Marine mortarman, one range we did we had 3 misfires one right after the other. And on the last one the dude was so scared he dropped the round. You never saw a whole squad run that fast in your life
I’m a mortar and the scariest thing that happened during a live fire was one of my buddies slamming the tail end (near where the primer is housed) of the round against the metal end of the 81 mortar tube. He is short so hanging rounds isn’t particularly his best role on the gun team lmao. The round also got wedged and stuck.
@@Aextra101 and if course, DONT WATCH THE GRENADE! So many videos showing DI's tackling a first time boot on the grenade range because they would do everything right up until the most important part - get down!
My dad was in Vietnam and used to be an F-4 Phantom crew chief. His base finally got an optical shop and he got the first pair of glasses from that shop. Said he was strutting around and then woke up in the base hospital. Apparently he had ran into the wing of the F-4, which is very sharp 😆.. Another time, his crew had just finished refueling and re-arming their F-4 when they came under mortar and artillery fire. So what does the ground and air crew do? They hide under the freshly fueled and armed airplane.. Told my old man it's a wonder I was born at all, 😄.. Then there's my adventures in the Infantry for almost 20 years, half of them being a Mortar Maggot and the fun times enjoyed by all..
Love watching you. Been married to a ranger for 8 years now & he never speaks about work or things that have happened funny or well sad. So seeing some of what he has been through has been both educating in a way & hilarious.
Had a MOFA fuze pre detonate at it's peak trajectory while we were observing fires on ridgeline in Oklahoma in 2015. Round exploded right over our heads but shrapnel was carried forward by its momentum. I have never been so scared in my life.
Had an part of an ammo dump blow up while I was in it in Iraq...... Didn't seem like it was going to be too bad until we heard shrapnel start hitting our vehicles and whizzing past us..........
The scariest moment was during a live-fire we had a misfire. After going through the misfire procedure, we had to get the round out. Now the mortars we were firing was the Old 4.2-inch mortar, which has a refiled in the barrel. So the round refuses to come out. So what we did, a Staff Sergent and I, we took a roll of TP and placed it in the open end of the mortar. Took the tube out of the stand, turned it upside down, and banged the tube on the ramp of the mortar carrier until that round made its way out. I remember the Sgt saying that when it is your time to go, it's your time, whether you are at home eating dinner or in combat, it's just your time. I replied back, "I know Serg, but I am not trying to temp it faster". By the way, a mortar has to travel a certain distance or have a number of rotations before it arms. That round popped out due to burning residue that cause pressure in the bottom of the tube that forced that round out. If you notice the charges are not lit. You can just pick that round up and fire it.
The worst part about artillery was actually choosing whether you wanted to spend the day saying "huh?" to everyone you see trying to talk to you or just go deaf and leave out the earplugs. I chose deafness 😂
Had a time where a flash flood was happening in 29 stumps during a field op. The flash flood took my main pack and carried it away, and ended up searching for it for like 3 hours and I was the only one without a gortex that entire search party.
It doesn't rain very often, but when it does it's freekin' horrible! Got stuck out near Camp Wilson and the bottom dropped out...... Snuck into the clams shells at Wilson... Thank GOD they weren't locked........
We had a guy who used to bring up one of those blow up pool floats to sleep on during the field ops. One time we had a flash flood and i swear to god he just floated away while he was sleeping. I remember being tired as shit trying to stay dry and he sails by on his floaty right past me. I was like did i just see that.
Marine Infantryman here. One time during a float we were part of a working party to help unload the tank rounds from the LCU inside of our ship, and one of the forklifts carrying a pallet of these rounds tips forward when coming off the ramp and drops all these things. I was probably like 7 meters away from it and I'm pretty sure I shit myself.
The Mortar misfire has happened to me 3 times during my career. Popped smoke and got ghost every time. Yeah, plus every live fire exercise that we had, all the BATT officers and the company commander/1sg would want to hang rounds. Our CO was the range safety officer and he had to tell the 1sg that his range day was done because he kept moving his right hand over the cannon after he hung the round. I was in a track mounted 120mm section then.
Best fail I can think of was a story from my instructor while training to be an equipment operator in the Navy. One of the students in the prior class, for some reason they never could figure out, refused to avoid potholes when operating and MTVR 7tn. These trucks have an air ride seat for the driver only, the bitch passenger and the right side passenger have a shared seat on the tool bin. The paved section of the training course at Fort Leonard-Wood is littered with potholes and she hit everything. It was apparently so terrible that my instructor was pissing blood by the end of the day.
Back in Camp Lejeune in mid-late July '16, my first field op as an 0811 (13B). I was 1st plt with the M327 120mm mortar & 2nd plt was the M777A2 155mm Howitzer. 2nd plt was shooting overhead toward our direction and one of their rounds ending up being a skipped round and landed rouphly 50m to our right. Luckily when it impacted it didn't go off, but if it did, I wouldn't here here today 5 years later typing this. One of the scariest moments I've had as an artilleryman.
I haven’t ever been to the army or any training bases but my one cousin did and when he got back he got so much food it was hilarious he ate for like 3 hours, he savored every bite to
6:02 I'm pretty sure this clip if from The Grand Tour when Richard Hammond drives a Ripsaw through a shopping mall. I love the content though. Keep up the great work!
That dude who did the prone-position back-kick move and got up then fell on his face was definitely a conscript or an NCO student from my country. Sadly, it wasn't the part where he wore the royal army t-shirt but the fell-on-his-face part that made me recognize it. Damn man. Lol.
I was Motor T in an artillery unit and was “popping my cherry” (shooting a cannon for the first time) and I pulled the slack of the line out the wrong direction and the breech of the M198 howitzer hit me right in the ass. I must have been in the golden zone because I didn’t get knocked over or even a bruise. Just looked like a boot. Rah.
Dude when you said, "WOOOAAAAHHH....BOY!!! I'D BE SO GONE!" when that first mortar failed... I was dying laughing!! I bet I watched that part at least 10 times! LOL
Used to be an fdc Marine not a cannoneer, but we were doing an op in Fort bragg a few years ago and had a gun section load a wrong charge. They sent a round 2km outside the impact area and it impacted right near plank road. There was also a radar team 800m away from the impact. Not really a funny fail, but was the worst I had seen in my personal experience.
One time we were setting up a new checkpoint, we had a small bunker for our rounds. 120mm mortars. We start taking incoming rounds and instinctively run in to said bunker. It only took a few seconds to realize how stupid of an idea that was. Lololol
I drove 7 tons for an artillery unit and was assigned the AP vehicle for a deployment work up with mortars platoon. Long story short I went out with an officer and a gunny on a lights out convoy, both had no idea where we were. We ended up in the red zone of another mortars platoon who was doing live firing. Luckily one of the Marines working on the Mortars caught my 7 ton in their NVG right before loading the next round for their fire mission.
I love M9!!! Got myself a Baretta 92FS just because I love the M9. I've been carrying and shooting the 92FS for 13 years now. Shot prolly, 6k plus rounds through it as well. Love it! NEVER pintched myself with it. Because I was trained well with weapons, i.e. Marine trained hehe
I’m a mortar at Schofield Barracks, one live fire we had a charge bust in the tube and it freaked us out because it didn’t sound like the round even went off because the charge didn’t ignite, so of course we scattered like rats calling misfire, then we proceed to go over misfire procedures for 30 minutes only to find out the round did go off and one of the charges just didn’t ignite… and now my nickname for the mortar platoon is misfire… 😒😒😒
Not anything really scary but my first “misfire” on the gun line was a hang fire in which the cheese charge got caught crooked upon entering the tube on a 120. Everyone freaked tf out until a squad leader came over and pulled it out with his hands. Never seen anyone move that fast😂😂😂
I love hearing your thoughts on this video 😆. I'm just a civilian, so I don't know, how hard is it to drive those tanks? I hope everyone in the flipped tanks are OK and the dude who knocked his skull in jumping the whole, that looked like it hurt. 🤕 Keep doing what you do.
In my 7 years as a 13Bravo (field artillery) Iv never experienced any serious incidents during training thankfully. My unit used the M109 Paladin instead of the towed guns.
12:12 I was an armorer one a 3rd shop (the guys that preform maintenance above the armory you turn your stuff into) and that’s what we call snake bites. I’ve seen countless people catch that shit in the web skin between your thumb and fore finger from not locking the slide back
The mortar part and his reaction orally had me ctfu way more then I shoulda been but I definitely can relate I’d be gone quicker then a fn puff of smoke
Can definitely relate to that shit moment. My last day of Blue Phase, we went back to our Bivouac Camp to take everything down. We had bare bushes and branches, covered in shit- cover tissue. I methodically pick up 2 sticks to collect it, but didn’t realize I had stepped in it until I was halfway done. I told my battle buddies… and then they told the Drill Sergeants. They came up to me like they were back in Red Phase to question me, but went to Black Phase after I told them, laughing their asses off. 😂😂😂. What sucks about that story, was that the Battle that told me he would find the person who did it, was the same one who did it, and then told me halfway through Black phase during M19 prequals. Still SMH to this day lol.
Brother, I was an LEO for nearly 20 years and we trained constantly…in every squad there was always one doofus who did the same stupid shit and miraculously survived without a scratch. That same doofus usually got promoted, too. The bad guys never hurt the doofus because even they could tell they were harmless and didn’t have a clue. Damndest thing, right? I appreciate the good laughs, brother. Be safe!
My dad was a royal marine reserve in Scotland and one time during training they were rappelling out of helis and during landing after the exercise he fell out of the heli
Canadian Artillery Gunner. During my DP1 (Trade Qualification Course) the truck in front of us in the convoy hadn't strapped their rounds down properly before a road move. One of the rounds bounced out the back of the truck as we were pulling out of the gun position. It missed the gun they were towing and we narrowly missed hitting it with our truck...
As 0341, we were doing FFE with 15 rounds. In the second to last round I assumed the round went out due to repetition. When I put my last round to the lip. The round shot off and my head wasn’t far from the barrel. The hair on the back of my hand caught fire and singed black and I felt as if I inhaled water due to the concussion of the round being expelled. I turned to my senior and his mouth was wide open and eyes big and he had to point out that I was on fire from the increments that flew out.
Dude, situational awareness. You're lucky that you didn't double feed. I heard about that happening and it's not pretty. Bro, glad you made it out and, I hope the burns were not too severe.
I’m a 13B and I’m the one who takes the round out of the breach. That guy was in the wrong spot😂 and there’s no way your hand can get caught in there unless you literally stick it in and slap the thing closed
Was field artillery, briefly before reclassing MP, in AIT a dude dropped a 155 round inside the triple 7, good luck outrunning that, especially while stuck inside the vehicle.
I can’t remember any of my fails , but we had a battalion run for pt one morning and it went good I felt good grab the guide on ran around the whole battalion brought it back and handed off , then we finished , but when we got back we found out that some guy pissed and shit himself when he was running around the battalion with the guide on and you just see a few sgts after talking shit to him while he was at ease , but that could of easily happened to me and friend who were still drunk off wild turkey and a bucket of kfc wings , yeah we got hyped about the battalion run and were trying to get everyone to drink wild Turkey and eat a bucket of wings. Bro I did a lot of dumb shit cause I was hyped and saying hoorah to everyone. I guess my biggest fail would be screaming hoorah to my Sgt major as he walked instead of yelling at ease and I got the company smoked .
You are the first person I've seen on this website say "If not leave a dislike and leave a comment telling what was wrong, and I'll try to fix it" and I love it
Army mortarman. Never had any close calls with bad rounds. You did just make me realize that while deployed to Afghanistan, an enemy mortar round hit a building or two away, so probably less than 100 yards from our ammo storage. And I've just now realized that they could see our pits from the mountains surrounding the FOB and we're probably actively trying to hit us particularly. So thanks for that epiphany lol. By the way, for US mortar rounds to arm properly, they need to spin so many times. Odds are, those rounds that barely clear the tube aren't going to explode. They will make you rethink your career choice though.
The clip with the artillery shell being thrown straight at a soldier was actually my 1SG in B 3-6 FA. I remember when it happened. It’s hilarious it’s still going around. 🤣🤣
Ol boy that got his finger pinched in the M9. Thats Happened to me on several wepon systems. By far the worst though was a .50 cal. 12 years later still got the scar lol.
Most mortars don't get armed unless they've travelled a certain distance and plus if after a couple minutes it hasn't detonated then it will most likely not detonate
Marine mortarman, one range we did we had 3 misfires one right after the other. And on the last one the dude was so scared he dropped the round. You never saw a whole squad run that fast in your life
Holy shit sir. Thank you for your service.
Do mortar rounds have an arming distance like the 40mm?
Ahahahaha nerves of steel. It takes nerves of steel to even be there to run 😂
@@challenrosander5821 nope. You drop it the right way with enough energy you get darwined.
Damn run like a bitch
I’m a mortar and the scariest thing that happened during a live fire was one of my buddies slamming the tail end (near where the primer is housed) of the round against the metal end of the 81 mortar tube. He is short so hanging rounds isn’t particularly his best role on the gun team lmao. The round also got wedged and stuck.
Dam this guy is a mortar
@@rafaeldoespiritosanto8440 🤣🤣🤣 made my night
@@rafaeldoespiritosanto8440 hell of a pickup line " are you a mortar, cuz u look like youre about to blow"
And that's the day you learned to walk on water.
@@timothinking9855 who's we?
I've stood up and slept while in formation before the sgt wasn't even mad he was like "damn that's actually impressive"
It happens sometimes especially night assaults.
@@shakirakashah8590 ON GOD
One of the guys in my squad did that also during mail call.. my team leader yelled "What are you? A f@ckin cow?"
Had a buddy praying with her eyes closed in formation the Sargent came in like sharks cause they though she was asleep
During AIT I was so tired I fell asleep during PT doing jumping jacks.
M228 during BCT...... I still remember the following quote, "once the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is no longer our friend"
He becomes your friend
He has betrayed you.
Remember this “drop the pin and throw the grenade. Don’t throw the pin and drop the grenade.”
@@FoxSenpie he becomes your long distance friend, and only for 7 seconds!
@@Aextra101 and if course, DONT WATCH THE GRENADE! So many videos showing DI's tackling a first time boot on the grenade range because they would do everything right up until the most important part - get down!
My dad was in Vietnam and used to be an F-4 Phantom crew chief. His base finally got an optical shop and he got the first pair of glasses from that shop. Said he was strutting around and then woke up in the base hospital. Apparently he had ran into the wing of the F-4, which is very sharp 😆..
Another time, his crew had just finished refueling and re-arming their F-4 when they came under mortar and artillery fire. So what does the ground and air crew do? They hide under the freshly fueled and armed airplane..
Told my old man it's a wonder I was born at all, 😄..
Then there's my adventures in the Infantry for almost 20 years, half of them being a Mortar Maggot and the fun times enjoyed by all..
Love watching you. Been married to a ranger for 8 years now & he never speaks about work or things that have happened funny or well sad. So seeing some of what he has been through has been both educating in a way & hilarious.
your husband is awesome. i aspire to be a ranger someday also
@@mostinterestingtop1097 you made ranger yet?
@@mostinterestingtop1097 same. 4 more years…
AIRBORN RANGERS LEAD THE WAY!!!!
@@mostinterestingtop1097 It is not hard to be a ranger, toughest part about any hard training is overcoming yourself.
Bro I laughed so hard when he said “woooo boy id be so gone” 😂😂😂😂 1:49
1:30
Had a MOFA fuze pre detonate at it's peak trajectory while we were observing fires on ridgeline in Oklahoma in 2015. Round exploded right over our heads but shrapnel was carried forward by its momentum. I have never been so scared in my life.
Try 1200 in a 24 hour period in the real world
Had something similar but we had a short round pre detonate 100ft above our heads
Had an part of an ammo dump blow up while I was in it in Iraq...... Didn't seem like it was going to be too bad until we heard shrapnel start hitting our vehicles and whizzing past us..........
The scariest moment was during a live-fire we had a misfire. After going through the misfire procedure, we had to get the round out. Now the mortars we were firing was the Old 4.2-inch mortar, which has a refiled in the barrel. So the round refuses to come out. So what we did, a Staff Sergent and I, we took a roll of TP and placed it in the open end of the mortar. Took the tube out of the stand, turned it upside down, and banged the tube on the ramp of the mortar carrier until that round made its way out. I remember the Sgt saying that when it is your time to go, it's your time, whether you are at home eating dinner or in combat, it's just your time. I replied back, "I know Serg, but I am not trying to temp it faster". By the way, a mortar has to travel a certain distance or have a number of rotations before it arms. That round popped out due to burning residue that cause pressure in the bottom of the tube that forced that round out. If you notice the charges are not lit. You can just pick that round up and fire it.
The worst part about artillery was actually choosing whether you wanted to spend the day saying "huh?" to everyone you see trying to talk to you or just go deaf and leave out the earplugs. I chose deafness 😂
Had a time where a flash flood was happening in 29 stumps during a field op. The flash flood took my main pack and carried it away, and ended up searching for it for like 3 hours and I was the only one without a gortex that entire search party.
It doesn't rain very often, but when it does it's freekin' horrible! Got stuck out near Camp Wilson and the bottom dropped out...... Snuck into the clams shells at Wilson... Thank GOD they weren't locked........
Wet socks!! *OH NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!*
We had a guy who used to bring up one of those blow up pool floats to sleep on during the field ops. One time we had a flash flood and i swear to god he just floated away while he was sleeping. I remember being tired as shit trying to stay dry and he sails by on his floaty right past me. I was like did i just see that.
@@pfc_church Lol, that had to be funny
This is one of the funniest things I have ever seen.
slide bites are a bitch
Marine Infantryman here. One time during a float we were part of a working party to help unload the tank rounds from the LCU inside of our ship, and one of the forklifts carrying a pallet of these rounds tips forward when coming off the ramp and drops all these things. I was probably like 7 meters away from it and I'm pretty sure I shit myself.
Im pretty sure i would've pissed myself too
Still love these reaction videos. Still watch them after all this time.
The Mortar misfire has happened to me 3 times during my career. Popped smoke and got ghost every time. Yeah, plus every live fire exercise that we had, all the BATT officers and the company commander/1sg would want to hang rounds. Our CO was the range safety officer and he had to tell the 1sg that his range day was done because he kept moving his right hand over the cannon after he hung the round. I was in a track mounted 120mm section then.
Imagine not watching a NikkoOrtiz video when he JUST posts it..
i know right
Best fail I can think of was a story from my instructor while training to be an equipment operator in the Navy.
One of the students in the prior class, for some reason they never could figure out, refused to avoid potholes when operating and MTVR 7tn. These trucks have an air ride seat for the driver only, the bitch passenger and the right side passenger have a shared seat on the tool bin. The paved section of the training course at Fort Leonard-Wood is littered with potholes and she hit everything. It was apparently so terrible that my instructor was pissing blood by the end of the day.
Fort Lost-in-the-woods blows
Man, I’d be tempted to deck her for not avoiding the holes.
Seabee operators were in my army operator classes in 2012 at Leonardwood
All the branches send their operators there. Rolla sucks ass...
"she" well there's your problem.
Back in Camp Lejeune in mid-late July '16, my first field op as an 0811 (13B). I was 1st plt with the M327 120mm mortar & 2nd plt was the M777A2 155mm Howitzer. 2nd plt was shooting overhead toward our direction and one of their rounds ending up being a skipped round and landed rouphly 50m to our right. Luckily when it impacted it didn't go off, but if it did, I wouldn't here here today 5 years later typing this. One of the scariest moments I've had as an artilleryman.
I woulda definitely pissed myself
I haven’t ever been to the army or any training bases but my one cousin did and when he got back he got so much food it was hilarious he ate for like 3 hours, he savored every bite to
6:02 I'm pretty sure this clip if from The Grand Tour when Richard Hammond drives a Ripsaw through a shopping mall. I love the content though. Keep up the great work!
Could you show the boys your training footage. A little story time with big brotha Nikko would be kinda cool
Yooo yes
Yes
Yesss!! I totally agree
That dude who did the prone-position back-kick move and got up then fell on his face was definitely a conscript or an NCO student from my country. Sadly, it wasn't the part where he wore the royal army t-shirt but the fell-on-his-face part that made me recognize it. Damn man. Lol.
which country?
@@dr__llama5875 Thailand...
@@ThorneYoung Glad to see they are training for the World's impending War against China. We will all need to unite on this one.
I was Motor T in an artillery unit and was “popping my cherry” (shooting a cannon for the first time) and I pulled the slack of the line out the wrong direction and the breech of the M198 howitzer hit me right in the ass.
I must have been in the golden zone because I didn’t get knocked over or even a bruise. Just looked like a boot. Rah.
Famn looks like the cannon almost popped your cherry
11:56 guy in the middle hit the griddy
Dude when you said, "WOOOAAAAHHH....BOY!!! I'D BE SO GONE!" when that first mortar failed... I was dying laughing!! I bet I watched that part at least 10 times! LOL
Why do I love it when he yells!!!!! Whyyyyyy do I love it so much!!!!! Why does it give me joy 😂😂❤️❤️
PvP is cringe so shut up
Pfp
10:47 they way they just looked at each other made me lose my fucking sides lmfao
I think that one is fake.
Im in the middle of a 2 week field op just hatin my life rn but that reaction at 1:31 had me in tears
I love when he screams it's so funny to me.
Used to be an fdc Marine not a cannoneer, but we were doing an op in Fort bragg a few years ago and had a gun section load a wrong charge. They sent a round 2km outside the impact area and it impacted right near plank road. There was also a radar team 800m away from the impact. Not really a funny fail, but was the worst I had seen in my personal experience.
11:19 That is what happens when the primer goes off but the round misfires, and the increments catch on fire. Never seen it but have heard of it
Does that mean that it's live?
One time we were setting up a new checkpoint, we had a small bunker for our rounds. 120mm mortars.
We start taking incoming rounds and instinctively run in to said bunker.
It only took a few seconds to realize how stupid of an idea that was.
Lololol
*incoming rounds* Panic.
*run into ammo bunker* PANIC@&^#!!!
@@markevans1618 omg I love that meme.
You live in North Korea: panic
You live in North Korea: PPANICkk
I drove 7 tons for an artillery unit and was assigned the AP vehicle for a deployment work up with mortars platoon. Long story short I went out with an officer and a gunny on a lights out convoy, both had no idea where we were. We ended up in the red zone of another mortars platoon who was doing live firing. Luckily one of the Marines working on the Mortars caught my 7 ton in their NVG right before loading the next round for their fire mission.
I died laughing at the clip at 4:56. The look on dude's face was priceless.
I love M9!!! Got myself a Baretta 92FS just because I love the M9. I've been carrying and shooting the 92FS for 13 years now. Shot prolly, 6k plus rounds through it as well. Love it! NEVER pintched myself with it. Because I was trained well with weapons, i.e. Marine trained hehe
I’m a mortar at Schofield Barracks, one live fire we had a charge bust in the tube and it freaked us out because it didn’t sound like the round even went off because the charge didn’t ignite, so of course we scattered like rats calling misfire, then we proceed to go over misfire procedures for 30 minutes only to find out the round did go off and one of the charges just didn’t ignite… and now my nickname for the mortar platoon is misfire… 😒😒😒
LMFAOO better safe than sorry bro! I was a Schofield last month!
@@nikkoortiz no kidding! I’m in 1-21, heading to the lightning academy in September for jungle!
If that happened to me I wouldn't care is rather walk away with a nickname and my life than not walk away at all
"your running like a potato" space force: finally my love has come.
Not anything really scary but my first “misfire” on the gun line was a hang fire in which the cheese charge got caught crooked upon entering the tube on a 120. Everyone freaked tf out until a squad leader came over and pulled it out with his hands. Never seen anyone move that fast😂😂😂
I love how hyper Niko is. Godspeed my dude
8:10
guy recording: remember when you stole my mre
Other guy:yea wh-
I love hearing your thoughts on this video 😆.
I'm just a civilian, so I don't know, how hard is it to drive those tanks?
I hope everyone in the flipped tanks are OK and the dude who knocked his skull in jumping the whole, that looked like it hurt. 🤕
Keep doing what you do.
Hey man you should watch the royal marine commando series it’s training and then deployment to Afghanistan you’ll love it
In my 7 years as a 13Bravo (field artillery) Iv never experienced any serious incidents during training thankfully.
My unit used the M109 Paladin instead of the towed guns.
Your videos make me feel all warm and NAVY inside.
Oh man, I needed this tonight! Thank you!
You need to do more of these is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen
I'm hoping my basic doesn't end up with one of these moments i leave tomorrow for Georgia #LETS GO INFANTRY
Good luck!
The best of luck to you!!
@@coleprice4501 thank ya
@@reillycotter7487 thank ya
@@jacobstewart7696 what branch are you going into?
I would love to see you on the free range american podcast with JT and angry cops! That episode would be amazing
12:12 I was an armorer one a 3rd shop (the guys that preform maintenance above the armory you turn your stuff into) and that’s what we call snake bites. I’ve seen countless people catch that shit in the web skin between your thumb and fore finger from not locking the slide back
I literally just found this channel and I love it already
The mortar part and his reaction orally had me ctfu way more then I shoulda been but I definitely can relate I’d be gone quicker then a fn puff of smoke
Can definitely relate to that shit moment. My last day of Blue Phase, we went back to our Bivouac Camp to take everything down. We had bare bushes and branches, covered in shit- cover tissue. I methodically pick up 2 sticks to collect it, but didn’t realize I had stepped in it until I was halfway done. I told my battle buddies… and then they told the Drill Sergeants. They came up to me like they were back in Red Phase to question me, but went to Black Phase after I told them, laughing their asses off.
😂😂😂.
What sucks about that story, was that the Battle that told me he would find the person who did it, was the same one who did it, and then told me halfway through Black phase during M19 prequals. Still SMH to this day lol.
I can’t stop crying at ur reaction to the dud mortars 😭
11:15, the cheese charges ignited but didn't propel the round xD
Brother, I was an LEO for nearly 20 years and we trained constantly…in every squad there was always one doofus who did the same stupid shit and miraculously survived without a scratch.
That same doofus usually got promoted, too.
The bad guys never hurt the doofus because even they could tell they were harmless and didn’t have a clue.
Damndest thing, right?
I appreciate the good laughs, brother. Be safe!
My dad was a royal marine reserve in Scotland and one time during training they were rappelling out of helis and during landing after the exercise he fell out of the heli
I laughed at the misfire so hard lmao because of nikkos reaction holy crap 😂
Love the vids. I think a cool reaction series would be some more special forces reactions. Just a suggestion. Love the vids, keep up the great work.
Canadian Artillery Gunner. During my DP1 (Trade Qualification Course) the truck in front of us in the convoy hadn't strapped their rounds down properly before a road move. One of the rounds bounced out the back of the truck as we were pulling out of the gun position. It missed the gun they were towing and we narrowly missed hitting it with our truck...
Great content love the failures keep up the hard work
Bro when you reacted so heavily to the marine crossing the ravine made me laugh so good and the explanation helped
Hubby is a Vet. He was rolling on most of this with you. It was pretty hilarious for me.
As 0341, we were doing FFE with 15 rounds. In the second to last round I assumed the round went out due to repetition. When I put my last round to the lip. The round shot off and my head wasn’t far from the barrel. The hair on the back of my hand caught fire and singed black and I felt as if I inhaled water due to the concussion of the round being expelled. I turned to my senior and his mouth was wide open and eyes big and he had to point out that I was on fire from the increments that flew out.
Dude, situational awareness. You're lucky that you didn't double feed. I heard about that happening and it's not pretty. Bro, glad you made it out and, I hope the burns were not too severe.
Damn I see this dudes shorts all the time, and he’s always good, but man he does TH-cam videos even better. Natural. Here’s a sub
This guy had me rolling on this one and part 2
The SEMPERFIRES video it’s called a cook off, when the tube is hot enough to light the increments (Cheto puff lookin things) and it flies out
🙀🙊...run💨
You should do a show in your Space Force character. That shit makes me laugh always.
Great vid!! You’re hilarious, hope to see more of these 😂
9:00
him: china or Russia it falls apart
me: china
11 Charlie here... that Mortar round that went 10 feet freaked me out and I havent been in since 2011 lol
It’s simple really, I see a nikko upload I like the video
LMAO thank you!!
You have like the best “thumbs up/thumbs Dow” ratio ever I never see it that good all the time
I’m a 13B and I’m the one who takes the round out of the breach. That guy was in the wrong spot😂 and there’s no way your hand can get caught in there unless you literally stick it in and slap the thing closed
Literally love this he straight up says everything we all thinking or had already said.. lol 😆 🤣
The Army taught me that I can accomplish a lot with little to no sleep. And yes, like Ortiz said, we can sleep anywhere. My wife thinks it’s weird AF.
So sleeping on the couch isn't exactly a punishment? She has to give weird shit like the roof, or the tree.
I'm laughing so hard at Nikko's reactions. 😂😂😂
The guy technically got hit directly by a mortar and suvived 😂
Once again Nikko is freaking daddy
Was field artillery, briefly before reclassing MP, in AIT a dude dropped a 155 round inside the triple 7, good luck outrunning that, especially while stuck inside the vehicle.
I don’t have any army stories but I just enjoy watching your videos
When the big ass missile dropped it made me shit myself
9:55 it sounded like the start to a christmas carol
I can’t remember any of my fails , but we had a battalion run for pt one morning and it went good I felt good grab the guide on ran around the whole battalion brought it back and handed off , then we finished , but when we got back we found out that some guy pissed and shit himself when he was running around the battalion with the guide on and you just see a few sgts after talking shit to him while he was at ease , but that could of easily happened to me and friend who were still drunk off wild turkey and a bucket of kfc wings , yeah we got hyped about the battalion run and were trying to get everyone to drink wild Turkey and eat a bucket of wings. Bro I did a lot of dumb shit cause I was hyped and saying hoorah to everyone. I guess my biggest fail would be screaming hoorah to my Sgt major as he walked instead of yelling at ease and I got the company smoked .
You are the first person I've seen on this website say "If not leave a dislike and leave a comment telling what was wrong, and I'll try to fix it" and I love it
Every now and then I rewatch this video just to laugh at the face Nikko makes when he says “eL PRESIDENT” 😂😂
Army mortarman. Never had any close calls with bad rounds. You did just make me realize that while deployed to Afghanistan, an enemy mortar round hit a building or two away, so probably less than 100 yards from our ammo storage. And I've just now realized that they could see our pits from the mountains surrounding the FOB and we're probably actively trying to hit us particularly. So thanks for that epiphany lol. By the way, for US mortar rounds to arm properly, they need to spin so many times. Odds are, those rounds that barely clear the tube aren't going to explode. They will make you rethink your career choice though.
0:35 why’d you bleep out fix 💀💀
@5:15 was a bigger fail than the falcon kick straight into a face plant... homie decides to finger fuck his barrel...
Goodbye index finger.
I think he was checking to see if
A) The Barrel was bent
B)If there was dirt in the barrel
The clip with the artillery shell being thrown straight at a soldier was actually my 1SG in B 3-6 FA. I remember when it happened. It’s hilarious it’s still going around. 🤣🤣
That burning mortar you asked what that was was a WP round, we call it Willie Pete but its White Phosphorus
so the clip that is at 11:06 the sparking and fire are the cheese charges catching fire
4:37 I let out 3 audible painful oh my gods as if I saw someone fell on their ballz
Me too even more cause hes from Czechia hes a brother I felt it even more lol
5:10 This is a royal Thai army.
Ol boy that got his finger pinched in the M9.
Thats Happened to me on several wepon systems. By far the worst though was a .50 cal.
12 years later still got the scar lol.
I have one thumbnail which is twice as thick as the other due to a hungry mini-14. (Garand thumb).
I love your energy. Thanks!
10:59 So what happens to that mortar that's just laying on the ground? Do you send engineers in to get it? Do you throw a grenade at it? WTF?
Most mortars don't get armed unless they've travelled a certain distance and plus if after a couple minutes it hasn't detonated then it will most likely not detonate
@@danilapolesciuk4316 The last thing the new guy on EOD hears. "Eh go for it. It most likely won't explode."
9:06 wish I could have someone to tell me that😔
this man is so damn FINNNEEE
Most TH-camrs: surprisingly, nobody got hurt!
Nikko Ortiz: someone probably fucking died
Man I love the US military. They’re just so damn chaotic, yet so damn good at what they do.