In Nam we had no exercise equipment. Out of a four year enlistment I did three tours in Nam: 6 months then 6 months then thirteen months. 65, 66 and 67, early in the war. As team Corpsman with a Marine CAC (Combined Action Company) I went out every night on a raid or an ambush. Sometimes we also ran day patrols so I often went out twice a day. I also did a sporadic day time med-cap for five local villages. Our patrols, raids and ambushes consisted of five Americans and six or seven local Popular Forces (PF's). Three hundred rounds and nine hand grenades load out plus radio and an M-79. We ran the same TAR so we knew the terrain, villages and locals after a while. Specially me because I was out more than anyone one else. Everyone else went out two nights in a row and rested for six. nights. Basically we were playing cops and robbers with the Vietcong and occasionally with the NVA every night. When I got to Nam I could do a hundred knuckle push ups and run ten miles. After a few months all the hard muscle was gone to be replaced by a different type of lean. I went from 180 to about 162... but I could fight and run all day long. Up north near the DMZ. We had a 17+% contact rate. Over a hundred fights for me...everything from a single shot of unknown origin to five hour long running fights. Our compound was attacked three times by superior forces and they got inside the wire twice. Luckily we had pre set arty. Three Purple Hearts. Got out on 2/68. Worked as a merc for a while when pillage and plunder was okay. Used my winnings to go to college and then law school. Got my JD in 79. Never looked back... I had plans from day one!
John, love the stories. Thank you for sharing and thank you for kicking ass overseas when we needed men like you to do dangerous things, keep kicking ass, love what you’re doing.⚔️⚔️⚔️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I took an ambien once. I was reading a book and felt it hit my chest. I woke up 8 hours later in the hospital. No idea how I got there. God bless some good cops for taking my sleep walking ass to the hospital and not jail.
When I was on a concrete crew, I was talking to an older guy on the crew who was still physically fit and was even doing his own side jobs on the weekend. His name was Tom. I asked him one day, “Tom, how do you do it over all these years, day in day out and still have the energy to even out work the younger 20 year olds on our crew.?” He looked at me and said, “I’ll tell you something, you have to be really stupid.” That’s the same vibe I get from the guy in this video
I've never been in the military,but i worked for a shearing contractor in NZ...we had a gym at the accomodation ,and the top guys,the guys who sheared 400-500 everyday used to hit the gym every evening....those guys were total machines....and for those that don't know,shearing is hard hard work
@robinpaydon7139 hardest job out there,you burn 5 or 6000 calories a day....great detox job,you sweat that much and drink so much water it really cleans you out
@@robertshipley6990 - You're absolutely correct, we shouldn't have been there and - believe it or not - John has said as much. MOST Iraq vets feel we had no business being there. That said, our guys were getting killed which meant game on. That's how John, and most everybody else internalized it: "We roll-up or kill so-and-so, then so-and-so can't hurt our guys anymore." Cogs in the machine can't tell the machine what to do. And that is precisely what I tell my sons when they ask why I served but do NOT want them to enlist with the way things currently are.
@@TexCen About 2 weeks after 9/11 read tons of lit it, Project for New American Century - the Jewish signatories with dual citizenship with Israel and how PNAC was presented to Prime Minister Netanyahu; before then President Bush set up a little office for Douglas Fief. Now we have the infamous ever so convenient October 7th
Man, in the artillery I was youmg and carrying those rohnds that weighed around 98 lbs if memory serves me I was in shape! Then after the army in my thirties I carried a lot hunting and at work. ❤
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It's a shame I found out about big dawg only recently. My peers are soft as hell and on the civilian side, we NEED doods like this as motivation. Holmes is definitely crazy, but everyone who defied what seems possible isn't wired right. Such good energy from a man thats been through what he has. Seen what he's seen.
I remember staying fit or atleast attempting to stay fit in a Stryker fighting position while the checkpoint was being built. Doing push-ups up the Stryker, atleast we had an ez curl bar and hanging straps off the bird cage. That period sucked cuz we had to sleep sitting up in the back or lay under the Stryker with camel spiders.
During Desert Storm I worked out everyday when we weren't moving towards Bagdad or chasing the republican guard then our tankers destroyed them on 73 easting. There is so much down time in a war zone a lot of guys were either sleeping, eating or taking care of per things washing their bdu 's which is like wasting ur time u cannot wash the sand out of ur cloths but being in a cav. unit ur always doing some kind of physical work
Use to be a bartender and we had to do late night swifts pretty often. 12 am to 8 am or like 8pm to 4 am. Anyways pretty hard to sleep through the day. Lucky if you got 4 or 5 hour stretch.
Knowing that he's Delta Force, but it's the timing of him being Delta. During the Intro to the Afghan and Iraq wars. In an era when Rule of Engagement didn't mean a damn thing. When water-boarding and blackwater were a thing, and 11 bang bangs, and US Marines were allowed to throw grenades anywhere they wanted too. My older brother was 11B in 82nd Airborne w/ ranger tab from 2003-2009, and I joined the US Army after college in 2007-2014 and Reclassed to SOF in 2011-2014 My Brothers US Army Experience is far different from mine. Like a complete 180. He saw combat routinely, and I didn't see combat at all.
I’m dying to know why they had ammo cans full of .45 ACP on deployment. I know the Unit formerly used custom 1911’s, but I thought those had been phased out by 2001. What are y’all feeding that .45 ACP?
The last General in Afghanistan (Can't remember his name) carried a custom 1911 with an RMR. He was a Unit guy before getting stars and was a competitive 3 gun shooter. And this was 2021
@@99bimmer I get that a General would carry the 1911, more as a designator of his time in the Unit than for actual combat. I know some of those guys still wore those old Bianchi leather gun belts also. But it would surprise me that they had full ammo cans of .45 ball in general unless they had SMG’s that fired .45 ACP also. They may have had some old M3 “grease gun” SMG’s for low viz stuff if they needed to look like locals. Now that I think about it, MARSOC was still running a 1911 during that time also, which would make more sense about why you’d have a significant amount of .45.
I destroy my kitchen and fridge on ambien. (Not physically-- I just get mad munchies and eat every tasty thing there is until all that's left are wrappers and fuckin' half the food on the counters and floor 😄)
@@biggooba6706 He's said on the Ryan interview it was a messy divorce and the Unit drops you for messy personal shit like that. Not really fair but I get that they want everyone to have their head in the game entirely. I haven't heard anything different, credible or scuttlebutt.
They don’t drop you for messy personal shit. They drop you for performance. His messy personal shit was affecting performance. It’s not a big deal it’s just get your shit squared away then you can come back if you want.
That's how soldiers should train. Doing circuits of cardio, weights, and carries, pulls, pushes w/ they equipment they regularly carried, pulled, pushed. Also buddies carries. This new PT Test and buying all that equipment made no sense. Must have been the result of the fitness equipment manufacturers lobby.
@@oldnatty61 for a time they were talking about it when the new SMA took over but it went to the wind. The only thing that annoys me the most is the standards keep changing cause ppl can’t do certain exercises
In Nam we had no exercise equipment. Out of a four year enlistment I did three tours in Nam: 6 months then 6 months then thirteen months. 65, 66 and 67, early in the war. As team Corpsman with a Marine CAC (Combined Action Company) I went out every night on a raid or an ambush. Sometimes we also ran day patrols so I often went out twice a day. I also did a sporadic day time med-cap for five local villages.
Our patrols, raids and ambushes consisted of five Americans and six or seven local Popular Forces (PF's). Three hundred rounds and nine hand grenades load out plus radio and an M-79.
We ran the same TAR so we knew the terrain, villages and locals after a while. Specially me because I was out more than anyone one else. Everyone else went out two nights in a row and rested for six. nights. Basically we were playing cops and robbers with the Vietcong and occasionally with the NVA every night.
When I got to Nam I could do a hundred knuckle push ups and run ten miles. After a few months all the hard muscle was gone to be replaced by a different type of lean. I went from 180 to about 162... but I could fight and run all day long.
Up north near the DMZ. We had a 17+% contact rate. Over a hundred fights for me...everything from a single shot of unknown origin to five hour long running fights. Our compound was attacked three times by superior forces and they got inside the wire twice. Luckily we had pre set arty. Three Purple Hearts. Got out on 2/68. Worked as a merc for a while when pillage and plunder was okay. Used my winnings to go to college and then law school. Got my JD in 79. Never looked back... I had plans from day one!
Awesome history man, thank you!
Wow, deployed at arguably the gnarliest time in The Nam. Mad respect to you, thank you for your service and history here.
You sir…need a podcast! 🫡
I love the passion he still exudes for the good times.
He doesn't have PTSD he's got Nostalgia
I could listen to John all fucking day
John, love the stories. Thank you for sharing and thank you for kicking ass overseas when we needed men like you to do dangerous things, keep kicking ass, love what you’re doing.⚔️⚔️⚔️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I took an ambien once. I was reading a book and felt it hit my chest. I woke up 8 hours later in the hospital. No idea how I got there. God bless some good cops for taking my sleep walking ass to the hospital and not jail.
I know too many people, me included, who have had bad ambien experiences.
Ambien rin rin rin
Hell yeah man! Find something heavy and go. Appreciated this.
When I was on a concrete crew, I was talking to an older guy on the crew who was still physically fit and was even doing his own side jobs on the weekend. His name was Tom. I asked him one day, “Tom, how do you do it over all these years, day in day out and still have the energy to even out work the younger 20 year olds on our crew.?” He looked at me and said, “I’ll tell you something, you have to be really stupid.” That’s the same vibe I get from the guy in this video
Unlike the average grunt, operators are pretty smart
I've never been in the military,but i worked for a shearing contractor in NZ...we had a gym at the accomodation ,and the top guys,the guys who sheared 400-500 everyday used to hit the gym every evening....those guys were total machines....and for those that don't know,shearing is hard hard work
Sheep shearing?? I've seen videos wrestling those sheep looks like one hell of a workout with a good bit of technique thrown in
@robinpaydon7139 hardest job out there,you burn 5 or 6000 calories a day....great detox job,you sweat that much and drink so much water it really cleans you out
Im sure it's hard but doesn't even throw a stick at being a delta operator bud
Man of posture
Dedicated. On point. The Ambien story is fucking *hilarious*.
During the invasion, my buddy used to try and back squat a Bradley by getting under the front slope. He would just push until failure
Shrek doesn't have PTSD, he has awesome memories
he gives PTSD to his enemies
Is a psychopathic Mass murderer. Also an alcoholic I'm freaking out UA-cam people on UA-cam are glorifying this something's wrong
The people he murdered in Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 my friend
@@robertshipley6990 - You're absolutely correct, we shouldn't have been there and - believe it or not - John has said as much. MOST Iraq vets feel we had no business being there.
That said, our guys were getting killed which meant game on. That's how John, and most everybody else internalized it: "We roll-up or kill so-and-so, then so-and-so can't hurt our guys anymore." Cogs in the machine can't tell the machine what to do. And that is precisely what I tell my sons when they ask why I served but do NOT want them to enlist with the way things currently are.
@@TexCen About 2 weeks after 9/11 read tons of lit it, Project for New American Century - the Jewish signatories with dual citizenship with Israel and how PNAC was presented to Prime Minister Netanyahu; before then President Bush set up a little office for Douglas Fief. Now we have the infamous ever so convenient October 7th
Tent poles and sandbags on my deployment. Whatever you can find to make some improvised lifting equipment.
Man, in the artillery I was youmg and carrying those rohnds that weighed around 98 lbs if memory serves me I was in shape! Then after the army in my thirties I carried a lot hunting and at work. ❤
Chuck Norris once shook Shreks hand and now has PTSD
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Ambien has had me do some wild shit.
You ain’t lying and we never mention the munchies you get if you stay awake.
It's a shame I found out about big dawg only recently. My peers are soft as hell and on the civilian side, we NEED doods like this as motivation. Holmes is definitely crazy, but everyone who defied what seems possible isn't wired right.
Such good energy from a man thats been through what he has. Seen what he's seen.
I wake up inn the syrip club - arms in the air "air dancing" 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I remember staying fit or atleast attempting to stay fit in a Stryker fighting position while the checkpoint was being built. Doing push-ups up the Stryker, atleast we had an ez curl bar and hanging straps off the bird cage. That period sucked cuz we had to sleep sitting up in the back or lay under the Stryker with camel spiders.
Should make a video talking about times things went wrong, where you learned and improved
During Desert Storm I worked out everyday when we weren't moving towards Bagdad or chasing the republican guard then our tankers destroyed them on 73 easting. There is so much down time in a war zone a lot of guys were either sleeping, eating or taking care of per things washing their bdu 's which is like wasting ur time u cannot wash the sand out of ur cloths but being in a cav. unit ur always doing some kind of physical work
Shrek is awesome!
Use to be a bartender and we had to do late night swifts pretty often. 12 am to 8 am or like 8pm to 4 am. Anyways pretty hard to sleep through the day. Lucky if you got 4 or 5 hour stretch.
I had the same problem with ambien.
I knew a guy who took ambien and robbed a restaurant that he ate at every day. He did some time for it and couldn't remember anything
That cortisol stress shit, man… fucking brutal. Sleep deprivation, shit fuck man….
Knowing that he's Delta Force, but it's the timing of him being Delta. During the Intro to the Afghan and Iraq wars.
In an era when Rule of Engagement didn't mean a damn thing. When water-boarding and blackwater were a thing, and 11 bang bangs, and US Marines were allowed to throw grenades anywhere they wanted too.
My older brother was 11B in 82nd Airborne w/ ranger tab from 2003-2009, and I joined the US Army after college in 2007-2014 and Reclassed to SOF in 2011-2014
My Brothers US Army Experience is far different from mine. Like a complete 180. He saw combat routinely, and I didn't see combat at all.
PTSD takes anti-psychotic medication for suffering from John Shrek
Ah, Ambien. They THREW that stuff at us.lol
Any man who gains the respect of Tim Kennedy has my respect. Tim Kennedy speaks so highly of Shrek.
That dude on the left making faces like he needs to take a shit lol
Shrek could strangle you with a cordless phone
I’m thinking he’s back!
Cold camping listening to this 😅
I’m dying to know why they had ammo cans full of .45 ACP on deployment. I know the Unit formerly used custom 1911’s, but I thought those had been phased out by 2001. What are y’all feeding that .45 ACP?
He carrier a gun that takes that. They can choose what they carry
The last General in Afghanistan (Can't remember his name) carried a custom 1911 with an RMR. He was a Unit guy before getting stars and was a competitive 3 gun shooter. And this was 2021
@@juicy9592 Yeah I kinda figured that .45 ACP was used in a gun, LOL………but what kind exactly?
@@99bimmer I get that a General would carry the 1911, more as a designator of his time in the Unit than for actual combat. I know some of those guys still wore those old Bianchi leather gun belts also. But it would surprise me that they had full ammo cans of .45 ball in general unless they had SMG’s that fired .45 ACP also. They may have had some old M3 “grease gun” SMG’s for low viz stuff if they needed to look like locals.
Now that I think about it, MARSOC was still running a 1911 during that time also, which would make more sense about why you’d have a significant amount of .45.
He has mentioned the 1911 in other videos. It's still in use. Canadian Military still uses it as well.
Let me just say Ambien burns worse than anything. Do not crush it up you will regret it!
Slim Jims and Ripits 😎
Sharky’s or Victoria’s? IFNYN
John gives PTSD PTSD (stole that from another comment somewhere)
I destroy my kitchen and fridge on ambien. (Not physically-- I just get mad munchies and eat every tasty thing there is until all that's left are wrappers and fuckin' half the food on the counters and floor 😄)
🤣
Hey can you make the SOB condom holster for us CZ10 bros?
John you are fucking funny!!😂🤪
Dude was kicked out of the unit for what they good ol boys had to do to win ww2
what did he do
@@biggooba6706 He's said on the Ryan interview it was a messy divorce and the Unit drops you for messy personal shit like that. Not really fair but I get that they want everyone to have their head in the game entirely. I haven't heard anything different, credible or scuttlebutt.
They don’t drop you for messy personal shit. They drop you for performance. His messy personal shit was affecting performance. It’s not a big deal it’s just get your shit squared away then you can come back if you want.
@@BillyBob-wh8dh my last sentence covers that, random guy from the internet.
Where’s shrek from? I’m from New Jersey and my gut is telling me he’s a Jersey guy
Chicago
@ right on
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Deprivated
That's how soldiers should train. Doing circuits of cardio, weights, and carries, pulls, pushes w/ they equipment they regularly carried, pulled, pushed. Also buddies carries. This new PT Test and buying all that equipment made no sense. Must have been the result of the fitness equipment manufacturers lobby.
Nah all it was was just a bunch of crossfiters testing ideas for the army
@@dukedynasty I thought they switched over then then were considering switching back?
@@oldnatty61 for a time they were talking about it when the new SMA took over but it went to the wind. The only thing that annoys me the most is the standards keep changing cause ppl can’t do certain exercises
@@dukedynasty Americans are insuch bad shape it's scary. Can't even get an HS age kid fit enough to pass a basic PT Test.
they had strip clubs on base in Iraq lol?
These guys are on loads of fkn gear. Give me a break, after tim kennedy bs you cant believe a word coming out they lying mouths.
Prove him wrong
@99bimmer go watch jake zweig or vlahalla vft. They admit they are raided tf out. 95% are. Educate yourself!
The only dig on John I've heard is he's stayed quiet about Timmy's alleged tall tales. I got no gripe with not snitching on a friend.