Comments by "J ay" (@Jay-ho9io) on "Ryan McBeth" channel.

  1. After 12 years in the Corps, I took a break, and realized I missed the military enough to take another shot at it in the Guard. On the other end of that, my longest term platoon commander, for whom which I was his platoon sergeant, Agreed that I conducted myself the entire time like a Marine who was detached to the United States Army. So on behalf of every time I said some version of "You know, there's another way to do that.." I apologize for myself and perhaps some of my less tactful brothers and sisters. We are but a simple people, at times. 🤣🤷🏽 You are absolutely right about the difference in Army and Marine Corps versions of esprit de corps. My Engineers were always Engineers first and Soldiers second. But they were seriously proud of being 12Bs, and in time I came to grudgingly admit that "Essayons!" kinda grew on me too. "The Army is something you did, the Marine Corps is something you are." I don't know how right or wrong you are about the Army, But looking back at my history, and my family's history... You're absolutely right about the Corps. Thanks, SFC. This was solid. Much appreciated.
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  2. This is one of the warmest, most humane and highly specific attempts at justifying lack of wage parity. A missing portion is the amount of profits the company was making, while people weren't making the salary increases they were supposed to.
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  3. If your Dad was a Corpsman in Vietnam, he was Just as much a part of the Marine Corps as any of his Marines were. 👍🏼
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  4. Drinking enough beer that you start acting like an asshole while wearing a suit of clothes that represents an entire country, particularly if you're not wearing a suit of clothes that represents the country you're actually in, is a different look than your average drunk. Pretty sure a canadian knows that.
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  5. And here you have the amazing United States education system at work, folks. Try Googling "Sea of Azov"
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  6. Not even close. USMC use of air and supporting roles goes back to 1912. Well before the existence of Israel.
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  7.  @fernandoalegria4240  My father was with the 1/9 while you were there. He was a Marine. But he was very respectful of his Doc's and gave me good reason to be so. Thankfully, my war was not as intense as y'alls, But my Docs did right by my Marines.
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  8. All 12 of them? I mean to be honest there are more than that but they do not have enough armatas in production, much less fielded, to make them a war-winning force.
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  9.  @RaptorJesus  They were iconic cultural sea raiders. We are professional ones. But we both look damn good doing it. 👍🏼
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  10. They don't. But we do. Semper Fi.
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  11. Everything he filmed and released was in accordance with guidance from USN PAO. Chill out.
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  12. Taxpayers, and apparently the majority gladly. Deal with that
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  13. Found the incel.
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  14.  @Bitfire31337  The US has made clear that it considers Taiwan a military ally that it's willing to defend. And NATO isn't the issue, but the alliance of Korea, Australia & Japan, none of which have any desire to see military resurgent China exist in Asia as the sole military power. And China knows all of this. Nothing the Chinese have done in the last two decades points to them feeling the need to rush the reuniting of Taiwan. Russia's recent self inflicted military humiliation and financial hemorrhage has been the best ammunition in the internal between hawks and wiser heads in China. And Xi hasn't demonstrated any desire to pursue military adventures pointlessly. The present China is significantly more patient than most other nations.
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  15. All that fucking time and I never found the fucking dragon
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  16. 1. No one is afraid of Russian nuclear weapons that matters. 2. Russia has no desire to be on the receiving end of any of the responses to a dirty bomb attack. 3. Whatever Russia does to Ukraine in regards to a dirty bomb attack, Emilio opens the door for the Ukrainians be provided weapons to visit reprisals upon the Russians directly. 4. Russia absolutely depends on two countries that have loudly stated they would immediately turn their back on them, if they did anything resembling such (China and Turkey.) 5.The two nuclear accidents that most closely resemble a dirty bomb attack at a nuclear site, did not hamstring either country that happened to (Ukraine and Japan.) Whatever dead ender in Russia wants to contemplate a dirty bomb attack, they are effectively welcome to try at the cost of everything that will happen in to find out phase afterward.
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  17. He did an entire video directly saying as much.
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  18. Army. He had far too much fun to be in the Corps. 🤣
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  19. That argument can be made for basically any powerful weapon.
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  20. Nah. Biracial, light skin. Edit; This is a guess, I don't know for certain.
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  21. Best comment
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  22. Yeah to defend the states right for slavery. You do know why they thought. Whether or not you want to admit it to yourself or publicly is up to the quality of your character. Some of my ancestors fought on the side of the South and they were wrong.
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  23.  @shinrapresident7010  And now we know the quality of the character of the descendant they produced. That appears to be on brand for your family. Mine changed. Yours did not.
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  24. Significantly less. It's a rocket, without so much of the advanced guidance and material necessary for the missile. Any anti-rocket missile is the equivalent of shooting a Ferrari at a Ford.
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  25. Then why did they waste some of their most advanced and elite units trying to capture it, waste enormous numbers of valuable materials in the process of attacking it, and give up so many tanks in the pursuit of capturing it?
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  26. Some can be. The problem involved in using them is that they are not discreet, by which I mean, a MICLIC provides me as an engineer a very specific lane through which I can drive vehicles and advance the penetration of the field, but if the Air Force dropped some moabs, while I know that some areas are clear I don't know what their specific dimensions are, where the other mines piled up at, etc. I still have to treat it like a full field. My understanding is that several nations are working on applications of FAE technology for mind clearing. It'll be interesting to see what they come up with.
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  27.  @jimbob-robob  You're not resting much. Comparing the average runner versus Usain Bolt isn't even a poor comparison, it's a pointless one. Compared to every country in the world that is not the United States, China has a significant overseas presence. The United States has a global military presence that would have staggered in comparison even the British empire at its height. We are not the most powerful military in the world. We are the most powerful military that has ever existed. And when you include our very close military allies we represent a collection of military power that is truly beyond most people's capacity to imagine. We are not the a comparative metric. We represent the upper limit of possibility. That's not what you compare people against.
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  28. There is no capacity to enforce a blockade without your Navy being able to be a credible threat to the United States Navy. And the Chinese Navy is not that threat. That threat does not presently exist. United States Navy enjoys an almost incomprehensible advantage over any opponent Navy.
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  29. They've been awfully patient and very accepting of enormous casualties. They must be real sweethearts. Because if they could just crush the Ukrainians, they would have saved a whole lot of Russian lives by now.
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  30. It is a horrific fact that whatever that hits a flat top that is capable of sinking it reduce the ship's company that is rescuable to numbers that will fit on whoever can get to them.
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  31. Been there
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  32. Russia has the largest standing military inside Ukraine. Iraq had the largest one in Iraq, until it didn't. Bigger is not always better.
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  33. People are still doing that.
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  34. You do not have to be pro war, to be anti losing one.
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  35. Everyone wants to catch them all
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  36. Nothing you said is an answer for any of the specific points he stated would make this weapon system a poor choice. To include for holding ground. The weapon in placement is set so high as to beg to be shot at with an anti-armor missile. And it's not necessary that it be so high if it is used to hold the ground.
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  37.  @ndolba6210  anti-aircraft weapons are generally poor antipersonal weapons over time, due to the rate of fire. And this weapon is over 40 years obsolete as an effective anti-aircraft weapon. The necessity of depth you would need to entrench this vehicle is unreasonable even for WW1 era trenches. You have never served in a modern military, I have. If you had, regardless of whether you or Western or Eastern or African or from Mars, you would understand that the points being raised against the usefulness of the weapon system are rooted in the best practices of war. Too tall..... Too big of a target for no good reason, and needs to be buried deeper than you would want it to have to be to be able to be appropriately protected or hidden. Anti-aircraft weapons have to fire quite quickly, which means an awful lot of expended rounds. This is useful for targeting a single aircraft but a wasteful and ineffective method of suppressing infantry. And as stated, there isn't a huge amount of ammunition available for the weapon. The Russians have produced reliable weapon systems in the past. This does not appear to be one in any way shape or form. But then some of us have the benefit of experience, and you have the "benefit" of confusing your hurt pride and position on the other side of an ocean from me, as somehow being an argument against physics, or logistics.
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  38. cough Inchon cough
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  39. Because smart people understand it's more complicated than that.
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  40. You rarely will find an artillery Soldier or Marine who's not in pretty good shape for exactly that reason.
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  41. Feel free to provide a comparison and contrast list between the number of mistakes he's made versus the volume of times he's right.
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  42.  @Rrryuuireerryyu  he does not. And I said what I said. Provide a list of specific examples of specific things he was wrong about, and compare and contrast the number of times he was wrong versus the number of times he was right. No one is 100% infallible except for keyboard warriors. Who also are not, but only think they are. But the man has actually done the damn thing, and is much more often right than wrong.
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  43. Found the guy who's bad at math. You are not going to get access to the 29% that are worthwhile without competitively enticing them. No amount of you whining about how other people are outside of standard are going to attract people that are inside standard, when you're offering them shit.
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  44. People change jobs. It's really a thing.
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  45. No. It's referencing army air, not naval.
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  46. Because mountains, swamps, and every other terrain that doesn't exist in the reality the people that ask that question live in.
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  47.  @peterrobinson9402  perhaps you have heard of these things called helicopters? Also an mtvr can go a great deal of places that track vehicle cannot.
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  48. Did something prevent you from starting your own channel and talking about it? Or is bitching about other people not doing work for you the only thing you're capable of?
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  49. Yes.
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  50. And if China is extremely patient, which they've demonstrated that they have been so far, they're still likely to eventually win that fight, just not militarily.
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  51. Not great.
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  52. The United States Marine Corps is meeting its recruiting goals, and will continue to. The Commandant In his infinite wisdom, long ago laid a deep enough supply of crayons that we will be good at least until 2136.
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  53. At some point in the future you're likely to be right. Acting like it's going to be tomorrow, however is not a display of intelligence.
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  54.  @AKlover  cool story bro. Get back to me when machine learning has managed to solve any of the major roadblocks facing it right now. I'll give you some free chicken to go ahead and eat. If you can solve any one of these problems, you've just wrote your ticket to if not billionaire status something pretty goddamn close. 1) computing power, 2) the lack of long-term coherence, and 3) the lack of ability to understand what it doesn't know. Machine learning, satisfactory intelligences and eventually at some point the distant future truly artificial intelligences are all going to be major game changers, paradigm shifters, insert corporate term here thingy for humanity as a whole. But a bunch of business people deciding it's going to happen, isn't the way it's going to happen. We have some very real technical, infrastructural and programming issues that have to be solved. And we are kind of running up against some blocks that seem difficult for our present state of the art to overcome them.
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  55. Only they haven't yet?
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  56. Top Gun is a Navy movie. The USN doesn't fly the 22. They fly the Super Hornet & the 35.
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  57. Nothing China has done the last 20 years demonstrates any of the flaws Russia has made a habit of in the last five.
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  58. It's highly unlikely any aggressive country is settling going to find its moral compass. Or sign that tree
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  59. Not perfect.
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  60. Considering the different environments the units originate from, no. But that does not change the fact that they aren't excellent light infantry.
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  61. It shows.
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  62. Taiwan is too far away for a reliable artillery campaign, and bombing would require Chinese aircraft to be able to defeat incredibly formidable anti-aircraft defenses, as well as out fight Taiwanese and US pilots.
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  63.  @Bitfire31337  they would need to have a Navy capable of mounting a credible defense against the United States navy. They do not.
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  64.  @Bitfire31337  👍🏼
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  65. Nuclear armed nations that are capable of projecting power directly do not project it onto each other directly. We fight proxy wars. That way no one gets to find out what a full nuclear exchange looks like.
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  66. Not a single one of their carriers is like any of ours.
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  67. I have an answer. Everything is not.
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  68. That's the greatest weakness of the United States. And one that enemies have successfully exploited in the past.
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  69. Right. 👍🏼 And better at the job. MICLIC is a hell of a show too. 😈
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  70. You misspelled "long term COD player with three airsoft deployments."
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  71. Ryan, this video and everything you've done since the shit in Ukraine kicked off... 1. It's been top-notch work, and has no shit inspired me to step up my game when it comes to translating things for the civilians in my life. 2. It has been actually inspiring. 3. And the number of vets that I meet that have rapidly ended up getting to talking about your channel even if we never met each other points to a growing community that you are perhaps unintentionally building. Seriously, great job SFC. Semper Fi from one is a number of fmr Marines that watch this thing.
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  72. Nope
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  73. They aren't required to let go of it though. They're just not likely to try to win this fight militarily at this time.
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  74. With great determination and focus
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  75. Broken clocks being right, in his case only once a day.
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  76. I don't know what branch you served in, or when. My Marines who happened to be female were just as useful as my Marines who happen to be male. (2004, 2006.)
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  77. Cool. So either pull back to your original borders or go ahead and defeat Ukraine. If they are so weak it should be easy. And if you really want peace then returning to your previous borders isn't a problem.
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  78. It's already over prescribed as it is. If it was OTC, it would have become useless decades ago.
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  79. Except that everything that you just saw a demonstrated was done in world war i, world war ii, Vietnam, Korea and every war that has existed since the invention of artillery and prior to the invention of computers and gps. It is all quite capable of being done without those things, and artillery Marines and Soldiers are trained on how to do so.
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  80. Hey, SFC? The level of humility you demonstrated in making that assessment of you vice that other (at the time) Staff Sergeant ? Best leader or not, it speaks pretty goddamn well of you as a human being.
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  81. It really doesn't.
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  82. Jesus Christ that sound, though.
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  83. What's your problem with porn? That's a particularly puritanical hill to die on considering it's one of the three engines of the internet.
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  84. You're an idiot. After 20 years of war, a great deal of people speak some Arabic, myself included, with minimal to no connection to the intelligence community. It is apparently difficult for you to grasp the idea that somebody spending nine to 22 month deployments in an Arabic speaking country might pick up some of the language, but I swear it's not a difficult mental leap for the rest of us.
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  85. Cool story. If Russians go home, they'll stop dying. If you want the war to end, win it or fuck off back to your borders.
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  86. Comparing modern day China to world war II Japan and Germany is idiotic.
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  87.  @charlesdesocio1560  hit dogs yelp.
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  88. Canada is one of the most effective US allies, with one of the most frighteningly successful military histories in the West, or in the world. Your government made some terrible decisions with your aerospace industry well before you or I were born. And your country historically treats your military veterans terribly. But the flip side is that you do not overspend on your military unlike the United States and have managed to draw a great deal of benefit from that.
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  89. Nothing China has done in the last 20 years has illustrated that they have any of the ignorance of the United states, or for the blind arrogance of russia.
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  90. USMC & (former) Combat Engineer. As somebody else commented, they have MICLICs. Clearing a minefield is hard in training, and absolutely a son of a bitch when people are going to be shooting at you, and when you factor an artillery that's pre-registered on the area, you get a situation that's going to be high casualties regardless. Breaching is never easy. This is the point of minefields.
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  91. You also predicted this war would be over in 3 days
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  92. No that's totally different. You used red and white balls
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  93. And there is absolutely nothing about world war II Germany that can be easily related to present-day china.
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  94. It's that funny kind of winning where They have a higher casualty ratio, have lost territory they once controlled, have a higher rate of material consumption, and have not managed to successful large-scale attack in months. Maybe that's not losing. It sure is shit isn't winning.
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  95.  @kresbes7240  applying your same logic to Russian performance if you're being manhandled by a puppy, bragging that you're going to beat the ass of a bigger dog doesn't make a shitload of sense. Russia is not performing well against technicals, actual IFVs will not suddenly become easier for them to deal with.
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  96.  @kresbes7240   @Kres Bes  it's not a thing to be ashamed of, that English isn't your first language. But Google is free. I'm certain arguing with you if useless. It's not useful to pick on the kid in the special class. I'm not arguing with you. I'm providing your a stage to embarrass yourself on. Russia has had ABYSMAL performance against the Ukrainian military as it is presently constituted.. Providing that smaller military with even more advanced weapons isn't going to do anything other than make them more able. It doesn't have to mystically win any battles. All it has to do is make the job that Russians have been consistently failing at, even harder to succeed at. It will do so.
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  97.  @kresbes7240  mmmmhmm It appears that Ukraine disagrees with you on every single thing you said. They keep asking for those things that you say are useless. They keep thanking us for those things you say they don't need. Hell even the Russians keep complaining about those things you say won't bother them. In short every single goddamn thing you said is decried as absolute bullshit by either the people using it, or the people it's being used on or both. That's a gold medal of wrong
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  98. Cool story. Only they haven't. All y'all keep telling us how Russia has everything under control and can do whatever they want, why is it this was supposed to be over in days and it's taking months to still not be able to be successful? You were incapable of defeating a nation 1/6 your size who is the next door neighbor. NATO has increased by two countries, two countries that never had any desire to prior to this It has taken 20 years of solid effort for us to fail as hard as you managed to accomplish in less than 6 months. Congrats?
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  99. Tell me you're a 12-year-old without telling me you're 12-year-old. Go back to playing with your robot toys kiddo.
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  100. ....um. My dude. Do you know what an AAV is ? And who has them?
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  101. For a blockade to be credible, the Navy enforcing it must be a credible threat to the United States navy. There are no credible threats to the United States Navy on planet Earth.
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  102. Then go ahead and program one, make your millions.
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  103. The answer would be the United States navy. If you tripled the Chinese Navy it would still not represent a credible threat to the United States Navy before you start adding their allies.
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  104. Then you're not pretty smart. China has played their hand much better than either Russia or the United States has in the last 20 years.
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  105. ​ @bocadelcieloplaya3852  That's what mechanized artillery is for.
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  106. A constantly repeated line when you're the person not being screwed. The moment it happens to you you sing a different tune.
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  107.  @AnarexicSumo  I get that you don't want them to be, but as stated they don't even show up on the Geneva conventions radar. Incendiary weapons are not inherently covered by the convention. Look I understand that people haven't really considered the impacts of these weapons because they weren't being used on people that resembled them in their minds, or that this war has made certain techniques that we were comfortable being used on people we cared less about suddenly uncomfortable but war really sucks and weapons are really powerful and the weapons we used to fight wars, they're pretty awful. That still doesn't make them against the Geneva convention. FAE bombs and thermobarric devices are potent weapons, but really just different ways to skin a similar cat when it comes to explosive power.
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  108. Notably, every nuclear armed country and their military doesn't agree with you.
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  109. If Ukraine sucks so bad, why haven't you beaten them yet?
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  110.  @nohandler1493  cool story bro. Of course finishing it in 3 days like you said you would would have saved you more of both. However bad you say Ukraine is, however bad you say the support they get is realize your side is sucking harder because you keep not winning. And there's no amount of bullshit YouTube posts that's going to change that fact
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  111. We don't have long hair.
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  112. 500.
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  113. It was absolutely a victory. Removing him from leadership was never the point and was specifically stated as not the point. One of the things that made it such a cataclysmic victory was that for fucking once no one tried to include mission creep. The goal was to remove him from Kuwait and degrade his ability to ever invade anyone else again. Both were an incredible success.
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  114. If 73 Easting wasn't a real battle neither was the majority of the battles in World war II. Which would be stupid. So yeah they've been in real battles.
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  115.  @AnarchyEnsues  you made a statement that was confidently wrong and was completely refuted. Moving the goalposts changed nothing about that. Neither will easily fact checked lies. You people are just as effective at this as your officers are at fighting. "Their losses can't be sustained much longer". That's been the battle cry of failing generals since the beginning of time. You were going to win in three days. And that's was so many months ago.
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  116. No amount of poorly developed skills will replace the fact that you suck at life.
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  117. ​ @oicfas4523  What's the exception of the fact that the majority of their viewership takes it seriously and they have yet to defeat dominion in court with that particular line of reasoning/bullshit
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  118. That's nice. But you're not a country nor are you a ruler or figure of power in a country so your beliefs don't matter. Whereas Russia very much believes in article 5.
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  119. Then don't watch. His subscriptions are growing, your absence won't be noticed
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  120. It's not an either or situation. We can tax corporations, shareholders and the mega wealthy appropriately (Eisenhower levels.) And still fund an advanced and superbly-trained military.
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  121. Your Navy would need to be a credible threat against the most powerful navy in the world first. It is not.
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  122. Hey shit for brains, there's this thing called the United States Marine Corps Combat Logistics Battalion 451, and they were in New Orleans right after Katrina. As other Marine units took part in response to hurricane Andrew and dozens of others going back in my own memory to at least 1958, where Marines from United States Marine Corps headquarters responded, in addition to others, to the disaster caused by heavy snowstorms.
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  123. No. They have perfectly viable attack helicopters of their own, that are quite competent. And their pilots know how to fly those, versus Apaches or Cobras. The F 16's on the other hand, would allow them to increase their air support umbrella wide enough for them to be able to address the minefields without having to worry about artillery which is going to make Ukrainian combat engineers a hell of a lot happier, and healthier.
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  124. Your entire second sentence is a level of fantasy generally reserved for masturbation. There's no data available that justifies everything you said there in any way other than a best case scenario built out of best case scenarios under the religious assumption that the enemy would simultaneously experience every possible worst case scenario. Let me say this another way, even CHINA doesn't think that's going to happen.
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  125. And what if rocks had wings? And what if the sun didn't rise tomorrow? You can come up with a very long list of pointless hypotheticals, but they're just that: pointless. Neither Korea nor the Philippines nor Australia nor Japan have any desire to share the Eastern world with a completely dominant Chinese hyper power. And a credible blockade requires the blockading Navy to be able to threaten any Navy that would cross it. The Chinese Navy is not a threat in any way shape or form to the United States Navy.
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  126.  @shepherdlavellen3301  yes.
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  127.  @shepherdlavellen3301  by providing Ukraine all the tools they are using to successfully defend themselves? Cool story bro.
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  128.  @shepherdlavellen3301  the Chinese Navy has no capacity to block the United States Navy. If they engage they managed to destroy a capital ship at the cost of every one of theirs within shooting distance. They will not make the war nuclear, and they cannot win conventionally. China is excellently placed to prevent any invasion of china. It cannot project power outside of its borders, on the United States Navy.. any fight at initiates will result in their defeat.
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  129.  @shepherdlavellen3301  "say" isn't "is." NATO is the reason that Ukraine is in the fight at all. They were able to do that without initiating contact directly with China. China cannot do the same on a naval blockade. The world does not recognize the 9 dash line no matter how strongly Beijing demands otherwise. And the Chinese Navy cannot credibly deter a US Ship that is escorting any ship in globally recognized international or Taiwanese waters. To enforce a blockage, the blockading nation has to be willing to board or sink ships that attempt to run the blockade. There is no world where that works out any way in the Chinese Navy's favor.
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  130.  @shepherdlavellen3301  and China will not engage in a nuclear exchange for the same reason Russia hasn't. They aren't suicidal. As well, directly conflict with the US is financially not to their interest. China wins by being patient and waiting for the variables to change in their favor. And they've demonstrated plenty of patience over the last twenty years and very little of the self absorbed arrogance of the US, or the ignorant arrogance of Russia. In short, China is smarter than any of the ideas you're suggesting and hasn't demonstrated that it is stupid enough to try any of them.
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  131. Da, tovarisch. Y'all have defeated Ukraine 6 months ago, everything else that's going on is nearly video. All a part of Vladimir Vladimir raviches nine-dimensional chess plan. 😒 It hurts so bad to know that your side fucked up an invasion against the country less than a 6th their size, so bad.
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  132. Yes and no. We are two separate services, although we are both part of the department of the Navy and often work very closely together. Certain naval personnel are integral two Marine units (all of our non-combatant staff comes from the United States Navy.) But the significant majority of the United States Navy does not have Marines assigned to it, and there are large sections of the Marines that aren't necessarily tied to any naval ship.
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  133. There is no body of seawater on planet Earth where anyone can have an advantage once the United States Navy decides it doesn't.
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  134. ​ @artnull13  Recon at the division or battalion level isn't part of SOCCOM. Those are still Fleet only elements. MARSOC is detached to SOCCOM and represents the only USMC units that are a part of SOCCOM.
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  135.  @artnull13  Force Recon and MARSOC have significantly different capabilities and mission sets. I didn't need a website to walk me through that. I had Stone Bay and a career in the Corps.
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  136. Satire seems lost on you, it doesn't seem that he thinks any of these people are particularly worthwhile spokesman, which is why he makes fun of them.
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  137. Because it's a s Soldier's channel? One Marine to another, brother sit the fuck down and shut up and let the SFC do a decent job talking about something we do well.
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  138. Yes.
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  139. Not at the moment it doesn't.
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  140.  @rubydragon1034  hit dogs yelp. The fact that this bothers you enough for three replies makes it quite clear how hit this particular dog was.
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  141. Your guy lost, cope.Your military has nothing to do with hours. Ours doesn't overthrow the government.
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  142. Documents and sources?
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  143. Really, you're picking it up after all of your space fighting military experience?
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  144. "It is not a primary battlefieldIt is not a primary battlefield nor is it a realm of battle..." Yeah I don't know what AFSC you were for 30 years, but you were bad at learning from it.
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  145. Agreed. And yet, that's the world.
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  146. Aircraft denial is quite different from blockade running. The United States Navy ship escorts of ship into taiwan. The Chinese have the option of shooting or not. If they shoot the destroy a single United States Navy ship and the ships that shoot are eradicated from the face of the Earth. They have achieved cost of one United States ship, while costing themselves the place of being an attacker, and having lost multiple ships. A blockade only works when the blockade Navy is a credible threat to all other navies in the area that would choose to run it. China is not that Navy.
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  147. It is possible for a ship to carry a boat, no boat can carry a ship. "But what about submarines" Many sub boats are transported on ships, no ships are transported on subs.
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  148. It is possible for a ship to carry a boat, no boat can carry a ship. "But what about submarines" Many sub boats are transported on ships, no ships are transported on subs.
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  149. Sources and documents.
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  150.  @RustedCroaker  so then you should have links, where are they? Put down something that can be followed, or admit you're full of shit.
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  151. You have such excellent Marines, and quite good Soldiers. Perhaps many Americans can't make it in your military. Of course your military can't do a particularly good job making it globally, and we do have a tendency to like rifles that don't actually try to kill the person holding it. So....to each their own.
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  152. There's nothing device of about it. Saying water is wet isn't divisive. Saying the earth is round isn't divisive. It's a fact.
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  153. No. Well. Not usually.
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  154. Vous devriez imaginer ce qui se passerait si La Légion était obligée de changer de képi. Une chose qui faisait que les gens se sentaient spéciaux a changé et cela les a affectés émotionnellement. C'est compréhensible, aussi idiot que cela puisse être. I've served beside French units in the early thousands, and there are definitely French units for whom uniform items are a special point of pride and losing them can cause some hate and discontent. So you understand it just fine.
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  155. Your fault for not being born here. Although you're free to immigrate. (God only knows why you'd want to, but that's a separate conversation.) The guy is rather clear about his allegiance's and nationalism. If you're not here to grasp that, then you probably shouldn't be here.
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  156. All militaries are by the definition of their work requirements 24-hour jobs.
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  157.  @filipdahlberg4420  Even better, I did it for 16 years.
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  158. 11-month-old sock puppet account.
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  159.  @tristanc2271  "old white guy screams at clouds." 🤣
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  160.  @tristanc2271  👍🏼
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  161. Right. But of course, us big bad Marines would never get very emotional about anything related to Esprit de Corps, right? 😒 Bro you know better. The berets are stupid damn hat. But it was their stupid damn head and they were partial to it just like we are to our shit.
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  162. That's all very true. And Australia has absolutely no place to hold itself any different. You had the convenience that you're indigenous population also appeared to be African and origin to you so you were able to combine the US sends against Black Americans and Indigenous Americans into one group of people. Which you still do.
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  163. 2-month-old sock puppet account.
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  164. It's a combination of selection bias and the fact that all rotary wing aircraft have a rather particular arc of safety incidents until they maximize their reliability. You could see the same arc If you review the safety records of the CH53, or CH47. But for my own experience, I was in love with the osprey, in love with the capabilities it gave us and never had a problem on one, as opposed to flying around Iraq at times in CH46s that were veterans of my father's war. 😬
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  165. Of course not.. Then you punch the arty round. Jesus man. Do I have to do all the thinking around here? 😂
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  166. Explain why in detail
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  167.  @williamcollins2327  well that's a bad primary hypothesis followed up by a solidly poor one. Great job. You're easily on the level of a Russian battlefield commander (prior to being killed.) Broadly the days of tanks and armored vehicles is just as over as the days of fighters aircraft were in the fifties. The uk assumed they were. Reality assumed differently. Since armor was invented, it has done incredibly poorly advancing unsupported by infantry. Russia has used it's good armor badly, suicidally. And it's now left pitting old, less effective vehicles against and increasingly well armed and experienced enemy. The fault isn't with the armor anywhere near as much as it lies with the commanders. Part the second, Ukraine has the entirety of occupied Ukraine to attack into, well before they get into Russia. (Which would be a poor decision of theirs.)
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  168. You were wrong.
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  169. So you're not only incredibly bad at math, you have no capacity to understand manpower requirements either. You are a bowl full of fail.
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  170. Into the most powerful military in human history. I mean it's not particularly hard to look for. It's all over the world.
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  171.  @chrisalfano589  We are short on ships only if you consider that our end state is to be able to fight two peer nations at the same time. There does not exist a single peer Navy on planet Earth to ours. And we do not have our preferred stocks for 155 and 105 mm ammunition. Neither of which are used by the United States Navy. A naval war with China would result in the concentration of US naval power in the area of the South China Sea. If we took 50% casualties, we would still be three times the size of the Chinese Navy if they took no casualties, with more advanced ships. There is no world with the Navy's structured as they are now that China represents a credible threat to the United States Navy on a peer level. That's not nationalism, patriotism or anything other than math.
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  172. They weren't there because it wasn't an embassy.
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  173. ​ @williambarnebee40  they're a LOT bigger than we are, Will. And they have tons of combat arms in the Guard. So they use the USAR like we presently use 4th MLG.
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  174. Cool. Then you have nothing to worry about. Though if the Ukrainians suck so bad, and all their donated weapons look so bad, then why haven't you won yet?
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  175. So you don't want to spend any more money on the United States military, but you want us to invade and conquer an enormous country to our south and forcibly integrated into the United States. That's about the stupidest thing I've read all morning.
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  176. Hip pocket microbio. Niiiiice SFC. 👍🏼
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  177. That's not an answer because it's demonstratedly incorrect.
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  178.  @madmanthepope6448  and you're basing that on what specific international case law?
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  179.  @madmanthepope6448  so you do not have a specific piece of international case law or a treaty agreement. Noted.
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  180.  @madmanthepope6448  the question that was asked is what specific case law or treaty you were citing. You have none to cite. That's the end of it.
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  181.  @fh5926  What branch of the service and what country did you serve and in what MOS/military specialty?
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  182.  @fh5926  I'm out too, my background was in the Corps as an Engineer. Again, we very much need to know the dimensions of the lanes that are created when we are breaching fields. We absolutely need to know the safe, absolutely safe limits for vehicle entry and troop entry so that we can rapidly exit the danger area. The MICLIC is the discreet and it is thorough So I am going to be able to move my rolling stock and walking grunts through that area ASAP. Without the risk of one detonated anti-tank mine slowing down everybody. No enemy can cover every minefield with pre-registered arty. Even we in the US can't do that along battle lines as long as they are in Ukraine. But a thick and dense enough minefield properly prepared with wire and other obstacles creates a situation where you can move limited resources to address penetrations. I got out completely in 2020. I joined in '03. We have tried and developed multiple ways of dealing with IDs and static fields in the last 20 years, and dropping things like Daisy cutters / MOABs is a tool, it is not the most reliable tool to use to move to the kinds of fields that the Ukrainians are moving through, with the kind of air support/superiority/dominance they do or rather don't have. And dropping an airburst that scoops 98% of the minds out the way and leaves 2% is a very real problem. All I know about comms is that they are up or they are not and a little bit of troubleshooting when it comes to the personal radios I had to deal with. If you were to tell me that XYZ about, commo was possible But not the best idea, I would take you at your word. Take me at mine when I tell you that I absolutely need to know that the land in front of me is as clear as is possible to a discreet and specific left and right lateral limit. I need to know that immediately and I need to know the length of safe distance in front of me to a set of numbers so that I can perform calculations. Me and my engineers and everybody following behind me really need to count on that. Or did. I am on the other side of it, just like you and I hope the best for those that are still doing it as I imagine you do.
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  183. Why? It's inherently to the betterment of the military. It helps achieve readiness and mission accomplishment, which are the end of the day the two most important things for any military unit. The only people bitching about wokness are people that think having their feelings catered to is more important than maintaining high readiness levels, and placing mission accomplishment first. Why would we give a shit about the opinions of people who are bitch made? I won't speak for the other branches of service, but here in the Marine Corps we are interested in winning fights, not coddling the fees of a bunch of useless second placers from our last civil war.
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  184. China has a significant global military presence. The Soviet Union used to. Both nations, Russia and China are welcome to foot the bill for such things if they can afford it. China can and has no real desire to outside of the missions they already have ongoing overseas, and If it cost a nickel to shit, Russia would have to hold it, in their present situation. So what's happened before, and we weren't terribly troubled by it, and it's likely to happen again but it's not happening right now.
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  185. For a blockade to be credible, that nation's Navy has to be a credible threat to the United States navy. It is not.
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  186. Found the guy who's bad at math.
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  187. WWII, The NK in Korea (the Chinese, however, not so much), Desert Storm.OIF. (I'm going to award them a successful proxy war when in Afghanistan versus the USSR, however that success would come right back to bite them in the ass.) Which by the way, is incredibly good compared to other major powers. In the same time frame.... Britain: WWII, Falklands (lost or failed in several others) France: Not even WWII. USSR: WWII and they get, in my opinion, a successful proxy war in Vietnam. Russia: Chechnya, Georgia, Ukraine the first time. (It is important to note every single one of the nations they fought bordered them.) China: India. (Lost to Vietnam, fought the US & allies to a draw in Korea.) Tibet really doesn't count due to the enormous difference in technology and size. The keyboard legions love to talk about how few wars the United States won, and neglect to remember how few wars get won authoritatively by anybody, particularly in modern times across large distances. It's almost like war is hard but talking shit on the internet is easy.
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  188. ​ @KR-fy3ls  a 3-month war can definitely be a war. The other guy is technically correct, but the reality is on your side. Pakistan and India we're only technically nuclearmed nations at the time, and the skirmish between China and the Soviet Union was nothing either country was interested in becoming anything more than just that. Border posing with a lot of noise and a few bodies.
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  189. Lolnope
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  190. Haiti is about as close to a failed state as one can get without being completely failed. Mexico, however is completely different.
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  191. The fact that you're not an American nor are you in the military has nothing to do without poorly you demonstrate the basic understanding of human nature. You don't have to be from the United States and you never have to serve to understand the fundamentals of human motivation particularly in large hierarchical organizations and how bad of a choice that particularly small hill to die on was. A general is a leader, not a manager. Not a supervisor. To lead requires a necessity, an absolute necessity to include an emotional component in your leadership. All the generals formidable accomplishments and well thought out plans were partially hamstrung by his inability to realize that what seemed to be a small point of pride that he was in flexible on, was seriously degrading the troops investment in being behind his changes.
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  192. Spoken like true idiot. Nuclear weapons only exist to make sure that others do not invade your territory directly, and that no one feels comfortable exchanging each other weapons with you. The minute any major Nation uses and nuclear weapon, it kicks off an exchange. The minute any minor Nation uses them, it kicks off that Nation being eradicated. This is not complicated they use three letters to go ahead and explain the entire process. And everyone including everyone in China in power understands it just fine.
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  193. No. I mean that's a short answer, but the slightly longer one is that the triggering mechanism of nuclear weapons actually is a component of the process to appropriately detonated, and is not a plug and play system. Removing the triggering system, effectively gives you a significant amount of explosive and a significant amount of fusible material, but nothing that can be used to detonate a to fuse B, to create the Earth shattering kaboom. Trying to change the locks on a nuclear weapon is not like doing it on your house or your computer. You end up with all the parts for a nuclear weapon but they don't work together unless you rebuild the bomb from scratch.
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  194. USMC line platoons have multiple drone operators.
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  195. You know it. 👍🏼
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  196. The 1990s, when the United States Army tried to reinvent itself as the Marine Corps. The thousands and tens.: when the United States Marine Corps tried to reinvent itself as a four division sized Ranger batt that could swim well with bigger guns (tanks, arty, air.) In the end, both of our services shot themselves in the foot, then stepped on their dicks. The USMC vitally needs combined air,sea, land aspect. It has to remain light and punch above its weight and prize mobility and deployability over even long-term survivability in the field. Those are the fixed requirements of the niche that we accommodate and excel at. And behind the motivated pitbull with a Bowie knife, you need a broadsword, wielded by a Soldier In thick armor with a broad shield. While the United States Army definitely needs units that bridge the 24-hour deployability of the United States Marine Corps to the significant time to Target of an armored division, in the main, the United States Army and Air Force need to be the final word of the "Find Out"phase of the DODs "FAFO" spectrum. Here's to the 5 services and those cosplayers in space force getting back to our interconnected core competencies, shining at them, giving each other shit and still getting the job done better than most. Semper Fi, SFC. Excellent video.
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  197. That's a fundamentally dishonest representation of the difference between diplomatic immunity and a SOFA. And you know that.
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  198.  @floreamariussorin8652  It has been like this in this alliance since before you were born, and your YouTube voice opinion is not going to change anything about that.
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  199.  @andrewwhite3793  lying repeatedly doesn't make something true. US servicemen are not immune to British law. Neither diplomatic nor consular immunity applies to US service people within Great Britain.
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  200.  @stanielb2005  hey look it's somebody who has never done the job arguing with somebody who's done the job for 8 years. This video is the best of youtube, the arguments are the worst.
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  201. Yeah that's not the way power works.
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  202. 1. The only immigration problem the United States has is that it's racism actively prevents It's leveraging the advantages of the number of people that want to come to it. 1B. Oh, and that it's racism is actively beginning to increase the cost of all the industries that depend on migrant workers and other immigrants because they only function for a combination of corporate welfare and undocumented workers. Florida seems to be struggling with that rather badly right now. 2. Green card holders can enlist in the United States military, every branch, and receive a extremely rapid route towards citizenship. I joined the Marine Corps in 2002 with six other young men, two of them were immigrants. Both are citizens now and have been for quite some time.
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  203. Nothing China has done the last 20 years illustrates that they have any of the blind arrogance of either the United States or Russia.
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  204. ​ @marcialsantiago8383 No, shit for brains. The FDA, NIH and, amusingly enough, the VA.
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  205.  @RyanMcBethProgramming  I mean, I'll actually disagree with the SFC there. Civil Affairs and Logistics being a large part of my background in the Corps, I got some comfort with this one "How the Taliban defeated US and NATO" By being comfortable losing more often and longer than the US and NATO was comfortable winning to no point. In an insurgency, it is the side willing to show the most endurance and absorb the most loss whether it is in casualties (on the side of the insurgency) or financial resources and time (on the side of the counterinsurgency) that wins. It is possible and in fact even common foreign insurgency to be able to lose every battle and the overwhelming majority of fire fights in an insurgency and still win because they exhaust the counterinsurgent opposition. That's "all."
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  206. Lol. Same thought. But It's still not bad advice. Sergio, you work in HVAC. You have a license to print cash man why would you want to change jobs?
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  207.  @huasohvac  fair.
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