Chilean here. Please, get rid of the IA generated image in the thumbnail. Not only is creepy, is totally inexact. Those guys look neither German, nor Chilean, nor human. Yikes.
Watching the Wagah Attari border ceremony is fascinating and, considering the heightened tensions between the two sides, I hope that they can settle their differences via dance off. Honestly, if all wars and conflicts were just soldiers trying to outdance the other side, war wouldn't be as bad.
I agree, either that or we go back to the rule where the actual leader has to be on the front line leading his men. That would also cut down on wars I think.
Its not just the Royal Navy that perform Crossing the line ceremonies. The Royal Canadian Navy and US navy's both follow this tradition and I'm pretty sure many other navies around the world do as well.
Here in Chile we have: German Army military traditions, British Navy military traditions and American Air Force military traditions. We have the best of each one of them from the past.
Mostly right..I am not sure about the Air Force, though. The chilean air force actually predates de american air force for almost 2 decades. In terms of tradition, I would say it is more related to the british and the french.
@@carlosvasquez9890the us Air Force has been around since before ww1 so it be impressive if it out dates it by 2 decades. The Air Force just wasn’t always a separate and distinct thing from the army. It was a part of the army for like 40 years
@@treydog700 As you say...they where part of the US Army, with army traditions ranging from ethos to uniform...so, in terms of heritage, I don't think you comment have much ground. The USAF was not created until the late 40's...the Chilean Air Force was founded in 1930.
As a Canadian, I'm glad Canada and Denmark were able to find a peaceful solution to the Whiskey War. So many flags and bottles of liquor lost in such a senseless conflict 😐 It is nice to see that nations can be playful over territory rather than descend into tense posturing and armed conflict.
I wonder, did the contents of each buried bottle get consumed by the adversary that raised the next flag or left untouched, likely preserved in perfectly drinkable condition due to the cold climate and high alcohol content until environmental abraison or an unfortunate mis-step broke the bottle? As the bottles in question contained at least 40%vol of distilled ethanol, the water inside wouldn't expand enough to break glass or plastic bottles by freezing even in the coldest arctic winter night😊
0:40 - Chapter 1 - A german legacy 3:20 - Mid roll ads 4:35 - Back to the video 6:05 - Chapter 2 - The whisky war 9:20 - Chapter 3 - The penguin in chief 12:05 - Chapter 4 - The line crossing ceremony 14:30 - Chapter 5 - The attari wagah border ceremony
While you only mentioned the British/UK Royal Navy in the crossing the line ceremony segment, I can tell you as a Veteran of the US Navy, we too have a very similar ceremony. Those who have gone through the ceremony are called "Shellbacks" while those who haven't are, the same as with the Royal Navy, called "Wogs". It is most sailors' dream to one day participate in the ceremony so that they too can bear the coveted title of Shellback. (I myself am, most unfortunately, still a Wog. Our boat was set to cross the equator on our Westpac, and we were going to have the ceremony, but orders changed and it never happened.)
Crossing the line is not limited to the royal navy. When I crossed the line with the USN there was a soviet crew doing the same thing just a few miles away from us.
Can we have more videos like this? There's so much war and devastation in the world. It would be nice to see more of the light-hearted antics of various militaries.
The training regiment I was assigned to as a conscript in 2003-2004 had a Ram of a local heritage breed as a mascot. He had the rank of Ensign when I started my training but iirc, he was promoted to Lieutenant during my 10 months of service in training. During that time, my unit was assigned two tours of guard duty at the royal palace and the royal residence (two separate locations, one in and one outside the national capital) The ram accompanied us for the handover ceremonies and marched with the colour guards, he then proceeded to perfectly punctuate our company commanders speech with his abyssal, whiskey gravely *BAAAH!*
@@SonsOfLorgar That sounds like everyone got a kick out of it. Also, the way you described the voice makes me think of Tom Waits as a ram. Thanks for sharing.
Those military traditions at the borders of nations can really be very important, especially when the border-tensions get high. The cooperation of both sides is very ritualistic, but that doesn't mean it's not incredibly important. When they're stopped is when you need to be worried.
Fun fact: in Italy we have a specialized unit called the "Bersaglieri". During military parades they don't march, but rather they run to the end of the road. The principal military parade in Italy is on the 2nd of June (wich is the day when the republic was created in 1946), and the military band of the Bersaglieri uses trumpets, so imagine running under the June sun while wearing a parade uniform and playing the trumpet.
The crossing line ceremony also known as Wog day is voluntary. I didn’t participate in it when I was in the U.S. Navy. But a lot of sailors had some silly fun when we crossed the equator. Lots of green jello and ketchup.
@Kaltagstar96 I don't know. I mean it's more than a certificate, it's like 18"w x 12"h. It's written in cursive, has King Neptune on it as well as some other mythic nautical stuff. It's actually hanging at my dad's now. I'll ask him if he knows. What's even weirder, to me at least, is that it's kind of a form thing because it has blank lines for names and dates that one fills in.
@@Kaltagstar96 Wanders in . . . only because I knew a few who have undergone it, and one who skipper refused to go the few miles "off course." The first I heard from had the skipper take part since he was still a polywog. He had to wear his full dress, and the crew chipped in to buy him a new one. Anyway, while the USN - and I am sure the Royal Navies of Great Britain, Canada, and Switzerland - will "officially" state that there is no "official" sanction and all of that, at an early stage certificates were created. When you think about it, if you were a non-com that would be quite the conversation piece. Also, the "id" was a "proof" of your status which meant that you could partake as a shellback. All good fun.
The India Pakistan border mutual high stepping display. I can just see a Commandant clenching a phone and demanding: "We urgently need the best steppers in the Army at the border! Yes! IMMEDIATELY!!"
We do the "Crossing the Line" ceremony in the U.S. Navy as well and it's pretty much identical to the way the Brits do it. I became a Shellback in 2006 and it was one of my best memories in the 20 years I served.
We do the line crossing ceremony in the US military as well. It gets pretty gnarly, but it’s definitely awesome. A giant haze-fest but not in a bad way, it’s pretty fun. Gross in places, but fun lol. IYKYK
The Royal Dentist was the worst in my opinion. My division officer procured an octopus for the Royal Bath but sadly died in an O-2 deck magazine. So it was buried at sea.
The Whiskey looked pathetic. Take a Canadian regiment and a Danish regiment, and have them drink for the damn island. Last man standing declairs their country the winner.
For the full Prussian-Chilean experience, watch a video of the 19 September parade (national holiday) in RU-vid. If you understand Spanish, you'll enjoy the never-ending telling of what's going on the field with its historical details by very patriotic broadcasters. 😄
The Chile-German uniform exchange remind me of another interesting German military exchange: the Nazi Germany-Nationalist China military exchange in the 1930s. There are pictures of Chinese troops in stahlhelms and in feldgray. Chiang Kai-Sheik's son even fought with Germany on the Eastern Front as a tank commander. Of course this riled the Nazi's ally Imperial Japan who were actively fighting China in the 1930s.
So this is what 2028 will be like. An A.I. and Supreme Commander Pengoo III. are battling it out and humanity is wailing in their last thoughts: "We knew it would end bad, we didn't expect it to also be embarrassing."
Crossing the line or shellback was nautical tradition whose history is lost to time. During the age of sail, it was upheld on every ship, merchant or military. The military upheld the tradition while merchant vessels stopped since industrialization made for an explosive growth of vessels where no one knew of the tradition
I like how the whiskey war was already tongue-in-cheek, and then around the time Russia started getting uppity again, Greenland and Canada decided “oh fuck this, this is dumb”, and just peaceably ended an already peaceable “war”.
Crossing the Line. My Father served in the Canadian Merchant Service during WW2 and witnessed/endured said ritual. Kinda likka hazing, in a way - it could get a little rough, depending on the mood of the crew at the time or certain individuals attending. There are some lines you cross at your own peril.
I became Shellback back in the '70's, I even received a nice frameable scroll. The 2 things I didn't like at all was the trough we crawled through with the so called vomit, actually minced up food scraps and left to rot. The other was the dentist, it nauseates me just thinking about it. Incidentally, I'm a former US Navy Corpsman, so probably all navies do this.
You did a thing about Major General Nils Olav the Penguin but left out Chesty the Bulldog. Chesty is the Marine Corps' mascot. Chesty always holds a military rank. Chesty XVI currently holds the rank of Private First Class (E2, NATO grade OR-2). Unlike Nils Olav, who passes his paygrade to his successor, Chesty starts off as a Private (E1, NATO grade OR-1) and promotes throughout the course of his or her life. Always an English Bulldog and always named after Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller, known as "Chesty," who was the MOST-DECORATED Marine in history. The first USMC mascot, Jiggs, eventually reached the rank of Sergeant Major (E9, OR-9). As for the pay and allowances, well, Chesty gets a full paycheck. That paycheck is used by his handler (an enlisted Marine) to pay for food and vet bills. The money, of course, is accounted for and I'm sure the handler has to provide receipts for his care. Old dogs cost more to keep alive, so my understanding is that Chester, who holds a rank and is paid by the Defense Accountability Financial Service (DFAS), gets an audit to ensure his handler isn't committing fraud. I'm a retired Navy Sailor but did the preponderance of my career in amphibious assault ships (aka, Gator Navy, Gator Sailor, etc.). You should've added Chesty to this thing about strange military traditions. VR, DD214 CDR, USN (Ret.)
I know everything can't be American, but several times a day, the US Army's Ceremonial Guard does an elaborate ceremony to change the Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers in Arlington, VA. Definitely a bucket list item.
Crossing the Line! Been there, done that, and 23 October was my 20th anniversary as a Trusty Shellback (USS Bridge, AOE 10, in the South China Sea returning from the Gulf on my OIF deployment with the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group - best deployment ever, as well as my first). I still proudly carry my Shellback card in my wallet.
People laugh at the Penguin in the Army, but... We also have a Goat within the British Army that many people do not know about. The summary from Wikipedia is brilliant. William "Billy" Windsor I is a cashmere goat who served as a lance corporal in the 1st Battalion, the Royal Welsh, an infantry battalion of the British Army. He served as a lance corporal from 2001 until 2009, except for a three-month period in 2006 when he was demoted to fusilier, after inappropriate behaviour during the Queen's Official Birthday celebrations while deployed on active duty with the battalion on Cyprus. Not sure if this is the only Animal enrolled in a military who has faced a court martial for "unacceptable behaviour", "lack of decorum" and "disobeying a direct order"
Hilarious. I love the silly sounds affects and party 🎉 confetti 🎊. Talking about making it fun and attention grabbing. All's you are missing is a Heckle Fish 🐠 with a pet 🐪 camel and you're in the big time, baby!
As for the Attari-Wagar ceremony . . . mad props on covering this. It's awesome things between India and Pakistan have normalized and this is a great example of powerful nations setting aside an old grievance and now having fun and sharing in that certain military comaradarie that all brethren in arms enjoy. Except for the thing with India and China fighting over the LAC (Line of Actual Control, also in the Himalyans) because the PRC has a tradition of just being selfish pricks to everyone else... IUU fishing, ethnic cleansing in Xinjiang, doing what America did to the "Five Civilized Tribes" vis-a-vis Inner Mongolia (who the Han leaders touted as a "model minority"), and why the Northern White Rhino is extinct in the wild and why pangolins are now critically endangered...)
The whiskey war not about the Island. The country that owns the island can claim a 12nm territoral water zone around it and, more importantly, a 200nm exclusive economic zone - pushing back the other partys own EEZ. With global warming there might be untoæd billions worth of natural ressources in the area. But splitting the ownership meant that status quo was maintained.
No. Those rules only apply if there's room for it and there isn't. Greenland and Canada are too close. The maratime boarder goes PRECISELY between the two countries -- problem was that Hans Island is located PRECISELY on the boarder.
Is it military week? I know they sell, but I like Simon and I'm tired of hearing about the military every eight seconds. I live in the US and can't afford to leave. I've heard enough about the military.
Have to say some of the AI created pictures which are used in frontal picture are just misleading and filled cringe lot of inaccuracies. Although all the videos from their material are great :)
