lol...and that particular model of Sherman, he put it in the best place of where it could do the most good. at the bottom of the lake to be a new habitat for fishes n stuff. 😝
One of "War Daddy's" sons was listed as MIA in Vietnam in the 1960's and was re classified as KIA in the mid 1990's. That also had to have weighed heavy on this man as well. Knowing that your Son was not coming home from a war like he himself did. I just hope that he did not ever lose faith, and had accepted the possibility that his Son was not coming home alive.
27:51 RE: Running into a Bootcamp buddy while deployed I had a similar experience in the Marines in Iraq. Standing in line for... I think it was chow, I forget. My unit just arrived at this FOB a few days before, I literally know no one here. Or so I thought, because the guy in front of me half-turns to talk to one of his buddies, and I recognize him. I recognize him specifically because he had to drop out of my Boot Camp platoon for failing his first Rifle qualification and had to re-do it with the next platoon going through. So I tap him on the shoulder; he turns to look at me, and I can tell he's trying to figure out why I look familiar. So I just rattle off our Boot Camp company and platoon number, and he immediately cracks a smile, remembers me, and we get to talking a little. Turns out this guy, who failed his first rifle qual, is now stationed at this FOB as part of a Force Recon platoon. Which for the uninitiated, Force Recon is halfway between standard Marine infantry and Marine Raiders on the scale of how bad a time you're going to have if you're their target. And it's pretty well known how bad a time you'd have with your standard Marine infantry, so let that inform how far this guy bounced back.
43:52 reminds me of something the brits experienced in WWI, they wanted more recruits so they came up with "buddy batallions"(or something along those lines) where all the guys from one town would be put in the same unit so their friends would join to be with them, the result was entire towns ending up with no young men left, or just a couple of trainwrecks who'd watched all their childhood friends and relatives die horribly.
It’s definitely a bit of a red flag. Kind of in the same vein as when a character says something along the lines of “after this battle/war, I’m going to marry my sweetheart.” Which pretty much always ends with that character dying almost immediately.
um if your talking about who i think your talking about he did have a nickname wilbert richards nickname was red and we know that everyone else had a nickname so idk who you could be talking about if not wilbert
Thank you for mentioning the Sullivan brothers..not many people know that because of them, the military no longer allowed siblings to serve in the same units together..👊🏼🙏🏼
This was a great one Brother. I found your channel through these reactions. Honestly, as a long time fan of Nic's work, you and Nic both are me and the guys sitting around Bullshitting 😂😂😂
As a tag in on the Sullivans, it was five brothers, all assigned to an Atlanta-class light cruiser, USS Juneau, that was struck by two Japanese sub launched torpedoes and was absolutely ripped apart. By all accounts, four of the five were either killed immediately or died shortly thereafter as the ship sank. The fifth would survive the sinking and afterwards try to find his brothers by making his way to the different clusters of survivors. Heartbreakingly, he would discover they were not among the survivors and would lose hope, succumbing to either dehydration or drowning. The USS The Sullivans was a Fletcher-class Destroyer named for the five as they were inseparable in life. It is now a museum ship but sadly is in dire need or cleaning and repairs because at some point last year, she sprung a leak and partially sank at her moorings. On the subject of the German tank Ace, I believe that was a reference to Michael Wittmann who was a Tiger Commander. He may have had over 1,000 kills but unlike Poole, he did not survive the war. He was killed I believe by a Canadian tank unit somewhere in Belgium.
During Desert Storm I was in 4th grade and we were assigned a service member to write to. My pen pal was a tanker that happened to be from a neighboring town. My brother was friends with his younger brother and we knew a bunch of the same people. My great aunt even knew him personally.
O.M., in regard to your reunion story @29:30 -ish, I once had a short training stint at Ft. Huachuca, Ariz. On a whim, I wandered into the base credit union to inquire about the interest rate that their savings account paid. Suddenly my name is being called and it's a girl I knew from a few years before back at my regular unit over 1,500 miles away. She had taken a job at the credit union & was working a few teller windows down from the person I went to and recognized my voice. She helped make the rest of my time in Arizona a lot more pleasant than it otherwise would've been.
"quit simping over the German military its weird" i laughed hard af. I've seen this vid from the Fat Electrician's channel but it still made me laugh. love your reactions keep up the good work :D
I have been asking fat electrician to talk about Willis “Ching” Lee for 6 months because as said in the video he is the greatest battleship commander and I have noticed he has been mentioned in the last 2 videos, and I am hoping he will be the subject of one of his next videos.
Nic has said Admiral Lee is on the list for this year. He is still working on multiple scripts at a time and doesn't know when any particular video will come out.
Vision is weird. You literally see what you want to see. I'm a computer programmer and near sigted. I don't wear long range glasses because I'm usually reading something close up, but take me to the woods, and I will find creatures.no one else will see even after I point it out. I had a bird guide just look at me mouth agape and say"no one sees those. that's why they're called hermit thrush.". (It was deep in a bush almost completely concealed). So if you want to kill enemies, I'm confident Your vision will adjust.
I was a kid(between 10-12 years old when this went down… I’d come home from school and watch the tomahawk cruise missiles and bombs impact in Baghdad and watch the skies light up with anti aircraft fire on the news… and only thought to myself… the ordinance has already hit… you are just wasting your ammo.. the planes delivering them are already the hell out of dodge.
I think he meant armored warfare on that kind of scale. Iraq did have a ton of tanks even they were outdated by our tank standards at the time. If I do recall right one of their T 50s...or 60 cant recall took out a Bradley of ours. Granted a Bradley is not really mean to eat shots from a tank either...I will admit that video from Ukraine is flippin crazy though.
The Bradley is an IFV, which is not an APC or a tank, it's not armored enough or heavily armed enough to fulfill the role of a tank, but it is armed with a 25mm cannon and TOW missiles, the role of the IFV is to drop of troops but unlike an APC it sticks around to support them with the autocannon and fight back versus armored vehicles with TOW missiles.
You've mentioned your job (rate) in the Navy several times but, if you have mentioned what it was, I missed it. I know from what I have heard you say that it was one of the advanced training programs. I was a Navigation Electronics Technician on a fast attack submarine (USS Tautog SSN 639). How about you?
I went and watched fury immediately after watching this video. I hadn’t seen it and the Clips that he used were curious enough and spoiler enough free that made me interested in watching the movie as a whole. Where, as when he use top gun: Maverick Clips, it did include spoilers in his mailcat video. I still watched it, but I soon as I realised that there was possible spoilers. I practically closed my eyes and took out my earbuds. Just in case. I later watched topgun:maverick so I do now know which were spoilers.
Fury isn't related to this story. It has some names, but completely different. Kinda like Starship Troopers, from the book to the movie, not really that similar
Love TFE, great guy with great vids. Did stop watching LP, talked to some guys knowledgable on the areas he talks about, most of his rants turned out to be less well-informed and his reaction to people questioning him was... not that great. For some info on that, ConeOfArc and LP had a bit of a spaff over the T-14 Armata engine claim, maybe worth looking into.
To be fair...
They ordered him to take the tank......they never said *WHERE* to take it.
lol...and that particular model of Sherman, he put it in the best place of where it could do the most good. at the bottom of the lake to be a new habitat for fishes n stuff. 😝
Ask for forgiveness not permission attitude 😉
😂 correct. Now you’re thinking like E5 mafia.😂
One of "War Daddy's" sons was listed as MIA in Vietnam in the 1960's and was re classified as KIA in the mid 1990's. That also had to have weighed heavy on this man as well. Knowing that your Son was not coming home from a war like he himself did. I just hope that he did not ever lose faith, and had accepted the possibility that his Son was not coming home alive.
27:51 RE: Running into a Bootcamp buddy while deployed
I had a similar experience in the Marines in Iraq. Standing in line for... I think it was chow, I forget. My unit just arrived at this FOB a few days before, I literally know no one here. Or so I thought, because the guy in front of me half-turns to talk to one of his buddies, and I recognize him.
I recognize him specifically because he had to drop out of my Boot Camp platoon for failing his first Rifle qualification and had to re-do it with the next platoon going through. So I tap him on the shoulder; he turns to look at me, and I can tell he's trying to figure out why I look familiar. So I just rattle off our Boot Camp company and platoon number, and he immediately cracks a smile, remembers me, and we get to talking a little. Turns out this guy, who failed his first rifle qual, is now stationed at this FOB as part of a Force Recon platoon.
Which for the uninitiated, Force Recon is halfway between standard Marine infantry and Marine Raiders on the scale of how bad a time you're going to have if you're their target. And it's pretty well known how bad a time you'd have with your standard Marine infantry, so let that inform how far this guy bounced back.
43:52 reminds me of something the brits experienced in WWI, they wanted more recruits so they came up with "buddy batallions"(or something along those lines) where all the guys from one town would be put in the same unit so their friends would join to be with them, the result was entire towns ending up with no young men left, or just a couple of trainwrecks who'd watched all their childhood friends and relatives die horribly.
It seems like foreshadowing that the one member of the team without a nickname died almost straight out the gate.
It’s definitely a bit of a red flag. Kind of in the same vein as when a character says something along the lines of “after this battle/war, I’m going to marry my sweetheart.” Which pretty much always ends with that character dying almost immediately.
@@raymurray3401 And thus they made sure to *immediately* give the replacement assistant driver a nickname.
He was shot down with 7 others
@@Dannyedelman4231 But he was the only member of that tank crew to die in that attack.
um if your talking about who i think your talking about he did have a nickname wilbert richards nickname was red and we know that everyone else had a nickname so idk who you could be talking about if not wilbert
I'm still stuck at a guy named War Daddy in In The Mood taking a whole handful of fists and saying "more please, this time I serve."
Thank you for mentioning the Sullivan brothers..not many people know that because of them, the military no longer allowed siblings to serve in the same units together..👊🏼🙏🏼
I'm "In the Mood" for another old man reacts to the fat electrician video!
He didn't mess with a boat, he turned a tank into a Submarine......like Russia turning theirs into low-orbit-vehicles!
It’s only the turrets that go low level orbit…technically. Comrade.😂
This man had McNasty levels of energy!
Ah I see what you did there! 😉
This was a great one Brother. I found your channel through these reactions. Honestly, as a long time fan of Nic's work, you and Nic both are me and the guys sitting around Bullshitting 😂😂😂
Joe Louis: So that's how you want it, eh? Okay!
As a tag in on the Sullivans, it was five brothers, all assigned to an Atlanta-class light cruiser, USS Juneau, that was struck by two Japanese sub launched torpedoes and was absolutely ripped apart.
By all accounts, four of the five were either killed immediately or died shortly thereafter as the ship sank. The fifth would survive the sinking and afterwards try to find his brothers by making his way to the different clusters of survivors. Heartbreakingly, he would discover they were not among the survivors and would lose hope, succumbing to either dehydration or drowning.
The USS The Sullivans was a Fletcher-class Destroyer named for the five as they were inseparable in life. It is now a museum ship but sadly is in dire need or cleaning and repairs because at some point last year, she sprung a leak and partially sank at her moorings.
On the subject of the German tank Ace, I believe that was a reference to Michael Wittmann who was a Tiger Commander.
He may have had over 1,000 kills but unlike Poole, he did not survive the war. He was killed I believe by a Canadian tank unit somewhere in Belgium.
Recon by fire IS a thing, when visibility is an issue, spend ammo. Not like you get extra points for ammo brought back.
During Desert Storm I was in 4th grade and we were assigned a service member to write to. My pen pal was a tanker that happened to be from a neighboring town. My brother was friends with his younger brother and we knew a bunch of the same people. My great aunt even knew him personally.
My biggest complaint about War Thunder, is the grind is real.
O.M., in regard to your reunion story @29:30 -ish, I once had a short training stint at Ft. Huachuca, Ariz.
On a whim, I wandered into the base credit union to inquire about the interest rate that their savings account paid.
Suddenly my name is being called and it's a girl I knew from a few years before back at my regular unit over 1,500 miles away. She had taken a job at the credit union & was working a few teller windows down from the person I went to and recognized my voice.
She helped make the rest of my time in Arizona a lot more pleasant than it otherwise would've been.
"quit simping over the German military its weird" i laughed hard af. I've seen this vid from the Fat Electrician's channel but it still made me laugh.
love your reactions keep up the good work :D
you know they wanted that "Special Chocolate" from Germany 😏
Check out Fat Electrician’s new gun safe.
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I’m surprised how many people haven’t commented on the new background
I have been asking fat electrician to talk about Willis “Ching” Lee for 6 months because as said in the video he is the greatest battleship commander and I have noticed he has been mentioned in the last 2 videos, and I am hoping he will be the subject of one of his next videos.
Nic has said Admiral Lee is on the list for this year. He is still working on multiple scripts at a time and doesn't know when any particular video will come out.
You got your wish! Video just dropped a day ago! 😉
It going to be a looooooooong time before someone is on our level.
Vision is weird. You literally see what you want to see.
I'm a computer programmer and near sigted. I don't wear long range glasses because I'm usually reading something close up, but take me to the woods, and I will find creatures.no one else will see even after I point it out. I had a bird guide just look at me mouth agape and say"no one sees those. that's why they're called hermit thrush.". (It was deep in a bush almost completely concealed). So if you want to kill enemies, I'm confident Your vision will adjust.
Malevelon Creek has fallen.
The creek broke before the divers did
I was a kid(between 10-12 years old when this went down… I’d come home from school and watch the tomahawk cruise missiles and bombs impact in Baghdad and watch the skies light up with anti aircraft fire on the news… and only thought to myself… the ordinance has already hit… you are just wasting your ammo.. the planes delivering them are already the hell out of dodge.
Wait till you see the shirt for this video. It is awesome.
The Sullivan Act.
Desert storm the last great tank on tank battle 🤔 Bradley vs t72... sure a Bradley isn't a tank more of an apc and yet it knocked out a tank.
I think he meant armored warfare on that kind of scale. Iraq did have a ton of tanks even they were outdated by our tank standards at the time. If I do recall right one of their T 50s...or 60 cant recall took out a Bradley of ours. Granted a Bradley is not really mean to eat shots from a tank either...I will admit that video from Ukraine is flippin crazy though.
The Bradley is an IFV, which is not an APC or a tank, it's not armored enough or heavily armed enough to fulfill the role of a tank, but it is armed with a 25mm cannon and TOW missiles, the role of the IFV is to drop of troops but unlike an APC it sticks around to support them with the autocannon and fight back versus armored vehicles with TOW missiles.
You've mentioned your job (rate) in the Navy several times but, if you have mentioned what it was, I missed it. I know from what I have heard you say that it was one of the advanced training programs. I was a Navigation Electronics Technician on a fast attack submarine (USS Tautog SSN 639). How about you?
Aren’t tanks just land boats?
Technically it is, if you're talking about WW1 tanks.
WW1 tanks are also known as "landship".
@@ardantop132na6 we should def go back to having tanks as ship parallels tbh
MBT and Heavy Tank are nowhere near as cool as dreadnought and destroyer
@@Minority119 Well we could, but the Soviet own WW2 landship make me doubt if that's even viable. Especially with how rapid the pace of combat is.
Did you cut vija
I went and watched fury immediately after watching this video. I hadn’t seen it and the Clips that he used were curious enough and spoiler enough free that made me interested in watching the movie as a whole.
Where, as when he use top gun: Maverick Clips, it did include spoilers in his mailcat video.
I still watched it, but I soon as I realised that there was possible spoilers. I practically closed my eyes and took out my earbuds. Just in case. I later watched topgun:maverick so I do now know which were spoilers.
Correction joe Sullivan had a child
have you seen SCP-079's SCP Sedition? if not you should def react
I'm wondering how tf did he manage to fit inside the tank, the average tanker is like 5'4
I was a tanker in Iraqi freedom and it sucks to work on and care for an M1 Abraham's
W video
Fury isn't related to this story. It has some names, but completely different.
Kinda like Starship Troopers, from the book to the movie, not really that similar
yeah war daddy and the dead team mate red are the only two names that they didnt change or really only two things that were true i think
Love TFE, great guy with great vids. Did stop watching LP, talked to some guys knowledgable on the areas he talks about, most of his rants turned out to be less well-informed and his reaction to people questioning him was... not that great. For some info on that, ConeOfArc and LP had a bit of a spaff over the T-14 Armata engine claim, maybe worth looking into.
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