Strategic Transport of Equipment to Alternate Location ( S.T.E.A.L )

"It's a can of peaches, Sir." "Your weekend pass is revoked."

BTW the proper military term is not stealing, it's acquiring.

When I was in middle school, my social studies teacher and principal were both veterans, only the social studies teacher was marines and the principal was army. They were always making fun of each other for any reason they could find, it was funny.

"You want logistics, join the Army. Marines make do"

Leckie: "These, are for you miscreants" Squad: "Peaches!" Captain Sobel: *"DID SOMEBODY SAY PEACHES?!"*

This scene is mostly true to fact; my father was XO of C Company, 164th Regiment, Americal Division, and was tasked with offloading supplies to Kukum Beach in early Oct 1942 . When the Japanese planes came over to bomb Henderson Field, the offloading stopped and the GI's all headed to bunkers, which is when the Marines showed up to steal their stuff. This whole series about the Guadalcanal campaign was very well done and very accurate.

There are no thieves in the military, everyone is just missing their shit.

Best part is Marines still do stuff like this

One dude puking next to the guy having diarrhea, both laughing about it. Fucking golden!

I love how Basilone was in the mix being a ring leader of the shenanigans. Boys will be boys

Malnutrition, shit food for weeks, and starving. Ever had a time in your life where you almost didn't eat for days? Like a disease or something? If you go long periods of not eating you can't just gulp down an entire can of juice. You have to go slow and take your time to build up your appetite. And trust me on this, those kinds of throwing up sucks worst than any other kind of throwing up.

He wasn't use to the sugar content in peaches, so his stomach reacted badly to it after having a sweet sugary fruit for the first time in probably months.

This is what it feels like every time you pull off a successful Payday 2 heist on Death Wish

The fact that Leckie goes for an officer’s chest rather than the rest of the goods kills me

Leckie scored with those Cigars.

This brings back fond memories, in an 8 month period of rather memories. I was a Corpsman with First CEB , First Mar Div in the first Gulf War. My Marines would go to a position recently vacated by doggies and dig up their unwanted food. They would also follow behind Army supply trucks and pick up items that fell. We had HUGE trays of “ field lasagna “ and cases of M and M’s. Napoleon was right , an Army travels on its stomach. The Corps ....not so much

"If you leave a soldier in the desert with a hammer and an anvil, and come back 5 minutes later, the anvil and the hammer will be broken. Because soldiers gotta fuck with shit." *This scene*

Wasn't there a story how the army commander demanded Chesty to order his Marines to return stolen property to which Chesty replies "If they want it back, they are welcome to come and get it"

" peaches..ur new name is peaches" "fuck u" "u got it peaches" that part always gets me Lol hahahahaha:D

This is how brothers in arms bond lol lol.......... 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I love that detail about Marines still using Springfield rifle's while the army arrives with garands. Marines were always the last to be reequiped. In Vietnam they were still armed with 14s Even in Iraq they were still armed with old m16s. If my history is correct.

I like the edited in sound of bottles at 2:58!

Love how that one Marine that was about to steal an M1 Garand later received his own garand and used it to shoot a cow in Australia with it before being incarcerated for insanity during the war.

Damn dude, people nowadays getting angry about having to wait an extra minute or two for their big macs delivered straight to their car door. While these guys probably in real life got excited as hell over some canned peaches.

I think it should be mentioned that in the memoirs the Marines were actually glad Army troops came to relieve them. Kind of a shame that the show only shows them in a lame light. Now I see people in the comments saying how regular infantry had it easy or weren't as deserving, it's quite disrespectful.

Seeing that reminded me of a particular statement from a certain 1st Lieutenant Nathaniel 'Nate' Fick said during the Invasion of Iraq in 2003: "If you want logistics, join the Army. Marines make do"

Marine never steals from other marines. Unfortunately they were soldiers and not marines.

*Japanese bombing stuff* Army - “let’s go, get the defenses up!” Marine Corps - “lol BOONK GANG”

When my Dad was a marine, he and some of the other marines would occasionally steal a few of the fresh loaves of bread the cooks made every morning whenever they could get away with it.

My grandfather was a united states marine and fought in the battle of guadalcanal and his favorite story to tell was stealing a kitchen from the us army. I'm so glad to see it being recreated, miss you everyday grandpa. 1923-2016 Cpl Kenneth Vanderzeil 3rd Marine Division

In Somalia I was given the title of "acquisitions specialist" Which meant I "borrowed" the Battalion XOs vehicle at random times (when he was in a meeting kissing someones asshole) and would take said vehicle (HMMWV) to the port and "acquire" much needed military resources from shipping containers that always seemed to have already had their seals broken off them (the luck I know). This made me a valuable part of company morale. Also, prior to deploying to said shithole I realized hey, this Hummer has a lot of room in the back of it. I bet I can find some old Vietnam era trunks at the motor pool and guess what, I was successful. I then made a hasty assault to the local PX and loaded the trunks with jerk off mags, cigarettes (which I think were something like 11 dollars a carton at the time), booze, jerky, canned foods, and even sodas and much more. Needless to say this cemented my position as a very important member of my beloved Company. I was also the company's mail clerk and I did push my luck severely one day. I went thru all the baskets of mail and took out our company mail prior to allowing Division to process it. Now that one......that one got me in some hot water and I started to get more monitored and had to get more creative during my time there liberating wonderful people who we were freeing from oppression. Speaking of freeing the oppressed. I once "acquired" and sold an entire hefty bag of marijuana to members of the 10th Special Forces group for?????? 25 dollars. Approximately twice what I paid for it from a local. Ahhhh no PTSD here.

I see all the comments of past and present soldiers here, so I just wanted to say thank you. Whether it was or is army, navy, marines, or air force thank you for serving our country and thank you for your sacrifice. I saulate you brave men. That is all I wanted to say.

"You've go to write Vera about this." im dying 😂

My dad was in the 1st MarDiv on Okinawa, and was caught stealing from the army, so he was detained with some buddies. While detained, he came down with bad kidney stones and was operated on in a cave, recuperated in a hospital made from a Japanese sickle factory, then flown to Guam and Hawaii. Bad sanitation and stress caused the stones and he had problems with them all the rest of his life.

Even the one who warned the dude who stole the shoes and cigars stole something lmao

Love the "acquiring" scene, reminds me of when I was a Marine in the Middle East and we came across some Army personnel with better food than MRE's (which is all we had) we had a Sgt. That used to be a recruiter go over and talk the ears off of the hard while a couple guys "acquired" a truck load of good chow.

I remember my squad leader in the Army telling us if we see any tool lying about in our motorpool 'unattended' to 'acquire' it for our use as the needs of the squad matter most. Amazing how the shared misery bonds people-and the military is expert at providing misery.

USMC: fought the japanese up front. Airborne: dropped behind enemy lines. Rangers: first on the beaches. Infantry: Supplied with the best, to stand around.

" peaches, I got the god damn runs and you had to get peaches " Lmao

Yeah, I had that happen once: drank a whole bottle of fruit juice (about the volume of that can of peaches) after a long time without much sugar (we were short on sugary food at home as back home people were paid only once every month, and I was in school during a particularly hot year).

"There's only one thief in the military. Everybody else is just trying to get their stuff back."

Me and the boys raiding the fridge at 3 am

Love the pacific, however if pop culture the idea is generally that the Marines were the main force in the pacific. While there was about 4x as many army soldiers who sustained a majority of the pacific theaters deaths and were key in major battles.

"You gotta write vera about this" Vera: "what were the letters like?" Lackie: "best I ever wrote"

It was also called "midnight requisitions" and the practice worked both ways. Regular army in N Luzon 1944-5 consisted of mobilized N. Guard regiments (including Arizona Bushmasters) who were supplied even worse than the Marines. They mainly pilfered the Navy.

Not a vet but thank you to all you grunts, army & marines. You're awesome.

This scene captures 99% of what goes on between comrades in the military. Yes it's honorable to serve and to fight. But there are also enough crazy silly stupid hilarious moments to last a lifetime as well.

Damn Seabees would have “acquired” twice the gear and no one would have noticed.

Gotta say, Jon Bernthal is one badass dude. Any movie where you need a tough guy, he's got you.

0:12 My school when a school bus from the other school drive pass us

i love when leckie and his squad join, makes me smile that all the marines work together to ‘steal it’ basilones group first then leckies

Three things civilians only need to understand when the Army and Marines squabble among their ranks and give each other crap. 1. It's a state of mind or it's a family thing. 2. Marines and Army makes their arguments and pranks more intense then the "tickle pillow fights" civilians have. 3. If the situation arises between any of our branches...stay the HELL away from their sector of fire or blast radius.

“Gear adrift is a gift.” 🤣😂🤣😁🇺🇸❤️ Semper Fi!

"You gotta write Vera about this."

"Thanks for the chow!" :D i love that part :D

1:46 imagine being a Marine and seeing those brand-spanking new M1s the Army was given while you were issued a bolt action Springfield

When they're running away from the mp's and the one guy is carrying a crate out! Every time i see that, I get tears from laughter. I don't know why I find that scene so funny.

We took over a forward observation post a couple thousand feet up a mountain once. The only access was by helicopter, home was where you dug it, the command post hole had a desk made from a boulder, a roof of canvas covered pallets. But in front of the radios was a beautiful blue leather swivel chair - the sort with pneumatic suspension, lumbar support and an adjustable headrest. It said 'property of the United States Air Force' on it. We weren't Air Force. We weren't even United States. Whoever relocated that chair was clearly the top man in our war.

My Dad was in the 5th Marines on Guadalcanal. Prior to the series being started I had posted on one of the sites, that Dad always recalled the first thing he ate after bring resupplied was a can of peaches. So now you know where that scene came from. That's the only time I ever heard him speak about Guadalcanal.

I wholeheartedly expected them to be shot down as they were running. Maybe I've been watching too many easter European theater war movies.

“Gear left adrift, must be a gift.”

It's not stealing it's called tactically acquiring.

"You got it, Peaches"

Leckie's stealing scene reminds me of Marv in Home Alone

0:17 this man is 76 years ahead of his time

"You gotta write Vera about this" Both laughing as one is puking and the other is shitting blood 😂😭 Truly embracing the suck

A marine recruiter once told me friends don't let friends join the army.

It's not stealing from the army, its an urgent inter-service requisition.

So...Marines take the islands and then the army moves in to babysit them?

lol! love this series can't wait to buy it!

Moonlight requisition: the best way to get whatever you need in the military. These Marines are demonstrating how it's done!

Peaches. I got the goddamn runs and you had to get peaches!

American soldiers went to war like go on a picnic

Damn, I keep forgetting Jon Seda was in this, as John Basilone. He was young, dude. Kind of cool to think he'd eventually play as Antonio Dawson in a few years.

Gear adrift is a gift.

He hadn't had anything that sweet in weeks, maybe months. So it was a shock to his system. I dunno why the others didn't get sick. Stronger stomachs, maybe.

My favorite scene in the whole series. Army gets all the good shit while marines get Jack shit. And for all of you who don't know, they didn't steal, they tactically aquired all that gear.

When I sneak downstairs to retrieve a snack just before waking up my parents and then making it back to bed before they know it’s me.

You watch stuff like this, and you appreciate what a tough bastard Grandpa really was...

That army captain was a jackass. "Hey that's army gear!"

We did not call it stealing, that would be illegal and immoral. We called it "appropriating" in the Navy.

The scene on the pacific comes to mind when they’re stealing all the army’s supply’s and find a box of fresh M1s 😂

I liberated a few things when I was in green all those years ago

after watching this I have decided if I ever join the military it won't be the army

@pumas666star - lol brotherly love... the marines where always messin with us, we messed with them back but we always love and would die for each other

In Ancient Greece, Spartan trainees were encouraged to steal in order to survive, the trick was not getting caught. They had to learn to forage and adapt by any means.

my grandpa was a doggy turned devildog, he said he made a killing getting free stuff from his old army unit and trading it with marines

Way to fight as brothers in arms boys! XD

Yeah, peaches are always more important than your buddy puking on the ground.

During Desert Shield, we were operating our KC-130's out of Bahrain International Airport. We kind of commandeered a small hangar and a flight line. Anyway, we kind of became the default VAL line. C-5 lands and one of the crew says "we have some vehicles for the Marines." Our C.O. says, "We're Marines." so we kind of took possession of the two HUMMVEES and the two Chevy pickups, CUTV I think... Well eventually the rightful owners came looking for them and we finagled keeping one of each to use as flight line vehicles. I think we had them all for at least a month.

What I wouldn't do to find a crate of just-issued M1 Garands...

Which is worth stealing? Some army captain’s expensive loafer shoes and expensive cigars or a glass bottle of whiskey?

What was the reason that the marines had to use old scrapped Equipment and the army got better Material? Also the uniforms/clothes of the marines always looked totally used up. Was there such a huge difference in the military budget between the branches? Greetings from Germany

I saw stealing every day. All MY gear was stolen when I arrived at Camp Lejeune. Took me three months to get my initial issue back. Theft was prevalent, constant and routine.

we called it creative procurement of needed material.

US Marines - the honey badgers of the military world.

I can understand that army supplies stealing might be somewhat ok since they dumb out that shit in the thousands but I would never dare to touch personal luggage unless my life depends on it.

I legit expected captain sobel to come looking for his army peaches in both those scenes

I watched this scene the other week and remembered to get a can of peaches. Now I'm rewatching to get hungry for a can of peaches