I'm not from America but even that hurt me when i read this, other than California i guess i'll now avoid Fort Polk like it's got super Covid Spanish Death Plague like i do California.
Also be careful with California, starting next year they're going to be charging you $0.30 for every mile you drive. And considering they have over fifty thousand miles of road, the politicians are doing their damnedest to bankrupt every single person in their state.
So Zach is the Small arms repairman, Mike is the one adding color commentary and listening. Also didn’t mean it to sound rude, keep up the good reactions Kit!
Zach is ex infantry small arms repairman, and Mike is his old friend and ex-Marine. Both are golden people and a great source of genuine military veteran humor.
The lesson you should learn from the bullet argument is: "Don't argue with idiots, they'll drag you down to their level and beat you woth experience." 🤣
Oh yeah man, we had a CSM who’s wife demanded my soldiers salute her when we saw her with the greeting of the day, like she was an officer. When I brought it up to our command sergeant major, he said “if I hear that you don’t treat my wife with respect, I will make your world hurt.” It was bonkers. I tattletaled immediately. He got written up. 😂
Now see, that bugs me. Not only am I not going to salute any civilian, especially the entitled Wife/Husband of an enlisted member, unless they are actually wearing a Medal of Honor or Presidential Medal of Freedom. Most officers I have worked with actively prefer not to be saluted when out of uniform. I'm glad your CSM got written up for his conduct. Good on you, man!
@@QuixoteBadger Same, this all took place when I was a Staff Sergeant, going through my stint as a DS. I had absolutely no idea what to do when my soldiers told me that, I had a young kid who broke his foot during the 2nd PFT of our Infantry OSUT cycle, and he told me that’s what was going on during staff duty at company headquarters. I walked passed him, and went straight to our Lt. Colonel/battalion commander, who at first thought i was pulling a joke on him, but he realized I wasn’t and he just said “what the shit? Okay, Drill. I suppose, um, I’m going to go have a word with him about that. You forget this happened, because it will not fucking happen again.” 😂
@@byronmiller2443 Even as a Marine rather than a soldier, I feel like there is a good joke Mark Baker could have made about this back in the day. How in the holy hell did that guy get to thinking he could pull this kind of thing on a Drill? It was literally your job to weed out complacency.
@@QuixoteBadger you would expect to see SOME level of professionalism from a CSM. it’s crazy to think that someone who’s gotten to E-9 is so self righteous and situationally arrogant & unaware. Like, brother, you’ve MADE it. You can’t go farther as enlisted than a Command Sergeant Major, except Sergeant Major of the Army, but that’s still being an E-9. How are you the staple & ideal enlisted soldier for an infantry training battalion? One of the more bizarre things to experience. It’s no war story, but god was it just plain silly.
The military is an enigma. You can have soldiers that have no idea how their rifle works, and then you have the guys that wish they were allowed to mod their rifle because they could fix what's wrong with it better than the armorer if they had the tools
You can basically sum up positions in the military into two categories: rank and authority You might have a higher rank than say an EOD technician but when there's a situation that involves him he is god. You don't dispute him.
Kinda of like how I'm a Specialist who is a medic was tending to soldier who got his foot crushed on hurricane orders and a butter bar 2n Lt was trying to tell me how to do my job then insisted on taking an armored hummvee instead of the FLA I drove there in when we weren't in a warzone, we were in fucking New Orleans
It's always a fucking treat to watch military personel react to these military stories, you can always see their face light up and either rip into these stories or simply enjoy the fuck out of them lmao, so satisfying.
mikeburnfire is in yellow subtitles. zach hazard is in white subtitles. zach is the storyteller and mike just keeps the conversation going whilst throwing in some tidbits of his own stuff. BUT mike owns the channel Zach has his own channel named Zach Hazard
ah what? okay thats new to me im sure i can see red and blue AS red and blue... wtf??? im sooo confused right now... your not pulling my leg, are you? as far as i know there is no colorblindness that corrects blue and red to yellow and white
@@hunterofthemist7159 omg yes zachs subs turn red with a blue outer line and mikes become white blue-ish for a short amount of time.. but otherwhise i would be correct. and the thumbs ups i got indicate that im right about this. or is it not the case and im just dumb as hell AND colorblind... and im also dumb as hell for saying the mikes subs are yellow(wich they usually are) but this time they are not....
@@BLACKFLAME4941 Mikes subs are always white with a red border. Zach’s are always white with a blue border. Any other color means they are speaking as a character or person (quoting or paraphrasing included) they are not. I’ve watched the every single fallout episode and some other it’s always like that. Also never take thumbs up as an indicator. Only the sub color was wrong in your comment they could’ve liked for the rest. Blatantly wrong info still gets thumbs up. I’ve seen disproven info with thousands of likes before.
Mike was a reserve marine, Zach was a Small Arm repairs man who served in Iraq. He has stories since he was deployed but Mike (as far as I understand and he has said) was not deployed to active combat.
From what I remembered from their series is that Mike only got deployed to africa as a reserve I think? A guy who was guarding with him went crazy because heat madness and one of the local soldiers keep hitting on his sergeant "you can be my 3rd wife".
not military but i DID get into an argument with a woman who was addiment that her husband being in the military gives her the same privileges and accomidation status as the elderly or disabled (parking spaces, bringing a PET into the resturaunt, discounts and prefered seating). and somehow she should get the military discount because her husband was in the military. IRONICALLY enough, one of our line cooks was also the small arms repairman for her husbands unit, and said and I QUOTE "Tell that dumbass E-3 husband of yours if he doesnt stop jamming the magazine backwards I'm gonna send his rifle off to another random fucking company and he can go hunt for it like Blues Clues."
Sure like most people below said this. Mike is the higher pitch voice. He's marines. Zach Hazard is his pal that always tells allot of stories. Zach and Mike are a pretty amazing duo allot. But Zach is like the powerful story teller, and Mike is the content creator and hasher. They do such amazing jobs.
As someone who dealt with a lot (I mean a lot) of helos, crew chiefs were generally the chillest people I ever had to deal with. The first unspoken interaction through eye contact basically went like this. "This is my airfield, that is your helo. We cool? We cool!" If a "First Sergeant" acted up like this, all I would have to tell them is "You just got thrown off the bird, and if you keep acting up I'm gonna throw you off the airfield and you can have fun taking space-a on a convoy. Now sit the fuck down and wait for the next flight." Edit: Just for comparison, the crew chief is basically equivalent to the captain of a Imperial ship in Warhammer 40K. The only authority above them is the Emperor himself. I don't care if you are with the Inquisition. You start acting up, you'll be spending the trip in the brig!
There is a simple reason for this. It is to avoid a situation like happened in the Soviet Union at one point where a bunch of admirals pulled rank on an air crew basically forcing them to severely overload their aircraft they were all flying home on with their BS luggage, which caused the plane to crash, killing like 18 of the top ranking military command because they used their rank thinking they know better than the flight crew. Paper skies has a great video on it. This is why there’s a difference between rank and authority
On the subject of military names. I’m in the US Navy. We have sailors whose name is literally pronounced ‘stain’. E3s are either Airmen, Firemen, Hospital Corpsmen, or Seamen. Our enlisted also combine our jobs with our paygrade in a shortened form. So Interior Communications Technician 2nd Class Petty Officer Balls would be IC2 Balls. There’s a lot of fun to be had with our system.
my uncle once had to deal with a O-4 navy Lieutenant Commander's wife in a super crowded supermarket demand he refer to her by her husbands rank and he said no she then pushed harder and he relented but he would treat her as he would someone of that rank he was an at the time an O-6 Colonel air force waiting for his promotion to O-7 Brigadier General to be finalized and when she was then talked down to as a lesser soldier she got pissed only to find out her husband was a lower rank then my uncle and she made a huge mistake my uncle made her drop and give him 20 and then stand a parade rest and he made her wait in line till everyone else got through there was a line of 30 people behind her
Zach is the one telling the stories Mike is the guy who is the one that Zach is telling the stories to. Mike is just uploading the videos on his channel for their modded Fallout New Vegas play through. Edit: spelling
Mk 19s are awesome and they were a heavy improvement over the Mk.0 which was an oldschool hand cranked version of the system used back in nam. guy just crankin away lobbing grenades
I have a few friends that are in the armed forces and are retired, they always appreciate the military stories from Mikeburnfire. Then they would share similar stories they have. A lot of good, bad, and weird stories.
In the past (going back multiple decades), in the British army, it wasn't unknown for wives of officers to write a formal letter and sign it - for example - "Colonel John Smith, Mrs." I don't think it really happens any more.
That First Sergeant story really pissed me off. Unless you are the supreme commander of a coordinated multi-national military effort for an entire theater of war (5 Star General, only in times of global conflict) or the Master Gunner CWO5 (only ever one at any time, Marine Corps wise) you do not wear your billet on your collar. How the hell is a young troop supposed to refer to you as anything but what they see?
I'm a civilian and I have delt with a few of the "refer to me with my husbands rank" people. They are the worst and extremely entitled. Demanding a minimum wage worker give them a military discount on a Christmas tree at a grocery store and going on a long rant about how you hate the country and are no better than a terrorist if you don't give them what they want. By their logic underpaid heavy lifter in a store = terrorist. Also some grand parents get upset that they don't get a discount because their grandson is deployed. You needed military ID to get the discount.
CLP might be an ubiquitous lubricant in the military but it cant handle really high heat, on the M4 carbine, M240B, M249 and the M16 platforms its used to keep the internals of the guns from jamming but these areas do not get anywhere near as hot to ignite the CLP and its not used on the barrels during operation. The belt fed grenade launcher might look similar to regular machine guns but its on a whole different level of thermal performance.
I'm an 1. Armorer 2. Active duty So I hace stories of both MSG Bob/1SG Bob/1st Douchebag Bob, aswell as people getting their guns broken in stupid ways.
Reminds me of that moment from Monster University. Like what if the Crew Chief was able to respond simply with "Arrest him." "Excuse me?" Before Bob gets tackled!
I'm prior navy and I met a guy who's last name was so long, it couldn't fit on his name tag. I can not remember his name for the life of me but it was like 30 letters long and the name tags vould only fit like 20 with the smallest print they could use.
Zach and Mike have a few series where they act like they're playing in games like Fallout: New Vegas together. That's where these rants about weapons and weird military stuff come from. Zach Hazard is the ranter and has his own Twitch and RU-vid channels. Mike Burnefire is the host, editor, and general PC tech of the partnership. They also have a podcast. Look up "Burn Hazard Podcast" some time. Additionally, Mike has been doing a couple of games with his SO, Anne, as the lead RP. Turns out, she's pretty funny, too.
Those annoying kinds of military wives are usually the wives of soldiers who's personality is being soldier and the wives personality is "my husband is a soldier"
Point of aim versus point of impact, combined with ordinates are used to explain how guns work..... Because guns don't work in straight lines, but optics do.
Ya know, there's a video on Zach's channel where he talks more about the Mk 19 incident, you should react to that. It gives a bit more context and he goes a bit more in-depth about it.
I worked on Post in Fort Bliss for about a decade. I worked with MWR in different locations. I've met spouses who demanded civilians to call them by their husband's rank. Was so crazy. Luckily MWR didn't take that shit and was willing to throw those people right under the bus.
The only reason to undo the screw is if you're fighting zombies or aliens by yourself and there were too many for safety, or something like that. I would never undo the screw, unless I was given one that I didn't know had its screw removed, or it was made with the screw not being put in.
They do go up and then down if its artillery or mortars. So maybe 'Bob' was just assigned the wrong weapon. Also a roided up sergeant who likes to push people around has cop-brain and will become a cop after leaving the military.
12:11 no dont do that thing your doing or you may move the centre of gravity of the chopper forward or aft or left or agiht and if it down we'll all die lol
I had a brother in the military And he told me about the time this kind of thing happened we're a crew chief for the helicopter got angry at a major and knock them out got arrested by military police when the major came to and spent time in a military prison and dishonorably discharged
Hey Sargent kit, awesome video love when you react to Mike burn fire videos, this was cool. Hope you can react to some fat electrician videos in the future that would be awesome. Hope you and the rest of the cast at Chicago reacts stay awesome.
The whole position thing makes sense, i was a h8 recovery specialist that dealt with heavy duty recoveries. Special school n stuff and when there was a recovery, i am the person in charge and safety wise i could tell sergeant majors to fuck off if i felt an action or operation isnt safe. Never did but i knew the safety procedures and the thing i messed with were heavy duty and cold cold physics would maim, bicset, or crush whatever was in its way. Bascially i used a 90 ton recovery vehicle to tow or recover tanks. If a cable or shackle broke, it was going to kill someone. The physics of a tow cable with 90tons of force pulling on it snapping was a guaranteed limb loss if not death. Which is why we had procedures of being in the opposite direction of the tow and at least double the length of the tow cable. That knowledge was nessairy to know safety procautions which give me the jurisdiction to tell anybody of high rank to fuck off unless they had the same h8 qualifications.
Haven't heard of wives claiming husband rank. But I do know a marine sgt. Who was denied base entry once on her military ID cause she was in her husband's car. Who was a marine reserve lt. And she didn't have a military wife Id, since you don't get one if you're also in the military.
