EXERCISE RATTLESNAKE: What Makes The US Army's Fort Polk So Crucial? 

I'm pretty sure Zach is probably throwing up on a carpet somewhere.

Ltc. Michael Grimm?or Major Grimm as he killed 2 weeks after being promoted and hadn't been pinned yet. Co Commander TF160 KIA 7 October 1981

imma need them cabinets hi thpeed

@@timsummerford1719 mikeburnfire

Cleaning his 1911

have u ever fisted a general?

@@ricodsanchez6792 👁👄👁sir?

@@ricodsanchez6792 "Dirty Sanchez" Elvis has left the Building....

it's only for the camera.

Ha. He comes in a Blackhawk helicopter, goes to some meetings where they installation command and leaders butter him up, show him parts of the operation that seem relevant, gives him a “VIP visitor’s” field kit to wear to take a tour of the field training exercise in which everyone is notified and are acting in their most professional and best behavior. Then he gives out some awards and military coins to some “well deserved” people. Then a final schmooz with the top leaders and he flies to the next base to do the same or back to Washington DC. It’s just a dog and pony show. He doesn’t spend a night out in the box. He’s either in a nice hotel or one of the VIP guest houses in the installation. The days of him getting dirty with the troops ended 4-5 ranks ago.

rip....

Those loose turns into the building and weak salute for the flag right after that goes to show you how relaxed they are.

...for humve parts...

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That's when you know you've been Polked haha.

I haven’t heard Ft Chaffee in a long time. Went to Air Assault there when I was in the 45th.

There is still lots of training that takes place at Chaffee to this day! We just completed one of our AT’s down there and were at JRTC the year prior!

@@williamschmidt495 I never got a worse case of chiggers than I got at Ft Chafee lol.

Hey! That was my lunch. XD

Lol

LOL !

Lmao

Indeed.😂😂😂

Yeah, that sums up JRTC pretty well.

The one major thing I learned 1st up in the Military was "Embrace the Suck"!

Except the fun part

Calm down specialist zack

Leftist are working hard to destroy the place..

@@dagmastr12 A useless talking point for poor folk. 6th largest economy on Earth is run by big business.

I am a friend of your nation and the people there but your voting systems are a threat to Democracy not only in US but worldwide.

@@andrewray9200 Yes. And sometimes you need your friends to tell you it's time to wake up. Thank you friend.

I tell ya mate it is so frustrating to see a geriatric crook in charge of your nation backed by the despot swamp, i wish you well and hope the truth prevails sooner rather than later.

Foreign badges (and only specific ones) are only authorized for wear on the the dress uniform and not authorized for wear on the combat uniform.

From a poor Welsh cavalrymen he personally caught alive. Poor lad. 😂

You Brits don’t know the first thing about humidity.

@@thewexicano147 normally we contend with bogs, mountains, ice cold rain, snow and gale force wind. Summers up there have killed from heat stroke. All this is experienced with a banging hangover. But to be fair, we only see swamp level humidity in Cyprus, Jordan or Belize and similar areas during training. Afghan and Iraq have horrendous humidity though.

Probably because it's Fort Polk and she's become dead inside.

Update on this, they did suck

A matter of pronunciation. At his level, he knows the difference. At the lower enlisted level, you might need to be a Cavalry Scout or serve in the Cavalry to learn the difference. In the U.S. Army they like to call a cache a "cash-ay", too.

A pet peeve of mine also. And a military man saying it even worse 🙄

This is done whenever any foreign military train on an American base in order to ensure US personnel render proper respect. Each foreign military member is given a badge of their equivalent US rank. Case in point, I once saluted a Saudi sergeant because his badge of rank was 3 stars.

@@doncarlton4858 Well that was not experience. In three tours of the sandpit I was given a black oak leaf and on each occasion the person giving it to me said it was because our ranks were “too hard” for them to learn and we needed to fit in with them.

Wait until he sees the 10th mountain patch. Presumably the answer is he's either tagged to a US division and given an equivalent rank for the purpose of the exercise, or he's on exchange anyway and same.

So US soldiers know the equivalent of his rank to theirs

Otherwise he probably wouldn’t be addressed at all , he’d likely just get like a weird pause after being spoken to (only high speeds and people who cares to look it up will know what to address him as)

You can't be serious?

The whole United Kingdom is a part of NATO so that automatically makes the Welsh part of NATO. The difference between NATO and the UN is significant. The UN is a political body made up of most of the worlds nations and is designed to settle disputes between these nations diplomatically and avoid military action and wars. The UN contains countries that hate each other or are even at war with each other and the UN tries to mediate between countries like this. The UN doesn't have an army it has "peacekeeping" troops (wear the blue UN helmets) who are more like a police / military hybrid and while useful in certain scenarios or conflicts they pose no threat to any significantly powerful nation. NATO on the other hand is a military alliance not a political body. NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was designed after WW2 and made allies of the "free democracies" in Western Europe. The main goal of NATO was to protect West Europe from potential Soviet invasion although the allied countries can help each other in other areas of the world as well if necessary. NATO was a "mutual defense treaty" between nations like the USA, Canada, the UK, France, Italy, Greece, Portugal, Denmark, Netherlands, Norway, Belgium, Iceland etc that if any one of them was attacked by the Soviets all would join together to defend that nation. This is one of the main things that encouraged these nations militaries to collaborate together and train together. The alliance grew over time. Turkey was added very early on for strategic reasons. Turkey has always been rivals with Russia going back to the Crimean War and WW1. After time passed and West Germany was de-Nazified and rebuilt it's Army eventually it was allowed to join NATO as well. After the Cold War ended and the Soviet Union broke up NATO expanded in size and scope of alliance. The USA had originally promised the Soviets if that if they broke up they wouldn't add any ex-Soviet nations to NATO (which would basically be taking advantage of the situation to hurt Russia) however NATO did not keep this promise. It's hard to blame USA or NATO as it was just smart geo-politics to take advantage of the situation and it was also "the right thing to do" as far as some of these nations did need protection to remain free. These are nations like Estonia, Latvia, Slovenia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Poland etc. In the modern world NATO continues to grow but is somewhat threatened by the rise of the European Union which is developing it's own shared military infrastructure between member nations. The EU is kind of a mix of the UN (a political body) and NATO (only for allies who will defend each other especially against Russia in either a small scale conflict or a World War 3 type scenario). The process of developing the EU Army / Navy is ongoing and it remains to see exactly how far this goes over time. It does have the potential to eventually make NATO redundant as the majority of NATO members are also members of the EU. However the backbone of NATO is still the USA and UK who are the two strongest nations and very close allies. Meanwhile the backbone of the EU is Germany and France, specifically Germany who wields the most economic and political power. Brexit somewhat alleviated this as the UK alone isn't powerful enough to really leverage itself against France and Germany in the EU but as a NATO member it's "special friendship" with the USA and it's connections to Canada give it a much stronger position. For this cause conservatives in the USA are also looking to add other non European nations as well. For instance Trump mentioned Brazil several times as a possible future member. This would mean if the EU developed it's army and navy while it would be a very powerful member it wouldn't just be basically USA+EU but instead USA+EU+UK+Canada+Brazil etc. Another interesting nation is Turkey who is NATO but not in the EU. It is often talked about as a possible future EU member but it's interest dont really align with either Continental Europe or the USA/UK/Canada. It has concern over Russia but is much more friendly with them and even buys some of their military equipment now. The government is become much less secular and much more Islamic. It often finds itself on the opposite side of conflicts in the Middle East as USA and UK do. For instance Turkey was criticized for intervention and attacking certain groups in Syria who were fighting against Assad. Turkey is a natural rival with Saudi Arabia especially in Islamic context which is the direction Turkey is headed. Remember the incident with Saudi and the Turkish Journalist which was used to try to damage the USA / Saudi Alliance. Turkey is less threatened by Iran the the rest of the region and is much less friendly to Israel (another USA ally) than Saudi, Egypt, Jordan etc are. Despite all this Turkey still has significance because it will always control the straights (Dardanelles, Bosporus) which connect the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea and is one of the greatest strategic choke points in Naval history. This is significant for all of Southeast Europe but specifically against Russia. For this NATO is hesitant to cut ties with Turkey and it offers great potential benefit to the EU (as well as Economic benefits). The EU also has tons of new Muslim refugees from Syria who passed through Turkey to get there are are very supportive of Turkey and will be a "grassroot" voice in support of Turkey's goals and political positions from with the EU.

@@thomasdemay9805 Thank you so very much for taking the time to explain all this, I've been trying for so long to figure it all out. I very much appreciate your answer. Have a good day...

@@monicavanopdurp9853 its all good your welcome

Wow!. Just wow!

That’s an interesting critique coming from someone who doesn’t know the difference between “to” and “too”.

Yeah it was crazy when the US formally capitulated and signed that peace treaty with the Taliban. Oh, wait...

We didn't lose, dipshit. We won very quickly, and we've been occupying the country for a long time. But that doesn't mean insurgents can't run around taking potshots at soldiers and planting IEDs; short of nuking the country flat there's no way to completely stop them. I do think we should get out of there.

Silly people using a keyboard to type nonsense is always entertaining. 😂😂😂🤣

You do know that comments like that just make you sound stupid right?

I believe some of these were filmed a few months ago when restrictions were just being lifted.

@@bobthebomb1596 Nope, but sounds like they went too deep with your brain swab. Next "Vax" is coming, better get in line for round three, simple one.

@@stevenmorris3181 I rest my case