief for the 8th. It took me a long many ears to understand a look on his face while on leave in a pub in England. Till I went to the Museum of the Pacific in Fredericksburg Texas where I picked up a DVD on the Air Champagne. In the first 9 months they lost 25,000 pilots, crews, and 2500 planes. They were literally falling out of the sky. The series never gets old.
@@RedSinter My Family Tree has been traced all the way back to the early Colonists/Irish People in Ireland, all the way back to the 'French and Indian War(s),' and the Great Irish famine/migration to America. Papa (Cherokee) and Momma (Irish) have soldiers/fighters throughout. Papa was a Marine. Two of my three older brothers are Marines (The middle brother choose the Army, for which we STILL give him shit! ;-) ), and being the only daughter and youngest, I too became a Marine. Papa Served during the Vietnam War (Two Tours), and from our own familial histories, world/American History, we grew up learning and talking about conflict and war. I Served one Tour during the Liberation of Kuwait (ie Desert Storm), and then returned during the second Iraqi conflict to see Saddam removed from power. People who have never Served, much less during conflict, truly have no idea just what it takes to keep freedom and liberty alive, which makes all the current stupidity we're seeing/living under today, so damned infuriating. I can only hope and pray that sanity is restored. For a fact, far too much harm/damage has been allowed to happen, and it's going to take generations to recover/heal from it. Stay alert, aim small, miss small, an' keep yer powder dry! :-)
These old veterans they interviewed at the beginning, I think were all veterans of the same group of men depicted in the show. 50% of the airborne who landed the night before the Normandy beach invasion died. General Eisenhower thought 90% would die, but sent them anyway. Thank God they went! /SALUTE/ These men are heroes. They diverted resources away from the beaches. They knocked out German artillery pointed at the beaches and other key points, and they destroyed every bridge they couldn’t hold, buying our men on the beaches extra hours and days before German tanks and other reinforcements could show up.
It puts a lump in my throat and a mist in my eyes every time I watch the men board the C-47s and climb into the sky to join the hundreds of other planes and thousands of their buddies bound for Normandy to take on an enemy whose armies had easily conquered most of Europe in 1940. General Eisenhower had prepared a message taking personal responsibility should the invasion fail. He walked among the US paratroopers in their staging area. They would not let him down.
11:40 This good training. They have to always be ready for combat. If someone can't take a drill instructor humiliating them then they'll certainly crack when being shot at.
Bro, I love your channel. And I appreciate your service to our great nation. Thank you for your service and thank you also for the great content you give us. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
You have to remember some of these guys were training for 2 years or more so when you get it psyched up in your head that you are jumping out of a plane in a country you've never been to, while landing in the middle of thousands of enemy in the dark, and they say "no jump" a few hours before you go...... you'd be pissed 😂
Officer ranks: 2nd Lt, Lt, Captain, Major, Lt Colonel, Colonel, Brigadier General, Major General, Lt General, General. And the only wartime General of the Army. I was remembering for the Generals, Be My Little General LOL. Not bad for an old man remembering those ranks 25 years later. LOL
At the end you should react to the We Stand Alone Together documentary since that's where the intros are from. You get to know their names so you know which one of these guys are Winters, Buck, etc and who played as them in the show. The whole thing is here on youtube for free so I'm not sure if you'll have any problems reacting to it.
The Guy who was sitting on his cot and not dressed for PT was giving up. It is meant to represent the drop out rate for the airborne training. It was and still is very high failure rate amongst those who take the training. He would have been reassigned to a regular army infantry unit.
So i had the honor of knowing many of the real Troopers from Easy co. back in 1993- early 2000's while in E/506th Reenacted. we got to hear all the stories from that never made the books or series, the times of Drinking & singing were always epic times with major hangovers. miss theses scallywags
I think it was your Band of Brothers reactions that first got my attention! Great to come back to this! And, as usual, I still laugh my ass off whenever anyone sees Captain Sobel for the first time and goes, "Ross?!"
i remember seeing this series - it was funny enough, in garisson (of a unit training others - not going into details); being a swiss in switzerland and jobless back then, i volontiered for a prolonged "yearly service" (to get my milita-days down) and was thus transfered to a "reserve-batallion" into the operations-detail doing as many milita-days as possible; having had "some days down", i as a "senior" was named group-leader. since we, for a reason i can't remember anymore, didn't get liberty for a few weeks back then, we had to stay in. so next option possible (no "higher ups having an eye on us" i sneaked out and went home (lived just next village), gotten my dvd-player and some discs; my "2nd in command" offered to get some discs, too - so i sent him his way, while two guys organised the portable projector and the screen. ...and so, we created a "theater" in the messhall. one of the discs the other guy organized was "band of brothers", and it was set. episode one and two were first evening, only we enlisted from the op-detail watched. three and four, fullhouse. the troops that were on location for training watched with us, too (instead using liberty to go out) five and six, we had even the nco from the guest troops and the civil instructors. seven to the end, we were allowed to watch it in the auditorium, organised by the general, he even managed to organize some snacks and (sadly non alcoholic) beverages for the audience... what an experience i tell you. after the last episode, we were told some storys from the instructors who had done duty at the demarcation-line in korea, other blue-helmet missions down to KFOR-troops. (as for the idea of creating a theatre while there was a "curfew", me and my "XO" gotten a little promotion for holding the morale up. ...this is how i ended my service as PFC, highest one can get in swiss army without being selected for NCO or CO-career. last time i heard about my old unit, the "cinnema-evening" is still going on, but now, they do have a "collection" to buy for the streaming-service) edits: had to bring some sense into the sentences
If you're going all the way with this...(again) be prepared to grow, laugh, learn and suffer with these men (again). The first episode is in some ways my favorite, if only for the relative innocence, knowing what lies ahead for them. This was when their biggest threats were "Army noodles with ketchup" and Sobel's ignorance. I love the power move Winters makes by literally grabbing the pen out of Sobel's hand while he was abusing his... Hard to call this a TV show honestly, it's a 12 hour Saving Private Ryan in quality. CURRAHEE! ♠
If I remembered correctly, you and another TH-camr at the time were one of the very first that reacted to Band of Brothers before it blew up during Covid to the reaction community
Watch “The Pacific”, dude with the Mohawk is E. M. Nathanson of the filthy thirteen. Check out “The Giant Killer”. Who let a captain who can’t do land nav any better than a 2nd lieutenant (butter bar). Just like prison they had people read your incoming and outgoing mail all telephones calls are recorded.
Vet to vet. I think you'll appreciate this. The Operations Room youtube channel does a historical/tactical breakdown of each of their engagements. After the second episode of band of brothers react to this. th-cam.com/video/814qEsxSzmA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=XQDsTKVCV7s2Qexf It's less than 8 min long.
You should watch Generation Kill. Different from BoB. Much more modern. Also based on a true story of a Rolling Stone (I think) journalist who rode along on the invasion of Iraq. Some fucked up stuff in there.
Thank you for your honesty. There's nothing wrong with a "rewatch" reaction to someone we haven't seen for years. It really bugs me when two people include "First Time Watching" in their title and then constantly make remarks like, "Oh yeah, I remember this scene."
It’s refreshing I wish more channels would do this, kinda cool to see reactions to things they might’ve missed in the first watch.
Nothing wrong with rewatch. I rewatch BOB at least twice a year
Totally get it and I think Band of Brothers is one of those series that "SHOULD" be a rewatch because it's important history and important to remember those that fought in WW2
Former 82nd paratrooper here. This series is the best. True heroes! I watch this series every June 6th.
C/1/325 here brother.
This , the pacific, and masters of the air. All excellent
You must have read my mind! I’ve been on a Band of Brothers kick (for the millionth time) and recently watched your old videos of it. And here we are!
Veteran here as well. My favorite series ever created. Seen it countless times and will continue to do so
You should watch TO HELL AND BACK the Audie Murphy story. Audie was the most decorated American soldier (Marine) of WW2 . Bronze star, Silver star, Purple heart, Medal of Honor multiple times he even won medals from France. After the war Audie became a Hollywood actor making about 70 movies and TO HELL AND BACK so Audie Murphy play's himself in his own life story about how he won the medal of honor.
This show is even better the 2nd around when you start to recognize the faces and names of Easy Company.
Greatest guys and best series ever.
Winters' s problem with Compton is that Compton is a wealthy officer gambling with poor enlisted men. As long as Compton is losing and paying up, it's just "fun and games". However, if one of the enlisted loses, it can create issues. He might not be able to pay up or he has to use money that he was supposed to send to his family back home. Also if Compton is friends with a group of enlisted, other soldiers might think that he is playing favours. It might lead to resentment and trust issues in the platoon. Winters feels that it is a bad risk for an officer to take. I think Winters was right but opinions vary.
In reality Winters felt Compton was crossing a line by getting too close to the enlisted men.
Army Veteran here. I love this series. Watched it more than once, every time made me cry. Another series I think you should check out is SEAL Team. Great show. Has 7 seasons, unfortunately the last season has recently finished.
Martin placed the letter in Bill's jacket so he would see it. Kind of like telling him without telling him.
sobel is a walking frag magnet
Another great video, congrats on your Hacksaw Ridge video killing it lately. Your channel quality has improved drastically and it's awesome to see someone so genuine doing well. Keep it up man 👊
My body is ready for this, one of the best shows ever made 🥳🥳🥳
Bro you are in for one heck of an amazing journey with this series. It's the best show ever made.
Good to see you doing this the second time around! I'm sure you'll pick up details that you'll likely have missed during your first watch through - I know I did. This is the kind of series that, for me, just gets better and better each time I rewatch it. Looking forward to following this (again) with you! Currahee!
I always appreciate a veterans perspective on this show
The best reaction to this series I have seen thus far!
Been watching BofB since HBO debut. Someone always notice s something I’ve missed. Learn something new each time.
I've watched this show every other year since it came out. Thank you to all the veterans!! ❤
As a Marine, there are a few movies depicting other Branches that I respect. This Series is right at the top! While all Branches 'Served' and did their duties, the way this story unfolds, episode-by-episode, and the individuals who comprise it is second to none. I consider 'Band of Brothers' and 'Saving Private Ryan' to be such stories, and the way they're put on film is incredible.
Yes, 👍 If I've seen it once I've seen it over 100 times and it never gets old. TYFYS. I wish the The Series Masters of the Air had been as good. My Father was LeMay's Crew Chief for the 8th. It took me a long many ears to understand a look on his face while on leave in a pub in England. Till I went to the Museum of the Pacific in Fredericksburg Texas where I picked up a DVD on the Air Champagne. In the first 9 months they lost 25,000 pilots, crews, and 2500 planes. They were literally falling out of the sky. The series never gets old.
@@RedSinter
My Family Tree has been traced all the way back to the early Colonists/Irish People in Ireland, all the way back to the 'French and Indian War(s),' and the Great Irish famine/migration to America. Papa (Cherokee) and Momma (Irish) have soldiers/fighters throughout. Papa was a Marine. Two of my three older brothers are Marines (The middle brother choose the Army, for which we STILL give him shit! ;-) ), and being the only daughter and youngest, I too became a Marine.
Papa Served during the Vietnam War (Two Tours), and from our own familial histories, world/American History, we grew up learning and talking about conflict and war.
I Served one Tour during the Liberation of Kuwait (ie Desert Storm), and then returned during the second Iraqi conflict to see Saddam removed from power.
People who have never Served, much less during conflict, truly have no idea just what it takes to keep freedom and liberty alive, which makes all the current stupidity we're seeing/living under today, so damned infuriating.
I can only hope and pray that sanity is restored. For a fact, far too much harm/damage has been allowed to happen, and it's going to take generations to recover/heal from it.
Stay alert, aim small, miss small, an' keep yer powder dry!
:-)
The interviews with the veterans is very touching and enlightening
Cant believe ive been subscribed for so long and didnt even realise you'd covered this. Cant wait to get stuck in 👏
Love this series! "The Pacific" is great also!
There's plenty of reason to cry during this series. No shame in it. My absolute favorite series ever.
These old veterans they interviewed at the beginning, I think were all veterans of the same group of men depicted in the show.
50% of the airborne who landed the night before the Normandy beach invasion died. General Eisenhower thought 90% would die, but sent them anyway. Thank God they went! /SALUTE/
These men are heroes. They diverted resources away from the beaches. They knocked out German artillery pointed at the beaches and other key points, and they destroyed every bridge they couldn’t hold, buying our men on the beaches extra hours and days before German tanks and other reinforcements could show up.
It puts a lump in my throat and a mist in my eyes every time I watch the men board the C-47s and climb into the sky to join the hundreds of other planes and thousands of their buddies bound for Normandy to take on an enemy whose armies had easily conquered most of Europe in 1940. General Eisenhower had prepared a message taking personal responsibility should the invasion fail. He walked among the US paratroopers in their staging area. They would not let him down.
One of my favorite series of all time!
11:40 This good training. They have to always be ready for combat. If someone can't take a drill instructor humiliating them then they'll certainly crack when being shot at.
Bro, I love your channel. And I appreciate your service to our great nation. Thank you for your service and thank you also for the great content you give us. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
BoB gets an annual rewatch in this household
You have to remember some of these guys were training for 2 years or more so when you get it psyched up in your head that you are jumping out of a plane in a country you've never been to, while landing in the middle of thousands of enemy in the dark, and they say "no jump" a few hours before you go...... you'd be pissed 😂
Officer ranks: 2nd Lt, Lt, Captain, Major, Lt Colonel, Colonel, Brigadier General, Major General, Lt General, General. And the only wartime General of the Army. I was remembering for the Generals, Be My Little General LOL.
Not bad for an old man remembering those ranks 25 years later. LOL
So glad you are starting this series.
At the end you should react to the We Stand Alone Together documentary since that's where the intros are from. You get to know their names so you know which one of these guys are Winters, Buck, etc and who played as them in the show. The whole thing is here on youtube for free so I'm not sure if you'll have any problems reacting to it.
The Guy who was sitting on his cot and not dressed for PT was giving up. It is meant to represent the drop out rate for the airborne training. It was and still is very high failure rate amongst those who take the training. He would have been reassigned to a regular army infantry unit.
So i had the honor of knowing many of the real Troopers from Easy co. back in 1993- early 2000's while in E/506th Reenacted. we got to hear all the stories from that never made the books or series, the times of Drinking & singing were always epic times with major hangovers. miss theses scallywags
This series is so good and a great depiction of what life was like around this time & place
I think it was your Band of Brothers reactions that first got my attention! Great to come back to this! And, as usual, I still laugh my ass off whenever anyone sees Captain Sobel for the first time and goes, "Ross?!"
He did such a good job with this part. I hated his show. But that made this role even better, because he played a dick so well.
David Schwimmer did a really good job playing Sobel. When I see the actor today, I think "Sobel" before I think "Ross". :)
@@przemekkozlowski7835 Agreed! It's a shame that he's more well known for his role on Friends than in BoB.
YES DEVIN!!! That’s wtf I’m talmbout
great idea, dude. i am excited to see these episodes (with you) again
Yeeeessssss! Great series. Hooah.
i remember seeing this series - it was funny enough, in garisson (of a unit training others - not going into details); being a swiss in switzerland and jobless back then, i volontiered for a prolonged "yearly service" (to get my milita-days down) and was thus transfered to a "reserve-batallion" into the operations-detail doing as many milita-days as possible; having had "some days down", i as a "senior" was named group-leader. since we, for a reason i can't remember anymore, didn't get liberty for a few weeks back then, we had to stay in. so next option possible (no "higher ups having an eye on us" i sneaked out and went home (lived just next village), gotten my dvd-player and some discs; my "2nd in command" offered to get some discs, too - so i sent him his way, while two guys organised the portable projector and the screen. ...and so, we created a "theater" in the messhall.
one of the discs the other guy organized was "band of brothers", and it was set.
episode one and two were first evening, only we enlisted from the op-detail watched.
three and four, fullhouse. the troops that were on location for training watched with us, too (instead using liberty to go out)
five and six, we had even the nco from the guest troops and the civil instructors.
seven to the end, we were allowed to watch it in the auditorium, organised by the general,
he even managed to organize some snacks and (sadly non alcoholic) beverages for the audience...
what an experience i tell you. after the last episode, we were told some storys from the instructors who had done duty at the demarcation-line in korea, other blue-helmet missions down to KFOR-troops.
(as for the idea of creating a theatre while there was a "curfew", me and my "XO" gotten a little promotion for holding the morale up. ...this is how i ended my service as PFC, highest one can get in swiss army without being selected for NCO or CO-career. last time i heard about my old unit, the "cinnema-evening" is still going on, but now, they do have a "collection" to buy for the streaming-service)
edits: had to bring some sense into the sentences
I wanna see the next episode! I’m looking forward to it
You rock man. This series is awesome
If you're going all the way with this...(again) be prepared to grow, laugh, learn and suffer with these men (again). The first episode is in some ways my favorite, if only for the relative innocence, knowing what lies ahead for them. This was when their biggest threats were "Army noodles with ketchup" and Sobel's ignorance. I love the power move Winters makes by literally grabbing the pen out of Sobel's hand while he was abusing his... Hard to call this a TV show honestly, it's a 12 hour Saving Private Ryan in quality. CURRAHEE! ♠
I own a band of brothers, pacific box set n must have whatched them at least 15 times. God there good.
If I remembered correctly, you and another TH-camr at the time were one of the very first that reacted to Band of Brothers before it blew up during Covid to the reaction community
Im not emotionally ready to watch this series again yet. I do it every 2-4 years. But I'm stopping by to like and comment.
My firm opinion....this series is the best production HBO has ever been involved in.
waiting on the Generation Kill reactions!
Thank you for watching this my favorite series ever made
I watch this once a year every year.
The guy with the Mohawk is mcnasty, the fat election did a good piece on him
Watch “The Pacific”, dude with the Mohawk is E. M. Nathanson of the filthy thirteen. Check out “The Giant Killer”. Who let a captain who can’t do land nav any better than a 2nd lieutenant (butter bar). Just like prison they had people read your incoming and outgoing mail all telephones calls are recorded.
Bro you need to watch these more just finish the whole series it’s that good
Great series
18:42 My grandfather was station in England for four years during and after the war. He said he couldn't understand a word anyone there was saying.
We gonna cry together G🍻
Some sort of highish pitch sound in the background. Sounds like cicadas or something. Dunno if you noticed it
Th Expendables 2.
Thank's!!
So many of the actors in this series became Hollywood stars...but the true stars are the ones those Hollywood stars portrayed.
The letter was sent to Sgt Martin, not to Bill. It wasn't Bill's property.
You should watch -The Pacific- and -Masters of the Air-
what service your u in and what did u do? devin
Wow Abraham fought the nazis and then years later fought walkers and Negan too. Impressive
You should try reacting to The Fat Electrician also, he is a vet and has some great videos
Good to see you rewatch, DG, but don’t call you saying what will happen a “prediction” when you’ve seen it already.
please watch purple heart, i know its not action but you'll love it
Devin please react to Miracle at St Anne, you will love it, stars forest whitaker
Been waiting on ya to share this series with us!!!!👏👏👏👍✌️🇺🇸🇮🇱
ooh hheellll yyaaa i cant wait till you get to the pacific
Didn't you have an Invincible series?
hey bro, Could you make a Band of Brothers playlist
2 things , 1 your gunna end up loving speirs , and 2 episode 9 is really rough , you have been warned
Vet to vet. I think you'll appreciate this. The Operations Room youtube channel does a historical/tactical breakdown of each of their engagements. After the second episode of band of brothers react to this.
th-cam.com/video/814qEsxSzmA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=XQDsTKVCV7s2Qexf It's less than 8 min long.
0:36 my friend that is not the actor you are talking about 😂😂😂 different guy
No worries bro, I’ve got the memory of a goldfish 😂
most your questions will get answered in this show lol just gotta listen
You should watch Generation Kill. Different from BoB. Much more modern. Also based on a true story of a Rolling Stone (I think) journalist who rode along on the invasion of Iraq. Some fucked up stuff in there.
Can we get a reaction to monarch legacy of monsters
All I can say is stop with the over-the-top dynamics and figure out something that is not so in the face!
Yes,'Ross' was a dick. Excellent toaaaly change, from a talented actor. You hated him.
Please watch rocky 4
Promote to Demote
Good series....i will keep suggesting the movie PATTON.....true story of Americas Greatest WW2 General George Patton. Love your reactions