My father was a Marine in 'Nam so, yeah, he's got PTSD. He would sometimes just start talking with a thousand yard stare and I would just listen without comment. One day, he was reliving a particularly gruesome sh*tstorm when he suddenly realized what he was saying. All the color drained from his face as his eyes focused on me. "Oh, no. I can't tell you that one..." - "It's okay, Dad. I already know." - I think my acceptance just upset him more. His face crumpled. He didn't want me to know, and he was so upset with himself for telling me and then not realizing that he had. I was about fifteen at the time, but I'd actually grown up hearing everything. He couldn't help it - he just got lost in his own head, and who was I to judge? I love my dad.
Great grandfather was in nam, i dont think he had PTSD but i dont see how he didn't. There was a boy that drifted from family to family until he got accepted to school and he was friends with all the G.I.s includeing my great grandfather, kid goes to school for the first time and stepped on a landmine and then landed on a second one. He also had too see his friend run out of the bunker they were in and pulled a nade on himself from stress. War is hell
Some of these Iraq and aphganistan ones held emotion with me, my dad fought in both, he came back after the war, thought me well about it and school. Not much more to it, and only now I realized, neither he or his friends ever shared any stories, but I know he shot billets that looked 6 inches long and he was trained to drive HUMVES or something like that. He also practiced machine guns like Saws and whatever was on top I'm sure, but these stories only made me imagine what tolls happened to him, which comes with wars horror itself
I just have to say this, for the first story, anyone whose never lost someone very close will always say it's a cliche to describe it as "a part of me died". But there's no other way to describe it. Even the saying itself falls short.
If it's any consolation, that story was completely fake. There's no IED in the world that could fit inside a doll that would decimate two whole people like that. And yet it was light enough for a little girl to lug around? It's disrespectful to the people who've actually lost their lives in combat.
Tommy Patton i actually heard marines and soldiers say that roadside bombs were put into the smallest of things even a Cola can. They saw that a few times. So im not sure
The little girl with the backpack full of colouring books and markers ... that one hit me hard .... jeez dude :/ to think all she wanted to do was colour ...
Yh that made me cry she was a child and she was shot when she wanted to help them sort of and just be happy she might of still been alive. But a commander shot a little girl but she shouldve stopped
@@zeffez8161 Why didn't he fire warning shots? Was he scared of a 10 year old? Did she not understand their commands/warnings? You wanna get fragged? 'cause that's how you get fragged.
@@DamianBush It takes, what, 1, 2 extra seconds to fire a warning shot and see if she responds? Sure, in many situations those seconds mean everything, but how far does a walking 13-year old go in 2 seconds? 4, 5 feet? It's one thing if it was a firefight or something. It's another when you've got 50 yards of safety between yourself and whatever she might be carrying. I guess that's the thing, though - the distance. I could understand it if there was maybe 10 or 15 feet left, but not 50. Can't remember what the story said about distance, but I'd think a base perimeter would have plenty if it's set up well. And I think it's better to be the guy blown to bits in the first story than the base commander in this one.
Yeah like I don’t blame him for shooting but I just wish she would have stopped. It could have been a explosive so he had to do something. I know I couldn’t have done that.
@@mysterious6856 That is because you are conditioned to believe so. There is no draft, yes many are doing it for the excitement involved with it. Others a free ride or no other prospects. Others because they want to legally kill people. If anything, invading and destroying so many nations for a privatization rebuild under the international banking cartel and resource companies is making the US and western countries less safe... Dont know if you have been living under a rock or really that brainwashed with rose tinted glasses. 'The country' is basically the whacking stick of corporations and bankers. Research wars for a few decades then we will talk.
complete dissociation can happen aswell. It's like watching yourself from an 'over the shoulder' 3rd person camera do things like in a movie. You can see yourself doing stuff, but not feel at all connected to the situation. It can be usefull to get something done while you're under extreme stress/anxiety. Due to the lack of emotion, I've made a bad mistake once. Jumped in between a barfight that broke out where 1 guy had pulled a knife. But due to the lack of emotion, I 'forgot' to fear for my own safety and disarm the guy. Luckily, in the confusion the jumping by a random caused, someone else took his knife from his hand before he realised what was going on. Strangely enough, the other guy got kicked out that night and the guy with the knife, we had a hugging/crying session. The guy had PTSD like me and the other guy was looking for a fight all night and almost found one.
@@teddyfield2164when it hits you it can be the weirdest feeling. you would think you would right away break down but even with lesser situations like a person passing away it can take a few days and then suddenly that moment hits. you go from a "normal day" to suddenly stopping and losing track of time just staring like shit... this is the end of that persons life. Shit is hard and cant even imagine what the vets have to deal with. so much respect for them!!
Well in the words of a former British army officer who fought in no man's land who was interviewed by the BBC years ago "I wouldn't give up my memories of the war for a million pounds. But I will never repeat it even for 10 million pounds". I'm guessing that war was the closest thing we can achieve of living in hell.
@@daltonjames8815 very true. While the second world war had more death in total, the first world war was more devastating and had a more brutal impact in very short time. The first world war is not very looked at by many people as compared to the second one.
@@c0gimyun he never named it so I dont know why you are correcting him. Not having the potential to refulate the amount of empathy you feel is bad. I'm not saying you should most of the time but its seen as weak because how will you survive in such an environment. But I see you are both women so I guess you have less control over it or chose not to more often
I stayed up late one night to eavesdrop on my grandfather and his brothers swapping war stories from ww2 and korea. I got caught after a few of the fun stories and said i wanted to be soldiers like them, heroes. They all shared a look that confused me then but hasnt since. I was sat down and made to listen to the worst stories, over my grandmothers protests and sworn to secrecy until they died and they have. I didnt believe the one that deployed to italy. He said they got pushed back across a bridge in the mountains and a hospital was cut off by nazi SS troops. My great uncles unit regrouped across the bridge and had to listen, helpless while wounded soldiers, doctors, and nurses were mutilated. When they were able to move into the area again, chasing the germans now, they found an abattoir in place of a hospital. People had been flayed alive and the skin was draped everywhere. Blood curdled in pools and heaps, none of it really red anymore. When they caught up to the SS troops the favor was repayed in kind. It scared me but i wondered if it was true. Then i found a medal my grandfather had been given to hide. It was a personal commendation from hitler for the attack on the hospital, a documented event. I then found the accounts of the US reciprocal war crimes and was instantly filled with a very cold feeling. The reports said the US troops went full old west and took scalps and things like that. In the box with the medal was what i thought was the fur of some pale rabbit and several scraps of leather. It was a toolbox full of looted nazi medals, scalps, noses, ears and i think fingers. And i mean full. I still dont know what to do about it and havent told anyone else in the family. That side of the family are descended from ethnic german immigrants and im just learning now how deeply it troubled them to see germany fight and lose two world wars for seemingly every kind of wrong reason. And then to have to fight men that spoke the same language, with the same customs and culture. Even when those similar men were clearly monsters and butchers i cant imagine the likenesses my great uncle saw in those men he brutalized. He shared all that knowledge with me when i was 5 years old and its taken me 2 and a half decades to piece together some real understanding of war from it. Anybody that reads this deserves a medal. But not from hitler, alright? Somebody nicer lol
It may not be my place to say, but I think you should record some of the stories you were told in a journal or in some other form. I never knew about the atrocities you listed here and it shook me to my core. These stories open my eyes and I think they're important for posterity. But regardless, thank you for sharing and for what your family did.
@@tranquilitickarma thank you, first and foremost for your kind words. As a natural consequence of the necessary research i developed something of a database. Several branches of my family have become increasingly interested in genealogical trees and family history so at some point i intend to at least gather all of these stories and appended notes and charts into something resembling a comprehensive family history. Im not sure what to think or do about possible remains though. I dont know if repatriating them would be honorable and decent things to do for their families to have some final closure, or if such men deserve any honors at all. I swore other things to those men that fought evil, things i cannot forget if i am to honor their sacrifices, courage, and wishes. They feared such an evil would come again and that i might be called to fight it. I intend to fight it if i must with feats of arms, but if i can deploy their bitterly earned lessons and stories perhaps i can achieve a victory they couldnt given my great uncles general lack of literacy. They could only fight ignorance and hate for a time, and so could i on my own. But perhaps the history could teach others the same lessons i learned. Perhaps i could finally give to those men, and our world, a victory not in one war but for all time. I will think about what you have said, and what i have said in return as it already strikes me as a touch self-important lol. I truly thank you pekins, i will speak to family of this and take a full measure of where they feel this all belongs; in the family or with the people in whose name it was done, or the families of men long dead?
I think my grandfather had something like that, but I never saw it. Always dodged questions about the wars he fought in. When I got older, he begged me to never ask again, so I didn't. His parents were polish immigrants and moved to the states before he was born. His family was also Jewish, so you can imagine how messed up he got during WW2. He was in the 84th infantry, which liberated 2 satellite camps of the neuengamme concentration camps; ahlem and salzwedel. The records kept showed that one of his uncle's family was sent there. 7 kids. Only 2 survived. I only learned this through some journals and books written that he left me when he passed away. Most of the journals were from his buddies that were killed after they liberated the camps.
15:02 A fleet of feral dogs following a Coalition patrol in Iraq because they've figured out that this crew leaves kills. Strange set of emotions come about that realization...
crows and ravens kinda became associated with death and evil cause they would follow armies around for the same reason. not surprising that dogs figured it out too
Reminds me of a story from World War 1 where both sides made an informal truce to fight off an obscenely large pack of wolves that had been scavenging and eating bodies (at first) but were starting to attack living soldiers since there weren’t enough bodies to go around. Mixed emotions. (I think the story goes that there were hundreds, if not a thousand wolves. It sounds like an exaggeration but keep in mind that the Great War was a unique in that both sides didn’t really know the capabilities and/or limitations of the new technology they were using. I think I remember hearing that some cavalry charges happened early in the war, but the enemy pulled a machine gun and... I don’t think I need to explain what happened next.)
Luckily I am able to talk about all of my stories. And I am able to put a funny spin on most. The only ones I can't are the ones that were caused by incompetence. Like my first team leader dying in a vehicle roll over because some office worker fudged the licensing paperwork and assigned a LMTV (big offroad semi) with trailer to a dude that should not have been driving a gator (like an ATV with 2 seats and a work bed)let alone that. Closest I came to dying was I was on a hearts and minds trip doing civil engineering. We were building hospitals and schools right next to the boarder of Somalia. We were in civilian cloths and vehicles. Well, one night we left our build site and went back to base. We were then put into lock down for like 4 hours at the gate because the gate guards found a cell phone detonated bomb under our car. The only reason we didn't die was because the cell battery was dead. I don't complain about much anymore. When people say it's hot outside "well, im not in Africa roofing with a vest and helmet on". It's cold outside "well im not sleeping in a snow filled hole in northern Afghanistan". They say that a car ride sucks "well, there isn't a bomb under us"
thank you for sharing, when ever i feel less motivated in life i always come back here, to remind me so i get my sorry ass up. I do suffer from some insecureities but oh well, i know my uncles and everyone else that died in the bosnian war does not have the luxury of life anymore. I just hope I can somewhat meet their expectations and not fail at life during peace times...
I am so sorry everyone sharing here. Much respect for soldiers. I wish every soldier could get free counseling and medical treatment for the rest of his/her life. They’ve earned it.
No...NO. Not thank soldiers. NO respect for them. We conveniently hide behind this nauseating privileged excuse of "War is hell" "kill or be killed" It is NOT respectable. All of those innocent civilians were living out their lives until OUR soldiers flew across the ocean to rip their homeland up to pieces. To act like they were justified and almost victimized by their hard choices is just putrid. I have ZERO respect for our soldiers. ESPECIALLY after Iraq or Afghanistan. MUCH less after Abu Ghraib or the Salt Pitt. You glorify them as victims who had the sorrow of having to kill or be killed or brushing it off as "War is hell" or "People die, it's just how it is" when WE invade THEIR nations on the other side of the fucking world! NO thanks, NO respect to our soldiers. Every American would not feel the absolute slightest sympathy if Russia or China invaded America and were sobbing boo-hoo stories of their brave soldiers. So I don't for ours. You are not moral. You are not brave. You are not patriotic. You are not a hero. You're a murderer. If anyone killed your children or your family, everyone would be out for blood, but somehow, this nauseating country is fine with OUR soldiers flying across the country to murder other people's families. NO thanks, NO respect for the US military.
@@onliner10000 Are you serious! Your trash. Who else will protect us from other countries trying to take over the US? You? Sometimes we went to war to help other countries due to our alliance.
@@onliner10000 Are you going to the country we are at war with and speak to them. They don’t want to talk. When we are at war it’s because we are past negotiating.
'03 Iraq deployment with USMC 1st recon, my first tour. Friend got his head blown off by a sniper 3 feet from my face. He was all over me, and I've never told that to anybody that knows me personally.
frankly, i'm surprised at all they survived .50 cal fire at all. My grandfather saw one of his friends get shot by HMG fire during the spanish civil war, he went completely out of cover and carried him back into the trench, once they were in there he noticed he only carried the top half of him back (from the nipples up, with both arms) he looked back and saw the trail of internal organs he left. He never found his legs, only a foot.
I remember my grandpa told me a story of how he dealt with the trauma of war. He said some men go to the bottle, and some men wake up and run, and run, and run. He would wake up and run. One hell of a story
Made it to 3:57 fuuuuck that. I'm done lettin' that shit into my head. Thanks and respect to all the men and women who died or lost their souls protecting the rest of us ungrateful garbage eaters. Respect and honor to you guys.
My great grandfather was an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army during WW1 (he was from Vienna). He survived all four years of the war. He once told me (I was like four or five) that the worst thing he experienced was that most of the time he was more afraid of losing someone he knew than actually dying himself. He lost so many comrades, so many recruits he took under his wing. He also said that every time a comrade died, and the more often it happened during the whole war, he began to laugh at their deaths. He didn't want to, he just couldn't do something else. The war broke his mind, made him crazy. Nowadays you'd describe it as PTSD. After the war he was never the same. During WW2 he also was an officer, but retired in 1941. He became even more crazier there (he had to shoot Polish civilians) he never got over it, even tried to commit suicide after his son, my grandfather, was killed in Russia. After the war he slowly got better, and by the time I was born, you could say he was healed. Still, the memories haunted him for life. Nonetheless, he was a great man and inspired me to never give up, even in times of hardship. I love him very much. He died in 1981, 101 years old.
@@tjhaze204 it happens. But most learn to not sleep completely naked for that very reason. Most of the time it's the dude's in the showers when getting attacked. I have seen a dude with a rifle and bath towel. Nothing else.
For real man. I think that’s the first time that I’ve cried from hearing one of these stories. I hardly ever cry from someone’s death but for some reason that one *really* hurt. Idk why. War is terrible, man.
That story about being caught with your pants down is true to the tiniest detail. While deployed was drilled in my head even in shower and sleep have 3 magazines and rifle by my side, don’t worry about anything else. You have better chance of living out in the open than staying in the barracks because they will always target the barracks first.
Previous response is wrong. - If you serve for a ridiculously short time , you're already considered a veteran (I think it's like 6 months or so). - If you deployed in the military , you are a combat veteran (Please note , a deployment means you went to a hostile place. If you go to for example Kuwait or Korea , it's considered a rotation , not a deployment , because there is no war going on there, thus you are not a combat vet). With that in mind, you don't have to EVER see (or come close to) war to be a veteran. - For a service member to retire he needs to serve for 20 years at the minimum, regardless of what age he joined the military or what age he is after 20 years of service. With all that said , note that nearly everyone who served is technically "a veteran". (From the Army cook that got kicked out for failing a PT test during his first year , to the special forces staff sergeant who has 2 deployments under his belt...) One last thing I should mention : You are not a veteran if you got out of the military with a dishonorable discharge. However, those are rare. You would literally have to like rape or stab some1 for you to receive such a discharge, lol. Source : 2 Years active duty infantry in Belgian Army. 3 Years active duty armor crewman in US Army. Currently infantry in National Guard
@@harryvh3356 correct, but I think the source for all of this would be the CFR Title 38. One's DD214 would confirm combat veteran status (; Source: combat vet being told every waking moment being told there's a regulation for everything by an overly pretentious and self absorbed S3 who didn't even go on convoy when invited and yet complained when he didn't get a campaign medal because he undercut his time spent in country (but then did a little S1 magic and got it after the fact) ... sorry maybe I have a little beef that stuck with me...
Very heartbreaking. But there wasn't much of a choice because honestly, kids are often used as a ruse and a weapon during wars which is horrible. Though I wish that decisions like that didn't have to be made at all.
My grandfather has told me what I'm sure are probably some of his less intense war stories. Here's one that always stuck out to me. He was in Vietnam holding a hill with a couple hundred other soldiers. There was an ambush, and seemingly endless hordes of Vietcong came streaming out of the jungle. My grandfather and his men were horribly outnumbered and in danger of being completely overrun. He was holding a small entrenchment towards the top of the Hill with a few other guys. A guy next to him was manning a .50 cal. The machine gun operator got shot to shit and died. My grandfather took over the machine gun. He just kept shooting and shooting mowing down crowds of men as bullets whizzed past him and his men were being slaughtered around him. Eventually the gun started to overheat, and it got so hot that the heat coming off it was enough to start severely burning his hands and forearms. He couldn't stop shooting for even a second though. If he stopped even momentarily he would have been killed because of how outnumbered they were, so he just kept going despite the damage it was doing to his arms. He fully expected that him and all his men were going to be killed regardless. Eventually the stream of Vietcong stopped and none were left. My grandfather and a small handful of men were the only survivors. Well over a hundred men were dead on his side, and there was no time to count how many Vietcong they had killed. It was at least hundreds. They had to evacuate immediately as the Vietcong had only fallen back to regroup for another assault. They were flown out in helicopters. When he told this story I could somehow tell that he had other stories that were far worse that he couldn't tell us. I can't begin to imagine what they were.
@@holo1560 you're right. I personally felt given the subject matter of the video this wouldn't be the case. I felt compelled to not finish the video because of it.
I'd say that invasion of Saudi for McD's was mostly, if not fully, true. If it's been months since you ate such food, gotta ease back into it if at all. You get bubble guts just jumping in fully.
Not related, but I served in the Swiss Armed Forces. Our troops sometimes accidentally invade Lichtenstein (really tiny neigbourimg country) during exercices and patrols and such bc most of the border sectors are unmarked. Just thought it was kinda funny to share.
The little girl in vietnam was so effed up in so many levels..she was bringing gifts and she got a bullet in return.. also the baby that wqs chopped up is messed up to..
When I was in trade school a classmate who was a sharpshooter confessed killing alot of women and kids because they were getting close to the convoy and couldn't afford losing brothers.
The Last Mohican oh man! tough call. Can understand both sides. You have to protect your fellow soldiers and the mission comes first, but it’s so tragic to kill innocent civilians. Is it possible to capture, blindfold, then drop-off civilians far away? Probably still too risky.
@@Lily_of_the_Forest yes a very tough call to mass shoot civilians especially women and children who don't move away in time while you're invading their city
anon-iraq if they go tell the enemy where your team is, then yeah you have to take them out. It’s not like you invaded a peaceful country minding it’s own business. There is a reason you are fighting in the first place.
Artist here, absolutely no tough guy background or upbringing. That being said, American soldiers are some of my favorite people on Earth. God bless you guys.
I will forever be grateful for any soldier who has ever fought, the trauma they must have gone through, the constant fear of dying every living second, their friends being killed just a few feet away- I wish I was strong enough to risk my life like they are. because most of them don't ever come back. so thank you, veterans or any present soldiers, I thank you for your service.
The second story where the father is bring in pillows and all things to make his son comfortable but the OP said he could tell straight away the little guy wasn't gonna make it..
My grandfather was a Vietnam Vet, 101st Airborne and took part in Hamburger Hill among other things. He died two weeks ago and I never once asked him for a war story and was always alright with his "sneaking beer into the camp" stories. I never wanted him to go back into the mindset he had to have been in during that hellish time period.
gillecroisd 92 can’t be bothered to read all your shit but if you think women in the west don’t get beaten or burnt with hot water or even worse your stupid
gillecroisd 92 no where did I say the west is worse but your stupid if your saying women aren’t raped, killed or done worse in the west, it happens everywhere but yes it is worst in the Middle East but that shit happens everywhere, also everything your saying is based on one haji, why does he speak for everyone, and yes us in the west live a very different lifestyle the biggest problem they have with us is us invading there countries and then pushing our lifestyles on them, if the west just minded it’s own business most of the wars of the last 20 years would not have happned
The only thing I have to add, is that I have two cousins I never met who served 3 to 4 tours during the early 2000's, they both died to IED's, I didn't learn about this until 5 years ago.
Its his work. This happens everyday. Just because you havent had heard it before this video doesnt mean it didnt happen, and the editor cant do anything to change it. Its his work he has to earn as well.. Ik what you mean but still
@@Aztive Well you can go on Reddit and search for these if you want, I'd rather watch a short ad and enjoy this with auto reader than scrolling web pages for ages.
Michael we have health insurance through tricare, every military member does and any veteran who reports on such mental illnesses derived from service, such as ptsd whilst they were serving, are still covered for that illness.
No...NO. Not thank soldiers. NO respect for them. We conveniently hide behind this nauseating privileged excuse of "War is hell" "kill or be killed" It is NOT respectable. All of those innocent civilians were living out their lives until OUR soldiers flew across the ocean to rip their homeland up to pieces. To act like they were justified and almost victimized by their hard choices is just putrid. I have ZERO respect for our soldiers. ESPECIALLY after Iraq or Afghanistan. MUCH less after Abu Ghraib or the Salt Pitt. You glorify them as victims who had the sorrow of having to kill or be killed or brushing it off as "War is hell" or "People die, it's just how it is" when WE invade THEIR nations on the other side of the fucking world! NO thanks, NO respect to our soldiers. Every American would not feel the absolute slightest sympathy if Russia or China invaded America and were sobbing boo-hoo stories of their brave soldiers. So I don't for ours. You are not moral. You are not brave. You are not patriotic. You are not a hero. You're a murderer. If anyone killed your children or your family, everyone would be out for blood, but somehow, this nauseating country is fine with OUR soldiers flying across the country to murder other people's families. NO thanks, NO respect for the US military.
29:14 That sounds like the movie Jarhead.... I remember being pissed about wasting my money to see that movie,... but it makes sense years later that a lot of soldiers went through that
That's how I feel. I enlisted in 2010 and I never went to the middle East at all. I feel like I didn't contribute or wasn't a real warrior. Everyone says "well isn't that a blessing?" or something like that. Thing is, I don't know how to explain the call to want to go fight. I'm out now and moving on with my life, but I just have this hollow spot inside of me that feels incomplete and like I'm a fraud
This is a funny ptsd story I share with everyone I meet🤪 i would dream I heard my sarge shout platoon # you have 15 mins to pack to head to forward operating base #, I would stand at attention outside the room with an Umbrella and backpack, shouting some gibberish drill words. 2 mins later I came to my senses and realised I got my discharge almost 10 years ago, my parents and kids would stare at me rubbing their eyes, my dad would walk me to the backyard give me a beer and just have a little talk.😊 It happens every year, having a great family really helps no matter what situation you r in. Hug and treasure those who never abandon you in your worst state🥺
I have the same thing. Coming back from the Marines, I would get up in the middle of the night and put on my utility uniform and gear up thinking I had to go do something.....other times I would get freaked out in normal places like the mall, and I'd use the bathroom there, me and my veteran friend litterally kicked the door in and invaded the bathroom like there was a threat behind the door and stalls....one guy inside was visibly scared as we came towards him yelling with our fist cocked back and he ran off....only 5 minutes later I realized what we had just done and how NOT normal that is in a mall bathroom....I was embarrassed as hell. I still hear Certain words like "ears" and my instant response is "open sir" or eyeballs "click sir" or various other commands, and I instantly spring into action and respond. This has embarrassed me around many people, ruined a few dates, I started crying on a first date because she asked me my worst war story and I just dissociated for like 5 minutes and had tears She got up and said "well you're clearly fucked up in the head and probably killed a kid or something. You can grab the check. I don't associate with nazi war criminals" (she was a stuck up liberal university student, so I should have seen that coming, I was just trying to get some pussy though...never cared what was in her head she was very fuckable. Fast forward 3 days, she apologizes and I end up fucking her in the back of my truck, she left her phone in my truck and i didn't know her name or how to find her, I still have her iphone 10, a year later lol. Karma's a bitch I guess?
Brandon Smith Fist bump for surviving, people whom have not being in military don’t realise the stress even during basic training. I’m in cav unit recon, there r no marines here in Australia, but sas r behind enemy lines, follow by commando for special objects then us to scout around and patrol and the grunts follow after us. Don’t worry about the girl you will find someone that can cope, but leaving after your contract is best, most girls dig fireman and not military or police
SethJr i call bullshit #1 , really you just happened to have an umbrella and backpack waiting....I’m betting you were facilities maintenance, motor T or civil affairs
Gordon Ramsey I hope things get better for you Just stay strong my dude and nice job by the way getting that pussy also were you The army Cook lol and thank you for your service.
To all the soldiers I’m sorry what you have been through and have seen. I could never Imagine what It’s like to live your life after all of that but thank you for your sacrifice a lot of appreciate what you did.
8:10 My great grandpa was there too, German. Now the weapons situation wasn't that bad, but he got to Siberia too, coming home in 1951. Apparently the siberians could only spare raw herrings and onions. This man could eat a 4 inch long herring in 2 bites, but never touched an onion again.
@@Kaipyro67ALT did I not explicitly mention that the herring was raw? Also he still ate herring afterwards so that was surely better than raw onion, although I would guess herring wasn't nearly as often "served"
I wish I could give every soldier in this video a fat hug and thank them. They’ve seen shit no human regardless of country should have seen. My heart goes out to them and their family
My dad told me that Vicks vapo rub he kept asking for, was actually to mask the scent of the dead bodies, or burn victims he saw. Apparently if you put it under your nose, that's the only thing you can smell. This spread through his entire squad, and so every time we would send him gifts/snacks. There would always be vicks vapo rub. I asked him if it really worked, and to prove it to me, he took a raw piece of deer ribs he hunted earlier, and set it in the garage for about a week during the hottest summer I've ever seen. (we're talking over 103F outside) Then he told me to put some vix under my nose, and to walk in there. I didn't smell anything, then he told me to go into the kitchen and rinse it off, and to walk back in. Worst shit I've ever smelt, my eyes instantly watered up, and i felt like I was gonna puke. When I tried to go back inside my dad stopped me, and said "Now Imagine what a human smells like, who's been blown apart, and sitting in 110 weather for about 6 days." Can't believe he went through that.
25:05 This makes my heart sick for that poor soldier, and for that poor little girl, an innocent killed because of the evils comitted by other people that cost her her life
I do something similar as the guy with cigarettes, an old friend of mine joined the army and I joined the marine corp in the few times we saw each other afterwords we would smoke and have a nice long conversation about random shit, he was killed in a motorcycle accident after his first deployment so now I light up one for him every once in a while
My grandfather fought in the korean war. He was super adament that none of his kids or grandchildren served in the military. I asked him about the war and all he’d talk about was being sea sick on the way over there. A friend of his that was “shell shocked” from his time in the korean war passed away and my grandfathers one military friend that he visited twice a year from iowa came to the funeral. After the funeral grandpa asked me if I still wanted to hear about what happened in korea, I said yes! I was 13 and excited to be let in on the real story. We went to the vfw post and my grandfather and his friend shared stories about starving, freezing and killing that blew my mind. My grandfather was the kindest gentlest man i knew and it became obvious why he didn’t want anyone he loved to go through something like that.
I think this is a good avenue for people to be able to say things that they have been holding inside. I hope it helps people mentally to just be able to tell how they felt and what they saw or did for the first time. It should be judgement free.
To any Vets and any Active Duty soldiers, thank you for your service. Regardless of your nation, you have put your physical self on the line as well as your mental self. To me, and many others, that is the ultimate sacrifice.
My family has a history of men who served during wartime and peacetime. I married a Vietnam vet I cannot begin to express the love and gratitude I have for the men and women who serve so that we have an opportunity to live in a country where we have a chance to live what some call normal lives. The burden and the nightmares of War aren't left on the battlefield, but they remain with those who served. Thank you so much for your service.
Not ashamed to admit that this full grown man shed tears for these soldiers' stories. I lost contact with many soldiers that I grew to know in basic training.
You should do this more often, ima join the army infantry and this puts everything into perspective and it made me appreciate life more, the friendships, family (even tho mine was fucked), and relationship... it made me rethink everything I’ve gone through and my future thank you
as a former infantryman. don't. if you want to serve. join the engineers or a mechanic or something with a trade. set you self up for something you can easily translate to the civilian world. if you do join the infantry. work you ass off now. you want to be able to run marathons. get airborne school. join the rangers or special forces 11X. seriously. I can. NOT. stress the importance of running. infantry run. a lot. like seriously ALOT. look up feet care. always keep them dry. wool socks for ruck marches. deodorant like Gillette sport to put on your groin on the inside of your legs. it will help keep you from chaffing your thighs/nuts. that's the best advice I can give my young brothers.
Wasn't infantry but artillery... we had some very personal moments with the Taliban and the locals in Helmand. I'll tell you this... just don't. Join the Air Force. Go to college. Maintain your sanity and health. I've spent 8 years in the Marines and I'm getting medically separated from the Army. War is ugly.... very very ugly. There's nothing glorious or noble about it.
@@thomasmoseley4015 this. If I knew what I did then. I wouldn't be such a sociopathic wreck now. Part of me regrets joining. Just because of the shit you endure. For what? For a piece dirt the afgans or Iraqis dont even give a shit about them selves. I agree with tom. Go air force. I wish I wouldve. Be smart dont follow us. War is ugly. And once you experience. You will never forget it.
PLZKILL personally I wanna be in that field because I understand wat is ugly and is unfair but I mean someone has to do it and plus with my life experiences so far I believe it’ll be a good fit for myself. I’ve done sports all my life and even several combat sports, I plan on trying to be law enforcement like police or swat maybe even federal if can be but I also wanna spend my years for college to be a psychologist for former or current military personnel. But I some what understand the shit hole ima be put into but I won’t know fully till I’m there. 11b hopefully
I served under a Staff Sergeant who had both of his legs blown off in Iraq. He had prosthetic legs and was still able to serve. He ran the fastest 3 mile in the Company. His motivation being that he wouldn't let anyone or anything keep him down
Out of all of these 16:29 was the worse I cried for a good five minutes. My grandpa had to go through the same thing but with three friends he was never the same after that my grandma said but when I came along I guess he hated my existence but at the same time loved me with all his heart. I felt so bad when my grandma told me that but I got to know him a bit better but he died a few years ago and I was finally starting to know him more. A silent salute and prayer for all the soldiers that died
As a Navy Corpsman attatched to a usmc unit deployed twice in Iraq, I can tell you, few civilians will understand the shit we had to deal with out there...the deaths, the smells, the situations...R.I.P to those who passed 1st Battalion 8th Marines 03 - 05 during operation phantom fury.
my grandfather took part of the invasion of hue city when he was there he told me about going into a ruined building inside was a dead woman and her baby my grandfather took the baby and had him crattled in his arms when he fell asleep. when he woke up the baby had passed in his arms he told me he had never cried for the things he saw and did while he was there but seeing the dead baby in his arms wrecked him. i miss my grandfather i wish i could sit and sip some whisky with him he was a good man. war is truly hell.
Shibaaa Idk man, they definitely don’t give a shit about the dead guy but they do care about how the us has to defend itself now and how easily it would be for Russia to form an armistice with the Ayatollah
A very good friend of mine told me the most horrific stories about his time in the military. I've known this man since we were kids. I can honestly say as a civilian, I cant begin to emphasize. The only way you can understand it is to experience it. Thank the veterans for service, and sacrifice
@@martinaseidel3316 its gross.. It's really just plain gross. There are literally people rushing to the defense of our soldiers. Thousands of men with the most advanced weapons in the world can literally fly to the other side of the ocean, kill and murder as well as rape civilians just to get treated as innocent victims of horrible circumstances. It is PUTRID.
qwickwaffles I was at the one before this and when I saw this one and herd the thing say she was carrying a backpack, I was like oh god run. But then when the story ended I wanted to cry but couldn’t. All I can do is just sit here replying to this comment with a blank expression on my face but sad inside.
the amount of ads in this video is kind of off putting with the fact a lot of these people are scarred for life, makin money off their horror stories lol
I joined the military in peacetime. My biggest fear is that I will complete my military service and never get a chance to serve my country and honour those who fought before me by sharing the burden of combat. It seems all I will do is workout, sweep floors and sit on my ass. I cringe when people thank me for my service, especially on remembrance day. What service? I'm not even a soldier. Don't waste your breath on me. I've done absolutely nothing. The uniform almost feels to heavy to wear. I don't deserve it. I am an expensive LARPer.
You're the fire extinguisher hanging on the wall. Just because you weren't taken down and blasted all over a roaring fire doesn't mean you weren't waiting, ready to do your work on a moment's notice. That's more than enough.
Pawpaw was pfc, 2ID, infantry, Korea. One of the first onshore. Never spoke about it until he was in his seventies and dying. Comfort measure meds made him a little loopy in his sleep. He was in country 7 months. Purple heart. Stuck on a hill, over run. Bad intel, foggy mor ing when they advanced to take the hill. Wound up having to call in danger close airstrike. Killed 8 U.S. wounded another 60 or so, he was one of them. Killed some 130 enemy and wounded another large cluster...with the airstrike. Not counting what they killed before calling it in. Anyway, blew his gyts out, took shrapnel everywhere, spent 3 months in hospital. No limbs lost. Only talked about it then when he was on his way out. 77 years old and shear terror in his voice while he slept. Never even heard him raise his voice when i was growing up. Apparently though he was pretty messed up when he first got home for several years. Remember my dad telling me how he and his brothers would be running new fence for the cows. Pawpaw would be keeping the posts in line from the hill. Lining up the posts with the crosshairs of his scope. Gun was unloaded of course but....yea. i never served. Bunch of friends and family have. Went with my uncle to visit one of our cousins and his kid's on his birthday. We kids were about the same age then. Cousin was a vet. To what extent he served i'm not sure. Heard messed uo stories from other family years later about his service. Anyway, his wife left him the night before. Left the kids with him. Uncle and I pull up. See kids on front steps. I jump out running to play, notice blood on their hands and face and they're crying. Cousin had taken a 12 ga. and ended it. When you read stories about brain matter and skull fragments etc being everywhere from a suicide. Can confirm. I was only 8. His kids were 6 and 4.... pretty fucked up. See it a dream now and then. Not scary but like an awful sense of impending doom where everything is super slowed down and you can't really move...
My grandfather was in Korea and Vietnam. In one of the wars, he was showering and heard a gun go off. He rushed out and was escorted to the latreens where he had to identify a buddy who had taken his ownlife. He only had 2 weeks until he was going to be sent home
15:53 To the soldier or marine using a throwaway account whose friend was thrown 10 yds from his vehicle from an IED and died in your arms. Stateside, his 5 year old asked how he died and you didn't know how to respond. My father was KIA in Vietnam when I was 4-1/2. My advice is this, tell her the truth. Tone down the details of course. Tell her that her dad died with courage doing his job trying to help people get rid of evil people from their homes. He was helping his fellow soldiers.Tell her about her dad and what he meant to you and your comrades. Tell her how good he was at his job. Share some good memories you had of him. Someday she will fully appreciate what you did for her by giving her the truth. You'll spare her a lifetime of questions, doubt and anger not knowing. I speak from experience on this. Not knowing is much worse. Knowing a painful truth is always better than not knowing. Because in the absence of the truth, her mind can (and will) imagine 1,000 worse scenarios. Thanks for sharing your story. I hope the sharing eases your pain and helps you heal. Currahee!
I almost didn't watch this after the first story. The imagery and pain, I could just visualize the whole heartwrenching mayhem. But the vietnamese girl with the crayons. That destroyed me. I don't think I have the mental capacity to be a soldier.
War is tough man it will fuck you up mentally physically emotionally spiritually financially but you got to keep on going with life keep on throwing the punches and I hope everyone here stays strong and the people who have died and risk their lives so we can live our lives May you Rest In Peace i’ve had family in wars and I am Magine they have seen some things they can never forget but I do hope that things get better as time goes on and finally thank you to everyone for their service. ❤️
This is why I hate people who throw around that they have PTSD from stupid stuff like being yelled at by their parents or while they worked at Target. It diminishes these Warriors wounds. It diminishes their suffering.
PTSD can be used in multiple context. I have nothing but the highest respect for these people who shared their stories. Perhaps Military PTSD should be its own category of PTSD all together. Others can have PTSD though too - some people had extremely abusive parents who tortured them and even sexually abused them. Some people are in desperate conditions and for whatever reason need that job at Target or Walmart and they have bosses who are total sociopaths (I have worked for a couple of people like this. When you don't have a lot of experience and have bills to pay and the hiring market is really bad you are forced to put up them while the scream, yell and berate you on a daily if not hourly basis. I worked with one guy who's supervisors gave him so much shit, he had bad kidneys before, and they got even worse (guy ended up needing a transplant) and even his Dr said it was because of the stress (guy couldn't quit because he needed the insurance for obvious reasons).
Me and my siblings have PTSD from an abusive upbringing. I agree with @Hob Goblin, military PTSD should be a category of its own. While we a have our struggle, it's seems shallow and pales in comparison to the shit military personnel go through.
PTSD can be a lot of things. a lot of differences in the severities of ptsd though. Anything from falling off a bike and breaking your arm to murder to watching your friends die to rape to car wreck to death to being bullied. but yeah a lot of people throw around PTSD like its nothing, Its like how not many people know a lot about autism but they scream about it constantly. or someone organizes their m&ms before eating them as if they had OCD and my favorite they throw suicide around like its nothing. Rape is apparently if someone even lightly accidently inconveniences someone anymore. Modern day shit really throws what others have seen under the buss and makes it as if they never had anything wrong with them. People at my school claim they are going to kill themselves over a pencil being in the wrong spot when im over here getting bullied and being suicidal for years. This video was intense. ive seen shootings on videos and had no reaction but this nearly brought tears to my eyes (im almost ashamed). these peoples suffering shouldn't go untreated and shouldn't be put down like everything else. These guys went through a lot and we could never even imagine what they saw. Fuck that would suck so badly. I hope all these problems get helped all the real ones atleast. thank you for everyone that was in the military. especially those medics, combat boys, and anyone that had to deal with war. (sorry for the wall of text I hope its not to confusing or to off topic)
My father was a Marine in 'Nam so, yeah, he's got PTSD. He would sometimes just start talking with a thousand yard stare and I would just listen without comment. One day, he was reliving a particularly gruesome sh*tstorm when he suddenly realized what he was saying. All the color drained from his face as his eyes focused on me. "Oh, no. I can't tell you that one..." - "It's okay, Dad. I already know." - I think my acceptance just upset him more. His face crumpled. He didn't want me to know, and he was so upset with himself for telling me and then not realizing that he had. I was about fifteen at the time, but I'd actually grown up hearing everything. He couldn't help it - he just got lost in his own head, and who was I to judge?
I love my dad.
Given Surname wow
Great grandfather was in nam, i dont think he had PTSD but i dont see how he didn't. There was a boy that drifted from family to family until he got accepted to school and he was friends with all the G.I.s includeing my great grandfather, kid goes to school for the first time and stepped on a landmine and then landed on a second one. He also had too see his friend run out of the bunker they were in and pulled a nade on himself from stress. War is hell
Good for you!
I am really sorry for what my country did to your father in the war
Your dad is a good man. I'm glad he made it home.
"In peace, Sons bury their fathers, In wartime, fathers bury their Sons"
Some of these Iraq and aphganistan ones held emotion with me, my dad fought in both, he came back after the war, thought me well about it and school. Not much more to it, and only now I realized, neither he or his friends ever shared any stories, but I know he shot billets that looked 6 inches long and he was trained to drive HUMVES or something like that. He also practiced machine guns like Saws and whatever was on top I'm sure, but these stories only made me imagine what tolls happened to him, which comes with wars horror itself
In Germany, the old bury themselves.
Technicallythetruth
Especially after WWII
I buried my son im only 28 he was 1
@@Ftfwjdndfjw may he rest in peace
I just have to say this, for the first story, anyone whose never lost someone very close will always say it's a cliche to describe it as "a part of me died". But there's no other way to describe it. Even the saying itself falls short.
If it's any consolation, that story was completely fake. There's no IED in the world that could fit inside a doll that would decimate two whole people like that. And yet it was light enough for a little girl to lug around? It's disrespectful to the people who've actually lost their lives in combat.
Tommy Patton i actually heard marines and soldiers say that roadside bombs were put into the smallest of things even a Cola can. They saw that a few times. So im not sure
@@layloo5244 I mean, actual hand grenades more than capable of obliterating a person are around the size of a softball
@@thestraydog Ah yes, because you of all people would know.
Sun Tzu would say that guy who never killed anyone was the most successful man in the entire war.
Desmond Doss: WITNESS!!!
hacksaw ridge-
"stay strapped or get clapped" -Sun Tzu
how do you know what sun tzu would say? he died hundreds of years ago
@@loi_cy they probably mean that this sort of saying is often attributed to the “character” of Sun Tzu
Okay, I can't listen to more, the first one was bad enough
That one broke me
yea same i clicked off
First one was fake
@@TheJCON111 shut up
I’m not that sensitive, I listened to the whole thing and it’s a real eye opener
The little girl with the backpack full of colouring books and markers ... that one hit me hard .... jeez dude :/ to think all she wanted to do was colour ...
Yh that made me cry she was a child and she was shot when she wanted to help them sort of and just be happy she might of still been alive. But a commander shot a little girl but she shouldve stopped
@@zeffez8161 Why didn't he fire warning shots? Was he scared of a 10 year old? Did she not understand their commands/warnings?
You wanna get fragged? 'cause that's how you get fragged.
@@DamianBush Warning shots, man. Warning shots. When they can't shoot back, there's no reason not to.
@@DamianBush It takes, what, 1, 2 extra seconds to fire a warning shot and see if she responds? Sure, in many situations those seconds mean everything, but how far does a walking 13-year old go in 2 seconds? 4, 5 feet?
It's one thing if it was a firefight or something. It's another when you've got 50 yards of safety between yourself and whatever she might be carrying. I guess that's the thing, though - the distance. I could understand it if there was maybe 10 or 15 feet left, but not 50. Can't remember what the story said about distance, but I'd think a base perimeter would have plenty if it's set up well.
And I think it's better to be the guy blown to bits in the first story than the base commander in this one.
Yeah like I don’t blame him for shooting but I just wish she would have stopped. It could have been a explosive so he had to do something. I know I couldn’t have done that.
i still thank the soldiers for the battles they fight mentally and physically
Peachcannon War is not Call of Duty, you get fucked up.
They all chose to do it. These wars are not for your freedom
BonEndeavor I disagree. Their not doing it for fun, their doing it for our freedom. Their fighting for our country.
Dogs of imperialism
@@mysterious6856 That is because you are conditioned to believe so. There is no draft, yes many are doing it for the excitement involved with it. Others a free ride or no other prospects. Others because they want to legally kill people. If anything, invading and destroying so many nations for a privatization rebuild under the international banking cartel and resource companies is making the US and western countries less safe... Dont know if you have been living under a rock or really that brainwashed with rose tinted glasses.
'The country' is basically the whacking stick of corporations and bankers.
Research wars for a few decades then we will talk.
"no one should have to bury their children"
*ad starts playing *
"so just lie down"
These UA-cam ads are getting really dark
"it ripped them in half when they stepped out the building"
"End the dinner time blues now"
This is why veterans resort to dark humor. It copes with their PTSD
Whoa never expected to ever get 3k+ likes
Thanks guys
I agree 100% with you, some people don't understand the humour and take it the wrong way!
@@Matt-Durham
grew up with dark humor since I have family members that served and are in drug business
The Last Mohican oh mate yeah I know the feeling. Drug business? Wanna hook me up
@@Matt-Durham
Idk, I cut contact with nearly all my blood family.
Besides its deal with the devil and your life expectancy will drop significantly.
@@ricechido1089 I was joking but yes I understand mate it's a horrible thing drug addiction. Stay safe mate
That vietnam girl with the backpack is so sad.
My neighbor was in the Vietnam war
Did he tell you any stories?
Its weird that when super dramatic or life threatening things happen it doesnt hit you until later like your brain goes survival mode
yeah it takes your brain a while to process things, its like how abuse victims wont realize that they were abused until after it happens
Yeah at the time it's you or them but when you get back I guess that's when you stop and think
complete dissociation can happen aswell. It's like watching yourself from an 'over the shoulder' 3rd person camera do things like in a movie. You can see yourself doing stuff, but not feel at all connected to the situation. It can be usefull to get something done while you're under extreme stress/anxiety. Due to the lack of emotion, I've made a bad mistake once. Jumped in between a barfight that broke out where 1 guy had pulled a knife. But due to the lack of emotion, I 'forgot' to fear for my own safety and disarm the guy. Luckily, in the confusion the jumping by a random caused, someone else took his knife from his hand before he realised what was going on. Strangely enough, the other guy got kicked out that night and the guy with the knife, we had a hugging/crying session. The guy had PTSD like me and the other guy was looking for a fight all night and almost found one.
@@teddyfield2164when it hits you it can be the weirdest feeling. you would think you would right away break down but even with lesser situations like a person passing away it can take a few days and then suddenly that moment hits. you go from a "normal day" to suddenly stopping and losing track of time just staring like shit... this is the end of that persons life. Shit is hard and cant even imagine what the vets have to deal with. so much respect for them!!
@@cookie_licker1284 yeah respc for them
I wonder how traumatized veterans from the First World War were, if they had access to Mr Reddit a century ago.
Well in the words of a former British army officer who fought in no man's land who was interviewed by the BBC years ago "I wouldn't give up my memories of the war for a million pounds. But I will never repeat it even for 10 million pounds". I'm guessing that war was the closest thing we can achieve of living in hell.
@@joshuaarroyo7235 i remember something from a ww1 vet it was a quote or sumthing "In the trenches it was you or them. You had to fight for your life"
@@daltonjames8815 very true. While the second world war had more death in total, the first world war was more devastating and had a more brutal impact in very short time. The first world war is not very looked at by many people as compared to the second one.
@@joshuaarroyo7235 the second one is the little brother that gets more attention
@@daltonjames8815 In a nutshell yeah.
That first one just ended me...
Serena Renee lol weak ass
I know that first story was heart breaking
Squangel Nutz it’s called empathy you fucking imbecile
And it's not even the most heart breaking one.....
@@c0gimyun he never named it so I dont know why you are correcting him. Not having the potential to refulate the amount of empathy you feel is bad. I'm not saying you should most of the time but its seen as weak because how will you survive in such an environment. But I see you are both women so I guess you have less control over it or chose not to more often
I stayed up late one night to eavesdrop on my grandfather and his brothers swapping war stories from ww2 and korea. I got caught after a few of the fun stories and said i wanted to be soldiers like them, heroes. They all shared a look that confused me then but hasnt since. I was sat down and made to listen to the worst stories, over my grandmothers protests and sworn to secrecy until they died and they have. I didnt believe the one that deployed to italy. He said they got pushed back across a bridge in the mountains and a hospital was cut off by nazi SS troops. My great uncles unit regrouped across the bridge and had to listen, helpless while wounded soldiers, doctors, and nurses were mutilated. When they were able to move into the area again, chasing the germans now, they found an abattoir in place of a hospital. People had been flayed alive and the skin was draped everywhere. Blood curdled in pools and heaps, none of it really red anymore. When they caught up to the SS troops the favor was repayed in kind. It scared me but i wondered if it was true. Then i found a medal my grandfather had been given to hide. It was a personal commendation from hitler for the attack on the hospital, a documented event. I then found the accounts of the US reciprocal war crimes and was instantly filled with a very cold feeling. The reports said the US troops went full old west and took scalps and things like that. In the box with the medal was what i thought was the fur of some pale rabbit and several scraps of leather. It was a toolbox full of looted nazi medals, scalps, noses, ears and i think fingers. And i mean full. I still dont know what to do about it and havent told anyone else in the family. That side of the family are descended from ethnic german immigrants and im just learning now how deeply it troubled them to see germany fight and lose two world wars for seemingly every kind of wrong reason. And then to have to fight men that spoke the same language, with the same customs and culture. Even when those similar men were clearly monsters and butchers i cant imagine the likenesses my great uncle saw in those men he brutalized. He shared all that knowledge with me when i was 5 years old and its taken me 2 and a half decades to piece together some real understanding of war from it. Anybody that reads this deserves a medal. But not from hitler, alright? Somebody nicer lol
It may not be my place to say, but I think you should record some of the stories you were told in a journal or in some other form. I never knew about the atrocities you listed here and it shook me to my core. These stories open my eyes and I think they're important for posterity. But regardless, thank you for sharing and for what your family did.
@@tranquilitickarma thank you, first and foremost for your kind words. As a natural consequence of the necessary research i developed something of a database. Several branches of my family have become increasingly interested in genealogical trees and family history so at some point i intend to at least gather all of these stories and appended notes and charts into something resembling a comprehensive family history. Im not sure what to think or do about possible remains though. I dont know if repatriating them would be honorable and decent things to do for their families to have some final closure, or if such men deserve any honors at all. I swore other things to those men that fought evil, things i cannot forget if i am to honor their sacrifices, courage, and wishes. They feared such an evil would come again and that i might be called to fight it. I intend to fight it if i must with feats of arms, but if i can deploy their bitterly earned lessons and stories perhaps i can achieve a victory they couldnt given my great uncles general lack of literacy. They could only fight ignorance and hate for a time, and so could i on my own. But perhaps the history could teach others the same lessons i learned. Perhaps i could finally give to those men, and our world, a victory not in one war but for all time. I will think about what you have said, and what i have said in return as it already strikes me as a touch self-important lol. I truly thank you pekins, i will speak to family of this and take a full measure of where they feel this all belongs; in the family or with the people in whose name it was done, or the families of men long dead?
I think my grandfather had something like that, but I never saw it. Always dodged questions about the wars he fought in. When I got older, he begged me to never ask again, so I didn't. His parents were polish immigrants and moved to the states before he was born. His family was also Jewish, so you can imagine how messed up he got during WW2. He was in the 84th infantry, which liberated 2 satellite camps of the neuengamme concentration camps; ahlem and salzwedel. The records kept showed that one of his uncle's family was sent there. 7 kids. Only 2 survived. I only learned this through some journals and books written that he left me when he passed away. Most of the journals were from his buddies that were killed after they liberated the camps.
This would make a good movie
Well goddamn what am I supposed to say to this comment that’s fucked up I guess in a certain way.
15:02 A fleet of feral dogs following a Coalition patrol in Iraq because they've figured out that this crew leaves kills. Strange set of emotions come about that realization...
crows and ravens kinda became associated with death and evil cause they would follow armies around for the same reason. not surprising that dogs figured it out too
Yeah man, it’s true had to fight a feral dog from running off with a guy’s hand once.
Reminds me of a story from World War 1 where both sides made an informal truce to fight off an obscenely large pack of wolves that had been scavenging and eating bodies (at first) but were starting to attack living soldiers since there weren’t enough bodies to go around. Mixed emotions.
(I think the story goes that there were hundreds, if not a thousand wolves. It sounds like an exaggeration but keep in mind that the Great War was a unique in that both sides didn’t really know the capabilities and/or limitations of the new technology they were using. I think I remember hearing that some cavalry charges happened early in the war, but the enemy pulled a machine gun and... I don’t think I need to explain what happened next.)
Reminds me of the Pacific war where most casualties after naval battles were due to the sharks swarming the survivors
@@thatgenericdixienormouspicguy If this is true would you be willing to tell that story?
Luckily I am able to talk about all of my stories. And I am able to put a funny spin on most. The only ones I can't are the ones that were caused by incompetence. Like my first team leader dying in a vehicle roll over because some office worker fudged the licensing paperwork and assigned a LMTV (big offroad semi) with trailer to a dude that should not have been driving a gator (like an ATV with 2 seats and a work bed)let alone that.
Closest I came to dying was I was on a hearts and minds trip doing civil engineering. We were building hospitals and schools right next to the boarder of Somalia. We were in civilian cloths and vehicles. Well, one night we left our build site and went back to base. We were then put into lock down for like 4 hours at the gate because the gate guards found a cell phone detonated bomb under our car. The only reason we didn't die was because the cell battery was dead.
I don't complain about much anymore. When people say it's hot outside "well, im not in Africa roofing with a vest and helmet on". It's cold outside "well im not sleeping in a snow filled hole in northern Afghanistan". They say that a car ride sucks "well, there isn't a bomb under us"
Thank you for so much!
@@linkmaster3339 thanks. I do have funny stories of people getting hurt, though. Most aren't able to have those.
That's the attitude people should have. I often try to think this way as well.
thank you for sharing, when ever i feel less motivated in life i always come back here, to remind me so i get my sorry ass up. I do suffer from some insecureities but oh well, i know my uncles and everyone else that died in the bosnian war does not have the luxury of life anymore. I just hope I can somewhat meet their expectations and not fail at life during peace times...
@@pebblebrowser it's hard some times but it's what you gotta do. Continue the mission of life.
I am so sorry everyone sharing here. Much respect for soldiers. I wish every soldier could get free counseling and medical treatment for the rest of his/her life. They’ve earned it.
No...NO. Not thank soldiers. NO respect for them. We conveniently hide behind this nauseating privileged excuse of "War is hell" "kill or be killed" It is NOT respectable. All of those innocent civilians were living out their lives until OUR soldiers flew across the ocean to rip their homeland up to pieces. To act like they were justified and almost victimized by their hard choices is just putrid. I have ZERO respect for our soldiers. ESPECIALLY after Iraq or Afghanistan. MUCH less after Abu Ghraib or the Salt Pitt. You glorify them as victims who had the sorrow of having to kill or be killed or brushing it off as "War is hell" or "People die, it's just how it is" when WE invade THEIR nations on the other side of the fucking world! NO thanks, NO respect to our soldiers.
Every American would not feel the absolute slightest sympathy if Russia or China invaded America and were sobbing boo-hoo stories of their brave soldiers. So I don't for ours. You are not moral. You are not brave. You are not patriotic. You are not a hero. You're a murderer. If anyone killed your children or your family, everyone would be out for blood, but somehow, this nauseating country is fine with OUR soldiers flying across the country to murder other people's families. NO thanks, NO respect for the US military.
@@onliner10000 touch grass
@@onliner10000 Are you serious! Your trash. Who else will protect us from other countries trying to take over the US? You?
Sometimes we went to war to help other countries due to our alliance.
@@onliner10000 Are you going to the country we are at war with and speak to them. They don’t want to talk. When we are at war it’s because we are past negotiating.
'03 Iraq deployment with USMC 1st recon, my first tour. Friend got his head blown off by a sniper 3 feet from my face. He was all over me, and I've never told that to anybody that knows me personally.
o7
Thank you for your service, and I wholeheartedly give my condolences sir.
@@Leayll E6 - I should be calling you sir, and thanks.
Alexander Lazowski thank you for your service and may your friend Rest In Peace.
My condolences and I hope you are doing well
@JP Off-Roading aww man you got blue balled
"Driver's foot has been shot off. Thank the gods they were fine."
That is a very liberal definition of 'fine'.
Goliath Steinbeisser he was talking about the woman and child in the back seat. Driver was definitely fucked.
While it's funny the way he said it, they were getting shot at with a .50 cal, so yea they got off with no real injuries
@@thatboyred4042 No he was also talking about the driver. A lost foot is a lot better than being ripped apart.
frankly, i'm surprised at all they survived .50 cal fire at all. My grandfather saw one of his friends get shot by HMG fire during the spanish civil war, he went completely out of cover and carried him back into the trench, once they were in there he noticed he only carried the top half of him back (from the nipples up, with both arms) he looked back and saw the trail of internal organs he left. He never found his legs, only a foot.
Mylity 66 Spanish Civil War of 1936? If so, what side?
I remember my grandpa told me a story of how he dealt with the trauma of war.
He said some men go to the bottle, and some men wake up and run, and run, and run.
He would wake up and run.
One hell of a story
That MacDonald story was the lightest of the them all jesus
LE FISHY the one without his pants was aight
@@Jay-hc4lz truly going commando
Every time I thought “oh that’s the worst one” another came. Breaks my heart.
I’m just imagining the headlines “U.S army invades Saudi Arabia for McDonald’s”
Made it to 3:57 fuuuuck that. I'm done lettin' that shit into my head. Thanks and respect to all the men and women who died or lost their souls protecting the rest of us ungrateful garbage eaters. Respect and honor to you guys.
My great grandfather was an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army during WW1 (he was from Vienna). He survived all four years of the war. He once told me (I was like four or five) that the worst thing he experienced was that most of the time he was more afraid of losing someone he knew than actually dying himself. He lost so many comrades, so many recruits he took under his wing. He also said that every time a comrade died, and the more often it happened during the whole war, he began to laugh at their deaths. He didn't want to, he just couldn't do something else. The war broke his mind, made him crazy. Nowadays you'd describe it as PTSD. After the war he was never the same. During WW2 he also was an officer, but retired in 1941. He became even more crazier there (he had to shoot Polish civilians) he never got over it, even tried to commit suicide after his son, my grandfather, was killed in Russia. After the war he slowly got better, and by the time I was born, you could say he was healed. Still, the memories haunted him for life. Nonetheless, he was a great man and inspired me to never give up, even in times of hardship. I love him very much. He died in 1981, 101 years old.
On a lighter note I think I'd be pretty traumatized if I got caught in a firefight fully clothed with no pants.
It happens a lot. I have seen plenty of dudes give the beans to people in boxers and flip flops.
@@zososldier no I mean freeballin. Like. Shirt. Vest. Boots. Dick and balls. Just swanging with each shot fired.
@@zososldier kinda like a boxer using a speed bag
@@tjhaze204 it happens. But most learn to not sleep completely naked for that very reason. Most of the time it's the dude's in the showers when getting attacked.
I have seen a dude with a rifle and bath towel. Nothing else.
@@tjhaze204 just point your "shotgun" towards the enemy, "pump it" and shoot the "white slug".
That one with the little girl made me cry so hard all she wanted was to give them drawings now I feel terrible
Cut me really fucking deep man... I shed tears...and I fancied something of a hard guy/edge lord :( Joke's on me I guess :(
Ugh that one got me
For real man. I think that’s the first time that I’ve cried from hearing one of these stories. I hardly ever cry from someone’s death but for some reason that one *really* hurt. Idk why. War is terrible, man.
@@alsyrriad same
That one was extra-SAD
the first one is so dark so sad wish It would have never happened.
That story about being caught with your pants down is true to the tiniest detail.
While deployed was drilled in my head even in shower and sleep have 3 magazines and rifle by my side, don’t worry about anything else.
You have better chance of living out in the open than staying in the barracks because they will always target the barracks first.
Retired Soldiers
Aren't those called Veterans?
Calling someone a veteran or a retired soldier can be completely different things.
Vets fought/ served. Retired were discharged at 33/66
Previous response is wrong.
- If you serve for a ridiculously short time , you're already considered a veteran (I think it's like 6 months or so).
- If you deployed in the military , you are a combat veteran (Please note , a deployment means you went to a hostile place. If you go to for example Kuwait or Korea , it's considered a rotation , not a deployment , because there is no war going on there, thus you are not a combat vet). With that in mind, you don't have to EVER see (or come close to) war to be a veteran.
- For a service member to retire he needs to serve for 20 years at the minimum, regardless of what age he joined the military or what age he is after 20 years of service.
With all that said , note that nearly everyone who served is technically "a veteran". (From the Army cook that got kicked out for failing a PT test during his first year , to the special forces staff sergeant who has 2 deployments under his belt...)
One last thing I should mention : You are not a veteran if you got out of the military with a dishonorable discharge. However, those are rare. You would literally have to like rape or stab some1 for you to receive such a discharge, lol.
Source :
2 Years active duty infantry in Belgian Army.
3 Years active duty armor crewman in US Army.
Currently infantry in National Guard
@@harryvh3356 correct, but I think the source for all of this would be the CFR Title 38. One's DD214 would confirm combat veteran status (;
Source: combat vet being told every waking moment being told there's a regulation for everything by an overly pretentious and self absorbed S3 who didn't even go on convoy when invited and yet complained when he didn't get a campaign medal because he undercut his time spent in country (but then did a little S1 magic and got it after the fact)
... sorry maybe I have a little beef that stuck with me...
@@juke2782 i understand your frustrations my dude. Thats why the good soldiers get out after 1 or 2 contracts.
24:37 yo...this one actually made me cry. That's heartbreaking.
Yeah the ending where she was shot and the backpack was only full of colouring books . That made my chest drop
Yeah this story made me cry like a baby
Yeah, that one hit hard
Very heartbreaking. But there wasn't much of a choice because honestly, kids are often used as a ruse and a weapon during wars which is horrible. Though I wish that decisions like that didn't have to be made at all.
@@TheMoonlightAsylum there was a choice lol. It's called warning shots, especially when involving children.
My grandfather has told me what I'm sure are probably some of his less intense war stories. Here's one that always stuck out to me. He was in Vietnam holding a hill with a couple hundred other soldiers. There was an ambush, and seemingly endless hordes of Vietcong came streaming out of the jungle. My grandfather and his men were horribly outnumbered and in danger of being completely overrun. He was holding a small entrenchment towards the top of the Hill with a few other guys. A guy next to him was manning a .50 cal. The machine gun operator got shot to shit and died. My grandfather took over the machine gun. He just kept shooting and shooting mowing down crowds of men as bullets whizzed past him and his men were being slaughtered around him. Eventually the gun started to overheat, and it got so hot that the heat coming off it was enough to start severely burning his hands and forearms. He couldn't stop shooting for even a second though. If he stopped even momentarily he would have been killed because of how outnumbered they were, so he just kept going despite the damage it was doing to his arms. He fully expected that him and all his men were going to be killed regardless. Eventually the stream of Vietcong stopped and none were left. My grandfather and a small handful of men were the only survivors. Well over a hundred men were dead on his side, and there was no time to count how many Vietcong they had killed. It was at least hundreds. They had to evacuate immediately as the Vietcong had only fallen back to regroup for another assault. They were flown out in helicopters. When he told this story I could somehow tell that he had other stories that were far worse that he couldn't tell us. I can't begin to imagine what they were.
There's way too many add placements in here. Jesus.
What do you expect? TTS videos like this take very little effort and with ads, make so much money..
@@holo1560 you're right. I personally felt given the subject matter of the video this wouldn't be the case. I felt compelled to not finish the video because of it.
Go all the way to the end and press replay ;)
@@germandungeonporn5263 YOU'RE A DAMN GENIUS! Btw German Dungeon Porn is 11/10
Get an adocker
I can usually breeze threw these things but after story two I'm done for the day. Gonna play Minecraft with my son.
Ur a good parent
reminds me and my dad playing og starwars battlefront 2. Your son is a lucky kid 👍
Some kid hung himself in our barracks during basic, I found his body
conner shepherd damn 😭
Pvt. Pyle
Section 8
My friend who is stationed up in Washington said suicides aren't uncommon. Most guys never get deployed but still end up killing themselves
Vesteroth why tho? What happens there driving them to suicide?
I'd say that invasion of Saudi for McD's was mostly, if not fully, true. If it's been months since you ate such food, gotta ease back into it if at all. You get bubble guts just jumping in fully.
The most common humoristic stereotype of an American is a McDonald's addicted chubby, so I think it was totally true.
McDonald’s is so good but will probably kill you faster than a insurgent lol.
Not related, but I served in the Swiss Armed Forces. Our troops sometimes accidentally invade Lichtenstein (really tiny neigbourimg country) during exercices and patrols and such bc most of the border sectors are unmarked. Just thought it was kinda funny to share.
indianafreeskiingcom I can only imagine how annoying and pissed off they got lol!!!
Lmao sounds like the stereotype of vikings raiding for food.
When you dream about giving a speech to the enemy and you have no pants.
come to find out, its no dream.
The little girl in vietnam was so effed up in so many levels..she was bringing gifts and she got a bullet in return.. also the baby that wqs chopped up is messed up to..
The little girl with the bomb :(
When I was in trade school a classmate who was a sharpshooter confessed killing alot of women and kids because they were getting close to the convoy and couldn't afford losing brothers.
The Last Mohican oh man! tough call. Can understand both sides. You have to protect your fellow soldiers and the mission comes first, but it’s so tragic to kill innocent civilians. Is it possible to capture, blindfold, then drop-off civilians far away? Probably still too risky.
@@Lily_of_the_Forest yes a very tough call to mass shoot civilians especially women and children who don't move away in time while you're invading their city
anon-iraq if they go tell the enemy where your team is, then yeah you have to take them out. It’s not like you invaded a peaceful country minding it’s own business. There is a reason you are fighting in the first place.
@@Lily_of_the_Forest
He said sergeant orders
"I was hungry and they were dead"
This line can be taken 2 ways...
Aha
Artist here, absolutely no tough guy background or upbringing.
That being said, American soldiers are some of my favorite people on Earth.
God bless you guys.
Dam why american?
@@mr_ocarlin5282 because they're the only ones I have any familiarity with probably.
@@mr_ocarlin5282 aside from that, I also appreciate the fact that they're answering the call of duty so I don't have to.
@Dominus Providebit are you American?
@Carson Laidlawlol cool story bro
I will forever be grateful for any soldier who has ever fought, the trauma they must have gone through, the constant fear of dying every living second, their friends being killed just a few feet away- I wish I was strong enough to risk my life like they are. because most of them don't ever come back. so thank you, veterans or any present soldiers, I thank you for your service.
They fight for oil. Not keeping us safe. The military today is run by evil American corporations
The second story where the father is bring in pillows and all things to make his son comfortable but the OP said he could tell straight away the little guy wasn't gonna make it..
Sad ay bro
If you've done something and are disgusted then that mean you have humanity in you too. Some of these are heartbreaking
My grandfather was a Vietnam Vet, 101st Airborne and took part in Hamburger Hill among other things. He died two weeks ago and I never once asked him for a war story and was always alright with his "sneaking beer into the camp" stories. I never wanted him to go back into the mindset he had to have been in during that hellish time period.
The boiling water one I needed to stop this video is one of the darkest Reddit posts I've ever seen in some regards
world is cruel And ugly
*its just a reverse ice bucket challenge*
gillecroisd 92 can’t be bothered to read all your shit but if you think women in the west don’t get beaten or burnt with hot water or even worse your stupid
@gillecroisd 92 Jesus dude, chill the fuck out. Shit ain't that serious.
gillecroisd 92 no where did I say the west is worse but your stupid if your saying women aren’t raped, killed or done worse in the west, it happens everywhere but yes it is worst in the Middle East but that shit happens everywhere, also everything your saying is based on one haji, why does he speak for everyone, and yes us in the west live a very different lifestyle the biggest problem they have with us is us invading there countries and then pushing our lifestyles on them, if the west just minded it’s own business most of the wars of the last 20 years would not have happned
The only thing I have to add, is that I have two cousins I never met who served 3 to 4 tours during the early 2000's, they both died to IED's, I didn't learn about this until 5 years ago.
I’m sorry for your loss may they Rest In Peace.
It’s almost disrespectful to have so many ads on this video 😪
Its his work. This happens everyday. Just because you havent had heard it before this video doesnt mean it didnt happen, and the editor cant do anything to change it. Its his work he has to earn as well.. Ik what you mean but still
Electro it’s not his work to screen shot and copy and paste into a auto reader
@@Aztive what do you even mean
@@Aztive Well you can go on Reddit and search for these if you want, I'd rather watch a short ad and enjoy this with auto reader than scrolling web pages for ages.
Stefan yeah I never said it isn’t convenient for us, but to put this many ads, even 2 ads is overdoing it
This was so messed up, but in a way made me thankful for the peaceful life I live and realize how insignificant so many of my “problems” really are
But people who get their gender mistook in public need counselling and safe spaces, I guess the veterans can just figure it out themselves.
Why cant both be true? Also we get free healthcare.
You're being a prick. Stop it.
I can compare the same things that make your life hard and compare them to a veterans. Everything is relative
Michael we have health insurance through tricare, every military member does and any veteran who reports on such mental illnesses derived from service, such as ptsd whilst they were serving, are still covered for that illness.
True respect for soldiers, going through so much, so I don't have to, thank you, and thank you for keeping us safe.
No...NO. Not thank soldiers. NO respect for them. We conveniently hide behind this nauseating privileged excuse of "War is hell" "kill or be killed" It is NOT respectable. All of those innocent civilians were living out their lives until OUR soldiers flew across the ocean to rip their homeland up to pieces. To act like they were justified and almost victimized by their hard choices is just putrid. I have ZERO respect for our soldiers. ESPECIALLY after Iraq or Afghanistan. MUCH less after Abu Ghraib or the Salt Pitt. You glorify them as victims who had the sorrow of having to kill or be killed or brushing it off as "War is hell" or "People die, it's just how it is" when WE invade THEIR nations on the other side of the fucking world! NO thanks, NO respect to our soldiers.
Every American would not feel the absolute slightest sympathy if Russia or China invaded America and were sobbing boo-hoo stories of their brave soldiers. So I don't for ours. You are not moral. You are not brave. You are not patriotic. You are not a hero. You're a murderer. If anyone killed your children or your family, everyone would be out for blood, but somehow, this nauseating country is fine with OUR soldiers flying across the country to murder other people's families. NO thanks, NO respect for the US military.
They fight for oil. Not keeping us safe
29:14 That sounds like the movie Jarhead.... I remember being pissed about wasting my money to see that movie,... but it makes sense years later that a lot of soldiers went through that
That's how I feel. I enlisted in 2010 and I never went to the middle East at all. I feel like I didn't contribute or wasn't a real warrior. Everyone says "well isn't that a blessing?" or something like that. Thing is, I don't know how to explain the call to want to go fight. I'm out now and moving on with my life, but I just have this hollow spot inside of me that feels incomplete and like I'm a fraud
Santiago Colla like in blackhawk down
Soldier: “I’ve been waiting my whole life for this”...
[touches ground immediately gets shot in head]
Prairie Climber
Blackburn? He didn’t die, he fell from the fast rope.
Santiago Colla
Don’t worry, the Ranger he’s talking about is Todd Blackburn, he didn’t die.
James Hartley it’s been a long while since I’ve seen that movie... maybe it was another movie I saw that part then, jeez I wish I could remember 🤔
This is a funny ptsd story I share with everyone I meet🤪
i would dream I heard my sarge shout platoon # you have 15 mins to pack to head to forward operating base #, I would stand at attention outside the room with an Umbrella and backpack, shouting some gibberish drill words.
2 mins later I came to my senses and realised I got my discharge almost 10 years ago, my parents and kids would stare at me rubbing their eyes, my dad would walk me to the backyard give me a beer and just have a little talk.😊
It happens every year, having a great family really helps no matter what situation you r in.
Hug and treasure those who never abandon you in your worst state🥺
I have the same thing. Coming back from the Marines, I would get up in the middle of the night and put on my utility uniform and gear up thinking I had to go do something.....other times I would get freaked out in normal places like the mall, and I'd use the bathroom there, me and my veteran friend litterally kicked the door in and invaded the bathroom like there was a threat behind the door and stalls....one guy inside was visibly scared as we came towards him yelling with our fist cocked back and he ran off....only 5 minutes later I realized what we had just done and how NOT normal that is in a mall bathroom....I was embarrassed as hell. I still hear Certain words like "ears" and my instant response is "open sir" or eyeballs "click sir" or various other commands, and I instantly spring into action and respond. This has embarrassed me around many people, ruined a few dates, I started crying on a first date because she asked me my worst war story and I just dissociated for like 5 minutes and had tears She got up and said "well you're clearly fucked up in the head and probably killed a kid or something. You can grab the check. I don't associate with nazi war criminals" (she was a stuck up liberal university student, so I should have seen that coming, I was just trying to get some pussy though...never cared what was in her head she was very fuckable. Fast forward 3 days, she apologizes and I end up fucking her in the back of my truck, she left her phone in my truck and i didn't know her name or how to find her, I still have her iphone 10, a year later lol. Karma's a bitch I guess?
Brandon Smith Fist bump for surviving, people whom have not being in military don’t realise the stress even during basic training.
I’m in cav unit recon, there r no marines here in Australia, but sas r behind enemy lines, follow by commando for special objects then us to scout around and patrol and the grunts follow after us.
Don’t worry about the girl you will find someone that can cope, but leaving after your contract is best, most girls dig fireman and not military or police
SethJr i call bullshit #1 , really you just happened to have an umbrella and backpack waiting....I’m betting you were facilities maintenance, motor T or civil affairs
That’s tough man I hope things get better more and more into the future for you and thank you for your service.
Gordon Ramsey I hope things get better for you Just stay strong my dude and nice job by the way getting that pussy also were you The army Cook lol and thank you for your service.
To all the soldiers I’m sorry what you have been through and have seen. I could never Imagine what It’s like to live your life after all of that but thank you for your sacrifice a lot of appreciate what you did.
8:10
My great grandpa was there too, German. Now the weapons situation wasn't that bad, but he got to Siberia too, coming home in 1951. Apparently the siberians could only spare raw herrings and onions. This man could eat a 4 inch long herring in 2 bites, but never touched an onion again.
The cossacks famously ate herring pickled in vodka. Those were definitely not scraps, so your great grandpa was eating just as well as they were. lol
@@Kaipyro67ALT did I not explicitly mention that the herring was raw?
Also he still ate herring afterwards so that was surely better than raw onion, although I would guess herring wasn't nearly as often "served"
@@janm7163 , Herring in wine sauce is raw. And delicious.
I wish I could give every soldier in this video a fat hug and thank them. They’ve seen shit no human regardless of country should have seen. My heart goes out to them and their family
Meanwhile the families of the dead civilians: 😐
My dad told me that Vicks vapo rub he kept asking for, was actually to mask the scent of the dead bodies, or burn victims he saw. Apparently if you put it under your nose, that's the only thing you can smell. This spread through his entire squad, and so every time we would send him gifts/snacks. There would always be vicks vapo rub.
I asked him if it really worked, and to prove it to me, he took a raw piece of deer ribs he hunted earlier, and set it in the garage for about a week during the hottest summer I've ever seen. (we're talking over 103F outside) Then he told me to put some vix under my nose, and to walk in there. I didn't smell anything, then he told me to go into the kitchen and rinse it off, and to walk back in. Worst shit I've ever smelt, my eyes instantly watered up, and i felt like I was gonna puke. When I tried to go back inside my dad stopped me, and said "Now Imagine what a human smells like, who's been blown apart, and sitting in 110 weather for about 6 days."
Can't believe he went through that.
Holy shit thats realistic
25:05 This makes my heart sick for that poor soldier, and for that poor little girl, an innocent killed because of the evils comitted by other people that cost her her life
I do something similar as the guy with cigarettes, an old friend of mine joined the army and I joined the marine corp in the few times we saw each other afterwords we would smoke and have a nice long conversation about random shit, he was killed in a motorcycle accident after his first deployment so now I light up one for him every once in a while
Sorry for you’re loss
Thanks for your service, what do you think the chances of dying in the marines is or was, I’m considering joining
What was his name?
Sorry for your loss may he Rest In Peace and thank you for your service.
My grandfather fought in the korean war. He was super adament that none of his kids or grandchildren served in the military. I asked him about the war and all he’d talk about was being sea sick on the way over there. A friend of his that was “shell shocked” from his time in the korean war passed away and my grandfathers one military friend that he visited twice a year from iowa came to the funeral. After the funeral grandpa asked me if I still wanted to hear about what happened in korea, I said yes! I was 13 and excited to be let in on the real story. We went to the vfw post and my grandfather and his friend shared stories about starving, freezing and killing that blew my mind. My grandfather was the kindest gentlest man i knew and it became obvious why he didn’t want anyone he loved to go through something like that.
💜 BLESS YOUR HEART FOR SHARING THIS EBEN. GOD BLESS YOUR GRANDFATHER 🙏 NOW YOU UNDERSTAND WHY YOUR GRANDFATHER FELT THAT WAY.
I'M FROM IOWA TOO 😊💜
I think this is a good avenue for people to be able to say things that they have been holding inside. I hope it helps people mentally to just be able to tell how they felt and what they saw or did for the first time. It should be judgement free.
To any Vets and any Active Duty soldiers, thank you for your service. Regardless of your nation, you have put your physical self on the line as well as your mental self. To me, and many others, that is the ultimate sacrifice.
War is hell.
We never did get that logslide.
And you brought it to the poor countries that can't defend themselves
@@magnuscoles5010 yeah!
It was all his fault!
Make sure you all blame him!
@Asserting Word no, the middle East throughout its history had less wars than Europe, and the recent wars were all caused by Westerners.
kareem hashimi middle east has been a shithole warzone even before america pulled up you fookin donkey
To all the veterans out there who have served or are serving.....I just want to say thank you...for your bravery and sacrifice
That the perk *Sleight of Hand* is not a mere joke, but it’s true.
My family has a history of men who served during wartime and peacetime. I married a Vietnam vet I cannot begin to express the love and gratitude I have for the men and women who serve so that we have an opportunity to live in a country where we have a chance to live what some call normal lives. The burden and the nightmares of War aren't left on the battlefield, but they remain with those who served. Thank you so much for your service.
thank you for not putting music behind this video.
hi there …… can you tell me who is the winged dude in your icon *?*
+Dapper_Dog1 :-D heyyyy thank you so much for helping me out with that! And your user icon is even cuter hahaa! He *IS* very "dapper"
Not ashamed to admit that this full grown man shed tears for these soldiers' stories. I lost contact with many soldiers that I grew to know in basic training.
You should do this more often, ima join the army infantry and this puts everything into perspective and it made me appreciate life more, the friendships, family (even tho mine was fucked), and relationship... it made me rethink everything I’ve gone through and my future thank you
as a former infantryman. don't. if you want to serve. join the engineers or a mechanic or something with a trade. set you self up for something you can easily translate to the civilian world. if you do join the infantry. work you ass off now. you want to be able to run marathons. get airborne school. join the rangers or special forces 11X. seriously. I can. NOT. stress the importance of running. infantry run. a lot. like seriously ALOT. look up feet care. always keep them dry. wool socks for ruck marches. deodorant like Gillette sport to put on your groin on the inside of your legs. it will help keep you from chaffing your thighs/nuts. that's the best advice I can give my young brothers.
Wasn't infantry but artillery... we had some very personal moments with the Taliban and the locals in Helmand. I'll tell you this... just don't. Join the Air Force. Go to college. Maintain your sanity and health. I've spent 8 years in the Marines and I'm getting medically separated from the Army. War is ugly.... very very ugly. There's nothing glorious or noble about it.
@@thomasmoseley4015 this. If I knew what I did then. I wouldn't be such a sociopathic wreck now. Part of me regrets joining. Just because of the shit you endure. For what? For a piece dirt the afgans or Iraqis dont even give a shit about them selves. I agree with tom. Go air force. I wish I wouldve. Be smart dont follow us. War is ugly. And once you experience. You will never forget it.
@krispy kreme lol ok
PLZKILL personally I wanna be in that field because I understand wat is ugly and is unfair but I mean someone has to do it and plus with my life experiences so far I believe it’ll be a good fit for myself. I’ve done sports all my life and even several combat sports, I plan on trying to be law enforcement like police or swat maybe even federal if can be but I also wanna spend my years for college to be a psychologist for former or current military personnel. But I some what understand the shit hole ima be put into but I won’t know fully till I’m there. 11b hopefully
Thank you soldiers for your service, may you all find peace
“If your lord commands you to kill children, your lord is Evil.”
- David Seaworth Game of Thrones
Davos Seaworth, but we got the quote.
I like this quote.
i broke down hearing these. i haven’t cried in a year in a half. THANK YOU SOILDERS
Our rules of engagement got so many people killed and hurt who should not have been. That is a recurring tragedy here.
Everything is such a headache nowadays I hate thinking about it.
The emotional pain of the very first story was shattering.
I asked this same question on reddit once and it got deleted for insensitivity
I love how talking about the truth is insensitive. 🤦🏻♀️ Not giving these soldiers any other options for an outlet is insensitive
Wow spelled backwards.
I served under a Staff Sergeant who had both of his legs blown off in Iraq. He had prosthetic legs and was still able to serve. He ran the fastest 3 mile in the Company. His motivation being that he wouldn't let anyone or anything keep him down
Out of all of these 16:29 was the worse I cried for a good five minutes. My grandpa had to go through the same thing but with three friends he was never the same after that my grandma said but when I came along I guess he hated my existence but at the same time loved me with all his heart. I felt so bad when my grandma told me that but I got to know him a bit better but he died a few years ago and I was finally starting to know him more. A silent salute and prayer for all the soldiers that died
18:00 "But I was hungry and they were dead"
Now there's a fucking quote.
As a Navy Corpsman attatched to a usmc unit deployed twice in Iraq, I can tell you, few civilians will understand the shit we had to deal with out there...the deaths, the smells, the situations...R.I.P to those who passed 1st Battalion 8th Marines 03 - 05 during operation phantom fury.
my grandfather took part of the invasion of hue city when he was there he told me about going into a ruined building inside was a dead woman and her baby my grandfather took the baby and had him crattled in his arms when he fell asleep. when he woke up the baby had passed in his arms he told me he had never cried for the things he saw and did while he was there but seeing the dead baby in his arms wrecked him. i miss my grandfather i wish i could sit and sip some whisky with him he was a good man. war is truly hell.
This is war
this is what soldiers have to deal with
Hopefully ww3 doesn’t break out
NashTheDemi it won’t lol i don’t get why everyone’s saying that. Neither russia or china will do anything because US took out some terrorist general.
Shibaaa
Idk man, they definitely don’t give a shit about the dead guy but they do care about how the us has to defend itself now and how easily it would be for Russia to form an armistice with the Ayatollah
Seth Gaston Russia said they won’t intervene. Nothings going to happen, the media and a lot of leftist/liberals make it seem worse as it really is.
And y’all wanna protest and make fun Im active duty infantry and I’m sickened by it
A very good friend of mine told me the most horrific stories about his time in the military. I've known this man since we were kids. I can honestly say as a civilian, I cant begin to emphasize. The only way you can understand it is to experience it. Thank the veterans for service, and sacrifice
these are devastating.
No. What's devastating are the innocent victims of US imperialism.
@@onliner10000 they could both be devastating?
@@martinaseidel3316 its gross.. It's really just plain gross. There are literally people rushing to the defense of our soldiers. Thousands of men with the most advanced weapons in the world can literally fly to the other side of the ocean, kill and murder as well as rape civilians just to get treated as innocent victims of horrible circumstances. It is PUTRID.
Somewhere around 23:00, it said .50 cal but the bot said it as 50 calories
I cant remember the last time I cried, but the story at 24:40 made me cry like a baby
qwickwaffles I was at the one before this and when I saw this one and herd the thing say she was carrying a backpack, I was like oh god run. But then when the story ended I wanted to cry but couldn’t. All I can do is just sit here replying to this comment with a blank expression on my face but sad inside.
the amount of ads in this video is kind of off putting with the fact a lot of these people are scarred for life, makin money off their horror stories lol
And entertainment.
Horror stories of realizing they are murderers and imperial swine
The poor girl in the first story😢😢😢
I joined the military in peacetime. My biggest fear is that I will complete my military service and never get a chance to serve my country and honour those who fought before me by sharing the burden of combat. It seems all I will do is workout, sweep floors and sit on my ass. I cringe when people thank me for my service, especially on remembrance day. What service? I'm not even a soldier. Don't waste your breath on me. I've done absolutely nothing. The uniform almost feels to heavy to wear. I don't deserve it. I am an expensive LARPer.
Honestly im glad that you’ve been straight with everyone. Just know I really appreciate you.
War isn't the only mark of a true soldier, you know...
Edit: Killing someone doesn't make you more of a soldier, either...
You're the fire extinguisher hanging on the wall. Just because you weren't taken down and blasted all over a roaring fire doesn't mean you weren't waiting, ready to do your work on a moment's notice. That's more than enough.
How you gonna have elevator music to stories this devastating? You're robbing the whole essence of darkness being thrown in here
So dark i heard no music
Wait..there was music!?
All Soldiers if ur reading this Thank You For Serving. Make a Veterans Day and tell them that.
These are stories they can never share again as “stories you’ve never shared before”
Pawpaw was pfc, 2ID, infantry, Korea. One of the first onshore. Never spoke about it until he was in his seventies and dying. Comfort measure meds made him a little loopy in his sleep. He was in country 7 months. Purple heart. Stuck on a hill, over run. Bad intel, foggy mor ing when they advanced to take the hill. Wound up having to call in danger close airstrike. Killed 8 U.S. wounded another 60 or so, he was one of them. Killed some 130 enemy and wounded another large cluster...with the airstrike. Not counting what they killed before calling it in. Anyway, blew his gyts out, took shrapnel everywhere, spent 3 months in hospital. No limbs lost. Only talked about it then when he was on his way out. 77 years old and shear terror in his voice while he slept. Never even heard him raise his voice when i was growing up. Apparently though he was pretty messed up when he first got home for several years. Remember my dad telling me how he and his brothers would be running new fence for the cows. Pawpaw would be keeping the posts in line from the hill. Lining up the posts with the crosshairs of his scope. Gun was unloaded of course but....yea. i never served. Bunch of friends and family have. Went with my uncle to visit one of our cousins and his kid's on his birthday. We kids were about the same age then. Cousin was a vet. To what extent he served i'm not sure. Heard messed uo stories from other family years later about his service. Anyway, his wife left him the night before. Left the kids with him. Uncle and I pull up. See kids on front steps. I jump out running to play, notice blood on their hands and face and they're crying. Cousin had taken a 12 ga. and ended it. When you read stories about brain matter and skull fragments etc being everywhere from a suicide. Can confirm. I was only 8. His kids were 6 and 4.... pretty fucked up. See it a dream now and then. Not scary but like an awful sense of impending doom where everything is super slowed down and you can't really move...
imagine the story “back in my day i raided a whole country with about 4-5 of my boys to eat some mcdonald’s”
Respect for these people for sharing. I cannot imagine the mental anguish of war
Imagine being a civilian caught up in western tyranny
My grandfather was in Korea and Vietnam. In one of the wars, he was showering and heard a gun go off. He rushed out and was escorted to the latreens where he had to identify a buddy who had taken his ownlife. He only had 2 weeks until he was going to be sent home
15:53 To the soldier or marine using a throwaway account whose friend was thrown 10 yds from his vehicle from an IED and died in your arms. Stateside, his 5 year old asked how he died and you didn't know how to respond.
My father was KIA in Vietnam when I was 4-1/2. My advice is this, tell her the truth. Tone down the details of course. Tell her that her dad died with courage doing his job trying to help people get rid of evil people from their homes. He was helping his fellow soldiers.Tell her about her dad and what he meant to you and your comrades. Tell her how good he was at his job. Share some good memories you had of him. Someday she will fully appreciate what you did for her by giving her the truth. You'll spare her a lifetime of questions, doubt and anger not knowing. I speak from experience on this. Not knowing is much worse. Knowing a painful truth is always better than not knowing. Because in the absence of the truth, her mind can (and will) imagine 1,000 worse scenarios.
Thanks for sharing your story. I hope the sharing eases your pain and helps you heal.
Currahee!
I almost didn't watch this after the first story. The imagery and pain, I could just visualize the whole heartwrenching mayhem.
But the vietnamese girl with the crayons. That destroyed me. I don't think I have the mental capacity to be a soldier.
War is tough man it will fuck you up mentally physically emotionally spiritually financially but you got to keep on going with life keep on throwing the punches and I hope everyone here stays strong and the people who have died and risk their lives so we can live our lives May you Rest In Peace i’ve had family in wars and I am Magine they have seen some things they can never forget but I do hope that things get better as time goes on and finally thank you to everyone for their service. ❤️
This is why I hate people who throw around that they have PTSD from stupid stuff like being yelled at by their parents or while they worked at Target. It diminishes these Warriors wounds. It diminishes their suffering.
PTSD can be used in multiple context. I have nothing but the highest respect for these people who shared their stories. Perhaps Military PTSD should be its own category of PTSD all together. Others can have PTSD though too - some people had extremely abusive parents who tortured them and even sexually abused them. Some people are in desperate conditions and for whatever reason need that job at Target or Walmart and they have bosses who are total sociopaths (I have worked for a couple of people like this. When you don't have a lot of experience and have bills to pay and the hiring market is really bad you are forced to put up them while the scream, yell and berate you on a daily if not hourly basis. I worked with one guy who's supervisors gave him so much shit, he had bad kidneys before, and they got even worse (guy ended up needing a transplant) and even his Dr said it was because of the stress (guy couldn't quit because he needed the insurance for obvious reasons).
Me and my siblings have PTSD from an abusive upbringing. I agree with @Hob Goblin, military PTSD should be a category of its own. While we a have our struggle, it's seems shallow and pales in comparison to the shit military personnel go through.
PTSD can be a lot of things. a lot of differences in the severities of ptsd though. Anything from falling off a bike and breaking your arm to murder to watching your friends die to rape to car wreck to death to being bullied. but yeah a lot of people throw around PTSD like its nothing, Its like how not many people know a lot about autism but they scream about it constantly. or someone organizes their m&ms before eating them as if they had OCD and my favorite they throw suicide around like its nothing. Rape is apparently if someone even lightly accidently inconveniences someone anymore. Modern day shit really throws what others have seen under the buss and makes it as if they never had anything wrong with them. People at my school claim they are going to kill themselves over a pencil being in the wrong spot when im over here getting bullied and being suicidal for years. This video was intense. ive seen shootings on videos and had no reaction but this nearly brought tears to my eyes (im almost ashamed). these peoples suffering shouldn't go untreated and shouldn't be put down like everything else. These guys went through a lot and we could never even imagine what they saw. Fuck that would suck so badly. I hope all these problems get helped all the real ones atleast. thank you for everyone that was in the military. especially those medics, combat boys, and anyone that had to deal with war. (sorry for the wall of text I hope its not to confusing or to off topic)
Trauma is trauma
18:00 "But I was hungry and they were dead. Not much to be done otherwise." Man that sounded like it was gonna go somewhere else QUICK!
Some parts o this made me cry. I've been a Marine for 5 years.
Fuck, man,
Man I came here looking for military secrets and left with depression