Ditto 👍🏾

Proud because the enemy came with a knife against guns and you just had to wait for MLRS, planes, artillery and helicopters to kill people while you sit and wait.

FUCK ISRAEL USA Bitch

congrats, you are war criminal who is proud of it.

@@aliancemd Then they shouldn't of had skill issue idk why you complaining.

2013 v.a gave me 10% today 4 22 21 getting hearing aids thanks

@@dogsense3773par for the course, I had an mgs stryker fire a round right next to me with no warning and I had no ear pro and I got it documented, my ets date is in about a year and I’m expecting I wont get shit for it

TravelerNTime Amen. He cared.

Great general since 2nd world war

Well said, blessings to a great General. Blessings to his family, and all who served under him. From this Veteran, to all, Thank you for your service, and the unseen service of all family member who also served in their support of their loved ones, who fought.

Amen! The Colonel - My Late-Father - served under him as well (he was LTC at the time) said he was Brilliant, Badass and a great Leader, Officer, Gentleman and Man. Much like I'm guessing yourself and your Brothers-at-Arms! Thank you for your Service and know how proud you/y'all made (and make) us! This was unprecedented! As The Colonel (Operations Shield and Storm - OEF & OIF and General Schwartzkopf said: It's all about the Troops, Training and Their Dedication to Duty! And it's why you, those Serving, those Enlisting, those Retired and those Resting are all Heroes! Thank you, Sir.

8⁸

Thanks for the help

Can’t belive you missed your chance to go to war at prime age

"Always running"

Im the one who should speak u were eating fkin mac and me and my family were suffering fuxxk yall

It was text book repeat of the German invasion of France 1940. Thiers was to go around the Maginot Line and later turn South to get in behind the line. Ours was start far out to the west to bypass the better prepared areas along the Kuwait border, and then turn right to cut off the enemy retreat. But unfortunately, we stopped short of the coast to let a lot of Republican Guard units get away. Still the execution was well done.

@@haroldk3913 Now that I think about it, Desert Storm does have a lot of parallels with the German invasion of France!

I think the friendly fire is inevitable in any operation of this size. The reason it seemed so prevalent here is that Iraqi resistance was so ineffective that the FF stood out as a major source of casualties where in any other major war such incidents would get lost in the background.

Friendly fire happens in every conflict it's impossible to avoid

USA's favourite colour is blue on blue

Bo Rodriguez uhh 8:20 showed a burnt out Iraq tank...

Bo Rodriguez were you the Marine wearing glasses?! Oraaah Devil Dog!

Pictures or it didn't happen .

@Dominus Providebit Ask the Kuwaitis whether justice was served.

@Nunya Bis "thanks for your service" " Are you a corporation?

For real

Yes Sir, after the Wehrmacht, after 1945.

Air and naval force too lol

Our entire military but yes you got the idea

Only agains homeless Arabs and civilians 😂

U mean the men that u killed them? Yall destroyed my country

Love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life.

Thanks for your sacrifice brother

We were pressed to move faster. So fast that some BMPs were tracking us with their cannons as we rolled past their fighting positions. They told us that the Iraqis abandoned all the vehicles and to just keep moving. They werent abandoned.

i was 14 yrs >>living in Kuwait ,for long long time im looking for pictures taken for me with US soldiers in (salmia) any one was in US Military after war end visit salmia area .any one can help me in this ..Thank you

Ramez K. Tamimi you should go to Reddit man. I’m sure someone could at least give you info on the units in that area, if you can give a date or month or something, even better. Hope it works out.

The greatest military on earth, the US Army all the way none better! God Bless all our military and allies!!!

before the internet made everyone self involved and insecure.

Why would you go around without your flag? But yea it’s hard to see

It’s not healthy for sure, but damn affective, veterans should be compensated

They should have been educated in not getting near the Iraq tank racks

All heavy metal dust is toxic not just DU

I heard about that, though I thought the number was closer to 150

@@sadqqwwqeq4175 well you have to fire the DU either from a Tank or a helicopter..so it seems the tank was pretty accurate

Dave Craft 3/2 ACR- Toujours Pret!!!

They were contracting out hospital beds as far away as Morocco and Tunisia. I was with the 18th Airborne Corps and it didn't exactly make us feel warm and fuzzy to hear that.

It weighed heavy on us, trust me. We didn't expect to come home.

We were warned to stay away from knocked out enemy vehicles, especially tanks. Depleted Uranium rounds were used very effectively over there. Nobody knew if DU’s left behind enough residual radiation to cause cancer…?

*Johnboy So, just the one woman then. What's her name?

America has no military power because they always beg all their allies for assistance in their wars. If you were such a super power you wouldn't be begging us brits for help every time you want some sweet oil lol.

@@slayerr4365 Wow guy, I guess you were just born this stupid huh? lol

@@slayerr4365 Do you really think the UK brings that much firepower to the fight? VII Corps could wipe out your entire country. We thank you for your assistance but don't ever think the US "NEEDS" your help to succeed.

@Dominus Providebit Fuck you. America is number one!

Warfare changes fast

@EchoLeague2 OK. I was just pondering on the passage of time, but we all can see different things in the same thing, and it can often show us a bit about ourselves.

@@timothyball3144 yeah I didn’t really know where you were going with that lol but yeah time moves on man 😂 doesn’t stand still

Something to remember for sure

😂

I have seen too many videos of guys standing next to guns not wearing hearing protection that end up paying the price.

@@josephastier7421 How many wars have you fought in?

@@SOLDOZER None.

I think they knew but it was likely the least or their concerns

We were clearly warned not to go poking around knocked out enemy vehicles, especially armor, for this very reason…

Tiger Brigade deployed with us (1st Cav) from FT Hood and was assigned to help the Marines south of us on the border of Saudi Arabia / Kuwait.

I was in that tiger brigade at hood but went to Germany then Saudi . My Brothers from Tiger brigade did an awesome job along the marines I had marine buddies said they would go to war with them again anytime

You're not supposed to know that. Now shush.

Depleted uranium is radioactive like a mother heferr

Tony Montana don’t they use depleted uranium for tank armor? Wouldn’t the tank crew be at risk of radiation exposure

@@ify105 No, depleted uranium is only mildly radioactive (from which the human body will recover after a short period of time). However, the problem with DU is being a heavy metal it is VERY toxic, and breathing or ingesting its dust from spent munitions is what causes the health problems. The armour of a M1A1HA, M1A2 etc, is a "sandwich" construction whereby the DU is sheathed in composites; as such it has very little chance of vaporizing and therefore poses no real health risks to the crews.

Bruce Lamberton interesting

I was 3/20th FA. You should recognize that unit for sure.

I was 18th Airborne. We started keeping prisoners to bury their own dead, including major who shot his Baath Party commissar and led half his battalion “over the hill.” Asked why, he pulled out a photo of a little boy. “I have spent the last ten years at war. I’ve fought Iranians, Kurds and now Americans. This is my son. This photo is old, he barely knows me. I’m tired. I just want to go home to my family.” All these years later, I can still see that man’s face. At times, I wonder what became of him…

@jeff griffin no oil dummy

Darrell Bell, Thank you for your service

@Erich Von Wachter of course not dummy

Well hell's bells they started it so I don't see what's the big deal we did what we had to do.🤨

Ernie Corella it was actually Russia

Yes, it was... next time match up to something in your range. The Russians

Uranium inside a tank?

@@acerrulz1053 Armor piercing ammo of tanks and the A-10 that were shooting tanks have uranium shafts. It's called depleted uranium as a sales technique where an unknowing persons says it's not in a reactor anymore so it isn't bad. All uranium is radioactive. When piercing the armor the uranium showers the inside of the vehicle. Inside of vehicle destroyed by that ammo is not the place to go. Uranium or any other radioactive material will give you a warm feeling from the radiation hitting your body. Think of it like a constantly running microwave oven.

NightWaves thanks for the info. Learned something new!

@@nightwaves3203 I was inside of several tanks like that, didn't know back then...do now.

@@sheepdog271 Good luck. Commanders should of warned troops. There are some military bases with target vehicles peppered with DU rds. Look, don't touch.

Kidd Kool Arrow I remember the prc 77s with encryption mounted to them...Vietnam era and still using them then.

i was 14 yrs >>living in Kuwait ,for long long time im looking for pictures taken for me with US soldiers in (salmia) any one was in US Military after war end visit salmia area .any one can help me in this ..Thank you

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Richard Brown uh, ok. Not sure what that has to do with a prc77 but I am a man of faith. I’ll check it all out.

Jose Coss and my ass crack,,,, lol

Same to you brother.

Thank you for what you did bro, and I hope your weapon is always clean...

What’s My Name are you trying to invoke Ali here? “What’s my name fight” Whatever his political views were Many I disagree.. He is my boxing idol don’t stain anything he’s ever said. Make your new thing to change my name

Yes and may you have weapons still today and plenty of ammo to defend the USA on our own turf from the demons within.... God bless you all

Ok I hear ya but that blame is also thrown to a bunch of other countries not just the US

The US military did not start that conflict. As always it was the politicians.

The good old “Chocolate chips”!!

Yes. I often wonder.. What If?? But, that is living in the past. My friend, we have to live in the here and now. We can't change the past. We have to let the past go. God bless you!

No Bush was right. We had put Saddam back in his box. Although he was a evil dictator he could no longer threaten his neighbors but he controlled his country , No ISIS, no insurgents. We had the no fly zone and could just go in and bomb him every once in a while. Bush#2 made a big mistake.

@@bobw5024 That was all about getting Iraqi oil production under control and handing out contacts to Haliburton, because of VP Dick Cheney.

Must be a trump 💋 ass

@@ronnrogers9459 And you are a gay from Obamaland, half man ou null man. 👬🤣🤣🤣

@@ronnrogers9459 Nigga, I should have known by its low intellectual quality.

@@olafweinzer5746 so what does it say about you replying to such a comment jackass

None of you realize how childish you are acting

It also got them out of the our way.letting them get there freed our minds up ,by not having to worry about hitting friendly crews driving russian vehicles.

@@danno1ize Were any of their units useful?

@@OldSkoolWax they weren't to bad.

Hell On Wheels

Sounds good to me...

These weren't jihadis. They were draftees. This was an invasion of a whole country, not counterterrorism. I doubt you'd be so celebratory if you saw the Iraqi teenagers blown up with your own eyes.

To be fair the tanks they were in were very old and Saddam didn’t give a shit about the Iraqi army so the army was giving up upon just the sight of the marines. The three star says it himself at the end of the video

2003 invasion went down in much the same way. US military has even better toys now but hard to say what the men are like now. i dont think an invasion of Iran for example would go down as easy as some people still think. Iranians would be more motivated to fight than Iraqis ever where.

chrischralph2222 So? How does your theory make the outcome of this war any different? By the way Irak’s tactics then were Sovjet Russia tactics. They didn’t work. Oh by the way Russia and China do. Plural.

The primary purpose of nuclear weapons is not to attack but to defer.

... so learned about German Wehrmacht and SS-Units WW2 - not quickly enough, but so much . *Go round about away.... soonest to *End-Target......

Blitzkrieg had nothing to do with these victories

Ivan The Tanker Oh no? How do you know? They outflanked the enemy. Concentrated their armoured thrust. Punched a hole in the defensive line. Kept the momentum of the attack going at all times and kept on pushing. Never gave the enemy a chance to catch their breath and establish a new integrated front. Sounds like France in May 1940 to me.

They should have taken him out back then when the whole world was on board

its a horrible rifle, accuracy cant hit a barn. when the germans were fighting in Afghanistan, they didn’t even bother shooting.

@@nicolaslalfeur6949 Source?

Blind Squid sheeeesh thats crazy I met this Marine Recon dude (retired) that had a softball sized tumor and so many complications from that.

Wonder if he's still with us??.

@@dancly1913 DU dust is the new Agent Orange.

No Uranium you plank, APFSDS rounds tungsten tipped steel normally, you are thinking A-10 30mm:

@@UncleBoratagain The US switched from tungsten to depleted uranium in the mid 80s so he would have been breathing in contaminated dust with

Good one

You make me feel old. I keep forgetting this was 30 years ago. I was with G 3/10 back then.

Mother of all Battles. ✌️

sadam was the only one who wanted to fight the americans so iraqi tried to fight the americans lol when everyone else in iraq was thinking otherwise.

We had, amongst our POWs, an Iraqi battalion commander who shot his Baath Party commissar and led half his unit into our lines. When asked why, he showed up a photograph of his family and said, "I've spent the last 10 years fighting Iranians, Kurds and now you Americans. My youngest child barely knows me. I'm tired of war. I want to go home, finally."

Hahaha yeah thats what happened

bpmrox I was a field artillery surveyor 82C and we were out in front of everyone surveying for fire missions ( direction / height) we had a PADS computer in the back behind the seats that was the size of an old TV set from the 60’s with the wood finish. 😂 now they have hand held GPS to do what we did . Unreal. Anyways as part of 7 corps ( Big RED 1) mechanized infantry we were with a British unit and were part of the right hook to fight mostly the republican guard. When we were ahead surveying in front of everyone I kept thinking we were gonna hit a mine and we got a armored vehicle with a huge 8 foot high bulldozer front on it to follow it in case of mines exploding. Then we would go to the rear while everyone else moved up to fire off our coordinates. I was amazed we weren’t exposed to chemical weapons because trying to fight and operate vehicles not to mention shit and eat while wearing the MOPP gear and mask would be hell. The Republican guard we were told were gonna inflict a lot of casualties but even with a lot of explosions near and far we kicked their ass. The prisoners were pathetic to behold. Hungry with very little food or water and just a radio to call in troop positions is what Saddam did to these guys. Drop them off and a lot were bootless too. We gave them slot of our MRE’s and water which I’m very proud of. I don’t think I slept in those 100 hours except cat naps for mere minutes in my HUMVEE with my head against the window. And now add in driving in the dark with no lights and no sleep while your wondering if mines would go off and chemical weapon and republican guard threats as artillery is going off so often that you could drift off for a few winks because you get use to it and next to the MLRS rockets going off one after the other and although it was so one sided it was still very scary and life altering in my life. 100 hours. I can’t imagine the wars that preceded the Gulf war because they were long drawn out events The brief time I was engaged in Iraq and Kuwait taught me a lot about what my priorities were and how good our country has it. Too anyone who served or still do I salute you and stand tall.

Elite by Iraqi standards!

They were out gunned, but many fought to the death, unlike the regular forces that constantly fled. That much should be respected.

@@timsydlowski5208 appreciate your experience. The Iraqi Republican guard nor Iraq regular army was capable of fast moving battles and combined arms tactics like how US forces did. However, the Republican guard soldiers were well trained and motivated to fight with what they had, remember that Republican guard was subjected to day and night bombing by Allied Aircraft for 35 days which included B-52s and despite that they stood their ground, reorganised and put up a fight, compare that to most of the Regular Iraqi army which had a 30% desertion rate over the Air campaign. The resistance by Republican guard units allowed 70% of the Iraqi army and 50% of their armor to escape from kuwait. I can't believe how stupid Saddam was to not withdraw from Kuwait and save the Iraqi army from destruction. The least he could have done is try to resolve it diplomatically and withdraw by asking Kuwait to compensate for the economic Damage caused by Kuwait Oil overproduction and slant drilling which Kuwait was indeed guilty off, that would have atleast caused Arab nations and even UN not to go for war....instead he became arrogant and claimed Kuwait as 19th province of Iraq. Even the Iraqi intelligence gave a bleak outlook to Saddam that the Odds were against Iraq - despite that he ignored the report. See all past Wars and you will notice when the Political leaders ignore Military Generals advice they face defeat. From Stalin in opening phases of Barbarossa to Hitler from 1943 onwards.

@Hammerschlägen M It's not just loyalty...Many Republican guard Commanders although Sunnis were against confronting US military because they knew they had no chance but Saddam was arrogant and militarily immature. The Republican guard also didn't have modern technology tanks like the T-80 or the Upgraded T-72 with ERA which could have had some impact in the battles..neither the Airdefense had the long range S300 systems or Short range Pantsir systems for combatting Coalition Airforce. The Battle was lopsided to begin in every way. One thing to note is that Despite the most intense bombardment in history of modern warfare by B-52s, A-10s and others for 35 days the Republican Guard didn't decimate or collapse- it did stay there and fought....if the US or British forces were also subjected to such level of round the clock bombardment i don't think their Morale would be any better than Republican Guard- this is something missed in the analysis of the war- considering that Had Republican guard had more advanced tanks and Air defense the Coalition would have tough time and would suffer considerably much more casualties.

Bob James "Peaple"? Sure "has"? Seems you've forgotten a bit yourself.

@@mikehabic6314 how's that?

Every time I go the the beach too

@@mikehabic6314 you spelled it wrong, its peoaldp, lol, Bob this is not to make fun of you, just having fun

Sheeeee... They forgot as soon as got done sweeping the streets clean from the parade!

4/64 Armor, Attached Vulcan Gunner......Victory!

Well , we don't exactly have conflicts or anything special for the news but i guess the only change now is that our Emir passed away and now his brother took his place

@@thedemoninthecornerofyoure6609 No News is Good News these days.

@@chriskelleher349 that's true , one of the reasons why i stay away from the media

Lmfao my classmate started posting shit on his IG about how the US will fear the might of Iran or some shit. Dumb nigga lol

@@honkhonk8009 the pissy young dems are terrified of iran. i cannot comprehend this fear. the iranians don't have allies they don't have the firepower or manpower they don't even have the capital to sustain themselves in a prolonged war let alone transfer that manpower and firepower needed.

if they watched the news two months leading you to it, they would have been fex u with hoosanes comments and broken promises to pull back. he just kept on advancing into kuwait.

fed up

Lol it's no fair then you shouldn't invade countries if you have skill issue.

George Johnson XD