"UNITED STATES OF ARMAMENT" | Kip Reacts to TheRussianBadger 

Now remember, boys and girls, "if a callsign doesn't have you asking questions about what earned it mentally, then it's not a good one." Quote was from a Marine

Badger is the most American canadian ive ever had the pleasure of watching 😂

The best example of a callsign i've heard of has to be the crown prince of Denmark. Next in line for the throne, fully trained special forces operator, and they call him Pingu, because his drysuit got filled with water and he looked like a penguin running around.

In a submarine battle you can be under fire, underwater, on fire, and taking on water all at the same time.

Wikipedia claims there have been 5 USS Idahos in the USN: USS Idaho (1864) was a wooden steam sloop later converted to a full-rigged sailing ship USS Idaho (BB-24), a Mississippi-class battleship, was launched on 9 December 1905 and was sold to Greece on 30 July 1914 USS Idaho (SP-545) was a motor boat acquired by the US Navy in June 1917 and returned to her owner 30 November 1918 USS Idaho (BB-42) was a New Mexico-class battleship launched on 30 June 1917, saw action in World War II, and was sold for scrap 24 November 1947 USS Idaho (SSN-799) is a Virginia-class submarine currently authorized for construction

5:25 For the US Army, callsigns are derived from the callsign of the unit itself with an added postfix of some number or name that denotes their role within the unit. For example, when I was a 2LT fire support officer for D CO 1-72AR, the callsign for Delta Company was Dragon. Since I was fire support guy I would go by Dragon Guns on the radio, but we eventually got a new company commander who then changed it Dragon 8. The armored platoon leaders were Dragons 1, 2, and 3, for the 3 platoon, the XO was Dragon 5, Commander Dragon 6, First Sergeant Dragon 7. You can go a little fancier with specific information about who within the callsign is talking. For example I could state "this is Dragon 8A" or "Dragon 8 Actual" to specify it is literally me talking. But my NCO could hop on the net and state "this is Dragon 8N" or "Dragon 8 November" to identify himself as my NCO. I know pilots have their TAC name bestowed upon them by their buddies, but within the Army the only time I have personally seen TAC/Callsigns given by others is in a informal setting with no true applicable substance (like during unit functions - aka parties, dinners, welcoming/farewell get-togthers) and not during any tactical environment. I do remember, while I was still stationed in Fort Bliss if I remember correctly, that there was a directive to vett all of the callsigns within the various divisions of the Army to clear out redundancy. Sometimes it can get confusing because there are popular unit callsigns that were associated with more than one unit. I know of an artillery battery that goes by the callsign Bulldog, but one of the brigades also goes by Bulldog. I forget what Bulldog Battery was redesignated to. I was personally part of two different "Iron Brigades" 1st ABCT, 2nd ID in Korea and 2nd ABCT, 1st AD Fort Bliss, TX... sometimes the redundancy can be confusing, but as long as the names within the Division are unique it doesn't become much of a problem.

Just remember, Kip: You can only be Round Meal /Actual/ if you're in command. Otherwise you're 'only' Round Meal.

I main 4 countries in World of Warships: - US (for carriers because you get faster access to multi-torpedo bombers) - UK (for cruisers) - Germany (for battleships) - Japan (for destroyers, because the amount of torpedoes I get to launch is unreal)

21:33 My brother has a Life Preserver; it's a jar with poison in the bottom that he uses to capture specimens of the local Insect Population. He's really into biology.

Fun fact about badger he use to be in the Canadian military force

i just realized, with how many naval battles there have been, there is just ammo all at the ocean floor along with every ship that went down. imagine how much that would be if someone somehow gathered it all up to smelt down

It's actually fairly common that when a pilot gets a serious sounding callsign then they are either A) an asshole B) their unit didnt like them or they arent good C) they are good and they're done with everything

see the "ship on fire, just put water on it" thing kind of happened I believe it was USS Laffey a fletcher class destroyer was set on fire from stem to stern whilst the force was under air attack and what did they do, well simple, the captain took command and got the ship behind the battleship south dakota I believe, who herself was a full speed because of the air attack, and used the wake of the battleship to douse the fire on the ship. I will try and find the battle and ships just to double check.

Port=left. They both have four letters. That's the easy way to remember.

There was at least one instance in WW2 where a US ship(pretty sure it was an aircraft carrier) had to stop fighting the fires because they were actively flooding their own ship, which was already flooding because of the holes the enemy had punched in it.

Burger with the ship in space, what will he do?

2:44 do Sea Of Thieves, that game has GREAT boats and water physics.

I love being in the navy and watching these videos I dying through tears

I feel like Kip would appreciate several of The Mighty Jingles' navy stories. The one that immediately comes to mind is the one where nobody wanted to accept the invitation by a formerly soviet farm to host some of the sailors on their shore leave but not sending anyone would have been insulting so they allowed some people who were confined to ship for months to have a day out as long as it was to that farm.

I'm not sure if you've ever really reacted to his content, but Rimmy Downunder has some great Arma III Videos and some of them can be real funny while still often being really well coordinated. He once had his team play in a tournament against another team, where his side of the PVP match was generally expected to just be a difficult challenge for the other team to roll over during the multi-hour match, but through really good psychological tactics and creative thinking he and those under his command dragged the other team through the mud the entire time, leading to an ultimate victory. He was playing as Opfor (terrorists) fighting against Blufor (US/NATO Forces) where his team had a numerical disadvantage in respawn points and significant lack of militarized vehicles, and with his help his team was able to put up such a fight a good number of the opposing team literally rage-quit/had so low morale that they were barely able to keep playing through the multiple hours of the PVP operation. There was a good bit of funny RP with them playing as terrorists, and their victory was such a surprise to them as most on the team Opfor generally expected that they were going to have a fun engaging game but still loose due to Blufor's numerical advantage. I go into this degree of detail because I don't even know if the vod of this operation even still exists, and if it does I doubt you'd react to a ~7+ hour stream vod lol. I believe it was Arma 3: CCO #7 (Coalition Community Operation) it was a 100 player team PVP match. PVP in arma is always a little fucky as one team will always lose, but the Blufor team in this operation was SO angry with the success and tactics of Opfor, but they really played like terrorists, and used every advantage they could find, including trying to sow genuine terror/psychological tactics (planting ungodly amounts of landmines to make blufor extremely paranoid about leaving their base to go anywhere even with their anti-landmine vehicle, as well as blowing ~80% of their supply of anti-air rockets in the first 5-10 minutes of the ~7 hour match just to make them THINK that they had a near infinite supply of them, so they'd be too paranoid to launch more aircraft, making them genuinely afraid to use one of their biggest advantages until much later when they realized they barely had any anti-air rockets left. Rimmy didn't command Opfor, but he still managed to make his own sort of team with his unit, the recording of his perspective was absolutely amazing, a little dull at times especially at night time as his team didn't have access to nightvision (unless they were scavenged from a Blufor corpse who did) but seeing a team turn what was an expected loss into a spirited victory was very entertaining, as was all the terrorist/insurgent roleplay in the quiet times with the other players on his team.

The USS Texas BB 35 on D-Day plus 5ish was the only ship able to hit its targets after the allies moved extremely far inland. It did not normally have the range to hit that far, so the captain ordered to flood one side of his ship, forcing his guns to elevate higher than they were capable of, and it worked. The Texas was built during World War One, and it still exists today, currently in dock for repairs. Badger talks about it in another of his World of Warships videos. You should watch them all to find it.

Fun fact: the USS Texas flooded half their ballist tanks during D-Day to fire even farther inland to keep lobbing 1,600lb shells at Nazis. They were draining 3s on Krauts

there was a USS Alaska at one point. It was the first ship of the Alaska class cruiser. while the USS Idaho might be a battleship, it ain't even got a whole class of ship named after it

Soultaker Actual reminds me of the TF2 Heavy weapons Guy. "This is Lucy, she's my gun and I love her dearly."

The 5 SMAW shots a day is more of a safety thing for protecting the user. Concussive overpressure is a really jarring experience and overdoing it can lead to some nasty physical and psychological problems in the future. Physical problems like permanent hearing damage and psychological problems like memory loss, and the like. Sure you can do more than 5 a day, but you risk giving yourself medical issues that can and will seriously fuck your life up. It aint like TV where the RPG goes relatively slow leaving a nice white smoke trail behind the rocket. Firing a shoulder mounted rocket is a lot like a firing a huge rifle, and those rocket fly FUCKIN FAST, like as fast as a bullet. Its a BOOM 💥 not a FWOOSH 💨.

18:15 the USS Idaho was sold to Greece after being decommissioned in the US, in 1914, it was part of the Greek navy unit April of 1941 when the old hunk of junk was sunk in ww2 by the German Navy’s air attack at Salamis, I’m not a naval historian and I googled it so take it with a grain of salt

18:31KIP, MY BROTHER IN CHRIST, WHAT. WAS.THAT.ONE.SINGLE.FRAME OF RAIDEN SHOGUN???

With US ship naming it was different in WWII then it is today In WWII Aircraft Carriers were mostly named after battles and key words in US history, Battleships were named after states, Light and Heavy Cruisers were named after cities, towns and Territories, Destroyers were named after notable people in US History and Submarines were named after species of sealife Today Aircraft Carriers are named after Presidents ( with a couple exceptions) Cruisers are named after battles Destroyers are named after Medal of Honor Recipients or alumni ships and Submarines are named after cities and states depending on the type

"Round Meal 3 this is Round Meal Actual requesting permission to serve three men, over."

When are you going to start streaming some warships? You will likely have a blast. Would like to see you in game.

The USS Idaho (BB-42) was a New Mexico class battleship and the 4th ship in history to be named after the 43rd state, after the events of Pearl harbor the Idaho and her sister ships where sent to protect the pacific. She was given the nickname "The Big Spud" and was retired from service in 1946 with 7 battle stars.

When Grouse said "Taxpayer dollars" and you bursted out laughing, Kip. I was like "Damn, dude, breathe!"

12:51 kip or im sorry roundmeal actual has become the scoopy doo villain

The navy calls them “rubber duckies”

Socom is a franchise I don't think about often. Only one I played was combined assault back on the PS2, (never served or trained, but come from a military/naval family) PS3 had only 2 entries so your ethier thinking of confrontation (2008), or socom 4. (2011)

Kip might have to sign on with Rimmy for arma 3 if he hasn't already

Your callsign would definitely be "Kip Kip Hooray" lmao

There is the artemis game (think its the name) where you play as the crew of a space ship and have to communicate to survive

Port is left, and starboard is right

My gaming buddies have given me the name Papa Salt. Though most often it is just Papa for short.

All these casuals using Port and Starbord when the true callouts are Larbord and Starboard. (This is a joke.)

My call sign was Deimos, a random Greek dude gave me it and it just stuck, until recently with the whole rainbow six siege update I never knew what Deimos meant until I found out..... Yeah surprisingly I was called the god of death during Fallujah

Ik this old, but, during basic our baras would load up by squads into pubg. It was wild. We managed to pass by our commanders even. They allowed it quoting comms and callouts training.

I have ramned someone and survived but only cause I was a battleship smashing a destroyer

HE HAD THAT LAUGH CLIP READY

0:38 yes, only 5 a day

Norden has a great new World Of Watships video

Ah yes, STAB THE BOAT

As a Army veteran your nickname should be Templar Actual because you do A LOT of swordplay and swordfighting

navy damage control teams are on a different level being technicians

Why is there a Raiden Shogun jumpscare? 18:31 Kip did you accidentally go to desktop from laughing too hard?

"i say TAXPAYER DOLLARS" THEY IS WHAT THEY IS, BROTHER (still hit tho)

My buddy got called BB, you can guess what it is and it couldn't be further from the truth

*Melee kills UAV*

USS Idaho (BB-42), a New Mexico-class battleship, was the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named for the 43rd state. She was the third of three ships of her class. Built by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation of Camden, New Jersey, she was launched in June 1917 and commissioned in March 1919.

Swiggity swern gimme dat stern

17:21 There is. But more importantly, there's USS Ohio...

wow taxpayer dollars REALLY broke you, lol

Kip died several times

I remember a youtuber i watch got the usa army eSports team to play arma 3 with him and his group the RU-vidr ur looking for is rimmydownunder if i remember what video it is I'll send a link to it

If round meal is your call sign is chaos the name of your company?

1:00 nah grouse would be the one to do a rezanook IRL AND SURVIVE!

I was call as D 1-3 golf or d 1-3 delta when iwas a driver and gunner respectively

Idaho idaho

P O R T L E F T

Long-range penetration thats what the military calls max penetration