The canteen cup is real. In 2003 combat in Iraq we were afraid to use our canteen cups to warm food because it was just anothet piece of equipment we would be required to clean to impossible standards.

@anonymouscali7966

4 ай бұрын

lol indeed. God forbid someone steal your ACOG or whichever sight you used. As a SSG, I saw and heard people stealing sights from new people on the FOB by distracting them with conversations while someone else is stealing their sight off their weapon.

@choomah

4 ай бұрын

You ask for a strip of tape to stick something down... 4 years later you are charged for the tape 😂

@taun856

4 ай бұрын

You think that's bad... Try clearing Government Housing when you PCS or ETS... My wife and I ended up hiring professional house cleaners... AND STILL FAILED!

@scottrule480

4 ай бұрын

CIF: It's dirty. Clean it. Me: It's still in the plastic!!! CIF: -- Me: --

@choomah

4 ай бұрын

@@scottrule480 It's just an automatic reflex response for them at this point 😅 Like the armourer insisting you clean the internals again... you didn't even fire it today.

My middle school science teacher in the 80s, a vietnam vet named Mr Hodges, taught us how to make gun powder on day 1 and he had our attention. Later when he noticed people's attention started to slip, he put a 3" pin, the kind used to hold butterflies to cardboard, straight in to his thigh where he had been wounded and he didn't have nerve endings. He also started a model rocketry club at the school where we were literally playing with explosives on school grounds. He had a 16' python in his class. When we were graduating from that school we got to school early got the janitor to let us in to his classroom and we filled his classroom to the ceiling with wadded up newspapers. What we didn't know was that when he got to school and found his classroom full he carefully waded through the papers to the snake, removed it from it's tank and hid it in his office and when class started and we were getting rid of the papers slowly over the day when the tank was exposed and shown to be empty he let us believe it had escaped and was somewhere under all the wadded up newspapers. When halloween came around and the school was having a dance he helped us build an electric chair that we could sell goes in at the dance. It had 4 levels of AC power it could put out, all of them hurt but nobody could take the top level. He let us strap him in and he told us to go full maximum ... his veins were popping and his muscles were flexing, and he recited poetry while laughing at us. In that school when you were late to class you had to go to the office to get a tardy slip then show it through the window to your teacher to get in to class. He felt that system lacked pizazz so he hooked a low amp high voltage coil to the striker plate which then connected to the door knob on the door. If you were late you could just grab the knob and walk through the door or you could go to the office to get the slip. The catch was that the knob was automatically lit up with around 20000 volts when the bell rang and a few inches before you reached it electricity would arc out to your hand and zap you good. When elementary school kids were coming for a tour of where they were going to go to school the next year he set up Van de Graaff generators for us to make our hair stand up and let us shock the kids coming through with our fingers, and put bubble soap in the basins with Bunsen burners blowing flammable bubbles that we were shooting with spark guns that then exploded into fire balls that went up to the ceiling. He was the right kind of nuts.

@saltymisfit6566

2 ай бұрын

That's the kind of teacher that I like the one that makes the 73 teaching interesting and you remember for the rest of your life I have a couple teachers like that from school and I was actually studying to be a history teacher and I was going to be one of those guys where every time we changed genres I was going to come in costume but unfortunately I didn't make it through school to finish my education degree but I would have done my best to be one of those teachers that everybody remembered it's too bad most people just get in it for the paycheck and a steady job and they make it absolutely mind-numbingly boring to be in school

@Scoots1994

2 ай бұрын

@@saltymisfit6566 The way school districts require teachers to be career teachers is a good way to have less interesting teacher.

@paulvamos7319

2 ай бұрын

​@@saltymisfit6566😂 I am from Grand Rapids, MI and I can tell you that no grade school teacher is doing it for the money! My aunt Debbie was a Head Start teacher for 38 years and retired with a little more than a thousand dollars a month! 😢 She passed to the next phase in 2012. 😊

@ghomerhust

Ай бұрын

that sounds like the exact kind of teacher that everyone needs. what a badass!

@Scoots1994

Ай бұрын

My daughter is now in college to become a teacher :)

Fun fact: Admiral Willis Lee sidestepped the vision problem by memorizing the eye chart before taking the test. He would go on to be the only commander of a battleship to sink a Japanese battleship in the entire Pacific war; dude embraced technology and used radar at night to maximum effect on the USS Washington.

"Unhealthcare System" comes from his earliest videos and the shirt is probably still available in his store.

ching lee was awesome, a sniper who realized 16" naval are still just guns so turned them into MASSIVE sniper rifles lol

@paulvamos7319

2 ай бұрын

😂 Talk about warheads on foreheads!

@adarkwind4712

Ай бұрын

As long as you can do the math that's a precision weapon too.

@eatthisvr6

Ай бұрын

@@adarkwind4712 exactly

The Bocage Hedgerows were no joke. There is footage of Sherman tanks bouncing off them while trying to punch through.

@grahamstubbs4962

4 ай бұрын

The bocages were unbelievably difficult to break through. Until the allies came up with saw teeth on the front of their Shermans. You still have to deal with the enemy on the other side, though.

@fearthehoneybadger

3 ай бұрын

The Germans would wait until the tank tried to come through and then fire at the weak bottom as it came into view. A US welder took barrier girder from the Atlantic Wall defenses and cut them into blades and fastened them to the tanks. The Germans would watch the tank approach, expecting them to present their base as they came through, only to watch with shock as the tank tore through the hedgerow and come straight at them presenting their full frontal armor.

When I was 13, I used to pistol shoot for my local club. At one match, first one with the Senior Team at an area division match, I forgot my glasses. Our coach told my Mum not to be too upset if it all fell apart. As he watched with his binoculars he leaned over to Mum and said "Ooh, he hit the target at least". Not only did I hit the target, I came 3rd overall against all the 18yo seniors in my first match. My glasses today are still pretty heavy and that pistol is here on the rack.

@HG_Budde

4 ай бұрын

Maybe you might benefit from the a bit more expensive plastic lenses? They a) are a lot lighter, b) they can be treated in a way the plastic lens is only a third the thickness of the glass lenses. Or c) consider lasertherapy. 🤔 Imagine, the army would pay for the corrective laser lens reconstruction. It would mean a similar motivation for people to join up. 😅

@fishtigua

4 ай бұрын

@@HG_Budde It was a joke. I have very hi-spec eyewear.

If you watch an answer the fat electricians videos you realize that several heroes from World war II had at least one bad 👁️ and did everything they could to get in and turned several moments in history into some of the most badass American moments you'll ever hear of

Watching Nick I have learned more from his videos than I did highschool with 4 years of history and if he was my history teacher I would have made straight A's 🇺🇸👍

I was a chaplain’s assistant. When I out-processed, my chaplain had the other assistants find everything I needed.

@2410jrod

2 ай бұрын

Yeah well we know there are 4 jobs in service you don’t mess with them. Medics, guy who handles pay, legal, and chaplains.

Two CIF turn-in stories from my time in the Army. 1. As I was leaving the 82nd, they had two IBA's (body armor) on my record: one woodland and one ACU. Turns out during the pre-deployment activities I did two years prior I exchanged my woodland IBA for the ACU one...and the RFI people never updated my clothing record. God was watching over me cause the CIF manager said they were just going to ignore the "missing" woodland IBA because, in his words, "we no longer issue that pattern anymore or have it in stock, no one cares, move along." 2. When I transitioned out of Active Duty into the Reserves, I had to clear CIF as if I were actually getting out of the Army. Unfortunately, the CIF facility I had to go to was at Fort Drum...the other side of New York from where I was stationed. I intentionally did not bring my poncho liner (aka, the woobee) because of sentimental reasons and had every intention of paying whatever they charged me. What I didn't know was that before CIF could charge me I needed to have a commander's investigation with the findings of "he must pay for the loss." I was for hell not driving all the way across New York just to do a commander's investigation (which would take about two weeks on average) and then drive back to Fort Drum. I told CIF, "I'll be right back." I then went to nearest Army Surplus off-post, bought a poncho liner, and used that one for turn-in.

Great reaction! I still wonder if Nic had to take out a mortgage to pay for the items he couldn't find that were on his list to be returned, or if he Strategically Transferred replacement Equipment to an Army Location. Also known as "The Eager Beaver Method". The thing that I appreciate Nic for the most is that he provides us with things we really need these days: heroes (or anti-heroes) who we can truly admire and respect, humor which we absolutely need, and a sense of reverence for things and people who rose above their limits and therefore can inspire us.

@nadjasunflower1387

4 ай бұрын

Eager Beaver Method...always. you don't get paid enough to have to pay government prices on stuff you don't have. lol when he said 79.95 for a sharpie...he was joking...but not joking. that's the cost of a standard claw hammer (or was in the 90's), the sharpie probably costs 39.95 though. lol

What a Fantastic Generation we owe them so much .Young men from around the world. Lest we Forget.

You guys gotta do the devil duck video it's hilarious

Those two guy catching up is no doubt the most Army thing ever. Something like that happened to me in Afghanistan except…we had weapons and shooting back while catching up.

The reason the USA didn't start trying to use the German tanks was due to: 1) German tanks ran on diesel, while US tanks ran on gas. 2) Different caliber of rounds. Meaning that no matter what, it would be far more difficult for the USA military to keep a German made tank fully fueled and stocked with rounds on a consistent level. Especially when you take into account that on multiple occasions, tank "pushes" had to pause for days in order to wait for the supplies to catch up.

@iKvetch558

4 ай бұрын

Um...German tanks were not diesel powered. Panzer I, II, III, IV, Panther, Tiger, and Stug were all gasoline powered. I could be wrong, but I believe the coal gasification process the Nazis used could not make diesel, thus pretty much all their tanks were gas powered. But your ammo point is 100 percent true, and there would be a lot of other reasons not to try and operate any German vehicle...the biggest one being the issue of friendly troops shooting at tanks that look German even before seeing insignia.

@helmedon

3 ай бұрын

The main reason the US didn't use captured tanks is simply, they didn't need to. US tanks were produced more quickly and were readily available. Plus they were mechanically more sound. The Germans certainly used captured Allied tanks though. Enemy tanks if captured were generally shipped home for evaluation.

Check out Brandon Herrera that time the US dropped two on North Carolina Brandon is buddies with Nick the fat electrician you might want to just periodically for the fun of it check out the unsubscribe podcast which Nick is frequently on

@MikeF_44

4 ай бұрын

Yesterday’s unsubscribe episode is great!

@zachm7854

4 ай бұрын

Best pod cast on KZread. Must watch if Nic is on it but great when not.

@danacarter4793

4 ай бұрын

Love this channel as much as TFE😂😂

War Daddy and the DubDub Road Trip Edit: No good taking the Tigers, they were using different ammo. As they hadn't seen any 'in the wild', they likely couldn't have scavenged ammunition to keep them running with the 88mm shells.

@iKvetch558

4 ай бұрын

Yeah...that only works in Clint Eastwood movies. LOL

My hubby's grandpa, his dad's dad. Injured his leg. They thought it was broken and put a cast on. It was just a deep muscle bruise. I'm not sure how much of his leg he lost. When his dad was young, and his friends wanted to come over and play. His dad would do almost the same thing. He'd say, "This damn sock just won't stay up!". Then proceed to freak out all the new kids by hammering a nail into his leg. That they did not know was wooden. He was a bipolar English teacher. Who taught his sons how to play tennis. At 75 with 2 replaced knees, my FIL can still beat college level players. Hubby was introducing me to his grandpa after we were out of high-school and married at that time. Before he could say grandpa this is my wife. Grandpa said so hey how's your high-school tennis going. Grandpa you know i graduated 3 years ago. My parents and i still play together. (2 on 1). I don't know how they're doing this year though. 2 minutes later he asks him again. So hey how's your high-school tennis doing?

Sounds like dad got to name one son and mom named the other. lol

@georgemacdonell2341

4 ай бұрын

I knew a paratrooper with 4 stars on his jump wings, total badass in war a gentleman in peace. His first name? Lynn.

My grandpa was rejected in WWII, for his eyesight and color blindness, well on my dad’s side, he went in aerospace then. He made parts and planes, after that. The companies he worked for participated and won the space race. His company made parts for all the Apollo missions. He made parts for all of them. Or overseen the manufacture and was quality control/ran his own ship in the company, they also made parts for and worked on the tomahawk program. The M1’s turret ring and turret, and the M2’s and systems dealing with them. As third party contractors helping the big boys make what they needed. Along with pretty much parts for every fighter and bomber from WWII to the 1980’s, he had 2, 20 year retirements and helped us win everything in a small part from WWII on. From he made. Or over seen/QC’d. Bad ass in own way. Lots of cool And crazy stories, my old. Little Grandpa worked on all these. One of many who did, no doubt, he never claimed he did the most important thing. He did his part and job as best as he could. As he said. I remember as a kid in the early 90’s his stories of just stuff, general things and seeing tests. After the systems were announced. Probably released or maybe. My grandpa died of heart attack in 08 when I was I. Helmand province. So maybe he said thing he shouldn’t have. I doubt it though. Even if he did. He’s dead. What’s anyone gonna do now? Nothing. I’ll never repeat anything that’s questionable. Plus you know I had clearances, a fair amount of important ones cause of what I did. And handled. No not special. Just my job and good at it. But like I said no one or anything can actually prosecute and hold him accountable, haha. Was awesome shit to hear. Overall.

I bloody love watching your reactions to war docs and tales. You pick such interesting ones!

I play world of tanks blitz which is a 7 v 7 multi player tank battle game and there is a “Pools” medal, to get it you personally need to destroy 6 of the 7 enemy tanks, it’s a hard medal to get but I have achieved it a few times

I really wish Hollywood made Fury exactly like the true story Nick went over. It would have been 100x better.

I served during the Vietnam war. Things were different

The M4 Sherman, even with the upgraded 76mm gun were not really a match for the Tigers or Tiger II (King Tiger). They could take them out but only from the flank or behind. German tanks were mostly taken out by anti-tank guns rather than tanks. Shermans could evenly fight with the Panthers, Panzers and STuGs but Tigers were pretty tough. Luckily there weren't a lot available and they broke down a lot.

Thst was an amazing video, and what a Man, and Leader. Im spellbound. Think im going to watch that again.

When I got out of the USAFR I had a new chem suit and gas mask. The supply clerk was like that is not on your list.

In the moon was a hit song by Glenn Miller in '39 or '40.

I just subscribed to you because you're covering Fat Electrician, but also. I love you guys reactions!

Please do the one about the wooden plane of WWII that trolled the Germans

I was discharged in 2002 and I was able to keep everything except actual equipment. Meaning all my uniforms.

Fat and furious? Lol, sorry, love you guys!

Word of advice, make friends with the supply guy.

I had to pay 200 dollars for a intermediate cold weather sleeping bag. My unit in a rush turned it in in exchange for the cold weather sleeping bag. But the paperwork was not completed..

Taken from the movie " Hancock" : "Thickness and Goggles" All love, all respect, no salt 😁 Thank you for your service

I love how Poole wasn't eligible supposedly for a medal of honor yet you have a submarine commander who was you have other ship commanders in battalion leaders who were isn't every battle a team effort I mean if one man well Audie Murphy but if one man could do it all then why would you send an additional units

I can relate to the cheating on the eye exam

Chuckles and the Big Man. Would be my nicknames for you, gentlemen .

Spencer and Daniel, a.k.a. SpongeBob and Mr. Crabs (Chesapeake blue, naturally).

Support from uk 🎉

Spencer I'd have to call you wicket the ewok from return of the jedi lol

I can literally hear it. Brad Pit using his Fury Character voice. After forcing Norman to shoot the German Prisoner… “Allright Y’all, Time To ‘Get In The Mood’”

When I was in the 82nd Airborne Division we got sent to Fort Sherman Panama for JOTC (jungle operations training center) to fight in the jungle. We were set up for the night and I was on guard duty. I heard a twig snap behind me so I turned around and came face to face with a jaguar and all I had was blanks. So I fired a shot and it ran away and stepped on my buddies chest on the way out. He sat up yelling at me for stepping on him. Well I shined my light on him and there was a BIG footprint on his chest. And the only thing I could say was I tawt I saw a puddy tat.

I'm still so salty that CIF made me pay for the side SAPI pads after I deployed, $85(iirc) for two pieces of foam... This was 2010 and I'm still so fucking mad

Why did command allow those couple days? Because supply needed to catch up anyway.

Wardog and spritz.

You need to watch one of his earlier videos of The Marine’s outsmarting DARPA

For call signs; Finder (on left) and Mary (on left)…

New nicknames, L-Leprechaun.R-Hats.

Don't forget to clean and paint you're E-Tool before turning it in. They jam you up for that even if you didn't use it.

My favorite dorks 😊 love it

EVERY military member has a CIF horror story. Now just think.... what about Government Quarters? Try clearing your quarters, that's another level of hell right there.

The 21st Sucker division

any which way but loose , Clint Eastwood easter egg

Neal and Bob!

I suggest watching the Fat Electrician's Angry Old Veteran vs. 700 Redcoats - Samuel Whittemore

reasons like this are way there is the paper work now

He does a video on the usps truck

Please do WW2 Vet vs HOA 😊😊😊

I bet any amateur/semi-professional boxer would have loved to taken the chance.. but he could've just asked or told him to not hold back or ask if they could do a little real, but friendly match. If he (Joe Lewis) said yes to the ordeal of being on the road all day to support the troops, having a bit of public non-violent sparring, he probably wouldn't have had a problem with making this special match happen, but just giving him one completely without his knowledge or any apparent reason, in my humble opinion, is a sneaky and cowardly way of doing this - "Don't talk to others about your thoughts, plans and emotions, instead just give them one to the noggin and they probably will eventually figure it out by themselves." 🤷🏼‍♂️

Oh. Yes very true for equipment, nick got it wrong though. It’s not a sheet that big. It’s sheets of paper that big that you gotta account for and turn in. Or have the requisite paper work to account for missing or replaced gear. For the other vets saying they ddont want to use or lose whatever gear…your unit fucked you hard. My unit was baller and great, they’d combat loss anything that was reasonable or not even really. To protect their guys…don’t worry if they didn’t something dumb they paid for it. In blood sweat and tears. Haha. But paper work was good. We had a guy who the govt tried charging him for a full MTV (Modular Tactical Vest) including all attachments. For mags. Bayonet frog. IFAC, dump pouch etc. and all 4 ISAPI plate, over $2500 dollars that he had to ditch while growing in a canal in Iraq. Our unit was like no. We combat losses that. As he was gonna die if he didn’t ditch it. You want it back. Go get it out of that canal. We’ll tell you exactly where. He didn’t have to pay for it, hell, we combat losses multimillion dollar systems, was legitimate, but we dod. In a heartbeat, like over 10 million, really about 15 million. Not often. But it happened.

I love how they say that being in a tank is a team effort so therefore he's disqualified from medal of Honor when they give medal of honors to all of these commanding officers of submarines throughout world war II what's the difference it's a team effort The CO didn't do a single-handedly the whole crew did so why is there an exception for one and fubar on the other?

@leojamesclune1730

3 ай бұрын

That's what doesn't make sense to me, too

Nicknames? Green Screen & Chesapeake.

I mean your names pretty much write themselves. One guy with dad jokes and an army guy. GRUNT AND MOAN

The changing of things, probably came from the Vietnam guys. My father creative liberated a ton of shit!

I don't know if my experience differs from others, bu as a person who has lived with a lazy eye and astigmatism for a few decades, in general I couldn't tell you 50 ft from 500 ft. Brain pretty much ignores the weaker eye so I basically have no depth perception. In combat this would be a bad bad thing.

If it works your a hero if not your screwed😅

i would like you guys to watch his the A-1 skyraider video :D

My veteran husband lost one eye while on active duty, only 5 years in. He was removed from the fire department as vision must be correctible in that field. He was almost forced out, when de didn't want to be discharged. So he found a job that vision was not critical and was allowed to cross train. He retired at 25 years + 10 months.

The only next step is to get on Unsubscribe in person.

Thing 1 and 2

wow i know the gov was petty but you'd think anything they give you to do your job especially a marker, oh you mean that one the German military made me drop while i was running for my life. My dads old national guard jacket is hanging in his closet right now I wonder how much he had to pay to keep that

Beavis and butthead

14k tons is actually 28k lbs

@mostlytrue3150

4 ай бұрын

So a ton is now 2 pounds. Got it, I'm going to look like a monster in the gymn curling 10 ton dumbells people are going to be asking what my secret is with my spaghetti noodle arms and I'm obviously going to have to inform them that someone on the internet said a ton is 2 pounds so it must be true

Mailcat

dude I got charged 2 something for the bootstrap thingys literally how I bloused my boots I was like what.... Isnt the equivalent to a to a womans pony tail holder.... you came after me for that?!

You guys want nicknames? Okay then. Shits & Giggles it is. 😂

Nick names are puddin and soft serve

What was his brother's career like, in comparison to his?

@mostlytrue3150

4 ай бұрын

The pictures online of him and his brother, his brother is an e6 and I think he has a machinists mates rating badge on so I think it's safe to say he destroyed fewer than 12 german tanks in the machinery room on a ship floating around in the pacific ocean.

Ginger and Specs

Delete or revoke. Both work 🙂

Hi guys I know this is not part of the story but I had 90 days of leave I took an early out the freaking dentist was going to put me on medical hold to pull all my wisdom teeth til i told him that would be his mistake i kick your fn ass and pull yours or let me go now

Whos Uncle Sam?

And the upside sure they needed to regroup. One higher ups had a good idea of what that meant, they were nice younger. Two. What are they gonna do? Make you spear head the Allie’s advance? You already are, they can’t punish you. As they can’t offer anything worse. Haha. And as one of the ones given large amounts of freedom, in the military, for my job and how good I was, yes you can have huge amounts of freedoms in many ways. I’d very, very good. I just happened to be very good. I got away with so much. Not even talking about disciplinary actions. But just asking questions and being considered, let alone answered and allowed to attempt to answer some of them. And actually answering some of the issues or things related to mission capability. And come up with new things. And ways. I was definitely units golden boy. The best/most effective and most crazy one. I did shit our crusty old master guns. Was like I’ve never seen or thought of what he did. Or did what he did. And he’s fucking crazy, haha. I did shit that still makes me wonder how I’m alive, let alone have my fingers and toes. Arms and legs. She. You’re a Marine…and you make other Marines. Let alone 2 decade plus service Marines stop and stare in wonder/horror, mostly horror at what you are attempting and succeed…that’s when you have broken how things are done. I had many people on many occasions, like WTF. How. Why? My answer cause it’s what needed. As the adrenaline shakes hit me hard and I’d need a few minutes to get full control again and chill out a little bit. I’d tell people later on. Boys and girls don’t try this at home. You don’t want to. It’s fucking terrifying and you make one tiny mistake. Your dead and crippled, mission failed as it can no longer be performed. But my option was do so this. Or we failed anyways.

🐱💙🙏🏻👊🏻🌚

Squeak And deleter

And see the unhealthy care system while funny is wrong. Not for moral reasons. That can be debated. I’m not talking about moral. If you die young and good health. Like military aged men. The. You are in good health. And now dead. Meaning it is in fact the best health care system. Everyone that participated is young, healthy and handsome. And will never get worse than that. Ergo the best healthcare available, you never age. Or have lingering injuries, etc.

Well, it is illegal to simp over german military from WW II. That is the reason. It can bring you up to 10 years in prison to say anything positiv about the german army from WW II.....