UNITED STATES ARMY 1980s COLD WAR ERA / EUROPE SURVIVAL TRAINING FILM 78994
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- One of a series of survival training films made by the U.S. Army, this one dates to the 1980s and shows troops in forest terrain similar to what might be encountered in continental Europe.
At mark 01:00, a platoon of soldiers is caught in an enemy attack, and their armored personnel carrier destroyed. Separated from their unit, they must now survive in the field with limited equipment -- and survival is a matter of life over death.
At mark 3:11, we have the troops planning their survival with the little they have and travelling at night through the woods. At mark 5:50, the sergeant records the identity of those killed and missing in his team for the unit leader with their coordinates. This is also done for forced burial. A compass is not always available during survival situation; hence, sun can always be used on a stick about 3ft long to cast a shadow as seen at mark 06:25. The shadow is then marked and lines are drawn. This method is most accurate method used for direction finding. Another is with a watch at mark 7:05. Shadow is cast on the hour hand and by this; the south direction is taken which is used for North Temperate Zone only. To determine direction in the South Temperate Zone, 12’oclock is pointed toward the sun. The half way between is the North and south line. Another way is at night with the North Star at mark 7:50. Cassiopeia is a way of determining the North Star. Also we have Southern Cross. At mark 9:20, the wounded soldier is been carried and plans to carry him was made. All area should be approached with caution, we have at mark 11:55, the troops making a reconnaissance research.
In a survival situation, water is a primary requirement even than food. Water is a little hard to find here so any source is considered. At mark 12:28, we have water collected from concave dry river or stream bed. Another source is also rainfall which can be collected on trees, even the early dew is a source of water at mark 12:44. At mark 14:00, they made a stop for the night and planned on their survival, food and shelter. At mark 15:45, they went in search of edible plants for food, also for water. Each plants has its attribute and advantage with different nutrient - vitamins and minerals. At mark 19:00, the squad leader and his other man continued with the reconnaissance. At mark 21:40, they attempt to start a fire to help them in their survival. Fire is essential for survival and this can be made in different form as seen at mark 23:20.
All the troops meet back at the base with different supplies at mark 21:00. At mark 25:30, they set their camp for the night. Adequate shelter is important for survival as we see tents and coverings made at mark 26:30. At mark 28:00, the sergeant sets the snare for protection and helps in animal intrusion. At mark 29:42, we see the snare construction. Here we see the different kinds of snares there are with their triggers which consist of three stakes. At mark 32:02, we have part of the troop in the stream site making a fish trap for his fishing. The trap is made in form of a funnel and stakes are also used to support the trap. We also have the arrow head fish trap at mark 33:40. Fresh water fish should always be boiled before eating as we have at mark 34:11 because of parasite. However when food is scarce, nothing should be subjected to much heat so it does not lose its value.
At mark 34:25, the sergeant is training his underling on using the signal mirror when visibility is poor and when it’s alright. At mark 35:45, the serge tends to his wounded soldier helping him with his food and medication. Body cleanliness the first defense against diseases is highly essential. At mark 37:05, troops went to a nearby stream to clean up their body and also the under clothing which should be kept as clean and dry as possible. Socks should also be kept clean. In the morning, the fish specialist went for his fishing leaving fingerlings in the trap. At mark 38:17, we see the snare which had caught a game overnight and its blood is drained by cutting his throat first. Blood when boiled is a valuable source of nutrient. At mark 39:00, the game is been skinned and all the inner part is been removed. This is then boiled for preservation. It can also be preserved by sun drying and smoking. At night, they moved out mark 42:15. At mark 43:15, they were spotted by their base troop and are welcomed back to the camp.
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I used to borrow these films during lunch as a reservist and convert them to VHS for Boy Scout use
Can't now there's an applaud button instead of save. Sucks
That's awesome Stan, you should get them out, concert them to digital, and share them! We are losing this history as the old tape degrades...
@@kenfox5442 I don't think he was referring to saving TH-cam videos, lol! He means real tape!
@@adksherm The Army Betamax tapes could be converted to VHS if you had the right connecting cables. 16mm Films had to be converted by using a VHS camera.
@@stang3787 they make units that can take VHS and transfer it digitally for uploading to places like youtube and just to have a less volatile copy . Would be cool for more people to do this , and upload the content!
Useful film. I can empathise with soldiers who were on training courses,doing lots of physical exercise. Then watching this film in a dark, warm room. Probably chewing their tongues and cheeks to stay awake. Who's been there? :)
Training films are great! You can have a kip in a nice dark and warm room. It was ruined when video came in and they did not have to turn out the lights.
@@tallmale188 yes and then start asking pesky questions about important points made during the film!
Hoouuaaaa
We called them g-monsters
@@horstebreedow8608 ha! :) like gurning. yes you have to do it in a certain way or its obvious.
The ability to remain calm in stressful situations while communication effectively with your team is one if the greatest skills to possess imo.
Something the vast majority of women can't do.
I like laying the map on the wounded guy! RLTW U.S. Army 1987-2008.
Like he does in Jurassic park lol
LOL stabbing pencil "RIGHT HERE" 😂
he's dinner in the next film
Probably makes the wounded guy feel somewhat useful. Sucks to be injured, but it sucks more being injured and feeling like you can't help at all.
The ww2 training videos are still relevant today as for when they were made.
I learned how to attack as a Rifle team. How to hunt and destroy enemy tanks. How to survive being a castaway. Jungle Survival. Combat Pistol Shooting, point shooting. Tundra Survival. How to mine & booby trap enemy troops. How to use grenades and launchers. Setting up a Fire Base with a kill zone with pre measured distances, When to shoot and when to wait. Using your weapon systems properly as of range and proper targets.
These training videos are just as useful today. So much information already figured out and handed to YOU.
I agree, I think some people forget that the World War Two videos were made when All Out War was at its highest point some people say it’s cheesy or whatever but sometimes being cheesy is the best way to get the point across
Shit, how long has it been since Sun Tzu wrote "The Art of War"?
Technology changes but the basic principles of war remain the same
this training film isn't the best specifically
" use hard wood as not to make any smoke"
" lets smoke the meat gang!"
No fire during E&E. Period.
….we MAY have alerted enemy troops for a 2 mile radius, but goddamn , this smoked meat will be the bees knees !
@@kurtwk "soul food" LMAO WTF
@@kurtwk erm.. who's been on
look out duties all this time
notice
when they've caught rabbit.
the music suddenly becomes ..
chilling by the villa pool
"Only a white man would make a fire for everyone to see"
Dances Wiith Wolves
This was way better than fan fics or short films on any of these related topics!
I was worried by the beginning scene that this was going to be overproduced, but it sinks back into that warm comforting blanket of ephemeral conformity.
This is my era. I joined when we were wearing the OD green fatigues and within 4 years they had gone to BDUs - a much better field uniform. I realize they're trying to teach survival skills, but it should start with smart situational awareness. Someone trying to escape and evade back to friendly lines while carrying a wounded comrade isn't going to be setting up a campsite or building fires unless they're looking to get captured, fired on or bombarded. Training films back then left a lot to be desired. I think things have improved since then. Even when I was in they were taking steps to improve realism in training because the MILES equipment was starting to get widespread use in training and other things were in the pipeline, like the NV goggles etc...
Vietnam era vet here and yes an underground dakota fire hole would be in order as a fire can been seen for miles at night. Smoke during the day is a dead giveaway.
Silent routine would be taught now.
@@Surv1ve_Thrive They really didn't think this through, but then again I think they expected the soldiers to remember one or two points at best. They always underestimated the soldiers. Still - a horrible training film. I would have ignored much of it in real life.
@@TedBronson1918 agreed. Seems a bit like a TV series style. Style over content. maybe was made by a commercial film producer who didnt adjust their style and had the military work for them. Rather than made by the military who just hired a film crew.
AN/PVS-5A, Those were the NV goggles back then, I was in basically during the same era you were, they'd just adopted the BDU but my issue field jackets was 1 BDU and one OD green, the basic training class that came in right behind mine were issued both field jackets in BDU, which made me the last of the troops to be issued the classic OD green field jacket.
And those first generation BDU uniforms were horrible, they were so hot in the summer it was ridiculous, months before I got out they started issuing the improved BDU's that were made out of a lighter material that every ¼ inch or so had what was like 4lb fishing line, it was basically the same material as the slanted pocket jungle uniforms from Vietnam but with a camo pattern, I never did get any because I only had a few months left and I wasn't going to spend any money buying a set.
Aside from the BDU uniforms we had all the Vietnam War era equipment, Jeeps instead of Humvees, .45 pistols instead of the 9mm Baretta's, steel pots instead of Kevlar, and M16A1's instead of the new A2's, matter of fact my issue M16 in basic training was marked XM16E1 and had a 6 digit serial number, a couple of the guy's in basic training even had the H style LBE gear that was made out of cotton instead of the newer nylon material LBE, and of course there was still plenty of Vietnam veterans when I was in, they were even some of our DI's in basic training, and they were hard asses for the most part they didn't go for that "new Army" shit that the powers that be were trying to initiate, those men knew what it was like to be in a knock down drag out fight and they didn't go for the new "nice guy" thing that was part of the new Army way of doing thing's, and they knew some hysterical cadence's from back in the day that we weren't supposed to be singing anymore.
About 6 months after I got out a friend that I stayed in touch with said they traded in all the Vietnam era stuff for the newer equipment.
I'm glad I got to use that equipment when I was in and got to serve with those men who'd been in Vietnam.
I miss the 80s, things were so clear then.
“Hey soldiers wanna listen to some sweet smooth jazz while watching a rabbit get disassembled?”
"Oh yeah, yeah sir !!"
Yes
That made me laugh far too long.
Too soft these days.
I enjoy unsuspecting sheep.
4:50 **sarge pulls out his sidearm and gives Winters a mercy bullet to the temple**
I never saw this film in the Army, but this sort of bush craft was really taught during down time on training exercises when we were in the field for weeks at a time.
SERE school certainly doesn’t teach “smoking a rabbit 101”. A lot of this stuff would be completely non practical in a combat zone, but definitely good skills to have.
if your in a combat zone, your 1 step away from getting help.
*Sgt tries to take injured guys rifle*
*injured guy grabs mag instead of grip, then grabs grip, places finger on trigger*
"No, I'm no basket case..."
I'm not even in the military, and this bugged me to death
AA! GET YOUR FINGER OFF THE TRIGGER!
We didnt worry about that then. Really.
Those da*n actors! Don’t they know there’s a war going on! Plus, I’ve never seen a Sargent smile!
@@anactualalpaca7016 you just made him jump ..
pull the trigger
oops your dead..
I was in the US ARMY 10 years, I have been out now 15 years, this is an old training film but some of the information has been updated, like for instance when behind enemy lines you are not going to be building any kind of fire what so ever or taking care of personal hygiene, a lot of that is a good way to get captured or have enemy mortar come down on your head, flame and smoke discipline would have to be highly adhered to, meaning none, not even light up a cig.
yep.
you lay up..
and stay still..
really still
learning to identify the difference between a human beings footsteps and Fauna. can help you avoid becoming serious paranoid
over everysingle sound.. and end up laying petrified to even breathe..
you learn to ghost walk though that flora
you don't want to snap a single branch..
learn your footstep distance
and count your footsteps
be aware of claustrophobia
and you shit in clingfilm and carry it out with you.. with everything else
no trace ..
@@grahamfisher5436 "Absolutely correct!!!
@@jm1551701 when these SHTF shit hits the fan
bug out folks
talk about ..
In the event of an emergency, they'd head out into the wilderness to their bug out camp 🏕
🤔🙄🤣🤣🤣
if they think their gonna light a fire🔥
the second they do, or turn on a torch or even snap that twig.
BAMB someone's spotted them from 20 miles away. is now heading straight from them
and their suppliers.
folks would end up laid under a log, in the fetal position. absolutely petrified to even blink nor breath..
reality.. is a most important tool
Yeah lighting a fire is like yelling here I am shoot me!!!
Keeping clean would be toward the bottom oh my to do list. Keep moving. Spending way to much time in one spot. Don’t know who made this film but it should be titled “best ways to get captured.”
You mean a meat smoker is a target indicator?
OMG! I remember this video from Infantry OSUT, 1982 at Ft. Benning, GA.
Survival is to....survive. Thanks, Webster!
Being a Vet from the 1980's. I kept an open mind about this! It was a good tutorial of survival in Europe. What made me chuckle was when the two person security post needed binoculars to see them That close? What caused me to Truly laugh Was the fact of actual verification and the Fact both were still lying down!!! Ha ha!
Sorry!! Sarcasm!!!
Thank You for The Time to Share The Video!
Sorry! Still Laughing about that ending! That's the US Government!
Sorry!
these guys are actually having an AWESOME time!
Were not gunna leave u behind, winters. Ok lets fill out some graves registration paperwork.
The APC, all the disadvantages of real armor and none of the advantages.
I started laughing when they all ran for the “safety” of the APC! I realize it’s all there was in ‘78…but still funny.
197th Inf Bde patches and surrounded by pine trees.. OD Green fatigues and haircuts says 70's to early 80's, so this was most likely Ft. Benning instead of Europe.
The year is given at the beginning of the film: 1978.
I was going to guess North Carolina.
Yeah these dudes were watching M*A*S*H* later that evening
Yea, I dunno if Europe has Polk sallet.....
Lot of useful information...Most of the stuff that was mentioned in this I had learned in Scouts growing up and later used in the Corps ...83-93 USMC
I have a feeling it's because of boy scouts field craft and survival, that the MC moved me from being 3rd ammo man to blessing me with Navy gun FO school in camp Hanson in Okinawa. The PRC and crypto broke my back though, can't imagine that job today with communication gear being light weight as it us, that plus GPS and laser range, First round ffe every time.
Semper fi brother
it's all a basic platform
just changed and improved over the years.
keep calm
keep it simple
keep learning
keep the faith
keep living
The music is awesome.
Yeah. Groove On!
Continental Europe...1980s. needing survival? Hell you walk in any direction..go 10 miles and find road..towns.. grocery stores..cafes. yeah. "survival".
P.S. 1980s Germany had sections with baby nukes implanted in key roads to deal with large Soviet tank deployments. Still see the "covers" on some roads.
They even said the closest unit is 4 kilometers away, that’s like a hour of walk at max, if you count the difficulties of finding directions or wild life, half a day you can get there. I don’t get the survival either
Yeah, most of this information would have been irrelevant in a German context. Not only would it have been easiest to simply plunder local supermarkets or bakeries, which exist even in tiny villages, but you don't really need a compass either because there are roads or marked hiking paths all over the place. Also, the pine tree that commonly grows in Central Europe (Pinus sylvestris) isn't edible.
Of course it's still better to know it and not need it etc
Baby nukes were the 12 ECHO did away with that mos in 85 I think, sent them all to line engineer units ,most of them were good at math
Well given that this is a wartime scenario, I’d assume that those towns and cities you mentioned would be already ransacked or occupied by soviet forces so it would be dangerous to attempt to enter them
Survival techniques will never expire. Good old school training video.
I watched this film in AIT. I spent the weekends practicing what I'd learned. Saved my ass more than a few times. Go Green Fatigue Army! :)
Cotton fatigues with button fly, there was a big difference in comfort between cotton and fatigues and permanent press.
9:23 He may not be a basket case, but that trigger discipline is YIKES.
EDIT: He does appear to get it right in the long shot after, though. Then borks it again at 14:35. All over the place on this one.
I think Davis ate the family pets before the draft🤣
They had a good time and made some friends along the way too!
"We had great fun surviving this war sergeant! Lets get lost next weekend too!"
I love just how much info I learned just from the first 10 mins! 1. Learned constellation Cassiopeia and the stick/watch N/S method and 2. Don’t get shot
I like it when they survive. Because only breathing people are also happy people! And I want people to be generally happy.
what if the breathing people are sad people? do you kill them to balance it out?
@@ausore9832No, you help them be happy.
Whoever did the sound effects at the time was really good
When that 113 APC went into slow motion, I had flashbacks of The Six Million Dollar Man.
Plants, Animals, 🔥💥 and Shelter, Water, Noise and Light Discipline.....Reminds Me of SERE School at Fort Bragg, North Carolina while on Active Duty in The United States Army, Post- Marine Corps.
Good stuff.. I use these navigation methods.. thanks from NZ 👍🇳🇿
After the track got hit I thought they were all houng to turn into The Incredible Hulk for a minute.
Yea no clue what the director was thinking with that
I love the music when describing how to use the stars. Straight ad Stalwart.
Damn. They just started chilling and camping out like there’s not Soviet troops all around them. They’re priorities are cooking supper and taking a bath! These guys went AWOL to eat smoked rabbit and swim in a creek!
just because theres ivans all about doesn't mean you can't have a good time
yep.. 🤣
listen when they've caught and preparing the rabbit, the music changes to .
just chilling by the pool
'hay Coombs!! get me another bourbon and some ice from the cooler' 😎
and some of them pretzels
and some more of that poke Weed..
dam thats gud shyte 🤤👌
I was in the 82nd 3/505 pir from 1986-1990 we did not learn forage skills I even went through jotc learned a bit about eating snakes but most of our training other then killing and maneuvering was how to stay dry and careing for the wounded
The only training film I remember from the mid-70's was for CBR Chemical, Biological & Radiological nco. In the film a volunteer was given a chemical agent based on LSD and the soldier was asked to run the obstacle course. Every thing went well for a few min then he started to get distracted and after a few more min forgot what he was doing and started chasing a bunny rabbit through the woods. That agent was dropped as he seamed to be having way too much fun. No shit it's true.
early 80's it was called nbc - nuclear biological & chemical......
was it the british army lsd tests ?
Agent was called BZ. I had a 54 E secondary
This was great!
I love how they used the wounded soldier as a map table. lol
Great tips for catching small game and fish though, as well as the proper way to skin an animal. I never knew about the star alignments to help find the North Star. Apparently the little dipper leads to it too.
Thank you for this video. It's a really clear instructional video. Cheesy as hell but its creating the idea of morale, that's it's ok to joke about the situation. May have helped a few people. Love the Miles Davis soundtrack. You dig? Good. Now go set me up some snares.
He didn’t make the video genius.
@matthewjones39 That is obvious. He uploaded it though. Einstein.
The Six Million Dollar Man sound effects at 1:40 nailed it for me.
yep..
notice when they've caught and preparing the rabbit
the music changes to ... just chilling by the villa pool 😎
I was in the Army in Germany in 1983 to 85
Looks like a Reforger field training exercise
Ohvoyohboybohboy
I'm loving all your vids on Oil Refining and cracking hydrocarbons
Step 1. Use wounded comrade as a map table. LMAO! I love these old videos! My father was in the Army through the 70s and 80s and would let me watch some of these training films...brings back a lot of good memories, thanks for making this available. 😄
The awkward semi resist scenes with the black sarge were funny as hell
1978 is a long time in military terms from 1980. We had BDU by "82
Yeah I don’t mind you using me as a table
Behind enemy lines and they are gonna worry about dirty socks and vitamins?!?!
It’s a 3 day hike back so scurvy is gonna be a real issue unless we get ahead of it.
Great music
4:45 - "Don't worry Winters, we're not going to leave you behind."
(Winters and Sarge share a smile)
(Sarge unsnaps his holster)
Great comedy my favorite part was when they were showing you how to get brown black berrys in the dark lol mm so informative that pine tree looking black berry Bush in the shadows thanks sarge I now know exactly what to look for lol
Conserve sweat not water. Drink, drink, drink, water. Stay hydrated, you can be dehydrated without feeling thirsty.
Great analog synth music during the skinning tutorial. :/
KPM 1000 was the studio that published a lot of the music used in the military training films during the 70s. Its all library music and it can be found on youtube
@@vg_grover4828 Why? It sure as hell isn't Brian Eno!
Quality soundtrack.
*"Oh, no! One is DOWN!"*
-Operation Flashpoint
(Aka ArmA;)
Hahaha! Oh goddammit!
MAN. Spotted. at. Three. HUNDRED. meters.
@@fromthefire4176 i mean when you think about it , it makes sense for the AI to emphasize words such as MAN or TANK when calling something out
@@elektrosmokes1911 high five to all veterans of that glorious video game, best ever !
@@decimated550 I LOVE that friggin game ! I'm about to buy it again as soon as my new computer gets set up.
Good team leader 👍
At 13:52 look at the trigger discipline on that over actor.
M1 Helmet were still in use by second line US soldiers even into the 1990s.
(Also the uniforms and helmets reminded me of Allied soldiers in Red Alert 1 and GDI soldiers in Tiberian Dawn/Renegade.)
Like the 197th Inf Bde shoulder patch!
Looks like Fort Benning too. Pine trees and sand.
A Co 1/58 INF 87-89 Kelly Hill, the armpit of FT Benning lol
“Buck 97” 😂👍🏼
I love the slightly unsettling primitive synth music. The main lesson I learned is that a wounded comrade can make an excellent field expedient map table. "Here Winters, you're not doing anything, make yourself useful."
1/54 Combat Support Company.....Bamberg, 1st Armored....Old Ironsides......I taught 'Escape & Evasion'.....1980--81...
2:24 They're all standing there thinking about ways to survive while their gun barrels are pointing in the direction of sarge!
I also noticed that too!
everytime i ever addressed someone as "sarge" i would get a big speech about some fish that swims near the bottom
German kids will find you and bring you a Schnitzel,a beer , and steal the afternoon cake for a C Rat (later MRE) and the LT's softcap you "found"
If you want to know what survival behind the lines looks like, then read this: smile.amazon.com/One-that-Got-Away/dp/1574881566/
of course, pokeweed is an American plant, but who cares...? This video was hilarious!! That black guy at the end reading his lines!!
" Great to see nicaragua's legacy live on! "
This is some pretty good acting, for an old training video.
Let's use the guy lying on the ground as a map table.
Hmmm, Soul Food.
"Use hard wood so the fire doesn't create smoke"........"Preserve rabbit by creating a S**t tonne of smoke"
I have no idea how they made it out alive, what with all that funky music playing all of the time.
I think this was shot in North Carolina probably at Fort Bragg. They did a lot of army training there because of how large of an area it covers being 163,000 acres. Pine forest mostly with lots of deciduous forest as well.
My guess would be Benning
Dude, that's Benning, look at the soil! Plus, its the 197th Infantry Bde. Love those old pickle suits!
@@eoh633 Yeah I think y'all right the more I've seen the thumbnail picture from looking at your comment and the other one and rewatched some of it. But it really could be either one. IDK now y'all got me second guessing.
Obviously Benning with the “Buck 97” patches. (ABN 39-87, RGR 8-90, and XVIII ABN Corps Arty 90-93)
@@AMylander Yeah you're right just like the other guys. I was wrong.
If they were in a real Cold War era European survival situation eating would consist of being taken POW, or raiding the Soviet field kitchen for freshly baked bread and kasha.
Being hunted by a hind copter , or just laying in a field and enjoying the dogfights between Migs and NATO fighters
Legs got blowed up !!!!
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what a great stroy. sorry to know that most dont end up the way this one does. the story was slow but there is useful into here. times were different here you can see that but its a time where people were made a little better and tougher. not to offend anyone
The music that was playing during the butchering of the rabbit was interesting 😁
I was in basic training in 87 and I remember films similar to this. I also remember trying to stay awake during films and hearing the occasional full canteen hitting a private that fell asleep followed by drill sergeants yelling at the private while pushing him outside to get smoked....good times
4km is an hours walk and they plan on traveling a day?
Yeah. Four klicks? Send two of the guys, one stays behind with the injured. They make contact with the rest of their unit, come back with help, and medevac the injured.
Wait, let’s set up camp, snare a rabbit, skin him, make some stew for breakfast, smoke part of him for lunch, then jerk what’s left of him for dinner! THEN we’ll figure out how to rejoin our unit. Give me a break. Who needs to eat anything in that time frame? FIDO. No wonder they didn’t know the password by the time they got back! Very high cheese factor! 😂😂😂
@@AMylander lol
Between the music and the narrator's voice, this gives me fitness gram pacer test vibes. XD
28:10 I thought a pizza man with short shorts and a thick mustache was about to show up
_Soviet patrol shows up_ American Sgt- “You looking to get this Cold War hot Ivan?” Russian Sgt- “Da comrade, we’ve watched for too long, is too hot already for our Siberian blood, time to penetrate.. your Fulda Gap” _Soviets start stripping_ American Sgt- “then maybe it’s time we showed you our new Javelins...” _Americans start taking off uniforms_ Soviet Sgt- “Da Daaaaaaa, am ready to blow like nuclear bomb!” American Sgt- “you know, back home some say this is all a big dick measuring contest... maybe they were right” Soviet Sgt- “if this is counter revolutionary, then I defect!” _thick 80’s mustaches collide in pent up, forbidden lust_ 🤣
"Yes, there is plenty of food in the wilderness...and it all tastes like shite"
Those Sargeants are the Master on the field.
Bon Appetit.
I dunno why but I have a feeling the rabbit didn't actually get caught by that trap, Listening to smooth jazz while it was being skinned, gutted and quartered was almost enough to make me forget about it.
Hmmm, this is really interesting. I guess the standard issue ponchos didn't have any coatings on them back then to improve water resistance so it wasn't too bad to use them to collect water.
Modern ponchos are riddled with chemical coatings, all of those are poisonous for sure... I wouldn't use that to get water.
Tea out of pine needles is also a lot better than it sounds, that's for sure. Haven't tried the rest of the recommended menu here, though I'd say a lot of woods used to be cleaner in the past.
If this was Europe you'd walk 5 klicks and run into some sort of town or village and the locals would help you because everyone hated the Soviets. I was stationed there after the Cold War but talked to a Signals guy that was there during the OD fatigues years. His job was to monitor East German radio traffic on a tall hill in Berlin. I asked him what they would have done if the Soviets attacked and he answered "Put signs around Berlin saying 'Welcome to the World's Largest POW Camp'." Damn.
Sounds right. Was in Vilseck from 86 to 90.
Watched at Ft. McClellan, AL during MP OSUT. Drill Sgts were all Vietnam veterans, so warm and fuzzy... 🤣
Are there newer videos avalible or civilian defense force videos?
"I'm no basket case", says the soldier, while putting his finger on the trigger pointing the gun at his squad mates.
Opening scene is like a god damn bad trip
1:26 Oh no not 1970's bad acid trip music!😱
Psychedelic music ...
Outstanding training movie and real first aid training