Actually, he trains in Minecraft.

Patiently waiting for the collab

Which unit is this? Looks like they have Ace enabled

Whats up drewski

he also plays Roblox

Well said. It's what he did when he was active, and he's damn good at it. Without him I probably wouldn't do any of these things, and get some buddies to do it with me

At some point, its like Elon said about the value of "x".. It is priceless. It's occasionally not about the money but saving lives, and in Elon's case civilization.

These videos are awesome. I love longer form content when the content is good (i.e. made by people of Garand Thumb's caliber)

Good observation. i watch the other videos because they are fun but ultimately this material is why i stay. These are an invaluable resource and that cant be understated. Id pay for a complete series

I hope we can get some more cqb ones in the future

Hell yea, hes the undisputed champ in my book too

I was thinking the same thing. You can tell he fell back into instructor mode and loves it. I wish I had him when I went through SERE

Yep! Combat medic in civilian paramedic school right now, and even with modern medicine, roughly 2/3-3/4 of combat casualties die regardless of medic intervention because they can’t always immediately get to said patient. Doesn’t matter if you have a tourniquet if your patient’s femoral has been cut for 3 minutes now. Combat medicine, at least to the level 68Ws are taught, doesn’t really work in the survival scenario like this. Those patients almost always get definitive care in the first 4-6 hours, or, at least, they have for the last 20 years

Yeah 100%. People gave the russian conscripts a lot of flack in early 2023 because of the rudimentary medical equipment (basically just an Esmarch rubber torniquet & a large pack of gauze), but the reality is that in a high intensity war under constant shelling, the air corridor being denied by AA especially for slow movers like helos and constant enemy drone surveillance where you might be cut off from resupply & medevac for days or weeks, anything that cant be stabilized by gauze, antibiotics & rudimentary pain medication is going to result in a fatality way before extraction is possible anyway.

​@DerDrecksack87 I still remember the Russian conscription video of a female nurse or something, tell the men in the room to put tampons inside their wounds 😂

@@dorogundam To be honest, its often all that can be done, its all for morale so recruits dont feel absolutely shafted in case of a medical emergency. After watching the conflict for a while, it becomes clear that any injury that cant be stabilised with gauze, hemostat powder & bandages, has really bad chances of survival anyway. Medevac has a very hard time reaching casualties on both sides and getting lifted out via air is almost impossible due to the constant threat of AA fire, so having torniquets, saline & blood transfusions is nice but it wont matter if it takes days or weeks until you can get into a field hospital, especially on a 1.000km frontline under constant drone surveilance. So yeah, something like a non lethal shrapnel wound or mild injury from debris flying around could be treated with tampons used as a makeshift compress in conjunction with elastic gauze, though the russians seem to have overcome their initial shortages and i have not seen any troops without some type of IFAK for a year or more. This conflict is a harsh reminder to every military that a force on force conflict involving similar numbers, determination, level of training & technology will result in casualties & circumstances similar to any other major conflict since the early days of modern warfare: injuries from shelling, injuries from falling debris & casualties due to bad conditions (heat, cold, malnutrition, dehydration & disease), war never changes indeed, if anything it becomes more industrialised & accomodating in the effective disposal of humans on an ever larger scale & pecision....what a time to be alive.

I care! I'm reminded of a quote from my favorite western writer, Louis L'Amour, "He recognized the feeling for what it was - the need within himself to protect & care for something beyond himself. It was that, in part, that had led him into so many fights that were not his own; & yet, was not the cause of human freedom & liberty every man's trust?" The answer for every real man with a moral compass, is an emphatic yes! I am my brother's keeper starting with my family. & the best way for a man to protect his family is to defend his country. I took an Oath. I will honor my Oath.

no one cares

Amen to that. Mike dropped a deep and heavy truth bomb there. That's why his knowledge he's sharing with us is so important, but like he said he can't give you the know-how to do it, it's up to you to practice and become more proficient at these skills. I'm trying to get back in shape because running is not my strong point.

​@embersuhnuhk346 ha my PawPaw loved to read Louis L'Amour books especially his western books. I guess I need to pick up a few of his books

​@embersuhnuhk346 great quote by the way

A Garand Thumb podcast but its just him sitting by a river for 6 hours 😭

Y’all were given wranglerstar and still complain

Way better than EA and Activision, At least in Metal Gear’s level 😮

​@jacobroy586 good point. We need brotherly advice from GT

@@jacobroy586Wranglerstar used to be great when he just acted like himself. Back when he actually did homestead videos. Now he’s leaning too hard into the “Alpha” “chad” type videos. It just doesn’t suit him at his age. I miss when he just talked about being a useful member of a community.

Thank you for your service sir.

you get a little bit of everything

​@@GarandThumbWe said, more of this content.

Instructional content like this is the best content from Garand thumb

Gun reviews are still nice and he does a good job with them. I would say they add to the value and entertainment

​@@GarandThumbThat's what she said.

Actually the only person who is going to be able to save you is artillery battery on fast dial

@@janisladigs7825correct! *Gets Friendly Fired like a boss*

Well said, Kyle.

Shuddup nerd

1000%

Reminder to save it offline

He is giving the entire world the knowledge🥰

Dammit, I fixed a misspelled word and lost my flannel daddy heart. Sadness has overcome me.

@@ekfinn post it now! I wanna see a flannel emoji

Mr. Thumb is the PSA rifle company of the guntubers.

Anything you do, anything you learn that the tyrants hate is the correct thing to learn. Because information like this is what tyrants fear most.

Which poncho was he using?

Helikon tex us poncho if im not mistaking

Very true

Legit could have a lot more qualified instructors.

I knew there'd be someone just to say "nuh uh". Internet standard. People cannot help themselves. He was a frikken SERE instructor. Pretty qualified if you ask me. SERE sucked but those guys are full up and know their stuff.

@@midwestgruntyears and years of SERE instruction, he’s as qualified as we could possibly need

@@midwestgrunt like you, right?

"valuable"

Knowledge transfer 😂

Using that GBRS slang aye mate 😂

Knowledge transfer 🤓

Hell yeah I soak up as much as I can from it but I do not practice enough

Amen to that

It's not much effort.. They walk through the woods for an hour and talk to the camera. The effort comes from the years of training and trial and error iterations to come to these conclusions.

@@calholli I'm guessing you've never instructed or been involved in film making, I'm not having a go. There is a huge amount of time in sorting out the goal of the film, where it sits in the series, what subjects will be covered, story board/lesson plan, rough script, planning locations, getting any equipment out to locations, reshooting scenes, dry runs, etc. All the way to cleaning kit and editing afterwards. You do not get this quality of film from two guys wandering in the woods lol. Add to that a desire to pass on the hard gained experience and knowledge to anyone who wants it and to do that free to the end user is nothing short of brilliant.

@@vonsprague7913 To say that it's free is a bit silly. He has four thousand patreon members at five dollar minimum per month. So that's twenty thousand alone. Analytics says he's getting 15M views per month, that's seventy-five thousand dlollars per month by youtube alone, plus youtube ads,.. plus each sponsorship read they do in the start of every video will typically pay 10k per every million views, which EVERY video is over a million these days. So he's making a good chunk of change.. granted youtube may demonetize some videos and that's a headache.. but the patreon and sponsorships are always there. Plus he has his own website, and other donation channels. affiliate links for gear. plus they have their own training company which this channel is a constant advertisement for-- that alone makes it worth doing it for "free"-- let alone all the cash that is coming in. Make no mistake, he has 3.5M subscribers.. Channels this big can make a quarter million per month very consistently. Granted gun channels will be less consistent because youtube zucks azz. But this is a cash cow in many more ways than one.

@@calholliwhat’s your channel?

the oscars are a bullshit political prize, they deserve an authentic prize for filmmaking not that. did i change it?

Best available argument: Receiving an Oscar requires traveling into, and prolonged retention within, downtown Hollywood. Juice isn't worth the squeeze.

@@seanfager8063 New series: Being Deadly Behind Liberal Lines.

​@@seanfager8063 he did just do the urban egress video, so if he follows all that stuff he should make it out alive and with all of his testosterone intact.

@@je2848yes, show us how to filter the estrogen out of the tap water!

Everyone in the west is going to need this unfortunately

Yeah much thanks! Honestly.

Yes, but Sere school must not teach about 90 degree spines lol..

@@brianmaxey7568 It bothered me watching him use the blade too, a lot of knives don't have a good spine though. Morakniv garberg is great for this lol

Great survival class on line Mike you are an incredible instructor thanks some of us are disabled somewhat can you come up with a survival course for us thanks

We deserve..?

I thought mountain Germans were in Austria. Any tips or advice to share komerad?

@@griftinggamer Oh we Bavarians are very well in the Mountains, at least here in the south. Just google search "Berchtesgadener Land" that's where i'm from and where we had our training, usually around the town of "Bad Reichenhall". We get a lot of American Tourists here (especially visiting the Eagle's Nest which i can see from my House!) so i thank those Tourists for learning english very early on. Tons of tips and advice, but you got to be more specific than that. Though i must say Garand Thumb does a pretty great job on the Basics and then some.

Why is this content we “need”. I’m a thousand miles from any fucking mountains.

@@midwestgruntprobably because when shit hits the fan you wanna get Tf out of the city into the mountains

Yes!

As a Marine it was all about the feet. Long patrols or humps “rucks” when we would stop for a few minutes I would take of my boots and change my socks. You’re feet will thank you. Blistered feet will kill your at the least blisters will kill your day.

@@FredVanHook same thing they still teach today.

Do you have any examples

@@Gorbachof of?

@@Gorbachof examples of how in a combat environment you live and die by your feet? Sit out on a 30 mile ruck or hump with a combat load, don’t rotate your fresh socks on your feet and see how far you can get after your feet become bloody and blistered. Moleskin and superglue won’t take you too far or make up for what rotating out a pair of fresh dry socks will do. In many environments your only transportation is your black Cadillac’s aka boots…

Very few people in the military get this sort of training.

​@praharin yea this is Ranger Tier stuff not grunt level make it back to base in 1 piece

Take a wilderness first responder or emt course

hes a real good communicator ay

@@praharin Even basic infantry here in Australia get this kind of training. We're a small army so we need all of our soldiers to be well versed in different roles and skills.

He is the Mountain 😅

😂😂😂😂

They’re about to send in Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris wouldn’t have to search for him, the mountains would give him up out of fear of Chuck Norris 😳

This! @GarandThumb

Brilliant!👏

gotta know how to protect those who cant protect themselves 🙏🏾

M

Not only that, but he is also a phenomenal camera man :)

Not only that, but he is also a phenomenal camera man :)

Thanks

I agree, this is critical. It needs to be brought up more often.

Trauma gear trauma gear trauma gear

That used to be taught in CLS. The prevailing idea was that a TQ was the last resort. If you did use one and weren't medevac'd within 30 minutes or an hour, I can't remember, you were to attempt to take the TQ off. GWOT TTPs and knowledge gained changed all that.

100% my friend

@@GarandThumb I got my first BB gun the day I was born! First kill with it took a few more years though 😀

always good to have a refresher

I swear I wasn’t the only one who thought he looked like Captain Price

Task force 1-4-1

I was expecting at least an attempt of the accent!

@@aaronevans9618 LOL There is only ONE captain Price! But heck ya, That would have been cool!

@@americathefree3708 well we did get better info from GT than price lol

Mike is really doing the Lord's work when it comes to getting this information out to a lot of people. However, all of this information has been public for decades, and Mike is merely giving an overview. It's important to remember that this is very surface level and we must continue our education on our own.

@@220_Swift Indeed, and I wouldn't have it any other way Considering that: - Surface level fundamentals are extremely prevalent and only get better with practice - Other fantastic people make this kinda stuff their livelihood and it would be unfair to cockblock them from their jobs

All up in your feels

If you make the time and practice this stuff it really helps build your confidence as well!

You landed on the best out there

Start with short camping trips where you get used to being in the woods and can practice some of this stuff. Start small and remember, Rome wasn't built in a day.

He has a video on an urban survival as well. Scan the channel, it's entertaining and educational.

big cities are going to be a war zone one day.

he goofs around hella

Evade the desert all together, jk

I live in Florida we don't have mountains or deserts... Lol

Yeah I live in the desert and that would be great, however, that is a very different environment and he might not have a lot of experience in the desert, but most of his stuff here can be applied to the desert.

Yes without a doubt!

@@danielkantor5693 becoming deadly in the swamp

O7

Based and aged pilled

Speaking as a former Marine, proficiency in combat tactics is a must for any man who is serious about protecting his land.

​@@tempacct5812yessir. God Bless America 🇺🇸

From who?

Download the video to your phone or computer

why would he do that when they’re already free

I want "hard copies" also though

Hard copies are better for resiliency. At any time KZfaq flips the switch and they’re gone

​@@jonnys_tundradownload Nero 😂

thank you!

@@GarandThumb you're welcome 🙏

​@@GarandThumbwould really appreciate advice on what to do if dogs are on the loose and close by.. I go out to see wildlife and people just let them run loose round here, would love to get some advice on how to avoid them picking up on where I am if they are coming close through undergrowth and also how do dog handlers manage to go near potentially aggressive dogs but the dog acts submissively when they walk towards them etc.. An ex special police guy I knew could just walk towards them and they'd submit but with me most dogs just get loud and aggressive even when I'm not worried about them.. Any tips re all that would be awesome as it's stressful approaching oncoming people who let their dogs run way ahead of them out of sight of them in the woods etc and I'm never sure how to stop the dog acting territorially, did any guys you knew know good ways to get them to automatically be submitting etc? I'm never sure if I'm best to just not look at them and act like they are not there but no matter what I try they all get territorial if they walk ahead of their owner etc..I think it could help in bad situations for people too, if they have dogs loose in the area around them that folk are trying to evade

@@CastleHassall You've reminded me of a Jocko Podcast where he sat with a Veteran dog handler, SEAL I think but I can't recall now. Some of what he was saying comes down to a dog knows when he meets an alpha. There was a lot more to it than that and he expounds greatly on that so it's not nearly as simple as that. Might be worth a listen if you've got the time. Sorry I don't recall the episode or guests name.

lets goooo

Fan-fucking-tastic! That's a couple that's going places!

​@@GarandThumbHey we watched it just now, she really liked the bit with the daisy chain because she does crochet and I liked the bit where you ate a leaf.

The problem is that those are most likely hour long videos themselves! There is a ton to cover when it comes to this stuff.

@@220_Swiftespecially navigation.

best way to learn a map and compass imho is finding a local orienteering club. I learned general map and compass shit for land nav in basic training but when i went to my MOS school degrees were tossed out for mils for artillery observation, so land nav for our schooling was in mils and meters. civilian classes will use degrees and meters and most likely not be using MGRS but be using a different Grid system.

There is a ton of such material on YT already, between bushcrafting and ultralight backpacking. David Canterbury and Darwin on the Trail are good places to start for both.

He probably has made movies during his military service. Classified SERE stuff.

the evasion videos have 2.8 and 2.1 million views.....

Love to hear that. I recently tried starting a fire with only friction (a slotted log with a stick) most difficult fire I've ever made but it was so worth it.

@@noblemelton7039 oh man. I’ve tried and failed a few times with that technique but I’m still not giving up on it.

You can download them all directly from KZfaq and save them to any format you choose.

Jdownloader2

y2mate for the downloads