Id like to tell you a story about my grandfather.. WW2 bomber pilot

How do I get in touch with you?

@@vegasclubb you can email me at tj3business@gmail.com although it's hard for me to reply to everyone!

That Warthunder sponsorship ad was honestly pretty cool.

Good graphics! But you made the Huey roll onto its LEFT side wben it got hit... and crushed Carl and his rescuer!

Lol!

Yes if you watch the training flight film. F4 Phantom 2 If thrown forward into the seat belts, you’re in an unrecoverable spin. You must eject (Only Option)

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 When the snail gets to you it stays with you forever FREE THE BASEMENT GUY GAIJIN 💀

I am a teen and ofc am not stating my actual age I play war thunder and I play with the phantom 2 and in my opinion it is a good aircraft but if you want to be agile and you are carrying a gun pod and missiles, bombs drop your bombs first if you get into a dog fight the F4 is a heavy aircraft

Carl has some extreme experience and knows exactly what to do. But it may surprise you how fast reflexes 13 year olds can have and how smart they can be. Never underestimate "child soldiers". You may not get off much easier with them than with Carl. So I am not surprised you found yourself in trouble with them too. I perhaps would also.

Agreed!!

Dedication! Incredible....

That was a 100% bust up moment. You could see it is his eyes. Then hear him come apart.

No crying for safe spaces with these warriors.

@@MrAndyBearJr Nope. Men can cry from the inspiration seeing greatness even in these kids in his view, giving themselves to save his life. The best thing a man can ever see to steel his heart. Those kids assured that he would be back, and resolve to be back. Its always the little things. Like Larry Liss flying 3 times into a hole in the jungle that he cut with his unarmed and unarmored Huey, with a loaded Car15 next to him. He got out with it once he remembers, but does not remember anything particular about it, or how it was empty after the event.

Thank you for your service sir, and welcome home. I’m glad you’ve made it, and I appreciate you

I know what you mean. I helped arm an A7 In the pilot was our division officer. He took off that morning and never came back. He got shut down but was track down by NVA and killed. Lieutenant Daniel V Borah. September 24, 1972.

Thank you for your service

Which aircraft was your favorite, and which one topped your POS list?

I am really sorry to read this and your dad never came back. My dad was in the 433rd and he came back, I was lucky.

Thanks for your kind words@@braincraven . I became a private pilot later in life and it would have been fun to go flying with him. I also would like to have been able to ask him about UAP's that he may have investigated for the Air Force in the southwest in the late 60's and early 70's, but I'm not sure how much he would have been able to tell me.

My dad was in WW2...went through Normandy....he made it back

@@nickhalden9220 my great grandpa Warren was on Normandy, he died just before I was born. My grandpa jack, his son would have been 3 years of age during d day. Jack served in the Korean War guarding a checkpoint. Warren made it back with stories of France and having to hide in a house while Germans searched. He said they were opening the higgens boats too early. Also mentioned he had to keep moving. For a while I pondered how he could have survived, but this was the main invasion force into Europe and many many many waves of men entered through Normandy. I’m pretty sure 0 men of the first wave survived.

Bless your dad and his family Ed. His sacrifice is not forgotten or unappreciated and always honored. ❤

Yep, crazy!

i'd hug any F-4 F4ever

While I was in the USAF, I got to know the cargo planes I loaded/unloaded rather well. Tail numbers, nose art (yeah we had nose art in Shield/Storm and OIF) so when I see cargo planes in movies, video, or photos I look for familiar tail numbers. I remember the numbers of the planes that took me out of not so wonderful places best of all. Being able to read nose art on an F4 going by means he was low and the kid had something we call an emotional marker. heh, I say kid, I was born in 1969, dude coulda been my dad. Emotional markers are things that happen and you will remember the smallest details from that moment for the rest of your life. I have lots of them, everyone in the military does. They make sure you have them, like getting off the bus at basic, the haircut, getting uniforms, arrival at your first duty station, and then the ones they don't plan like the first time you get shot at. When you are in a very dangerous situation, things seem to slow down in some instances and go incredibly fast in others. That heightened awareness can imprint on you creating memories that never leave and will retain that emotion attached to them for years, maybe the rest of your life. If he is still alive, he can tell you 55 years later what the name on the plane was, and probably the tail number on the side, along with what day it was, where he was, and roughly the time it all went down... and describe the environment around where he was that day in minute detail. Its like a movie of that moment replays in your mind, and you are there again living it. Its called a flashback, some of them are rough, some are actually kinda fun. I have some really good ones from 1990-91 and 2001, not so many from 2004. I think the memory bank was fun in 2004, also it was just lots of work, zero danger outside normal day to day work with aircraft. The rough ones are from 91 and before. Sometimes I will talk about them, but not usually. When I do on here they are almost always hidden. Most of what I say in comments on here is hidden, so if you're reading this, I hope you got something from it. Might as well help people with what I went through if I can, and if they hide it, well... its still out there somewhere.

​@@SweatyFatGuy Love you man! I don't know you at all but it sounds like we've had similar experiences. Some amazing and just proud wouldn't change a thing memories and flash backs and then there's though nightmare ones where you can't understand how the heck you survived

please could you timestamp? i usually play youtube in the background 90 percent of my time (because i mostly work on projects)

Thanks so much for the opportunity Carl! Thank you for your service.

Sir, I can't thank you enough for your service, and for your indomitable spirit. When I get down thinking about the crap I and many others are dealing with in our country right now, I hear your experience told by you, and I know I can get through this. Thank you Sir, and God Bless you!

@@sergioleone3583 Thank you for your kind comments - it was truly an honor and privilege to serve my country flying fighters of 26 years.

Carl. As a veteran of both the US Navy and US Army I just have to say I can't STAND it when other veterans wear crap like you do. Are you that desperate for attention that you have to walk around and advertise to EVERYONE that you are a veteran and you were wounded? SUCK IT UP BUTTERCUP, live your life as a normal person and if someone ASKS you about your military experiences you can talk to them. No need to BEG for attention wearing that self promotion CRAP!!!!! You remind me of these social media obsessed kids of today, self centered narcissists.

Thank you so much for your service, sir. FIL was a dustoff medic in ‘Nam.

A four tour friend refered to the F-4s as lead sleds.

Same can be said about F-15 and F-14 both of which are larger than an F-4

Still the most beautiful aircraft I have ever seen!

@@patrickgriffitt6551 calling the F-15 a brick is a joke.

Awesome job team! Godspeed 🇺🇸

I had two good friends that flew choppers in Nam, (both returned), I roomed with one in college, and he carried an AK, said many others did too. Brave people, I was stateside my whole career. Can't say enough thanks to those guys.

I love your video and keep it up

Make actual content please :)

Incredible job 👍👍👌👌

I am sure he has great stories to tell. Your grandfather is a brave man. I flew the RF-4C just as the Vietnam war was winding down and ended up in Germany as my first assignment..

Cool grandpa. 😎👍

Hats off to you! my father used to tell me they were 'a pig to work on', having to take everything apart to get to something relatively minor

Almost all military aircraft are that way. At least from that era. Spent 15yrs on F-4C,D,E variants. F-15s have some difficult areas to access also. 2yrs on them. F-16s are reasonably good. 3yrs on them.

When they built those planes they figured out that the Meck "could" figure out how to fix them. I am sure there was a tool for that, but I ground a wrench thin enough to get into the space I needed to fix the plane (A-4). I took that wrench home with me and still have it. Maybe it wasn't as bad as I remember. @@patrickgriffitt6551

crew chiefs. True hero's.

Replacing bad battery right side by rudder/brake pedal had to stand on your head to pull it out that's what I hated. Crew chief

Hello sparky

Hello@@WaltherFrosch6.

assuming you did the in game footage---very very cool visual aid and absolutely does the story justice from an audience perspective. First time I've seen it done that way too which is an extra feather in your cap

You really did work wonders with this one man. I appreciate you helping bring it to life. Genuinely just reminded me of that old dogfighters show on history which to me at least is definitely a compliment.

The unsung heroes.

My dad was crew chief in Ubon from 65-66.

@@mikeelder6298 Did you ever get to sit in one? I got to look in the cockpit at an airshow but wasn't aloud in it.

@@skybot9998 oh yeah. I got to sit in F-4s, T-33, T38, and some kind of British fighter

@@mikeelder6298I miss getting to sit in a talon.

Our mundane lives.

Charley refers to the 'C' variant of the F-4 Phantom. There are many variants including Navy, Air Force, Marines as well as foreign versions

Pretty cool . The 1st Cav was in every Corp area of RVN , and always in the shit . At Tay Ninh the 1st Cav had a wood banner over the road coming into their A.O. Said ... " Ya ain't Cav , Ya ain't shit " :D I know a guy who was Red Horse in Da Nang 69-70 who mainly ran the concrete plant or drilled water wells . I tried Med School but failed , but my son went on to become a Trauma guy here in Michigan . Tell your family some old 25th ID medic said Welcome Home .

@@indycharlie Thanks for the extra insight. My fam members that went over really didn't talk about their time there, at least not to me. Most of what I know of their experiences comes second hand (from other family members as well as a few news articles, particularly on my uncle who received two Purple Hearts, a Bronze Star, and a few other honors for his service.) On behalf of my fam, welcome home to you as well, and congratulations to your son for his accomplishments.

Thanks for your comments - the real heroes are my warrior brothers who, sadly, never came home 😞

Thanks Billy!

Jason - thank you for your kind words - I was truly blessed to be able to fly the best fighters in the world at that time - F-4s and then F-16s - for 26 years.

Thanks for watching!

Thank you :)

Another one of my all time favorites the F-14

Doc - All I can say is the docs who took care of me (corpsmen that is) were angles sent from God - don't know if anyone ever told you thank you for what you did - but that ends NOW! THANK YOU AND YOUR FELLOW DOCS FOR KEEPING ME AND GUYS LIKE ME SAFE!

TY . Stay strong brother . There are less of us by the day . @@carlparlatore294

Exactly what I was thinking.

Me too! And his third!

Det 1, 82ATRS, Holloman AFB

The game is insanely realistic and its free thats why its so popular. I didnt no how good it was till downloading it last week. It has so much shit its overwhelming i dont know where to start lol

It deserves to be pushed more then call of duty and shit. Personally im sick of raid shadow legends ads lmao