The ride he's hitchhiking on gets engaged by enemy forces in Iraq, the enemy forces see a soldier wielding an M240 in his left hand and an M4 with an underbarrel grenade launcher in his right charging at their position yelling: "YOU SUNS'UH'BITCHES, I HAVE WEAPONS TO GAUGE!". He engages the enemy forces and single handedly kills or forces all of them to retreat, while taking several gun shot wounds, he humps his way back to the humvee, grumbles about all the stupid BS he has to deal with and then a couple of years later complains about how he didn't get the Medal of Honor for his actions.
The wildest part to me of Zach just sleeping in the arms room is that he was the only armorer for his forward support group. Meaning they had one guy fixing their guns and he would just occasionally come in, and fall asleep on the floor. The idea of the soldiers just accepting that this was the only guy keeping their guns working amuses me endlessly
imagine if taliban was like "okay we need to get this specialist" and then all of the guns fall apart and then iraq beats the US Army... i doubt that could ever happen, but makes for an interesting book idea or something. xD
SpaceMissile honestly, it would’ve taken time to replace him had something happened to him. But it’s the military, nothing makes sense and if it makes sense something is wrong
@@PeanutButterParker think of the hottest place you have ever been. Now add a midget spraying you with boiling water he ran a mile to deliver the entire time, but he tried. That's Fort Polk. Plus everyone is training for deployment to the sandbox. Fort Sill is that for noon, and winter by the morning. That's actually easier, but Sill is a TRADOC base so every person is running around treating like a 12 year old. Take your pick on what's worse, emotional or physical abuse. You'll get both at both, but ones 70/30 one way, the other opposite.
Just discovered this channel and this video, how's about this little community of subscribers come's together to make an "Army RUclipsr Commendation Award Medal" (AYCOM) for this absolute gem of a human being?
You'd be surprised how random it is to get awards in the army, after making a map in my battalion that was used at the division level for operations on fort Carson. I got nothing for it XD after hand jamming 1000 +individual points onto the map and doing hand drawn routes in color. It's quite disappointing how much you can do and get nothing for it the army lol.
@@StealthTheFoxz Who makes the most immediate impact? The guy that keeps everyone's weapons working, the guy who makes the funni map, or the guy who fixed the AC in the fucking desert. Boom, award explained.
Chief Warrant Officer: I'm gonna need those cabinets high-speed. But I just did so much work getting them! I need them! Okay, sir. Speech 25/40: These cabinets aren't up to your standards, sir. There's... way better cabinets over at... Delta Company's base! Yeah. Terrifying Presence: Chief, you can go f*ck yourself and I'm gonna punch you in the God damn face if you don't get the f*ck out of my shop!
So basically you'll have a go gauge and a no go gauge, the go gauge will allow the bolt to close and the no go gauge will not allow the bolt to close. If both of those gauges work then your weapon will be headspaced.
the ARCOM sounds like the Army equivalent of a NAM(Navy Achievement Medal) that both Marines and Sailors get(same department). My maintenance chief went around and pissed everyone off, made more work for everyone and accomplished some spreadsheets. I stayed up all day and fixed the comms in all our vics in Iraq. He gets a NAM, I get a Letter of Appreciation. So glad I got out.
When I went into Iraq in '91, the brass had "ration" orders on medals. Vietnam had resulted in metric tons of medals being handed out for just anything, and this time around they wanted them to be "earned". Which resulted in the Colonel's Humvee driver getting a Bronze Star with Valor device for CROSSING THE BORDER INTO IRAQ. Which, if for some weird-ass reason he hadn't, he would have been court-martialed for desertion. Me, I got shelled by EOD and didn't even get a "geez, sorry 'bout that".
Hearing more and more about the incompetence and straight dumbassery of the military makes me depressed that alot of hard working soldiers like Zach never gets the recognition he deserves and somewhat grateful that i didn't let my jarhead highschool friends peer pressure me into going with them. I know this means nothing to you Zach if you ever read this comment but I thank you very much for all your hard work and bullshit you went through in your time of service.
@@KillerOrca can confirm. My grandpa was in Korea. He supported those he could, worked his ass off and got a grazing shot on his head, and all he got was a purple heart and a few of those medals that EVERYONE gets. All in all, he said it wasn't worth it.
@@nadamada8328 My grandfather was in the South Korean army during the war, when one of his officers told him about how incompetent the Americans was he mentioned how he was almost tempted to defect to North Korea just to take out a few or the idiots in charge. Hearing this, I understand the sentiment now.
Zach, you're like my spirit animal. Back when I was in ROTC, I was the armory officer and I used to just say, "I'm gonna go fix the rifles some of the cadets messed up. Sorry I couldn't do PT today." Or something of the nature. Then I'd angle the door juuuuust right and go nap. I had gotten to the point of being so adjusted to the air pressure I could tell when someone was approaching the door and snap awake. It was glorious.
As a resident of Louisiana, no one has described hurricane katrina's impact so well. Complete chaos and occasionally seeing a tree explode. Fun but terrifying
Reminds me of my high school days,the teachers weren't up to par with computers,cooking,repairs as i was so i volunteerd and before i knew it it was 3 years later with only a good job and yeah thanks meanwhile i am bustin my ass of cause the gas stoves couldn't turn off so the room was filled with gas and the room next to this was the mechanics class with live wires,so here i am scared shitless the whole place is going down and waddya know i fixed it apperantly some kid broke the panel and ripped the safety of for "fun" they said and all i i got was "thanks now we need you to fix the generator since it's only working half the school and calling a pro mechanic is too expensive"
@@zuttoaragi8349 they are rewarded whit more responsible, more work, higher expectation, less wage and expected to give up there vacation days in order to complet there extra work.
Zach fixing that many weapons in 24 hours (give or take) is legit impressive. He should’ve gotten the ARCOM for that, but of course, he didn’t..... Seriously, servicemen who don’t do primarily combat like to be humble and say they don’t deserve the honor given, but I say to hell with that, a lot of them deserve it just as much.
It's not fixing the guns. It's gauging them. Like complete stripping down of the gun (usually past field strip), and measuring all of the individual components to make sure nothing is out of spec. Then, if you find something out of spec, you're fixing it. If you know there's a broken extractor, then you fix it and maybe do a quick gauge of headspace or whatnot. Gauging that many weapons is seriously impressive.
The army runs on its support companies. Without them, the soldiers on the front line cannot properly do their job. This is why the army's "Army of One" advertisement was so stupid.
@@MelissiaBlackheart Battles are won on the frontline but Wars are won by the Logistics. And from these stories, it seems that the US has a very scuffed view of the importance of logistics. Never piss off the people who make sure everyone on the frontlines are actually well supplied for the battles, logistic is a battle in its own right.
@@combinecommando001 meanwhile SOMEHOW their logistics (for the overall military) is one of, if not THE best in the world. Just like at Afghanistan. Kandahar Airport, with all those C-17s going in and out during the evac.
I wasn’t a BNs armorer, but I took over my company’s arms room from a dude who ETSd and quit caring about a year prior, I was NOT at armorer, I went to a two week class of “hey this is how it comes apart, this is a TM, this is sorta how you order parts, good luck!” I spent something like 8 months fixing the clusterpuck I was handed, sleeping at the company because I would finish up so late. at one point my BN armorer came by prior to a major inspection and said ‘this might be the best arms room in the BN’ and I legit cried for a moment because it was the first time anyone higher than me had told me good job. I feel zachs pain and it makes me happy to know I wasn’t alone
He deserves a spa MONTH for the crap he put up with in his service in the army. Though I think a LOT of soldiers from many different armies the world over deserve a spa month. X.x.
Someone make a mod that adds Zach as a companion, and in order to get him, you need to get an ARCOM off of the chief who stole his cabinets' corpse, also adds a pancore jackhammer that if you equip, he spawns out of nowhere and 1-shots you
This is kinda like Galarraga's "28 out perfect game" where he didn't get the perfect game due to a blown call on the last out but everyone in the baseball scene acknowledges it as a perfect game. Zach you may have not earned an ARCOM, but you earned an ARCOM.
I rewatched this series because the phrase "OH THE PALLATABLE IRONY!" popped into my head. Finally found it, but I'm gonna keep rewatching because man half of these stories are gold.
My time in rotc in highschool was sorta like this, I wasnt the one that was given most of the responsibility but whenever something specific needed to be done i was the man for the job "Hey you we need you to train the new cadets how to stand in formation " "Hey you we need someone to be captain of the knowledge bowl" "Hey you we have an assembly in the library, and we need the color guard go to the armory and get a squad ready" I got promoted to csm but rarely would get called in for meetings of events that needed planning, just whenever a difficult task came up thwy would call me
...'Just hoping that a stray brick might hit me in the head so that I wouldn't have to go to work tomorrow'. I swear, I almost fell on the floor. God love ya, guys! I love these! -Vic
I'm the sole ET on my ship, this is my first ship. I had no turnover, and seemingly everyone above me when I got here only wanted to get in my way of fixing stuff. I fixed the antenna we use for Internet, both our radars, re worked our radio antennas found problems to and fixed a speed log, 1mc, and a unit, none of which I'm either trained nor responsible for. No nam or anything. Guy I work with carries a few extra small boxes on a provisions onload, given a nam
As a Canadian Combat Engineer, I randomly found this channel and these guys, I can relate to literally EVERYTHING they complain about lol and this has become my new favourite youtube channel....... and yes I'm sharing it with my unit
Oh god the CAF. To think, Canada went from "The psychotic monster that can and will rip you limb from limb" to "Oh, they have a military? Oh, 'not really'? I see" is just....depressing. At least the quality of our troops is still great, apparently. Given the "budget" I'm amazed at the fact that they even have guns and vehicles, and stuff. Keep on keeping on with that budget of half a roll of used duct tape, half a pack of chewing gum, and maybe some shoe strings if you're lucky. Some day our government will realise that they actually need to give a damn about the men and women who protect our home.
Love Zach's stories, he doesn't get enough credit in my opinion for the kinda interesting person he is, keep doing these interesting stories Mike & Zach ye guys are awesome
I could listen to these guys for hours. *4 hours since I started watching.* I'm not even in the military, but these guys are just the salt of the earth. I want a whiskey with them.
Zach I genuinely feel your pain on the gauging. I've had similar times at my old job where I would put in the 120% and most people in the company just didn't care. But some delivery guy got a shout out just because he worked in the home city for some odd years. If we were friends I'd have bought you a case of whatever you wanted
I can't make your time in the service any less painful Zach, nor can I make your asshat superiors give you the commendation you deserve, but at the very least I can say thank you for being such a dedicated individual. The world could use more people like you.
My whole knowlege about guns is from this show (living in Europe) but honestly, I think gauging 1000 weapons in diffrent places in 24h in some sort superhuman stuff
I relate to this story. Hundreds of thousands of gallons of JP8 transported and dispensed by me personally to a countless amount of marines during every single feild op that went on in the base I was stationed at... and all I got was an ass chewing over hazmat diapers.
Dear Zach, for all your efforts in the line of duty and the continuous entertaining retellings of it, I bestow upon you the highest honor I can give: One Like on Mike's channel.
Stories like Zach's lack of recognition for ARCOM have taught me to never do anything excellent on the job, unless someone watches me bleed while doing it.
Listening to these stories comforts me that the sheer level of stupidity and incompetence I deal with daily isn't just limited to the organisation I work for, it's endemic everywhere... Thanks Zach I really good to know I'm not alone at dealing with idiots
OMG the weapons thing reminds me of the first month of my experience in Korea falling in as the motor sergeant and finding out that all of the company's weapons were overdue for gaging, but our company didn't have an armament section so we relied on another company to do the gaging for us, but they were on a different base and I had no POC because none of the phone numbers worked. Finally, ride the bus out to their base and see super tall grass all over the place and Soldiers running around with their stuff literally in their hands getting on the bus because they are in the process of moving to another base because that base was shutting down, and the unit didn't plan around it at all. It took me about two hours of wandering around and bumming rides all over the base to find the armament NCOIC and he had been in the unit for about as long as I had been in mine which is why none of the phone numbers worked... He had a suitcase in his hands from his barracks room and told me where they were moving, gave me his number, and told me it would be at least a week before he could even set up an appointment for weapons gaging. Yay I'm going to get yelled at during the maintenance meeting by people on a teleconference who I have never met in person because the last guy was a turd with no organization skills and left me a dumpster fire of a motor pool to fix up...
This is super late, but I bet the reason Zach didn't get an ARCOM was because his superior would've gotten in trouble if anyone knew he let the task sit idle and didn't tell anyone until the last day. Your superiors will not report grand behavior if it gets them into trouble; if anything, his boss made sure no one heard about that ever.
My first time deployed my supervisor did a bunch of really big complex tasks and then wrote Achievement Medal packages for the whole shop with that information, his justification was that by doing that we facilitated him accomplishing that and the commander we had was really cool and the 3 star general was flying ops out of our shop and knew us all so he signed off on them. Great supervisor but he got busted down and kicked out a year layer because when they went to renew his security clearance they found out he had a bunch of DUIs he managed to hide from the unit by serving his sentences on weekends and taking leave to serve sentences as well.
I am but a humble printer whisperer in a office supply store’s print and copy shop. We’re a hell of a team at my store and we bust ass to get occasionally-massive orders done in 24 hours or less. Our profit margins are insane for retail and it’s no exaggeration to say we’re a cornerstone in keeping the store afloat. And the upper management shows no comprehension of what we do but still negs us about whatever fucking bullshit metric we didn’t hit this week. What I’m saying is; I feel this, and I salute you for your weapons-gauging service, Specialist Zach.
Best experience I had with a VW Beetle(the OG one): For a friend's birthday at university, we found his car, and then like 6 of us lifted the OG beetle up and moved it ~ a dozen spots.
There are so many stories like this one in the military. I went and tackled another companies first sergeant and one of their platoon sgts at the same time to keep them from being speared by a maintenance tent that was blowing away in the windstorm that was happening. The tent knocked over a 55 gal drum of used oil that they had left open and began pouring over the ground, so after i got up from them I ran over and got doused in oil to pick it up, uniform was completely ruined. For all that I was only asked "Why were you outside." I still didn't get to shower after that and it had already been a week with no showers but we're sending our cooks out daily for showers. Later that night, it started raining from hell, and I had to climb into our generators and fuel every single one of them at 2300 for the company while everyone was enjoying their beds, knowing it's gotta be done again in the morning. Ended up getting doused in diesel too because one of the jerry cans busted, so now I had oil stained diesel covered OCPs. Tbh i would've been fine with a shower at least, couldn't have cared for an ARCOM
Zach's ARCOM story brought back some awful memories that makes me wanna smash a thing because i have a REALLY stupid story just like it. I'm gonna go chill out before watching more Zach and laughing at his funnier stories that hopefully don't hit home directly again lmao.
Hopefully the fact that now at least 400,000 people (at the time of this comment) now know about what happened to you slightly helps ease the pain of not getting that award, which pretty much no one would know about. Entertaining stories get far more attention than getting a medal and moving on. I can't name a single medal any random soldier has, but I remember this story and you.
This is my interpretation of why Zach did not receive a ARCOM. Because he was specifically told to do it and thus does not deserve a reward for such a thing even tho he was gauging 1000+/- firearms in under 24 hours, most of those hours probabky spent in a Humvee to get to those firearms. The fact that he did his job no matter how ludricus does not deserve a parade. The other guy was probably just doing whaf he normal does and inspecting vehicles and finding things to fix and that vehicle he happened to find a problem in the air conditioning and fixed it and thus deserved an ARCOM for his initiative and willingness to help his Company (Commander). The reason why I think this is because something similar happened to me when I was in highschool where I was voluntered for a "Sports Day" to teach kids a bunch of "sports" and sports which basically meant I taught them the basics of soccer and basketball to of the sports I did not participate in highschool and a bunch of made up playground things. Essentially what happened was I was set up with like five other people and we were suppoused to handle four groups of kids. One of them was sick. Two of them skipped that day. And the other two fucked off as soon as the teachers left. So essentially I was teaching like 40 kids or so how to do everything all at once and it would have been easier to wrangls cats to be quite honest. After this hell of a day, I had to go to practice already tired to which one of the kids who fucked off came to practice as he was a footballer. Coach asked how everything went and he said it went fine. I had reached the point of apathy and didn’t even say anything til after practice. Coach told me he would take care of it and I saw the kid running gassers after and while I was waiting for my friends to get ready to leave. He threw up just as we left. Other then that I never recieved any kind of praise
“Man literally too frustrated to die”
GET BACK TO YOUR POST SOLDIER
"specialists' body reacts to commands and gauges over 1k weapons under 24 hours"
The ride he's hitchhiking on gets engaged by enemy forces in Iraq, the enemy forces see a soldier wielding an M240 in his left hand and an M4 with an underbarrel grenade launcher in his right charging at their position yelling: "YOU SUNS'UH'BITCHES, I HAVE WEAPONS TO GAUGE!".
He engages the enemy forces and single handedly kills or forces all of them to retreat, while taking several gun shot wounds, he humps his way back to the humvee, grumbles about all the stupid BS he has to deal with and then a couple of years later complains about how he didn't get the Medal of Honor for his actions.
sounds like doom with extra steps and overcomplicated funny backstory
@@Ribbons0121R121
Doom, but it's a comedy and the demons are just bureaucrats
That should be specialist zach's companion quest.
theres only the npc so far
Taking him to an NCR base and and waiting for him to fix their guns before moving to the next one and the next and so on. All in one day.
Unknown yes
@@walnzell9328 with a time limit. If you do it under under 24 hours you get the armorer perk which helps on repairing your weapons
You don’t need to fight anyone for the quest. You just need to let Zach vent some of his bitterness about the NCR’s stupidity.
The wildest part to me of Zach just sleeping in the arms room is that he was the only armorer for his forward support group. Meaning they had one guy fixing their guns and he would just occasionally come in, and fall asleep on the floor. The idea of the soldiers just accepting that this was the only guy keeping their guns working amuses me endlessly
imagine if taliban was like "okay we need to get this specialist" and then all of the guns fall apart and then iraq beats the US Army...
i doubt that could ever happen, but makes for an interesting book idea or something. xD
SpaceMissile honestly, it would’ve taken time to replace him had something happened to him. But it’s the military, nothing makes sense and if it makes sense something is wrong
SpaceMissile I’m being pedantic, but Iraq was allied with the U.S.
@Juan Sanchez eeeey Futurama
What re they gonna do? Get rid of him?
I’m surprised there isn’t a “Survived Fort Polk” medal
At least he never got sent to Fort Sill.
@@BigPuddin i feel like this is a joke im too civilian for
@@PeanutButterParker think of the hottest place you have ever been. Now add a midget spraying you with boiling water he ran a mile to deliver the entire time, but he tried. That's Fort Polk. Plus everyone is training for deployment to the sandbox. Fort Sill is that for noon, and winter by the morning. That's actually easier, but Sill is a TRADOC base so every person is running around treating like a 12 year old. Take your pick on what's worse, emotional or physical abuse. You'll get both at both, but ones 70/30 one way, the other opposite.
@A Stand User your friend is reminiscing the PTSD from Fort Polk xD
The “I Survived One of the Worst Work Environments in the U.S. Army Award”
Military: **Won't give Zach ARCOM.**
Everyone: Fine. We'll do it ourselves.
Just discovered this channel and this video, how's about this little community of subscribers come's together to make an "Army RUclipsr Commendation Award Medal" (AYCOM) for this absolute gem of a human being?
You'd be surprised how random it is to get awards in the army, after making a map in my battalion that was used at the division level for operations on fort Carson. I got nothing for it XD after hand jamming 1000 +individual points onto the map and doing hand drawn routes in color. It's quite disappointing how much you can do and get nothing for it the army lol.
@@HiddenOcelot Meanwhile, someone tunes up an AC and becomes revered for the most basic activity.
Wo don’t give an ARCOM, we give an OURCOM.
@@StealthTheFoxz Who makes the most immediate impact? The guy that keeps everyone's weapons working, the guy who makes the funni map, or the guy who fixed the AC in the fucking desert.
Boom, award explained.
Wish there was "sent to anger management" award.
@@sushimidnight9539 Good ol' S T A M
The anger management was the award
Or a "deployed to fort Polk and didn't jump off a bridge" award
"I did not earn this"
"Look, just take it ok? We have a surplus"
And the medal he DID want and, IMO, DID earn, he didn't get. The army can be retarded sometimes
@@zuttoaragi8349 The other guy but yeah
@@zuttoaragi8349 "sometimes"
@@randomfactsthatdontmatter3466 99% of the time is still not all the time.
@@zuttoaragi8349 he deserved ARCOM
I want Zach quests where you have to go around getting cabinets and inspecting guns
Chief Warrant Officer: I'm gonna need those cabinets high-speed.
But I just did so much work getting them! I need them!
Okay, sir.
Speech 25/40: These cabinets aren't up to your standards, sir. There's... way better cabinets over at... Delta Company's base! Yeah.
Terrifying Presence: Chief, you can go f*ck yourself and I'm gonna punch you in the God damn face if you don't get the f*ck out of my shop!
Optional Quest: Eradicate entire company in Zach's blood rage.
@@ryanlorenzo5003 I want a reward to be him Getting a Shoe-Bill Body Pillow
No. Getting *BACK* those cabinets
@@edgarallenpo8330 YES, EXACTLY
I don't know what "gauging a weapon" means or entails, but doing 1000 in 24 hours sounds damn impressive.
Lahuk checking the headspace, I think.
Baker Tankersley Sorry, I don't know what that means either.
So basically you'll have a go gauge and a no go gauge, the go gauge will allow the bolt to close and the no go gauge will not allow the bolt to close. If both of those gauges work then your weapon will be headspaced.
@@ArtyFire118 Just out of curiosity, do they have gauges for artillery pieces?
TheKingOfJordan1 thank you
the ARCOM sounds like the Army equivalent of a NAM(Navy Achievement Medal) that both Marines and Sailors get(same department). My maintenance chief went around and pissed everyone off, made more work for everyone and accomplished some spreadsheets. I stayed up all day and fixed the comms in all our vics in Iraq. He gets a NAM, I get a Letter of Appreciation. So glad I got out.
@@ArtyFire118 I must have been thinking of the NAVCOM then
@@ArtyFire118 we were told in the 80s-90s that AAMs were for E4 and below. You would not get an ARCOM unless E5 or above.
Navy feels like it has the most amount of bullshit
When I went into Iraq in '91, the brass had "ration" orders on medals. Vietnam had resulted in metric tons of medals being handed out for just anything, and this time around they wanted them to be "earned". Which resulted in the Colonel's Humvee driver getting a Bronze Star with Valor device for CROSSING THE BORDER INTO IRAQ. Which, if for some weird-ass reason he hadn't, he would have been court-martialed for desertion. Me, I got shelled by EOD and didn't even get a "geez, sorry 'bout that".
That's awful abd you shoukd take it to court. I hope you're feeling better.
Hearing more and more about the incompetence and straight dumbassery of the military makes me depressed that alot of hard working soldiers like Zach never gets the recognition he deserves and somewhat grateful that i didn't let my jarhead highschool friends peer pressure me into going with them. I know this means nothing to you Zach if you ever read this comment but I thank you very much for all your hard work and bullshit you went through in your time of service.
Apperently this has been almost standard at least as far back as Korea, possibly earlier.
@@KillerOrca can confirm. My grandpa was in Korea. He supported those he could, worked his ass off and got a grazing shot on his head, and all he got was a purple heart and a few of those medals that EVERYONE gets. All in all, he said it wasn't worth it.
@@nadamada8328 "bUtt He SshoUlD bE PrOUd to SerVE hIS NaTIoN aS A PaTRiot!"
@@leatheryfoot6354 the German Military appears to have a lot of patriots for previous Germany and I have enough Retardation in my life as is
@@nadamada8328 My grandfather was in the South Korean army during the war, when one of his officers told him about how incompetent the Americans was he mentioned how he was almost tempted to defect to North Korea just to take out a few or the idiots in charge. Hearing this, I understand the sentiment now.
Can we just appreciate the fact that this man would've had to gauge 47.5 guns every hour to get this done?
That's like a gun every 130 seconds if my math is right
Minus naptime in the Humvee, so really, he'd be even faster 0.o
Zach, you're like my spirit animal. Back when I was in ROTC, I was the armory officer and I used to just say, "I'm gonna go fix the rifles some of the cadets messed up. Sorry I couldn't do PT today." Or something of the nature. Then I'd angle the door juuuuust right and go nap. I had gotten to the point of being so adjusted to the air pressure I could tell when someone was approaching the door and snap awake. It was glorious.
You guys just need to Do like a hour episode of Military Stories
Gavin mabeley Or better yet.. a podcast!
Gavin mabeley Why doe? They’ve already done the military story episodes like we asked it’s way more editing for mike if it’s stretched to an hour.
@@a1exander123 Now thats the way to think right there
I feel like it'd be so frustrating to listen to and also recount.
As a resident of Louisiana, no one has described hurricane katrina's impact so well. Complete chaos and occasionally seeing a tree explode. Fun but terrifying
227 people really want zach to get that ARCOM
Reminds me of my high school days,the teachers weren't up to par with computers,cooking,repairs as i was so i volunteerd and before i knew it it was 3 years later with only a good job and yeah thanks meanwhile i am bustin my ass of cause the gas stoves couldn't turn off so the room was filled with gas and the room next to this was the mechanics class with live wires,so here i am scared shitless the whole place is going down and waddya know i fixed it apperantly some kid broke the panel and ripped the safety of for "fun" they said and all i i got was "thanks now we need you to fix the generator since it's only working half the school and calling a pro mechanic is too expensive"
And people wonder why motivation is a problem with workers these days. lol
@@pbsixgun6 I feel that on a spiritual level. There's no reason for people to go above and beyond if they're not rewarded for it.
@@zuttoaragi8349 they are rewarded whit more responsible, more work, higher expectation, less wage and expected to give up there vacation days in order to complet there extra work.
I received the ARCOM for literally no reason at all and I’m not proud of it.
Send it to Zach bro!
I had two ARCOMs and an AAM knocked down after a deployment so that higher ups could get bronze stars for staying on the FOB. 😅
Awwww poor Zach, I’m sorry you didn’t get recognition for something that not lot of people would put the effort for.
@Garrett McBride I know. but it really isnt
Sole armorer, I love that title!
"Incompetence. Incompetence never changes." - - The Sole Armorer
MisterDax damn you I was gonna make that
@@MisterDax 😂
Zach fixing that many weapons in 24 hours (give or take) is legit impressive. He should’ve gotten the ARCOM for that, but of course, he didn’t.....
Seriously, servicemen who don’t do primarily combat like to be humble and say they don’t deserve the honor given, but I say to hell with that, a lot of them deserve it just as much.
It's not fixing the guns. It's gauging them. Like complete stripping down of the gun (usually past field strip), and measuring all of the individual components to make sure nothing is out of spec. Then, if you find something out of spec, you're fixing it. If you know there's a broken extractor, then you fix it and maybe do a quick gauge of headspace or whatnot. Gauging that many weapons is seriously impressive.
The army runs on its support companies. Without them, the soldiers on the front line cannot properly do their job. This is why the army's "Army of One" advertisement was so stupid.
@@MelissiaBlackheart Battles are won on the frontline but Wars are won by the Logistics. And from these stories, it seems that the US has a very scuffed view of the importance of logistics. Never piss off the people who make sure everyone on the frontlines are actually well supplied for the battles, logistic is a battle in its own right.
@@combinecommando001 meanwhile SOMEHOW their logistics (for the overall military) is one of, if not THE best in the world.
Just like at Afghanistan. Kandahar Airport, with all those C-17s going in and out during the evac.
it's not much but by god zach i think you get that arcom in my heart. goodspeed, you magnificent bastard.
I wasn’t a BNs armorer, but I took over my company’s arms room from a dude who ETSd and quit caring about a year prior, I was NOT at armorer, I went to a two week class of “hey this is how it comes apart, this is a TM, this is sorta how you order parts, good luck!” I spent something like 8 months fixing the clusterpuck I was handed, sleeping at the company because I would finish up so late. at one point my BN armorer came by prior to a major inspection and said ‘this might be the best arms room in the BN’ and I legit cried for a moment because it was the first time anyone higher than me had told me good job. I feel zachs pain and it makes me happy to know I wasn’t alone
Zach deserves a tiny gold trophy that's just says "for your participation"
He deserves a spa MONTH for the crap he put up with in his service in the army.
Though I think a LOT of soldiers from many different armies the world over deserve a spa month. X.x.
My name is Commander Shepard, and this my favourite segment on this channel.
Fraser King when you become a General please don’t shoot me in the chest with A 357 revolver and then shoot my friend ghost in the head
@@mehphala9184 commander is higher than general
I know but I’m referencing Cod mw2
Commander is usually a position, not a rank.
8:25 "Remarks complete."
Someone make a mod that adds Zach as a companion, and in order to get him, you need to get an ARCOM off of the chief who stole his cabinets' corpse, also adds a pancore jackhammer that if you equip, he spawns out of nowhere and 1-shots you
Zach deserves a lot more recognition
He deserves a medal just for not killing most of his incompetent base. lol
This is kinda like Galarraga's "28 out perfect game" where he didn't get the perfect game due to a blown call on the last out but everyone in the baseball scene acknowledges it as a perfect game. Zach you may have not earned an ARCOM, but you earned an ARCOM.
E4 Mafia is a lifestyle choice that i fully support.
I was an APC driver and I used to close all the hatches and take a nap in there..
I love his military stories.
its even more funny since im in the army myself and its all to true.
Congratulations Zach you get my seal of approval
I rewatched this series because the phrase "OH THE PALLATABLE IRONY!" popped into my head. Finally found it, but I'm gonna keep rewatching because man half of these stories are gold.
Hurricane Katrina...
Everyone else: oh no
Zack: take me I'm ready!!!
On behalf of the kittens in my room I would gladly give you a gold star
Give him another star!
I'd give this man a bronze star and a purple heart just for putting up with the bullshit he's had to while in the military
@@ComanderRilldo Ayup!
Zach becomes the real courier 6, but of arms maintenance in a different desert
Underrated
Damn they did this guy dirty. I was my battalions only 91F for a bit and I got out as a E4 with 2 ARCOM’s.
My time in rotc in highschool was sorta like this,
I wasnt the one that was given most of the responsibility but whenever something specific needed to be done i was the man for the job
"Hey you we need you to train the new cadets how to stand in formation "
"Hey you we need someone to be captain of the knowledge bowl"
"Hey you we have an assembly in the library, and we need the color guard go to the armory and get a squad ready"
I got promoted to csm but rarely would get called in for meetings of events that needed planning, just whenever a difficult task came up thwy would call me
What I get from all these stories is: ‘The US military is a mess’
I love y'alls campfire stories, love listening to y'all ramble about relatable shit while working
Soldier 1: "Hazard's sleeping again."
Soldier 2: "Man, does he even do anything around here?"
Zach: *gauges a thousand weapons in 24 hours*
Can we get a companion Zach where the questis going place to place get signatures for his arcom and making administrative corrections.
...'Just hoping that a stray brick might hit me in the head so that I wouldn't have to go to work tomorrow'. I swear, I almost fell on the floor. God love ya, guys! I love these! -Vic
Oh god, I just realized Mike is FUCKING 1171 WATER DOG!
I'm the sole ET on my ship, this is my first ship. I had no turnover, and seemingly everyone above me when I got here only wanted to get in my way of fixing stuff. I fixed the antenna we use for Internet, both our radars, re worked our radio antennas found problems to and fixed a speed log, 1mc, and a unit, none of which I'm either trained nor responsible for. No nam or anything. Guy I work with carries a few extra small boxes on a provisions onload, given a nam
I got an ARCOM before I got out. To this day, I still don't know what I did to earn it.
It's a participation trophy
Damn all that work Zach did and and he didn't even get an award. i feel you man
As a Canadian Combat Engineer, I randomly found this channel and these guys, I can relate to literally EVERYTHING they complain about lol and this has become my new favourite youtube channel....... and yes I'm sharing it with my unit
Oh god the CAF.
To think, Canada went from "The psychotic monster that can and will rip you limb from limb" to "Oh, they have a military? Oh, 'not really'? I see" is just....depressing. At least the quality of our troops is still great, apparently. Given the "budget" I'm amazed at the fact that they even have guns and vehicles, and stuff.
Keep on keeping on with that budget of half a roll of used duct tape, half a pack of chewing gum, and maybe some shoe strings if you're lucky. Some day our government will realise that they actually need to give a damn about the men and women who protect our home.
@@airplanemaniacgaming7877 lol you think we have guns and vehicles........and they seem to be trying to force out all our good troops too sooo......
Love Zach's stories, he doesn't get enough credit in my opinion for the kinda interesting person he is, keep doing these interesting stories Mike & Zach ye guys are awesome
I could listen to these guys for hours. *4 hours since I started watching.* I'm not even in the military, but these guys are just the salt of the earth. I want a whiskey with them.
Fun fact: Zach's story about gauging 1000 weapon is on the Wikipedia page about armorers
I love Zach backstories but does Mike have any more Campfire Stories?
Zach I genuinely feel your pain on the gauging. I've had similar times at my old job where I would put in the 120% and most people in the company just didn't care. But some delivery guy got a shout out just because he worked in the home city for some odd years. If we were friends I'd have bought you a case of whatever you wanted
I LOVE these extra side stories. I could listen all day. Please have a podcast.
I can't make your time in the service any less painful Zach, nor can I make your asshat superiors give you the commendation you deserve, but at the very least I can say thank you for being such a dedicated individual. The world could use more people like you.
I respect those that go into the military. Both for putting their lives at risk (some of them), and the rest for dealing with absolute bullshit.
My whole knowlege about guns is from this show (living in Europe) but honestly, I think gauging 1000 weapons in diffrent places in 24h in some sort superhuman stuff
I like to think that these campfire stories are told inbetween bounty missions and just regular shenanigans.
Delta Company? Wow, Zach gauged weapons for the Ghosts? Thats crazy
I relate to this story. Hundreds of thousands of gallons of JP8 transported and dispensed by me personally to a countless amount of marines during every single feild op that went on in the base I was stationed at... and all I got was an ass chewing over hazmat diapers.
Zach basically went a more complex version of "return to sender" quest IRL.
Dear Zach, for all your efforts in the line of duty and the continuous entertaining retellings of it, I bestow upon you the highest honor I can give: One Like on Mike's channel.
Stories like Zach's lack of recognition for ARCOM have taught me to never do anything excellent on the job, unless someone watches me bleed while doing it.
Just love how the Fallout cast of characters swapping war stories lol. Veterans playing videogames something I watch instead of screaming idiots lol
Listening to these stories comforts me that the sheer level of stupidity and incompetence I deal with daily isn't just limited to the organisation I work for, it's endemic everywhere... Thanks Zach I really good to know I'm not alone at dealing with idiots
Zach's experience at Fort Polk really gives Catch 22 a new sense of realism.
As a GM3 I can relate to these wonderful stories.
I would love a friendship like this in my life
These stories are so comfy to listen too
I'm so glad I found these guys. What a gem
So there is no, "he's our only fucking gunsmith award?"
0:52 E-4 mafia at its finest🤣
The funny thing is I’m in the middle of Hurricane Laura right now and it is sad to see Lake Charles get destroyed
Well, Zach I for one I’m impressed. Great job!
I love your stories so much! Please never stop making Videos like this one!
2:14 Well that's a brand new sentence
OMG the weapons thing reminds me of the first month of my experience in Korea falling in as the motor sergeant and finding out that all of the company's weapons were overdue for gaging, but our company didn't have an armament section so we relied on another company to do the gaging for us, but they were on a different base and I had no POC because none of the phone numbers worked. Finally, ride the bus out to their base and see super tall grass all over the place and Soldiers running around with their stuff literally in their hands getting on the bus because they are in the process of moving to another base because that base was shutting down, and the unit didn't plan around it at all. It took me about two hours of wandering around and bumming rides all over the base to find the armament NCOIC and he had been in the unit for about as long as I had been in mine which is why none of the phone numbers worked... He had a suitcase in his hands from his barracks room and told me where they were moving, gave me his number, and told me it would be at least a week before he could even set up an appointment for weapons gaging. Yay I'm going to get yelled at during the maintenance meeting by people on a teleconference who I have never met in person because the last guy was a turd with no organization skills and left me a dumpster fire of a motor pool to fix up...
Zach is literally the incarnation of hawkeye pirce. 😂
I love getting a "military recruits" add when I listen Zach's stories
While watching this, I was browsing doordash for a meal and I stumbled upon a place that sold brookies! Had to get one.
Did you brush your teath afterwards?
*Secret achievement unlocked*
“Leave the military without the ARCOM metal”
petition to give Zach an Internet Commendation for being the most lovable, goober armorer. the emblem would be a trash panda.
This is super late, but I bet the reason Zach didn't get an ARCOM was because his superior would've gotten in trouble if anyone knew he let the task sit idle and didn't tell anyone until the last day. Your superiors will not report grand behavior if it gets them into trouble; if anything, his boss made sure no one heard about that ever.
That somehow makes the story even more infuriating.
My first time deployed my supervisor did a bunch of really big complex tasks and then wrote Achievement Medal packages for the whole shop with that information, his justification was that by doing that we facilitated him accomplishing that and the commander we had was really cool and the 3 star general was flying ops out of our shop and knew us all so he signed off on them. Great supervisor but he got busted down and kicked out a year layer because when they went to renew his security clearance they found out he had a bunch of DUIs he managed to hide from the unit by serving his sentences on weekends and taking leave to serve sentences as well.
I am but a humble printer whisperer in a office supply store’s print and copy shop. We’re a hell of a team at my store and we bust ass to get occasionally-massive orders done in 24 hours or less. Our profit margins are insane for retail and it’s no exaggeration to say we’re a cornerstone in keeping the store afloat. And the upper management shows no comprehension of what we do but still negs us about whatever fucking bullshit metric we didn’t hit this week. What I’m saying is; I feel this, and I salute you for your weapons-gauging service, Specialist Zach.
Best experience I had with a VW Beetle(the OG one):
For a friend's birthday at university, we found his car, and then like 6 of us lifted the OG beetle up and moved it ~ a dozen spots.
Those things are death traps I saw a picture of one literally wrapped around a tree
Man I love this so much. It’s a damn shame I might not ever be able to go into the airforce. Thank y’all for yalls service
Anyone want to uniromically petition the government to give him the ARCOM?
sometimes i forget that this is mikes channel and not zach's. hes such a showstealer
There are so many stories like this one in the military. I went and tackled another companies first sergeant and one of their platoon sgts at the same time to keep them from being speared by a maintenance tent that was blowing away in the windstorm that was happening. The tent knocked over a 55 gal drum of used oil that they had left open and began pouring over the ground, so after i got up from them I ran over and got doused in oil to pick it up, uniform was completely ruined. For all that I was only asked "Why were you outside." I still didn't get to shower after that and it had already been a week with no showers but we're sending our cooks out daily for showers. Later that night, it started raining from hell, and I had to climb into our generators and fuel every single one of them at 2300 for the company while everyone was enjoying their beds, knowing it's gotta be done again in the morning. Ended up getting doused in diesel too because one of the jerry cans busted, so now I had oil stained diesel covered OCPs. Tbh i would've been fine with a shower at least, couldn't have cared for an ARCOM
I just found this series. Havent laughed this hard in a long time. Please make more. Subbed.
Zach's ARCOM story brought back some awful memories that makes me wanna smash a thing because i have a REALLY stupid story just like it. I'm gonna go chill out before watching more Zach and laughing at his funnier stories that hopefully don't hit home directly again lmao.
Zach's gauging story is gonna be like Teddy Sheean getting the Victoria Cross, where they're gonna award him the ARCOM posthumously after 70+ years.
I also used to sit outside during hurricanes. My fav was katrina in Orange Beach AL. My family rode it out on the bay with 10ft of water in our yard
I love it when these two does these stories.
Hopefully the fact that now at least 400,000 people (at the time of this comment) now know about what happened to you slightly helps ease the pain of not getting that award, which pretty much no one would know about. Entertaining stories get far more attention than getting a medal and moving on. I can't name a single medal any random soldier has, but I remember this story and you.
I commend you for your service and your patience with every numnutt and allso you shared your story its foking amazing thank you
This is my interpretation of why Zach did not receive a ARCOM. Because he was specifically told to do it and thus does not deserve a reward for such a thing even tho he was gauging 1000+/- firearms in under 24 hours, most of those hours probabky spent in a Humvee to get to those firearms.
The fact that he did his job no matter how ludricus does not deserve a parade.
The other guy was probably just doing whaf he normal does and inspecting vehicles and finding things to fix and that vehicle he happened to find a problem in the air conditioning and fixed it and thus deserved an ARCOM for his initiative and willingness to help his Company (Commander).
The reason why I think this is because something similar happened to me when I was in highschool where I was voluntered for a "Sports Day" to teach kids a bunch of "sports" and sports which basically meant I taught them the basics of soccer and basketball to of the sports I did not participate in highschool and a bunch of made up playground things.
Essentially what happened was I was set up with like five other people and we were suppoused to handle four groups of kids.
One of them was sick.
Two of them skipped that day.
And the other two fucked off as soon as the teachers left.
So essentially I was teaching like 40 kids or so how to do everything all at once and it would have been easier to wrangls cats to be quite honest.
After this hell of a day, I had to go to practice already tired to which one of the kids who fucked off came to practice as he was a footballer. Coach asked how everything went and he said it went fine. I had reached the point of apathy and didn’t even say anything til after practice. Coach told me he would take care of it and I saw the kid running gassers after and while I was waiting for my friends to get ready to leave. He threw up just as we left.
Other then that I never recieved any kind of praise