Navy SEAL Jocko Willink Breaks Down Combat Scenes From Movies
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I'm going out to bookmark this for later. I might listen to this on the way to work tomorrow
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 mapWhen 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
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Good stuff. The US Marine one was dope. One thing I have to point out is what he said about medics in WWII. He's right by saying medics didn't have guns to start out but they ended up giving them pistols because the Germans were committing war crimes by shooting at medics on the battlefield. My grandfather was a medic in Paris and told the story of bullets whizzing past his head while attending to the wounded. He ended up getting two pistols and actually had to fire on a German while pulling a wounded to safety.
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.
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.
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
Great post my man.
The funniest military movie scene I have seen is Rambo (Rambo 3) driving, loading the main gun and firing a Rusisian T62 tank all at the same time.
As a veteran it always cracks me up seeing errors done with military theme movies.
The worst is with uniforms. I saw this one movie and a US ARMY general had 4 stars on his shoulders and platoon sgt stripes on his arms.
Medals on dress uniforms in the wrong order. Badges and insignia in the wrong order. I saw one flick and the dude was US ARMY. He had his Combat Infantryman Badge on class A’s on the right breast pocket flap and Naval Aviator wings below his medals on the left side.
Pure Comedy.
As a veteran it always cracks me up seeing errors done with military theme movies.
The worst is with uniforms. I saw this one movie and a US ARMY general had 4 stars on his shoulders and platoon sgt stripes on his arms.
Medals on dress uniforms in the wrong order. Badges and insignia in the wrong order. I saw one flick and the dude was US ARMY. He had his Combat Infantryman Badge on class A’s on the right breast pocket flap and Naval Aviator wings below his medals on the left side.
Pure Comedy.
Has anyone read David Goggins book “can’t hurt me”
Great book, and there’s a thread on him.
I can't find the thread with the search button... btw just finished the book
phenomenal book and Dave tells it like it is. Dude is a monster
I also sometimes hate looking at movies with a military theme. If I see something stupid I always be like GTFOH
believe it or not Predator (first movie) was very accurate to how a squad would negotiate the jungle. And Blackhawk down. Bounding, Traveling overwatch (FM 7-8, speed is essential but contact not expected or contact is expected ) setting up security, making sure nobody crawled up your , setting trips close in (flares) or booby traps etc, etc.
setting and initiating a far and hasty ambush. Who’s the pivot man on the heavy when you do an ambush (always linear and L shaped, slam the gate. Machine gun is pivot at intersecting point) Actions on objective. Detaching and emplacing security teams, sniper, 5 point contingency plans...its a lot
Or firing 40mm High explosive (grenade launcher) and it blows apart everything. Nah that’s movie magic lol
Also SAS (Bear Grylls) are equivalent to Navy Seals. Some are tougher. During a FTX in mountains in UK them mf was waltzing around in freezing cold chilling like it was summer. Icicles were in my nose and I wanted to quit. Was like fuck this, it’s cold. I just want to go home. 1991. Them? Mf was yuking it up like it was a spring day. I didn’t know their identity at the time but I learned.
good stuff on all the other post too. And next to last Rambo was raw. He had that Ma Duece singing. Only thing I saw was he was pretty much cyclic and if you firing a machine gun you can only go so long before you have to do a barrel change because the rounds starts melting the barrel. Same with a M-60. 240 bravo. It’s air cooled so you can’t fire it forever especially with a ball to tracer ratio. Barrels start slipping and warping. Why you have a AG or assistant gunner.
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Joe Rogan a fag. Why you still taking about Obama? The navy seal spoke the truth but y’all still a bunch of white boys who mad over what I don’t know. Get a fucking life dude
There is one movie where the characters are actually played by SEALS. I can't remember the title but just hearing them talk is like listening to another language. But they're not really actors so the shit was boring to people used to seeing acting. I'll tell you one thing, that GE minigun destruction was accurate af.