5 Worst Combat Roles From History
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The Prisoner brigades. Enemies to the front and a firing squad to your back, now, that's what you call a "lose, lose" situation.
Unknown5 the rat tunnels
U-boat/Rower , at lest with the othesrs you had a chance to fight back or at lest move, not so on the sea
Unknown5 submarine is pretty bad. i served on one for two years. a lot more modern than what is shown in the videos but a shithole none the less. i hated it very much.
"Flame thrower operators had an average life span of just 4 mintues".
Let that sink in for a moment
Radio Operators: *laughs in 5-30 second life expectancy* that's adorable.
In the battle of Iwo Jima, specifically.
Same as pilots in the Great War
I was a footsoldier in a non-war country. I was told that my life-expectency would be around 15-30 seconds.
Iam totally shooting this guy first in war..
Walking fire fuc that.
His weak point is his back he is a lvl10 boss
My Grandfather was a tunnel rat at 16, his mom sighed his papers saying he was of age so he could be away from his abusive father. Ended up becoming force recon, great guy.
eelek recon jack!
Oorah! FORECON all the way!
@Carter Swinton Adventure probably
@Carter Swinton You either serve your country or not. If you want to fight and die all on the same day, volunteer to fight ISIS. Baghdadi is dead so it'll be a little easier, 2 days.
@Carter Swinton At the start of the Vietnam war they were less than 700 McDonalds in the Country. The Turnover rate was less at that point in time. His grandfather probably had no chance at getting a job at McDonald's
I bet it was hard for the tunnels rats, to fit their giant steel balls in those tunnels.
Jason G lmao
Amen!
Really. They'd have to have huge ones.
not as big as those VC who digged the tunnel ;)
@@1stwind I don't think digging tunnels is that dangerous, if done properly.
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It's called adblocker plus
More like, its legal to them because they dont want to give the payout in the end.. 😂
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@@nathanb.8114 They lose money when theres no ads
How are you this dumb
My high school history teacher was a tunnel rat in Vietnam. He was crazy as fuck, but also a great teacher with a lot of passion about history..
How crazy?
@@elroma7712 probably "YOU DUMBASS HOW DONT YOU KNOW WHAT YEAR VIETNAM WAR HAS STARTED AND ENDED" and passionate like explaining good and responding to every question
thats what u get for messing with yellow man, vietnam man will destroy you mentally and complete make your go insane.
@@nasku2506 nah, probably not. Not a viet vet but my teacher was also experienced in that. Sometimes he'd doze off whilst standing as we were in tests and the kids conspire and would simultaneously bash their desks and he'd fall to the ground in freak out in a panic. Once somebody built a fake bomb and left it one the school grounds and he leopard crawled toward it. His entire life was fucked and he even lost his newborn baby on a school trip... he ran with his dead child for a couple of clicks and it was a horrific, life changing experience. He fucked me up and I remember almost drowning but if it wasn't for him I wouldn't have learnt to swim or known the beautiful prayers he would bless us with before tests. He was a tough bugger and politically incorrect by today's standards but I loved that man like family and he was always there to fuck us up but at the same time, somehow teach us to push ourselves harder. I remember him calling kids spastics and giving me detention for stopping to puke on the 2.4. You were allowed to puke, but you couldn't stop running. People weren't as pussified back then. It was a lot of fun, scary fun back then and it gave us a backbone to a degree to prep for other things in life later on... it'd even assist in basics to a very small degree.
nah, probably not. Not a viet vet but my teacher was also experienced in that. Sometimes he'd doze off whilst standing as we were in tests and the kids conspire and would simultaneously bash their desks and he'd fall to the ground in freak out in a panic. Once somebody built a fake bomb and left it one the school grounds and he leopard crawled toward it. His entire life was fucked and he even lost his newborn baby on a school trip... he ran with his dead child for a couple of clicks and it was a horrific, life changing experience. He fucked me up and I remember almost drowning but if it wasn't for him I wouldn't have learnt to swim or known the beautiful prayers he would bless us with before tests. He was a tough bugger and politically incorrect by today's standards but I loved that man like family and he was always there to fuck us up but at the same time, somehow teach us to push ourselves harder. I remember him calling kids spastics and giving me detention for stopping to puke on the 2.4. You were allowed to puke, but you couldn't stop running. People weren't as pussified back then. It was a lot of fun, scary fun back then and it gave us a backbone to a degree to prep for other things in life later on... it'd even assist in basics to a very small degree.
Kamikazes: why am I not on this list I literally had a 100% chance of dying
Suicide bombers: same
because they're crazy fckbags who had a 100% chance of dying... it's not really a shock that their jobs were dangerous... they chose to commit suicide, (with collateral) instead of fighting to survive so that they could do it again. Pledging to combat once, is not the same as trying to combat twice. Silly carrots, all soggy and shit.
@@brody5572 so defending your country is the same as being a crazy fckbag?
@nikola poyukov Don't get me wrong, there are exceptions to every rule. Sure some were forced to choose between dishonoring their family or killing themselves. In their culture that's a no brainer, I get it. There were some that made the decision out of courage, the man without enough fuel who hit a ship instead of bailing, and so on. But as a general rule, many of them were volunteers and many of them were in perfectly good health, and in a perfectly good airplane... that's crazy fkbag all day long. Also, for the purpose of a "dangerous jobs" youtube video that talks about survival rates, 0% is boring.
@@paraskaikessa597 No, but killing yourself to do it is. As I just told the other guy, there are exceptions, the man who jumps on a grenade to save his friends, the wounded guy who stays behind... hell even some suicide bombers are only doing it because their families will be murdered if they don't.
But if you look at anyone crazy enough to choose to turn themselves into a "one time use" weapon, they are no longer sane. Whatever the reason. Suicide is silly towns.
The point of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other poor bastard die for theirs.
I was gonna like this post.... but it's at 69 so Ima leave it😎
The prospect of going down with a ship terrifies me. I’ll take death on land any day.
I'll leave a comment cuzits at 69 likes. I'm in the same boat no pun intended
I actually thought being sent to the galleys meant kitchen duty.
That sounds a lot worse than being forced to peel potatoes.
Nah man I’d take the rowing over potato peeling any day, those things are painful to peel
25 minutes of content without a mid-roll ad? You sir, are a saint.
I dont think he could've even if he wanted too.
It’s a demonotized video
I use Adblock Plus. Works fine.
You can block the ads? You guys are the real hero’s I would have never known
Probably demonetized because of the Nazi flags, if I had to guess
My uncle was a tunnel rat, and a sole survivor of his platoon. Terrible war
Hamburglar v1 he was a coward rat.
@@wtookey he's got more guts than you'll ever have.
no one believes u
@@justachillguy3199 don't need people to believe lol
I honor his service
Judging by the comments, I’m guessing that 100% of US troops active between 1965-1978 was a tunnel rat.
Simone The Digger lmao no doubt
Theres like 50 comments saying that
most of them are lies shit my grandpa served in Vietnam but never ever spoke about it because of the horror he faced he kept
that time to his grave
Lol exactly. Suddenly everyone's Grandfather was a tunnel rat.
Likely, it was not a permanet job. Everyone took a turn at it.
Like shit burning detail.
And Veitnam took place from 1959 to 1975.
Oh and my grandfathers were in WWII. Two were army air corp, one was An Army Engineer, like me, and one navy. The navy one was a POW under the Japanese, and only said something about it once to me, with no details.
No one in my family was in Veitnam.
I served with quite a few Veitnam vets. None said they were tunnel rats.
You forgot to add being a child during the Iran-Iraq war, where they were sent by the thousands to clear minefields by walking through them.
BennyBuddz that shit sounds funny
BennyBuddz 1 down, thousands more to go amirite
Put kids in a thick metal tiny bunker that the kid can fit in and launch it into the infantry. Dont forget to give it a gun and kill anyone they see after the door opens
I don’t think you guys understand how horrible of a death that is, and that they were basically forced. I’ve seen these battle fields and if you guys would have seen the stuff I’ve seen you wouldn’t talk like this.
Steven Wyatt goodness hope that hasn’t affected you too much. Those bastards should rot in hell tbh. Hope they got what they deserved
My Grandpa was a tunnel rat during Vietnam. He never talks about it; I only ever heard about it through his old squad mates. He always volunteered to go first.
I respect him more then anyone else in this world.
I bet
Was he short
Yeah fucken right you’re 100% telling the truth
lies
Carl Pascual yeah they needed to be small and thin
flamethrower designer: How horrible do you want their deaths to be?
Client: Yes!
Khorne, Chaos God of Blood and War you didn’t use that meme right
Including everyone else in a 5ft radius... yikes...
"Jackson, Martínez, Boyd, O'Neil, you are now volunteers to be tunnel rats"
The boys: What?
Lol you spelt my last name wrong, lol I don't gotta go ×)
@@stalkersomeone1585 You, the smarty pants, yeah, you are also a volunteer, move move move!!
This is how they get volunteers:
"Who likes ice-cream?"
Gets em everytime...
lmfao im dead
Not funny 😐
@@maxwellh.4471 its an old army joke. Chill.
Lmao
"Hot fudge sundaes with a touch of vc
Being an infantryman during the Battle of the Somme would probably be the worst job military in history. You were subjected to months of waiting in freezing conditions, up to your ankles in icy water, under constant shelling, amid the stench of rotting corpses, all in a bleak and hellish wasteland. If you weren't sniped, shelled, gassed or crushed by a tank, you could look forward to literally drowning in mud or being torn apart by barbed wire.
Brutal doesn't even come close to describing it.
Skippy19812 or being a Hiroshima survivor
Oof
I've heard that under normal circumstances, they were only in the front line for about 10 days at a time. Still not pleasant in any way, but better than being there for months!
Get attacked by giant rats
Not that many tanks were at the Somme there were some tanks but weren't that affective
My great grandfather was a flamethrower operator in ww2 at Iwo Jima. I’m still amazed he survived
“The dogs were quickly *destroyed”*
Yeah he kinda worded that odly lol
I bet Peta is Pissed..
Oof
More food for them
Is this a jojo refference?
When I was in middle school we had this special education aid that spoke to us about his experience in Vietnam as a tunnel rat. He was a small Hispanic man around 5'5". He explained because of his size he had to go into the dark, small, and unknown tunnels armed with only pistol. He says it was the scariest thing he ever did. I never look at that man the same.
😅
#NoDoubt
#respect
Dark humor alert.
Was he in the special forces?
One of the pro's about the flamethrower was that no matter how windy it was, you could always get a light for your cigarette.
RobertDeville That's true
And the rest of the pack, and your face
RobertDeville yeah, your entire cigarette, or the entire cigarette pack, I guess. If you didn't die in combat, or get cancer from the cigarettes, then the gas fumes would...
Ha! Badass!
Smoking is bad for your health, though. 😂🤣🚬🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Really makes me appreciate my mundane life.
As it should 👊
The1Americanpride1
My thoughts exactly
when you get bored its better than ppl throwing grenades at you
Damn right
It's going to change and weapons are crazy today
Russians tactic in ww2: the Germans have to reload at some point
7 seconds between barrel changes
They were like the zombies from left for dead lmao
Imagine sitting in the must darkness for hours, no light, hardly daring to move or breathe, aching, hoping for orders to withdraw, fearful that at any moment everything would explode...
Not a Tunnel Rat, but the guy ordered to defend the tunnel.
In war, bravery has two sides.
Yep I have been in one of those tunnels as a tourist they were small really horribly claustrophobic . I think the people who comment on these things should make some effort to see and feel things on the other side. I read something by a Vietnamese about the girl soldiers in the tunnels and the lack of hygiene was another distressing factor for them. If they were caught they were not treated like POWs their lives meant nothing to our allies they would be raped tortured and murdered Yes dreadful war for the young Americans but so much worse for the Viets There is so a deep racial dimension to all this which is obvious always in the comments. Most of you lot cant even begin to see the Viets as human so their suffering is of no matter,
Ignoring the way North Vietnam treated their POWs you know.
Its ugly on all sides. It's just one claims to be better and is just as guilty. The other never cared to comment. War is the worst of human nature at play in grand scale. Atrocities happen, inhumanity is rampant, and morality can be led astray.
This is why war is horrible and we should see to avoid it unless ultimately unavoidable.
@James Beagle Oh my sweet summer child.
@James Beagle your saying that as if the American soldiers did nothing out of fear for a dishonourable discharge, either your too young and ‘patriotic’ to realise your own blindness or too stupid to see your obnoxiousness
I know a guy who was special forces in Vietnam. He wasn't a dedicated tunnel rat, but he went down in several of them. He still has PTSD and just spent the last year unable to be around people
billiondollardan and did it for a Country who wouldn't or didn't back them up. His generation may not have respected him but mine damn sure does! The military DID NOT use a poisonous gas!!!! The Australians used engine smoke from a device called A Mighty Mite and the American Military used CS or tear gas. Quit trying to spread propaganda they never used poisonous gas like VX or mustard gas or any other type of prohibited substance.
I know a guy who was a tunnel rat in the Nam. He is a sane, well adjusted and a likeable fellow. Owns a pawn shop.
brt123 it's well documented and admitted by the pentagon. A lot of US military personnel suffered from Agent Orange and other agents with colors in the name... Like napalm that was widely used. Keep dreaming and believing that war is fair...
@@corbeau-_- only an idiot would think war is fair. The United States and no Allied nation used any type of gas or biological weapon since WW1. Agent Orange was still have a defoliant. It was not VX gas. Napalm is not a gas! Therefore my statement is correct United States nor any Allied country used any chemical or biological weapon in Vietnam! Quit drinking the Kool-Aid
@@corbeau-_- I want to see you try inhaling Napalm...
"Clearing minefields"
Marching in formation over minefields.
“The dogs weren’t killed, they were destroyed”
I come from Coal Mine country... I've been in em. It's nothing like what you see on TV. The height is usually between four and five feet, just enough for the mining machines to work. Hearing tons of rock popping and cracking over your head is quite unnerving. That's common, as are roof falls. So for me, being a "Tunnel Rat?" Hell no...
Im glad I grew up in peace, so that I can waste my life with TH-cam and not with war
todays wars are being fought by keyboard warriors from behind their computer screen with a big bag of chips and mountain dew in their parent's house
There will be war in your lifetime. The West is in a mess with political and other communal tensions.
Revolutionary Spirit man I think about this all the time... will my generation experience heavy war?? Who knows
I'm with him I would not fight for corporations which is what war is about today
death is so terrifying... I'd never fight these people's wars
#1 latrine cleaner at a battleship after Mexican food buffet
Gary Grandy I didn’t know they had Taco Bell in the navy
Not bad but it needs work brother but don't we all.
The ultimate war crimes of montezuma’s revenge
They say that position has the highest mortality rate...
Mexican food buffet? I've never heard of a Mexican food buffet actually existing
I’m pretty sure all of these are worse than roles that are specifically meant to kill you, like those who walk into traps so the ones behind them don’t succumb to them. Which is concerning.
Hello Dr Bright from Dr. Bright
Worse would be a D Class under your supervision
or kamikaze kids,suicide bombers
@@robertbright1813 They are now a JoJo's reference.
Both my grandpa and my dad were tunnelrats during the war. Now I'm training to become one too.
My own son was born last year, took to digging up moles from our backyard 0.5 seconds after crawling from the womb. Gotta tell you guys, that did bring a little tear to my eye.
anyone at the front of a musket formation those guys basically 100% knew they were going to die
Injured very badly and then a slow death
There was a saying " It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army " .
Victor Waddell
Makes sense.
I think it was "in the Red Army,its take more courage to retreat rather than advance"
It takes a certain insane level of tyranny and complete disregard of the welfare of your citizens/soldiers to outright ban retreating, it's a completely legitimate strategy and depending on the situation often the best and only choice. Not to mention the atrocities performed by the Red Army in both eastern europe and germany both as they advanced and after the war were unlike anything else. But the USSR were with the allied forces, and as we all know the victors write history which is why it's often overlooked and the germans still get framed as the bad guys in every single aspect of this war. Everyone seems to forget that the USSR randomly decided to invade Finland, the Baltics, etc. Unlike the germans who primarily (you're free to look this up, this is not something taught in history class for obvious reasons) invaded Poland due to german minorities being persecuted by the Polish state in territories that were german pre-WW1, the USSR invaded Poland alongside germany simply for grabbing land.
frysebox1. The Soviet occupiers exterminated the cream of the crop of the Polish military in the Katyn Forest , and for many years the blame was put upon the Germans . To many people under Communist rule the Nazis were originally seen as liberators , but that turned out to be wrong . I have a friend who immigrated to the US from Poland in the 1980s . He is as Anti-Communist as you can find , but he's also as Anti-Nazi as well . My intent was not to glorify the Soviet Red Army , but to slow how ruthless and brutal their doctrine was .
frysebox1 That order didn’t mean anything.
Russian soldiers were known to retreat a-lot.
What made the germans scared of the soviets was that sometimes they would retreat without firing a shot...
Other times they would hold until the last man.
Also the myth that the NKVD gunning down retreating troops is a hollywood tale.
Every army had more than 50,000 men... and the NKVD units that were given to each army to stop “desertions” were around 1500.
The NKVD would shoot deserters and arrest men who left their posts. Just like US military police.
You should read a book once in a while.
Us: out bombs will hit you
Underground tunnels: did someone say something up there
Meanwhile above: Fortunate Son
2:52 "Small and thin"
*Pre-serum Steve Rogers have joined the server.*
2:49
Son of Stalin 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 that’s funny af
Surprisingly informative for a top 5 video.
NUMBER 15
Grilled asshole USA's tunnel rat, the last thing you'd do in war is clear someone's trap tunnel, but as it turns out, that might be what you get.
Munguard with a lot of fake information.
War is Hell.
My Grandpa saw that in the Pacific during WW2.
But when he died, he had made peace with the Japanese.
RIP Grandpa.
" "Which would lead to a massive increase in the size of the Red Army's penal units." Stalin would make a fortune today.
Don't worry ladies putin's here
Nombrao 01 you like Putin? Who suppresses what you all do? Come here to America buddy and you can do what ever the hell you want! He’s on one! War on the mind all the time? He’s definitely a dictator buddy lol
@@bluestogreen1693 it was clearly a joke, but if not then do not go to America where you'll be overcumbered with sloth and pay for expensive medical care, come to Australia where it's pretty much America just real food instead of plastic and grease, and a real free health care system, you just have to put up with the fact that there's a 50 50 chance of the prime minister leaving to Hawaii while the country is on fire.
Ofc the red army used penal units, Stalins purge did its turn
Rydar Gray yeah but no guns so .... yea fuck Australia
Imagine being in the flame thrower tunnel rat combined unit.
U wouldn't even have to go in. Just stick the nozzle to the entrance, hold the trigger, and watch em burn
god is scared of what hes made
I love the smooth, soothing voice the unimaginable horrors are told in.
Ha ha ha.. brilliant
Really, the smooth, soothing voice made the horrors more real and terrifying!
His voice makes me want to jump off a bridge
There's a rather long movie Das Boot, which not only has an amazing soundtrack, but also tells a story of one german submarine and it's crew near the end of WW2. I recommend that movie to anyone interested.
Alexander Wilhelm Benedictus It's FIVE fucking hours long
Great movie
I thought that it was a series? I think it was made into a series it’s by BBC right? But anyway my mum watched it and apparently it’s really good.
its a classic, i'm suprised if someone hasn't seen it.
@@legopachycephalosaurus6825 there is both a movie and two series by now.
God damn, an SS officer so brutal the other SS officers complain about his methods being inhumanly brutal.
When heartless killers are disturbed by how much of a heartless killer one man is, you know that man is evil beyond comprehension.
I suggest you read the book: "The SS Dirlewanger Brigade: The History of the Black Hunters". It's hard to imagine how sick these people were.
P ES where could I find that I’m a ww2 nerd
Then there's the fact that he was a convicted child molester. Plain disturbing.
Chrono stfu bitch
@Chrono yeah because God totally wants you to go around calling people bitches...
imagine above ground getting bombed while in the tunnels and then everything just fell and you were caved in
A bomb diffuser is a rough job. Try disarming a bomb from another country where the wiring is unique
UXB
@@eltigre249 Nice series, u know,
Got family? No? Good,...
That's what they're trained for. They learn how to disarm bombs from all over the world.
USMC 2nd BN 26th Marine regiment, VietNam 1968, MOS 2311/2336(EOD) My SOP place 1 pound block of C4 on it pull the fuse igniter walk away and wait for the fireworks show. No need to disarm the damn things, blow them in place. Hell I carried basing caps in my shirt pocket like a pack of cigarettes and a small blasting machine in my flack jacket pocket. Still have my blasting machine.
The best part of being EOD is this. Either you did it right and you’re alive or you did it wrong and now it’s someone’s else’s problem.
One of the sweetest vets I take care of was a Marine tunnel rat in Vietnam Nam. Goes around and tells high school students what it was really like. But his biggest beef with the movies was he says it always shows them going into the tunnels with the gun drawn. He says that is the stupidest thing ever. If you shoot then you just let everyone know where you are. If they shoot at you, different story. Then he said the thing that really got me. You go in with your knife. Everyone I killed was hand to hand with my knife. My nurse who was also infantry in Iraq and Afghanistan and myself just looked at each other like.....DAMN. Some of the bad ass guys I have met.
Brian Hays Vietnam nam is my favorite candy
I remember talking to a guy who said he fought the Viet Minh as a French Foreign Legion guy. He said they used knives not guns as you'd get shelled if they heard you. He also said they made the knives out of files.
Brian Hays
@nikola poyukov a nurse can be a man also dumbfuck
@@rubenray1010 me and nikola are Slavs - here, a nurse is almost always a woman, so it's weird to hear someone refering to a man as a "nurse". It's like calling inanimate object with human pronouns - here, every noun has a gender.
4:50 That mouth-operated head lamp is some serious tech.
Plus the suppressed laser equipped revolver
Join the Mole man army 🤯 That’s a hero
Everyone's grandfather was a tunnel rat......
Remember what happens to those that lie....
Google User here’s a different one, my grandpa served in nam as a pilot, and he even helped out with an orphanage for Vietnamese children who had lost their parents
They become tunnel rats
It’s true. I was there for each grandpa that was conducting such operations.
Sort of like everybody over the age of 65 saying they were at the original Woodstock.
@@hashbrown7845 after he bombed their village hahaha
hans
get the flammenwerfer
Hujan King Positiv!
Wird gemacht General
Hey, that werfs flammens, right?
Hans
Get sie Lugar
How do you like your Ribs? Charred is the best I can do.
Okay, two things so far with this video.
The gas mentioned in this video during the tunnel rat section was tear gas, despite the fact that the creator makes it sound like we used something more deadly. The more deadly thing for people in the tunnel systems would be smoke from napalm burning above them.
Except for maybe early flamethrowers, a flamethrower would not explode in a blaze if hit by a bullet, that's all Hollywood nonsense. US M2 flamethrowers, for example, used diesel and later napalm, which are less volatile than gasoline for example. The tanks were also pressurized with nitrogen, no there's no oxygen in the tank at all. Even if they did use gasoline and tanks pressurized with oxygen, you'd still need an incendiary bullet to make that thing for up in flames. Now, what was dangerous was if the pressure bottle on the flamethrower was hit, that would explode like a grenade, but there wouldn't be any flames.
Sorry for any grammar mistakes here, kind of exhausted from a stomach bug.
"Armed only with a Pistol, Bayonette and Fleshlight" giggity
@Theo Magalhaes Bubolz no he's serious
My old next door neighbour worked on ships back in WW2, he use to say that the germans from the U-boats would pump out old clothes through the missle shoots to pretend they'd been hit by the depth charges that we use to drop on them.
His captain told the crew not to stop dropping them until they saw body parts come to the surface, pretty grim stuff and really makes me thankful to be born when I was and that I wasn't forced to take part in such a horrible war.
My great grandfather was a flamethrower operator in WWII, thank god he wasnt killed in war, lived to his 80's in Philly after it.
how many soviets did he burn?
@nikola poyukov you could argue both sides at your acverage soldiers level were innocent yet alot died. It was hell for your average soldier. Whether you have a rifle or a flamethrower you are defending your friends who are now the last family youll know quite possibly.
@nikola poyukov they wouldnt have been if it weren't for fortification and tunnel tactics. They had a real nackbfor clbearing certain fortifications out saving far more lives. Would i prefer that they be used in thr middle of an open field no but for their i tended purpose they did well and saved many lives from machine gun nests etc
And blowing his brains out or shredding the flesh from his bones with grenade shrapnel isn't?
I consider flamethrowers to be the lesser evil when compared to chemical warfare used at the time, such as agent orange.
No matter how they die, death comes, and it is painful to a soldier on any side they fight.
In real struggles there often isnt a time for morality.
Also most soldiers, even nowadays dont get to always choose the position they are put into. You are at the mercy of higher ups
@@leotardo5510 noticed how he said Philly . he was in the us army
I'm a penile soldier veteran. Most of my fighting was in the bush country. Combat got bloody, especially when in very tight quarters, or once a month when the moon was full. I always wore my helmet for protection; it saved my life. Wish I could fight these days, but I can hardly stand up.
Earl of Wickshire thanks for your service. im glad someone is out there protecting my home. I dont ever have to get too sweaty or wet, besides the cold showers I take regularly.
No problem, +stevebean1234 I'm glad to serve. I'm still haunted by flashbacks of the Battle of Brown Eye Ridge. The only thing that kept me standing through that one was this brass decorative ring that went around my waist.
Cheeky bastard.
Earl of Wickshire what a fake
stevebean1234 dumb bitch
1:15
some kind of CO: so how many bombs do you wanna drop pilot?
pilot: yes
The ultimate carpet bomb
Another dangerous role in Vietnam was the radio operator. He was often a more wanted target then the officers because he was the guy calling in support and he could barely conceal himself with the huge radio and antenna on his back.
Also medics in the pacific theatre in WWII where high priority targets, so many got rid of their red crosses.
The giant antenna wasn't the threat for the radio men, it was the actual radio. Back in Vietnam, the radios were very harmful to the brain. Also the part about the medics, you took that straight out of hacksaw ridge.
@@grombdlegumdum7488 You mean Hacksaw Ridge took that straight out of actual accounts. That's what actually happened and you can read that for yourself.
Man, 600 men dead in 3 days. That's about 1 man every 6 minutes. Not the worst death toll in a battalion, but kinda gives you an idea of how bad it was.
ridcom that’s nothing. The first five minutes of WW1 saw 500+ casualties
what about ww1 where in one day somewhere around 60,000 men died
Henry Riesen The Somme 1916, British Casualties on day one
~20,000 Dead
~40,000 wounded
what where the german casualties?
Henry Riesen Not sure for the first day but it wouldn’t of been many. The Germans slaughtered British and French elements
The overall Somme conflict saw the Germans lose 450,000, British 420,000 and French 200,000
If you were a tunnel rat that 1911 was your best friend.
I don't think I would have lasted very long as a tunnel rat!
Unknown5 lol same I'm like 6'4". Really glad that you posted a new vid, I've been waiting for one. Your vids get me through the day, I listen to them while I work.
John Doe over 100 years later it's still some people's best friend
leave'a comment true
John Doe actually, most of them chose .38 caliber revolvers or 9mm handguns because of the lower recoil, softer report and lower muzzle flash that could blind and deafen them in the tunnels
"The risk was still very much real, and was likely to be constantly haunting the man operating the flamethrower, causing him to be under a permanent state of stress."
*Picture of flamethrower operator casually smoking with gear on*
Surprised Huey door gunner wasn’t on here. I’ve heard estimates for their lifespans to measure in the minutes.
My father-in-law was a TC on a Sherman tank in Guam with the Marines. He used to tell me about the nutjobs driving the flamethrower tanks! He said they were absolute lunatics, with napalm or whatever leaking all over the vehicle! You could smell them, he'd say!
It always interested me that he never talked details of his wartime experience to anyone but me. Not even his wife or kids... I think it irritates them a bit but oh well. They did get to go with him for the 60th(?) anniversary of the Guam invasion and he showed them where he remembered landing etc, but never the combat details! I met my wife, his daughter, right after I got out of the Army, and I think that might be why.
What he told me, were the gruesome first-hand details, and boy, you better believe they were frightening! Coming from one who never exaggerated a thing in his life! He was the most composed person I ever met and I'm beyond sad that he's checked out now! Sah-lute!!
He was cool, man... just cool. I miss you, George!
Chris Long can we get some of his cool stories!
@@sierra6music I agree
I would love to read one if you have the time. It would be appreciated for sure.
Following orders of evil people = COOL MAN.
Chris Long sounds like my grandpa Norm. Quiet type but when he spoke people listened.
#6: WWII American ball turret gunner. You're stuck in the most cramped part of the plane throughout the whole mission. If your place gets shot down, has to make an emergency landing, or if the landing gear doesn't work, you have a 0% chance of survival as there'd be no way for you to leave the ball turret, which stuck out like a tumor on the bottom of the plane. It was the most dangerous job in one of the most dangerous parts of the American military.
foxymetroid or the turret gunner on pretty much any ww2 plane not just American
foxymetroid actually the ball turret was the safest gunner area,and you can get out of ball turrets look at photos
He's talking about the tail turret on the American B-17 and B-24 bombers. The only way to get in and out of the tail turret was from the outside (hence the danger). Yes, those were also used by other Allies, but they were primarily American aircraft.
Eric R lancaster heinkals some french aircraft but who cares
foxymetroid Except America did very little in Europe so flak isn't much of a problem but the Soviets
My great grandad was in the Battle of the Somme and out of 30 of his friends only him and another man survived
My great grandad was at the Somme, Ypres, Arras, and Paschendale.. .as a rifleman. God only knows how he made it through that lot. Survived 4 years.
Men like that deserve the upmost respect.
Was he German or one of the allies
@Tea Sipper - When I commanded a B-Detachment of US Special Forces, my Sergeant Major (SGM), Adulin Hoffman, was a German Paratrooper who was one of the last 4 in his company who survived at El Alamein. He was taken prisoner and shipped off to be a POW in Canada! After WW2, he was shipped back to Germany and became Polizei. He finally made a decision to come to the United States and chose American citizenship, subsequently enlisting in the US Army and working his way up to qualify as Special Forces. Among the finest of NCO's it had been my pleasure to command!
De Oppresso Liber
@P Arroyo wow that’s a really interesting story and I’m sure that he thought you were a good CO, if he did well under your command!
Very well put together. You clearly conducted your research leading to an imformative and enlightening video. Equally as impressive was the pictures and illustrations that brought these difficult war time positions to life.
This Sailor gives your video a thumbs up.
the worst one has to be the tunnel rat. i'm MILDLY claustrophobic and MILDLY scared of the dark. then add the enemies hiding in the dark waiting to ambush you with spears or poison snakes, that would be my version of a living nightmare.
Now imagine being stuck in an air-pocket in a sunken U-boat...
ULTIMATE HORROR SURVIVAL.
Imagine being a Tunnel Rat, seeing a VC and having your gun jam on you.
groundpounder24
This shows how a blade can be more effective than a gun.
groundpounder24
Yeah, even a small cut can make you bleed a lot or give you an infection if it's dirty.
“The dogs where quickly destroyed”
I lived with a former tunnel rat and while he was one of the few to survive the experience, he did not come away from the experience well.
This dude could make my little pony sound terrifying
In russia, OUR little pony is better
No. It's *O U R L I T T L E P O L A N D*
Cool
Marlon Compass it ours bro *statlin is happy*
Marlon Compass 100th like wooo
'The Enemy might not take to kindly to the fact you just tried to set him on fire'
haha!
''Can you please stop that?! It's very uncomfortable and frankly I find it to be bad manners''
Danny Heywood Its just a tad hot
Excuse me, your flamethrower is invading my safe space. You cant even have a lighter around these crusty ass snowflakes.
That could have been a great Monty Python sketch xD
"Excuse me mate, can you not set us on fire? Its rather rude and if you dont cease this instant i will be forced to write a strongly worded letter to your superiors."
@@raptorcell6633 *British soldier intensifies*
*4:50** He looks like Scout from Team Fortress 2 [ TF2 ]*
The galley rowers gave a cheer when they were told that they were getting extra rations for lunch--until it was announced that the captain wanted to go water skiing after lunch...
Jack Frost lmfao
Lool
I met a tunnel rat a couple years ago in Washington D.C. Pretty cool.
did he tell you anything about him during his service?
DAH LITTL' WAGGHH Yeah, any stories?
Nah, it was more of a formal thing. Figured it would be rude to ask him about it. I asked him his name, and thanked him for his service.
Not about him specifically, but he mentioned it was very unpleasant in Vietnam and left it at that.
I met a dude that used to be stationed in a bunker in the Philippines during the Japanese skirmishes, he turned the same bunker into a restaurant. very funny but true lol
@2:38 I think the term you were looking for was "volun-told"
That's extremely disrespectful.The thing is, there are many stories about people who LOVED being tunnel rats. And there are many other stories about people who were just brave enough to do it. By saying they were "voulun-told" you are disrespecting those people's bravery and the fact that they risked their lives to save their comrades.
you should be ashamed of this comment
@@zirjaeger4037 Bullshit. Volunteering to go into a dark cramped tunnel where you could be killed at any moment without a chance to fight back is not brave or honorable, it's FUCKING STUPID. Volun-told is the ONLY reason anyone not mentally challenged was going down there.
"Journey to Heaven Units", no illusions there.
flamethrower is the scariest one to me...hell no...
how did kamikaze pilots not make this list?
Anthony Abraham because kamikazes where volunteers they thought it was honorable To die that way
Gavin Searle and since they are basically rejoice in their sacrifice, that makes it a little better than the rest on this list. Since most of them are forced to join against their will
Anthony Abraham They were given meth to perform their task.
Gavin - the original ones were volunteers. As time went by guys were forced to do it. Either way it's a shit job & should be on the list.
Parker Hetzel - Not all of them made it to the ships they were targeting tho. A lot were shot down. I'd say being hit by anti - aircraft fire at reasonably high altitude & burning to death in the cockpit as your plane spirals towards the ocean was a pretty horrible way to go, especially if you'd been beaten into submission & forced into flying against your will.
Plenty of kamikazees were taken out like that. Archive footage of it is on here if you care to look.
"Gump, search that hole!"
"Yes sir!"
@Anakin, hahahaha!! That was my first thought when this vid started :D
I think Medieval/Renaissance Petardier might make the list. This poor dude was charged with hauling an explosive breaching charge called a petard up to the gates of a besieged town or castle. Assuming you survive the defenders fire, you then had to light the very finicky fuse, and get away. Often these fuses burned too fast, causing the petardier to be caught in the resulting explosion. Hence the tern, "Hoisted by his own petard."
Americans: we’ll send dogs
Vietcong:OoOoOOoOhhhh free dinner
Hahahahaahhaha Poor dogs
Quite bit racist I say
AlphaPSI 33 get the chopstick out of your ass Karen
Was I supposed to laugh?
Eddie was this supposed to be funny 😐
Shooting a flame thrower did not cause it to burst into flames. typically, you'd just leak fluid all over the place. God how the movie industry has bastardized history.
Twelve BangBang
wouldn't the sparks from the bullet against the fuel tank ignite the fluid tho? maybe not an explosion but an expanding flame
LOLILIQUIDATOR69 No, because the fuel had to be mixed first. Each tank held a separate fluid that only became extremely flamable once combined.
Well thats the thing there was still a risk, there is a good chance both canisters could be ruptured.
Not much bastardization as its exaggeration.
Actually, what about Naplam...thats a single compund that has to be prepared in advance.
And early day flamethrowers were just gasoline with a powerful pump.
slitor 😂😂😂 some guy at 7/11 puts $20 in his flame thrower. Seriously though bullets will not ignite or blow up your car or whatever else unless it is a tracer round. Unless you are special ops or a pilot your are not getting tracer rounds. Also napalm is a bomb that has a delivery system. It is like comparing a grenade to a bunker buster bc they both "blow up".
being soaked in fuel on a battlefield while holding a flamethrower is not very far away from being on fire tho.
French Judge: send him to the galleys!
Prisoner: Galleys!! Please, gallows! Not galleys!
@@Toodream who ever like stop fare should stop breathing what a relief
Stop fear
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/galley
@@Toodream gallery (as in row,row,row you're boat) slave/prisoner gallery, bench,chained 2,3, to a ore on each port and starboard galley rowers. Gallows was the dungeon/basement, castle/prison. 🤗
The gallows is the platform where prisoners are hanged, not the prison.
"Look I washed for supper" saving private ryan. Those 2 soldiers in that movie were Yugoslavic penal fighters
Tunnels is such an effective positioning tactic one second your in a field the next you’re on top of a mountain
I was USMC 1965 - 1969 2/1 MOS 5812 Scout Tracker so I had alot of encounters with spider holes , I refused to send my K 9 and instead we called in for Foo Gas , a highly successful weapon , we poured 40 gallon drums of Foo Gas into every rabbit hole after securing the area and light em up , within 90 seconds many more undiscovered spider holes would start blowing smoke , durring our 6 days of round the clock fighting with the NVA 2nd DIV we cooked an entire tunnel network with Foo Gas and the results became my nightmare , after dumping 300 gallons of Foo Gas into the spider holes and lighting it up we had 3 flaming NVA leap out of a spider hole covered in flames from head to toe , after a week of non stop artillery ringing in our ears we we're numb and several Marines argued to allow the flaming NVA to burn to death ,so we watched them collapse and die , I hadn't noticed with all the commotion that my K 9 had alerted on a spider hole we hadn't discovered so I approached the hole and was going to toss my Willie Pete in until i peered inside ,there was an NVA covered in thick black soot so badly his face looked like Al Joleson black face make up with his arms outstretched asking for help ,I slung my weapon and yanked his ass out of the hole and into a clearing ,his legs were smoking so bad we thought he was still covered in Foo Gas and burning making popping sounds ,after the smoke cleared we could see the cooked meat on his legs bursting out streams of bright yellow fat , he kept saying " Oh Me Now " over and over again ,nobody knew wtf he was saying until it hit me he was in severe shock and pleading for me to Kill Me Now , I flipped the toggle on my weapon and put a burst into his chest at point blank but he had so much adrenaline pumping he didn't die ,I flipped the toggle back and put a single round thru his head and gave him peace ,afterwards an ARVN officer came and pissed on the burned up VC I had killed , everybody looked at each other and silently agreed that ARVN bastard had crossed a line and wasn't making it back to camp , he didn't make it back to camp either .
Thank you for having humanity and dispensing justice.
@321Ian123 "Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down and beat you with experience."
I don't know who to support here but, everyone has opinions. Some are just more incorrect than others.
Michael Ledford you are a damn liar.
Mr Radical 916>>> You are awfully judgmental toward a 18 year old young man who 3 months ago was in high school and simply obeying the law. 1965 was still early on and the full ramifications of Viet Nam had yet to develop in the United States. It was the stories these guys brought back that began to turn Americans against the war. So in a sense this Marine served a dual purpose . He did his duty and his story revealed the Truth. We owe him a debt. Semper Fi !
A suppressed revolver huh?? I bet that gun would be super collectable
Right
Collectible yeah but not very practical
Actually Russian Nagant revolver was more than able of using a silencer and was very frequently issued one.
@@eddiecaplan1908 all i ment was that a very old Suppressed revolver may be really collectable.. never said practical
Mosin 1895 revolvers have a full gas seal around the cylinder since the whole cylinder moves forward onto the barrel. This means they can be effectively surpressed.
Flamethrower error in narration: bullets fired into flammable liquids do not ignite the liquid as suggested. This very common error is replicated in inumerable gun crime movie films.
He said that
TRACER BULLETS
Flamethrowers were used to attack fixed positions; crew-served heavy weapons are typically employed by those defending. And belt-fed automatic weapons have 10-20% tracer rounds which in the presence of oxygen can ignite dry grass, much less napalm. In some instances, a percentage of incendiary loadings will also be found.
If that tank starts leaking from a bullet it’s very plausible to have the stream ignited and explode
My Uncle was a Vietnam vet, serving from '66 through '69, he was 5'3" in boots and weighed around 120 his entire life.
He only talked about his experience once that I know of, and that was towards the end of his life during the worst part of his dementia.
Even if only 1/4 of what he said was true, its a fuckin wonder he made it and only lost the use of his left arm. And it changed how I viewed him.
Before hearing him talk about it, he was just Uncle John. The quiet and gentle man that I mostly remembered as an energetic brick mason (even with the use of his right arm only) and as being sarcastic, quirky and funny.
Afterwords, I sorta understood why he had an affinity for his 1911 and why he detested lights in the darkness. You would find no porch lights or outside lights of any kind at his place. But he could always get around his property nimbly and quietly.
40,000 men served on U-Boats, over 30,000 never returned. RIP sailors in your iron coffins. 😢
Brian Glass just because they served for the nazi Wehrmacht doesn’t mean they believed in what hitler did
And yeah they were used in WW1
@@curbsideslav_1299 not the wehrmacht, they were in the kriegsmarine
@@curbsideslav_1299 that would be the kinishmare the german navy not the Wehrmacht that was the army land army for the latter.
That's a false statistic lol
I'm glad I wasn't a rower because I don't like to drown. Also I really don't like tiny tunnels filled with Vietcong.
And I don't like my tunnels filled with Americans either.
How do you know you don't like to drown? Have you ever tried it?
runlarryrun77 😂😂😂😂
Apt Dragon jji8 hiliop
Hope you're not a person who's working in an offices cubicle and commuting daily by means of congested metro train.hehehe.
Picked up flamethrower,
Soldier: Why there’s 4 minutes counting down on my view?
Nice name lol
Worst job in the military: Cleaning the latrines!
Nothing like a turd burger in the mornings
My grandpa died in a concentration camp, poor fella fell out of the guard tower.
That's a good one tip of the hat to you there... for a sec i actually thought someone whose grandpa survived the haulocaust had nothing better to-do than come and comment on this videothat has nothing to do with persecution in the haulocaust..
that joke is so damn old. Did you srsly not know it?
lol
The worst combat roll is the one where you dive head first then quickly transfer the weight of your body using your hands, arms and back to return your body to an upright position.
Old joke, still funny.
That "war is hell" picture breaks my heart every time
My great uncle was a Marine during Vietnam. He was small and thin .....built like Barney Fife from the Andy Griffith show. Because of this he was chosen to crawl around the VC tunnels looking for them. I heard some awful stories.
My grandad was a flamethrower man in WW2. As I later found out, he just voulunteered to die. He was fighting for the german's somewhere in France. Sadly, at least for him, he survived. I never knew he did this until after his death in 2015. This is, I think, a very sad thing. He had some letters from the 1940's still lying around. After reading them, I was really sad. In those letters he sad some things like: "Ich wünschte, dass ich diese Erde endlich verlassen könne. Dieses Leben ist es für mich nicht wert. Tag ein, Tag aus sehe ich nur den Tod." This roughly translates to: "I wish, I could finally leave this eart. Day for day I only see the death".
He later told his wife, that he only volunteered for this job to die. But as you have read, he survived.
I don't know if it was the best thing to happen to him. Maybe he would have been better off with dying in battle. But without him, I wouldn't be here...
An please don't say anything againt him/the people fighting on his side. It has been 75 years and I do not think that the beleifs of that time were right and it's good that almost all people that thought and think like this will probably be gone in a few years.
I would've just worn brown pants permanently if I was a tunnel rat...I'd hate to have to scrub the "stain of shame" out of my pants after every single mission I didn't get turned into a corpse...
The Angry Korean no shame in shitting your pants on a job like that
shame would be the last thing on your mind if you were forced on a suicidal mission like that
That's why the french wore brown
MOST JUNGLE FIGHTERS....CUT THE ASS OUT OF THEIR UNIFORM...TAKING A SHIT COULD BE HIGHLY RISKY
I like watching videos like this, cuz it helps me keep pushing on, I think " there is always someone that had or has it worse then me".
Yes...other people's pain and suffering brings me joy :)
Damn, imaginenbeing one of those people while im just over here sitting and eating pizza
"And in many [Tunnels], even had air..."