America Obliterates Half Of Iran's Navy In 8 Hours! - Operation Praying Mantis
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Should a do a long a10 warthog video? if not what next?
Absolutely!
Yes
Fuck yeah!
A-10... absolutely
Yes
Best part was a Russian warship showing up like “this is cool, we wanna watch” 😆
I mean that is such a typical Russian thing to do. I know they supposed to be our nemesis but sometimes I just love thier balls.
"Yvgeni, hey the vodka and the popcorn! This will be fun"
I genuinely hope that guy got some good pictures
Little more than that. Guaranteed they were taking detailed notes, so to speak.
@@dner75-xh9le Like, "Holy crap! The US missiles and guns are THAT good!"
I wish there were history teachers like you in schools
You should’ve met my 8th grade us history teacher, he taught exactly like this minus the cursing😂
Hell my 8th and 10th grade history teachers were both Vietnam vets, one being a tunnel rat. Both taught like this with the cursing. Back then we could handle it and wasn’t offended by it
I was fortunate enough to have teachers who were World War II, Korea, and early Vietnam War veterans. My English teacher was a Marine on the USS BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, that survived Kamikaze strikes at Okinawa and stayed with her all the way back to the Brooklyn Navy Yard. My history teacher was in the 38th Infantry Division (Indiana National Guard, I’m from Indianapolis) they are known as, “THE AVENGERS OF BATAAN”. He had vivid stories about the liberation of the Philippines ( he was even in the village where my wife was born ) . But the most interesting was my Business teacher and the faculty member in charge of the Audio/ Visual Department. Mr Pavel was a Pilot, a Major, and a member of the OSS. He served in every theater of the war. Had photos of himself with Stalin, Churchill, Chang, Ho Chi Minh, Tito, FDR, and Truman. The guy had a highly redacted record.
Would have been funner than reading that damn textbook all day!
They’d all be fired because the students would learn to think for themselves
International Court: USA You can’t do that it’s a war crime.
USA: They touched my boat
International Court: Fair enough have a good day
Lmao..
Facts. We still have not gotten over what Japan did and have 2 rules every one knows. No touchy US citizens and most importantly NO TOUCHY OUR BOATS!
@@zachgardner4820unless you’re Israel then it’s fine
DO.
NOT.
FUCK.
WITH.
OUR.
GODDAMN.
BOATS.
@@zachgardner4820there’s an unspoken third rule to that
If there are American citizens on a boat, that boat automatically is viewed as an American vessel
For context”I’m from the Government and I’m here to help” is actually the most terrifying words you can hear according to Ronald Regan.
He was also the worst President for the Iranian Navy to face, barring maybe Gerald Ford.
Both of them were *really* straightforward with military confrontations and took potential threats seriously.
@@Eye_Of_Odin978regan was a coward who banned fun switched
@@Blin240 Ok, but that's not what he said. More than 1 thing can be true about a person. Wild concept, I know. Reagan did dumb gun law shit, and ALSO did a very good job of foreign military policy.
Hearing that clip made me burst out laughing so hard, I’m surprised I hadn’t seen that before
@@1BeGe So trying to escalate into a full blown war with the Soviets was a very good thing? Selling weapons to known international terrorists and then destroying the evidence of those sales was a very good thing (and yes, he admitted on national television that he made the sales)? Publicly supporting and selling weapons to Saddam Hussein was a very good thing? Giving money, training, and military equipment to countries to support a war we had no business being involved in was a very good thing?
Reagan would have never made POTUS with the reichpublicans of today. LOL.
Yes, those A-6 pilots are indeed the main characters. Doing a WW2 style dive bomb with anti-aircraft guns firing at you, not giving a shit, and then completely disabling the vessel with a bomb straight down the smokestack is absolutely main character material. That's amazing and bless those fuckers for thinking, "My orders are vague. It's time to improvise."
As the man once said: "Fighter pukes make movies. Bomber pilots make HISTORY!"
...which, as he's said before, the last thing an enemy could want the American military to do is improvise. It never ends well.
those pilots literally experienced an Ace Combat sidequest
It hit not on the center of the smoke stack. 3 mm to starboard.
Dude was Luke Skywalker
Proportional Responses: If your life-threatening actions warrant a "proportional response" from the US Navy, any response that doesn't involve the complete obliteration of your nation's military and infrastructure is proportional to the response that it could have been...
We didn't fucking say the proportion would be 1:1, did we
Proportional response = The Chicago Way.
They pull a knife, you pull all the guns.
They send one of yours to the hospital, you send many of theirs to the morgue.
Merca
@@TheNerdForAllSeasons *That's* the *Chicago* way!
It WAS proportional! America only used 0.5% of its power! The fact that it only took that much to make the Iranian navy past-tense is merely a collateral issue.
Iran: "...WTF just happened?"
US: "Your guys fired on our guys, so... We handled it."
At the time, I was LTJG Slattery, the senior intelligence officer for VA-95, the A-6 squadron in this story. I was on board the Enterprise as this took place and I debriefed the A-6 crews, who were my drinking buddies, as they returned from their missions against the Sabalan and the Sahand. This is a very entertaining overview of that day's action. However, you need to watch your details. The A-6's did not carry Harpoons that day. They had AGM-123 Skipper II glide bombs. They also had dumb bombs and Rockeye cluster bombs (I remember the crew that hit the Boghammer saying that it spun in the water when they hit it). The mine that the Samuel B. Roberts struck was an M-08 (as in Model 1908) contact mine that had been originally developed in 1908 (prior to WWI). The phone you have is of an M-08, but it was not magnetic. It was detonated by a ship coming into contact with one of the three horns in the photo, which broke open the horn allowing seawater in to detonate the mine. The Samuel B. had entered a mine field (if I recall correctly) and was backing out when it hit the mine. I was listening to the comms during most of the battle and I don't recall the Sahand being hit by missiles, but I wasn't listening for that either. I was listening to hear what was happening with the A-6's. VA-95 and the A-7's on board the Enterprise hit the Sahand several times. The Sahand did not sink right away. It was a floating, burning hulk through the night and didn't sink until the next morning. As for the A-6 that flew alongside the Sabalan to ID it, your version is pretty accurate, but the A-6 crew (I forget who it was) knew they had found the Sabalan when the bombardier/navigator (B/N) looked behind at the ship's bridge after they had just passed it and saw someone had launched an SA-7 Grail at them. They hit chaff and flares and decoyed the missile. The rest of what you say about that flyby is probably accurate, I just don't recall it being described that way (that was 35 years ago). I forget which A-6 crew dropped the bomb down the stack of the Sabalan, but it didn't detonate in the engine room. Either something was wrong with the fuse or it simply passed through the ship too quickly to detonate inside, but after it went down the stack, it punched out through the hull and left a hole leaking oil for a mobility kill and the Sabalan had to be towed back to port. I remember reconnaissance photos from the next day showing the oil leaking as it was towed to its homeport of Bandar Abbas. I don't recall any Silkworms being launched. We were watching those very closely and we were continually receiving satellite imagery of the launch sites (they were stored in underground bunkers and moved out via rails to their launch positions). Had a Silkworm (old Soviet technology) been moved onto a launch pad, we already had plans to strike it before it could be used. There were a couple of humorous incidents from that day. You mentioned the one A-6 being "committed". The B/N for that A-6 was probably CDR (might still have been LCDR at that time) Schork, whose callsign was Schorky. I remember him saying (maybe at the debriefing) that his A-6 was rolling in hot on one of the ships (probably the Sabalan) when the call came in to cease operations for the day. He didn't want to miss an opportunity to drop a bomb in a real battle, so he responded to the call, "Too late! I'm committed!", which he said was BS, because there's no such thing as being "committed". He could have broken off the attack but didn't want to. He didn't want to pass up a spot in history. Another light moment was when (an aircrew told me they heard this radio transmission) when one of the battle groups called one of the oil platforms and said (as best I recall) "Attention, Iranian Oil Platform! You have five minutes to abandon your platform before we open fire. Have a nice daaaay!" The crew immediately abandoned the platform. I like your channel. I am subscribing to it. Thanks for all the memories.
Great clarification 👍 I was visiting VA-22 back at NASL after the cruise, saw a ship painted on the side of one of their A7’s. When I inquired I was given a post strike photo of the Sahand. 😊
Thanks for the detailed post. THANK YOU for your service! I was a police officer at the time and LOVED President Reagan and the USA during his era! Our military became a much more potent force thanks to his support, and it definitely showed. I miss those days.
It was odd to hear him say it was a Harpoon missile.
One of the best responses I've ever read on UA-cam. Epic. Thanks for the details and personal account. That was really cool.
Damn. I was just going to comment that the bombardier in a A6 wasn't behind the pilot. 😳
I lost it at the soviets saying "we are here to take photos". Beautifully told and an epic story.
For history
@@WolfiiHD probably for the intelligence lot back in soviet russia more than for history.
"Oi russkie why y'all here"
"Oh pretend I'm not here, just enjoying the show?"
"Show? this is a serious military operation"
"It can be both" *pulls out a polaroid and a bag of sunflower seeds and seats on a beach-chair
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣@@DonPatrono
They have even more stories like this, channel BlueJay has a video on the dumbest Russian voyage - well worth a watch.
Its a lesson as old as America itself:
DO NOT TOUCH OUR BOATS!!!
Or our oil
just ask Japan
I love that description "The cardinal sin of the late 20th century: raising gas prices." That along with the legal defense of "We didn't agree to _not_ blow those up." really does make this a fun video and a reminder of a little bit of history.
Iran is once again raising oil prices by impacting Qatar’s oil, do they not learn from prior cardinal sins?
If you had lived thru that odd or even bovine defecation in the 70's, you would go to war too! Thanks Jimmy! You grew the Republican party better than any Republican could!
1000% makes sense that a modern destroyer named the Samuel B. Robert's would be nigh unsinkable given its namesake. If the first American ship with that name took a 3rd of the Japanese navy to sink, an Iranian mine isn't going to take down her successor.
Exactly. It took like 4 Japanese Battleships to sink the last one.
There was one in between those two. USS Samuel B Roberts DD-823
The ghosts of yesterday looked towards that minefield and said F you, you're not taking another one of our bois and process to pull pro gamer move because Japanese maybe have gotten sure as hell Iraqis won't
@@professormccoyspopculturer8345
Iranians
I came here for this, already posted and knew without a shadow of a doubt I would not get 5 comments down and find someone already corrected his course after merely grazing the great name Sammy B.
Cheers brother.
"It's never a war crime the *first* time." Beautiful words to live by.
🚨🚨🚨🚨 How about Operation Eagle Claw!? / American soldiers lost everything, and afew could flee. #iran
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#OperationEagleClaw 🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️
#eagleclawoperation #topgun #maverics
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Canada indeed lives by those words
Tell that to the Nazis
At this time, Iran had 300 ships and bought 24 frigates from England and America, so these 3 ships were not half of Iran's navy.
@@Amen-Magi 300?? Have they ever had that many? It's 2023 and the Iranian Navy only have barely 200 total ships as is...
USA- you touched our boat......YOU TOUCHED OUR BOAT!
Japan- NO! BAD IDEA! DO NOT TOUCH THE USA BOATS!
I'm not "American" and my ancestors where probably against yours at some point ( I'm a french Canadian living in New Brunswick) but you manage to make me proud of something I'm not even part of. congratulations. you deserve more recognition than what your country is giving you.
French Canada wanted the US invasion of Canada to succeed which what kicked off the War of 1812 because not British.
Everyone's ancestors were against the US at some point - even half of the US's ancestors. We don't take it personally anymore.
Stop crying about the world calling us Americans. Oh wait, your Canadian, you cry about everything.
The French helped us hand Great Britain its first major L in the late 1700s. We may make fun of the French, but any of us who have studied history truly appreciate what the French did to help us.
And Canada is just America's hat, so we can't really hold "being Canadian" against you, either.
Nah, you're American. North American. Might not be the same country but I'll be damned all us North Americans are fuckin rowdy and while we might deck each other all the time, God help any nut dumb enough to threaten the brethren
I'm a US Navy retired vet, and this is some of the funniest story telling I've ever heard, love it. On the last ship I was on, USS Princeton, a similar thing happened, got hit by two mines, this happened way back in 1991, but that ship is still fully operational, it's amazing what US Naval ship yards can do.
Bravo !!
Wew, most wild thing that happened on my ship, the Vinson, was when one of our pilots crashed an F-35 across the flight deck and then some Chief put the footage of it on UA-cam like the day after.
Pilot was fine, but I'm sure Big Navy got that chief's ass pretty good 😂
Could do. Not any more.
My friend Robert was one of the divers who defused one of the bombs, he is retired from the EOD and lives in Ewa Beach. Bravo for you guys!
Blowing people and their resources up is fun? Guess we know what to do with YOU when we apply do unto others
For anyone not familiar with US naval history...as soon as you hear "Samuel B. Roberts" in any iteration or in any conflict, things are going to get crazy.
Aint that the fucking truth
Damn straight. Sammy B has always been a legend.
Any documentaries you can point me in the direction of to learn more about Samuel B. Roberts? This story was SO damn good and I NEED to learn more. Thanks in advance if you can!
@@missmeppsie3389look for the battle of zamar
@@missmeppsie3389
The original Samuel B Roberts is famous for its role in the Battle of Samar. It's also in the book "Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors."
As impressive as this story is, that one is even more heroic and spectacular.
13F veteran here….. you NEED to look up the story of the USS Biddle. This ship is most definitely worth mentioning. USS Biddle, Last manual Gun sight kill from a ship
Britain nods approvingly while whispering to France “thats my kid ya know? Chip off the old block” 😁
France- uh yeah the kid I had to help rescue from your abusive parenting…. Maybe I should call and remind them of that?
Britain-🤓it was just a joke, we love USA
The moment you said the USS Enterprise was on standby for support...I realized the proportions were already out of whack! No other navy vessels needed to be there. She could have taken that entire operation herself, but was nice enough to let the little boats have fun and play babysitter.
The big E was like a mom with her kids at the park. Now you kids go play now
@@adamjacobs8606 Heh. Like a mom with a big fucking stick to smack ANYBODY threatening her kids...then will stick that stick in a place that a stick shouldn't be stuck.
USS Enterprise had to be there, her E-2s were super critical as where he Tomcat's as they provided "top-cover". The A-6s going HAM was not part of the set up but there is YT videos of those Pilots discussing what happened and it is basically like what Nick said, they wanted to get in on the action.
@@Wpns175 Yeah...Big E's Pilots have a tendency to achieve crazy and unexpected things once they leave the flight deck. Her predecessor was the most decorated naval vessel in WW2.
@@adamjacobs8606 A mom with her own Pocket Healer.
Honestly, when you mentioned them going to court over war crimes I was kinda expecting the court to be like "So you put mines out into international water where any civilian vessel could stumble upon them? And you think America did the war crime here?"
I’m sure it came up 😂
😂😂 they always pin the U.S. as the bad guy for being 0 tolerate
@@Erudito_Ra Yeah... "Listen, we get that you were attacked, but, you retaliated. That makes you just as bad. One could argue, worse even. I'm going to argue that."
Easier to pin blame on America. We tend to be the favorite international punching bag because most nations hate being so drastically out-classed. Plus they know we’re always good for that reparation money, unlike most other nations.
@@novacorponlineif you're actually arguing that, I'm calling BS. No answer/reaction actually projects weakness.
My dad worked on the A6 intruder when he was in the Navy. Years later after they were replaced he was able to tell us he worked on the lazer guidance systems. He was also stationed on the Enterprise . I am not sure if he was there at that moment in history but it wouldn't surprise me. He passed away about 18 years ago and I miss him and his naval stories.
Broken English: I'm just here to take pictures.
That Komrad is cool.
I've learned more history from this man than any public school ever taught me. Also, bologna mist cloud number one 😂
Kevin!!!
Thanks kevin, now my youtube circles are connected.
I'd like to see footage of how that happened, if there is any. Probably wouldn't be on UA-cam because of sensitivity to reality.
The crossover nobody knew they needed.
My friends used to just call it a "red mist."
Loved the Jocko cameo!
But one slight error. A-6 crews sit side by side. So that crew who dropped a bomb down the smoke stack of that Iranian frigate were probably giving each other high fives after the bombing run.
Might have confused it with the EA6 prowler which is just a 4 seat A-6 Intruder airframe
@@willpugh8865 Ah, no. The prowler has 4 seats because the two extras seat two extra EWO's. While it is a modified A-6 (EA-6B), it is definitely not "just a 4 seat A-6". The Prowlers have some pretty serious gear for electronic warfare aboard....it's like a mini AWACS, only for specific attack groups instead of entire theater overwatch. Saying its just a 4-seat A-6 is a gross understatement of its true nature.
Source: Me, 24 yrs military service (Retired)
@@willpugh8865 possible
@@2Quietus Well...he DID say "which is just a 4-seat A-6 Intruder *airframe*" so I doubt he was doing a side-by-side comparison of the two planes (no pun intended).
Or celebratory handies
Holy shit, My dad was on the Samuel B Roberts when this happened, I was almost 3 years old when it happened, had to go live in Maine for a bit while the ship was repaired, I’ll never forget with even as young as I was the size of the hole in the ship
And now Iran about to f around and find out for a second time. 😂
The best part of this story is the sailors who saved the ship. Those men deserve respect.
I was on a sub.. We were all part of the DC team. That crew deserves everything.
Them and the crew on the USS Cole.
Actually the even better part is the Iranian Navy that annoys the US Navy every now and then is the half that remained from Praying Mantis😂 talk about fckn around to find out
IIRC their captain intentionally made sure his crew was top-notch in respect toward the previous ship, DE-413, which was part of Taffy 3 and sank during the battle which saw a couple Destroyers and some Escort Carriers fight off Yamato and multiple IJN Cruisers
I work with a dude who was on the USS Simpson during this. He has the patch and everything from the campaign. He said this guy is a riot
This is the way we want history told. Keep this up, man, as long as you can. I never get tired of your video.
They are so engaging and go by so fast
Thank you for allowing other UA-camrs to react to your videos - it’s how I found you. I’m so glad I did! I subscribed and have binging all your videos. Well done!
That's how I found him too.
Just watched one before this!
"... if the American people find out about your mistake, I will have to get absolutely 'proportional' about that." Very funny!
When I was in the military, we had a saying: "The only reason something can freely traverse any of the oceans of the world....is because the U.S. Navy allows it to."
Their prop shafts are driven by the homosexual energy of the crew.
Yeah because it's true.
The USN has everything from aircraft carriers to ninjas, mind your manners.
@@ninjabearpress2574 I am minding my manners. I didn't call them any slurs. I just acknowledged the fact that the Navy has historically been the most homosexual branch of the US military.
@@nercksrule i don't mean you, I intended to address any potential troublemakers.
@@nercksrule I was in the Navy during the "don't ask, don't tell' period. I did nine years (83-92). I obviously came across thousands of sailors during that time. Only two were gay (one I'd actually say was more "any port in a storm" than gay. Very very few women sailors back then and none onboard warships). Any, I've always found the juxtaposition about sailors interesting. One the one hand there's all the gay sailor jokes. On the other there's the lock up your daughters and wives because the Navy is in port. In my experience it was way way more of the later. When I was first in, in school, we had a fleet returnee in our class. He would tell the craziest stories about the Philippines, Korea, etc. I thought, this guy has to be full of shit. Nope, been there, it's all true. Anyway, I never minded the jokes, it's (or was) rare that they are true. A more accurate description would be that sailor are sexual deviants. They'll bang anything/any way that is a human female.
I was there aboard the USS Merrill (DD976).
That was a WILD day. We pumped over 100 5 inch rounds into that platform. Mount 51(forward, on the bow) and mount 52 (aft, on the fantail) just chucking out round after round.
The Soviet ship's Captain really said that. That is a true story.
"Its all good bro we're just here to watch" - soviet ship captian
Knew an FC on that ship during the operation. I was on the USS Wabash at the time as well, saw a lot of the video on SITE tv.
@@Carlito100S11 Who was that?
thank you for your service. thats amazing. i cant imagine all of this going on at once and being an admiral on that day. you think youve got a solid plan to let them know "dont mess with us" and halfway through nothing makes any sense as news keeps coming in.
@@jameskennedy7906 It's easy to forget that the Soviet seaman were young kids too and a lot like ours. As soon as they heard the US was about to blow Iran back to the Battle of Thermopylae they absolutely had to take a look.
Mate, I normally have zero interest in military stuff, but your storytelling is incredible. Love listening to your stuff before bed, it's super relaxing. Keep it up!
The A-6 intruder was the most technologically advanced attack plane of its generation and is overlooked WAY too often.
And the bombardier sits beside the pilot, not behind, in an A-6 Intruder.
Well said.
@@intellectualiconoclasm3264 ...and that's a fact! 🤣😂 Having served on a really old WWII Destroyer Escort and two Guided Missile Frigates during my ten years in the US Navy, I found this "Documentary" a total Hoot!! Well Done.
I loved the A-6, that weird-looking bomb truck. I was sad to see it retired. In the 80's I had high hopes it would get a new lease on life with the A-6F upgrade plan. Unfortunately that program was canceled. Now many A-6 airframes sit at the bottom of the sea off the Florida coast as artificial reefs for sea life.
A-6s were awesome, and the dudes driving them were absolute badasses.
It’s so strange to think that a military commander stopping operations when they are going too well is a VERY new concept
It makes when you realize this could have lead to some low level officer or an enlisted man starting WW3 if someone got trigger happy
I mean we stopped hitting the convoy of retreating Iraqis in Deserstorm because we didn't want it to be labled a massacre after we spent a week shooting anything that moved on said highway.... American military might is best described as "don't touch my stuff." before anyone mentions the withdrawal from Afghanistan realize 2 things, we had already accomplished what we set out to do (getting Bin Laden and eviscerating Al Qui Da) Trump did have a withdrawal agreement with the Taliban before Biden said "nah" and left our outdated toys behind. Two US forces were no longer doing anything than holding the patch of ground near Bagram for 20 years. That's not a loss and if the US operated like Russia does we could level countries and reshape geography.
the message was sent by that point, like the other guy said, it couldve easily escalated to something way bigger than a skirmish. Iran understood why all of that was happening, and its a shame they dont pay mind to history, because its looking like they are going to need a reminder as to why their navy is 80% speed boats after this first engagement....
@@BlandSpagettihow could this have escalated to ww3. The soviets didn't care one bit about Iran.
@@rylandavis2976 In all reality, the odds of starting WW3 from this event were probably pretty low, but who the heck expected an arch duke getting assassinated would have started the bloodiest conflict in human history. Weird things can happen.
I laughed soooo loud when you said made the credits as “Bologna Mist Cloud #1” 😂
Your videos are amazing! Thank you 🙏
Agreed, hilarious phrase!
You are officially my new favorite military story channel.
Op. Praying Mantis' tagline could have been the paraphrased quote from Raul Julia in Street Fighter: "For you Iranians the time the US Navy destroyed half of your fleet was the worst day of your life...But for the US Navy, it was but a monday"
Yes, April 18, 1988, was a Monday. A missed opportunity for America to mail a "I Hate Mondays" mug to the Iranian Navy's Chief of Staff, if you ask me
When you're out at sea, you tend to lose track of the days,
Every Naval Aviator Ever: No way in hell am I passing up a chance to paint a ship on my plane.
😅
😂
Bingo! An example is in my lengthy comment above.
I was also there as XO of USS O'BRIEN (DD-975) in SAG Delta. Crazy day to be sure. SAG Delta most of the day trolling back and forth in the haze through the Straits of Hormuz trying to get one of the Iranian frigates to come out and play. INS SAHAND finally came out to play and, as discussed, immediately got jumped by the Strike Group from USS ENTERPRISE. The only weapon fired by SAG Delta against SAHAND was a Harpoon shot by USS JOSEPH STRAUSS (DDG-16). STRAUSS was directed not to fire but did anyway. For a good account of the US Navy in the Persian Gulf during those times, including Operation Praying Mantis, I recommend the book "Inside the Danger Zone" by Harold Wise.
"... Something along the lines of "Hey, does anybody else need to find out what it's like to chew Five Gum or are you _fuckers_ ready to quit????""
I fucking love this guy 😭 this shit is too funny
Digging the channel. You ever hear about the guy doing tailgunner duty and the entire tail got blown off by flack guns? It continued flying normal-ish so he kept fighting and the Germans thought it was a new secret weapon so they shot it up and hit the guy with a couple cannon rounds. It landed itself in a POW camp and the prisoners heard someone moaning inside. The guy made it through the war and had like 12 kids. Your way of telling it would do it justice. It's a heck of a story.
@@niga7299I'd be proud to refuse that medal ha
As badass as the A10 is, I feel a long video style would be perfect for Taffy 3. The sheer battleship sized balls of USS Johnston, USS Hoel, the WW2 incarnation of the USS Samuel B. Roberts, and the other ships of Taffy 3's totally bonkers charge/last stand against what was the majority of the Japanese capital ship fleet (including Yamato herself).
yeah, plus there are a thousand A10 videos out there already and much much less on the Taffy3
Possible lines:
'When the turret firing at you outweighs your entire ship...'
'When the world's biggest, worst sub outweighs your entire task force...'
Read Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors before Taffy 3 video. You will won't be able to put it down til you finish it.
I second this!
I third this!
“Or, I’m going to have to get, real proportional, around here”. Pure gold
My sisters in the Navy deployed right now over there outside of Yemen. I keep seeing news articles about missiles that keep getting fired at her ship (uss gravely). Its pretty f’d up and ive been really scared. This video just made me cry of laughter and eased my concerns. I guess i just needed to be reminded how stupid it is to mess with the US. Thank you for the vid! Def Subscribing
No joke, the Samuel B. Roberts' crew deserve every amount of praise that they've gotten for saving their vessel. That ship _should've_ sunk, but they pulled that shit off.
Look, I'm an American and I definitely subscribe to the whole "OUR SHIPS ARE THE BEST SHIPS" philosophy too, but even a great ship can get sunk if it takes a catastrophic amount of damage. No amount of 'Murican Pride can save a vessel if the damage is that bad... except in this case. Those fuckers worked their asses off and nobody died. That's just straight-up amazing. Kudos to the crew of the Samuel B. Roberts. Something catastrophic happened and you all just buckled-down, rolled-up your sleeves, and said, "No, we're not sinking. We won't _let_ that happen."
USS Coronado Agf-11 JTFME 1988, and took part in both operations, we sent 6 of our crew, Welding the top deck , zipper fashion, and never got credit for the effort...
You have now highlighted your exceptional skills in zip welding with what you had to work with to save one of your best ships from sinking far too far from home. They are true tradesman skills that are taught to most sailors that are a requisite to keep any ship afloat long enough to get it home for proper repair. Well done lads. @@BustaCapov
I used to say they held it together with duct tape and baling wire, and I wasn't far off. Those frigates, built with economy in mind, turned out to be extremely tough and deadly ships.
I joined the Navy in 88. I had nothing to do with this but I did go to the fire fighting school our home port had. The chief there was an HT chief on the Samuel B Roberts and was a part of saving that ship! He described how they welded eyelets on both sides of the crack and threaded the cable from the deck winch's to tie it all together.
Talk about boss level!! I have a huge amount of respect for that crew!
Thank you for your service. We are for ever in you debt, not all heros shoot. The heros heros are fixers of the heros equipment.
It never occurred to them that they could fail. So therefore it will work.
@@dougtaylor7724 Actually I'm sure failure was on they're mind. But I think pride in they're ship and teamwork overwhelmed fear of failure. They were willing to toss the book overboard and rewrite what's possible!
You do what you javw to do. The US Navy will not charge you for saving a very expensive ship.
If you have to get creative, yoh get creative.
@@alexh3974Save the Ship, Save your Shipmate, Save yourself is the order of priority if Battle Stations is ever called.
I laughed and almost choked on my breakfast at "bologna mist cloud number 1"
I actually found this video by accident, when another UA-camr put his commentary on it. I had a hard time getting through it, because I was laughing so hard!!! I followed his link here, and watched it again, straight from you, and now I HAVE to check out more of your videos!
Don't let me down, bro!
When I was in the (Aussie) navy I heard a story from some blokes who deployed to the gulf. You yanks wanted a drag race against our frigate. We don’t like to do that but we accepted, only intending to come up in revolutions as per the handbook
You yanks didn’t do the same, you went from dead stop to full ahead and blew the gas turbine, absolutely legendary, but that’s not the best part
Your ship was towed to port and operational again in 24 hours, I mean that would take our navy months. You guys are absolute legends, so much respect for the U.S. Navy
Lmao Just some fun sibling rivalry. We love ya Aussies and will always have your backs
That reminds me of an incident my dad experienced when he was on the USS Ranger aircraft carrier in the 1960s. The captain asked the admiral if it would be OK to drag race the Kitty Hawk. The admiral said absolutely not, and then he proceeded to take a nap. The Captain then said screw it then proceeded to drag race the Kitty Hawk anyway and beat it, making the cover of Hot Rod magazine.
I was a gas turbine electrician on these class of ships. The GE LM2500 that powered the frigates and the destroyers actually had built in rails in the intake stacks to facilitate quick removal of the engines. 24 hr turn around is standard. It can actually be done faster.
It’s cool watching in real time as you get better and better at telling these stories. Please make them all 15+ minutes. I guarantee 99% of us will watch till the end, no matter how long the videos are.
Hell yeah
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Definitely!
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that makes 25%
math fail >
I would
Man thank you so much for all of these! I really enjoy them and your delivery sometimes leaves me laughing so hard I start to cry. Thanks again and keep up the great work.
Man... Thank you for your content. It makes me smile during a tough period in my life. Gracias!
The Sammy B. Is one of the huge points of navy DC training. That crew absolutely embodied the biggest rule of nautical damage control: "Dont give up the ship!" Another banger video buddy.
Samuel B Roberts DC training motto "Do not give up, EVER'
I was on the USS Gary (FFG-51). Iran shot those silkworms at us and the barges. We were sent out to see if Iran still wanted to have a fight. They did. We couldn't fire any anti-missile missiles (jamming) so we ended up popping chaff and firing the big gun in their general direction. One of the silkworms got distracted by the chaff and the other one kept coming in...but it ran out of propellant and splashed. Because the government wanted to sweep the information under the rug, we were the only combatant ship that was denied combat action status.
That blows. My son 11B served in Afghanistan and Iraq. His first tour he was assigned to support special forces. When he completed the tour, he was up for a CIB which the board wanted to reject (he was part of an intelligence battalion). His company sergeant pointed out that he had 18+ confirmed kills and multiple high intensity discussions with the Taliban (we was the 240 gunner on a Humvee). He got his CIB.
Next assignment sent him to the 7th Cav at Hood. At this point he's 20. The unit is ordered to present itself with all authorized awards - which he does. Company sgt loses it (son has more ribbons than he does...), accuses him of falsifying, etc. Get's back to his previous battalion commander who is now a Colonel. That shit got fixed quick. I am constantly amazed at the politics around awards. The real warfighters just don't care.
@@cgilleybsw Your son made you proud he is a hero
I am a US Navy diver veteran who was in Danang, Vietnam with HCU1 (1971). Of course, equipment and tactics have changed over the years. We wore dungarees (bell bottom jeans LOL) for E1 - E6. Chief uniforms were khakis and were identical to officers. Your story makes me think that sometimes our government uses members as guinea pigs to see if the enemy will engage, even it means the loss of the ship. Our rules of engagement sometimes are too strict. Fortunately, your ship made it safely. Bravo Zulu on that.
DeMarco, I was also there. USS Knox. We were there from July 87 to Jan 88. Nimble Archer. I recall in the first week's, a helo went down and an A6 "disappeared ". Remember manning the rails with lights searching the debris of the helo for survivors. Fun times.
@@cgilleybsw Your son was able to get the title of mass murder before the age of twenty 😂
Man I was watchin you way back on the shorts an stuff when you made the full screen jump it was meant to be.. thank you for entertaining us… educating us on the stuff the education system doesn’t necessarily teach you.. happy 1 million subs keep it up❤️
Brilliant again thanks dude, hi from the UK 🇬🇧 ❤❤❤ I thought I new a lot about previous conflicts, but always learn something new from your shows, brilliant thanks Paul 😮😮😮❤❤❤🎉🎉😂😂😂
Simply put, you have a great way of telling stories. Gathering facts and adding humor. Thank you for doing what you do ❤
I was stationed on The Sammy B from 2008 -2011. We had to learn all about our name sake, what he did, the previous ship, what they did, and all about Operation Grasshopper. We still were winning DC (damage control) awards 20+ years later as well. The mine strike was taught in the DC school as the textbook " What to Do" for DC scenarios. Best ship I was ever on in my 23 yrs! NO HIGHER HONOR!!
My wife just said “If they step out of line, we’re about to get proportional up in here!” My new favorite sentence.
Was in Battlegroup FOXTROT for this endeavor in 1988. Non combat ship (USS PYRO AE24), But still doing support and many oddball things getting the job done, including breaking a few records. Great storytelling.
As an Iranian I can confirm this is exactly how it happened .
تو چی میگی
@@EsfandiarNokhodaki دارم میگم این یارو آمریکاییه که کل کارش کیر ارتش کشور خودشو که منبع نصف جنگ های امروزیه خوردنه بهترین منبع خبری برای یه عملیات نظامی پیچیدس که احتمالا تو آمریکا فقط یک طرف داستانش رو میگن.
As someone that was going into the military when this was happening I definitely was paying attention at the time. I was still captivated by your storytelling, sitting on the edge of my seat waiting to hear what happened next! Great job. Keep up the good works.
Did this currently happen?
Had to come by and give you a 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
I saw another person reacting to this, and YOU SIR DESERVE this "like"!!!!
Great way to tell this history lesson!!!!!!
#Salute !
Outstanding presentation! Kudos... keep em coming brother.
This is honestly the best version of the story I have ever heard in my 43 years. You sir have all my respect. Thank you for your service.
The longer form content you’ve been doing lately is absolutely amazing! Lots more of this, PLEASE! Keep up the incredible work!
I’m not really a war story kind of guy, but dam duck.. your delivery is so engaging…. Great videos.
One of my favorite parts of rewatching these movies is watching the subscribers count raise. So close to a mil!!!
And now they're doing the same thing in Yemen. Iran never learns.
They are troglodytes
Facts.
Facts x2
Facts³
When your country is run buy a 7th century death cult, good decisions are rear.
It’s always amusing to me to see a navy captain respectfully give their enemies 15 minutes to evacuate before they drop steel rain onto a target.
To be fair, this was only because we weren't officially at war. The assets were the target, not the people.
Professionals. USN are Professionals.
Before Iran starting laying mines, they should have called Japan and asked, "hey, what's the worst that could happen if you sink a US Navy ship?"
1:55 “in God we trust all others we track” is 🔥
I was a sailor on the USS Kansas City (AOR-3) at the time. We passed a LOT of ammo that week, and even had some excitement ourselves as some fast attack boat thought it was a good idea to traverse the Strait of Hormuz and threaten the supply chain. A destroyer, I don't remember which one, um...discouraged them. Good times.
I was on the U.S.S. Pyro for this. We were scheduled to go to Mombasa for liberty and got called back to refuel Frigates. Did over 120 continued days at sea.
America, exporting freedom of the seas one Arleigh Burke at a time. :-) *Thank you Office of Naval Research for paying for my Ph.D. :-)
My first boat was the Milwaukee AOR-2
Praise the lord and pass the ammunition
@@ALEEN517 Wilwaukee was an East Coast ship, yes? All the AORs were decommissioned shortly after I left the Navy
"Im just here to take pictures" is an incredibly russian and american thing to say during an active naval battle
Really enjoy the way you disseminate information. So good.
Dude, just happened to have this pop up on my feed…. You are an awesome storyteller!!! You should be a history teacher. Kids would love learning with your style. “Proportional Response” is a relative term. lol. You rock!
Should be noted the Samuel B Roberts (or the Sammy B) is a ship name filled with history. The original Samuel B Roberts was a John C Butler Class Destroyer Escort (the WWII equivalent of a frigate) and her job was to screen escort carriers and fuck up destroyers in hunter killer groups. The Sammy B was named after a USN coxswain who was killed while distracting Japanese forces to rescue his fellow crew mates, he had volunteered for this action and was awarded the Navy Cross and had ships named after him.
So the name already had crazy history, and her namesake was killed in the Pacific so they send her on over, let her get revenge. Nothing too notable would occur until the Invasion of The Philippines, where shit got out of hand fast. She would be assigned to Taffey 3, where she and her fellow Escort Destroyers, Fleet Destroyers, and Escort Carriers would go toe to toe with the largest fleet that Japan ever sailed in WWII. Taffey 3 would engage Admiral Kuritas Second Force during the Battle off Samar, in a true David vs Goliath scenario. Kurita had 4 Battleships (one being the IJN Yamato), 6 heavy cruisers, 2 light cruisers, 11 destroyers vs Spragues 6 escort carriers, 3 destroyers, and 4 destroyer escorts. The Yamato alone displaced more tonnage than the entirety of Taffey 3, so the battle should have been lopsided right?
Well the USN does not take kindly to being attacked, and loves to be aggressive, so the pilots of the escort carriers, and crews of the USS Johnston, USS Samuel B Roberts, and USS Hoel decide that running is boring and charge the enemy fleet. The US fleet would not only score first blood, but would sink multiple cruisers and destroyers, and heavily damage other ships in the fleet. Even the 5 inch gunners on the escort carriers got to shoot up some enemy cruisers.
Due to her action in this fight, the Samuel B Roberts is referred to as “The Destroyer Escort that fought like a Battleship”
I highly recommend for those interested in a more coherent retelling of the story to read “The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors” or watch Drachinifels video on The Battle off Samar, both are excellent
It's been reported by men off the FFG-58 Samuel B Roberts that they all, at various times, stopped by the memorial to DE-413 on the ship during the fight to save the ship. As if asking the men who went down off Samar to lend them their strength. and apparently, it worked.
Wow my name is Samuel Roberts and I knew there was a ship I had the same name as but awesome to learn the real history thanks for that!
Oh my god you're right. I wondered why the name ringed a bell and it was from Taffy 3. The missile frigate and her crew truely lived up to her name.
Excellent Summation. Thanks for the book recommendation. Wrote it down and will be ordering it directly.
The last stand of the tin can sailors desperately needs its own video.
I was a Corpsman onboard the USS Coronado AGF-11. We were the Command and Control for Praying Mantis. I was amazing to be part of the largest Naval engagement since WWII. We did loose one Cobra with 2 Marine Flyers in during the Battle. Adm Less did a great job that day. We spent 10 month in the Gulf that year while our sister ship the Lasalle was in Japan for repairs.
❤🇺🇸🙏🏽to those we lost and you and your family Thank you for your service
@@Info.isfree.openmindif I understand correctly we didn't need a single soldier sailer or any other service members during this. I was talking with a friend of mine. He's father used to work something online for the under Secretary of the Treasury for the shah of Iran. He's kind of hoping to be able to go back to his country. Well we had that hope back then but never materialize. Electrically at me and said friends if we were in my country right now I'd have to kill you. I looked at him and said buddy good luck with that. We agreed you are happy to be where we were at.
Great presentation made me laugh many times. I wouldn't mess with our military, we'll f$#k you up!
You should be amazed because you weren't in fact involved in it, you would have had to be involved in the Falklands War in order for that to be true.
The Praying mantis taskgroup was 11 ships.
1 aircraft carrier
1 amphibious transport dock
4 destroyers
1 guided missile cruiser
3 frigates
The falklands task force eventually comprised 127 ships: 43 Royal Navy vessels, 22 Royal Fleet Auxiliary ships, and 62 merchant ships
2 aircraft carriers
2 amphibious transport dock
8 Destroyers
16 Frigates
6 Submarines
3 Hospital Ships
6 Minesweepers
The world exists outside America
@@howlernorthamerica5899 like u'll destroy china in the Taiwan war(Taiwan is a country, texted to bully china😁😁😁)
This is one of my favorite videos on UA-cam 😂 the humor with the direct delivery of information is gold
My father was a boiler tech on USS Buchanan during this time. Was part of the escorts for the kuwaiti tankers. Glad you made a video about this and gave me new context about what my father was helping to do. Thanks man.
You're a great story teller! Normally it's hard for me to follow a long spoken story (I tune out if it's too long winded), but I kept right up with all of it and you did a great job painting the picture. Subscribing!
I continue to learn more and more about our country's history and just the shear level of FA2FO that America's men and women have had in them since our inception. Thank you Sir. I wish we had more teachers like you.
"Just hear to take pictures.... for history" I believe that is the point where a coworker came into my office and asked what had my laughing! Dude! I love your stuff.
Y'all wanna find out what it's like to chew 5in gum? Haha I died
WOOT 🎉 Part of _Original Human_ fan "raid" of your channel. 😁 Keep up the good work!
P.S. As a red-blooded, American woman from a Naval family, I got tingles in my naughty bits upon hearing this 4:14 🤭
Got inspired by this and since I'm a military nerd I'ma use this topic for my informative speech in my English II class.
ive always loved the idea of a soviet captain just casually in the area and the american sailors are just "????" and the soviets are all "OwO" and the americans just face palm and continue with the operation
Love it
"dont mind me, I'm just here to take pictures" *polaroid shutter sound*
that russian captain was sooo based as fk
It was a smart move by the Soviets. They're getting a front side seat to the technological advantage that the USA had at the time. Neither side really knew what the other was capable of doing as America tended to under-state what they're capable of and the USSR would over-state what they were capable of. An operation like this would be a perfect demonstration of just how dangerous the US Military Industrial Complex had become.
Also, 2 years later, the USSR dissolved.
I WILL SAY THIS THE SOVIETS DID NOT WANT ANY PART OF THAT DAY.
NO SIR WERE JUST WATCHING.
As an active sailor, I must say, the only thing that angers a sailor more than not going home on time, is not doing having a mission to vent our pent up aggression into.
That and a lack of funny water every few months.
@@crazymoose6251what's funny water? :O
@@KaoticReach1999 Alcohol
@@KaoticReach1999cum
Kinda explains the Vincennes atrocity
I am really digging your running commentary. Especially likeing your: he said; they said. Kindly keep 'em coming. Tom.
After watching this video, I have watched at least 10 reaction videos of people watching this video. Many of them got close to a million views of their reactions. If you got credit for that, this video would have 20 million views😊
"Im just here to take pictures....... for history"
I respect it
They should've responded with, "Roger that. Grab you some popcorn and enjoy the flick."
I was on the Enterprise for that. This was a great commentary on the "battle"
There were a few other things that happened that didnt get out though. Also as a side note, the plane audio from the pilot before dropping the bombs was hilarious and very sobering at the same time for a sailor.
What did the pilot say?
Theres always a few juicy details left out :D
We gotta know, what did he say?
Chomping at the bit to hear more
12:32 of the video is the radio message. I was on the Enterprise when this happened.
The commentary, and likely pretty close to actual, dialogue via radio between the groups makes it awesome.
Just found your channel via a reaction video on another channel. Your video is excellent. Great humor and snark with sharp cuts and good editing. I went to Navy boot camp on January4, 1988, right before all of this happened. I knew people who served on the Roberts and some of the other ships involved in the proportions. I am a new happy subscriber. Keep up the great videos!
My husband was on the USS Hoel, a destroyer, taking part in the whole thing. I have his VHF tape of it, recorded by one of the other ships crew. It was his last time out before he retired in 1988. He was also on a Navy ship active in Nam. Got dosed with Agent Orange. Yup, his health paid for it. Miss him dearly
He was a good man, I remember him signing several spots in my PQS book for the Mk42, and me asking why he signed so many. His reply was "You can do it, and I wrote the book."
I was reading this comment and thought someone else was there with my step-dad, then I realized it was my mom commenting. Lol.
My respects ma'am, to you and your son who commented below. It touched me how you remember him. It sounds like he chose his beloved very, very well. Blessings to you and your family. (USN, Retired, 2009)
Ive been in 16 years and change. My 14 year old son showed me your videos..... and im so damn proud of him lol. I gotta say, your sense of humor makes you perfect for this type of break down😅😂 Keep em coming!!
Gotta be one of the best story tellers on the platform! Cheers!
This looks to be your most successful video. Congratulations! I've sent it to many people as well. Love your longer content.