May you receive eternal blessings.

Sharon, what a beautiful post. Thank you very much for sharing. It’s people like your Dad who have made the Marine Corps what it is today. May his soul rest in eternal peace with the Lord and may the Lord continue to Bless you.

@Alex Gemi

Hope he took ease with knowing his brothers were there in the end. May he RIP and watch over you from up high.

God bless you're Father. Semper Fi

Sandra Pennington I retired medically in 2009 after wounds sustained in combat, you son was and still is a giant among men. I'm an Army man myself, but marines are my brothers just the same. From my family to yours, thank you for your courage and sacrifice. Semper Fi Marine.

Thank you Mrs Pennington for your son. God bless you.

Sandra Pennington ...from an infantry Corpsman...I pray that you be blessed with peace, love, and comfort. Also, thank you for your son...he is protecting the golden streets of heaven.

Sandra Pennington More people love you and your family than you know! Keep your head up. Your son is a hero.

Sandra Pennington you have my gratitude for your family's solemn sacrifice.

That's true of just about all of the ceremonial units in all branches...think the Sentinels who guard the Tomb of the Unknowns.

That's pure loyalty

They keep there necks in there lockers.

God bless each of you, and also the person you are so honored to carry.

I am so sorry that you had to bury your dad when you were 16....

@@janisbentzen4503 Thankyou for that. 😀

Sorry to hear that too.

@@haydeng.957 Thankyou my friend.

@@lmgtexas Oorah!

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I bet they all have children running everywhere and they make 50000 a year carrying a casket

tddnenc I sure hope they make a lot more than that!

depends on there rank, the lance is an e-3 which makes 1850 a month before tax

That's what I was thinking....

@karel bellic AOMechMarine has a point, With all due respect, we are Marines and are a different breed than the likes of any Soldier, Airman, or Sailor.

@AOMechMarine AOMechMarine pee pee poo poo

@AOMechMarine AOMechMarine Look man im just trying to keep my family and I above water I’m just trying to earn a living I’m sorry you don’t gotta be so mean

@@Dirkdersoldat poopyfart?

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He looked like a covid victim or maybe just too much coke.

@@clray123 Or maybe he has emotions and they came out during recording. That looks like he'd been crying a lot. Perfectly normal for talking about the job he does

@A Claveau No, it's not perfectly normal for a funeral worker to cry over funerals. If anything, the job desensitizes you.

@@clray123 A funeral worker doesn't know or care about the people they bury, while to body barers it's somewhat like laying down a brother or family member every time they do it. Pretty hard to get desensitized to that.

@@danh1060 Not at all, when a doctor treats another doctor, they do not (and should not) feel any more empathy than when they treat another patient. Unless the dead dudes were somehow personally acquainted with the "bearers", they are just a dead weight to them (literally). It's just that the protocol prescribes being "solemn and somber" - for the show. Because (esp. military) funerals are just that - a show.

Absolutely !!! Dam onions !!!! Semper Fi to All my Brothers !

Most people don't and most don't know that bearers are specifically assigned to that job full time. A lot of people think they are just six people randomly chosen and sent by their particular service to help out the family.

In actuality, Arlington is the only national cemetery I know of that has this. Most Marine Corps units around the nation have funeral honors teams that drill and practice, but this particular unit is much more focused then the others and is made up of a small group of Marines who get augmented with additional Marines only when they family requests casket bearers. Most Marine corps funerals for Marine Veterans require only 5 Marines total, 3 riflemen and 2 Flag Folders. Active duty deaths require a full detail which means 7 riflemen, a sword bearer, 6 casket bearers and 2 flag folders (this is wear the augmentation Marines come in and drill until they are perfect). Typically Taps is performed by a contractor musician hired by the federal government. I speak as a former Marine with hundreds of honors rendered at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery.

ramathorn1982 Thank you for your service. I plan on enlisting as soon as I finish high school. Any tips? (Sorry, I know it's an over asked question)

In which branch are you enlisting?

He wants to be a real Marine, he is enlisting in the Corp; :)

fugginell I trained with the British Commandos b4 Nam and I must tell you these men were very tough and very well disciplined. We flat respected them.

Fugginell, I'm a US Marine, and after my active service I had the great privelege of earning my Diploma from the University of Oxford. I have a deep respect for my brothers and sisters across the pond. The US Marine Corps and Oxford University were the two organizations that brought out the best in me. The US Marine Corps was essentially born in the tradition of the British Royal Marines, so we also share that history. Thanks for expressing a positive opinion of one of our great national institutions, and please accept my excellent thoughts about you and your countrymen. Thanks to the UK for what your nation has done to bring out good qualities in my nation.

God bless the usa and God save the queen

Wow. That's really sad. I'm sorry for your loss.

Sorry for your loss

your dad was a 🥾

Why is that better?, the 19 year old inside the coffin is still dead. A few pumped up non-combat Marines get to carry the coffin at a lower height and with fewer buffed dudes than the Army. The kid is still dead.

George Mortimer that's disrespectful.

Much and great respect for anyone in the service. I live near Edwards Air force base. All of you service people are to be respected very much.

You are misinformed. My brother and I have both worked in the funeral industry. Six bearers is the most common configuration for all but the Air Force which has six a little less than half the time. The number of bearers has to do with the combined weight of the coffin and it's occupant. Civilian funerals most often have 8 and that is what most funeral directors suggest but often the number is left up to the family. We had six at my father's funeral. I was sixteen and served as one, my 13 year old brother was another. My father's two brothers served and his two best friends also served. My father's one friend was an enlisted man in the Navy at the time so he served in his dress whites and also taught us how to properly fold the flag though we had six Navy enlisted men sent as a back up team who ended up folding the flag because my mother decided the flag was going to be presented to me as his eldest son and it would have been awkward to present the flag to myself. Children most often have 4 pall bearers and once I saw a baby have three. To confirm team size and frequency of those sizes you need only watch some KZfaq videos of other service funerals and look at the size of teams. Most of the Navy teams are six man teams. As I said, coffin and deceased combined weight will dictate the size of the team in most cases. In every case of a civilian funeral the family chooses the bearers and dictates team size and usually, in order to make their job easier, they suggest 8. My father's coffin weighed less than a hundred pounds and he weighed less than one fifty so each bearer's share was under 40 pounds. As for the shoulder thing, that is not universal. Most hold it waist high but sometimes it is born on the shoulders. I have seen Marine bearers do both ways as have other branches. Most civilians do waist high. Children are almost always born on shoulders, especially small children and often that is dictated by the suggestions made by funeral homes. In Europe most coffins are born on shoulders by civilians and military alike. In fact that is common around the world. Here in the U.S. funeral homes use wheeled carts, especially in churches. This is often due to how narrow the eisles are. So it is not unusual for the bearers to carry the coffin to the door of a church then place it on the cart. When that happens, most of the time the coffin is born waist high so that the transfer does not have an awkward appearance. And yes that is how the Marine bearers will do it under such circumstance. But, if they ascend stairs to a church, they will hoist it shoulder high in the rear and waist high in the front to keep the coffin nearly level though they will always have the head a few inches above the feet. In fact that is how all the service do that. As they approach the top of church steps the rear will be gradually lowered to waist high to keep the coffin near level. Some civilian teams will attempt this but often they just carry the coffin up at an incline due to lack of physical strength which is why I always recommend a light weight coffin. I never understand why a family will order a quarter ton coffin then expect 8 average people to hoist up 80+ pounds a piece over their shoulders. These six Marines of course can but the average pall bearer cannot.

+nunya biznez; Valuable insight. Few know as well the symbolism in the traditional facts that Spouses are laid to rest, bare feet to the east, in respect to their wedding vows placement, and will rise to meet Christ in the air upon resurrection with no further need for footwear, as they will forever dwell upon the Holy Ground of Heaven. -gilpin 112416

+Nathan Hendricks I escorted two home. It remains with you every day.

from Nathan Hendricks, yes it does stay with you. +Don B

Nathan Hendricks Agreed. I wouldn't change or alter any part of it. I told them I would get them home and I did. 42 flags so far planted this year alone for those I know and knew of. One, has my name on it. Mr. Hendricks , I extend to you my most heart felt thanks to you sir. In the utmost respect from me to you and thousands more just like us, You, are not forgotten. Many thanks.

Thank you.🇺🇸

Thank you for your time

Not soon, I hope 👍

chaotic/Silence As will each of them be carried by their brothers. God bless and long life. 🇺🇸

Charles Batkin back in wwi that was the case and then they made body bearer units due to the amount of bodies they needed a specific unit to catalog and lay to rest "correctly"

NDOMAKONG SUH p

Go bucs

Unfortunately these are the first to start falling out in a force March, they are pushing 200 pounds without their field gear and combat harness. That's why the skinny guys end up with the radio and machine guns. This is a job I would not want. Give me my radio, map, compass, and drop me behind enemy lines any day. God bless these guys for putting my brothers to rest with as much dignity as possible. Semper fi Earthlings,

@@gobucs3146 No one cares

corn-fed patriots oorah

Thank you for your service.

agreed

true to that they will screw u fast government is corrupt and sad

ssshutup Congrats *Best Comment Award*

Aaaaawwww shit I was dying 😂

Fuck I was so serious until this 😂👌🏼

ssshutup that’s a great idea lol

Retired wife? You mean divorced?

D-Frame 😂😂

From one marine wife to another. May you always walk in Beauty.

Semper Fi!

Same goes for you too!

Have u ever read WAR IS A RACKET by Smedley Butler, the most decorated Marine in history? You might like it.

fidelis

To all Marines and every Soldier who have borne the Battle or been in a bad spot I salute you. My good friend Carver Grant who is buried in Biloxi National Cemetery 3 Purple Hearts 2 Combat Air Assault medals Bronze Star w/ Oak leaf Cluster. Alfred Kisack who made it home but the War never left him I salute them all.

+Tom Waters That must have been a tough day. We were usually short handed. We had to stack arms. Pull grave site. Break up with two Marines and First Sgt for Flag folding. Four would return to recover stack arms and form the fireing detail. We covered most of Southeast Arizona. Dress Blues. Nomatter what the temperature was. Semper Fi

No one cares

You are obviously a pog and are riding on your worthless military career as "self fornication". Your service provided nothing and still no one cares you reported to your first sergeant.

+MrAAAusername Right again !. Nobody dose care. Except you. You cared enough to write back.

+steven romero thank you for your service sir

Nothing is stopping you

Not everyone can be a marine though many have tried

Green Marine, Semper Fi

I’m the daughter, sister, former wife of a Marine. Semper Fi

Semper Fi Devil dog!!!

And American born want to burn the flag. What a crime!!

Why some have read stripes.

Ikr

+Firelock because you can dislike the death of a marine. especially since they're dying for oil companies and corporate profits

+h1br1dthe0ri3 You sicken me.

I certainly don't like the death of Marines, but regardless of the reason a Marine is sent to war, if he falls in combat he is a hero and should be laid to rest as such. Only a cheese dick cowardly piece of shit would hit dislike on a video like this.

Jake Grundorf irespect their death, just not the people who send them there. my dad was a marine. rip papa

This would be the Greatest Honor to do this Job...I love the Marine Corp...Yes it's tough but it takes a Boy turns them into a Man..Thank You Gentleman

May you always walk in Beauty ❤

Blue Wriver that is a lot but like he said a lot of them were just old timers who went naturally. I'm sure during the peak of the war though back in the early-mid 2000's they were at those numbers from just combat guys. Very sad.

That number was very sad and shocking to me too. I heard most of them are old Marines who died of natural causes, but still... Even the few young ones are too many.

lynn wow, what a comment. Thanks for posting this.

Abraham Lincoln was always a man of few word...but they were always powerful in presentation he chose his words carefully and deliberately and spoke from the heart..

I don't think anyone has ever said it better.

Saving private Ryan quote. Or was it really a letter?

@@fritzvongerbel8999 Lincoln really wrote that.

After watching all these videos, I feel the same way about this and all the military branches. Everything from pay, to housing barracks, to food etc. Is substandard and they wonder why people arent signing up

Why didn't he get a Military funeral with full honors? He deserved it

I want that too, but I want to put it off as long as I can. Semper fi

I am too, they put their life on the line so we don't have to, which makes me eternally grateful. And they are the reason why we live in this great country.

can you please explain to me how me getting blow up in Iraq was important to anyone? I really struggle to see it sometimes. Iraq is still a shithole that is more corrupt than ever, so it wasn't important to the iraqis. Americans still overpay for gas, and we still get involved in pointless wars, so it wasn't important to us. Maybe it was important to a few people who made billions of dollars off the war.... I guess, well I guess you may be right. Me getting blow up in Iraq is incredibly important to the military industrial complex and Israel... soon enough, your children might have the honor of giving up parts of their body to the altar of the military industrial complex and Israel

@AOMechMarine AOMechMarinebro you know these guys are on the sauce. Some might not be but I'll guarantee you the majority do. Even in the infantry everybody dabbles with gear.

You are one of those sticks who won't put it in the work to get big so you say everyone is on roids. Not only do these guys look natty they are Marines they are obviously drug tested and tested a lot better than bodybuilding

@AOMechMarine AOMechMarine I'm a Marine, infantry. Got out in 2014. Naturally a lean guy. Dabbled with juice when we got back from Afghanistan, as did a lot who liked lifting. We weren't tested for steroids, and no one was just because they were huge. Cheating? At what? I wasn't competing in any sports against anyone. What was your MOS alpha boy? You know how I can tell you're a beta male? You call others beta, with your reasoning being they're skinny, and you use emojis. The rest of the Marine corps is not allowed to use steroids, and is not encouraged. Body bearers are "not allowed" to use steroids, but they do, and they're encouraged to, even guided safely and sometimes supplied. You're an idiot. And a beta male

AOMechMarine AOMechMarine lmao in my 10 years of service I’ve never heard anyone get tested for steroids. All the Marine Corps gives a fuck about is testing you for stupid drugs like weed and cocaine. Like someone else mentioned, steroids don’t pop up in a basic urinalysis test. Don’t know what POG MOS you where in but everyone messes with steroids. My last deployment to Afghanistan I wanna say 75% of the platoon was on gear, and every body got jacked, including our boots. With all that being said, I respect the hell out of these guys shown in the video, but anyone that is serious about weight lifting can tell you most of these guys are on gear. It’s nothing bad. Don’t know why people correlate steroids with “cheating”. Cheating for what? To get so strong you can perform your job as a body bearers better? Get the fuck out here with that shit!

Conner Broeker the main guy is diff maybe not natty but he put it’s in the work you can tell.. but I would say he isn’t natty

Funny joke about the navy and marines. Do you know why the navy has their name printed on the back of their pants near the pocket? So the marines know who their fucking. Heard this from a good friend who I throw horseshoes with. He is A Marine. Hell of a good guy. Kicks my ass everytime I throw against him. He whoops me good and then buys me beers to ease the pain!!! Never let's me buy him drink.

the island would be Guadalcanal, when the 1st mar div got stranded

its not their motto though