Army Stories: The Tao of Soldiering
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- Опубліковано 13 сер 2022
- The Tao of Soldiering is:
#1. Release your attachments
#2. Learn to suffer
#3. You are not special
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I love how in books and movies, the guy who volunteers for first watch is usually supposed to be doing the others a favor. In reality, volunteering for first or last watch is like volunteering to get the best MRE or the first shower. You’re just taking the good stuff for yourself.
Yessir! Exactly
volunteered for first watch every chance I got
Over here we usually have a gentlemanly agreement that the most most senior guy gets too volunteer for the first watch before others, unless someone's clearly beat up af and deserves a solid unbroken sleep. Apparently it's fairly widespread, perhaps even regional
1st or last shift are the best
3am is now _the_ hour to attack. Its the point in the "day" where an adversary has the best opportunity to catch their opponent completely off guard.
My thoughts on that guard shift are:
1. - If you don't trust anyone else to pull it, get off your ass and volunteer for it.
2. - If you _absolutely_ don't want that shift, bring fudge. It buys more favors than smokes.
My dad taught me these rules of fighting when i was a kid…
1 : If you’re in a fair fight, you planned it wrong.
2 : There are usually only two outcomes in a fight, apologise or bleed… Strike first if you’re not okay with bleeding.
3 : When words aren’t stopping the argument and you think violence is imminent, start the violence.
The first one reminds me of the Marine Corps #13 rule for gun fighting.
"In combat, there are no rules, always cheat; always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose."
I’ve heard a similar thing from an old mate who was a Warrant Officer, RAN at the time, “If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck!”
When I was very young serving in the RAN decades ago in a major exercise I asked someone superior if our tactics were cheating… They reply was, “There’s no such thing as cheating in war!” We kicked arse! 🤣
Your dad was a wise man. It’s not the movies; if you are about to be attacked and throw the first punch and land a decent shot to the face, the fight is already over.
Once, I was cornered by a homeless man who put his hand on my backpack strap and stuck a knife to my stomach. Said “gimme everything.” I had my laptop, a phone, a bunch of money. I wasn’t gonna lose it. I’d rather just die.
So immediately I put my hands up and said I’ll give you every thing.
Just repeated that over and over. Which made him take the knife from my stomach and put it at his side.
I pivoted, hands still up, to non threateningly get his hand off my backpack strap.
So now I’m facing him hands up, repeating I’ll give you everything.
Then mid sentence I punched him right in the nose. Felt it break. Blood everywhere. He went down started stumbling trying to get up.
I thought about jumping on top of him and stomping his face but remembered the knife, realized I already won. And I didn’t want someone to walk by and see me beating a man and get the wrong idea.
So I just left. I’m not a big guy. Never was in a real fight before that. But it was an eye opening experience. Most men are not ready to take a punch to the face. If you break someone’s nose they won’t be able to respond for a good amount of seconds which gives you the chance to do the responsible thing and escape.
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To date, the hardest I was ever hit was by my ex gf lol.
Sounds pretty, but in the essence it's all bs. Ask russians who had seemingly followed all three steps of your rules of wisdom, attacked Ukraine, and now they wish they were dead.
PS: McBeth's wisdoms will eventually make you stronger and a lesser jerk
@@barmalini 3rd rule wasn’t followed. Violence wasn’t imminent. One of the most important rules of fighting is not to engage if there’s another way. Clearly there was other options besides Russia invading Ukraine.
Just because you say you are following the rules doesn’t make it so
And Smithy learned that day:
1. Be vocal about every minor inconvenience.
2. Being a jerk to others is normal.
3. Get things in life with force rather than willpower and persistence.
Did he? In the end, he was the one who had to turn in damaged gear, or so it sounds. He may have learned what you suggest he did, but there were almost certainly a few other lessons as well.
That's until he got kicked around by another guy.
I'll have you know that any good NCO dealt with him separately, did Ryan learn a lesson? Yes, but Smith, being an E4 got dealt with too
@@grognard23 also he lost probably all of the trust of the platoon honestly being known as a blue falcon ain't small. You can be a dick and still go to the party. But as a snitch and blue falcon you are not invited to the cookout. Everyone hates you.
4. Being a jerk causes everyone to make fun of you.
The Tao of Soldiering, I'm 67 years old and had come to live by the same 3 rules by trial and error. 5 stars for putting them in rule format! I once had a job clearing out people's homes after they had passed on, We tossed it into large dumpsters after the families took what they wanted, It taught me that all the "stuff" you have is meaningless to everyone but yourself and all will be forgotten sooner rather than later. Nothing to be sad about, it's just the way of life.
YES, Yes, it is in the bible about people passing away and being forgotten very soon. very sad, I just lost my partner of 12 years, my mom and little brother in one year. I miss my partner , but my mom and brother I had not seen in over 5 years. So not to bad, but my partner of 12 years is very difficult. Me at 67 and him at 45 is a big age gap, and he did a lot of work for me so I could consentrate of my rebilitation after I got run over here in Tijuana Mexico, on my bikecycle. I am very busy now that I do not have a person to do all the chores he did for me. Good by my dear friend, good by, I loved you .
People ARE going to remember you Ryan McBeth. Thanks to youtube I found you. You are a great presenter. Team up with other mega channels on youtube. People like you are needed big time.
McBeth, been following you when I found your site right after the Russian invasion... this story is priceless mainly because most civilians will never know the things vets go through..not that it will ever matter.
same here. keep up the good Work!
Just recently retired from active duty, never a truer set of commandments have been uttered. Keep on killin it with these videos.
So being a soldier is philosophically similar to being a Jedi with a gambling problem? Got it.
🤣🤣🤣
Try being a Marine ;D
Don’t forgot the nicotine use, alcohol abuse and poor money handling lol
Philosophy is what separates factions. Confliction of philosophy is the reaction which causes war. Soldiers just apply the trade, philosophically or apathetically… So this is why politics is diplomatic philosophy and the military is ultimately a tool for those philosophical means.
So quigon gin from ep 1?
Learning to be a stoic is a necessary trait for all your men to learn.
It's a necessary trait for all people to learn. If everyone lived their lives by Ryan's Tao of Soldering the world would be a much better place. No one is special, life sucks and pain is guaranteed. Learn to deal with it, make the best of the situation and find joy in the little things.
When I was 5 years old, I asked my grandfather who fought against the Germans on the side of the USSR army, originally from Kherson, Ukraine (born 1910) to tell me stories from World War 2, he said that they were all terrible, but there is a funny one:
The battle was under Kharkov, Ukraine, after the end of the battle, a soldier ran up to us, without a lower jaw and tried to say something, we helped him, but he could not calm down and wanted to tell us something so badly, he was not horrified, but on the contrary, as if laughing, we gave him paper and a pencil, and he wrote down what happened.
After the end of the battle of heavy guns, he saw a single German that ran out of bullets in his rifle, but our soldier did not, he decided to engage him in hand-to-hand combat, he didn't want to kill him just like that, our soldier wanted to have a fight of honor. So he took off his boots and put them aside. Minutes later he killed the German, but he tore off his jaw in a fight with a German bayonet that was on the rifle. So when he turned to the place where his boots were, they were gone. Stolen! Although no one else was around! It was 3 meters away from the fighting site. So the soldier came to his comrads and was laughing his ass off that he lost his boots at a fight! Who could've stole it!? I was there, no one was around, it was a flat surface! Lol. The soldier was more worried about boots than the lost lower jaw, he said: "Well, it's winter, you can live without a jaw, but without boots I will also can lose my legs. So guys, never take off your boots at war".
Now, 28 years later, I have questions for my grandpa, why would he take off his boots in winter? Did he make it without a jaw? Sadly my grandpa died the same year at the age of 84.
Ryabchenko Anton Spiridonovich (born 1910) Kharkov, Ukraine. Colonel of the Military Construction Troops of the USSR. He built bridges and other structures for the transfer of military equipment and the population, and then undermined the bridges.
Also he told some other story when is old, he had his old heavy winter greatcoat which he wanted to exchange for a new, lighter one, but the old one saved his life.
When they built a crossing bridge to overtake Soviet military equipment and local residents, he stood on the bridge (the bridge had no railings), and waited until people pass through, they told loudly to everybody - first women, children, old people, and then men, but then some "Young Jew" man ran with women to cross the bridge without waiting his turn, this guy pushed my grandpa and he felt from the bridge. He remembers: - While falling, I thought that's it, what a stupid death, but bam! A tree branch caught me on my winter greatcoat (from the bottom, you can say the branch hooked me like under a skirt), the height was about 200-300 meters, I'm lucky I didn't change the heavier greatcoat to the light one.
His comrades lifted him up, but he only had a sprain on one arm and bruises on his butt, he was lucky he didn't got impalement on this branch. The guy who pushed him, I don’t know what they did to him, but my grandfather said that at that moment he understood what “sleeping on duty” means, you always need to be on the alert, even when “ours” are nearby. We still have this soviet greatcoat. Feels like it weights about 10 kg
Those are some amazing stories
@@RyanMcBethProgramming Thank you, Ryan :) Please do more of your own too, love them!
Would've been even better without the anti-Semitic reference.
@@johnwilliams2711 I told the story "AS IS WAS TOLD", if someone tried to kill you, you would be angry for sure, and MIGHT EVEN try to identify or at least get an assumption about a look of a guy, NO? It's a ~70 years ago story, relax, I don't care if my granddad hated jews after that incident or not. I think it's a pretty justifiable reason, EVEN if the "pusher" was not a jew, lol. Who cares.
@@cry2love Army Stories - Pasta is Kosher for Passover - ua-cam.com/video/bp-UA-KkCl0/v-deo.html
Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius say the same things too and they've been favorite reading materials for soldiers for 2000 years. It's not about taking joy from suffering, it's acknowledging its ever present nature and knowing your reaction to suffering is what matters.
Embrace the suck. Then it doesn't seem quite so bad.
That’s actually so cool to understand how similar we all are , my dad served in Soviet army back in the end of 1980s, and his army story were very similar , chain of command , some guys who outrank you but they are jerks , some valuable lessons from real officers , great story sir , thank you and love from Ukraine!
My father and his brother did nearly five years forced labour for the Germans during WW2. At one point they were making winter boots for the German forces in Russia. But everyone in the factory conspired to only make right boots. Eventually the winter boots were sent to the Russian front by train. Unfortunately when the Germans found out they they only had right boots they shot the supervisors. Whilst sad, this was one of my father’s favourite stories. They survived the war and walked home, very thin but alive. When they got back their parents were at home and greeted them with such joy. Just goes to show that everyone can do something. Even if it’s a little. My father always smiled with the thought of freezing Germans with only one boot.
Kind of universal truth..
Avoiding a necessary pain often leads to greater pain, so just embrace it.
You're not special, but you're still unique. Trying to be special or actually being born 'special' is just lifelong suffering, which you can mitigate by not being special, or as one ghuru said 'extra ordinary'.
Ryan is getting there;)
I absolutely love these stories!
I was literally coming to say the same thing 😂
I got one for you, so we were doing JRTC, we are ADA and we have to provide our own security which is impossible since we had minimum operating crew. We get to site and I start digging defensive positions. My nco tells me it’s pointless and we were going to get our asses kicked. I didn’t like that. Later on I see cars passing by site with military aged males so I tell my NCO if we should snatch a few up, he said we didn’t have enough men, I see that an armored unit is nearby, I insist and say what if I can get the armored guys to help, he (thinking they would tell me to fuck off) told me that if I could get more men, he would call in the request. I ran down the hill, was directed to their 1SG and he gave me a fucking M2 Bradley. I ran back with M2 in tow. My nco angrily called the request in and we got the approval. Eventually someone came and told my NCO we were disrupting the exercise and we had to break up the checkpoint. Endex happened and our Battalion Commander & CSM flew out to see us. With me standing next to my NCO they said “heard ya did such a great job you almost ended the war early when you set up that checkpoint “ my NCO said “yes sir, I just thought the Joes could get some good training experience from the opportunity”. I was livid. So fast forward to the wash pit (there’s a specific name and I can’t remember it) my nco wanted to drive through them while these giant water guns blast the vehicles. He had me ground guid and didn’t let me jump in. So I saw the water guns were operated by Spc. I go to one of those and say, “see that HMMWV? Its windows (canvas zipper windows) are real dirty” he looks at me and says “e-4 mafia baby”, he blasted nothing but the window and the dry rot gave up zipper fell inward he got soaked! 😂 he got out after the wash to yell at the E-4 and I got ratted out, and then I got smoked 😂 worth it.
At JRTC, I got an Arcom partly because I was supposed to be an E-4 but was somehow still a rankless E-1. I played along as a PVT but that lead to lots of bizarre events. One almost got a Sergeant Major hospitalized. His CO commended me. I suspect that it was the other E-4s declining a recommendation that got me the ARCOM. E-4 mafia is unknown but more real than anything the recruiter told you.
LOL!
Called the Bird Bath. wash rack.
"I'm cold. This sucks!" Welcome to the Army!
P.S. SFC McBeth, you're awesome!
My friend served in an elite military unit. His training was around a year and 4 months not including the “hell week” or initial selection process.
Despite his stories about the grueling training or the operations him and his team carried out, the bond between him and his teammates as well as their high level of character truly was amazing. He explained that the high spirit of the team and individuals within was owed to three things:
1)The relationship between the team leader, officers, and the rank and file soldiers was unique to that military. Officers were called by first names, team leaders visited the houses of soldiers families, and there was never anyone screaming orders. Additionally, their officers were the first into combat hence the military’s officer motto-“after me”.
2) The teammates all wanted to be in that unit more then anything else in the world at that time of their life.
3) They knew that their service was not about any single individual nor was their unit, brigade, or role in the military more special then others. Their service was for an ideologically and a nation that reflected their values and national pride.
He mentioned how not once did anyone on his team refuse to help another teammate. Whether it was taking on extra weight or volunteering for certain tasks, he told me that the word “no” was not in their vocabulary.
After spending weeks in the field together, he and his teammates would often meet up during the couple days they had off duty. He had teammates whose families adopted a teammate member who was a duel citizen without family in the country.
These were just a few examples of how my friend described his teammates to me.
I am certain that in all militaries around the world there are good and bad apples. Those that understand their purpose and are prepared to sacrifice their comfort and at times their life’s for beliefs and morals they cherish deeply.
Thank you and keep making videos and sharing stories. You are one hell of an intellect and thank you for your service.
Ryan I got to tell you I think these are the best out of all of your content I get so excited when I see you sit down with a beer and a cigar makes me want to grab a drink and a stogie for myself
Similarly, I have my own 3 rules of life as learned through the military:
1: Know when to lie
2: Know when to shut up
3: If you can’t prove it, then it never happened.
Seen it enough times while Active; guys trying to skip on the miserable parts end up with more misery than if they just muddled through the garbage situation. Seen guys kicked out, guys arrested, guys with the Leave cancelled, and guys with more Extra Duty than their normal work-week just for trying to take the shortcut or the easy way out.
Some learn the easy way from watching others and getting it. Some learn the hard way and find out on their own. Some never learn. Thanks for the story, I'm glad you learned something.
Yeah I'm definitely required to hear more of these military stories. I am absolutely obsessed with your knowledge and experience! Also, if I may suggest? Have you ever considered a discord? Because I personally would love that. A place to share military tech knowledge/stories and other similar things that you talk about in your videos.
Either way I REALLY enjoy your content and wait patiently and eagerly for every upload! :D
I have a discord
Learn to check video descriptions before asking for these kinds of things.
@@thespacemanfil4921 God I hope you're not part of the discord mod group... 😒🤣
@@sekured9950 Sorry if I came off a little rude but it's just a little annoying that information is in the description yet people still ask.
Outstanding! I've said it before, but Army Stories are my fav videos you do. Thank you for sharing your wisdom.
I don't know if you can be properly grateful without suffering and loss. And once you do have that and you become grateful for the suffering you become grateful for the journey and every day is paradise as it's only temporary live life like you stole it, and don't take it too seriously since you don't get out alive. Love your stories and wisdom Ryan. Thank you for sharing.
I love the conclusion of the story. It strikes a cord with my experiences in the fire service. No matter the rank or seniority, no one will care when your gone. Learn to let go and embrace the suck the moment.
Dude, you are special. You have a big heart and you already left a trace with this UA-cam channel. Sincerely thank you for educating people like me about military stuff and for helping fight disinformation about the war in my country - Ukraine. 🇺🇦❤️
Hi Ryan.
Thanks for your cigar-in-hand insights to life, i like hearing your "war" stories and the wisdom distilled from them.
Goin' through a rough patch, my own doing. I needed to hear this. Thanks for the reminder. Good words to remember.
Wow kudos to you. You learned the right lessons from that experience, most people are utterly incapable of doing what you did. I wouldn't have been able to swallow my pride like that especially after somebody's douchebaggery, but then again I never got into a fight and was the warcock who volunteered for that graveyard shift and happily smoked cigarettes in guard duty. The cigarettes of course weren't mine. You're a much better person than I ever was.
Ha! Ha! A specialist is like a senior private.
Yep. As you lightened your gear, when I first arrived in my unit in
I Corp Vietnam, I weighed 155 also, and was assigned an M60 and accompanying ammo belts, and all the other gear. And like you, I found a way to slightly lighten the burden. Took the camo cloth off the steel pot, took the steel pot off the fiberglass inner liner, put the camo cloth over the liner, tucked the bottom edge under, next to itself, and carried on.
Ryan, that was an honest and true story, thanks for sharing. We could all learn a lot from what you've said, too many people think that they're special. That doesn't mean people aren't worthy of compassion though.
Thank you McBeth! What an awesome journey of growth to share. I can agree with every point of wisdom you propose. Greetings and best wishes from Southern Africa.
These three concepts are life lessons everyone needs to have shocked into their system as hardcore as mortally possible at an early age.
That's a bit extreme in your wording.
Love these stories. Takes me back to my time in service.
This is effectively the subtle art of not giving a fuck. Excellent tao, I like all 3, and such a great story! Thanks!
Per Tyler Durden in Fight Club:
You are not special.
You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake.
You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.
We're all part of the same compost heap.
We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.
Thanks for a great video! I love the title and the content. "another clean story about military life". We all have those stories and I love hearing the many details of exploits as a soldier. You just taught me a new term, "Blue Falcon" after serving in the US Marines and Navy, I had never heard this term. I looked it up as suggested, "BF" a Blue Falcon individual. a Golden description of some of the people we have all had to deal with during our military time. Great stuff, Carry On Sir! sharing the knowledge and the stories.
This was the best Saturday morning cartoon I have watched in years 🤣
For anyone wondering, blue falcon is a nicer way of saying buddy fu**er
Go easy on that tobacco. After the Navy, I went into biotechnology. When I quit with the information I was learning, I found out the benefits of quitting smoking. Hope to see you around DC !!!
Can you elaborate please?
@@lemiphil2388 Look on the side of any cigarette package. If you wish to quit smoking, then I suggest you talk to your GP next time you visit him. There are also support groups for people that wish to quit. Since you will be able to taste your food and smell it also with those senses coming back, you may gain a few pounds, but after a while, you will be able to walk, then later jog around the block some and lose the weight back to normal. If you wish to debate the health effects of tobacco and/or smoking, I'm not going to do so. You can try that like of reasoning with your family doctor - who may ask you to leave his practice with 4 or 5 other doctors names given to you.
Love these stories. Reminds me of my time in the Army.
These are awesome. I look forward to watching them, this one is particularly well timed for me. Thank you
Apart being super funny... The rules part is beautiful, you talk so gently and with such empathy. Great video MB! Peace ✌️
Absolutely loved this video man. Thankyou for your work
I'm going to modify this story and tell it to my high school students.
I definitely gave the clean version. this is a family channel.
@@RyanMcBethProgramming I know, but as an educator I have to SUPER sanitize content I show to kids. I once had to answer to parents for showing a video on the moon because the creator said he was an atheist in an interview years before.
@@icum220 You could say they were lunartics.
Have been subbed to your channel for a long time and really enjoy your content.
Your tao of soldiering however is fantastic and sometimes you don’t realise how much someone might need to hear a little pick me up. Even if you didn’t mean to say it.
Thank you Ryan, hope you have a great day!
It's great you figured out the secret to personal happiness, many don't. Some want what they'll never have, or try to be someone they aren't. The outcome is sad for them - alcohol abuse or drugs, bankruptcy, gambling addiction, divorce because of abuse, and crime and finally prison or death. If you can accept the life you're capable of living successfully then the one of misery won't be your curse.
Ryan love your videos brother, you are the man. Thank you for your service!
Beer and a cigar
Ryan knows how to live
Really enjoy your content man, and your 'tao of soildering' really resonated with me.
I absolutely live by what you say...I too learned the hard way but I learned! Thanks Ryan!❤😊
1) Great story, well told!
2) These videos will ensure that you are remembered. I think the 3 rules are perfect, and they alone might cement your legacy.
3) “Tao” is pronounced “dao” or “dow”
It's too late, it's tao now.
Man these stories are pure gold!! If I’m ever on the east coast I’ll by ya pint for a story in person! 👏🏻
At my first duty station, 1983- 2 A.D. (Fwd) My section chief (Arty) put us into the front leaning rest on gravel, using fists. When I complained about it, he knelt down by me where I was still doing push ups and said. "White, you don't like pain, do you?" I said "No Sergeant, Not at all!" So he looked at me, after having been marine corp and army in the Nam and said- "Then be prepared to die. Keep pushing!" I never forgot it, I also learned the relative worth of bitching about pain or anything else you need to deal with to accomplish the mission. Thank you, SSG. Stanley. One hell of a life lesson.
Ryan, first let me say Thank You for your service. I went to BT at Ft Sill in early 90, and a prior knee injury reared it’s ugly head and I was out. I feel that I missed out on a lot by not being able to serve. I live less than a half a mile from the back side of Ft Bragg. I can damn near read the tail numbers on the helicopters when they are flying the “property line” going to and from Simmons AAF. There’s a large number of retired and active duty folks in my neighborhood. I can’t say enough good things about our service members. For the most part, they have sacrificed greatly to protect what we have left of America. I hate that I wasn’t able to do my part as well. To all those that serve or have served, Thank You all. Some of us still appreciate the sacrifice. I enjoy listening to these stories from you all. Much love from Raeford and if you ever one back down to Bragg to do videos, you are more than welcome to stay at my home to offset some of the expenses. 🇺🇸🤙
Man getting that op4 gig as a E2 had to be an amazing experience. I always admired the Geronimo unit down south. I enlisted in 98 as a ammo specialist and I have always felt the best years of the army was prior to 2001. I was out in 2003 after breaking my right elbow in a non service accident requiring surgery and elbow replacement with complications like a locked joint afterwards. unfortunately I missed the changes made for the GWOT and it’s hard to even relate to some of the veterans that exist today because of the war and the stark difference prior. Joining the Army in the mid to late 90’s was “safe” because we were at “peace” for the most part, it was very uncommon to see another member with a combat patch and if you did it was from the 1st gulf war, now it’s nothing for this and more to be seen. I followed a guy in his mid to late 30’s that joined maybe 10 years after me, he has 3 tours in Afghanistan and 1 in Iraq. Carries ribbons and medals like the GWOT, NATO, Purple Heart, ect, ect, ect. Again this is all normal now. I have none of these except a few achievement medals and service ribbons. One thing that was popular then was coins and it seems like people wanted them over ribbons anyways (I have like 20 coins but I meant a Sargent major that had hundreds, he took a HQ route and played ball per say with like o-5 and above. He has an excellent rack as well and earned them like the others ( he’s now a US Army civilian employee working to improve the lives of soldiers that are in and out of the military, really amazing guy, nco , and leader). Off track…….anyways I appreciate your stories and journalism.
Love your perspective as per usual. You will be remembered manno!
great story, thanks for sharing! i really do enjoy the format of your story telling.
You just hit me with precisely what I needed. Thanks for the wakeup call!
I thoroughly enjoy these please do more
I'm a ex Tank gunner from Netherlands army. Man you'r stories and lessons are so recognisable, I had a quite similar experience,keep up the stories.
Love these stories, keep them coming!!!
Ryan, I agree with you a lot. If your ever in Maine and want a Lobster shore dinner, and a beer look me up. I have to say this though. You I am positive will be remembered by someone. Eventually most of us are just names with a few lines of information about us somewhere but most of us who have served helped someone somewhere. I can tell your a good man.
Great video, Ryan. Great story. Lots for anyone to learn from it.
"Embrace the suck" was what I was always accustomed to hearing.
There is always that one Smitty in every unit
This was exactly what I needed today. Thank you, sincerely.
Good rules. If Smitty had lived by them, he never would have tried to bully you into carrying his ammo.
If I could have input, I would say that:
1. this blue falcon guy learned his lesson to not doing what he tried to do, that's good
2. never tease someone to the point they lose their mind. Act decent, and never humiliate a person with your victory. You already won, it is enough. Even mistaken and bullied guys have their human dignity and you never go below that line.
3. if you damaged someone's property - always pay for a new one, or for repair at least. If it was an accident, you had no intent to do it - you say it, and maybe the person even will forgive you, but if not,- you still must pay for it. Even if a person is someone you don't like. Because it is not about him, it is about your dignity and responsibility. It is about yourself.
4. Don't do your work off-hand, do everything you participating in for as better as possible. From experience, you will spend the same or close amount of time trying to cheat as you really doing it. But in the "really doing it" option, in the end, you became a better, trained, skilled, and experienced person.
5. Don't learn to suffer (what kinda masochistic point is that? with all respect ) Don't even focus on suffering, ignore it. Focus on your goal, your purpose, and the reason why you are somewhere and doing what you doing.
6. You are not so special, but you are still a human being, individual, and personality. So act like that, be respectful of yourself - so don't do something unworthy and also respect other human beings too.
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That's what I like about this channel. Life lessons coupled with useful informations to help people like me who have no idea about the military understand current events.
Awesome advice. It applies in every situation and you can carry it with you. Thank you.
100% true. These are on my list, too. Thank you, Mr. Macbeth.
You know, you bring back a lot of memories of my service. Love ya.
That was stellar. Glad the all mighty algorithm decided to bestow your channel upon me.
Thanks for sharing your story. Gave me something to think about.
Awesome story! Thank you for sharing!
You’re a good man Charlie Brown!
Thanku Ryan. Your content is super great!
This was an excellent video. Well told and insightful. I enjoyed it very much. On a personal note, I'm in medical residency for family medicine, and I see a lot of similarities in philosophical lessons learned. Thank you for making the effort to make this video
Ryan, I think it might be time for a podcast brother. People like you, you are down to earth, yet knowledgable. Don't over think it, just grab a friend and start talking. Have a loose idea of what you will talk about "my first day at boot camp" etc. I would download it every week. keep up the good work. David👍
It takes a man to have a spine and not back down or tap out.
It takes a gentleman to recognize they're wrong, and apologize.
You sir, are a gentleman.
Hey Ryan, those are 3 very good rules that I need to follow in my life. I know that the history was real but it can be considered a good parable, as it helps a lot to illustrate the rules. Its nice to have found you. Greetings from Brazil. Yeah, you are reaching people here too..
Well ya' did it again: best video I've seen all day. Or probably all week/month. Your list of 3 is going above MY latrine.
He cared about you enough to NOT stop the fight. You stopped bleeding but you still carry the lesson. ;)
Since the first week of SOI I was told, "Embrace the suck, then it won't suck so much."
More please. I love these stories.
Great story Mr. McBeth, it captured my attention and thought.
Ill never forget this. Thank you.
Good story man go on with these kind of videos
How do you know
Dude, i'll remember you. Smiling Vet giving some good vibes and reflecting for us with his cigar ;) Have a nice day Ryan.
This channel rocks. Thanks
I needed to hear this today! Thanks My man…. Best video yet!
I am just a bit older than you and your story made me think on what my Three Rules for Life would be…if I get them down I will post ‘em
I just love these little chats!!!
Very satisfyingly inspiring man! Would print those wise words and place it in front of my desk and just say this mantra from a wise penguin every time something shitty happens "smile and wave boys. smile and wave." 😁
Thank you for your stories.
Have a good beer and a good smoke. Enjoy life while it’s still here. Respect life and environment. Ecology, ethics, social, financial. Those are my 4 points. I don’t respect bullies. Thanks for sharing.
"IBC ROOTBEER?" - One of my favorites!
Loved this. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you sir for the video.
You have helped someone today with your advice.