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  • I think its safe to say we lost in kunar unfortunately... its a shame we just cant turn it into glass

  • wish an invincible guy would just come to earth and brainwash all of the scum into peace. i support our troops btw, dont get me wrong on that

  • I can't believe sum F**king people wanna argue over comments on this video. I myself as a Blue Spader know the shit that these guys went through. DeWater lost his life along with too many other men, and you people want to discuss petty arguments? your people are pathetic, show some respect and just keep your damn mouths shut, please!

    RIP fellow spaders! You will never be forgotten

  • kill kill kill

  • R.I.P brother.

  • god bless usa solder

  • Great video - good reporting

  • excellent report. who is this guy? the narrator? he made some keen obersvations.

  • @judgerofwars its C.J. Chivers and rob harris. they gave there names at the beggining of the clip.

  • pointless youtube arguments. Pointless, retarded assed arguments, while a video of young men are being shot at.

  • @luyben12 Sorry I didn't mean to spoil all the fun you had with Lindy England...dirty man.

  • Oh sorry I forgot, you really saved the native indians by killing them and stealing their land, you ceated a lot of jobs for unemployed Africans by enslaving them, you really saved the Jews in German concentration camps by doing buisiness with Hitler up to 1944 and by killing Hitler, you really saved Persian democracy with operation Ajax...

  • @TheCentralServices you suck at life and need to die

    

  • @jackson3327 Why do I need to die???

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  • scary stuff they have to go through. Pretend you are crossing a river like they were or a bridge and all of a sudden you get knocked off your feet and realize you don't have any feet.

  • Soooo many baby trolls and wannabes making stupid statements in here....... Maybe when you baby trolls grow up and join you just might understand us a little bit better. And you Wannabes?!! Nothing discuss me more is hearing bullshit from someone that has not ever been in a Combat Environment at all but spent his/her time playing stupid wargames on their Sony or X-Box game consoles....

  • that's what I call journalism, thanks

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  • great video well commentated

  • killahb89 you seem to have gone very quiet is that because i spelt aword wrong i guess we cant all be perfeft like you hehe haha waiting 4 a decent reply if you got one HOORAH

  • @BobbyWarrenMiller

    You're a fucking idiot.

  • where is your thermal goggle? why don't they use that?

    Army: 11B

  • @matrix4583 stop acting like u no the army fagget u dont even no what 11b stand for stupid cunt

  • @sony123239 halfwit fucks like you (if there were such a thing as true justice in this world) would be castrated and thrown down an outhouse.

    how do you like them apples?

  • @P00PST0MP halfwit fucks are u serious lol you dont even no what its like over there so stfu and who say how do u like them apple that was so 2nd grade lol o wait u probably are in 2nd grade haha lol

  • @sony123239 i doubt a brain dead dumbshit like you could ever pass the asvab.

    admit it: you got rejected. you sit at home all day jerking your pencil dick to Pee-Wee's Playhouse re-runs.

    lol

  • @P00PST0MP i got rejected haha thats funny cuz u are 1 ugly ass girl lol i actually passed my asvab and served in afghanistan bitch 1/508 stupid cunt

  • @sony123239 they wouldn't let a dumb piece of trash like you into the service.

    hell, they wouldn't even let a dumb piece of trash like you be a garbage collector. rock on with your disability, cocksucker.

  • @P00PST0MP actually they will let somebody dumb like me be a garbage collector lol why dony u go slit ur wrist u emo fuck

  • @sony123239 the reason i don't slit my wrists is because i have my aged mother to take care of, along with my 8 cats.

    cats are wonderful. in other countries they eat them quite frequently, just like a lot of nutjobs here do with chickens at the local KFC. have you read about all the hormones involved in US mass chicken-meat production? it's awful. with the world so overpopulated i suppose it won't be too long before humans are being served-up at KFC. cowardly chicken-like people -- like you.

  • @P00PST0MP Can't tell if trolling or just retarded.

  • @FlyingBoxHead could possibly be upon account of the notion you've the reasoning capacity of a fruit loop.

  • @P00PST0MP So what you meant to say is.'Could i possibly be aware of the fact that I have the reasoning of a Fruit Loop.'We call this grammar my friend,learn it,why do you think I didn't understand your last comment.

  • @FlyingBoxHead i never said it was fact - as you just stated; rather, i meant precisely what i said: i've a notion that you've the reasoning capacity of a fruit loop. you do understand contractions in english, yes? (i've = i have / you've = you have)

    perhaps english isn't your 1st language. is it dutch? maybe we could try kiswahili... that'd be fun.

    Gari langu linaloangama limejaa na mikunga!

  • @P00PST0MP I never knew they let boys with IQ's of muppets into the service. they must be getting awfully desperate.

  • @sony123239 i was in kunar 13 months with 1/6

  • @MrJdoggz nice bro

  • @sony123239

    if i didn't know i would not put 11 bang bang would i?

  • @matrix4583 u probably dont no haha stupid bitch

  • brilliant piece of reporting. Chivers take on the war is completely different to many other people reporting on it. Rather than trying to describe the whole war he has gone in to detail about one contact which ends up painting a much better picture

  • There's nothing brave about what these guys are doing. They're inside of an armed vehicle firing at goat herders who have only the weapons they can carry on their backs. And the US is still losing. We have to pull out of Afghanistan because these guys will be needed in Iraq again. There are no jobs for these assholes, so when one is killed there is more pussy for the guys at home. Plus the wives get big checks and they spend it on their new lovers.

  • @BobbyWarrenMiller Coming from someone who has more than likely never been there before and guarantee if you if you were getting shot at, you would run to an armed vehicle. People like you need to realize what these men and women do and how little they get payed for what they do, I would know.

  • @BobbyWarrenMiller You are a sick mofo. Stay home and jerk off. Do the world a favor.

  • RIP PFC . JUSTIN DEWATER A REAL INFANTRYMEN.

  • fuck off they been living like that for years they dont need any help from you assholes and helping with the gun on your hands fuck worth's

  • @asibabib

    So taliban been beheading people who want to play soccer ,fly kites, drink beer is a good thing ok buddy have fun.

  • @AmphibiousReconMSOB America is full of problems they should fix them self before fixing other peoples problem the way you see it i dont mate ! you should type in and see Iraq for sale then you well know your self why there is my anger

  • same thing happen...they never let americans even to walk in a decent way...always make them Run...most of the times they hunt...only few times they miss...its been happening since 10 years....it shows who is the winner...Talibans Lion heart..Bravo

  • israel or the usa we do not need god unlike these crazy raghead who wont to go 2 hell with there fucking martys and virgins they should have used there dicks when they had the chance o i forgot they never kew how to use them

  • @MrHighburyn5

    God, you cant even spell "their" in the correct context. Your opinion is invalid. Sorry.

  • my thouights are still with you brave men and women just keep ya chins up and come home asap god bless you all semper fi

  • Nice to see that the fucking new york times has finally come around and is starting to give American soldiers the respect they deserve.

    Whereas in from 2002 to 2008-09 the nytimes was doing everything to put down the United States Military.

  • Thats crazy. I would be extremely paranoid if i was in Afghanistan and I mean EXTREMELY paranoid. To me being there is like playing Russian roulette. You can blow up at any second get sniped or anything. Thats why my respect for these guys goes beyond the eye can see.

  • A-10 in the beginning the braaaap sound

  • @waynerc27

    wtf dont you agree with? afghanistan was a breeding ground for terrorism

  • The Tailaban know how to wage a war of attrition.

    A US soldier will go home after about a year, the Tailaban or local fighter will stay there, it's his home...

    Telling people that a strong Gov't will move in and take over means that it has to be paid for.

    A farmer does not wish to give up 30-50% of his income each year to get a little road to send his crops to market.

    The farmer will have his kids carry crops to the market and have more wives and kids with the money left over.

    No way to win...

  • why do people always come on here and start bashing the marines and usa? like get a fucking life!! you should thank these guys and girls who went overseas to fight for our freedom. If it wasn't for them! u wouldnt be on a computer right now. u dirtbags. Now fucking respect the video and if u got nothing good to say bounce. no one wants to hear ur dirtbag talk. fucking trashies.

  • @02LeafsFan

    Taliban won this fire fight, A US Marine to be flown home to the arms of his loving family and friends.

    He will be among many that have gone before, a long list of the honored.

    He is a Marine forever, but he did not die to save peoples rights, he dead for his brothers next to him.

    A Marine wins a war by staying alive and killing the enemy because he is told to go.

    They are not fighting for a guy walking down the streets and not having a cop stop him to see who he is and...

  • @02LeafsFan I am not bashing marines or usa right now, okey? Just tell me one thing, cos I can't figure it out myself. So. If the marines and army weren't there, in Afghanistan and Iraq I mean, do you really think that these guys who are "bashing" your military, wouldn't be on their computers? I mean, do you think these insurgents would take over US or something, if your military weren't there? Or what is the reason that these "dirtbags" wouldn't be on their computers?

  • @36Oswald No, we believe that insurgent groups hiding in Afghanistan that the Taliban gave refuge to such as Al Queida will have the time and resources to attack America again such as they did on 9/11. Insurgents will never take over our country. But they will kill innocent people. They do it in their own country. They insurgent advantages they didn't list are no restrictions on who to kill, no uniforms, and the ability to claim every insurgent killed by us a civilian by elders.

  • @02LeafsFan Oh, and I almost forgot: sorry for my horrible english. But I think you got my point.

  • @02LeafsFan Uhm...why exactly wouldn't people be on computers right now?

  • 0:53 uuh no comment on that hanging thing at the three.

  • you got all the respect in the world from me and givati 432 in the idf i was in lebbonon in 1982 for 2 years so i no how these ragheads fight allways from behind with those fucking ied just try to get home safely and lively god bless you all semper fi hoorah give a few bullets in them pig ragheads for me thanks haha heegood luck

  • Talibans The Ghosts..

  • do ya job the way you wont to do it kill em all good luck top you all

  • hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh LoooL

  • @SANDWORMGUMMIES true , but it does not reliably fragment all the time. it isnt always shot out of the Required 20 inch barrel ( 20 or 22 inch correct me if wrong ) thus when being shot out of a 16 inch barrel it shall not always fragment. the 5.45x39 in my opinion is perfect on the other hand. Always tumbles , yaws, fragments no matter what and has less recoil , and more ballistic strength. and better accuracy due to less recoil when on fully or semi automatic firing.its even cheaper so woohoo!

  • @Evilsnowman2213 That's right. The 5.45x39 was called the "poison bullet" by the Afghans because the Russians would engage them with their AK-74s at ranges of 500 to 600 yards, by the sheer amount of accurate automatic fire and low recoil, the Afghans with their 7.62x39 Chi-Coms really had no chance at all. Often, the 5.45 could fragment in 90 degree angles, like if someone gets shot in the stomach, it ends up exiting out of his shoulder. O.o Pretty damn scary round!

  • @MAKEaCRAWLER whata bullshit... there is really no need to reply this, nor I want to go down to your level. Your claim about me being week without knowing anything about me is one more proof that you are stupid and I can tell you that you wouldn't survive in natural selection because of stupidity, and somebody would probably use you as they used this guy..

  • Army's Big Red One Divison

  • @srithikdatta Yup same idiots who blew up their own OP safehouse, I was in the kunar right before they were with the 173rd, 1-26 I believe this is, that whole unit is fucked up.

  • the landscape is so beautiful its like china and ireland put together

  • @srt173 why do we not use the 7.62 round anymore?

  • @AmericanGMS do you know the 5.56 round spins when it impacts, it just makes for better round overall, less weight, well recoil, etc.

  • @jdun84 so when it spins what happens?

  • @AmericanGMS it makes a devastating impact

  • @AmericanGMS the 556 travels faster and does more damage . it bounces around in the body while 7.. just makes hole

  • @MAKEaCRAWLER He didn't died for his Country.. he died for interest of small number of fat rich dadys who are laughing in their comfortable villas on some night party with plenty of models while country of this guy is getting into deeper and deeper debt because of this war, and all that money is going to those "dadys" just mentioned... he went into somebody's else country to kill with his own free will and he got killed in process what do you expect for me to respect him??

  • @armija---you wouldn't last in a man's or woman's world!! God bless our soldiers, forever!

  • one more pig went home how he deserved.. always nice to see...

  • @armija

    FUCK you. FUCKING turk ass piece of fucking shit. Please move to turkey where retards roam free, scumbag.

  • the taliban have an advantage with there ak47 becase it is a bigger caliber than the m16 and m4

  • Yea, seems like its the exact same as when I was there in 2007-2008. Glad to see nothing has changed.

  • is this airborne?

  • @123nypd 1st Infantry Division, from Ft. Riley Kansas. Not Airborne.

  • @imixmuan Thanks!

  • i wish we could just send all of our boys and girls and all of our equipment over there and just full on attack on the offensive like we did in 2001 we would destroy them in days i swear, but of course we dont have that money and these hippie fucks dont see that if this war isnt one today we will pay for it tomorrow, these terrorist will not stop, this is a war that is necessary. its not for oil not for money not to conquer, but to save our asses from worst events in the future.

  • @hardcorelifeforus000 Good thing your not in charge of strategy because that would completely fail. Pashto's don't respond well to invasions of foreigners. That would make it way worse than it already is. Oh yea, and in 2001 we didn't 'full on attack' anything. It was mainly special forces calling in airstrikes and the northern alliance fighting. Please stop talking about shit you don't understand.

  • @csbob2010 i was being fucking sarcastic dumb fuck... damn you're dumb

  • @hardcorelifeforus000 Please enlighten me on how your supposed to determine sarcasm from a fucking forum post. People say shit like you are saying all the time, and are completely serious. So go fuck yourself.

  • @csbob2010 Well i wasnt faggot. so you go fuck yourself. ill go fuck a real girl.

  • les va a pasar como en Vietnam jajajaja-....... GO GO GO INSURGENCY=))

  • Gotta love the A10! sounds like its ripping a big one right on em!

  • we need to pull are soldiers out my best friend for one and carpet bomb the whole place for 2 months straight

  • @brucekirk89

    That worked really great in Northern Vietnam.

  • What is interesting when hearing this report talk about the effectiveness of US forces is that they learned nothing from the Russians and made the same mistakes.

    I guess it is imperial hubris but still, they should have learned.

    The locals have time on thier side.

  • Restrepo ftw.

  • Rip American dude! Were all proude!!!!!

    British soldier x

  • 0:54 looks like foley from cod6

  • @waynerc27 Well said. This war to the soldiers is something different than what it is for the current gov't. Folks need to remember, these soldiers are not fighting for the Gov't's U.S.A.. They are fighting for the other split side of a country, the people in it. I now refer to this country as the North American States as it isn't as it once was- The United States of America. Hopefully soon we will eliminate this gov't and institute a new one similar to the former gov't of the U.S.A..

  • все это батва, никокого химоружия не нашли, а производство наркотиков выросло в разы, гибнут люди, вот такой итог как средства массовой информации направляют мышление народа в угоду материального обогощения, направляемых с верхов власти

  • much respect from a Brit 

  • 11 people are talibans

  • when he's talking about how the units are becoming more proficient and stuff.... is he talking about the taliban or the army?

  • @icemancotour the Army.

  • Those Afghans are f-in savages. They are never gonna get a job or attempt to better themselves. They will fight each other if we arent there. One drug lord pays them and they fight another group. And then that Lord pays some guys to go hit them. Rinse & repeat. That shit has been going on for years. It;s all they know. Only way to end it is to make that place glow.

  • may god be with you all brave men and women fighting this war semper fi

  • @MrHighburyn5 semper-fi lol its hoorah, but if your a Marine Nm my Comment

    82ndAB

  • @MrHighburyn5 semper-fi lol its hoorah, but if your a Marine Nm my Comment

    82ndAB

  • @MrHighburyn5

    God was the one who got you into this mess in the first place. If these damn fundamentalists wouldn't be so damn religious this whole war wouldn't be happening.

    I wish i could live in a world without god. It would be so much nicer here on earth.

  • hurt locker wasn't accurate bro. im in iraq right now lol and that shit was next to retarded as far as accuracy goes..not knockin it tho, i enjoy watching it; it's just not an accurate army movie. and just because he 'was a ranger' and deployed with them doesn't mean he can't switch MOS's and get deployed as EOD.

  • @SaSinKaL

    I don't think it was supposed to be, it seemed like it got hyped up by hollywood as something it wasn't. But yeah, I was raising my eyebrow when a 3 man team is supposed to first clear an area, defuse bombs and keep the area controlled at the same time. IMO, the writer did it to first keep the cast simple and focus on the characters, and to add to the tension, instead of accuracy.

  • @supertacticalbacon yes, but EOD DOES travel in small teams..and they don't diffuse an IED if there isn't 360 degree security around the area...hence all the soldiers setting up perimeter security in the streets, controlling the crowd isn't really their job brotha

  • @SaSinKaL yOUR in Iraq when it is peace time (Thank you for your service) but yeah I was their when it was actually combat. Right now of course operations are done, and yes you can have a Secondary MOS!!! wow Oh yeah I was a 19K in Ft. Hood.

  • @efreeze2006 i'm not sure why you're telling me this...i know it's not like it used to be, but what is your point? you don't think EOD does their job over here anymore? I was stating I was in Iraq as a foundation to my credibility, not bragging or anything.. godspeed to ya

  • @SaSinKaL so what IS an accurate military movie?

  • @omglmao12345 Movies aren't really accurate and are for pure entertainment. Watch documentaries, check out 'Restrepo'.

  • @Username4453 agreed..

  • @omglmao12345 Restrepo is extremely accurate as far as what war is like in afghanistan considering it's raw footage, and Gunner Palace - Iraq Conflict is fairly accurate to this day I'd say, except nowadays there isn't as much small arms fire or as many IED's - and nowadays there aren't as many convoys, however the times are changing here..Hope this answered your question.

  • @SaSinKaL they have EODS in ranger regiment

  • @SaSinKaL Guy Iraq is somewhat safe now. Hurt Locker was based when the war just started, now it is a vacation!!! I been in Iraq also a HOSTILE IRAQ!!!

  • @efreeze2006 Cool dude..Did you want me to rub your shoulders? Pat you on your bottom and tell you that you did a good job? You could've been sitting behind a desk, not that I give a fuck because I don't care about other peoples' lives, just mine and those closest to me. Go tell your retarded ass war stories to someone else. People are still dying in Iraq, read a fucking news article you retard.

  • @SaSinKaL Why dont you do something for USA instead of talking to someone who already contributed. I can talk about it you cant, like you said you just read articles. Your fucking an idiot!!!! Liberal ass retard, it makes sense look what you listen to. Who said that I am going to share war stories? You probably got turned down in the military!! faggit

  • @efreeze2006 You must have been someone they recruited when they didn't give a shit about asvab scores, because you are stupid as fuck. Do something for USA? UH, HEY GENIUS, THE COMMENT YOU REPLIED TO STATED THAT I'M IN IRAQ. I can talk about it, too. Go color in the corner before you get people killed stupid fuck. Good bye

  • @SaSinKaL Dont play that shit "All combat forces are out guy" so guess what the reporters are not reporting their anymore which means they do not give a shit CNN Foxnews, MSNBC. It is not a war anymore dickhead. Your probably have not stepped outside of the FOB you fuckin pogue

  • @SaSinKaL Also you obviously have enough time to be on the internet fighting!!! Yeah you are really busy FAGGIT!!! LOL Come back home havent even got shot at or have combat experience...idiot your a joke

  • @SaSinKaL Why are you watching a replying to comments on a youtube video that you don't care about? Why the negative attitude? Jeez. people ened to wake up and realise that their youtube comments DONT MAKE ANY DIFFERANCE.

  • @Schizianity yep, that was just a movie. If you want to know what it is like, ask me. I'll tell u.

  • i like these vids.

  • do you remenber how you made fun killing a dog in front it owner in irak .Why you do not make the same heroic act again?

  • DFK

  • i bet that old fuck knew what was gonna happen the whole time

  • This is a good video good quality too, But that narrators voice was mono-tone kinda seemed slow to me abit also He did have a good vocab and was still a good narrator. Thanks for the awesome video ill subscribe to see more...lol keep em' comin

  • @Schizianity yeah thats what made me think can different regements get put together like that?

  • My friend was in this video, on this patrol, and was friends with DeWater. Rob can be seen after 5:10.

  • Go back to mecca, and run around your big black box, speaking of that box..

    I know whats inside of it now, an underground bunker containing;

    Hitler

    Bin Laden

    Stalin

    Churchill

    Hassain

    They're all plotting what to do in 2012, my proof is because my son is Jesus, so therefor I am god.

  • Why don't we just multiple Sniper teams and sniff out the spotters? =D

  • 'MERICA!!! FAK YA!!!

  • Evil cannot be eliminated, only suppressed. As long as man walks the planet Earth there will be evil until Christ comes

  • @jsj0199 He's dead, and has been for thousands of years, so please fuck off.

    I would like proof of this so called 'God'

  • are these rangers?

  • @jack101093 Marines i think, its part of a TV programm which was on recently in the UK, Point then the last name of one of the men there, the black man at 2:43

  • @jack101093 These are not rangers, these are regular light infantry of the 1st ID. A ranger tab is different than a ranger scroll (unit patch). The Ranger tab means graduation from Ranger school, a leadership course that is required for EVERY single Army Infantry officer and for all Army Rangers (the SOF unit) of the rank of SGT (team leader) and above. A Ranger scroll (which no one in this video has) means assignment to the 75th Ranger Rgt, the special ops teams people know of.

  • 16 men killed in one year in a Batallion does not sound that bad. Heck in Vietnam 16 men killed in a platoon over 1 month wasnt that bad. Not a zero casuality battlefield, but getting there.

  • @cassius969 Stuff like that confuses me..

    16 men..

    How many men are there in the world?

    alot more than 1.6 billion, 16 is jackshit :P

  • @cassius969

    I'd love to see your sources. 50% casualty rate is good? Lol.

  • @supertacticalbacon Over one year its not that bad. And its not the armed forces that have a 50% casuality rate, just this battalion. In the war against Germany the casuality rate for the whole theater if you include wounded was over 300%, hardly any soldiers which were at the start of the campaign were there till the end of the war. They got wounded or killed and replaced by new bodies.

  • i hate advertisements...

  • seems like a waste to detonate $3 billion of missiles and warheads to blow up a country that only makes $890 million a year. then everybody else would really hate us because of all the radiation we released upon. unfortunately, the taliban in caves, deep in mountains will still survive. then there will be a 1000 years of jihad upon us.

  • fucking americans destroyed land

  • to: kunyitkg, yeah likewise, i hope more of you ragheads get blown to bits by bombs you don't even know was rained on you. Kiss allah's ass for me and lick the shit out of it!

  • смешно.... да да все убежали)))

  • War must be waged with proportionality in mind. The suffering which existed pre-War should not be overshadowed by the suffering the War may cause. That's not something i came up with, it's one of the "principles" of just war. The purpose of

    U.S military action in Afghanistan is no longer self-defense against an armed attack, it's geopolitics, that's why i don't consider it to be defensive.

  • @baldosa87 Back to basics my friend... The best defense is a great offense. If you get into a bar fight, get punched once in the face.. You punch the guy back, and call it quits, you know damn well he's gonna be waiting for you outside. So you may as well finish the fight while your'e in it. We don't want Al Qaeda coming back to shit on the US while we turn our backs away from taking care of the problem at hand.

  • now this is great footage

  • "Everyday you wake up safe at home, realize there is a soldier in the mud fighting for your freedom and safety". That's completely absurd,the fact that U.S troops wage war thousand miles from their home implies that they're in no way fighting a defensive war, so don't try to make it look like they are.