Foxholes (Military Tactic) 

haha, good one

Noice

@@guatemalanbean you welcome

@@pops7249 thanks

400th likes lul Anyway, who cares

Ok J man J

But you're still hiding in a hole, right? hahaha

J man J... you beat me to it. YUT! 😉

Marines are just soldiers who think they're better.

Good times right Devil?!

Great recall. If I remember correctly I think it was the Bastogne episode where it just straight up artillery every second

Man.... I love band of brothers series

It was a great show. Imagine they didn’t dig foxholes and just sat

@@thanosmaster-abel559 yeah bastogne. And i think it was the real malarky that said the bombing in the show is nowhere near the real deal. In real life it was a much bigger spectacle with way way way bigger explosions and deafening sounds.

One of my dad's friends was in the battle of the bulge. He told me one time about how he was digging a fox hole in the fog and thought the guy next to him was from his own platoon doing the same thing. He looked over again and it was a german kid (soldier) digging his foxhole- they both dove in their holes, neither would come up. He the kid whispered to not shoot at him....he figured neither one of them wanted to die at that moment, lol. So both eventually fell asleep and when he woke up in the morning he yelled to the kid to put his hands up and come out...but he had slipped out sometime during the night.

Spot on, I expected a more in depth video on all the details on this subject. Lazy video imho................

Yep.

Thank you!!! Finally someone who served!

@@willd6515 "I expected a complex explanation out of channel called Simple History"

@@chaotixthefox I never wrote "complex explanation".

@Owen Yea les jus leave them there and not focus on the literal ALLIED ATTACK HANS WHY WOULD U THINK DAS GUD IDEA HANS (meant to be POV of the German commanders sorry if this offends u)

Band of brothers: “first time, kid?”

When your parents tell you to not get a job digging ditches when you grow up, only for you to do just that in the Army...

Like, should have gone in the Navy

@@hughsmith4464 no thanks, I might be a homoerotic marine but I'm not gay, I should've joined the airforce

@@Sniperm0n Na, you did to put the sticker you have on your car.,,

Right. I've never dug a foxhole but I've dug plenty of holes for deck footers at work (typically at least 24 inches wide, 36 inches deep) so a foxhole is gonna take at least a couple hours. Even longer if the ground is frozen or hard and full of rocks and roots.

@@unkledoda420 In completely frozen ground, empty a full magazine in one spot, dig out the chips, and place a 3-4 ounce charge of C4 in the hole. Set off the charge and start digging. Remember to keep a safe distance from the charge and only use this if the enemy already knows you are there or is nowhere around.

After you have dug a nice hole, they tell you to saddle up, we are moving for the night.

Right? A 4 x 5 hole with what is basically a hand shovel with a wobbly joint? Maybe if they are shooting at you RIGHT NOW you could dig that fast.

Haha, thank god for that! I've done a lot of digging foundations and stuff it's damned hard going!

Did you have pits dug for grenades to fall into? What are your feelings about today's drones dropping grenades & mortars into the trenches? Would you change things up with the design? In Ukraine both sides are getting DECIMATED in the trenches from the drone warfare.

​@@ClickClack_Bamconsumer drones dropping little grenades is very much a Ukrainian thing - the Russians tend to just direct 152mm (or 203mm) artillery fire with drones or employ loitering munition drones like Lancet. Those won't go into a little hole - they make their own. I think this war will more likely change drones than it will tanks & foxholes. Those will stay, but we may get drone-hunting drones, shotgun shell machine guns (filled with iron shot like for hunting ducks or with expanding nets) etc.

@@AlexKarasev There are armored machines that the US placed in Ukraine that specifically target drones.

@@ClickClack_Bam there are a lot of different & sophisticated machines the US has provided to Ukraine. I mean it sounds like a lot until you divide the quantity by frontline duty cycle and 1000km of front line to calculate coverage per km. Point being, just like panzerfaust / bazooka / RPG utterly changed things on the battlefield (but when you think if it, things really stayed the same, just evolved) it'll be the same with drones. I'm not well familiar with the psrticular machine you mention, but I'm sure there'll be more of that type, and other countermeasures, and drones will chsnge to try to defeat those, but in the end things will settle to about the same status quo as before at an enhanced level. We like to think gunpowder changed warfare (and it sure did) but there's not a lot of range difference between what a soldier can hit in Ukraine's level of combat stress (ask any elite US soldiers that went) with an AR or AK vs. say a well-thrown spear - and there's at least 3,000yrs between those weapons systems.

*this is amazing idea ever made it.*

Is that a quote from a vet or a video game?

1st Sgt. Lipton Alright I want mortars and grenades launchers on that building until it’s gone, when it’s gone I want 1st to go straight up, forget going around, everybody else, with me!

@@SkySky-dk7si Lt. Speirs was the goat, I’m hoping I spelled his name right

What game is this?

Is not a game, "Band of Brothers" HBO Miniseries

Yes.

Of course

Yea

Yes

@Nikolas Rachmistruk lol I’m also watching this on Saturday.

I can relate. Its even harder when you have to dig on rocky or forest terrain. This guy probably timed himself while digging a foxhole on the beach.

I absolutely agree. I too was a light infantryman and it takes hours to dig one for sure. Especially in rocky forest ground when youre hitting tree roots every three scoops

Or frozen ground :F It's not fun either.

I thought 1/2 an hour was a bit optimistic.

That's how long a staff officer thinks it takes

@Mette B Flamethrower and Grenade

@Mette B Grenades can be thrown back, a stream of fire that sticks to you...is going to result in a crispy critter no matter what you do.

*rain*

*stuka aka Dive bombers or any type of plane*

Hey don't forget the napalm. I love it's smell in the morning

You cant dye Diamond shovel or shovels at alls

Idk my brain hurts

Dude was shoveling dirt but can't break stone because he forgot his pickaxe, so he had to put a dirt block over his head to stop raining creepers

he was lucky and didnt fell into a lava

i was going to say the same thing lol

That's why you need Bobba

@@nandinhocunha440 bubba*

It’s important to have a sense of humor during war in general.

@@Alexq79- oh my

@@Gamer88334 otherwise what you see will consume you

now imagine being 101st airborne in the battle of the bulge digging a foxhole in the coldest winter recorded in decades. you at least got to dig in a warm and wet place lol.

*this is amazing idea ever made it.*

You shouldn't have been there.

At 0:27 there’s a guy eating a rat... I was not expecting that

It looks the same as all the others

@@robertg.durant8489 ye

I think it depends on what you mean by "turret emplacement". If it's an actual mobile turret, that'd be one thing, but it sounds like these were immobile and obsolete turrets thrown-on more as an afterthought. I can see the "this will offer some protection and at least one very narrow field of fire, and we have them and we're desperate, so why not?" logic of the latter approach, but it would still qualify it as a modified foxhole, not a proper turret emplacement that could actually change its direction of fire at all.

*this is amazing idea ever made it.*

But I'm tired of digging holes grandpaw... :(

Builds character!

To be fair Finland is frozen hellhole in winter

@@W0DAN88 winter war and 1943 intensifies

and the facial features also :)

Wait, hol up

Do you mean "this" not "his"

@@mr.vietnam1575 yes

this guy does not know what he's talking about FYI Sounds like he's never served in the Military!

@@buddywalstad7658 have you watched *ANY OTHER* videos from this channel, if u haven't your judging someone just because they haven't done enough research for *one* video

To counter the grenades and give an advantage at close quarters: - dig the uncovered part a couple feet deeper - slope it towards the 1-2 foot step so that a (hopefully uncooked) grenade rolls towards the ledge and the shrapnel is deflected away from occupants in the covered area - the covered part being raised might also help with drainage in case of rain I don't have military experience, but these improvements could be nice if someone had a few extra minutes with the shovel.

@@magikarpusedsplash8881 That is how the manual tells you in BCT.

@@miguelurrutdarkorangefan2750 oh neat, guess I gotta enlist now lol.

Sounds about as fun as digging a hole

Agreed

I like how they talk about just history and not about direct politics

Yes definitely. No doubt one of the great ones on youtube.

@@Al-Is-Gaming Well it is called Simple History and not Simple Politics

@@Al-Is-Gaming I'd agree with you but politics is an intrinsic part of history.

😂😂😂 lol

octopi*

Wait... are you trying to say that...

You

@king Bro your profile picture tho

mans got a point lmao

If they did, it would be considered deserting and they would have been executed.

@@immortal_p1ckle279 Russians "allow me to introduce myself"

war isn´t a job you can simply cancel

@@immortal_p1ckle279 have you seen the peter muler single player mission from bf5?

@@habibi_bloxxxberg and ik that it was just a joke lol didnt mean to offend you in any way XD

You

Just thwap the troll with your entrenching tool and jump in

Could you dig one in 30 minutes? :P It seems like a very short amount of time.

@@Lattamonsteri In looser soil with no obstructions and two guys, sure. In hard soil, absolutely not. It is very dependent on things like soil type, rocks, tree roots, etc. I have spent several hours (4 I think) digging one (because the captain said it had to be "right there damnit!") and on a separate occasion, 4 of us got together and dug one in less than 15 minutes. Also, there are different types of these. The one for the machine gun is dug differently and takes considerably more time...but the one this video is covering is the standard two rifleman foxhole.

@@Adam.Rushing( when i was a conscript in the finnish army we weren't allowed to dig proper holes because we didn't always practice on the army's own land. I think we got to dig "hasties" or those shallow scrapes though. Dunno what the difference is to a landowner but apparently a proper foxhole ruins the environment and a feet-deep hole is absolutely fine - according to our officers :D but boy was it hard.) I guess it's faster to build a 2-person foxhole than 2 foxholes for a single soldier in each? Or is there a more combat-related reason to have more soldiers in a single hole?

@@Lattamonsteri I think you're right, one 2-person foxhole would be faster than digging two separate holes...unless we're talking about those hasties you spoke of. The Foxhole (for the US Army anyway) is always a 2 person fighting position. There are many reasons for this but a few are: Two people can scan/monitor the sector of fire much more efficiently. One can sleep/eat/go to the bathroom/etc while the other is on guard and no one need get out of the foxhole. If engaged with the enemy and one has a weapon malfunction, the position can still be defended by the other while the malfunction is addressed. Twice as many supplies, like ammo/rifles/food, in each fighting position. If you get injured, you have someone right there to help, like slapping on a tourniquet. A hole is harmful to the environment???? Someone better tell that to all the volcanoes and rivers cutting their way through rock! Sounds like some political garbage to me. Now, I will say that for something like a training ground, we would always fill them back in when we left. This way the next group got to dig theirs and no one accidentally fell into one. In combat, we didn't care, if we moved forward, we usually just left the foxhole as is. This is mainly because we didn't want to take the time to fill them in, also because if we needed to fall back, we had a fighting position already there. How long were you in? Most of the conscripts I've talked to it was a 2 year deal. I always wanted to make it to Finland, never did though...the closest I got was Holland.

@@Adam.Rushing The environmental damage may have been just an excuse :D Can't say for sure. We weren't really pressed for time usually, since we stayed overnight at the same position, so that couldn't have been the reason. But who knows :D Sometimes military things don't make sense to a young man who's still just couple of months into training. In Finland, if one is chosen for leadership training (they become squad or platoon leader, ranking from corporals to ensign 2nd lieutenants if Google translated the ranks correctly), the service time is 12 months. Some grunts like drivers also stay for 12 months but usually privates only serve 6 months. I was there for 12. And then there are the extra rehearsals but how often, it depends widely, I think. Of course after that one can choose to stay in the army as a professional trainer or a peacekeeper for the UN or go to military academy. :P I didn't really enjoy being in the leadership training cuz I struggle under pressure, but I liked to be bossed around cuz I was very fit and liked physical exercise back then :D Nowadays I kinda wished I had pursued a military career. :P Can you still count with fingers and toes the number of real combat situations you've had or are they so numerous that one loses count?

Any context to that?

Yes. It's a joke

@@LookUsArts Actually it’s a quote I got from one of the old call of duty games. Also, it’s apparently used as an argument against those who think that during times of extreme stress in combat, that they pray to a higher power

There is no argument about it, if you have enjoyed such accommodations under delightful conditions.

@@boondocker7964 Yeah, but most the time when you’re digging a foxhole, you’re not under delightful conditions

Man, not to sound politically unaware but Fox News has no news about foxes

Only time I ever dug a foxhole was in Basic and that was in 2002. After that you only dug a hasty because you weren't going to be there long enough to dig a proper hole. Support company or lower enlisted from headquarters would dig them around the battalion TOC when we were doing FTXs, but it was only like 1 or 2 at the checkpoint going to the TOC

For those wondering, as I did, the Hesco barrier or "concertainer", as Hesco calls them, is basically a reinforced version of those big collapsible square fabric bags you see used today for bulk soil delivery or as temporary construction-debris containers. You can use them anywhere you'd use sandbags, except that the Hesco can be filled with a front-end loader about 10 times faster than a person can fill sandbags, the Hescos can be stacked much higher than sandbags, and you can ship a ton of them collapsed and palletized very quickly to just about anywhere. Quite a useful invention which was originally invented for flood control, and is somewhat similar to those erosion-control engineering devices which consist of many large rocks bound in a square wire cage (can't recall the name).

How would it compared to a foxhole (the ones we were taught in basic) when used to protect against a tank?

IIRC, a major Marine base was built directly atop a network of interconnected Viet Minh spiderholes during the Vietnam conflict, and the Marines never knew it until they were told by Vietnamese vets well-after the war.

Man knows how to steal quotes from other man this is what happend to his reputation