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“Freedom cables” sounds like something approved by the Super Earth Authority

Best memory of training: DS gassed our position outside. Some time passed and someone yelled “all clear” as a joke. One guy took his mask off, started coughing, put it back on, then yelled “Whoever said ‘All Clear’ is a fuckin’ asshole.” The entire troop laughed. Good times.😂

I love how Matt's just quietly sitting there, while the others talk about military training, thinking to himself, "But did you ever have to go armpit deep up a cows arse, again and again and a again."

An old buddy of mine was Cajun, and completely immune to that, probably as a result of eating chemical warfare his whole life.

I hear people call slave cables "NATO Cables". The funniest part is that every Humvee, Gen, LMTV, and other vehicles/equipment still all have "Slave Recepticle" on the input.

I knew a guy who on his first day at the M2 range disintegrated a deer on accident. the targets were these pop-up cutouts of vehicles, and since it was also the first time they used the range that spring, the local wildlife got a little too comfortable. on his turn a deer was launched up with the target, and then turned into pink paint.

Went through the gas chamber at Parris Island in July of 1984. I was one of the individuals that was not hardly affected at all. We had to sing the first verse of the USMC Hymn without our masks.

I had to get CS gas exposure every year for four years at my civilian job. The job was working at a max security prison. On a related note, my wife worked at the same prison, and on gas shack day, they discovered that she is in that 19% that isn't affected by CS gas. They kept her in the gas chamber for 20 minutes while she just chilled out.

Went through Air Force Basic Training in August 2021. Never did the gas chamber ever. Nick saw my comment on his video and was like wtf?! Really?

I was one of the lucky ones who wasn't effected by CS or CN, and high resistance to OC as well. After getting out of the Army, I went to work at the state prison system and during the academy they had a "gas chamber" with a tear gas grenade smoking inside a garden shed. I went in with 3 others and they ran out crazy. I sat down and light a cigarette then casually walked out. The instructor was so butthurt that he apologized for not having a strong enough gas chamber for some people as he glared at me.

Instead of calling the mechanical pair "master and slave", call 'em "DPS and healer" cables

I was the guy who was totally unfazed by CS. I was scared to death to go through the gas chamber in 1999 at Benning when I went through basic. When it was my turn, I removed my mask, deliberately breathed in deep...and nothing. The most I felt was a tingling on the back of my neck. I watched one guy absolutely lose his mind, panic, begin running for the exit with his eyes closed, and immediately knock himself out when he ran face first into the wall because his eyes were closed. Later on, in law enforcement at the academy, I got to redo the gas experiment, except this time it was with pepper spray (Freeze +P). It also had a negligible effect on me and I was able to easily keep my eyes open the entire time and basically just let it run down my face, into my nose, my mouth, and directly into my eyes. It's cool to be unfazed by it due to some gene, but the amount of people that don't believe you and ask you to "prove it" got out of hand. I got tired of being sprayed in the face just so I could smile and continue having a conversation as if it was nothing more than water that was used.

“EVERYBODY LOOK” is the funniest shit ever.

This is one of the best lineup of hosts ever. Id watch with these 4 any day!!

One time, at Army camp...In Bosnia my team was attached to the Turks, the Turks had 25 meter range. Our Chief got the idea of running a familiarization range for the Turks, Let them fire our weapons, we'd fire theirs. We run it up our chain, the Turk chain. Everyone oks it, a date is set. we draw enough ammo to run a Battalion through a mag for M16 and a 20 round belt on the SAW. Day of arrives. The Turk CO fires a mag, the XO fires mag, the Sgt Maj fires a mag...."Thank you, that was fun" thats it they were the only ones to show up. Seems to have been a breakdown in communication. the Turk CO thought his men had better things to do. Chief looks at the 5 CASES of now open Ammo he drew for this event, then he looks at me. "SPC C2D, yes Chief? We cannot return this ammo, we will never be allowed to draw anything from depot again. But we HAVE to turn in expended Brass....I'll see you at dinner" I was there all day, The linked SAW ammo went pretty fast, my hands were hamburger from loading mags. I have not enjoyed mag duping into trash since.

We had two guys talking about how they would never want to do that again, the drills heard them. They had to go through it again. That was in 2022

I went through basic at Benning in 87. We had some reserve drill instructors show up to do their training with our company. When we went to the m60 range, 1 of them picked up a 60 and was about to do a Rambo impersonation when the range officer yelled over the loud speaker to " PUT THE FUCKING WEAPON DOWN AND GET OFF OF MY RANGE ".

11:31 they need angry cops to come in Drill Sergeant mode to do this

I did the gas chamber at fort Benning in 2014, honestly felt like I just inhaled a pepper shaker with slight tingling on the skin and the feeling of smoke in the eyes. Shit sucked but wasn't terrible, ended up having to do it twice and the second time the one ds who was a green beret medic looked at me and asked if it sucks and I said "it isn't enjoyable drill sergeant" and he just started dying of laughter because he knew it was having very little effect.

As someone who was mostly unphased by the cs, it cleared my sinuses and my own mucus was the most uncomfortable part, however looking a drill in the eyes and getting through the whole soldiers creeds without flinching was fun af. We even had a double dose because there was 4 groups and 5 tabs

And they have the balls to wonder why recruiting numbers are low. 😂

I'll bet ya CIF STILL wants this SINGARS book I've had since '95 😂

Ntc, 7 in the morning, takeing a field shower, completey naked, the oct hit us with cs gas from a 55 gallon drum with two inch hose, there are parts of the body that should not take direct hit from cs ...😂

I was hoping that someone would bring up the burps, remember being in line for chow and burped. Looked like my soul was leaving my body.

13f here. Never a line we wouldn't cross with zero F's given. Article 15's were RIFE in my Company if not the entire Division ❤❤😂

I guarandamntee the grunts call them CIA cables instead of something as mind bogglingly stupid as “freedom cables.”

“MY ARMS ARE OPEN AND MY WINGS ARE FLAPPING DRILL SGT!” 😂 good times at ole Knox, I was a holdover for not ever being able to run so I got the pleasure of doing it twice.. and once after NIC @ Nite.

Yeah Linecrosser! School of hard knox.....gassed at the claymore range here.......my old barracks is now the museum on post.

Thing is you also really don’t want to be known as the guy who was immune to CS in basic. Cause the minute you reach your unit and anyone else in your class comes with you, you are immediately outed that you didn’t suffer and become NO1# in line for taking your mask off to test if chemicals are still around.

I was one of those people who was not really affected by the gas. It was pretty funny watching people panic

My first qualifying I know I short hopped a round but Ssg. Brown called it a hit because the target dropped. The shit you remember from 42 years ago. 😂

A buddy of mine left the active military in the late 80s and went into the Guard. One day he pulls a paper grocery bag of blanks out of his trunk and gave them to me for no reason I can recall - but I shot them all up. It was about 400 rounds.

Times sure has changed. Back in the 1950s, we kids would jump on our bikes with small backpacks. Go out to the West range at Ft. Sill collecting brass just laying on the ground. Filled a dozen five gallon buckets. Parents took them to junk yard and sold the brass. Christmas money!

Same damn things in the corps. In Garrison: Logistical nightmare of preparation (and no, the corpsman qualifying with you don't count for medical support). waiting for a range to be available just to spend half a day in the back of a 7-ton. Stay in some dingy barracks rooms. Spend the whole day shooting and pulling targets in the wind and rain, even when it's the middle of summer. Stay in the same crappy barracks rooms. And another half day ride in the back of a 7-ton. Range in Afghanistan: Scout sniper comes up to you and says "Hey, we got some ammo that needs to disappear. Wanna go shoot?"

LOL We use a Master shelf for providing Time and Frequency to our DoD users. Any shelf directly hooked to it uses the master shelf as it's reference. That is a slave configuration. we were told we had to come up with a new nave for it as slave was offensive. It is now an expansion shelf.

Between 87 and 98 with AAVs in the Marines, I got gassed so much I still burp CS. We had a Ssgt in Lejune that toss a CS grenade into the engine compartment when we were doing our checks in the field

😂😂😂 the collab we needed ❤️

As an MP , SRT member, Army civilian cop we routinely had multiple weapons on a single range. But absolutely the rest of that is true!

I remember being at the end of a line of unmasked guys, waiting my turn to recite name, rank and social security number. Some deusche nozzle down the line freaked out and started running, so the DI stopped all of us, until he got the freak to stop running in the chamber. Finally, I calmly exited and had snot running out of my nose that looked like elephant tusks. Our DI's weren't even wearing masks.

You guys brought so many memories with this one. I loved the range, but clearing afterwards sucked. I also wasn't keen on being either range OIC, NCOIC or RSO. That occurred several times because as 11C my range certification covered several heavy weapons. My theory one why it's "wet and dry" is that someone gave a high speed presentation on why the language should change as a way to get promoted.

Parris Island boot camp 2003 gas chsmber..was holding my breath cause my strap on my mask broke ...DI punch me in the my stomach and told me told "breath recruits"...needless to say the sinus infection i had got cleared out😂

I tell you that I am soooooooooo glad to have retired in 2013 after 23yrs 10 mnts and 8 days . All but the Corp has grown soft , and I hear from the Army soldiers an NCO who are now serving

Did CBRN back in 2019 during Air Force basic training. One of the dudes with me had been drinking lots of water that day and got so scared going in the gas chamber he pissed in his mop gear💀

HLC just going full "Army-tism" on this. Thanks HLC!

OMG! Someone who’s actually been where I’ve been and has done what I’ve done! Of course, I did it back in the seventies, but still. And yes, I know what a KATUSA is. Also, I had to go through the “gas chamber “.

The returning of ammo and brass is an Army thing. The Corps don’t fracking care about the brass. As an ammo tech I didn’t give two shits about the brass

I had to do the chamber twice at Ft Benning. Came out laughing the first time.

Dude, the medic part hit the nail on the head! That's some of the shit I do miss about the service

My basic training flight had two people pull their masks off when the MTIs said to just loosen the straps. I sat there and watched for like two minutes as these guys were just dying in there. It was quite entertaining

I was that guy that was unaffected. I used to be in the recruit training cadre and I used to love the "Gas Room" but we can't call it that now, for "Reasons " . No I used to smoke, and I'd go into the room with out Mt respirator whilst all the recruits were getting briefed and they'd see me do this and think this ain't going to be too bad. They'd walk in all masked up and see me standing there unmasked and talking and giving them their decon drills. Then when they finished that I'd pull each out and do the name, rank, and number with a big smile on my face as I'd watch them take a big gulp of CS and then begin chocking and dribbling and snot and tears running down their face as they realise that their face and lungs are on fire and all my buddies are in the corner in fits of laughter. It was friking awesome. I will always refer to it as the Gas Room/Chamber, happy times

Brand new HMMWV, Slave cable port was wired backwards, so welded the slave cable to the port, they had to remove the whole battery box under the seat to cut the old port off. nearly fried the Generator/hvac unit i was trying to jumpstart for our monthly testing. MT got so mad at me when i told them i ruined another set of cables 🤣 Also, my trick for the Gas chamber. Take carmex, and gob about twice as much as you normally would on your lips, Once the CS starts, NO breathing through your nose, Only through your mouth, barely open so as much air as possible hits the carmex, between that and shallower breathing the gas chamber is a breeze.

Hey Matt! Tell us about some of your adventures in Vet School!

I was in a quartermaster unit. Range day was the best day of the training cycle.

Sat on a stump and laughed my off!

Wont hear Rolling Stone's Slave for the same reason on the FM Great song Do it 🎸 Do it🎷 Do it🎸

In the corps we do “dry runs” before live firing on the range but thank god we can still just tell range control that we’re hot or cold.

Bro. I remember I was in Ft. Drum years ago and we had a brand new 2LT (may have been 1LT, can’t remember) in charge of supply, and we had to have a massive hunt for a set of NVGs that were ‘missing’. That shit ate up like 9 hours on a Friday and whole company was on lockdown until they found them. When they were finally located come to find out that new LT had stuck the bastards on the top shelf in the SI cage so nobody could flippin see them. Evidently including his 6’6” ass 🤦🏽‍♂️🇺🇸🥃🥃🥃🥃🥃

15 years in and went to Knox as well… great times I miss those days

During a JRTC rotation I was in HQ PLT and we got absolutely pissed on that night by the storm. We had to stop movement and wait out the storm. Next morning we weren't in any particular hurry to move again, so I was gathering foliage to camo my truck. Then I hear a gunshot followed by the "whistling" of a round passing me. I jump to the ground and crawl to the hmmvw and shake the commander awake. Turns out that range control let a national guard unit on the range to qual M4. We were parked on the other side of the burm. Even worse, the mortar section had been sent out earlier that night. They told me they were screaming cease fire on the end of the burm. It was slightly awkward passing the ng unit as we left. 😂

Only time we had enough chaw for seconds and people jumped on it and quickly regretted it.

From a Medic named Nick, I can tell you, a semi-squared away Medic does have an awesome time on Range day in the Army 😁

I absolutely love CS! The smell, the taste, the feeling....... Yea CS is awesome!

I fucking love linecrosser, and he is made for podcasting, hes so good and talking and being compelling

Lol ironically in basic I got lucky as we were the last class to Qual with the A1. After nightfire Qual they gave us stacks of mags said go full auto, and if it stopped running put it down raise your hand. 10 minutes of full auto with tracers slowly angling down as the red hot barrels slowly bent. I went a bit slower intentionally, so I was one of the ones that got the leftover mags, that night turned in my dirty A1 and walked away hapy. And I only got New A2s in AIT and permanent party. Maybe new they were good, but my new out of the box A2s and SAW were 10 times better than the warn out A1 and 60s, at least in training - REMF Active and Reserves in the 90s.

laughs in 74D at running with a gas mask on and CS grenades. CS grenades are a bit more spicy than the chamber though.

It’s worse than HLC describes it. Each range has different requirements for Range Control. For example: the M4 has TWO ranges. A zero range and a qual range. And each range requires its own Range OIC, NCO, and range safety officer (RSO). Before going “hot” you might need like three fire extinguishers: one for the medical vehicle, one for the ammo point, and one at the tower. You need a medical stretcher now. It’s all dependent on the Range Control and how they feel that day. The “no brass, no ammo” thing is absolutely true. Hands across America looking for brass to make weight. Don’t get me started on AHA (ammo holding area) and ammo handler requirements.

GWOT memories came flooding back in watching this one. 😂

I was one of the chosen few that it didn't bother me a bit, thank god

Yeah the brad uses slave cables too, though I believe the reason so many of our vehicles uses them is since they're used throughout NATO countries

I did the the chamber back in 97. Female in my group wouldn’t take her mask off and we were in there for eternity. I don’t remember it being that bad at the time, but a week later I was in the infirmary with pneumonia. Had to recycle and basic took an additional 3 weeks.

I was used to soft covers from the Marine Corps. While in the Army Reserves being an armorer, I walked up to the line with my PC on. I got pulled aside because the BDE Commander didn't like it.

Eli Doubletap: Name and last four of social. Fort Sill A1-22: Recite the entire soldier's creed in room hot boxed with cs gas.

This literally brought back my national service memories

when i went through only thing happened to me was i got a bloody nose after i left the "chamber"

I was that unphased guy at Basic. I can only think that I grew up in Los Angeles and was used to smog. They pulled us in and we went through the process. The Drill Sergeant tells us to remove our masks. I felt uncomfortable and my eyes are watering, but nothing really bad. The Drill Sergeant had us say our name, rank and SSN to get out and I calmly told him. He got so pissed at me that he made me wait two groups before he would let me leave. And, this immunity stuck with me. We did a gas chamber while I was in the 25th Infantry. I was put in charge because I could stay in the chamber the entire time without an issue.

I was one of the lucky ones who the cs didn't affect horribly, so I got called out to go through with three groups. I ended up with a bit of a runny nose at the end of it, didn't really think too much of it, but then we had to do the hike back. My sweat reactivated all of it that had stuck to my cammies, and I basically cleared out my platoon because everybody who got close to me started hacking all over again and started falling out.

Ah brass party after range shoots......the memories😂😂😂

God hearing you say Slave cable takes me back to Parallel ATA or IDE as commonly referred to as. Having to move jumpers around on HDD's just to have a second hard drive. Boy how I don't miss those days lol

Yo facts about the pop up targets!!!!

In 2001-2005 all we did in 29 palms, Kuwait, and Iraq was run in MOPP 4 practice shooting an AT-4 full of sand doing reaction drills running.

We got done with a range in time to be back to watch the finals, proceeded to spend all day looking for rounds because we were way under. We couldn’t find anywhere near how much they said we needed. We were all crawling looking for rounds, maybe seeing slave songs maybe not, the rounds we were brining back were in the ground and clearly had been there for a long ass time. Then finally like 2 quarters into the game the ammo people are just like “our bad…”

Basic training at Fort Jackson. Sept. 87'. Honor Graduate at Ft. Gordon. I'm the son of an Air Force retired Vietnam vet (5 tours). His brother is retired Army warrant officer (chopper pilot Vietnam & Desert Shield/Storm), mom's 3 brothers all retired NCOs Vietnam era Army Vets. Try 5 pounds of NBC gear in September South Carolina heat! We got CS gassed in basic, with hooded gas mask. Hell we had to remove mask, name, rank, social security #, home of record, & place of birth,( this made sure you got 2 full breaths of CS gas). the whole time it felt like 110⁰f in suit. Sweating hard. Smoked a pack of Marlboro a day since I was 12.

Lol I mean that person who reported those seals lol

We called the jumper cables NATO cables when I was in 1 year ago

I heard a group of Marines.who did the complete opposite of saving the brass. The group was assigned so much ammo. That even the guys in charge. were so tired of range time. They actually buried thousands of rounds of ammo.

It was always a pain with brass but a lot of times if they drew too many rounds we got to kinda free fire for about 30 mins or so.

I finally got to the point where being the OIC wasn't a nightmare. My PSG was amazing and i passed up company command to get PL time. Therefore i was a quite senior 1LT. My worst experience was waiting 6 hrs for range control to clear my range to leave. Thanks Ft knox. I just expected getting bitched while running a range.

Hearing ab army range makes me laugh so hard after being marine corps

16:48 My dad was a series officer at Parris Island for a year, he had a Master Sergeant who would run the chamber without a mask smoking a cigar and never got affected.

Why were your knees burning...there is no answer he can give which will be accepted by anyone! ROFL CS clears the mind soul and nasal passageways!

At Ft Leonard Wood in the 1980s, there was a designated entrance and designated exit; you couldn’t see the exit from the staging area. Right in front of the of the exit was a giant tree, and the Drill Sergeants laughed their asses off as troops staggered out the door straight into the tree. I had done my homework, and I knew about it, so I exited and did an immediate column right. Our “good cop” Drill Sergeant got in my face and asked me how I knew to do that. I replied “I’m MI, Drill Sergeant!” He had a good laugh over that.

I had a dude in my platoon during basic that was immune to CS. The Drills made him go through the chamber three times because they thought he was cheating it some way. After still not being affected, the Drill Sergeant from another platoon would say, "Pvt Bell. You are a baad MF'er".

I remember when I was in and I had to jump start a humvee, if you lift the seat cover right by the port, the batteries are there, you just hook up to one of the 12v batteries and pump some juice into it.

"What's the opposite of slavery? FREEDOM!" Well, freedom is slavery, comrade. Praise Big Brother!

When I went through during boot camp, my drill instructor told me to sing. Happy Birthday to myself in there. Because it landed on my birthday.

I successfully started a rumor that mustard cancels out the effect of OC spray when I was Bliss in 2009. I asked an oc weeks later if "it" was true and he went on a 2 minute rant about mustard packets everywhere in the decon area.

3:04 so should I call the particular part in a hydraulic clutch a "freedom cylinder" now?😂😂😂😂

My dad had to go through the gas chamber during his time at navy basic training, However before he enlisted he was a cop and this was during the time before they used pepper spray and used tear gas so he apparently was somewhat”immune” to its effect. He said “Yeah it sucked but my buddies used to spray tear gas at each other as a prank.”

I always shot the dirt at the base of the target to kick rocks up and hit it, scored expert all 4 years👍

13:55 my Drill Sargent said the same thing to us as well. Like the exact same thing.