Comments by "Helium Road" (@RCAvhstape) on "The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered" channel.

  1. Your video got demonetized because Google/YouTube hates America and her allies, Canada and Great Britain.
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  2. New York still causes problems today. Aside from the New Jersey jokes (hey, let's throw our trash in the ocean, and when it shows up on NJ beaches we'll make fun of them for it!), there is also the fact that guys like their boy Bloomberg have been interfering in elections in places like Virginia for many years, spending wads of NY cash to get people elected in other states. NY just can't mind its own business. What else would you expect from an entity that calls itself the "Empire State"?
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  3. Amazing this guy lived so long before getting his throat cut.
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  4. Shoot a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.
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  5. You should watch the film "Strategic Air Command" starring Jimmy Stewart for lots of B-47 footage. Jimmy was a bomber pilot in WWII Europe and stayed in the USAF Reserve throughout much of his acting career.
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  6.  @petersmith4423  In the US Marines, we are told that the seven belt loops in our trousers stand for the Seven Seas. I am guessing maybe the first garment maker to get a uniform contract just happened to make pants that way, but I knew enough to keep my pie hole shut.
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  7.  @waltking9141  Hitting the trailer park meth a little hard today, are we?
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  8. Which of the two young ladies did he prefer? Because obviously, Mary Ann is hotter than Ginger.
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  9. A giant monument to wastefulness. Sad to see all those functional ships, and all the work and money that went into building them, only to be destroyed.
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  10. 10:10 I'd be interested to hear more details about that story. While the US Navy has a lot to be proud of, it also has a lot to be ashamed of when it comes to the way it treats guys like that.
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  11. There was a more recent incident in Iraq where a two-engine civilian cargo jet was hit by a surface to air missile while taking off, and the crew managed to control the aircraft and land it using only engine thrust alone, managing to get it down on the wheels in one piece. Happened in the mid-2000's IIRC.
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  12. The 29th Inf. Div. is called the "Blue Gray Division" because it is made up of National Guard units whose lineage can be traced back to both sides in the Civil War. The 116th Infantry Regiment is known as the "Stonewall Brigade" because it's battalions served under Stonewall Jackson in the Confederate Army.
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  13. It was my understanding that the original mechanical fire control computers were still used during the Gulf War because they are built into the ship and linked directly to the rangefinders, gun turrets, etc. You can put modern electronic computers aboard the ship along with modern radar, but at some point when it comes time to aim the guns you use the old machines. Something I thought I read somewhere. In any case those old fire control systems were the best in the world, and the US had a huge advantage over Japan when it came to radar and fire control in the later part of WWII. At the Battle of the Philippine Sea the only Japanese battleship to have radar fire control was Yamato, IIRC, the others were all using optical rangefinders.
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  14.  @trukr817  Constitution is still a commissioned ship and gets real Navy money. If taking your museum out of the water to save it is what it takes, at least it's better than letting it rust away beyond repair.
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  15. I read your book, Ryan. Your conclusions were all wrong. Halsey acted shtupidly.
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  16.  @rcknbob1  A "bottom" is sometimes used to refer to a low lying area of land, such as a swamp. And swamps are often foggy, especially in the morning.
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  17.  @gregboyington4896  It was a good movie, but the ending is one of the greatest blue ball moments in film history. I REALLY wanted to see the Nimitz's air wing lay hard into the kido butai, they had the whole strike package moving out loaded for bear...
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  18. Shady contractors still do that kind of shit today. Have a house built. Contractor delivers the appliances and leaves them in the garage where they are magically stolen overnight. No prob, insurance buys you new ones. Stolen appliances wind up sold to the next customer.
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  19. There was also a guy my dad told me about who had a houseboat on the Delaware River and used to move back and forth between NJ and PA in order to avoid being a resident of either state and taxes. Dim memory of that.
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  20. Well I been to one World Fair, a picnic, and a rodeo and that's the stupidest thing I ever heard come over a set of earphones!
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  21. Drinking game: drink whenever History Guy says "banana".
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  22. "Why is the rum always gone?" Captain Jack Sparrow
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  23. My understanding is that the B-52 still has a better availability rate than the B-1B or the B-2, and that it's relatively cheaper to maintain than those newer birds too. It's also been able to find new missions besides just strategic bombing; in more recent years it's been used tactically to support ground troops, since you can load it up with sensors and precision guided munitions and have it loiter over the battlefield waiting for a call for fire. Nobody in the 50s ever imagined what we'd be using it for now, it's truly one of the best acquisitions for the dollar the US military has ever bought.
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  24.  @bobross8786  Cuttings off your nose to spite your face. If you aren't an idiot, credit cards make your life a lot easier and you don't run up dept. I can drink without getting stupid drunk, it's not that hard unless you're an addict.
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  25. There's an old joke in the Navy and Marine Corps: "What's the difference between a fairy tale and a sea story? A fairy tale starts, "Once upon a time...", and a sea story starts, "And this is no shit..."
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  26.  @dragonsword7370  RIP Kirk Douglas great film.
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  27. The weakness of digital medium is the machines and software needed to retrieve it, which may become obsolete at any time in the future, rendering all your jpgs, Word docs, pdfs, etc. unreadable to most future computers. The beauty of film is that all you need to read it is a light and a magnifying glass, and printing it requires some fairly simple chemistry, or it can be scanned into the future tech of the day for digital viewing. This makes film a good long term archival storage option.
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  28. "The world weighs on my shoulders, but what am I to do I know it makes no difference To what you're going through But I see the tip of the iceberg And I worry about you Absalom Absalom Absalom" - Rush Distant Early Warning
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  29.  @thewriteinpresident  Uh, yeah, you tell him buddy! And don't let any of them tell you you have to take your meds, that's just propaganda from the lizard overlords! lol
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  30. In the fictionalized TV series (Baa Baa Black Sheep) version of the story VMF-214 (now VMA-214) was created out of thin air when Boyington scammed the paperwork and stole a shipment of factory new F4U Corsairs from some Navy squadron that was due to get them. That never happened in real life, but it makes for a great sea story. If you've never watched the pilot episode for the show it's worth a look.
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  31.  @johnserrano9689  wtf?
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  32. The opposite is almost just as bad. Some parrots can live more than 60 years or so, which means if you get a young parrot in your 30s he may outlive you and become an old, unwanted bird. The bird rescue organizations have lots of them. It is recommended to leave instructions in your will for pets that may outlive you.
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  33. "Either you're a dead man, or you earn yourself a medal" Or maybe both.
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  34. Sounds great until the ornery goose bites you in the scrotum.
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  35. 8:35 LOL Marines! Even when they aren't anywhere in sight, they still manage to find ways to piss off the Army!
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  36. I often wonder why fans of any particular channel obsess over those who dislike videos.
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  37. On the differences between the USAF and Navy versions of the A-7, there was a sea story* I heard once. A couple of USAF A-7's landed at a Navy base in California, and in addition to fuel, the pilots asked the Navy guys to recharge the pilot oxygen systems. Apparently, Navy A-7's used a higher pressure O2 system than the USAF version, but nobody told the poor young petty officer who was sent out to the flightline with an oxygen cart. He plugged in the cart, cranked up the pressure and opened the valve. The Corsair promptly exploded! I saw a photo: the engine was sitting there surrounded by airplane parts. They sailor was thought to be dead, but they couldn't find his body. A couple of days later he showed up and explained: After the plane blew up, he took off running and hopped the fence to go hide out in town, thinking that for sure he was going to burn for this. I didn't hear what they actually did to the guy, but I'm guessing he didn't get punished as bad as he was expecting lol. *In US Navy/Marine parlance, a "sea story" is a story which may be true or may be complete BS or something in between.
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  38. In prehistoric Soviet Russia, chicken eat you
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  39. "Many of we original Star Wars fans wish that they had stopped there [in 1983]" Hear hear.
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  40.  @marbleman52  Yes, storage is important for any medium. Even stone tablets wear down if left out in the weather.
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  41. If I were one of those passengers, I'd tell the agent to make sure I get aboard whichever plane that particular pilot is flying.
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  42. "Speak softly and carry a big stick." - Teddy Roosevelt
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  43.  @donf3877  ON top of that, if a lengthy invasion had taken place the Soviet Union would've seized all the northern Japanese islands and possibly part of the main island.
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  44.  @hadronoftheseus8829  Ed, "Ha ha ha. Yes."
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  45. The Star Trek version?
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  46.  @Andrew-13579  Plus, like most Russian designs, the Tu-22 is as hideous as an infected zit on the ass of Rosie O'Donnell, while the B-58 is one of the sleekest, most beautiful, badass-looking planes ever built.
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  47. That reminds me of the videos from Lebanon 2 years ago where people were recording the blast with their phones and just stood there watching it through glass windows, not understanding the price they'd pay when the shock wave arrived.
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  48.  @Idahoguy10157  Wrong. The mast is real, and there is even an air passenger terminal built into the top of the building. They tried to moor an airship to it once, but the captain deemed the approach too dangerous because of the vertical gusts. It wasn't well thought out, but it was real.
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  49.  @Dave_Sisson  During the Gulf War in 1991 every bomb I saw had stuff written on it. And it's not like we didn't "have far more important things to do".
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  50. Anyone who was anyone avoided this and went straight for the Chrysler Cordoba, with its rich Corinthian leather!
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