Green Berets react to the tactics used in Escape From Tarkov 

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I think you guys would better appreciate this movie more when you realise that both the Russian teams and the American teams are contractor's, not special forces. Which could explain the different team and individual dynamics that you are seeing? The blacked out dudes with the quad nods at the end are more akin of ground branch in this story lore though.

Just FYI, the Tarkov movies were supervised by actual and former Russian spec ops and instructors. But, the director of these movies was saying, that due to cinematography and effects some moments and situations aren't realistic or "wrong", because it had to be done to look cool on camera. So everyone they are aware of those moments, that are not 100% correctly done.

The reason there was no maneuvers shown in the first scene is because USEC team(the enemy) was trying to push BEAR team to retreat into preset ambush of two machineguns. But two guys from BEAR team were out on recon mission and on their way back eliminated the ambush and walked into the shed right after the RPG blast. They talk about it on their way. You guys should use subtitles to get context.

It´s amazing you guys watching this! Thank you! But: WHY DIDN`T YOU TURN ON SUBTITLES?! Hope for part 2 :) The story is pretty interesting and the game is so crazy you can do your own review about that one as well.

The reason why he threw his rifle at 10:46 was not due to that it wasn't slinged, it got shot, that's why he threw it.

At 29:00 that is a perfect summation of Escape From Tarkov -- a bunch of PMCs without much training put in a bad situation (it's exactly the same way in the game, and these EXACT kind of scenarios play out in the game just likein the clip). The only time things run smoothly (sometimes) is when you have real life trained soldiers playing in squads together using smart tactical approaches to how they deal with situations, like Operation Drewski and his crew, who run through Tarkov savagely.

This calls for a part 2 or even 3! There are still so many things to discuss.

Man, this is the one I've been waiting for. Honestly, if you guys can do a long format reaction to each episode, I think that would be awesome

Would love to see the two of you running raids together in Tarkov!

Would be great to see you react to gameplay of Tarkov as well. The gun customization and all Tarkov has to offer.

The audio for the action scenes was impressive. The bullets hitting the metal siding and cars had the metallic clang, the bullets hitting the thicker walls had a different sound and even the cyclic rate had a fairly realistic sound from my experience. Another great review from you guys. Thank you.

The decision to slug it out in the beginning was made when a teammate was hit. They essentially asked if they were in or out when the second group showed up and the answer was that their dude couldn’t move and so they chose to fight it out.

One of the craziest things I’ve learned about the Lone Survivor movie was that there was a SF team call sign Hammerhead Six and they had a camp 5 miles from where the actual fight happened. If the 4 man seal team would have had proper communication by upper they could have worked their way down to them. It’s in the book, “Hammerhead Six: How Green Berets Waged an Unconventional War Against the Taliban to Win in Afghanistan's Deadly Pech Valley”

29:00 Buck literally explains the protagonists‘ fraction perfectly without knowing anything about the video game😂😂😂😂

Glad you did this one. My only big regret is you didn't film your first viewing. I would have loved to see your raw reaction to slowly going from skeptical to learning this movie rocks.

Im so glad yall did an episode on Raid cause I recommended it probably months back by now. I've played the game its based around for years and got so many military brothers into it and it makes me so happy yall sat down to enjoy it. I wish the game hasn't been destroyed as bad as it is with cheaters and dev issues. If you get into it, maybe ill try helpin yall to understand and walk you through it. Love yall, keep it up. I look forward to seeing yalls new videos every day. Thank you for being here

Sean, I got a Beers and Breakdowns recommendation for you. The Kill Team, based on a true story about a team of young infantry soldiers who’s team sergeant encouraged them to commit war crimes!

THANK YOU!!! Been waiting for this for a long time.

🙋🏻‍♂️ I am here to say thank you for the banter, I am no longer a fire fighter, but on top of missing the job, I greatly missed the banter with the boys!

The episode I’ve been waiting for. Glad y’all got to it!

idk if you guys turned the subtitles on or not but if you got em on you'll see they are communicating during the gunfights and tell each other too fall back etc...I know that was one of the biggest issues you had with the gunfights

16:44 the whole thing had full translated subtitles

Amazing episode would love to see more parts of this and longer form episodes if possible. I love y'all s stuff!

SO SO happy to finally see y'all react to this pls do the other episodes!!

24 mins in and that's so real. Big difference between being normal infantry(not doing DA raids) vs a team guy. different expectations mentally. When you were talking about if they know you are there someone is going to get hit gave me a flashback to that one cod cqb house raid scene that went viral along time ago and if you took too long to advance when you went to open this one door there would be a guy already underneath the bed facing the door reading to 1 tap you as soon as you started opening the door. its just that quick also man i was hoping you would talk about the stairs scene when they got trapped on them for a good bit and it was pure chaos

I vote Kurt's teal shorts come back! Epic!

18:44 one great example of always making sure the enemy is dead is in the Pacific episode 8 or 9 where we see John Basilone on Iwo Jima he's holding a 30 cal LMG the M1919 Browning he sees a Japanese soldier laying on the ground but assumes he's dead and as he presses on the same soldier gets up and almost shoots him but his Marines behind him got him first

Not sure if you have the English subtitles/captions in the video enabled so you can understand what they are saying, but you guys should breakdown the whole series! It gets even more fun with latter episodes. Not sure if you know Tarkov lore but essentially the Russian PMCs in the game and movie are called BEAR and are filled with eastern-pact ex special forces similar to Wagner. The guys they are fighting are called USEC which recruit former LEO and military personnel from western countries like the US, UK etc.

Great episode- really enjoyed it guys!

Cool as always with the react's from you guys! Only thing i was missing in this was you're reaction to the Diska, everyone ive seen watching it have had a priceless reaction!! Keep up the good work guys!

That is the realest game in terms of the gear, example: Peq15s to Zenitco perst, Pvs14, Mk262 ammo, Crye this or that, Winkler knives,the details are nuts

As a reply about the guy who didn't sling his weapon I noticed he actually pulls that gun out of his bag in the moment. He was kind've in a hurry. Lol

Damn these guys are on fire! I hope they keep watching Tarkov AND SEAL TEAM

There is an option for subtitles under closed captions which has all the translated dialogue.

I would be curious to a reaction to "the great raid" not a terrible movie, but it is a true story. Lots of tactics to break down in it. And thank you for all you guys do by the way!

Here is one for you. Spring 95 East Bosnia mountain! We were sort of a semi merc unit replacing the SOU unit that held this position and awaiting the orders to take the com station on the hill next over, middle of the forest! My team of 3, two Croats and 1 guy from Finland. 5:15 am, guys drinking coffee next to our tent that was some 20 yds behind to small foxholes, and improvised shelter made out of rocks..rifles leaning against the tree next to the tent, im stretching, opening the mre to get the chocolate for a breakfast. Just as i realized this unnatural silence, this AK full auto sound broke out and that sound of bullets hitting the trees, thump thump thump…in seconds it becomes a hell. It felt like its coming from everywhere, we ran to the holes, me the one on the right, Finland to the one lower and to the left, the other Croat to the rock shelter.as i ran i felt the pressure of the rounds that flew so close to me, whoever shot those, had me on his sights 110%. I cant explain how i did or ended up un the ground touching myself to see if ingot hit, when realized that im not, crawled to the hole, by that time both my guys have already been engaged, and that moment the Serbs started shooting m 60 rocket launchers on us, while their mortar crew started spraying us w 82 mm mortars! Time 5:30 ish, in my hime i had m 82 PKT Russian machine gun, w 100 rds belt, 7.62x59 mm, load it up opened the bipods, got up, sterted shooting into the woods, the thing stops, load a round again, nothing, later found firing pin broke in half, simultaneously the RPG rocket flew over the third guys shelter, hits the tree explosion and tail of the rocket hits the guy in the upper leg, almost tore his while leg up, in panic he is spraying rounds all over, i jumped out running towards him, pulling my first aid out, when i see the hand grenade flying straight against me, i dove down, the damn thing hits this litle 3-4” this tree and bounces off to the other side exploding before hitting the ground, some 15-16 feet away, i felt some tiny little like burns on my right side, disnt give it any importance, adrenalin talking of course, get to the guy, tie the rubber string around his leg tight, to stop bleeding, calling medics to get him, and asking if they can send anyone else to help, no luck on that cause they hit us in the whole position. I got him pulled w my sling just like this movie showed, to the tent, ran back down and by now it is nothing but a hell the only aide where we disnt get shot from was behind us, grabbed my AK started shooting, semi, but i cant see them, few rounds in one direction then few in the other, Finland the sam, suddenly a big explosion 10 o clock, finland guys position, they hit him w m 60 launcher, penetrated his barrier, and the explosion trew him outside, still remeber his body and how it looked bent and weird, at the moment i tought that he is blown badly, not moving little of his face i could see was dark red and black, burnt. Now this time al least for me was flying, not going slow from some reason, and then, mortar hit the branch of the tree right on top of me , tree itself was some 8 ft behind me, and that pressure of the explosion how it came down, will never forget. That moment i remebered when i was on the 3 month diversion unit training course, the instructor told us” when they know where you are, then tell them where you are”! Didnt understand it back then, but i started yelling,” im here you f..s, come closer, and i started hysterically laughing spraying a few rounds down to them! Then i put my helmet for the First time and lit up the cig!, sitting there and watching and listening the explosions and bullets hitting the trees and dirt around! Explaing this to someone who never experienced something like this is nearly imposible! Time stops, adrenalin spa🎉king, and some calm feeling took over, at that time or shortly after i got up to shoot some rounds from my left, and i see the Finland guys body not in the sam postion that was earlier, same thing again, got my sling made a loop, got it around his ankle and pulled him inside my hole, dude was alive, badly burnt but other than that he was good, as he started coming back, he grabs my AK starts pulling it away from me and trying to get back to fight, lol, we dont understand each other, linguistically of course, im using my hands to keep Him in check, shortly after medics showed up again , and a few other guys, little help at the very end of the firefight, that ended around 9:50 ish! After the fight and us making sure that they pulled back, i looked at the postion, the trees, the stomps around our foxholes, it looked like armagedon, thousands of rounds, its when i realized how close those bullets, rockets and mortars hit to us! Only then i remembered that we had one APM anti personnel mine somewhere towards the Serbs, u pulled the wire of it, it was loose, they came so close to us at one point that they cut it off, and to this day i think that they thought we knew they are there and we are trying to let them come closer to eliminate as many as we could, and that is why they failed! Conclusion: the firefight has its own rules, depending on the situation and location, adapt and survive, that is all i can tell you! Cheers boys!

My favourite part of these isn’t the actual review it’s the stories we hear from these legends, have learnt so much just from listening to the stories. Keep up the great work gentlemen 🤙🏻🤙🏻💪🏻

I appreciate everything y'all do💯I gotta question, I'm 6'6 do you think im too tall to join SF?

If you turn on closed captions they are in English or cna be in English

And here I was thinking they watch the hip firing, ratting, running and jumping around that happens in EFT. 😁 But this was great, too! Interesting things you brought up. 👌

Honestly my uncle(he a gulf war veteran)had the same reaction as you guys but his face lit when how well it was done

First of all thank you for your service, and the service you continue to do. Second there were 2 other movies I can think of that had shooting through walls, 1 Saving Private Ryan, and another I can't remember the name but I think Charlie Sheen was in it and it was Special Forces in Lebanon.

played the game, never knew it was made into a live-action film.. love the break down gents

turn the subtitles on so you can understand what their communicating to their team

This was an amazing breakdown, i think its good to remember that both the russian side and the American side arent exactly military operators. They are more like private contractors, so they most likely wouldnt know all of the ins and outs like you two do. Also they have full subtitles for the film which shows they are constantly making call-outs amd communicating between team members.

27:40 that scene IS total chaos, on multiple levels. It's an ill-conceived suicidal revenge plot, executed as a small-team assault against an entrenched, numerically superior and largely unknown enemy force. The only reason the BEAR team took as many USEC down with them as they did was the element of surprise derived from USEC's own lack of discipline that you've pointed out. The entire scene's premise is insane and that only adds to the atmosphere as it follows through to a tactically obvious and inevitable conclusion. It's a samurai movie, basically.

Oh boy u guys react to Escape From Tarkov game life action movie Raid is legit! As other US military vets reacted to this stuff.😂 When will your book 2 be released in the future?🤔

You guys are very entertaining and provide useful content even for civilians

I’ve been waiting for this

Never saw this one so gonna do it ASAP! Looks pretty bad ass 💪💪

Best video game and one of the best short films about the game out there!!

Does anyone know if their full length reaction to the whole Raid series exists (perhaps on their patreon?), or is this 35 min clip basically it?

Thats pretty neat yall watched tarkov. Love playing tarkov! Best shooter looter survival and most realistic one so far.

Is there a website or something of that nature that I can get some info on that waist pull line? Or a place I can buy one. That needs to become part of my s*** has hit the fan set up lol

will you review Enemy at the Gates?

As a guy that plays games like tarkov and rainbow six siege I will say that I find it kinda chilling that cqb is similar between real life and games because in high level rainbow 6, 1 person is gonna be shot but it is up to your teammate to finish the gunfight.

Damn wish you did the full series not just parts of it

Great review!!

You fuckers gotta rewatch this captions, sooo good. Awesome breakdown, thanks fellas

14:00 I think the warehouse team didn't move because they were covering for the men outside and trying to get them back to group

OMG U GUYS ACTUALLY DID IT. U GUYS TOOK MY RECCOMENDATION

11:18 Since you mentioned that movies never show the importance of slings I have a movie suggestion for you guys to cover, Elite Squad (2007), it’s a Brazilian movie about an elite police unit, the main character from that movie makes a whole point about the importance of the sling and it is quite funny. I think it is quite a realistic movie, but I don’t know, just leaving it here as a suggestion.

At 11:00 I agree BUT, quite a bit of others I know always run without a it slung

Strike Back Series - started in 2010, not the BBC series before. skinmax got ahold of it and made it fun. After a few seasons, it went off because actors went on to movies. Then fans brought back 4-5 more seasons a few years later ---- yes, ridiculous circumstances

nex time big screen for the movie & smaller for you guys ? especially for fast moving camera like this it was hard to see what was happening on such a small screen

We had green berets teach us that in fort bliss out near white sands, but we had engineering tape, tied to the little handle on our iotv in the back. So you could sling the tape around you, and drag your teammate if in the situation.

Thank you guys, now is time to review "Elite Squad" from 2007!!

Awesome flick! You guys should seriously consider reviewing this movie called "ELITE SQUAD". It's based on the Brazilian Special Forces Group called B.O.P.E. They operate in the favelas in Rio De Janeiro. That would be interesting to see you guy's take.

It would be interesting to see you guys break down RU SF tactics vs US. Also I'd love if you guys could talk about what to do in a WROL situation. The thing about tarkov lore that makes it interesting is the unique situation. What would you do if an emp (possible nuke) went off? How would you react to being a merc completely cut off and left for dead, your only option to survive and try to escape? Not only fighting other PMCs but the local gang bosses taking advantage of the chaos. I know you guys always look at it from a SF perspective because that's how you're trained but please consider this! Loved the video, been playing tarkov 3 years now and no other game gives me an actual adrenaline rush.

🙋🏻‍♂️ have you guys reviewed "the siege of Jadotville"

this is awesome i never would have met you guys probably ever but i’ve played EFT for years and love / HATe it lol it’s the best ever PVPVE hard-core looter shooter anyways i have subbed keep up the great work 🎉

Great video guys, very enjoyed it. Got a minor gripe though, at around 15:00, you criticise the lack of communication, but the guys in the 'movie' are talking about the fact that they are pinned and need to get out of there, but you didnt have the subtitles turned on ;) . They do have ENG SUBS version available

About the slinging your rifle part. A interview with Marcus Luttrell spoke about losing his rifle at one point because if he would have had it sling it would have broke more bones maybe even killing him.

Had a mate of mine not have a sling on his styer on deployment, our sop was to run the sling thru our seatbelt on our patrol vehicles... we went over a bump and his rifle went flying out to a bunch of confused civilans in SI lol

I lived in the Bx years ago. I have seen the poor man’s armored vehicle. Fill the trunk and back seat with bundled newspaper. Don’t know if it worked but I have seen it.

Shooting through the wall is clever unless there is the slight possibility thath there might be hostages in there or the possibility that the occupants are not bad guys at all

16:30 So you are telling me that you haven't discovered subtitles on RU-vid yet?!

Regarding them staying in the same position, they were communicating and they had 2 of their guys in an open position tryna get out of there, so they were covering for them and tryna fix their buddy

there was another video that fought in hospital or something, I remember them switching side of the arm quickly to change the angle, what was that video gain...

So i went and started watching the "movie" with subtitles. It makes more sense and shows they weren't just shooting in a stalemate. They were, at various points, STUCK while trying to get injured guys out or get pinned down guys oit, or getting sandwiched between two forces (USEC and scavs).

It's been awhile since I have watched this movie. My understanding is that the people who produced the game Escape from Tarkov. Also produced this movie. My understanding is that former Spetznas. Were the military advisors.

Ive been playing escape from tarkov since 2018 its the most realistic first person shooter ive played. Its super detailed lots of mechanics huge learning curve but super intense and fun to play.

The whistle gives you a split second to hit the dirt

click CC on the video yall watched

Watch CC on the video because you guys not getting the scene! They couldn’t move because they assume they were gonna get ambushed and two of there guys weren’t there who were out on recon!

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Awesome video game, super detailed / realistic. Super addictive once you start playing to.

What is Kurt's margarita recipe?

16:12 well said, its even in Anime media w/ localization meets dubbing.

I have trained with many people, different slings etc. I single point a rifle a lot (I was left handed left eye dominant) or no sling attached unless I start running. But working in Ukraine, Ukraine and Russians run unslinged a lot,even SSO(special forces)

For the sling part I agree in CQB but try it in trenches now.

On a historical note: 22 SAS (at least in the days of Andy McNab and Chris Ryan) had a culture that frowned upon using slings on their rifles. I think the mentality was that your hands were supposed to be glued to the weapon or within arms reach at all times. Still, it apparently didn't apply to CQB using the MP5, as can be seen in photos from the Iranian Embassy siege.

I was always told that if we get stuck in a firefight in a hallway and the hallway is long enough, throw a grenade down the hallway. Obviously you have to take into consideration what the house is made out etc because of shrapnel.

The situation where the guy drops his rifle while running from cover to cover was because the rifle was actually shot out of his hand, a round just hits his rifle and it flys out of his hand. Just a thing i wanted to point out, great video, yall are amazing. ✌

The tarkov movie is made by russians so a lot of their tactics and ttp's are based on what they do given that some of their production are ex RU mil and sof. It's nice to see the difference between western and RU tactics. They also made it to where there are Russian PMCs fighting western PMCs so the americans gotta be the lesser force against their own. Tarkov is legit the best game ever though. Still in beta for almost a decade but still an amazing game. Most in depth shooter ever.

Regarding the weapon throw and slings. He had a sling on his gun it just wasnt wrapped on him. It looked like he thought it was around him.

EFT was beautifully done.

never did military service but I am a gun guy and I too never understand not having the gun slung it's a 3rd point that can help reduce recoil and you can drop the gun and still have it on you.

2:13 “I want to get the game now because of this movie” and so it begins