The raw knowledge this young Lance Corporal displayed is humbling. The professionalism he displayed and described of his peers is testament to why America has the finest fighting force in the world. Thank y'all for your dedication and commitment to job and country.

@kagan.dunlap

4 ай бұрын

They’ve been doing a great job passing the knowledge of warfighting down to the newer generations.

In the Army we always referred to 11H TOW gunners as Tired Of Walking.

@kagan.dunlap

4 ай бұрын

Death before dismount 💀

Its always a good day when Kagan posts. 👍

@kagan.dunlap

4 ай бұрын

I appreciate you!

@skyrimvox

4 ай бұрын

It is

@jesseeglington2602

4 ай бұрын

Oorah!@@skyrimvox

@UdhdxbVdzvdxze-ns3et

4 ай бұрын

​@@kagan.dunlap FR3E PELASTIN!!!!!!🏁🏁🇧🇷🇧🇷

TOW Tech here. Always was in a wpns plt or wpns co. The 0351/52 were my boys, anytime we were out in the field they would let me hold their purse so I got to play 03 for a week or two. The amount of cross training in a wpns unit is probably some of the best. It's cool to see how things have evolved over the last 30 years. Semper Fi.

@kagan.dunlap

4 ай бұрын

The cross training piece is vital to WPNS platoons and Companies for certain. Semper Fidelis

@SyBernot

4 ай бұрын

@@kagan.dunlap If you ever want a good interview for LAI/LAR the early years you want Mongo. I knew him as Capt. Powers but he retired as a Lt.Col. I'm sure you could get in contact with him through the 3rd LAR Association pages. His personal mission was to make sure everyone could do all the 03 stuff so we had comms guys manning a saw and supply schleping baseplates.

I was an 0352! I even taught at 1st Marine Division schools 1993-94. We were running CAAT teams with up armored HMMWVs and their employment in Desert Storm was badass. Good to see the younger generations are well taught. Semper Fidelis, Brothers. 5th Marines Regimental TOW Platoon, 1st Marine Division 1990-94.

@kagan.dunlap

4 ай бұрын

Semper Fidelis brotha! A great MOS! I got it tattooed on me I liked it so much hah!

@moonlightalkemist

4 ай бұрын

​@kagan.dunlap proud to have shared an MOS with you, Sir! Mustangs are the best zeroes in the Corps!

Next talk about the fabled and 0351. Legend says they used to be part of the infantry.

@glennmatthews9819

4 ай бұрын

Yes we was you young whippersnapper.

@kagan.dunlap

4 ай бұрын

I do have a few friends who were 0351s I’ll have to reach out to them

@not1not2but3

4 ай бұрын

I got out in 2016 as a 51. They were already phasing us out with crazy high cutting scores and it was known it was going away completely soon. Not sure when they officially got rid of them.

I LOVED all the technical detail talk... Definitely wouldn't mind seeing more of that in the future. Otherwise, this was awesome... Keep 'em comin', Kagan.

@kagan.dunlap

4 ай бұрын

I appreciate you taking the time to watch! I have a few more already pre recorded that are being edited now so more to come!

We demand more long form videos Mr Dunlap. Keep the good work up brother

@kagan.dunlap

4 ай бұрын

I already have a couple more being edited on the way!

@misterxrd

4 ай бұрын

@@kagan.dunlap Hell yeah!

Awesome. I was the first tow gunner assigned to 3rd Mar at K-Bay, HI back in 1985. Really loved that duty station.

@kagan.dunlap

4 ай бұрын

3d MARDIV will always feel like a second home for me

Thanks for the live stream Kagan was my 1st time catching you live! Love the channel keep it coming!

@kagan.dunlap

4 ай бұрын

I appreciate it! More to come!

BLT 1/8 is home! RAH! Elder is a GOAT

@kagan.dunlap

4 ай бұрын

I’m always impressed with the esprit de corps of that unit

We rolled with 50 front (jav), 240/tow, 240/tow, rear mk19/ (jav). We would also keep another 50 and mk in the trunks of 2 of the vehicles to potentially dismount.

You’re the man Kagan thank you for this interview. Love from a 1/1 81’s vet

@kagan.dunlap

4 ай бұрын

I’m glad you enjoyed it my man! Got some more being worked right now!

Outstanding discussion!

@jesseeglington2602

4 ай бұрын

Perfect actually.

@kagan.dunlap

4 ай бұрын

I agree!

Good to see that the US military is not overlooking this successful style of warfare... was an 11H in the Army until they discontinued it at the end of 2001.

@kagan.dunlap

4 ай бұрын

I believe they are doing the best they can and I am confident they’ll be ready when the time comes

Love these Pod style videos

Excited to learn and this is fun!

@kagan.dunlap

4 ай бұрын

I’m glad you enjoyed it!

Wish I had Joined the Marines in my time. I was a 37F (Psychological Operations) in the US Army (Airborne / Tactical Psyop Team). I just feel like the Marines at the lowest level act like US Army Rangers and Special Operations. My time in the US Army (07-14) I felt like too many Soldier didn't have the warrior mentality.

@kagan.dunlap

4 ай бұрын

You still served nonetheless, which is more than most can say

I was an 0352. Served in the initial invasion of Iraq with the 1st Marine Division with 1st Light Armored Recon BN (and did two subsequent deployments) 2002-2006. I don’t no much about the CAT teams or “straight leg side” but I know all about the LAV-AT variant and the LAV-25. Imo the LAV-AT is still one of the very most lethal things on the battlefield. With ever improving optics and stand off distances with new missile variants. There are things the TOW can do that a Javelin can’t. It’s just warhead and missile sizes. The TOW is a huge Beast and it often takes two people just for that warhead box dimensions and weight. In Weapons Co, 1st LAR we did a lot of “vehicle appreciation” movements dismounted with various fully capable TOW systems and 81 mm mortars and the mk19’s from motor T and such and fake ammo crates and such. It was the most miserable experience in my Marine Corps career. It taught one thing.. the TOW system (at least back then… i see they have much different sights and components like the MGS box. But back then the TU and the MGS box.. were f* c king insane to expect a man to carry along with a ruck over Camp Pendleton. It needs a huge bamboo pole and two people to really move… just that component. And the missiles require two men. And the TU should have two… everything is heavy and when you have to bear hug a TU with a ruck anf move multiple miles.. it’s just the worst. It really makes you appreciate the LAV-AT. I have the experience as a Loader, Gunner and vehicle commander on LAV-AT’s. Served as a scout, fire team leader and a vehicle commander and a chief scout for our platoon (like a plt Sgt when all the scouts from out platoon functioned as a big unit. Which was typically around 3 infantrymen from the vehicles but also often includes the platoons mechanic and almost always the Navy Corpsman. Every bit of my time was spent in combat (i was pulled out of SOI a little “early” in order to get on the USS Pearl Harbor (LSD) to take part in the initial invasion or Iraq. If I wasn’t in combat we were in intense constant training to go back. Things took a huge turn for the worse in 2004-2005. That’s when we took the bulk of our KIA. The initial invasion of Iraq was fun compared with the insurgency that came later. I thank God Trump swhacked the guy that was largely responsible for arming all those “insurgents” that hurt and k1lled and m@aimed so many good Marines. Pfc. Nachez L. Washalanta & Sgt. Jason C. Cook - 21 Aug, 2004 - Al Jaramil, Iraq. Cpl Dieruf was cut into two by an RPG round that detonated when he was standing popped up in it. Their LAV-AT was caught in a very well conceived and executed ambush. Perfect spot. The RPG fire and belt fed MG they had immobilized the LAV and it was a bad night. The Platoon Mechanic earned a silver star for his actions that day. I had to clean my fellow Marine out of the LAV-AT turret which was completley deadlined and way beyond the “in theater” echelon of maintenance we had at the time. So we just pulled the whole turret and put a new one in. After cleaning Cpl Dieruf out of it. Then I was “promoted to gunner’ and got to stand in the same spot as Dieruf stood not but a few days before. It was not an ideal situation and I don’t think I’ll ever get over being in the position to have to do it. Semper Fi.

Love the interviewing different marines in different mos’ in the corps. Rah sir

My mos back in the 90’s

@kagan.dunlap

4 ай бұрын

Mine from 2014-2019

Cool insight I myself am a 0351 drag gunner SFMF

@jesseeglington2602

4 ай бұрын

Fuck yeah!

@kagan.dunlap

4 ай бұрын

I’ve known a few Dragon gunners, definitely an interesting perspective to have in the grand scheme

In the early 80's we had a jeep and we were happy. TOW was attached to a Tank BN. The Infantry School didn't even Cover 0352. You went through as a 0351. After you got to your unit you then went to TOW school and Jeep School which was another month. In 85' they started Moving TOWs to Infantry Regiments. A lot has changed but it sounds like the shoot and scoot is coming back with the light vehicles

Do 0351’s next. 😂

@kagan.dunlap

4 ай бұрын

There are none left

0351-0352 1991 till Forever!! Semper Gumby 1/8 WPNS!!!!!! The High Scoring ASVAB Grunts of the Corps - followed by Mortarmen- "Death From the Rack", sorry MG's and 11's ya'll know they yelled that at SOI!

@kagan.dunlap

4 ай бұрын

Hahaha I love it! That’s so funny I remember them saying the same thing in ITB😂

You should add acronyms to your CC as a civilian which is fine I have no idea what you’re saying. Your channel is awesome!

@kagan.dunlap

4 ай бұрын

I figure I’ll reply in the comments if anyone has questions about any acronyms, that’s a good idea too though!

hello. thank you for the insight!

@kagan.dunlap

4 ай бұрын

Absolutely! Happy to help! I’m glad you enjoyed it!

You guyz catch on quick! Oorah!

@kagan.dunlap

4 ай бұрын

I think everyone does

@jesseeglington2602

4 ай бұрын

Gotta keep us on our toes. Learn, adapt, overcome or we are DEAD. Pretty simple ay@@kagan.dunlap

Sick heritage room. Some commanders get stupidly wrapped around the axel over those. We were born in a bar. Every unit should have a heritage room.

@kagan.dunlap

4 ай бұрын

They have a great spot over there. I definitely appreciate that they have some company spaces like that

Nice!!!

@kagan.dunlap

4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Hello Kagan, Really enjoy your content. Former Army Airborne infantry guy here, my 22 yo son graduates from College this spring. For the last 18 months he’s been working in the pre-OCS program. He has his “board” in March for selection, he’s very excited. Any pointers?

@kagan.dunlap

4 ай бұрын

I’d say as long as he makes sure he’s in good shape especially running, he’ll be just fine

Thank you for this video can you do an in depth video on 1313?

From the title of the video I was thinking it was a new guy joke about waking them up at 0352 after fire watch for something stupid like going to hunt for a box of grid squares not a job skill MOS.

@kagan.dunlap

4 ай бұрын

Haha close! I’m trying to do a series of videos on various MOSs in the Marine Corps

I was in DRAGONs 2/3 (0351) M47 gunner in the 80's. Not a thing now. We were on CAAT hunter killer teams on M151 M2 platforms. Foot mobile, man portable wire Guided.

Tow Platoon HQ Company 2nd Marine Regiment Warlords 2nd MarDiv, 1992-1996

@kagan.dunlap

4 ай бұрын

Heck yeah! Let’s go!

When I was in we ran 2 sabers and the 50 in front with the mk19 in the back.

@kagan.dunlap

4 ай бұрын

I look at it sort of like making an omelette. Many ways to do it, just depends on the platoon and the SOP and the mission

@trent9442

4 ай бұрын

@@kagan.dunlap absolutely 👍🏻

Bounce. Humvees, hell where were the mules?

@kagan.dunlap

4 ай бұрын

Not in this particular video haha

You keep referring to your military status in the past tense. Are you out?

@kagan.dunlap

3 ай бұрын

No I am not

I’m 100% enlisting next year but I’m stuck between 0311 and 0352 and you may have just swung me a bit to the 0352 side

@kagan.dunlap

4 ай бұрын

There’s another one I did on 0331s out now and my editor is working on the 0311 and 0341 videos as well

0352 1/1 CAAT Plt 2015-2019.

He gets paid to play with the good toys the fun toys . And what makes it even better is He will be the last thing some men or woman will ever see again. Hes pretty bad a. BE ALL THAT YOU CAN!!

@kagan.dunlap

4 ай бұрын

One thing is for sure, those toys are very expensive

Another good thing about my carrer is that being an 0352 in an LAR BN who is making the decision to leave behind the LAV-AT’s.. it means you get retrained to function as an 0351… at least for me. We learned the SMAW and did a lot of demolition work. In the 1st Marine Division “Division Schoolhouses” Didn’t really get into the Javelin because at that time LAR didn’t “rate” the system because we had the AT’s and the LAV-25 which is quite the little fearsom monster on the battlefield in it’s own right. Especially against non armor and infantry. The ambush I mentioned in my previous post was “ended” when an LAV pulled up and the guys in hasty fighting positions didn’t understand what “thermal optics” and the LAV twenty five mike mike bushmaster chain gun loaded with HE is capable of doing to a human in a huge flat farm field. We went out and collected the pieces the next day and I talked extensively with the gunner of the vehicle who ended up engaging the insurgents in the field. He said it he watched as their limbs were blown away from them. The 25 mm round with HE in it makes one heck of a “splash”. Anyway. Did a lot more “infantry” or “Calvary type” work when we left our AT’s on Camp Pendleton. It’s different than the CAT platoons or in the straight leg infantry. LAR has a much different function and capability. It’s a great steed but a lot of your time as an infantryman is just “cleaning the stupid horse”. Instead of going out with the 0311’s … the 0352/0351 get much more intimate with the “light armor” aspect of fighting which is interesting work too. As a LAV-25 Vehicle Commander… you’re in essence doing the job or an E6 or and 01 to 03 or even 04 or 05 depending on which “command vehicle you were happening to command at the time. When you have a LAVcsquare…. The commander inside might be controlling the entire BN.. so they kinda have to be a VC while also fighting an entire BN of LAV’s of all types …. On the officer side. But just shooting, moving, and communicating on the scale that an LAR bn is capable of is mind boggling. We would have bundles and bundles of map sets… more maps than you could manage for a single road movement. That’s another difference between the straight legs and LAR is the amount of radio’s LAR had. In an LAR BN everybody (for all intents and purpose) had a radio capable of getting onto platoon. Company, bn, division, higher, air, ANGLICO (naval gunfire and FO FAC’s). At that time you would have over a dozen straight leg guys and they would be carrying one or two man pack big time radios (everything has miniturized now but not sure of the TOE anymore) but in LAR every three marines would have a man pack PRC-119 or 148 at that time. The 148 was the “walkie talkier sized small radio that could do everything and we only got one per platoon at that time. But then additional PRC-119’s. A lot of radio coverage and mission sets that are “screening” for a whole division on the attack. Which basically meant scout out ahead and blow up Iraqi MBT and anything else armored or technicals and such. Occcasionally buildings or bunkers. Shot a lot of missiles in 2003. We got issued from a mountain of tow missiles bigger than a house… each missile was like over 65.000.00 or sometihing crazy like that and there were millions of dollars worth of them. I think an LAV-AT could accomodate 14 and then two in the hammerhead for a total of sixteen but I might be off on that. Excellent video. Many thanks. Semper Fi.

I was an 0351, recoilless rifle. 2/5. Later tow gunner National Guards.

In the Army, all 11Bs can be heavy weapons. Went from Mechanized to Air Assault then to light infantry. Mechanized was fun but Air Assault was a f*cking blast! Spent 7 years in the infantry, I wouldn't trade it for anything.

👍🏼

@kagan.dunlap

4 ай бұрын

🫶

We confirmed past 4k meters

@kagan.dunlap

2 ай бұрын

That’s what I’ve been hearing too

Sir hope one day to see 0317 and have Philip velayo

@kagan.dunlap

4 ай бұрын

I am absolutely planning on this

@tylarhaugan7908

4 ай бұрын

@@kagan.dunlap beautiful sir Phill would he great quest. Modern day sniper is his program with his ww1 sniper body

I wonder how many people will say that Hasbullah was acting in defense

"Shot out, be out"

@kagan.dunlap

4 ай бұрын

Big facts

You also should consider the optics…. In an LAR Bn… we see infantry.. real good. It’s very hard to hide good high quality and long distance thermal optics. Especially when your enemy doesn’t really understand what that means and what it’s going to be like fighting in a battle space where if you even see the enemy… he’s gone. In Ukraine you have no control of the skies. No Jdams… no rotary wing flying directly overhead dumping hot brass on you (which happened on more than one occasion). If no air then the BN has a radio that can cook up an artillery mission is a hot second. Either with really big guns or MLRS but more commonly with the BN’s and CO’s own 81 mm mortars which can shoot a lot of targets… and all of this cacophony of firepower is being crewed by well trained and capable men who are well fed and gassed and resupllied with beans bullets and bandaids… on call. The one big difference I see in Ukraine (beside the drones) is the use of landmines. There are landmines (both AP and AT) over every square yard of terrain. I never had to operate in that density of minefields. I did hit a mine once in and LAV-AT… as a gunner. It felt like someone had hit me in the face with a bat and I woke up crumpled on the bottom of the turret with the vehicle at a dead stop. Blew off three of our road wheels and flattened one of the brake drums and drive shafts. Put hole in four additional tires… punctured a differential… and detonated right under my ALICE ruck which was shackled over the left front tire on the left front headlight cluster. Everything I owned.. blowing in the winds like Swiss cheese. It was almost more concerning than the realization we had driven into a minefield on the border with Iraq and Syria. Many times we actually were in Syria by the GPS (and there really is no “border” for hundreds of kilometers. Not even wire or a berm. If you go far enough north from the Euphrates river were it crosses into Iraq from Syria.

No way I’m a hour south of toledo 😂

@kagan.dunlap

4 ай бұрын

Not too far away!

Here're the real OGs in WW2 doing a jeep raid: kzread.info/dash/bejne/lIh8zqWJo8ffp5M.html

@kagan.dunlap

4 ай бұрын

Wayyyyy back in the day!

Interview a FIST officer lol

@kagan.dunlap

3 ай бұрын

Definitely on the list

Get a marine corrections officer from the brig on here

@kagan.dunlap

3 ай бұрын

I absolutely plan on it

@ax3312

3 ай бұрын

@@kagan.dunlap rah sir

I thought this was a great interview

@kagan.dunlap

4 ай бұрын

I really appreciate that! I hope to do many many more!

The whole fight between IMC vs BIM is on the instructors of IMC. It's a reflection of the instructors and part of IMC. The shooting package is phenomenal, however the white space is all on the instructors. IMC is a solid course for teaching 0311. It's the follow on courses such as IWC/Bolton that will build proficiency for the specific MOS

Makes me laugh in sadness that iraq and afghanistan is already woefully outdated

@kagan.dunlap

4 ай бұрын

There will always be a new conflict

Did you mean zero 352 or O use the correct letter looks like zero

@atomixage

4 ай бұрын

It's a zero. Over here we use the letter O as a stand in for the number zero in conversation. Like if you were reading the number "307" we would say it as "Three-Oh-Seven" rather than "Three-Zero-Seven". It's just a slang/terminology thing.

@jesseeglington2602

4 ай бұрын

Amen. A purest. Yes please. Letter of The Law. Are you KJV only brother?

@jesseeglington2602

4 ай бұрын

Amen. An essence of The Law man. Get the job done. As we in the DOD know "Form Always Follows Function"@@atomixage

@kagan.dunlap

4 ай бұрын

The number 0

People from Ohio 👇

@kagan.dunlap

4 ай бұрын

Ohio folks ain’t that bad

I made a “poor decision” once.. it involved a concrete building with not a lot of windows and blowing open a roof door with a flex linear charge that was way way too strong/more explosives than safely should have been detonated. It hurt me a lot and screwed up a lot of my company who was inside of the structure at the time. Thankfully it was not too bad but it was definelty an “oh fudge” moment where I realized I could have just “un alived’ not only me but everyone around me … I moved forward but it was a pretty big f up on my part. The door did need to be opened ASAP: and I did get that accomplished… lol.