My favorite line from Sixta is in the last episode, the marines get letters from home, some miss home, others angry of what they receive. Sixta sees the men battle worn and tired, he looks to Gunny says, "If moral gets any lower tell me, and I'll give em about the grooming standard." and winks. Made me realize that the grooming standard was an excuse to shout at the marines, so they'll all have someone in common to dislike, and feel more comradery with each other.
@@backera83 I mean junior as in: never going to be promoted except by nepotism and he knows it so he takes out on anybody he can exercise his limited authority on.
@@JeanLucCaptain hes a sergeant major the highest rank an enlisted marine can acheive. His authority is practically all the other enlisted personnel not a sergeant major. Even commissioned officers would tread lightly.
Shows he either knows that Garza is unfortunately in a bad position and if hit by shrapnel will be hard to get to, or that he’s just always on a power trip and wants the men to do what he wants them to do
Marine: Gets obliterated to Narnia by an enemy tank shell. Sergeant Major Sixta: "THAT BODY WASN'T YOURS TO LOSE! THAT WAS THE PROPERTY OF THIS UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS!!!"
Slyguy threeonetwonine What are we supposed to Google? I grew up in Georgia, and have lived in three corners of the country. I typically work in the ER wherever I live and sadly there are Pedo's everywhere. There are also people who think they can take justice into their own hands and hurt rumored pedos everywhere. On the one hand, I whole heartedly approve of the execution of anyone who would forcefully violate another human. On the other I have seen what happens when mob or prison justice gets carried out. It is NEVER against the monsters you would want it to occur to.
Marines are like a pack of vicious wolves dying to unleash their fury on the enemy. When there is no enemy to fight, the wolves will turn on each other. Sixta is simply redirecting that energy onto himself in order to maintain unit morale.
How many years have you served in the Marines? I only had one First Sergeant that I genuinely respected. This is nothing but a warped sense of misunderstanding of what happens in war and treating Marines/soldiers in a very transactional way. Your scared spitless or pissed off at something someone did to you and your unit. You begin trying to figure out how this insurgent killed your buddy or people getting wounded so badlky, they leave your unit permanently, and then have to deal with this knuckle head? He has the same leadership style that a newly minted corporal will have. Probably near thirty years in his career.
@@davidemme2098 6 years. Like you I don't agree with Sixta's methods, but my comment reflects what I believe his motivation is. I also agree that it is out of place given his rank.
@@waynetang1763 Intended to reply sooner. This happened several times and not all were in highschool but none of them ever served. This one person told me this was the only way to do things. He came fairly aggressive about it until I asked him if he ever went to PLDC (Primary Leadership Development Course-first NCO school in the Army) or the NCO academies in the Marines? Finally asked if they ever served? No-kid was in eleventh grade. I told him to STFU because I did five years in the Marines and discharged honorably after my contract ended-before he was ever born. As I said, this happened more than a couple times so I do tend to come very aggressively. Sorry dude.
@@ObsidianLazarus If you are a Corporal-you are god and this is how many act. Won't hide it but my friends and I played that character. The understanding would be most would mellow because lets face it-most corporals put rank on at the ages of 20-23 and I fell right in that range. Point would be you would eventually mellow a bit with experience and figuring out the best way to approach situations requiring your attention. Most mature and grow out of that attitude-most people do. Some do not. When in the Army, when I earned my first NCO stripe as a Supply Sgt in a Recon squadron, people kept asking when I was going to start roughing privates and specialist's up. When they explained that-was like, "been there, done that, Corporals in the Marines are gods."
For those unfamiliar with the book and the resulting series, the Sergeant Major spent time giving the men in the battalion a hard time as a way to distract them from the situation at hand, and to give them a common focal point for their aggression(to prevent them from getting after one another). Obviously, the writers saw it as a good way to insert some comic relief into the series as well.
SgtMaj doesn't appear into a unit table of organization until the battalion level. It darn sure doesn't look like a battalion of Marines to me. In any event, SgtMaj has company 1stSgts to deal with that kind of discipline. If there is a morale problem, that is something the company gunny is supposed to handle. I didn't see one gunnery sergeant anywhere in this clip.
"You are inappropriating your chemical filtration device by attempting fornication with it." I think that might be my new favorite line from the whole show....
And I believe later on the unit takes friendly fire because that guy is wearing an Iraqi helmet as a replacement. Which I don’t know if it really happened but illustrates why the little things are there for a reason.
This is actually a brilliant management strategy. Instead of everyone complaining and getting into conflicts that can destroy morale, send the Sergeant Major around so EVERYONE rallies to share in their hatred of him.
What civis don't understand is that during combat deployments the stress levels is extremely high among men. This may end up with tensions between the men which may end up in personal feuds among the men which jeopardizes the trust and combat effectiveness. To combat this usually a senior enlisted tends to act this way to give the men something else to direct their anger towards. So instead of hating on each other, they relieve their stress and anger on this specific person.
+Urban Marksman Having been on the deployment that these men were in (though not in the same unit, I wasn't Recon or anything), I have to disagree with basically everything you said. Morale is usually not kept up at all, except by the small unit commanders. Sixta was just a jackass and he created friction with no actual purpose. In the USMC, senior SNCOs frequently do this, because they actually believe that things like field day and grooming standards promote good order and discipline. This is especially true for SNCOs that didn't fight in Afghanistan or Desert Storm before OIF; many of them maintained a garrison mindset going into the war.
tokyosmash That’s a fact. We had one in the mid 90’s who who screw with guys in the barracks. Even if they were in, if the door was unlocked he’d make them get in full battle rattle and patrol the barracks the rest of the weekend looking for more unlocked doors. Bastard. Happy ending though, right as he was retiring his Korean wife divorced him and took him for everything. He was later seen working at the PX selling shoes, and getting his past favors returned to him by less forgiving barracks rats.
In the book, he was referred to by the other recon marines as "The Coward of Khafji", for hightailing it out of enemy territory and leaving behind other marines.
that's a fucked up mentality he used as an excuse to be an asshole. like damn it's already bad enough what these guys are going through and he just wanted to make them even more miserable
I remember fighting for days and dragging all our broke shit around the desert. We got to a FOB just before the chow hall closed for the night. We were scolded for having dirty uniforms and unshaved faces. We were turned away to eat MREs for another night.
for that to happen in any army, to front line fighting men, just proves my point that anglo armies still don't have the details down like ol Wehrmacht had. it proves with equipment quality, training and little important details like this one.
Yea, you actually start to expect it especially when you had to roll through large bases or FOB’s. Al Asad, Ramadi, Fallujah, even Korean Village, and usually it was a W.M. or some non hacker that never had to roll outside the wire. This shit was getting worse and worse and was a large reason why I got out.
A lot of Marines get asked what's important to remember in a firefight. A lot of them would say "location location location". I would say "grooming standard grooming standard grooming standard."
+Grim FX and you would be right, especially in WW1. Watch old pictures/movies from beginning of the war, everyone had a mustache and I really mean EVERYONE. But by the time gas attacks started in '15, they all started shaving, because a mustache or beard would prevent the gas mask forming a perfect seal with your face.
FriendoftheDork I’m a bit late to the game, but Hitler originally had a huge ass walrus mustache. When chemical weapons started being used, his company CO ordered the men to shave their facial hair. He chose to shave his down to his now iconic mustache was popular at the time (and made famous by him and Charlie Chaplain)
It's the location of the grooming standard that's important. No loose hair's beyond the corners of the lip. And your moostache better have a high and tight🤣🤣
Sgt Major Sixta was played by Neal Jones, American film actor. He's got a pretty respectable list of movie appearances if you go to IMBD. I gotta hand to him, Neal Jones had me believing Sgt Major Sixta was NOT just acting that part and that's good acting. Good job Mr Jones 👍.
*****SPOILER***** He was the reporter in The Devil's Advocate, gassing up Keanu's character that transforms into Pacino in the last scene before the end credits.
Here in South Africa in the old SADF we had a joke about loosing ewuipment it goes . The day the recruits get their kit the SGT major stands in front of them holding up a rifle and said" because its govt property if you loose this you will pay for it" He then grabs webbing and said" You loose this you will pay for it" He then grabs an LMG " and says if you loose this or any other equipment you will pay for it." He then asks the new recruits "are there any questions." A recruit stands up and asks him "if he becomes a truck driver and looses or smashes the truck what will happen". The SGT major replies "Well if you are that stupid and careless you will go to jail and you will have to pay for the truck" The recruit with his question answered sits down turns to his buddy and says" Bucking hell now we know why a captain always goes down with his ship."
Mutlap then they go into civilian life and get yelled at by some normie fat fuck in a higher position than them; then realize they shouldn’t stayed in, because atleast you could count on the grooming standard
Same with Jarhead. The only people I've ever seen that claims this to be inaccurate are the paper pushers, everybody else (even non-U.S personnel) gets how accurate this is. Of course, it took it's liberties, as they all do, but still.
thats how a senior nco gets fragged. I have never seen a senior nco ever cact like that in the 5 yrs I was in the marine corps. it was the sgts who were the only pricks ive run into.
This guy exists and has been existing throughout all branches of military throughout all eras of human history for all time as long as violence has been organized into warfare by human beings. And he will go on. This is a persona. A war architype. The Corps. and warfare itself are his mother/lover/food/sex/drugs/life. The first monkey/caveman to pick up the bone and weaponize it in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Lt. Col. Kilgore from Apocalypse Now. Gunnery Sergeant Hartman from Full Meatal Jacket.
Sgt Major Sixta in the military: Grooming Moustaches. Out of the military: Grooming kids. Well hope when he went to prison the inmates gave him some of their own grooming.
Having been a leader in the Marine Corps I can tell you he was giving the men something to focus on together (him) instead of their bad situation. If you pay attention, he only comes around when morale is low. He even explains it in this scene ruclips.net/video/8-BOrOFcz54/видео.html
I can tell you never served. let me guess. You'd "crack the fuck up" at the drill instructor also. XD ..and you wouldn't let him "talk to you like that and he don't know you" XD hahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahaha! hahahaha!
Preston Chambers What are you talking about? My bearing is as good as anyone else's. I've met some funny DI's, but this guy is something else. And I don't know about you, but I don't watch RUclips videos at the position of attention.
You're inappropriatin' your chemical filtration device by attempting fornication with it. Jesus, do I have to tell you not to deesecrate your mask, with perversions!?" -SGM Sixta.
3:39 is my favorite part, I had a SGM that was just like this when I was in Afghanistan, we would be under contact and he stood strong knowing nothing could touch him after his years of service and deployments. It seems fake but it's true and it would motivate all of us to get the job done.
Was on a week long mission to capture an area and establish a COB (Company Operating Base). Once we took the objective, SMA Preston flew in to meet with the troops. Once he arrived and saw many of us haven't shaved in a week was very pissed.
I thought for years that the petty officer in my division just had a speech impediment until some Lt. explained to me that he came from a place in Louisiana in the swamps where they still have this rare dialect
I hated being in the Army. Ever since night 1 in basic laying in my bunk with "what the fuck was I thinking" going through my head. Put my head down, went in the Army as an E-3 (I had college), left the Army as an E-4, did my time and got out. I had a bunch of cash and literally spent a year living at home being a bum after. Then finished college and got on with my life.
Back when I was a CO, I had a Platoon Sergeant who always seemed to attract the attention of the Bn CSM. I didn't have an issue with him, neither did the Top, but he was the CSM'S favorite chew toy. One day the Sergeant asks for a meeting with the Top and I and he bitches about how the CSM is after him. We hear him out and the Top tells him that if he thinks we are going to save him from the CSM, he is sorely mistaken. So we set up a meeting between him and the CSM and the CSM lays out a corrective action plan for this Sergeant like he was god's own fuck-up. In a year, this Sergeant I thought was fair to good, was on fucking fire. His people were squared away and cared for and his LT could not say enough about him. The CSM spotted greatness in that NCO and kicked his ass until he got it out of him. You don't have to love them, you don't have to like them, but only a fool ignores the insights of the CSM.
William Signs You don't have to be a great human being to be a great CSM. In fact, some of the CSM'S I've known over the years went to great lengths to prove that. That being said, sex offenders are found in every profession and walk of life. That a high ranking enlisted man turns out to be a pervert is disappointing, but its not surprising.
This is one of those comments that make me even care to scroll down to have a look at the comment section. Just the idea that greatness is something that has to be ass-kicked and disciplined out of certain people, great lesson right there. Good story.
Pomme843 If that's what you took away from my posting, you've missed the point entirely. Some men are born knowing the greatness inside of them. Others learn by following the examples of others. Some will only learn in the face of adversity or at the point of crisis. The CSM looked at this NCO and decided that the he needed adversity (him) and crisis (his corrective action plan). The Top and I settled for a fraction of what that NCO was capable of, the CSM didn't. That is what CSM'S are all about. Don't like it? Never met a CSM who cared.
SIXTA is known in the book (the actual accounts on the first weeks of invasion) the “Coward of Khafji”, a name he earned in the first Gulf War when he tried to abandon his post with a supply truck after he saw hundreds of enemies in a Kuwaiti town, Khafji, an account which he, of course, deny. Battalion Commander, Lt. Col. Fernando is the one who is obsessed with “grooming standards”. SIXTA is his errand boy.
You know what I realized? There was a little line he said to A fellow NCO at the end of the series: “you warn me if morale gets low, I’ll hit em with the groomin standard” then he does the little smile and click of the tongue. He knew he was over the top, he wanted them to laugh.
I had a Sgt. that was eerily like him. Not the accent, but the attitude. He was a Staff Sergeant, not a Sgt. Major, but he definitely acted like him. I hated the man the entire time I was at Benning, but I have to say that he made us tougher during our time in jump school.
I love this SGM! “You jeopardize every Marine because you lost your hemlet!!” He truly cared about his Marines, he respected the good NCO’s like SGT Colbert and he never NJP anyone despite the fact he was all talk and flamboyance. We had a FSG like him in the Army, but that actor in the series got the whole military persona and posture of an E8/9 absolutely right on target!!
"There will be no fuck ups."
*many fuck ups*
*plays its always sunny title card*
Pan to Encino Man and Captain America while he's yelling that. Brilliant.
AMERIKEE IS WAHCHIN
@@Mr.Nin10do. The Gang Invades Iraq
Never heard anyone divide "fuckups" into two syllables
My favorite line from Sixta is in the last episode, the marines get letters from home, some miss home, others angry of what they receive. Sixta sees the men battle worn and tired, he looks to Gunny says, "If moral gets any lower tell me, and I'll give em about the grooming standard." and winks. Made me realize that the grooming standard was an excuse to shout at the marines, so they'll all have someone in common to dislike, and feel more comradery with each other.
Yeah he knew what was up and is to be commended for his service.
Not a fan of what he turned into IRL tho.
@@ToreDL87 what he turn into?
@@jomaridelapaz3404 sex offender
@@jomaridelapaz3404 hes currently in jail for touching kids
Man this show just got so much deep shit involved in this show
If you've never been in the military, you couldn't possibly believe how realistic this is.
@@JeanLucCaptain nothing junior about him. I wouldnt be surprised if hed been a marine longer than I've been alive at this point in his career.
@@backera83 I mean junior as in: never going to be promoted except by nepotism and he knows it so he takes out on anybody he can exercise his limited authority on.
@@JeanLucCaptain hes a sergeant major the highest rank an enlisted marine can acheive. His authority is practically all the other enlisted personnel not a sergeant major. Even commissioned officers would tread lightly.
@@backera83 that makes it even more horrifying.
Damn gunny I miss you
*"YO prESIDENT, IS WATCHEN'! AMERIKEY, IS WATCHEN'!"*
P O O S E Y
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"buT MOST IMPORDANT!"
"GOOOOOOOODFATHER."
"is WATCHEN'."
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the dude doing the nazi salute behind batista kills me every time.
Where?
@@riel6502 1:30
I laughed so hard the first time I saw that scene
I just saw that and I'm like "Bruuuuuh 🤣🤣🤣"
Lmao I fucking died when I saw that
How the actor pulled off this accent and said those things with a straight face is beyond me
He fucked the shit out of whatever accent he was going for, but the more he fucked it up the funnier it was.
What accent is he speaking???
I want a hemit
I'm thinking he's related to "Farmer Fran"
ruclips.net/video/n3wuSO59OdM/видео.html
its southern accent from the deep south ...
Saddam Hussein had a mustache, so Sgt. Maj. Sixta concluded the invasion was a police action.
the real reason for invasion lol
lol
That's the wmd. I get it now
@@patrickhenry1249
"There never was a war...." :)
ruclips.net/video/f_whePVoqOY/видео.html&ab_channel=comedysecret23
@@patrickhenry1249 If you look at modern day Iraq you'd realize nothing got finished except the stability of the Middle-East, lol.
God I showed this to my wife and now every time I trim my beard she runs in the bathroom and shouts ‘pow-lease that moose-stash!’
Epic
Does she have a nice hog?
She's a keeper
Definitely a keeper hahaha
I can’t stop laughing reading this. Not sure if I should show my wife or not now.
"GARZA! GETCHA STUPID ASS DOWN! THERE AINT NOTHIN FOR YOU TO SHOOT AT!" Funniest part 😢😂
Garza goes "this fucking war sucks!" Like a pouting kid
Shows he either knows that Garza is unfortunately in a bad position and if hit by shrapnel will be hard to get to, or that he’s just always on a power trip and wants the men to do what he wants them to do
Civi detected @@magnusbjarni
Marine: steps on IED.
Sargeant major sixta: thats what happens when you dont follow grooming standards!!!
"That foot wasn't yours too lose! That was the property of the United States Marine Corps!!!
@@ondrejlukas1121 "I OUTTA NJP YER ASS!!"
Broke your leg? It’s because you didn’t make sure your moostash didn’t go beyond the corners of your mouth
Marine: Gets obliterated to Narnia by an enemy tank shell.
Sergeant Major Sixta: "THAT BODY WASN'T YOURS TO LOSE! THAT WAS THE PROPERTY OF THIS UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS!!!"
Yep because the menz gets all relaxed and shit.
He’s like a southern version of cartman, but in the marine corps...
Slyguy threeonetwonine
What are we supposed to Google?
I grew up in Georgia, and have lived in three corners of the country. I typically work in the ER wherever I live and sadly there are Pedo's everywhere.
There are also people who think they can take justice into their own hands and hurt rumored pedos everywhere.
On the one hand, I whole heartedly approve of the execution of anyone who would forcefully violate another human. On the other I have seen what happens when mob or prison justice gets carried out. It is NEVER against the monsters you would want it to occur to.
The Vietnam War had Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. This war has Sergeant Major Cartman!
This is the funniest comment I think I've ever read 🤣💀
Marines are like a pack of vicious wolves dying to unleash their fury on the enemy. When there is no enemy to fight, the wolves will turn on each other. Sixta is simply redirecting that energy onto himself in order to maintain unit morale.
How many years have you served in the Marines? I only had one First Sergeant that I genuinely respected. This is nothing but a warped sense of misunderstanding of what happens in war and treating Marines/soldiers in a very transactional way. Your scared spitless or pissed off at something someone did to you and your unit. You begin trying to figure out how this insurgent killed your buddy or people getting wounded so badlky, they leave your unit permanently, and then have to deal with this knuckle head? He has the same leadership style that a newly minted corporal will have. Probably near thirty years in his career.
@@davidemme2098 6 years.
Like you I don't agree with Sixta's methods, but my comment reflects what I believe his motivation is. I also agree that it is out of place given his rank.
@@waynetang1763 Intended to reply sooner. This happened several times and not all were in highschool but none of them ever served. This one person told me this was the only way to do things. He came fairly aggressive about it until I asked him if he ever went to PLDC (Primary Leadership Development Course-first NCO school in the Army) or the NCO academies in the Marines? Finally asked if they ever served? No-kid was in eleventh grade. I told him to STFU because I did five years in the Marines and discharged honorably after my contract ended-before he was ever born.
As I said, this happened more than a couple times so I do tend to come very aggressively. Sorry dude.
We had a gunny similar to that, but it only made the marines go at eachothers throats even worse in my opinion
@@ObsidianLazarus If you are a Corporal-you are god and this is how many act. Won't hide it but my friends and I played that character. The understanding would be most would mellow because lets face it-most corporals put rank on at the ages of 20-23 and I fell right in that range. Point would be you would eventually mellow a bit with experience and figuring out the best way to approach situations requiring your attention. Most mature and grow out of that attitude-most people do. Some do not.
When in the Army, when I earned my first NCO stripe as a Supply Sgt in a Recon squadron, people kept asking when I was going to start roughing privates and specialist's up. When they explained that-was like, "been there, done that, Corporals in the Marines are gods."
For those unfamiliar with the book and the resulting series, the Sergeant Major spent time giving the men in the battalion a hard time as a way to distract them from the situation at hand, and to give them a common focal point for their aggression(to prevent them from getting after one another). Obviously, the writers saw it as a good way to insert some comic relief into the series as well.
SgtMaj doesn't appear into a unit table of organization until the battalion level. It darn sure doesn't look like a battalion of Marines to me. In any event, SgtMaj has company 1stSgts to deal with that kind of discipline. If there is a morale problem, that is something the company gunny is supposed to handle. I didn't see one gunnery sergeant anywhere in this clip.
wilhard45 1st recon had gunny wynn
isn't this how frags became rampant in the Vietnam War?
Weak excuse for all this nonsense and abuse. I did watch the whole series and I thankful it showcased how stupid and shit army if as a whole.
Except in real life he was a piece of shit that raped a 12 year old.
"AMERIQEE IS WATCHING!"
yeeesssss i love that part
Good, when someone shoots that prick it will make news.
AEMERICKYEE IS HWATCHIN
But more importantly! Gawwwdddfather is watchin'! Yee yee!
Keksimus Maximus lmfao nice pic
When SgtMaj Sixta is alone with little girls for more than two minutes: 3:11
Oh no
🤣🤣😂 brruuhhhh
Well, considering what happened to the SGM that Sixta was based on.
OOF!
Edit: just re-read and I guess that's what you were meaning. 🤣
Lmaoooo
"scrape dat hippie shit off ya lip!"
1:56 " AMERIKEE IS WATCHIN'" LMAO!!
Lol
He forgot that Amerikee is watching when he got arrested for child molestation
@@MultiRingtail Now was it the actor or sixta himself who was arrested for that shit?
Heavy Metalurgist the real Sgt Sixta got arrested for molesting his stepdaughter’s friend since she was 8
"You are inappropriating your chemical filtration device by attempting fornication with it."
I think that might be my new favorite line from the whole show....
"Where yhe fuck are ya hemlets!?"
TheBorneBajesus My favorite quote
R Grimes Y'all startin' to look like a bunch of Cowboy Elvis's!
That was also fantastic
Aidan Clyde It’s more of hemits lol.
You left out the best one. The last episode where is says, "Just let me know if morale gets low. I'll hit 'em with the groomin' standards".
That was a good one, but it was important because it showed why he was the way he was.
@@blkmedic They all stay unified while hating him. There is a method to the madness / job.
@@Deezz1212 He was the living embodiment of quote: "The beatings will continue until morale improves."
When he brought the "hamet" issue full circle to the grooming standards, I felt that.
*hemlet.
You mean hemlet
@@TheSADHU88 he uses both words
And I believe later on the unit takes friendly fire because that guy is wearing an Iraqi helmet as a replacement. Which I don’t know if it really happened but illustrates why the little things are there for a reason.
Also, it seems to kind of work. I like at 3:55 that when Sixta shows up, that marine fastens his chinstrap.
It says something that "the best of Sgt. Maj. Sixta" is essentially every scene featuring his character.
This is actually a brilliant management strategy. Instead of everyone complaining and getting into conflicts that can destroy morale, send the Sergeant Major around so EVERYONE rallies to share in their hatred of him.
“I heard godfather himself say you look like a bum” 😂😂😂
"I don't kyor
Poolice that moostash
Amerikee is watchin'
Hemlet"
Every time I feel like quitting my job, I always remember, Godfather is watching
lol
What civis don't understand is that during combat deployments the stress levels is extremely high among men. This may end up with tensions between the men which may end up in personal feuds among the men which jeopardizes the trust and combat effectiveness. To combat this usually a senior enlisted tends to act this way to give the men something else to direct their anger towards. So instead of hating on each other, they relieve their stress and anger on this specific person.
+Urban Marksman I thought Command was already filling in that function?
S3CR3TL3V3LZ Not really, Command's for the NCO's and lower ranked officers to hate on.
***** Then you overestimate the intelligence of the average American. You'd be surprised of how fucking dumb people really are.
+Urban Marksman
This.
every time I assume people would understand basic shit, people let me down.
+Urban Marksman Having been on the deployment that these men were in (though not in the same unit, I wasn't Recon or anything), I have to disagree with basically everything you said. Morale is usually not kept up at all, except by the small unit commanders. Sixta was just a jackass and he created friction with no actual purpose. In the USMC, senior SNCOs frequently do this, because they actually believe that things like field day and grooming standards promote good order and discipline. This is especially true for SNCOs that didn't fight in Afghanistan or Desert Storm before OIF; many of them maintained a garrison mindset going into the war.
no wonder sixta got clipped with assaulting teenage girls, he really hates body hair.
sexualy
straightjacket219 thanks for clearing that up.
lol
rideordie he misinterpreted "the grooming standard"
+William Signs Y'ALL STARTNING LOOK LIKE ELVISES!
"Lack o' poosy" 😂😂😂
Anyone who has served knows this is exactly how SGM’s are. Never seem to have anything actually pressing to worry about.
tokyosmash That’s a fact. We had one in the mid 90’s who who screw with guys in the barracks. Even if they were in, if the door was unlocked he’d make them get in full battle rattle and patrol the barracks the rest of the weekend looking for more unlocked doors. Bastard.
Happy ending though, right as he was retiring his Korean wife divorced him and took him for everything. He was later seen working at the PX selling shoes, and getting his past favors returned to him by less forgiving barracks rats.
@@holleneichhornchen3662 Well and Sixta got his asshole stretched in prison for being a pedo....
@@holleneichhornchen3662 She would only get 50 percent max.
skillcoiler that’s what I saw. When did he go to prison? Is he still there?
@@christopherdelagarza3132 He went in 2014 and got 10 years not sure if he is still in but he should be still.
It was kinda cool when we found out that he was only being a hardass to distract the men
In the book, he was referred to by the other recon marines as "The Coward of Khafji", for hightailing it out of enemy territory and leaving behind other marines.
@Lima 2 Actual What? When did they say that?
Edit: nevermind found it.
Nah he really is an asshole
The series was far more generous with his character than he was IRL.
that's a fucked up mentality he used as an excuse to be an asshole. like damn it's already bad enough what these guys are going through and he just wanted to make them even more miserable
MEHREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENS
xD Just got to that part.
Amuhrakey! 'S watchin!
Love the way he said that
Hemlit
KEEEHHHHLLLLL!
"that kevlar wasn't yours to lose."
I don't know why, but that made me laugh so hard.
Sgt Dornier vibes
@@worldofdoom995WHERE IS YOUR POWER ARMOR?!?!?
I remember fighting for days and dragging all our broke shit around the desert. We got to a FOB just before the chow hall closed for the night. We were scolded for having dirty uniforms and unshaved faces. We were turned away to eat MREs for another night.
Some typical deployment bullshit
Your the best thks for your service from Canada
for that to happen in any army, to front line fighting men, just proves my point that anglo armies still don't have the details down like ol Wehrmacht had. it proves with equipment quality, training and little important details like this one.
Shoulda dry shaved. Unfuck yourself.
Yea, you actually start to expect it especially when you had to roll through large bases or FOB’s. Al Asad, Ramadi, Fallujah, even Korean Village, and usually it was a W.M. or some non hacker that never had to roll outside the wire. This shit was getting worse and worse and was a large reason why I got out.
Mustache: *exists*
SGTMAJ: *ThAtS wHaT hApPeNs WhEn YoU dOnT eNfOrCe GrOoMiNg StAnDaRdS*
*moose-tache
SGM: _[Pulls out a jeweler's loupe.]_ *yEw CaLl ThAt ShAvEd!?!?!? PoLiCe ThAt MoOsTaChE!!!*
"WHEY DE FACKKK ARE YE HEMMITS?!?"
I can't count how many times I've watched this over
It’s fucking hilarious
“Amerikey.. is watchin!”
A lot of Marines get asked what's important to remember in a firefight. A lot of them would say "location location location". I would say "grooming standard grooming standard grooming standard."
+Grim FX and you would be right, especially in WW1. Watch old pictures/movies from beginning of the war, everyone had a mustache and I really mean EVERYONE. But by the time gas attacks started in '15, they all started shaving, because a mustache or beard would prevent the gas mask forming a perfect seal with your face.
FriendoftheDork I’m a bit late to the game, but Hitler originally had a huge ass walrus mustache. When chemical weapons started being used, his company CO ordered the men to shave their facial hair. He chose to shave his down to his now iconic mustache was popular at the time (and made famous by him and Charlie Chaplain)
FriendoftheDork Id love to rock a hitler stache
In the Navy, High dust.
It's the location of the grooming standard that's important. No loose hair's beyond the corners of the lip. And your moostache better have a high and tight🤣🤣
Amerikee is watchin!
This one!
Keel On Three!!
Sgt Major Sixta was played by Neal Jones, American film actor. He's got a pretty respectable list of movie appearances if you go to IMBD.
I gotta hand to him, Neal Jones had me believing Sgt Major Sixta was NOT just acting that part and that's good acting. Good job Mr Jones 👍.
*****SPOILER*****
He was the reporter in The Devil's Advocate, gassing up Keanu's character that transforms into Pacino in the last scene before the end credits.
Here in South Africa in the old SADF we had a joke about loosing ewuipment it goes .
The day the recruits get their kit the SGT major stands in front of them holding up a rifle and said" because its govt property if you loose this you will pay for it"
He then grabs webbing and said" You loose this you will pay for it"
He then grabs an LMG " and says if you loose this or any other equipment you will pay for it."
He then asks the new recruits "are there any questions."
A recruit stands up and asks him "if he becomes a truck driver and looses or smashes the truck what will happen".
The SGT major replies "Well if you are that stupid and careless you will go to jail and you will have to pay for the truck"
The recruit with his question answered sits down turns to his buddy and says" Bucking hell now we know why a captain always goes down with his ship."
guy must've had a blast playing that role
POELICE THA MOOSTACHE!!!!!!
When a Marine decides to get out and not extend he will say, "I was tired of that shit", this what he's was talking about.
Mutlap then they go into civilian life and get yelled at by some normie fat fuck in a higher position than them; then realize they shouldn’t stayed in, because atleast you could count on the grooming standard
@@bruh1077 Lots can go wrong like cold chow or lack of poossy, but the one thing these mans can count on is the grooming standard.
@@roadhouse6999
Or even worse .... Lack of chow and cold poooosy
@@jerrodbates8480 Cold poossy isn't an issue if you're Lt. Murphy from "A Grunt's Life"
@@roadhouse6999 Non American here. What is cold chow? Cold food, meals?
Ppl laugh... but those who weren't in the corps don't understand how accurate this show is
Same with Jarhead.
The only people I've ever seen that claims this to be inaccurate are the paper pushers, everybody else (even non-U.S personnel) gets how accurate this is.
Of course, it took it's liberties, as they all do, but still.
THAT KEVLAR WASN'T YOURS TO LOOOOOSE!
you forgot the part where he is talking to god father and he says "sir if morale gets low, let me know! ill hit em with the grooming standards"
i swear to god its the sgt major who says that.
+ott mick yea, he was talking to gunny Wynn at the time
thats how a senior nco gets fragged. I have never seen a senior nco ever cact like that in the 5 yrs I was in the marine corps. it was the sgts who were the only pricks ive run into.
chimezap
the shit rolling down hill
... Judging by what Sixta is in jail for right now, I don't think he's into anyone having any kind of body hair.
Google it. Just ew.
This guy exists and has been existing throughout all branches of military throughout all eras of human history for all time as long as violence has been organized into warfare by human beings. And he will go on. This is a persona. A war architype. The Corps. and warfare itself are his mother/lover/food/sex/drugs/life. The first monkey/caveman to pick up the bone and weaponize it in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Lt. Col. Kilgore from Apocalypse Now. Gunnery Sergeant Hartman from Full Meatal Jacket.
Sgt Major Sixta in the military: Grooming Moustaches. Out of the military: Grooming kids. Well hope when he went to prison the inmates gave him some of their own grooming.
4:50 "CAWSE OF YER FAILURE T' SECURE THAT HEMLET" I lost it
I heard Hamlet
+Sherriel Agront I heard Hemet
+BLT Buy real speakers.
+aluisious mine are as physical as possible therefore the are real
OK...you got me...buy *better* speakers.
So, is this what became of Eric Cartman from South Park?
jsiuksta nope that's Kenny they killed his silly little arse one to many times!
Respect mah authoritah!
Don't question my authoritaaaaahh
I can feel the spit hitting my face though the screen
🧻
"He will not TRAIPSE around on the deck"
Every NCO I knew had one or two unusual words .
Prance*
"Nancy"
Every SNCO’s go to word is behoove
Y'inappropriatin' ya chemical FILTRATION DEVICE by ATTEMPTING FORNICATION WI'IT
@@Wienerslinky Nope, he really says "traipse".
Po-Lice that MOO-STASH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yo all startin to look like Elvises
regardless of what this guy is in real life, his character on the show was fucking amazing...
He's a pedo in real life
3:38 HOAALLLLEEEYYY SHITT
WE IN THE MIDDLE OF NAMM BOYY
it's "Loooooooove this shit! We're in the middle of it now, boys!"
Having been a leader in the Marine Corps I can tell you he was giving the men something to focus on together (him) instead of their bad situation. If you pay attention, he only comes around when morale is low. He even explains it in this scene
ruclips.net/video/8-BOrOFcz54/видео.html
Absolutely
Also his point "The men get all lax and then other standards fall" is also deff spot on
1:32 was the greatest display of Marine Corp discipline I ever seenI would've lost it laughing.
This might as well be a "try not to laugh" challenge.
Lol only someone who never severed their country would say that, I would dare you to talk back to you're sergeant Major
everybodykilla760
*MY APOLOGIES SERGEANT MAJOR*
+everybodykilla760 Talk back to him? Hell, I'd blow his semi-literate head off.
I can tell you never served. let me guess. You'd "crack the fuck up" at the drill instructor also. XD
..and you wouldn't let him "talk to you like that and he don't know you" XD hahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahaha! hahahaha!
Preston Chambers
What are you talking about? My bearing is as good as anyone else's. I've met some funny DI's, but this guy is something else. And I don't know about you, but I don't watch RUclips videos at the position of attention.
John J Sixta was my senior D.l. 1983 Plt 2067
Goddamn 2nd Bn.
You're inappropriatin' your chemical filtration device by attempting fornication with it. Jesus, do I have to tell you not to deesecrate your mask, with perversions!?"
-SGM Sixta.
This character is the reason why I watched this series.
"By your failure to secure that hemlet you've jeopardize every marine servin' today!"
Sgt I am confused! A hamlet is a tiny village!
Lol I loved his accent.
"Amerikeee is watching" 😂
3:39 is my favorite part, I had a SGM that was just like this when I was in Afghanistan, we would be under contact and he stood strong knowing nothing could touch him after his years of service and deployments. It seems fake but it's true and it would motivate all of us to get the job done.
2:14
But make no mistake....THERE. WILL. BE. NO. FUCK. UPS!!!!!!!!!
Yall startin to loook like elvises hahaha
As a useless civilian I really appreciated the peak under the hood we got with this show . Such brave funny young dudes .
You’re not useless you just haven’t been issued a purpose
Sgt Mgrs, the bane of every retention NCO’s existence.
the grooming standard is actually the first commandment on Mose's stone tablets
Was on a week long mission to capture an area and establish a COB (Company Operating Base). Once we took the objective, SMA Preston flew in to meet with the troops. Once he arrived and saw many of us haven't shaved in a week was very pissed.
"POLICE THAT MOO-STASH!"
Yes sir y'all starting to look like Elvisis
0:09 "I don't khyar about age of consent laws either."
I thought for years that the petty officer in my division just had a speech impediment until some Lt. explained to me that he came from a place in Louisiana in the swamps where they still have this rare dialect
Great guy to raise moral, exactly the reason why I got out of the Army.
I hated being in the Army. Ever since night 1 in basic laying in my bunk with "what the fuck was I thinking" going through my head. Put my head down, went in the Army as an E-3 (I had college), left the Army as an E-4, did my time and got out. I had a bunch of cash and literally spent a year living at home being a bum after. Then finished college and got on with my life.
@@tsdobbi I did almost exactly the same thing. Except I never went to college, I started a business, which has extreme highs and extreme lows.
Me: that SGT MAJ is amusing to me.
My son: because he reminds you of mom?
Lol your comment deserves more credit.
The shit kids say... Oof
That’s great
Fucking boomers. Divorce that woman if you hate her so much, jeez
Can confirm, I was his wife crying in the other room.
3:53 - 3:58
GRooMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiNg StAnDaRdS~~~
Lol he sang it. 😂
Taking the "grooming standard" to a new level.
Sixual Moooolestation!
Your comment made me yell out of laughter !!!
Back when I was a CO, I had a Platoon Sergeant who always seemed to attract the attention of the Bn CSM. I didn't have an issue with him, neither did the Top, but he was the CSM'S favorite chew toy.
One day the Sergeant asks for a meeting with the Top and I and he bitches about how the CSM is after him.
We hear him out and the Top tells him that if he thinks we are going to save him from the CSM, he is sorely mistaken.
So we set up a meeting between him and the CSM and the CSM lays out a corrective action plan for this Sergeant like he was god's own fuck-up.
In a year, this Sergeant I thought was fair to good, was on fucking fire. His people were squared away and cared for and his LT could not say enough about him.
The CSM spotted greatness in that NCO and kicked his ass until he got it out of him.
You don't have to love them, you don't have to like them, but only a fool ignores the insights of the CSM.
William Signs You don't have to be a great human being to be a great CSM. In fact, some of the CSM'S I've known over the years went to great lengths to prove that.
That being said, sex offenders are found in every profession and walk of life. That a high ranking enlisted man turns out to be a pervert is disappointing, but its not surprising.
William Signs
This is one of those comments that make me even care to scroll down to have a look at the comment section. Just the idea that greatness is something that has to be ass-kicked and disciplined out of certain people, great lesson right there. Good story.
Pomme843 If that's what you took away from my posting, you've missed the point entirely.
Some men are born knowing the greatness inside of them. Others learn by following the examples of others. Some will only learn in the face of adversity or at the point of crisis.
The CSM looked at this NCO and decided that the he needed adversity (him) and crisis (his corrective action plan).
The Top and I settled for a fraction of what that NCO was capable of, the CSM didn't.
That is what CSM'S are all about.
Don't like it? Never met a CSM who cared.
Waltham1892 In other words, your main point was that "only a fool ignores the insights of the CSM". That's a good point!
SIXTA is known in the book (the actual accounts on the first weeks of invasion) the “Coward of Khafji”, a name he earned in the first Gulf War when he tried to abandon his post with a supply truck after he saw hundreds of enemies in a Kuwaiti town, Khafji, an account which he, of course, deny. Battalion Commander, Lt. Col. Fernando is the one who is obsessed with “grooming standards”. SIXTA is his errand boy.
Of true, that's definitely not the worst of his actions.
@@Kez_DXX yep....we all know Mr potato the pedo did.....
He violated the child grooming standards, as well as the girls
Pretty much every SgtMaj ever.
+Fester what? the military can't be that bad. you're exaggerating.
I just meant that SgtMajors love policing up soldiers .
Fester Oh. my bad.
Rotcrawler you got that right....
My late father was a CSM - "Discipline has a purpose".
Ironically, rudy comes off as the least convincing marine here.
Nope.
You know that he played himself? Thats not an actor, but the real life marine
@@rykehuss3435 That's why he said ironically.
iambutafish I know
@@rykehuss3435 then fuck did you need to comment something we already realize?
You know what I realized? There was a little line he said to A fellow NCO at the end of the series: “you warn me if morale gets low, I’ll hit em with the groomin standard” then he does the little smile and click of the tongue. He knew he was over the top, he wanted them to laugh.
and buy being the common enemy of them men, it keeps them united and focused
"There is lots'a things that could go wrawng, outcheeya. Lke a 👨🏻🍳baker. A cold ❄️🚿shower. Like a 🐈poosey."😳😂🤣😂!
You forgot the part where he went to prison.
The part where he WHAT
@@jackrackham3406 google him he went to prison for fucking an underaged girl
@@marttitanner7470 yeah, googled his name and that was the first result. Holy fuckin shit.
@@jackrackham3406 That puts a whole nother meaning to "grooming"....
usmc 03retired fucking rah
5:53 "do I need to tell yuz not to deesecrate yure mask... with PEVERSIONS??!?!?!"
ROTFLMAO
I had a Sgt. that was eerily like him. Not the accent, but the attitude. He was a Staff Sergeant, not a Sgt. Major, but he definitely acted like him. I hated the man the entire time I was at Benning, but I have to say that he made us tougher during our time in jump school.
Now this is the son Cotton Hill wanted!
"mareeheens!"
It’s funny how no one realizes he was directing the stress of combat onto himself so that the men had an outlet. Watch the show, man was a hero.
That's why he had the stripes.
I love how the reporter is just laughing while sixta is taking forever with his speech
Amerikee is Watchin'!!!!
POLEESH THAT MOUSTACHE!
MAAAAARRRIIIINNNNEEESSS!!!!!
1:33 LOL that guy in the background
Recruit! Mop up every single droplet of rain that lands on this here field! Double time!
I watch this every year. I just now seen that.
Thomas Weeden one of his lines later is "Hitler stash is reg"
@@candykanefpv98 I was under the impression that the guy in the background was calling Sgt. Major a nazi
mierzhen yeah but they also are basically only allowed to grow a mustache if they trim.it like a toothbrush/hitler stash
Never gets old.
I wish I could like this again and again!
Out of all these one liners, what got the biggest laugh out of me was that nonchalant "hey, turd!". Still laughing talking about it, hahaha
I love that one too lol. I think about from time to time and just crack up.
"I want to see clean, purty smiles *when we step off* "
John Sixta sure knows a thing or two about grooming
Just ask the judge and jury
It's so hard to accept the real sixta is a chomo
What’s that?
Is it boulder related or
girlfriend’s daughter related?
@@jdgustofwinddance.7748 child molester
I love this SGM! “You jeopardize every Marine because you lost your hemlet!!” He truly cared about his Marines, he respected the good NCO’s like SGT Colbert and he never NJP anyone despite the fact he was all talk and flamboyance. We had a FSG like him in the Army, but that actor in the series got the whole military persona and posture of an E8/9 absolutely right on target!!
Turns out Sergeant Major Sixta was a grooming expert
Yo! I feel bad for the actor who played him after finding out about that, cause he looks so much like the real one.