Comments by "Solo Renegade" (@SoloRenegade) on "The Front" channel.

  1.  @jenniferhanses  in the modern US military, most soldiers have medical training akin to medics of old. so taking out the medic wont be the game changer you think. but, speaking as a combat vet myself, if you take out our medics, you will pay the price, and that price will be higher than you can afford.
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  2. It's all about political maneuvering to gain power, control, and funding. So the top brass of each branch tries to convince the gov they are the best and deserve the funding, and it spills over from there. Resentment for being denied things (like USAF denying US Army airplanes), or competition over who gets to handle the nuclear deterrent option. But in the end it is all just a result of military leaders trying to gain power.
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  3. well, if you're going to go outside of WW2, might as well mention the Spartans then
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  4.  @snappingbear  "Of course they can be held accountable. Just because filthy murderers don't follow the law doesn't mean we can't hold them accountable. " differentiate murder from killing in a war. Explain the difference. And keep in mind different cultures have different views on how war should be fought. Heck, differences occur within nations. My argument: "prior to WW2, Japan had never signed the Geneva convention, thus they could not be held accountable to it." Now, explain how you hold Japan accountable to something they never agreed to abide by. And explain WHY they should be held accountable to something they never agreed to. Explain why you THINK my argument is, "argument is absurd and ridiculous.". Simply stating you unqualified opinion against hard facts doesn't make you right.
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  5.  @smokedbrisket3033  they didn't mutiny until they were at risk of losing Winters. Winters would win his courts martial, but it would have taken him away from them for the invasion. That's when they mutinied. I'm speaking as a combat vet, who has been involved in similar situations in real life with both good and bad leadership. We can tolerate bad leadership, especially when we have good leaders shielding us from them. But we'll fight to keep good leaders. I teach this to officer candidates and kids before they go off to the military academies I sit down and talk to them about leadership, their role and responsibilities as leaders, and specifically about how their men will fight to protect the if they take care of their men. It's not easy to get rid of bad leaders (we've done it, but it's far harder). But it's much easier to fight for good leaders. And Sobel was only replaced because another good leader saw the real issue and rectified it. More often in real life, that mutiny would not have gotten rid of a person like Sobel.
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  6.  @smokedbrisket3033 Band of Brothers Winter's men mutinied for him.
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  7. 10:45 the P-38 was NOT forgiving of its pilots. it was a difficult airplane for unskilled pilots to master. I think you're mistaking it with the P-51.
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  8. Served with Canadians and Brits in combat. To me, and the guys I served with, Canadians are basically Americans in combat, as far as we were concerned. When it came to helping out, we would be there as if you were our own. If it weren't for the uniforms, we wouldn't be able to easily tell the difference between us.
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  9. prior to WW2, Japan had never signed the Geneva convention, thus they could not be held accountable to it.
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  10.  @norbertocarlosagustinkushi1916  What Japan did was objectively and factually NOT A WAR CRIME. They Never agreed to the Geneva Convention, therefore they could not be held to its standards/rules. There are NO RULES in war except that which we agree upon. Germany agreed to accept those terms and then violated them and thus were held accountable to them. Japan did NOT. Explain what you THINK a "war crime" is? How do YOU personally know what is and is not a "war crime"? If you claim something is a war crime, how is Japan supposed to know that? How can you hold someone accountable to something they are not aware even exists? How can you claim someone violated a set of rules that do not apply nor exist within their nation, legal system, or culture? Are you claiming your culture and ideals are superior to all other cultures (like how the Nazis claimed they were the Aryan race and superior to all others nations and cultures)? Are you claiming supremacy, that your laws and ideals reign supreme even over Other sovereign nations, that you have a right to dictate your ideals upon other cultures by force? differentiate murder from killing in a war. Explain the difference. And keep in mind different cultures have different views on how war should be fought. Heck, differences occur within nations. Now, explain how you hold Japan accountable to something they never agreed to abide by. And explain WHY they should be held accountable to something they never agreed to.
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  11. Best all-around fighter of WW2? F4U. It had speed, range, payload, carrier capability, dive bomber.... And survived to fight in Korea and beyond. Best pure-fighter of WW2? P-51. Also served in Korea and beyond. Mosquito is noteworthy, as is the Ta 152
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  12. Battle of Samar belongs on the list, also the allied naval forces in southwest pacific following pearl harbor.
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  13. US troops didn't take jap prisoners becasue they would fake surrender, which is a war crime. but Japan didn't adhere to the geneva convention as they hadn't signed it. and so we had to fight accordingly. Also, many times front line soldiers are in NO position to care for prisoners in ongoing combat. many nations in many wars have had to do this.
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  14. F6F was not the most effective nor most versatile at all. Mosquito was not a pure fighter.
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  15. USS Barb, only successful land invasion of Japan in WW2 by the US.
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  16. USS Barb USS Seawolf USS Archerfish ......so many to list
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  17. @KaiPadden-d2t not at all. compared to most WWII fighters it is easier to learn to fly.
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  18. @ wrong, the P-38 required some extra training for spins. P-51 has normal spin recovery behaviors.
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  19. @KaiPadden-d2t the tail has nothing to do with stalling. you keep conflating entirely unrelated things. If you take a single airplane design, and drew two versions of it, one with a single tail, and one with a dual tail. Both would have the exact same tail authority and control. When you put on multiple tails, you put the total tail size between them. when you have a single tail, you put all the surface area into that single tail. The P-38 having two engines introduces an additional requirement, that of yaw control under single engine operation. but that has nothing to do with stalling. the tail is important for spin recovery, but stalls and spins are also separate conditions.
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  20. japan claims US has a lack of spiritual incentive? the US literally declared a holy war on Japan after Pearl Harbor.
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  21. Japanese don't surrender, and when they did it was a feint to kill more Americans. so Americans took no prisoners as a consequence. teh Japanese only had themselves to blame for that.
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  22. if you think US troops treated Japanese POWs bad, look how JAPAN treats surrendered POWs, let alone their OWN citizens who surrendered and returned to Japan after the war!!!
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  23. Japanese soldiers: don't surrender Japanese soldiers: fake surrender to kill enemies Consequence: clearly the Japanese don't surrender, so the only way to stop them is killing them, even if they feign to surrender.
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  24.  @norbertocarlosagustinkushi1916  "But I think they committed War Crimes" your opinion doesn't matter. "the Allies too. All War Crimes should be punished." I understand this, but Japan committed no war crimes. RAF Bomber Command was snubbed at teh end fo WW2 for their indiscriminant bombing of german cities. And the leader of RAF bomber command was also essentially black balled. that's about as good as you're going to get. Feel free to point our other allied war crimes if you like.
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  25.  @norbertocarlosagustinkushi1916  "War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity, they never prescribe." false. they ARE prescribed. you cannot subjectively declare anything you want to be a war crime, a "war crime". you can't retroactively hold people accountable for things that were not illegal, as that is a "Crime against humanity" itself. War crimes can only occur in time of war. And we have to agree on what things constitute war crimes, and BOTH SIDES of the conflict must agree on them before hand. your woke, emotional subjective, childish nonsense has no place here.
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  26.  @norbertocarlosagustinkushi1916  "What it is a war crime now, it was a war crime then. No matter if they signed the Geneva Convention or not." you are such a petulant child. That is not how the law works. You are a tyrant and dictator wannabe. I bet you are a fan of Stalin and Mao too?
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  27. ​ @norbertocarlosagustinkushi1916  UN literally cannot impose rules onto a sovereign nation without its consent.
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  28.  @norbertocarlosagustinkushi1916  "It's not just an opinion." it is Exactly that, just your Opinion. Are you planning to declare war to enforce your opinion?
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  29.  @norbertocarlosagustinkushi1916  "Normally "you can't retroactively hold people accountable for things" but in this case, there are treaties about this topic." which clearly doesn't apply, or has no legal teeth or they'd have done it now wouldn't they? International laws and treaties only apply to the nations that agree to them, and you can't force a nation to sign except through the use of force and coercion (like how the US made Japan sign the Geneva Convention post-WW2 under Japan's Unconditional Surrender). And none of this changes that fact that nothing Japan did was a crime nor against the law at teh time. And in the US, under US law, it's illegal to retroactively charge some one for a crime which was not a crime at the time it was done, otherwise literally everyone on earth would be in prison today for laws that didn't exist previously.
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