There's good ones out there, they just ain't joining the service. That's what happens when you brow beat the target demographic that normally joins the service.
@couchslouch1982 The narrative of there being "good ones" is just a cover story. They're accessories and accomplices to the criminal activity conducted by other government officials. They need to be charged. Engaging in grave breaches has legal consequences, and *everyone* providing aid and comfort to the occupation forces will be *prosecuted* to the fullest extent of the law. No deals.
*My first three sons are Marines. First buried at Ft. Sam Houston, second lost left leg above the knee and little finger on left hand(guitarist), Third after a couple of tours came home with enough PTSD to lose marriage with high school sweetheart. This is not their beloved Marines.*
Well, we have not one, but two political parties who send service men to dangerous places and don't take care of them when they come back. Some of them buy their way out of going into the service themselves (or, their daddy does).
As a former Camp Lejeune Marine grunt in the 90’s, 2/2, I will tell you that there were men that made it to the fleet that should have not made it past boot camp for various and compounding reasons. It was demoralizing to have them in our unit. We didn’t “a few good men” them but we definitely made it known. Any Marine you can’t trust is a break in your line.
When learning your weapon, especially on reloads, you need to first have a lot of practice going slow and learning the correct technique. As you learn the correct technique, you are supposed to speed up the drill to keep your accuracy. If you only train the recruits to go fast, it creates a large learning curve to complete the actions. It looks to me like they needed more slow technique style focused drills. Just my two cent.
To me, looking at this from a Marine perspective, it's not just embarrassing, it goes deeper than that. It's all a planned action. Conspiratorial? You decide, but our nation is in an planned decline that will ultimately derail to do massive internal damage. Our military is TARFU, not FUBAR, but TARFU with the caliber of individuals that are servicing or attempting to serve. They have no real grasp of what's coming their way save for the few across all the Branches, that are locked on and they see it from within. That has got to be disconcerting to say the least for them. Jameson put it out there for all of us to see. Heaven knows how his heart and soul feels looking at this and then talking about it. Props to you brother for all the work you do. People better be ready and buckle up for what's coming. Semper Fi.
How many of these "Marines" will defect and betray their own for a nice fat wire transfer and a house for their whole family in some remote area in Costa Rica?
My gramps who fought the Japanese as part of the V Amphibious Corps was one of the most fearless & toughest men I’ve ever met. The other man was USMC Da Nang in 65.
Marines in Vietnam were weak. Nothing compared to WW2 MARINES!!! Old Corps, new Corps. Just as long as it's the Marine Corps!!! You wouldn't understand civilian.
It’s the older marines that turned the marine corp into what it is today. Don’t blame the youth that volunteered to join and were let down by poor training. Blame the older generation for failing them.
There is a very serious and very palatable malaise in American society. It feels like we just have given up. Afghanistan was really the straw that broke the camel's back.
Shot 322 for the M16A4 and practiced a good bit on tactical reloads. I'd say the best way to practice for these seemingly newer Marines in my opinion is to practice fluid and slow reloads. After constant, repetitive, and proper reloads I'd have them gradually get faster with the reloads to the point where they can do tactical reloads flawless and lightning fast.
In the military, do they call every reload a tactical reload or is there a difference between reloads like the emergency reloads these kids are practicing?
@@JoseFlores-pm7qgtac reload is swapping mags out before they’re empty to avoid going empty when you’re unable to stop engaging a target…hopefully this makes sense
@@Hiltrljr Yes. And an emergency reload is when one is out of ammo and the bolt locks back to where the shooter would ha e to strip and abandon the inserted mag in order to reload a full mag and then release the bolt, chambering a round in the process. Which is what these kids were working on. Except they were running dry.
Perception is everything! If you look like you know what you’re doin, then you probably do. I’m not comfortable stating I’m confident in their abilities.
This is what grass week usually looks like to be honest. Having people do speed load drills it is really embarrassing. Especially since you can tell most of the people in that video are likely not infantry. Can tell from the helmet since the infantry guys get the newer helmets while everyone else has the older style. The only people who touch a weapon, more than 1 time a year, are CMC's or infantry. Otherwise most of the POGs only touch their rifle once a year for ARQ.
Grass week this week looked really similar to this. Sadly most of the people running it, CMC/CMTs don't care and the few of us that do kind of get drowned out. You can always tell who cares and who doesn't, but even then most people only touch a rifle once a year.@@JamesonsTravels
They have already abandoned them to follow Hamas, haven't you seen them shouting in their protest, there can only be one solution, there must be a revelation. See, America seems to be falling from within itself
Looks like a marine drill day/boot camp/etc. But you're right some of them aren't hitting the release button for the bolt lock. Even if they are doing dry simulations with no rounds they can still pull the charging handle back and lock the bolt for "simulation" purposes.
I’ve seen soldiers march on their graduation and they weren’t in step. It was sad. Compared to the Marine Corps, we get in step before the end of the forming days.
These guys have M4's which means that they are not grunts because grunts have transitioned to M27 IARs long ago. They also have a mix of magazines, and all active duty Marines have switched to Magpul tan mags 2 to 3 years ago. This is either Wing or Logistics unit or some Reserve unit.
I'm not nearly in the know in current gear, but these definitely look like reserves to me too. Uniforms lack consistency and that is just a sad display. I'm a civ and could do this faster with one arm.
I'm so glad my husband was honorably discharged back in 2011! He did 3 12-15 month deployments to Iraq between 2005-2010! This new military looks.... Well ... Not in good shape! 😮
Rounds forward or toward the weapon in the mag pouches, always. The guys with their mags in backwards are having the most difficulty. Time to take them back to the basics of equipment setup, then get back to the actual mag change. Seems like someone would inspect their setup/gear arrangement prior to the activity.
He said “Land Nav site” which means Land Navigation Site which is where they do land navigation in which they use geographical coordinates to find certain areas.
Wow! If this were my unit every single one of these "soldiers" would have a weapon in their hands at all times and would run and run and run this exercise until they could manipulate the weapon in their sleep and become smooth as silk. If this is what our military has to offer , we're fucked!
even if reserves they need to spend the entire weekend with their weapon to get to know it. hopefully they never use it BUT these people are not prepared.
Tell that to your superior who may need these marines do their dayjob instead of playing grunt. If they have only once a year weapon training , what do you expect?
The best thing we can do now is fortify our own communities and get ready to dig in and fight because the enemy is domestic and they'll use emergencies to justify the UN to "help" the people.
You train them on how to reach and feel for the mag. They do this several times. You then have them extract the mag from the carrier and have it oriented to their weapon. You then have them practice inserting the mag. Then you have them do all previous steps slowly. Don't have them rush. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast. You teach muscle memory. Then you step up the speed a bit at a time. It would take an hour a day for about a week. Had a drill sergeant tell us to toughen our elbows when everyone was whining while in the prone while on the range. People who followed his advice, of banging their elbows on the ground while in the prone, didn't have problems, guys that didn't wanted elbow pads. No one wants to suffer in any part to make themselves better. They are too used to doing all of this in video games. Real life isn't that. Suffering, failure and pain are components to learning anything physical. As said by a great philosopher, "pain is a great teacher."
Yep, my grandparents used it, my mother used it, my wrestling coach said the same, my judo instructor said same, my drill instructors said same. It works really well. Humans don't like pain, so to get less pain you need to get better. But sadly the newer generations are raised to be soft so you reap what you sow.
My roommate in DI School Class 2-94 was the Sgt Major of the Marine Corps from 2019 until this past August (Sgt Major Troy Black) and he has comfirmed that not only our military bur our MARINE CORPS is *woke* and severely *compromised*
Probably because people like my husband, a MGYSGT with 26 years, was forced to retire unexpectedly in Dec of 2021, because he wouldn't take the jab. This is all by design...
Back in 72 you were supposed to be one with your weapon able to dismantle and assemble it in a timely manner. This looked like they went to the armory and was just handed them five minutes ago. If this is a training session it’s definitely out of the ordinary procedure as each recruit doesn’t at all look comfortable in the process. How they ever got to this stage is puzzling. Fifty years ago there wouldn’t be nothing but crying and pushups and screaming in that video . Very sad to see and we’re supposed to feel safe.
And our government wants us to rely on this for protection and disarm the people because thier policies increased violent crime and fucked the global economy.
When the DOD is focusing on DEI, SAPR, mandatory extremism training (after January 6), promoting box checkers, purging non “yes” men/women, then this is what you get. The other branches are the same way if not worse. The best defense for the US now is an armed population.
There appears to be a systematic degradation of all our fundamental foundations. Including the military. From the educational and societal institutions all the way through the military. This cannot be accidental in nature and most certainly appears to be orchestrated by design.
Times have changed, so has the training doctrine. If you think about it logically, especially in close distances when a few seconds could mean life or death dropping the mag on the floor and loading a new one could save you. You can always pick it up when the threat is gone.
@@kevinlewis8137uh, no. In combat, you have to keep you mags when you reload, because without mags, your rifle doesnt work. If you keep dropping mags in combat you won't have any to put more ammo in to keep fighting. Do they reach marines their rifles dont need mags to work or something? Sure, if you need to reload with enemy right in your face, drop the mag, but otherwise you need to be in the habit of retaining your mags when you reload. Mags dont grow on trees, especially not on random firebases in the middle of nowhere.
@@hamie7624There’s a time for admin reloads and there’s a time for combat reloads. You can certainly do admin reloads in combat. I’m not saying that admin reloads are exclusive to the range, they are not. But you need to understand that we are carrying at a minimum 7 magazines. When one is in close proximity to the enemy or one doesn’t have fire superiority over the enemy yet, combat reloads are the norm. When one has distance along with fire superiority from one’s fellow Marines, admin reloads will be more likely to occur. Furthermore, if one is going through magazine after magazine after magazine without the ability to pick them back up, one probably is in a fight for their lives and doesn’t have time to admin reload either. When the enemy is killed or driven off it will be the time to collect dropped mags and redistribute ammunition.
@@MrHello-nx4xsthat "diversity" and "inclusion" wasn't the "strength" we were promised. If anything, it just brought people who wouldn't normally interact with each other into a single society for them to all argue over how it should be run due to cultural differences. All it did was destroy hegemony.
Mad dad went through basic training in Parris Island in the late 1950s not long after they shipped him off to Vietnam. He always said those guys were rushed through to get bodies in the bush for that war. But he also said you learned very quickly once you got over there. RIP.
@@artseger6891 No he went through sometime in 1958 or 59. He was an advisor the first time he went. We had advisors there as early as the 1950s. My dad was there as an advisor in 1963. He did go back again once the war got rolling. He did 3 tours. He was never drafted like most of those guys. He enlisted.
@@razzledazzle8631 When you say your pop's enlisted in the Corps & wasn't drafted like most of those guy's. Who are "most" of those guy's you're talking about my friend? Do you mean the ARVN he was an advisor to? Or, are you talking about the young men in the U.S who were drafted into the Marines who he served with in Nam when he went back later, just curious? 🤔 Ooh-Rah! 🇺🇸
It's not an infantry unit. Marine Corps, in general, hasn't been focusing on firearm manipulation unless you are infantry. I've been out for 10+ years, but this looks exactly like my old unit. We took our rifles out once a year and did our qualifications.
At a time of peace and with everyone having their feelings hurt, sadly this is the future of all our branches…but to know and see this in our Corps. That’s a damn shame.
We have the air superiority and a few elite units but our weakness point will be in the lack of man power and units to supply the fight. That's where will lose. Our opponents already know this. They are going to stretch us out all around the world and cut our supply lines when our units are hyper extended in multiple places around the world.
Elite units and air power don’t win wars alone they are a force multiplier you need competent ground forces with that mostly being solid infantry. Without solid grunts you won’t accomplish major objectives in a campaign
My advice for getting better is to practice the motions slowly about 100 times. Then do them at normal speed one hundred times. Then as fast as you can one hundred times. Do this every day for a week straight. Everyday without fail same time same rhythm until you get pissed off every time you see your weapon. After that you’re competent enough to perform the basics and can’t fail or fumble while doing this. Extend this practice to a month and you’ll be so well versed you can say dream while you do it. Congratulations you’re now an expert at the reload motion while standing. It is impossible not to mess up this movement because it’s part of your muscle memory. Extend that to 12 weeks straight you will not only be an expert in this motion, you will be able to do this while tired, sick, and in several different positions to the point you need to start adding challenges to it just so you don’t nod off while doing it. In short there’s just no substitute for practice. You have to do something ten thousand times in order to be so good at it that it’s second nature. Why do you think becoming a Blackbelt in martial arts takes so damn long? There’s no short cut. Either you practice and master it or you don’t and look like…….well this.
@@thelegionisnotamused8929 I’m replying to his suggestions on how to get better. And practice begins and never ends. Simple as. If you don’t practice your skills get rusty.
In today's military, they are probably not allowed near a firearm unless they are in a specific training class on the range. They have no 'time' with their weapon because they are prohibited from touching them 99% of the time. A politically correct military throws kisses, not bullets.
You mechanically do this in boot camp. Then you get to the fleet, become a POG, and don't touch another rifle for months or even years. If you don't use it, you'll lose it. Simple as that. Everyone here is overreacting in a big way.
@@chimichanga6089 Disagree! All of those Marines qualified in boot camp as basic riflemen, and at a minimum were exposed to only a few weeks of “combat” training. They are safely manipulating their weapons, just not as proficiently as an infantrymen would. S1 clerks, mechanics, and cooks aren’t drawing weapons once a week to practice speed reloads. That’s genuinely not a practical reality.
My Nephew is still in AIT and he can't believe how pathetic the training has been. He sent photos of them on a road march with no covers and not walking in step. No weapons. Looked like a high-school field trip.
Marines from 1775-2010: The enemy calls you Devil Dogs due to your ferocity in battle. Marines now: The enemy has refused your request for gender inclusive language. Might as well retreat to our Safe Spaces.
Господи!!! Вы врагов то никогда не видели. На сша никто никогда не нападал. Не вводил танковые колоны, не бомбил мирные спящие города на рассвете. Всё как вы воевали, это бомбордировка слабых государств с неба : Югославия, Ирак, Сирия, Ливия, Вьетнам . Вы не псы войны. Вы шакалы войны. Нет вам прощения . За убитых по всему миру детей, женщин, стариков придётся отвечать.
My sphincter gets tighter every time the bolt gets sent home knowing that the dude holding the camera has a high probability of just getting merc'd by these boys.
@@Tony27654military personnel are, or SHOULD be trained from sun up until sun down on how to handle, operate, clean and maintain their weapons. Civilians should NOT have more firearms training than a military member on a 1 to 1 basis. Especially since we have to go to work for at least 8 hours out of our days.
it's not woke leadership, it's lazy leadership that doesn't care. plenty of European countries are really woke compared to US standards, yet they can keep their militaries strong and formidable. It's just US military leadership using wokeness as an excuse to put less funding into training and having to worry about less paperwork, aswell as meeting recruitment and retainment quotas, leadership doesn't care about the soldiers ability to be soldiers, it's just hitting quotas and looking good for the media. in conclusion the US military leadership is lazy, career generals not ones that actually care about the US military as a fighting force and just doing it like any other job, (there are reasons generals like MacArthur, Eisenhower and Patton were so great and it's because they actually cared and had a passion) US military is using political correctness as a crutch or excuse to be lazy and it's sad, unless the feds can enforce a huge change, it's never gonna happen, sad to watch a great organisation get ruined by shitty leadership
This is what I'd expect from the back line personnel -- the paymasters, drone pilots, computer geeks. They don't normally handle weapons and it comes off like this is an annual assessment of the retention of their skills in case their base is overrun and they need to defend it. If these are frontline troops, God help us.
They are most definitely support or headquarters element. Not bad if that is a fresh run without any prior practice. Non-infantry hardly ever get to touch their firearms.
My unit in the army would probably look like this. But we are Transportation: equipment movers that support units all over the world. Not the best with a gun, but will get the job done if need be.
First and foremost you are a Soldier, as such your weapons handling should be no different from any other unit, if your not up to scratch, what are you going to be like if ambushed (highly possible for transporters and the like) draw your weapon out and pract, pract, pract.
The question here is not what you can do or can’t do, you can be taught. The question here is what they post on the Internet for public viewing. No matter who you are, you would probably try to post your best video, you would even specifically work on several takes to choose the best one. it is so ? but this....