We Finally Understand Gibbs' Entire NCIS Backstory 

Abby.. duh!

Its tough, but its gotta be Ziva

Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo was the absolute best

Ducky. ( Of course I liked Mr. M since U.N.C.L.E. ).

Ziva all day long.

it is mentioned in one episode during the first season. What defines Gibbs as a Marine is the fact that he is a scout sniper not his time as an MP.

MPs are not scout snipers. Grunts and recon Marines are

@@billymadison8036 I was a MP but also went to scout sniper school in the early 80's.............Semper Fi

@@cartman4885 semper fi bro. Did you get that as a secondary mos or just had the school in your records. And when I say "just" I am in no way making light of your accomplishment

@@cartman4885 basically my question is, if its like Ranger School. Anyone from any branch can go to ranger school and get a tab. But it doesn't make them a ranger. Serving in ranger battalion makes them a ranger

He actually was a (non-commissioned officer) MP for a short time before he became a scout sniper when he was at Lejeune ;-) "Gibbs' early years in the Marine Corps were with the military police. He rose to non-commissioned officer rank and was stationed at Camp Lejeune at one point. Later, Gibbs became a Scout Sniper and saw several overseas deployments. In 1989-1990, Gibbs deployed to Panama as part of Operation Just Cause, and then in 1990-1991, he deployed to Kuwait with the 1st Battalion, 1st Marines during Operation Desert Storm."

@@maxis1504 My Other Left Foot is the episode. dean Norris played the sergeant in the motor pool Gibbs spoke to and he commented on Gibbs allowing smoke breaks.

@@carasmussen27 yeah, I remember there was a specific episode about that. Forgot which one. Thanks!

Depending on when a man served, "scout sniper" may or may not have even been a billet. Pretty sure they were simply designated "Sniper" when organized under the STA acronym and prior (Gibbs service time maybe even corresponding to pre-STA). Either way, it's pure Hollywood to confuse billet assignment with PMOS or even Occ Field. Marine Snipers (as well as Recon, and other assignments) are Marine Corps Infantry first and foremost. Anyone who thinks a person enlists as a sniper (recon, etc.) should go see a recruiter. Of course you might get one to tell you what you wanna hear while signing you up as a mess specialist.

@@semperintrepidus16 Very true. But as I remember, when I talked to a Marine recruiter, all Marines are Infantry first, then whichever MOS they signed up for, mechanic, supply, etc, second. As an Army Veteran, I know TV shows/Hollywood take poetic licence when it comes to the military. Some do better than most. Like that short lived show Valor, which was just purely wrong. I have spoken with guys in that type of unit and they said about 10% was correct and of that 10%, 8% was weapons and equipment used.

I will never understand how he gets them out.

@@armyfallatthediscotwentyon5019 he takes them apart

He breaks the bottle😉

Exactly

@@sarahklein9570 as in blowing up the house?

Doctor Knowitall there’s 51 rules

@@abbypiper4212 Odd; I just saw the one where Gibbs went to Vietnam and McGee took over as head for that time and he said there was 70 (although he lied about what it was) And at a much later time and show (after Abby leaves and Nick joins). At the end of a later show Gibbs sits down and writes a note that says #71 Sometimes you're wrong.

@@doctorknowitall1175 I haven't seen much past season 12, but in the episode you're referring to, "somtimes, you're wrong" was clearly #51.

Matthew Wann But rules 1-2-3 were always changing in the first season!

I was just going to say

The narrator was saying after Gibbs came back from his deployment that's when he killed Hernandez he's not seeing when Pedro came back to the United States you were seen when Gibbs came back to the US

Sorry. I lost both my parents years back--including one to cancer--so I know how it feels.

Jesus loves y’all

as long as Gibbs lives so does the memory of your dad.ive watched this show since the start

I am so sorry. I hope this show reminds you of the good times.

This was my mom’s favorite show. She watched the reruns on USA and had seasons 1 - 10 on DVD. She died in 2015 of lung cancer so she didn’t get a chance to see Ziva come back. She also copied a list of the known rules spoken on the show. I just found it a few days ago and had a good laugh at how dedicated a fan she was.

Can't it's illegal

Pocket knife 😉

@@kalabell4098 pocket knife with extras

Bad, bad Leroy Gibbs Will shove a knife between your ribs! (Or, like in Vance's case, give you the knife to do it yourself.)

Simon Baker? Love him especially in the Mentalist

I have always thought it would make for a very fun episode if the cast (or most of them depending on availability) from Summer School were featured in an episode of NCIS. To make it even more fun, behind the scenes, Harmon isn't told who the other actors are until shooting begins...let him figure it out. Yes, table reads, I know...those can be done by production staff with some BS excuse given to Harmon.

@@joconnell8145 that would be fun! It's a fun movie and I usually find it to watch, but can't seem to find it this year.

@@local_peanut yes, The Mentalist Simon Baker. She ditched William Peterson when he left CSI. My mom was a funny woman and she loved her "man candy".

@@knitty781 she ditched petersen? XD I kinda understand it

Gibbs says that he was an MP in My Other Left Foot (season 1 ep 12)...

Gibbs started his marine service as a mp at paris island then went through scout sniper training when he was ressaigned to camp lajune prior to the gulf war

He was a Gunny Sgt. - An NCO. Also, a Marine is not a soldier.

@@rcladygreywolf6567 its either gunny or gunnery sgt not gunny sgt which is a SNCO not a normal NCO.

@@ithilliongaming8980 thanks

Semper Fi! (from a NavVet)

You should write a book

He's also broke rule 1

MP and federal agents are not the same thing.

@@Laz4r96 yep. MPs perform a variety of functions, but primarily they are the town cops for their Base, Post, Station, etc. Base Commanding Generals are the military equivalent of town mayors (they don't command deploying combat troops) NCIS is like the military counterpart to the FBI. To oversimplify, they take on the special, hard and sensitive cases. And I haven't even mentioned CID, the military equivalent of city detectives (roughly). And in addition to all that, EVERY commissioned officer in the Marine Corps is expected to perform the task of Investigating Officer for a broad variety of incidents, accidents, criminal actions, etc. particularly where high value items, serious injuries and even deaths are involved. And, btw, those duties do not require any special additional title designation; it's just part of being a Marine Officer.

@@semperintrepidus16 Except Gibbs stated he was military police before being a sniper.

Because 1) NCIS has been the highest rated scripted television show for ten years 2)The cast is very accommodating to all of the entertainment type tv shows!

But hes like 15 years older aint he

Do you also know that he's also incorporated in " the fed five" with Michael Franks & Dwayne Pride?

Oh in Russia!

@Daniel Appleton true I've stop watching ncis, since the actress who play as abby decide to leave the show because reason. God I miss abby😔. Especially Clayton Reeves death is the reason I stop watching ncis.

@@vicentserrano9268 yea well its still good. Not as good. But the new characters make it feel like .... Idk. I recommend coming back Ziva returns and stuff

LOL! That's why I am stopping now. Where can I binge watch?

Wow! My two favourites are Gibbs and Tony.

I'm pretty sure Lara Macy suspected Gibbs killed Pedro but decided to not continue with the investigation and it became a cold case, at the end of S7 Abby was invited over to Mexico by Alijandro Riviera to try and solve the cold case because Pedro was his and Palomas father. When Abby found out it was Gibbs sniper rifle and that Pedro killed Shannon and Kelly, she got rid of the evidence, Macy was killed and her body was burned and left for Gibbs to find because of her involvement in the cold case.

I know but originally NCIS thought Pedro was still alive until at least the end of season three. When Gibbs gets knocked into a coma DUcky and Jenny find out about the coma Gibbs went into right after Shannon and Kelly died. Jenny goes looking into his past and finds out about his first marriage and how it ended. And NCIS is still hunting for Pedro which means they didn't know he was dead. And until Abby went to Mexico the Mexican government believed Pedro was taken out by a rival rather then killed by Gibbs. So why would a marine MP be investigating a murder outside the US when the government of the nation the victim belonged to believed the crime was committed by an unknown rival rather then a US Marine? Of course now season 18 claims Ducky know Gibbs, and Knew about SHannon before Shannon and Gibbs got married

That wouldn’t explain why he shot Pedro Hernandez, unless Gibbs doesn’t know. You would think that Mike Franks would have known!

I would totally read that fanfic

Yeah. I didn't really think it out all of the way through. I'm sure if someone took the time, they could figure out how to make it work. *shrugs*

Correction, Abby did in fact file an official report, however Director Vance "Miss filed" it, as he understood what Gibbs went through.

sasha leaving and kate dying will forever be my biggest life disappointment. love ziva, but kate did it best. she was so undeniably funny.

"When you want to get the ship out of the bottle, you don't tear down the ship, you break the bottle."

Then what did he do before becoming a sniper, since you cannot enlist as a sniper...

Mithica he was a grunt!

Darrell Traylor Season 1 episode 12. Gibbs says he was MP

I agree, after Tony left the show became bland and boring but im not gonna lie, i did enjoy the Gabriel Hicks storyline in Season 15. But after Abby left the show was over

Bruh are you special?

🤣🤣🤣🤣 what?!?!

And he was MP

👏👏👏👏👏

Me too!

A Keeper Of Odd Knowledge I didn’t watch them except when Ziva came back. Hate the new characters!

Work requirements

That’s the desk they store the broken computers on.

Gibbs might hate technology but he still has to work with it whilst at his job he has no other option

@@ryanclark7962 true but they also make it that he doesn't really know how to use it.

@@markwarren250 true but he might be able to work a computer better than a phone, I'm the other way around

Before he was a sniper he was MP

They have had an advisor since season one. He doesn’t allow slip ups!

Like?

Pedro Hernandez?

Allan Johnson no I think it was Shannon! She said everyone’s gotta have rules

What do you mean

WHAT?

@@nickeyferguson2004 in S8E22 titled Baltimore, Tony chases an undercover Gibbs and shouts a few words at him including dirtbag, it was the scene where Tony met Gibbs and became an agent

I thought it extremely odd that Pauley Perrette would have such a strong reaction to being anywhere near Mark Harmon or being terrified of him. I obviously don't know the man, but he doesn't come off as terrifying to me. I don't get how you can suddenly be terrified of someone you worked with for 10+ years without any problems 🤔 I reckon she made a mountain out of a molehill over the dog biting incident and rather than approach Harmon about how it made her uncomfortable, she decided to throw him under a bus by going to the big honchos behind the scenes. I can imagine that this would have disappointed Harmon, but I doubt he'd have turned into the Incredible Hulk or monstrous.

@@cherylq709 i heard it was because of Harmon's dog[pitbull] would be aggressive to people while on the set, and Harmon did nothing to curtail it.

Wouldn't u want to kill the person responsible for killing your wife and daughter, ? I know I would. In fact there r quite a few people around the world that we wouldn't miss, Assad, Putin, Mugabe, the N Korean git, seems to me a timely bullet between the eyes would relieve much suffering for millions. Pity there isn't an actual Bond to get the job done.

I love everything about Mark Harmon NCIS and in real life. I hope Kim knows how lucky she is .

@@chrismadison305 exactly,some people take things WAY too seriously,its hollywood not real life

@@chrismadison305 And that's exactly why the show is so loved!

Reality check. It's not real!

Ziva was trained by & worked for Mossad and then was a liaison officer with NCIS she probably didn't need training like other candidates who had no experience whatsoever but she could have gotten training and it was just never topic of discussion. As for Abby strained credulity be interesting to know more. Her shoes seem fine to me. Every lab I have ever been in only required closed toe shoe with rubber bottoms which she has always worn. I mean in one episode NCIS told her she was in dress code violation and they wanted her to wear a suit and heels. Heels are definitely not any better than her boots. Since Gibbs was recruited when NCIS first started they probably didn't have such strict requirements back then and probably took him because he had first hand encounters. NCIS probably didn't care about a bachelors degree after his experience at the time. back in the day degrees didn't always matter unlike today where we obsessed with people needing to have a degree for little jobs. Things change over time. As for the retirement age yeah he should be retired but maybe he has such a good reputation they allowed him to stay on longer. A lot of this can be creatively explained but like other have said it is just a TV show and you shouldn't take it so seriously. I mean seriously how much of a loser do you have to be to take a tv show so serious?

And Tony, I’ve caught a few episodes after he left but not many!

Nah, too touchy feely, also pretty self righteous, replacement not much better.

Because he and his team get paid a very good amount of money to do this. He doesn’t do this alone.

black R0n1n Someone doesn’t know how to read, I suppose.