I think it would have ben hilarious if CW5 Friendly walked in, hands in pockets with headphones on, and CSM just nodded at him and said "What's up, Chief?"
Nah he's gotta do that Chief giggle from the back of the room, camera pans over and he's spitting seeds and on his phone rocking tunes, then he fades away on second look
I heard a guy on a podcast say his new CSM thought the motor pool was perfectly spotless once- which of course meant motor pool spent all their time cleaning instead of working, so their working hours got extended so they have enough time for both.
We made mid-deployment maintenance stop for 2 weeks in Turkey and pistachios were $5 a ton... I can relate to the sunflower seeds in my best CSM voice... "Listen up! Freaking shells everywhere...in the shop, in the berthing, in the mess decks, and even the freaking head" "Not just the regular ones but also those red ones too. Sailors walking around with red lips and finger tips...disgusting" "Sweep down those passageways...What? You already did? Uh, do it again"
"Red lips and fingertips" 😂😂😂 How the hell did you not crack up?? I mean survival skills and instincts are one thing...my firey, short, red headed mom was scary as hell. I had finely honed skills and instincts before I went into the military. Boot camp was like Summer camp by comparison, but THAT....that $h!+ would've KILLED my bearing 😂.
The call-back to Crafton’s kambucha was when CSM was passed out in the staff meeting after being up early for barracks inspection. Remember when they introduced the Iron Major?
I guess he could have done another call-back. It would probably make a good running joke. It just sounded like you missed the first one with your comment, that’s all.
@@shawndavis2616 My Senior Drill Instructor was a Gunnie. He could be the perfect father figure one moment, I would even say loving. The next he was tearing apart the squad bay and smoking us in puddles of our own sweat. It was exhilarating after a while.
I always kept my M1008 clean. No trash in the cab at end of business day and if there was trash in the cab in the morning the CMS would be advised. My issue M1008 never saw the motor pool. After I parked at the barracks I gave the keys to the CQ and in the morning I picked them up again and drove out to the flight line. My truck was a working truck, not a parking lot queen.
First time I met the 3/2 CSM in Afghan he gave me the quick, almost imperceptable head to toe casual eye sweep scanning for deficiencies before telling me that my moustache although in perfect 670-1 compliance would be a lot easier to take care of if I shaved the fucking thing off! Never did lol.
You just didn't understand how very, VERY happy it makes CSM to roast the men. He was EXTREMELY happy. It just LOOKS different, when CSM is happy. That's all 😂.
These videos make me glad to know that the Army is only one step above the Marine Corps for vocalizations - I can imagine the group of tired NCO's 'hooah'ing after every CSM hooah, much like how we would respond to pretty much every time a leader expected a response with 'errrr'.
What I did while in Command...I hid cards in spots...that if the Soldier DID PMCS their truck...they would find...and turn in for a Day Off ....never had PMCS issues after that, I dare say we were the only company ready to deploy out of the entire Battalion
Had an old csm nam vet who didn't need to say anything. Just a glance from his squinted side eye would get you on point. He had a no barracks room policy, that was our space and we had to live in it, but everything else belonged to him.
When I was a butterbar (newly minted Army 2LT) in the National Guard, the Readiness NCO quickly let me know that, as a platoon leader, I wasn't allowed to go home on a Sunday afternoon until I had finished typing in all my platoon's NCOERs with LDR comments. So the RNCO could forward them to higher before Monday morning. He would let me sit in his office while I typed the NCOERs up. That was a good NCO.
Chief I have been retired for ten years and when you do the CSM videos i get at parade rest lol. Keep up the good work Chief. BTW the BTN XO is funny to and spot lmao
I've seen a CSM who I'm sure was absolutely disgusted and walked out the room without saying a word. Squad leader was yelling at all of us while he was parrot beaking walking around in nothing but his drawers. Fucker was weird and had just returned from South Korea. I will never forget you SGT Knight.
I opened this at 0434 shortly after waking up thinking I’d have a laugh, but this was too real. The “huurrry-up”s ians chewing out n that state of “I’m still waking up” reminded me of things. Things that make me glad to be out now, lol.
The best part about when its "Trash everywhere. Gatorade bottles, sun flower seeds" and it was a gatorade bottle and a pack of sunflower seeds in a singular HMMV from the guy who was doing maintenance on it, and they just went to take a piss real quick.
1985-2005. About half that with 1st SFOD-D for the most part even the CSM didn't raise an eyebrow at the whole "hands in pockets" thing" but 80% of the time we were either on a mission or training for one.
The only part of the military that get to do their jobs. In the regular forces, either you can't do you job stateside/peacetime or there is some civilian contractor doing your job. So you get stuck with the stuff the civilians don't want to do and/or practicing your "warrior tasks and drills" as if they are anything more than a foundation. 68Ws manage to skirt that depending on their unit.
@rh906 only time we ever really got our balls busted over spit & polish an by the book was during change of command once every couple years. Only had to deal with that twice. The other times was either on mission status or deployed an it was just a meet & greet upon return.
You should introduce a random special forces guy that pops in every now and then who is friends with cw5 and gets the officers and ncos angry because of his "cowboy like attitude".
Wait he visited the motorpool and every humvee had a drip pan? Unpossible. The entire point of a motorpool is to steal drip pans from each other. Sarnt major is slippin.
Best thing us NCOs ever got grilled for by CSM "On the run this mornin' I'm hearing a cadence talkin' about f*ckin fish to make fish sticks! YALL BETTER FIX YALLS SH*T TIME NOW!" Half of us didnt even hear the cadence in question which prompted us to all search for and memorize said cadence.
My Master Chief (E-9) has been a Master Chief longer than my Senior Chief (E-8) has been in the Navy. When we talk, all hands are in pockets. Small command.
Really ticked off an E5 as an E3. I found a crushed oil can in the bucket of my loader. I honestly didn't know were it was supposed to go so I asked maintenence sergeant so-and-so and he got in my face and told me to put that can and everything else he told me on my loader. I put it back in the bucket and found my platoon sergent and told him what happened. I noted there wasn't any more garbage on my platoon's equipment while in maintenence bays after that.
Just had a troop only closeout formation today with the SCO and CSM about su!cide and underage drinking, 4 su!cides in the past six months and 7 dui or alcohol related offenses in the last eight weeks. Heavy stuff.
Ours literally just pushed down to every company to go police call a barracks parking lot because a bunch of paper flew out a dumpster as it was being emptied 😂
I think it would have ben hilarious if CW5 Friendly walked in, hands in pockets with headphones on, and CSM just nodded at him and said "What's up, Chief?"
"Hey there, slick, nothin' much, just Walking in Memphis~"
And spitting sunflower seeds in his empty Gatorade bottle
@@allanmartin7898 Beat me to it! Back in my day it would have been a Mt Dew can, though.
Nah he's gotta do that Chief giggle from the back of the room, camera pans over and he's spitting seeds and on his phone rocking tunes, then he fades away on second look
And hands in his NCOER mid meeting
Has any CSM in history ever walked in a room and said... "listen up NCO's" and handed out good news? Hint: No.
"Yo! Listen up!!" ain't NO ONE going home soon.
Command Major Sergeant?
@@mantis_toboggan_md A well deserved promotion.... just ask the CSM. 😏
@@mantis_toboggan_md see…I have ptsd from hearing the phrase “yo, NCO’s let’s have a talk.”
Just like when someone in the USN/USMC says "Aight, check this out…"
You already know that's not a cool cat video he/she saw on the internet
What we can't see is he's still skunked on Crafton's mead, so this was him lecturing a room full of MP K9s.
The one phrase we all HATE from csm. ”So to piggyback off what the company commander said…”
And just few caveats to what CSM was saying....
Piggyback, caveat, behoove, hip-pocket, circle back, orientate and worst of all: squared away.
In my experience that tends to be the shirt. The chief usually wants to gtfo just as much as the junior enlisted
1SG always said that
@@kellykeegan2608hahaha too accurate 💀
I swear, the day a CSM says "the motor pool looks great" is the day hell freezes over.
I heard a guy on a podcast say his new CSM thought the motor pool was perfectly spotless once- which of course meant motor pool spent all their time cleaning instead of working, so their working hours got extended so they have enough time for both.
@@Nmille98in the words of the late great Michael Jackson, “you can’t win. You can’t get even and you can’t get out of the game”
We made mid-deployment maintenance stop for 2 weeks in Turkey and pistachios were $5 a ton...
I can relate to the sunflower seeds in my best CSM voice...
"Listen up! Freaking shells everywhere...in the shop, in the berthing, in the mess decks, and even the freaking head"
"Not just the regular ones but also those red ones too. Sailors walking around with red lips and finger tips...disgusting"
"Sweep down those passageways...What? You already did? Uh, do it again"
"Red lips and fingertips" 😂😂😂 How the hell did you not crack up?? I mean survival skills and instincts are one thing...my firey, short, red headed mom was scary as hell. I had finely honed skills and instincts before I went into the military. Boot camp was like Summer camp by comparison, but THAT....that $h!+ would've KILLED my bearing 😂.
I read this in the most angry, southern accent ever and i am happy
I was half expecting this to be a follow-up on PFC Crafton's home-made kombucha.
The call-back to Crafton’s kambucha was when CSM was passed out in the staff meeting after being up early for barracks inspection. Remember when they introduced the Iron Major?
@@altortugas5979 Yeah I know, but this could've been him coming back after passing out in a meeting.
I guess he could have done another call-back. It would probably make a good running joke. It just sounded like you missed the first one with your comment, that’s all.
Hurrrrry up. Hurrrry up.
God I fucking felt that in my bones.
Saaaaaaammmmme. Yup.
I was waiting for the " WAITING ON YOU" to drop
Sarnt Major always sounds like that, even in the Marine Corps (cept he brings crayons for the rest of us to munch on).
That's a leader that cares for his people right there!!!
Instead of sunflower seeds it's crayon nubs
@@KJ-nw8ge haha! Yeah. Crayola wrappers! LMAO!
A lot of gunnies sound off like this too.
@@shawndavis2616 My Senior Drill Instructor was a Gunnie. He could be the perfect father figure one moment, I would even say loving. The next he was tearing apart the squad bay and smoking us in puddles of our own sweat. It was exhilarating after a while.
"alright, what else" gets me every time
Picking through his mind for any bitty nonsense he'd seen or heard but forgot 😂.
Me watching this at my desk in uniform with headphones in
"That's un-sat"
Doggone, front-leaning rest, hooah.
Doggone soldiers running wild 😑
Fix yourself
What’s the fricken standard, guy?
From someone that used to work in the motorpool I can attest to this...🤣Good old days!
Hey how about we get some doggone drip pans and chock blocks under these vehicles hooah?
And what is the deal with people who chew sunflower seeds where they have to spit them in every direction leaving seed husks.stuck to the bulkheads?
I always kept my M1008 clean. No trash in the cab at end of business day and if there was trash in the cab in the morning the CMS would be advised. My issue M1008 never saw the motor pool. After I parked at the barracks I gave the keys to the CQ and in the morning I picked them up again and drove out to the flight line. My truck was a working truck, not a parking lot queen.
Word for word our CSM gave the same brief.
“H U R R Y U P”
*raises pitch slightly*
“H U R R Y U P”
the trauma is coming back lmao
When I heard “back in the block” deep memories awoke in me. Great job
This man is a what we call “spot on”
Hoo-ah? 😂
It's the classic "what else?" that gets me every time 😂
30+ years since I got out, and "back on the block" is still a thing in the army? Fucks sake, were they saying that shit in Valley Forge?
Jesus this one was a little too real
My favorite CSM vid is when he’s like “went down to those barracks, did not like what I saw, the commander did not like what he saw” lol
This shit is way too real…I just got out a month ago and I’m already getting PTSD from these shitty meetings
Lol the "What else?" kills me every time. So accurate
First time I met the 3/2 CSM in Afghan he gave me the quick, almost imperceptable head to toe casual eye sweep scanning for deficiencies before telling me that my moustache although in perfect 670-1 compliance would be a lot easier to take care of if I shaved the fucking thing off! Never did lol.
You can't shave it after that. He basically dared you to keep it.
@@doom4067imagine the effort he'd have gone to for $h!+s and giggles, if the guy had fallen for the game. 😂
The vernacular, cadence, expressions, all 100% on point.
I've never seen a CSM happy. Especially at a Battalion Mandatory Fun Day.
You just didn't understand how very, VERY happy it makes CSM to roast the men. He was EXTREMELY happy. It just LOOKS different, when CSM is happy. That's all 😂.
These videos make me glad to know that the Army is only one step above the Marine Corps for vocalizations - I can imagine the group of tired NCO's 'hooah'ing after every CSM hooah, much like how we would respond to pretty much every time a leader expected a response with 'errrr'.
Lord watch over the young private that forgets their chain of command.
“CSM isn’t happy” - who would’ve thought?
If I could tell you how many times I've heard this EXACT conversation from a 1sgt or a sgm...
"Arrright.... What else?". We had a command master chief in the Coast Guard who used to say that all the time.
Not even a joke here. Just what he’s going to tell you. He’s not even wrong!
“All right. What else?” Soooo accurate 🤣
First name Chief, last name Sargent Major.
CSM and crafton. Two of my favorites.
Something tells me there is a battalion out there who just uses this account to pass all their messages down the chain of command
What I did while in Command...I hid cards in spots...that if the Soldier DID PMCS their truck...they would find...and turn in for a Day Off ....never had PMCS issues after that, I dare say we were the only company ready to deploy out of the entire Battalion
Had an old csm nam vet who didn't need to say anything. Just a glance from his squinted side eye would get you on point. He had a no barracks room policy, that was our space and we had to live in it, but everything else belonged to him.
"Back on the freakin block" god DAMN this hit hard 😂
What I want to know is why is the CSM dealing with this? Shouldn't the 1SGs be on top of all of this?
Theoretically. I was once in the group that the 1SG yelled at, even though I wasn't with the rest of the company to screw it up that day.
When I was a butterbar (newly minted Army 2LT) in the National Guard, the Readiness NCO quickly let me know that, as a platoon leader, I wasn't allowed to go home on a Sunday afternoon until I had finished typing in all my platoon's NCOERs with LDR comments. So the RNCO could forward them to higher before Monday morning.
He would let me sit in his office while I typed the NCOERs up. That was a good NCO.
This just feels...real honestly.
Those awards and evals are super valid though
Honestly it’s all pretty valid
Spot on wit dat late NCOER part. There's soldiers at my unit who haven't completed their's for 2 years.
These videos are like PSAs for us officers who forget what the standards are
This is not even satire. This is a documentary.
Chief I have been retired for ten years and when you do the CSM videos i get at parade rest lol. Keep up the good work Chief. BTW the BTN XO is funny to and spot lmao
"What else?"
Every E-9 I've ever met.
I've seen a CSM who I'm sure was absolutely disgusted and walked out the room without saying a word. Squad leader was yelling at all of us while he was parrot beaking walking around in nothing but his drawers. Fucker was weird and had just returned from South Korea. I will never forget you SGT Knight.
This is the most accurate rendition of when a CSM comes into my office…. Every. Single. Time.
I opened this at 0434 shortly after waking up thinking I’d have a laugh, but this was too real. The “huurrry-up”s ians chewing out n that state of “I’m still waking up” reminded me of things. Things that make me glad to be out now, lol.
I like all the characters but damn CSM is my fav
CSM: Alexa! Why aren’t my doggone NCO’s squared away, hooah?
Paper towel holder:
"DO IT AGAIN 👋"
I thought for sure at the end of that he was gonna spit sunflower seeds into a gatorade bottle.
We have all had a CSM who has said these things….every Friday…at 1630.
These are too accurate🗿
UGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!! WHY DID YOU MAKE THIS VIDEO? TO TORMENT ME??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 My NCO nostalgia has kicked in!!!
I've been out for 10 years and this still gives me anxiety.
Here in the first hour!! These videos are the best 💯
“It would be hooah of you to fix it, NCOs.”
“Be HOOAH of you” gets me every time.
This was a sermon spoken to the NCO choir.
The best part about when its "Trash everywhere. Gatorade bottles, sun flower seeds" and it was a gatorade bottle and a pack of sunflower seeds in a singular HMMV from the guy who was doing maintenance on it, and they just went to take a piss real quick.
SMAJ didn't say behooah of you... Do it aGAIN!
Lol favourite character out of them all. Maybe friendly guy too lol
Gatorade bottles and sunflower seeds...
yup, this story checks out.
The "... alright, what else." kills me every time.
1985-2005. About half that with 1st SFOD-D for the most part even the CSM didn't raise an eyebrow at the whole "hands in pockets" thing" but 80% of the time we were either on a mission or training for one.
The only part of the military that get to do their jobs. In the regular forces, either you can't do you job stateside/peacetime or there is some civilian contractor doing your job. So you get stuck with the stuff the civilians don't want to do and/or practicing your "warrior tasks and drills" as if they are anything more than a foundation. 68Ws manage to skirt that depending on their unit.
@rh906 only time we ever really got our balls busted over spit & polish an by the book was during change of command once every couple years. Only had to deal with that twice. The other times was either on mission status or deployed an it was just a meet & greet upon return.
This IS a happy CSM. He's not happy unless he's doing this. When nothing is unsat he's gonna muttering to himself that something smells funny.
Just need to slip in the ever so famous “these troops are a direct reflection of their leadership”
Sounds like a 1700 Friday conversation
You should introduce a random special forces guy that pops in every now and then who is friends with cw5 and gets the officers and ncos angry because of his "cowboy like attitude".
Whenever a BN CSM states "Listen Up . . . " You know it is not good.
This is just a video of a Sergeant Major talking to the NCOs. Like, literally.
Back on the fuckin block. I miss hearing that.
Hands in pockets... Laughs in Air Force
If any E-9 ain't happy then nobody happy.
Wait he visited the motorpool and every humvee had a drip pan? Unpossible. The entire point of a motorpool is to steal drip pans from each other. Sarnt major is slippin.
😂
Damn, i might be transforming into a CSM.. i hate trash in vics and headphones in uniform too
That look he gave before his mild asschew was ON SPOT😂
“What else” universal.
I feel anxiety right from the start haha
Best thing us NCOs ever got grilled for by CSM "On the run this mornin' I'm hearing a cadence talkin' about f*ckin fish to make fish sticks! YALL BETTER FIX YALLS SH*T TIME NOW!"
Half of us didnt even hear the cadence in question which prompted us to all search for and memorize said cadence.
Nothing beats the "block".
The ‘What else?’ at the end gets me every time.
My Master Chief (E-9) has been a Master Chief longer than my Senior Chief (E-8) has been in the Navy. When we talk, all hands are in pockets. Small command.
Most reasonable brief I heard in a long time
Huuurrry up hurry up😅😅😅
Really ticked off an E5 as an E3. I found a crushed oil can in the bucket of my loader. I honestly didn't know were it was supposed to go so I asked maintenence sergeant so-and-so and he got in my face and told me to put that can and everything else he told me on my loader. I put it back in the bucket and found my platoon sergent and told him what happened. I noted there wasn't any more garbage on my platoon's equipment while in maintenence bays after that.
"Diddy boppin' like you back on the block or some shit!!!"
- Drill instructor SSG Munroe; Plt 1098, C co, 1st Bn- MCRD, Parris island circa 2003
I feel some Distro platoon flashbacks behind this segment...
My happiness is a DD214. May I never hear these voices again…
It’s a meme video and I rolled my eyes at “I walked thru the motorpool this morning” 😂
You need to do a PT 2 on this please !!! Chief
Just had a troop only closeout formation today with the SCO and CSM about su!cide and underage drinking, 4 su!cides in the past six months and 7 dui or alcohol related offenses in the last eight weeks. Heavy stuff.
CSM is one of my favorite characters.
Its really hard to remember these arent real people
Ours gets mad that no one has organized a police call of the his battalion barracks.
Ours literally just pushed down to every company to go police call a barracks parking lot because a bunch of paper flew out a dumpster as it was being emptied 😂
"but sarnt major we got back from the field this morning. We havent even showered yet, much less cleaned and pmcs'd"
That is 100% accurate, I think all NCOs have heard this exact same speech at one time or another in their career heck, probably multiple times.
Lol only I’m the military. Thank you for the video!
He found trash and unsecured Bii....😂