Old Soldier Meets Young Soldier: Airmen Edition | The Gap | LADbible 

vmrre like the last video

@@jefffranklin4894 yeah, thats the reason why i wrote this comment

vmrre lol

There will be sooner or later

Young people are too shit at the game to beat it at veteran level

Respect +

"A scratch? YOUR ARM IS BLODDY OFF"

He's also in a position to be able to actually partake in such a skit.

"I'LL BITE YOUR LEGS OFF!!!!!" What a fucking mad lad. Respect

@@neththeobnoxioussponge8929 no it isn't

Oh, just wait. There will be a lot of those comments.

Very brave men. Added to my channel. I wanted to join army but got viciously attacked by drunks football hooligans for smoking weed. They didn't like it. 3 attacking one. Fascist dangerous haters.

lucasrio_ 457 I have read every comment and I haven’t seen anything but respect

Probably because they are being censored

When they are gone they are gonna be free. Its not sad, yes the stories are gone but they will be happy up there :)

All the WW1 vets are dead :(

You have time there are 16 mil left 350,000 in the Us the last ww1 vet died in 2011 the last civil war vet died in the 1930s Vietnam vets in the us 610,000

It will be WWIII once our beloved veterens are no longer.

@@h3avy62 where do you get that numbers from? I personally think they're much less left than 16 million

How’s that British, could very well see an American say that

@@podomuss sarcasm humor is usually considered British

@@aliawada3544 errrr, I think everyone uses sarcasm

@@podomuss you’d be surprised. I’m a Brit living in america and they are sooo boring no humour at all

@@sebpalmer7881 uhhhh, well I’m American, so????

My grandfather also served in WW2, but he road on a bomber in the Air Force. He never shared much about it. However, I am intending to ask him.

@@NightMaker120 If your grandfather is willing to talk about it, you should. I'm sure the stories are incredible. My great uncle was also a bomber in the airforce. Sadly, out of 20 something bombers, his was the only one to be shot down in the return voyage and there were no known survivors, as the Atlantic ocean was quite frigid at the time. Wish I could have met him, I hear he was quite the man.

@@NightMaker120 I think their willingness to talk is based on what they experienced, and how they dealt with it. Here in Australia on ANZAC Day, after Dawn Service, the RSL (Returned Servicemen League) Clubs would be open for drinks, and was an opportunity to have a drink and chat to the old vets. Sometimes on that day, they would open up a little, but generally a lot wouldn't talk about it other than that day. My great uncle never really spoke about his time much either. They'd been captured by the Japanese in Timor, then spent several years as a POW in Changi and Hellfire Pass. Even after the war, he didn't have any hatred towards the Japanese, as he saw them as soldiers who were misguided, and even refused to make a statement for the War Tribunals. He was generally a very positive person, and yet until the day he died at aged 99, he would never eat rice. The Japanese used to grind down tiny white stones ad add them to the prisoners food, in order to crack their teeth etc, so it's obvious there were still things there that haunted him at some level.

If he was in a tank for the allies he had to have both massive balls and small brain ( no offense ) British and US tanks was so out matched at the time . Both German and Russian tanks were so much better . Heard a vet in a US sherman tank tell his story about peeking through a bush to discover they was right beside a German tank turned broadside . He said they shot it and you could hear the round just " ping " off of it . So they kept shooting 3 or 4 times with it just bouncing off of the German tank before the German tank finished rotating it's turret towards them and shot back at them literally ripping their Sherman in half in one shot

@@maximumenergy5925 He most certainly must have. Turns out he was in the honor guard and was a police officer for many years as well. Yeah, they were certainly outmatched in the tank for a long period of time.

give him a hug please mate! 😊

Such a small world, that’s crazy

RAFAC is absolutely vital in educating young people about the struggles and importance of war. You should be grateful that he has volunteered his time. Ad Astra.

Good luck with the discharge!

@Polish Lad not yet i hardly served 4 years , they told me i was going to get an answer from my commanding officer this monday

@Polish Lad ure from polska Great country

That sounds awful? Are these old mines from the past? What part of the world do you find them?

Jesus Christ

I don't think he is "better". He said several times that he has been struggling with mental health for a while, sure, he does have a sunny disposition here, but that means jack. I know a guy in my unit who was always happy and smiling and always seemed to avoid depressing stuff and last year he blew his brains up with a 12 gauge.

People born in the early 20th Century kinda had to be faster mentally than their following generations. Kinda like Gen Zers are going to have to be a lot hetter than all of us or they are fucked. Harsh times breed strong men and all that malarky.

@@TheBayzent If that was true then a lot of people would be alive at 90years old than lets say 70years old. But that just isnt the case. My grandma is still alive at 91 and doesnt need any aid to walk. But my other grandma died at 70 and they were both born the same year and had the same name too so it must have been just the genes.

My next door neighbour was a British World War 2 Veteran of Burma in the 80's, and I was about 8 years old at the time and we used to hear him marching back and forth in his place at night as it was a semi-detached house. He was captured by the Japanese in WW2 and I remember a few summers when he came and sat with us in the Garden and showed his medals. He only showed the medals as we asked as kids, my brother also at the time. I don't remember his name or even what he looked like, as it was so long ago, but I had fond memories of him, but it was also a bit disturbing for me as a kid with him marching. He clearly had PTSD and it was his way of dealing with it looking back.

I’ve been lucky enough to be in a room with 10 of them, and we each got to hear each of their stories

I have a grandma who was in the french resistance, that's not like soldiers but what they did took balls as well.

@@Ladyvirgule massive balls! They were equally as important as the soldiers!

My grandpa was a ww2 veteran he never talked a word about it. Both of his brothers died there so probably not a fun subject to go deep into.

Yes don’t want to disrespect the old guy, but he was up against a pee shooter compared to an IED or RPG.

True but they didbt have the same equipment and protection we have today. The planes themselves were hazards

Osu default pfp?

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@@dayoki8091 yep

It would be really interesting to hear Korean and Vietnam war vets from the British perspective talk about their experiences

Maybe he saw hell. imagine getting fucked on 2 sides, imagine being in the middle, it's horror man

He literally says "to quote Monty Python" it's not a difficult one to get

Call it a draw

Where is thy holy hand grenade?

@@jetsfokken Nah, that one's from the other one. Meaning of life.

Its chewsday roit quite schtewpid innit?

Huntsman corps are cool af

So content like this helps because I can listen and not make others uncomfortable woth my crying

@@TheMarijaSunshine H