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@user-hc7gn2yz5r

6 ай бұрын

Now I have a question to ask you that pertains to this as well as a few other things biblical and technology first off are you acquainted with Greek mythology as well as versed in biblical time

@user-hc7gn2yz5r

6 ай бұрын

I'm not looking so much as hisstory as to ourstory

@user-or4hs7xq9u

6 ай бұрын

What kind of person promotes a war game as an entertainment to be enjoyed when people are dying in terrible circumstances in Europe and Middle East right now? War is to be endured not enjoyed

@secdetau

6 ай бұрын

Going commando goes back to the days of the first Zulu, Matabele & Boer wars and the Boer commandos. They the boers sometimes wore no underwear due to terian, weather or supply issues. The original meaning was a unit of volunteer boers fighters (spelt kommando) mostly mounted infantry. In fact the SADF still use the commando system.

@brotherbrovet1881

6 ай бұрын

@TheHistoryGuyChannel, the US Army made more Amphibious landings in the South Pacific than the USMC during WWII. One such veteran was my barber 40yrs ago. He reported that once they got off the beach, they stripped down to their skivvies after every landing. The Marines didn't strip down because they got all the press attention. The Army didn't. The Marines got hot chow after landing. The Army ran on C-Rations. US soldiers have a history of fighting nearly naked in hot humid climates. The Infantryman's Hsndbook even advises exposing as much skin as possible in hot humid climates.

Excellent piece. My late uncle served in Burma during the war, helping rescue legionnaires from POW camps. He helped build the roads deep into the jungles to march these poor, starving men out. I really wish he was still alive so that I could get more stories out of him. He served in Burma, China, Japan after the surrender and during the Korean War and never once fired his rifle in anger. He passed a year and a half ago at the age of 98, still sharp as a tack.

@edwinsalau150

6 ай бұрын

May your uncle rest in peace, it would be useful if his secret could be communicated to the White House/Nursing Home!

US Soldiers and Marines went "commando" in NAM to reduce jungle rot. We were taught by WWII and Korean War Vets. A friend who was a Marine and in the second wave at Betio(WWII) said that the new camo coveralls were so hot that by 1000 hrs, most Marines were stripped down to pistol belts and skivvies. Good Luck, Rick

@edwinsalau150

6 ай бұрын

Year and a half in a helicopter squadron it was skivvies and utilities.Back in tanks,just the jungle utilities.

@dr.froghopper6711

6 ай бұрын

My 3 years in a special forces amphibious command at the tail end of Vietnam had me either sweating through my skivvies in a jungle environment or hard core desert environments. We frequently found skivvies to be an unnecessary inconvenience.

@russnelson8373

6 ай бұрын

God bless you for all the crap you went through I know that when you came home people thought you were Killers but you were doing God's work I thank you so much for everything it's a shame that the government wasn't as patriotic as you were

@Mapleleaflocksmith

6 ай бұрын

Interesting, did you wear nothing under your pants for this six years? ​@@Future-Preps35

@Dirtzoo

6 ай бұрын

We didn't even wear socks cuz of the rot. We wrapped our feet like the Russians do but even with the jungle boots fatigue pants, jacket and that was it.

"A nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools." - Thucydides

I had never heard of this. Thank you for bringing it to our attention. The war in Burma needs to be told more often. Thank you for posting.

The "Chindits" in Burma (British & Commonwealth special force raiding brigade) were sometimes forced to go naked, because they suffered from severe dysentery, as well as that clothes could be filthy or rotted from the horrible conditions. So that's a more likely source of the phrase IMHO :)

The success of the 14th Army was down to General Slim, who deserves a mention here!

We used the term since the early 1970s. We thought it was from Viet Nam. I also once had a patient who was a Chindit. I do a fairly uncomfortable test. He sat stoically through the exam and at the end shook my hand and said "I will always remember two faces, yours and that Imperial Japanese Marine interrogator".

When I was a wee boy, my dad's then boss (who passed away just a couple of years ago), told us he was sent his conscription papers on his birthday, and shipped off to Burma in the last few months of the war. Like most young lads, he had rarely been further than to the next city, let alone abroad and in a jungle. He said at night it was so incredibly dark that the sentries were just a token, they couldn't see anything. Sometimes on night sentry duty he would suddenly feel hands around his ankles, followed by a "it's only me, Jock" to the Scottish soldier - this was one of the famous Gurkhas. They would slide out of the camp at night, in the pitch black, creeping to the Japanese positions, then silently dispatch a few that their comrades wouldn't notice until morning light. They felt around the ankles because the kind of puttees the British soldiers had around their ankles let them know if they had crawled into a friendly or enemy sentry. As you can imagine his heart when at a hundred BPM when he felt those hands in the dark, then sudden relief as you realised it was a Gurkha, out for his "evening constitutional" in the jungle. Staggering to think now what we asked of such very young men.

Always a pleasure to watch your videos! :) Really didn't find history interesting back in school but it has grown onto me over the years.

@oldgrunt5806

6 ай бұрын

That's because it is no longer taught properly. Just like the videos you see where scenes are blurred. History can be brutal but you can't learn from it if you do not see it as it was.

@user-or4hs7xq9u

6 ай бұрын

​@@oldgrunt5806true, history should be an account of what happened, warts and all. Sugar coated history is dishonest history

Commandos go full commando… great play of words.

If you can locate a copy, check out "Quartered Safe Out Here", George MacDonald Frasier's account of his experiences with the XIV. (Frasier authored the hilarious "Flashman" series and later became a prominent writer for the Hollywood film industry.) Indeed the Burma campaign has been seriously short-shrifted!

Kudos to you and your son for excellent research, as always. Still my favorite history program on KZread.

You would not know this but the Royal Marines say: " Four Two Commando" rather than forty two. The same with the other Commando units numbered in the 40s. Another very interesting historical analysis of a scary military action.

@edwinsalau150

6 ай бұрын

Trades my Piss Cutter for a Green Beret at Olongapo,Phillipines. Probably they were aboard the Ark Royal. It was a large SEATO exercise!Subic Bay was packed with ships.Four Two commando was the unit!

@cbroz7492

6 ай бұрын

..pretty much S O P for military commo to pronounce/say numbers separately e.g. Extortion 17 pronounced Extortion one seven..

@cbroz7492

6 ай бұрын

​@edwinsalau150 haven't heard the term.'piss cutter" in years!!!

@cbroz7492

6 ай бұрын

..they were called c*nt caps in basic (Jun- Aug 1971,Ft Dix A-3-3)...

@Peoples_Republic_of_Devonshire

6 ай бұрын

It's an odd quirk of the Royal Marines. 30 Cdo IX and 40 Cdo are referred to as Thirty and Forty; 42 Cdo, 43 Cdo, 45 Cdo, 47 Cdo, 29 Cdo RA, and 24 Cdo RE are referred to as Four-Two, Four-Three, Four-Five etc.

Hey THG. Good Morning fellow classmates.

For 20 years now I've been a total commando believer. I have no idea how i lived for 33 years with my boys smothering like that.

@douglaseuritt3919

6 ай бұрын

I decided to forgo them about 30 years ago and never looked back...but when I look DOWN today, I recognize the evidence for supporting the boys over time. Not unlike a bra. I'll let you infer from there...

Good Monday morning History Guy and everyone watching. Woke up to snow in North Texas. It's 11° at the moment.

@HikaruKatayamma

6 ай бұрын

Was -6 in KC this morning. 🥶😄

@drgunnwilliams8239

5 ай бұрын

Woppy ding dong! Come to Canada. That would be a warm winter day!

I'm about to learn something, thank you History Guy and awesome Team!!!🙏👌🦉❣️

Fascinating piece of history - excellently re-told Thank you so much.

I appreciate you and thank you for making content.

A MARS Task Force treatment would be cool. Had an uncle with them. They are so unknown that last i checked, they don't even have a Wikipedia page.

Thanks History Guy 😊

Excellent history!

This episode immediately brought to mind a story by my favorite author, Rudyard Kipling, entitled "The Taking of Lungtunpen", in which a unit of British soldiers in (curiously enough) Burma capture a village in a complete state of undress. Although fictional, the similarities are uncanny (and comical).

Really appreciated the sponsorship this episode. Definitely going to check it out. Already a big Warships player. Love the history of it all.

@christopherhouck3846

5 ай бұрын

Did you ever try Enlisted? Do you like it? I used to play it before they added the BR system. I don't like it but I've kinda wanted to try playing it again since I enjoyed it before.

Always a pleasure with your lectures, this one excellent! Happy New Year to you and yours.👍👍👍

Thank you for the lesson.

One of my Army ROTC instructors, a Vietnam vet, told me a story one time about a battle. They fought defending their special forces firebase, where he and his A Team wore, only their underwear, sandals, and load bearing equipment all through the night fighting.

THG, you rock! Peace ✌️

Thanks!

@TheHistoryGuyChannel

6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Seinfeld episode predates friends by almost 10 years. Kramer goes "commando" with the unfortunate zipper results.

@JeffreyGlover65

6 ай бұрын

Seinfeld didnt predate Friends by ten years.

@robertkoons1154

6 ай бұрын

@JeffreyGlover65 Reply OK it was 4 2010.

@pluribus_unum

6 ай бұрын

Could this be called a case of _splitting short hairs?_

@JeffreyGlover65

6 ай бұрын

@@pluribus_unum well played 😎

My wife’s grandfather served with the Australian “Double Black” commandos in Papúa New Guinea in World War II. You (and others) may find their exploits of interest.

By the time I was in school in the 80’s going commando was ubiquitous enough that us kids knew it.

I enjoyed your story, as it adds to some of the stories my father told me about his duty serving with the Chinese army in Burma, India, and China. He was one of just a small handful of American’s assigned to the supply routes. And yes he would talk of marching through the jungles and everyone would have leaches covering their legs. He said the trucks would struggle in the mud carrying the supplies. They also used aircraft to drop bags of rice into the jungle for the troops. Once, as the Chinese standing in the door spotting the clearings was pushed out by his fellow Chinese as a joke. My father said he refused to fly with them again.

Interesting.

"We don't plan to fail, we fail to plan"

Morning my friend

I remember reading accounts of soldiers in Viet Nam who had problems with trousers and cotton underwear rotting away. I am not sure if the clothing simply rotted away, or if the soldiers discarded them as being useless. I read of an account where a Long Range Recon Patrol team returned to post, and there was a USO show going on. They were escorted up to the front of the audience, and the commander took stock of the men's decayed uniforms. He arranged the fellows with intact trouser crotches up front to avoid flashing the actresses up on stage. The rest of his men fell in behind them. I always assumed that "going commando" was the result of decayed underwear from jungle rot.

T.H.G. ---> Thanks for the video remembrance of this action by the British Commandos (and other Allied Forces members) in Burma. The C.B.I. (China/Burma/India (and Indonesia) Theater is often referred to as "The Forgotten War". Horrible climate and terrain. {[ Note: the U.S.A.S.F. (Green Berets, Fort Bragg) learned their stuff from the British Commandos in the late 50's early 1960's. The brand-new U.S. Army Rangers formed in WW2 learned their stuff (Extreme Infantry) also from the British Commandos.]}

It existed before the Falklands War in '81. I'm a plankholder in the 3d Ranger Bn. In 1984, the phrase "going commando" was widely used & was introduced to many of us young Rangers by the senior NCO's. It's a common thing to do in the jungle, to let your privates dry out some to stave off "jungle rot." I'll leave that phrase to your imagination.

Could've been a 2nd Dieppe... I'm sure for other fellow Canadians that makes it hit a bit harder this pacific campaign of (nearly) forgotten history, truly deserves to be remembered.

I've never heard that Friends used the term, probably because no one I know watched that show, but it was certainly familiar to us in the military well before the 90s.

Good night

Interestingly, Kipling wrote a story, " The Taking of Lungtungpen" wherein Pvt. Mulvaney led a successful attack with his troops having stripped to swim a river. Also in Burma!

i thought they called it freeballing

@paulhammons7077

6 ай бұрын

🎶 free falling , ya free falling 🎶

I go commando so often somewhere there is a Navy Seal saying he is going Jeremy

I learnt commando in Korea in 1986. Most went from normal skivvies to running shorts. I went commando and have never went back. I've got a couple pair of silk boxers if I "must" wear a suit.

Amazing how CIB is almost forgotten.

I served on a submarine in the early '70s, and "going commando" was a common term used then.

As a young teenager i always found the CBI more interesting. What always bothered me was why General Stilwell never received a corp 25,000 to 50,000 of American Troops.

I thought the reason it was called "going commando" is because commandos are always getting... debriefed.

Thank you, HG. I'm perhaps most ignorant on this "East Asian"(?) theater in WWII. There was very little glory for the mixture of Allied troops in that region, and I can't imagine news/press coverage of those guys (at the time) was anything near sufficient. God bless those brave and determined soldiers.

I encourage people to look up Merrills marauders. A good example of the pwrils many paratroopers faced in asia

Exactly why hot weather BDU's had a flap across the inside of the fly.

I remember the term in 1970s, pre Falklands conflict. I believe it was a British commando way, by time saving cleaning, underwear, can be time doing something else.

Having seen many WW2 documentaries, it has always surprised me how blundering, stupid, and ill planned most of ALL amphibius landings were. The "Planners" who never seemed to actually participate in the landings, made the same mistakes, over and over. IE, landing at low tide. Still, the story told here was the beginning of the defeat of the Japanese army. It reopened our supply line through Burma. Great story. ;-)

Understanding this I'm seeing seeing more understanding more .. one thing that I need to is how do you know about silent hill pueblo co. Or the Honor farm in pueblo

Interesting, that Burma & Laos are two campaigns remembered with uttermost terror in Japanese native historiography... remembered as places where both nature & enemy forces conspired to turn every living moment hell. on the video's stated topic... for the Japanese side, many non-ranked army sailors (lowest crew for small gun-boats and conscripted laborers on supply craft) would wear nothing but a traditional lion cloth as a matter of standard uniform when posted in the tropics.

I've just started "A War of Empires" by Robert Lyman. It's all about Burma 1941-45. I wonder if it's going to be mentioned much later in the book?

Wow! Tom Selleck was in WW2? 5:05

The problem with underwear in a combat environment is that they hold sweat close to your body and promote "jock itch." The opportunity to bathe may (almost certainly will) be infrequent and high levels of physical activity cause a lot of sweating.. You want your nethers to remain as dry as possible or your combat experience will become even more miserable than it already is.

Thank you, History Guy!! Are you still teaching at University?

@TheHistoryGuyChannel

6 ай бұрын

No- haven’t been for many years.

@jeanthony4003

6 ай бұрын

A great loss. I remember my University history teacher with great fondness. He was much like you and was always giving us extra little insights.@@TheHistoryGuyChannel

As a modern day commando, 3/75 Ranger. A combat veteran of Afghanistan. I can assure you that wearing underwear is very common practice. Especially for us bigger boys. The thighs , oh the thighs! My burning loins. The demon chaff!

Regimental under kilts

History guy

At 11:39 mention is made of a “thick smoke screen” laid down by air to cover the landing. Got me to wondering, why didn’t they use smoke screens in Normandy? All the film we see on D-Day show haze but we never see actual thick smoke. Anybody got a clue?

Please make an video on Subhash Chandra bose and his army

Damm the balls this men had yo do all that damm good men

If it weren’t for the Bridge over the River Kwai movie…

Back in the Saddle Again Naturally!

I wonder if the Japanese ever realized how close they could have gotten to stopping the landing had they just tried?

Was that a Reising m50 SMG!? Never seen one in a game. I have one. 875rpm Flawless without Pacific sand and saltwater.

We were still learning how to fight the Japanese. The answer was to not do what they expected and wanted you to do

Certainly the expression could not predate existence of Comando as a person 😂

@michaelw2288

6 ай бұрын

The first record of the military term Commando dates to 1791.

@nomadmarauder-dw9re

6 ай бұрын

Here's one to ponder. What were electric eels called before there was electricity?

The Man In The Black Pajamas.

The AVG The Flying Tigers did most of there aerial combat over Burma in defense of Rangoon

Friends? Lol been around longer than that 😂

I thought it was Regimental. Nothing under your kilt.

the Scottish have been going Kilted long before Commandos or the term existed, by several hundreds of years😂 Under my kilt? Boots & socks of course!

The Forgotten Army...

Somehow I thought it had something to do with the Scots not wearing anything under their kilts... Or maybe that was "going regimental".

One Chindit officer was butt naked washing in the river when he spotted a Japanese soldier doing the same. They set on each other with bare hands and teeth, fighting to the death. The only difference was that the Chindit officer had his boots on and this resulted in him surving the fight.

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32nd, 15 January 2024

I knew about going commando in the late 1960's At the time I think it was Viet Nam War returnees that coined it, but it fit right in with the counter-culture of "Mr. Natural" aspect of back to nature and let it all hang out sort of penchants. The girls burned their bras and the guys went without underwear, each mutually beneficial.

I went "indian" (as we called it) in 1967.

Shadow is shadam witch is sadom

Sounds like the intel boys were busy playing cards instead of gathering intel....

Algorithm

No this I'm not fighting with a gun or swinging a sword I'm using my words trying to find out what is going on please help me out and understanding

Okay, but what did Alexander the Great call it? Huhhn?

Naked commando is redundant.

Shadow fight of my life 🧬 everything seems to be in shadow

A single dad almost always rises above and is in control of the family's life. At the slightest mistake his kids will be taken away. A single mom almost always is leaning on multiple people, has runaway debt, emotional problems, and a general mess surrounding her. She can be drug addicted and an abuser, and the system will bend over backwards to help her keep her kids. They are not similar in any way whatsoever.

HMAS NAPIER

Your historical battle videos should be required watching for today's active troops. They have no idea what real fighting men were in past wars.

Isn't "Naked Commando" an oxymoron? 😅

Unethical to promote a war game as something to enjoy while we're in a hot war and thousands are dying. No save points or respawning in Yeman, Gaza or Ukraine

@TheHistoryGuyChannel

6 ай бұрын

It is a game, just a game. I don’t think you understand the term “unethical.”

@user-or4hs7xq9u

6 ай бұрын

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel love the channel but promoting a war based game in a time of war is insensitive and in bad taste. Maybe America is too far from the pain and suffering as war as shown on TV is different from shells fired over someone's house. War has to be endured not enjoyed.

@ChiefTiff

6 ай бұрын

As a Navy vet with 23 years of service I can tell the difference between an informative history lesson and an entertaining CGI game based on historical military operations.

@user-or4hs7xq9u

6 ай бұрын

@@ChiefTiff so can I but it's the distasteful aspect of promoting a game at a time when service people and civilians are currently dying. War and armed conflict should be remembered, be accountable, be judged but never "enjoyed'. Maybe America is too distant from the evil currently going on.

@user-or4hs7xq9u

6 ай бұрын

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel the question isn't whether I understand the term, the better question would be "do you?"

No, it doesn't seem funny at all HG, it sounds miserable.

It truly saddens me to see you pushing these advertisements or games I personally think it’s beneath you to do this. Although I do understand it’s to offset or make more money however I did hold you in such high regard before this.

@allentac6222

6 ай бұрын

It’s far preferable to KZread inserting random ads.