Badass soldier to a badass Marine

You could tell that aussie’s punch was nothing like Basilone’s. John didnt even feel it, but gave him a 1 punch Knockdown just for good measure.

Why didn’t they include that in this mini series? Or did they? Haven’t watched it all in a couple years

joel malm it was in there. Read about the Battle of Brisbane, there was quite a bit of friction between the Yanks and the Aussies.

saudade2100 That’s interesting, never really thought about possible friction between allies. Makes sense, of course, but never really crossed my mind. I’ll look into it, thanks for the comment my dude!

blockmasterscott it was that guys mate. He said what kind of hosts are we if you dont let us buy you a drink

Ironically enough, many a lifelong friendship started (and still does)after a dust-up like that. When you're at war, life "compresses" so much. everything that's "Normal" gets turned on its ear, and things like friendships have to move faster too because life is so precarious.

Smart move.

Had that happen between my unit and our sister Regiment in their mess hall.. shouldn’t have started a mess meeting lol

...because Aussies and Americans are cousins, and that's what family does!

Terrible representation of Australians

Americans were pretty bug assholes when they were in Australia and tended to put their allies into shitty positions in order to get to the more glorious stuff

@@pilot1721 Glorious stuff? in a war!!!!Oh like Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Leyte Gulf, Saipan and all the other islands that we cleared.

@@bluesman1063 and you guys dicked around in Australia and had a small rebellion because you lot treated the black troops like crap. And you guys shoved off the australians to fight in the rest of the islands you didnt wanna grab and straight up claimed when we fought alongside you that we werent there

@@pilot1721 Oh you mean places like Papua, and the CBI theater, sorry mate but Americans were at Lae and Burma. Oh and I'm sure the Ausies "NEVER" mistreated or looked down their noses at the Aborigines before Americans visited.

His name is Jon Seda, known for being Chris Perez in the movie SELENA.

Yeah he stopped smiling because his friend took him seriously and was about to dig his own grave thinking he got his back..seconds later...nope.

@@editingbasket9728 No his mate was also pissing on the yank. You clearly weren’t borned with good eyes I see, something must be wrong with your mum’s ovaries

uh he started smiling again in the next cut to.

@@christoff124 I dont think he was.

Richard Hall Throw a bunch of battle-scarred Marines into liberty with plenty of alcohol around, shit's going to go down at some point.

look up the "Battle of Brisbane" in 1942. 2 day riot between Yanks and Aussies. Australian servicemen were almost 2nd class citizens in their own city, received less pay, less rations, were excluded from certain areas, and their women were disrespected in public, etc. It was no wonder there was hostility.

4exgold Thanks,looked it up and learned some history.

Stuff like this still does happen today, it's not uncommon for different branches in the same military to have scuffles in bars. Take for example the US Marines and US Army, they can sometimes get into arguments and the same goes for many other branches and different nations. Suppose you can't blame some guys sometimes when they've been through a lot of shit.

Just as the vast majority of Yanks were very decent, there always is the occasional idiot in every group. And like rival services, in bickering and fighting will occur until an outsider picks a fight with our kin. Someone attacks Australia or America, they have to contend with both, fighting side by side.

yeah broken hand he was so tough

***** and suicidal to mock or belittle a lost freind

I think that goes for just about any marine

I won't

You're just going to make him mad

Well fucking said!

Brits, Aussies, or whatever they were shoulda known their place, never mess with a Marine, let alone two...

in a bar full of aussies....yeah mate

thestablishmentblues why isn't Australia considered the best country on Earth? Right cuz your a bunch of pussies that had America and GB do all the work for you.

+destroyall24 He never said Australia was the best country on Earth, only Americans like you would consider your country the best when it's not. There is NO best country on Earth.

Frank Feazell god bless you and your family. My grandfather also served during World War Two, and I am fortunate he is still alive today. Life is too short, I wish you and your family well. God bless

Frank until you both meet again. GOD bless your Dad and your family. He was a hero, they all were! They fought the good fight, and won. Thank you to you for his service and selfless sacrifice.

A little punctuation goes a long way.

They were much nicer people then than they are now.

@@adumbaby fuck you hows that for punctuation

the Pacific didn't go into more context about why Americans were hated basically America didn't do anything for Australia the Aussies had asked them for oil weapons men or money and America refused to offer any aid (pre pearl harbor) even when Australia was on the verge of invasion however the Australians worked miracles and fended off the Japanese and then started pushing them back to Tokyo America then entered the war and the exhausted Australians handed over the rush to Tokyo to America when Americans started arriving to Australia they seemed ignorant/oblivious to how hard the Australians had actually been fighting and made the incorrect assumption that by some how just arriving to Australia they had some how saved Australia this was an asinine assumption and caused many fights including the battle of flinders street (giant brawl) where several Marines were killed also there was a serial killer/rapist Marine that the Marines just sent back to America rather than trial him for murder and rape

@@indeed8211 you really think that's the appropriate response to this serviceman's comment praising your country? You couldn't just say "you're welcome" ? You had to turn it into a pissing contest with your revisionist hearsay history?

@@user-yk7dc9hu2k Like the op stated, there are always some bad apples.

Over paid oversex over here

There's no other ally I feel safer and more comfortable with by our side than the Australians. If we go to war with China ever, I feel safe as a civilian knowing that our soldiers, who have great training however, have Australians fighting alongside them. When the US and Australia enter a war together the enemy better start crapping their pants.

If you look closely you can see that the bar floor is made of floor

Great catch. It did seem like he was trying to keep it fun. But once the other guy called them roaches he was like "Ah damnit this is gonna get ugly"

Yup

Yeah, a Marine, boxer and a combat vet...he wasn't scared of anything.

True, Mourmelon, France was placed off limits to both.

I feel sorry for the locals. Imagine having to deal with that after enduring the German Nazis

Its difficult enough for a single Army to get along. Throw in several different militaries from different countries and it becomes a million times more difficult 😂

@@ball3677 yes but NATO has cross trained during decades and so far russian "unified" command was decimated in 2022 and had to adapt or die. NATO is a lose organization but russian one was worse than expected

And they saw the consequences firsthand lmao.

Just not...that one in particular.

I can only imagine the heart burn

I've done it when I was at Pendleton...at hurricanes in huntington beach.....needless to say I threw up all over my date but I still sucked down a blockbuster lmao

What beer did you use?

@@joshuamoncada7421 Heineken it's seems to mix better with liquor. Adds some heaviness but doesn't cause too much big down on the chug

Should have physically ensured he’s learn the lesson. Kids are entitled because Daddy’s money puts them through college. All scum

If they learn history they will probably know that invading others places doesn't end up too well.

Absolutely. Still to this day I ensure my local tavern here keeps a place for my best friend I lost in OEF. Last year I had a drunk student as well try to take the beer and shot of Jameson and I didn't have to do shit. My favorite bouncer stopped him and explained what it was for and said it's better he deals with him than with me.

The British then vs the British now XD

ZXTMA Smith That guy was Australian. The British were the ones who broke up the fight.

LeaveMeAloneKZfaq oh, well there must be a Crocodile Dundee reference in here somewhere

ZXTMA Smith you can tell the british picked the aussie of the floor because the aussie goes ' looks like your pommie mates have come to save the day' pommie is a term australians use for brits

ZXTMA Smith you can tell the british picked the aussie of the floor because the aussie goes ' looks like your pommie mates have come to save the day' pommie is a term australians use for brits

Melbourne is shite

HamburgerTime209 Australia had been at war for some time. They most likely were also combat veterans, likely fed up with the fact US servicemen were being treated better by their own people.

+Lorenzogino because the Americans are saving their ass so they deserve to be treated better?

@@timeout6352 haha. no. you realise that Basilone's line about 'saving' Australia was biased hyperbole right? Japan would never have managed an invasion of Australia, even without the American's tying them up. they had forces tied down by british holdouts everywhere, their occupation of Chinese territory also took a hell of a lot of their manpower, and the majority of their army was spread thin across the pacific, they'd have struggled to consolidate enough to take on a developed nation like Australia at that point. typical American attitude though. you 'saved' Britain, and you 'saved' Australia.... by joining both wars late after all prospects of Germany and Japan invading either had already been bypassed...

Ciaran Smith Team America: Fuck yea

@@Omnipotentmonkey You need to read some history. the Australian Army was in Africa when japan attacked Pearl Harbor and The "Commonwealth" wasn't at war with Japan until after the US declared war on Japan. If it wasn't for the US's industrial capacity Europe would be speaking German and the South Pacific would be under the control of Japan. Why was Japan on Guadalcanal? Because they wanted to cut off US supplies to Australia. Australia was not a industrial country until long after WW2.

Moral of the story, Everyone hates MPs in every military

The Marines also were in Melbourne. On the US side the "battle" of Brisbane primarily involved US Army troops. While I don't doubt that there were also some incidents in & around Melbourne - thousands of young men and copious amounts of alcohol are usually a volatile mix - there was nothing quite on the scale and overall relations were more cordial. The men of the 1st Marine Division actually sent more mail to Australia than to the United States following their stint there between battles.

And when they got back home the Americans were there fresh from Guadalcanal taking in all the credit for stopping Japanese from taking Australia... And the best part is that had Japan invaded Australia it would have gone almost as badly as if they had invaded Siberia...

We made the Americans look good in Vietnam...

@@Pikkabuu oh look its you again, just so you know WW2 would have been a complete and total German-Japanese victory had the US not joined, the US saved the world from both Germany and Japan in WW2

This had me rolling, Marines were born in a bar after all lmao

Marines never die they jus regroup in hell

@Sanctus Paulus 1962 cuz i didn't see the show 2 years ago. Now i have so i know their Australian.

That was an Australian dress uniform, not a pastor's collar.

Ted Sullivan Darwin?

@@dubiousdoublechin6363 How did you guess that?

Ted Sullivan Worked with a lot of marines on exercises here, nearly all of them are from Darwin. Good guys, fun to work with.

@@dubiousdoublechin6363 Small world I was there in 2006. They were mock dog fighting with the FA-18 Hornets.

old saying around here is if you want instant assholes just add alcohol.

And then kangaroos 🦘 and spiders 🕷 came and beat the shit out of everyone

@@CesarGarcia-nd5xz I'd never imagine living in Australia with all the dangers dwelling around.

That's because were both bastard offspring of England. USA and Australia are kindred spirits.

​@@Speer788I'd never imagine living in USA with bears spiders snakes bugs cougars idiots with guns and a 2nd amendment

They went through their fair share of hell make no mistake. Particularly in North Africa and Burma.

"accompanying us into territory the British and Canadians wouldn't" Wouldn't, or couldn't?

Apparently American white soldiers massacred black soldiers in Townsville, there's not alot of information but there was a revolt by African American soldiers who were over the shitty treatment their white officers were giving them

@@pilot1721 More lies, you little two bit pansy boy?

@ Research it, it's a well-documented mutiny in Australia by black servicemen. LBJ concealed it during wartime and has only recently been exposed to the public.

@@pilot1721 they did not massacre them. Only one person died, and shitty treatment in the military (guess what it happens to all of us) is no excuse to open fire on your officers.

Were they some sort of religious sect?

It's a fictional event.

@@goodshipkaraboudjan still accurate, Americans putting Aussies on the floor is very accurate

@@UserName-om6ft in fantasy land maybe. You should look up the Battle Of Brisbane.

@@goodshipkaraboudjan you mean where Australian Gunner Edward S. Webster was killed? in reality Americans are the better fighters just remember our boxer Devin Haney beat the breaks off of your boy George Kambosos Jr not once but twice 😂 cope and seethe

@@goodshipkaraboudjan John was a trained boxer to internet nerd

Some people just don't want to learn.

I guess these guys were a little too young to remember that.

point being?

Ross Dow point being they're going adhere to typical tropes of bashing Americans and Americans defending their honor

tv show/ miniseries mate

Based on real events

I mean Australians weren't much better with our indigenous. But yeah we were better then the yanks.