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@stoptrudeau42

5 ай бұрын

Bud light? Then they went down on each other after battle

@BenRester

5 ай бұрын

@@stoptrudeau42haha after they put on females clothes 😂

@ronnalscammahorn8002

5 ай бұрын

Civil War Pabst Blue Ribbon was available , how else would a grown man walk in line towards open cannon fire .

@MikeStivicATS

29 күн бұрын

IN THE ZONE

@MistaTea247

21 күн бұрын

Fax

As a pot smoker I can promise you that as soon as the fight started his buzz was gone.

@user-sb7ft5gd1b

6 ай бұрын

Facts

@Gameprojordan

5 ай бұрын

Especially the stuff they smoked back then. It was extremely tame compared to the kind you can buy nowadays

@borregoayudando1481

5 ай бұрын

enlisted and fieldgrades know this. the only people having issues with this are lieutenants, captains, majors, first sergeants, and sergeant majors.

@69Jackjones69

5 ай бұрын

Depends on how high you are. If you're super baked and the adrenaline kicks in, you'll still be high but the herb gives you a laser focus on the action

@howardlloyd9183

5 ай бұрын

For sure. I smoke every day b4 work but when it's time to rock it out. Not high anymore guaranteed.

My stepdad had a few stories from his tour of Vietnam. One he told was about getting black out drunk one day in Vietnam and waking up the next day in Cambodia. While he was drunk his unit moved into Cambodia. A few days later he was awarded a Bronze Star for taking out a machinegun nest single handed. He had to ask other in his unit what it was for. He was so drunk, he charged the nest firing his rifle and throwing grenades, "like something out of a John Wayne movie" per his fellow soldiers.

@Rays_Bad_Decisions

6 ай бұрын

Murica!!

@believeinmatter

6 ай бұрын

I recommend looking up his name, there’s a pretty comprehensive list of Bronze Star recipients, you might learn something you never knew about his service.

@tylergooden2183

5 ай бұрын

We didn’t have parties like these. Usually it started the same way but me and Pete would end up in a fistfight and Roy would usually end up vomiting on himself

@huithu

5 ай бұрын

Stop the cap

@michaelpacinus242

5 ай бұрын

Did you kiss him?

As a veteran, I have a question. There are sober combat soldiers?

@asdf9890

6 ай бұрын

I’m not a vet, but can’t imagine going through war sober. Got to have some release from that!

@cristsan4171

6 ай бұрын

Desmond Doss is never able to save anyone due to alcohol and medical drugs (medicines) keep disappearing

@timkeenan7419

6 ай бұрын

I'm a Canadian combat veteran, I never went to a firefight without my little buddy, my one pint flask. After I got my boys situated I could sneak a little nip every now and again. I retired 5 years ago and haven't had a drink since.

@jesserobinson20

6 ай бұрын

​@timkeenan7419 fantastic that you don't drink anymore. I've known enough veterans to know that it goes the other way far too often. Happy retirement!

@brokens1097

6 ай бұрын

Thank you for your service and for making that point.

A high soldier receives the “HIGHEST” army award 😂

@stevegaza1495

6 ай бұрын

Most underrated comment!!! Lmfao

@borregoayudando1481

5 ай бұрын

a red green and yellow ribbon with a cast aluminum (so it oxidates white) medal in the shape of a joint.

@fook-joby-den6172

5 ай бұрын

Got get high to get high awards I guess. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@TheCollector1987

4 ай бұрын

as an iraq/afghanistan veteran that smokes a lot of weed that guy is literally my fucking hero now

Some fellow vets I know are still battling meth addiction from being given amphetamines in Vietnam. They were issued big bottles of speed each month and getting a new bottle because someone “lost” theirs was a common occurrence. When they got back to the states they would either keep up with the amphetamines or move onto meth. The fact that they were treated like filth when they got home didn’t help at all either.

In one hand while you high or drunk you could fight to your optimal limit but in the other hand you could also fight like Austrians who lost a retreating battle against themselves while also drunk.

@Gameprojordan

5 ай бұрын

It really depends on how high or drunk you are aswell. If you have a good buzz on it's easy to sober up when the adrenaline kicks in, but if you're plastered then good luck. Same with weed

@m4a1_delta66

5 ай бұрын

I bet when the first bullet flies at you you don’t feel none of it sober up 100% I’m sure but when the adrenaline wears off

@liamhughes1532

5 ай бұрын

@@Gameprojordan this delusion is why folk drink/drug drive. Adrenaline does not sober you up, it makes you feel energetic and stimulated, but a cognitive test would still show reduced hand-eye coordination, slower reaction time,etc, all while the subject would be reporting "feeling sober"

@davidmoore3479

5 ай бұрын

​@@Gameprojordancan't get plastered on weed , you just get tired.

@EC-dz4bq

5 ай бұрын

@@davidmoore3479 says someone who has never over done edibles

"He took marijuana" LOL

@ReplyNotificationsMuted

Ай бұрын

Square identified

@kingredskin4318

25 күн бұрын

Back then it was called "Reefer"

Peter lemon was in a fog, let's call it a "lemon haze" 😅

true friends can cross the fucking earth to give you a beer while you’re at war. I want a friend like that.

“I might be battling you even though I’m toasted, but tomorrow I’ll be sober and you’ll still be roasted!” Winston Churchill

@johngault4790

6 ай бұрын

The real story goes a woman called Churchill drunk and he replied "I might be drunk but you're ugly, in the morning I'll be sober but you'll still be ugly"

@DUKEHadToDoItToEm

6 ай бұрын

​@@johngault4790which is hilarious because Churchill was nothing but a fat stinking drunk alcoholic zionist who was never sober

@houseplant1016

6 ай бұрын

​@@johngault4790😠they should have impeached him

@vacuousericb1118

6 ай бұрын

"My perents died when they were young and it was morbid, but at least they didn't ditch me when they were alive like yours did." Teddy Roosevelt

@Welsh7133

6 ай бұрын

@@vacuousericb1118OOoooh, world war 2 soon?

*Simple History putting their videos together into one compilation video is amazing*

Random drunk: what did I miss Sober soldier: well. After you drank that beer your found by the fridge. You grabbed a sword and just decapitated the entire enemy squad

@tincan8979

6 ай бұрын

demoknight tf2

@joshuavelazco4382

6 ай бұрын

That from piemations team fortress 2 demoman

@theskullboy8700

6 ай бұрын

@@joshuavelazco4382 damn right

@azimisyauqieabdulwahab9401

6 ай бұрын

Drunk

@thewafflegamer6152

6 ай бұрын

GET THEM YOU BLEEDING IDIOTS

It’s a small thing, but at the 12:00 mark you make a comparison between adrenaline and methamphetamines. You said unlike adrenaline, methamphetamines don’t affect blood pressure and that is incorrect and potentially very dangerous misinformation. It should read: “Adrenaline is short lived and quickly metabolized causing short but high spikes in blood pressure. By contrast, amphetamines and methamphetamines cause a less severe increase in blood pressure while activating the same neurological receptors and is metabolized more slowly.“ It’s not a big mistake. But it’s a small one with the potential to cause an oversized amount of harm.

@Sniperboy5551

5 ай бұрын

I don’t think anyone who’s planning on doing meth is watching this video

@gabriel199714

4 ай бұрын

​@Sniperboy5551 That's probably true, but meds like Samexid(adhd medicine) are derivated from amphetamine. That's why I can't have energy drinks or more than 2 cups of coffee while on Samexid. If I do I run a very high risk of tachycardia, arrhythmia and even a full blown heart attack

@kainraab2589

3 ай бұрын

@@Sniperboy5551I am

@pakmatherdiverb

2 ай бұрын

Agree Also “Took pot” What times are we in, reefer madness?

@MarieAntoinetteandherlittlesis

Ай бұрын

@@Sniperboy5551Um, speak for yourself. I have a long day to get through tomorrow.

By the way that fin soldier didn't intentionally take the whole supply of pervatin the pills had melted together as one because of his body heat and he just ate the whole lump of what was a pill and then he tripped mega WW2 balls and when they found him he was like 20 lbs lighter, dehydrated, starving and probably so confused it felt like he was dreaming for 2 weeks

@matthewsmiley3630

6 ай бұрын

Yea, I have a theory that he wasn’t consciously making decisions anymore. His brain saw skis, so it decided to ski. I don’t believe he used his gun at all the whole time, but at the point he was at, he probably would have thought a rifle was just a stick. He was completely blacked out for most of it I believe lol

@user-sb7ft5gd1b

6 ай бұрын

@@matthewsmiley3630watch the fat electrician he covers the story better

@user-sb7ft5gd1b

6 ай бұрын

@@matthewsmiley3630and yeah everything at that point was probably just instinct reaction and ingrained training that helped him

@ImGoingSupersonic

5 ай бұрын

He was like 70lbs lighter. He weighed around 90lbs at the hospital.

@shawnpawlowski1436

3 ай бұрын

It’s called automatism. His mind was functioning on simple inferences.

To be fair adrenalin can easily sober you up after smoking bud. I also imagine a gunfight would be quick to sober one up as well. I know for sure adrenaline can sober you up fast as I've experienced it first hand lol.

@howardlloyd9183

5 ай бұрын

You nailed it. Being high on weed will fade real quick when being shot at.

"Die with your hands around the throat of the enemy" Victor Reznov CoD WAW

@JuriSins

6 ай бұрын

Speaking of COD, Ultimis Nikolai basically went through the maps and easter eggs drunk 😂

@danscott3880

5 ай бұрын

It is happy hour vodka for everyone. Nikolai world at war..

how does the story about that finish soldier get more insane every single time I hear it? I swear every single time I hear it a new detail is added that makes it even more insane.

While I was doing missions in the navy I never got caught operating weaponry while drunk. I did.... I just never got caught.

@Colorfullll

6 ай бұрын

Lol

@somepogger8321

6 ай бұрын

Bro could of caused a war💀💀

@d.b.1176

6 ай бұрын

That’s why it’s called the “Never Got Caught” ribbon.

@briguy459

6 ай бұрын

Not much different. You can either have a lack of sleep and be drunk on watch or just be tired and bored on watch 😅

@michaelpacinus242

5 ай бұрын

Must be a real tough guy

“Took marijuana” 🤣🤣🤣

Great video lol. I wasn't expecting a video on intoxicated soldiers lmao.

Meth wasn't new in the 1930's. It had been around since the 1890's. Germany did make it in to a pill form though.

@EEL67

6 ай бұрын

All this and it was the Japanese that created it in the 1880’s with the synthesis of ephedrine. Then I’m 1885 Nagayoshi Nagai isolated the herb that the Chinese herb ma haung, that the Chinese used for thousands of years as a stimulant. And in 1893 a similar substance was synthesized in a lab and methamphetamine was born.

@myyoutubename1756

2 ай бұрын

Japan didnt create it. They created the precursors. Germany did

@michaelshearer5105

2 ай бұрын

Yeah Germany will not be living this down... it's one thing to make a drug but a different thing to implement it into your military tactics.

Kind of a funny story from where I'm from. During the War of 1812; the first siege of Ft. Meigs. The fort wasn't complete when the British laid siege to the fort. To get the soldiers to finish building the ramparts, the for commander, General Harrison, authorized extra rations of rum to get the soldiers to continue working while being shelled. Guess it really is liquid courage.

Bud fight💀💀

@Jahr_1974

6 ай бұрын

Bruh 💀

@nursestoyland

6 ай бұрын

bud fight

@maxhao8660

6 ай бұрын

Ah bud fight good stuff

@owenchan3226

6 ай бұрын

Man I really want some bud fight rn...

@arkad6329

6 ай бұрын

Piss water

Pvt Bill Speakman, VC, Korean War. Threw beer bottles at enemy when ran out of ammo.

@generalmalice7941

5 ай бұрын

That's fucking gold

I love that the first guy has a joint sticking out of his mouth for the whole story…like he was super stoned!

Weed from the jungle was nothing like the stuff available nowadays... Fermented beverages were the safer drink for thousands of years (water, not so much)

@KnOnHeavensDoor

6 ай бұрын

They grow some of the best in Asia and turn it into hash .It was good stuff , not reggie brick from Mexico. My dad stayed high in Vietnam. Edit also thousands of soldiers became junkies shooting heroin in Vietnam.

@John-kj5wh

5 ай бұрын

Alcohol is safe in moderation but not so much in excess.

@CivilizedWarrior

Ай бұрын

@@KnOnHeavensDoor my uncle also smoked weed and hash in Nam, and continued doing so when he got home, right up until he passed away in his 80’s. From what I heard, he paid for the downpayment on his house by smuggling dope home from Nam when his tour was over. Of course, this was the mid to late ‘60s, before the CIA realized they could get rich doing the same.

0:16 they call him the weed whacker

It is said that on that day, whilst most of the troops were on maybe one marijuana, Sgt. Lemon had taken at least 3, and maybe even 4, marijuanas.

i like how the animations are janky and not janky at the same time

I think people don’t understand that drugs including alcohol or marijuana can have extreme performance increases!!!

The thumbnail has me dying 😭 "Bud fight"

You know how many thousands of these stories we will never know because soldiers were scared to say lol

@briansacco3181

6 ай бұрын

Im one of them lol

Grant was drunk on Liqour the entire Seige of Vicksberg. He won the war and we elected him President because of it. Im not saying a drunk army is good thing because its not....but sometimes....in particular situations....

@tomhenry897

6 ай бұрын

Not really Didn’t drink anymore then others And lot less then others It was misinformation by those jealous of him to get him relieved He won battles others couldn’t so Lincoln kept him

@physetermacrocephalus2209

6 ай бұрын

@@tomhenry897 Nah it was the Whiskey. If you know you know.

First guy was like "oh they're in the tree? I guess I'm smoking the trees"

If I’m in war and presented with some bud, I am smoking it with my buds.

@CWREDnYELLA816

Ай бұрын

Haaaaaa! Oh man

As a veteran once said "When you're in combat, you fight for your brothers to your left and to your right"

12:07 my therapist: Heer soldier on drugs isn't real, he can't hurt you. Heer soldier on drugs:

@maxhao8660

6 ай бұрын

fr

@randompoigon4583

6 ай бұрын

And 10:50

@leylo420

2 ай бұрын

I am scared.

@leylo420

2 ай бұрын

And 21:48

The 1911 replacing the m1892 as mentioned is incorrect. It was replaced by the colt 1909 new service. Simple history researcher was asleep on that one.

@MalleusSemperVictor

6 ай бұрын

It was probably easier to gloss over that fact than say they used the M1909 for 2 years until the adoption of the M1911. A layperson might also be unaware of other firearms like the M1941 Johnson Rifle or even the M14's service in Vietnam. Some might say you're technically correct, which is the best kind of correct.

@AceHimalayanX

6 ай бұрын

There was also a German Soldier equipped with an MG42 shooting it like an assault rifle

@baconater4199

4 ай бұрын

@@MalleusSemperVictorthat’s the answer this guy is just being a stickler

@CivilizedWarrior

Ай бұрын

@@MalleusSemperVictor everybody say Jamaica, Jamaica!

Man got so high he went to an award ceremony in another country

To be fair, I learned how to drive stoned, I learned how to frame houses stoned. I get stoned nearly everyday , so it’s not that significant that people can fight a war high on pot.

Fresh pine needle shoots are very nutritious and every Northerner learns about this from childhood. It's a great source of vitamin C, you can brew a tea on them. Pretty refreshing too.

I’m glad you made a shortened version

after death lemon was posthumously awarded the purple cross of dankness

Lmao the first story made it sound like you get obliterated when you smoke weed. 😂 The adrenaline from a situation like that would kill your high faster than a light turns on. Lmao

Lemon brought a new definition to “420 blazing.”

@rogerauger7766

6 ай бұрын

LOL Good one!

I don't blame him like so many people who have left their own country for the American dream and they had shown what loyalty to this country by fighting for this beautiful country and to some of them had shown what a true American is

I love your channel and just resubscribe after watching everything twice atleast. Great channel

As a proud Viet Nam Marine vet, I would say that from Feb68 to Oct69, as an infantryman, I never witnessed any drug or alcohol use while I'm on patrols or operations, his fellow Marines would not tolerate it.

@tomhenry897

6 ай бұрын

That’s BS Every veitnam vet marine and army I served with talked about the drug use

@Jordizzan

6 ай бұрын

You’re the only squad who behaved I guess pal.

@EnigmaticLucas

6 ай бұрын

I'd imagine it was more common in the Army since fragging was more common there

@georgesears2916

6 ай бұрын

To be fair I imagine moral was slightly higher in 68 to 69 than it was in the last 5 years.

@JamesRowell-fj7uq

6 ай бұрын

SEMPER FI BROTHER

Paddy Mayne is a legend.

Dude was a terminator!

I like the fact that you animated him smoking his joint on the way out lol, very nice.

Pov: 0:41 Canadians without Maple syrup for months

Not to be pedantic but, methamphetamine was synthesized from ephedrine in 1893 by Japanese chemist Nagai Nagayoshi. Three decades later, in 1919, methamphetamine hydrochloride was synthesized by pharmacologist Akira Ogata via reduction of ephedrine using red phosphorus and iodine.

@gaoxiaen1

5 ай бұрын

Before that they used cocaine.

Reefer wouldn't affect anyone that much maybe wreck the rations but that's it

There is the question of how much alcohol General Grant drank during the US Civil War.

@jimbob465

6 ай бұрын

Most of it

@drunkenmmamaster419

6 ай бұрын

Just a drunk depressed guy

@dwightchaos9449

6 ай бұрын

@@drunkenmmamaster419 He was sending young men to kill and die.. that job would be easy to get depressed about.

@Mike-sr6gd

5 ай бұрын

Just enough

@Btester2

5 ай бұрын

Yes

Honestly if I was in Vietnam I woulda needed that Za too 😭

Training and survival instincts kick in no matter what you are on

“Hey Lemon, Get that Pig going!” Puff, puff, puff “Er, yeah. Give me a minute, yeah?”

Hitler was also a morphine addict. The combination of strong opiates and methampet Resulted in Hitler’s poor decision making leading to the ill-considered invasion of Russia

I love the first one where he has a joint in his mouth in every scene 🤣🤣🤣, I’ve seen the Finnish soldier Aimo Koivunen story on a whole pack of meth(pervitin) 100 times and cannot stop laughing dude tried to die on accident so many times 🤣🤣 savage

That machinge gun scene was sick

Another awesome video 👏

Pullo was hella drunk since he didn’t stay in formation that one time in Gaul.

I don't think anyone is topping the Finnish guy who took ALL of the meth.

Simple histery is da best channel

Weed never made it more difficult to do anything I was already doing.

@chef7658

6 ай бұрын

Except for acting sober😂

I was intoxicated in Soviet army very often. We were drinking moonshine near Bryansk every week.

probably half of the viking berserkers of the middle ages were high on mushrooms they found in the forest

I tried many stuff in my life in many diff situations, but 1 thing is for sure, once a fight for your life starts all the buzz goes away, all you get is a high focus on whatever you are doing, you get shot you feel a cold burn, but the pain is numbed so you keep going till the body collapse, but theres nothing the brain can do to make you stop, all pain inducers are numbed and you keep pushing.

My dad was telling me that most smoked weed. Vietnam prices were a coffee can full of weed was about 5 dollars.

Id be popping a couple benzos before each battle lol

@crf80fdarkdays

26 күн бұрын

That would be pretty silly, take enough and you wouldn't have the energy to fight.

5:20 *April 1st* American soldiers: But why at night?! Viet Cong soldiers: *It's just a prank*

LOL the cracked out german busting through the wall at 18:14 I lost it 🤣😂

That first guy went through a battle like an FPS MC.

Nobody stays high that long with that much adrenalin on pot, lol !

I’ve never been a soldier, but in my limited experience yeah in a fight being drunk and on drugs, you go pretty hard and crazy, fight multiple dudes at once, good thing I’m trying to get my life back on track

@TheBerendir

6 ай бұрын

Same here but most of the time the multiple dudes I was fighting didn't exist 😂.

@dwightchaos9449

6 ай бұрын

Fighting a drunk person sober makes you feel like a Jedi.. any other drugs I could see it might help.. but fighting drunk has you all slow and off balance.

@Btester2

5 ай бұрын

I smoked so much weed once I passed out in a field and lost my phone while on the way to a strip club.

@NashmanNash

4 ай бұрын

I like when drunk people pick a fight with me :D

@dwightchaos9449

4 ай бұрын

@@Btester2 well I was gonna say it saved ya money.. but if you had to buy a new phone maybe not… strip clubs have are a waste to go to for me anymore. It did serve a purpose one time though.. 😝

When things go crazy your high definitely goes down and with some disappears

this is my new favorite video

Making the weed sound like it’s the most intoxicating drug in the world 😂

I read a story about a group of British soldiers in Afghanistan who whilst out on patrol had stopped for a rest or whatever & they all sat down amongst high grass, after 10 mins they were found to be smashed as they’d taken their break in a farmers cannabis field which were in flower & maybe pollen had made them fall asleep.

@crf80fdarkdays

26 күн бұрын

"pollen" being an excuse for smoking the erb

The thumbnail is fantastic lol

I love all the film references tucked into the animation

Nobody is drinking bud light anymore 😂

Russians on vodka, since forever and now

Narrator really thinks pot makes people less able to kill

It's - 30°c in central Finland, about - 25f and it's so hard to believe that he survived all that. I go outside and almost slip into a coma 😂

“What makes me a good Demoman?”

As a Canadian I loved how the beginning was a born canadian smoking weed 😂 represent

Excellent video

Fighting on weed is like fighting on Tylenol. It wouldn’t matter in the slightest!

@rickybobbyinc293

5 ай бұрын

Unless it was amazing weed and was the first time you ever done it.

Everyone needs to go with Bud Light I see. What, are you ALL in on this now? Nobody drinks Bud Light, other than dudes who bite pillows.

Ah he's from Canada, that explains marijuana thing.

Great videos

No marine is drinking bud light

The problem with sleep deprivation is when pushing 60+ hrs no sleep auditory hallucinations can kick in making you lose your GD mind….

@crf80fdarkdays

26 күн бұрын

Yep, not to mention the shadow people witch will cause distraction

You ever seen the backbof a 20$ dollar bill? On Marijuana? You ever fought off a battalion of nva on Marijuana?

I love this story about Peter C Lemon. Thank you 👍

I would be more surprised by a list of soldiers who weren't high on something.

Being pro gamer