Now I'm trying to imagine 19 yr. old Zach, being the same person that gets sent to counseling for telling his superior "He'll be dead and buried, before he'll get my cabinets" .
@@thecursed01honestly, should have sent him to the VA mental asylum, they need to fill out the vacancy those guys have. Also assign the guy with THE WORST DOCTOR the hospital has
Zach, i don't know whether you will feel better, but look at the Sherpa that rescued a Malaysian climber on Mount Everest. The guy was skinny as hell, but man, the guy is strong.
@@mixednarwhal he was joking about the previous joke of it hitting the guy, basically a "hey this guy just got hit & run'd, anyone see the plate number on that truck?" its not a creepy question
19 year old Zach holding that 50 cal looks like an Astra Militarum cadet being granted a moment to hold the Space Marine's bolter and he's trying to keep his composure but glee is leaking out
Zach my cousin was stationed at Fort Polk once and he really hated it. Then he got sent to Iraq and he said being in a warzone in Iraq was better then Fort Polk.
That makes at least 2 people who said exactly that. Jesus Christ, how do you manage to a run a military installation so poorly that getting shot at in the desert a million miles from home is preferable?
@@notenoughmemes1847diesel is petty efficient so being as heavy as it is, it probably would get 12mpg on a highway which is slightly less than a log truck which is the closest comparable vehicle.
@@unnecessaryopinions941 Same deal here. No matter how much I eat, I can still see my ribcage. I can still build a decent amount of muscle, but it doesn't show at all. I don't know where it goes
I imagine even with the rename to Fort Johnson(which as you said I'm ok with because they named it after a ww1 badass) it will always be Fort Polk for you won't it? That's how a friend of mine who was at Fort Bragg for the majority of his career felt about it being renamed Fort Liberty. Granted he's from the 1st gulf war through early GWOT era so he thought the renames were a stupid knee-jerk reaction to someone getting offended. I honestly don't have an opinion either way but it is interesting seeing the thoughts of people who were stationed there.
Everyone I know in the military still refers to them by their old names. Fort Lee is still Fort Lee, Fort Bragg is still Fort Bragg, and Fort Polk is still the devil's asshole
always love yours and mikes stories always reminds me of my cousins and grandparents when i lived in fort Erwin ca as a little kid my cousin was a small arms repairman as well always feel at home on yalls channels
Love hearing your stories on here, the interviews, and Mike's channel. Have a lot of people in my family that came out of the military, including my cousin that has been through 2 deployments and just graduated from Air Assault at Ft Benning, along with my Pawpaw, RIP, that was part of the Marines when the US was plotting the assault on the Bay of Pigs in Cuba and his younger siblings that were in Special Forces during Vietnam and his older siblings during WWII in Germany. Love hearing the BS that comes with the Military at a lot of points, especially with the War on Terror days.
I couldn't gain weight or muscle until I hit about 27. So I feel your pain. Now I feel the backswing of it too. Have to watch my weight to stay in the 170 range. Huh, I thought you had 4 years on me, but its less than that.
Time speeds up as you get older. (Old guy voice) back in my day we didn't get no fancy 5 ton. We got either a M109 or M185 shop truck. The only difference between the two is the electrical panel. Both are the good old 2 1/2 ton with a box.
This vid reminds me of a weird dream. That being said, didn't think Zach was that much older, while also not being that young. Then again, been following so long that time is lost to me.
Dont worry Zac i know exactly how you feel about the muscle thing. My build is very similar, relatively short though average for my area at about 5'6" and cant put on any muscle mass, just strengthens my existing muscles lol
Ok Zach I know you hate Escape From Tarkov (as do I and everyone else who plays it), but a game I think you would enjoy is a game called Ground Branch. It has the gun customization as well as character customization with both gear and equipment that is similar in nature to Tarkov, but you already have everything unlocked from the get go and the learning curve is very minimal (you don’t have to put hours of your life into the game just to learn the basics). If you ever get the chance to play it, give it a shot! I really think you would enjoy the level of customization and attention to detail that they brought to the game.
How funny that this morning a dude in my tent on this rotation got me to mention your promotion situation and I Mandela Affect'd him because he thought you had said you were a 91F, but I had to say "No he performed the task of small arms repair. He was an ARMORER, therefore in the MOS of 45B." Love ya
We had something similar at our Heavy Equipment platoon motor pool in the Marines. A Common 30 Tool Kit was a mobile machine shop in an ISO Container we loaded on a 7-Ton. It leaked oil all the time and the onboard generator never worked, and a quarter of the tools were broken or missing. Looked neat though....
Im not Even gonna lie, this man Is probably half the reason i joined the army😂. So far it sounds like im enjoying it better than you did (probably bc im not at polk) but i seriously just wanna say thanks. I got entertainment and an idea for gainful employment from both you and mike,keep up the awsome work man👍
1:20 i understand this being a mechanic who fixes machines who cut down wood. My truck is bassically somthing like this. The box was taken off and they made a big square box that you could go in, it is basically a small shop so i can do my things and have a place to store my tools only mine is a 1 tone diesel not a 6 ton rig lol
Seeing how small the shop was makes the malfunctioning SAW incident all the more alarming because there's less space that Zach could have been in that wasn't just infront of the barrel. jesus.
In the field or range support in division, I was lucky if my shop got the good tables that didn't wiggle. We may have actually crossed paths at some point, I enlisted in 03, and was at APG for AIT in '04.
Huh the truck is much bigger than i imagined it. In my head i kept picturing something like a Chevy Silverado with a bigger back side to set up a shop.
Part of me wishes i got to wear woodland. But i know I'm too lazy to have kept up with it, shining the boots and whatnot. I had ACUs most of my time but got one set of OCPs before i got out. So much better
Since I found you and mike years ago I’ve never really seen any more current photo. So when you said. Wanna see 19 year old Zach I’m over here like “ YES SHOW ME RAGE GUN GOD PLEASE”
I'm not sure what's better about Fort Polk becoming Fort Johnson: The fact that it's another case of the Army realizing naming things after their enemy is stupid, or the fact that they changed the name to honor not only an African-American, but the first African-American to be awarded the Croix de Guerre (for those in the audience that don't know, that's roughly equivalent to a Bronze Star or a Silver Star)
So not to be pedantic but I worked in a surplus store so it’s my job to categorize this shit. ACU is the cut of the uniform, like the BDU. UCP is the camouflage pattern like M81 woodland. There’s actually ACUs with scorpion camo that were adopted before the current uniform pattern in a transition period.
I would have been only one year old when Zach was holding that .50 cal and now in just under a month I'll be the same age as he was in that photo. Time is weird, man.
those cabinets behind zach we have the exact same ones in my shop class at school, not sure if they truely are the same but they look damn near the same
19y 's old Zach holding a .50cal straight up look like a guardsman holding a space marine bolter lol
Especially since there's no barrel
THE EMPEROR PROTECTS
*bolter recoil launches guardsman 20 feet back*
@@Zach_Hazard
Guardsman then bleeds-out five minutes later from compound fracture...
@@Zach_Hazard That's the reason why they have to be mounted on big ole tripods.
@scowler7200 the worst people to be in 40k
Now I'm trying to imagine 19 yr. old Zach, being the same person that gets sent to counseling for telling his superior "He'll be dead and buried, before he'll get my cabinets" .
Honestly, same
they should have sent that stupid greedy superior to councelling. to one of those counselors who also do therapy for felons in prison XD
@@thecursed01honestly, should have sent him to the VA mental asylum, they need to fill out the vacancy those guys have. Also assign the guy with THE WORST DOCTOR the hospital has
that's the neat part. in the VA, EVERY doctor is the worst possible doctor XD@@christianjohnson9190
I love how cute baby 19 years old Zach alread has a "please end my life" look in his eyes...
I think that's just a side effect of being at Fort Polk.
That's just the look you get when you hold an M2
And his lech lover is still happy
Comes with being an E3
The army does that
Zach, i don't know whether you will feel better, but look at the Sherpa that rescued a Malaysian climber on Mount Everest. The guy was skinny as hell, but man, the guy is strong.
Wiry, but stronk
Man, Zach in that photo makes it look like he _really_ doesn't want to be there, even with holding that machine gun.
@@L1LegoAnimations Underscores on each side
I’m not photogenic lol.
Also I’m at fort Polk.
@@L1LegoAnimations*_What have I done?_*
@@Zach_Hazard understandable
@@JeepusChrystler_(insert TF2 Heavy laugh)_
Holy shit zach's only a few years younger than my dad. Been watching him and mike for years and that hit me like a truck
5 ton truck with portable shop
@@mollpom4899 Did anyone get its licence plate ?
@@Kesssulikind of a creepy question
You've either got a young dad or are pretty young yourself lol
@@mixednarwhal he was joking about the previous joke of it hitting the guy, basically a "hey this guy just got hit & run'd, anyone see the plate number on that truck?" its not a creepy question
You know shit gets real when grampa busts out the photo album
Sounds like you're talking about a Vietnam vet
@@RabdoInternetGuy That's what they were to kids who fought in the Gulf War, so it's not far off.
19 year old Zach holding that 50 cal looks like an Astra Militarum cadet being granted a moment to hold the Space Marine's bolter and he's trying to keep his composure but glee is leaking out
“You cannot fire it, it will break every bone in your body.”
*happy Kriegsman noises*
Zach my cousin was stationed at Fort Polk once and he really hated it. Then he got sent to Iraq and he said being in a warzone in Iraq was better then Fort Polk.
Im pretty sure Zach has said similar things about fort Polk and being deployed to Iraq
That makes at least 2 people who said exactly that. Jesus Christ, how do you manage to a run a military installation so poorly that getting shot at in the desert a million miles from home is preferable?
That's a nice truck, especially with the government paying for the gas
wonder what’s the average mpg for one of those
@@notenoughmemes1847 0
@@notenoughmemes1847diesel is petty efficient so being as heavy as it is, it probably would get 12mpg on a highway which is slightly less than a log truck which is the closest comparable vehicle.
@@notenoughmemes1847you’re talking gallons per mile at that point
i FEEL the pain in the " no matter how hard i tried...." built the same way, always underestimated cause we scrawny lol
Same here.
I think it might be dietary - not eating enough hence the general leannes. Hard to build muscle without enough raw material to spare.
@anonomous1324 trust me, it's the metabolism. Ate like a glutton then, hard to put pound on when your body burns 4500 a day
@@unnecessaryopinions941 Same deal here. No matter how much I eat, I can still see my ribcage. I can still build a decent amount of muscle, but it doesn't show at all. I don't know where it goes
I just wanna thank you Zach from the bottom of my heart for giving me visual aids. Also, to this day the cabinets story is my favorite.
Yes, I knew this was exactly what he looked like serving, absolutely no surprise 😂
It's cool to see small Zach, just so much anger growing in such a little man.
Didn't expect the BDU tbh. I came in when we'd already switched to OCP. Greetings from Mississippi, Louisiana with even less infrastructure.
Yeah man, I joined in 2004. UCP wasn’t until 2006-2007
I broke my leg and listening to your stories has helped keep me entertained especially after the doctor gave me what they call "happy medicine."
Zach really does be looking like his characters from fallout and Skyrim
Aw look at Zach he has a nice smile
Hello Zach, I have been watching you and Mike for a long time now. The stories you guys have always put a smile and a laugh on my face
Someone needs to find a pic of Zach at the end of his service to make that
SpongeBob meme with the grocery store clerk
I imagine even with the rename to Fort Johnson(which as you said I'm ok with because they named it after a ww1 badass) it will always be Fort Polk for you won't it? That's how a friend of mine who was at Fort Bragg for the majority of his career felt about it being renamed Fort Liberty. Granted he's from the 1st gulf war through early GWOT era so he thought the renames were a stupid knee-jerk reaction to someone getting offended. I honestly don't have an opinion either way but it is interesting seeing the thoughts of people who were stationed there.
Everyone I know in the military still refers to them by their old names. Fort Lee is still Fort Lee, Fort Bragg is still Fort Bragg, and Fort Polk is still the devil's asshole
Jeez, Zach's a year younger than me. We're getting old dude
Having a shop is super cool ngl
Crazy watching this and seeing that I work right next to this guys old MP, love ya zach ❤
if you saw that kid in High School I salute you for your service because it couldn't have been easy.
always love yours and mikes stories always reminds me of my cousins and grandparents when i lived in fort Erwin ca as a little kid
my cousin was a small arms repairman as well always feel at home on yalls channels
I watch the new Nimona movie on Netflix and the whole time i thought dam this guy Ballister looks live Zachs character.
I'm glad to see the pictures and know that I imagined at least something right
Love hearing your stories on here, the interviews, and Mike's channel. Have a lot of people in my family that came out of the military, including my cousin that has been through 2 deployments and just graduated from Air Assault at Ft Benning, along with my Pawpaw, RIP, that was part of the Marines when the US was plotting the assault on the Bay of Pigs in Cuba and his younger siblings that were in Special Forces during Vietnam and his older siblings during WWII in Germany. Love hearing the BS that comes with the Military at a lot of points, especially with the War on Terror days.
I couldn't gain weight or muscle until I hit about 27. So I feel your pain. Now I feel the backswing of it too. Have to watch my weight to stay in the 170 range. Huh, I thought you had 4 years on me, but its less than that.
Time speeds up as you get older. (Old guy voice) back in my day we didn't get no fancy 5 ton. We got either a M109 or M185 shop truck. The only difference between the two is the electrical panel. Both are the good old 2 1/2 ton with a box.
Lil baby zach with that "chief you better go fuck yourself, you're not getting my cabinets" look.
Like that one merchant on the 188 in NV. Pretty sure she was intended to use the back of the truck she stands next to for her shop.
Isn't it wonderful how openly available satellite telemetry gives us high resolution photographs of military installations for free?
Zach lore!!!!
you are epic Mr.Hazard never forget that
This vid reminds me of a weird dream.
That being said, didn't think Zach was that much older, while also not being that young.
Then again, been following so long that time is lost to me.
Crazy Zach with his old fucking truck truck
Okay it’s confirmed Zach is me if I was ever able to enlist
I see him holding that 50cal and I can't but think it looks like the upper of a bolter from warhammer 40k 😂
I dont think ive ever seen a picture of Zach before lol
Dont worry Zac i know exactly how you feel about the muscle thing. My build is very similar, relatively short though average for my area at about 5'6" and cant put on any muscle mass, just strengthens my existing muscles lol
My dad still has his old m81 uniform from 1993, he was a tank commander in the italian army.
Ok Zach I know you hate Escape From Tarkov (as do I and everyone else who plays it), but a game I think you would enjoy is a game called Ground Branch. It has the gun customization as well as character customization with both gear and equipment that is similar in nature to Tarkov, but you already have everything unlocked from the get go and the learning curve is very minimal (you don’t have to put hours of your life into the game just to learn the basics). If you ever get the chance to play it, give it a shot! I really think you would enjoy the level of customization and attention to detail that they brought to the game.
How funny that this morning a dude in my tent on this rotation got me to mention your promotion situation and I Mandela Affect'd him because he thought you had said you were a 91F, but I had to say "No he performed the task of small arms repair. He was an ARMORER, therefore in the MOS of 45B." Love ya
We had something similar at our Heavy Equipment platoon motor pool in the Marines. A Common 30 Tool Kit was a mobile machine shop in an ISO Container we loaded on a 7-Ton. It leaked oil all the time and the onboard generator never worked, and a quarter of the tools were broken or missing. Looked neat though....
Looks like what I imagine my cdda truck to looks like lmao
Cdda in the wild!
Nah I got that uhaul with apc armor welded on. Oh acetylene torch my beloved.
Im not Even gonna lie, this man Is probably half the reason i joined the army😂. So far it sounds like im enjoying it better than you did (probably bc im not at polk) but i seriously just wanna say thanks.
I got entertainment and an idea for gainful employment from both you and mike,keep up the awsome work man👍
Dude hell yeah been waiting to see this
I turned 30 this year. I may not be as old as you Zach, but fucking hell do I feel it...
honestly the truck with the shop on it is exactly how I envisioned it
I joined up in '06. We had BDUs I'm basic but by the end of AIT we had ACUs. But in Korea from 06-07, I mostly wore BDUs so I didn't look so green.
Anyone else here to notify Zach about him being mentioned in Brandon Herrera's video?
i love how zach always refers to himself in the third person on the channel
Pepaw breaking out the photo album.
good truck, would go roadtripping in said 5 ton
Its wild seeing Zach at the same age i am now
3:30 Wanna feel even older? I was born while you deployed and I'm finishing the equivalent of college next year
This is Great 👍
1:20 i understand this being a mechanic who fixes machines who cut down wood. My truck is bassically somthing like this. The box was taken off and they made a big square box that you could go in, it is basically a small shop so i can do my things and have a place to store my tools only mine is a 1 tone diesel not a 6 ton rig lol
Our new LMTVs have some similar shops, had to work on few myself
That goat pen building will forever say goat pen*s to me from now on. I was wrong, but it's still there in my brain.
Seeing how small the shop was makes the malfunctioning SAW incident all the more alarming because there's less space that Zach could have been in that wasn't just infront of the barrel. jesus.
In the field or range support in division, I was lucky if my shop got the good tables that didn't wiggle. We may have actually crossed paths at some point, I enlisted in 03, and was at APG for AIT in '04.
Hey I was there :D
Honestly, it's about what i expected Zach to look like.
19 year old Zach has that smirk that says "there's a camera but they need to piss off, I got things to do"
Idk why but I always imagined his shop being a brick building on the back of a truck
Huh the truck is much bigger than i imagined it. In my head i kept picturing something like a Chevy Silverado with a bigger back side to set up a shop.
I remember this story which its from my favorite the anger management campfire story lol
19yr old zach holdin that 50cal like it his new born baby
I feel like naming Ft. Polk after a WW1 badass is spitting on Johnson's legacy.
his smile and optimism? gone.
Part of me wishes i got to wear woodland. But i know I'm too lazy to have kept up with it, shining the boots and whatnot. I had ACUs most of my time but got one set of OCPs before i got out. So much better
UCP was the worst. We started getting issued OCP right before I got out.
I was thinking about the Kevlar burrito incident the other day😂
Since I found you and mike years ago I’ve never really seen any more current photo. So when you said. Wanna see 19 year old Zach I’m over here like “ YES SHOW ME RAGE GUN GOD PLEASE”
I remember my scrawny days. Now I'm almost double the weight without much more muscle lol 30s are going great so far
19yo Zach looks like he is really into some sort of tabletop game
Zach driving the gun's version of an ambulance, a gunbulance if you would.
Im watching this while in my dads old m81 camo pants lmao
The M81 drip is real
19 year old Zach looks like if Nile Red had a brother
I'm not sure what's better about Fort Polk becoming Fort Johnson: The fact that it's another case of the Army realizing naming things after their enemy is stupid, or the fact that they changed the name to honor not only an African-American, but the first African-American to be awarded the Croix de Guerre (for those in the audience that don't know, that's roughly equivalent to a Bronze Star or a Silver Star)
I never understood why the US military named bases after their opponents.
So not to be pedantic but I worked in a surplus store so it’s my job to categorize this shit. ACU is the cut of the uniform, like the BDU. UCP is the camouflage pattern like M81 woodland. There’s actually ACUs with scorpion camo that were adopted before the current uniform pattern in a transition period.
mike about to hit you with a voilation of his ip you keep this up zach
I would have been only one year old when Zach was holding that .50 cal and now in just under a month I'll be the same age as he was in that photo. Time is weird, man.
Looky here, it's High Thpeed's truck!
0:10 “Home”
“Least It Was Before I Fucked Everything Up.”
That thumbnail is adorable
Seeing 19 year old Zach makes me think even more that Zach is just Ray from Generation Kill, but less comedic and more angry
AAAAWWWWWW DA LITTLE BABY FACE!!!
1:45
BDUs
based
best camo pattern
urban camo even better
It was a gun ambulance for your gun hospital
I hate that you’re right.
19yr old zack(the correct way) is look scared and happy at the same time
Hey Zach, imagine all fhe .50s in a company being rusted and everyone looks at you to fix, not replace, to FIX them
Woah zack looks like the guy with the sniper rifle from saving private Ryan!!
i think this is the first timer i've seen what zach looks like. or used to anyway
That's a nice machine gun I like that machine gun.
those cabinets behind zach we have the exact same ones in my shop class at school, not sure if they truely are the same but they look damn near the same