Comments by "Evan" (@MrEvanfriend) on "Mark Felton Productions" channel.

  1. Who, I believe, was one of the ones primarily responsible for the Armenian genocide. Seems to run in that family.
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  2. I think he should do more videos about Marines in general.
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  3.  @dr.s6114  Plus these were moslems. Moslems have always been enthusiastic persecutors of the Jews. Couldn't have been too hard recruiting them - "wait a minute, you hate the USSR AND the Jews? Where do I sign - I mean where would I sign if I was literate?" Allies of convenience certainly, but who happened to share two large ideological goals.
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  4. In the Pacific, the Marines always knew that a landing was imminent when they got steak and eggs.
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  5. Do you mean the 2nd Marines specifically or do you just mean the 2nd Marine Division? When you say "Second Marines", it refers to the 2nd Marine Regiment, which is a subordinate unit of the 2nd Marine Division, but not the same thing as the Division itself (my battalion belonged to the Seventh Marines, which is part of the First Marine Division, for example). The patch for the 2nd MarDiv is a red arrowhead shaped thing with a hand holding a yellow torch with a red 2 on it, and the Southern Cross in yellow stars in the background. I believe that at one point, the patch had GUADALCANAL on it, like 1st MarDiv's patch still does. Interestingly enough, Marines do not wear division patches on any of our uniforms, and have not for some time (though we did in WWII). However, Army personnel who were attached to Marine units or were prior service Marines can and do wear Marine Corps patches. My friend from the Corps who later joined the Army wore a 1st MarDiv combat patch.
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  6. Zirkus Rosarius. The Luftwaffe did the exact same thing with captured British and American aircraft, and I believe they even used them in combat once or twice.
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  7. When I was in the Corps in the 2000s, I knew my friends who were wounded in Iraq were getting Purple Hearts purchased for Operation Downfall. I was lucky enough never to get one myself.
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  8. This program may have seemed like a failure, but it did start the great American tradition of killing Kennedys.
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  9. In all honesty, blaming the Germans for massacres was eminently believable.
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  10. As a veteran of the Iraq war, a letter is STILL important in wartime. When you're in the infantry, you don't have access to cell phones and internet and whatnot, and written letters from home are the biggest morale booster you can imagine. No matter how bad your day had been, when you got a letter, or two or three, it made that day markedly better. I was lucky, I had a girlfriend who wrote me every day, parents who wrote a couple times a week, and other friends and family who would write occasionally. If we were far enough out that mail was a weekly event instead of a daily one, I'd get a stack of maybe a dozen letters, and as soon as I had a minute of down time, I'd sneak off to as private a place as I could find, read them all, and forget where I was for a few minutes. I had one letter from my girlfriend that even distinctly smelled like her, I kept that one in my flak jacket for a month or two until the scent finally wore off. The only way I can describe mail call when you're at war is like Christmas morning when you're a little kid. When the mail comes in, it's just like running to look at what Santa left under the tree for you. It's one of the best feelings in the world, in a place where feel-good moments aren't exactly commonplace.
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  11. Lieutenants tend to be worthless.
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  12. As an old Marine myself, I second that
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  13.  @smartiepancake  Seriously. Someone did a real number on that.
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  14.  StahlBlitz  The Germans were as bad as the Soviets.
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  15. Good. Do more stuff about the US Marines - the finest fighting force the world has ever seen.
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  16. The idea that "yeah, they did this once, but they'd never try doing it again" was inexplicably popular.
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  17. Stalin was notoriously short, and notoriously embarrassed about his height. He would wear platform shoes to make himself look taller, and stand on a box or whatever in pictures so the general public couldn't see that he was shorter than everyone else.
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  18. When I was in Iraq in 2005-2006, we had something very similar. Even then, we weren't allowed unsecured two-way communication devices, and so letter writing was the best way for us to communicate with people back home and vice versa. So the Marine Corps did something called Moto Mail. Instead of microfilm or whatever, people who wanted to write a deployed Marine could send an email to somebody (I don't know who, I never wrote a Moto Mail, just received them), and then they'd print it out in a format similar to a tax return check and get it to you in a day or two as opposed to about a week. It lacked the personality of a written letter, but it was the quickest way for someone to get in touch with us. I got Moto Mails from my dad a few times, and a few other family members, including some cousin I didn't know I had who wrote to give me remarkably bad advice (fortunately I knew better) from someone who had never been anywhere near a combat zone. I preferred normal letters.
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  19. I hadn't heard this particular conspiracy theory. Like most conspiracy theories, it sounds like nonsense.
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  20. The Allies' abandonment of Poland to the clutches of Stalin was disgraceful.
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  21.  @TheEvilmooseofdoom  He was a legit war hero in WWI. Doesn't make up for the whole "genocidal dictator who started a world war" thing though.
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  22. If I'd captured Goering, I'd have stolen his medals and shit too. Talk about a souvenir.
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  23.  @VictoryOrValhalla14  We had sat phones that sorta kinda worked...if you could get your hands on one. Two per company, and one was usually broken. And the one that "worked", you had to find the highest point you could, prop your rifle up as high as possible, and put the little magnetic antenna thing on the muzzle.
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  24.  @VictoryOrValhalla14  I was in and around Fallujah in '05-06....never had to make a phone call under fire. Excellent story though. All those ridiculous shitty moments make great stories later.
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  25. You don't "win" a Purple Heart. A Purple Heart is awarded for receiving wounds caused by enemy action. Anything one goes through to earn such an award could not reasonably be mistaken for "winning".
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  26. Those helmets look atrocious.
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  27. You mean he was 6th Marine Division, 22nd Marine Regiment? 22nd Infantry would be Army. If he was 6th MarDiv, 22nd Marine Regiment that would be written as 6th MarDiv, 22nd Marines. 6th Marines is the 6th Marine Regiment, which belongs to 2nd Marine Division, which wasn't on Okinawa.
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  28.  @kevindavis5966  I'm sure a lot of people would've liked that.
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  29. I am an American, a US Marine, and an admitted Anglophile. I've seen the Royal Marines, your "Bootnecks", in action and I can say that they are as fine fighting men as any on the planet. Y'all British do more with less than even the USMC does (your L85 is an abysmally bad rifle). I love the Brits, and I'd be happy to fight alongside you any day, but yeah, your forces are too small. I'd love to see you build them up, because the world knows that there's nothing scarier than facing English speakers across a battlefield. I just hope that if it ever comes to war, our cousins across the pond have the numbers it takes. As an aside, y'all may not have enough submarines, but you are FAR better at naming them than we are. HMS Vengeance is by far the best named ship on the planet. What better name for a second strike doomsday weapon? Our boomers are named after states, besides one named after some politician. Royal Navy ships in general have proud names, compared to boring US Navy ones, but Vengeance compared to Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson isn't even a comparison
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  30.  Hitlerwas Right  Uh, no, it doesn't. And compared to the deliberate murder of countless millions of people for entirely arbitrary reasons, the sins of the Allies seem quite trivial.
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  31. Eh, when you're at the level of body counts in the millions, there's really no point in debating who was "worse". Overall, Stalin killed more people than Hitler did, but he also had like 30 years to do so instead of Hitler's 12. Hitler had the death camps, the industrial murder which has never been seen before or since, but Stalin was even more arbitrary in who he murdered than Hitler was (in Nazi Germany, if you followed the rules, you'd be relatively safe, whereas in Stalin's USSR, anyone could end up with a bullet tp the back of the head). Basically, both of them were at the absolute worst level of humanity, as both oversaw the deliberate murder of millions of people for no good reason. Which of them was worse than the other is an entirely pointless conversation, it's the same as arguing whether terminal lung cancer is "worse" than terminal liver cancer.
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  32.  @JeepWrangler1957  I think the big difference is how their respective regimes ended. Nazi Germany was invaded and dismantled, and their atrocities were put on display for all the world to see. We've all seen footage taken by liberators of concentration camps, we all know about the Nuremburg trials, etc. Stalin, on the other hand, died peacefully (more or less) in his bed, and his regime outlived him by close to 40 years. By 1991 when the USSR fell, most of the perpetrators of the worst Stalinist atrocities were dead, the GULags were long closed, and everything could be quietly swept under the rug. In the end, we remember Hitler as the embodiment of evil but not Stalin because we got a better look at what he did.
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  33. I agree, but if I'm taking fire from a building, I'm gonna do my best to level it.
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  34. Well, whether or not it would've been any good, that's about the ugliest fighter aircraft I've ever seen.
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  35. I'm interested to know why the Pig vehicle pictured says "Semper Fi", the motto of the US Marines, on its hood. As far as I know, the US Marine Corps has never used such a vehicle.
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  36. "Tipping". Bakshish is a bribe.
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  37.  @donalddodson7365  Never heard Viperous Aggrevators before, but it is an apt and hilarious term for them, and I plan to use it!
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  38. This was a stupid idea to begin with, and if they'd spent the resources they wasted on this nonsense on things like heavy bombers, it would have been a lot worse for the Allies.
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  39. But how tall was Roosevelt sitting in his wheelchair? That's what we really want to know.
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  40.  @pauliemc2010  It's an American medal. When he talks about lieutenants, he pronounces it "lieutenant" when he refers to an American one and "leftenant" when he refers to a British one. "Winning" various military decorations is considered an almost offensive way of saying it to American military/vets
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  41. It's a shame that there are so few of these warbirds left.
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  42. The Maus wasn't even the most absurdly large and completely ridiculous armored vehicle the Germans came up with. They came up with the Ratte, which was a tank that was supposed to weigh 1000 tons, and would have made the Maus look practical by comparison. They also had the Landkreuzer Monster, a completely farcical 1500 ton 800mm self-propelled gun that had four sets of tracks and a crew of over 100. These projects, despite Hitler's enthusiasm, never got off the drawing board, and were quietly cancelled by Albert Speer when Hitler had turned his attention to other stupid plans and ridiculous doomsday weapons. Basically, Hitler was a megalomaniacal lunatic with a penchant for extremes, and had a lot of unrealistic ideas about doomsday weapons.
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  43. Kadena is still a USAF base. I was there a couple times when I was in Okinawa with the Marines.
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  44. BAMCIS. Patton didn't do half of the steps. No recon was stupid.
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  45. Himmler certainly had some bizarre ideas.
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  46. Well, I guess one of the cuts they made to the RAF was to number of fucks issued to pilots. Because this dude was certainly all out of fucks to give, and clearly not a fuck was given on his entire flight.
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  47. As a US Marine, a member of another world-renowned fighting force, I have nothing for respect for the Gurkhas, and wouldn't want to see them across a battlefield. Ayo Gurkhali!
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  48. Kinda cool how far ahead of its time it was.
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  49. Hopefully some enterprising GIs looted it. I always wished that we were allowed to loot when I was in the Marines. And I've heard the stories of American troops in Berchtesgaden and the Obersalzburg looting everything that wasn't bolted down. I say, good for them.
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  50. Doesn't an M1A2 weigh something like 72 tons?
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