Green Berets React to THE OUTPOST | Beers and Breakdowns 

The best line in the movie is when CPT Keating walks into the TOC, and nobody is paying attention to him. He taps his rank and asks, "Is this on? Is this working?". That is the military in a nutshell.

Friend of my fathers was telling a story about how units in Vietnam would adopt dogs similar to Hank because they hated the Vietnamese. They were just kept around as food for them. So when Americans fed them and took care of them they became extremely protective and were great for early warnings of the enemy.

Our deployment dog was named "Daisy". Imagine like a small, short-haired Golden Retriever mutt. She had a brother who was identical that we'd named Captain, but the MPs rounded up all the dogs on base, including Captain, to kill them because they said some were rabid. We hid Daisy in the TOC so she survived, then got an NGO to have her sent back to the States where one of our FET sergeant's family adopted her. I got a counseling statement and extra duty for hiding Daisy, but whoopity doo.

Nephew of the real Ty Carter here. I'm glad you guys enjoyed the movie

This was my unit. I was at Keating for a few months and left six weeks before Oct 3 to go back up to Squadron (Cav Battalion). Your IDF tactics were slightly off. But we did have planned targets (Putting Green, Northface, Diving Board). We also had a B-10 that would harass and probe us almost daily, and the mortars couldn’t get him. Trying to adjust indirect fires on to a shallow peak or ridge takes a lot of finesse.

It’s crazy how civilians thought the taliban fighters were dumb. They may have less tech than the US but by no means are they dumb. This fight shows this all to well. It was coordinated and well thought out. Really enjoyed this movie and it’s nice seeing guys that experienced similar things commenting on how accurate it is.

Ed Faulkner was my cousin, I was so excited to hear that he would be portrayed in the movie. He unfortunately passed not too long after coming home.

I watched this movie with my wife. When I saw the STUPID place the outpost was located, I was yelling at the screen, “This is why I got out of the Army!” We signed up for a job, which will likely be dangerous at some point, I get it, fine. But putting all of our lives in danger for no f*ing reason is what always made me get out after 8 years. And they keep doing it again and again. My outpost in Bosnia was basically the Bosnian version of the same thing. Luckily no one attacked us.

I found in my 3 or 4 years as a 18Z that most team Commanders defer to the 18Z but the LT's always wanted to show their competence by taking over the 18Z's command. That's why SF went with WO's as assistant team leaders, more experience and maturity levels. We found that most WO's were prior NCO's to start their carriers!

We need more of these. Also speaking of dogs, mine passed away today. Had her 16 years. Got her as a 4th grader and she was still here when i ETS.

The main motor guy in the movie was playing himself. His name is Daniel Rodriguez. After the Army he played football for Clemson and in 2014 was signed as a free agent to the St Louis Rams. Pretty dope story. I ran into him in Nashville last year and talked to him for awhile at the He’s a good dude

As a former PSYOPER, I concur 100% with you on the “transactions” during KLEs. Shit used to piss me off so bad when they’d be pissing on your leg while telling you it’s raining.

I heard a story from I think Vietnam (modern day), where two soldiers had a fight, and they made them hug each other in front of everyone for like a really long time, like hours.

We were mostly Scouts 19Ds at Keating. Some Marine attachments, ANA and other combat elements. Captain Yllescas was an Awesome leader. We were there 08-09. We did have TRPs around the FOB. It was a shit hole and so many TICs. Thank you for your videos.

The outpost is probably the best depiction of how life is in the army while on deployment. From the dumbshit we did on our downtime to patrolling and army terminologies. This movie really got it down as far as OIF and OEF depiction. If you were regular army or military you would really appreciate this movie for how authentic it is. That outpost from a strategic stand point made no sense what so ever.

Damn I was hoping they’d react to the scene in the TOC when cpt keating was trynna get everyone’s attention and he tapped his rank and said “is this thing working ?” And a soldier said “army made it, nope”

When I was in Afghanistan from '17-'18, I was attached to a different battalion from my brigade, so I wasn't there to witness this, but one of my closest buddies told me that pretty much the entire staff of the DFAC on their FOB was fired because one of the workers got caught using a cell phone to correct mortar fire. My FOB was pretty much quiet in terms of what happened within the wire, but we hosted a lot of medevac for the Afghans who were working in the area around us.

This movie has always reminded me of my time at FOB St Michael. Great review boys! I really like this movie. Abel had me dying with the hand joke! 🤣😂🤣😂

Definitely the most realistic movie I’ve seen to date on OEF/OIF.

Re: Pets in the army, my grandfather was in the 22nd bombardment group during WW2. He told stories of how when they were in the Philippines the locals would bring puppies to the soldiers who would just love to have pets, they would get these puppies all fat and loved up then the locals would come back...take the puppies, and give them new ones. Eventually they realized that the whole point was to fatten the dogs up to be eaten and they stopped taking the puppies after that.

Having Ptsd i get powerful anxiety and a shit feeling in general at night some times this channel seems to instantly calm me down and make me feel better i appreciate that

Hank sounds like an awesome dog. I hope that Nepalese commander didn’t have him killed.

I've been watching for a long time, finally ordered Rising Above, soo excited to start the read tomorrow! Thanks for another great video.

At my first duty station I was in the 60mm mortar section in the weapons platoon of a rifle company. We had a guy who was a complete goof, no common sense, but he was an artist with that mortar. Once when we went to a range we saw a brand new target out there, an old half-track that hadn't been shot up yet. The machine gunners got set up first and started hitting it - we could hear their rounds hitting but couldn't really see them. We had two mortar squads, so we had two of our three guns with us. The goofball was gunning on the second gun. The lieutenant went over and told him, "I want you to nail the driver of that half-track." The guy fired one quick round to adjust and hit about five yards from the vehicle. He tweaked the bipod and fired his second round - it landed on the hood of the vehicle and blew out the windshield. He turned around and told the lieutenant, "There you go, Ell Tee." The lieutenant shook his head and said, "Nah, he ducked. Try again." The kid looked at the lieutenant for a second, then went back, made another tiny tweak to the bipod, and fired again. The round hit in the front seat and we saw the steering wheel sailing through the air. He looked up at the lieutenant and said, "Did he duck that one, sir?" Another time there was a water bull out there with the top hatch open. On his second round, the same guy dropped a round inside the water bull. He was never going to get above lance corporal because he was totally lacking in judgment and constantly did stupid things. But he could play that mortar like a fiddle.

Another great video guys! Its like hanging out there with yall. As an 11C, yeah we use a MBC computer or a plotting board to come up with Elevation, deflection and charge. But yeah they would have had known targets and shifted from that known point. You are spot on though, after the first round hits, any adjustments are made if needed and you fire for effect. That system they show in the movie clip is a 120mm.

Sounds to me like 'Hank' came with some Americans and the Nepalese took him away or hurt his people or something.

It amazes me how we don't learn from the past. Hearts and minds doesn't work. If 25%of Islam is radicalized yet still operate freely bet your ass the other 75% aren't on your side. Which proved out in Vietnam and the war on terror. That said green berets are truly bad ass. You guys remind me of a lot of guys I served with in my beloved corps

As an 11C.. I had an aneurysm when you guys were talking about the mortar systems.. Great video though lol

Outpost was great, they almost made it too realistic so some of the combat came off as boring. CGI effects for a lot of the bullet hits and stuff kind of didn't work. Also the Orlando Bloom/Justin Bieber thing was the other way around. Bloom dropped Bieber for talking about fucking his wife.

Was a student at Clemson when this name "daniel rodriguez" started to pop up as a walk-on football player who was former military. he was one of the guys in this movie, I believe he was cast as himself in this. Quite an incredible story, some of his football tapes are still out there and, with Clemson's military tradition, was honored in a game for it. if i remember correctly, he wanted to play college ball because he and a friend of his that was killed in this battled talked about it while out there.

The movie did the best they could without loosing the audience. The book this movie was based off of had multiple interviews with family members, emails and added information for better context. Definitely worth a read. Clint Romesha (Medal of Honor recipient) wrote a book called Red Platoon about his experience. I recommend them both.

What’s really cool is one of the actual soldier’s from that day is playing himself in the movie “it’s just another fucking day in Afghanistan”

What really ticked me off was the officers who put those guys in such a lousy position with poor support never really got punished for their absolute stupidity. They should have been busted in rank and never allowed to lead forces in combat again.

I thought Scott Eastwood killed this role

Had a puppy we rescued from the IA in Mosul that we saw literally punt across a field smh. Smoked the dawg chit outta that IA kid and named the puppy football lol.

The dogs that would go all night by the COP also became a problem.. They would start barking when we were trying to slip out to set up OP's at night. We eventually started to slip out through the back entrance after letting a team go out through the main gate. They would head one way and we would peel off trying to stay parallel with them going through the orchards. Dogs were still a problem though, they also got disappeared. A suppresor was used, and we were Army conventional Infantry.. We don't get suppressors issued. I think a drug deal went down just so top could handle it without getting the boys involved. We loved dogs, but we were blood hungry savages. I'm just glad it wasn't anybody in the squads that did them in. Cause going out there with DOC to pick them up and throw them in the fire pit is something ill never forget. Our platoon pet was a local dog, she also hated the locals. She would chace off the damn kids. She got into the ANA pet birds one day.. After that we thought she was dead, because we heard they took a machete to one of her legs. She showed up a month later... The leg was.. Badly infected, she wasn't going to make it. We knew she would follow the outgoing squad on mission. So the squad leader did the only thing we could for her... God fucking dog though. No locals were ever allowed near us if she was around.

The dogs in Nepal are often territorial. What happens is that dogs get left or get lost away from their territory and then will tag along with people when they’re passing through. That way they don’t get attacked by the dogs whose territory they’re crossing through. Once they get to their territory, they often leave. It’s a pretty common story for climbers and trekkers. There’s a pretty good chance that this is what happened with Hank.

What a lot of people don’t realize about the two Medal of Honor recipients Clint Romesha and Ty Carter is that they were not infantry they were Cav scouts I believe bc they do not have blue cords when the received their medal of honors. I first realized when I was at the National Infantry museum when I graduated and they were both not on the Medal of Honor wall.

I helped build Kamdesh as it was formally known. Bad spot. I was C Co 3/71 10th mountain. Review The Unit. Back in the day it was the best representation of the military I'd ever seen. Then it got too sitcom. So many great actors, please give this request some weight. You may actually enjoy yourselves

The Battle of Ganjgal had two living Medal of Honor recipients. Dakota Meyer and William Swenson.

When you set up a base you set up a fires plan. You put out target reference points around the camp which are already dialed in with elevation, deflection and charge. You will also have a final protective fire plan set up, this is when all else fails and you must bring in fire close to or into friendly lines. I was a mortarman, loved the job. We had one of the best mortar teams in the 7th ID and 9th Inf Regt. The wheel Buck is talking about is a plotting board. Since they only have one type of mortar system in a static location, it would be extremally easy to have these things dialed in as well. I have not done this since the 90s. I shot 60's or M224. "High Angle Hell, death and destruction from above",

I laughed so hard when you talked about distinguishing the difference between incoming and out going rounds. That is so true. I remember many of nights playing dominoes or spades a new guy would panic because he heard something. We would be like sit your ass down. That was outgoing.

You should set up a Patreon or something where you upload the entire reaction uncensored, I’d definitely subscribe.

The book is really really good (The Outpost, by Jake Tapper). Probably one of my favorite reads and I think it does the whole story of COP Keating a little more justice just because you can get so much more detail in a book. That being said, I did enjoy this movie quite at bit and I think they did about as well as they could have in the amount of time they had.

One of the things I think this movie does so well is show what it’s like for the guys who didn’t get 200 million in training and the best equipment. I’m so sick of the Navy Seal/Delta Recon dudes John Wicking through movies. I much prefer and generally would just like people to see more stories about 19 year old kids with the bare minimum in training and equipment being led by twice divorced 25 year olds and still getting the job done.

Brought my deployment dog "Dosier" home from Iraq in 2010. he was the best dog ever, he definitely wanted me to remember him. He passed away on my birthday September 13, 2022. I miss him everyday. 😢

What I read about this movie is that 3 person was on set who actually fought in that battle, 2 advisor and 1 actually played a role in the film, but if I remember correctly not his own. That sure gave a boost to the accuracy.

Great review guys, I was sitting right there with you. Remembering deployments, the shooting the shit, the off the wall shit that goes on when you're bored, jokes we played on each other, etc. Shit dude you can't pull that on civilians without them thinking your a fkn weirdo. They just don't get it...damn, thoes were good times, thanks

As a former 11C ... Mortars are not "guess work". Moderns systems have GPS and computers.

i think this movie did an incredible job representing the book of the same name. Clint Romesha wrote an amazing book (you can tell the writers of this script read it) called red platoon about his experiences. the scene where romesha is telling his team how he would assault keating was taken almost directly from red platoon. according to romesha, they literally discussed how the taliban was gonna fuck em up and exactly how they would do it constantly prior to them actually doing it.

Lol it was the other way around, Bloom punched Bieber. And fun fact, the guy in the scene where he's asked about picking one guy to fuck, that's the guy who was the actual Lieutenant who took command during the attack.

Typically in an infantry unit, you got leadership, you got NCOs, and then theres allways that one specialist whos super fuckin experienced and just on his shit. Thats the dude that will openly question his leadership and everyone kinda shuts up and listens for a second. Theres one in every unit, and hes kind of a buffer betwee leaders and the joes

It's so funny to hear SF guys talk about how to use mortars.

You should review End of Watch next since you were LEO Good gunfighting and tactics displayed & also the old school X300 is used

I was surprised by how much I ended up liking this movie. I watched it a few times. Also, Orlando Bloom actually got the better of the Biebs after the Biebs called him a bitch or something at a restaurant. Orlando Bloom hit him once and the Biebs bitched out and immediately tried to get out of there ha.

FYI the guys this movie portrayed were cav scouts (19d) not infantry .

Are you folks about modern infantry combat or you may go back in history like the movie Zulu or Gettysburg?

Just watched it again last night. One of the better movies based on true stories.

Dude is grinning while talking about Hank being killed. Zero emotion there. I'm a combat veteran also, and I nearly threw up at the lack of care that dude showed about his "pet" dog. "Such a sad story." followed up by a good laugh. Sickening. If I'd have caught anyone on my camp doing dogs harm, I'd have maimed them...American or hadji wouldn't matter. Dogs are far more worthy of life than humans, anyway.

Actually it was Orlando Bloom who laid out Justin Bieber.

Can’t believe you guys liked this movie. Seriously!

Love these reviews and hearing from your experiences. Thank you for your service gentleman!!! 🙏🏼

How about of review of Danger Close - Battle of Long Tan

Battle of Shok Valley "Operation Commando Wrath" 6APR08, two living MoH recipients were forged out of that battle. MSG Williams and SSG Shurer of ODA 3336. Both were initially awarded the Silver Star Medal but were later upgraded to the MoH due to the Pentagon's review of valor awards on 1OCT18. Unfortunately SSG Shurer was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer and died of it on 14MAY20. Battle of Ganjgal Valley 8SEP09 also forged two MoH recipients. Corporal Dakota Meyer and Captain Will Swenson. You'll probably remember this one because it was famous for the military trying to fuck Cpt Swenson out of the MoH. Cpt Swenson was extremely vocal on denial of indirect support and the command. His MoH paperwork was "magically" lost but eventually the wrong was made right.

The part at the end with Carter talking to the head shrinker absolutely destroyed me. My wife and I watched this in the theater and she looked over at me seeing huge tears streaming down my face but no sound was coming out. She’d never seen my cry before in 15 years together. RIP brothers until Valhalla

I always recommend this movie as a very accurate portrayal of how things are. There's some little details or lines here and there that aren't, but as a whole, fucking close as you'll get without it being a documentary

You should watch and do a react video to some of the Medal of Honor episodes on Netflix. It has both of the MoH recipients from Keating

i thought Orlando was the one who laid out justin

I couldn't get past how stupid the base location was, WHY.

We kept a pet hedgehog in Afghanistan for about 2 weeks. Then we released him back to the wild.

29:00 or so, It's a lot more likely to happen when you have an LT as the OIC...and he had BETTER listen to his NCOs!!

A good leader would strive to produce more good leaders unless that leader is a dictator or power-hungry

Great review, so going watch the movie. 👍🏼 You must review ‘6 days’ on Netflix’s

I was at Keating with the 173rd. They did a great job with this movie with the exception that the COP wasn't so level. I served with Kirk in Afghanistan before he went to that unit, it was a kick in the gut for all of us back in Germany when we got the news.

@2:40 Leave no Dog behind, task a mission to extract Hank!

5:00 no wonder you guys always sucked on the mortar range.

Just wanted to thank you all for such a great series. Laughed, learned a thing or two. Very interesting topics( the real stories). I've been binge watching while cutting up my black bear for canning. It is true. If your going to work with knives your going to get cut. Especially watching guys drinking , criticing and telling war stories. Thanks for livening up a boring job. Cheers

OK guys I got another movie for you it’s called ‘84 Charlie Mopic ‘it’s on RU-vid originally it was a Cinemax movie I had to watch it several times because I swore it was a documentary it’s so realistic

What's up, you drunken bastards at FNG ACADEMY! I love your fucking show, dudes! From a fellow military combat veteran.

We had an orphaned puppy in OIF1 al Asad. Our dumbass CO shot its mother. Another platoon was jealous and stole it in the middle of the night and drowned it. Sad day.

Orlando punched Justin, your buddy got it wrong. Justin was being a punk and pushed Orlando to punch him, then just fled the restaurant.

Lmao Bieber did NOT lay out Orlando Bloom. They got into a confrontation and Orlando swung and missed and nothing else happened.

I like the great afganistan war movie. The lone survivor the mark Wahlberg movie. That scene looks to much like it was made in Arizona and new Mexico country. Plus rattlesnakes are not from afganistan. A Certain type cobra snake comes their. If someone makes a movie make sure it's the right type of animal comes from there. Thank 😊 you for your time.

Love the videos. FYI Bloom punched Bieber, not the other way around. I agree "End of Watch". Not Military but still good epic movie.

Justice for Hank

So I just googled it. Bloom punched Bieber or at least swung at him before Bieber flee’d. 🤷‍♂️

'Red Platoon' by MOH recipient Clint Romesha ( Scott Eastwood's character in the movie)as well as Jake Tappers 'The Outpost' are much more detailed with a better time frame of events leading up to the final battle which occurred coincidentally just before they were to close COP Keating ( named after the character played by Orlando Blume). Definitely recommend reading both. Also recommend this '11 days and wake up' . . . on RU-vid . . .11 Days & A Wake Up | The Story of Chosen Company at Wanat

I didn't understand the beginning when dude gets "demoted" by someone who doesn't have the authority to do sofor smoking hash.. were the writers trying to act as if EVERYONE wasn't getting lit over there? And what's with the cleanest people EVER in the movie? They all looked like they showered twice a day, even the afgans. I personally give this a 6/10

The only issue I had with the movie was their depiction of Bostick, it was a FARP, mind you if it was a directorial choice and them going back to Bostick was like heaven on earth cause they were in some heavy shit, then I'm cool with it, but if it's an attempt at an accurate depiction...it's waaaaaaay off.

That dog was 100% an opfor plant HUMINT. erm... DOGINT asset Curt,he just finished his mission and just went home for debrief. 2 barks for no 1 for yes haha

I don't know what the answer is to "forever wars"; though I dislike that term. I think the better term is "forever strategies." Our biggest weakness is every 4 to 8 years some new President comes in and goes: "No, fuck what the previous guy did. I'm in charge now and this is how we're going to fight." Only the strategy never changes. This movie talks about how the English and Soviets all failed in Afghanistan - so let's not fight the wars like they did. UBL and AQ and the Tali kept fighting our conventional forces in Afghanistan (using tunnels to eliminate US air power) and then just waited us out until the current generation didn't even know the reason we went in in the first place. During Vietnam the NVA had been fighting their war since Imperial Japan invaded (so WW2 basically). They also had hundreds of miles of tunnels that meant our air power was not as effective. And also (just like in Afghanistan) if the fighting got tough they would just cross the border into Cambodia where our military wasn't allowed to follow. Then it became a waiting game, an election every 4 to 8 years and as the war dragged on it became more and more unpopular. The one unit that was most effective in Vietnam was MACV SOG (Special Forces). Because they basically had free reign to engage the enemy wherever and were trained well enough to beat the NVA at their own game. There was one general who commented that it may have taken 20, 30, 40 years but if we didn't deploy troops into Vietnam but restricted our presence to Special Forces only, then we would have won the war. Won the waiting game. Not that it wouldn't be difficult. MACV took 100% casualties, those missions were insane but they got them done. So fuck sovereign borders (fuck Pakistan/Cambodia) and fuck deploying conventional forces into outposts. Fuck forever wars, we can't win those in the long run with how our government works. Stick to effective strategies with SMU operations that can be sustained over the course of 20, 30, 40 years. And if that's not achievable through SF, then rethink how to hit the assholes who are flying airplanes into skyscrapers. Bless our troops and everyone who gave a piece of themselves fighting this war.

Leather Necks and Devil Dogs. Devil Dog was a gloss bestowed apon the Marines by the Germans they fought in Bellow Wood. Teufel Hunden [Toy-fell Hoon-den]=Devil Dog

Elevation doesn’t matter as much when it comes to shooting up hill essentially, it’s a mortar so it’s already high angle. They were also shooting known points so they had historic data for the target.

What supposedly happened is that Orlando Bloom punched Justin Bieber because JB implied he'd messed around with Bloom's wife (or ex-wife?) Miranda Kerr (or some other girl, not sure). But no real fight broke out.

Loved the movie, but it did have an "after school special" feel to it with some scenes. This is common to many Clint Eastwood movies, so I found it a weird coincidence that his son was in this. Caleb's performance in particular was amazing, as his often are. That kid's Oscar bound at some point.

our deployment dog was Rex. he would come out to the front gate with us and we would use him like a bomb sniff dog jokingly around the vehicles coming in. we snuck him into our building one night and he got to see a mirror for the first time and couldn't stop playin with his reflection. one of our female soldiers ended up adopting him and now hes living the american dream in upstate new york with a bunch of other shepards

Love your channel. Love all the side bar from the experiences you two went through. Keep up great work

Mortars fired using FDC is not a 'guess'. Competence dictates accuracy. Firing a 60mm in 'Direct Lay' combined with its hand held mode is as close as American mortars get to 'Guessing'

32 min video with probably 29 of it talking. I love this channel but Jesus these videos arent reactions they are just commentary. Lolol. 🤣🤣.

People like those Nepalese who the dog instinctively hated,,, and those others who dispatched the naturally rowdy puppies... I wld havenrather made THEM disappear instead of the dogs as dogs you can trust more and loyal to the death...