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I am glad you covered operation Paul Bunyan, but many other people have covered this event better. This guy is a schmuck and I stopped watching the video 3 min in.
I like your content, but you have to pick better people to watch.
The DPKR, the democratic people's republic of Korea, is as much a communist country as it is a democratic republic.
A true communist country would be democratic at every level of interaction between groups of its citizens.
Just an fyi for all of the indoctrinated, "communism bad," people.
Here's another suggestion, if interested. "Exploring The Bass Pro Shop's PYRAMID/The Most Immersive Shopping Experience I've Ever Seen" (by the channel: Eric Estepp) --This is quite a unique experience, in 1991 this basketball stadium was turned into a Bass Pro Shop and Eric Estepp is a content creator who went to do a reaction and film his experience. Other reaction channels have reacted to this as well. peace out~
What FE failed to include is that North Korea dug 3 tunnels. One of which was large enough for 2 tanks to travel through it side by side, with room left over. When the troops on the south of the DMZ saw dirt getting tossed up from the percussion of the explosives use to expand the tunnel. Well South Korea and the US decided to dig in from the south, and set up a machine gun and anti tank weapons once they punched into the North Korean tunnel. This site would be manned 24/7. The other tunnels were small enough to collapse. The US troops posted north of the bridge, are the 1 of the 9th and are the only troops which congress passed an act that even in combat they wear a brass belt buck that says 1st of the 9th, keep up the fire. The act was passed, because their life expectancy is in the rand of under 60 sec, not even a full minute. And should any troops US or North Korean attempt to cross the river going south, forces posted south of the river have orders to shoot to kill. NO ONE IS ALLOWED to cross traveling south and live. For these reasons congress decided there was no reason for the 1st of the 9th to cancelled. The uniforms have changed between then and now, so I don't know if they still hold this exception or not. However, the above was the law in the 1980s.
It's a bad idea to mess with America... AND her allies.
"19 year old athletic alcoholics with machine guns" is the funniest and most accurate description of American grunts ever. 🤘🤣
"Just in case that's not enough?" Lol 😂
Yeah, That's a fact. 😂
Only 19 and already an achoholic, yeah that's actually not too far off.
No it’s not it’s an insult. They are professionals.
From what I heard, this is to say that the company that was in those helicopters were from the 82nd airborne regiment that was stationed in Korea
"This has to be an "appropriate" response-"
"Oh no!!!"
You're learning lol XD
The US figured out how important what Ford did was and finally honored him with an entire class of Supercarriers. CVN-78 USS Gerald R Ford
Amen!!
tempers were too hot at the time, but retrospective vision is a different beast
Their other idea was to call it the Henry Ford class
In the words of Habitual Linecrosser:
"We're fifty war tribes in a trench coat with a bottomless defense budget to fight god."
Yeah man 🤣🤣dont mess with Americans we may fight each other but you fuck with one of us u fuck with all 50 of the tribes🤣🤣🤣🤣 an that becomes a bad mix because then we include the south an rednecks. 🤣🤣🤣
Where did he say that?!😂
If you didn't learn about Paul Bunyan, he is/was a very large lumberjack (might be a myth, like King Arthur). He has huge statues in the midwest (and Canada) with his famous blue ox, Babe.
Hes my favorite American pagan deity lol. Literally an American creation story main character
A literal tall tale.
@@stevenreckling203😂😂😂😂
Love Paul Bunyan, him and John Henry got me really into folk tales when I was in elementary school
You think our response was over the top? Imagine what would have happened of they touched one of our boats.
DON'T TOUCH MY BOATS!!!!!
ask Japan how that worked out, lol
As a Korean American, it's extremely saddening and frustrating to me that North Korea dictatorship behaves in the way that it does. Any Koreans that were above the 38th parallel after the Forgotten War became "North Korean." Forcing innocent lives into a place they can't leave just for the pathetic grasp of authority is absolutely disgusting. and it's not fun knowing that a part of your family is broken off and you will never see them again.
Don't lose hope. The Berlin wall came down - peacefully. There was some flexing by the US and GB - called the Berlin Air Lift (against Russia). Nail biting times. But the Berlin wall essentially came down and the Germans got their country back. The Germans had earned that and it wasn't easy for them. So now Germany is part of NATO and on good terms with the west. It took years of working through things but it happened.
The US and Japan healed their wounds and for the most part released the hate and are now on very good terms. Again, it took years - but it happened. We haven't forgotten Pearl Harbor, but for the most part it has been forgiven. War sucks - but we both were in it. Mutual respect was achieved. But i personally don't feel I have the right to ask anyone from Japan if they have forgiven two atomic bombs. Our relationship considering the intensity of WW2 and those two specific events - and how far we have all come is amazing.
Just don't lose hope. Someday Korea may also be reunified to be one country and the people will be self determining again. And we hope both Koreas will reunify in the same way Germany was able to do it. Slowly and peacefully.
My father was Army in WW2 and again for the Korean War. He started opening up about it as he got into his upper 70's. After NY mother past, I began think how it would be nice to fly him to S.Korea to see what he helped to happen in modern S.K. It is sad what those people in N. Korea go through and that all of Korea can't enjoy the same. I was in the largest US Marine base in 1976 when this story took place and my daughter spent a year after college teaching English to S. Korean grade school kids in south S. Korea, so feel a special kinship with the country.
Yes, it's a shame that if South Koreans cared so much they would do something about it to free those who suffer in that country.
@@augustcanyon3438 And start a posible ww3?
@@augustcanyon3438 Your comment is showing how little you know regarding the situation. Why would the hell would South Korea, a first world country invade and liberate their people that are being held hostage by a nuclear armed dictatorship?? If one atom bomb were to launch and hit the metro area of Seoul, which is not far from North Korea, could quite literally kill a quarter of the Korean population in the South. Since that's not an option, they're only left with sending aid to the North. Luckily In 2019, the majority of progressives won against the right to send a multi-million dollar food package to the North but it was also something that the United Nations happened to oppose. Japan used this as reason to remove South Korea from preferential trading which was also one of their biggest trading partners which only hurt each others economy. It's not like South Korea doesn't care about the North because they do everything they possibly can to keep the situation under control and any North Korean that makes it into the south is assisted in rehabilitation, provided with enough money to buy a house, and everything necessary to enter a modern society
Don't know if you were curious, but the operation was named after an American and Canadian folk hero, Paul Bunyan. A giant lumberjack accompanied by a giant blue ox, whose stories revolve around superhuman feats, usually based off his enormous strength.
Japan said no one could ever invade America because behind every blade of grass is a citizen with a gun 100 million people own multiple guns in America
Nick is right on Gerald Ford, both sides hated him for pardoning Nixon. He was entirely a one time deal. He would NEVER be elected.
He's absolutely correct about that point and Ford didn't give a damn, obviously. Love the guy, he was clumsy but, in my opinion, very effective during his short stint. Saying a President clumsy after what we are dealing with right now is an interesting comparison and not comparable. GF to me was a great choice at the time, and then we have the next one in Jimmy Carter, who I use to think was the worst President of all time until our current one.
That also put him in a situation where he had nothing to lose
@@catlady443 yep, he didn't care about reelection so he did what he felt was correct.
But he's wrong that Nixon was impeached. Nixon was not impeached although everybody believed he would have been. But Barry Goldwater and some others convinced him to resign before he was impeached and he did.
Overlooking Watergate, which is a huge overlook, Nixon was a successful President on the international stage. Unfortunately, his domestic policies weren't as effective.
As an average American I know only two things about Gerald Ford.
1) He bailed out Nixon for the Watergate scandal and it pissed everyone off.
2) there’s an aircraft carrier named after him.
The most expensive tree removal ever...
I was there in Aug 1976, stationed at Camp Casey assigned to the 2nd Infantry Division. The initial incident was NOT a tree cutting. The mission was to "trim" the lower branches of the tree NOT to cut it down. It was only the lower branches that were blocking the view of the outpost. The tree trimming crew were South Korean civilian workers supervised by a few JSA officers and NCOs. The work had been negotiated and OK'ed by the DPRK. When the crew arrived the DPRK troops showed up. As discribed, the DPRK officer wrapped his watch in a handkerchief. When the ROK civilian work crew saw that they climbed up the tree FAST, because they knew there was trouble coming. The other things...the ROK troops with unauthorized weapons, attack helicopters, B-52s and the Midway Carrier Taskforce is true. I remember being in town that night of the killing and wondered why the clubs were so empty. We didn't know of the killing until the next day. That was Thursday. They cut the tree down on Saturday. The whole division was on alert, HELL all of 8th Army was on alert.
The best part was when we cut the tree down. We left a ugly stump so that the DPRK would have to deal with it.
You DO realize that incident was up there with the bay of pigs, WOW !
Most Ppl don’t realize how serious the military is!
When I lived on Fort Meade, as a kid, I had an incident with the base commander which scared the shit out of me. 🥺
We are not ! Fuking around , trust me.
What can we say? The US has no chill. lol You ought to see what we do during Christmas.
Oh, we chill, it's just on a different scale than the rest of the world
Just ask good ole George Washington how Americans get down during Christmas. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I watched L3WG react to this a few days ago so I knew what was coming when you paused shocked at how few Americans showed up.
I literally said "Oh Andre you haven't seen anything yet, keep watching"
I burst out laughing when you said "Oh no, here we go again," when it came to '''proportional''' responses.
The newest and biggest air craft carrier is the USS Gerald R Ford
I am an American Historian and he was a tough guy and he was also a Navy officer in WWII. Ford received the following military awards: the American Campaign Medal, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with nine 3⁄16" bronze stars (for operations in the Gilbert Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, Marshall Islands, Asiatic and Pacific carrier raids, Hollandia, Marianas, Western Carolines, Western New Guinea, and the Leyte Operation), the Philippine Liberation Medal with two 3⁄16" bronze stars (for Leyte and Mindoro), and the World War II Victory Medal.He was honorably discharged in February 1946 as a Lt. Commander and the newest US Aircraft Carrier is named after him.
I feel so bad for the North Korean people. They suffer their whole life.
Don't EVER mess with America!!! You make us mad then you'll feel our anger!
Yeah. And when they try to escape, they have to go through *China.*
@@brigidtheirishnot south Korea?
@@johngillespie3409 Can't. Too many armed lookout posts along the edge of the demilitarized zone and too many landmines *in* the demilitarized zone. So they have to get to South Korea by way of China.
The first presidential election that I was eligible to vote in was 1976 and I voted for Gerald Ford. I liked him, though most people hated him for pardoning Nixon. I thought he did the right thing, it put the Watergate scandal behind us but he sacrificed his chances of being re-elected. We could use a president like him today.
Gerald Ford was a Navy man. They named an aircraft carrier after him. There was a reason.
Fuck around and Find out! Over a Tree ! The best over reaction Ever!
23:45 You paused before his final outro! 😲 You missed him say "I should probably talk about that time that America accidentally turned a manhole cover into the fastest man-made object of all time because they yeeted it into outer space with a nuclear warhead."
goes to show...."Ya Boop the tiger, You get the Horns!"
Nice to see a fellow connoisseur of the unsub podcast.
Gotta keep it "proportional"
This story was one of the highest definitions of F Around & Find Out
Absolutely laughing with you how can we not?! The way he tells stories is riveting and amusing. 🥳
I laughed my butt off. Of course we would show up 'in force'. We are masters at the game of F*** around and find out.
To be fair, the US military tends to give any potential hostile encounter clearly communicated rules of engagement. This way, if someone wants to find out, there's no longer any need to worry about proportional responses.
I CRIED LAUGHING the 1st time I heard this. Doubled over, tears streaming, laughing til my stomach hurt. 😆
You were quite restrained, in my opinion. 😉
Overkill is the American standard operating procedure.
When America is about to go from appropriate to proportional in a split second!
Nick definitely has my kind of sense of humor
In the army we followed the rule of, "Its better to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission."
About being able to laugh at situations like this, I don't think the question is "Is it respectful for me to laugh at this when people died?" I think the real question is "Knowing everything I do about the people that died, would they want me to be able to laugh at this?" I figure most reasonable people would say yes to that.
I love all the stuff in your background. It's just awesome.
Still slowly making my way through your catalog. I love your choices as well as your great humor! I really hope you get to visit the USA one day! It's also really great to hear what someone from another country besides the USA and UK think of things (that's what gets put in front of us the most). Thank you!
You got to check out SSgt Reckless story he did, her actions is what won the battle and helped bring the peace talk between North and South Korea. Also if you want a story that will blow your mind you should check out the Limping Lady Virginia Hall the deadliest spy of WWII
Gerald Ford was basically a fill-in president. He just held the seat till the next election. Thats why this guy says he doesnt have brand recognition. He wasnt facing off against russia like Reagan, he wasnt in charge during the depression like Roosevelt, he didnt have a 9/11 event like Bush, he didnt change major highway infrastructure like Eisenhower. He just kept the chair warm for a year or two.
Just about every state have severe weather. I helped with clean up after tornados have hit Alabama. An F5 came through the state that actually tore pavement of the road off. One town was completely leveled with no structures left standing. Tornado Alley is a real thing and I lived there for 30 years. Just about everyone has tornado warning radios in every home. They can be very dangerous. Come on over and experience it for yourself.
so, it was a 100 year old tree, far older than the guy they were claiming who planted it
I think he said it was 100ft high
We function on Principle not Logic, so that happy feeling you get from hearing these stories is good. Principle produces the one thing that America has that other nations don't, a seething hatred of injustice. And we also have a large, safe, bored population, who is closely tied to the military, and both groups has easy access to weapons of Mass Destru *AHEM* Freedom. 'Murica
This has always been my favorite story from Fat Electrotion.
Roflol hahaha. I love the fat electrician❤. I've seen all of his videos lol.
And you are right, he is a great story teller. High school history teachers should utilize his videos in their classrooms to make their history lessons enjoyable. Students remember things better when education is made fun.
5:05 Technically i think the word "Uncle" would be more appropriate, partially because the word "Uncle" in at least South Korea (but also in Asian cultures if i recall correctly) can mean "Role Model" or a person someone greatly looks up to/admires who is often stronger than said person (forgive me if i got that wrong), but "Dad" kinda works too, still nice analogy though.
Its one of my favorites too, and I absolutely am laughing with you my friend. 😂
I have been waiting for you to react to this
I enjoy your reactions… I’m right there with you saying “is this shit real?” And I’m an American with two Marine Corps. brothers!!!
American here. Yes, our "proportional' responses can be a little more. But hey, we go in with a perfect response but then THEY (whomever we are responding to) decide to poke the bear by attacking us. Of course then our "proportions " are going to get messed up because we now have to defend ourselves. And ive come to helieve that its just in our genealogical make up to want to bpow things up. 🤣🤣. Im a non military female and i LOVE to make things go "BOOM" 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
America: we are chopping this tree down
North Korea: no u can’t!
America: *im sorry did I f#$king stutter!?*
I was too young to be aware of what was going on at the time (actually I was a teenager and just didn’t care) so this is the first time I’ve heard this story. I remember Gerald Ford because I shook hands with him while he was on his failed “re-election” campaign and because he pardoned those who had failed to report when they received their draft notice for Vietnam. That was another controversial move although, supposedly, it was an attempt at healing the divide in the country that was created by the US supplying a generation of cannon fodder for a doomed conflict that was none of our business. He also seemed to fall a lot. Especially around airplanes. And, yes, I was amused by the story!
I've been to the DMZ, walked in a tunnel that was discovered. I also saw the plaque, and the bridge of no return. There was also photos that we got to see from that day. I have a piece of some of the original barbed wire from the DMZ with an authentication number. Sadly, no cameras were allowed, so I was not able to take photos. On the North Korean Side, there is a "town", though no one was seen moving about, it looked more like a model of a town. I could see 2 North Korean soldiers in there headquarters watching us. The South Korean soldiers that work at that DMZ location look just like Sylvester Stallion from the movie Cobra, with the sun glasses, though they do were their uniform.
I think a tank, at the very least, is proportional considering two Americans were killed by the North Koreans, for a tree that wasn't in North Korea to begin with. The rest is gravy - making things even more "proportional" and "appropriate."
5:15 correction: "im gonna call my crazy uncle sam" :)
He's face when he realizes that the US brought more.😂😂
America has three rules. Don't touch our boats, our boys or our gas prices.
Nick is an amazing history teacher, and yes, we laugh with you!
Not only, don’t mess with the Military..,I don’t care, how much you don’t get along with your neighbor next door or know them well, have an emergency situation happen and watch us respond😂…” it’s all for one and one for all” scenario
I loved your reaction to this one. It was very nice to see you smile and laugh. Keep them coming. I love TFE.
Hi, I am from Michigan. G.Fords town, Grand Rapids.... we're all that way... cant help it. We have a, "going hulk" problem.....
I'll give all non-Americans a piece of free advice for when and if you ever decide to invade us, particularly about the south:
If you invade the south and begin hearing guitar noises, that's your warning to leave while you can
If you invade the south and begin hearing banjos, it means you're dead and you don't even know it yet.
You asked about your accent,. I can understand you fine. The thing that gives me trouble with all other languages is the accent on the wrong syllable. That stops me...
This is how things turn out when the other side stops and uses their head.
What's going on right now is what happens when the opposition says "you and what army?". It's NAVY!! With support from all branches. They chose the level of escalation.
Gerald Ford screwed the republic over by not following through with prosecution. It's essentially the framework that some people like to use to prove that presidents are above the law. That sucks a lot. Other than that his image is fine, but mostly fading away.
His wife was an alcoholic and became addicted to opioids during her life. She started one of the first major treatment centers for addiction after the Fords left office. I think the awareness and treatment of addictions was really good and has had a lasting impact in America.
All hail TFE!
Great channel for sure
This is Fords idea of appropriate
Most expensive & badass tree cut in history😎🇺🇲
Hilarious. Laughed with you. More Fat Electrician.
If you ever get to come to the US, & come to North Carolina do you have a place to stay😊
None of us know much about Gerald Ford, i kinda forgot he existed.....
the tank is a Sheridan M551 airmobile AFV. the gun is a 152mm dual purpose gun/ ATGM launcher.
"Im telling mom on you"😂😂😂😂
This is the funniest telling of this I have ever heard. It is fairly accurate, but the telling style is great. Ford would have been a good President if he hadn’t beed slimed by Nixon.
America is big daddy and we prove it every chance we get
The U.S. military came to party that time!
I hated Ford for the pardon but over time I realized that the silence of no more scandal, no more Nixon, no more seeing the past President hogging 60 percent of the news
Gerald Ford was the north end of a south bound horse!!
This is an amazing story . I salute all the American soldiers 🫶🥇🫶🥰❤️🤙🏼👍👏🙏🏻🙏🏻👏
02:19 don't forget Laos and Cuba. they are also Communist.
Its fine to laugh at videos like this.
Just wanna say I love that you're a comic book geek. Some classic issues there!
You're not overreacting.
best reactions start ----> 10:30
Overkill, maybe, but back then we were all on high alert every day of our lives. As a child, in the 70's, I lived in fear of nuclear bombs dropping on my head.
😂 yes I was laughing with you 👍🏻
I live in the US and pretty much yeah he's not very recognizable other than being the dude that pardoned Nixon
That's awesome, what a funny st story 😂😂😂😂😂❤
You dont mess with "Amrrica". Ha!
We do like to be perportional 🤣🤣🤣!
I know you usually don't react to music videos but there is one... make that two that sum up our love of country and military.
1). 'American Soldier' by Toby Keith. It is about a soldier's life and duties.
2). 'Courtesy Of The Red, White and Blue ( The Angry American)' also by Toby Keith. It about America post 9/11.
Both are very Patriotic and much loved by we Americans.
Oh, thought of another, ' I'm Proud To be An American' by Lee Greenwood.
Others include 'Ballad Of The Green Berets' by SSgt. Barry Sadler. That came during the Vietnam War and I remember crying along with my friends to it. It is a very emotional song. I was about 10 years old at the time. Another, and last one is 'Mr. Lonely' by Bobby Vinton. There probably isn't video or film (there is a clip of just the song on UA-cam) of it since it is from the early 1960s but it takes your breath. It is about soldiers deployed overseas that don't receive any mail. Bobby Vinton was my late grandmother's favorite singer so we heard it all the time.
One last thing about the helicopters/aircraft, there is a saying here in the US " Go big or go home!" Our military knows how to go big.😊
7:51 my old unit 7th Infantry Division Light was there and there's lots of footage of the attack. Thanks Lightfighter 🇺🇲
Ah? I don't think so. I think you've been hitting the "soju" too much. The 7th ID left ROK and was deactivated at Ft Lewis in 1971. The 7th ID was reactivated in 1974 as the 7th Inf Div (Light) at Fort Ord and stayed there until 1985. I was stationed at Cp Casey & JSA in August of 1976 with the 2nd ID and I saw no "crushed beer can" patches there.
@@josephsoto9933 the documentary I watched had them running around with the patch. And Manchu were there. We had Manchu next to our barracks Dark Docs was what I watched. Might have been filler. I was at Ft Ord from 92-93. I don't like rain and didn't go to Ft Lewis, 2ID and 7ID are both there now. aren't you too old to be operating a cell phone🤣🇺🇲11C Lightfighter
@johngillespie3409 yeah, my tours in ROK were 71-72, then 76-79, then 85-87, then 03-11 as a contractor. My wife (Korean) and I were at the JSA (a tour) about 6 weeks before the tree cutting incident. I remember "The Manchu's"...they had a battalion scattered all along the DMZ but they were assigned to the 2ID. Any 7ID patches seen at that time would have been worned on the right shoulder by Vietnam vets from when the Manchu's were in 'Nam. It's funny you should reference my cellphone dexterity. I was installing equipment at all US bases in ROK as a contractor (03-11) and interacting with "contractor gate guards". One young female employee remarked to me that she was so surprised that I could "text" on their flip-phones..."old people don't know how to text on phones...". Yeah, I'm an old fart. I'll be 77 later this month.
Ford never would have had a chance without watergate. And then he pardoned Nixon. Hated all around.
Subbed today; the line about you loving it when we go to far made me laugh bc it was unexpected. Not what I am used to hearing about is lol.
There is nothing wrong at laughing at others mistakes. Hell, I do it all the time. But the biggest thing that I have a hard time with, is the fact other countries just do not learn not to fuck with our shit. I mean, no one likea to have there hose broken into and stuff taken. Well same difference. We do not like others messing ith our stuff or our allies stuff.
We❤ you dude,
As far as WE are concerned you are an American🇺🇸😊
( are all a nation of immigrants, it’s
Kool) 👍🏻
Since you asked, for as little time as Ford was in office, I think he did a fine job. Of course pardoning Nixon was a controversial move, but it was probably the right move. It would have torn the country apart, but maybe we needed that after all. That kind of thing is waaaay above my pay grade.
And don't worry, I'm laughing right along with you.
Ford had been in Congress for 25 years when Nixon chose him.
My friend, you are not alone. I also laugh at some of the ways Nick tells the stories.
I'm Soo happy about the ending 😂😂❤
You should watch the story oversimplified did on the pig war