Why YOU NEVER Volunteer In War First
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War in general isn’t a pleasant place to be, however, it's quite clear that there are some jobs that are simply worse than others. While some soldiers may find themselves in unfortunate positions through direct orders of command, there are other roles that people have willingly volunteered for... and then discovered exactly why it was a terrible, terrible idea. Here are some jobs throughout military history you absolutely do NOT want to volunteer for.
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"I need 5 volunteers."
"what for, Sergeant?"
"I need 4 volunteers."
😂
“What did you say sarge?”
“Make that 3 volunteers”
😂😂😂😂literally how it works
😊
diidieidkdkkd@@macko1416
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You never want to be the first attacking wave.
Not true. Sometimes you volunteer to drive if it’s freezing and you know the vehicle has a heater. You just have to know where to play your hand.
Ah the first wave or first encounter dudes.
Poor dudes but a necessary sacrifice to move forward..
Something a person who was blown out of the sky by an alien spaceship after going to a secret research facility as a first respondent to an invasion of said aliens would of course know.
Isn't that right Mr. Shepard?
@@lampionmancz Being an MTF operative is worse.
Well, there is the chance of becoming a nobleman if you actually managed to breech the castle gate. Poor odds of surviving to achieve that though
Fun fact:
Half of this stuff he says "don't volunteer for" is not a volunteer position. It's punishment duty or part of a regular rotating duty that is passed among all members of a unit.
Latrine duty is rotated or is assigned as a punishment.
Night watch can't even be volunteered for - its on rotation so that day-time operations aren't hindered by a portion of your force constantly at risk of exhaustion
Yes, but it's not always like that, there are cases when they may suddenly allocate someone for another duty and they will ask around if anyone is willing to volunteer to take that person's shift plus your own.
@nyandesu9165
"No volunteers, eh? Alright, nyan, you are ordered to volunteer for this vital and thank you for your dedication to unit morale."
The phrase is *literally called* being "volun-told."
Voluntold
@@nsahandler "Alright, nya"
That's how wars should end before they start
NAVY = never again volunteer yourself
Lived that...also, if you did a great job, the higher ups would get the recognition even if they never even showed up to the jobsite or even if they didn't know what was being done.
FTN
=P
@@daemon.mythos in any organization that has a complex structure of leadership, good results of a team are seen as the results of good leadership until proven otherwise.
😂😂😂
Been there, done that, am gay now
"We have reviewed your case and determined your injury is not service related...." 😢
Waiiit is this an actual thing like...my leg was blown off due to a bomb or something and they'd view it as not service related????
@@fryyiy1322 It's based on the fact they seem to try to get out of paying your benefits. 😂😢😢😂
@@fryyiy1322 yeah because essentially they are trying not to pay your claims so as to save the government money as if the government needs money to be saved. Troops are expendable that's the way they see it.
Countless veterans have been left destitute since the VA refuses to pay for medical treatment.
This is why the stereotype of the homeless population consisting of mostly old man hobos all being war veterans exists.
@@fryyiy1322Maybe not that extreme. If you get a leg blown off in combat, they can't really fight that. But for things like hearing loss, joint damage, respiratory damage due to asbestos and Agent Orange, etc, the VA will try to do everything they can to deny your claim and keep you under a certain percentage of disability. My dad is fighting it right now after serving our country in Vietnam. Thankfully there are a lot of resources now that try to counter the VA's bullshit.
Mustard gas would also cling onto uniforms so when a soldier went from a cold environment such as out in the trench, where the mustard gas is a light fairly harmless powder, to a warmer environment such as oh, say a bunker where it's nice and warm, chaos ensues. Upon warming, the powder reverts back to a gas thus causing casualties amongst the bunker dwellers. Nasty, insidious stuff.
On top of that it's my understanding that it was a more lethal response to the French implementing chlorine gas which was meant to maim; while mustard gas would also leave some lingering effects. I'm unfamiliar with the more toxic gases mentioned and always heard of mustard gas as being the deadliest in use at the time.
Damn I didn’t know about that. Scary stuff
@@derchozenvun83 The french first used tear gas. Gas warfare developed after that.
@@Trebor74 thanks, I understood that the French introduced gas warfare to the front in WWI and that the Germans went for a more direct approach that inevitably wound up being more a weapon of affliction than slaying despite the intent of its creation.
Thanks. I was debating it, but now i know that ill NEVER volunteer for WW1
How about WW2?
@@lieutenant8968Hell yeah. In the 101st Airborne Division
@@candelariocardenas8783*band of brothers theme starts playing
In Chess you send the Pawns first♟ ♟ ☠️☠️
Wise words.
You can also send the knights too but yeah.
Knights are better equipped and have the option to retreat@@Textago
@@Textagoknights=modern cavalry 💀
Survival chance lower than infantry if sent first.
Second Rook.
An old Sgt told me, be first in the chow line, first in the pay line, and NEVER volunteer for anything. He also said, never stand when you can sit, never sit when you can lie down, and never lie down without copping some z's. Oh, and always eat all you can. When you can because you may not get another chance.
A lot of us have seen ‘The Pacific’ as well, buddy 😂
@@ismarwinkelman5648 I haven't but I'll laugh at plagiarism
@@ismarwinkelman5648bro really tried lol
You served with captain haldane? How cool.
@@ismarwinkelman5648Actually, my experience is real. 10 years in the Marine Corps. I learned from some salty NCOs. Unlike today's youth, whose life experience comes from pop culture and social media. As to The Pacific, I don't watch such stuff. I have seen the real thing, and no media can duplicate it.
The Marine Corps taught me never volunteer until you are voluntold 😂😂😂
Like conscription?
Haha 😂 right for sure ooorah
My grandfather (who was in the British Army) always told my father, who told me: "Never volunteer for *anything*." He knew that when somebody starts asking for volunteers, it is almost always for a job that is dangerous, unpleasant, or both. Why else would they have to try to find people to do it?
during my brief stint as a reservist, my section commander openly told me he didnt like me and if we didnt know where we were taking fire from, on exercise, it was me and my fireteam partner who were told to go first while everyone else would watch where we got shot from. good times?
Wtf????
☠ Hurt him back by saying, he's the weakest link himself and you'd never want to deploy with him
id tell him make sure i never get issued frag grenades
lmao god speed you magnificent man
let me guess.. a stray grenade enter his tent when he was sleeping?
My friends dad volunteered to join the military during the Vietnam War. His draft number was pretty low so he decided to have a little more say in what branch he'd join and what'd he do. Because of this he was able to enroll in special forces training to become a green beret. He had to remain state side for a bit longer to complete his training and once his training was complete, the war was winding down and he was never shipped over seas.
Same exact thing happened to my step-father. He knew he was doomed when they pulled a super draft low number for his birthday (I believe it was #12), so he choose to volunteer instead, knowing he would get a much greater say in what he did and where he was deployed. Because of that he was able to showcase how smart of a young lad he was and ended up getting assigned to a (relatively) very comfy missile base in (what was at the time) Eastern Germany for the entire duration of the war. Crazy to think about what would have happened had your friend's dad and my step-dad not had the wisdom and foresight to volunteer instead of letting themselves get drafted...
Eastern Germany was Russian controlled at the time of the Vietnam War. I'm calling BS in this one.
@@WarentesterMaybe he meant Berlin. Surrounded by the GDR but still with allied bases
@@kaiserthescouser8067 That would still be West Germany. But this said, the United States Army Berlin had no missile base in Berlin.
How?
The US government testing mustard gas on active servicemen and not continuing the long term research is a classic government move.
YOU want them to continue the research😳
@@johnumukoro1244 they didn’t follow through with the long term research. Due to the unpopularity of the program they essentially stopped conducting observations and allowed for the damage to the soldier’s health without gaining the most out of the research. I’m not saying they should have used more subjects, but rather follow through on the ones who were already tested on.
Bit of a mild one though, compared to what they did with those nuclear tests etc.
Mustard gas tests are not mild but yes they did worse with the nuclear tests or with what they did to everyone in the last years
My father was a WWII combat vet Silver Saar Bronze Star and 3 Purple Hearts. When I joined USAF in 1972 he said never volunteer for anything. He said his unit had been in combat for weeks when they got to rest. The Lt. said we need volunteers for truck drivers. Lots of the guys said great and volunteered. Later my father saw them using wheelbarrows hauling dirt and rocks. These were the only storied my father told about the war.
wouldnt they just lose trust to the superiors if they got treated like that?
@@seanpaulmagbanua745 it's the military. You must not ever been in military. lol
@@seanpaulmagbanua745 why do you think the americans started fragging people first
Being a tunnel rat would be the worst. I think they wanted them to be 5’5” at the most? Thank god I’m 5’6”.
Thank god I'm full sized
I’m 6’ 2”, so I’d be out of that duty thankfully! All the power and respect to the soldiers who had to perform that task though 🫡 🇺🇸
Another Shorty L
@@kotzpenner sure, whatever you say man.
@@kotzpenner Taller people more likely to die than shorter people due to blood circulation and bone support.
The fastest way to clear a room in the army is for someone saying "I need 4 volunteers"
I was new out of basic training assigned to the engine room on an oiler in 1968. The NCOS thought they'd screw when they asked me to volunteer to look for some "shore line". It was 120 degrees in the engine room, but above deck, where I looked for the remaining 3 hours of my watch it was only mid 80s. When I went back they thought it was funny
Knowing how military works, if they don't want you to sleep on duty, then they should let you sleep properly to begin with.
You don’t always get to sleep on a battlefield
@@user-hj4hg5cy6g Soldiers get rotated on a weekly basis even in the worst parts of the front in WW1, no excuse for making your troops sleep deprived when they've got a war to win
@@ReikerForge Forget rotation and sleep, Nazl scientist literally invented the captain America super soldier serum at the end of the war. Good ole Chocolate bar mixed with a improved recipe of Speed, Pure Columbian Chalk and rocks from Afghanistan. According to the old research this stuff will having you running 40 miles in four hours while carrying 40 kilos (80 pounds) of gear.
@@user-hj4hg5cy6g Yes, but only once....
I'm suffering chemical poisoning. "Oh we're sorry, here have a glass of milk, it will make you feel better."
Dairy fat actually cleans and heals the lungs, welders used to always drink a lot of whole milk to clean the lungs
good luck mate, have enjoyed watching your content for quite some time!
Well, if I'm ever at Passchendaele during WW!, I'll make sure to not volunteer
you forgot . at the end and 1 after WW, you forgot your home keys at weed shop.
you welcom3:*
@@AbsoluteMrGamer What on earth are you talking about?
Instructions unclear now im yellow and somehow working in a latrine in 1916 in france.
@08:48 Honestly considering the sheer level of destruction and death, only 128 nurses dying in WWI shows how chivalrous the sides were when it came to targeting Healthcare
This was a very interesting video, well done Simple History. That's why some soldiers never considered volunteering for these duties because they were either deadly or simply unpleasant. It also pains me of the suffering those people went through and how it affected them for the rest of their lives😔.
Excellent work dudes!!
The first time that mustard gas used in combat wasn’t in Ypres in 1917, as stated in the video. It was during the second battle of Ypres in 1915. What you guys mentioned is the third battle of Ypres and by then mustard gas had been used quite a lot of times. Should take more time double-checking these things, being a history channel.
The first use of mustard gas was in 1917, 1915 was the first use of chlorine gas and poison gas in general. I don't know why, but if you google "first use of mustard gas" all of the sources talk about the first use poison gas in general even though you asked about mustard gas specifically, and they don't even say that they are talking about chlorine gas so it's easy to get it mixed up with mustard gas since that's what you looked up. You have to actually click the links and read the articles to realize that they are talking about chlorine gas instead of mustard gas.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustard_gas#History it says "Mustard gas was first used in World War I by the German army against British and Canadian soldiers near Ypres, Belgium, "on the night of July 12, 1917.""
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK236059/ it says "As outlined above, prior to the actual use of sulfur mustard as a war gas in 1917, the substance was little more than an interesting compound produced,"
These were the first 2 sources about mustard gas that I checked.
Well, it is simple history made by simple people who don't fact check
Don't be first, never be last, and never volunteer for anything!
What if others comment after you
What do you mean by never be last?
correction: first use of poison gas (chlorine gas) was in the second battle of ypres in 1915, not 1917.
He never said poison gas was first used in 1917. He said specifically mustard gas was.
@@owenpook2262"using weapons LIKE mustard gas" I took that as gas in general. Would be a weird phrasing if he specifically meant mustard gas. But to be fair to you and the video, after listening to it again, I'm splitting hairs
04:41 in combat/war you have to take shifts on night duty, this is called 'Stag'
00:14 they kept on doing this until recent eras called 'Forlorne Hopes', meaning 'Abandoned Hope' because there was no/little chance of survival
Average Japanese Kamikaze:
'First time?'
Whos asking them?
@@RussianNationalist the ones that had "engine problems" on the first run.
@@jpowens2253Or couldn't find a suitable target before fuel levels became too low. Even these extra-expendable pilots were deemed too valuable to simply waste.
I never volunteered for anything but i was voluntold quite a bit.
Army joke: Captain received news that Pvt Kowalski's mother had passed away. The Captain and his Lieutenants talked about how they should tell him. They decided it best that the First Sgt should do it. Off he went and he gathered the platoon. The First Sgt had everyone fall in. The First Sgt said "Everyone who has a mother raise your hand". Then said "Not you Kowalski"
Im 💯 % sure this video thumbnail is based on the scene where Blythe got shot when he volunteered to scout the farmhouse at the tv series Band of Brothers!
I read this somewhere probably a WW2 US Army quote:
Never volunteer
Never be the first
Never be the last
Unlike as shown in show, he actually survived the shot and went on to live a long life.
@@ghost28896long life is a bit of an overstatement. He served in Korea after the war but died in the mid 1960’s to my knowledge
yeah, then you still gonna die for sure.
@@ghost28896 he lived a mid life.
Age 44, Albert Blithe died in 1967 while on active duty at Germany due to a perforated ulcer.
What happened on the tv series is most easy company guys have not been in touch with Blithe since he got shipped off due to his injury. So most likely they thought he died.
Also a fault on the writer of the tv series as well for not fact checking with the Army if he really died. Atleast we know he lived on as an Army man till the end. RIP Albert!
@@ghost28896 unless you want to live on with long term disfigurements
Ernst Jünger: “Lol. Lmao, even.”
Nice touch with the subtle movie references at the beginning of this clip.
You should never start a war first
You literally have the Isreali flag as yout profile pic 💀
Tell that to Putin...
Simple History can you a video on the worst military despots in history.
I learnt 75% of history from Simple History. Thank you.
thats sad
I have not so fond of my CO regularly walking in and saying "I need 3 volunteers, You, You, and YOU. Let's GO!". WE didn't volunteer for nuttin'!
Could you do a video on the Irish Brigade or the Royal Catholic Army of Vendée France; both have interesting and extensive history
0:18 yet in every movie the main actor is always the one to climb first while also magically coordinating the whole platoon somehow
Probably because it makes for some quite unheroic scenes if the so heroic protagonist is sacrificing his own people to ensure his own safety in battle.
First guy: “I’m not going out there.”
Second guy: “I’m not going out there.”
Third guy: “I’m not going out the- oh. I’m last. Well, god preserve me.”
I’d volunteer for AWOL
I remember being in crap situations and they would ask volunteers. I always did thinking it would be better then the current situation. It never was and I never learned lol.
I remember watching as a kid "The Greatest Tank Battles in History" on Discovery. The show featured context explanation, 3D battle animation, and it was told not from the POV of generals, but common soldiers, who were guests talking themselves. To this day I remember what one American or Brit said: "I've learned that #1 rule in war is to NEVER volunteer for anything. You get an order, then you do it, but as long as it's not an order, always refuse, no matter how trivial or safe it seems".
More or less like that.
When i was younger in school, i saw my seniors watching simple history. And as a young junior, I hoped that would happen to me too, but it uh never happened sadly.
That was the first thing I picked up on in basic lol I use to be back head down and all allowing the high speed soldiers do the dirty work like it was going to get them anywhere lol Good times
When a draft is in effect, you _actually_ want to volunteer by joining the Coast Guard. Stay home and protect our waters while everyone else gets drafted onto the frontlines.
6:16 the Connaught rangers I recognise the cap badge as I own an original
My dad says the same thing. He was a CO in ‘Nam.
This reminds me of Tanya the devil where she send some nobles to a „safe” observation post.
They were happy to be going there - until the enemy artillery killed them all as easy targets.
0:06 Saving Private Ryan
"War's tragedy is that it uses man's best to do man's worst." - Harry Emerson Fosdick
If they Come to my country i'm signing up straight away
4:15
Speaking of which....
This rarely ever gets mentioned when history is talked about.
Read about the Edgewood Experiments. Happened in Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland.
Can we please acknowledge how much more advanced this guys animations have gotten
Well someones gotta start off the battle
It’s a matter of respawning in a closer place
I volunteered to go get water when we did an assault. Nearly got blown up for it.
My father was a Sergeant in the Army. One of the best pieces of advice he ever gave me was "Never volunteer."
You never want to be in GTA5 Online 10Th Wave gang attack
A couple of years ago I mixed cleaning products while doing the bathroom. I realised i shouldn't have done that quickly enough and flushed the toilet and left ASAP, but now I'm paranoid that I might devellop something. But I went to the doctor, asked about it and told me not to worry, that if something should have happened, it would have been more inmediate, but she even checked my resporation, but still, I'm paranoid
My great great grandfather said about the great war you don't volunteer for different places you are needed like night watch or something else. If you refuse. You get shot, or if lucky enough you had to crawl on no mans land to place mines or do things
In fact, I would volunteer. What do you prefer, fighting with someone who wants to fight or with someone who doesnt want to?
Yeah, in my time in service, we didn't have volunteer. We had voluntold!!
I've never been here this early before
The Australian and New Zeland nurses were tough as nails in WW1 and WW2
The Forlorn hope 😬
Like the phrase goes: 'Every rule/warning have its history'. Volunteering,especially at war, is something you should do only when you are very, very, sure what you are getting into. Especially if it's involve government stuff.
You also wouldn’t ever want to be a tunnel rat or other similar job in a confined space I would think, love the vids, keep up the good work!❤❤
In a perfect world, the children of leadership and politicians would require to serve first in any major conflict or declaration of war. That of course would never happen, thus is the world.
Stalins son was captured. The Germans offered to trade him and Stalin refused. His died in custody in Sachsenhausen camp. So it doesn’t necessarily work.
@@robplazzman6049 Oh man I remember that story from history class! Yeah…cringe…….
My great grandfather fought the Japanese in the Philippines and sadly died there..! BUT; not before he left behind my great grandmother with a family of 14 that’s multiplied into the 100s now , all the men who never made it back would do it again in a heartbeat if they were to see the fruits of all their sacrifice!!
Hey can you please make a video of the gun truck of vietnam war please and thank.
Did anyone else get a Frenchs mustard commercial durring the mustard gas part? 😅
"he(she) needs some milk"- meme should have popped up somewhere at around 7:35!
How do you make videos like this?
My drill seargant Gomez, from fort jackson, said im the guy you send in first..... i had a feeling he was saying some evil shyt.
Were not most victims of WWI men who were drafted for military service? When do women register for the draft today?
Dang, not even 30 seconds in and we have a scene from saving privet Ryan
SOMEONE HAS TO WALK POINT. You do it because if you don't your brother has to.
This 100%.
Before I went to Navy boot camp I was told to never volunteer for anything in the military. They want volunteers because no one else wants to do it.
NCO: I need 3 volunteers
Soldier: What for
NCO: Ok I need 2 more
I have 5 kuds they won't let me sign up.
Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way. Either there's volunteers, or there'll be "voluntolds"...
Most practices in this video are no longer in use in current day war zones
I was just talking about NOT volunteering to a new(er) nurse on my unit, who 'volunteered' for temporary charge nurse. Never volunteer!
" I could take a walk on the wild side sir" - Ray Phillups 2003.
basically this video can be bioled down to: don't be in WW1
Great, Great Uncle was in WW1, enlisted and was a Sapper. Survived the war, was hospitalized 6 times for gas shelling. Spent two weeks on furlow in Liverpool. England and returned two weeks later. Reason for discharge: Demobilization
I’d fall for the night watch.
If you ever hear a knock never open the door, if you do make sure you have a beer in your hands or else you’ll be sweeping the barracks hallway
Poor nurses. 128 deaths? In an battle that only took the lives of 250.000 men?
Night watch would be perfect for me, I'm like a mega night owl
😂😂😂😂😂
Like me
😐 guys, This is my 5917 night on night watch, I'm not gonna make it (28373 days later) 😐
Until a massive attacking wave comes 🫥
00:19: Ladders were hardly ever used to scale walls. Our ancestors (or anybody's, really) weren't such idiots, they understood what a "bottleneck" means. They were to bridge ditches and other obstacles. They only stormed a wall after it was brought down by artillery, tunneling, or some other means.
1:05 Mustard gas isn't actually a gas. It's a viscuous, oily liquid that sticks to everything, and even the tiniest, microscopic amount can cause severe chemical burns. It evaporates so slowly that pools of it buried in 1918 are still dangerous. So the statement that it "causes severe respiratory injury" isn't really true, unless you were super-duper unlucky and inhaled it right when it was sprayed everywhere from an exploding grenade. Phosgene and chlorine were much more dangerous to the lungs, being actually gases.
"Hey, Beckett! You said we are going to pull a quick job!"
I wish I knew this before fighting in ww1 damn it
In general, don't volunteer for military. No good deed ever goes unpunished
The way the decorated that black guys house 🤣 they gone do my boy like that?