"Americans, traditionally, love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle." -General George S. Patton, a man who you may not agree with, but have to admit commanded an army with the same sort of determination that grandfathers harness to fix your bike
@@snordgoodman hmm yes incompetent. Crushes the Germans in Africa, speedruns through Italy, and break the German offensive at the Argonne. The only real thing against him is he slapped a soldier for cowardice, not necessarily cause he was scared, but bc he was hiding in a hospital full of fallen soldiers. He saw it as disrespectful that he could hide in the place the ones that fought honourably layed.
fun fact Daniel daly the one saying the famous quote "Come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?" was a 2 Medal of honor recipient gaining one in 1901 and 1915 during WW1 he was awarded for his action at belleau wood with a navy cross. The citation probably could of went to another medal of honor the citation stating "on June 5 and 7, 1918 at Lucy-le-Bocage, and on 10 June 1918 in the attack on Bouresches, France. On June 5th, at the risk of his life, First Sergeant Daly extinguished a fire in an ammunition dump at Lucy-le-Bocage. On 7 June 1918, while his position was under violent bombardment, he visited all the gun crews of his company, then posted over a wide portion of the front, to cheer his men. On 10 June 1918, he attacked an enemy machine-gun emplacement unassisted and captured it by use of hand grenades and his automatic pistol. On the same day, during the German attack on Bouresches, he brought in wounded under fire." Unironically I speculate due to his 2 MOH medals that the navy department decided not to give him a 3rd for the citation and just handed him a navy cross. Overall very chad.
They might have felt it would cheapen the Medal of Honor if someone got 3 of them. I think I heard of a case where a British soldier wasn't awarded the VC twice for similar reasons.
It was Congress, not the Navy, who denied SgtMaj. Daly his due. The asshats then passed a law in 1919, saying only one Medal of Honor could be earned by a person.
his first medal of honour was earned in the siege of the international legions during the boxer rebellion. As he was tasked with guarding dozens of westerners in a section of a diplomatic compound, armed with just a light machine gun on a tripod, while the rest of his group went to find a working party that had failed to arrive. He volunteered to do it since he was the new guy in the group and therefore he deemed himself not too big of a loss if he was to get killed. He proceeded to hold off the boxer rebels for several hours, which the rest of Daly's company could hear him firing the machine gun. And when it stopped, they thought he had been killed, and returned to the compound to do the grim task of collecting his body, and the supposed huge pile of civilian bodies that would have resulted from his presumed failure to guard them. There was a huge pile of bodies alright, just not western ones. in and around the area of the complex he was guarding single handedly, there were dozens upon dozens of boxer rebel corpses strewn about in piles, all torn apart by machine gun fire. After Daly's commanding officer remarked that he thought Daly had died from being overrun by numbers or running out of ammunition (which he still had a decent amount of), because he couldn't hear him firing anymore. Daly told him that he simply ran out of hostile targets to shoot.
It would have been epic if when it said "and since then they are the Devil Dogs of War" the Marine Chad became a modern Marine with the kit, helmet, and goggles
When I was in boot camp out in San Diego, they played this song before they gave a class on the history of the Corps. I wonder what the band would think of that.
I recognise the video you used for the footage. Love that guy, he dose awesome Sabaton videos so I don’t blame you for using his edits. And these are awesome. Keep em coming.
@@davidkey4098 Hey would you mind answering some questions? I've been trying to get different people's perspectives on it. What do you think of the Marines? Do you enjoy being in the Marines? Was basic training hard for you? Do you wish you did anything different in the process of joining? Do you have any sort of information and/or advice you can share with someone who plans to join? How much of a choice did you get over your MOS? (I'm trying to figure out if MOS's are chosen or assigned)
@@NamelessAndAlone137 there’s a thing where you do pre training like you do certain physical things so that your prepared for the physical a couple months before you do it that’s what I’m doing
