Green Berets React to Band of Brothers 

The Doc wasn’t pulling bone fragments out of the private’s leg, it was wood splinters from a tree burst.

Buck: "The day that we hit episode 10 it's gonna be kind of sad..." Brother, you have no idea...

They grew up during the Great Depression, most worked to help support their families. These men fought WWII and then went to work paying off 30 year mortgages the hard way, in steel mills, coal mines, driving taxis. They understood that happiness is a paycheck and a family. They expected nothing and fought hard for everything.

The Officer you got stuck into over the Xmas Message was Colonel Robert Sink, commander the 506th who refused several promotions to stay with hie men, did several combat jumps as a Colonel, so beloved by His Men the 506th regiment was often referred to as the Five-Oh-Sink, I think you can give some slack.

Gen. McAuliffe wasn't even the division commander, that was Gen. Taylor, who had gone on leave, to London shortly before it all popped off in the Ardennes. Gen. Anthony McAuliffe was actually the division's artillery CO. He was thrown into command of the entire division during their toughest battle. He was the one who, when asked to surrender by the German commander gave the legendary reply, "NUTS!"

The empty Morphine Syrette was to be attached to wounded's gear at a particular spot so the subsequent medics/doctors would no how many doses the wounded had received so as to avoid overdosing the wounded patient.

I appreciate you brothers, just started my first session of PTSD counseling. It sucked. It's been over fifteen years and finally I'm facing my demons. I love that you talk openly about shit.

Easily one of the greatest war series ever made. I need to go back and rewatch this show myself. XD

John Keegan, in his book, Faces of War, interviewed a World War I doctor. The doctor, who saw thousands of soldiers, said courage was a finite resource that could be exhausted like any other resources. The bravest man would need to be pulled from the front for shellshock after expending all of his courage. The doctor estimated that it took about 90 days for that to happen.

BTW, the "Full Bird" that's reading the letter, that's Dale Dye. he is the founder of Warrior's Inc. he is responsible for the Technical Accuracy depicting the Military. remember the movie Platoon, he is also in it and is the Technical Advisor.

Combat Medics can't get enough love, battlefield angels of mercy for real!

We demand more Terminal List reviews ASAP 😂

In all fairness to General McAuliffe his job was to command the division artillery for the 101st airborne but when the Germans launched their offensive the actual General of the 101st Maxwell Taylor was in Washington at a staff conference so he really wasn’t supposed to be in charge for as long as he was he actually did a pretty good job under the circumstances.

My Gramps who was in WW2 said that the difference in his generation was that most of them already went through a ton of loss before they joined. They made is through the depression and the dust bowl before going to fight. It's almost like they were being prepared for the challenges they were going to face overseas. I didn't serve, but my buddies who did 20+ years back definitely stand apart from many who didn't.

Really appreciate you guys for not only running this phenomenal series but for what you do. I came in as a USAF flight mechanic on C130s out of Dyess, TAC Airlift at the time. Met some great fellows & made friends with a bunch of guys in the 82nd & 101st doing airdrops at Bragg, Benning etc. Finally had enough of the PC crap that began to infect everywhere so I punched out at 24 in a CSAR unit…I overstayed my welcome. Dad was Marine Corps, Korea veteran…he passed away when I was 10, never got to hear about his service. These men of Easy Co., of that Greatest Generation are my heroes, whom I greatly admire. I grew up listening to my grandfather & great uncles telling a few stories here & there. My Uncle JP was at Bastogne but he didn’t say much, while Uncle Charles was in the Pacific on a destroyer. Grandad was a waist gunner on B-24s & said little other than it was terrible. They were made of the toughest stock…from the Depression Era & lean times. I’ve taught my kids…to never forget what they did. Look forward to next episode.

My grandfather was a corpsman in the WW2 pacific theater. He had very vivid stories to tell and even brought home a Japanese officer's sword. However, he could not make it through this specific episode. All the calls for medic during the episode made it too difficult a watch. Overall, he had many positive responses to the TV series. Thanks for reviewing this series.

They actually were on frozen ground. That’s what one of the last surviving members of easy company and the 4th infantry said about fighting in Bastogne.

My dad said when he was in Korea before going to Vietnam, he was on the DMZ one night at an observation post in the freezing winter. They started a fire to warm up even though they weren’t supposed to. A few minutes later a jeep came buy and stopped. A captain got off the jeep and ran up to them telling them you guys aren’t supposed to have a fire out here, and how dangerous it was, all the time rubbing his hands together and warming up by their fire. He said he’s pretty sure he was purposely being long winded just so he could warm up a little longer lol

The downside to having an brave medic that takes such risks, is that he if he dies while helping others.. you suddenly left with none at all!

“Don’t put yourself in a position to take anything from your men” -Lt Winters

Ya'll did a great job breaking this episode down. My grandad served in Germany a a medic, he had a CJ-2 he would take out at night to pick up wounded soldiers, he didn't care what uniform they were wearing, he'd bring 'em back to camp. Hat's off to you fellas!

That scene where Col Sink is giving the Xmas message is another reminder of how good Winters is in keeping an eye on his men - it's a very subtle moment but that short cut away to Winters shows him noticing that the medic, Eugene ('Doc' Roe ), is withdrawn and clearly beginning to struggle mentally. In the next scene Winters approaches Roe and tells him to go into town (i.e. Bastogne) get some supplies and get himself a hot meal while he's there. Winters knows Roe needs a break but also that Roe will not admit to needing one so he basically gives Roe permission to take a moment out of the line and regather his (mental) strength.

Basic infantry doctrine in defense: dig a prone firing position. If you have time upgrade to a kneeling firing position. If you have time upgrade a standing firing position. Than to a fortified firing position. Than start to make a trench to your next right/left firing position (depends on military doctrine) to form an infantry trench. Than keep up by fortify it.

I too loved the interveiws. In fact I loved watching the interviews of the actors and more interviews of the vets, sort of the making of. I can't believe how much effort they went into to get it feel right. To find actors that looked like them, they learned the way those guys spoke, they way they were as people back then, the way they thought. It was such an important thing to everyone involved it seemed like, that they became lifelong friends with the vets they portrayed. Not all the details were matching reality, for story telling they changed some things like Easy visiting Eagle's Nest because it was such a key location to the narrative of the war and gave a nice ending to the show, but everything was so on point otherwise that it could've just as well happened just like that. The vets seemed to be so taken aback from how it turned out, so happy that their story, their prided group of brothers, was depicted in such a proper fashion. In good and bad, the things that they experienced with each other and the relationships in the company. And those men, they were unbelievable. They went through hell from sense of duty and brotherhood and didn't really flinch. I have never heard of a man like Winters. Smart, fit, fatherly, teacherlike, just, compassionate. Took care of his men and led by example, didn't focus on ego. Was down in the dirt with his men and liked it. Like a great leader took all the responsibility and gave all the credit to his men, trusted his subordinates to know their business. And was humble as anyone. One in a generation. And when the useless guy freezes, Winter is already halfway through the field to save his men, knowing that every second without a good leader counts for how many come back. And Spiers was another amazing soldier, damn the balls of steel he had. And like you guys pointed out, I can't understand how medics do their job. They just run into direct fire to patch someone up or so. I couldn't call them cowards even if they stayed in their holes during barrage. I know adrenaline constricts blood vessels, don't know if morphine can do it. But yeah they were feeding the soldiers basically speed, ecstacy in the Winter War as well, not only shooting morphine on all the wounded. There's a crazy story of a guy who hated the whole thing and wouldn't take it, until he realized that he couldn't keep up with the rest if he didn't take it. So he took some stupid amount and was missing for two weeks, had skiid straight through a Russian camp and they had been so shocked and confused that they just watched him going, and they found him with frostbites and wearing some small animal and whatnot. I believe that winter was also the coldest in a long long time when they had to stay in poor non-winter clothing surrounded in the forest. Odd how often military miracle survival stories happen like that, it happens to be the coldest winter in the area just when they're supposed to do their thing. When you guys talk about the bonfire, it makes perfect sense military rations have chocolate. That small piece of heaven for your brain when you're in a rough place. I can probably never stop being surprised by how much a piece of chocolate can do for brain in a rough spot. Like bring people back from shock and stabilize them in some situations and whatnot. I think a big part of the difference between then and now is that it was a generational thing to them. Everyone their age was affected, was part of it. Nobody was spared and everyone had similar stories. You weren't special just because you were a war hero. Your village would have 10 others, the people that lived. And it seemed like after WW2 nobody thought there was any heroism in that war, people were exhausted of the war and glad that it was finally over and rebuilding could start. People were just glad to come back home and happy to get their family members back from the war. And I believe, partially from their interviews, that they didn't go to paratroopers for glory, they went there because they thought that they will have the best guy next to them when fighting so they'll be more likely to survive than elsewhere. Since just about everybody had to go (maybe not in the US? But in Europe for sure) anyway. And sounded like they didn't particularly find it glorious anyway, they just wanted to get out alive so they didn't really want recognition for it either. As far as I've heard vets talk, they always say things like "I couldn't care less about the medals I got and I didn't feel like a hero they said I was, I could give a long list of names that never came back that were the real heroes and deserved these medals". Every time I watch Band of Brothers it starts with a positive atmosphere and a bit of enthusiasm, but bit by bit it just starts turning more serious and then downright sad, hopeless, even upsetting. And when it ends you have this huge emptiness because there was so much emotional loading into it. And they're long episodes, they tell a lot of a story and you focus on it for good bits of time at a time making you buy into it even more.

I was an EMT for a level 1 trauma center. Been in the field since 2006. Morphine and most other pain meds are Vaso-dialaters. They will open up your arteries more, decreasing blood pressure. So it's not typical for treating bleeding type wounds. But. It can slow your heart rate, calm you down and take away pain very well. So if I had bleeding under control. But wanted to slow your hr and stop your anxiety and pain from going berserk. You would likely get morphine.

There is a difference in that generation and the current one. My Dad was in the Navy in WWII. Had 2 ships blown out from under him in WWII. Got the Bronze Star for Valor, and the Purple Heart (twice). My father-in-law was in the 2nd Marine Division and was at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian and Okinawa. He had a salad bar like you wouldn't believe. He made Sargent in 9 months due to battlefield promotions from the losses they were taking. At Tarawa, he was the only man in his platoon that made it though w/o being killed or seriously wounded. Had everything short of a Silver Star, numerous Purple Hearts, and other medals. He was able to recover between campaigns from his wounds as they weren't disabling. In his 50's he was willing to talk to me when he found out I was a WWII history buff, and new a lot of details about the landings he was in. Helped too that I was in the military (Navy) and my Dad was on the Astoria, sunk keeping the Japanese from bombarding his platoon that night. Both men were humble, and never felt like they were owed any special treatment because of what they'd been through. They wanted what the government owed them, but asked for nothing from civilians. And they were damned proud of having defended their country.

I watch this every Memorial Day and 4th of July. My dad was a Korean War combat vet and this series always reminds me of him.

After the 10th episode you have a special episode called "We Stand Together Alone" (that's what Currahee means by the way) in which they interview the veterans of easy company about their journey from basic to the end of the war. Pretty cool episode to see after the series.

I really feel like you guys would enjoy The Big Red One! The director was a rifleman in the First Infantry Division in WW2 and made the movie based on his experiences from then!

Can't help but think that General McAuliffe's reply to his counterpart was that time's polite way of saying, "Fuck you," and, "Come and get 'em."

This channel and the Sunday funnies make Sundays the best day of the week 👍🏻👍🏻

Make the final episode a 2 hrs journey. All will agree

The paratroopers and some of the first wave troops had individual medical kits with the morphine. That was to supplement the supply the medic had because some of these troops weren’t getting resupplied anytime soon. So we see the medic gathering up personal kits to help with the triage.

Sometimes with the things you guys cover or say, the memories come flooding back. Thank You for the ride. AIRBORNE

I love your reaction to Band of Brothers, I like how you evaluate what you would do differently? How they made mistakes and drove on with a hard on! But everything you boys learned was because of people that died and the mistakes they made! I was a Combat Engineer from 84-90 I went and graduated Jotc in Panama! Spent 3yrs in Germany when the Wall came down. Every drill sergeant in Basic was a Vietnam Vet. My Grandfather served in WW1 as a Master Sergeant , he worked for GE on the Patriot Missle, so the reason for him and the Greatest Generation of WW2 leads to multiple wars that everything you know as a soldier were from lessons learned, everyone that can max a PT TEST IS SPEACIAL FORCES! just take a breath and Respect! Your both young and I understand that! But I honestly like and subscribed to your channel thank you for your service I will continue to watch

Love all your content, thoughts, and insights. Thanks to you, and your families, for your service and sacrifices.

This is my favorite episode of the series. Bastogne was probably the 101st Finest Hour but the series shows it through the viewpoint of the medic trying to desperately help anyone he can and having to deal with losing so many people. No heroic combat and mowing down hundreds of Germans for him. Can't wait for the next episode reaction and your view on how it deals with officers and leadership.

The 'critique' comment at the end of the video is honestly one of the things I most love about this channel since finding it a couple weeks ago. Since I'm an aspiring writing and someone who wants to write military fiction you guys are honestly one of the best resources and all the stories you've told are so informational and learning more about some of the stuff I have watched with your expertise, I swear I learn something new each time I watch these and you guys do a great job with it.

E7 BOB is amazing. Can't wait for that episode. Speirs was a savage

The morphine might’ve slowed his heart rate so he didn’t bleed out. That’s the only thing I could think of.

Thank you guys!!! As always love your Point of View!!

Always a good day when you guys drop a new video 🤟🏽

Nice timing! I just finished watching the whole series again

28:30 That reminded me of a Swedish volunteer in Ukraine who served in... was it Hospitallers? Either that or the foreign legion. Anyway, he did medic stuff. What he wrote was that the Swedish way to deal with wounds from combat is top notch, BUT, we - have - to ditch the red cross. Against a certain enemy *coughcough*Russia*coughcough* it's just a priority target for them. Remove the red cross and teach all medics and nurses and surgeons, everyone, how to dig down and how to shoot. If anyone who reads this is interested, and can either read Swedish or don't mind google translate, I can either provide a link or what to search for on google so you can find the article.

So to answer your question about the morphine thing. Morphine has an effect of vasodilation (making the veins relax and open up) as well as its pain control qualities. Therefore it actually causes a drop in blood pressure (which with a bleeding patient is bad). This is why combat medics now mostly give ketamine, which has very little effect on blood pressure. Morphine does not have any coagulating effects at all. Today we give a drug called TXA that does do that. But it doesnt have any analgesic properties. The only way morphine would help that I could think of is it reduces the bodys pain response to keep the guys heart from beating fast and causing him to bleed faster (just like you said about the whole not telling them their member was blown off). Maybe the vasodilation effect and drop in blood pressure would help with that too, but i just dont know. I really feel like this guy could be misremembering a little bit but id have to hear his story. Our understanding of combat medicine is still evolving really rapidly. Even things that we thought were cutting edge just a few years ago have changed dramatically. Imagine how much its changed since 1945.

The medic was pulling wood splinters from private Sisk's leg not bone fragments. The scene with the general was a Hollywood plot device to emphasize to the audience how desperate the situation the was at Bastogne.

I’ve seen this series probably a dozen times and never understood the significance of that fire scene until you guys put it into perspective for me.

Some of the medics I served with bordered on reckless with their total disregard for their own safety to help others. We kept a close eye on 'Doc' and let him know we needed him up to keep us up.

Going to what you said in the beginning about the way they sound discussing their experiences vs soldiers now…I’ve never been in a war, so I really don’t know, but I just get the impression that war was a lot more “raw” in the way it was conducted compared to now. For example, I can’t imagine something like the carnage that happened on Omaha beach happening in this day and age.

What an Awesome experience this was after a red hot day here in Yorkshire i love this channel

As a Finn I can relate easily how it is to have to camp outdoors in the military in the winter, it´s cold and sucks most of the time but its something that needs to be learned and experienced due to the climate we have. When digging foxhole when there is ground frost in the winter we used when possible small shape charges (normally used to break the ice in rivers, lakes and sea shores to crack the ground frost to make it easier to dig. The coldest temperature we had daytime during a week long winter exercise was -9,4°F, night time slightly colder :)

As usual, great episode, gents. Glad you've been doing this series. Looking forward to "The Pacific" too.

Now my Sunday is complete

I saw Kurt at the grocery store not too long ago, dude's legs are huge. More leg workouts for us all gentlemen

The Pacific was good too along with the 80's Tour of Duty.

Love seeing Band of Brothers and The Pacific for sure. I think the next episode you do of The Unit will quite intense if I remember my episodes correctly.

We did two man foxholes with overhead cover and grenade sumps, a troth that ran along the length of the front of the foxhole.

These guys were together for 1-3 years. They understand comeradery! It’s not like an FNG showes up in mid deployment fresh out of bootcamp

I enjoy listening to you guy critique these shows. I learned from Kirk about Fox river socks. Bought some and love them. Also leaned about Solomon shoes. They go great with my socks. Now I need a nice bottle of whiskey.

Stand to is actually done twice a day 30 minutes before to 30 minutes after EENT and EMNT (early evening nautical twilight and early morning nautical twilight). The type of fire you're referring to is called a Comanche fire.

You should take a look at Kelley's Heros.

16:43 my wife was a nurse in podiatrist office… they had a guy come in with trench foot once… the disgusting odors that he brought in, stayed in the office hours later 🤮🤮🤮

I can’t wait for them to react to the next episode

I think the “Nuts” part is off. The story was the German army ask the General to surrender his men. In return turn he say “Nuts” or go screw your self. He was letting his men know that they’re not giving up the fight. I think when men new he would give them up it was motivation.

Literally watching this right now and just finished that episode. My girlfriend has never seen it (I have no less than 15 times) so I had to marathon it with her. It's the BEST!

Can't wait for The Pacific reaction thanks guys

I’d love to see you guys do Generation Kill if you haven’t already

Love you guys, I love band of brothers, I look forward to The pacific

18:56 Its my understanding that it wasn't bone, but actually shrapnel or shards of trees in his leg, but is def set up to make you think its bone in the beginning.

You’re thinking of the “Dakota fire hole.” - Basic Dude Stuff! 😂

"We came from a small, small town...and three fellows in that town were, that were '4-F', committed s*icide. Because they COULDN'T go. A different time." That's why. They were the Greatest Generation because they had to literally fight for everything, and not given it like today. "There's a lot of shit and it's heading this way" Well it's here now. Imagine being the only one in the middle of this chaos trying to save lives, while everyone around you is trying to end them...I dated a nurse once, it takes a certain kind of soul to do this, let alone in a war zone...

More please!

FYI that's Dale Dye (from Steven Segal - Sniper S[ecial Ops)

Your commentary at 12:00 is extremely interesting. I would love to see you guys break down some combat footage of the ongoing war in Ukraine. If you didn't know, in Ukraine, the front line is full of trench networks, foxholes, and lines of layered defense (especially in the east). In this war, we are seeing a return to trench warfare. I feel like you guys could provide some very interesting insights into what the average Ukrainian soldier is going through.

Keep the band of brothers content coming; I look forward to the later episodes when they’re at the eagles nest swimming in the lake

Can you guys review Basic and Obliterated next? Thanks for the info guys, dropping a little bit of SERE knowledge about the fire hole was awesome 👍😎

Yes, that thing with the fire - why was it such a problem - is it because of the light coming off of the fire? And so that could be seen and their position pinpointed and shelled?

You guys should definitely check out more episodes of Strike Back won’t regret it.

Out of the 10 episodes my favorites, just from a narrative point of view, are 2, 5, and 6.

I hope you all cover the church scene in the next episode. Also I think that generations humbleness comes from just the grand scale of loss and casualties just pretty hyped they made it.

Don’t forget: they spent years away from home and in combat. While a WOT deployment usually lasts 3-11 months. Many of those old timers spent 3-6 years in war or in the occupied Europe.

I can't wait for them to review the next episode that's all about the great leadership showed by Lipton great episode

Just love BnB specifically with those two fellas. Enjoyed all the way, not skipping single episode. I’m subscribed to 70+ channels, and just few are real . And on the top of the list is Beers and Breakdowns

I agree, I don't want it to end! How about milking every bit out of this show? After you guys finish episode 10, then do a breakdown episode for each individual character, then each mission featured in the series, then maybe noticeable differences/improvements in military tactics/equipment/etc since this era. Just an idea. Keep up the hilarious work 👍

Sean 👏 great point from 2:37

Awesome 😎

Damn there was SO MUCH that was illuminating for me here. I thought the officers efforts were like inspiring to the men, but it helps to hear this. Will officers ever learn, aside from those like Major Winters did?

Love it!❤

Great review again, can’t wait to you guys knock out masters of the air , but before you do that, let’s not forget the ultimate green beret movie, it’s called first blood

Morphine slows down your heart beating, which means the flow of your blood running thru the viens is slower which helped with the bleeding most likely ! The spot is unknown to me, idk if its more effective on that position

You can hold off hitting the last episode of Band of Brothers by doing some of the 100 + episodes of Seal Team… Memorial Day Bonus Episode???? 🤞

"There is a lot going on tactically with that hole." That's what SHE said!!!

yall should start editing the videos on this main channel to keep them monetized and start another channel somewhere that allows u to put on the full unedited versions and possibly even charge on that channel? i would pay to see it!

In World War II, medics not only served in more danger than their fellow Soldiers, they got paid ten dollars a month less - because they didn't carry weapons at that time, somebody driving a desk at the Pentagon decided that meant they were noncombatants so they didn't rate combat pay. Not only was that grossly unfair, ten dollars a month was a lot of money back then, equivalent to a couple of hundred bucks now.

It was bothering me who Kurt sounds like, then I figured it out. You sound a lot like Bruce Green from Funhaus

I’ve personally watched Band of Brothers prolly 7 times now

episode 8 is the best

Y’all should do more Terminal List episodes.

The Big Red One, Lee Marvin and the dude from The Revenge of the Nerds.

I would like more Terminal List reviews.