Great job Coch! We want to hear it all! You are a fantastic storyteller. Story time with Coch. 😃

A knife video would be nice. What knives did you carry? What knives are just too Hollywood movie? Seems like *every knife manufacturer* and their mother claims to manufacture a knife that SEAL's use haha. So it would be nice to break down what was carried in reality & what is just marketing/Hollywood knife hype. Thanks for all the informative, Honest & Raw content !!

I really enjoy your talks, thank you.

Great stuff. Had experience with the 203, but hearing about how the other systems compare is good info.

I really enjoy this type of content and the presentation format. It's interesting to here what was/is used, how well it performed, and in what circumstances one might choose it. Awesome. Thanks Coch.

Awesome video Thank you for taking the time

Just love your stories. Thank you, sir.

God Bless you Coch !!! Thank you so Much for your Service and knowledge is always a joy to learn from you .

Please do a video about the new noveske rifles the Seals have been spotted with. Also, the evolution from the M16 to the hk416, and now back to DI guns with the noveske.

Civilian here, but I really do love the breakdowns of a weapon's true combat potential and ofcourse your own experiences! Please keep making more vids like this, well earned sub

His experience and stories are great

More Coch stories!!! I don't care if he's talking about equipment, tactics, or experiences. Keep these vids coming!

There was a time I could hit you in the nether region at 250 with a 40mm. I loved the 203. I'm still in awe that it isn't mounted to every service rifle. The ability to signal and conceal movement alone makes it way more of an asset than a liability. Being a grenadier for an 11B is like your first level of trust in the fireteam. You're not the team pack mule, and you're not having to carry the weapon everyone knows will break (SAW). So being given a 203 is like your first step toward leadership.

Thanks for all the insight

I love this history and context stuff. Keep up the good work.

My love for the 203 began when I was a kid when I first saw Arnold carrying one in the movie Predator. I told myself, that when I joined the military, that was the gun I wanted to have. Well fast forward a couple of decades, and I finally got issued one. I carried a 203 for almost 10yrs straight, either mounted on a M16 or M4 platform in all of my deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. The only issue I noticed was the lack of training increased over time. Less and less 40mm range time created an environment where 203 gunners were not as proficient and not well versed in its uses. Since I carried it and shot so many rounds, it took sometime for me to transition to a rifle that did not have a 203 on it. I had to retrain myself. It didn’t take long, but it felt like I cheating on my wife. As far as arming distances, I thought it was 5m for HE rounds and 15m for HEDP. We shot a lot of short range shots in Iraq and some in Afghanistan. Great for opening doors. I was never a fan of HEDP. I always made sure to carry HE after my first deployment, and of course some smoke and some pyro for night time use. Used the smoke to mark targets for gunners and aircraft, and pyro for marking friendly positions or to just light up the night sky. HE seemed like it had more boom to I t than HEDP, and HEDP had a tendency not to go off after hitting glass windows. It would go through the glass and not go off. For me, shooting the 203 was like throwing a football. Never used sights and never had the quad mounted, but kept the leaf on for the first 2 deployments to Iraq, because it was required by unit SOP, but took it off for the last 2 deployments to Afghanistan, because I just didn’t care, didn’t have any more room for it, and I never used it. Accuracy was never an issue for me, but I had fired hundreds if not thousands of 40mm rounds during that 10 year span both in training and combat. Never was a fan of the 320 though, and quite honestly, don’t understand the need for it in a conventional unit. I think the M32 would be a better option, and the 6 inch rounds, especially the “smart” rounds, have not come into fruition. But overall, I loved shooting 40mm. My philosophy when I carried one was “why shoot 5.56mm, when you have 40mm,” was my thought process. Thanks for the videos and sharing your thoughts and experiences. They’re insightful and I really enjoy them. Please take care and stay safe.

Thanks for the video.

great, love the perspective

My experience with an M203 is limited to one time on a range in the early 90's where I got to shoot it to my heart's content. I tried every sighting methodology available and never hit any anything. Very disappointing. Fast forward 12 years, I was in Iraq, and I was given one to take on a patrol we conducted in the Al Anbar Province. I never got to fire it there. Still, I'm a believer that in the right hands, it is a very effective weapon system.

This is something you don’t hear about every day. Great video!

Very intriguing "War" wall, the stories in that must be full on interesting. Cochiolo Trucking FTW! BZ !

Thanks Coch, when I was wearing green I was a medic so I was only allowed sharp things like needles. But spent many hours on live fire ranges covering all manner of things that go bang, but my favourite was the M79, as there was always time at the end to expend the extra ordnance. Happy days, 😁 Just a thought, you asked what else would we like to hear about, well my question is foot wear aka boots, what were you guys issued and did you stick to the issued stuff. When I started wearing green we were issued AB boots [ankle boots] & canvas gaiters. We got issued the GP [general purpose] boot not long after I joined but only wore them on special occasions. Love your vid's, cheers

More coolness! Thank you sir!

I'd love a video about that watch collection! Awesome.

I'm very impressed with your personal contributions to freedom by having Prototype Tactical Lightweight Under the Armpit US Special Forces Grenade Launchers. If you could only do something on the G11 rifle and caseless ammo. Grenade launchers, now it's all belt fed vehicle systems.

Awesome stuff.

I was one of those "don't need sights" on my M203. I knew exactly where it would hit dope.

I was watching Predator and when Dutch puts the grenades on the spears all I could think was "It doesn't work that way!"

As always cool content! I like your smile

Thank You very much for these videos including many of Your personal experiences from Your previous "job". Maybe a video about some of those watches over your left shoulder ? I'll bet You've got some AMAZING stories about some of those. (if not classified) THANK YOU for Your service and sacrifice.

I feel like I just got a 50 year history listen in american grenade launchers. Outstanding content in 10 minutes…

Coch's voice, or maybe just the rhythm of speech, reminds me of Bruce Campbell's. Sometimes I half expect him to say "S-Mart's top of the line" while holding some kind of firearm.

Nice, i would like to see him talk also about the underbarrel shotguns.

How about a peek at the watch collection. Great channel!

I liked carrying the 203. If we got into a TIC I wanted to fire mine at that biggest group of muzzle flashes I could as fast as I could. Very helpful in both urban and open terrain. That said, I was just a grunt.

Coch seems like a swell guy. The type of guy to sit down with a beer and hear a good story.

awesome. keep them coming. have you talked about watches or time pieces yet? what are you wearing in this video?

Good stuff Coch. Suggestion: how about something on the 12ga pumps and duckbills from the Vietnam era?

for night GL sights the best I've seen is a solid prism from ringsights UK

Great video. What kind of watch setup are you sporting? Thank you in advance! Also, maybe you'd be interested in doing a watch review video with all of those watches I see in the background. I'll bet your audience would appreciate it. Godspeed

I qualified with the 203, 79 and the XM 148. I was Air Force SP/ ABGD. We had a shortage of 203’s and had 148’s in the mix. That thing was a mess of parts all over. The wire trigger got hung up in your gear or brush all the time.

I’d figured out how to use the front sight & the top hole in the flash hider to get rounds on target. The Knights Armament QD mounts were nice, the stand alone stock was dead weight. I’d still prefer an M-79 if I was in a static position for its accuracy.

Daaang, can I apply to redo my childhood and have this man be my dad? I could never be good enough to be a seal I don't think, but I'm pushing and pushing myself to enlist before I'm too old and inspirational role model dudes like this help make it easier to head in that direction : ) great stuff, interesting insights

about having a bipod for 7.62 nato or and 5.56 nato ar's. Thanks for your hard earned knowledge.

200 k guys. Lets goooooo!!!

I’d love to hear about the teams heavy weapons and your though of them and how you guys used them :).

Great video. You guys ever play with Steyr AUGs or other bullpups in the SEALs?

Talk about type 2 barosinusitis, that is always a grand experience

Love to hear which optics navy seals prefer…red dots, acogs, LPVO, iron sights, etc….

Talk us through your belt Feds. The M240s, the Mk48s, the Knights LMGs

How about letting the kids know about OTB’s - kit mods, weapon issues/concerns, different AO’s and effect on kit and weapons

Submachine use, with and without suppressors. Mp5, MP7, colt 9mm smg. What edged weapons operators carry. I'm a knife collector and I've saw pics of tomahawk and short swords over there but usually with grunts. Explosives: m67, m18a1, c4 Your thoughts on the Gallagher case. Sniper cartridges. 308, 300 win, cheytac, 416 barret and of course 50 cal. Use of local weapons, so mostly AK types.

Would love to see him go through his divers watch collection that's behind him. 🙂

Boom 💥

Cochs experience with the MP5 and AK?

Tell combat stories!

random question- do you think there's room in the arsenal to revive something like the china lake 40mm launcher?

Hey. New sub here. Have you done a video on your dive watch collection? Or touched on it? New watch each year while a SEAL? Referencing that rack of watches over your shoulder

Is coch related to Jack Nicholson? Idl why but he reminds me of him! All respect sir.

I love enjoy your videos. No BS that's what I did and explanation it makes sense to me. Simple as that.

I was a TPT (Tactical Psyop Team) Specialist and not sure why but was designated the M203, along with the M240 in the turret if the Loud speaker wasn't equipped. Once again, never understood why, If we used our weapons we failed at our mission. Anyways, I was at the range training with the M203 and an E5 missed his target as we were just learning. We hadnt even qualified yet. we see a ground squirrel hopping around. We started laughing as it was within percussionary range I would assume. The Range master was an E7 and had a O4 with him. Well, an investigation took place for over 2 weeks. Total B.S. The E5 was being investigated as if he was trying to kill a wild animal and aimed at it which he indeed did not.

How about CQB lessons learned while doing HR, and the differences in mindset/tactics vs traditional CQB methods and theory.

Did you mess around with the chopped M79 “horse pistol” ? It looked like the right size, if you could get hits.

I got to know, the left arm three watches?

Random question for you, whats up with the double watch? And can you buy one or is it more of a home brew thing

What about the marines 6 round mk32??

Love it. How about rocket launchers. When I was in the Marines in the early '70s they had the law and also we fam fired what looked like the regular old bazooka.

I thought that thing was for launching grappling hooks between ships. LOL! Funny.

I've heard a lot people talk about the 40mm's marginal effectiveness. Can anyone expand on this topic at all?

i got my paspot and i will die for

EGLM is openable to both sides? For left handed shooter. German AG36 which is mounted under G36 rifles could be open only on left side. Thank you for answer.

If you paid for the rails you got to use the whole rail space

Mk 32 six shot?

reupload?

What about the so called "pirate guns"? The shortened, very shortened, M-79s?

Smgs. I want know If SOF still using Mp5s? And maybe the horny badger and rattler ,and mp7

he always look high..

Why aren’t I allowed to see your comments section?

As complete non-military: interesting. Surprised to see such 'wimpy' grenade launcher designs; I'd image with such light weight, the recoil of launching a 40mm grenade must be intense; not something to forego properly bracing against you in the heat of the moment.

Honestly would love to see Coch break down his wall of watches behind him

1:13 pointing a grenade launcher at a teammates face with finger on bang switch. 💀

Dude looks way to much like the girls dad from West world