Soldiers, What Is Combat Really Like? (Reddit Stories r/AskReddit)
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Redditors: Not in the military, but my cousins best friend's twin sisters boyfriend's friend is a doctor
Pepperoni Playboy “obligatory I’m not a soldier but my cousins ex boyfriends mothers aunts grandmas dogs former owners girlsfriend’s cousin in law was and...”
"I am your father's, brother's, sister's, nephew's former roommate."
RadioactiveRat then what does that make us?
@@backgroundcharacter1071 Absolutely nothing! Which is what you're about to be.
Haha loved that spaceballs reference
It's all fun and games till one of the bullets doesn't miss
Everyone's got a bullet with their name written on it, mines coming soon
Oh yeah, I've met with one officer (the rank being in-between a lieutenant and a sergeant major) He said that when he was 18, a stray bullet hit his gut and he blacked out, then a bit later his comrade lifted him up and he continued to fight. He was practically an npc.
Cheezy Reviewz they better not miss spell my name I’m telling you that for sure.
That’s honestly true.
It depends. Until it doesn't miss who ?
My great grandpa was in ww2 and stormed the Normandy beach and was shot 2 times on the way up, he said saving private Ryan was terrifyingly accurate with the exception being you couldn’t smell gunpowder in the theatre
Gunpowder. Smoke. Burning flesh. Blood.....And shit.
Holy shit he was one of the legends in normandy !! I'm loving your grandfather
Absolute bullshit. Don't believe a word of it
Ethan O'Brien does that mean you don’t believe my Grandpa fought in the Civil war in Cambodia? As a Special forced unit behind enemy lines at the age of 17 having to use his friends M-16 to kill fish to just survive and getting captured by Khmer Rouge and forced to work?
“Yeah and my grandpa personally killed Hitler and nuked both city’s in Japan, he was also president of Canada.”- every 13year old TH-camr.
"You don't respawn or magically heal"
That's one thing I'm sure *everyone* knew
@Demiclea Yeah
If only health regen was as quick as it is in games
Mailbox Wait, really??
You’d be surprised I have a friend who’s older brother joined the marines because and I quote “I’m good at call of duty so I’ll be good in the marines” yeah he didn’t last long
Emerystceltic what so he like died?
Wait u dont respawn or magically heal
Video games get flashbangs wrong. While doing some training with a group of regular guys they threw a flashbang into my building and it landed in between the legs of the guy standing next to me. For one split second there is a really loud noise and then nothing. Everything goes black and you dont hear anything at all. My vision came back first and the guy stranded next to me was patting a small fire off of his pants leg. When my hearing came back all I heard was muffled noises and a faint ringing. It took all day for my hearing to come back to "normal"
@Wooosh me i dare you Every game I've played the screen goes white and theres ringing but then everything goes away after like 2 seconds.
And did you loose your hearing by a certain percent? Or it just came back after like 24h back to normal like nothing happend
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Hmm, yes, a deatmatch in cod should last 12 hours, then, in case someone throws a flashbang at me I can experience the realism of my ears ringing all day
Hahaa just kiddingggg
NPC 274931 Escape From Tarkov gets its perfect but with shorter duration
"Its just like the video games, kids. When you're shot or near an explosion it doesnt instantly knock you off your heels into a world of pure pain and confusion. If your buddy gets half of his head peeled off by a piece of quiet shrapnel he just respawns later. Ammo is weightless and found everywhere. Healing most any injury is as easy as shooting a few crates and finding a health kit. Enemies are clearly seen on your map. Never have civilians running everywhere getting in the way. You can skip.all the boring cutscenes even if they are weeks long. You never wake up in full alert from a random noise outside for years afterwards. Its all like the video games. Kids, enlist today!"
Saw an add like that and it creeped me out.
POOR PIRANO bruh, thats inhumane and cruel. Just start a gov sponsored hunger games, ez and humane.
Feels like paintball ,when they’re shooting at you and you hear the rpgs pop next to you ,your adrenaline kicks in hard,I’m always smiling (that automatic smile you get when ur crush tells you you’re cute) ,not because I’m nervous but because I’m excited af, never been pinned down so idk what’s to be scared while in a firefight. But When an rpg hits near you ,its like WOW THAT WAS AWESOME lol.
@@leocasi405 so you think nearly dying or actually dying is exciting?
SPG that's kind of insulting to soldiers in a way, actually the military itself
"War is 99% boredom mixed with 1% sheer terror."
Sounds like Eve Online...
Michael VPS ok
Michael VPS facts
The funny thing is those kind of games are probably the closest experience to war you'll ever get. Ironically the games like battlefield and CoD are much farther from reality. In games like eve you can build up for years to have it all lost in a matter of a few chaotic seconds
@@andrewgodly5739 tarkov also simulates the fear very well while showing how horrible battlewounds and mundain acts are on the battlefield
and arma simulates the boredom/terror thing very well
Same with hunting then. It’s a waiting game.
Tell my commander to personally lower my coffin,
So he can let me down one more time.
Oh that took a unseen turn my guy
I told my ARMA 3 commander this and he shot me
He wasn’t willing to pay my death insurance 😝
New job: sell pies during war for $1 million.
Nah the public would be outraged
Better off hording cigarettes and selling em.
Or better yet Chew (American) Copenhagen(I think the rest of the world) that shit is gold depending on supply chains lol
XD
@@edgeldine3499 Nobody said you can't do both 😂
@@jazybomber this is true but you can carry more tins in your pack vs all those delicious pies.. and chew has a much longer lifespan.
What my Lieutenant told me is that when we got shot at, we seek immediate cover and return fire. There are no indicators to where you are aiming, how much ammo you have In you’re mag or on you. There is no easy or normal mode. I was a gunner and paratrooper in Afghanistan. I was nervous whenever we left our F.O.B. We could die any second. Kids, if there are any fire drills or lockdown drills; treat it as the real thing. Some of my training included a vehicle rollover simulator, we would yell rollover three times and I would duck while someone pulled me down, I tied my ammo cases down so the 20 pound ammo cases were flying around. One day, I was in gunner and our truck started to roll, we were in the middle of a desert. We did the exact thing right. Because we didn’t screw around when it was training. Always treat everything as he real thing, Ask me Anything.
edit: spelling
Do you ever slip up in trainig mode during civilian life? As in you hear a loud bang and start ducking/dropping/looking for cover or whatever you're supposed to do if you hear firing in combat and then remember that it was most likely not a gun?
NPC Ever since I was deployed in Afghanistan 2011-2013, I’m always paranoid. Whenever we left an F.O.B. I was always paranoid. I was the gunner and I always thought that I’d get sniped. So yes, I do.
Diriliş None.
What do i do now that i got my sister pregnant?
Have you ever been sniped at how loud was it?
*Narrator:* “defending himself from an insurgent attack on his *FREE ON BOARD* “
In case anyone's wondering, FOB = forward operating base.
@@TheCommunistColin
how many MB coins did it cost?
*narrator*
Brad thanks just saw that.
TheCommunistColin thank you
Bullets passing right by you sound exactly like the cartoons. You'll laugh the first time it happens.
Really? That's neat
true
You won't laugh the last time it happens though
@@condenihilit1572 I will, because for my whole life, from the first to the last, that fucker on the other side is still missing.
@@danielkaiselgruber1750 well obviously
The smell of death... that response made my entire body weak. That’s something you would only learn through experience
Smell can be one of the most traumatizing senses.
I haven't seen combat yet so I don't know if its different, but I have been an accidental first responder. Dude got crushed by his engine in a head on collision. Engine cooked him. The smell is weird to describe, but making BBQ kinda brings me back to that morning now
@@BlackIronGamer I was the only survivor from my truck hitting an IED. I was launched out everyone else cooked. It DOES smell a lot like a BBQ. It makes me sick thinking about the fact my mouth was watering as I was clawing back to save my buddies who were cooked alive.
@@odinthebiker8240 goddamn brother. I'm sorry you had to go through that
@@odinthebiker8240 you ever wanna talk about it I'm good for it
FOB Stands for “Forward operating base”
God dam it i heard it before while playing ArmA 3... But i forgot xD thanks for this xD
Fresh off boat?
@@JG-nr1mm Did you read the comment?
thegreek14 sodoku?
Ok good , what does IED mean?
All jokes aside, my Vietnam Hmong grandfather stated to me specifically that even terrifies me to this day was “The trees spoke death”
Nobody once mentioned running on the battlefield picking up Med kits or getting revived.
I think that part is just obvious...
@@minxkid1710 whoosh
@@memestealer596 THAT'S NOT A FUCKING WHOOSH
Ikr what about calling in killstreaks
On the battlefield can you refuse a revive, until after the fire fight?
"The enemy doesn't always just die."
They're using cheats obviously.
You shoot someone in the heart they live for 1 minute still shooting at you, lung shot 3-5 min. gut wound 3-5 hours any other part they just keep coming. I even shot a dude in the face and he shrugged it off until I shot him in the forehead and he dropped like a sack of potatoes.
@@odinthebiker8240 There was some man a police man shot I believe 19 times, one being in the head and he kept fighting until he got another one in the head.
This video is a really eye opener for me I've never thought about the radio I bet it never shut up and not hight quality too
@Demiclea I know
I didn't say it's a bad thing tho
@Demiclea okay.
@@nos5647 okay.
that one soldier said,"i've killed a man before,it was easy,that's why it's dangerous"
The one were they talked about shooting a lot and barely hitting anything or how they can die from something small and live through something big or some female soldiers being beast. Everything in that post is true.
Roy Benevides is the biggest example of how much a person can take and live by sheer luck and adrenaline.
@@Elitex62 Don't forget that before he did that rampage he stepped on a landmine a year earlier...
@@MrKogline How can I forget? That glorious sonuvabitch taught himself how to walk again after that despite his diagnosis.
That thing about female soldier is exaggerated. Male soldiers will outperform literally all female soldiers 99% of the time, except for a very few female that are somewhat on the same level of performance and responsiveness as an average male soldier. There is a reason all tier 2 and above operators are males
@@user-rd5nc1nb9f Facts. Any soldier is a force to be reckoned with, but female soldiers aren't super humans. they're just overall worse than the guys at what they do.
08:00 this fact is so true. You do your 4 to 5 years of military service, return home and go college, you see everyone is having a great time but you feel so alienated and have a difficult time trying to get along with everyone.
One thing they don’t tell you is that the ringing never goes away. My uncle still hears it the worst at bedtime.
That's tinnitus
I was playing with a gun (ik that sounds dumb) and shot a bullet right past my own head. Still hear ringing in my right ear 7 years later.
@@StrangeTamer178 yeah definitely tinnitus caused from hearing damage
Yup got it too from shooting a 9mm beretta without hearing protection (my dumbass) prob wont go away, doctors said thou its psychological so therapy could help not guaranteed
I served for 2 years in Serbian army back in '99 during the Kosovo war. Saw combat daily almost, we never really had any rest. I was 18, fresh out of high school.
This is so interesting to hear. I've seen the Sector Serajevo documentary. What are your opinions on foreign forces getting involved in that war?
@@bubbles6883 They prolonged the war and made it far worse, especially Mujahideen Americans imported to fight Serbs.
@@nikolapetrovic4814 not true, the mujahideen only came from hezbollah and al-qaeda
you wanted to do the right thing by serving your country only to be pulled into a stupid war because of stupid made-up balkan history stories and now you have PTSD, hopefully you are doing better and you are not struggling in your life
i will point this out: serbs are the same as albanians and both ethnic groups share same characteristics but you will never see it that way and say that albanians are "turkified islamic demon dogs from hell" and say that serbs are "pure holy christian bastions defending mother europe"
we as balkan are european union garbage dump because we are gullible idiots who fight stupid fucking war for whatever is unique about one or other, end of story
@@bumboklaatry5828 what's not true? Islamic fighters were smuggled in by CIA, sure some of them came on their own but for the large number of them US is responsible.
There are some sleepless nights but I don't really have PTSD, sure I've seen some really horrific things but I have never harmed a civilian, every person I killed held a weapon in their hands and could have killed me just as easily. I am not ashamed of my service.
@@nikolapetrovic4814 you do know that the US still hate arabs during 90s, right? the only way they could ever smuggle them into kosovo is through smuggling lines via mafiosi. there would be no way in hell that it would be good for the US to be held responsible for smuggling wahabists to fight in kosovo
Battlefields aren't what you think they are in the movies. In movies it's a field where two opposing armies are fighting against each other, and a lot of raw emotions. In my experience, it's usually targets 300m away or more, in reality it's two points on a map shooting at each other on a given azimuth (direction, sometimes measure by 1/17th of a degree or one mil) you can sometimes see kids playing closer to you than the enemy is
whats the point of copypasting a comment in the video.
7:14 *FOB - Forward operating base
Huge brain
I was genuinely confused when it said "Free On Board" or whatever lol
I was gonna add this if you hadn't already
Fall Out Boy
Fisting ostrich babies
A lot of D-day vets got PTSD from the opening scene of "Saving Pvt.Ryan"
When i saw that scene, what stuck with me was the PLINK the bullets made when they hit the obstacles. I was a forklift driver at that time. For a couple of weeks i was reminded every time my forks touched the concrete floor. PLINK
Real PTSD would be much, much worse.
I'd imagine determination of female soldiers would stem heavily from avoiding capture. Imagine what would happen to a female POW.
They're probably acknowledging that.
@SilentwarH Which is close to 0 considered the modern wars going around.
@SilentwarH Well, I said so simply because most of the modern wars have been fought not between regular forces that allowed women in their ranks so it's not like there is that much of a possibility for the event to happen.
It's an unlikely event, unless two major western countries clashed
How's rape any worse then what happens to the male combatants?
@@parikshitrao4208 they're also saying that like they dont rape men, too.
They fuck sheep and camels. Literally. Countless drone videos showing that. If you think you're getting caught and not being treated the same while they play any holes a goal on man love Thursday--youre wrong.
@@formdoggie5 yup, absolutely.
Bullets make a loud crack sound when they pass by your head if they are supersonic, or a whizzing sound if they are subsonic
Leo The Chemist And same kind of crack is caused by artillery shells too. More distand and lasts longer. That was something that I was not expecting when I first heard that.
It's confusing, chaotic and strangely calm at the same time. Then just as suddenly as it started it's over and you just get exhausted.
"Not in the armed forces, BUT, my wife's boyfriend's cousin's grandsister's uncle's dog is an Ex-Commando"
My grandpa fought during WWII against the Japanese in the pacific islands. He didn’t tell me much about combat itself, but the few things he did tell me were terrifying. And those weren’t even close to the worst things that he saw.
2:58 yeah my dad did three tours in Afghanistan/Iraq and he commented on this when I asked about spent magazines: "you drop it and forget about it, no need to worry about picking up empty magazines until _after_ the firefight is over"
The soldiers who think people think war is like video games or movies must've thought that themselves, because honestly who out there thinks that? 🤔
Mostly the 99.9999988% of the kiddos online talking war are the ones who dont know the reality of it. I worked with middle school kids, all they do is run their big mouths 24/7
@@spg1794 I guess then the majority of people asking these soldiers are kids, makes sense.
I think war is a brutal, chaotic horror scene where men are capable of things they would never dream off, but i get what you mean
Same group that thinks a suppressor. (Silencer) actually makes a gun quieter than a whisper.
It feels like playing paintball honestly,but knowing that you can die lol. Getting shot at and having rpgs land next to you makes you smile (that automatic smile you get)
My uncle died from an IED when he was driving to the airport to come home
The most common thing movies and games get wrong is how it really looks when someone gets shot in the head
In video games, the head explodes into a million pieces with blood everywhere... is that not how it is in real life?
TheCouncilGaming No. in real life the entry hole is smaller than the exit hole. If your shot in the head there will be a small hole and the larger hole. No exploding heads,
I would argue the one man army point. While kinda lame but "if you know thy self and know thy enemy you need not fear the result of a 100 battles" ~ Sun Tzu is a pretty real statement. If the one man happens to be, well any medal of honor recipient, a complete badass with good intel and a superior position he could definitely be a one man army if only for a moment.
There are some stories of world war 2 combatants taking on entire regiments because they were well entrenched in a chokepoint
@@mandalorethereclaimer7313 Like the French bunker manned by 30 soldiers in the Ardennes that held the entire German tank column for a few hours.
@@country_flyboy or the finnish sniper who held off the entire red army
The Italian-American soldier with impaired vision (needed glasses) in WW2 who became a lone survivor, then defended an urban roadway for several days - with minimal to no sleep - from numerous German attacks including a Panzer (tank). He had nothing but his BAR, and the firearms and ammunition of his dead squad. No Anti-Tank weapons.
MrEcoho not nearly the entire red army, a large contingent but nowhere near.
5:58 "I've found the HBO series Generation Kill to be the most accurate portrayal of war."
"Sgt Patrick....yer' mustache hairs is in violations. Growing beyond the corner of yer' mouth. I hear Godfather hisself say 'You look like a bum.' POLICE THAT MUSTACHE!!! Yes, sir, and you look like Elvises!!!"
(later)
"Mr. Potato Head at your six, closing fast."
"Sgt Patrick! On the deck! Hahahahahaha.....you mockin' me? Hurrs hangin' beyond your face? Beyond yer' mouth areas? You are unsightly, unsanitary, and in violations of the Godfather's groomin' standards. YOU READ ME?!! SERGEANT PATRICK?!! You have until O'Dark Hundred to unfuck yourself."
Actually not that inaccurate. The hardest battles are against your CoC
I guess he also found the grooming standards of that teenager unnerving too when he became a kiddie fiddler
Was that sgt maj a kiddie fiddler? The actual sgt maj not the actor?
The first reddit story with "Saving Private Ryan" reference is just a truly horrifying scenario where 99% guaranteed that death is already beside you waiting for your end...
Just graduated basic training and am currently on pass, so I have a really strange perspective watching this video. I know what these guys mean with much of what they say, and what I haven't experienced myself I've heard from my Drill Sargents. I'm infantry, and so are all of them. Gun fights aren't fun or exciting. They're fucking tiring. Even an M4 gets fucking heavy after a while and it's only seven pounds. You swing that thing around all over your sector of fire, making sure you don't flag your battle buddies, waiting for someone to pop out a ducking window. Suddenly motherfuckers start firing shots and you don't know where from, can't tell how many people are engaged and you don't know how many casualties your squad has taken. Then you have to deal with the clean up after and realize, had this really been combat, my guy here that went down wouldn't be getting back up. What can I do better next time? What did I fuck up? You think that shit even if you did everything right and he was fucked up. You can be high speed and shit and still feel like you're fucked up if you've got a fucked up battle buddy. Then pulling security, especially at night, is soul wrenching. The "sleep" you get, you don't actually sleep, you lay around and try to fall asleep, but instead just dread your next shift. This goes on for days straight. In real combat it could go for weeks or months. Just training was incredibly stressful, I can't imagine having to do the real thing. I serve because it's my calling, that doesn't mean I want to get deployed. Fuck that, I don't have to act tough. That shit sucks hard.
Why do you think it's your calling?
I can't say I"d ever be envious of the feeling being miltary was "what I had to do for myself."
Even as someone with uncertain direction, I actually feel glad to not know what I want, rather than to know what I want, and that was something I'd never be happy with, let alone it being miltary service.
Are you alive?
1:18
The fact that somone in the military is named "bacon boobs" is amazing to me
It would be interesting go back in time and ask a real knight, swordsman or roman legionarie what going into battle really looks like in comparison with hollywood too.
Mu dad was a navy seal, e8 senior chief petty officer.(e8 SCPO) and he said he never worried about picking up mags after they were empty. Their goal was to get in and get out before they were noticed so they never wasted time.
My right eye is still tinted green at night...... 🤣
TheUnconventionalDeal Wait What?
@@The_Lone_Outlaw night vison
I was a mortarman and remember putting in data at night. We were allowed to use red lamps but i do remember being on an 8 hour mission and seeing green till the next morning. Regular infantry has it alot harder than mortars.
@@cailebcarkhuff6718 monocular night vision.
@@Je3perscre3pers yeah, it was 6-8 hours a night most the time so nothing but nightmare material. 🤣
Guns jam sometimes!
*Laughs in ak47*
I’ve seen a kalash jam before.
Needless to say, I told the guy who’s ak jammed to play the lottery.
Random: "AKs never jam"
Me: *laughs in InRangeTV mud test*
The stereotype of an AK almost never malfunctioning can be refuted by anyone who’s put enough rounds through one
@@shootinbruin3614 Yeah, I'm a kalash nut, so I've fired Russian, Yugo, Arab, and American made AKs and all of them jammed (small things, failure to feed/eject), and all were fixed by a few firm slaps to the side of the receiver. In my experience, Russian and Bulgarian ones were fantastics, Yugo and Arab ones were solid, and American ones weren't too great, but they're slowly getting there.
I think the stereotype comes from the fault-tolerance of the AKM's design, meaning that they could take a lot more misuse before becoming too unreliable. Most guns, put through similar torture tests, tend to start to fail a lot sooner than the AK. That being said, there are notable exceptions: ARs are pretty good at dealing with mud and other fluids, since firing it creates large positive pressure in the entire receiver. AKs on the other hand tend to hate physical obstacles in the receiver, since the chunks tend to block the bolt and impede it enough to jeopardize the automatic cycling.
*guffaws in m16*
I've been in 2 wars, and sometimes the ONLY reward you have to look forward to after a firefight is a warm (not hot usually) cup of coffee and a Molasses cookie from an MRE pack- anyone else relate?????
Shout out to all of these people regardless of who you are or where your located. Y'all are brave souls
Most of the veterans I talked with always say the after math is where you get PTSD. A coworker in particular has been through alot and he was sergeant he hates when people ignore him since people in his squad died because they either didn't attention or ignored him.
You will never know what it’s like to be in combat, until you’ve been in combat, and had to kill to live.. it’s a different feeling
You will very, very rarely see who is shooting at you.
Unless you have a gunship above you.
This music during the whole background of the video makes these stories have a complete sad feeling to them. Not that they don’t feel that way beforehand, but it makes the experience totally immersive
I have a female friend who has been in the army for five years and she really is terrifyingly strong. Even me as a man who has black belts in Taekwondo and Karate and is good at fitness (I mean, merely above average since I tend to run out of stamina fairly quickly from intense exercises) finds it really difficult to fight her one on one in combat. Her military training for the past five years allowed her to even beat the crap out of a muscular but untrained man.
A common Hollywood myth that is in some TV series, films is the salute. NO ONE salutes in combat! No general, no COL no Sgt Major. Snipers tend to aim at officers & radio 📻 operators, commo guys. Commissioned officers, radio guys, heavy machine gunners are the main targets in a fire fight. The USMC would lose platoon leaders in seconds or minutes not days in SE Asia. 1961 to 1973.
the funny part of that is it was a standard practice that if you hated your CO you would salute them in the field so they became targets. My dad said that was the best way to fix a 2nd LT either they died or they stops telling people to do stupid suicidal shit.
We had to salute in Afghanistan.... But it was always followed with "sniper check sir/ma'am" for the officers dumb enough to enforce that courtesy in combat
Sometimes a fatal or potentially fatal gunshot wound isn't that dramatic. The victim just carries on with what they were doing until they fall over from blood loss after a minute or two.
I remember a redditor that talked about the opening of saving private ryan...his grandfather said it was so real that he had to leave the theater because it was so traumatic he started smell diesel fuel in the theater...thats so crazy
I just want to know if anyone has actually stood up during contact, and yelled "YOOOO JOE!".
Wait, who's Joe? (oh lawd what have i done)
@@toma9971 GI Joe References
@@Johnpinckney98 ik but there is a meme going like NEVER ASK WHO JOE IS and when a person asks who Joe is, JOE MOMMA
@@toma9971 great, see what you done? Now I gotta find these memes
@@toma9971 DON'T ASK WHO JOE IS
2:34 - Me and my friend spoke to (my friends) grandfather a few weeks ago over the phone. He is a USMC Vietnam veteran and he described combat exactly that way. Where his training kicked in and he just did what he needed to do, and he also said that he wouldn’t get really nervous or scared until a little while after the firefight happened.
Picking up a random gun and ammo from the ground
I read your username....
@@thecoolnerdplaysvr5674 hm
i'm pretty sure you can salvage ammo from dead soldiers in real life tho, at least the ones that were on ur same side.. assuming the whole squad is using the same standart issue guns, which i do not know if that still the case.
I've served 1 tour in afganistan and 1 tour in iraq. It's either very hectic, or very calm, as they either die quickly or you're surrounded and scrambling for cover. You go deaf super fast, which is why hand signals are extremely important.
Little tip for those thinking of joining: don't throw your magazines away. You keep them damn things because once you're done in a firefight and are heading back to your base or inside the wire, you need to have them to reload ammunition. The Army don't just give them out like candy and those issued to you if you lose them you're paying for them. That was my experience in the U.S. Army.
Mortars going overhead sounds like a ripping canvas sound. Lots of waiting around, truck gets hit by an IED? You'll be waiting for 4 hours for recovery. Random guy gets killed by an IED? Have fun holding an eye while you try to get a retina scan to see if they are on the wanted list. Unlike movies an RPG doesn't have a smoke trail.
Never served, but been to Iraq and Afghanistan. Never seen serious combat up close. But something the movies never cover is the feeling of hearing gunshots or VBIEDs exploding in the city you're in, but having no idea where exactly the danger is, and the nervousness of deciding what route you must take to safely get back to the hotel. Everything is fine around you, in that there's no fighting or danger within visual range, but it's in auditory range. So it's not sheer panic but neither is it comforting.
I always thought war would be at least similar to movies until I first shot my 308/5.56 chambered hunting rifle at 12 years old. It kicked, *hard*. It was loud as all hell and extremely tough to aim accurately even standing still. In hunting that's considered a large round, a 5.56, but in combat firearms that's considered almost small. And your firing tons off in a row semi-auto or even full-auto. No damn way your going to hit even half your shots.
"Apache Crew chief"
*Giggles*
only time I heard of knife kills is when a group of SF soldiers were ambushed from enemy combatants inside a building, they didn't have time to fire there weapons and engaged in hand to hand combat.
reMARKSman they didnt have time to fire
So they dropped their weapons and started punching and stabbing
Ok
@@EthanThomson when someone is right ontop of you you can't shoot
I’ve never been in the military, but it really annoys me when people think all explosions are fireballs. They’re not. They’re usually clouds of smoke and dust, with maybe a glimpse of a fireball at the very start, like a literal flash of light maybe.
The only fireball you'll see is a thermobaric bomb. I don't think there's any high explosive that makes fire unless it takes a fuel canister with it.
One thing i can tell you about combat
A lot of dust
I spent 20 years in the Army. I've done only 2 deployments and that was more than enough deployments. Combat is a lot of anticipation and waiting for something to happen. Urban fights are usually a few shots and a lot of figuring out where the shots came from and who shot it. EIDs are the worse and throws you off guard. You might have a shot fired at your general location (if unlucky) once a week while have an IED go off (if also unlucky) once or twice a month. The hardest part is trying to build a relationship with the local Nationals and usually one or two might turn against you or they refuse to work with you because you can't give them everything they ask for.
You both shoot, then one man dies and the other does a disco dance on your corpse and chugs a bucket of blue liquid. War is hell.
Wayne Payne98 so funny I forgot to laugh
@@shiftyguggs2415 there is a minimum knowledge level required for this one I suppose
Wayne Payne98 nah just someone who’s not below the age of 10 can’t find a fortnite joke humorous
@@shiftyguggs2415 You sound really smart.
@@waynepayne9875 sounds like HE has fun
It's rough, it's hot, dirty, sweaty, long and time consuming, and when it's over you will be tired for a long time
Movies never get 3 Ds. Direction, distance, description. They automatically know where the enemy is
And yeah, repeatedly firing your weapon indoors (or outdoors, for that matter) with no earpro and still being able to hear just fine is bullshit.
Say hello to tinnitus.
Yeah, so much for going deaf.....constant 24hr a day fucking ringing sound is more like it. Non vet here. But i did have a loud ass stereo and .44 mag pistol and several rifles and chainsaws. The ringing is real-forever.........
I remember when I had my buddy fire the 60mm mortar at a machine gun team and then repeatedly firing my m4 with tracers to direct his fire. I couldn't hear sht and to this day I'm always asking my wife to repeat what she says at least 3 times. Makes her mad never gets old
Generation Kill is the most human portrayal of war I have ever seen. Most movies/miniseries will make you think that the U.S. military knows what it’s doing, Generation Kill insists that it isn’t.
You can be in contact for 10-20mins but it can feel like hrs. Most of the time, once we recieve contact, we would take cover and call for fire. It's mentally tough
Not in combat but in bootcamp: if you ever think about switching your rifle to full-auto be ready to be punished. You *NEVER GO FULL-AUTO*
A friend of mine mentioned they aren't even taught how to use full auto or how to even shoot/spray accurately in full auto. Is that true?
@@vaasmontenegro8303 well IDK where your friend was but at my place you will never use full-auto with a simple rifle. The only way for me to fire full-auto will be with an LMG. We asked about full-auto in combat and they said that it's very rare to be allowed to switch to full-auto even in combat because it will compromise your stability and aim
@@somebody7205 Right; but isn't it important to know how to use full fun switch so the troops can hit the broad side of a barn?
@@vaasmontenegro8303 full auto isn't classified as an aimed shot and the army only fires aimed shots
@@davidhaggart1779 suppose that's a good poont
Being shot burns like hell.
Also, people who joke about it would be shitting themselves. Its no joke when you get shot and have enteral bleeding, or lose half your leg.
I’ve played squad (a pc game) with a number of Afghanistan vets and they pre much said it’s the most realistic combat they’ve ever played in a game and it’s scarily similar to real life. They also called it “Afghanistan simulator” and that’s why they love it so much
My granddad was ordered to kill 3 german pows in WW2, a german flare was fired near by and he let them go.
He also had a german soldiers identification papers.
In Italy he Embolized german tanks and set fire to them if the crew did not bail out.
He cleard buldings in Ortona... open door/make hole in wall gernade then a hail of .45 from his tommy gun.
gilbert martinez I doubt it if they could’ve seen America today I’m confident we would’ve sided with the Germans against the Russians
With the grammar and all that, I don't believe it. Both of my grandfather's are Vietnam vets. PFC. Ivy Adkins U.S Army 19D, MSG. William Cady U.S Marine Corps 0351. So, I don't believe some 12 year old has a grandfather that fought in the second world war wouldn't still been alive and told you exactly what he did, and tell you how he went against orders to be potentially court martialed. As well as commit war crimes by executing people and setting armored vehicles on fire with people inside. As well as saying *"make hole in wall gernade then a hail of .45 from his tommy gun"* . I don't believe that shit.
@@Zanelander lol smart man
gilbert martinez Frag grenades don't blow holes in walls. They fling deadly fragmentations in all directions. Hence the "frag" in fragmentation.
Brad guess what? No one cares what you believe my dude
I learned that it isn't loud like shooting at a range the adrenalin rush just makes you barely hear a thing
There is a progression of extreme mental degradation when you are exposed to combat on a regular basis for a long period of time. The first few engagements are terrifying and exciting. Eventually you get used to it because it becomes your reality. You’re a professional and do your job the best you can. After 9 months you are mentally exhausted and completely numb. You don’t know how fucked up you are in the head until after getting home for a few weeks. Then the real problems begin and they’ll last a hell of a lot longer than the deployment.
Redditors: Not a soldier but I know I guy that has a cousin whose friend has a friend whose cousin has an ex whose twin has a pet turtle
“That’s a direct order!!”
Lol this one always gets me. It’s written into almost every war movie to drum up the tension and/or the conflict between the officer and the resistant character. Like oh this guy just said “that’s an order” it must be serious.
Damn the part about wanting to go home and missing back there is so true. Was a platoon sergeant and acting lieutenant while serving, got my sergeant first class 10 days in to my reserve (7 years before in due) and couldn't wait to get out. Miss it like hell, but dread to go back.
BTW if you want a real IRL war depiction it would be jarhead or the Beaufort
I remember an interview with Richard Winters talking about sometime after WW2 he was taking a walk to get away from everyone. Sometimes vets with PTSD isolate to get away from dealing with people. Anyways? He talked about how he passed a house with a white fence in his neighborhood and a kid was running along qoth a stick dragging it along the fence and it created that familiar rapping sound and immediately Winter's battle instinct took over and he dove into the nearest ditch which was a gutter.
This reminded me of something my grandfather told me. He was a WW2 field engineer in Europe. They would clean out minefields and obstructions in both active battlefields and on marches to allow for passage. Never told me exact stories but he did say he lost a lot of friends to landmines. Then I learned from my grandmother that he was a mechanic after the war because those are the skills he learned during the war. Anyone who is a mechanic knows how the Torque Wrench makes those clicking sounds. Well Grandpa used to say to her how those clicks immediately made him think of how someone stood on a landmine just before it blew. And so he had to start wearing earplugs at work so that he wouldn't get triggered by the sounds. Apperantly in the first month he was working at a local shop one of the younger mechanics was using the wrench and when the clicks happened my grandfather immediately hit the flood with his hands over the back kf his head. It took the others there a good 15 minutes to get him off the floor because he was so lost in his own mind.
The things combat vets experience never leave them and how sounds, smells, or sights also trigger memories are intense. My great uncle who was a tank commander was the only one of that generation who ever talked to me about his experiences. And that's because he wanted to make sure that people knew what they went through. Everyone always said that Uncle gabby hated horror movies, specifically slashers. He hated anything that showed human gore. During wartime apperantly he was used to it because you get desensitized, but after being stateside and resuming civilian life you are no longer surrounded by the exact sights or sound and what not but you have reminders. He said the reason he didn't like slashers was because if one Zombie movie that came out. Had one of the zombies in the movie fall apart due to a shotgun or something and he said it immediately triggered a memory(that he understandably got choked up about) where they were set upon by mortar fire during the battle of the bulge. Because he was in a tank unit thwy were farther behind the front line with all the foxholes in the forested areas. But, one time pperantly the mortars were flying far enough they hit further back and one hit nearby that took out several soldiers and when he saw a friend of his go down he ran over to get him to a medic and said as soon as he picked him up his lower body just crumbled. Apperantly he was sliced up by a lot of debris that the mortar kicked up and it tore his lower body apart but didn't blow it apart. So at first glance he didn't look too beat up. The medic gave the guy morphine and my uncle held him till he died. That was all they could do.
It honestly gets me choked up just remembering my uncle talk about it. Hug your sons.
Saving Private Ryan was actually pretty good, in the beaches scene you could see soldiers vomiting, more than likely not from sea sickness but from the fact that before they went on the boat they ate fucktons of food, also when they see the 2 'german' soldiers that try to surrender, they're speaking a different language (can't remember which) and they're saying they're not German, they're X who was forced to fight.
I watched the opening scene of that movie in History Class during High School, and the teacher picked it specifically because it was meant to be a more realistic depiction of war. It's rated R, while most others are PG-13.
There was a guy on my ship that had been sent IA (Individual Augmentee). Basically, a sailor gets sent to Army infantryman school and shipped out to whatever hellhole needs more bodies. Anyways, he never really talked about it much, butbthebone tike he did, he said the first month with random enemy mortar fire was terrifying. The second month, he walked though it because his brain just said "fuck it, they have pineapple in the mess tent today."
I can relate to the coming back thing. I never saw combat, but I saw plenty of stressful shituations, like when Syria was gassing their own civilians my ship was sent there to intervene. We were surrounded by Russian ships that had orders to sink us if we shot a single missile. That was in 2013. We were sent back again in 2015-16 and then to the Middle East to stop ISIS arms shipments. Got to watch a speed boat with hostages run into Iranian territorial waters where we weren't allowed to go. Got to see an Iranian help buzz us with their door gunner training his weapon on those of us that were topside knowing that if we did anything in retaliation WWIII would start. Those deployments got tense.
And then go from that to college where 18 year olds with zero real life experience have all these opinions they now nothing about.
There's almost no relating to anyone. Even my parents, both veterans, feel like strangers now. So I just sit in my dorm, telling myself there are reasons not to jump out the window. The biggest is that some poor bastard would have to clean up the mess.
All the while the VA is jerking me along like I'm fucking Pinocchio. "Sorry, did you need your GI Bill money this month? Well someone fucked up the paperwork so you'll have to wait until next month to get it. Our bad. I hope you didn't need to pay rent or eat this month. . ."
Sorry to hear man.You are a brave soul.Hang in there.
Not a veteran but lost most of my eye sight from full contact sparring before I could join. I feel you about going to college late, a lot of this shit ages you in some ways and in others it feels like you haven’t had the chance to grow up in a normal life.
I get jerked around by social security constantly, trying to tell me my vision has been corrected or some other stupid shit. Life is weird and a lot of us can’t relate to shit because of it.
Rules for a gun.
1. bring a gun
2. Bring a buddy with a gun
3. Bring more buddies who all have guns
Bruh Squad is the most realistic tactical combat game I’ve ever played. The gunplay and sound development is so good. It’s nothing like CoD or Battlefield, it’s based on teamwork and communication on a giant map and it really does a good job at showing what it’s like in war. I was defending a small compound with my squad in the game and I start hearing shells fall and it just scary I mean it doesn’t inflict the fear as it does in real life but it gets your adrenaline pumping just cause how real it sounds and the explosions and bullets hitting the wall right in front of you. If you are playing as the insurgents you can go a sapper role with an ied and some other explosives and people put the IED’s on vehicles and drive into the other team and blows it up and it’s the loudest thing I swear it makes my headset cut out sometimes because of how loud it is.
Many vets(also looking at the comments as back up) had to walk out of the theater in the opening scene of saving private ryan. Personally, it was the first time adrenaline and sheer terror coursed my veins in my life. I just propped my legs up with tears in my eyes as I imagined everyone I had grown close with scream for their lives or having lost limbs.Im not military. I guess you could say I have a vivid imagination...
One of my military professors in undergrad was a one star general with 40ish years experience he said hacksaw ridge was the best representation
I thought I could watch this video all the way through. But it just makes me feel like shit. When I was over there i felt like i was doing something, but now that i'm home all i can think about is the horror of it.
The one real thing they would never dare portray in movie/tv gun fights is that voice that shouts "Reload, reload!"
Movies almost never get IED's right. Most vehicles don't turn into fireballs or get thrown up into the air. They just become smoky coffins for the occupants. Also people standing nearby the explosions in movies just continue standing like nothing happened when in truth that shit knocks all the wind out of your lungs and proximity to the blast can be fatal just on the concussive blast alone. I was an aircraft mechanic but was voluntold for DART (downed aircraft recovery team), this ranges from PL precautionary landings (something might be wrong but nothing serious) to actual aircraft being shot down. In a PL we normally drive out there and fix what we can to get it running back to base if its shot down we either haul it back or "disinfect" the aircraft (taking all the sensitive equipment or secret squirrel stuff off the aircraft) to prevent the enemy from retrieving it. We hit an IED one time coming back from a mission and I was so glad I was in an MRAP because Humvee's are pieces of shit with no armor. The MRAP took it like a champ and kept rolling but it was the scariest moment of my life. It felt like i had been sucker punched by mike tyson right in my solar plex and couldn't breathe. The inside was filled with smoke and I couldn't hear anything and couldn't breathe. I had ringing in my ears for months. I still have tinnitus years later. War is fun, till its not. and then its never fun again.
Insider threats and never fully trusting anyone you didn't deploy with. Providing close air support for the Army and Marines outside the wire always kept us busy. Job never felt rewarding or appreciated till people learned our badges and would go out there to thank us for help them out of some ugly situations.
One time my dad randomly brought up something scary but not like he was fighting but rather when he was sleeping
He said what was scary for him was waking up at night (not sure if it happened multiple nights in a row) to the sound of RPGs and not knowing whether or not they are coming right at you and all you heard was the sound of them flying
What pisses me off in movies is how everyone dies immediately after getting shot....I've seen enough to know that's not true. They don't show the anguish which sometimes can last for hours.
The wizzing, snapping, and cracking of bullets. Depending on where they are coming from and what they are hitting, they sound very different
Feels like training honestly ,until they start to shoot close at you and rpgs start to pop next to you ,your adrenaline kicks in and you get excited af ,the most civilian thing I could simulate it is to paintball. But with loud explosions etc
Movies can’t do explosions justice in general. It’s something you have to experience to appreciate...or at least understand.
Basically you get in combat once every other month or so in Iraq and even then its often just either being shot at from far away once or twice, an IED or an RPG or RKG grenade attack or armoured vehicles returning fire while you keep your head down and watch your flanks.
Close quarter fighting or even under 100 meters is very rare.
There’s plenty of ww2 vets that hav even interviewed about saving private ryans beach scene. They got it right. Too right.