"Old Age & Treachery - The Unstoppable 77th Infantry Division" | Kip Reacts to The Fat Electrician 

Shit, we ran out of crayons.

@@just_saying__ I can confirm that marines do in fact eat crayons. One of my friends was in the marines and he ate crayons.He sent me a photo of him in uniform, munching on a crayon.

It's just the cloaker scream at the end

Or just the fact that they had full families to go home to. Where the younger divisions just had, maybe, a wife (until the Dear John letter came, that is). The mentality shifts to "I'm not going home in a forever box because I left your ass alive."

With an average age of 33 it's unlikely they'd have children old enough to be drafted

@@General_Weebus average does not mean that most of them are exactly 33 years old. Most of them would fall into the 28-38 age range. A significant percentage would be in their 40's. A very small number would be in their 50's.

​@@General_Weebus actually makes it very likely that there would be quite a few like that.

My stepfather was at Okinawa. From what he told me the officers are the only reason any Japanese survived. I suspect the 77th was more adept at accomplishing desired outcomes while avoiding repercussions.

The alpha test before that one army field commander that trained with the British SAS

Them talking about that whole thing is great. Also I love Brandon's take on Trophy Skulls

That was one of their best episodes, too! Love that podcast. I highly recommend it to anyone who might have an interest in history, firearms, and just dumb bro humor in general.

Same unless they want a dude with only one eye functioning while the other is basically useless

Same because autism and Asperger’s syndrome go brrrrrrr and I’m weak as hell

@@xboxplayer2899 same though add tourettes to the mix with most of the tics being physical for me

Same. Mild aspergers and not super healthy.

Robert McNamara: "You sure about that?"

same. during boot we had a guy. Simpson, medically retired police officer from Prince George's County, 28 years old. Remember distinctly one day the Kill Hat messing with him bad, as Kill Hats are prone to do. While in mid yell with his finger in Simpson's face he asks him what his MOS is. Simpson just calmly looked back at him, and said...Intelligence. D.I. froze, with his finger still in his face, then just walked off. LOL we were left alone pretty much the rest of the day.

That's so cool!

Yep, that is the ad read from an earlier video he did, forgot which one. He likely re-used it for time constraints and he said this video took a lot of time.

That was 100% the US justification for doing so. Some may disagree whether such a cold, utilitarian moral calculus can justify such a horrible decision, but a US invasion of the Japanese mainland, and what the Japanese military had planned to stop it, would likely have been a truly SICKENING bloodbath. They were drilling schoolchildren to counterassult beaches with spears, and to use poison gas on their own troops. They had been telling mothers for years at this point that Americans would eat their babies, and effectively enough that women were lining up to toss said babies off cliffs to mercy kill them in Okinawa before the Marines got there. Dropping the bombs not only saved a generation of Americans, but quite possibly saved Japan from “never surrender”-ing itself until nothing but the bare rock of their island remained.

I just realized after 7 minutes as well

they had to tone down what he did for the movie. if they put in the truth everyone would have thought the film was making stuff up!

Should also watch the HBO WW2 shows; Band of Brothers, The Pacific, and Masters of the Air.

I didn't like they made him a Marine in the movie and Vince Vaughn basically doing a knock off R Lee Ermey routine from Full Metal Jacket.

@@theroachden6195 You mean a Drill Sargent/Drill instructor routine?...the occupation they both acted out? That's what they do, it's not copying Ermy lol.

@@SgtSplatter782 They also had to shorten his career significantly, the things he did on Guadalcanal alone could've been another move.

Yes active military is 3rd yet the technology is at minimum a decade better. The benefit to our military men and women is that they are all volunteers so the will to fight is much higher than the conscripted soldiers in other countries.

And you can forget about the Blackjack.

The days of I have more people are more or less over. Think about it this way yo have a combat drone taking out the enemy and they get a lucky shot and take out the drone. That's just a drone the piolet just logs on to another drone and well takes out more people buildings supplies what ever the target is

For Air Force it was 36 when I joined up. We had a 34 year old in basic training we just called "Dorm Dad"

army maybe 35 but navy is higher than that as I had a guy in my bootcamp division who was 41

Navy recently raised it to 38 for enlisted and 42 for officers with specialty degrees like medical

​@@Jiffedupyeah I was about to say, air force, space force, and navy are all 39 for enlisted now and the army is 35. The Marines and the coast guard are the two with the youngest cutoff, with 28 for the Marines and 31 for the coast guard.

Well that’s new, we had a 38 yr old in my platoon. USMC in 2005 in boot camp.

@@Plastikdoom probably got a waiver, I'd imagine.

@@nadjasunflower1387 him? Or me? He very well could’ve got one, but was never mentioned, he was a cool and great guy, he legit taught or tried to as many life lessons as he could that people didn’t know, was never a problem. Sure he had a few issues, but never discipline related or anything like that. I was definitely waivered in from previous injuries, and had to retake the asvab, IST, and all the paper work. As u almost died, shoulda died between my 17th birthday, the day I joined, and before I shipped, after graduation. I rematches day I signed up, I wanted 0331, that was my goal, and what I went for, my recruiter was pissed, as I could do every MOS, but told them no. Well to be fair not mine, at the RSS, the head one from my region wasn’t happy, came down to me telling him to get the fucking papers for 0331 or I’m walking. Right now, yelling at him in front of his junior Marines, he was mad. Said I couldn’t do that, told him to fuck off, I’m a 17 yr old civilian, I can say anything I want to you and you can’t do shit about it. I know what I want, and what I’m gonna do, or I’m leaving. I didn’t sign anything yet, mind you, nor did my parents either, as no papers to sign. As he was holding it up. They had bonuses for different MOS’s and the kore they got for higher end stuff, at least in my area, the better it looked, I coulda been counter intel, or drones, if I wanted, but nope, forced them to take me as an assault man, ahaha. Then a car accident almost and shoulda killed me, was a passenger, we weren’t at fault, legit accident, parts failure caused it. Got medically disqualified, had to fight to get reconsidered, the. Lie to my doctor, so he’d lie to the government, so I could join, almost died in boot camp from pneumonia, but only needed a weeks worth antibiotics and was right as the rain. More or less. My Senior drill instructor kinda freaked out when I was falling out some, and coughing up blood and fluid, going up the reaper, I made it up that bitch. Only a few yards behind my platoon though. And finished the rest of the easier down hill part, the. Took me to medical at Edson, the blood oxygen monitor said I had 53% oxygen, they gave me antibiotics for pneumonia and said I should be dead right now. Told them not the first time I heard it, this is the fourth time, as soon as we got back to MCRD San Diego, my senior drove me to balboa in his car, they tried to get me to take medical discharge, the audacity, told the doc, no, I’m getting out, quitting ever, of my own will. I just finished the entire crucible coughing up blood when I shoulda been dead, do yuh think I’m the type to quit? My car accident, right lung completely collapsed on impact, left lung punctured low and high by two broken ribs. I was still moving. Up and conscious after over 30 minutes after it happened, lived in the country, and was needed to a point afterwards to try to help and help some. Was on less than a 1/3 of my left lung still inflated by the time the meats got to me, after I made the. The only other two survivors, my friend and the guy we hit cause the left front an arm broke in a right hand corner. Who was elderly and found out afterwards, a retired senator from our state. As far as dying was going, I was the worst, by far, but my buddy broke the steering wheel off the column with his face. About 1/3 of his face is titanium after that, he was constantly blacking out, they wanted to take me me first, told then no, you’re taking him, as head injuries can kill you in the blink of an eye. Made them take the old guy next. Who didn’t seem so bad, but he was old as dirt, and hitting, he needed uk being perfectly fine. I was the last to go. As his gf and also my friend burned in the car, the floor board crumpled around her legs, couldn’t get her out, I got my self out and my friend who was driving. Was too much on fire, and well, being mostly dead, couldn’t even try to bend the steel that held her, even if only sheet metal, and no tools. To this day, beside one time in Iraq, that day when I was 17 messes me up the most, at times. I got myself out, as no one to help me, and I noticed it was catching fire and only one conscious, kicked open and broke the steel latch on the older car, got out, ripped out the window, got my buddy out, checked I. The old guy real quick, see if he had anything that could help, he didn’t, then tried to get her out, couldn’t and got pulled out, while still trying by people who seen the wreck and tried helping. Oh yeah, lost another of blood of internally by the time I was in the ambulance and leaving too, it was a bad day. All around for everyone. The worst part, like 6 months after the accident I’m still at home, about to go to school again, happened in end of November, day before thanks giving, also my mom’s birthday. So right in that last couple weeks of May, after my birthday, right when about released to go back to school and journal life, get a knock, it was like 6 pm…and her parents where there when I opened the door, first time I really seen them, like personally since then, and the hardest part, they apologized to me. I still can’t cope with that one, I’m the one that failed, I got out, got someone else out, made sure then only other one who lived was gonna be immediately ok, but couldn’t get her out…and they apologized to me, about it. Every November or when I think about it too much, I hate myself for not doing more, and failing her. I was the inky at the time. Conscious that can and does remember it all, no one else does, my which is good for my buddy, he was suicidal enough for years and years after that, eve with me always talking him down, at least he was still able to join also, or else he woulda killed himself of if I was gone and he was stuck back home, I was the only one he’d listen to early on. He had a severe concussion and thankfully didn’t remember anything nuke the first few seconds. Cause well, trapped in a burning car, that’s, that’s hell, I don’t know or can’t say if it’s real, hell that is, in the religious sense, if it is real, then it’s what I already went through at 17. Not fun or pretty’s I’m Not particularly religious, especially after that happened. As after living g that, if god is real, he’s a piece of shit with a magnifying glass, burning bugs for fun and a total sociopath. There I said it, but is the truth, no all powerful being would let a 17 yr old girl burn to death, while she begged and pleaded and I had to be dragged out by others, while I’m dying, trying to save her, and if that’s god, well he’s fucking useless. When I do more than he ever did.

Mine barely covered WWII at all, although my junior hear history teacher was a Holocaust denier so...

most American education literally does that, which is exactly why people get so aggressive against the idea that America won the war on it's own, half of the citizens in America believe it bc their education system gave them that impression and people are tired of it, also the US education system tried to cover a lot of soviet contributions to the war as well, even in places where they are teaching about the other countries involved sometimes, American education is like a step away from a propaganda machine at the best of times

It's always the boats.