My son is a Marine and he just tells me Ramadi was hell...he will not talk about it but he will talk about his brothers he lost and how hard they fought... Semper Fi...
I'm from Iraq and live in Ramadi. I remember being a kid at that time. Actually, it was an attrition and absurd war led by Bush's administration and his brutal staff who brutality destroyed my country under the pretext of having WMDs and get rid of Sadddam's regime and free its people from the dictatorship (as they claimed), but then it turned out to be a big lie and a great conspiracy to destroy my peaceful country. as a result Both Iraqi people and Americans lost their lives in the damn war and the most beloved once/fellow. We Both paid the Bill. Period 🩸.
My father was deployed to Ramadi in 2005. I was just a kid when he left, he never told me much about his time or experience in his 30 years of service in the Army. The very few things he ever told me and my brother was about Ramadi, he said that entire battle was where he had the most casualties in his unit. It almost felt like he blamed himself for the loss of the men sometimes, which hurt me because I saw how much it hurt him. I can never know what truly happened to him during his many deployments or in Ramadi, but I hope one day he can find peace with his past. he is my hero.
hey man, let ya dad know im some 21 year old kid who looks up to him. dont mean to sound too personal over the internet but i hope letting him know this could maybe help cheer him up with them bad moments. never had a father figure, nor a older brother type figure. shit not even any real adult figures for advice in my life. the one thing i do look up to and try to follow are the guys like your dad, they have strength normal people dont have, they have endured hell and still go on. knowing they went through that shit and are still rocking, whatever life throws at me, i got it. so give ya dad a thanks for me and let the man know to take more time to himself, fucker deserves it:)
Ramadi was a rough place, Seemed like every window, door and roof top had hate coming from it,You were surrounded all the time, Don't be hard on your dad,Or pressure him to much as a parent the last thing you want your children knowing is what real combat is like, But know this your father is a warrior ramadi was a baptism for us all,(SPIRITUS INVICTUS) SEMPRE FI
I remember being a kid and being completely amazed at the idea of being a soldier. Footage like this really put things into perspective. Rest Easy too all the young men & women who never came home.
Same man. Grew up all my life wanting to be a Tip of the spear US army soldier. Being the son of a bronze star war vet, all I knew growing up was army stuff. All those army movies and navy seal shows really pushed it for me. Until I came of age and my father literally forbade me to go. Saying “I did what I did so you didn’t have to”. It’s only been very recently that I found out what he meant by that. But in the back of my mind, I still want to be one.
Not sure what there is to laugh at but it was my job at the time. I knew the dangers and took the paycheck. It’s easy to make nonsensical remarks in hindsight but militaries have executed the will of politicians since time immemorial.
I spent 2 years fighting in and around Ramadi in 03-04 and 04-05. Spent another year up around Kirkuk in 10-11. Almost a year in Kandahar, Afghanistan 12-13… I’ve come to the conclusion that I have far more in common with the people and even insurgents of those countries than I do with most my own countrymen. I’ve learned that the Iraqis and Afghani’s aren’t my enemy…the people who sent me to war are my enemy. I was wrong and I have to live with that. I don’t know how to prevent this from turning into hatred and resentment towards my own people, my own government. I want to be a good man…but I also want to end the war profiteers and that will require doing terrible things… Regardless, there is no peace for me.
Live your life in peace, warrior. I am a person from Al-Karmah in Anbar, near Ramadi. This is not your fault and it is not our fault. The leaders are the ones who started the wars and we were the victims. I was 15 years old at the time and those memories still come to me from time to time, but we must continue and move forward with our lives. Peace be upon your heart , warrior
This is the most real thing I’ve ever read. And, I agree with you except you deserve to find peace because of your awareness. I’d like to take the profiteers out as well. Thanks for being honest and seeing through the smoke bro.
“War is a place where the young kill one another without knowing or hating each other, because of the decision of old people who know and hate each other, without killing each other.” -- Erich Hartmann Hope that you will find peace
It’s plain unfair. Wars usually start because old men, who view men as disposable pawns send anyone off into their own blood feuds of wars to die in them. Whether to further a political career/agenda. The way I see it- it’s a learning experience for us to try not to repeat the same pointless bloodshed that replays itself over and over again. Monotone… souless… stripping away the remnants of Humanity left in us all. “War doesn't determine who is right - only who is left,”
Brother, i'm right there with you. I was part of the 1MEF invasion. My little brother followed me into the USMC, and then to iraq. I was all on board for everything. But my father, who was a lifelong Republican, saw through it all. Told me he hated Bush and Cheney, i thought he was a traitor. Then the things he said to me over the years started to dawn on me, then my baby brother died. I have a seething hatred for these people. Specifically the US State Dept, the CIA, and the corporations, politicians, and every man who supports them.
Incredible. House to house urban combat. Our war was jungle, nothing like this. What a look at modern warfare. I saw troops with chem cordite detectors. Very good addition. We had to, smell and guess. Never knew who was farmer and who was VC. Thanks boys for all you gave.
I’m from Ramadi, and I was 15 years old that time. The marks that were left in our hearts would never be erased or forgotten, I lost so many relatives most of them were innocent. We grew up in fear and whenever I remember that era I feel like it was a relentless nightmare. Thank God I’m still alive.
@@ahmedawad362 Sorry I'm disable. Sometimes I just speak/type what came to my mind. I got shot at my head 5 years ago and suffer from brain damage. It's not a big deal if you correct me if I'm wrong, right ? Why you be sarcastic like that ?
@@aronhayse9895 They’re nicknames, means Father of, like father of Bakr! Thousands of years ago Arabs used to say Abu Bakr, Abu somebody, as a sort of respect to the older and unfortunately Iran backed terrorists like Alqaida spoiled all these values.
A friend of mine fought in this battle. He lost a lot of friends there and was permanently wounded himself. He died recently from non-related issues. RIP.
@@user_____M I didn't asked him to talk about it much, but I remember he told a mutual friend that he'll never forget the rush of being in a city where everyone wants to kill you.
I was a scout/sniper for 1/104th Cav during this time and I am very grateful to be home safe. Lost 6 friends over there & still have a hard time explaining to anyone outside the military wtf we really went thru.
I can say that this is the best documentary I’ve ever seen about Iraq .. also it turns back some childhood memories when we had to stay home cuz of these battles 😮💨
My first tour was 04 -05. Went into fallujah in November as EOD security. I was 19 and that that place was the true Wild West. Second tour 06-07 we literally had to let them shoot at us before firing back. I’m 37 now and it saddens and angers me. All the loss so rich men can get richer. We destabilized the region for the next century. As a going away present we left hundreds of thousands of small arms for the Taliban as well. Federal agencies are spending millions on guns and ammo right now. Why are doing that and why aren’t they being transparent?
And now they're destabilizing another part of the world. So rich men can get richer. This time it might not end well for all of us citizens of this planet.
First time i realized how stupid it was to be in Afghanistan was when we were on patrol and some pfc from another platoon found an old antique rusty shotgun that probably hasnt worked in over a decade. He handed it to his sgt and he placed it on a mud wall in a village that held live stock and was attached to a house, they blew that whole wall apart with c4 just to dispose of a rusty shotgun. The farmer looked so pissed... Ten minutes later we saw a group of taliban watching us across the river. I remember thinking what if that farmer was pissed enough to help out the taliban while we were there, surreal shit.
@@sigspearthumb8856 I couldn't understand why we were there. We took mortars and rockets about once or twice every other day for an entire year, I hit one IED, got shot at once, shot at someone once, all so Halliburton and KBR could make millions. I got out in 07' and ended up reading 'War is a racket' by Marine Corp General Smedly Butler, after that I went down the rabbit hole. The true enemy of humanity is the world global elite, Klaus Schwab, George Soros, Bill Gates, etc, not each other.
@@scott8888official well. Only what you see in this video....... I promise you, there was plenty of night action; thermals and night vision really are a difference maker.........
In 2005-2006 (when I was there) it was very widespread as far as engagements. We were regularly hit by IEDs and small arms. I thought we were "in the shit"... Then, while going on leave, I met up with some dudes from the 101st that were in Ramadi, while in transport (LSA Anaconda, if I remember correctly). I'd been in a lot of contact, and we'd lost troops to KIA/WIA, but the stories they told me were spine chilling. Ramadi was on another level to the rest of the theater.... Casualty statistics were off the charts in Ramadi, compared to the rest of the operation. I had mad respect for those dudes. I met and befriended a Marine later in life that was in Ramadi in 2004, and 2006-2007. Dude has two purple hearts from the same city. That's wild to me.
Thanks for posting this video. I was in Able Company the Army company in the first part of this video, that was are 3rd plt at OP Hotel one of tallest buildings in that part of the city which is why we used it as a OP. This video only gives a glimmer of what we had to deal with on a daily bases with in that city. RIP to those we lost.
@@Sinner-bh5cn took the words right out of my mouth. Jocko always praising basically every service member that served in Ramadi. Wasn’t there a group of reserves that he said did really good work as well?
My dad joined late Vietnam as a navy medic. N when hanging out with him he'd just stare off into the distance n when walked he never let anyone behind him hed stop n let them pass if they didn't hed start too get angry but calmed himself never knew what he truly saw but that stare was something else.
@David Wang It's the internet, if I worried about criticism or thing's said on the web I would be better off just eating my weapon I take 4 to 6 perc 30s aday for my bullet riddle body not to mention the 5 other pills I take for depression PTSD I have night terrors I wish I would have a nightmare Goodluck Wang
@@jimmyzees7406 Be careful with the 30's man. Make sure you keep a schedule. I have lost too many friends to OP use. Sounds like you need them, just always worries me when I hear that. Truly hope you can find relief, night terrors are awful. Take it easy man.
My unit was deployed to Iraq in 2005 to 2006. 2006 was the year I enlisted in the army. Listening to my unit telling their own stories over there. First Brigade 4th Infantry Division.
My wife's father was a POW in a German camp during WW2. Two of her uncles fought alongside General Patton. Two uncles served in the US Coast Guard hunting Nazi subs in the Atlantic and one uncle served aboard a Navy destroyer in the Pacific. I tried for years to explain to her what they experienced since they never spoke of it because she didn't understand. One day I got her to watch a few actual combat videos similar to this one. She finally understood. Since then she became a regular contributor to Wounded Veterans with pride! I don't know how any young man comes back unscathed from these experiences. I do know we owe them our deepest gratitude and support.
Well, they didnt have to go there in the first place... it was their own choice... Bringing the "American Dream" aka detabilization to other countries... Well done, Murica -_- Afghanistan... the most importatn job your troops had there was to protext the poppy fields... and all that heroin is coming back to Murica...
I Fought in grozny, dec 1994, 8 guard corps, 68th guards motor rifle regiment. I saw people getting blown up by RPGs, burn alive, die from blood lose after getting hit by a DShK. I was a BTR turret gunner, i operated a 14.5mm KPVT machine gun, our division was the only one to actualy make it to Grozny in 1994. I left Russia after the one ended, and i still get nightmares sometimes about the things that happened there
@@nagorgaming7029 Damn dude that must've been hellacious! I'm a westerner and was real young when the first Chechen war was happening but I remember seeing it on the news all the time. It looked like the worst fighting since WWII. No offense, but I seems crazy how little the Russian Army seemed to have learned from the battle of Stalingrad and other major urban battles of WWII.
Too bad there were Ford parts in those German vehicles. Why did Ford sue the US for bombing their factories in Germany during WW2? Why did Ford help Germany become war ready so fast? US General Smedley Butler said wars a rackett and still is to this day.
Served in Ramadi and other parts of Anbar in 06-07. Crazy how the ROE shifted while we were there. Went from killing stuff to sitting around, and having to wait to get shot at before you could engage back. We lost a lot of good guys for nothing and our country didn't (and still doesn't) give a shit. Just like the country didn't give a shit about Afghanistan. If there's one thing modern America does well, it's pissing on the lives and sacrifices of service members. Don't give us an empty 'thank you for your service'. Give us competent leaders that have the smarts to select the right wars and the balls to see those wars through to victory.
@@billdickson1142 yeah, the next big one is coming. Too many people are blind to it, but we are literally barreling down the path towards another major war. Not to be political, but as a nation the West is focused on all the wrong things right now, especially here in the US. Take care of yourself too m8.
Grow up little boy and stop spewing immature disgusting filth a public forum. How pathetically uneducated, immoral, and Godless, thus anti-American. Obviously you failed English class and your father and mother miserably failed to train you how to be a REAL man, a true gentleman of moral character. Instead you act like just another ignorant street thug.
@No Fux I don't blame any one President. I blame the entire system. Democrats and Republicans, once you take the emotional issues out of it, are really very similar. Trump negotiated a bad deal with Doha, Biden made it worse. Bush got us somewhere we should never have been, Obama screwed up getting us out. It's a broken system with a bunch of guys who never did a day of real service trying to dictate war strategy and therein lies the problem.
I was in Ramadi at the time of this footage with 1st Armored, my first deployment, 2005-2006. Deployed to Afghanistan 2 more times throughout my time in the army and never saw anything as intense as Ramadi, pure madness.
@hamahasan9735 I agree with you, we never should have been there like we were. I was young and my country had just been attacked, we all thought we were serving justice but instead we served corporate profits. I thing about it all the time. I wish I could tell a younger me to go another path but I cannot change the past.
Spent a year Patrolling Iraq, January 05-06. Camp Gunslinger, Adhamiya District of Baghdad. Taji, and Abu Ghraib Prison. Been almost 20 years and still not a damn day doesnt go by that I’m still there. Not all day everyday. But at some point everyday. A thought. Memory. Something. Not all bad not all good. But i’m still there man. Time just goes on but I’m still 20 years in the past.
As an Iraq Vet..these experiences are not only terrifying but life changing traumatic!! PERIOD. Put your headphones on. These poor guys will be trembling for years if you were there.
He didn't move to cover the cameraman. He moved to provide cover for the other Marines that had to cross in front of that open street to the left. The camera guy followed him to try to film insurgents shooting at the Marines. Don't get it twisted.
From a civilian point of view, you don't realise just how loud everything is. You think it's loud when they open up with their assault rifles then the guys with the SAW's open up on a target, it's like rolling thunder.
I'm not a military guy, that is I've never served, but you get what I mean when I use the umbrella term Assault Rifles, what ever AR type of weapon those guys were using. They were a lot louder than depicted in movies or re-enactments. That was the point.
As a guy that's dad was a marine and a couple of my cousins, seeing both sides here. was this how it had to be? It sounds like yall enjoyed it. Was it yall just being bullys or what? Please explain..
@@dolphsmith313 Is a skydiver a bully for enjoying an adrenaline rush? Is a bungie jumper a bully for enjoying an adrenaline rush? Why would a soldier be a bully for enjoying an adrenaline rush? It's a common human experience. You're alert. You feel things differently. You're more in the moment than a lethal dose of caffeine could ever replicate. That makes you feel alive. It is not morality. It is biology.
Ok first off you guys have my up most respect. My dad was in veitnam he was a hard act to follow to say the least. I guessi was just asking if it's really that easy as you make it sound?
It is weird looking at this video and realizing this was 17 years ago. This was Able Co 2/69 Ar during the first part of the video. The crazy part for me was hearing my voice on the radio.
Probably tired of hearing it, but thank you for serving bro. I work with violent inmates and while that does not come CLOSE to serving in an active war, I can say that the general public does not understand the reality of how messed up this world can be. Thank you brother. Seriously
I was a CWO3 Rotation 06-08. Ramadi was part of my AOR...I could never forget the Artillery firing within the FOB..They rocked all day and night. Talk about hearing loss.
@@Boomy2nicce you are a dogmut han troll ccp roache,these men died facing the enemy han ccp not only ran away from the Indian army whom are brave and fearless they are bullies that use violence against uygur people interning them in concentration camps forcing sterilisation on women and harvesting human organs from uygur children and adults, shame on you bottom feeding scum
@@nvonliph it's been almost 20 years since, iraq happened, i was in iraq 03 and 05, I've had a lot of questions looking for answers, truth, accountability, honor and respect....... Another mistakes and their errors, and the same people who claim to be great leaders who led us down this road, have denied this country, a teue experience of honesty, truth fland has ledt us. The people a void in pur hearts. We need to have this experience be around, we owe it to one another to hold truth and honesty , forgiveness, redemption. I'm we need to this discussion, and the country has been deproced amd deprived ofthese experiences......... We need to trust each other amd value teuth amd important.......
I was at Ramada when a huge explosion shook the ground. I read in the stars and stripes that about 16 Iraq people died from that explosion. It was scary because the population was right next to the base.
I was in Ramadi in '05 and '06. 11-B with the 101st. I can tell you that incompetent officers and leaders were a problem back then too. Not as bad as today, but it was getting there. They just watched the insurgents position themselves but had piss poor ROE.
@@davidrosenlund7533 Wouldn't know anything about all those golf balls. You mean the ones that guys were driving out of OP Corregidor? Nope, no idea. Did one hit you?
I don't know why I watched this. My heartbeat and blood pressure skyrocketing remembering our patrols, contact, firefighters and the ever deadly IED. I made it through two deployments and thank God I never got hit. Was pinned down a time or two. Ramadi was a place I thankfully never saw but was in Anbar province and it was the wild west for real.
@@26michaeluk I have a hard time watching it, it brings tears to my eyes. It was over 20 years ago, and I don't think it will ever be over. I know God is going to make everything better one day and that's the only hope I have. Thanks for saying something back brother, just know you're not alone.
Damn, I'm re-reading Jocko Willink's books and he talks about Ramadi. It's one thing reading about it, but seeing what these men go through is hellish.
@@xObscureMars You are cowardly Americans. If you were strong, you would have entered Iraq alone and not with the coalition that consists of 37 countries.😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
One of my best friends fought in the Battle of Ramadi with the Second infantry Division.. I remember him coming home on leave, showing us pictures that he took on his digital camera. Pointing out his fellow Soldiers who didn't make it home as well as very graphic pictures of terrorists who were killed..
The Iraqi army weren’t terrorists. This entire war was completely pointless and cost people lives on both side that didn’t need to die. The entire invasion was built on a lie by George Bush and Tony Blair.
I remember that aggravation…that heart pounding fear….and the anger that comes with trying to locate the X who’s shooting at us. Shouldn’t have watch this .
@@austinmac2693 Lots of snipers and IEDs, a lot of civpop, anywhere you drive you may get shot by an RPG. We usually stayed near buildings held by firendly infantry and covered windows of enemy-held buldings with machine gun fire.
All i can do is sympathize for both sides' casualties. I met a family friend when i was very young who died in this war who had no family from what i was told. Rip Glen
Would be interesting to see the defenders side. What they thought and who they were. War was a different level of blodsy for the iraquis than for the Americans.
As an army veteran, does anybody ever care to wonder why we were over there in the first place? Weapons of mass destruction? Or weapons of mass distraction… At the time, I didn’t know better either..
i think it has to do with crusade stuff, and oil and weapons of mass destruction was the cover. the only thing that managed to come from the entire conflict was jerusalem being recognised as israel's
We had zero buisness there...I feel for our guys and them. If foreign soldiers came to our country and set up shop, we'd do the exact same MF'ing thing they did. Fight
I can see it being frustrating when you can't shoot an armed combatant first and have to only return fire or suppress. Other times having to capture and release the same guy over and over can push someone over the edge
I was in middle school in 2006...... 10 years later I would find myself fighting in the same war on terror that I grew up seeing on the news as a kid. Crazy
Had a senior manager in my workplace. A guy who never wore the uniform. Talented in some ways, but prideful, and full of himself. He said, "Compared to 50,000 killed in Vietnam , 5000 dead Americans in Iraq is nothing." "...nothing." ...that's what I heard him say. My response was to turn my gaze toward him, remove my glasses, and say 'nothing'. I'm still saying nothing....any time there's any contact. It's like he doesn't exist.
I have a hard time finding the difference between this and Ukraine, except for one: American orcs fight for false freedom, for their corporate masters. Russian orcs fight for false safety, for their dictatorial masters. Yet, Russian soldiers are expendable in the eyes of the world and the American soldiers are praised as heroes. Hypocrites 🤡
It’s a tragedy that politicians/corporations indoctrinate young people to send them places they have no business being. They post traumatically scar young people trying to be brave, then don’t offer them any support when they return home. The US military hasn’t done any operations for US freedom in a long time, basically WW2, and what’s hilarious, before WW2 we never got involved in stuff that wasn’t our business. Corruption changed that. We killed millions in Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan, Somalia, etc. All for defense and weapon contractors to get rich!
I was in 8th grade when 9/11 happened. I remember following the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq. I joined the Navy Seabees in 2007. And had just missed Iraq. A buddy of mine deployed there twice. I went during the surge to Afghanistan. I think alot of people forgot about the wars after about 2010. Except those in close relation to military personel.
The Battle of Ramadi was fought during the Iraq War from March 2006 to November 2006, for control of the capital of the Al Anbar Governorate in western Iraq. A joint US military force under the command 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division and Iraqi Security Forces fought insurgents for control of key locations in Ramadil. Coalition strategy relied on establishing a number of patrol bases called Combat Operation Posts throughout the city. Belligerents: Occupation forces, United States United Kingdom New Iraqi Army 6,100 Soldiers, professional standing army 345 dead and injured Insurgents, Mujahideen Shura Council Al Qaeda in Iraq Islamic State of Iraq ~5,000 Insurgents, estimates vary most being placed as less ~750 dead and injured This was a very pyrrhic victory on the occupation forces' end.
I was out in Wester Anbar in '08. It was relatively quiet especially compared to Ramadi. Glad I wasnt there but also glad to know our guys gave 'em hell. Bad politics landed in that place but we did our jobs. Semper fi
@@TheAnikazone "Only The Dead." I saw it on netflix or prime, forget which. It's also on those not-so-legal streaming websites. Careful though, it shows some extreme violence, it might affect you if you're not already exposed to that
Young men paying the price for the decisions of old men.....those names on the wall....those who died....the people they were shooting at....it was their land..their home...imagine how they felt about the soldiers...who probably didn't want to even be there.
The people we fought in Iraq weren't noble warriors fighting for the homeland, they were criminal Baathists angry that their murderous thug dictator was removed, and Alqaeda in Iraq terrorists who blew up restaurants, pet markets, ice cream shops, job lines and funerals every day of the war. Nice strawman that has no relevance to the actual fighting or the two sides involved.
@@JK-br1mu Saddam Hussein was a dictator, but he kept Iraq stable. Bush invading Iraq caused a civil war that killed millions. Btw, Americans committed war crimes in Iraq that bordered on genocide.
So...by that statement...no innocent Iraqis were killed by the Americans? Alqaeda in Iraq was a manufactured excuse....Pakistan has more Alqaeda and taliban than Iraq.....I don't see the Americans so a clean up operation out there.. When you destroy a country... you destroy the lives of every person and child living in it..... what did the US achieve in Iraq apart from destroying it? Speaking of terrorists..... what a is the US doing about its own home grown hillbilly neo nazi terrorist brood?
@@JK-br1mu They had a right to be angry. You can’t come to a country and say that we will improve everything for you after you depose their leader and give it a poorly made democratic government that doesn’t take into consideration what politics and the people are like in iraq and expect the populous to be fine with you. When america came to iraq they made more enemies than just the baath due to the destabilization that was caused. Saddam wasn’t an angel but he was a far more effective leader for iraq than any who came after him.
@@HP_lovecrafts_cat67 there was no popular uprising, there were AlQaeda in Iraq terrorists, Saddamites and Shia militias....who kept fairly low key until the Alqs murdered enough of them to get them riled up. Joe average just wanted the fighting to end.
I WAS STATIONED THERE IN 2005/06, FIRST IN CAMP HABBANIYAH W/ 506 I.D., THEN MOVED TO RAMADI(ANYBODY ELSE REMEMBER THE GUY THAT JUST GOT TO RAMADI AND WAS ON HIS WAY TO THE P.X. AND WAS HIT WITH A DIRECT MORTAR ROUND??), THEN JUMPED THE EUPHRATES TO CAMP BLUE DIAMOND ATTACHED TO 2ND MAR DIV..... I STILL REMEMBER COL. GRONSKI
Nope, we shoudlve been. WMD or not, Saddam was the modern day equivalent of Hitler, a warmongering fascist who terrorized neighboring countries & commit genocide against many minorities in Iraq & Iranians during the Iran Iraq war. There was nothing wrong with overthrowing a state like this, where the US failed was after, providing zero stability for the country.
Great and great work. They were not able to kill criminals, so they killed defenseless civilians. Yes, it is the cowardly army and the malicious policy to destroy this country. The results are a poor Iraqi people because of the wars, after the richest and American soldiers were mentally ill because of the horror they lived in Iraq.
My unit relieved these guys. We were the first unit to move into the city and take up real-estate where the enemy lived. Ramadi 06-07. B.CO. 1/36 Inf., 1st BCT, 1st Armored Division.
These guys went through this for no positive purpose what so ever and the evil people that sent them there are still doing TV appearances and enjoying the spoils of their corruption.
Fuck bro. I have always thought about you guys ever aince we relieved yall of that shit hole..... Being light infantry, dont know how yall survived in that city without bradleys..........
When this was filmed I was in Ramadi doing my 2nd tour in the Army. Doing my guard duty in one our Observation Posts, you can see big fire balls in the middle of the city going on. Much clearer when you had nightshift like I did.
@@codeman9145 Not true. After Fallujah the front lines moved to Ramadi and Army was doing the front line there. Don't think Marines always doing the dirty work. Remember who did D-Day and the European Theater? Oh yeah ARMY.
@@hhds113 If yOu WeRe In RaMaDi As I wA- stfu. And obviously marines did not do D-Day, as they were for years before DDay doing amphibious land assaults throughout the pacific against Japan, there were no marines left at the time for Europe.
@@codeman9145 How about you take your childish response and profanity to someone else who has an immature brain like you. People like you give our military and our country a bad name.
My old man was in the battle for Ramadi. 3rd bat 8th marine reg 3rd bct kilo Co. Was a 0331 MG got a bronze star with V there. Was in fallujah before that in 04 with 3/8 also
@@fredfreddy8684 It was like this in 2015 when I was back in country. They didn't fix it despite BILLIONS of dollars in capital investment by the US directly, private companies, and the Iraqi Government. Ramadi fell again in one morning in May 2015.
The Iraqi resistance and the Iraqi army The literature of the American foolish army in Fallujah Our fighters in Fallujah are sacred to us not like your carcasses and pigs crying like children in battles
Universal ever get that put our lives back, I think about it everyday whether I want to or not, but, brother, I'm glad you're home, whether we like the way and it or not the war is over, and whether the country likes this or not- Way too many of us came home alive lol The country needs us, The country starving for integrity in leadership, what the fuck are we going to do now
I know the feeling as we did the same when I was translating with the ODA from 05 to 2010 , iraq was a bad place to be at , I lost lots of friends Americas and Iraqies.
Absolutely an absolute farce from start to finish trillions of dollars thousands of lives millions of people there's lives affected and we achieved absolutely nothing except the further degradement of our own standing in the world stage
@@sataralanbari9792 my life after the war is very complicated nightmares because of everything that happened and of course seeing the beautiful sunsets
@@Michaelmontreal I agree. It was an absurd war, we lost the most loved once from both sides. It's the responsibility of the U.S administration, they engaged the war to get rid of Saddam and free its people and destroyed the WMDs As They CLAIMED!, but then it turned out to be just a big lie as well as false pretexts . And we are still suffering from the war until this moment.
i felt so much emotion from everyone, hatred, being pissed off, sadness like the one guy said "you kinda get tunnel vision, you start to hate it here" i would go ape shit if i saw people close to me disappear, just gone...
I did 4 deployments to Iraq. Thinking back to times that realizing that war was so illegal. So many innocent civilians were killed for no reason at all. This is the reason the U. S. A. is hated by so many countries and rightfully so. If you weren't over there you wouldn't understand. ANERICAN GREED AT ITS BEST!
As much as I would have love to serve my country, in 05 when I graduated, my father talked me out of it. He knew I wanted to but he did 8 years in bomb disposal and saw how forgotten soldiers are by their own people let alone other countries civilians and how low the government really thinks of you when you get out. I didn't join and there are times I wish I did but it's not about dying for your country it seems, it's about how much oil and riches you attained for your country. I didn't and still don't see myself doing the dirty work he and you did. I thank all of you for serving and doing what you had to do regardless of orders. It's what you become when you get back to boring, no pay jobs when you come from being a freakin bullet sponge for the fat cats is what I struggle with. Prayers to all of those who did not come back every day.
I was a small child when all of this was happening. I never knew any details aside from pictures of soldiers, but my parents would just tell me that a lot of brave men were out in the desert fighting bad guys so I could be safe, and I looked at those men like they were super heroes. Since then I was fascinated with our military history, I’d come home from school and turn the TV onto the military channel and see these stories told by American soldiers all the way from WW2 up to things that had just recently happened within a couple of years out in the Middle East. I would still look at those men like they were super heroes. I will be turning 21 in a couple of months as of posting this comment. Watching this has brought back some of those child-like feelings, but it also comes with a new perspective. Regardless, I still see these men as I did sixteen years ago
You were raised up on a healthy diet of lies and propaganda. Kids your age were bombed to bits for no apparent reason in Iraq. Did mum and dad tell you whether the US eventually located and destroyed the nuclear weapons they went to look for?
i was in grade 5, man how time flys! i bet these boys look back at this now that there nearly 50 r so and think to themselfs " how did i make it home", respect boys you make it look easy
This is the only documentary out there that makes you feel genuine fear while watching it. It’s as real as it gets without being there
And people still want to join up.
Best documentary on the Iraq war Ive seen, hands down
@@jimbobhk2009 to some, this looks exciting
@@IndyGuest what is the name of the documentary?
@@IndyGuest ever seen once upon a time in Iraq? This doc is only about one battle.
My buddy was in Ramadi and Fallujah. We were in rehab together he had crazy nightmares and PTSD. He drank himself to death a few years back. RIP Sarge
🙁
RIP
Pretty normal
LOOOL May he go to hell
Terrible
My son is a Marine and he just tells me Ramadi was hell...he will not talk about it but he will talk about his brothers he lost and how hard they fought... Semper Fi...
I'm from Iraq and live in Ramadi. I remember being a kid at that time.
Actually, it was an attrition and absurd war led by Bush's administration and his brutal staff who brutality destroyed my country under the pretext of having WMDs and get rid of Sadddam's regime and free its people from the dictatorship (as they claimed), but then it turned out to be a big lie and a great conspiracy to destroy my peaceful country. as a result Both Iraqi people and Americans lost their lives in the damn war and the most beloved once/fellow. We Both paid the Bill. Period 🩸.
Keep asking him
my brother was a sergeant and he served in the 132nd under Perry. He was in Gang Bangh Valley
My father was deployed to Ramadi in 2005. I was just a kid when he left, he never told me much about his time or experience in his 30 years of service in the Army. The very few things he ever told me and my brother was about Ramadi, he said that entire battle was where he had the most casualties in his unit. It almost felt like he blamed himself for the loss of the men sometimes, which hurt me because I saw how much it hurt him. I can never know what truly happened to him during his many deployments or in Ramadi, but I hope one day he can find peace with his past. he is my hero.
hey man, let ya dad know im some 21 year old kid who looks up to him. dont mean to sound too personal over the internet but i hope letting him know this could maybe help cheer him up with them bad moments. never had a father figure, nor a older brother type figure. shit not even any real adult figures for advice in my life. the one thing i do look up to and try to follow are the guys like your dad, they have strength normal people dont have, they have endured hell and still go on. knowing they went through that shit and are still rocking, whatever life throws at me, i got it. so give ya dad a thanks for me and let the man know to take more time to himself, fucker deserves it:)
@@skinnycol809 Thanks so much man :), I’ll be sure to let him know.
Ain't nothing be thing son
Survivors guilt, hell of a thing.
Ramadi was a rough place, Seemed like every window, door and roof top had hate coming from it,You were surrounded all the time, Don't be hard on your dad,Or pressure him to much as a parent the last thing you want your children knowing is what real combat is like, But know this your father is a warrior ramadi was a baptism for us all,(SPIRITUS INVICTUS) SEMPRE FI
I remember being a kid and being completely amazed at the idea of being a soldier. Footage like this really put things into perspective.
Rest Easy too all the young men & women who never came home.
Same man. Grew up all my life wanting to be a Tip of the spear US army soldier. Being the son of a bronze star war vet, all I knew growing up was army stuff. All those army movies and navy seal shows really pushed it for me. Until I came of age and my father literally forbade me to go. Saying “I did what I did so you didn’t have to”. It’s only been very recently that I found out what he meant by that. But in the back of my mind, I still want to be one.
Mercy be upon all the 1 million Iraqis that died.
When I was a kid footage like this made me want to be a soldier even harder
@@iraqiboy4739 Peace with you.
Are you talking about the million of civilians who never came home for fun of an invasive bunch of killers ?
I did 7 months in Ramadi with zero close air support. All ground ops. Wonderful place.
Sounds like a little slice of paradise on earth. Thanks for your service
When were you in ramadi
Feb to Sep of 2004 with 2nd Bn, 4th Marines.
@@Mike-dx2os lol was it worth it?
Not sure what there is to laugh at but it was my job at the time. I knew the dangers and took the paycheck. It’s easy to make nonsensical remarks in hindsight but militaries have executed the will of politicians since time immemorial.
I spent 2 years fighting in and around Ramadi in 03-04 and 04-05. Spent another year up around Kirkuk in 10-11. Almost a year in Kandahar, Afghanistan 12-13…
I’ve come to the conclusion that I have far more in common with the people and even insurgents of those countries than I do with most my own countrymen. I’ve learned that the Iraqis and Afghani’s aren’t my enemy…the people who sent me to war are my enemy.
I was wrong and I have to live with that. I don’t know how to prevent this from turning into hatred and resentment towards my own people, my own government. I want to be a good man…but I also want to end the war profiteers and that will require doing terrible things…
Regardless, there is no peace for me.
Live your life in peace, warrior. I am a person from Al-Karmah in Anbar, near Ramadi. This is not your fault and it is not our fault. The leaders are the ones who started the wars and we were the victims. I was 15 years old at the time and those memories still come to me from time to time, but we must continue and move forward with our lives. Peace be upon your heart , warrior
This is the most real thing I’ve ever read. And, I agree with you except you deserve to find peace because of your awareness. I’d like to take the profiteers out as well. Thanks for being honest and seeing through the smoke bro.
“War is a place where the young kill one another without knowing or hating each other, because of the decision of old people who know and hate each other, without killing each other.”
-- Erich Hartmann
Hope that you will find peace
It’s plain unfair. Wars usually start because old men, who view men as disposable pawns send anyone off into their own blood feuds of wars to die in them. Whether to further a political career/agenda.
The way I see it- it’s a learning experience for us to try not to repeat the same pointless bloodshed that replays itself over and over again. Monotone… souless… stripping away the remnants of Humanity left in us all.
“War doesn't determine who is right - only who is left,”
Brother, i'm right there with you. I was part of the 1MEF invasion. My little brother followed me into the USMC, and then to iraq. I was all on board for everything. But my father, who was a lifelong Republican, saw through it all. Told me he hated Bush and Cheney, i thought he was a traitor. Then the things he said to me over the years started to dawn on me, then my baby brother died. I have a seething hatred for these people. Specifically the US State Dept, the CIA, and the corporations, politicians, and every man who supports them.
Incredible. House to house urban combat. Our war was jungle, nothing like this. What a look at modern warfare. I saw troops with chem cordite detectors. Very good addition. We had to, smell and guess. Never knew who was farmer and who was VC. Thanks boys for all you gave.
your politicians fucked you over
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Welcome home brother 🙏
I honor your service, and thank you.
Ho Chi Minh is a son of a bitch! Got the blueballs, crabs and the seven-year itch! Thank you for your service!
I’m from Ramadi, and I was 15 years old that time. The marks that were left in our hearts would never be erased or forgotten, I lost so many relatives most of them were innocent. We grew up in fear and whenever I remember that era I feel like it was a relentless nightmare. Thank God I’m still alive.
Why the Taliban did this to their own country ?
@@ahmedawad362 Sorry I'm disable. Sometimes I just speak/type what came to my mind. I got shot at my head 5 years ago and suffer from brain damage. It's not a big deal if you correct me if I'm wrong, right ? Why you be sarcastic like that ?
@@Fit-bl1ob I’m sorry bro. You better asked me first. Hope you get well.
@@ahmedawad362 why is iraqs big time terrorists have the name abu like abu bakr, abu adul, abu al zarqawi,
@@aronhayse9895 They’re nicknames, means Father of, like father of Bakr!
Thousands of years ago Arabs used to say Abu Bakr, Abu somebody, as a sort of respect to the older and unfortunately Iran backed terrorists like Alqaida spoiled all these values.
A friend of mine fought in this battle. He lost a lot of friends there and was permanently wounded himself. He died recently from non-related issues. RIP.
fucked around and found out. hopefully my generation will learn not to do Israel's bidding.
May he rest in peace. Anything about the war that he said that stuck with you?
Your friend was a terrorist
@@user_____M I didn't asked him to talk about it much, but I remember he told a mutual friend that he'll never forget the rush of being in a city where everyone wants to kill you.
Allhamdulilah they all got what they deserved capitalist murderous dogs.
I was a scout/sniper for 1/104th Cav during this time and I am very grateful to be home safe. Lost 6 friends over there & still have a hard time explaining to anyone outside the military wtf we really went thru.
Thank you for your service!
كم قتلت من ابناء البلد الذي احتليتمون يقابلونك عند بوابة الجحيم
@@user-bz5wg6db2t Hope to see you there as well Haji!
@@user-bz5wg6db2t Not enough sadly? Living in the Middle East I guess you know hell personally im sure. Better you than me.
I can say that this is the best documentary I’ve ever seen about Iraq ..
also it turns back some childhood memories when we had to stay home cuz of these battles 😮💨
My first tour was 04 -05. Went into fallujah in November as EOD security. I was 19 and that that place was the true Wild West. Second tour 06-07 we literally had to let them shoot at us before firing back. I’m 37 now and it saddens and angers me. All the loss so rich men can get richer. We destabilized the region for the next century. As a going away present we left hundreds of thousands of small arms for the Taliban as well. Federal agencies are spending millions on guns and ammo right now. Why are doing that and why aren’t they being transparent?
You sound just like me dude. I was there in 05' with 3rd ID. War is a racket.
@@mx500a4 how was your experience
And now they're destabilizing another part of the world. So rich men can get richer. This time it might not end well for all of us citizens of this planet.
First time i realized how stupid it was to be in Afghanistan was when we were on patrol and some pfc from another platoon found an old antique rusty shotgun that probably hasnt worked in over a decade. He handed it to his sgt and he placed it on a mud wall in a village that held live stock and was attached to a house, they blew that whole wall apart with c4 just to dispose of a rusty shotgun. The farmer looked so pissed... Ten minutes later we saw a group of taliban watching us across the river. I remember thinking what if that farmer was pissed enough to help out the taliban while we were there, surreal shit.
@@sigspearthumb8856 I couldn't understand why we were there. We took mortars and rockets about once or twice every other day for an entire year, I hit one IED, got shot at once, shot at someone once, all so Halliburton and KBR could make millions. I got out in 07' and ended up reading 'War is a racket' by Marine Corp General Smedly Butler, after that I went down the rabbit hole. The true enemy of humanity is the world global elite, Klaus Schwab, George Soros, Bill Gates, etc, not each other.
The men who can stand their ground and hold the enemy back are the fiercest of them all
No, its more thay we had bradleys and night vision while the enemy didnt
@@nfournier1981 bruh it was day time
@@scott8888official well. Only what you see in this video.......
I promise you, there was plenty of night action; thermals and night vision really are a difference maker.........
You know that those marines and soldiers were not fighting the Nazis in Normandy !?...in fact, they were the Nazis in Normandy !
You know that !?
@@talebdaas what on God’s green earth are you on about good sir?
In 2005-2006 (when I was there) it was very widespread as far as engagements. We were regularly hit by IEDs and small arms. I thought we were "in the shit"... Then, while going on leave, I met up with some dudes from the 101st that were in Ramadi, while in transport (LSA Anaconda, if I remember correctly). I'd been in a lot of contact, and we'd lost troops to KIA/WIA, but the stories they told me were spine chilling. Ramadi was on another level to the rest of the theater.... Casualty statistics were off the charts in Ramadi, compared to the rest of the operation. I had mad respect for those dudes. I met and befriended a Marine later in life that was in Ramadi in 2004, and 2006-2007. Dude has two purple hearts from the same city. That's wild to me.
Side note..iraq was a very developed nation before the invasion it has infrastructure everywhere
Thanks for posting this video. I was in Able Company the Army company in the first part of this video, that was are 3rd plt at OP Hotel one of tallest buildings in that part of the city which is why we used it as a OP. This video only gives a glimmer of what we had to deal with on a daily bases with in that city.
RIP to those we lost.
B co. 1-30INF OP Trotter 05-06
I am a veteran of Ramadi but no one ever talks about the first Army unit in Ramadi 2004-2005. 1/503rd infantry will always be my brotherhood
You are remembered bro
I’ve heard Jocko Willink mention them many times. He has nothing but admiration for them and the work they did.
I was there in late 05 in to late 06. OP Trotter. We still had some of your green camo HMMWVs from Korea. B Co 1-506. It was the fucking wild west.
@@Sinner-bh5cn took the words right out of my mouth. Jocko always praising basically every service member that served in Ramadi. Wasn’t there a group of reserves that he said did really good work as well?
03 in Baghdad, 04 I was down the road in Fallujah. A Year later deployed to Ramadi. Semper fi brother get some 1/5
Being raised by a Vietnam vet. Who still trembled in 2003 just before his passing. I wanted to know, What caused the shaking. I miss you old man.
Every man is different. It affected everyone differently.
My dad joined late Vietnam as a navy medic. N when hanging out with him he'd just stare off into the distance n when walked he never let anyone behind him hed stop n let them pass if they didn't hed start too get angry but calmed himself never knew what he truly saw but that stare was something else.
@David Wang It's the internet, if I worried about criticism or thing's said on the web I would be better off just eating my weapon I take 4 to 6 perc 30s aday for my bullet riddle body not to mention the 5 other pills I take for depression PTSD I have night terrors I wish I would have a nightmare Goodluck Wang
@@jimmyzees7406 Be careful with the 30's man. Make sure you keep a schedule. I have lost too many friends to OP use. Sounds like you need them, just always worries me when I hear that. Truly hope you can find relief, night terrors are awful.
Take it easy man.
@@jimmyzees7406 I don't take meds but the night terrors are brutal . Never had them until I got back from my 2nd deployment in 06
My unit was deployed to Iraq in 2005 to 2006. 2006 was the year I enlisted in the army. Listening to my unit telling their own stories over there. First Brigade 4th Infantry Division.
I served in Ramadi from '03-'04 in the 1st Infantry Division. Mass respect to these Soldiers and Service Members
My wife's father was a POW in a German camp during WW2. Two of her uncles fought alongside General Patton. Two uncles served in the US Coast Guard hunting Nazi subs in the Atlantic and one uncle served aboard a Navy destroyer in the Pacific. I tried for years to explain to her what they experienced since they never spoke of it because she didn't understand. One day I got her to watch a few actual combat videos similar to this one. She finally understood. Since then she became a regular contributor to Wounded Veterans with pride! I don't know how any young man comes back unscathed from these experiences. I do know we owe them our deepest gratitude and support.
Well, they didnt have to go there in the first place... it was their own choice... Bringing the "American Dream" aka detabilization to other countries... Well done, Murica -_-
Afghanistan... the most importatn job your troops had there was to protext the poppy fields... and all that heroin is coming back to Murica...
I Fought in grozny, dec 1994, 8 guard corps, 68th guards motor rifle regiment. I saw people getting blown up by RPGs, burn alive, die from blood lose after getting hit by a DShK. I was a BTR turret gunner, i operated a 14.5mm KPVT machine gun, our division was the only one to actualy make it to Grozny in 1994. I left Russia after the one ended, and i still get nightmares sometimes about the things that happened there
@@nagorgaming7029 Damn dude that must've been hellacious! I'm a westerner and was real young when the first Chechen war was happening but I remember seeing it on the news all the time. It looked like the worst fighting since WWII. No offense, but I seems crazy how little the Russian Army seemed to have learned from the battle of Stalingrad and other major urban battles of WWII.
Too bad there were Ford parts in those German vehicles. Why did Ford sue the US for bombing their factories in Germany during WW2? Why did Ford help Germany become war ready so fast? US General Smedley Butler said wars a rackett and still is to this day.
German subs* a very small percentage of German soldiers were actually nazis
Served in Ramadi and other parts of Anbar in 06-07. Crazy how the ROE shifted while we were there. Went from killing stuff to sitting around, and having to wait to get shot at before you could engage back. We lost a lot of good guys for nothing and our country didn't (and still doesn't) give a shit. Just like the country didn't give a shit about Afghanistan. If there's one thing modern America does well, it's pissing on the lives and sacrifices of service members. Don't give us an empty 'thank you for your service'. Give us competent leaders that have the smarts to select the right wars and the balls to see those wars through to victory.
@@billdickson1142 yeah, the next big one is coming. Too many people are blind to it, but we are literally barreling down the path towards another major war. Not to be political, but as a nation the West is focused on all the wrong things right now, especially here in the US. Take care of yourself too m8.
Grow up little boy and stop spewing immature disgusting filth a public forum.
How pathetically uneducated, immoral, and Godless, thus anti-American.
Obviously you failed English class and your father and mother miserably failed to train you how to be a REAL man, a true gentleman of moral character. Instead you act like just another ignorant street thug.
@No Fux I don't blame any one President. I blame the entire system. Democrats and Republicans, once you take the emotional issues out of it, are really very similar. Trump negotiated a bad deal with Doha, Biden made it worse. Bush got us somewhere we should never have been, Obama screwed up getting us out. It's a broken system with a bunch of guys who never did a day of real service trying to dictate war strategy and therein lies the problem.
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Did/Do you think what you did there was right?
I was in Ramadi at the time of this footage with 1st Armored, my first deployment, 2005-2006. Deployed to Afghanistan 2 more times throughout my time in the army and never saw anything as intense as Ramadi, pure madness.
In the name of freedom, democracy and weapons of mass destruction, you came and destroyed Iraq and looted its wealth.
@hamahasan9735 I agree with you, we never should have been there like we were. I was young and my country had just been attacked, we all thought we were serving justice but instead we served corporate profits. I thing about it all the time. I wish I could tell a younger me to go another path but I cannot change the past.
I was over there too. 1/37. Ramadi was just different.
Spent a year Patrolling Iraq, January 05-06. Camp Gunslinger, Adhamiya District of Baghdad. Taji, and Abu Ghraib Prison. Been almost 20 years and still not a damn day doesnt go by that I’m still there. Not all day everyday. But at some point everyday. A thought. Memory. Something. Not all bad not all good. But i’m still there man. Time just goes on but I’m still 20 years in the past.
my brother was a sergeant and he served in the 132nd under Perry. He was in Gang Bangh Valley
As an Iraq Vet..these experiences are not only terrifying but life changing traumatic!! PERIOD.
Put your headphones on. These poor guys will be trembling for years if you were there.
@@dilkhozaimarwat3479 ohh I get it, Your one of those,
@kupis1408 school shooting been happening before these times lol
kupis1408 school shootings are conducted by the CIA and FBI
@@dilkhozaimarwat3479 we made them suffer daily lol glad to do it
@@Graderman3587 Just report them, they are not worth the time.
''When death is considered holy, any opponent has already lost the war''
Nice line, it isn't born out in history, but definitely devout religionists fight hard, in many cases. They still often lose, but they fight hard.
That's only true if you try to avoid civilian casualties.
Which one
I was there and so glad these vids come to light
Government center Ramadi marines have never got there recognition....we took out the trash in 2007
the soldier at 7:15 that instinctively moved to protect the camera man. Absolutely amazing.
He didn't move to cover the cameraman. He moved to provide cover for the other Marines that had to cross in front of that open street to the left. The camera guy followed him to try to film insurgents shooting at the Marines. Don't get it twisted.
Lol. U really overly glorify them.
@@TheAnytony fatherless
Best documentary about the Battle of Ramadi I have seen....much respect from Kenya to Seal team 3 Charlie Platoon ❤️
From a civilian point of view, you don't realise just how loud everything is. You think it's loud when they open up with their assault rifles then the guys with the SAW's open up on a target, it's like rolling thunder.
deafness is the best ear protection
Assault rifles are not a thing
@@Jcaeser187 sorry what I can’t hear you over my military grade tinnitus
Long rifles ... the saw would be the more apt description of the made up term "assault" rifle
I'm not a military guy, that is I've never served, but you get what I mean when I use the umbrella term Assault Rifles, what ever AR type of weapon those guys were using. They were a lot louder than depicted in movies or re-enactments. That was the point.
Thank you boys
American soldiers have lost few battles; American politicians have lost many.
Shut up. You political clowns play these men and women like pawns for your own benefit. I don’t wanna here it
As a Marine I spent a lot of time there in 04. Although it had lasting effects, Ive never felt more alive than when i was in combat.
As a guy that's dad was a marine and a couple of my cousins, seeing both sides here. was this how it had to be? It sounds like yall enjoyed it. Was it yall just being bullys or what? Please explain..
when you came back did you struggle to find that feeling of being alive in everyday life? can imagine society being boring as batshit
@@dolphsmith313 Is a skydiver a bully for enjoying an adrenaline rush? Is a bungie jumper a bully for enjoying an adrenaline rush? Why would a soldier be a bully for enjoying an adrenaline rush? It's a common human experience. You're alert. You feel things differently. You're more in the moment than a lethal dose of caffeine could ever replicate. That makes you feel alive. It is not morality. It is biology.
Ok first off you guys have my up most respect. My dad was in veitnam he was a hard act to follow to say the least. I guessi was just asking if it's really that easy as you make it sound?
So was it? Or do you have fucking nightmares about it. Cause I've seen the nightmares he had..
It is weird looking at this video and realizing this was 17 years ago. This was Able Co 2/69 Ar during the first part of the video. The crazy part for me was hearing my voice on the radio.
Wow as a civ I can only compare it to hearing myself on voice-mail that's fucking wild m8
Probably tired of hearing it, but thank you for serving bro. I work with violent inmates and while that does not come CLOSE to serving in an active war, I can say that the general public does not understand the reality of how messed up this world can be. Thank you brother. Seriously
Day! It's me Alex! I can't believe UA-cam recommended this video to me. Hope you are doing well brother!
Gotta timestamp, dawg?
my brother was a sergeant and he served in the 132nd under Perry. He was in Gang Bangh Valley
Definitely a top 3 documentary!
I was a CWO3 Rotation 06-08. Ramadi was part of my AOR...I could never forget the Artillery firing within the FOB..They rocked all day and night. Talk about hearing loss.
Another pog 🤭
@@Boomy2nicce you are a dogmut han troll ccp roache,these men died facing the enemy han ccp not only ran away from the Indian army whom are brave and fearless they are bullies that use violence against uygur people interning them in concentration camps forcing sterilisation on women and harvesting human organs from uygur children and adults, shame on you bottom feeding scum
my brother was a sergeant and he served in the 132nd under Perry. He was in Gang Bangh Valley
@@leonrammler731 Thats funny...Terminator reference..too bad you were not in the real shit.
Cool to see all you brothers here. Love yall
All brave men, respect to them.
Shouldn’t have been there in the first place but that’s a separate conversation.
No politics, just respect for modern warriors
@@gustavoalmanza2673 if you don’t pay attention to lies that get them killed, are you really respecting them?
@@nvonliph it's been almost 20 years since, iraq happened, i was in iraq 03 and 05, I've had a lot of questions looking for answers, truth, accountability, honor and respect....... Another mistakes and their errors, and the same people who claim to be great leaders who led us down this road, have denied this country, a teue experience of honesty, truth fland has ledt us. The people a void in pur hearts. We need to have this experience be around, we owe it to one another to hold truth and honesty , forgiveness, redemption.
I'm we need to this discussion, and the country has been deproced amd deprived ofthese experiences.........
We need to trust each other amd value teuth amd important.......
nothing but scumbags
Invaders
Fallujha 1&2 and Ramadi were some of the most intense battles of the Iraq War.
I was at Ramada when a huge explosion shook the ground. I read in the stars and stripes that about 16 Iraq people died from that explosion. It was scary because the population was right next to the base.
Which one? We had a huge VBIED take out a police station 05-06, but there were several big ones same time frame.
I was in Ramadi in '05 and '06. 11-B with the 101st. I can tell you that incompetent officers and leaders were a problem back then too. Not as bad as today, but it was getting there. They just watched the insurgents position themselves but had piss poor ROE.
@David Wang I am actually looking at buying some land in Peru. This country makes me want to puke anymore!
We are like the British fighting a colonial militia
Were you the one responsible for all those golf balls?
@@davidrosenlund7533 Wouldn't know anything about all those golf balls. You mean the ones that guys were driving out of OP Corregidor? Nope, no idea. Did one hit you?
Stupid ROE's killed our troops. The leaders (political & military) should hang!
I don't know why I watched this. My heartbeat and blood pressure skyrocketing remembering our patrols, contact, firefighters and the ever deadly IED. I made it through two deployments and thank God I never got hit. Was pinned down a time or two. Ramadi was a place I thankfully never saw but was in Anbar province and it was the wild west for real.
I don't know why we keep coming back to the nightmares. God bless you brother.
@@user-dn5ez6gy1i I don't either brother. I'm glad you made it back though.
@@26michaeluk I have a hard time watching it, it brings tears to my eyes. It was over 20 years ago, and I don't think it will ever be over. I know God is going to make everything better one day and that's the only hope I have. Thanks for saying something back brother, just know you're not alone.
holy crap this made me realize how accurate DICE made the dialogue for bf4 multiplayer.
Damn, I'm re-reading Jocko Willink's books and he talks about Ramadi. It's one thing reading about it, but seeing what these men go through is hellish.
The sounds of Ramadi battles still echo in my head..
I feel lucky to be still alive!
@@xObscureMars no its not
Hahaha I highly doubt that.
@@xObscureMars You are cowardly Americans. If you were strong, you would have entered Iraq alone and not with the coalition that consists of 37 countries.😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
@@kerlowsc3397 why you doubt ?!
I'm originally from that land. 🙃
@@ubaidaabid6879 dude your english alone makes it obvious
One of my best friends fought in the Battle of Ramadi with the Second infantry Division.. I remember him coming home on leave, showing us pictures that he took on his digital camera. Pointing out his fellow Soldiers who didn't make it home as well as very graphic pictures of terrorists who were killed..
The Iraqi army weren’t terrorists. This entire war was completely pointless and cost people lives on both side that didn’t need to die. The entire invasion was built on a lie by George Bush and Tony Blair.
the only terrorists are your friend and his fellow gangsters of war criminals
Terrorists huh? while you were the one there in their country killing people.
How are people defending their home from foreign invaders terrorists?
I had a friend who snuck film back in his bunghole.. pics of Iraqis burnt to a crisp n whatnot ... Graphic stuff
The best documentary ever
only the dead
1:50 dude that warning shot was close AF haha
I remember that aggravation…that heart pounding fear….and the anger that comes with trying to locate the X who’s shooting at us. Shouldn’t have watch this .
can't imagine how loud those rooms got when they all started firing
I was a BTR turret gunner in Grozny, it was such a pain sitting in the tiny turret shooting the 14.5mm machine gun, louder than a jet taking off
Not only was it loud, but you could feel it as well.
@@nagorgaming7029 what was fighting in Gronzy like?
@@austinmac2693 Lots of snipers and IEDs, a lot of civpop, anywhere you drive you may get shot by an RPG. We usually stayed near buildings held by firendly infantry and covered windows of enemy-held buldings with machine gun fire.
my brother was a sergeant and he served in the 132nd under Perry. He was in Gang Bangh Valley
All i can do is sympathize for both sides' casualties. I met a family friend when i was very young who died in this war who had no family from what i was told. Rip Glen
War = Money. Always follow the Money. Elites Suck. These Cause ALL of this Suffering.
Nah. The actual terrorists deserved it
Would be interesting to see the defenders side. What they thought and who they were. War was a different level of blodsy for the iraquis than for the Americans.
Sympathizing with AQ?
The Iraqis were weak. Did not know what they wanted. Too divided to decide what to eat for dinner. Fuckin shame
Good job..✌️
I served in AR Ramadi from Oct 2004- Oct 2005. I will never forget.
I'm from Ramadi and currently live there, how's your life after ending the war?
my brother was a sergeant and he served in the 132nd under Perry. He was in Gang Bangh Valley
As an army veteran, does anybody ever care to wonder why we were over there in the first place? Weapons of mass destruction? Or weapons of mass distraction… At the time, I didn’t know better either..
i think it has to do with crusade stuff, and oil and weapons of mass destruction was the cover.
the only thing that managed to come from the entire conflict was jerusalem being recognised as israel's
It would take 10 minutes of googling to know why we were there.
@@Strikingeight No shit Sherlock
As a veteran myself I would say Saddam himself was a weapon of mass destruction. My opinion.
We had zero buisness there...I feel for our guys and them. If foreign soldiers came to our country and set up shop, we'd do the exact same MF'ing thing they did. Fight
I can see it being frustrating when you can't shoot an armed combatant first and have to only return fire or suppress. Other times having to capture and release the same guy over and over can push someone over the edge
Even with great training , leadership equipment , planning and intel theres so much luck involved. I feel anxious just watching it . Brave brave men.
I was in middle school in 2006...... 10 years later I would find myself fighting in the same war on terror that I grew up seeing on the news as a kid. Crazy
The war was over in 2012 but ok
@@grizzlywhores459 Afghanistan, my dude
Had a senior manager in my workplace. A guy who never wore the uniform. Talented in some ways, but prideful, and full of himself. He said, "Compared to 50,000 killed in Vietnam , 5000 dead Americans in Iraq is nothing."
"...nothing." ...that's what I heard him say.
My response was to turn my gaze toward him, remove my glasses, and say 'nothing'.
I'm still saying nothing....any time there's any contact. It's like he doesn't exist.
I have a hard time finding the difference between this and Ukraine, except for one:
American orcs fight for false freedom, for their corporate masters.
Russian orcs fight for false safety, for their dictatorial masters.
Yet, Russian soldiers are expendable in the eyes of the world and the American soldiers are praised as heroes.
Hypocrites 🤡
It’s a tragedy that politicians/corporations indoctrinate young people to send them places they have no business being. They post traumatically scar young people trying to be brave, then don’t offer them any support when they return home.
The US military hasn’t done any operations for US freedom in a long time, basically WW2, and what’s hilarious, before WW2 we never got involved in stuff that wasn’t our business. Corruption changed that.
We killed millions in Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan, Somalia, etc. All for defense and weapon contractors to get rich!
I'm gonna guess that he was a baby boomer and draft dodger
What amazes me is how these guys kept going with that gear in 120 degree Iraqi sun
my dad was there. The stress really changed him, hes just not the same man he was.
i was on cop falcon 2005-2006 in ramadi. this is spot on. very well made a real look inside what we went threw...
So you meet Chris Kyle?
😂Me too 05. The chowhall was awesome lol!
I was in 8th grade when 9/11 happened. I remember following the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq. I joined the Navy Seabees in 2007. And had just missed Iraq. A buddy of mine deployed there twice. I went during the surge to Afghanistan. I think alot of people forgot about the wars after about 2010. Except those in close relation to military personel.
Wasn’t really war, just warmongering that achieved nothing.
You missed it intentionally had you gone army or marines you’d have deployed now get ya scary azz off here and stop pretending 3ID 3-15INF
@@harryshrooman3024 no thanks bro vet
The Battle of Ramadi was fought during the Iraq War from March 2006 to November 2006, for control of the capital of the Al Anbar Governorate in western Iraq. A joint US military force under the command 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division and Iraqi Security Forces fought insurgents for control of key locations in Ramadil. Coalition strategy relied on establishing a number of patrol bases called Combat Operation Posts throughout the city.
Belligerents:
Occupation forces,
United States
United Kingdom
New Iraqi Army
6,100 Soldiers, professional standing army
345 dead and injured
Insurgents, Mujahideen Shura Council
Al Qaeda in Iraq
Islamic State of Iraq
~5,000 Insurgents, estimates vary most being placed as less
~750 dead and injured
This was a very pyrrhic victory on the occupation forces' end.
I deployed to Ramadi in 2008-2009, I saw the aftermath of all this on patrol everyday.
I was in Ramada in 06 was there almost 9 months. I can’t still smell the city today. Semper Fi!!
I was out in Wester Anbar in '08. It was relatively quiet especially compared to Ramadi. Glad I wasnt there but also glad to know our guys gave 'em hell. Bad politics landed in that place but we did our jobs. Semper fi
That shell hitting the camera was badass
This was the longest 8 min video ive ever watched. I cannot imagine how long it was being there, in their position.
this was a really good documentary, highly recommend watching it
Name of it?
@@TheAnikazone "Only The Dead." I saw it on netflix or prime, forget which. It's also on those not-so-legal streaming websites. Careful though, it shows some extreme violence, it might affect you if you're not already exposed to that
@@moonasha thanks man 👍 i think I've seen it before but forgot the name. It's very raw man
Young men paying the price for the decisions of old men.....those names on the wall....those who died....the people they were shooting at....it was their land..their home...imagine how they felt about the soldiers...who probably didn't want to even be there.
The people we fought in Iraq weren't noble warriors fighting for the homeland, they were criminal Baathists angry that their murderous thug dictator was removed, and Alqaeda in Iraq terrorists who blew up restaurants, pet markets, ice cream shops, job lines and funerals every day of the war. Nice strawman that has no relevance to the actual fighting or the two sides involved.
@@JK-br1mu Saddam Hussein was a dictator, but he kept Iraq stable. Bush invading Iraq caused a civil war that killed millions. Btw, Americans committed war crimes in Iraq that bordered on genocide.
So...by that statement...no innocent Iraqis were killed by the Americans?
Alqaeda in Iraq was a manufactured excuse....Pakistan has more Alqaeda and taliban than Iraq.....I don't see the Americans so a clean up operation out there..
When you destroy a country... you destroy the lives of every person and child living in it..... what did the US achieve in Iraq apart from destroying it?
Speaking of terrorists..... what a is the US doing about its own home grown hillbilly neo nazi terrorist brood?
@@JK-br1mu They had a right to be angry. You can’t come to a country and say that we will improve everything for you after you depose their leader and give it a poorly made democratic government that doesn’t take into consideration what politics and the people are like in iraq and expect the populous to be fine with you. When america came to iraq they made more enemies than just the baath due to the destabilization that was caused. Saddam wasn’t an angel but he was a far more effective leader for iraq than any who came after him.
@@HP_lovecrafts_cat67 there was no popular uprising, there were AlQaeda in Iraq terrorists, Saddamites and Shia militias....who kept fairly low key until the Alqs murdered enough of them to get them riled up. Joe average just wanted the fighting to end.
I WAS STATIONED THERE IN 2005/06, FIRST IN CAMP HABBANIYAH W/ 506 I.D., THEN MOVED TO RAMADI(ANYBODY ELSE REMEMBER THE GUY THAT JUST GOT TO RAMADI AND WAS ON HIS WAY TO THE P.X. AND WAS HIT WITH A DIRECT MORTAR ROUND??), THEN JUMPED THE EUPHRATES TO CAMP BLUE DIAMOND ATTACHED TO 2ND MAR DIV..... I STILL REMEMBER COL. GRONSKI
1:50 that warning shot was hardcore holy smokes.
5th marines 7 months in Ramadi. hurricane point, snake pit, and camp Ramadi. Semper Fi
I was at camp blue Diamond 04-05
We should have NEVER been in Iraq! My hats off to the young men who served there !
Nope, we shoudlve been. WMD or not, Saddam was the modern day equivalent of Hitler, a warmongering fascist who terrorized neighboring countries & commit genocide against many minorities in Iraq & Iranians during the Iran Iraq war. There was nothing wrong with overthrowing a state like this, where the US failed was after, providing zero stability for the country.
The military doesn't get to choose the destination. I couldn't agree with you any more though.
@@aaronalegria1239 same
Great and great work. They were not able to kill criminals, so they killed defenseless civilians. Yes, it is the cowardly army and the malicious policy to destroy this country. The results are a poor Iraqi people because of the wars, after the richest and American soldiers were mentally ill because of the horror they lived in Iraq.
USA must secure the flow of energy with competitive cost. This is why USA was in Iraq and ME.
My unit relieved these guys. We were the first unit to move into the city and take up real-estate where the enemy lived. Ramadi 06-07. B.CO. 1/36 Inf., 1st BCT, 1st Armored Division.
7:08 I laughed my ass off how he dodged with that 360
I was there from 03 to 04 with 2/5. This must have been the deployment after ours. Brings back a lot of memories.
my Respect
I think Ramadi was worse in 06-07 than during your tour........but they cleaned it out later, once they got local Sunnis fighting Alqaeda-in-Iraq.
@@JK-br1mu who cares when it was worse he was there and so was I
I was with 3/7 I co, I lost a good friend of mine on Oct 8th, 2005, so I'm assuming this was us based on the RIP dates written on the walls.
These guys went through this for no positive purpose what so ever and the evil people that sent them there are still doing TV appearances and enjoying the spoils of their corruption.
The intensity is like no other
1-503rd IN 2ID Ramadi Camp Corregidor. We built it, We torn it down as 1-9 IN 2ID
Fuck bro. I have always thought about you guys ever aince we relieved yall of that shit hole..... Being light infantry, dont know how yall survived in that city without bradleys..........
Hell yeah
Rules of engagement are frustrating when you have to wait to get shot in order to shoot.
When this was filmed I was in Ramadi doing my 2nd tour in the Army. Doing my guard duty in one our Observation Posts, you can see big fire balls in the middle of the city going on. Much clearer when you had nightshift like I did.
This battle is marines doing all the dirty work. Army always waits and cleans up.
@@codeman9145 Not true. After Fallujah the front lines moved to Ramadi and Army was doing the front line there. Don't think Marines always doing the dirty work. Remember who did D-Day and the European Theater? Oh yeah ARMY.
@@codeman9145 And if you were in Ramadi as I was in 2006 you would know that. Stop living off on stereotype and what CNN tells you.
@@hhds113 If yOu WeRe In RaMaDi As I wA- stfu. And obviously marines did not do D-Day, as they were for years before DDay doing amphibious land assaults throughout the pacific against Japan, there were no marines left at the time for Europe.
@@codeman9145 How about you take your childish response and profanity to someone else who has an immature brain like you. People like you give our military and our country a bad name.
My old man was in the battle for Ramadi. 3rd bat 8th marine reg 3rd bct kilo Co. Was a 0331 MG got a bronze star with V there. Was in fallujah before that in 04 with 3/8 also
Most god forsaken place. It crazy what a man can do to another man
Same unit. 3/8 Kilo Co; 2nd Platoon. Semper Fi 🇺🇲
@@jonbusch4606 you know my old man. Sgt William morrow. Machine gunner
RESPECT
NEVER FORGOTTEN
ALWAYS MISSED
always caps
@@EricToTheScionti always? nah sometimes my CAPS likes to STICK or I say a bunch of shit and do NOT WANT TO REPEAT IT. Its a Mil thang
@@godsownlunatics9650 hope another towers get knocked out ✈️💥🏢🏢
No horse ridden, No river crossed, no battle fought... Sorry as a 10th Mountain guy, you know I gotta give you shit lol :)
"A normal day in Ramadi."
after Bush's war started. The Iraqis did not have this coming to them.
@@fredfreddy8684 It was like this in 2015 when I was back in country. They didn't fix it despite BILLIONS of dollars in capital investment by the US directly, private companies, and the Iraqi Government.
Ramadi fell again in one morning in May 2015.
The Iraqi resistance and the Iraqi army The literature of the American foolish army in Fallujah Our fighters in Fallujah are sacred to us not like your carcasses and pigs crying like children in battles
how do you know lol?
To my brothers and sisters, we miss you and love you. I was in Ramadi from the same period 05 to 06
Ran route clearance ops in Ramadi in 06/07. RIP to the fallen.
A part of me died there
You probably should've stayed home.
Some of us died there..
.........
That's alright brother. You're not alone.
Universal ever get that put our lives back, I think about it everyday whether I want to or not, but, brother, I'm glad you're home, whether we like the way and it or not the war is over, and whether the country likes this or not- Way too many of us came home alive lol The country needs us, The country starving for integrity in leadership, what the fuck are we going to do now
@@kevinkev9996 🤨
I know the feeling as we did the same when I was translating with the ODA from 05 to 2010 , iraq was a bad place to be at , I lost lots of friends Americas and Iraqies.
You've got that right. Ramadi to Fallujah along Route Michigan and Mobile.
@@emknight84 also Irish route and dead girl in salmn Pak area
@@rusty-gaming1988 I never went on Irish, thankfully.
You know that those marines and soldiers were not fighting the Nazis in Normandy !?...in fact, they were the Nazis in Normandy !
You know that !?
@@talebdaas fun fact the Marines were never in Normandy.
My uncle was there. No wonder he lost 40% of his hearing. Full autos 6inches from you. Nonstop blastin. Crazy. He’s retired doing well now.
All for nothing
What do you mean?
Not necessarily
I was there and agree
@@mostafamahmoud5584war of 20 years based upon lies. The people that did 9/11 weren’t even from Iraq and Afghanistan. They were from Saudi Arabia….
Absolutely an absolute farce from start to finish trillions of dollars thousands of lives millions of people there's lives affected and we achieved absolutely nothing except the further degradement of our own standing in the world stage
I am a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan and I still remember all those nightmares from that war
Respect
I'm from Ramadi and currently live there, how's your life after ending the war??
@@sataralanbari9792 my life after the war is very complicated nightmares because of everything that happened and of course seeing the beautiful sunsets
@@Michaelmontreal
I agree.
It was an absurd war, we lost the most loved once from both sides. It's the responsibility of the U.S administration, they engaged the war to get rid of Saddam and free its people and destroyed the WMDs As They CLAIMED!, but then it turned out to be just a big lie as well as false pretexts . And we are still suffering from the war until this moment.
i felt so much emotion from everyone, hatred, being pissed off, sadness like the one guy said "you kinda get tunnel vision, you start to hate it here" i would go ape shit if i saw people close to me disappear, just gone...
I'll spend the rest of my life trying to forget this battle
I did 4 deployments to Iraq. Thinking back to times that realizing that war was so illegal. So many innocent civilians were killed for no reason at all. This is the reason the U. S. A. is hated by so many countries and rightfully so. If you weren't over there you wouldn't understand. ANERICAN GREED AT ITS BEST!
Harsh truth. Unpopular opinion. I’m just at 30 years and it seems sadly unnecessary. Ego. Hubris.
As much as I would have love to serve my country, in 05 when I graduated, my father talked me out of it. He knew I wanted to but he did 8 years in bomb disposal and saw how forgotten soldiers are by their own people let alone other countries civilians and how low the government really thinks of you when you get out. I didn't join and there are times I wish I did but it's not about dying for your country it seems, it's about how much oil and riches you attained for your country. I didn't and still don't see myself doing the dirty work he and you did. I thank all of you for serving and doing what you had to do regardless of orders. It's what you become when you get back to boring, no pay jobs when you come from being a freakin bullet sponge for the fat cats is what I struggle with. Prayers to all of those who did not come back every day.
Nice to see such honesty, too many try to justify it to themselves, the US gov uses people under the lie of patriotism.
@@garibaldi54 there's so many more that knew the whole war in Iraq was illegal. Our country will never have peace because of the tyrants that run it.
Soldiers will always be toys for politicians and bankers.
I was a small child when all of this was happening. I never knew any details aside from pictures of soldiers, but my parents would just tell me that a lot of brave men were out in the desert fighting bad guys so I could be safe, and I looked at those men like they were super heroes.
Since then I was fascinated with our military history, I’d come home from school and turn the TV onto the military channel and see these stories told by American soldiers all the way from WW2 up to things that had just recently happened within a couple of years out in the Middle East. I would still look at those men like they were super heroes.
I will be turning 21 in a couple of months as of posting this comment. Watching this has brought back some of those child-like feelings, but it also comes with a new perspective. Regardless, I still see these men as I did sixteen years ago
American genocide
You were lied to. We all were.
@jonathanalpart7812 You look like you were an infomercial host and gone rogue.
You were raised up on a healthy diet of lies and propaganda. Kids your age were bombed to bits for no apparent reason in Iraq. Did mum and dad tell you whether the US eventually located and destroyed the nuclear weapons they went to look for?
Fought in the Battle of Ramadi it was definitely a bloody battle
i was in grade 5, man how time flys! i bet these boys look back at this now that there nearly 50 r so and think to themselfs " how did i make it home", respect boys you make it look easy
Lol 50? we are 37
Salute to all those marines and soldiers who fought days and nights in ramadi 🫡🇺🇸🏴☠️🤙🏽 jocko said it best this men are warriors
Watch less CNN dude………
You know that those marines and soldiers were not fighting the Nazis in Normandy !?...in fact, they were the Nazis in Normandy !
You know that !?
@@dudedude4034 I don’t even watch CNN tf 🤡
@@talebdaas you sound stupid af😂😂 the people of ramadi we’re happy the American forces was there … plenty of videos of Iraqis saying this
@@KevinDiazx11 bet you think ukraine soldiers are heroes as well
All I can say is SUPPORT THESE GUYS PLEASE!