A friend of mine passed away this year due to his exposure to Agent Orange during his time as a Ranger in Vietnam. I miss him everyday, he was a good friend and I'm glad he got to see my newborn son before passing away. God bless you, Lou Black. My husband, brother, father, mother and I all miss you.
that's crazy dude Vietnam wasnt too long ago, its a trip. its really a shame that they were treated rather badly when they returned, im sure that didn't help any, most of them are already shaming themselves inside.
i have an uncle who was exposed to it as well. dealing with mental health problems to this day and they (army) hasn’t acknowledged this issue. peoples lives had changed drastically
The Chernobyl liquidators were truly terrifying. Sure some died almost immediately, but imagine surviving and watching your skin fall off and become infected. Where no treatment works. Stuff not even nightmares can conjure.
I worked at T-Mobile and I had a customer come in and he just had uncontrollable shakes and was wearing a wig and had a really hard time breathing,he told me he was one of the ground teams that would spray agent orange during the war and it would fall on them and would splatter all over them and they were told it was nothing serious
I normally hate reposting of content but the compilation videos are actually nice for this channel not only because of how long you can get lost in it but I would imagine a channel that animates all of every video thats uploaded to this detail wouldn't be very economical in todays youtube landscape, with how much you need to chase the algorithm and sometimes videos just dont hit it no matter the effort and quality
My uncle used to be a liquidator in Chernobyl. Back then, he was merely a driver, who transported people to the destination point. He did not get really close to the reactor, but the radiation from simply working in the area caused him to suffer from severe migranes. He is alive till today.
My Great great Uncle was in WW1 rank: Sapper. Was hospitalized 6 times from gas shelling. Had two weeks furlough in Liverpool and returned. Returned home, demobilization was his reason for going home. James Koosees.
An old buddy's older brother was a tunnel rat in Nam. Kirk was a real skinny guy, who came home with a hardcore drug habit. It was not uncommon for working class Detroit and other big city soldiers. He told us that he was high on heroin every time he went down into those tunnels. No such thing as that much bravery, it was the dope. He ended up marrying my high school girlfriend, and she also became an opiate addict. His nickname on the street was "Kirk the Perc." That was short for Percodan, which he sold. Neither are alive today. They didn't make it to old age.
@@tsuki_moon.1using 2024 woke nonsense to insult people from 60 years ago doesn’t work. They don’t have any twitters or instagrams to cancel I don’t get what your aim is. Black people constantly play victim and expect praise when they claim to be royalty from every ancient empire to ever exist. Make your minds up
my great grandfather died in a tunnel. He wasn't supposed to be in there because of his height, but his best friend was. his friend was attacked there and my great grandfather when after him. They found both of them stabbed to death. I wish I got the chance to know him but he was a terrible person at home, from what I heard from my great grandmother and grandfather.
Despite the fact the US army eventually got good at neutralizing the Vietcong Tunnels when they discover them. When you have hundreds of miles of tunnels. It was already a lost cause.
Currently a 12N in the Army, it's not a "dangerous" job on paper, but when you work with 12B's that think the proper amount of explosives for any work is P for plenty, it can get a bit hairy 😅
This compilation was absolutely engaging, well done Simple History. All of these jobs in the military were considered the absolute worst and for lots of good reasons. The most heartbreaking one of this compilation was that of the liquidators because they were aware of the risks but faced them head on regardless like true heroes. May all those valiant men and women rest in peace🫡🕊.
@@philliam111 yes I can. But if you look up the channel us ww2 bombers, he has a video about the safest positions in a b17 and the ball turret is statistically the safest possibly due to the fact that the guy inside is curled up creating a much smaller target and the fact that the turret it self is probably not that easy to hit
My grandfather was in Vietnam he says the ones that go into the tunnels are crazy sons of bitches and I just said they are crazy but brave bc of BO1 I can sense the terror every corner either Charlie or nothing
Dangerous jobs in the military? I was an Infantryman. I considered it hazardous. But the most dangerous job in the military, in my opinion, is working the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. I had friends who did that job. Mad respect to those guys from an old grunt, Semper Fi.
@Pablo-yd6gc Arresting cables are a hazard. I had a friend on the old Forrestal who was nearly decapitated by an arresting cable that snapped. Jet engines are a hazard if one loses focus. Damaged aircraft trying to land. In addition, planes on deck are loaded with ordinance. And many more things.
@midnightcoolcat2890 I don't know. I've walked point and although shaky, I knew the real target was the middle of the column where the radio and officer were.
Someone I know who was in Iraq told me that they saw local Iraqi police and army forces that had found a car IED, and so they lined up some distance away and unloaded their AK-47s into it until it exploded. They did not wait for an EOD squad, and he told me he immediately got behind cover when the Iraqis started shooting at the IED. IED disposal does not have to be very complicated if your units are considered expendable.
I remember this TV show it was called Vietnam scouts or something it had episode where a tunnel rat squadron arrived at base and they were laughed for their height and finally when they got to action they died quite rapidly where i was like why even introduce them at all at that point.
As horrible of a disaster Chernobyl was. The engineers and scientists had warned Soviet officials many times that the possibility of meltdown was very real. They didn’t do anything from either indifference, lack of money or corruption and it resulted in a disaster
Correction, the VC fought with guerilla tactics but the north Vietnamese army fought conventionally. (Both got clobbered consistently but the US doesn't like losing bodies much so we wuss'd out)
Yeap,wussed out and left our allies hanging in the wind. The US did the samething in Afghanistan too. Why do people trust the US government,they have a history of leaving you in the wind.
@kerry-j4m Afghanistan was more understandable, we told the Taliban to hand over the leader of Al-qaeda or be removed from power. Now they fight isisK for us and are about to start a war with Iran too. Strategically it makes sense to let them be nutty
@@countcampula Oh,I didn't know this,GOOD information,amigo,I stand corrected,so glad the US didn't leave those folks floating in the wind.Plus,it was time to leave Afghanistan,20 yrs was-TOO-much time there,the US ended up staying wayyy longer than Russia did tho.
I probably have the safest job in the military. The most dangerous place I can be stationed is Hawaii. Due to the nature of my work, I can't be stationed anywhere outside the US or at sea.
JRR Tolkien: I cut my teeth in the trenches of the Somme, you larped your Santa Claus butt through Vietnam! Theodore Roosevelt: You should be ashamed of your military honor!
As a combat medic and this applies to absolutely everyone, you treat the casualty once its safe. Only medice during a firefight is fire superiority. You shouldnt use movies as your source of informarion
Just being real all I ever saw EOD do was hand me a chemlight and tell me to go mark the IED with it and then they’d always use the robot so I don’t know that it’s still the way he portrays them. I was an Infantry team leader in the 101st Airborne Division. I ain’t hating. Im just telling the truth about what I saw
If you liked the Long Range Patrol aspect, they were mainly done by Ranger groups, and other special forces. LRP and LRRP are two different missions btw.
Hush.. dont be greedy for praise.. wasnt no combat engies showing up in southern Kandahar in 2001 october.. but EOD sure was.. everytime we spotted a sus bag, car etc beside the road.. they save ALOT of our lives.. they deserve these flowers..
i don't like your false portrayal of the war in Vietnam as being lost due to anti-war protesters seeing it as unwinnable. the USA simply lost the war, regardless of the perceptions of anti-war protesters
the LRRP are predecessors to modern day Army Ranger units. All the LRRP units were merged into the 75th inf regiment in 1969, thus making the rangers descendents of them. Rangers Lead the way!
About the Chernobyl part... No man or woman from the first "wave" of licvidators (In the video you apply the name for mainly people present there the night of the disaster) knew what they are dealing with. Back then most ppl didnt believe in long term savere effects of irradation, even some lower tier scientists and especially the ideological soviet government didnt. Connect this with overall intellect statistics in Russia (even today lmao), propaganda and limitation to factual information of all sorts in Soviet Russia and as a result, you get most of the original personel and firefighter teams present within the first hours of incident dead or saverely physically affected by the disaster (Signifcant amount of them died in a few days). Only after almost a week I believe Russia themselves realized they SHOULD proceed with extreme caution regardin any1 sent there. Until then all; Personel of chernobyl powerplant, firefighter squads, miners called to redirect contaminated water from firefighter operation, army pilots tasked to fly above the reactor to put out the flames inside etc... LTRLY DIED within few days... Russia knew no safety measurements until the whole Europe became engaged in the incident and even after there was alot of secrets and bottlin up around the whole thing. The rest you descriped pretty well and I like the video in general
just a side note; u.s= most economic power. so questions are why not use money to look after wounded vets so they dont hav to beg on street, thereby lifting morale? just a thought.
I never met him, but my uncle was a tunnel rat, and he survived the war. I was told he never talked about it.
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@@allemagneproducerare you serious right now dude
@@peppermintnightmare47411st
bro this aint a race even if you are first to comment on a comment or whatever you call it.@@allemagneproducer
My mama said her brothers came back and NEVER said a word
A friend of mine passed away this year due to his exposure to Agent Orange during his time as a Ranger in Vietnam. I miss him everyday, he was a good friend and I'm glad he got to see my newborn son before passing away.
God bless you, Lou Black. My husband, brother, father, mother and I all miss you.
My grandpa passed away 4 years ago with heart problems from agent orange. He was infantry in Vietnam
@@dale1809?
that's crazy dude
Vietnam wasnt too long ago, its a trip.
its really a shame that they were treated rather badly when they returned, im sure that didn't help any, most of them are already shaming themselves inside.
i have an uncle who was exposed to it as well. dealing with mental health problems to this day and they (army) hasn’t acknowledged this issue. peoples lives had changed drastically
im so sorry thats so sad its awful how Vietnam did awful things to not men but just kids just boys
The Chernobyl liquidators were truly terrifying. Sure some died almost immediately, but imagine surviving and watching your skin fall off and become infected. Where no treatment works. Stuff not even nightmares can conjure.
I worked at T-Mobile and I had a customer come in and he just had uncontrollable shakes and was wearing a wig and had a really hard time breathing,he told me he was one of the ground teams that would spray agent orange during the war and it would fall on them and would splatter all over them and they were told it was nothing serious
“Your south-east Asian illness has been determined to be non-service related. 4:59
@@gruntopolouski5919PACT act says otherwise
thats so sad and unfair. so many of em were just kids too
Hi
I normally hate reposting of content but the compilation videos are actually nice for this channel not only because of how long you can get lost in it but I would imagine a channel that animates all of every video thats uploaded to this detail wouldn't be very economical in todays youtube landscape, with how much you need to chase the algorithm and sometimes videos just dont hit it no matter the effort and quality
My uncle used to be a liquidator in Chernobyl. Back then, he was merely a driver, who transported people to the destination point.
He did not get really close to the reactor, but the radiation from simply working in the area caused him to suffer from severe migranes. He is alive till today.
My Great great Uncle was in WW1 rank: Sapper. Was hospitalized 6 times from gas shelling. Had two weeks furlough in Liverpool and returned. Returned home, demobilization was his reason for going home. James Koosees.
An old buddy's older brother was a tunnel rat in Nam. Kirk was a real skinny guy, who came home with a hardcore drug habit. It was not uncommon for working class Detroit and other big city soldiers. He told us that he was high on heroin every time he went down into those tunnels. No such thing as that much bravery, it was the dope.
He ended up marrying my high school girlfriend, and she also became an opiate addict. His nickname on the street was "Kirk the Perc." That was short for Percodan, which he sold. Neither are alive today. They didn't make it to old age.
0:15 dude on the left is invincible
He got a legendary loot drop
😂😂😂
Lmao
LOOLL
For super earth
My uncle JD was a tunnel rat. The stories he told me were horrific. He was shot several times and came home a hero.
Lmao. Imagine invading a country and be self proclaimed hero
Liar.
@@tsuki_moon.1using 2024 woke nonsense to insult people from 60 years ago doesn’t work. They don’t have any twitters or instagrams to cancel I don’t get what your aim is. Black people constantly play victim and expect praise when they claim to be royalty from every ancient empire to ever exist. Make your minds up
my great grandfather died in a tunnel. He wasn't supposed to be in there because of his height, but his best friend was. his friend was attacked there and my great grandfather when after him. They found both of them stabbed to death. I wish I got the chance to know him but he was a terrible person at home, from what I heard from my great grandmother and grandfather.
That was stupid of him
In war, to put one foot in front of the other took courage. Whether enlisted or drafted this courage was required, to walk.
Tunnel rats would have it even worse if they were claustrophobic
Nah, man. Being a runner in WW1 is more worse than that
@@CristianMonserrate-wo2rkno way
Your thin so go into that dark hole in the ground
@@CristianMonserrate-wo2rkbeing a tunnel rat is terrifying in a special kind of way, I’d rather be a runner
u think u are fit for the job as a tunnel rat if you are claustrophobic? naahh
Despite the fact the US army eventually got good at neutralizing the Vietcong Tunnels when they discover them.
When you have hundreds of miles of tunnels. It was already a lost cause.
Currently a 12N in the Army, it's not a "dangerous" job on paper, but when you work with 12B's that think the proper amount of explosives for any work is P for plenty, it can get a bit hairy 😅
Us 12b are special ok! 😂😂😂😂
This compilation was absolutely engaging, well done Simple History. All of these jobs in the military were considered the absolute worst and for lots of good reasons. The most heartbreaking one of this compilation was that of the liquidators because they were aware of the risks but faced them head on regardless like true heroes. May all those valiant men and women rest in peace🫡🕊.
The ball turret was statistically the safest position in a b17. The ball turret could not be pulled into the b17 but I could on the b24.
i think... you're mixing those up
I dont think you can imagine how much shrapnel goes through a b17
@@philliam111 yes I can. But if you look up the channel us ww2 bombers, he has a video about the safest positions in a b17 and the ball turret is statistically the safest possibly due to the fact that the guy inside is curled up creating a much smaller target and the fact that the turret it self is probably not that easy to hit
This was pretty graphic for even being animated, but it pales in comparison to what they actually went through.
When people talk to me about war, i always think about those left behind...they were the heroes. This is a quote from an ancient videogame.
"Bravery is fear holding out a minute longer"-George S Patton
I did CBRNE in the Navy. Working with Sarin and VX out in the open was super weird.
Did you wear a protective suit ??? You signed up for that &&&& ????
Yeah sure and I was walking on the moon 😂
@@soulknife20 thought you were a corpsman?
My grandfather was in Vietnam he says the ones that go into the tunnels are crazy sons of bitches and I just said they are crazy but brave bc of BO1 I can sense the terror every corner either Charlie or nothing
10:50 That soldier is playing Russian roulette with flinching.
Another bo1 reference
Dangerous jobs in the military? I was an Infantryman. I considered it hazardous. But the most dangerous job in the military, in my opinion, is working the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. I had friends who did that job. Mad respect to those guys from an old grunt, Semper Fi.
What do the flight deck guys go through that makes you have that opinion?
@Pablo-yd6gc Arresting cables are a hazard. I had a friend on the old Forrestal who was nearly decapitated by an arresting cable that snapped. Jet engines are a hazard if one loses focus. Damaged aircraft trying to land. In addition, planes on deck are loaded with ordinance. And many more things.
Nah man the most dangerous job either had to be scout or medic.
@midnightcoolcat2890 I don't know. I've walked point and although shaky, I knew the real target was the middle of the column where the radio and officer were.
0:43 I swear this is a Black Ops 1 reference.
Lol no…. They’ve called it that since Vietnam. Which was long before BO1
@@prestonbaker8456he’s talking abt the animation
I think it actually is bc even the hand movement looks very similar to the animation when crawling in the tunnels
Easily ONE OF THE BEST CHANNELS ON YT!!! 👏👏👏
Someone I know who was in Iraq told me that they saw local Iraqi police and army forces that had found a car IED, and so they lined up some distance away and unloaded their AK-47s into it until it exploded. They did not wait for an EOD squad, and he told me he immediately got behind cover when the Iraqis started shooting at the IED. IED disposal does not have to be very complicated if your units are considered expendable.
I remember this TV show it was called Vietnam scouts or something it had episode where a tunnel rat squadron arrived at base and they were laughed for their height and finally when they got to action they died quite rapidly where i was like why even introduce them at all at that point.
Worst job of the war Vietnamese edition😂 janitor in a Vietnamese pleasure House😂😂😂
Others include ww1 tank crews, ww2 u-boat crews, ww1 pilots, trench raiders, kamakaze pilots, ww2 sappers, Vietnam era door gunners, the list goes on
I thought kamikaze pilots lived full lives wtf
What about scouts or medics?
As horrible of a disaster Chernobyl was. The engineers and scientists had warned Soviet officials many times that the possibility of meltdown was very real. They didn’t do anything from either indifference, lack of money or corruption and it resulted in a disaster
Correction, the VC fought with guerilla tactics but the north Vietnamese army fought conventionally.
(Both got clobbered consistently but the US doesn't like losing bodies much so we wuss'd out)
Yeap,wussed out and left our allies hanging in the wind. The US did the samething in Afghanistan too. Why do people trust the US government,they have a history of leaving you in the wind.
@kerry-j4m Afghanistan was more understandable, we told the Taliban to hand over the leader of Al-qaeda or be removed from power. Now they fight isisK for us and are about to start a war with Iran too. Strategically it makes sense to let them be nutty
@@countcampula Oh,I didn't know this,GOOD information,amigo,I stand corrected,so glad the US didn't leave those folks floating in the wind.Plus,it was time to leave Afghanistan,20 yrs was-TOO-much time there,the US ended up staying wayyy longer than Russia did tho.
What about the first dude up the ladder during a siege assault? Their life expectancy is much shorter than anything showcased in this video.
How about a simple history on the Akutan Zero
Having a purpose is a big motivator
2:12 says 45. Pistol
2:20 *carries Nagant*
Out of all of the branches to give the best EOD suits to, you give it to the Air Force instead of the Army or Marines?
a tunnel rat where i live digs subways - boston
imagine going back in time and be like i got this rc that can map it out.
Can you please make a video about "Ten day war" (Slovenian independence war)?
It would’ve been nice to see this in a chronological order.
#modernwarfare
#technology
Not sure who to ask but could you please do a video about the battle of long tan of the Vietnam War
And here we are today consuming agent orange in our foods
2:35 reminds me of instant kill traps that point and clicks have.
WeLL Ackshurrely: *Recites grandpas ramblings*
I probably have the safest job in the military. The most dangerous place I can be stationed is Hawaii. Due to the nature of my work, I can't be stationed anywhere outside the US or at sea.
JRR Tolkien: I cut my teeth in the trenches of the Somme, you larped your Santa Claus butt through Vietnam!
Theodore Roosevelt: You should be ashamed of your military honor!
I miss thows guys
The agent orange sprayer!?! How'd you get that job!?!
I'm replaying far cry 5 rn, and I like dressing up as a NVA soldier fighting the cult
As a combat medic and this applies to absolutely everyone, you treat the casualty once its safe. Only medice during a firefight is fire superiority. You shouldnt use movies as your source of informarion
imagine bleeding to death in a hole on the other side of the world
I never knew the fellow, but he once told me, never make a fucking cartoon off of the death of other people.....
Bomber pilot
Love the BO1 references
I am once again asking you to make a video video the soveit IS tanks next plz
I call certain commanders 😂
When everybody knows your name!
didnt even seem like an hour.. thats good entertainment!
1:10 why are they looking like westeners????
Its almost as if asians can grow facial hair 😱😱
Marine field radio operator here and always heard rumors that we dont live long. 33 years 2 deployments still alive
Thought Zoro got lost again just by looking at the thumbnail too quickly 😂
Just being real all I ever saw EOD do was hand me a chemlight and tell me to go mark the IED with it and then they’d always use the robot so I don’t know that it’s still the way he portrays them. I was an Infantry team leader in the 101st Airborne Division. I ain’t hating. Im just telling the truth about what I saw
If you liked the Long Range Patrol aspect, they were mainly done by Ranger groups, and other special forces. LRP and LRRP are two different missions btw.
0:43 definitely a black ops reference.
That thumbnails out og control hahah
Is that Sadam Hussein's hiding spot in the thumbnail?
I just came here to say, that thumbnail is diabolical and you know exactly what I mean 😂
15:42 is pure comedy
Combat engineers do twice what EOD does and we dont have a suit
Hush.. dont be greedy for praise.. wasnt no combat engies showing up in southern Kandahar in 2001 october.. but EOD sure was.. everytime we spotted a sus bag, car etc beside the road.. they save ALOT of our lives.. they deserve these flowers..
Sadam Hussein on the thumb😮
2:50 cod BO1 reference
😂😂😂
Swift died again nooo
Same with the Russian roulette
The numbers
was literally searching for this comment
i don't like your false portrayal of the war in Vietnam as being lost due to anti-war protesters seeing it as unwinnable. the USA simply lost the war, regardless of the perceptions of anti-war protesters
Seems like everyone has a grandpa who was a rat tunnel
10:50 another black ops reference😂
The liquidators were "recruited"...
kev can you do another killzone game PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
the LRRP are predecessors to modern day Army Ranger units. All the LRRP units were merged into the 75th inf regiment in 1969, thus making the rangers descendents of them. Rangers Lead the way!
I have another submission: being a journalist in Gaza right now
Why would you sit in between the sofa cushions? scroll to 16:12
2:40 this is scene for scene in black ops 1 lol
2:47 rip swift
Set the Playback Speed to 2x, and you'll finished watching the whole video in just 30 minutes!💪💥
Nice to know
I was thinking Vietnam war 4,5 years when i saw 15,16 that is not normal
That thumbnail look like it will fit perfectly in a game called happy wheels.
Not so fun fact the averege lifespan of a solider in stalingrad was under a day
Daam how evil was the US government to use all those chemicals
Agent O really hurt so many people US soldiers innocent people and children are affected
About the Chernobyl part... No man or woman from the first "wave" of licvidators (In the video you apply the name for mainly people present there the night of the disaster) knew what they are dealing with. Back then most ppl didnt believe in long term savere effects of irradation, even some lower tier scientists and especially the ideological soviet government didnt.
Connect this with overall intellect statistics in Russia (even today lmao), propaganda and limitation to factual information of all sorts in Soviet Russia and as a result, you get most of the original personel and firefighter teams present within the first hours of incident dead or saverely physically affected by the disaster (Signifcant amount of them died in a few days).
Only after almost a week I believe Russia themselves realized they SHOULD proceed with extreme caution regardin any1 sent there. Until then all; Personel of chernobyl powerplant, firefighter squads, miners called to redirect contaminated water from firefighter operation, army pilots tasked to fly above the reactor to put out the flames inside etc... LTRLY DIED within few days... Russia knew no safety measurements until the whole Europe became engaged in the incident and even after there was alot of secrets and bottlin up around the whole thing.
The rest you descriped pretty well and I like the video in general
Nevertheless, great video! :3
So embarrassing to lose to farmers.
tumnail givin saddam hussein hiding spot
lol that’s amazing!! I almost spit my drink! 😂
Cmon we got recon let's go
The Seabees ain't no walk in the park either.
Is it me or does simple history keep changing their thumbnail/and their new video lengths?
15:58 What blood born disease is that?? Lol
Classic!
2:48 COD black ops reference?????
0:13 Vietnam edition eh
"That Will Get You Killed In The Military"
EVERY one?
just a side note; u.s= most economic power. so questions are why not use money to look after wounded vets so they dont hav to beg on street, thereby lifting morale? just a thought.
So this says the tunnel rats were U.S. soldiers?.my mate was in nam and was sas who were called tunnel rats he showed me his tattoo
Who won ?
Where are those kamikaze pilots