"Why you guys chain smoking right now?" "Cause it makes us better at running." Only a grunt says that shit lmao great video

as active duty marines, its so weird to see how comfortable the junior enlisted can be with an officer. Thats cool as fuck, I love how tight you guys are and how you guys all just vibe. I have a completely different experience here.

I love the random guy just playing pokemon, just vibing with his shiny. Unbothered :') Thank you for your service!

Wasn’t sure what to expect going into this video but it’s perfect. Typical life style there. Not to many worry’s and a pretty enjoyable time of life for the most part. Hope everyone made it home safely thanks for the memories.

10:11 I love the idea of a cat just in the middle of a desert, then just comes across the base and starts hangin out

Every time i think about reenlisting i see a video like this and it slaps some sense back into me haha. On a serious note thanks for your service guys we’re proud of you!

That guy sitting on the cliff watching the trucks seemed cool. Hope your deployment is over guys and you guys got home safely.

"As an Officer, even while deployed to Iraq, still can't escape Meetings" (and PowerPoints....) Most real thing ever said on any of these "day in the life" videos. Been to Iraq and Afghanilands myself, was legit laughing out loud at parts, just because of how real your guys are here, like "Yup, been there, done that, known plenty of dudes just like them" Coulda been any one of the FOBs I've seen in passing. Best wishes for you and your Platoon for a nice uneventful (safe!) deployment and y'all come back safe and sound

From experience back in 2004 as an 11B, I will you that if you are an active member from age 19-21, Infantryman have a lot of pride and ego is through the roof. Then overtime, about your 2nd to 3rd year, you start to really hate it. Waking up early in the am, PT, train, break, lunch, PT again. Depending on orders of the day, you end up going back to the same routine over and over again. When my battle buddies arrived in the mid east in 2005, we found ourselves ready but outmatched when it comes to ground combat against folks who knew their environment and as a foreign invader, the locals appear to be good people but really, they are against you and they communicate to "insurgents" our positions. They study our positions , path and daily patrol routines that often times we have to change it. To reduce the risk of getting wounded or killed by enemy fire, if we suspect there is an enemy positioned in a house, we have no choice but to warn any residence in the area , evaluated the situation before making a decision to have armor inflict damage to that house. We then get sent to that house after the damage. Most of the time, we were correct of our findings but there were times the insurgents were in that position, they leave the house and leave remnants that they were there, we then damage the house and the locals are pissed off at us. And repeat. Hence the folks did not like foreign invaders in their country regardless if you feel like you were liberating them or not. The whole deployment to mid east was a pointless engagement. We had an agenda but the no clear agenda on why and what the hell for. We were early 20 somethings . Young, patriotic and full of pride. Deployment was boring but it made you miss home like no other. I got out, used my GI bill to pay for college and I never looked back of my past. For new generations of today, I hope there is no war to fight. Modern combat will leave you thinking life is precious.

This brought back some memories!! I was deployed at Camp Bastion and FOB Lightning in 2016. I was an FO for my infantry boys. Definitely miss those times and the friends I was around. When I was in, I thought all that comradery stuff was BS, but I miss those guys every day and truth is it's hard to keep up comms with each other just living through our daily lives. Hope you and everyone in this video are doin well, sir. RLTW!

Nice video, man. I remember the first time I went to Iraq. First thing I noticed was the sun. And the taste of sand and grit that I sometimes got when I drank water. I smelled dust everywhere. And I always heard some sort of humvee, Stryker, etc. Lots of aircraft. I went on R&R in 2006. I flew back into Atlanta and I thought, whoa, everything is so modern and clean. Nothing is covered in dust anywhere.

Thank you for a look into your life for a day, but more importantly, THANK YOU for Serving!!!

Legit... As a Company Commander X3, it checks out... Good work bro...

Thank you for your time and service. Thank you for the Contant. I really appreciate it. Stay safe. “If you can’t be careful, be deadly”

Damn that’s 2 yrs ago? You guys got the upgrade! I still got my defective ACH from deployment. They said we could keep em. We got new ones to replace them. They stayed in the box … that’s the army for ya!

My platoon patrolled 1-2 times a day almost every day for 14/15 months (I took over mid-tour). Only break they got was tower duty for a month, and even then we were still pulled to augment major operations. Sometimes you get a maintenance day for your gun trucks but on those days you’re cleaning weapons, looking at maps, hang out, and then a few hours to watch a movie or game it up. Patrols can be 2-4 hours, but operations can mean 14-20 hour days and you’re sleeping out in sector (in houses, battle positions, in your trucks at some other patrol base). Contact with the enemy depends on how kinetic your battle space is. If you get assigned to a hot sector like an enemy support zone, you’ll be shot at frequently and IEDs are a daily threat, plus the locals are harder to win over (We used to deliver beanie babies to little kids in enemy areas). Even If you are pulling base security and rarely leave the wire, those entry points are high-payoff targets for the enemy and they get attacked frequently (drive-by, mortars, car bombs, sniper fire, etc.) War in the 21st century is hell sometimes.

Interesting but good video. Thank you LT for giving us a glimpse into what you guys do while on deployment. I liked the video. You guys take care. STAY SAFE. God bless and thank you for your service.

Thank you for your service!

just came up in my recommendations but ive been laughing at your tik toks for a while now, about to mob out of fort hood soon for a 9 month, thanks for the content man! got a sub

Y’all are vibing keeping each other positive and strong that’s great :)

crazy. my boys always send your tik toks to the groupchat and who wouldve thought we were in the same unit

thank you for your service

Love that the medic just randomly punches you. Same thing in the Marines, Corpsmen are beings that run on pure hatred of others.

Thank you all for your service . God bless you and your families

Thank you so much for sharing your day

That gym was actually badass ngl

even chilln in the fob you can tell it's an infantry unit. The bottom of hose hose needs to be able to go below the level of the liquid it's filling from, otherwise gravity just shoves it all the way back the way it came, and those drums def looked lower than the fill port. Gotta have someone kink the line near the can, when the tube is full so you can shove the other end of the tube down the fill neck into the tank. Go Ordinance! Haha.

Cool video! Thank you for your service 🇺🇸

8:16 I love how everyone is just hangin out, just chillin and talking

Super neat stuff, thanks for sharing!

Love the channel bro!

I was born with one arm, and wanted to go to the navy seals, but was denied at 17 when trying to join the navy at the recruiters. It sucks, but thank you for your service brother! 🇺🇸

You'll mature extremely well if you sign up. The more you stick with it, the quicker you'll rank up. Everybody's growing and Ill be enrolling in like 2 years

Love the cat! It's a mental health expert.

God i miss the infantry. Life was so difficult, but at the same time so damn easy. There is no better freedom

Love from California baby!!

Love the 90’s rap man

Hey, hittin a dart while your hittin chest. Good shit.

God bless you man

My 11B unit hated our 11C guys because for an entire year they never left the FOB and threw tantrums when they got FOB guard duty. At the end of our tour in 04 a grand total of ZERO rounds were sent by our 11C's. The Paladin crews we had on the other hand were absolute rockstars with their return fire.

Ohhh goodness I can still smell the gasoline from the generators lol. And the pretend powder scrambled egg for breakfast classic lol

Cheers from your local HHC sniper section 😎 y'all had fun with those Hudson rucks

surprised the army has nicer stuff on their deployment than i did on my deployment in the air force. I worked on A-10s but it was pretty fun.

I'm signing tomorrow n I'm stoked to finally do something different with my life

Oh shit! The electrician was my DS!!💥🔥💪

7:24 hit the shit out of me with nostalgia amazing song

Watching this is just hitting all the feels. I miss my brothers so much. I remember one night we didn’t have to go out on patrol and we were just wild. One of my battles pulled the steps away from my chu and he opened the door to ask me to go to the gym. Of course I wanted to go, so I go to step out and faceplant the ground. My squad was laughing, I was laughing. After that I plotted my revenge. We had these wooden closets in our chu’s for each troop and my chumate was out, so I took a golf club and beat the everloving piss out of his pristine closet. Chu mate comes back and asked what the fuck happened. I calmly told him quillman(the guy who pulled my steps) just came in and said “fuck benson”(my chu mate) and destroyed your closet. After that every morning benson would pound on quillmans chu and wake him up by shoveling rocks and moon dust into his chu until we went back state side 😂 Sorry for the book but thanks for posting your adventure. Regulars by god!

Im about to be 32 and preparing to go to the Army OCS. A prior Air Force enlisted too.

Leg blasters? Ah, I see you are a man of culture as well

Fairly similar to the Marine Corps on deployment, except you guys are more chill.

I was in fort wainwright 2017-2020. Hated that place

I would absolutely love to do this everyday lmao

I died when you said "trying to fix the generator" I feel like thats all you guys ever do lmao

awesome !! RESPECT

Bruh idk if you picked these songs but we got the same taste in music😂 made the vid even better

Almost a 1 to 1 of what my deployment in Saudi Arabia was like except instead of ground combat drills i had air defense drills

5:45 It was a Marine GUARANTEED

Great content LT. Glad to see the daily life in the deployment. Pls touch on the top age limit one can commision as officer. Does it help more if u have Masters degree.

Deffinately need the kevlar flexi neck cover.

I’m 27 now and I wish I would have served . I would have loved the experience of fighting on top of the jelling as a squad just must be amaizng

Yeah I was an infantryman in Iraq in 04-05. It wasn't nearly as chill. We fought daily. And I mean daily

Home boy rocking a coyote brown Quicksilver shirt?!? SWAG!

War Kitty deserves more content, perhaps even a promotion.

Nice video man.

we need to see more of the war kitty!!!

SPC Clarke is the true definition of that e-4 mafia

I need to hear what y'all did with the kitty after y'all left🥺

Great history 👏

The "MTV Cribs" reference just dated this video with accuracy lol

One question does a enilsted do the same thing ? if he is a rifleman

You and your boiiis make me want to go back to the blue side 😂

Thank you for your service. ❤️🤍💙🇺🇸

Damn, I hope the war kitty is alright

Someone loyal to the core value of your life

I vote for more screen time for fraternity brother soldier lol

AQ. I was Himars here same time.

It’s crazy cause back in the day we couldn’t dare record or even show anything on a deployment prior to the 2010s

I went to basic with Clark about 4 years ago wow Delta 1/19

Do y’all not have morning PT?

Makes me wonder what my half bro was up to when he was on stand by over there. He was part of uh 503D IN, 173D ABCT

Good

I was at ft.wainwright 2010 and Kandahar in 2011

Fuarrrrk! Can't wait to be out in the fields

Did your whole platoon make it back safely?

Can you wi fi from your cell phones in that remote location?

That Lt is cool as shit

Had this question for a bit, i knew the army was chill with drinking but i didn’t know smoking was allowed, what are the restrictions on alcohol, cigs, pot, cigars all that stuff

Dope vid i watch your tik toks as well

6:14 is that just the wind or gun fire in the back ground i know that they do drills and stuff like that and fire off some rounds but i cant tell here

PV2 Lyle is lucky he’s gonna have a deployment patch by the time he’s PFC

OMG… two things I’ve never seen… an EIB directly over the branch tape and a leg ranger. I found a UNICORN!!

Lol "try to fix the generator" Hearing those words gives me not fond thoughts

DS Lorentz best DS I ever had !

10:14 the mine sweeper

2-14 Infantry, CIB, Air Assault wings earned.

Holy crap a ton has changed since 2003

What rank did you leave as and what was your last position?

Hail o Hail o Infantry!

Do you get free range time?

10:11 They deploying cats now. 😹😹