I don't recall them issuing us knives for sere. I snuck an ink stick in the lining of my beanie so i could pass notes in captivity to escape. Of course it didn't help :) btw, really enjoying the movie reviews. stay awesome.
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It sounded cold hearted but Buck was right. It is the job of the UN mine action service, the Iraqi national mine action authority, NGOs like MAG or Halo Trust, or private companies. They take care of surveying and systematic, humanitarian clearance. They prioritize the population, where they live, fetch water, work - like on farms. You need to assure people the area is hazard-free. It does not help the population to randomly defuse bombs here and there and let other IEDs and unexploded ordinance spread about for kids to pick up. It takes decades. Only then do you get a roving bomb disposal unit, like now in France or Germany, clearing the odd WW2 bomb that resurfaces.
Hearts and minds is kinda pretentious. You wanna win support? show meaningful protection that makes people feel safe in that region with you rather than insurgents.
This movie made my palms sweat lol. My younger half brother was EOD and he came back from Afghanistan a completely different person. Absolutely ice cold disposition. Nothing bothers him anymore🤣 those fellas are badasses
I saw this movie in the middle of 2010 I think, about a year and half after getting back from Iraq. I had been aware of it, and my girlfriend at the time dragged me to her friend's house to watch a movie. This movie. Which, to be clear, is the war movie equivalent of the afterbirth of a hyena that has been festering in the sun for three days. I was not in a super great place after my deployment, and finding out we were going to be watching a movie about OIF was not awesome, so I started hitting the liquor a little harder than everyone else there. That's saying something, as I was in a room full of restaurant workers, and anyone who has ever been around people in the service industry knows that their blood is essentially 50% booze, 40% cocaine, 10% plasma. Anyway, the movie gets going, and I immediately realize I don't have to worry about it triggering some kind of painful PTSD episode related to me being wounded, or firefights, or getting blown up. Because instead I'm just going to get irrationally angry at the fact that the film that has positioned itself as the truest, most authentic account of life as a soldier in Iraq, and the most accurate depiction of combat in OIF, is in fact a shitty action flick for stolen valor EOD fakes to flog their logs to, filled with so many AR 670-1 violations that I'm shocked every 1SG and SGM in the Army didn't drop dead of a stroke simultaneously on the day of its theatrical release. Also, this movie should have been at least 72 hours long for all the BIPs they did if it was realistic, since we all know EOD takes a MINIMUM of 4 hours to show up on the rare occasion you actually call them instead of just getting out, and kicking that weird object and hoping it doesn't explode. I won't get into the tactics other than to say that I've seen better. Not even in combat. That's a given. I mean that I've seen better in playground nerf wars. I will say that that explosive anal beads of doom scene was pretty cool looking, even if there is a zero percent chance that any human being in existence could lift that many arty shells at once. Even if it wasn't such a monumentally stupid idea. But I digress. I got super drunk, and at the end my girlfriend's BFF said something about how intense it was, and her boyfriend said something dumb like, "Yeah man, that's crazy. Like, that's how it really is over there!" And I just fucking lost my shit. There was a lot of yelling, cursing, maybe half a bottle of Jim Beam exploded on their living room wall, and I was never allowed back in their home. But on the bright side, they definitely knew that Hurt Locker is a shit movie and that Iraq was nothing like that at all. So I feel like it went okay. Anyway, that chick broke up with me a few weeks later. Not sure why.
I was a combat engineer in Iraq and our primary mission was route clearance. Occasionally we had eod attached to us, but not always. But our S.O.P. was use the Buffalo arm to check it out or our robot and we either confirmed it was or wasn't an actual ied. But we never tried to defuse anything. It was always cordon off an area, depending on the size of the ied, and b.i.p. it. Or blow in place. Basically we dropped a 2 block charge of c4 on it and took it out. But that part where the cab flies through the cordon and no one does anything always pisses me off too. Like why would no one light that dude up? Lol
Not even "warning shots" to disable the vehicle! They must've all agreed that footbread delivery was *super* critical... probably worth atleast 3 daughters or one mule if its 10 minutes late!
In Afghanistan every order gets you a point on your punch card, after 10 bread orders you get your very own chiboy! 🇦🇫 (now 20 points gets you an abandoned IR laser!) Hopefully they find some batteries and end up accidentally blinding every military aged male😁
My squad leader actually lost guys looking for Bergdal. Seriously messed him up with PTSD. It was sad watching how the guys treated him at 20 years in service. Guys treated him like he was dumb but you could tell he was just messed up.
They promoted Bowe Bergdahl to Sergeant when he was in captivity. To me, he is a traitor to his country and a disgrace to the uniform. At least, at his court martial he was wearing a black beret instead of the maroon beret he was always pictured with. He didn't have jump wings on his court martial uniform. That's what happens when some Army pogue is writing the narrative about a POS rather than exposing them for the sh*tbirds that they are. It's happening with the one that ran across the border into North Korea.
My first and last experience with EOD, we were a week fresh in Iraq. Called in an IED on Route Sword, and cordon off the area. An hour later we could see them a distance down the road, and two hours later they were still getting to us. It took them almost three hours since they go .5 MPH everywhere clearing the route as they go. Lesson learned and we never called them again.
Heard a quote from an eod specialist. He said "EOD isn't that difficult, you either get it right or don't even know you got it wrong". Something to that effect anyway.
My section chief for the last 2 years I spent in the army came from the 82nd. The brigade he came from had a bunch of guys who were in bowe bergdahl's battalion when he went missing. They lost several guys looking for him. They were initially assigned to provide extra security for the court martial, but were pulled because they were ready to kill him themselves.
The 82nd allowed a "leg" to wear a unit flash on his beret??? In the 27th Engineer Battalion, the couple of "legs" in our unit were not allowed to wear the unit flash.
About the Peltors; they make Peltors that have radios integrated into them now! (Using that antenna that was noted) However, they only transmit on FGRS frequency (think like the walkie talkies you get from Walmart) and are not encrypted. I’ve used them before, and they work really well! So it’s feasible, but not very realistic to use them in this capacity.
My pops did much of his ten in the Corps (‘53-‘63) as EOD. This movie cracked him up. All that gear. He just shook his head - said “what’s all that stuff? They used to send us out there with a K-Bar, a steel pot and a handshake.” Miss that salty ole Leather Neck! Keep up the great work!
Sean, you are an inspiration. I listened to the first podcast you did with Andy Stumpf and I couldn't believe all the shit you've overcome in your life. I love your channel and what you're doing. You're an awesome dude.
I saw the cereal isle scene as a contrast between his military life and civilian life. A month ago, decisions he made either preserved life or ended life. Now that he's home, his biggest decisions are which variety of Cheerios to buy (original, Honey Nut, Coco, Strawberry, etc,) and should he get the 12oz size, 24oz, or 36oz Family Value size. Having nothing in my own life to compare to, I have to imagine that finding meaning and purpose in the daily activities of a civilian life can be frustrating and challenging while seeming completely frivolous at the same time.
Love the Channel and you guys. We all know the Hurt Locker is military fan fiction. I do think one of the more impactful scenes was him returning to the grocery store. And it wasn't setting off his PTSD. It was returning to the safe but mundane life. The unfulfilling feeling of totering down grocery isles, when a month ago you were disarming explosives and trading lead with the enemy. Combat is horrible, but you guys miss it. It's the most exciting time of your life, and all that adrenaline, the combat, the mission, and the purpose just vanishes as you touch down on home soil. Why do infantry, Spec Ops, and EOD guys keep going back on tours, knowing how dangerous it is? It's a different scene when you consider Jeremy Rener looking at the cereal box thinking "Is this my fucking life now? Picking out cereal boxes?..." He's home and safe,, but he's not happy.. Then fast foward to him going back on deployment. Ready to do his job, actually happy. I think it speaks to the vets who just miss deployment. Edit: I'd love for you guys to do We Were Soldiers or Lone Survivor next.
I was about to say that. I didn't get the meaning of that scene the first time but it's clearly him realizing he's not "at home" when having a normal life.
Missing the combat and your friends and fellow soldiers are the two main reasons I think we keep doing it. The patriotism gets you in, the brotherhood keeps you in. Like after a deployment or two, you have to lie ass off to keep deploying.
Most people ask me what is the most accurate military movie , I honestly don't know as I served in the Norwegian army and there is a huge difference in culture and SOP between them .
I genuinely Love these videos you tube has been around for a long time but you guys have something special here really different to any reaction videos so real and entertaining it cant be re created by anyone the whole set up and atmosphere is brilliant
There were EOD teams attach to our BDE. They were on call. Many of times we ran across an IED and they were called to come take care of it. This was SOP in Iraq and Afghanistan. We did use EODs on missions as well like you explained but they were called out when needed. But never like how you see in the movie. They were escorted out or flown out.
Walkers Razor ear protection now have a radio you can attach and talk just like you were discussing @ 14.28 in this video. They work at limited distances. 400m to 800m depending on terrain. We use them for hog hunting. They have a Push to Talk mode or a VOX mode and multiple channels. They are great for our application of hog hunting
@@ZombieCleaner The Radio locks on to your set of cans but is fully wireless. The ear pro has a jack that the radio attachment pairs with. easier to look them up than for me to try to explain it. We use ours all the time. Thanks for the reply tho!
Those headsets actually do exist I work in the Offshore oil and gas industry and some people actually use headphones like that, wireless with a antenna and you press a button on the side to speak.
I don't remember the exact year, but back in (probably) 2007? I had peltors that connected to my phone via Bluetooth, so I could could call and talk through them. They had a boom mike though. I used to listen to a rock radio station while I was working, (recieved via the headset, not transmitting from the phone.) They had really good reception too. (At least in Sweden where I live.) They played me A C/DC at the top of mountains, where nothing else worked. And I know they had some kind of radio transmitting capabilities for talking too, but I never used that part, so I don't know what limitations it had. But I'm pretty sure it had both VOX and PTT. You could also flip a switch so you could hear ambient noice, but still cut out the load noices. For example if I'm using a chainsaw, that part is dulled, but you could hear your own footsteps. It was a little weird, but useful. They where ridiculously expensive though. My boyfriend bought them tax free through his company, as he was a heavy machinery operator/entrepreneur (excavator operator, lumber jacking/forest service/tractor, big rig driving etc.) Either way, the peltors where awesome! 😎🤘 Greetings from Sweden 🇸🇪
I grew up watching an amazing TV series called :"Danger UXB". English. Based on Brits Engineers during WW2 Blitz of London. They basically did what you're talking about. They showed up to defuse huge as he'll bombs dropped by Germany. Great TV series for it's era.
I remember during MOB training we were told to carry a GPS locator and were shown what they looked like in 07, get to Baghdad same year and never got issued shit. And bergdahl is a blue falcon
Way EOD worked in our AO they had 2 missions. They have a route clearance mission, which is more along the lines of what Buck was talking about. They would clear routes of IEDs before the CLPs (combat logistics patrols) would head out to the various FOBs/COPs. But they also had a standby/QRF mission that if one of the 3 platoons ran across anything they’d roll out escorted by a QRF platoon. Our guys rolled out in a RG-33 MRAP escorted by 4 gun trucks. And they usually just put a water charge on everything and blow it.
Thank you for the video guys always enjoy it. My comment has to do at the 20:35 part of the video where you mention that the sniper gets hit and the rest give up. My son (at the time he was 10 years old) and I drove past this huge soccer field and they had a bunch of military guys ( fresh out of school) and a bunch of military equipment including Humvees so we stopped to check it out. I asked one of the soldiers standing next to the Humvee which had a 50 mounted on top ( the 50 wasn’t actually on but the track was there) how does it work. He replied “I don’t know I’m just the driver”, with that I replied “so if the guy gets hurt/shot nobody else knows how to use it?” and he just looked at me. The first thing I would learn is how to use it anybody can drive.
Our first time leaving the wire, we jammed an IED with our Dukes. We lost our RTO so my Lt promoted me to E4 and made me new RTO i spent all night the night before figuring out how to hook up the Duke system. Our commander gave our Lt orders to Charlie Mike so we kept going. 25-45 minutes later it blew up our Australian Counterpart as they were coming out of the gate - it was in a cart hooked up to a donkey at the food market where the locals shopped. On a later recon mission we found another one right in the middle of the road by a small as ant trail our lead guy saw. Again, Lt was given orders to Charlie Mike so our Plt Sgt used a smoke grenade to mark on the hut next to it distance direction all that shit. 1SG ripped his ass. We found a IED warehouse the Taliban were making bombs. Our interpreter and nded up being Taliban and he was giving out info about our missions and would say he was going out of country they asked for his passport he didnt have one so they sent him for interrogation and gave us a new one that was married to his cousin and had a family. Some of the guys from my unit were on the same base as Bergdahl, and after he left base the entire mission set changed and every single mission outside the gate was a search for Bergdahl or intel about his location. They said a week after he went missing their base was hammered hard motherfucking core and it was supwr strategic they were pounding their TOC and storage location but this is hearsay from my Team leader who heard it from another NCO so you know abouvlt the PNN.
im a 68x mental health specialist in the army there is no way an officer goes outside the wire at any time. ever. that's 8 years of med school 4 years of residency. not to mention we are incredibly short in the army as far as mental health practitioners. the only way an officers moving is Blackhawk Express or The Glass House
Kathryn Bigelow, directed this movie. She also did Zero Dark Thirty and Triple Frontier(which you covered). Her work tends to be pulled by the writer she works with and in this case that was Mark Boal who spent two weeks with an eod unit back in 2004. I think y'all are right in saying that this is 100% a military movie made for civilians. That doesn't mean it didn't push me towards considering becoming EOD.
From my own non-existent military and non-existent law enforcement experience I see just so many basic technical flaws that fuck up what could have otherwise been a good movie. Defusing bombs in the middle of a war zone with eyes on you from all directions, that's crazy intense and sounds like it would make for a good movie. Think I might go see if there's a good EOD tech autobiography on Kindle. I still like hurt locker (think I own it) and I'm happy they got some things right, but not surprised about all they got wrong. I am curious about one thing. The last bomb in the movie, the guy wired to a vest covered in padlocks. Would EOD respond to that? It's not exactly on mission so would the US just tell the Iraqis to deal with it themselves?
Worked for a Company as a contractor that did unexploded ordanance disposal. All ex- military all services. First off all them dudes were crazy . I loved it , they were my kind of people. My own experience in the Army was all combat. Did 3.5 years in Vietnam with the 173rd Abn. Brigade 2/503 and E trp. 17th Cav. Armor Scouts . Went back to the 82nd for 6 months then got out. Worked for the DoD my whole life . Working EOD jobs got the juice flowing bro ....plus we got to carry guns to. Never caught rushs like that since the day I left RVN.....
My Son n Law was EOD in Afghanistan, he said they were always under staffed and that a lot of patrols were called off until EOD were available. He told me Hurt Locker pissed him.
The leaving camp thing blew my mind. We left as a team a few times to get things from the local village. We never left out on our own in no uniform to fuck around with the locals.
I have a good friend who was in the Arkansas National Guard and they did a ton of route clearance in Iraq and Afghanistan. As well as vehicle recovery that had been hit. Nothing as sexy as this movie but he has some pretty crazy stories. Pretty hairy stuff. Thank you to all the veterans out there.
My father was Arkansas National Guard deployed in Iraq never talked about a whole lot but he brought back a laptop & he said they had one guy who recorded everything they did & somewhere between then & now the laptop got lost & iv been hoping to find it forever. I never got to see any of the footage besides very few but I remember just how much footage there was & he was clear that they were not supposed to be videoing or have that footage
What makes this film great is how it shows one man’s perception of what happened during his deployment, not how things really went. It’s a psychological study.
Great watch along guys! Thank you for your service. Been on a bing watch of your channel. Just subscribed. My late grandpa on my dad’s side was in the Army during Vietnam. With his first tour with the 82nd airborne and his second tour with the Green Berets.
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any radio with VOX (voice-operated exchanged) option do not require pushing buttons, but they can be a pain because they will transmit all noise above whatever decibel level they are set to... I use that option with my peltors while hunting as a team because its a hands free option
My uncle was deployed and they took incoming mortars while in the defac and everybody got on the ground taking cover except for the EODs who continued eating at their tables not moving much.
Struggled to stop accepting death even after raising a family and joining the cancer club. Easily accepting death, without a fight, normalizes taking L's. It's bad all around.
@@lopaka79 I'm not quite sure what you're trying to say but I beleive they didn't react because they knew if they got hit then taking cover wouldn't have made a difference and they had already made their peace.
@@griffin_5979 It's all good brother, don't know if you're a vet as well but becoming comfortable with death can make you do some ass-a-9 shit. Alls I'm saying is there's a hole to crawl out of after making said peace.
@@lopaka79 I wouldn't call myself a vet because i don't beleive I've earned the title even though I'm enlisted in the Army as 11b but I agree with you completely.
As a Vet I love this movie for the pure entertainment value..yeah it's completely wrong on so many levels, but it's just a action drama with a military setting
I am an 11B, regular infantry. If we come up on an IED we essentially setup a perimeter with a solid standoff from it. Don’t let anyone in or out of that area and call EOD. It’s probably gonna take them 15-20 hours to respond but we hold that area until they do. It’s somewhat accurate for how regular army treats it.
On the part about Bergdhal… Dec. 2009, I was coming home for a 2 week R&R when we were in a briefing and I saw a guy that looked familiar. Just happened to be a former DS of ours, and he struck up the conversation that another former DS of ours, SSG. Bowen, was one of the ones killed looking for this shitbag Bergdhal.
I think that the Cereal section of the movie gave a sense that he feels that "this is an anti climax" to his life. I been to Iraq and Afghanistan and I felt the difference when I cam back from tour and see people "outside fighting age". Adding to that I knew 2 guys from the SAS whereby one stated "...once I was in an high Octane situation....and next I am pushing a f**king shopping trolley in f**king ASDA (UK VERSION OF Walmart).
Talking about getting hurt and having backup or a team to depend on is great. But as just civilian hoping to keeping his family save in a worse cace situation there would be no help and that is scary.
Our commander wore those stupid pads on his vest. Every time he came in from his comfy nook wherever he was always going off to, to address us and tell us he put in for an extension, he wore those things. Star chasers are the worst.
I am an Union Boilermaker. We build and maintain power plants and oil refineries among other things and a large part of our job is communicating with our crane operators who have both hands busy working the sticks as we are telling them what to do. They wear wired headphones w/ mics but here's the kicker, they mic is automatically triggered when they speak. They can't take their hands from what they are doing so they need hands free. But it was still wired to the motorola.
There are a lot of good points brought up in this commentary; some I agree with, some I do not, and some I’m ignorant on. He didn’t have ptsd. He was ADHD/“adrenaline junkie.” He was blurring the line between hero and selfish a-hole, for a civilian audience. Try rewatching the movie, or thinking of the bad scenes from the perspective that what was shown was almost all his f’d up perspective: -he saw the security as scarred guys -he was bored with regular life -he put his follow soldiers and civilians in danger -he thought he was elevating his teammate -he took the sarcasm from the CO as praise
Saw an EOD guy in clinic and asked him about the movie. He said if anyone had acted like Renner in his squad - putting others at risk like that- the guys in the squad would have taken him out themselves. One way or another.
Some IEDs are set off by radio frequencies, and correct me if I'm wrong about it. So sometimes not having a radio or anything with a frequency would in my mind at least be safer so it doesn't set it off accidentally.
I don't remember the exact year, but back in (probably) 2007? I had peltors that connected to my phone via Bluetooth, so I could could call and talk through them. They had a boom mike though. I used to listen to a rock radio station while I was working, (recieved via the headset, not transmitting from the phone.) They had really good reception too. (At least in Sweden where I live.) They played me A C/DC at the top of mountains, where nothing else worked. And I know they had some kind of radio transmitting capabilities for talking too, but I never used that part, so I don't know what limitations it had. But I'm pretty sure it had both VOX and PTT. You could also flip a switch so you could hear ambient noice, but still cut out the load noices. For example if I'm using a chainsaw, that part is dulled, but you could hear your own footsteps. It was a little weird, but useful. They where ridiculously expensive though. My boyfriend bought them tax free through his company, as he was a heavy machinery operator/entrepreneur (excavator operator, lumber jacking/forest service/tractor, big rig driving etc.) Either way, the peltors where awesome! 😎🤘 Thanks for all your awesome content buck, but you need to do more beer and breakdowns videos now, 'cause I have seen them all, and need more! 😁 Greetings from Sweden 🇸🇪 Hugs - Kicki
The peltors he’s wearing are the same I was issued with my old pd except ours are black. They’re about $200 and the buttons he’s “pushing” are ambient volume or he’s pushing on the battery door. The models with a boom mic, ptt, and radio connection are way more $$, we had ten sets with radio capabilities as well.
This is an older video, but input from the surge in 07. Whenever we found an IED in our sector we had to call for EOD, send an element to escort them to the IED, then RTB with them after they detonated it. Biggest pain in the ass ever, was quicker to get some distance and hit it with a .50 cal
at the time stamp 6:00, I agree. In the UK forces and I assume other nations forces also use the same tactic, we would use the 4 C's (I'm sure you have heard of that). every available soldier would be puling security around the area and controlling the area. No one in, no one out until the area was clear! And don't worry Jeremy wont be in another avengers movie by the looks of it :).
OMG that sniper scene. you could have made an entire video on how bad that scene was. all the contractors standing around with their thumbs up their asses and one dude walking around and the sniper shoots the moving guy? then HMMWV 50 cal dude just wasting rounds and sniper hits him in the part of his head not covered by the gun shield? british sniper guy "im hitting too low" so he extends the bipods of that Barrett just as far as they would extend...instead of aiming just a bit higher? AND you are correct, the bad guy sniper was confined to a house, you know where the bad guy is...how about NOW get on that M2 and light that house up now that know where fire is coming from? damn that scene is just the worst.
I love this movie but yea, they got so much wrong. Apparently, EOD are like the electricians of the military. You call em up and they'll be there anywhere from 11am-6pm so just hang tight.
The movie was ridiculous, but Mosul Iraq 2008 we called EOD all the time. Route clearance would clear a route and right behind them AQ would bury more sometimes within twenty minutes of route clearance going through. We staged QRF at the gate of FOBs Marez and Diamondback, as long as the route was clear EOD could get anywhere in the city in about 20 minutes depending on how far they were from the FOBs. The IED situation in Mosul 2008 was insane, they were everywhere and we kept EOD busy.
Not just that but Chris Evans and Scarlet Johansson had already done two movies together(The Perfect Score and The Nannie Diaries) before they acted in The Avengers together as Captain America and Black Widow.I loved the review! I'd like to see reviews of older war movies,too-that might be interesting to watch. When I say ''older war movies'', I mean movies like Glory(set in the Civil War and one of my favorite military movies) and Gettysburg(also set in the Civil War).
This move: EOD looks like SF Reality: Grunts waiting around 6 hours for EOD while they get escorted by Road Clearance, and convoy escort to blow a IED. The director did a decent job with the scenery, including the car with those god damn orange panels.
"Over There" was a 1 season 1 hit wonder of the Iraq War was put out by F X in the early 00s. I would very much like to have access to it and would love for them to breakdown the whole season.
The 50BMG scene, step one, reposition, lay down suppressing fire, shoot, move, communicate, like that is what's going through my head the whole time and meanwhile, in HollyRaq, they take up the exact same dialed in position. Thanks for validating my sanity. Awesome on the Pikes Peak shirt!
I heard EODs actually are trained on .50s to detonate IEDs believe it or not. I saw a video of Navy techs on a deployment and they were using tracers to detonate bombs.
If I remember correctly from 18 years ago, video taping US forces was 100% within the ROE to get yourself smoked. I could have bought into more of the absurdity of this movie but why are they in UPC ACUs in 2004. Did someone not google? I remember we added up the weight of all those South African 155mm (if I remember my ord ID) was over 500lbs.
I thought Hawkeye was useless for years and then I realized how OP he is. Why else do all these super powered dudes need a guy with a bow and arrow to save their lives.
I was wondering if Army Special Forces (which I know the Green Beret song by heart) (have the cassette from the 1980’s of SSGT Barry Sadler’s Album) ever get tired of the Navy Seals getting all the attention and note-oriety?
I can't speak for EOD but Combat Engineers a.k.a. Sappers were the guys that lead the way, clearing routes of IEDs and making the way safe for infantry and other forces. I do know that some EOD guys tagged along for patrols, or would be dispatched to areas where patrols were stopped because of suspected IEDs. Those patrols probably didn't take Sappers with them. As far as addressing IEDs, the best way to deal with them was to blow them up. Use the bot, drop a crap load of C4 on it, and BOOM!!! No more IED. No need to wait for EOD. Charlie Mike and do whatever it was you set out to do.
The DVD commentary with the writer of the book/script mentioned that the director Kathryn Bigelow made certain choices that drove him a little crazy. Like the amount of cigs the guy smokes in the field and how EOD just rolls around solo dolo. Really egregious stuff, but everything they got right was the writer and the advisor's input.
this movie came out when i was in Iraq. our EOD guys at the time (Air Force EOD...MUCCHHHHH better than the Army EOD guys we got later in deployment) were like "dont watch that movie. that entire movie is trash". so, i never watched it, until a year or so later when i was a Drill Sergeant and i had CQ duty one night. afterwards i was like "yup, those dudes were correct. that movie WAS trash" but, its crazy how the director made this dumpster fire of a movie, won 2 Oscars, then turned around and made Zero Dark Thirty, which was a significantly better movie. BTW, can yall do Zero Dark Thirty next?
I mean it’s still a good movie, the military shit is obviously fucky and mostly wrong yeah. But the war is a drug thing still sticks and the movie gets its point across for the most part, if you’re in the military it ruins it but it’s not a terrible movie.
You guys should react to the SEAL TEAM episode the based around the rescue of bergdahl. Not sure if you've seen the show but two of the actors were actual tier one operators. Scott Foxx was a SEAL and Tyler grey was former delta.
It's a movie, they are concerned with what makes a great story, and what will be the most dramatic, not what is going to be 100 percent accurate. In terms of telling a freaking fantastic story, they nailed it in spades.
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I don't recall them issuing us knives for sere. I snuck an ink stick in the lining of my beanie so i could pass notes in captivity to escape. Of course it didn't help :) btw, really enjoying the movie reviews. stay awesome.
Your videos are cool and I think the FNG academy items for sale are good items but some of them seem way over priced…and you were saying you will mentor people in business, I don’t know your background, besides being a green beret which is fucking amazing!! My only concern is that unless the people want to have a monetized UA-cam channel or sell items that directly compete with your shop the knowledge of Accounting, Finance, And IT are critical (maybe you are experienced with all these fields) and in my situation it has taken me literally 10+ years to have the kind of experience where I would give advice.
the film reviews are awesome, I love how sarcastic you guys are! "pizza delivery" ...rofl! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
i die laughing at the "sucking..." part. I didn't realize we could talk like this on the tubes 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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"The whole country could be covered in IED's, we don't give a fuck." I don't think Buck was on one of those hearts n minds teams... 😂😂
no I was not!
@@FNGACADEMY makes for way better story times! I still tell people about the grenade over the wall lay up story. Probably my favorite so far.
He was definitely a hearts and mind guy...it was his 2 favorite places to shoot someone.
It sounded cold hearted but Buck was right. It is the job of the UN mine action service, the Iraqi national mine action authority, NGOs like MAG or Halo Trust, or private companies. They take care of surveying and systematic, humanitarian clearance. They prioritize the population, where they live, fetch water, work - like on farms. You need to assure people the area is hazard-free. It does not help the population to randomly defuse bombs here and there and let other IEDs and unexploded ordinance spread about for kids to pick up. It takes decades. Only then do you get a roving bomb disposal unit, like now in France or Germany, clearing the odd WW2 bomb that resurfaces.
Hearts and minds is kinda pretentious. You wanna win support? show meaningful protection that makes people feel safe in that region with you rather than insurgents.
This movie made my palms sweat lol. My younger half brother was EOD and he came back from Afghanistan a completely different person. Absolutely ice cold disposition. Nothing bothers him anymore🤣 those fellas are badasses
that they are!
Imagine how sweaty you would have been, if it had been a realistic in ANY way....
Thank him for me
Appreciate everything he has done for us safe here at home
Hahahahaha this movie was nothing like how it is
I saw this movie in the middle of 2010 I think, about a year and half after getting back from Iraq. I had been aware of it, and my girlfriend at the time dragged me to her friend's house to watch a movie. This movie. Which, to be clear, is the war movie equivalent of the afterbirth of a hyena that has been festering in the sun for three days. I was not in a super great place after my deployment, and finding out we were going to be watching a movie about OIF was not awesome, so I started hitting the liquor a little harder than everyone else there. That's saying something, as I was in a room full of restaurant workers, and anyone who has ever been around people in the service industry knows that their blood is essentially 50% booze, 40% cocaine, 10% plasma.
Anyway, the movie gets going, and I immediately realize I don't have to worry about it triggering some kind of painful PTSD episode related to me being wounded, or firefights, or getting blown up. Because instead I'm just going to get irrationally angry at the fact that the film that has positioned itself as the truest, most authentic account of life as a soldier in Iraq, and the most accurate depiction of combat in OIF, is in fact a shitty action flick for stolen valor EOD fakes to flog their logs to, filled with so many AR 670-1 violations that I'm shocked every 1SG and SGM in the Army didn't drop dead of a stroke simultaneously on the day of its theatrical release. Also, this movie should have been at least 72 hours long for all the BIPs they did if it was realistic, since we all know EOD takes a MINIMUM of 4 hours to show up on the rare occasion you actually call them instead of just getting out, and kicking that weird object and hoping it doesn't explode. I won't get into the tactics other than to say that I've seen better. Not even in combat. That's a given. I mean that I've seen better in playground nerf wars. I will say that that explosive anal beads of doom scene was pretty cool looking, even if there is a zero percent chance that any human being in existence could lift that many arty shells at once. Even if it wasn't such a monumentally stupid idea.
But I digress. I got super drunk, and at the end my girlfriend's BFF said something about how intense it was, and her boyfriend said something dumb like, "Yeah man, that's crazy. Like, that's how it really is over there!" And I just fucking lost my shit. There was a lot of yelling, cursing, maybe half a bottle of Jim Beam exploded on their living room wall, and I was never allowed back in their home. But on the bright side, they definitely knew that Hurt Locker is a shit movie and that Iraq was nothing like that at all. So I feel like it went okay. Anyway, that chick broke up with me a few weeks later. Not sure why.
Well said. Best movie review I have ever read. How are you doing now?
“Explosive anal beads of doom scene” is exactly how I’m going to describe that scene forever from now on
hope you are in a better place now dog
@@Rob-eo5ql Fantastic.
Welcome home and thank you for your service !!
I'm addicted to your movie breakdown. Keep it up 👍👍
Thanks, will do!
@@FNGACADEMY a fan from India 🇮🇳
I was a combat engineer in Iraq and our primary mission was route clearance. Occasionally we had eod attached to us, but not always. But our S.O.P. was use the Buffalo arm to check it out or our robot and we either confirmed it was or wasn't an actual ied. But we never tried to defuse anything. It was always cordon off an area, depending on the size of the ied, and b.i.p. it. Or blow in place. Basically we dropped a 2 block charge of c4 on it and took it out. But that part where the cab flies through the cordon and no one does anything always pisses me off too. Like why would no one light that dude up? Lol
the driver of that cab would have so many bullets in him he would be unrecognizable.
1371 brother..guaranteed erection and explosion.
Not even "warning shots" to disable the vehicle! They must've all agreed that footbread delivery was *super* critical... probably worth atleast 3 daughters or one mule if its 10 minutes late!
In Afghanistan every order gets you a point on your punch card, after 10 bread orders you get your very own chiboy! 🇦🇫 (now 20 points gets you an abandoned IR laser!) Hopefully they find some batteries and end up accidentally blinding every military aged male😁
Escalation of Force was strict when I was in Afghan, my guys were more worried about getting fried for shooting the wrong person.
My squad leader actually lost guys looking for Bergdal. Seriously messed him up with PTSD. It was sad watching how the guys treated him at 20 years in service. Guys treated him like he was dumb but you could tell he was just messed up.
They promoted Bowe Bergdahl to Sergeant when he was in captivity. To me, he is a traitor to his country and a disgrace to the uniform. At least, at his court martial he was wearing a black beret instead of the maroon beret he was always pictured with. He didn't have jump wings on his court martial uniform. That's what happens when some Army pogue is writing the narrative about a POS rather than exposing them for the sh*tbirds that they are. It's happening with the one that ran across the border into North Korea.
My first and last experience with EOD, we were a week fresh in Iraq. Called in an IED on Route Sword, and cordon off the area. An hour later we could see them a distance down the road, and two hours later they were still getting to us. It took them almost three hours since they go .5 MPH everywhere clearing the route as they go. Lesson learned and we never called them again.
I'm glad ya''ll are doing these with military action movies. Its cool to get an ACTUAL military perspective on these. Keep em coming!
Heard a quote from an eod specialist. He said "EOD isn't that difficult, you either get it right or don't even know you got it wrong". Something to that effect anyway.
My section chief for the last 2 years I spent in the army came from the 82nd. The brigade he came from had a bunch of guys who were in bowe bergdahl's battalion when he went missing. They lost several guys looking for him. They were initially assigned to provide extra security for the court martial, but were pulled because they were ready to kill him themselves.
The 82nd allowed a "leg" to wear a unit flash on his beret??? In the 27th Engineer Battalion, the couple of "legs" in our unit were not allowed to wear the unit flash.
About the Peltors; they make Peltors that have radios integrated into them now! (Using that antenna that was noted)
However, they only transmit on FGRS frequency (think like the walkie talkies you get from Walmart) and are not encrypted.
I’ve used them before, and they work really well! So it’s feasible, but not very realistic to use them in this capacity.
@@ReanuKeevesAus good to know!
My pops did much of his ten in the Corps (‘53-‘63) as EOD. This movie cracked him up. All that gear. He just shook his head - said “what’s all that stuff? They used to send us out there with a K-Bar, a steel pot and a handshake.” Miss that salty ole Leather Neck! Keep up the great work!
I loved Ralph Fiennes’ character in this movie, he was more interesting in 5 mins than the others were in the whole movie!
Yes! The back story to his capture/kill bounty, and it clearly was for the bounty, would have been a much better movie.
You have to be a die hard Fiennes fan to think like that.
@jacket5456 I'm not, and I thought his character was far more interesting than the unbelievable EOD guys we see all movie.
One of Kathryn Bigelow's previous films Strange Days was arguably the first major motion picture in Ralph Fiennes' career
Sean, you are an inspiration. I listened to the first podcast you did with Andy Stumpf and I couldn't believe all the shit you've overcome in your life. I love your channel and what you're doing. You're an awesome dude.
thanks man!
@@FNGACADEMY one time we drove by Phelan and I instantly thought of you Sean, like dude he grew up around here...Keep up the good work.
I saw the cereal isle scene as a contrast between his military life and civilian life. A month ago, decisions he made either preserved life or ended life. Now that he's home, his biggest decisions are which variety of Cheerios to buy (original, Honey Nut, Coco, Strawberry, etc,) and should he get the 12oz size, 24oz, or 36oz Family Value size. Having nothing in my own life to compare to, I have to imagine that finding meaning and purpose in the daily activities of a civilian life can be frustrating and challenging while seeming completely frivolous at the same time.
I am in the cereal isle
@@thisislimbo6545 I am the cereal isle.
@@MasterFlarg89
Cereal aisle, not an island of cereal.😁
Wow so deep! Stfu
Love the Channel and you guys. We all know the Hurt Locker is military fan fiction. I do think one of the more impactful scenes was him returning to the grocery store. And it wasn't setting off his PTSD. It was returning to the safe but mundane life. The unfulfilling feeling of totering down grocery isles, when a month ago you were disarming explosives and trading lead with the enemy. Combat is horrible, but you guys miss it. It's the most exciting time of your life, and all that adrenaline, the combat, the mission, and the purpose just vanishes as you touch down on home soil. Why do infantry, Spec Ops, and EOD guys keep going back on tours, knowing how dangerous it is? It's a different scene when you consider Jeremy Rener looking at the cereal box thinking "Is this my fucking life now? Picking out cereal boxes?..." He's home and safe,, but he's not happy.. Then fast foward to him going back on deployment. Ready to do his job, actually happy. I think it speaks to the vets who just miss deployment.
Edit: I'd love for you guys to do We Were Soldiers or Lone Survivor next.
I was about to say that. I didn't get the meaning of that scene the first time but it's clearly him realizing he's not "at home" when having a normal life.
Both those movies are full of shit. Lone survivor is pure garbage
Missing the combat and your friends and fellow soldiers are the two main reasons I think we keep doing it. The patriotism gets you in, the brotherhood keeps you in. Like after a deployment or two, you have to lie ass off to keep deploying.
Most people ask me what is the most accurate military movie , I honestly don't know as I served in the Norwegian army and there is a huge difference in culture and SOP between them .
Major Payne is a great documentary
@@JohnEllzey Major Payne is my favorite!
tell them to watch Beowulf
I would suggest a watching of Generation Kill, but it wouldn't play well with subtitles just fyi.
The consistency is amazing ! Keep ‘em coming guys!
Thank you! Will do!
I genuinely Love these videos you tube has been around for a long time but you guys have something special here really different to any reaction videos so real and entertaining it cant be re created by anyone the whole set up and atmosphere is brilliant
There were EOD teams attach to our BDE. They were on call. Many of times we ran across an IED and they were called to come take care of it. This was SOP in Iraq and Afghanistan. We did use EODs on missions as well like you explained but they were called out when needed. But never like how you see in the movie. They were escorted out or flown out.
Walkers Razor ear protection now have a radio you can attach and talk just like you were discussing @ 14.28 in this video. They work at limited distances. 400m to 800m depending on terrain. We use them for hog hunting. They have a Push to Talk mode or a VOX mode and multiple channels. They are great for our application of hog hunting
So you still have to attach the radio...it's not in the headset.
@@ZombieCleaner The Radio locks on to your set of cans but is fully wireless. The ear pro has a jack that the radio attachment pairs with. easier to look them up than for me to try to explain it. We use ours all the time. Thanks for the reply tho!
Those headsets actually do exist I work in the Offshore oil and gas industry and some people actually use headphones like that, wireless with a antenna and you press a button on the side to speak.
I don't remember the exact year, but back in (probably) 2007?
I had peltors that connected to my phone via Bluetooth, so I could could call and talk through them. They had a boom mike though.
I used to listen to a rock radio station while I was working, (recieved via the headset, not transmitting from the phone.) They had really good reception too. (At least in Sweden where I live.) They played me A C/DC at the top of mountains, where nothing else worked.
And I know they had some kind of radio transmitting capabilities for talking too, but I never used that part, so I don't know what limitations it had. But I'm pretty sure it had both VOX and PTT.
You could also flip a switch so you could hear ambient noice, but still cut out the load noices. For example if I'm using a chainsaw, that part is dulled, but you could hear your own footsteps. It was a little weird, but useful.
They where ridiculously expensive though. My boyfriend bought them tax free through his company, as he was a heavy machinery operator/entrepreneur (excavator operator, lumber jacking/forest service/tractor, big rig driving etc.)
Either way, the peltors where awesome! 😎🤘
Greetings from Sweden 🇸🇪
I grew up watching an amazing TV series called :"Danger UXB".
English. Based on Brits Engineers during WW2 Blitz of London. They basically did what you're talking about. They showed up to defuse huge as he'll bombs dropped by Germany. Great TV series for it's era.
Holy shit. I know this is a two year old comment but I was also thinking about that show. It wasnt just great tv for its era. Its great tv period.
I remember during MOB training we were told to carry a GPS locator and were shown what they looked like in 07, get to Baghdad same year and never got issued shit. And bergdahl is a blue falcon
"Stupid! This whole scene is stupid!" "Excursions. How many Iraqis have Excursions?"
I love you, Sean. I really do.
Greetings from Israel.
Way EOD worked in our AO they had 2 missions. They have a route clearance mission, which is more along the lines of what Buck was talking about. They would clear routes of IEDs before the CLPs (combat logistics patrols) would head out to the various FOBs/COPs. But they also had a standby/QRF mission that if one of the 3 platoons ran across anything they’d roll out escorted by a QRF platoon. Our guys rolled out in a RG-33 MRAP escorted by 4 gun trucks. And they usually just put a water charge on everything and blow it.
Forgetting that part where it take fucking 5 hours for them to finally link up with the "quick" reaction force lol.
@@ce6654we had an EOD on our COP. One of our platoons would be on QRF, we could usually get them anywhere in our company AO in less than 30 mins
Thank you for the video guys always enjoy it. My comment has to do at the 20:35 part of the video where you mention that the sniper gets hit and the rest give up. My son (at the time he was 10 years old) and I drove past this huge soccer field and they had a bunch of military guys ( fresh out of school) and a bunch of military equipment including Humvees so we stopped to check it out. I asked one of the soldiers standing next to the Humvee which had a 50 mounted on top ( the 50 wasn’t actually on but the track was there) how does it work. He replied “I don’t know I’m just the driver”, with that I replied “so if the guy gets hurt/shot nobody else knows how to use it?” and he just looked at me. The first thing I would learn is how to use it anybody can drive.
Nice! You should checkout Sicario 1 & 2 next. Both are good films.
already done, will be dropping soon
@@FNGACADEMY which was better? Both are gangster af.
I still need to see part 2 but have to rewatch part 1
@@LuisHernandez-bi7zz Sicario 1 was great, Sicario 2 was good but really fell short, hopefully the 3rd installment picks things back up.
Our first time leaving the wire, we jammed an IED with our Dukes. We lost our RTO so my Lt promoted me to E4 and made me new RTO i spent all night the night before figuring out how to hook up the Duke system. Our commander gave our Lt orders to Charlie Mike so we kept going. 25-45 minutes later it blew up our Australian Counterpart as they were coming out of the gate - it was in a cart hooked up to a donkey at the food market where the locals shopped.
On a later recon mission we found another one right in the middle of the road by a small as ant trail our lead guy saw. Again, Lt was given orders to Charlie Mike so our Plt Sgt used a smoke grenade to mark on the hut next to it distance direction all that shit. 1SG ripped his ass. We found a IED warehouse the Taliban were making bombs. Our interpreter and nded up being Taliban and he was giving out info about our missions and would say he was going out of country they asked for his passport he didnt have one so they sent him for interrogation and gave us a new one that was married to his cousin and had a family.
Some of the guys from my unit were on the same base as Bergdahl, and after he left base the entire mission set changed and every single mission outside the gate was a search for Bergdahl or intel about his location. They said a week after he went missing their base was hammered hard motherfucking core and it was supwr strategic they were pounding their TOC and storage location but this is hearsay from my Team leader who heard it from another NCO so you know abouvlt the PNN.
im a 68x mental health specialist in the army there is no way an officer goes outside the wire at any time. ever. that's 8 years of med school 4 years of residency. not to mention we are incredibly short in the army as far as mental health practitioners. the only way an officers moving is Blackhawk Express or The Glass House
Kathryn Bigelow, directed this movie. She also did Zero Dark Thirty and Triple Frontier(which you covered). Her work tends to be pulled by the writer she works with and in this case that was Mark Boal who spent two weeks with an eod unit back in 2004. I think y'all are right in saying that this is 100% a military movie made for civilians. That doesn't mean it didn't push me towards considering becoming EOD.
She didn't direct Triple Frontier
Don’t think she directed triple frontier
From my own non-existent military and non-existent law enforcement experience I see just so many basic technical flaws that fuck up what could have otherwise been a good movie. Defusing bombs in the middle of a war zone with eyes on you from all directions, that's crazy intense and sounds like it would make for a good movie. Think I might go see if there's a good EOD tech autobiography on Kindle. I still like hurt locker (think I own it) and I'm happy they got some things right, but not surprised about all they got wrong.
I am curious about one thing. The last bomb in the movie, the guy wired to a vest covered in padlocks. Would EOD respond to that? It's not exactly on mission so would the US just tell the Iraqis to deal with it themselves?
Need to see some Generation Kill breakdowns lol, it’d be a gold mine for reactions.
ill add it to the list
fuck yea, Generation Kill is the best war series ever
@@FNGACADEMY awesome! Cant wait for that breakdown. Love generation kill.
Love your emotional roller coaster during the breakdown 😂
Awesome video
thank you!
@@FNGACADEMY
Please do the video on Zero Dark Thirty
Worked for a Company as a contractor that did unexploded ordanance disposal. All ex- military all services. First off all them dudes were crazy . I loved it , they were my kind of people. My own experience in the Army was all combat. Did 3.5 years in Vietnam with the 173rd Abn. Brigade 2/503 and E trp. 17th Cav. Armor Scouts . Went back to the 82nd for 6 months then got out. Worked for the DoD my whole life . Working EOD jobs got the juice flowing bro ....plus we got to carry guns to. Never caught rushs like that since the day I left RVN.....
My Son n Law was EOD in Afghanistan, he said they were always under staffed and that a lot of patrols were called off until EOD were available. He told me Hurt Locker pissed him.
The leaving camp thing blew my mind. We left as a team a few times to get things from the local village. We never left out on our own in no uniform to fuck around with the locals.
I love it when you don't like the silly war movies 😂😂 Buck you crack me up. Love your content,All of it.
thanks man!
I have a good friend who was in the Arkansas National Guard and they did a ton of route clearance in Iraq and Afghanistan. As well as vehicle recovery that had been hit. Nothing as sexy as this movie but he has some pretty crazy stories. Pretty hairy stuff. Thank you to all the veterans out there.
My father was Arkansas National Guard deployed in Iraq never talked about a whole lot but he brought back a laptop & he said they had one guy who recorded everything they did & somewhere between then & now the laptop got lost & iv been hoping to find it forever. I never got to see any of the footage besides very few but I remember just how much footage there was & he was clear that they were not supposed to be videoing or have that footage
Couldnt miss any of your video. Thank you for sharing with us your experience in the military. Keep hustling!
thanks homie!
What makes this film great is how it shows one man’s perception of what happened during his deployment, not how things really went. It’s a psychological study.
Great watch along guys! Thank you for your service. Been on a bing watch of your channel. Just subscribed. My late grandpa on my dad’s side was in the Army during Vietnam. With his first tour with the 82nd airborne and his second tour with the Green Berets.
WoW again thank you, you guys are a refreshing...I was army from 87-99 exited a 14T, but grew up in the Rambo era, so originally the Special Forces was my dream...Huge gratitude for your service, THANK YOU GUYS AGAIN, GOD BLESS!
I went to EOD school a few years after this movie came out. Even mentioning it at Ft. Lee or Eglin was a good way to get smoked.
NICE!! lmao!!
Yeah we were taught on the 1st day of EOD school (55D - I am old) not to pickup projectiles by det cord.
I bet lmao
Loved the breakdown!
thank you
any radio with VOX (voice-operated exchanged) option do not require pushing buttons, but they can be a pain because they will transmit all noise above whatever decibel level they are set to...
I use that option with my peltors while hunting as a team because its a hands free option
Peltor does make a wireless version that doesn’t require a radio to operate. We used them in the Navy! Love your content bro; keep them coming!
I also like how the guy that took over the 50 cal rifle from the downed sniper just HAPPENED to be an awesome sniper on top of a rifleman
My uncle was deployed and they took incoming mortars while in the defac and everybody got on the ground taking cover except for the EODs who continued eating at their tables not moving much.
Struggled to stop accepting death even after raising a family and joining the cancer club. Easily accepting death, without a fight, normalizes taking L's. It's bad all around.
@@lopaka79 I'm not quite sure what you're trying to say but I beleive they didn't react because they knew if they got hit then taking cover wouldn't have made a difference and they had already made their peace.
@@griffin_5979 It's all good brother, don't know if you're a vet as well but becoming comfortable with death can make you do some ass-a-9 shit. Alls I'm saying is there's a hole to crawl out of after making said peace.
@@lopaka79 I wouldn't call myself a vet because i don't beleive I've earned the title even though I'm enlisted in the Army as 11b but I agree with you completely.
Walker actually makes headsets with radios in them now, but they're not of the quality of Sordins or peltors.
Hurt locker was the best! When it came out and I was in high school, and didn't know how anything worked.
As a Vet I love this movie for the pure entertainment value..yeah it's completely wrong on so many levels, but it's just a action drama with a military setting
I am an 11B, regular infantry. If we come up on an IED we essentially setup a perimeter with a solid standoff from it. Don’t let anyone in or out of that area and call EOD. It’s probably gonna take them 15-20 hours to respond but we hold that area until they do. It’s somewhat accurate for how regular army treats it.
Lmao it was like that in the Corps too. Get back from sitting in cordon for 10+ hours and have guard duty for another 8. Good times.
When he says "There's an American, of course they have guns" i felt that warm my heart
Me too. 😁
On the part about Bergdhal… Dec. 2009, I was coming home for a 2 week R&R when we were in a briefing and I saw a guy that looked familiar. Just happened to be a former DS of ours, and he struck up the conversation that another former DS of ours, SSG. Bowen, was one of the ones killed looking for this shitbag Bergdhal.
I think that the Cereal section of the movie gave a sense that he feels that "this is an anti climax" to his life. I been to Iraq and Afghanistan and I felt the difference when I cam back from tour and see people "outside fighting age".
Adding to that I knew 2 guys from the SAS whereby one stated "...once I was in an high Octane situation....and next I am pushing a f**king shopping trolley in f**king ASDA (UK VERSION OF Walmart).
Love to hear your take on the movie pretty much shreds it apart lol!
Talking about getting hurt and having backup or a team to depend on is great.
But as just civilian hoping to keeping his family save in a worse cace situation there would be no help and that is scary.
Our commander wore those stupid pads on his vest. Every time he came in from his comfy nook wherever he was always going off to, to address us and tell us he put in for an extension, he wore those things.
Star chasers are the worst.
They exist in the civilian world just under a different name but you probably know that already
This movie drew more questions from civilians than any other I saw. I had to constantly answer, "no, it's not like that."
The cherry on top for me was that the film actually won best director and best picture at the Oscar’s when it premiered that year 😂😂😂
of course it did lmfao
It also won best screenplay for Mark Boal (the Hollywood douchebag that wrote Zero Dark Thirty), beating out Tarantino for Inglorious Basterds.
@@strawdawgs78 it's not real hard to beat shitty fodder like Inglorious Basterds.
I am an Union Boilermaker. We build and maintain power plants and oil refineries among other things and a large part of our job is communicating with our crane operators who have both hands busy working the sticks as we are telling them what to do. They wear wired headphones w/ mics but here's the kicker, they mic is automatically triggered when they speak. They can't take their hands from what they are doing so they need hands free. But it was still wired to the motorola.
There are a lot of good points brought up in this commentary; some I agree with, some I do not, and some I’m ignorant on.
He didn’t have ptsd. He was ADHD/“adrenaline junkie.” He was blurring the line between hero and selfish a-hole, for a civilian audience.
Try rewatching the movie, or thinking of the bad scenes from the perspective that what was shown was almost all his f’d up perspective:
-he saw the security as scarred guys
-he was bored with regular life
-he put his follow soldiers and civilians in danger
-he thought he was elevating his teammate
-he took the sarcasm from the CO as praise
Saw an EOD guy in clinic and asked him about the movie. He said if anyone had acted like Renner in his squad - putting others at risk like that- the guys in the squad would have taken him out themselves. One way or another.
Some IEDs are set off by radio frequencies, and correct me if I'm wrong about it. So sometimes not having a radio or anything with a frequency would in my mind at least be safer so it doesn't set it off accidentally.
I don't remember the exact year, but back in (probably) 2007?
I had peltors that connected to my phone via Bluetooth, so I could could call and talk through them. They had a boom mike though.
I used to listen to a rock radio station while I was working, (recieved via the headset, not transmitting from the phone.) They had really good reception too. (At least in Sweden where I live.) They played me A C/DC at the top of mountains, where nothing else worked.
And I know they had some kind of radio transmitting capabilities for talking too, but I never used that part, so I don't know what limitations it had. But I'm pretty sure it had both VOX and PTT.
You could also flip a switch so you could hear ambient noice, but still cut out the load noices. For example if I'm using a chainsaw, that part is dulled, but you could hear your own footsteps. It was a little weird, but useful.
They where ridiculously expensive though. My boyfriend bought them tax free through his company, as he was a heavy machinery operator/entrepreneur (excavator operator, lumber jacking/forest service/tractor, big rig driving etc.)
Either way, the peltors where awesome! 😎🤘
Thanks for all your awesome content buck, but you need to do more beer and breakdowns videos now, 'cause I have seen them all, and need more! 😁
Greetings from Sweden 🇸🇪
Hugs - Kicki
The peltors he’s wearing are the same I was issued with my old pd except ours are black. They’re about $200 and the buttons he’s “pushing” are ambient volume or he’s pushing on the battery door. The models with a boom mic, ptt, and radio connection are way more $$, we had ten sets with radio capabilities as well.
Everyone misses that the first scene, the ACOG he looks at people with doesn’t have a reticle
This is an older video, but input from the surge in 07. Whenever we found an IED in our sector we had to call for EOD, send an element to escort them to the IED, then RTB with them after they detonated it. Biggest pain in the ass ever, was quicker to get some distance and hit it with a .50 cal
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at the time stamp 6:00, I agree. In the UK forces and I assume other nations forces also use the same tactic, we would use the 4 C's (I'm sure you have heard of that). every available soldier would be puling security around the area and controlling the area. No one in, no one out until the area was clear! And don't worry Jeremy wont be in another avengers movie by the looks of it :).
The weird thing is, they met with my father's EOD company when making this movie. They completely ignored them.
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What kind of weapon did he fire at 9:32 ? The one mounted on Humvees?
Great breakdown. Keep em coming!
You got it!
OMG that sniper scene. you could have made an entire video on how bad that scene was. all the contractors standing around with their thumbs up their asses and one dude walking around and the sniper shoots the moving guy? then HMMWV 50 cal dude just wasting rounds and sniper hits him in the part of his head not covered by the gun shield? british sniper guy "im hitting too low" so he extends the bipods of that Barrett just as far as they would extend...instead of aiming just a bit higher? AND you are correct, the bad guy sniper was confined to a house, you know where the bad guy is...how about NOW get on that M2 and light that house up now that know where fire is coming from?
damn that scene is just the worst.
it's so bad!
I love this movie but yea, they got so much wrong. Apparently, EOD are like the electricians of the military. You call em up and they'll be there anywhere from 11am-6pm so just hang tight.
Well done, bravo. Really enjoyed that, ty.
The movie was ridiculous, but Mosul Iraq 2008 we called EOD all the time. Route clearance would clear a route and right behind them AQ would bury more sometimes within twenty minutes of route clearance going through. We staged QRF at the gate of FOBs Marez and Diamondback, as long as the route was clear EOD could get anywhere in the city in about 20 minutes depending on how far they were from the FOBs. The IED situation in Mosul 2008 was insane, they were everywhere and we kept EOD busy.
Anyone else notice that it was a avengers movie before there was a avengers movie? 😂
Great review Boys! 🤘🏼
right! thanks homie!
Not just that but Chris Evans and Scarlet Johansson had already done two movies together(The Perfect Score and The Nannie Diaries) before they acted in The Avengers together as Captain America and Black Widow.I loved the review! I'd like to see reviews of older war movies,too-that might be interesting to watch.
When I say ''older war movies'', I mean movies like Glory(set in the Civil War and one of my favorite military movies) and Gettysburg(also set in the Civil War).
@@JR-ju3kj imagine platoon or hamburger hill? Those would be great reviews as well!
@@JayDubb3BCT Agreed.
I would love to see those great war movies reviewed,too!
This move: EOD looks like SF
Reality: Grunts waiting around 6 hours for EOD while they get escorted by Road Clearance, and convoy escort to blow a IED.
The director did a decent job with the scenery, including the car with those god damn orange panels.
I hated "Foot" Locker for the same reason you guys said, plus some other items. Really? EOD is just out there by themselves?
"Over There" was a 1 season 1 hit wonder of the Iraq War was put out by F X in the early 00s. I would very much like to have access to it and would love for them to breakdown the whole season.
I own it
@@williamswiniuch7527 lucky son of a gun
He is spot on, to this day, I cannot bring myself to like or even rewatch this movie!
Two movies a tear jerker in "Taking Chance" by far the hardest job I've ever done. The Equalizer 1 and 2
The 50BMG scene, step one, reposition, lay down suppressing fire, shoot, move, communicate, like that is what's going through my head the whole time and meanwhile, in HollyRaq, they take up the exact same dialed in position. Thanks for validating my sanity. Awesome on the Pikes Peak shirt!
Question are EODs trained on 50 cals.? Or is it just if you can dial in a scope you're good.?
no. I was trained on a 50 and couldn't shoot it like that,
@@FNGACADEMY thanks for the clarification it seemed a bit bullshit not for EOD just in general
I heard EODs actually are trained on .50s to detonate IEDs believe it or not. I saw a video of Navy techs on a deployment and they were using tracers to detonate bombs.
Navy EOD receives training on all weapons systems Navy SOF carries. As for army, they are not.
It's bullshit that EOD is just cruising around the desert alone to begin with. The rest of this movie is complete bullshit too.
If I remember correctly from 18 years ago, video taping US forces was 100% within the ROE to get yourself smoked. I could have bought into more of the absurdity of this movie but why are they in UPC ACUs in 2004. Did someone not google? I remember we added up the weight of all those South African 155mm (if I remember my ord ID) was over 500lbs.
I thought Hawkeye was useless for years and then I realized how OP he is. Why else do all these super powered dudes need a guy with a bow and arrow to save their lives.
I was wondering if Army Special Forces (which I know the Green Beret song by heart) (have the cassette from the 1980’s of SSGT Barry Sadler’s Album) ever get tired of the Navy Seals getting all the attention and note-oriety?
I agree with Buck. Its a great documentary...
I can't speak for EOD but Combat Engineers a.k.a. Sappers were the guys that lead the way, clearing routes of IEDs and making the way safe for infantry and other forces. I do know that some EOD guys tagged along for patrols, or would be dispatched to areas where patrols were stopped because of suspected IEDs. Those patrols probably didn't take Sappers with them. As far as addressing IEDs, the best way to deal with them was to blow them up. Use the bot, drop a crap load of C4 on it, and BOOM!!! No more IED. No need to wait for EOD. Charlie Mike and do whatever it was you set out to do.
The DVD commentary with the writer of the book/script mentioned that the director Kathryn Bigelow made certain choices that drove him a little crazy. Like the amount of cigs the guy smokes in the field and how EOD just rolls around solo dolo. Really egregious stuff, but everything they got right was the writer and the advisor's input.
Love how annoyed you get dude about the hut, so funny. Keep it up.
this movie came out when i was in Iraq. our EOD guys at the time (Air Force EOD...MUCCHHHHH better than the Army EOD guys we got later in deployment) were like "dont watch that movie. that entire movie is trash". so, i never watched it, until a year or so later when i was a Drill Sergeant and i had CQ duty one night. afterwards i was like "yup, those dudes were correct. that movie WAS trash"
but, its crazy how the director made this dumpster fire of a movie, won 2 Oscars, then turned around and made Zero Dark Thirty, which was a significantly better movie.
BTW, can yall do Zero Dark Thirty next?
I mean it’s still a good movie, the military shit is obviously fucky and mostly wrong yeah. But the war is a drug thing still sticks and the movie gets its point across for the most part, if you’re in the military it ruins it but it’s not a terrible movie.
The “cape guys” were 22nd Brigade SAS brother. Great video, my new fun channel.
22nd brigade? They’re a regiment
Ok so the Peltor Comtac VII's do support radio less talking feature. But they were def not around when this is supposed to take place.
Hawkeye is the best Avenger, he uses a bow brody. Literally sniping with a bow 🤣
You guys should react to the SEAL TEAM episode the based around the rescue of bergdahl. Not sure if you've seen the show but two of the actors were actual tier one operators. Scott Foxx was a SEAL and Tyler grey was former delta.
It's a movie, they are concerned with what makes a great story, and what will be the most dramatic, not what is going to be 100 percent accurate. In terms of telling a freaking fantastic story, they nailed it in spades.