FUN FACT: The Harrison Ford scene was an ad-lib by Harrison. The script called for a hands on fight scene but Ford was terribly ill with dysentery and needed the bathroom. He pulled his gun instead. The director liked it so much he kept it in rather than do the scripted fight. You can see in Ford's face how ill he was.

My Grandpa stormed the beaches I don’t know if he was just a badass or ptsd just missed him. but he had no problem describing what he saw. I wouldn’t dare put the things he said on KZread 😂

@Waltyworld

4 ай бұрын

Please tell me what he said 😢😢😢 I’m desperate to know

@Waltyworld

4 ай бұрын

PLEASe

@Waltyworld

4 ай бұрын

Also like 7

@80sGamerLady

4 ай бұрын

​@@WaltyworldJust watch Saving Private Ryan. The opening scene was said to be the most accurate movie depiction according to other WWII vets

@EatDatBitchAwp

4 ай бұрын

@@80sGamerLadywatching a movie scene is not even close to getting real stories from 1 soldier who was personally there.

The Medal of Honor comes with a special pension plus access to any base exchange. It also includes automatic burial at Arlington National Cemetery as well as automatic acceptance at any military service academies for their children. So the service takes care of the recipient and their family.

@anonymouscali7966

3 ай бұрын

You get all of that after your 20yr retirement as well and Arlington or any military cemetery is also optional

@Bart79256

2 ай бұрын

You also no longer salute first, and if your flying on military airlift command no one can bump you off the flight (seats are free, but rank and certain orders gets priority)

The Purple Heart is for anyone wounded in combat across all branches. You guys should consider doing the History of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. 😊

@Zenshu1

3 ай бұрын

We called it the enemy marksmanship badge

Outstanding reaction. Dave was spot on. Here in the States we lose an average of 22 veterans a day to self deletion. Even when the war ends the battle rages on for many. Unseen scars and wounds can be the hardest to treat. Have a wonderful rest of your week.

U.S.Navy Seabee, combat engineer. 1970 -- 1974. Marines train Seabees for combat and each Battalion has a Marine NCO to Lead us in training and combat issues. We don't let him get harmed either. Marines are Brave.

The Medal of Honor is the highest award achievable and while it doesn't give a financial advantage in pensions, does give a person with one certain privileges going forward. The Purple Heart is actually the oldest of the medals awarded by the military and was originally commissioned by George Washington himself. He intended it to be awarded to anyone wounded in combat with the enemy. The Purple Heart is able to be awarded multiple times, with each additional one represented by an oak leaf cluster on the chest ribbon of the Purple Heart.

@dogsoldiertoo1099

4 ай бұрын

Also all superior officer including the Joint Chiefs and the President are required to salute an MoH recipient.

@nerofl89

4 ай бұрын

@@dogsoldiertoo1099 Saluting is a tradition, not a requirement, but everyone does so out of respect of service.

@nerofl89

4 ай бұрын

While MoH recipients used to not receive special pension dispensation, as of 2022 they do receive an special pension of an added ~$1,700 per month (as of 2022, subject to change). Also it should be noted they also receive other special treatments from their branch to even individual states/private company benefits, including other pay increases like the Army increases retirement pay by 10%.

This guy should be the one you hire as a speech writer/giver. 😂😂😂

@dogsoldiertoo1099

4 ай бұрын

Nic needs to be a history teacher. I'd have loved to take his class.

@ilovejettrooper5922

4 ай бұрын

@@dogsoldiertoo1099 I've heard he's trying to get into the education system, actually. Not sure on the details, but...

Another benefit of a Medal Of Honor holder is that everyone has to salute you first regardless of rank. I only saw one while I served in the early 1980s. They are rare.

There are a lot of videos about " Fighting Jack Churchill", also called "Mad Jack". He was a British soldier who fought in World War II.

@steelgreyed

4 ай бұрын

Isn't that the dude who took a sword to a gun fight and won?

@deannaschultz1814

4 ай бұрын

Yes

@MagicalMaster

4 ай бұрын

@@steelgreyed And his bagpipes.

@ravenzyblack

3 ай бұрын

@@steelgreyed- I believe it was the only confirmed kill with the broad sword during the war. “Mad Jack” was an adrenaline junkie and a madman.😂

@steelgreyed

3 ай бұрын

@@ravenzyblack I like to think of it as getting the job done......

The Medal of Honor is often called the Congressional Medal of Honor due to it being presented by the President in the name of Congress. It is also referred to as "Coffin, Metal Handles" because it is usually awarded after the death of the recipient due to his actions. An example would be diving on a grenade to save your friends. The award also allows your children to go to one of the military academies as long as they pass the requirements (you normally have to be nominated by a congressman and senator) .

Semper Fi fellas! I love this story. I am an old devil dog myself, and I love that the 5'6" 135lb legend still resonates today, because I joined the Corps with the same attributes. So build-wise, Dan Daly and I were the same. However, my service was not even a blip on the radar next to the MC double D. (Marine Corps Dan Dalypardon my acronyms) This guy and Chesty Puller and so many others have captivated my thoughts over the years. Human spirit is a tough thing, but it's an impenetrable bulwark when the spirit belongs to a United States Marine. Thank you guys for showcasing these stories. I am not a warmonger, but I feel that our country has had a great period of peace. That is a good thing overall, but as each generation comes and goes, the price of that peace is steadily forgotten. These legendary tales of servicemen and women are a huge check and balance to remind the elders and teach the youth that peace was not free. It certainly wasn't cheap. I have the utmost respect for the folks in the armed services, and I pray that you and yours are safe and well wherever you are! Thanks for the content again you guys!!!

The thing about being in those kind of situations, especially as a leader, you have so much going through your head sometimes you just forget to be scared until after the fact.

Purple Heart is for injuries in the line of duty.

As much as I love TFE's storytelling and videos and enjoy this one, I do have to admit he sometimes (like here) mess up on some of the details. Dan Daly was 25 when he enlisted, not 16. He was 44 when Battle of Belau Wood started and the war ended on his 45th birthday.

@m2hmghb

4 ай бұрын

Yes he does. Then again I normally can point out something a person got wrong in a video. I don't hold him to a different standard.

@WolfiiHD

4 ай бұрын

Wrong.

You need to check out the first medal of honor ever recorded, this was the last stand of a airforce combat controller John Chapman, who also received two Congressional Medals of Honor, posthumously from actions in Afghanistan. RIP

12:00 "it's not the years, it's the mileage" - Indiana Jones😀

Regarding him carrying nearly twice his body weight on his back. you also have to consider the fact prior to doing this he had been running and fighting for several hours. Added on top of that he then had to travel all the way back there in the dark and spent several hours diving down into the water to find the gear and pull it out of the water. He would’ve been suffering extreme mental and physical exhaustion before he even started carrying all that gear and yet he still managed to get it done.

In boot camp they drilled Dan Dailey’s name was drilled into our heads! The deployment I went on one of the ships was the USS Boxer.

My cousin is a US Marine and they all respect "the old breed", although it seems Chesty Puller and General Mattis gets all the love nowadays. Them and Corpsmen. Always respect the Corpsman/Doc.

@tyreedillard

4 ай бұрын

Goodnight Chesty, Wherever you are!!

High school motto..."It's not the size of dog in the fight but the size of fight in the dog"

1:35 Oh come on, that's a photo of Mike.

@John_Redcorn_

4 ай бұрын

Mike the OG time traveler

The Purple heart is awarded for being wounded in battle, or posthumously if killed in battle. Most commonly awarded in wars in the past

If you're looking for a good story about a man that should absolutely be a British hero - hell, a hero to everyone in the western world - check out a video he did recently on Percy Hobart. It's quite an eye opener.

@joshuaking34

4 ай бұрын

TFE has a video for Sir Hobart.

Purple Hearts are for soldiers wounded in combat

@jdbroders64

4 ай бұрын

Correction: Purple Hearts are for any member of any of the military branches (Navy, Army, Air Force, Coast Guard, Marines) wounded in combat.

@michaelschemlab

4 ай бұрын

@@jdbroders64 Right. I forgot soldiers only meant US Army

The military ages you, I did 8 years Marine infantry, I'm 44 right now, at my last exam my doctor said I have the back and knees of a 70 yr old man, hahaha, it takes a toll

Watch the Barbary Wars one from him, it’s the origin story of the US Navy.

Buds called Starship Troopers bad. That's a public flogging.

My uncle Stormed the beaches in Normandy. But that was in 73. So the resistance wasn’t that thick.

And the Marine Corps Birthday is the day before, Nov. 10th, lol.

The Purple Heart is a medal awarded to being wounded as a result of combat whilst in service, however it’s vague in description which has caused confusion and some rather questionable awards of the medal, meaning there are cases of service members unknowingly or mistakenly reporting a mundane injury as a injury resulting from combat and then getting a Purple Heart

Here in America If I remember correctly it's roughly every 2 hours a veteran commits suicide. A metal band did a music video years ago to spread awareness about it.

If you want something really fun of the Fat Electrician's to react to, mash up 5 of his shorter videos into 1 of your reaction videos. It would be the videos on the USS Barb Submarine, USS O' Bannon Destroyer, USS Texas Battleship, the USS New Jersey, and USS Iowa class Battleships. Why? Because you can simply name it as "The US Navy is crazy." Those are all stories about ships that either served in or were built around the time of WWII and have done some seriously dumb things, according to common sense, that are just another Tuesday for the US Armed Forces today. Those are all shorter like 3 minute videos, so you can get a decent sized video out of that and have a fun discussion about how "uncouth and barbaric those colonist ships are." And then later watch and react to his video about the US Dismantled the Barbary Pirates which also covers the origin of the US Navy and the US Marines.

For the record he got the early ages wrong. Daly was born on November 11th 1873, so he was 25 when he joined in 1899, not 16.

The Chubby Electron Guy is awesome, but he made a mistake on the age of Dan Daly. He mentions that Daly joined the Marines in 1899...he would not have been 16 at that time, he would have been 25 as he was born in 1873.

I don't know if anyone mentioned it yet about Medal of Honor recipient is that their children have automatic acceptance to any of the military colleges.

my grandpa almost seen one of his men blow off his own head in France, because he had a massive centipede climbing in his ear when they where asleep in a barn. funny story.

Loved it awesome video and awesome reaction guys.

The Recipients receive a special monthly pension (on top of any other earned pay/retirement), travel on military aircraft on space-available basis, have access to base commissaries, and are guaranteed burial at Arlington National Cemetery and admittance for their children to the military service academies.

The Purple Heart is awarded to troops who are wounded by the enemy.

Berlin airlift is great and Mcnasty

As enlisted MOH winner…even 5 stars must render him a 🫡

Denise was on one episode of Fiends and one episode of Seinfeld.

thanks again !

2 small mistakes in this otherwise nice vid, Daly was 26 or 27 in the boxer fight, not 18, and the 2nd mistake there where 3 machinegun positions at the start of the fight but 2 got taken out quickly, leaving Daly to fend for himself.

@johnlovett651

4 ай бұрын

Also born in 1873 and joined the military in 1899 so he wasn’t 16 when he joined. 25 or 26

He gets one fact wrong in this video. Daly was 26 years old when he joined the US Marine Corps, and 28 years old when he earned his forst MoH. That is how/why he was 44 years old during the battle of Belleau Wood. Semper Fi!

Now days the Medal of Honor winner is pulled off the front lines and brought home. They don’t want to get them killed right after winning it. The most recent conflicts there were bounties on US personal. Can you imagine what the bounty on a MoD winner would be?

I have my grandfather's purple heart he was shot in the eye in ww2 he died in 1983.just after I was born

Love history so always excited to see TFE content 😊❤

That movie was what happens to a great book with illiterate production.

Dan Daly Born November 11th 1873 WOULD NOT be 16 years old in 1899. 26. And 1873 was not a leap year.

Have the Irish in Ireland lost all their sense of humor? The Irish I know in Idaho laugh, like a lot. So, hey, guys, it's alright to laugh. Well, a reaction site, the guys on it should react, right?😢

There are no additional benefits (other than the massive respect a recipient would get from everyone in the military) associated with the Congressional Medal of Honor, except one: Everyone in the US military must salute someone who earns the CMH first, regardless of rank. Which means that if a Private earns the medal, then even Generals in the US military must salute the Private first, before the Private returns the salute. So every officer in every branch of the US military had to salute MSG Dan Daly first, but that is only when he is actually wearing the medal. Medals are not always worn on some uniforms, in which case MSG Dan Daly would salute officers first. Most Congressional Medals of Honor are awarded posthumously. Enlisted personnel who receive the CMH, like Audie Murphy for example, are offered promotions to become officers. MSG Dan Daly obviously refused when such an offer was made to him.

The last thing, the VERY LAST thing, you ever want to do, is "disable the regulator on the American War Machine".

Excellent

I'm not sure if you have seen it, but check out "the fat electrician old age and treachery"

Gotta get someone to animate john dilinger vs Dan Daly

Dan Daly was 25, NOT 16, when he enlisted. He was 27 during the Boxer Rebellion.

yall gotta do the most gangster politician of all time boyos

@user-wc8fp4cx6c

4 ай бұрын

Eugene V Debs.

"Maybe he's just killed 200 Chinese people for breakfast, and it's aged him a bit."

I love how the Brits conveniently forget that without US intervention in both wars, they'd be speaking German.

If he was born in 1873 he would have been 26 in 1899, not 16.

Starship Troopers is incredibly good for how awful it is. It's a masterpiece.

He had one fact wrong. Daly enlisted at 25 not 16.

After all that . . . The first discussion and google search is about Denise Richard’s? WTAF?

😂Marines had a secret weapon the Germans weren’t used too, dam shot guns😂they actually filed charges after using gas themselves and machine guns, they didn’t like the fact when a Marine was clearing a trench a fired that shot gun, the man he aimed at went down, the guys next to him would be wounded or go down and the guys next to them would get wounded.

18 in 1899, then not 43 until 1924...

the guy next to ya gets shot in the face and the rest just think he should have trained harder.. lol

has to be satire

starship troopers WASNT that bad lmao

11:59 He was actually 42 here, the fat electrician seemed to have fudged the math at the start and he was 25 when he first enlisted into the military. (Still looks older that 42 in this picture though tbh lol)

another amazing military story by "the fat electrician" is the greatest anti-hero ever Jake "McNasty" McNiece kzread.info/dash/bejne/p5d-ptygk5vFk6w.html

So I just found a discrepancy that annoys me. If he was born in 1873 that would place him as 26 when he joined in 1899, not 16....

@Austin.Kilgore

4 ай бұрын

Yeah I’m assuming the fat electrician may of just made a mistake, probably had a “brain fart” while doing the math for his age. I just looked it up and he 25 when he joined the military.

@Austin.Kilgore

4 ай бұрын

Yeah he seems to have fudged the math or something because he was 25 when he first enlisted into the military

@steelgreyed

4 ай бұрын

@@Austin.Kilgore It does make a better story, I'm just an accuracy twit.

The most gangster marine of all-time is Smedley Butler. (He was also the most decorated and famous marine of the early 20th century. He was a virtual celebrity revered by the media and political class.) Fat Electrician makes a quick reference to Butler early in this video, then moves on. This is intentional. If FE shared what Smedley Butler concluded it would negate the entirety of his war worshipping YT channel. Below are a few important paragraphs from Smedley Butler's famous pamphlet titled "War is a Racket," written in 1935. Read carefully. WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes. In the World War [I] a mere handful garnered the profits of the conflict. At least 21,000 new millionaires and billionaires were made in the United States during the World War. That many admitted their huge blood gains in their income tax returns. How many other war millionaires falsified their tax returns no one knows. How many of these war millionaires shouldered a rifle? How many of them dug a trench? How many of them knew what it meant to go hungry in a rat-infested dug-out? How many of them spent sleepless, frightened nights, ducking shells and shrapnel and machine gun bullets? How many of them parried a bayonet thrust of an enemy? How many of them were wounded or killed in battle? Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few - the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill. And what is this bill? This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations. For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it. Now that I see the international war clouds gathering, as they are today, I must face it and speak out. END You can GOOgle to find the rest of the pamphlet.

@DarkKatzy013

4 ай бұрын

And as a soldier myself a medic at that. You are wrong not just in part but almost in whole. War is nasty but as yet still necessary. For society would not progress as it does . Just no stop whining about something that doesn't personally agree with you.

Meh, these storytelling vids get old real quick. I like military stuff but you gotta mix it up a little

i like obdave not the other 2 guys eh.....dave says facts 2 older guys dont know shit wow