Marines Storm Taliban Opium Factory In Helicopter Raid | Part 1
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Part 2 is coming later this week | Helmand Province, Afghanistan - Marines from 2/9 Echo conduct a search and seizure raid on a known Taliban opium factory in early 2013. As the helicopters come back in to complete the extraction, Taliban fighters open fire. The vast majority of Opium profits are used to fund Taliban operations, and "Fighting Season" normally begins about a week after the harvest is complete and the Taliban can afford more equipment. The blue bags were filled with Calcium used in the refining process of the opium.
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Did part 2 ever get uploaded can't find it
@@jamesireland9188 Did you find part two?
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Captain Firepower Thanks, Brother! Gotta love The Corp and I’m a Doggie!
Smart move
The "Military" didn't publish this video. The guys on the ground that day did.
Helmet cam guy sounds like he's about to pass out. I can feel him though it's so hot over there and you have all that gear on. I want to thank all of you serving or have served for our country even though the government wont.
NeverAgain1536 thank you! I appreciate ppl like you who take the time to thank us (ex-) militia!
Not to mention stressed about what he needs to accomplish while there’s always a chance some person could whip out a weapon in those small compound rooms. It’s sketch af, this is a lot of those peoples livelihood and they probably don’t want to lose it.
They're wearing self cooling under garments...theyll be alright
his demeanor screams fresh leadership. his mind is RACING, he has more responsibilities than could possibly be conveyed in this video
@@socwokcyberbully720 oya
Greetings brothers, I was in Echo 2/9, Camp Schawb, okinawa. 1974-75. Yall come back safe. Semper Fi.
John Petty echo 2/5 0311 07-12 semper fi brother
@@ricardoaponte511 Alpha 1/3 10-17.
Temper pie!
Hate Is Love call of duty black ops.1-2-3
i was in 2, modern warfare 2 and later black ops
Guys stop making fake ass platoon and unit names
8:00 "Don't touch the motorcycle"
8:03 CRRCH
Damnwell almost gave me a heart attack.
thejonathan130 God damn, me too!
Dude same
thejonathan130 even after reading this I fucking jumped knowing damn well something was gonna scare me
Me too, i ws like what does he mean with that so i clicked on the 8:00 and damn i almost dies or something because that was random as f*ck
Dude I read your comment got curious and the same fucking thing happened... LMAO I didn't know what you meant by "Crrch" but I do now
***** Part 2 will be uploaded this Friday.
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+FUNKER530 - Veteran Community & Combat Footage wheres part two
Manden wow weee
Weird can’t see the replies :(
This aged well
im amazed at how many people comment on here, have never been in war, but seem to think they know whats best. i havent been in war and im not going to pretend i know better than them, in their situations. learn your place, people.
Thank you!
@VloneJhay no u
Bad drills
Protecting the C.I.A. black budget.
Theyve played cod though and that counts doesnt it ?? Haha. Everyones and expert , they all freeze if some chav come giving it large never mind hardened soldiers with machine guns
But what if I WANT to touch the motorcycle?
Doc Possum *BOOM*
Doc Opoßum “but it looks so prettttttty”🥴 boom 🏍 💥🤯
NEW VIDEO IS LIVE! Marines Storm Taliban Opium Factory In Helicopter Raid | Part 1
Helmand Province, Afghanistan - Marines from 2/9 Echo conduct a search and seizure raid on a known Taliban opium factory in early 2013. As the helicopters come back in to complete the extraction, Taliban fighters open fire. The vast majority of Opium profits are used to fund Taliban operations, and "Fighting Season" normally begins about a week after the harvest is complete and the Taliban can afford more equipment.
Amphibious RECON = RAID!
Burnaine family love's you all and thanks you all as well.
Hell Yeah !
its good video
Paul Hetherington ***** ***** mark oconnell
in 2001 (during regn of taliban) opium production came to 2% from 80%.. here is proof
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Afghanistan_opium_poppy_cultivation_1994-2007b.PNG
Taliban are the ONLY one in ihistory, who sucessfully destroyed all types of Drugs in
Afghanistan, it was USA military, which came to Afghanistan, and since then, opium production shooted to 5800 tonnes, from just 850 tonnes.. from 2001
I love when he goes in the house and whispers " it smells like ass in here..."
Drew Hudson yeah donkeys ass(drug makers bit on the side 🥴)
Goat bordello
These troops are recognized forever we salute you! ❤️
Nice one for this Funker...Quality every time mate. Appreciate your effort of keeping the footage coming!!
Respect. And thank you FUNKER for bringing these videos to us.
Wow I look up to my country and it's military with more pride and respect now so blessed and grateful to be american
Im waiting for part two till this day but it never release.
maybe its still classified for us or something
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Part 3
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Too'`'\/ quit bullshitting the anti trump shit, numb nuts. This was during Obama’s era.
@Too'`'\/ Video is published in 2013
Still somehow manages to bring trump into it. Man, the mental gymnastics must be exhausting, how do you do it?
Man, I don't know about those ANP. Lotta standing in doorways and ignored orders.
I feel for those Marines.
There's a documentary about how worthless they are despite our best trying to teach them. Might be one of Ross Kemp's docs but I can't remember. Basically, the US soldiers felt there was no hope for this country because their own citizens/soldiers don't care. The ANA officers can be the worst, thinking just because they have power, that they can just go off and rape boys and what not.
I could then see why Americans soldiers think it so depressing to help fight for that.
@@TM-bn8pv the documentary is
'This is what winning looks like'
@@brotherhood4596 nah, I've seen that one that is like a 10 episode documentary on the fight in AFGHANISTAN. Might've been a Ross Kemp series, but I think it was on National Geographic.
@@TM-bn8pv no, its one hour long documentary or theres like 4 parts of Ben Anderson and a vice guy going through it step by step.
you're talking about "This is what winning looks like," Mjr Stueben is the American you're talking about who said they're worthless.
in ross kemp's "return to Afghanistan" the US captain really sugar coats how useless the ANA are.
@@TM-bn8pv yeah you're definitely talking about "this is what winning looks like" with that whole "just cause they have power they think they can rape little boys
comment.
let me guess, the American you're talking about spends hours talking to the ANA general/commander about getting rid of ALL the chai boys in his AO? if so, that's from Ben Anderson's doc from 2010/2011.
You know you're fucked when a Super Stallion lands near your opium field
...severely fucked when there's two of 'em.
...and Americans running out of em.
And bringing new king stallions
These helmet cam videos always bring all the anti-war hippies who come to spew their political conspiracy crap. Why do you even watch these videos if all you do is argue. These guys are the ones letting you sit around and say this stuff.
whos Preventing me from sitting around in the first instance dude?
No they are not , I will never let another man have to protect me from some one else .
Arch Too late, I don't see you typing in Japanese or German. Shit, the fact your alive is because someone else died. You do sound really tough though.
XXXHoodooXXX not true but whatevers
True I was one of them conspiracy before I grew up realized war is nasty but it is what keeps us safe on the couch..... Most of people are sugar consuming lard bags. With no respect....
god i hated walking past the rear rotor of those damn things. felt like it was going to cut my head off every time.
It might if your shit isn't wired tight lol
Well, you just have to remember to go left and not right.
Thomas Slaughter. Remember actor Vic Morrow? He was famous in the WW2 series - COMBAT! He was killed by a crashing copter, filming Twilight Zone movie. Blades chopped him and kids up! The director should have gone to prison for neglecting basic safety!😣🤔
go left always
@@coiledsteel8344 Really?
I've never been in the military but i wish I served for Queen and country 🇬🇧 But all I can say to my American brothers is thank you for the job you done fighting beside my fellow countrymen...get some 🇬🇧---🇺🇸
I love how when he walks into the second room to take pictures he whispers “it smells like ass in here”. Make me laugh.
4:15 *SNIF SNIF* huh smells like ass in here
Thanks for all the service you have gave to our country
Hate Is Love burn in hell these people are the reason your sitting cozy in a basement harassing people online. Asshole.
I gotta say out of a ton of videos this is a few I always go back and watch again you folks in the military serving are awesome and I pray all of you and your family's Re doing well thanks for serving and also for allowing us civilians a little glimpse of the crazy experience s you folks had
Also imagine the faces of the asses when they came back home and all there shit is burned up 😵
I know nothing about war or anything like that, but I have to say thank you to all those fighting for our freedom. I have mad respect for anyone brave enough to join the military honestly
I have nothing but admiration for these Marines! Brave as Hell!
They're not Soldiers, they are Marines. There is a difference, trust me I know.
Capt. Rich ah ok.... edited
@@MrPantss
Thank you sir.
Brave opressing farmers on foreign soil? Naah maybe your definition of brave is different.
360 cameras in a warzone is going to completely change the way we fight war.. sad but so intriguing what humans can do
I'm an ex British soldier with two tours of Afghanistan under my belt .... Never seen such shocking soldering ..... No coordination on the drop guys just fucking running off ..... No formation on approach of target, what if they got contacted ? A lot of guys would have been shot on the back or worst case scenario guys can't fire...... No counter ied drills or looking out for ambushes ..... The guy wearing the helmet cam isn't looking around or behind him to check on people etc. shame guys!! X
Hell yeah MARINE COR!!! 💪💪🤙🇺🇲Semper Fi to those guys right there 💪💪💪
Its "Corps" bro
@@TMoser it's sounds bad ass when you yell "Cor" bro and when your in a conversation you say "corps"
Dude its spelled Corps. You pronounce it "core", but it's spelled Corps. I spent 4years yelling "Marine Corps" and the spelling doesn't change regardless of motivation.
@@TMoser listen idk why your get pissed well literally went through the same shit first pt then boot and now we fighting were on the same side
@@Goddamnalexis who's fighting? Just spell it right, "Cor" makes you look like some jackass poolee who's got no clue what he's talking about. You wouldn't misspell your mother's name, don't do it to the gun club.
U.S. Marines wear MARPAT digital camouflage, they (Marines) have a woodland and desert pattern. The U.S. Army wears the ACU digital camo but have adapted "Multicam" uniforms for use in theater.
Do you know what's really sad? Most of these guys have recently left high school, they are extremely young to experience all the feelings brought by war... No one is ready to face war, and these young soldiers are even less prepared for it...
*psychologically
I knew a young soldier who went over there. I think he went to Iraq. He didn’t make it back.
January 2029....The Pentagon reports the war will soon be over.
First off they’re marines. They are superbly trained. Nobody joins the marines that doesn’t want to be there. But I agree no one is ready for war, and we should have never fought this one
@@whatfreedom7 I pray Jesus Christ washes him in His Blood.
@Funker530: Though i never got the chance to be enlisted in the Armed Forces of the U.S.A., as the U.S. bases in the PHL were closed in 1991, I'm still yearning for the day that I, being a Filipino, could still have the chance to help the U.S./NATO forces vigorously take the fight to TALIBAN and give the latter HELL! Greetings from the PHL...
been watchin your vids that you posted up for a while, as well as subscribed, just wanted to let ya know that Jan 14 2014 ill be shipping out to BMT with the Air Force for a 6 yr contract in active duty with Security Forces
I hope you made it out
U still with us?
IamSMAW what ended up happening?
@@elpelonchido8445 guess he ded
IamSMAW you there man?
Keep an eye out for any soldier with the sudden onset of the sniffles! LOL
4:16 "smells like ass in here"? lol
That was my favorite thing about the army. Helicopters are amazingly fun. Flying NOE is indescribably awesome. Always loved it. Even when we were catching small arms fire in the borderlands of Afghanistan and Pakistan
Wow, you people can't appreciate the marines and what they do?! How about you get a real job instead of criticizing your and our military
So we cant critizise the government and what it does? That sounds like communism
Why are they there?
@@nickblack7910 cool
@@2HeadEagle Good question.
@· regardless of your views, the marines were not the ones who decide which country to invade, what to do, and why.
Stay safe guys respect to you all from uk
Brave American soldiers protecting our opium , god bless 🙏
lol
Guys had some MASSIVE opium stogies afterwards
Does anybody know the MOS of the camera man? Back in the day I was a 4671 Motion Picture Combat Photographer. I was just wondering if they still had the MOS.
His MOS is probably intel, civilian affairs, HET or something like that.
Ok I want only military folks that have been there to explain to me why the opium is being destroyed. Our government sues manufacturers that make it chemically but want to destroy the natural opium. Thank you for your service and sacrifices.
This means that this guy with the helmet just signed up to give orders.
? That's what's soldiers of higher rank do...
"Achmed! We should wait until they're reinforced with helicopters carrying miniguns before we attack!"
"Great idea, Omid. They'll never expect us when they're at their strongest!"
So, just out of curiosity, at about 10:30 when we see the drums is that where the opium is being refined into morphine?
@@SomeJustice19k You have no idea what you're talking about
Adrian you ever think maybe thats why there was a question mark there?
Good job lads, ISAF should've set every single poppy alight in that Country, unless it is proven to be for medical supply, that drug is disgusting and does an enormous amount of damage to people's lives in our Countries. 🇬🇧🇺🇸✌✌
MUSLIMS ARE RUTHLESS TO ALL PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT IN THEIR EVIL CLAN:
"Muhammad is allah's apostle. Those who follow him are RUTHLESS to the UNBELIEVERS, but merciful to one another." Koran (surah 48:29)
truthaboveagenda If you are a muslim, you must not follow the Kuran word by word, do you as probably christian person follow thee bible word by word?
pls dont start the religon war down here
I love how the guy is rolling it with his foot at 8:30. Looks like a pretty crappy day for them both. Looks like it's a million degrees out there, too.
Headphone users are fucked in the beginning.
I had no problem with it
Martinez is such a soldier name.
u play to much cod
Semper fi till I die
schef61 Blood baby
But that's awesome and thanks to all you who serve.✊✊
Can someone please explain the difference between marines army and all of that
Marines have more tough training and more training in shooting and are generally the first ones in and are desingned for deployment near sea
Marines are hard core and kick ass and army is just average
No, Henry's opinion is biased. The difference is that the Marines are usually for amphibious and land operations (ex: landing on beaches, or in rivers or whatever), while the Army trains for only land operations (ex: paradropping). there are exceptions for example the special forces which do all, but that's about the only difference I can tell aside that the Marines train in boot camp for 13 weeks while Army is 8.
It was a joke. Nothing but love for all veterans.
Derp Scout The marines do go in first though
This brought back memories of the Opium field raid mission in Far Cry 4.
weston niemeyer Yep!
Probably a coincidence but ever since we've been in Afghanistan the opiate crisis has skyrocketed...what s the main export there...dates...no hmmm
Opium and opioids are different you can’t make OxyContin out of poppy seeds
There’s no denying it. As soon as the Taliban were pushed out of the region, initially the poppy farms came soaring back as they had been forbidden by rule previously. As a result, the heroine trade climbed significantly both in Europe and the U.S. immediately thereafter.
Opiate crisis came from US drug companies pushing opiate based pain killers and paying doctors kickbacks for prescribing them moron!
It was actually crippled. It's made a come back thougj
Semper Fi Marines! Proud of my guys!
How did the Taliban know to leave before you got there???
How do you don't hear a fucking CH-53 Flying not that far from you ?
Cimmy Jarter the taliban are always watching
The Opium trade hit a record low when the Taliban were in control of Afghanistan back in 2001...
Good work men I am so proud of you. And love seeing my tax dollars doing good work
Taxation is theft
Nick Black bruh
@@HeyImTiP bruh
Nick Black don’t fuckin @ me this ain’t twitter
Nick Black no it’s not, without taxes out government can’t find shit anyone could walk in and all we can do is offer a shifty Walmart to keep us safe
Keeping the opium revenue flowing and maintaining the petrol-dollar hegemony is critical to prolong the mathematically inevitable collapse/reset of the Fed Reserve credit bubble and growing US Treasury sovereign debt. It's all that is holding together except for The ave American's blind ignorant faith in the Federal reserve Note.
They look pretty unorganized even though I respect the Marines
***** Even though they are unorganized they still get the job done
i know what the hell is he looking in for and taking all those pics???
They are getting evidence of opium or something like that
and looking for anything else that could be proceeds of criminal activity...not "something like that"
Yes I know
Semper-Fi Devil Dogs!! Signed Devil Doc!!
i thought this was the war on terror not drugs
Miranda Retzlaff The Taliban use drugs to fund their terror.
***** That too.
Miranda Retzlaff And I'm 15 so I'm no expert or experienced, but I do think I heard they drug themselfs up before fights so they dont feel as much pain so you could shoot them a few times and they may still be going strong.
Garmo Garmo That makes sense because opiate is a painkiller. It is mainly because they sell opium for weapons.
Yeah, but love this footage. The thing that scares me is us working with afghans artmy. What if a few of them decide to turn on us, that be scary
Good job I respect you guys keep on the push
'MURICA!
I love watching these type of vids
The US were in Iran because of the WMDs (Chemical weapons). The US knew Iraq and Iran hated each other, so the US told Saddam Hussain that they were gonna hook Iraq up with the best military training in the region and US support. Of course Saddam jumped at it, and when they defeated Iran, Saddam took the WMDs and tried to defeat the US. So the US handed him over to Iraq and they had him sentenced to death, but the US couldn't find the WMDs because Saddam shipped them to Syria.
or should I say O-BOMBA hm hm yes
Masashi Kishimoto Iraq didn't defeat Iran. It's was a stalemate
I saw him check behind him several times. If you did not notice, they were in a pretty damn big field and flew in by helicopter. I am 100% sure that they had eyes on the whole area before they landed, and eyes in the sky while they were on the ground.
IS THIS REAL
Just check out the website really cool but brave if that made sense
Yes
Isiah Williams scoff scoff I think so....
Yes it's real
Thank you for serving our country
Any further questions of ignorance please refer to Michel Starker replies to the already posted questions of ignorance in this discussion. PS. remove crayons from nose and tongue from window before releasing your thoughts. It helps I've heard.
OUTSTANDING JOB...
why are they stealing peoples medicine
Finnish high school you fool
Finish* you fool.
He could've been saying they are stealing it for a high school in Finland you fool.
yea its totally medicine (sarcastic)
Azzi Somazzi dafuck you saying did read the title its not medicine its fucking opium
Nice vid! I'd like to see more of footage like this.
Why risk troops lives they could have just sent a massage to the civilians to move out of there and then nplam that compound
A persuasive massage would help a little just make sure they all get happy endings K?
1.) The US doesn't use napalm anymore, and hasn't since Vietnam. Napalm (and other weaponized gel incendiaries) haven't be used in global conflict since the Yugoslav wars, and only saw extremely limited use there. 2.) Does burning down an opium refining plant sound like a smart idea to you? haha you'll have all the surrounding villages high off opium lol :)
Maybe because they will take all their shit and run away with it
Kacha Geugchkory They can't run away from a laser guided missile
I wasn't talking about blows them up i was just saying that you can burn the fields by using nplam and any other bomb
Thank you soilders
Not very organised are they
neither is your spelling.
@@seancallahan3397 nothing wrong with his spelling actually, should've just put a comma after organised
@@seancallahan3397 Hes so american he doesn't realise most of the world uses an S instead of a Z haha
Of coarse it's about money.
The rich get richer and the poor die to make them richer.
more propaganda
I go to your link for Part2 .. and All I find is Part1 and Part3 ... where did Part2 go ??
hey, how many guy in your unit have the Revision Batlskin Helmet?
That CH-53 is beautiful.
Guy with the GoPro is super out of shape, his guy even asked him if he’s okay lmao
Try going to Afghanistan full geared and with the adrenaline of a raid in a Taliban compound lmao, I'm pretty sure we all would be with our tongues out breathing like a fat bulldog after running 10km full sprint...
In summary, it's so fucking hot in those kinda places plus gear.
Loving the marine content!
There we go marines and Afghanistan soldiers working together
I liked that electronic drug sniffer that soldier is testing the bag of opium with.
Good to see our Afghan brothers in arms fighting alongside us.
Very good job guys, i hope u all will be good any time!
papa's got a brand new bag..... one bag for me sir
And can you pls have links to the actual video instead of your channel where we have to furthermore search for the follow up vids.
It’s all fun, and games until the next room you walk into is a major opium factory! Lol
Hmmm..They don't look very cautious about the area being mined.
Why do they care that some people are growing plants!?
the plants are sold on the black market to drug dealers in cities that dont follow the laws of civilization, therefore, they are to be destroyed on site.
@@jkugler1776 people should be able to put whatever they want in they're body as long as they don't harm anyone else without consent.
Just because somthing is illegal doesn't make it bad
@@nickblack7910 would you like to live in a neighborhood where people only followed the laws, that in their opinion, were good? Mind you, that people's opinions can change day to day, and can be based on emotion and not logic.
@@jkugler1776 I think human freedom should be maximised... as long as somone isn't violating mine or somone else rights it shouldn't be illegal
@@nickblack7910 I'm with you on the libertarian idea. But it IS illegal, and the question then is, should citizens do things that are illegal, because they are of the opinion that it should be legal?
If we aren't a civilization of laws then we are a civilization of doom.
What is in the steel drums at 12:30 is it some sort of acid I'm guessing since its steaming
did funker 350 film this himself
What's I've learned from these videos is these guys go Into a battle where they shot at a general detection and get shot from outta no where and just barely see mussel flashes it's walking into and ambush basically every step you take
Cool this was uploaded the day of my birthday
I just love how this dude takes a moment to take a photo with his camera xD
He’s documenting evidence you dope
How many package you reserved for your personal use?
"So you're a photographer?"
"I'm a war correspondent!"
thanks but sorry can you explain to reply to the comments where the button is?
Would have been interesting to know how much drugs they made there and what maffia was selling it and in what country. Fantastic video