A really great down and dirty on the movies and stuff. He hit some really good highlights too. Flying, especially with the Cargo ACs was always noisy, you not having a normal conversation unless you 'jack in" with the headset. I didn't like to do that because the pilots, loads, Co pilot always was chattering away and I had nothing to say. They also pip music and movies in, MF be listening to NWA etc and all kinds of shit. All white crew. I was like wtf
Phaselines. He didn't go into that but these tell your remote team where you are on the map and to check if you are on schedule to hit your target. Sometimes you were off, you'd have to hump or do a back azimuth to find out where you are or in our one point man's fucked up navigation....to see if you about to go off a cliff.
He was fired btw. Can't read a fucking map
When doing CQB (Close quarters combat) you tend to move fast, dynamically and as he stated NOT bunch up. Our SRT instructors (SWAT) and one Master Sgt killed us if we did that and you reset. So imagine you training for a two hour event and it magically becomes 8 hours.
Even on small buildings you come away aching. When we had to do search and clean for large buildings like dorms....it was a long, long mf day. You ass cheeks, legs, arms, back are on fire. Hallways and doors are fatal funnel. Place where you need to negotiate and clear or drop security element. Don't fuck around, or die.
Had K-9 buddies that did the door to door shit in Iraq and Afghanistan. The stories man.....one K-9 handler dog found three caches of weapons and people. Base was attacked and the dog died in a fire smh
The jumps: He very briefly touched on it but some of the jump and J coded people were terrified of jumping. I mean, literally. LOL one day they jumped about 10 times, night and day and one of the jump guys came up to me and asked if I was going to jump school. I told him probably not lol, he said good. Its scary. Because he was tired of it and even then, his knees and back was fucked up. He missed his LZ and went into a bed of dry hard ass coral, they sent the ambulance to get him lol
Edit. This shit was hilarious. Chuck ( I can't cut it in the military) Norris coming out the fucking water firing an M-60. in Semi Automatic? Really? I went to 60 specialist school and one of the reasons we retired that PIG was because is was so finicky. It hated moisture! besides the lubrication needed for operation, I've never seen a M-60 get immersed and fire. Ever. I don't believe it would happen. You'd get the ol KA THUNK which would mean this mf ain't firing! The 240 Bravo? Yes, M-60 NO! GTFOH