So true I’m a solder and I really envy those that didn’t have to fasten the strap

This is part of it but there are a lot of records showing this to be reason as well

Not a soldier but I play airsoft in full gear. And I never fasten my chin strap for the same reason.

Yup!

also the strap opens with pressure from an explosion or when an enemy soldier tryies to break your neck8 has a safety)...you can't run with an unstrapped hemet...also you often jump head first for cover..try doing that with an unstrapped hwelemet the guy who makes this videos is an amateur

It was different unit to unit; Some wore it, some didn’t

@@homiekitten6161 And you base this assumption on what exactly?

yes and also the helmet been used as a weapon if fell to the ground. If your in unarmed combat, a helmet on would help from rifle butt to the head

The helmets were heavy enough to stay on by themselves... and yes, strapped on helmets had broken necks

Exactly. Same amount of force is transferred to the head regardless of whether the helmet is fastened, unfastened or non existent.

@alexadamson9959 not accurate. If the helmet flies off, the energy is not transferred to the head.

@@Jawa614 no, accurate. Take 2 seconds to think about it and you’d realise that a helmet won’t just block and/or absorb the blast wave.

@alexadamson9959 that's why it fly off a head. If it did not fly off the head it would transfer much of the nrg while absorbing some.

What was your job in the Bundeswehr?

​@@76Schoeneberg30US yankees haven't worn them like that since the early 1980's. I was stationed as OPFOR at Hohenfels. I miss Germany it was my favorite duty station.

Glad you made it through

​@@mikebrase5161I've never heard anyone stationed in Germany say any different than you. They all had a great time

We aren't even allowed to wear them like that. In fact if we aren't wearing it, but it's in our possession we have to carry it like a baby. I usually strapped it to one of my belt loops

Or especially if you are fresh shaven… if you nick yourself and then get all sweaty and dirty and that strap keeps chaffing…. Yeah gonna keep the straps open

@@Cardan011 That did not happen with Canadian or British troops.

@@Mulberry2000 Canadian and British troops wore plates on their heads 😂

@@Cardan011fool

@@Cardan011 The British saved the Americans at the battle of the bulge

it's still fuck Upham for life

​@@brianmcgill9662 Right! Upham is a coward and got his unit killed

*sigh* oh well, basic training. what a great time beeing a worm in the dirt constantly beeing yelled at

Prob a reference to 'Sands of Iwo Jima' where Wayne instructs one of his squad to unfasten his strap when disembarking the ship onto the landing craft below.

Ft Leonardwood 84

I just thought it would be annoying an hurt like hell

I was a dork and wore my cod piece, I was scared of getting shot in the meat or something lol.

@@lilcrow64 could of saved ya from getting your pecker shot off, would of been a real dork then. Need a mythbusters episode to know if that thing would actually protect the package.

But we did often. Especially if we were just sitting still or on defensive duty. Being an fng I kept mine snapped. 1st Sargent (top) came around saw me and said, "Son we are not maneuvering unstrap yer chin, I don't need you having a migraine if shit pops off".

Honestly, not many CO or NCO gives a fuck about uniform codes on field, like even NCOs roll up their sleeves and shit here in Hungary if they're not in an inspection, we cadets rolled up our sleeves because we saw that everybody do it (turns out it's forbidden by code), but i've heard about uniform code "violation" from the US too, like the said undone helmet straps and other casual shits like these

Those where the T2 helmet straps which came later in the war.

What I've seen was the military was aware of it and told soldiers not to strap the helmet because there was a soldier that died from it early in the war.

That is not true. It is a fact that if a soldier was close enough to a mortar or artillery round going off the blast wave could not only break their neck it could disconnect their spinal cord. It’s true and documented. I went on a tour and when we stopped at the Korean War Memorial the guide asked why the soldiers helmet straps were loose. I answered and I was correct.

​@@jacobgalfi1420I don't think you understand what he's saying, he's not saying the straps were designed to break off, he's saying any strap would have broken if enough force to break your neck was applied to it

@@JohnDoe-gq6yg Again it was know that a blast could break a soldiers neck and they were told to not strap the helmets in combat.

It was an honor to put on a uniform.

That makes the most sense of all

That is what I was told by a veteran.

Well all I can say to those that say this is untrue. Is that my Granddad went through the whole of WW l blown up left for dead for 9 days was a sniper that was shot. Was drunk on rum at christmas and shot at the enemy which did not attack and was tide to a big gun wheel has punishment. Had games of cards with the enemy at the Christmas truce in WW l. Returned from hospital to find his unit had been wiped out completely. Moved along the front line at the somme with different units has the Irish from Inneskilin freed him from the gun wheel or would kill everyone. Returned after the war with about 2 dozen shrapnel in his body. Used to remove his own teeth ( no dentists on the front line during war he said ) had few toes those he had where black from frost bite, being frozen up to his waist in the trenches. Woke up many times with water frozen up to his waist and suffered terrible arthritis from the waiste down. SO WHY WOULD HE LIIE ABOUT HIS HELMET STRAP. AND HE TOLD ME NOT MY DAD HIS SON.( so my dad told me when did he tell you this he never told me half of this but i sat hours with him in his shed has a teen and loved every minute)

@@georgespruce6028 im with your grandad

@@georgespruce6028 Except of course if you're engaged in hand to hand combat you're far more concerned about being beaten around the head with an entrenching tool than having your helmet grappled. What you're saying does not make sense, and I spent my childhood discussing these things with a grandfather who spent the whole war in trenches too. Brody helmets are ridiculously easy to fall off your head. You've clearly never worn one. I have. You cannot run around in a Brody helmet with the chin strap undone let along engage in combat. They're bad enough with one. Photos of soldiers wearing this helmet almost never show the straps unfastened for this reason, even when they're just marching along a road. You'll even see them fastened when they're just sitting around in a trench. You will see them unfastened in extremely relaxed circumstances but they don't just sit on your head whilst you're going about your business. BTW. There were 850 dentists in the Royal Army Medical Corps.

our helmets had a safety to unsnap by certain pressure, but my country is also GLOBAL INNOVATION LEADER so its possible your backwater country didn't know about this inventzon..I am happy you finally use our assault rifle in your SWAT teams and now marines

climbing vertical wall in the alps and rocks falling on your head you are happy your helmet is strapped tightly...also losing your helmet and ginmg to get it 2000 m metres down the mountain is quite challenge only once lost an ice pick falling 50 metres that was enough...

Not all things that go BOOM are hand grenades. Most things that go BOOM are much bigger than grenades and have a much stronger blast wave.

@@GraemePayne1967Marine Thank you Cpt Obvious for your intervention. And so would proportionally increase the "blast off your helmet" radius. I used the hand granade example because it's the easiest to imagine for most people.

You said it's a myth. But your comment doesn't back up that statement and his comment actually disproves the argument you tried to use. Lot of jargon in your response comment that does nothing for you

@@Colby-yg7nj is a myth bro

@@dariusalexandru9536 no it ain't bro

Canadian Army on landing in Normandy Few wore the straps Knowing the training was to grab the helmet of the German front to back Forcing the German to fall back Stabbing him while doing this

Because not looking corny was definitely their priority

I heard that open mouths when firing artillery allowed the sound blast to hit both the inside and outside of your eardrums simultaneously so they’d be “fine” whereas if the sound only hit from the outside it’d burst your eardrums.

It’s something to do with equalizing the pressure.

It's done because it looks cool, that's the real reason, you look dorkier with the strap done up than hanging loose.

It's uncomfortable, that was probably the driving force.

@@chris.3711 if you're in the middle of conflict are you worried about a chin strap or getting shot in the head? Cos I duno about you but I'd be doing the bloody thing up to make sure my helmet didn't come off which it surely would in the thick of battle if it's not done up, war films are not an accurate guide to how many men did them up in reality. As I said they all do it to look cool. You can't go off films like this. And there's precious little actual conflict footage of WW2 which wasn't staged propoganda etc so we will never know the reality really.

Thank you. A real soldier that knows. Thank you for your service.

That helmet would never deflect a shot head on.