Overwhelming Firepower - Grenada '83 

I feel that. Then I went army infantry and got mismatched camo making me look like some mall ninja tacticool wannabe lmao.

I’ll tell you. The 1980’s and 90’s Army was a completely different beast. It was the rise of masculinity and no political correctness. It was cleaner, sharper, focused, and structured. For some reason after 9/11, it changed drastically… the military started worrying about quantity instead of quality at that point. The Army was looking for anybody to send to Iraq and Afghanistan, standards started becoming more relaxed, anybody could get in, I guess that’s the price in fighting a two-front war in Iraq and Afghanistan with a completely volunteer-only military to recruit numbers. But fast forward to the present day and the U.S military is nowhere similar to what it was back in the day as you see in this video. It may have even cost our military going forward with so many compromises, catering, and political affiliation now… sad times indeed.

​@@arttheclown9458 Thanks for your peace time service bud.

@@andrewhackney6286 boot.

@@arttheclown9458 Yeah nah. The difference between the military you're criticizing and the military you served in is that we have actual combat experience. @me when you've humped a 240 and 1200 rounds of ammo up and down mountain day in and day out for a year. Or when you went house to house to house until the sun came up in Sadr city, day after day, month after month. Say what you want about the politics of modern times, but as woke as you think the military is, were far more lethal that your generation could have dreamed to be.

Love your content and Majorsamm's History With Hilbert you guys keep doing what your doing

we love you dude

much love

He kijk het is Hilbert 😃

And it's only taken me two weeks to check the comments, whoops.

Quite possibly the best display of tactical procurement ever witnessed at the time.

Where's Gunny Highway in all of this?

Engravings don`t give you tactical advantage. Whatsoever.

@@zigapp8186 it's to prevent friendly fire stoopid

@@josephwhite6047 He was making a metal gear reference.

Brilliant.

Best aesthetic in mu opinion so beautiful

@@samsara_miko Reject modernity, embrace tradition

@@samsara_miko ㄹㅇ 우리나라 헬멧은 왜 그따구일까 진짜 볼때마다 디자인 누가했을까 싶음

Now a days your face is either baby face or hitler mustaches. Anything else and thats an article 15. You must wear your entire kit. Hair is to be exact and dress right dress. Hell the mp's can give you a ticket for playing music in your car to loud. This is why last time they came to our barracks to be assholes we took their shoes and tossed them in a tree.

70th like.

There is a picture I've seen floating around the net of a dead US airman laying near the waterline face up and in the water was a crashed CH-46. I wonder if that was him?

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@@jamesvazquez2491 I don’t think it’s him

May he be in Heaven

Well if he fell out, he would have the rest of his life to figure it out.

That's the price of FREEDOM!

Real badass

He's wearing a parachute anyways

He's got a free fall rig on.

What exactly happened? And why? Did those responsible face the consequences?

@@buak809 In a nutshell units got dropped in the wrong place/poor communication and the feud comes from neither unit willing to admit that they made mistakes. Ultimately the mission was enough of a success that no one cared that mistakes were made and everyone moved on. it's kind of shocking how little afterthought the militarily gave to these smaller operations between Vietnam and OIF/OEF (I'm including the Gulf War in those smaller operations btw) Mark Bowden even remarks in the epilouge of Black Hawk Down how amazed he was that no real scrutiny of the battle of Mogadishu had taken place until after he wrote his book.

Well, your drill sergeant was a drama queen. There was a very, very short few shots fired at the 82nd when they first showed up, but then the Rangers linked up and coordinated. We were with the Rangers for a few hours, then they went off and did their own thing. There were no more friendly fire incidents. Now, there was a crap ton of friendly fire incidents between elements of the 82nd, but no one was wounded or killed.

@@buak809 Because nothing ever happened. The dude's Drill SGT was a drama queen. I was with the lead element of the 82nd, and except for a very brief few shots fired in our direction, the Rangers realized we were not enemy, and then linked up with us.

@@Irish_Pirate oh shit, the beauty of the internet where after so many years people can meet who were in the same operation but within different unit, it shows new perspective of certain events!

Perhaps I'm a tad bit too young, but I had never heard about Russ Ballard, but I'm listening now :-P MajorSamm has great taste in music!

My top played songs on Spotify are mainly songs I learned from MajorSamm videos

@@theZinator i have a playlist consisting of almost entirely music i heard in sams videos, and its my most played playlist. I dont care for his edits anymore actually, I just like discovering new music through him

Heard it from Miami Vice, and now this

This was in the Miami Vice episode where they kill Calderone.

You mean Yakima Washington? Is that where Ft. Lewis is?

We had a job to do brother, sorry to say but the Canadian government has never known how to finish a job.

@@williamsherman1942 Canada finished the US armed forces. _Twice._

@@fds7476 Bs, 1812 was a draw where we burned York first and then destroyed the redcoats under Jackson

@@williamsherman1942 Seethe.

There was still a lot of old stuff used in desert storm as far as i know, you are right though. Grenada was a changing point, a lot of communication problems were solved and inter-service rivalry was broken apart for a few years until it started happening again.

@@williamsherman1942 I know a lot of Marines in Desert Storm had a lot of older gear. Still a lot of the M60 tanks being used along with Abrams. National Guard had a bunch of older stuff too.

@@My-Name-Isnt-Important Yup, there’s still old stuff we use today. If it works it ain’t broke.

The main change, and the biggest one that persists to this day, was the creation of JSOC. Prior to Grenada, all branches of the US military had individual combat commands, so if the Marines needed help from the Army during a joint operation, they had to call the head of the Marines and THAT guy had to call the head of the Army. Grenada, done on short notice with rapidly evolving battlefield conditions, demonstrated how this approach was DISASTROUS for any modern operation.

Same thing is happening now

Head over to your local library they always got all the cool stuff.

The wild stories are half the fun of hunting down footage for these videos.

@@MajorSamm If you take suggestions can you do a recent conflict in the Philippines called the Seige of Marawi back in 2017, there's tons of footage in r/Combatfootage subreddit, I would like to see your take.

lol that was probably my dad

@@existentiallydead5998 Possibly :)

That's what your problem is with all this?

time to pick a side

@@420JackG Well, one of the reasons for invading was the multiple US citizens trapped on the island. Also f*cking COMMIES, REEEEE!!!

And then some dude from Florida with an M16 needs your tourist map because he doesn’t know where he’s going

@@thegriffinman1771 Spc. Floridaman

Greneda was a small island invaded by the most powerful country on earth meanwhile in Lebanon Hezbollah kills 200 + marines in the Beirut baracks attack Americans run home. This is akin amount to me beating a child and being proud of it.

@Colin Mor It is, haven't made it myself tho

All 14.0 hours of conflict.

Yeah, War is cool! MURICA!!!!

@@isAfuchs no, war is hell :/

Lmao navy seal that drown. That's America for you. Can't do shit right

@@DennisMartinezCalifornia still won the war with a 1.785% casualty rate

@@joeswansonthesimphunter2612 If you can call a war the invasion of that little island whit the size of a city....

@@andrescuervo6187 well I guess it would be a war, albeit a small one

@@DennisMartinezCalifornia you seriously think you have better survival chance at sea than Navy Seals?

Pulls those beats all the time

Carefully and with a lot of time, thank you my man

@@MajorSamm just keep doing right, brother

Very chad name good sir

You should watch the original miami vice version

Thanks for Your Service

Thank you for your service Matt

Did you happen to know a man by the name of Mark Young? Part of the 75th?

I was with 2/8 Semper fi

Thank you for your service🇺🇸

Based Coalition wars.

😂

Na, gotta give it to the Rhodesians

@@dennylonk825 Hot take: The Rhodie camo isn't that special

@@kenyajoanna4117 hot take: camo isn't special.

@@dennylonk825 Olive Drab is where its at.

@@arttheclown9458 yes I love that, it’s simple and aesthetic

I've actually heard this a lot that just me?

Miami Vice for me

Whats the name of the song

@@ctc4392 Description

@@SubtlyAggressive i found it its called voices

joint operations that weren’t joint-operations until after the passing of the Goldwater-Nichols act

@@Joe-zo6mw my brain hurts now after reading that 3 times

I mean, they have volunteered for that kind of shit didnt they?

19 Americans die and 24 civilians killed: "OMG THIS IS A HUGE FAILURE! THE US MILITARY HAS NO IDEA WHAT ITS DOING!!!!!" 200 Russians die and 500 civilians are killed in Georgia: "This was a stunning success comrade! We are the best army in the world!"

@Joe thats because they are cucks willing to die because basic healthcare is unexistant but also willing to fund the Israeli missile program with Billions of their taxes lmao

No shit, is it you birthday too???

¡Happy birthday Clade! Have a nice day Keep it good comrade Also you Arbe

@@javiermendoza9607 thanks budd

Happy bday Clade, it's nice to find another 1st Decemberer

Happy birthday to you

There is no democracy anywhere. So called democratic countries as well are ruled by unelected oligarchic elites who controls presidents, politicians, parliaments - their talking heads, and make population believe they live in democracy through mass media

Not only that, but also the fact that a communist dictator deposed a democratically elected socialist from power. So it’s really not your average “east vs west” type of issue… Oh yeah, that and kidnapping American citizens! Good riddance! Edit: typo.

Cause they didn’t have an army and sent like 5000 police officers… bro they’re a bunch of island nations with tourism as their MAIN source of income. How tf are you supposed to have a standing army??? Must be American with all that patriotism in the brain instead of logic

Very good

Doesn't mean the war wasn't BS and fought over nothing.

Chad

I'll try my best, thank you for watching.

You have problems with logos, linguistics and understanding semantics of word "masterpiece". Educate yourself.

@@TrueNeutralEvGenius ooh somebody mad

@@beratedbandit5196 You?

@@TrueNeutralEvGenius kinda seemin like you

They're wearing Woodland Pattern/'M81'

@@Sam-nx9ec the Marines were still wearing the ERDL pattern back in those days. I’ve got a set of my uncle’s in my closet (they don’t fit me lol)

@@Sam-nx9ec it was truly a hodge podge. Marines in ERDL. 82nd airborne in m81 woodland bdus. Rangers wearing OD green with m81 woodland steel helmets. Great aesthetic lol

@@gimburg1 ...also the last operational outing for the classic M1 GI Joe helmet, at least amongst frontline troops. 👍

@@gimburg1 I’m willing to bet there was also some Mitchell pattern (wine leaf) helmet covers on those Marine M1 helmets

I feel relieved for you

/he never got back in/

ah yes I'm sure the civilians bombed liked to take part in that training. War is disgusting and those who like it either didn't experience it or are weirdos

@@vanoliale Your virtue-signaling self-righteousness is sad. No one likes war. But training for it is a necessary reality. Go back to sleep.

@dayRman commie YT channel

I never wanted to be a Ranger. When I met my commander capt.chris Zimmerman of 75th Ranger reg. I knew I had made a terrible mistake. He had me in way over my head. I never knew where we were or what we were doing until the pep talk.

@@GhostRanger5060 you're right, training for war is necessary. however, training for it on active targets is not. let's be honest, the only reason Grenada was invaded was because Reagan wanted to stick it somewhere in a small island he knew we'd steamroll

Exactly this.

@@peng9179 i think it comes from being fans of history, but i feel it too, this contents hits different

You're welcome my man, thank you for watching.

Period correct

It was so short it's not even called a war they just call it an invasion.

Paratroopers are badass

@@williamsherman1942 those arent paratroopers those are SEALs, all 4 of them later drowned

@@mixmaster2909 Doubt they were the same 4 seals who drowned.

My dad was 82nd here. I had the same sort of realization that any one of these dudes may have known him.

Only 60mm mortars? Hope they did use the most out of them. Were there some setbacks with the procurement at that time?

60s are pretty standard in ranger units. theyre light, jumpable, can be shot in a handheld configuration and you can carry lots of ammo gor them fairly easy. work well on raids which are rangers bread and butter. source: am mortarman

@Hello There Not really, without tourism I doubt they would have any industry

@@roland2690 Not after being ravaged by imperialism, no.

Freedom and Democracy(tm)

@@CrimeEnjoyer Tbh as much as I like flaming facists and imperial apologists, without colonisation Grenada would be basically even less relevant than it is now. Under British rule the Grenadians were quite happy, it was merely a courrupt politician that led them to "independence" to remove any opposition to his dictatorial practices. Look it up bro

@@CrimeEnjoyer And how would lack of imperialism do for them? Make them another Cuba?

They are getting the pinks and greens now, they’ll look fantastic nowaswell

We dont have actual history lessons in school because actual histoty will paint the usa as the bad guy...so we get a hald assed summery of ww2 where the usa defeated all and we made a slight whoopsie in vietnam and the koreN war is called the forgotten war for a reason...we dont wanna talk about killing 25% of a population, indiscriminately carpet boming civilian centers, and poisoning crops with anthrax...cutting a border in half and installing a dictator....nah, we will just forget that war all together

You cannot expect an educational system whose goal is to teach you conformity to teach you anything you actually want to learn about. Better to educate yourself.

@@mikeyorkav4039 Who taught you this? Are you being serious? Our system may be antiquated, but History class in the United States is very thorough. Most history taught in the US isn't even US history, it's World History, separated by before and after the 1800's. Indiscriminately carpet-bombing civilian centers, and poisoning crops with anthrax, cutting a border in half and installing a dictator are basic historical topics covered in Highschool in ONE out of FOUR academic years. All of those things are taught in the context they occurred in, usually accompanied by a discussion on their importance and the precedence they set. The only class that is lacking, likely on purpose, is the course US Civics. The fact is, most kids don't understand the value of what they're learning until they are older, so even if they were taught it once, they usually cant recall it without independent research. One of the main exports of the United States is higher education. Students come from all over the world, paying top dollar, to attend AMERICAN schools. For a reason./endrant

@@Fuck343 do they teach you about racial segregation in the US army Or how Yank troops beat up Commonwealth troops that weren’t white in pubs ?

@@nicholasthuya7683 Yes. Footnotes in the history chapters usually. Except segregation, that has a whole slew of context to cover, in the greater scheme of rebuilding the southern states and a lack of federal centralization/oversight (at the time). For the record, the US troops that pulled that sh1t were held accountable.

God bless from Italia. He was one of the best to ever lead the USA

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There were no M1s in issued US service in 1991, most ground forces had gotten the PASGT system by 1985, and by 1989 in Panama most secondary security forces were getting them, by 1991 all reservist and guard units had the same standardize PASGT system to the rest of the entire military

​@@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606the last units to get the PASGT were National Guard units in Alaska so im fairly certain no M1s made it to Desert Storm atleast on the US side

It starts out with a brave story being told and transitions to the music.

Ew, Mark Felton

​@@LordVader1094 stay mad 😂

Ask mark for an update on those nuclear bomb dropping Lancasters sometime.