"And then he forgot." One of the best one-liners I've heard in a long time!

7:16 Russia or whoever comes over and knocking on the UK door... UK: Sweetie can you get the door US: Sure Mom, I got it, I was just about to get up anyways

Video: Let me show you where all the USA bases are and what they do. China: Breathing intensify

22:30 Gander was also a massively significant place on September 11th, 2001. When the US shutdown all airspace, a ton of flights from the UK and the rest of Europe were forced to land in Gander. The people of Gander were incredibly hospitable to all of the passengers, providing them with water, food, places to say, etc.

Personally, I think the hardest think for archaeologist 5000 years from now to believe is that a country on the North American continent went from 13 eastern seaboard colonies to histories greatest empire.

I was born on a Navy base on Okinawa. Then moved to Guam for 2 years. Next to an Air Force Base outside Tokyo. Lastly, Andrews near DC. I grew up thinking that was every American’s experience until I was 9

Almost all overseas American bases are governed by a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA). Often, the base is officially owned by the host country. For example, in the UK, there are RAF Lakenheath, RAF Mildenhall, and several other bases that have an actual British commander and fly the British flag right next to the US flag. What one should remember is that any country can insist that the US military leave - and we will do it. As General Colin Powell once said, when we base people in other countries, the only land we ask to keep permanently is enough land to bury our dead. And nowadays, we don't even do that. We fly them home, instead. Also, what this guy is not counting are the thousands of bases where Americans have been stationed, but are now closed. They are closed either because the war for which they were needed ended or the host country had a regime change and told us to leave - which we did.

I guess that's one for the try channel. Should be interesting. "Office Blokes Try To Get US Military Clearance To Go Shopping" Or just walk in sipping a cup of coffee "Morning" 😅

I'm consistently amazed at how entertaining you guys make these videos lol.

US Air Force veteran here. We don't have dedicated US Air Force bases in the UK, but we do have US military detachments assigned to certain RAF bases. For example, I had orders to RAF Mildenhall. There are a few RAF bases where US military units are tenants/guests.

There is a big base in Japan that the people really don't like having there, but the government likes having it due to Japans close proximity to Russia, China, and N Korea. A lot of countries who have "crazy neighbors" will make deals with the US to put a base on their land so they can have a sense of safety. The government won't always admit to it's people that it made the deal, which can cause some tension between the people and the government.

"The Pentagon is going to try to assess that." Yeah, I'm really sure they'll get right on that, bud.

He looks like he's been in a basement for those last few weeks while mapping bases too.

Be glad we have them. America will always have the UK’s back

I served in the US Army. I'm so proud and confident in our military.

If your able to, react to “The US Overseas Military Base Plan” by Wendover Productions. It’s a real neat video showing what the US does with its military bases.

In case you guys missed @Eskimo Pop's comment: Yes, Wendover Productions is *so* much better than Johnny Harris. "US Overseas Military Base Strategy" -- *much* better video.

Where i grew up in eastern Canada, there was an American base, a chain link fense is all that seperated Canadian and US soil, to go in there we would have to change our money to American, to see movies etc, armed marines were at every gate, it was pretty wild

To be fair, the "American" military base in Spain is actually a Spanish military base, the U.S. just uses part of it and pays for everything.

Many of the bases in the U.K. are shared installations especially where air arms are or high tech or maintenance facilities. F-35 facilities will be shared as will the maintenance and part per a new agreement.

We only know what they want us to know and if that kept my son safe during his time serving and my son-in-law who still serves, then more power to them.

At around 7:00 "We're cutting our troops by 10,000, why not it's not like we're gonna need them" That didn't age well at all lol

6:31 I can confirm that every bomb, missile, grenade, and every single round of ammunition is accountable and tracked. 6 1/2 years in the USAF and 4 years as Munitions Maintenance. Best job description I ever had - To build, store, and maintain non-nuclear munitions.

“And then he forgot”... had me cracking up 😂 is he clueless or is he using plausible deniability about everything

8:28 - “And then he forgot”. Hahahaaahaha !!!! Perfect comment.

Love the long reactions, thanks blokes

4:46 and that statement there, I know it is sarcastic, is a feeling many Americans have which is why there is a push to pull back from the world as some people see it as other nations just using the US for their own gain where the money could be better used back home. Funny that the Brits even understand that those bases are shared ;)

Oh Jonathan, careful... Those International US Military bases are there for a reason. One of them is to make sure people like you have this opportunity to spew whatever you want in a video plastered on an app where the world can see you. Point is, curiosity killed the cat, lmao....... That said, Great Reaction, Blokes. Love your channel.

I live by the 29 Palms Marine Corps Tank training area. Used to watch them out in the desert playing war games. You could feel the ground shake when they were firing.

Fun fact: US submarine periscopes are controlled with Xbox 360 controllers. It was much cheaper than the complicated system they had before they adopted the controllers and the personnel almost always come in already familiar with the controls. The controllers were $20 each while the more complicated system cost thousands

I’ve been trying to work out some kind of code based on which blokes are smiling vs stone faced in the thumbnail. So far I’ve come up with nothing

Fun Fact: America for a while actually tried to convince Denmark to sell Greenland to them. Anything could be possible with how things are going now.

Next video: "Remember the guy that was making a video and asking too many questions? Yeah, he disappeared" 🙄

RAF Lakenheath is one base in the UK that has or has had a number of US soldiers stationed there.

My American dad used to work on RAF Menwith Hill in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England (likely the place they said looked like Wetherby). While it was a "RAF," everything on that base was American - EVERYTHING. We would be able to get American movies on DvD ~6 months before they were showing at the theaters in England. As a kid, my friends loved it. My English friends used to ask us to get them on base just to see all of the American things, and we obliged. PX, BX, Bowling ally, Movie theater, etc. We would take them to the Commissary to get Kool-aid and Egg Nog.

"... and then he forgot" 😄 I thoroughly enjoy all of your guys' takes on these videos. Keep 'em coming!

I served in Spangdahlem Germany back in the early 80's in the Air Force. I loved it there. Absolutely loved it. Stationed right near Luxemburg and central to travelling all over hell and back. I fell in love with Holland and Spain.... I grew a healthy disdain for France. But overall... being located where we were meant a relatively short combo of a trains, the odd ferry, and/or bus ride (plus a taxi) and before long you were at a music or wine festival etc. etc. in some "distant land." (Much, much more "distant" than I ever thought I would be, in my lifetime, when I was growing up anyways) Then... I ended up being stationed in Austin Texas, at Bergstrom AFB, and fell in love with that fantastically young and vibrant city. The US Military is indeed everywhere. Sometimes I wish I would have made a career of it but there were just too many damned rules to follow to be a proper fit with my personality. Nice one mates Peace

Dave is correct. We here in the u.s just sorta more or less hand then half of the u.s revenue and from there it’s a bit of black box sometimes.

Fun Fact: The Soviet Union during the Cold War had several nukes aimed at the center of the Pentagon, specifically towards the small building that sat in the middle of the courtyard. They thought, after watching numerous officers enter and exit the building, that it was a place where Top-secret meetings took place. It was actually a hot-dog stand, and the officers were getting lunch.

The whole "didn't pass the audit" part of this at the beginning is very misleading. It's not that they didn't have the paper work, it's that the government wasn't going to give it to a bunch of independent analysts and accountants, on account of some of our installations being top secret, and we're not in the habit of leaving paper trails for top secret projects.

Diego Garcia Island is actually British territory with a controversial history.

I know RAF Mildenhall and Lakenheath for sure as I was stationed at Mildenhall for 3 yrs. 02 to 05. Loved it too. Love the UK!!

the DoD should just tell Biden, it's big, drop the mic, and walk away. For the beginning of the video about the budget, it's so hard because it's a game. What I mean by that is that each unit in the military is given a certain dollar amount they can spend every year, if they want to keep getting that money, they have to spend it, if they don't they get less the next year. My battalion literally trashed brand new computers and chairs just so they can spend the money on ordering new ones, thus ensuring they spent their budget and got the same amount back the following year. We also still stop in Newfoundland on the way to Bangor.

In Okinawa the price of American "domestic" beers on-base was far cheaper than the Japanese brands sold out in town. Sometimes I'd see one of the older Okinawan women who worked on-base stocking up on cheap 30-packs of Miller or Budweiser, buying like 4-5 at a time lol.

In Florida, McDill Air Base is the Center for Almost All Drone Activity. Some of the Dones are flown from McDill Air Base all around the World, but other Drones are Flown from Locations the drones are Flown from.

Beer Bunker😂😂 I'll be there too with ya bro 😂

My husband active duty Navy . We are a USA base and we have UK military and Australia military on our base right now

In the United States we practice Democracy.. Everywhere else we enforce and protect it

In 1982 I was in the USAF and they sent me to a Spanish island in the Mediterranean called Menorca. It had a small mountain with two 44 foot billboard style antennas and one parabolic dish antenna. We had a 60 mile connection to an antenna on the island of Palma from one side and a 279 mile transmission out the other side to Mt. Limbara in Italy. This was part of a communication system that ran all around the Med into Turkey with small mountaintop installations. The site I was at had about 24 military members and maybe a dozen local national hire civilians. It was a beautiful resort island and if they had left me there I'd have never gotten out of the Air Force. Unfortunately, it was only a 15 month tour.

This is a pretty touchy subject here in the US. Some people want to bring all our troops home and others want them to defend the world, or at least scale it back to a reasonable size to save money. Our allies are also divided on the subject too. Some of their people don't want us on their soil which is understandable. The world doesn't work like that anymore though because we're all interconnected now.

going to guarantee that if a mountie was standing by the door you were not on a RCAF base, if you were it would be an MP or a aviator in camo/flight suit. The RCMP don't provide security on military bases.

My footprint comes in at a size 12 Lol haha

Some of the Pacific air bases have the airstrip for supplies coming in for those living there, as well as supporting military aircraft. Most are multi use facilities supporting test ranges for missiles, anti ballistic missiles, ground tracking of satellites and space craft, toxic waste disposal and super fund sites, and training support. The toxic waste and super fund sites, very controversial bases to say the least, include agent orange disposal sites and where we did testing of nuclear bombs back in the ‘50’s. A lot are also joint use facilities for all of the US branches as well as foreign militaries as well. Diego Garcia is one used by other countries like the UK.

I used to be a charter flight attendant for 10 years during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and we flew the troops. I’ve landed at bases all over the world, sometimes for troop deployment, for R&R, Hops, Special training, etc. There are definitely some really obscure bases out there. I’ve landed places I’d never heard of before I got there. But also, some really nice bases as well. My faves were Ramstein, Aviano, Tachikawa &. Kadena. Being able to use the BX was a lifesaver. And they really are like a small town, all the American prices and products you need.

I thought the narrator was the creepy writer guy from House of Cards at first lol

Then he forgot.......😂

Yes, RAF Lakenheath has a commisary(grocery store). Fab hospital too, we were stationed in Italy and I was able to fly to Lakenheath to have my baby. That's right, they know and actually use epidurals!

The Brits around RAF Mildenhall surround the perimeter fencing near the flight line and snap pictures of the landing Aircraft like they are birdwatching. One guy sells snacks and hot chocolate. They always knew the aircraft schedule better than I did. On the other hand a protester at RAF Lakenheath will periodically show up to the gate and throw bottles of pee on cars. I narrowly missed that scenario by 2 cars.

Well when you're in charge of protecting and defending the entirety of the free world you're gonna need a lot of stuff!

The Dept. Of Defense does know. They just don’t want others to know.

Hey England, we’re not just you allies, we’re your brothers!

The President actually only knows about 75 percent about the military, it's size, weapons and budget. The president only serves 4 years, 8 max where as most all military brass serves 20 to 30 years. It's a need to know force. Even top brass doesn't know everything.

“Probably forgot”... 😂 I always knew the Brits are cool.

Usa bases are yours pretty much too because we love brits

You Mentioned Bangor Maine and it is a dual airport. A Public International Jetport & Air Force Base. The "Maniacs" (nickname of the Squadron) Refueling wing, that Flys the huge refueling tankers to refuel fighters and bombers flying across the Atlantic between U.S. and Europe and Middle East and Northern Africa.

They absolutely are your bases too. Cheers my brothers. ✌️

Yes, it's all on a need to know basis. One of the first things I learned in the Army.

Madaline Albright being his hero is all you need to know about that creep

3.4K Thumbs Up + Mine! 👍. Thanks for the fun informative, digital video recording! 🎬😎👍🖖✌️ Notes: What someone alluded to below, but the guy in the video didn't, are the military cemeteries, like those at, Normandy, France. 🧐 During, "Operation: Desert Storm", did we keep anything, or was it later on, during the, War on Terrorism? 🤔 But anyway, there was a moment when, Geraldo Rivera, while trying to report live, with some of our Marines that just made an amphibious landing on a beach, began trying to explain the situation by using a piece of driftwood, to draw in the sand, what he was talking about, and a Marine Captain, erased his sand doodles, and told him that he was giving away their position, and so on and so forth. Well, I guess my father had that in mind, when he got irate at a news report recently, concerning current events in Ukraine. He thought that the advantage of surprise was being given away, by talking about what we could do and wouldn't do. I had to try to get him to accept that in this age of social media, surprise is nearly impossible. He will probably need a talking-to, to explain why the existence of a video like this, isn't treasonous, and isn't like the situation with, Geraldo Rivera. Sigh. Well, I used to live in, Oklahoma City, in a mobile-home park with a, Southeast 29th Street address. Across the street was, Midwest City. Behind the park, was an Interstate Highway, and then another mobile-home park named, "Bomber Park". So-called, because across the street from their entrance, was the end of the bomber runway for, Tinker AFB. Though now, other big jets use it, more than bombers. Living next to an Interstate Highway, you hear a lot of loud traffic sounds, but louder than that, was the sound of the assortment of jet engines, including those being tested by the repair shop. Hmm. Small facilities? 🤔. Well, let's see. The "Walmart" distribution center in, Pauls Valley, OK., is on one side of, I-35, while on the other side, they have a small patch of fenced land, full of above ground pipes. As it turns out, military bases have similar set ups. For, Tinker AFB, they have off-base RADAR domes surrounded by high, electric fences, not just barbed wire on top like with those pipes.

I live across from a military base and get to enjoy the sweet sounds of artillery all times of the day

I used to live Abroad in Germany while my dad was stationed at a military installation there. The base was the same size as an average American city. They had elementary, middle, and high schools. There were also burger kings, chilies, and American super markets in base. To me this was completely normal. My family opted to live half an our away in a small farming village in the German countryside. Many want to live on base so that it can feel like home but we wanted to experience the culture. Most Germans loved us. I had German friends and even learned the language as a 3rd grader. I played on the local German sports teams and when other villages played against us some would try to injure me on purpose when they found out I was American. I was even spat on once and called several slurs. All in all I loved Germany and want to return at some point and visit my old home. As a kid I never thought us living there was weird or imposing. I decided to post this as context. If you have questions let me know!

We were stationed at Incirlik AB in Turkey. Best 2 years . At the time the locals loved Americans, not so much now.

I've been told by friends who are in the military that they purposely don't let you know how big it is. All you need to know is your own job. Which would be fine with me. I wouldn't want to know everything.

For his next internship he can go to the State Department to learn about geopolitics since the end of WW2...

I can assure everyone that the US DOD is not going to list base locations for many important bases , underground installations etc simply becasue that would be insane , give our enemies the exact grid location of every base?

I played American football Lakenheath base in 1997. It was a Navy and Air Force base humongous. Keep up the great work.

Gander is in Newfoundland. On 9/11 planes coming from Europe and elsewhere were banned from US airspace. Many were diverted to Gander and the locals had to find a way to accommodate thousands of people for several days until US airspace opened up again. There was a Broadway musical written about it called “Come From Away”. The opening number “Welcome To The Rock” would be an interesting number to cover in your channel. It’s the opening number and gives a nice synopsis of what happened.

Mostly all US bases have supermarkets even in England. You mentioned Lakenheath. I was stationed at RAF Lakenheath in Norfolk. They have a huge supermarket on base. The problem is US service men and women are not allowed to give American products to the host country nationals. It is part of the SOFA (Status of Forces Agreement) between England and America. But if you become friends with service men and women they might get you whatever you want. 😉

Lol at all the pro-militarism in the comments. I don't think the video was trying to convey an opinion one way or the other despite the creator's possible personal biases. It simply highlighted the uniqueness of US power projection/hegemony in today's era and called for the viewer's take on it. This topic really is fascinating and the video though not exhaustive, did a good job exploring it on a deeper than surface level.

Most of Europe used to have military bases all over the world too - it was just called colonialism back then. The US presence now is just neo-colonial activity

As an American as i got older i understood why the US President is called "the leader of the free world"

HAHA, thats right. Our cousins smile on the inside. Thanks fellas, great stuff

Hay guys I'm from one of the small country near couples that he mentioned in his dialog, but we have a country name FSM means Federated States of 🇫🇲 Micronesia. We have 4 States divided by ocean about 100 or less miles apart and we were 200 miles SE of Guam but we have 4 US Military base on each of every 4 states.

With the military power in the State of North Carolina we can wipe out a lot of countries militaries just with the Forces that we have in the State alone.

So I’m currently based in Europe for a few months at a US base. Upon entering the host country and asked where I was traveling to I just said the town and base name. (They share the same name). The customs officer didn’t know where I was talking about. So sometimes host country officials don’t even know we are there? Like we have some loud aircraft🤷🏼‍♂️

I don't know if I like everyone knowing where our US Government has bases. It makes me nervous to think that we can put other Americans in danger.

The narrator is speaking in partial truths, actually. I’ll keep my criticisms of what he said to myself. Trust me, though... he’s not exactly lying.

Goose Bay is in Labrador, Gander is in Newfoundland but they're both in the same province "Newfoundland and Labrador" (most people just call it Newfoundland like Daz did). Goose Bay is much further north

I swear the music makes it seem more covert and insidious than military bases are. Yeah the bases look like little towns … because soldiers who are on assignment and have to uproot their families need places to live, eat, and send their kids to school without relying on, or taking from, the host country. The presence of military bases display alliance as well, because many of the places where there are bases, neighboring soldiers are welcome, civilians can get help with resources their country does not have (within law), etc. Having been deployed to Lithuana (as one example) I can tell you that the locals were ok and we spent most of our working time training their soldiers.

Despite the fact that the narrator praises the two biggest dunces U.S. Foreign Policy ever had to endure? I love his take and questions about the U.S. Industrial Complex worldwide. Great video guys, I watch them all eventually and enjoy the conversation as much as the videos you react to themselves... Well done, Thanks and please keep them coming!

The place you're talking about in Canada is Gander. We stopped there in our trips from Italy when we had to stop in the Azores.

I live 30-45 minutes away from a US military base called Camp Pendleton here in California, it's so big it takes almost an hour to drive from 1 side to the other... At Camp Pendleton they set off explosions and test bombs often so I could hear the bomb testings and they even make the house shake a little. For more info I used to live on a US Naval base which is where my trade school program was, we shared the land with the US Navy so there were ALWAYS helicopters flying in and out. They'd even do training where they repelled onto a tower and it took place on campus. It was quite a fun experience but of course we weren't allowed inside it...

Yeah, we're like roaches. You can't get rid of us everywhere.

Madeleine Albright? Lmao okay 👌

Our tax payments are definitely worth having bases everywhere. It makes me feel safe and happy.

Host nation military personnel are authorized to go on any US base and can utilize services on that base.

The thing about US bases, is that they are filled with non-US troops for joint training, etc.

27:10 I'm glad to hear you approve of our footprint. I'll go ahead and recall the B-52s that were making their way from North Dakota to Manchester. Cheerio.

british people can go see american stealth bombers way more than americans can, because they are stationed in britain

dont worry the department of defense knows exactly where everyone is heck the know how much tpaper is used at any given time. but some bases or installations are kinda behind closed doors.