Chilean here. Please, get rid of the IA generated image in the thumbnail. Not only is creepy, is totally inexact. Those guys look neither German, nor Chilean, nor human. Yikes.
Watching the Wagah Attari border ceremony is fascinating and, considering the heightened tensions between the two sides, I hope that they can settle their differences via dance off. Honestly, if all wars and conflicts were just soldiers trying to outdance the other side, war wouldn't be as bad.
I agree, either that or we go back to the rule where the actual leader has to be on the front line leading his men. That would also cut down on wars I think.
Here in Chile we have: German Army military traditions, British Navy military traditions and American Air Force military traditions. We have the best of each one of them from the past.
Mostly right..I am not sure about the Air Force, though. The chilean air force actually predates de american air force for almost 2 decades. In terms of tradition, I would say it is more related to the british and the french.
@@carlosvasquez9890the us Air Force has been around since before ww1 so it be impressive if it out dates it by 2 decades. The Air Force just wasn’t always a separate and distinct thing from the army. It was a part of the army for like 40 years
@@treydog700 As you say...they where part of the US Army, with army traditions ranging from ethos to uniform...so, in terms of heritage, I don't think you comment have much ground. The USAF was not created until the late 40's...the Chilean Air Force was founded in 1930.
Its not just the Royal Navy that perform Crossing the line ceremonies. The Royal Canadian Navy and US navy's both follow this tradition and I'm pretty sure many other navies around the world do as well.
0:40 - Chapter 1 - A german legacy 3:20 - Mid roll ads 4:35 - Back to the video 6:05 - Chapter 2 - The whisky war 9:20 - Chapter 3 - The penguin in chief 12:05 - Chapter 4 - The line crossing ceremony 14:30 - Chapter 5 - The attari wagah border ceremony
Crossing the line is not limited to the royal navy. When I crossed the line with the USN there was a soviet crew doing the same thing just a few miles away from us.
While you only mentioned the British/UK Royal Navy in the crossing the line ceremony segment, I can tell you as a Veteran of the US Navy, we too have a very similar ceremony. Those who have gone through the ceremony are called "Shellbacks" while those who haven't are, the same as with the Royal Navy, called "Wogs". It is most sailors' dream to one day participate in the ceremony so that they too can bear the coveted title of Shellback. (I myself am, most unfortunately, still a Wog. Our boat was set to cross the equator on our Westpac, and we were going to have the ceremony, but orders changed and it never happened.)
As a Canadian, I'm glad Canada and Denmark were able to find a peaceful solution to the Whiskey War. So many flags and bottles of liquor lost in such a senseless conflict 😐 It is nice to see that nations can be playful over territory rather than descend into tense posturing and armed conflict.
I wonder, did the contents of each buried bottle get consumed by the adversary that raised the next flag or left untouched, likely preserved in perfectly drinkable condition due to the cold climate and high alcohol content until environmental abraison or an unfortunate mis-step broke the bottle? As the bottles in question contained at least 40%vol of distilled ethanol, the water inside wouldn't expand enough to break glass or plastic bottles by freezing even in the coldest arctic winter night😊
Can we have more videos like this? There's so much war and devastation in the world. It would be nice to see more of the light-hearted antics of various militaries.
The training regiment I was assigned to as a conscript in 2003-2004 had a Ram of a local heritage breed as a mascot. He had the rank of Ensign when I started my training but iirc, he was promoted to Lieutenant during my 10 months of service in training. During that time, my unit was assigned two tours of guard duty at the royal palace and the royal residence (two separate locations, one in and one outside the national capital) The ram accompanied us for the handover ceremonies and marched with the colour guards, he then proceeded to perfectly punctuate our company commanders speech with his abyssal, whiskey gravely *BAAAH!*
@@SonsOfLorgar That sounds like everyone got a kick out of it. Also, the way you described the voice makes me think of Tom Waits as a ram. Thanks for sharing.
@Kaltagstar96 I don't know. I mean it's more than a certificate, it's like 18"w x 12"h. It's written in cursive, has King Neptune on it as well as some other mythic nautical stuff. It's actually hanging at my dad's now. I'll ask him if he knows. What's even weirder, to me at least, is that it's kind of a form thing because it has blank lines for names and dates that one fills in.
@@Kaltagstar96 Wanders in . . . only because I knew a few who have undergone it, and one who skipper refused to go the few miles "off course." The first I heard from had the skipper take part since he was still a polywog. He had to wear his full dress, and the crew chipped in to buy him a new one. Anyway, while the USN - and I am sure the Royal Navies of Great Britain, Canada, and Switzerland - will "officially" state that there is no "official" sanction and all of that, at an early stage certificates were created. When you think about it, if you were a non-com that would be quite the conversation piece. Also, the "id" was a "proof" of your status which meant that you could partake as a shellback. All good fun.
The crossing line ceremony also known as Wog day is voluntary. I didn’t participate in it when I was in the U.S. Navy. But a lot of sailors had some silly fun when we crossed the equator. Lots of green jello and ketchup.
Those military traditions at the borders of nations can really be very important, especially when the border-tensions get high. The cooperation of both sides is very ritualistic, but that doesn't mean it's not incredibly important. When they're stopped is when you need to be worried.
Fun fact: in Italy we have a specialized unit called the "Bersaglieri". During military parades they don't march, but rather they run to the end of the road. The principal military parade in Italy is on the 2nd of June (wich is the day when the republic was created in 1946), and the military band of the Bersaglieri uses trumpets, so imagine running under the June sun while wearing a parade uniform and playing the trumpet.
We do the line crossing ceremony in the US military as well. It gets pretty gnarly, but it’s definitely awesome. A giant haze-fest but not in a bad way, it’s pretty fun. Gross in places, but fun lol. IYKYK
The Royal Dentist was the worst in my opinion. My division officer procured an octopus for the Royal Bath but sadly died in an O-2 deck magazine. So it was buried at sea.
We do the "Crossing the Line" ceremony in the U.S. Navy as well and it's pretty much identical to the way the Brits do it. I became a Shellback in 2006 and it was one of my best memories in the 20 years I served.
The India Pakistan border mutual high stepping display. I can just see a Commandant clenching a phone and demanding: "We urgently need the best steppers in the Army at the border! Yes! IMMEDIATELY!!"
For the full Prussian-Chilean experience, watch a video of the 19 September parade (national holiday) in RUclips. If you understand Spanish, you'll enjoy the never-ending telling of what's going on the field with its historical details by very patriotic broadcasters. 😄
So this is what 2028 will be like. An A.I. and Supreme Commander Pengoo III. are battling it out and humanity is wailing in their last thoughts: "We knew it would end bad, we didn't expect it to also be embarrassing."
The Whiskey looked pathetic. Take a Canadian regiment and a Danish regiment, and have them drink for the damn island. Last man standing declairs their country the winner.
The Chile-German uniform exchange remind me of another interesting German military exchange: the Nazi Germany-Nationalist China military exchange in the 1930s. There are pictures of Chinese troops in stahlhelms and in feldgray. Chiang Kai-Sheik's son even fought with Germany on the Eastern Front as a tank commander. Of course this riled the Nazi's ally Imperial Japan who were actively fighting China in the 1930s.
I know everything can't be American, but several times a day, the US Army's Ceremonial Guard does an elaborate ceremony to change the Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers in Arlington, VA. Definitely a bucket list item.
Crossing the Line. My Father served in the Canadian Merchant Service during WW2 and witnessed/endured said ritual. Kinda likka hazing, in a way - it could get a little rough, depending on the mood of the crew at the time or certain individuals attending. There are some lines you cross at your own peril.
I like how the whiskey war was already tongue-in-cheek, and then around the time Russia started getting uppity again, Greenland and Canada decided “oh fuck this, this is dumb”, and just peaceably ended an already peaceable “war”.
Crossing the line or shellback was nautical tradition whose history is lost to time. During the age of sail, it was upheld on every ship, merchant or military. The military upheld the tradition while merchant vessels stopped since industrialization made for an explosive growth of vessels where no one knew of the tradition
Hilarious. I love the silly sounds affects and party 🎉 confetti 🎊. Talking about making it fun and attention grabbing. All's you are missing is a Heckle Fish 🐠 with a pet 🐪 camel and you're in the big time, baby!
I became Shellback back in the '70's, I even received a nice frameable scroll. The 2 things I didn't like at all was the trough we crawled through with the so called vomit, actually minced up food scraps and left to rot. The other was the dentist, it nauseates me just thinking about it. Incidentally, I'm a former US Navy Corpsman, so probably all navies do this.
Can we please get creators to stop using cheap AI for thumbnail art? That is the stupidest depiction of supposed German-style pickelhaube helmets I've ever seen! They aren't even symmetrical. *Actual* images of both German and Chilean uniforms are out there. AI is unnecessary and lazy in this instance. This is obnoxious garbage.
Crossing the Line! Been there, done that, and 23 October was my 20th anniversary as a Trusty Shellback (USS Bridge, AOE 10, in the South China Sea returning from the Gulf on my OIF deployment with the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group - best deployment ever, as well as my first). I still proudly carry my Shellback card in my wallet.
You did a thing about Major General Nils Olav the Penguin but left out Chesty the Bulldog. Chesty is the Marine Corps' mascot. Chesty always holds a military rank. Chesty XVI currently holds the rank of Private First Class (E2, NATO grade OR-2). Unlike Nils Olav, who passes his paygrade to his successor, Chesty starts off as a Private (E1, NATO grade OR-1) and promotes throughout the course of his or her life. Always an English Bulldog and always named after Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller, known as "Chesty," who was the MOST-DECORATED Marine in history. The first USMC mascot, Jiggs, eventually reached the rank of Sergeant Major (E9, OR-9). As for the pay and allowances, well, Chesty gets a full paycheck. That paycheck is used by his handler (an enlisted Marine) to pay for food and vet bills. The money, of course, is accounted for and I'm sure the handler has to provide receipts for his care. Old dogs cost more to keep alive, so my understanding is that Chester, who holds a rank and is paid by the Defense Accountability Financial Service (DFAS), gets an audit to ensure his handler isn't committing fraud. I'm a retired Navy Sailor but did the preponderance of my career in amphibious assault ships (aka, Gator Navy, Gator Sailor, etc.). You should've added Chesty to this thing about strange military traditions. VR, DD214 CDR, USN (Ret.)
As for the Attari-Wagar ceremony . . . mad props on covering this. It's awesome things between India and Pakistan have normalized and this is a great example of powerful nations setting aside an old grievance and now having fun and sharing in that certain military comaradarie that all brethren in arms enjoy. Except for the thing with India and China fighting over the LAC (Line of Actual Control, also in the Himalyans) because the PRC has a tradition of just being selfish pricks to everyone else... IUU fishing, ethnic cleansing in Xinjiang, doing what America did to the "Five Civilized Tribes" vis-a-vis Inner Mongolia (who the Han leaders touted as a "model minority"), and why the Northern White Rhino is extinct in the wild and why pangolins are now critically endangered...)
The whiskey war not about the Island. The country that owns the island can claim a 12nm territoral water zone around it and, more importantly, a 200nm exclusive economic zone - pushing back the other partys own EEZ. With global warming there might be untoæd billions worth of natural ressources in the area. But splitting the ownership meant that status quo was maintained.
No. Those rules only apply if there's room for it and there isn't. Greenland and Canada are too close. The maratime boarder goes PRECISELY between the two countries -- problem was that Hans Island is located PRECISELY on the boarder.
People laugh at the Penguin in the Army, but... We also have a Goat within the British Army that many people do not know about. The summary from Wikipedia is brilliant. William "Billy" Windsor I is a cashmere goat who served as a lance corporal in the 1st Battalion, the Royal Welsh, an infantry battalion of the British Army. He served as a lance corporal from 2001 until 2009, except for a three-month period in 2006 when he was demoted to fusilier, after inappropriate behaviour during the Queen's Official Birthday celebrations while deployed on active duty with the battalion on Cyprus. Not sure if this is the only Animal enrolled in a military who has faced a court martial for "unacceptable behaviour", "lack of decorum" and "disobeying a direct order"
Do you mean The Whiskey Rebellion in the late eighteenth century in the United States? Or are you thinking of all of the whiskey smuggled from Canada to the United States during prohibition?
@@dinsdalemontypiranha4349 The Whiskey Rebellion. Though the Prohibition smuggling could be called a war too 🤔 The government certainly treated it as such
Is it military week? I know they sell, but I like Simon and I'm tired of hearing about the military every eight seconds. I live in the US and can't afford to leave. I've heard enough about the military.
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This looked interesting, then I saw the presenter. I will say it again, slow down your speaking
Chilean here. Please, get rid of the IA generated image in the thumbnail. Not only is creepy, is totally inexact. Those guys look neither German, nor Chilean, nor human. Yikes.
Another comment on the thumbnail here... the tagline gives away Simon's opening punchline. Now you have two reasons to replace it.
There's so much more to the Chile obsession with Prussia. The goose step marching, the music (Prussia's Glory), the gestures, and it goes on and on.
Germany encouraged businesses to settle German employees in countries they do business with
Watching the Wagah Attari border ceremony is fascinating and, considering the heightened tensions between the two sides, I hope that they can settle their differences via dance off. Honestly, if all wars and conflicts were just soldiers trying to outdance the other side, war wouldn't be as bad.
I agree, either that or we go back to the rule where the actual leader has to be on the front line leading his men. That would also cut down on wars I think.
But yeah,.. dance off, so much better 😅😅
Well it worked in Guardians of the Galaxy. Kinda.
I guess they kinda do that with Euro-Vision lol
@@mikeharris5681”imagine kings that fight their own battles, wouldn’t that be something to behold?”
Here in Chile we have: German Army military traditions, British Navy military traditions and American Air Force military traditions. We have the best of each one of them from the past.
I don't see anything wrong with cultural appropriation if you chose the best. 💯🇨🇱
Mostly right..I am not sure about the Air Force, though.
The chilean air force actually predates de american air force for almost 2 decades. In terms of tradition, I would say it is more related to the british and the french.
@@carlosvasquez9890the us Air Force has been around since before ww1 so it be impressive if it out dates it by 2 decades. The Air Force just wasn’t always a separate and distinct thing from the army. It was a part of the army for like 40 years
@@treydog700 As you say...they where part of the US Army, with army traditions ranging from ethos to uniform...so, in terms of heritage, I don't think you comment have much ground. The USAF was not created until the late 40's...the Chilean Air Force was founded in 1930.
The USAF is the youngest, excluding Space Force of course.
Its not just the Royal Navy that perform Crossing the line ceremonies. The Royal Canadian Navy and US navy's both follow this tradition and I'm pretty sure many other navies around the world do as well.
Yup. I have my father's (U.S. Navy) certificates for crossing the equator + the prime meridian.
I was in the U.S. navy and we still do it I'm a shell back yall pollywogs
I've got my grandfather's shellback card from WWII to prove it!
Crossed it a few times during my 20 years as a Marine. Sadly the ceremony was so watered down it is a joke.
During my first crossing, the XO was also a Wog; as I recall, he had a pretty miserable go of it.
0:40 - Chapter 1 - A german legacy
3:20 - Mid roll ads
4:35 - Back to the video
6:05 - Chapter 2 - The whisky war
9:20 - Chapter 3 - The penguin in chief
12:05 - Chapter 4 - The line crossing ceremony
14:30 - Chapter 5 - The attari wagah border ceremony
Crossing the line is not limited to the royal navy. When I crossed the line with the USN there was a soviet crew doing the same thing just a few miles away from us.
While you only mentioned the British/UK Royal Navy in the crossing the line ceremony segment, I can tell you as a Veteran of the US Navy, we too have a very similar ceremony. Those who have gone through the ceremony are called "Shellbacks" while those who haven't are, the same as with the Royal Navy, called "Wogs". It is most sailors' dream to one day participate in the ceremony so that they too can bear the coveted title of Shellback. (I myself am, most unfortunately, still a Wog. Our boat was set to cross the equator on our Westpac, and we were going to have the ceremony, but orders changed and it never happened.)
Interesting.. Wog has a very different meaning where I'm from
@@JordyValentine Yeah, I'm aware that it can be used as a racial slur, but in this case "Wog" is short for "Pollywog".
I crossed in 1980. I'm proud to be a Shellback. Had an absolute blast! Except for the Royal Dentist.
Probably only mentioned the royal navy because it's been going on for longer than America has been a country
Crossed in 09, escorting Obama to Africa
As a Canadian, I'm glad Canada and Denmark were able to find a peaceful solution to the Whiskey War. So many flags and bottles of liquor lost in such a senseless conflict 😐
It is nice to see that nations can be playful over territory rather than descend into tense posturing and armed conflict.
As a Scot I’m appalled at the loss of the water of life 😖🥃
I wonder, did the contents of each buried bottle get consumed by the adversary that raised the next flag or left untouched, likely preserved in perfectly drinkable condition due to the cold climate and high alcohol content until environmental abraison or an unfortunate mis-step broke the bottle?
As the bottles in question contained at least 40%vol of distilled ethanol, the water inside wouldn't expand enough to break glass or plastic bottles by freezing even in the coldest arctic winter night😊
@@jimmccaig7946 I actually don't think it was lost unless someone broke or, heretically emptied, the bottles by intent or accident😊
@@jimmccaig7946 As a Canadian I'm equally appalled.
You guys just practice war crimes
Can we have more videos like this? There's so much war and devastation in the world. It would be nice to see more of the light-hearted antics of various militaries.
The training regiment I was assigned to as a conscript in 2003-2004 had a Ram of a local heritage breed as a mascot. He had the rank of Ensign when I started my training but iirc, he was promoted to Lieutenant during my 10 months of service in training.
During that time, my unit was assigned two tours of guard duty at the royal palace and the royal residence (two separate locations, one in and one outside the national capital)
The ram accompanied us for the handover ceremonies and marched with the colour guards, he then proceeded to perfectly punctuate our company commanders speech with his abyssal, whiskey gravely *BAAAH!*
@@SonsOfLorgar That sounds like everyone got a kick out of it. Also, the way you described the voice makes me think of Tom Waits as a ram. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Simon! I particularly enjoyed The Whiskey War and the Norwegian Penguin. Fun!
My dad did the Crossing the Line ceremony, he also got his 'Bluenose' certificate which you get for crossing the Arctic Circle.
11:59 Yesssss! I was holding out hope to see this on the list! Fact Boy & his channels never disappoint lmao
Fun fact, since the conclusion of the whiskey war, Canada now land borders two countries: 8891 kms with the USA and 1.2 kms with Denmark.
I still have my grandfather's crossing of the line certificate from WWII. It's quite an ornate looking bit of folly.
Out of curiosity, why would you get a certificate from that, I got the impression that it was a bit of a joke and a laugh and not something formal.
@Kaltagstar96 I don't know. I mean it's more than a certificate, it's like 18"w x 12"h. It's written in cursive, has King Neptune on it as well as some other mythic nautical stuff. It's actually hanging at my dad's now. I'll ask him if he knows. What's even weirder, to me at least, is that it's kind of a form thing because it has blank lines for names and dates that one fills in.
@@Kaltagstar96 Wanders in . . . only because I knew a few who have undergone it, and one who skipper refused to go the few miles "off course." The first I heard from had the skipper take part since he was still a polywog. He had to wear his full dress, and the crew chipped in to buy him a new one.
Anyway, while the USN - and I am sure the Royal Navies of Great Britain, Canada, and Switzerland - will "officially" state that there is no "official" sanction and all of that, at an early stage certificates were created. When you think about it, if you were a non-com that would be quite the conversation piece. Also, the "id" was a "proof" of your status which meant that you could partake as a shellback.
All good fun.
The crossing line ceremony also known as Wog day is voluntary. I didn’t participate in it when I was in the U.S. Navy. But a lot of sailors had some silly fun when we crossed the equator. Lots of green jello and ketchup.
Those military traditions at the borders of nations can really be very important, especially when the border-tensions get high. The cooperation of both sides is very ritualistic, but that doesn't mean it's not incredibly important. When they're stopped is when you need to be worried.
Would love another of these.
Traditions like this serve to remind us that somewhere beneath our differences we're all desperate for a reason to smile.
Baby lambs?
Simon is really good when he sticks to the topic and doesn't ramble
While this is true, I believe many people find him enjoyable while rambling as well.
Fun fact: in Italy we have a specialized unit called the "Bersaglieri". During military parades they don't march, but rather they run to the end of the road. The principal military parade in Italy is on the 2nd of June (wich is the day when the republic was created in 1946), and the military band of the Bersaglieri uses trumpets, so imagine running under the June sun while wearing a parade uniform and playing the trumpet.
There's great videos of it on youtube 😊
We better get the famous penguin 😂
Kowalski, analysis!
As a US Navy Shellback I concur.
didn't realize it was a mystery about Chili's ties to Germany even pre-World War ii.
even their equestrian traditions come from germany.
Few know that Germany had ghettoes of Germans in many countries
RNZN also does Crossing the Line as do, I believe, all British Commonwealth nations plus many other navies.
We do the line crossing ceremony in the US military as well. It gets pretty gnarly, but it’s definitely awesome. A giant haze-fest but not in a bad way, it’s pretty fun. Gross in places, but fun lol. IYKYK
The Royal Dentist was the worst in my opinion. My division officer procured an octopus for the Royal Bath but sadly died in an O-2 deck magazine. So it was buried at sea.
I myself have "Crossed the line". The Royal Canadain Navy (RCN) also hold crossing the line ceremonies. Great and fond memories.
I have no doubt that penguin will make better decisions than some other major generals.😂😂😂
Makes me wish that every modern conflict today is similar to the Whiskey War.
We do the "Crossing the Line" ceremony in the U.S. Navy as well and it's pretty much identical to the way the Brits do it. I became a Shellback in 2006 and it was one of my best memories in the 20 years I served.
This video was alot more heart warming and fun than i was expecting
Great video! World news are so depressing.Nice to have something light-hearted and wholesome.
Check out Big Duce and Short Round a long with the US Army Artillery half section on Fort Sill Oklahoma
The India Pakistan border mutual high stepping display. I can just see a Commandant clenching a phone and demanding: "We urgently need the best steppers in the Army at the border! Yes! IMMEDIATELY!!"
Canada and Denmark. A battle of spirits instead of a spirit for battle!
Actually, It's Prussia. I'm a chilean myself.
I'm a veteran of the US Army, and this little list added a bit of levity to my day. :)
You can add the Australian Navy to the Crossing The Line ceremony. I have my certificate from 1978 proudly framed and hung in my home.
For the full Prussian-Chilean experience, watch a video of the 19 September parade (national holiday) in RUclips. If you understand Spanish, you'll enjoy the never-ending telling of what's going on the field with its historical details by very patriotic broadcasters. 😄
TheFatElictrician does a great vid about nils Olaf the 3rd. What a boss little penguin
That little pause between all the kicks to shake each others hand gave me a chuckle. Seems sort of out of place compared to the other movements
So this is what 2028 will be like. An A.I. and Supreme Commander Pengoo III. are battling it out and humanity is wailing in their last thoughts: "We knew it would end bad, we didn't expect it to also be embarrassing."
I was laughing within the first ten seconds with that ridiculous salute. Haha
You DO NOT WANT a 24k gold ring, it will warp and flex everywhere. It will be extremely uncomfortable and likely lost due to bad fit.
Honestly the whiskey war is hilarious.
My very first thought when the "India-Pakistan Dance-Off" came up is the Maori Haka -- they seem to have very similar inspiration behind them.
The US Navy does the crossing the line ceremony also.
The Whiskey looked pathetic.
Take a Canadian regiment and a Danish regiment, and have them drink for the damn island.
Last man standing declairs their country the winner.
Ref military traditions. Saluting. Why do some countries have the hand horizontal and others vertical?
The Chile-German uniform exchange remind me of another interesting German military exchange: the Nazi Germany-Nationalist China military exchange in the 1930s. There are pictures of Chinese troops in stahlhelms and in feldgray. Chiang Kai-Sheik's son even fought with Germany on the Eastern Front as a tank commander. Of course this riled the Nazi's ally Imperial Japan who were actively fighting China in the 1930s.
I know everything can't be American, but several times a day, the US Army's Ceremonial Guard does an elaborate ceremony to change the Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers in Arlington, VA. Definitely a bucket list item.
I wouldn't call this tradition/custom strange.
Crossing the Line. My Father served in the Canadian Merchant Service during WW2 and witnessed/endured said ritual. Kinda likka hazing, in a way - it could get a little rough, depending on the mood of the crew at the time or certain individuals attending. There are some lines you cross at your own peril.
I like how the whiskey war was already tongue-in-cheek, and then around the time Russia started getting uppity again, Greenland and Canada decided “oh fuck this, this is dumb”, and just peaceably ended an already peaceable “war”.
Crossing the line or shellback was nautical tradition whose history is lost to time.
During the age of sail, it was upheld on every ship, merchant or military. The military upheld the tradition while merchant vessels stopped since industrialization made for an explosive growth of vessels where no one knew of the tradition
I can't be the only one who heard whiskey wars and first thought was, some one get me a boat and let's go party. Talk about digging up some treasure.
Hilarious. I love the silly sounds affects and party 🎉 confetti 🎊. Talking about making it fun and attention grabbing. All's you are missing is a Heckle Fish 🐠 with a pet 🐪 camel and you're in the big time, baby!
Thailand, Peru, Sweden, Colombia, Jordan, and the British Life Guards use Pickelhauben.
Wow! Thanks for sharing that.
I became Shellback back in the '70's, I even received a nice frameable scroll. The 2 things I didn't like at all was the trough we crawled through with the so called vomit, actually minced up food scraps and left to rot. The other was the dentist, it nauseates me just thinking about it. Incidentally, I'm a former US Navy Corpsman, so probably all navies do this.
For the algorithm 👊
The US Navy also retains the Crossing the Line ceremony. No one is exempt, including officers who may not have crossed the equator before.
Can we please get creators to stop using cheap AI for thumbnail art? That is the stupidest depiction of supposed German-style pickelhaube helmets I've ever seen! They aren't even symmetrical. *Actual* images of both German and Chilean uniforms are out there. AI is unnecessary and lazy in this instance. This is obnoxious garbage.
When in regards to the Spiked helmets, I guessed Argentina...for reason known to many.
I'm a Chilean so #1 was obvious to me! As for the resrt, very interesting!
Crossing the Line! Been there, done that, and 23 October was my 20th anniversary as a Trusty Shellback (USS Bridge, AOE 10, in the South China Sea returning from the Gulf on my OIF deployment with the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group - best deployment ever, as well as my first). I still proudly carry my Shellback card in my wallet.
Since Sir Niels Olav III was recently made a Major General and also a king penguin, wouldn’t that be a promotion or a demotion?
Sir Olaf is actually a well known war criminal and was notoriously cruel
" the spiked pickelhaube helmet" the famous spiked spiked helmet helmet
You did a thing about Major General Nils Olav the Penguin but left out Chesty the Bulldog. Chesty is the Marine Corps' mascot. Chesty always holds a military rank. Chesty XVI currently holds the rank of Private First Class (E2, NATO grade OR-2). Unlike Nils Olav, who passes his paygrade to his successor, Chesty starts off as a Private (E1, NATO grade OR-1) and promotes throughout the course of his or her life. Always an English Bulldog and always named after Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller, known as "Chesty," who was the MOST-DECORATED Marine in history. The first USMC mascot, Jiggs, eventually reached the rank of Sergeant Major (E9, OR-9).
As for the pay and allowances, well, Chesty gets a full paycheck. That paycheck is used by his handler (an enlisted Marine) to pay for food and vet bills. The money, of course, is accounted for and I'm sure the handler has to provide receipts for his care. Old dogs cost more to keep alive, so my understanding is that Chester, who holds a rank and is paid by the Defense Accountability Financial Service (DFAS), gets an audit to ensure his handler isn't committing fraud.
I'm a retired Navy Sailor but did the preponderance of my career in amphibious assault ships (aka, Gator Navy, Gator Sailor, etc.).
You should've added Chesty to this thing about strange military traditions.
VR,
DD214
CDR, USN (Ret.)
The world needs more penguin officials! 🧐
I really want to know does the penguin receive the proper salary for his rank in the military? I am certain the zoo could use the money!!!
As for the Attari-Wagar ceremony . . . mad props on covering this. It's awesome things between India and Pakistan have normalized and this is a great example of powerful nations setting aside an old grievance and now having fun and sharing in that certain military comaradarie that all brethren in arms enjoy. Except for the thing with India and China fighting over the LAC (Line of Actual Control, also in the Himalyans) because the PRC has a tradition of just being selfish pricks to everyone else... IUU fishing, ethnic cleansing in Xinjiang, doing what America did to the "Five Civilized Tribes" vis-a-vis Inner Mongolia (who the Han leaders touted as a "model minority"), and why the Northern White Rhino is extinct in the wild and why pangolins are now critically endangered...)
The USN, too
The Nepal Pakistan thing is one of the most ridiculous things in the whole of the moustachioed military ceremony world.
A true thing of beauty.
Did said penguin marry ? A new dynasty in the making ?
"Crossing the line" is also carried out by the US Navy.
A lot of Victorian armies adopted spiked helmets in the German style including the British army, although it was more a spiked pith helmet
Major General Olav would still probably do a better job leading troops into battle than Kulik did.
Please can you start putting the sponsorship message in its own chapter to make it easier to skip it?
An abandoned island full of booze? hmm... noted :)
My cat's name is Sir princess haya, she is a knighted Ninja!
im a canadian how do i get to this whiskey island? lol
Denmark took more of the island than us Canadians! I put forth another war by invading with more whiskey!
Whoooo is the blonde in the cream suit signing the Canada - Denmark agreement???
what's better than good fences make good neighbors, good flag lowering ceremonies 🙂 !!!
I'd like to be the guy who dug up all of those bottles of booze ! 🤣🤣🤣
don't forget Danish bacon!
The whiskey war not about the Island. The country that owns the island can claim a 12nm territoral water zone around it and, more importantly, a 200nm exclusive economic zone - pushing back the other partys own EEZ. With global warming there might be untoæd billions worth of natural ressources in the area.
But splitting the ownership meant that status quo was maintained.
No. Those rules only apply if there's room for it and there isn't. Greenland and Canada are too close. The maratime boarder goes PRECISELY between the two countries -- problem was that Hans Island is located PRECISELY on the boarder.
I'm a Shellback.
Discipline in army
Russian army - what's discipline ?
Every country owns traditional military customs takes a litle of old and new delopments.
We're the best country in Chile🎉🎉!
People laugh at the Penguin in the Army, but...
We also have a Goat within the British Army that many people do not know about.
The summary from Wikipedia is brilliant.
William "Billy" Windsor I is a cashmere goat who served as a lance corporal in the 1st Battalion, the Royal Welsh, an infantry battalion of the British Army. He served as a lance corporal from 2001 until 2009, except for a three-month period in 2006 when he was demoted to fusilier, after inappropriate behaviour during the Queen's Official Birthday celebrations while deployed on active duty with the battalion on Cyprus.
Not sure if this is the only Animal enrolled in a military who has faced a court martial for "unacceptable behaviour", "lack of decorum" and "disobeying a direct order"
your british soldier wearing camo is a canadian soldier.
That's how good the camo is!
On the first story, some serious flaws. The official colors at the time in question was black-white-red, not the black-red-yellow that you showed.
Nah, it's only germany because you have germany in the title before showing the picture lol
Chile is the only place Prußen military tradition still lives. ⚫⚪🔴
Chile even adopted XIX century german human rights
Wait, there was a 2nd Whiskey War in North America 😅
Do you mean The Whiskey Rebellion in the late eighteenth century in the United States? Or are you thinking of all of the whiskey smuggled from Canada to the United States during prohibition?
@@dinsdalemontypiranha4349 The Whiskey Rebellion. Though the Prohibition smuggling could be called a war too 🤔
The government certainly treated it as such
Is it military week? I know they sell, but I like Simon and I'm tired of hearing about the military every eight seconds. I live in the US and can't afford to leave. I've heard enough about the military.
Lol U.S Navy does the ceremony too
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