Army Veterans React to Classic War Films 

"A River Runs Through It." All of the hard core father son moments and reactions to murder of Brad Pitt's wife and kids.... What a totally different "Veterans REACT" clip

"Siege of Firebase Gloria" starring Wings Hauser and R. Lee Ermey, so what's not to love. "Danger Close: Battle of Long Tan" which followed a New Zealand battle in Vietnam was great also. Both have the flavor of "We Were Soldiers"

Veterans react to the final shootout scene in “The Veteran”

Gotta do Battle: Las Angeles for another sci-fi react video

Please react to Kelly’s heroes!!!

The "FAMO"

@@chuck.reichert83 FAMO if I remember right was an abbreviation of the manufacturer Fahrzeug Motoren-Werke or something to that effect.

Colloquially known as a “half-track”

@@sinister47 the "FAMO" as it was nicknamed was a rather large halftrack

It was actually the "9" not the 7

Scout sniper section in WWII wasn't like what snipers were later

@@craigplatel813 Have you ever read about the battle of Saipan?

@@Absaalookemensch My friend Eugene Iconetti was there with the Marines. He's 98 going on 99 now

a lot of the old actors were fucking boss. if they didn't serve, then they did a lot of hard living. "Bronson grew up during the Great Depression, and worked in a coal mine until he enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces in 1943 during World War II."

@@Janzer_ Bronson was B29 rear gunner

@@VicFromFallout often the first point of attack for Bf-109 pilots.

Lee Marvin's gravestone just lists his name, birth and death dates and PFC United States Marine Corps, WWII. He was a major star, but that was what he wanted history to know about him.

And won an Academy Award for Best Supporting actor. Was it Cool Hand Luke or Naked Gun? Someone help me out.

Merchant marines are not veterans. They aren't even part of the military lol

@@skeeterclovis7163 I suggest you read a little bit about what it was like to serve in the Atlantic convoys during World War 2 on unarmed, civilian, slow, defenseless, ships in terrible weather being hunted by German submarines. About 36.000 merchant mariners lost their lives doing their part saving the world. A quick quote from wikipedia: Although the Merchant Marine suffered a per capita casualty rate greater than those of the U.S. Armed Forces, merchant mariners who served in World War II were denied such veterans recognition until 1987 when a federal court ordered it.

@@superkjell 36,000 lol I think your numbers are probably way off as well.

@@skeeterclovis7163 36.000 allied civilian sailors lost their lives during the battle of the Atlantic. It is a number you will find in encyclopedias. Of those about 30.000 were British, 1600 Canadian and 3700 Norwegian. Here's what the National WW2 Museum in New Orleans has on their site: There were 243,000 mariners that served in the war. And 9,521 perished while serving-a higher proportion of those killed than any other branch of the US military. The sacrifices made by these sailors during the war is sadly unknown by too many. Here is another passage from the Smithsonian magazine: Most of the mariners who sailed against the U-boats are gone now. The few thousand who remain have come to regard Memorial Day as a celebration that has never fully included them. But it’s still not too late to remember, belatedly, how much we owe them.

@@skeeterclovis7163 Oh. And about the Merchant Marines not being military: The Merchant Marine primarily transports cargo and passengers during peacetime; in times of war, the Merchant Marine can be an auxiliary to the United States Navy, and can be called upon to deliver military personnel and materiel for the military.

Yeah I noticed that too. They were kind of shitting on the grenades, but watching the movie you know how much gasoline they poured down those drains.

I got the impression that they only saw clips and didn't watch the whole movie. Otherwise why the need to explain that George Kennedy was an observer.

Don't forget the depot under the chateau as well. Once the fuse was lit, that magazine was bound to go sky high.

@@wadewilson8011 These reaction videos are more a way for them to flex their knowledge and us normies don't know how it "really" is...

You guys didn’t do yourselves any favors by not watching the entire movie of Dirty Dozen. It made you make erroneous assumptions.

Sam’s one of the best

100% he lived in Columbus Ga until his death. My dad knew him, I would see the SgtMaj all the time as kid. Sam escorted his daughter at his memorial service they held for him at the National infantry museum. My dad talked to Sam to tell him how great a job he did playing him. Sam told my pop that he almost didn’t take the role because he had never played a service member and was afraid he might not do a good job. But the SgtMaj was admit that Sam played him. So Sam would come down and spend time at his house to learn his mannerisms. And completely nailed it

Elliott enlisted in the military and served with the California National Guard. There he learned about the meaning of hard work and leadership. He was a proud member of the California Air National Guard's 163rd Airlift Wing out of the Channel Islands.

When I was working in pre-hospital medicine, we had a couple of those guys hanging around for nine lines, and good grief those dudes are something else.

I was acting medic in the back of huey during an exercise in '85 when we did a river run so close to the water that we nearly cut a John boat in half, along with its owner. Then we climbed and practiced autorotation. Started wearing brown boxers when I flew with the Vietnam veteran pilot.

@@xraydeadgirl Dang, dude. That's some hardcore stuff.

Thank you for this LOL

JT and Tyler Merritt, also broke down We Were Soldiers at the 7:35 mark: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-C5-Nnn4u6F0.html

@@BlackRifleCoffeeCompany interview wildland firefighters

@@emmanuelawosusi2365 And ask them if you can start a chainsaw by just the cord while you're riding a bike like Howie Long!

Read Hal Moore's book on leadership.

That's funny because Clark Gable was a tail gunner in a B-17 in Europe. Hitler's favorite actor, he was to be brought before the fuhrer if captured. I wonder what Gable would have said.

​@@johnclawedfrankly my fuhrer I don't give a damn! LoL

Of course SS guys were effective. They were elite troops that were trained to be a bit more flexible and individualistic than your standard soldier. They used that effectively in WWII, and in Vietnam I guarantee they utilized that training/mindset to great effect.

@@Aqueox The French Waffen SS division was known as the SS Charlemagne, well renowned for how effective in combat they were.

@@justaruztyspoon668 Yup. Crazy thing is that (if memory serves me) what was left of SS Charlemagne basically went down fighting in 1945 in Berlin. Says a lot about those men, if you think about it. You've got French men willing to give their lives for a beyond defeated Germany. Not only that, but they chose to fight and die in the heart of Germany. With ALL the history between France and Germany, and a world war just over 20 years before, those guys set it all aside to fight for something they believed in. Would make a great movie at the very least.

@@Aqueox They're traitors who joined the enemy war-crimes unit. They can die fighting or get guillotined later. They were dead men walking due to their treason.

@@Aqueox Well, when your choices are either keep fighting and die, or surrender and be lined up against a wall and shot for treason? You’d have to be a special kind of special to not want to go down fighting.

Yea, he was mixed in with a couple other people to make one character so people could follow better.

He's mentioned in the book which is one of the best books I've read

Yep..the guy that preached safety and told them after the first attack it’d happen again…man was a hero in every sense…ran straight to his death to help others

It's interesting to me because there's a lot of stuff that wasn't in the movie, but specifically something that hits home to me was that my grandfather was Hal Moore's XO, and never appeared in the movie, because when Hal Moore was writing the book, he approached my grandfather and he said that he didn't want to relive that battle / war. He's mentioned in the book, but not in the movie. They replaced him with a fictitious character. Nothing really changes, and I can't say that I blame him for it, but it would be cool to see him portrayed in a big time movie. Maj Herman L Wirth landed at LZ Falcon and never saw what happened at X-Ray, but I still think it would have been cool to see him in a movie. Side note, when Hal Moore was promoted to Colonel, the Army wanted to bring in somebody else to head the battalion, and Moore said that it's gotta be Herm, Army didn't like (or necessarily want) it, but they approved and he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. The command structure that Moore and Wirth used was called a dissociative command structure (not really sure if that was developed by them or simply adapted for the purpose), and that was reviewed and sent to West Pointe to be taught. Until at least the early 2000's it was taught, as my grandmothers CSO knew that he was going to a Lt. Col. Wirth, but didn't put the information together until he was at the house and was talking with my grandmother and mom. Pretty cool (in my opinion) little bit of trivia that directly relates to that movie, book, and battle.

CLASSIC!!! They remake everything else. Let's keep our fingers crossed, they leave it alone.

I’d actually be totally ok with it if, and only if, Quintin Tarantino made it. I mean inglorious basterds was an incredible movie.

But in a way they did it was The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission a 1985 made-for-TV

I'm shocked no one has tried. They made a few TV movies and a short-lived TV series in the eighties, so it's not like it's untouchable.

@@C4RL1NN Tarantino is overrated.

"is he driving a mortar motorcycle?" f-ing classic

Not everyone "enjoys" stupid puns.

@@wadewilson8011 username is a Deadpool reference but you don't like puns. Lmao. Gtfo 🤣 🤣 🤣

He was also the Blue Knight (cop tv series in the 70s with awesome knight stick fancy work.) Also the Airport Maintenance chief in the Airport movies.

@@iBusinessLogic ya George was everywhere back in the 60s70s and 80s. loved that dude . he was funny , i am only old enough to rememeber the stuff from the late 80s. but watching his older movies. great actor

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I commented similar. That part of the uniform regs came in way after this movie

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The boogie man checks under his bed for chuck Norris at night

If they make that happen, one of the movies should be "Red Skies Over Montana." It is a movie about smoke jumpers fighting the 1949 Mann Gulch fire.

You're welcome.

Actually Japan... B-29 door gunner

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And let's keep it real... BANGER

@@BlackRifleCoffeeCompany It is.

Just watched a movie of his I hadn’t seen before. Filmed in 1963 but not released until 1968 so he didn’t get top billing. The movie is Sergeant Ryker set during the Korean War. Pretty decent movie and another great performance by Lee Marvin.

Back in those days, you would have had a hard time finding actors that WEREN'T.