Our country also has war fatigue. There are MANY veterans out there, myself included, telling people not to join because being a pawn for our awful government isn't worth it. A government that'll mess you up for your whole life for hidden agendas and overly rich people. I don't blame anyone for not joining.

@johnfoster2584

11 ай бұрын

Bingo

@gregscrabshack2307

11 ай бұрын

my best friend served in iraq/afghanistan. destroyed back/shoulder/knees. he lives in a shack & can barely walk.

@DonJ.

11 ай бұрын

For the love of God ( Gold , Oil and Dollar) we now know the reason why we served. The greatest country in world bomb their own towers and invaded a country that wasn't even involved. 🤔

@ScottDieken

11 ай бұрын

Perfectly said The VA is a joke, I cant get testosterone treatment and my level is 33. It shows as low on the blood work but they wont help me.

@harken_cycles6477

11 ай бұрын

Your not fighting wars. Your paid 13th grader hall moitors

My country sent me to foreign lands to fight evil , when I returned home, I saw the evil in my country

@deepbludude4697

11 ай бұрын

Absolutely my brother I feel so decieved and im not an emotional kinda dude. FJB and the destruction of the country that you, me and all of our other brother's and sister's risked life, limb, eyesight and brain damage as well as the emotional toll.

@leeprice386

11 ай бұрын

hope your doing well but i dont believe you was fighting for USA ,you was fighting for central banks assets and your life meant nothing to them . they take the country best men and use them for evil .

@alexayuso3563

11 ай бұрын

Same

@tonyruiz4732

11 ай бұрын

FeWolf your not the only one, well I should say there’s thousands with the same life experience, it’s sad but true that the evil is here and it doesn’t care one bit of it’s people that lose their lives or comes back damage , but if we don’t do something about it it’s going to get worse for future ones

@joelkoricich1771

11 ай бұрын

Thank you, thank you for your sacrifice

A veteran told me a story about the time he served in the military. He and his team were ambushed and his buddy next to him was seriously injured. I can't recall if he was injured from gunfire or an explosion but their medic was a female. His buddy was dying bleeding out and she stood there and watched frozen in fear like a deer in the headlights. He yelled and cursed at her trying to snap her out of it so she could save him and nothing. Lucky for them, there was another medic nearby that took over and saved his life. In his own words " women don't fu**ing belong in combat."

@davidfisher5140

9 ай бұрын

Not fair dude! I've seen more men freeze than women. The best medics I ever had were ALL female! Most were mothers & a wounded person to them was another mother's kid. I've seen female medics physically restrained from charging into bad stuff bc sometimes they don't see the bigger picture, just the 1 guy they can try to help.

@raqamsonofmanasseh

9 ай бұрын

@@davidfisher5140 Stop lying, I was a combat medic. Females don't belong in combat. The only role I can see them in is aircraft pilots , sniper.

@Caelestus59

9 ай бұрын

Anyone can be shocked and freeze up. The argument you should be going for is the inability to transport the fully equipped Soldier. Combat medics have to be strong and have great stamina. Otherwise they are just another gun, and a less trained one at that. Although I do agree that females shouldn't be in the frontlines for many other reason: Hygiene Morale vulnerability Tension in a mixed unit Physical capability (There are outliers, but 9/10 a man can physically submit a woman) Empathy And I can go on, and you can try to argue those points, but using outliers to argue is really disingenuous. And if people really want to say trans woman are woman, then they are the only "woman" that should be allowed in the front lines.

@davidfisher5140

9 ай бұрын

​@@Caelestus59 You make excellent points but as a man with 51 months in combat zones, I have some experience in the matter. A key that civilians & non combat troops tend to miss? Medics are usually NOT the ones carrying the injured. The line troops do the carrying but in modern US military, we rarely carry more than 100 meters. Why? CAZEVAC/MEDEVAC. We use dedicated helos w highly trained trauma nurses/paramedics as the crew for serious stuff. For lesser injuries or when it is utterly impossible to get a bird in, we use ground vehicles. We no longer have dedicated ground ambulances bc ALL vics except tanks & arty are designed to be stretcher capable. ALL US soldiers are now trained in some advanced stabilization methods as well as various carry/drag extraction methods & proper litter carry techniques. (there IS more than one WRONG way!) I had females under my direct supervision many times. Some guys had more trouble with them than I did (fake harassment claims are rampant -sadly). The one time a female made a complaint against me, she first insisted she did not want to press charges, then 6mos later she apologized to me w tears in her eyes bc she figured she had misinterpreted my actions. There are specific rules for soldiers in uniform vs fraternization & physical touch (nearly never!), yet for mental health, females NEED 10 meaningful touches/day (actual research from the late 80s on!) A handshake or comradely pat on the shoulder is enough almost always, but sometimes even a married female might need a hug to reassure her; it's not a sexual thing but a menta health/stress relief thing. Men almost NEVER want that! Hygiene is an overrated issue. I had to explain things to females a couple times on proper techniques for using the bush while not wetting your clothes or getting an infestation or even more awkwardly, the proper feminine packing list for when it is NOT your time of the month (WRONG! It is ALWAYS "that time" even if it is not normally). For the most part, the feminine sanitation issue is merely a matter of training. Many civilian women live in areas where showers are a bit rare & they don't get infections. Learn their skills then teach your female soldiers -no matter how awkward it might be. PRO TIP: Select ONE more mature "mom type" & ensure she is 100% skilled, then ensure she teaches the other females to reduce awkwardness with the more shy/formal/religious sorts. Also, sometimes feminine hygiene products are in short supply in a combat zone, so in the early days I taught all females to carry 3 MONTHS ahead of time. When deploying with packed trunks, I tended to pack extra TP, feminine supplies & unopened packs of man-sized socks (they are just longer than female). Later, almost every single large medical kit was stocked with a 1-2 month supply? Why? Tampons make EXCELLENT bullet hole stuffers & pads are better than gauze in most situations. (We also replaced medical tape with duct tape bc med tape sucks when wet; blood is usually wet).

@Caelestus59

9 ай бұрын

True, and medics are often augmented by CLS certified Soldiers now. Although then the idea is shifted to whether you consider the crew medics are considered front line or not. Fortunately, nearly all the medics I have encountered were physically fit. There is definitely a certain standard that they understand. Male and Female. Although, I have also never seen a strictly female medic team. As for hygiene, you made excellent points. I believe the hygiene issue probably stemmed from the lack of females in the front lines, leading to inadequate supplies. As trivial as it sounds, I didn't even think of forcing it within the packing list. But medics with tampons is a funny point, because I often see them with tampons. @@davidfisher5140

Joined the army at the beginning of 2016, left at the end of 2022. I have been actively telling young people not to join if they ask me. The corruption is blatant, the leaders are ineffective, the accommodations are garbage, and the federal government is not worth dying for.

Honestly I hope the recruitment numbers get worse, maybe then our government will start treating veterans better.

@alecfoster4413

11 ай бұрын

Yes! This country's priorities are really, really messed up!

@TorieHarris1999

11 ай бұрын

Yep !!!

@ihaveachihuahau

11 ай бұрын

@@harrym9655 Neocons and neolibs like biden both overwhelmingly voted for all those wars. Only populists were against war. Stop voting establishment.

@SpaceForce635

11 ай бұрын

They will just start press ganging illegals.

@tileavenue6911

11 ай бұрын

If I wanted someone to recite something to me for 26 minutes, I would've just asked my 8 year old daughter to do it.... provide some VALUE Patrick

Recruiting is down because we're now more informed and aware of the fraudulent reasons we go to war. This also impacts pride, as many are ashamed of how incompetent our leadership has become and refuse to put their lives in the hands of profiteers, traitors and warmongers who would never send their own children to war.

@lennymarinez

11 ай бұрын

Agreed

@bootcamprag

11 ай бұрын

Facts. The hypocrisy is real.

@TKUA11

11 ай бұрын

Hmm I guess people shouldn’t join the military, and when china invades us we will submit to communist rule

@ll2323

11 ай бұрын

I mean I would love to see these world leaders put some gloves on and box it out. Or live stream them in a field shooting at each other. Saves money, saves lives, and it’s recorded for posterity.

@friedfrawg

11 ай бұрын

My son doesn't want to join. He agrees a month of PRIDE and a single day to celebrate fallen is messed up. He said gay people can die for PRIDE.

I find, that as a veteran of 28 years in the service from 1985 to 2014, that so much has changed and most definitely for the worse. When I first entered service, the biggest threat on the block was the Soviet union, and they were very much worried about us as we’re many other hostile countries. Now the military is more concerned with “pandering“ to the “sensitive“ crowd and the useless, worthless politicians. I find it extremely hard to understand the world the way it is now, and have very little desire to be involved with it as it just gets worse and worse.

@davidfisher5140

9 ай бұрын

I was an intel guy so I saw lots of stuff coming long before others did. I was a little insulated from the surprises that way. You overlapped me by 1-1.5yrs on either side though so I know your thinking. The BS that happened in my last 5 years, especially the "homeland defense" mission Obama insisted upon was far from the right path for anybody not in the national guard. NG troops SHOULD be trained in a lot of things that AD & Reserve troops are not trained in. I was AD & got sidelined from AF/IZ missions for a few years for that BS, though it was nice not sucking sand for another year.

@williamharris9525

9 ай бұрын

@@davidfisher5140 First of all, thank you for your service! You definitely did your time, brother! Yes, things have been going to hell for quite a while, I was told that things were pretty bad back when I first joined the army in the mid 80s, but they are not nearly as bad as they are now. During the Obama administration, things steadily went downhill, and it’s my opinion everything started with the Clinton administration .

@davidfisher5140

9 ай бұрын

@@williamharris9525 I can't fault Clinton completely. Don't Ask Don't Tell was a compromise between him & the more rabid leftists in his party. He was trying to get more important tasks done like welfare reform & free college for all and family investment programs. It seems he tried to trade that for some support on his big ideas. His biggest mistake was not accepting UBL as a prisoner. That caused 9/11. He did reduce defense spending but that was the right thing to do at that time, "the peace dividend." Hillary was the warhawk likely from all that money the defense industry gave her to push Gulf II (then blame everything on Bush to try & take the Whitehouse.)

@RobertTheTexan2

9 ай бұрын

Brother you are not alone. We’re in that same boat. It seems to me that at some point the appointed leaders put weak military leaders in place to suit their agenda - either not caring or too stupid to understand the consequences. My money is on the first. Then these patsy weak G.O.’s go about putting into place the policies their compromised political leaders wanted to be put in place. I find it hard to believe that any veteran or immediate family member would see these very precise appointments and subsequent actions (policies) as nothing short than an attempt to weaken our military. Nothing about it is accidental or unintended collateral damage. It was purposeful and intentional. That’s the pill that’s hard for me to swallow is how a national level leader would have that much disdain or disregard for our military to do such a thing. But brother it is what it is. Time to wake up and speak out, hope our vote counts and stop voting for the douchebags who are train wrecking our country. Take care.

@williamharris9525

9 ай бұрын

@@RobertTheTexan2 You hit the nail on the head bro!

I remember being told to not join the military because I had too much potential to do something useful that didn't destroy my body and mental health

@Me-eb3wv

8 ай бұрын

What did you ended up doing

@rainyriderr1112

8 ай бұрын

@@Me-eb3wv currently a carpenter. I make about 90k/year with full medical, dental, vision and a 401k

@kimkhoitruong5991

7 ай бұрын

@@rainyriderr1112 damn i want to become a wood cutter or lumberjack but carpenter is fine and well pay job

@user-wk6jk7xu8s

7 ай бұрын

@@rainyriderr1112dam the American dream

@TC-1985

6 ай бұрын

​​@@rainyriderr1112I Envy You but you made A Boss Move by NOT joining The Dysfunctional Military...👍💯

As a veteran I discourage people from going into todays military. It’s the same with my veteran friends.

@netposerx

10 ай бұрын

Same. Unless you want free transition surgery. haha

@LivedWater

10 ай бұрын

Agreed, and thank you for your service!

@emirobinatoru

10 ай бұрын

​@@netposerxmentally ill people go to the military to manifest their mental illness into reality

@artsmsp

10 ай бұрын

I don’t. I encourage people to join. Especially ones with no direction or path. It’ll open doors and opportunities. The military has always been what you make of it. If you don’t like it, get out after your contract.

@lukewalken1316

10 ай бұрын

​@@artsmspit's opening too many doors and opportunities unfairly

My official last day in the Army was May 2023 I served tens years and left as an O3. The nail on the coffin moment as it were was I attended, by mandate, a transgender training. At the end of the training, Soldiers were allowed to voice their opinions. A female Soldier said she was uncomfortable to share a locker room with biological men. Officers and Soldiers mocked her openly and one of them called her a racist. Knowing that was the moment I am leaving I wish I would’ve stood up for her and I am ashamed of that. However, the Army and how it’s structured now after seeing the operational readiness across the Army, we are not capable of winning a peer-to-peer conflict I.e Russia, Iran or China. No military branch deserves your sons and daughters. Refrain from them joining.

@macahdahma7382

10 ай бұрын

"by mandate, a transgender training." Damn.

@flexpinoy

10 ай бұрын

Transgenders shouldn't be allowed to join the military.

@ChacoteOutdoorRecreation

10 ай бұрын

In 2021, about 420,000 children and teens across the United States received a diagnosis of gender dysphoria, nearly triple the number in 2017, A leading transgender health association has lowered its recommended minimum age for starting gender transition treatment, including sex hormones and surgeries to six months of age. Trans men, trans women, and non-binary individuals may choose to breastfeed or chestfeed their babies. Just 19 days after the adoption of a healthy newborn baby boy, Max Johnson lost her/his adopted son Landon due to “accidental starvation”. In 2021, Oregon enacted the “Menstrual Dignity Act” which requires public schools. to provide all students, regardless of “gender, age, ability and socioeconomic status” with menstrual products. Male students are instructed to insert the products rectally to express solidarity. Connecticut school kids as young as 8 were shown a video about gender identity, sent home with "puberty kits "All Boys Aren’t Blue "has been found in numerous elementary school libraries.” In the wake of the tragic Nashville Christian school shooting on March 27, new details have emerged from the autopsy report of the shooter, Audrey Hale, bringing to light several intriguing aspects, including mysterious handwritten notes on her clothes, a knife inscribed with his/her chosen name "Aiden," and an orange plastic anklet with the number 508407. The report also officially lists the perpetrator as a female while acknowledging that she likely identified as a transgender male. Around 44% of people 25 to 34 in the US believe using the incorrect pronouns for transgender and non-binary people should be a criminal offense, a survey suggested. Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley, who identifies as non-binary and uses the stage name Harpy Daniels became the Navy's new "digital ambassador." On average, about 100,000 men are sexually assaulted in the American military each year, according to Pentagon statistics. Members of Congress, frustrated with the growing number of same sex sexual assaults in the military, fought with defense leaders for several years over the issue. They argued that commanders at times were willing to ignore charges or incidents in their units to protect those accused of offenses because any indication of anti LGBTQ sentiment is a career ender and a deficit for employment opportunities after the military.

@sewwfffyhjijui

10 ай бұрын

That soldier who called her a racist for not wanting to change with a transgender person is an idiot. If they said trans phobic then it would make sense.

@JakeNBake0021

10 ай бұрын

I’m still in, can’t believe I signed up for the contract that I did. I want out asap

Served in the United States Marines for 15 years. I served a 3-year tour via recruiting from 2015 to 2017. Deployed three times. Once to Iraq and twice to Afghanistan. Recruiting overall is extremely challenging. Finding individuals who meet the USMC standards as well as the individuals having a good head on their shoulders isn't as easy some would think. I'd say that towards the end of my tour, I noticed a huge change in the high school atmosphere through 2016 to 2017. Whereas being parotic or pro America became needless to say uncool. It was popular and trendy to be anti-American via social media influencers and the like. I can only imagine what it must be like in those schools today. I cannot imagine being a USMC recruiter today. And having to answer Biden questions, the failed withdraw from Afghanistan questions...on top of the mounting mistreatment and disrespect of the service members from our own government. These are points and or questions I'm sure recruiters from all services deal with to this day on the daily. And quite frankly I personally would find those questions extremely challenging to answer. So, veterans such as I no longer support the government overall let alone encourage anyone we know to enlist. Civilians often look to the military to better themselves and or escape from their horrible upbringing, and to be challenged. The government lowering the standards is extremely detrimental. The politicians pushed the woke agenda and now the military is indeed broke. (go woke go broke).

@caylieann1994

8 ай бұрын

I served my 4 years in the Marines (2012-2016) and that was enough for me. It was an overall good experience. I was given an education I otherwise wouldn’t have gotten at all and I learned some valuable lessons. Nothing I would’ve chosen as a long term career, but just what I needed after high school. Both of my parents are Marines and I was actually born on Camp Lejeune. A little fun fact; Me and a girl friend ditched class, walked to our local recruiting office, and left for MEPS the week after graduation. She and I shipped out to Parris Island in July and thought to ourselves “What the fuck did we just get ourselves into” 😅 I was so lucky to have her by my side. Oscar Company platoon 4492 ❤

@Me-eb3wv

8 ай бұрын

@@caylieann1994nice sis sounds like you had a good time

@metalmike570

7 ай бұрын

I think the United States might be in great jeopardy, but of course our technology requires a lot less foot soldiers and all troops, arimen, marines etc. Let's hope that it doesn't become a push-button war. Another cold war is okay. Well actually that works, the fear of nuclear annihilation as a deterrant for using them. It's always worked in the past, but you can't predict all these different countries that have the capability. It's a different scenario.

@GoldenSnake32

5 ай бұрын

Young people don’t want to join because they don’t want to die for foreign countries. It’s as simple as that. Has nothing to do with “going woke” LOL

Awesome video! Iam an immigrant who came with my single mother to New York! Joining the military when I turned 17 was the best thing I ever did. The military is not a democracy it is a mission oriented institution assigned to be ready to protect a nation! There was a captain I hated when I was in. He was unfair and lied. But in life you will find these people everywhere. The military gave me discipline a focus in life and a can do spirit that has pushed me to succeed! I would do it again today . Thanks Patrick for saying what the silent majority really feels!! God bless America

@terry4137

4 ай бұрын

Thank you for your service.

@batboy555

3 ай бұрын

Also an immrigrant. I like to tell people I earned my citizenship.

I served in the USAF for 26 years. I have so much contempt with current US military policies that I have convinced my two sons, and all my nieces & nephews to not join the military. I even paid an entire semester of tuition for one just to keep them in school and out of the military.

@sethboyd2217

9 ай бұрын

I wanted to join the military 99 on the asvab no serious criminal record. I wanted to join as a nuke, I can program, i have 115 credits in college and I love my country. They rejected me two pot charges on my record no security clearance I can't do the job I wanted. I am sorry, but i am not joining to swab decks when i could join military inteligence or into nuclear engineering with a back ground in engineering. I was willing to put my life on hold with my wife and go on most likely a submarine to breath recycled air all to serve, but i will not end my studies and my time with my wife just to be painting a ship.

@crazychase98

9 ай бұрын

​@sethboyd2217 you got a blessing

@thomasmalley2054

9 ай бұрын

you are awesome, honestly.

@nandy1256

9 ай бұрын

​​@@sethboyd2217 Do they accept applicants with pot charges for the position you applied for?

@hereticalheretic5569

9 ай бұрын

@@Ken-no2szwow ok that’s a reach or maybe….. smoking a plant isn’t that bad, but I bet your of those A holes that drink all day and say you don’t have a problem while having seething rage over pot heads 😂😂😂

I’m a army cadet and during graduation for Basic Camp, the cadre gave awards and positions of leadership to people who were not leaders at all(trying to put it in a nice way). They put race over merit and it pissed off a lot of us.

@khassan_goat1308

10 ай бұрын

Definitely a lack of leadership; that’s what's ruining it for me. They just put anyone who kisses ass in position, and this year the government ran out of funds, so some people's PCs are delayed, and some still haven’t left. It’s ridiculous.

@agiksf.8998

10 ай бұрын

Please tell me you left this pathetic military after that? You will never get a career in such on organisation 😢

@ZionistJew-oj1bo

10 ай бұрын

I'm a 23 year old Civie, so how did those cancer virus Vaccines feel? Feel like you're serving your country? 😂

@metalvideos1961

10 ай бұрын

so you choose to be a terrorist. did you lost your brain?

@chillwill1740

10 ай бұрын

SO YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF A LEADER? YOURE A CADET! YOURE NOT A F'N LEADER, YOURE A KNOW NOTHING JUST LIKE THE REST OF THEM. YOU MAD BECAUSE YOU DIDNT GET A LEADERSHIP ROLE. IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THE POWERS THAT BE DIDNT SEE LEADERSHIP QUALITIES IN YOU? THE FACT THAT YOU WROTE WHAT YOU WROTE TELLS ME THAT YOU ARE NOT A LEADER. GO SIT DOWN AND STOP WHINING.

Joining the military might be the stupidest thing you can possibly do.

I love your channel, Pat. You cover important topics that are well researched.

Some anecdotes: I took a physical fitness test in Dec 22. There were 13 of us testing that day. Only two were able to run a single mile without stopping to walk. I attended an E-6 promotion release party a couple months ago. There were roughly 30 promotees honored. I'd estimate at least 50% were more than 50 pounds overweight. We are not fit to fight. During COVID, I watched men and women with multiple combat tours and decades of service be reprimanded and fast tracked out of the military for refusing the experimental jab. It was humiliating , shameful and dishonorable. On the legacy front, we spent 20 years of treasure in blood in Afghanistan only to retreat in disgrace. Patriots have noticed.

@Glambutfirstcoffee

11 ай бұрын

are you serious? in that case even i can do that test

@rightsdontcomewithpermits7073

11 ай бұрын

😂😂😂 patriots? Only in your mind. Real patriots would have done something with domestic enemies....

@SeaJay_Oceans

11 ай бұрын

Getting the refusniks out of the military was doing them a favor - the Jabs was an IQ test ? ARE YOU A LAB RAT ? Yes or No ? Picking NO is the better answer! The Jabs are just the start, what they have planned nexted, and after that are far worse... even with the millions of dead and injured by the toxic clot shots.

@impudentdomain

11 ай бұрын

If I were young again I would not join the military and I would be looking into immigrating to someplace where the marriage laws make sense and men are still respected.

@cl5193

11 ай бұрын

You nailed it. The comment "we are not fit to fight" made me remember a report put out by the pentagon and the CDC titled, "Too Fat to Fight." It said that 75% of military aged young adults were unfit for service. The number one reason was obesity; they couldn't pass they physical fitness tests. The second highest reason was that they couldn't pass the entrance exam, ie, they lacked basic reading and writing skills. And thirdly, was drugs abuse. I think the original publish date was 2010. This shit has not improved in the last decade.

Pat I can tell you as someone in the Army there needs to be a military-wide, methodical, DEEP audit of where money goes. The companies sell the government parts for outrageous prices and no one seems to care. Example: lock nuts you can buy for literal cents will cost 50 dollars individually. Whoever approved some of the contracts should be thrown in prison for fraudulent waste and abuse.

@motorcitymadman146

11 ай бұрын

Military is the world's largest money laundering operation in the world

@Just_logic

10 ай бұрын

Every 20 years there is 2 Trillion gone and no one knows how. With 911 2T. In Afghanistan 2T.

@smithnwesson990

10 ай бұрын

Why does the Army and other branches allow soldiers to get fat? Why isn't PT forced every morning? How could people get fat while working out for an hour each morning? I've seen some LARGE soldiers. How are they not discharged immediately?

@NimbleSF

10 ай бұрын

@@smithnwesson990 That's a great question. The Army has been dealing with a very serious PT problem in the last 10 years. The APFT was a great way to keep fat and lazy people in check. It was NOT a good measure of overall fitness, but it sure as shit would make sure that fatties had a hard time staying in without being flagged and put on notice. The introduction of the ACFT was very promising at the outset in terms of gauging overall fitness, but very quickly devolved once they realized that women couldn't pass it (there was around an 80-90% failure rate for females in the first version of the ACFT during testing). They began lowering standards, changing exercises that were deemed "hard", and now the ACFT is probably on its way out the door. A lot of the fat soldiers also just so happen to be females, because their standards are relaxed and trying to kick them out is an absolute goddamn nightmare (you'll be accused of sexism even if you are also kicking out fat male soldiers at the same time). The military is also in a very bad state in terms of maintaining proper dietary standards. I was 195 and a lean athlete before I joined. Afterwards, the sheer amount of fake and processed food the army makes you guzzle down from the DFAC and MREs noticeably bloated me up an extra 10. Not to mention soldiers being compelled to do PT in the morning have absolutely no motivation to go to the gym on their own time (this is just in my experience and the people I know) because they are trying to reclaim their time. I can actually see why this seems to be more of an enlisted problem as well. Officers are not compelled by force to wake up at 05:30-6 to be at PT at 06:30, and they will go to the gym on their own time (despite their long hours and responsibilities) and eat well. I believe PT should be changed to be in the afternoon; the old model of waking up at the ass-crack of dawn just disenfranchises people and makes them hate their lives on days when they have to work 10-12 hours (aka most of them). This is in my top 3 reasons why I'm getting out actually. I could go on literally forever on this topic because there's a litany of issues that need to be addressed. The best course of action is to bring back the original APFT because it was VERY good at kicking out fatties, as well as get rid of the female preferential treatment. Bring back more natural food to the dfac, limit sugar, and give soldiers options to receive allowance for food until the DFAC gets their shit together. They could probably knock the body weight standards down 2 more percent as well, but they still are trying to meet recruiting and retention numbers so that isn't likely to happen. Hopefully this was insightful. For reference i'm a mid-level NCO with 6 years in the Army.

@NimbleSF

10 ай бұрын

@@smithnwesson990 Also to answer your question about how fat soldiers are not discharge in general, it's because of bad/lazy leadership. They drag their feet and allow them to game the system to keep them in. They think they are doing the soldier a favor but all they are doing is creating more paperwork for themselves and keeping in a fatass that doesn't belong in a fighting force.

My Father-army, Uncle-navy, Aunt-airforce, & Grandfather-marine. All told me don't go, It's not worth it. How far America has fallen.

Fantastic, sir. Very well done. Thank you for posting.

Got out of the Navy in 2020. The last 4-5 yrs the significant changes being made by top leadership made it clear things were going off the rails.

@hotchowder

11 ай бұрын

Back when I got out 12 years ago it was getting nutty, I can only imagine the stupidity of the Potato in Chief era.

When a big nation or country collapses, rarely does it occur from outside but the inside "Pride comes before the fall"

@wayneantoniazzi2706

11 ай бұрын

Abe Lincoln said it over 170 years ago, here's the pertinent part of the quote: "As a nation of free men we will live forever, or die by suicide!"

@romererunamerika9437

11 ай бұрын

Pride? hum. sounds like a slogan??

@mapaloshapi3193

11 ай бұрын

@@romererunamerika9437 yep of a certain group But the good book states, "pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall," proverbs 16:18

@swacfan2791

11 ай бұрын

​@@romererunamerika9437if that's the case, America has ended up like Rome moral decay from the inside out. The only true military we have left is the militia, citizens like you and I that are armed. That's why potato head is after our guns because he wants to usher in the enemy!

@naikiklis

11 ай бұрын

Pride came for sure 😂😂😂

12:55 The terrible standard of living has made them ashamed to be Americans. I was born in America, in Boston, MA. I've lived most of my life overseas, in both Singapore and Australia. A few months ago I was in NY on a working gap year, and I was absolutely horrified by how unmaintained and dirty the subway and the streets were, especially considering the tax rate you have to pay. When I had to go into the ER for a five-hour nosebleed (I was given no treatment, because by the time the doctor got to me it had stopped, and left me anaemic for the next few days) it used up all the money I'd saved during my time there. I have an American passport, yes, but I'd never lived there and as such I don't have any American healthcare, or an American driver's license, which made it impossible for me to acquire public health insurance before my flight out. I had no tax records so the hospital couldn't process my financial aid application in time. Once I got overseas I couldn't continue applying either. That's one thing that made me not want to live there. Another example: I had the opportunity to go to university in the US, but refused because the tuition for an undergraduate degree for the university offer I got amounted to 80k/year (already not worth it), and I was not eligible for any aid due to my family's house in Australia. No one should have to sell their HOUSE for a goddamn Bachelor's. Here's a little contrast. In Australia, public hospitalisation, once a day, is free if you're a citizen, with no out-of-pocket costs. That already saves me 3k and priceless value in emotional stress. In Australia, my degree currently costs nothing, because the federal student loan service caps out at 110k and doesn't have a interest rate attached. Moreover, no domestic students have to pay it back until we start earning over 40k/year. We don't have to pay any tax until we start earning over 20k/year. For a long time, I wanted to move back to America and live there. Get married, settle down, raise kids. Everyone I met during my time there were absolutely, sincerely wonderful people, who were really just making a life out of what they had. But it's not my teachers or my schools who made me "ashamed" to be American. It's what the country's done to itself.

Great job! Keep up the good fight informing the public

Seen a lot of great soldiers get out . Because the army didn’t show that they valued them .

@richy12zzz

11 ай бұрын

And guess which political party ideology continues to F the military?

@whoshotashleybabbitt4924

11 ай бұрын

Absolutely. Unfortunately some things are universal.

@matt75hooper

11 ай бұрын

They're all on Disability fraud driving new $80K trucks playing on the beach all day.

@dv84sure

11 ай бұрын

Ask Vietnam vets if the army valued them and also ask them what their take home pay was compared to any low level salaries back then. Vietnam vets got paid peanuts and furthermore got shit and spit after finishing their “tour of duty”. When the draft stopped in 1973 the DoD had to raise wages every year a LOT ... in order to get anyone to enlist.

@reneefletcher1143

11 ай бұрын

My son was USAF but they definitely told them that they were “dispensable”.

As a former Marine Corps recruiter, I can verify the only reason we make our recruiting mission is because we absolutely torture our recruiting staff. I worked 20 hour days six days a week to meet my mission letter. Nearly put a gun in my mouth a few times, and I had already done eight combat deployments before I went on recruiting duty. It was a nightmare.

@katt8391

10 ай бұрын

I'm so sorry you went thru all that hell 😢 our gove now cares nothing about our military or our vets!! Many Blessings ❤🇺🇲❤

@welcomedcompany1019

10 ай бұрын

That’s intense man. Thank you for your service though!! God bless

@cokeandasmile

10 ай бұрын

The policies that they have implemented has made recruitment impossible. The brass will blame Senior enlisted at the recruitment offices because they refuse to acknowledge that they, the brass, are the problem. DOD is no longer held in high regard by the public because of the brass and their consistent mismanagement of public funds.

@davesmith7432

10 ай бұрын

Are the Marines less woke? I’m thinking about my 6 year old sons future in the military. It looks bleak.

@bleakambition495

10 ай бұрын

Love you bro! Thank you for your service!

You’ve done your research , love the channel.

Always exciting and fresh well informed and just plain brilliant as always.

Served 6 years as an Officer and recently left. I went in thinking this was the biggest honor of my life and wanted to do the hardest things possible to give back and give 20 years+. Fast forward to seeing people pushed through my Ranger graduation because of numbers/ difficulty actually removing individuals from the couse. Airborne school graduation with individuals standing next to me that fell out of every run, failed pullup test and overweight... Deployment being handcuffed to actually accomplish something...They just sucked any chance of pride from these accomplishments away were I could sit back and say "Damm, I actually did it". Lastly getting a chance to be an instructor and being forced to push individual's into the force AS LEADERS, I was done. You could not remove terrible applicants from the school house because it would fall apart in a pile of paperwork. Disrespectful to an NCO or Officer? No problem. Failed a PT test? No problem, try again. Horrible attitude? No issue, they passed minimum standards. Failed academic tests? No issue, recycle and try again. I am absolutely the demographic the Army wants. I couldn't be more patriotic, I couldn't have been more motivated and the Army killed all of that. I would never trade those years because of the people I met, but the institution is absolutely broken. If the Army is pushing people like me away, I do not know who they want.

@xblackxabyssx1983

11 ай бұрын

navy did that to me during my 04-09 stint made E-4 3 times and E-5 once in just 4 years as a IT after getting busted down so people could protect themselves for not doing their job and always picking it right back up next cycle to literally watch another E-5 in my shop fraternizing with our CO and use that relationship to jump chain of command and cost me my rank at the end of my EOS that i refused to re-enlist which caused my Senior chief to walk right out of my NJP cause he had no respect for the CO got my revenge though that ship had to get ready for a deployment with not a single person for its radio shop attached to the ship as i was supposed to re-enlist and get the new crew for the shop up to speed for our way of having things setup in the shop and that same E-5 got sent to one of the worst duty stations for a IT all cause he was pissed that since i had reported to that ship the chief had put me in charge of him as a E-3 cause of how well i knew my shit for crypto and radio communications when i saw that they no longer valued merit and skill and just who you knew i stopped giving 2 shits and couldn't wait to get out had too many people close to me die stateside while i was in and people i worked with including my mentor that to see where the navy is now with a dude in skirt running it makes me disgusted

@TheOneAndOnlycE

11 ай бұрын

are you a gay, black woman? If not then you are absolutely not the demographic the army wants.

@majorerskineCH47

11 ай бұрын

Bingo! Spot on.

@Sirxchrish

11 ай бұрын

Damn. I thought about joining some time ago as an officer, but I'm glad I didn't make that jump ultimately. It sucks because I love this country but when a certain administration puts all the wrong people in charge, I would be begging for a real war to break out just to escape the mental torture that is wokeism.

@horsied

11 ай бұрын

@@EUpatriot1”that bad” isn’t something you want to hear

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”

@TheOneAndOnlycE

11 ай бұрын

This is what is behind the average guy today: major economic recession, basically zero chance of marriage and a family with a decent woman because of feminism/social media, no real job prospects, diversity/gender quota hiring, inflation, active racism, propaganda and discrimination against you in literally every form of media (if you are a straight white male), living in a society of complete degeneracy, wokeness and corruption everywhere. If you sign up for the military you agree to uphold and sacrifice your life for all of the above.

@johnfisher8401

11 ай бұрын

lol okay we get it, this quote is getting cringe its on every stupid military youtube video

@lusa3002

11 ай бұрын

A big "D"...

@nikolamilicevic1040

11 ай бұрын

for love of hsi coutnry he si going aroudn the world destorying other countries and killing millions...thats american solider in nutshell,

@FazeParticles

11 ай бұрын

what's behind any American soldier is a decrepit regime.

Awesome presentation, Patrick! Much needed.

Thank you, thank you for making this one.

My dad served in the army. He participated in some of the North Korean war and the Vietnam war. Never had to tell me not to join. I saw how they helped him or the lack of help. No veteran or their families should have to argue and fight to get the help. God bless all our veterans.

@azuresonic69

9 ай бұрын

It's the Korean War, not specifically North korea. The north were the aggressors in 1950, was your father North korean?

@user-360johnn

9 ай бұрын

How old is your dad?

@metalmike570

7 ай бұрын

We don't need as many troops anyway. All this technology - superior airpower alone knocks out thousands on the ground.

I served as a medical corpsman in Vietnam; Here's a grim statistic: since the 9/11 attacks, 7,057 servicemen and servicewomen died in combat in this era of forever wars. But 30,,000 have dies from suicide. We've failed our veterans in the volunteer armed forces just as we failed our veterans during the Vietnam War when we had a draft before Nixon got rid of ii in 1973.These statistics are from an article published in a January, 2021 article in the Washington Post, and a public relations officer from the Army confirmed the accuracy of these statistics..

@angelofamillionyears4599

10 ай бұрын

Wow. That is alarming. You should encourage your children to run for office.

@smithnwesson990

10 ай бұрын

Well than perhaps the old ways are best. Maybe bring back conscription and take away the soft drill instructor and fitness standards. What happened to Uncle Sam owns you for 3 years and you will be in shape. Not a nice request to be in shape. ??

@bonnierabbit1413

10 ай бұрын

​@@smithnwesson990and let people in their thirties joined the military then I bet you a lot of people of age is willing to fight and serve this country it would scare the s*** out of other countries right now but Russia beat us to it if you heard from a couple days ago

@erenyeagerist7681

10 ай бұрын

Failed your ass! Americans are the real warmongers in the world. Do not twist it!

@silvercat3243

10 ай бұрын

I heard about you guys from my father working alongside the vietnam veterans on his job site. So sad to hear the mental conditions of each personel mentioned by my father. The only person that is decent enough was that one man with a higher rank. The rest were mentally crushed, and need to be constantly drunk even while they were working.

God bless you and the channel. Grtz from the Netherlands

My dad was an artillery fire direction specialist for the MLRS. He was in Desert Storm, did peacekeeping in Bosnia and Kosovo, and was in the early days of Enduring Freedom and Afghanistan when he got out. He suffers from PTSD, Gulf War syndrome, 7 concussions, and brittle bones from the side effects of the medication the VA gave him, and shattered his legs in a parachuting accident, which he had mostly recouperated from. He has also started losing his memory, and he's only turned 53 recently. He told me about some of the terrible things he's seen and done, which had left a mark on him. After Kabul fell, he told me that all of the men who served under his command died for nothing. Seeing the man who I looked to for my entire life fall apart in front of my very eyes is a terrible thing to see.

@ZionistJew-oj1bo

10 ай бұрын

Your dad is a Military man and your profile picture is some anime Degenerate shit, id be sad if I were him too!

@yaelz6043

10 ай бұрын

He isn't the victim here. The people he murdered in cold blood are. Hell 90% of them were random civilians. And that's not even getting into all the rape and torture. You can pretend he didn't take part in that last bit but yeah sure as hell helped do it justify it and cover it up.

@EagleLeader1

10 ай бұрын

​@@yaelz6043both sides are victims. Politicians and military contractors are the winners. Rape? Nobody's lining up to rape Afghan women. Although I have heard from multiple different sources (US troops, UK troops & Canadian troops) that there was a lot of Afghan male allies raping Afghan boys. They apparently love that over there. And Western troops were ordered to look the other way.

@jackjames7283

10 ай бұрын

​@yaelz6043 Okey 1 he fought for his country, so some respect and 2 who give a shit people die in war it not sunshine and rainbow so get your head out your ass

@andrewdominowski4631

10 ай бұрын

@@yaelz6043🤦‍♂️

I saw the decline since the second term of the Obama era. I retired from the Army in 2017 and I saw what the lack of accountability can cause in a unit. Also when the DOD eliminated the "Don't ask, don't tell" Policy all hell broke loose throughout every branch.

@nextjin

11 ай бұрын

Don’t ask don’t tell being lifted didn’t see much change tbh. At least I didn’t see much of any change. I did 22 yrs in the Army and retired in 2020 right before Biden came in. Gay folks were already serving and most Soldiers already knew and really didn’t care. The huge issue came under Trumps administration (not saying he pushed it) but the woke stuff came out of no where and was full bore in your face in 2018-Present. As an Equal Opportunity NCO in the Army at the time, my complaint was always what does the EO program not cover that these new classes do. It was insane what these classes had. No one was comfortable being in them and the people teaching them also thought they were bs. It had zero to do with equal treatment or equal opportunity. It was/is a Marxist ideology being taught as some sort of social experiment. Trump really should have did more to ban all that nonsense. I believe he was working it when 2020s election happened. The recruitment numbers are not just related to LGBTQ+ woke bs, it’s also Biden being in office and conservatives not trusting him at all. Afghanistan is a perfect example.

@setha360

11 ай бұрын

I retired from the Navy in 2009, now I see trans openly wearing dresses on ships.

@68Tboy

11 ай бұрын

@nextjin Totally agree with you! The Soviets had their political officers in each unit. We have an EO officer but it’s pretty much the same thing.

@treasuretim3

11 ай бұрын

Have you yet fathomed the possibility of his husband Michael running for the next election and the absolute madness that will ensure if he/she does?!

@nextjin

11 ай бұрын

@@68Tboy I’d have to research it but I don’t think an EO NCO is the same as a political officer in the Soviet Army 😂. The EO program (along with the SHARP program) make sense and good things have come from them when applied correctly. Maybe too many quarterly trainings lol but no one said they should do away with them.

This guy is amazing im gonna start watching him ! very nice flow of information and charisma

Well said, Thank you.

I was in 2006-2015, combat arms job in an airborne unit. I got out because I saw the writing on the wall. All of the time and energy allocated to pushing political and social concerns end up pulling away focus from war-fighting and readiness. Woke policies will undoubtedly fail on the battlefield, when that day comes I will be happy that I am out.

@xblackxabyssx1983

11 ай бұрын

was in the navy from 04-09 saw the writing on the wall as Obama was coming into office and was separated the day of his inauguration

@CowboysCreed

11 ай бұрын

The fact that they changed the ACFT multiple times just to appeal to a demographic that sees the Military in a bad light is abysmal to me. Do they really think they’ll have the convenience of running slower or being weaker than others on the battlefield?

@JGalt-em4xu

11 ай бұрын

This doesn't explain why we've lost every major conflict since WW2. We're very good at invading Haiti, at least.

@RavenTacticalGaming

11 ай бұрын

I agree with this statement, I was in the Army From 2013-2023. Saw the shift from focusing on being war-fighters to being politically correct. Not to mention during the Covid BS with Forcing people to take the vaccine under threat of being kicked out. My last two years in they were pursuing the whole Transgenderism topic, investigating people for being "domestic extremists" if they fall on a certain political side but not the other. Oh not to mention the Toxic Leadership of the upper level Enlisted and Officers. I could go on and on, It was just wack.

@AlexKaehler-qc8kd

11 ай бұрын

roughly the same. 08 to 15. The Army is particularly ruined

I’ve only been in the military 6 years and I’ve already seen a massive change. I encountered a male service member who was allowed to have out-of-regs hair because of his “transition.”

@yungcrombie

10 ай бұрын

Aren’t you vaxxed?

@LucasFernandez-fk8se

10 ай бұрын

I don’t think it’s bad for her to transition but why is the military letting her transition whilst in the army ? Just tell her to wait a few years for the transition 🫠

@CryneseCoronaParty-

10 ай бұрын

@@LucasFernandez-fk8se Why would someone give a weapon to a mentally ill person that doesn't know what it is. Imagine the damage it can produce.

@steveosborn7224

10 ай бұрын

@@LucasFernandez-fk8seit’s a dude

@Jayjay82828

10 ай бұрын

I’m sure you did

My grandfather was in Alaska in ww2; fought off a Banzai charge on Attu against the Japanese. My uncle was on heartbreak ridge in the Korean war, an incredibly bloody battle where most of his friends were surrounded and killed. Father was a paratrooper in the reserves but never got deployed....he told me it was common for soldiers to sustain severe injury from training jumps because it was so harsh in order to prepare for real war. These *woke* policies will probably not end until it results in a military disaster unfortunately. Conflict and wars are extremely Darwinian: only the strong survive.

@SMDH.2204

8 ай бұрын

In that case you wouldn't have needed someone with the intellect of Oppenheimer to invent the atom bomb.

@josephmontezuma5089

3 ай бұрын

Bullshit

@Murfster

3 ай бұрын

@@josephmontezuma5089 Whatever you say incel

“…maybe they’re a step above Navy Seals!”😂😂That was good. Good video and much respect to you, Brother.

I enlisted in the AF exactly one week before Pat. Served my 20, retired in 2017. I am, and always will be proud of my service, and the lifelong friendships that I made. However, it was difficult to admit that most of my deployments were essentially spent as a paid mercenary for defense contracting companies to make more money. Add on top of that my fellow brothers in arms who lost their lives, and it's really difficult not to be bitter as hell towards my government.

@CollinKillian

11 ай бұрын

Dude you were Air Force, your deployments consisted of being safe and sound in some of the most secure facilities in theatre. Calm down..

@bmjv77

11 ай бұрын

@@CollinKillian dude, I was attached to Army units for most of my career. Have a clue what you're talking about the next time you decide to look clueless.

@tomatosoup6440

11 ай бұрын

And what makes you think China and Russia and all these so-called "US enemies" don't have defense contractors? Every major military on the planet sources their equipment from their local equipment manufacturers.

@_Devil

11 ай бұрын

@@CollinKillian You underestimate the actual roles that the branches fill. Often times, like with Fallujah, the Marines and Air Force will be told to act as if theyre the Army, where theyll be on the ground doing all the dirty work, while the actual Army provides artillery support and such.

@_Devil

11 ай бұрын

@@tomatosoup6440 For Russia, it's because A) They absorbed all of their Mercenary groups as of July 2nd, and B) All of the defense contractors for the Russian military are pretty much property of the government regardless. Kalashnikov in Russia exists solely to provide arms for the Russian military.

I'm shocked, young people don't want to be shot in senseless wars or come back traumatized from a mission and not even get a psychologist at home.

@stephaniekalota8355

10 ай бұрын

the treatment from VA hospitals is much better than it used to be or how it's portrayed in the media. Sadly, we hear more about negative things about the VA because they make better news. There is an advantage to the VA healthcare system.

@youtubedeletedmynamewhybother

10 ай бұрын

@@stephaniekalota8355 "We have deemed your injuries to be non-service related... Get fu cked champ" Have fun Not getting any of those advantages :)

@stephaniekalota8355

10 ай бұрын

@@youtubedeletedmynamewhybother for some reason, my reply disappeared. First, your quote is about VA disability compensation, not health care. If you are a combat veteran and discharged after 9/11/01, you are eligible for health care from the VA. But you may have to pay co-pays, but you will still receive health care. Emergency mental health services are free by the VA, plus vet centers do provide free mental health counseling sessions. There are also a lot of nonprofits that provide free mental health counseling, ask if you are interested, because I can send suggestions. Now to your quote, yes if you are claiming a condition, you must prove it was in service. If you were not diagnosed or treated in service for this condition, there are a ton of ways to prove that. There are VSOs and pro bono lawyers who provide free services to assist with that.

@TheReaper-ep2cq

9 ай бұрын

someone has to do it

@grapeseed427

9 ай бұрын

😒😒😒 You don't have to fight and get shot and traumatized for your freedom, you can move to China or Russia today and give up the freedom before they get a chance to take it. Sure, they'll probably shoot and traumatize anyway but at least you don't have to fight. 🤡

I’m from a military family and after growing up and seeing all the amputees rolling out and hopping out the elevators with fake limbs at Bethesda Naval Medical Center during the Iraq and Afghanistan war… I knew I wasn’t joining the military. Was the saddest thing I’ve ever seen. Our military was devastated over a lie and our government gave no shtz.

Thank you Patrick

I wanted to join the military as a young kid but my family was so against it. I couldn't understand then how they could be against it when so many of our family before me served. As a parent, now i finally understand.

@michaelfermin5810

10 ай бұрын

Don't want your kids to fight and die for criminal wars of aggression for the benefit of criminal corporations?

@DonutVIP

9 ай бұрын

I was gonna join at 18 fresh out of highschool, got a funny feeling when I went and sign up, i purposely fail my asvab, now 29 turning 30 next year, kinda regret it but then see these woke crap reminds me of why I didn't join but if I was to join...frontline infantry

@michaelfermin5810

9 ай бұрын

@DonutVIP Yeah you don't want to join because the military is "woke" not because the wars are killing innocent people and completely corrupt by the military industrial complex. You are just dumb dude.

@michaelfermin5810

9 ай бұрын

@DonutVIP you are a pussy. Stop pretending you want to be a Frontline soldier tough guy. Lol

@dedeferreira98

9 ай бұрын

Lol so they stopped u from following your dream and actually even maybe make a change from the inside? My parents were afraid of me joined and i still did it. I dont regret it, not even for a second

I know families who were in the military for generations, who are now suggesting their young dont enlist.

@jcp7620

11 ай бұрын

@@Brother_Harry same

@dingus6317

11 ай бұрын

Yep, my great grandfather flew gliders in Italy, my grandfather flew reconnaissance fighters in Vietnam and Laos, my uncle flew cargo planes in Afghanistan, but I will not fly.

This video was HANDS DOWN my personal favorite of the 20 or so that I have watched from this channel. I love the ststistics and facts that are presented dispassionately . . . EXCEPT in this video, where the host engages in a very passionate and appropriate display of patriotism. Bravo. Well done!

I saw the writing on the wall back in the early 2010’s and just retired after 22 years. I have friends still serving who cannot wait to drop their packets and get the heck out. No more PT standards, lax height & weight standards, Soldiers allowed to openly disrespect NCO’s and officers, can’t perform warrior tasks & drills, etc., etc., it’s just nuts. My last boss once said to me, “I believe the US military has turned into a woke social benefits program which occasionally kills terrorists.” I replied, “sir, I lamentably concur.”

@keivaturner6251

9 ай бұрын

Currently in the USN and I have to agree. The Lilith is so soft and lax now where we care more about hurt feelings than our mission. I’m a recruiter for the Navy now for the next two years. When we have to compromise so much to get sailors it weakens our military. People in High School can’t pass the ASVAB and are physically unfit but they make nuances to get them in. Realistically we’ll always have one because other countries do. It was first solely a pride for my country and family seeing in how I have all branches in my family line, now it became more about benefits and making sure I don’t get injured because idk how the VA would truly help me. There’s just so many problems now.

@briang.7206

5 ай бұрын

I severed on a flag ship during the Vietnam war we played anti war songs. But we didn't complain I was too busy anyway. Awarded a N.U.C. & C.B.R. now my nephew says they will take anyone and when the navy recruiting came to meet him he locked himself in his bedroom L.O.L.

this is probably one of the most important videos Pat has ever made.

@charliechurch5004

11 ай бұрын

​@@JustADude908lol Alex Jones 😅

@dingus6317

11 ай бұрын

@@charliechurch5004Listen to what he says instead of what others say about him

Most males in my family have served going back to the Revolutionary War and NONE of us recommend serving now. I go out of my way to tell people DONT DO IT. I was out in 2019 and I watched the 'Woke' politics strangle put the last bit of hope I had for the military. It's broken

@kingshark247

11 ай бұрын

It's always been broken. If the government tells you to kill someone, don't do it.

@officialthomasjames

11 ай бұрын

Damn. Hopefully the military will learn their lesson as these recruiting numbers continue to get worse, but I doubt it. We need to turn the ship around or else we are screwed when the real conflicts start.

@dingus6317

11 ай бұрын

@@officialthomasjamesThe enemies are already behind our walls. They control the gatehouse. It is over

@shafts2447

11 ай бұрын

So don’t join because shits woke? Not because we been the worlds terrorist since the early 50s. Give me a break.

@_Devil

11 ай бұрын

Same for me, but since the Civil War when my ancestors first came here (So much for being a Colonizer 😔😔). For a 150 years it was a tradition for the youngest male of the litter to enlist specifically in the US Army. I had a few distant cousins who fought for the Confederacy but still, the bulk of my family was in the Union Army for that war. Anyways, I'm the first male since 1861 to break that tradition. The only reason I don't feel bad is because my dad who served for 23 years ('88 to '11) has told me himself that the Army that exists today is not the same Army I'd be going into, and that he heavily recommends against me enlisting. I know that if I ever do join the military, I should do it while I'm young and healthy, but I just do not trust the government enough to willingly serve it. I'd sooner go to jail for dodging a draft than serve Joe Biden and Mark Milley and Lloyd Austin.

Like the take!! Keep it up.

Dam I love this video. Your telling real facts. Good to come across your channel.

serving with women in Sangin Afghanistan was a huge slap in the face especially as a machine gunner myself. They couldn’t even carry their personal assault packs up a hill and guys already carrying ladders or mission essential crap, mg ammo, or other explosives had to carry their packs for them while they struggled to even get up a hill. Their packs roughly weighed 15- 30 lbs. My pack with at least 800 xrounds 7.62, 12 x40mm, 2 liters of water and chow….(drum roll)….. weighed in usually 70-80lbs…. no joke. After struggling to survive the hill we would get ambushed after an ied attack where they freaked tf out! When the smoke settled and my buddy who died 2 weeks later was loaded into a bird they were sitting on packs laughing and joking not even holding security while asking everyone to bum a smoke and even dip. No one said anything because they all wanted a shot at banging these land whales. F*ck women in combat!

@urielcosta5003

9 ай бұрын

I feel you man. The worst part is we can't say anything. Even at my work, they are the ones who complain more while being the ones who work less. They get equally paid. On top of that, they are a pain in the ass, always getting into stupid arguments. Shit is fucked up

@JackBlack-qn7us

9 ай бұрын

no dignity letting them laugh at the corpse of your friend just cuz you were trynna smash that rancid pussy no respect

@feodrich

9 ай бұрын

They DO F*ck women in combat. That's why they seem to BE there. I guess "any port in a storm" eh? Whoah....i just had an epiphany. Throughout alot of history, militaries have been followed by wh*res who exist only to "entertain" the troops. I wonder if this is just the modern incarnation of that? I mean, if they don't do anything else, what actual purpose do they serve? Sure we pretend it's about equality, but it wouldn't be unheard of for us to do a thing while pretending we're doing another thing.

@abdullahal-shimri3091

9 ай бұрын

From my experience, women make horrible surgeons. The last thing you want is a female surgeon operating on you and suffering from PMS.

@user-dr5lz7jq2l

9 ай бұрын

bro !!? ....i legit think he hates india and yoga ....what does yoga have to do with wokeness

As someone that just graduated high school and has been a longtime admirer of everything this channel stands for, I would have definitely considered joining the military. But after seeing everything thats going on with our current "commander in chief" and what happened in Afghanistan I just couldn't do it. I know that may be a silly reason not to join but the leadership from the top down just seems plain stupid and they seem to have a complete disregard to the lives of servicemen.

@bidencrimefamilymottof-cky953

11 ай бұрын

Sounds quite reasonable.

@dtor2048

11 ай бұрын

then wait for Trump then enlist.

@darienmarcus100

11 ай бұрын

… so you would have preferred that we stayed in Afghanistan forever while more soldiers get killed… got it

@CowboysCreed

11 ай бұрын

Good thinking unless you want to be a SEAL or a Green Beret I wouldn’t recommend the military. Just go to college or get into a trade IMO

@reneefletcher1143

11 ай бұрын

It’s not a silly reason. My son wanted to join all through high school. We’re a military family. But once Biden was placed, I had a feeling he probably shouldn’t join. He did anyways but was discharged over the Covid vaccine. But it definitely made us think twice before he left for Basic. It would’ve been valid to listen to our gut saying not to join…but he at least learned some great skills & made a lot of good connections from the experience. Can’t blame you for not joining at this time, though!!

What a true patriot! We need more brave men like you Patrick

ARMY - Be All That You Can Be, NAVY - It's Not Just A Job, It's An Adventure, MARINE - The Few, The Proud, AIR FORCE - Only The Smart Ones Need Apply.

Military guys will call you the worst derogatory words, make fun of any little flaw you might have and have no problem dying for you. Bullying and hazing build emotional toughness. And real men actually build stronger relationship and bond through dissing eachother.

@sthubbins4038

11 ай бұрын

You suck.

@FunnyDougy

11 ай бұрын

My brother in law is a woke navy guy. He just got promoted to E-7 a Chief. He cries on Christmas, the only time I have to be in a room with him. He's pushing 30 only had one girlfriend. She was mentally ill. He is a bully in the truest sense. He will provoke/mock you but he can't handle you saying anything about him. He has 3 sisters and he trashes their masculine husbands behind their backs. He likes the husband who's been cheated on a bunch of times though... His sisters say he was very physically abusive towards them growing up and worry for the woman in his life now. They all walk on eggs shells for him. His last girl looks exactly like his little sister and she has the same name... This is what a military leader is now. A beta male.

@sthubbins4038

11 ай бұрын

@@FunnyDougyIf he’s a bully, that’s good, right? This guy sounds like a real Alpha Male!

@vladtheinhaler8940

11 ай бұрын

​@@sthubbins4038He sounds like a child who is unstable.

@brewcity2317

11 ай бұрын

When, during Desert Storm, the Marines at night in coffin racks aboard ship, kept chanting "kill yourself, kill yourself" to a fellow Marine whom most disliked, and they chanted that in relation to his sorrow over his mother just passing (dying) I see no value in that short term nor long term. Hazing on the other hand, and I went through it, I see a value for in unit bonding. Of course, there are degrees to everything, you can overdue just about everything. Thus, in a Wisconsin VA a former Army Special Forces guy pulled a bunch of us vets together (I think it was to sign a card but can't quite remember) to tell us about a woman at the VA he encountered. A woman of sorrow. Her husband was former Army Special Forces, his son (her stepson) was left in a psychologically disabled state (I forget how), not long after having a mental break down from being hazed either in Ranger School or in a Rangers unit (I can't remember which) in which a group of young men sodomized him with a broom handle. As I recall... years later feeling responsible and guilty the father, her husband, commited suicide. Now, I'm pretty sure Army Special Forces (Green Berets) are pretty mentally tough within the sphere of the stress that comes with military combat. That hazing that destroyed his son also mentally/emotionally destroyed him. There is sensible hazing (even sensible joking) and then there is just stupid sh$t that causes more harm than good, oh say like... kicking someone in the balls several times. Like as thought experiment, "I want to create a boxing champion." And a reply comes, "first haze your decent boxers through makinh them stand and get up by kicking them in the balls 3 separate times." How the f__ would that make a pugilist into a better boxer. I am for however... United States Marines all getting their stripes "pinned on" via the hallowed gauntlet.

Students don't pledge alegence to the American flag anymore. They are told to pledge alegance to the pride flag.

@jonathanrios8409

11 ай бұрын

This comment is gayer than that lmao

@kouam7

11 ай бұрын

So true

@josee1984

11 ай бұрын

Nobody does that, because you surround yourself with news and people that only cover this kind of stuff that's why you think it's more prevalent than it really is.

@Independent365

11 ай бұрын

Lies....

@kvng.t

11 ай бұрын

are you serious? Source?

Thank you PBD ❤️🙏

Veterans post-Vietnam, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, etc. etc. are fantastic examples of why so many young people are not interested in joining our military. Besides, if you look closely at the motives for each of these 'conflicts', they're usually not related to a conflict between the people of those countries and the US. Now that we have a world community, courtesy of the Internet, people aren't as interested in killing fellow human beings because of the greed and insecurities of very wealthy men.

Maybe because more and more young people found that US army is not about 'Defense' as you said and defending the border, but rather offense and having duties outside of the US, which a lot of people don't necessary care or understand the reasons for it. Thus people would think that they may die by not defending their country but to achieve a government's goal outside US border. A lot of examples, like in Afghanistan. Do you think after US soldiers died there, and now US is out without any achievement, were the deaths justified? Soldiers went there, died, injured but the government in comfy hotels decided to go there, and after years decided to leave. Who did pay the price and assumed the consequences? And if they survive, go back to their own country, they will get treated wihout any respect.

@SolidSnake240

11 ай бұрын

Well said

@rsltgc8706

11 ай бұрын

Right. A soldier is a part of the sick games along with the people playing it

@lordrichardson4447

11 ай бұрын

Thats part of it. But imo that doesnt show the full picture. I think pat touched on two important topics that are also driving these low numbers. 1. people are too fat, too depressed and out of shape to even consider joining military,,, and the other big one is all of the woke nonsense. Many people want nothing to do with an organization that promotes gender theory or other woke nonsense. I know a family who was in the military for generations, they have a 16 yr old that would have followed in his families foot steps... but hes not going to and its primarily due to the "woke" bs.

@RolloTomasi49

11 ай бұрын

Bingo. Bush and the Iraq invasion broke our trust in our government. Stupid men making decisions and thinking they are smarter than they are.

@alexayuso3563

11 ай бұрын

That’s a civilian thing. -expel are voting in war mongers.

When the country is down the toilet and woke is the new Religion the LAAAAAST thing on my mind is shedding even a drop of blood for any of these traitors who destroyed our country from within.

@travisutrecht1542

11 ай бұрын

Fair call that.

@FazeParticles

11 ай бұрын

the USA is functionally today a theocratic homosexual feminist regime. it's very impressive how quick it has become that. the founding fathers would ask us why are we so stupid or lazy?

@johnnyflores5954

11 ай бұрын

Define Woke?

@ca6360

11 ай бұрын

Bingo! They need new respected leadership from White House on down, time in the seat and out, show us actions and results that align with american interests, build trust, ask andrew tate, joe rogan and other men to at least throw out idea to men to join something they need to make more challenging, hardvore, standardized and something that will get you employment when you leave. Mental health needs more focus, therapy for all to go over Emotional regulation Personal responsibility Acceptance Mindfulness Interpersonal effectiveness Distress tolerance Morality Build a super soldier who can be truly effective and realize full potential!

@judiestevenson4605

11 ай бұрын

​@@johnnyflores5954look in the mirror!

Outstanding!!!!

Good Vid!

My grandfather had awful PTSD from serving in SE Asia and then as part of occupation forces in Japan, going in shortly after bombing of Nagasaki. What he saw and told us about strongly deterred us from ever joining up.

@erenyeagerist7681

10 ай бұрын

I hate your vets because they colonized my country

@los1wochos

10 ай бұрын

Now imagine if he never joined. Nazis would rule europe, japan would have killed millions of chinese, and SE asians. The USA would probably be a joke compared to what it is now.

@deusvult6259

9 ай бұрын

I dont believe your premise.

I went to Air Force basic training in 2012 and separated in 2018. In those year i watched wokeness destroy the rank and all the good people leave. I went into the Air Force reserve in 2018 and a year later was activated and sent to UAE for 8 months in which COVID reared its ugly head. When we came back half of the team got out including myself. It is absolutely disgusting what has happened to the military….

@AzaPiltzin

10 ай бұрын

Can you tell us more??

@TheGoatLocker

10 ай бұрын

Nice I joined in 2012 as well. Was at basic August 3rd. What squadron were you? I was 226 bulldogs.

@mreverythingmagnum

10 ай бұрын

@@TheGoatLocker 320th I got there September 11.

@stephaniekalota8355

10 ай бұрын

Your mistake was joining the Air Force, they really went to crap during Post 9/11 time period. I was in the Army Reserve from 2003 to 2019, started working for them as a miltech 2013. It wasn't so bad until Trump got in office because then they were more worried about readiness metrics than their troops.

@mreverythingmagnum

10 ай бұрын

@@stephaniekalota8355 wow you’re the first person I’ve ever heard say the Army had a better quality of life and that things got “worse” under trump. Mileage may vary I guess. The focus of the military should be the mission and being prepared to conduct the mission so by your own admission the trump administration made the military better for a short time.

Keep it going Pat! People need to know these numbers.

This video got my like and sub! Not to mention the fact we went to the same basic training base!

Great observation

This is awesome!!! I just retired from 22 years of service, and you couldn’t have said it better! The American Public needs to hear your perspective. Our military’s focus is no longer on readiness, it’s on wokeness, and nobody worth recruiting wants to be a part of that. Thanks!!!

@mtngr1

11 ай бұрын

Obummer hated the military. He is the one that started all this crap.

@johnnyflores5954

11 ай бұрын

Define Woke?

@peteryang8991

11 ай бұрын

Just to go on record, this is exactly what happened to the Chinese army, just because the European start kicking its ass in the 19th century. I am not joking, I am Asian, read Chinese history, it is exactly what happened

@MC-dn3hs

11 ай бұрын

You don't represent shit. What a waste of 22 years. You went in a moron and left a moron.

@TKUA11

11 ай бұрын

That’s not what I hear from serving and former soldiers. You need to love your country and not shame it.

I tried to enlist but I was rejected due to my medical history. Had depression and said some dumb stuff when I was younger and did not expect how much it would screw me the way it did. I would see recruiter being desperate to get people to join but would turn away from me in a moments notice because I was a lot of effort for a waiver that was probably going to be denied. Then I see things like this and wonder if it was a blessing in disguise.

@AwakenedAvocado

10 ай бұрын

Exact same position and think the same now, it was absolutely a blessing.

@bonnierabbit1413

10 ай бұрын

If you look at it today's military has become nuts come on free medical clinics to cut off your ding-a-ling and to grow fake boobs on your chest even for the female species to chop off their chest you have got to be f****** kidding me that is not sound at all

@jRex918

10 ай бұрын

Its a good thing you said all that and got yourself disqualifed from the army. Your life would have been permanently destroyed if you joined the army. What you did was a blessing in disguise.

@AwakenedAvocado

10 ай бұрын

@@jRex918 i was never accepted because same i had been suicidal. Ironically enough it was only after this rejection had i actually attempted it ,after alot of tragedy. Never again though, and yes today after what inhave seen after how ive been treated and seen others treated by government I'm glad of it. In fact wtf was I thinking,

@jRex918

10 ай бұрын

@@AwakenedAvocado yeah man. You may have not realized it before but what you did was actually probably one of the smartest things you could have ever done. If you had joined, your ptsd would have likely became way worse. You would have likely permanently damaged your back, your legs, your shoulders, etc., like so many other veterans. You would have to live the rest of your life as a handicap which is not worth it. Enjoy the intact body that God gave you because the government will take that gift away if they get the chance to. You getting rejected was actually a good thing.

Right on Pat Thank you …

this an incredibly educational video thank you for talking about this. im honestly amazed, and also very saddened by the current state of America. if we don't get someone competent to run this country we're gonna fall apart

Fortunately, I retired in 2021 right at 20 years in the Air Force. The standards went down drastically in the two decades I’ve served in just about every aspect of the military.was really sad to see it go down that path but I knew I couldn’t stay in and complain about it so hung up the boots exactly at 20 years. The military industrial complex opened my eyes to many things about our government. The DOD is such a money laundering machine it’s sickening.

@_Devil

11 ай бұрын

Last sentence is what my dad told me. He spent 23 years in the Army and whenever we talk about his time in the Army, he warns me not to enlist. The MIC is a cancer that nearly sucked the soul out of him, and I cannot imagine what it would do to me

@smithnwesson990

10 ай бұрын

Are officers just told to not enforce fitness standards or competency standards? Didn't every military unit used to PT in the mornings?

“Hey Mr.Enemy how about we do yoga together” I burst out laughing 😅

@boristeka9515

11 ай бұрын

Right?

I was in the Army from 1998 to 2014, seeing the military today breaks my heart. We keep going down this road we won't have a country anymore in ten years from now.

Nail… right on the head! Great facts.

I'm a 21 year Army military veteran. Our military is broken and demoralized. One needs only look at the annual veteran and active duty suicides. Even after one combat tour, all come back home with a mental or physical wound. When young people ask me about the military, I am honest, direct and to the point. I tell them to consider The Coast Guard, if they want to serve.

@carlosdgutierrez6570

5 ай бұрын

The air force, to learn how to pilot cargo planes/helicopters and the dip to the civilian sector which pays way more to be a glorified trucker with wings.

@hannibalthe1st565

5 ай бұрын

@@carlosdgutierrez6570 air force requires 10 year commitment for pilots :(

@batboy555

3 ай бұрын

​@@hannibalthe1st565thats a joke seriously

I was in the Marines 09-13 and I wouldn't recommend joining to anyone at this point

@MuddieRain

11 ай бұрын

Depends on the bonus and their current insurance

@themadpolymath3430

11 ай бұрын

I served the same time, Rah Devil.

@bjung8858

11 ай бұрын

A lot of vets are commenting this online. Pat should have mentioned this

Excellent

This is why we have woke military these days. Because you wanted to abolish bullying a much needed life lesson in life as a kid. Bulling is a necessary evil. It teaches us how to stand up for ourselves and grow a back bone. Because real life is full of more than just bullies, it's full of murderers, rapist, child trafficking etc etc. If you don't learn how to defend yourself against bullies then you're gonna have a hell of A time dealing with the real world as an adult.

I served from 96 - 2000. I saw this corporate takeover back then. I knew it would make the military soft. And "Soft" is an understatement!

@geronimo5537

11 ай бұрын

Soft as moist lint.

@Evilslayer73

11 ай бұрын

Indeed

@greggremlin

11 ай бұрын

Soft as Teddy Pendergrass smoke that grass get in ya azz

@mmedrano8334

11 ай бұрын

Soft=Kosher

I went to MEPS for the Navy in June 2022. Rejected the contract and went home. All 5 guys I traveled there with had a religious exemption for the Covid vaccine, all 5 got denied. Who the hell is the military to tell anyone what their religious beliefs are? Edit: I should follow up on this detail, they had all 5 of us call the recruiter to notify them we were all backing out. Recruiter talked to us, then another one, then the Chief Petty Officer of the recruiting station got on the phone and called all 5 of us quitters, then hung up on us mid sentence. The military is a scam today.

@QueerdoLoc

11 ай бұрын

They want an all LGBT force, not to fight overseas, but to install a military dictatorship under 👨🏻‍❤️‍👨🏻🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🕺 rule 😹💯 UN and globo-homeaux will take your children away 😹💯🆙

@charityscreams5366

11 ай бұрын

And now they removed the requirement. It's like it all meant nothing.

@MrCleannnnn

11 ай бұрын

@@charityscreams5366 Exactly. They didn't need us then but need us now. Removed many personnel from the service for having mentioned exemptions, and now are begging them back. This is a manufactured problem. It's their own fault. It'd be cool too if they didn't have recruiters who sounded like the scammers overseas when you tell them "no" and they go off on you with gibberish.

@charityscreams5366

11 ай бұрын

@@MrCleannnnn yeah my husband is retired Army, he was already in on 9/11 and for "the Surge" and then we went thru the Obama drawdown. By the time he retired we were more than ready to be done with the toxic environment it was very cut throat. Back to back constant deployments didn't help things either. The anthrax and small pox vaxs were a big deal in our time and people were quickly silenced. Same rules, get it or get out. You would think at some point we would learn.

@micclay

11 ай бұрын

Fk him. A quarter point on your mortgage aint worth being a slave for four years. I promise you would have hated it. I'm former Navy avionics tech/airplanes washer/galley support/ janitor.

The Great Afghan Blunder was the final nail in the coffin for military recruiting in the US.

I have convinced all 3 of my kids, all adults to avoid military service because America does not declare wars and wont let us win. I spent 7 years in the Marine Corps.

When you have over 40 four star generals for a force of a million, while we had only 4 during WWII commanding 12 million.

@rojayreid908

11 ай бұрын

No it wasn't only four, 4star generals during WW2.

@FazeParticles

11 ай бұрын

@@rojayreid908 5 star as well.

@chico9805

11 ай бұрын

​@@rojayreid908It was 7, point still stands.

@rojayreid908

11 ай бұрын

@@chico9805 not quite, by the way where the 40 four star General comes from.

@chico9805

11 ай бұрын

@@rojayreid908 There are numerous, mostly bureaucratic and useless commands, that all have a four-star leading them.

I got out of the AF in 2010 and things were still fine then. But my friends who are still in, tell me that morale sucks everywhere and they’re just trying to coast to retirement.

When you stated every elementary school in America should start the first week explaining to the children why America is the greatest country in the world, it was probably the most important statement of your video (IMO). Thank you!

This thing pissed me off. ISo I subscribed and liked

I'm old enough to remember the TV show Mash 4077 where one character (corporal Clinger) used to dress like a woman in in the hopes that he would be discharged (from the Korean war) and sent home on the grounds that he was mentally unfit to serve. The fact that he was never sent home was meant to be a cruel irony for a cruel war. That was the subtext for this show from the 80s. My oh my how the cruelty has deepened as the irony has changed.

@crazychase98

9 ай бұрын

Or maybe it's stayed the same. And we just didn't realize it

@762rk95tp

9 ай бұрын

@@Ken-no2sz Jamie Farr served in Korea after the war, he was drafted in 1955, he was stationed in Japan and Korea for most of his time in Army. I'm pretty sure they stopped the cross dressing gag in the show well before 80's, most of its run was in 70's.

@davidfisher5140

9 ай бұрын

On a related note, since Clinton days on, homosexuality in the military became a thing leaders had to deal with. On the one hand, a good leader recognizes that what a soldier does in his off time should not matter, so long as it does not affect duty time. On the other hand, it is IMPOSSIBLE for sexual orientation to not affect duty time, especially in the field, in the locker room & in deployed areas unless the soldier keeps it tight secret. Females, contrary to popular guesswork, are the ones who tend to have more issues with homosexuals ogling them in the showers. Male homosexuals tend to know that it is reflexive for straight men to move your nose to the backside of your skull if they think you are grinning at their butts. Most homosexuals try to avoid shower issues but in time schedules when a platoon must shower all at one time, there are sometimes issues. I recall one female who was so mistrusted by the straight females she was either not able to shower, or she had to wait till the older men showered then shower with them. She was very mature about it and always got some distance should it become OBVIOUS her fit body was a little too "interesting" that day. Several of us respected her for that & it was a quiet secret in a PART of a single company. In most respects, she was an awesome soldier, always testing in the extended scale for PT tests & always skilled in her duties. I had a conservative Christian soldier who instinctively sensed my own beliefs (though I never said openly). She was sharing a barracks room with a lesbian & asked for my help in "cleaning problems." Investigating, I discovered her roomie was super respectful, barely staying there, mostly just showering after PT & changing clothes after work. She was paying for an off-post place where she spent most of her time. She even helped w cleaning the kitchen despite never using it. My Christian soldier did NOT like my response to her complaints, but I earned the respect & trust of her roomie that day. 1. Yes, there are very definite anti-homo things in the Bible. BUT 2. There are lots of passages that dictate ways to interact with non-Christians, mostly "Love thy Neighbor" type stuff. I was required to know when to correct the right problem in the right way. My soldier was shocked that I did not back her in getting a different roomie (the other females didn't want her either) despite my shared beliefs w her. Shen she (very confused) objected & pleaded; I simply told her she was LUCKY bc she didn't really have a roomie & she didn't have to share space most of the time (where other roomie issues happened). Then, in front of my soldier, I turned to the lesbo & gave her VERY specific instructions on how to not offend her roomie (secretly winking to her at one point). She already avoided being in the room when her roomie was relaxing or changing or even showering behind a closed door! My rules were redundant, only given to appease my soldier as best I could. THESE are the sorts of issues that really matter, more so than the females in combat thing. The reasons we put females in combat MOS's? 1. Our allies did so long ago. 2. Officers especially NEED combat experience to progress in most MOSs. 3. Manning. We are simply often short on qualified men in combat units. 4. In modern combat, there is almost no such thing as a front line. Basically, I would avoid putting 99.5% of females into a light infantry door-kicker unit unless they served as cooks/NBS specialists/ supply/clerk/imbedded medic/etc. BUT they can be in the same company & provide excellent support to the door kickers. 5. Despite not being IN the line units, females were already WITH "frontline" units by driving support trucks, providing intel & other services. I served under the 1st 2 female Captains ever allowed in combat brigades (BEFORE it was officially allowed!) The 1st was AWESOME but the other was a "princess" type who was nice off duty but a MAJOR pain on duty + she lacked tactical expertise in her actual job. The awesome one (maiden initials "JC") was one of the best captains I ever served under while the bad one was sadly, NOT the worst captain I ever had to salute. I have no problem naming the worst on I ever served with in 26 years, a sawed of runt of a man named Captain YEBRA. (nope! already too long-winded here!)

@metalmike570

7 ай бұрын

His superiors never chaptered him out of the Army because they knew he was bull-shitting!!

@hifijohn

7 ай бұрын

Actually, in one scene Major Freidman a psychiatrist examines Klinger and says he will discharge him but he has to sign a paper saying he's a crossdressing homosexual and he has to go through the rest of his life like that and Klinger refused, proving he was just faking it and if fact he's has said in many episodes he was just faking it to get out of the army.

Patrick, you cannot separate the military from Fortune 500 companies when it comes to ESG. ESG needs to be eliminated everywhere because in conflict or preparation for conflict, companies have to work to support the military effort. Wars are not won by the people fighting them, they are won by support/logistics.

@CMCSE

11 ай бұрын

Money and Resources makes a diference between a winner and a loser in bellic conflicts But specially a good leadership Bush, obama and biden did a nasty work (Trump was fixated in other efforts with more diplomatic and economic aproach)

@charliechurch5004

11 ай бұрын

​@@CMCSEtrump screwed us with operation warp speed..... He makes billions off that shit

Funny vid, thanks for upload.

Top 10 reciepients of defense contracts of the 2021 fiscal year (15:40) 1. Lockeed Martin $39.2 billion 2. Boeing $23.6 billion 3. Raytheon $21.4 billion 4. General dynamics $16.9 billion 5. Northrop grumman $15 billion 6. Pfizer* $13.3 billion 7. L3harris $7.5 billion 8. Humana* $7.1 billion 9. Huntington ingalls $7 billion 10. Moderna* $6.9 billion

The French foreign legion just had one of their best recruiting years. But then again, they are not touching woke.

As a previous Recruiter the market is very bad and it is extremely hard to find someone interested and qualified, the Army’s answer threatening to fire and end people’s careers 👍

@modelclasslist

11 ай бұрын

I never understood how the Air Force fails to bridge the gap between public and private sector law that keeps high earning office workers from sleeping in the barracks, i.e. have a unit that combines private life, service and the dorm with social groups clear about separation of concerns, roles, reward structures, etc. It would reduce costs so the increase in the margins alone will explode profit. Just think how awesome it would be to graduate high school and get paid to study at the best system for training the body and mind while learning something you know will be put to use for God and country and your life and future expected to be sound financially and in terms of lifestyle, skills, and so on. I say Air Force because you really have to have a skill set that if you went into the private sector results in more money (why should anyone be paid less for choosing to sacrifice more for the defense of the U.S., including the board members of Halliburton whether or not they are paid as due?) AND most importantly that is as I understand the greatest potential region (big pay merited to outlandish performance where it's needed MOST -- PLA is not fucking around and Japan has some scary advanced technology) generally to strengthen the Armed Forces.

@oldegrunt

11 ай бұрын

Yeah this has happened before but never so bad. I did the recruiting nightmare in 89 but was sent back to the line after struggling repeatedly to make mission. I know I was much happier rucking than sitting making phone calls and canvassing schools...

@renegadearms

11 ай бұрын

@@oldegrunt yeah it sad some of the worst leadership I’ve seen was in recruiting but I will say I also had a couple of really good leaders but overall 👎

Patrick Bet-David is THE man! In fact, I've not yet met a Valuetainment video I haven't liked. Superb analysis of this unfortunately worrisome new US military scenario. Hope we can turn this trainwreck around soon.

My parents told me their story about our relative, to summarize it they told him about promising benefits after joining the army. The promise was short lived and he was shipped to the battle in iraq after joining the crew. I wasnt sure what to do with the info they given but the advice were to join the navy or the air force.

@joshuajhon2323

8 ай бұрын

How did it go Need more info on the Air Force and navy conditions 😮

@metalmike570

7 ай бұрын

@@joshuajhon2323 Well the Air Force is sometimes called the Chair Force, and the Navy is generally way safer than the Army. In a way the Army is the loosest branch, but being young is an advantage as the years go on. When I joined the Army in 1998 at the age of 33 (yes, the cutoff was 34 at the time), I was still feeling young and was physically fit, but it was still challenging. I was good enough at everything you need to do to get through basic training but as the years go by it gets tougher and tougher - if you want to re-enlist. I did serve for 12 active duty years and left an E-5 / SGT. I don't regret my time in the US Army though, and it was very challenging ans semi-rewarding.