Stupid Things that Bored Soldiers Do
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All Wars are Fake and you know it.
Damn everything ways to end up in field hospital
Like video
why man why
lol the teeth of the characters XD Also don't drink the water used to heat up an MRE heater packet lol Angry Cops did an episode on a soldier who did that
I was an Army Medic for 3 years active (5 years reserve). There seems to be no end to the stupid things a soldier will do. They definitely kept us medics busy.
What did they do
Fr, i'm curious too
My grandpa in Vietnam cooked steak on a refrigerator rack. He got so sick on that and the medics were very frustrated with them 😂😂
@@MotoB108 Oh man that is terrible (and more than a little funny).
@@garystielow232
I’m in AIT training to be a medic right now, so I guess I’ll find out 😭
Rule of thumb don't irritate the medics. Remember they're the guys that have to patch you up in the field.
Extend that to the armorer, repairmen and mechanics too
@@Lost-in-thought940Don’t forget the cooks.
@@gamewatch6861 yeah, after watching former military CZcamsrs and their horror story’s of incompetence… no thanks
How about the higher ups?
As a former Infantry Medic, I concur
You'd think these would be common sense, but you know how things are on the battlefield. Good for us that we have Simple History here to teach us about both history and safety.
The military has safety briefs every week because some genius finds a dumb thing to add to the list. 1 of them is dont put reflective belts on a deer
😂
Have you seen the current generation?! He is gonna have content for days with these woke broke limp wrist people 😂😂😂😂
At times, you can describe the military as a bunch of man-children equipped with expensive gear, full of imagination yet dumb at the same time 😂
Yeah because going to war so rich people get richer and brainwashed poor people killing each other by the thousands is a prime example for common sense😆🤣
General rule of thumb:
When about to attempt ANYTHING the seems unsafe, just think “Will the medic hate me for doing this?” If the answer is “Yes.” Then just…don’t…
That's stupid because they WILL. ALWAYS.
@@astro_mapping1 exactly.
I've served in the military and you'd be surprised how many times the troops find ways to hurt themselves in new and innovative ways every day. It boggles my mind how some of them made it home alive.
So you were ready to kill people for money? How noble.
Wow, you’re such a revolutionary for your super introspective take. Go play in traffic.
either u rnt a soldier or u have no respect for u r brothers and sisters in arms, saying it boggles u r mind some of them made it home alive is fucked up to say on so many levels, it boggles my mind u would say something like that about the ppl that had ur back and protected their country
@@b00bpooper Relax boobpooper, some people are idiots, and that's fine to point out. Theyre in every walk of life, from military to civilian.
@@b00bpooper I think what he meant was some people were their own worst enemy and it was a wonder they didn't off themselves before "Charlie" (or another enemy) got them. He was NOT conveying displeasure that they survived...merely wonder.
I'm surprised anything involving touching enemy weapons.
During WWII, the defense department had to release a statement to troops that the type 89 "knee mortar" actually cannot be fired from the knee. This was due to the number of marines coming back with broken legs after playing with them.
Actually it was called the leg mortar because it was strapped to such but someone mistranslated it to knee mortar.
It had a curved baseplate which was supposed to rest on a log but allied soldiers mistakenly thought it was to rest on their thighs.
I remember one of my teachers in High School, who was a former US Marine, told the whole class about how a lot about his time in Marines. One time he told us that when he was in the marines (which was around the 1990’s early 2000’s) a lot of the vehicles & Equipment were hand-me downs from the US Army, which were mildly damaged, when I asked him how does the equipment get that badly damaged if there isn’t any active war, he responded with “Well when you have a bunch of 18 year olds behind the wheels of the vehicles, and there are no roads in sight, and the kid goes “But Sargent, there are no roads in front of us” and the Sargent says “We don’t need any roads where we’re going!”” Probably the best School Teacher I’ve ever had.
I've never owned a gun.
I had a machine gun in the military.
But looking down the barrel of any weapon is as wise as planting your hand on a glowing hotplate to see if it is on.
What about just a finger or four?
@@leighz1962 Just the tip? :)
Even if the magazine is removed and the chamber cleared? Making it impossible to fire?
@@bigman88george3man people gonna say "you still shouldn't do it" cause magic bullet exists for some reason
@@bigman88george3 It’s not that big of an issue until you forget to clear the weapon before looking down the barrel at some point.
This happens so commonly it’s actually concerning.
Lighting cigarettes in combat comes with other risks, namely revealing your position. At night even the small flame can make you easy to spot, and the rise of thermal imaging makes this even worse.
Smell too
@@abcdefghijklmop7659the biggest concern was the cherry, something the enemy snipers can see from a distance. When we would smoke at night in Iraq we would cup the cherry in our hands when we smoked.
On my 3rd tour in Afghanistan I was promoted to SFC. As a result I took an admin job behind the wire running the Mine Action Center and had free time to take some college courses. I took the EMT-Basic course through Central Texas College. During my clinical rotation at an aviation regiment aid station a pair of knuckle draggers came in with SEVERE frostbite on their feet. They’d decided to STAND on a sheet of ice in sub zero temps on a date to see who could stand it the longest. They both were treated and returned to duty.
America’s finest
Nice Band of Brothers reference. 😆 0:37
Ha came for this comment
Oddly, they forgot to disarm the German soldiers.
Same lol
Don’t play with a loaded gun, even if the safety is on
Treat every gun like it is loaded
Exactly. I approved this message as a gun owner.
Correct. Always practice proper gun safety.
No its don't EVER play with a gun, regardless if its loaded or not, even a safety can fail, its a weapon designed to fire a projectile intended to cause damage, harm, death etc. Its a weapon and not a toy, it should be respected and treated safely
@@leighz1962a family friend of mine taught me the same line when I was younger, but added “because it is and that’s how it should be” at the end, I love guns, and respect them even more so.
1. I'll bet you a million dollars someone has tried to light a smoke with a flamethrower in use
2. I'm betting those were Marines doing something that stupid
3. Drinking from a Howitzer barrel is perfectly safe as an initiation, IF you PROPERLY CLEAN it first
4. The mocking of Meal Team Six members in this is hilarious and priceless
There was a guy who would light cigarettes with a nuclear bomb. He was a scientist on the Manhattan Project, and decided that a nuclear cigarette lighter would be a neat party trick. Since this guy was smarter than you and me combined, he knew that the bomb’s flash wouldn’t be strong enough at the minimum safety distance, so he mounted a mirror to concentrate the flash. When the bomb was set off, he put the tip of the cigarette just outside the blast shield in front of the mirror until it ignited. He did this on multiple occasions, and even got it on film.
Listen if I wasn't supposed to light my cigarette with a flame thrower pilot flame, they wouldn't have put it on the flame thrower.
thanks talos I'm not a medic, I'd be too bamboozled as to how these guys got themselves in the situation to actually help, seriously
“ as well as using common sense” as we like to say in our family though, common sense isn’t very common. Judging by this video I am wondering if that applies to the military too.😂
i love this channel, any and all audiences can be entertained and learn actual history
lead poisoning and rdx syndrome were the last thing on the minds of the Vietnam vet. acute lead poisoning was definitely a daily struggle to avoid
“California I’m fine, somebody check my brain! California is alright, somebody check my brain! Check my brain!” Alice In Chains
Great album
I was a medic for 14 years and 2 tours. Dumbest thing I've had to treat that fits this video was in Afghanistan the soldiers I was with liked to shoot each other with their tasers as a joke. One afternoon a soldier did this to a soldier that was just exiting thw shower when his buddy shot him in the back with a wet taser. The soldier that was hit was knocked out when he hit the floor and split the back of his head open. He recieved 8 staples, a concousion and a trip to Craig in Bagram. Needless to say it became a big deal.
Love the band of brothers reference 0:50
9:34
I CANT WITH THIS IMAGERY 🤣🤣
I couldn't help but laugh at the lighting a cigarette with a flamethrower one. I don't know how that just causes me to laugh. I'm thinking it just has to be the waste of fuel for that entry.
thank you for always giving me my knowledge for the day sir, could you maybe dig into chemical history with disasters and whatnot?
Like that one phosgene mishap? I know that happened. I'd be interested in that
There's badass, and then theres taking weed shotguns through the barrel of an 1897 trench gun
You forgot the most important gun safety rule "all safeties fail" your safety will fail at some point of use
Safety is a thing in your head, not a part of the gun.
The most effective safety is common sense
We used c4 to heat our coffee or just to stay warm in Afghanistan. Just cut off a little and light it. We didn't use our claymore though. We had actual angry putty.
0:52
Cpt. Ronald C. Speirs to a German P.O.W.s:
,, Cigarette? "
Danke
Here’s probably an extreme example, but DON’T be like Homer Simpson and use a gun for anything other than what it was designed for.
0:55 Band of Brothers reference
Can we all appreciate that Simple History is the best educational channel?
lmao than it's the only one u watch
You need to watch The Fat Electrician
He does a pretty good job
this and infographic channel
a day goes from normal to good when simple history uploads
About the matter of staying in front of a gun's muzzle, one of my shooting instructors told me the story of one of his colleagues, who stayed no straight in front of the muzzle, but a less than a meter away from the muzzle, only a few centimeters away from the firing axis of a gun loaded with blank rounds (just propellant, no bullet), it was during a practical exercise. The flame created by the blank round, despite the muzzle plug required to ensure auto reload gave him second degree burns all over the face
Flamethrowers were also used in the european theater against pillboxes and other concrete fortifications during the Second World War.
Shortly after getting out of the field, my uncle (who was a corpsman with the 2nd Battalion 9th Marines from 1968-69) temporarily became a forward area ambulance driver. Which entailed driving around and picking up injured Marines on base.
He once had to go get this one kid. Who had killed/shot himself through the eye & out the back of his head while he and his friend were playing Russian roulette with a loaded .45 (M1911 pistol) to pass the time - Some stupid game!
We had stupid rules in the Army because privates did stupid stuff
Key word Treat Never Keep Keep.
Treat every weapon as if it were loaded.
Never point your weapon at anything you are not willing to shoot.
Keep your finger straight and off the trigger until ready to shoot.
Keep your weapon on safe until ready to fire.
Number 5 is know your target and what lies beyond and between.
As a Long Time Gun Owner and Firearms Enthusiast? I approve this video.
We don't play with guns. Even if the weapon is NOT loaded or the safety is on? Once guns go off? You can't call back the bullet. Yes I had a few neglect discharges on my life on both airsoft's and a firearm. Many years ago when I was 16. I accidently shot the old couch with my airsoft M4 Rifle. I thought it was completely unloaded but every time I keep pulling back the sling? It wouldn't come out. Another example I shot myself in the finger with my airsoft gun and it felt like I got stung by a big hornet. That was very stupid of me.
When I was 24? I had a neglect discharged on my father's Smith and Wesson Model 10 .38 Caliber Revolver at the gun range. Luckily I didn't get caught and I had it pointed at the target. I wasn't used to holding on to a revolver. Now I've learned these lessons I haven't had a neglect discharged in 3 years.
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love the band of brothers reference at 00 41
Here’s one: Never get involved in a land war in Asia. Also: Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
Very good video as usual Simple History. Well-done video about the dumbest things no soldier should ever do.
You forgot the most common game played, Mumblety-Peg. You stand across from one another and throw a knife at their feet. Closest throw wins, oh and you lose points for flinching
That's what it's called?
Absolutely brilliant videos and at 7:30 I love the platoon reference.
Honestly why anger the medic? They decide who to rescue first and seconds help
Love your videos its good to have someone like you
who ever drew/animated the frames of the incompetent gun user made my day
Appreciate this quality content👌
"Front Towards Enemy"
Don't make a bomb out of your MRE heater too......(military know what I mean)
Had a guy stuff three into a plastic canteen.....I guess you know what happened next....
I've lit my cigarettes off of basically anything that would get hot enough during the time I smoked. If I'd been in the military I'd have probably found a way to use basically anything that gets hot enough.
Household things I've used... stove (both gas and electric), toaster, toaster oven, the arc between two exposed wires, propane grill, campfire, fireplace poker, a magnifying glass...
The trick with anything that'd be way stupid to put your face up to is to get the tip alight then pull the cigarette to your face. So I could see using a flamethrower's pilot light. Just tap the end to the pilot light, pull it back, inhale. Job's done.
I usually hate ads and skip them but Chris’s voice is so soothing and rough I find myself letting them play. 🤣
I love this channel so much. I love the stupid and the craziest things of history, Especially WW1 and WW2.
fun fact the Mythbusters tested the Burning C4 trick and the way the method that were used to put them out and they didn't explode but thats still a risk i won't take and do not advise
Burning C4 is not an issue only when it's the only thing burning and requires a shockwave and extreme heat to initiate explosion (usually achieved through electric charge). If you burn C4 itself not much would happen, but if you drop a bullet into it, you're standing on thin ice.
Good vid keep up the good work
7:34 i already knew this from watching shotgunning 1973, i didn't know how common this practice was, my dad is a Vietnam war vet, so I'll ask him
As a US Army vet I can’t tell you the amount of diseases, injuries, dumb things we did the throwing darts and knives at eachother to repelling naked out of the barracks to doing stupid things with high explosives, grenades, flash bangs in the barracks buying a whole town dry of alcohol the list goes on and don’t get me started about IVs in your Pecker or the amount of diseases soldiers get by being stupid out on the town like it’s a different world. I miss it though not really but it’s nostalgic
In the italian army they taught us to consider as a killing weapon an unloaded weapon.
Nobody had accidents giving respect to them.
Don't light a cigarette with a flamethrower. And don't use your sidearm to kill a mosquito!!! LOL
0:50 Ronald Speirs had entered the chat
Things to do in the army.
Simple History: "THINGS NOT TO DO! That means you as well Marines."
Marines: "Party pooper."
Loved that Ronald Spiers cameo with the cigarettes LOL
1:43 -- I always wondered about these devices that use "pilot lights"...if it doesn't work is there a co-pilot light you can use as a backup?
It is called fixing the pilot light. Any torch would be static and if not close enough you could get a blowback.
0:45 lol😂 Band of Brothers reference is everywhere, Captain Spiers mowed some grass.
"DON'T DO these Stupid things in the Army"
First thing: join
I played DMC so many times the guy in the thumbnail looks like Vergil to me.
7:35 A bit difficult with an Ithaca 37
7:42 isnt that scene from the movie Platoon?
The guy sure looks like it. There is some news reel footage of soldiers doing it for real.
Damn that LTC Ronald Speirs reference at 0:36 made me watch another run of Band of Brothers. 😂
7:32 that was Walter Cronkite interviewing solders in Vietnam, and I met the guy that did that during the interview, i rode bike with his brother.
I love the band of brothers reference with the cigarettes
The U.S flame throwers didnt have a pilot light. They ignited the fuel with basically a tiny road flare loaded in a revolving cylinder, they only burn for a second, and the trigger pull ignites a new one every time.
The fuel is projected with such force that it would immediately blow out any gas pilot light. You would also have to have an additional gas tank and plumbing for a pilot light as the m1 and m2 used jelly gas and compressed air
Presumably you could turn off the fuel valve and spark an igniter and if they're quick enough tilt barrel up and light a cigarette just fine. You would spray your face with burning phosphorous that cant be extinguished and is hot enough to melt thru your skull, but you would damn sure light your cig
I'm so glad you showed people the universal rules of gun safety, not enough know it 😊
A short story about the universal rules of gun safety.
The apartment building where my father lives used to have a moron in one of the units. He was a prison guard, and he was cleaning his gun. Not only was it loaded, the safety was off, and the gun shot out the window into the street. Surprisingly it didnt break the window completely, just left it with a bullet hole. He was also allowed to continue living there.
I once knew a guy who did something stupid in the army:
We were sent out on a 5-7 day mission in Kandahar Afghanistan during August _(120° F days)_ and we were required to carry 13 liters of water in our packs. _(Almost 3.5 gallons.)_ Specialist Heather hated the idea of carrying all that heavy water. _(He was a SAW gunner, so he already was humping a lot of ammunition.)_
As soon as we got on the Chinook helicopters, he started to drink it. An hour after we landed he managed to drink all of it. I was coordinating various assets over the radio _(I was a 13F forward observer)_ and moving around our platoon's staging area and I had to go around and inform everyone ISR saw what looked like armed Taliban on foot was moving towards us. _(It turned out to be Afghanistan National Police that were just lost.)_
Anyways, I came over to Heather's position, who was lying prone, convulsing in a puddle of his own watery vomit. Naturally, I was like: _"Heather, WTF..."_ 😫
He told me that he drank all his water. I was like: _"The water's weight doesn't go to the "magic place where it doesn't weigh anything" you f***ing idiot. Those 13 liters weigh under under 10 pounds you god damn p***y."_
Our Platoon Sergeant, Sgt. Irish, naturally thought drinking water would solve the problem. _(Hydration is very reinforced in the Army.)_ Of course Heather was barfing it all out.
Our medic PFC _"JoJo"_ Johanningmeier, was trying to set up an IV in him. I had to get _"vocal"_ in a way _(whispering in the dark)_ with them to tell them that water intoxication was a real thing, but was so rare that only determined idiots ever managed to get or die from it, and they were killing him. They didn't believe me so I had to get the platoon leader Lieutenant Tompson to understand what was going on and intervene.
Long story short, despite natural selection, Doc JoJo and Sgt. Irish's scientific illiteracy, Heather survived, barely. He was medevaced _(helicoptered)_ to Kandahar Air Field, and recovered. I assume that he pissed a lot too...
The best part about this was Lieutenant Tompson crediting me for Heather's survival that night. And Sergeant Irish saying _"sorry"_ to me for calling a BS idiot. After that, the whole platoon thought I Einstein or something... 😅
I read stories that C4 was used over the heating elements in some cases because the heating elements were too slow I can't remember what book I was reading that mentioned it though.
When I was in the navy we used to sit around and bounce racquet balls at each other's nads. Fun times
I am pleased you went over the rules of fire arm safety
I used to know a Vietnam vet who told us about cooking C rations with C4, in addition to the fumes his other concern was guys trying to stomp out burning C4...
Great video for the algorithm thanks
0:40 band of brothers reference
When i was in cadets there was a story about a group of cadets in the 60s or 70s that found a mortar unexploded and were carrying it around for a day or two and eventually played a game of rugby with it, where it eventually detonated, maiming many of them.
Ok then, and I thought I was crazy lol
@nicolassmith362 kids and old firing ranges.
didn't know this was a tradition to drink alcohol throught an howitzer cannon
the medics at the time must be ready at all circonstances
Liked the platoon reference ❤️
please do a video on these
(this is a copy and paste list for a few channels)
units and tactics/evaluation of loadouts of troops (from different jobs (and other branches)
the tank doctrine of countries
evaluation of tank veiw ports
evaluation of tanks/armored vehicles of different countries
logistics units of the axes and allied powers in ww2
navil ship cross sections (all the rooms and how it all works)
evaluation of types of ships
or evaluation of navil warfare
air craft carrier strike group formations exsamples (from different countries)
ancient persan ships,
ancient veneti ships (gauls that fought ceaser)
tactics used so far in the Ukraine war,
better for squads to be 2 teams of 5 or 3 teams of 3,
and probably the easiest, better to keep troops well feed or starved like an animal
how dose age effect comsnders eg napoleon got older so took less risks,
ancient urban warfare
ww2 tactics in Asia, tactics in the Chinese age of warlords,
tactics in the ruso jap war
cold war navil tactics,
Korean war tactics,
strange tactics or unque battles from the American war of independence and America civil war
how were 17th centry sailing ships build
types of bombs lunched by drones
comands given on sailing ships (like ease the sheets and get ready to chine, or slack n beases, basically things you hear movie capitns say)
why did the nazis never return (or a video on best occupations)
why did the Japanese empire fall, dont just say "America" like things like how there army and navy argued alot
alot more on the Polynesians and māori, but please learn pronounceations if you do this
You’d be surprised how many guys light cigarettes with torches in construction or vice versa by lighting a torch with a cigarette. Surprisingly pretty safe
great video, very informational
One can only shake their head at the sheer stupidity human beings can be capable of... 🤨😔😔😔
the cigar scene. reminds me of a series.
9:34 What an absolute unit
I know right, LOL
"Dumb ways to die, so many ways to die"
Buddy of mine. He was at camp legeune. One night during hurricane season. He tied each corner of a rain jacket to his wrists and ankles. I don't think he got hurt but he did get yelled at.
Soldiers drinking wine? Well, maybe the officers.
9:33 o my. ive seen one of these at a local range
I love how you did not explain the "last smoke" scene; so we were all left guessing why armed Americans were giving armed Germans cigarettes, lighting them; then just gunning them down.
I was at MEPS today and spent most of my time making fun of Marines.
Sometimes the firing pin doesn’t hit the primer on a shotgun around hood enough to the round doesn’t get a good a hood spark and doesn’t go off so wait because it will take a few second to fire
Please send this to the US Army to see if they will use it in basic training for their first safety briefing
Bit surprised nobody mentioned crayon munching. :D
...also bit worried about crayon related injuries in future