I am a Living Historian based out of New England with a real passion for history. Historical Reenacting is about furthering my own and the publics knowledge about various times and perspective in history. On this channel I hope to help out anyone in or looking to become part of the reenacting hobby; as well as let people better understand different perspectives throughout history. From the Viking age to the Vietnam War. History isn't about dates and places (while they are a big part of it) it's about the stories of the people who were there. Content: - Living History - Short films - Gear & Uniform reviews - Historic firearms - Home of the Recreated Kilo 3/7 Vietnam War Reenacting Group Time Periods: - Viking Age - Queen Ann's War (one of colonial Americans Indian wars) - French & Indian War - American Revolutionary War - American Civil War - Spanish-American War - World War I - World War II - Korean War - Vietnam War
Good stuff fellas. Great rag dolls. I just like to recommend adding a "Whilhelm scream" so your pals on the line know you bought the farm. They might not always have eyes on you, and it also lets the jerrys know they got a hit as well.
Trip out bro I seen someone sell it for $800 😝 I was like wtf 😝😝😝😝 not bullshitting you I guess they don’t manufacture them anymore and they wanna claim they are a collectors item
I had the honor to work with two vets, and have one as a professor. i'll share a couple stories they told me. one was in college as a horse vet and when he got picked up by the army they made him a medic because "he had experience and training". which was enough for him to never trust a doctor ever again since so many got started that way and he knew that he knew fuck all about helping humans yet they made him a doc. anyways he got put on a rear line helping a "go to jail or go to vietnam" bunch that was working to break up rock for the roads the army was putting up everywhere. he said his time there was nothing but a bunch of venereal disease and fragging attempts. one day he went into the rec tent and a vietnamese woman was strapped down naked to the pool table, and that everyone in the company had gotten a turn in on her, and that he'd never seen so many cases of VD in a row before the week after he walked in on that. he swore off ever touching a local woman. my professor was a radio operator, and one day they were sitting around the FOB drinking beers and tossing them over the wire trying to hit some of the mines set up there. of course the cans were empty so even if they had connected it wasn't setting anything off. along comes their CO, he'd been watching them, and said "let me show you two how its done" takes a full can and hucks it over, smacks a mine first try and the explosion sets the whole base on high alert. machine guns go off mowing down the treeline, 40's pop off, sirens start blaring, everything. they went on high alert for the next week all because one of them hit a mine with a beer can, and none of them ever said a word about it until after they got back home. the final one, a coworker of mine and one that i miss very much, Donald Newbury of richardson texas who passed away in 2021 sadly, had so many great stories about his life, i wish i'd recorded so many of them for others to hear. he had a great one about his time as a quarter master. said a handfull of guys were requesting tons of mosquito spray every week, had no idea why and finally he decided to look into it. they were taking it and dumping the fluid into whiskey bottles and reselling it as hooch to some local they'd figured out was running a bar frequented by VC, taking the money from the profit, buying more whiskey, and reusing the empty bottles to fill up more "gi made hooch" to sell back to him.
If you have the upper body strength to brace one of those flags against the wind, that's a decision for your unit. Generally, not a position granted to newer members. But you never know.
Had two Uncles serve in Marine Corps, one was an 0311 with 3/7, he didn't make it home, his brother was with 3/3 he made it home. I enlisted served 12 years with 3/1 , my buddy went to 3/7, he was killed in 2005. He was headed and fought in Ramadi when we were headed home from the Second Battle of Fallujah
If you’re looking for reproduction campaign shoes Missouri Boot and Shoe makes the 1885 model which is what I believe they wore in the Spanish American War and the Philippine Insurrection. Being custom made they’re not cheap at $325.
Ok all im gonna say is nobody did this until the end of ww2 thats coming from books and veterans i have never spoken to veteran's but i know people who have and they said what they were taught by ww2 veterans who had jump boots during ww2 because they were fssf veterans they said tuck them in your boots same with the leggings tuck your trousers in them the boot blousers didnt come out until quite late in the war maybe even post war
You can maybe get away with being alone, but I'd strongly advise talking to any groups before the event and temporarily join them for the battle. But be sure you know your stuff. Drill stances, orders, and such. Though it is more ideal to be in a Regiment than be alone.
You really have no way of telling exactly where and if you were hit but you have to make you best guess so for example if your rushing a German position and you see a German soldier looking at you and they start shooting then that’s how you would know if you died. But if German aren’t looking at you and you are rushing a point then you won’t die so that’s a trick to know when you died or not
