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I've been interested in playing that game since it started as World of Tanks but it was never available to play on Mac computers, so...oh well... Still love the videos!
As soon as one my favorite channels sponsors with me an adequately specced computer for me to play these games on, I will gladly participate in trialing any sponsored games :)
I do a lot of business in San Diego, and I always stay at one of the hotels at Liberty Station (the site of the former recruit training center). I look up at the Recruit and smile every time I'm out there.
Bob Joe Thank you for pointing it out. I came to the comment section for the sole purpose to find out if somebody had already noticed, so I wouldn‘t have to comment 😂
@@schitflowsdwnhilYou pointin' upwards shawty when you really need to look down towards your anklet to find lil' me buffin dat big ol' floppy hog of yours, papa juan. Flax Seedz.
NTC San Diego had one which was actually named the USS Recruit. It was right across from the bridge to Worm Island. Even though NTC is no longer there, the USS Recruit still is. I remember the USS Neversail from my time in a supply unit. All the example supply documents used by the Naval Supply Corps were for the USS Neversail. Sad that I forget its UIC.
USS Lake Erie (CG-70) is an actual AEGIS Cruiser. Because she is kept busy doing top secret work for ballistic missile defense system development, rather than going on transoceanic tours, sailors in Pearl Harbor call her "USS Neversail." So it's Navy slang for any ship that stays in and around its home port.
Yeah I was stationed in Pearl Harbor 2010-2013 it was called that because they never went on deployment it was also the Admiral's Flagship at the time too. So it was almost always picked to for short 1-2 day/weeks underways to make the Admiral look good. Usually things like photo ops and other no important things, until my command decide to run our crew into the ground to brown nose the Admiral and Big Navy and got those underways instead.
You missed the USS Desert Ship LLS-1, at the White Sands Missile Range. Built in 1958 to simulate a ship for missile testing, it is still in service to this day.
That's a typhoon. Also in Air Arcade, where physics basically are just a footnote. The best mode is air RB I think, which is a lot more realistic. Full sim would be good, but I don't have a compatible joystick.
You seem to have overlooked the USS Bluejacket which was located at RTC Orlando, FL, which I have some familiarity with, having been aboard her a few times during my recruit training (Company 212) aboard RTC Orlando in the summer of 1974. As for the "lost" USS Recruit, if it did not burn up in the fire that destroyed Luna Park in 1944, parts of it were likely stored at nearby NAS New York-Floyd Bennett Field, which was built in 1928, until WWII when they were likely scrapped.
There was also a battleship "Illinois" built for the 1892 Chicago World's Fair on Lake Michigan. It was a replica of the first US battleships of the Indiana class. It was a recruiting tool like the one in New York. It also demonstrated the new electric lighting system on the real battleships. So the New York "Recruit" was the second land battleship.
Just prior, during Prohibition, ships were quite so christened with plain water. As soon as it was repealed, the switch back to using bubbly was nearly instantaneous.
To give you perspective, when the US declared war in 1917, ALL of the military services (Army, Navy, Marines & Coast Guard) had a combined total manpower of only around 300,000 men
Now more land and people is just a liability to worry about. All the world is your market and everything is made by machine. Who needs fickle human beings?
It was explained VERY well by most sources I saw growing up 30 years ago. Then they vanished. We now rely on media to retain knowledge not oral tradition, and oversaturated info is often lost in one generation. If everyone knows it, 1/4 century later, no one does. The kids these days didn't make themselves ignorant.
Keep discovering your videos ~2 wks after posting, but merely days after I just happen to look up the same thing. I'm thoroughly enjoying content recited again I just read half a week ago. That says volumes about your delivery. Here's a toast! 🍷 💙T.I.F.O.💙
It sounds like a really stupid idea but when you look at it was really quite brilliant. It must have made a really good Tourist attraction and PR tool.
Every time I hear (or read) about the run down of treaties and agreements that led to World War 1, I chuckle a bit and think about Russia’s defensive pact with Iran wondering if there will be a similar run down with that treaty, NATO, and various other treaties in 50+ years talking about how the third one got started.
Please do a video on the time a hippo escaped from lion country safari in irvine (near Disneyland) California and led the police on a 5 day stand off in laguna canyon.
Comparatively small, yes. Negligible, no. Especially in a matter of public discourse where people could argue thst that money coupd be going to X, Y, or Z instead of the navy to hand out every time they launched a ship.
This isn’t the first time that I learned from this channel something incorrect about how history was taught (in the USA). Your explanation makes far more sense for the trigger to start WWI. Outrage over an assassination by itself doesn’t seem as likely.
For the first half of this, I thought maybe I was watching the white feather video again, or which ever one it was where you did the history of World War I. I almost turned it off because I thought I had already seen it and I mistake it been made. I am mainly saying this for anyone else who comes along and thinks the same thing: this does eventually get on to the topic it’s actually about.
The ironic part was King Ratchet was probably a gamemaster that works for the game company and was masquerading as a regular player (a rich one). Done to goad you into trying to outspend him with massive amounts of micro transactions. One reason I don't play "free" pvp games.
Simon should have clarified that it was based on the USS Maine (BB-10), not the USS Maine (ACR-1) which blew up in Havana harbor, and is much more famous. BB-10 didn't really do anything particularly interesting in her service career as she was a pre-dreadnaught that had the misfortune of being launched only two years before HMS Dreadnaught, thus being obsolete almost immediately, and she wasn't used for combat in WWI.
They decommissioned a training platform because of an oversight in the design of their database!? Why would you build a database without first taking a careful inventory of everything that it needs to contain? Apparently once the oversight was discovered it was cheaper to decommission the training platform than to rewrite the database.
Clearly someone didn't explain very well or didn't know themselves. That's alright at least you recognized SOMETHING was needed to lower friction. Smart!
Christening/blessing of ship fleets still occur today all around the world. For example, Catholic influenced communities around the US Gulf of Mexico coast have blessing ceremonies of all the ships at the start of brown or white shrimp seasons to seek God's protection. This often occurs with great fanfare as each ship passes a priest on an elevated dock tossing holy water with prayers.
The Kingdom of Serbia didn't take territory from Austria-Hungary in the Balkan Wars. Those were directed against the Ottoman Empire, and Austria-Hungary was neutral. The Hapsburgs had no colonies, and they had intentions to colonize Serbia, or parts of it.
You should do a video on the USS Constitution it's the world's oldest commissioned ship still afloat, it was built in 1797 and named by George Washington.
@@dinostudios6579 Was in the Navy, had to learn Navy history in bootcamp years ago it's both. Commissioned means it still an active warship and is attached to a fleet.
The moral of the story? All one or none. Either we treat every single human from every single place on this planet as equal or eventually we're all dead. No enemy deserves life less than some ally. Teach your perceived enemies' children this fact.
You sir, have it. All of reality is one. Experiencing ourselves as separate is just an illusion. Hindu text(Bahgavad Gita) taught me that. Abrahamism(Chris.,Jud.,Isl.) Is just ancient Egyptian mythology with added racism. Perfect for endless war and controlling people. Share your message, never stop!
To be fair the figure you quoted is closer to the cost of ALL of the ships- and $500 would make a 'great cup' the size of a spool of thread. Not so great. Throwing away a cup worth a small house is grand, but if you're doing it hundreds of times a year... ouch.
Also doesnt help that the treaty network that otto von Bismarck made one he could only understand really was out of power by the Kaiser doing away with his post, all in all kinda lands on otto for the war aswell.
They often have typo's in the quotes they use as well. This channel really needs a proof-reader! ETA: Otherwise, all the channels Simon Whistler presents are excellent.
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I've been interested in playing that game since it started as World of Tanks but it was never available to play on Mac computers, so...oh well... Still love the videos!
As soon as one my favorite channels sponsors with me an adequately specced computer for me to play these games on, I will gladly participate in trialing any sponsored games :)
@@riinak7212 umm warthunder and world of tanks are separate games made by completely different companies.
@@jakej.2893 Oh...my mistake...is War Thunder available for Mac?
@@riinak7212 yup a bunch of consoles too. its even a united single server.
I do a lot of business in San Diego, and I always stay at one of the hotels at Liberty Station (the site of the former recruit training center). I look up at the Recruit and smile every time I'm out there.
Simon, the way you rattled off the treaties chain of events..... Bravo, bravo!
8:25 The navy boot camp in Orlando also had a USS Bluejacket about 2/3 scale destroyer.
Company 212 represent! When were you there, shipmate?
@@life_with_bernie Co 147 1981
@@sailorbychoice1 1974 for me.
@@life_with_bernie Hope you're doing well, shipmate!
I think Great Lakes had one as well.
The cover picture says Manhatten instead of Manhattan.
I was just coming in to point this out :) Thank you, Bob Joe, for getting there first!
DAT'S BECAUSE DEM SHAWTIES GOT'S A TEN INCH FLOPPY, SLOPPY OL' MAN WITHOUT A HAT, SO IT COULD SPIT IT'S VILE INDISCRIMINATELY, PAPA HUMPHREY
Bob Joe Thank you for pointing it out. I came to the comment section for the sole purpose to find out if somebody had already noticed, so I wouldn‘t have to comment 😂
Same ^
@@schitflowsdwnhilYou pointin' upwards shawty when you really need to look down towards your anklet to find lil' me buffin dat big ol' floppy hog of yours, papa juan. Flax Seedz.
I was trained on the Recrute in '67. It was a strange expierience. Glad its still there.
There is a model ship used for seamenship training in great lakes il. Called the USS Neversail.
RTC Orlando had one, too. USS Bluejacket.
NTC San Diego had one which was actually named the USS Recruit. It was right across from the bridge to Worm Island. Even though NTC is no longer there, the USS Recruit still is.
I remember the USS Neversail from my time in a supply unit. All the example supply documents used by the Naval Supply Corps were for the USS Neversail. Sad that I forget its UIC.
Must be like the Honafrisco or the San Fralulu in Norfolk depending which end of the boat you are at. Used just for submariner training only.
USS Lake Erie (CG-70) is an actual AEGIS Cruiser. Because she is kept busy doing top secret work for ballistic missile defense system development, rather than going on transoceanic tours, sailors in Pearl Harbor call her "USS Neversail." So it's Navy slang for any ship that stays in and around its home port.
Yeah I was stationed in Pearl Harbor 2010-2013 it was called that because they never went on deployment it was also the Admiral's Flagship at the time too. So it was almost always picked to for short 1-2 day/weeks underways to make the Admiral look good. Usually things like photo ops and other no important things, until my command decide to run our crew into the ground to brown nose the Admiral and Big Navy and got those underways instead.
You missed the USS Desert Ship LLS-1, at the White Sands Missile Range.
Built in 1958 to simulate a ship for missile testing, it is still in service to this day.
Generally, pulling nine G in a Spitfire will cause the wings to come off all by themselves.
WORD SON, PUTTING 2 G'S IN NIER AIN'T A GOOD IDEA, BROSTACIO
Ordinarily, Spitfires don't look exactly like Typhoons. And a Typhoon pulling 9G with ordnance is just silly.
That's a typhoon. Also in Air Arcade, where physics basically are just a footnote. The best mode is air RB I think, which is a lot more realistic. Full sim would be good, but I don't have a compatible joystick.
3:45 "Short on soldiers and semen(?)" Never thought the military would ever run out of both..
'Seamen' is a funny word.
@@Gorm169 Beat me to it!
You seem to have overlooked the USS Bluejacket which was located at RTC Orlando, FL, which I have some familiarity with, having been aboard her a few times during my recruit training (Company 212) aboard RTC Orlando in the summer of 1974.
As for the "lost" USS Recruit, if it did not burn up in the fire that destroyed Luna Park in 1944, parts of it were likely stored at nearby NAS New York-Floyd Bennett Field, which was built in 1928, until WWII when they were likely scrapped.
Never new about the recruit ship in Manhattan. Love learning stories of NY history.
I learn some of the most fascinating facts and stories on this channel. Keep them coming!!!
Here in Saskatoon SK. Canada, we also have a land locked commissioned Navy ship. The HMCS (Her Majesty's Cadet Ship) Unicorn. Sadly building shaped.
In Saint John, we have the HMCS Brunswicker. Also building shaped, but laid out and labeled like a ship.
Great video, love these little bits of forgotten history.
There was also a battleship "Illinois" built for the 1892 Chicago World's Fair on Lake Michigan. It was a replica of the first US battleships of the Indiana class. It was a recruiting tool like the one in New York. It also demonstrated the new electric lighting system on the real battleships. So the New York "Recruit" was the second land battleship.
According to Star Trek, smashing bottles of champagne (Dom Pérignon 2265) on ships hulls still carries on in 2293 (old calendar).
*Better be accurate though. If ya miss, those Giant Bottles of Don will take out HBO.*
3:46 STOP GIGGLING IN THE BACK, HE'S TALKING ABOUT SAILORS
I mean, its lack would explain both their lack of soldiers and the lack of a porn industry at the time.... Coincidence? I think not.
WORD, AND DEY HUNG AF TOO
How did you know!? Lol
*No Simon is thinking "Semen" and wants bukkake .*
Surprised there was no mention of the USS Rancocas (aka Cornfield Cruiser) still in use today in Southern New Jersey by the Navy.
In WW2 one of or both USS Houston cruisers were christened with bottles of water from the Houston ship channel.
Just prior, during Prohibition, ships were quite so christened with plain water. As soon as it was repealed, the switch back to using bubbly was nearly instantaneous.
8:00
She fell a fowl of bad whether on the way, Mr Prez, I'm afraid we lost her.
To give you perspective, when the US declared war in 1917, ALL of the military services (Army, Navy, Marines & Coast Guard) had a combined total manpower of only around 300,000 men
You notice how getting back land lost in wars is a common theme in history.
Now more land and people is just a liability to worry about. All the world is your market and everything is made by machine. Who needs fickle human beings?
I was not expecting the first ever coherent explanation of how WWI started when I clicked this video..
It was explained VERY well by most sources I saw growing up 30 years ago. Then they vanished. We now rely on media to retain knowledge not oral tradition, and oversaturated info is often lost in one generation. If everyone knows it, 1/4 century later, no one does. The kids these days didn't make themselves ignorant.
There was a similar "Recruit" at the Orlando boot camp, which is closed now.
You might also check out the USS Desert Ship (LLS-1) for a future video.
Keep discovering your videos ~2 wks after posting, but merely days after I just happen to look up the same thing. I'm thoroughly enjoying content recited again I just read half a week ago. That says volumes about your delivery. Here's a toast! 🍷 💙T.I.F.O.💙
*@ **0:36** That Man has a Farrah Fawcett Mustache.*
That was a really good summary of July 1914!
You hear that buys!? Follow the great american tradition! When you run low on se(a)men, build a battleship!
I won't lie, I smashed like for Simon's "Oh no." 10:36
I never knew about this, and I love History! Thank you Simon and Today I Found Out!
That's hardcore. Ancient Babylonians used to smash oxen against the hull of a new ship as a sacrifice? :P
I wanna know where the whole "crossing your fingers behind you back when you lie" thing came from.
Next they'll be building submarines in central park
well I want to make cheese on the moon. I will call it "moon cheese" it wont really be made on the moon tho, just aged there...
@@voidremoved
There is a yeast producing cheese components that is likely to survive on the moon.
I'm ashamed to admit that I started laughing when Simon said, "short on soldiers and seamen." Yeah, my sense of humor is juvenile. So what? :P
It sounds like a really stupid idea but when you look at it was really quite brilliant. It must have made a really good Tourist attraction and PR tool.
Breaking a bottle of champagne on a ship is good luck? Let's throw coins in the airplane's engine too!
That's what wells are for
Every time I hear (or read) about the run down of treaties and agreements that led to World War 1, I chuckle a bit and think about Russia’s defensive pact with Iran wondering if there will be a similar run down with that treaty, NATO, and various other treaties in 50+ years talking about how the third one got started.
hey i don't know if you did this already I'm curious why are healing (health) potions usually red in most media
Ben Taylor it comes from early RPGsthey made life potions Red to represent Lifeblood. Blue became mana as blue was representative of magic
@@anewspinonthings hmm interesting ty for the info Chris
Please do a video on the time a hippo escaped from lion country safari in irvine (near Disneyland) California and led the police on a 5 day stand off in laguna canyon.
12:53 Surely, the cost of a cup, however precious it might have been, would have been negligeable compared to the cost of building the ship itself. 🤔
Comparatively small, yes. Negligible, no. Especially in a matter of public discourse where people could argue thst that money coupd be going to X, Y, or Z instead of the navy to hand out every time they launched a ship.
Aww baby Simon.
4:16 Is that a young Stalin on our left? (That's not a serious question; I just find the similarity amusing.)
TgSnowwy I don’t think Stalin would go to New York but the similarity is uncanny
This isn’t the first time that I learned from this channel something incorrect about how history was taught (in the USA). Your explanation makes far more sense for the trigger to start WWI. Outrage over an assassination by itself doesn’t seem as likely.
For the first half of this, I thought maybe I was watching the white feather video again, or which ever one it was where you did the history of World War I. I almost turned it off because I thought I had already seen it and I mistake it been made. I am mainly saying this for anyone else who comes along and thinks the same thing: this does eventually get on to the topic it’s actually about.
It would be cool if they did rebuild it and was still up today.
NAH SON, IT'D BE COOL IF YOU SHOWED UP FOR PIRATE-THEMED MINI GOLF FOR ONCE, PAPA FLAPJACKZ.
Ah yes the great island of Manhatten
Yep. Came after Manhatnine. Not sure which man though.
Hey remember when you made that video on Giants bones....hahahah good times
The ironic part was King Ratchet was probably a gamemaster that works for the game company and was masquerading as a regular player (a rich one). Done to goad you into trying to outspend him with massive amounts of micro transactions. One reason I don't play "free" pvp games.
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History, Blueprint for Armageddon 1, covers the whole thing.
Btw, war thunder is a great game. Was playing it when this video started, had no idea was going to see a sponsorship for it.
Ingenious!
"In 1917 the USA was short on soldiers and seamen..." and you didn’t even crack a smile. Kudos Simon, how thoroughly professional of you!
Simon should have clarified that it was based on the USS Maine (BB-10), not the USS Maine (ACR-1) which blew up in Havana harbor, and is much more famous. BB-10 didn't really do anything particularly interesting in her service career as she was a pre-dreadnaught that had the misfortune of being launched only two years before HMS Dreadnaught, thus being obsolete almost immediately, and she wasn't used for combat in WWI.
Rum, buggery and the lash. The tradition lives on.
Wounder if any of those cups are still around, be worth a bit now.
Did the US Christen any ships during prohibition? What did they use, grape juice?
Lol. Probs
Wasn't this already a topic once before?
madogthefirst I’m 99% sure this is a reupload
They decommissioned a training platform because of an oversight in the design of their database!? Why would you build a database without first taking a careful inventory of everything that it needs to contain? Apparently once the oversight was discovered it was cheaper to decommission the training platform than to rewrite the database.
lol, simon can we play some WT together? son of -end broadcast- bahahahaha
Germany. Look what you did. You breathed on the Lego city and chaos ensued.
If you need further subjects, there's that Time the US Navy hired the Disney company to build a ship. . .
The beginning was so long I forgot what the video was about. Lol
As a child, I thought the champagne made the slip way slippery to allow the ship to slide down it into the water.
The ship is stuck!
Quick! Get the champagne!
Zappa Wench That’s okay. When I was a kid, I thought guys peed in a girl to get her pregnant. 🤷♂️
@@dafttool as long as you didn't try it before you found out
Clearly someone didn't explain very well or didn't know themselves. That's alright at least you recognized SOMETHING was needed to lower friction. Smart!
Lol I used to play war thunder. I feel like Simon didnt play War Thunder from the beginning and just jumped in from the tier 3 game...
In Soviet Russia, battleship builds union square in navy
Am I the only one who would sub to Simon's gaming channel?
For the love of all that's good and decent, please stop playing that music in the background.
in canada we christen ships with maple syrup.
Whatever the most popular beverage at that time is. Cheers, eh?
While christening a ship it is seen as bad luck if the person strikes the bottle on the bow and it doesn't break.
Skip to 4:12 for the actual start of the answer
Christening/blessing of ship fleets still occur today all around the world. For example, Catholic influenced communities around the US Gulf of Mexico coast have blessing ceremonies of all the ships at the start of brown or white shrimp seasons to seek God's protection. This often occurs with great fanfare as each ship passes a priest on an elevated dock tossing holy water with prayers.
Simon, haven’t you already done this topic?
When will Simon release his gaming channel?
**outstanding move**
The Kingdom of Serbia didn't take territory from Austria-Hungary in the Balkan Wars. Those were directed against the Ottoman Empire, and Austria-Hungary was neutral. The Hapsburgs had no colonies, and they had intentions to colonize Serbia, or parts of it.
3:45 - the US has never been short of semen.
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You should do a video on the USS Constitution it's the world's oldest commissioned ship still afloat, it was built in 1797 and named by George Washington.
Cody Braley actually its just the oldest still commissioned in the US Navy
@@dinostudios6579 Was in the Navy, had to learn Navy history in bootcamp years ago it's both. Commissioned means it still an active warship and is attached to a fleet.
USA enter the war, short of soldiers and semen.... Ohhhh you meant seamen... Hahaha
Short of "sea-men" 😏
"Activate windows".. I have a ton of Windows 10 codes if you want, Simon lol
The moral of the story?
All one or none.
Either we treat every single human from every single place on this planet as equal or eventually we're all dead. No enemy deserves life less than some ally. Teach your perceived enemies' children this fact.
You sir, have it. All of reality is one. Experiencing ourselves as separate is just an illusion. Hindu text(Bahgavad Gita) taught me that. Abrahamism(Chris.,Jud.,Isl.) Is just ancient Egyptian mythology with added racism. Perfect for endless war and controlling people.
Share your message, never stop!
@@ericblue7099 you sir, have it too.
Cha, in my city they dock actual military ships for military-public relations once a year. Perks of living in a harbor city.
Not that you said it wasn't, but to be extra clear Manhattan is, for sure, a harbor city.
Watching this video while waiting for a match in war thunder
13:00 Because when you drop $100,000,000 on a ship, giving away $500 worth of silver should definitely be a concern.
To be fair the figure you quoted is closer to the cost of ALL of the ships- and $500 would make a 'great cup' the size of a spool of thread. Not so great. Throwing away a cup worth a small house is grand, but if you're doing it hundreds of times a year... ouch.
You never want to be short on seamen.
Glad to know I am not the only one with the mind of a 13 year old :)
Wah! I say, Wah! You neglected its predecessor, the Battleship Illinois: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_Illinois_(replica)
Another winner troops....👍🏻👌🏻👏🏻🏆
Don't forget to include that if you want the modern vehicles in warthunder whilst playing for free, you'll have to give up 2-3 years of your life.
Also doesnt help that the treaty network that otto von Bismarck made one he could only understand really was out of power by the Kaiser doing away with his post, all in all kinda lands on otto for the war aswell.
I never got on the TDE-1 because I was a drill weenie
I never noticed before, but the neon SW on the wall stands for Simon Whistler?!
DO YOUR OWN BIO AT ONE MILLION SUBS!
I’m surprised no one declared war on themselves
I'm really loving seeing Simon play the games that are sponsering. 😊
3:47....so, the US was short on seamen?...😏😏😏😏😏
The biggest and onlyest landship in New York!
Short on seamen, big problem
You spelled "Manhattan" wrong in the thumbnail. (Yeah, spelling is a peeve of mine. )
They often have typo's in the quotes they use as well. This channel really needs a proof-reader! ETA: Otherwise, all the channels Simon Whistler presents are excellent.