When I joined the Marine Corps and was going through MEPPS I met the son of one of the Navy SEALs that died while parachuting into Granada. He told me he was joining the Navy. His intentions was to become a SEAL like his father. I wished him the best. I hope his dream came true.
@@keith1689 What is your point? That others have been doing it so it’s alright that the SEALs are also doing it? Moreover books written decades ago are very different than the phenomenon of modern mass media/ social media. Its turned once highly respected military organization into a highly scrutinized and criticized institution that includes allegations of war crimes, drug and alcohol abuse and and other behavior that is not consistent with what we expect from such soldiers.
In the winter of 2024 an elite group of seals was sent on a top secret mission in south east building. Objective change a bulb with a new one. The mission was considered to be suicide. of the 10 men sent, 6 returned, of the 6, 5 wrote books about it, of the 5, 5 were published, of the 5 published just one got a late night tv deal. this is the story of that failed tv series....
I worked very closely with SEALs in my 27 year career in Special Forces; while I would never publicly throw shade on 99+% of them as individuals, they dudes I worked closely with in the 90’s and early 00’s had a penchant for only cursory planning as it related to “What if’s” and “then what’s”. Their “rules don’t apply to us” cavalierness both before Haiti, that led to the grounding of a Patrol Coastal (PC) boat delivering SEAL’s just offshore of Port-au-Prince and them disregarding the intel given to them by SF guys in country that said “don’t go in the water unless you want every disease vector found in human faeces.” Well, guess what the SEALs aboard the USS Wasp decided to do…. when the boat returned from Haiti, those SEALs that went into the water were supposed to quarantine on the boat for 15 days. Again, guess what they DIDN’T do. Come that following Monday morning, I walked into my office and noticed that there wasn’t a SEAL at work. With every one of them who were wearing a trident, we’re not at their desks and thus, missing, I immediately went to read the message traffic to see if there had been a mission, deployment or war I had missed. Nope, what happened was the embarked SEALs jumped ship, threw a “victory bbq” and subsequently 27 SEALs were hospitalized for cerebral bacterial meningitis! I had been invited to a bbq, but I couldn’t go as my daughter had a dance recital in Fayetteville that weekend.
@@KG66610 read what I said, I said wouldn’t throw shade on 99+%, but you’re so focused on getting your, relevant or not, comment in to understand what that means, so you believe 100% of every organization is perfect? If you do, you are not realistic.
@@longtabsigoI understand not believing 'most conspiracies' ... I get not buying into 'every conspiracy' ... but you dont believe -no- conspiracies? ... you think the government's just batting 1000 on telling us everything? That's a strong position to take!!
@@longtabsigoYeah. I served with a lot of "Great Soldiers, Airmen, Seamen, Marines" ... ... and a few that I would never refer to as "M.E.N.S.A. Material ... or Well Adjusted" 99.x% of those that wear the uniform are 'great patriots' ... ... but there are a few "Bezerkers" ... guys that are "fragmentation grenades" to be thrown at the enemy. ... if they dont come back "oh well"
The frame 🖼️ of your argument was f*ck SEALS 🦭. Your disclaimer was 99% blah blah blah. Your clear tell was “NOT GOING TO”, which 99%+ means = Doing Just That 🤓. So… just remember, other sometimes don’t like poop 💩 being called pudding 🤣
Delta guys make SEALS look like Neanderthals. Classified shit, stuff that the general population should never hear about shouldn’t be left up to SEALS.
"Nothing upsets the U.S. like someone trying to overthrow a democratically elected government .." I mean, that's OUR job, Goddamn it! The U.S. doesn't appreciate anyone else trying to horn in on our gig.
Actually, the invasion of Grenada began on October 25, 1983. October 23, 1983, is the date that suicide bombers attacked the US and French Peacekeeper's barracks. Also, while the Seals did technically start in the 1960's, they were in fact an offshoot of the US Navy Underwater Demolition Team, first created during WW II. At the time of the Grenada invasion, they were still known as UDT/Seals.
I was going to point this out as well, as I was on the USS Ft Snelling LSD 30 and the people were so grateful they commemorated the invasion by declaring Oct 25 a national holiday- Thanksgiving day.
There's no mention of the Rangers helping the SEALs finish the job at the airfield after most of them were injured or dead from the botched mission. Rangers main directive is airfield seizure, not the SEALs. We could have prevented some of the needless deaths that way. Also 1/508th ABN needs some credit as well.
I served 75th 1st B during this engagement we jumped in at about 800 to 1000 feet to avoid enemy fire because going in we lost element of surprise along with us was 82nd. Our main problem about this was no coms on the ground and very little Intel on maps. When we got to target which was secure college students most of them was in another location making us continue mission. In my opinion it's was a successful clusterfuck
Should do a list of times when "bad guys" just surrendered when they found out who was on their butt. Similar to criminals giving up when batman arrives.
@@jk-76 no the US has used predator drones to bomb multiple civilians over the years. Including a wedding that killed hundreds of men women and children to possibly target a single baddy
Nobody talks about the Ninja Brain Surgeons, the Air Special Operations wing, where each member starts as a fully qualified medical doctor, and have the special forces training layered on top of that.
I was working on a pier on the amphibious base in Coronado when, late at night, they pulled up to the boat pier next to mine in their black cigarette boats. Yeah, you don't touch their boats.
The Navy says dont touch our boats, but the U.S. is like, if you touch our buildings we will crash land a helicopter in your back yard and come find you
i have been inside the captain phillips life boat. same dude who commanded the op apparently shot bin laden. also unlike the movie, there was no "execute" order given. the snipers took it upon themselves while robert was grabbing coffee. also this was devgru, not just seals
Don't feel too bad for Captain Phillips. He was warned to stay away from that area and to take an alternate route, but went in anyway, putting his crew and ship in danger.
I love all the comments from people criticizing the seals... while they sit on their phone, having done nothing remotely as important as the job those men do. I mean, neither have i, but im not shitting on them either. They deserve respect, as many have given their lives.
People will always misdirect their frustration with the military industrial complex down onto the soldiers. It's stupid. I think a ton of shit western militaries get involved in is total bullshit just throwing mad amounts of human lives and taxpayer's money away to the whims of a few rich idiots. But... There's no argument against any nation's need for a strong military in the modern reality, and I'm not gonna judge anyone that signs up to dedicate their very life to serve in that. Regardless, you gotta just respect the insane conditions these guys experience just in training, let alone live operations. And that's for any enlisted person. Special forces teams dial that shit to 11. Everyone in service is there for a different reason and anyone who shits on them all is just fighting ghosts. I think war is the dumbest, most useless, and most harmful thing humans engage in and people might argue that if no one signed up to be a soldier, than there'd be no wars.... Unfortunately that's just not the world we live in. If no one enlisted than there wouldn't be wars, there'd be slaughters... a bunch of em... all over the place. Militaries are stupid and broken, but that's because of the men and women in suits, not boots.
It's pretty normal for a lot of guys who've served to talk shit on each other. It's a part of finding humor where most people can't. Yeah if someone hasn't served then I agree with you, but how do you know that some of the people commenting haven't?
Without shitting on them there’s nothing wrong pointing out major issues like the Grenada mission to secure the governor. The SEALs on that mission left their radio on the helo and had to use a house phone to coordinate air support
My dad was an operator during the late 80s and early 90s. One of his assignments led to his team being deployed to South America to work with a SEAL team to extract a dictator installed by Kissinger's foreign policy shenanigans. I don't know all of the context, but they were supposed to rendezvous with a SEAL team on the coast being inserted by helicopter. Helo pilot got some bad info on the landing site and ended up dropping a team of rookie SEALs off at low tide, straight into extremely dense mud. The SEALs ended up being cut down by machine gun fire, while the operator unit was on route. My dad said they could hear the gunfire and screaming as all of those guys died on the beach. Absolutely horrific stuff.
Chapter 3 - Nifty Package: Last time I saw that "DEA" guy on the left, we were in the same platoon in the 8th I.D., and he had just sold me one of my favorite cars. Given that this was about 36 years ago, I'm pretty sure I'm not blowing his cover. EDIT: Chapter 5 - Urgent Fury: I went to AIT with one of the guys who had been there, and was changing his MOS from 11B to 13F. (He was an E-5 when I knew him.) The full story on how much of a shit-show that was has yet to come out, and I'm not spilling my guts about it here. So why did I bring it up? Because the lessons learned from that operation led to incredibly large improvements in combined arms and joint fires operation, which contributed directly to huge successes in OIF. (Gulf I)
I would like to reiterate that of the Seals that drowned in the first story the second seal who jumped knew he was too heavy and would never be able to save his teammate, but they were buddies and you don’t let your dive buddy go anywhere alone so when one fell In the water the other dove without hesitation
You know they kicked those damn dogs out the White House and it was Joe Biden running around biting the Secret Service and shitting in the corner of the room. That’s why The navy seals got him out. during his flight to Las Vegas (look it up) You ain’t see Joe Biden since the debates that’s Jim Carrey in a mask. Look that up.
Hello Simon and Team. Neptun Spear: Everything else is about correct, but You show the wrong type of chopper. The tail rotor is severely wrong. It is on several sites on the net, and have a very significant design. Good work, as usual though. from a Finn in Diaspora
The Captain Phillips one is a mission in Medal of Honor: Warfighter. The Panama one involving Noriega’s plane is an objective in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.
9:51 - 40ft - For those familiar with scuba gear: They were breathing pure oxygen, which due to its partial pressure becomes toxic at depths far shallower than a normal 21% mixture. At 6m there is a risk of the going into convulsions, however they decended to 12m.
Imagine training, suffering, and sacrificing your whole life to be a SEAL, then getting dropped too far off the coast of Grenada and drowning before ever seeing combat. Wow.
@@HollylivengoodTask Force Black, Operation Jocal and Operation Paradoxical in Iraq. UKSF were also very active in Afghanistan and don't forget Obi Wan Nairobi in 2019 Just because the SAS don't wrote a book every time they take a shit doesn't mean they're not active
Imagine if something equivalent to Operation Neptune Spear had been done by a foreign country on US soil and how different that narrative would've been.
One of my extended family was in Panama at the airfield for the operation and told me about it in some detail, I didn't really understand what that meant as a kid. He didn't have a very high opinion of the mission planning and I think that event was the catalyst for his retirement.
Neptune Spear was NOT "just Navy SEALs." There WERE ALSO "other" American tier one personnel involved. We only know about this op because of who they killed, BUT there are "other" tier one units that do this kind of op ALL the time and when America was still in Afghanistan, the ops happened nearly every night. One target would be hit and the intel would lead to another, then another sometimes 4-6 targets were hit and only limited by the amount of darkness at the time of year. We don't tell/hear about those ops....
I heard a story some were that during the Panama mission something went wrong with their supply drop and didn't have heavy weapons. They may have taken casualties as a result.
Operation Urgent Fury 75th 1st battalion played a pivotal role in this fight my old unit should be mentioned. Im a vet of this engagement the element of suprise was lost and we dropped low to bale out at about 800 to 1000 feet to avoid enemy fire. Mind you coms on the ground didnt exist back then
Are you aware that you are taking Missions done by Seal Team 6/DEVGRP and mixing them with Missions done by Regular Seal Teams which is like comparing a Mustang GT to a Formula One Car! Neptune Spear and Mears Alabama are SEAL TEAM 6 Mission but Urgent Fury had Elements for Seal Team 6 for the Rescue of the Governor General, Special Recon and Radio Free Grenada but the Mission also had members from Regular SEAL Team. Grenada was a very costly Mission for the ranks of Seal Team 6! One more thing Seal Team 6 Snipers like the ones that rescued Capt. Phillips are among the best shooters in the World! During my time in the Navy I had the Honor to go to a couple of long distance shooting classes that were given by SEALs including ST6 and ST10 it was a BLAST to learn from those professionals!
Not just April 12, but in 2009 that was Easter Sunday. So the US Navy will parachute snipers into the ocean halfway around the world and have them shoot you in the face, from a moving platform, at a moving target, at night, but they will do it on Easter morning.
My father was a reactor operator of one of the submarines around Granda. He doesn't talk about what they were doing there, nor if there was any other subs nearby. I understand he may not have known that info though.
You're telling me, NOBODY heard or saw a HELICOPTER crash into a wall and abruptly crashland in Bin Ladins compound? The whole entire ordeal remained silent and undetected?
Helicopters like to land on a hump (like a scaled-up pitchers mound), ideally, which helps to keep the cushion of high-pressure air they're generating and hanging from in the right place under the rotors. I'm guessing it was the courtyard walls that squished the downwash into the vortex ring state.... scary shit.
A video about defeats of special forces by conventinal ones would be interesting. I'm sure there are more than the VDV having a really bad time in Ukraine.
I said in another comment that without shitting on SEALs it’s ok to point out serious issues like the team that went to rescue the governor in Grenada LEFT THEIR RADIO ON THE HELO, and had to use a working house phone to call in air support. That’s why those armored enemy vehicles retreated. An AC-130 Gunship was pounding the area with howitzer rounds.
Simon come-on forget these glasses. You look dorki enough without them already;-) However you unbeatable n keep up the great show, will keep listening to you.
It was my understanding that the helicopter that crashed objective was to deliver personel to the roof of the compound building to effect entry , as it would be easier to clear going down than going up , obviuosly the crash ruled that out and another plan was successfully carried out
Hate to tinkle in your corn flakes but in the Maersk Alabama rescue operation, those SEALS were ordered to parachute in, take up station on the fantail of the USS BAINBRIDGE and were given authorization to take out the pirates as soon as all three snipers had a good sight picture. Coordination & control of the sniper team was delegated to one of team 6's Master Chiefs who gave instructions to his shooters to take the shot as soon as you all get a sight picture, which they did quite magnificently I might add.....there was NO rogue action involved as they had their orders before they left the plane at 30,000 ft.
I thought Navy seals motto was Don’t drown. How does one drown while the other is watching? No one thought to cut equipment loose? Was he sitting on the ocean floor waiting on his instructor to come get him… so many questions……
"... ooorunning for the water, ooowhich had been their preplanned escape route." Those drawn out "ooo"s before certain words are a little odd. Don't remember Simon doing that as frequently a few years ago.
Oh it’s been there. It’s just that you can ignore it until you cant. Who ever is behind these channels could make twice as much money if they’d have a second channel with a plain voiced person reading the exact same lines
The Danish Frogman Corps train with the Seals. And the Seals doesn’t always win. No disrespect! Background on the Maersk Alabama story is, that the chairman of Maersk had a very close relationship with the oval office. He lend his ro/ro ships out for free, to enable Desert Storm. This created tje basis of the US Sealift Command, which ships still today are operated (mostly). Every sitting US president vistibg Denmarkhave visited the chairman in his home. So it only took a phonecall, to get the Sesls moving. It helps to own the biggest container shipping company in the world.
The US Sealift command was started right after WW2. Part of the Sealift command is where ships are "reserved" in case anything happens. So it wasn't free, they got paid for it (like an insurance policy). They thought with the end of the cold war, it wouldn't be used as much. The reason why the US Navy responded was they had the command of Task Force 151, which is a joint operation of about 15 main (with about another 15-20 helping out...EU/NATO/etc) different countries. And the Alabama was a US flagged vessel. Currently TF 151 is commanded by Brazil, and about every 3-4 months another member takes over command. Some of the ships provided are not "combat" ships, but offer support (supplies, fuel, etc), however Spain had a supply ship that was attacked and they had their Marines/helicopters onboard to provide services.
8:15 holy shit!! We lived in Punta Paitilla then because my parents were stationed in panama! We lived about a5 min walk from the church he hid in that got shot up.
When I joined the Marine Corps and was going through MEPPS I met the son of one of the Navy SEALs that died while parachuting into Granada. He told me he was joining the Navy. His intentions was to become a SEAL like his father. I wished him the best. I hope his dream came true.
when was that? :D
@@mrtlsimon hopefully it did. statistically, it probably didn’t.
I was that son
@MrSimonw58 did you make the seals
@@infosneakr
Guess you aren’t getting an answer
How many Seals does it take to screw in a light bulb? 6!
1 to do it and 5 to write a book about it!
Two of which were either weren't taking part in the operation or ever where Seals.
Green Berets wrote books for decades before the Navy SEALs did.. lol
@@keith1689
What is your point? That others have been doing it so it’s alright that the SEALs are also doing it? Moreover books written decades ago are very different than the phenomenon of modern mass media/ social media. Its turned once highly respected military organization into a highly scrutinized and criticized institution that includes allegations of war crimes, drug and alcohol abuse and and other behavior that is not consistent with what we expect from such soldiers.
In the winter of 2024 an elite group of seals was sent on a top secret mission in south east building. Objective change a bulb with a new one. The mission was considered to be suicide. of the 10 men sent, 6 returned, of the 6, 5 wrote books about it, of the 5, 5 were published, of the 5 published just one got a late night tv deal. this is the story of that failed tv series....
lol, 1 to do it, 5 to write a book about it, and 6 new youtubers. j/k i love you seals!
Not just their oil, but their boats too, dont touch their boats! 😂
Don't make us get proportional on your azz.
And remember, these are Americans, look at our idea of a portion size. Then build it up to the pro level.
Ah I see a possible fan of a certain rotund electrician.
@GiantSavage117 Never heard of him, but habituallinecrosser says that too
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I worked very closely with SEALs in my 27 year career in Special Forces; while I would never publicly throw shade on 99+% of them as individuals, they dudes I worked closely with in the 90’s and early 00’s had a penchant for only cursory planning as it related to “What if’s” and “then what’s”. Their “rules don’t apply to us” cavalierness both before Haiti, that led to the grounding of a Patrol Coastal (PC) boat delivering SEAL’s just offshore of Port-au-Prince and them disregarding the intel given to them by SF guys in country that said “don’t go in the water unless you want every disease vector found in human faeces.” Well, guess what the SEALs aboard the USS Wasp decided to do…. when the boat returned from Haiti, those SEALs that went into the water were supposed to quarantine on the boat for 15 days. Again, guess what they DIDN’T do. Come that following Monday morning, I walked into my office and noticed that there wasn’t a SEAL at work. With every one of them who were wearing a trident, we’re not at their desks and thus, missing, I immediately went to read the message traffic to see if there had been a mission, deployment or war I had missed. Nope, what happened was the embarked SEALs jumped ship, threw a “victory bbq” and subsequently 27 SEALs were hospitalized for cerebral bacterial meningitis! I had been invited to a bbq, but I couldn’t go as my daughter had a dance recital in Fayetteville that weekend.
You sound like a POG…but “wont throw shade”
@@KG66610 read what I said, I said wouldn’t throw shade on 99+%, but you’re so focused on getting your, relevant or not, comment in to understand what that means, so you believe 100% of every organization is perfect? If you do, you are not realistic.
@@longtabsigoI understand not believing 'most conspiracies' ... I get not buying into 'every conspiracy' ... but you dont believe -no- conspiracies? ... you think the government's just batting 1000 on telling us everything? That's a strong position to take!!
@@longtabsigoYeah. I served with a lot of "Great Soldiers, Airmen, Seamen, Marines" ... ... and a few that I would never refer to as "M.E.N.S.A. Material ... or Well Adjusted"
99.x% of those that wear the uniform are 'great patriots' ... ... but there are a few "Bezerkers" ... guys that are "fragmentation grenades" to be thrown at the enemy. ... if they dont come back "oh well"
The frame 🖼️ of your argument was f*ck SEALS 🦭. Your disclaimer was 99% blah blah blah. Your clear tell was “NOT GOING TO”, which 99%+ means = Doing Just That 🤓.
So… just remember, other sometimes don’t like poop 💩 being called pudding 🤣
If you need a a classified, top-secret mission done on short notice, and need said mission leaked and books written about it, the SEALS are the go-to.
Amen!!
And if you need it done right without ever being spoken about again, ask CAG.
Delta guys make SEALS look like Neanderthals. Classified shit, stuff that the general population should never hear about shouldn’t be left up to SEALS.
What’s CAGE?
@@WallStreet06delta force
2:46 "took place over 40 years ago"
Cue me scratching my 38 year old head wondering if I'm actually 10 years older than I thought
😂😂 well are you? Don't leave us hanging! That's incredible
@@garethanddylanjohn3213 his math was wrong lol
Same here.
Oh shit, I'm old.
It was actually 37 years ago. He must have misspoke
"Nothing upsets the U.S. like someone trying to overthrow a democratically elected government .." I mean, that's OUR job, Goddamn it!
The U.S. doesn't appreciate anyone else trying to horn in on our gig.
Russian propaganda. Hello, Russian bot (or a Democrat doing their job).
@@RonaldReaganRocks1 can't be propaganda if it's the truth 😉
Actually, the invasion of Grenada began on October 25, 1983. October 23, 1983, is the date that suicide bombers attacked the US and French Peacekeeper's barracks. Also, while the Seals did technically start in the 1960's, they were in fact an offshoot of the US Navy Underwater Demolition Team, first created during WW II. At the time of the Grenada invasion, they were still known as UDT/Seals.
I was going to point this out as well, as I was on the USS Ft Snelling LSD 30 and the people were so grateful they commemorated the invasion by declaring Oct 25 a national holiday- Thanksgiving day.
@Jimtheneals Dude no way! I was onboard the Fort Snelling from October 80 to September 84. What division were you in?
Back when frogmen where hard.
I have been following Simon and all his channels for like, 10 years now. Ever since he started Top Ten.
Does he know? 😂
It wasn't he who started that channel. He was just the host
Is he affiliated with visual politik?
Same. Remember the pre-beard days? Lol
@@MsEsquire83 pre beard Simon is terrifying 😂
Appreciate the images and video of the actual subject.
We all know that Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Highway and Corporal Stitch Jones were the real heroes at Grenada
You ain’t gonna mention Swede?!?
@@dcatura1 Swede...Swede...Swede
I freaking love that movie and especially when the General tells the Major to get off his LZ or hill then smoke a cigar with the gunny.
There's no mention of the Rangers helping the SEALs finish the job at the airfield after most of them were injured or dead from the botched mission. Rangers main directive is airfield seizure, not the SEALs. We could have prevented some of the needless deaths that way. Also 1/508th ABN needs some credit as well.
I served 75th 1st B during this engagement we jumped in at about 800 to 1000 feet to avoid enemy fire because going in we lost element of surprise along with us was 82nd. Our main problem about this was no coms on the ground and very little Intel on maps. When we got to target which was secure college students most of them was in another location making us continue mission. In my opinion it's was a successful clusterfuck
Should do a list of times when "bad guys" just surrendered when they found out who was on their butt. Similar to criminals giving up when batman arrives.
Yeah just like Batman if Batman used drone strikes on weddings to target a single baddy
@@roscojenkins7451 boo hoo
@@roscojenkins7451
UAV. Look up the definition of "drone". That word is misused.
@@jk-76 no the US has used predator drones to bomb multiple civilians over the years. Including a wedding that killed hundreds of men women and children to possibly target a single baddy
@@roscojenkins7451roll with dogs you get fleas
Don't touch the boats....
They'll respond with "proportional force."
Old school jar head!
SF
Nobody talks about the Ninja Brain Surgeons, the Air Special Operations wing, where each member starts as a fully qualified medical doctor, and have the special forces training layered on top of that.
Don't touch the boats
I was working on a pier on the amphibious base in Coronado when, late at night, they pulled up to the boat pier next to mine in their black cigarette boats. Yeah, you don't touch their boats.
The Navy says dont touch our boats, but the U.S. is like, if you touch our buildings we will crash land a helicopter in your back yard and come find you
And then we will take over your country
Never touch the boats.
i have been inside the captain phillips life boat. same dude who commanded the op apparently shot bin laden. also unlike the movie, there was no "execute" order given. the snipers took it upon themselves while robert was grabbing coffee. also this was devgru, not just seals
The craziest operations are still classified.
I'm sure books are being written tho haha
Don't feel too bad for Captain Phillips. He was warned to stay away from that area and to take an alternate route, but went in anyway, putting his crew and ship in danger.
I love all the comments from people criticizing the seals... while they sit on their phone, having done nothing remotely as important as the job those men do. I mean, neither have i, but im not shitting on them either. They deserve respect, as many have given their lives.
People will always misdirect their frustration with the military industrial complex down onto the soldiers. It's stupid. I think a ton of shit western militaries get involved in is total bullshit just throwing mad amounts of human lives and taxpayer's money away to the whims of a few rich idiots. But... There's no argument against any nation's need for a strong military in the modern reality, and I'm not gonna judge anyone that signs up to dedicate their very life to serve in that. Regardless, you gotta just respect the insane conditions these guys experience just in training, let alone live operations. And that's for any enlisted person. Special forces teams dial that shit to 11. Everyone in service is there for a different reason and anyone who shits on them all is just fighting ghosts. I think war is the dumbest, most useless, and most harmful thing humans engage in and people might argue that if no one signed up to be a soldier, than there'd be no wars.... Unfortunately that's just not the world we live in. If no one enlisted than there wouldn't be wars, there'd be slaughters... a bunch of em... all over the place. Militaries are stupid and broken, but that's because of the men and women in suits, not boots.
It's pretty normal for a lot of guys who've served to talk shit on each other. It's a part of finding humor where most people can't.
Yeah if someone hasn't served then I agree with you, but how do you know that some of the people commenting haven't?
Without shitting on them there’s nothing wrong pointing out major issues like the Grenada mission to secure the governor. The SEALs on that mission left their radio on the helo and had to use a house phone to coordinate air support
@@DevDog67 👍🤗😊. Thanks for your argument.
The cardinal rule is “Don’t fuck with our boats”. Messing with fuel supply in an indirect way of breaking that rule. Lol
SAS top notch too.
The SAS did have #BearGrylls. Until he has to leave because of healthy conditions.
Yes, which is why he's already covered the SAS
Yea, they have top notch gear too 😅
@@stefaneer9120 His autobiography is a good read about the SAS. Same with Ranulph Fiennes.
Sea, Air, Land and (coming soon) Space!
Tim Curry: SPACE!!
That’s questionable, they have astronauts abandoned as we speak. Rescue isn’t expected until next year.
@@lookingbehind6335 Rescue the astronauts from what, the most amazing extended vacation in the history of ever? :P
@@BlueLoneWolf527 Space Core: _SPAAAAACE!!!_
And librraries.
My dad was an operator during the late 80s and early 90s. One of his assignments led to his team being deployed to South America to work with a SEAL team to extract a dictator installed by Kissinger's foreign policy shenanigans.
I don't know all of the context, but they were supposed to rendezvous with a SEAL team on the coast being inserted by helicopter. Helo pilot got some bad info on the landing site and ended up dropping a team of rookie SEALs off at low tide, straight into extremely dense mud.
The SEALs ended up being cut down by machine gun fire, while the operator unit was on route. My dad said they could hear the gunfire and screaming as all of those guys died on the beach. Absolutely horrific stuff.
Sounds like someone is telling b.s. stories.
Number of things in this story aren't possible.
@@sparksmcgee6641idk this seems like a similar description to what happened in Granada
@@sparksmcgee6641 Would love to know what in this story isn't possible. The US government uses operators for pretty nefarious work.
@@tony9146 Spot on.
Chapter 3 - Nifty Package:
Last time I saw that "DEA" guy on the left, we were in the same platoon in the 8th I.D., and he had just sold me one of my favorite cars.
Given that this was about 36 years ago, I'm pretty sure I'm not blowing his cover.
EDIT:
Chapter 5 - Urgent Fury:
I went to AIT with one of the guys who had been there, and was changing his MOS from 11B to 13F. (He was an E-5 when I knew him.)
The full story on how much of a shit-show that was has yet to come out, and I'm not spilling my guts about it here.
So why did I bring it up?
Because the lessons learned from that operation led to incredibly large improvements in combined arms and joint fires operation, which contributed directly to huge successes in OIF. (Gulf I)
You should absolutely do a full Warographics episode of Operation Nifty Package.
FUN FACT: The US hardly uses Mid East oil... only around 6% last time I checked. Europe uses Mideast oil, NOT the US.
And who is exploiting and selling a lot of those middle eastern oil reserves???
@@zwenkwiel816 OPEC why?
I would like to reiterate that of the Seals that drowned in the first story the second seal who jumped knew he was too heavy and would never be able to save his teammate, but they were buddies and you don’t let your dive buddy go anywhere alone so when one fell In the water the other dove without hesitation
2 fact boi videos in one day yay!!!!
Only 2? Simon is slipping.
Man, the bots are out in force today
Sounds like something a bot would say.
You know they kicked those damn dogs out the White House and it was Joe Biden running around biting the Secret Service and shitting in the corner of the room. That’s why The navy seals got him out. during his flight to Las Vegas (look it up) You ain’t see Joe Biden since the debates that’s Jim Carrey in a mask. Look that up.
@@ericresh3268 I do not agree. The above is something only a bot could not say. I also, am not a bot....
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@@vincentyeomans3108exactly how a bot would respond. 😅
1:05 - Chapter 1 - Prime chance
3:45 - Chapter 2 - Neptune spear
7:45 - Chapter 3 - Nifty package
10:50 - Chapter 4 - Maersk alabama
13:40 - Chapter 5 - Urgent fury
Hello Simon and Team.
Neptun Spear: Everything else is about correct, but You show the wrong type of chopper.
The tail rotor is severely wrong.
It is on several sites on the net, and have a very significant design.
Good work, as usual though.
from a Finn in Diaspora
The Captain Phillips one is a mission in Medal of Honor: Warfighter. The Panama one involving Noriega’s plane is an objective in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.
You should listen to mr ballens stories! Badass navy seal stories and the “strange, dark and mysterious”.. all are great!
Shout out to Wartime Stories while we're at it. It's cool that they've somewhat joined forces.
I would argue the craziest navy seal missions are the ones we don't know about...
9:51 - 40ft - For those familiar with scuba gear: They were breathing pure oxygen, which due to its partial pressure becomes toxic at depths far shallower than a normal 21% mixture. At 6m there is a risk of the going into convulsions, however they decended to 12m.
S.E.A.L. stands for Sleep, Eat And Lift
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Gotta love thos big Black Hawks
I heard your mom LOVES the Big Black Hawks
@@roscojenkins7451 That's "cocks."
Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop.
They may be good, but the Saturdays and Sundays are better 😁
They are right there at the top with the best of the best in special service warfare...
Imagine training, suffering, and sacrificing your whole life to be a SEAL, then getting dropped too far off the coast of Grenada and drowning before ever seeing combat. Wow.
They are definitely elite, along with the Canadian JTF2s. Both badass!!!
last time I was this early, the usa was british
Bloody hell mate
😂😂😂 That's fkn soon!!!!
When we used to add a random silent “U” into words like color (colour) and labor (labour) for no particular reason.😂😂
There is a reason... to spell those words correctly.@@byewhobayou8868
@@byewhobayou8868You mean making a new version of English due to mispronouncing words. Kind of like making new religions with American Jesus.
id rather take my chances with the sas anytime
Yes, because the last time they came to someone's aid in...? Oh, 1980. Then after that...crickets chirping.
@@Hollylivengood Simon mentioned operation Barras in the 2000, in a previous video about the SAS
SAS? No I prefer to actually live. A better choice would be Force One or Delta.
@@AltonV Ahh. My bad.
@@HollylivengoodTask Force Black, Operation Jocal and Operation Paradoxical in Iraq. UKSF were also very active in Afghanistan and don't forget Obi Wan Nairobi in 2019
Just because the SAS don't wrote a book every time they take a shit doesn't mean they're not active
Funny thing, I already knew most of this from books about SEALs by H Jay Riker.
"The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday"
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend"
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
I used to train SEAL's, until one day they gave me the clap!
😂
Imagine if something equivalent to Operation Neptune Spear had been done by a foreign country on US soil and how different that narrative would've been.
Imagine being a CCP citizen and writing what you wrote 😅💀👻🫵
One of my extended family was in Panama at the airfield for the operation and told me about it in some detail, I didn't really understand what that meant as a kid. He didn't have a very high opinion of the mission planning and I think that event was the catalyst for his retirement.
I’ll never forget when the OBL raid was live-tweeted by someone close by who could hear everything.
Wonderful video! The pronunciation Grenada is Greh-Nay-Da
The life boat from the Maersk Alabama is now at the Navy Seal Museum in Fort Pierce Florida. It’s an incredible museum and exhibit
New follower here, loving this content 🫶🏽
Re breathers produce NO bubbles. Ever.
Sometimes the biggest act of courage is a small one.
so you are saying SEALs should be called SALs instead??
The "Sallys" doesn't really strike fear.
Once they complete their first mission in space, they can add exosphere and be actual SEALs again
Neptune Spear was NOT "just Navy SEALs." There WERE ALSO "other" American tier one personnel involved. We only know about this op because of who they killed, BUT there are "other" tier one units that do this kind of op ALL the time and when America was still in Afghanistan, the ops happened nearly every night. One target would be hit and the intel would lead to another, then another sometimes 4-6 targets were hit and only limited by the amount of darkness at the time of year. We don't tell/hear about those ops....
DO NOT TOUCH our boats. Ever. Problems will follow.
I heard a story some were that during the Panama mission something went wrong with their supply drop and didn't have heavy weapons. They may have taken casualties as a result.
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
Operation Urgent Fury 75th 1st battalion played a pivotal role in this fight my old unit should be mentioned. Im a vet of this engagement the element of suprise was lost and we dropped low to bale out at about 800 to 1000 feet to avoid enemy fire. Mind you coms on the ground didnt exist back then
It's like this, Simon..... DON'T TOUCH OUR BOATS..
Two Seals drowning because their gear was too heavy is extremely suspect
Are you aware that you are taking Missions done by Seal Team 6/DEVGRP and mixing them with Missions done by Regular Seal Teams which is like comparing a Mustang GT to a Formula One Car! Neptune Spear and Mears Alabama are SEAL TEAM 6 Mission but Urgent Fury had Elements for Seal Team 6 for the Rescue of the Governor General, Special Recon and Radio Free Grenada but the Mission also had members from Regular SEAL Team. Grenada was a very costly Mission for the ranks of Seal Team 6! One more thing Seal Team 6 Snipers like the ones that rescued Capt. Phillips are among the best shooters in the World! During my time in the Navy I had the Honor to go to a couple of long distance shooting classes that were given by SEALs including ST6 and ST10 it was a BLAST to learn from those professionals!
Not just April 12, but in 2009 that was Easter Sunday. So the US Navy will parachute snipers into the ocean halfway around the world and have them shoot you in the face, from a moving platform, at a moving target, at night, but they will do it on Easter morning.
Just saying 1987 is not over 40 years ago. But great video
My father was a reactor operator of one of the submarines around Granda. He doesn't talk about what they were doing there, nor if there was any other subs nearby. I understand he may not have known that info though.
You're telling me, NOBODY heard or saw a HELICOPTER crash into a wall and abruptly crashland in Bin Ladins compound? The whole entire ordeal remained silent and undetected?
(7:42 / 10:12) Funfact: Rick Astley was a part of this SEAL Team. His mission was to Rick rolling Manuel Noriega out of the Vatican embassy.
Helicopters like to land on a hump (like a scaled-up pitchers mound), ideally, which helps to keep the cushion of high-pressure air they're generating and hanging from in the right place under the rotors. I'm guessing it was the courtyard walls that squished the downwash into the vortex ring state.... scary shit.
A video about defeats of special forces by conventinal ones would be interesting. I'm sure there are more than the VDV having a really bad time in Ukraine.
You don't drown by falling in water. You drown by staying there.
I said in another comment that without shitting on SEALs it’s ok to point out serious issues like the team that went to rescue the governor in Grenada LEFT THEIR RADIO ON THE HELO, and had to use a working house phone to call in air support. That’s why those armored enemy vehicles retreated. An AC-130 Gunship was pounding the area with howitzer rounds.
Simon come-on forget these glasses. You look dorki enough without them already;-) However you unbeatable n keep up the great show, will keep listening to you.
He jumped after to ye. save him....warrior....uuùuuuurrrrrraaaah you don't think you just ❤
Did you refer to the SEALs as soldiers? SAILORS!
It was my understanding that the helicopter that crashed objective was to deliver personel to the roof of the
compound building to effect entry , as it would be easier to clear going down than going up , obviuosly
the crash ruled that out and another plan was successfully carried out
Do one on Army Green Berets
@ 13:24 that actual lifeboat is on display inside the Navy Seal Museum in Ft. Pierce, Fl.
Damn how fast time moves, why knew september 1987 was already 40 years ago...
Audio EQ messes with my ears, the S’s and T’s sound like hissing to me
Hate to tinkle in your corn flakes but in the Maersk Alabama rescue operation, those SEALS were ordered to parachute in, take up station on the fantail of the USS BAINBRIDGE and were given authorization to take out the pirates as soon as all three snipers had a good sight picture. Coordination & control of the sniper team was delegated to one of team 6's Master Chiefs who gave instructions to his shooters to take the shot as soon as you all get a sight picture, which they did quite magnificently I might add.....there was NO rogue action involved as they had their orders before they left the plane at 30,000 ft.
I thought Navy seals motto was Don’t drown. How does one drown while the other is watching? No one thought to cut equipment loose? Was he sitting on the ocean floor waiting on his instructor to come get him… so many questions……
Hilarious about the Rob O’Neil situation
Recently Seals have been used as JDAMs that can get killed and somehow also write a book about it.
Don’t touch my boats!
"... ooorunning for the water, ooowhich had been their preplanned escape route."
Those drawn out "ooo"s before certain words are a little odd.
Don't remember Simon doing that as frequently a few years ago.
Oh it’s been there. It’s just that you can ignore it until you cant. Who ever is behind these channels could make twice as much money if they’d have a second channel with a plain voiced person reading the exact same lines
5 of the Craziest Battlefield 2042 Maps Ever.
Do one on Delta if you can find any info
Five of the craziest known.
bro I think you need another channel, you dont have enough
Shout out to the DBGs in the background.
Cool video Team..
No, nothing gets our attention like touching our boats.
The Danish Frogman Corps train with the Seals. And the Seals doesn’t always win. No disrespect!
Background on the Maersk Alabama story is, that the chairman of Maersk had a very close relationship with the oval office. He lend his ro/ro ships out for free, to enable Desert Storm. This created tje basis of the US Sealift Command, which ships still today are operated (mostly). Every sitting US president vistibg Denmarkhave visited the chairman in his home. So it only took a phonecall, to get the Sesls moving. It helps to own the biggest container shipping company in the world.
The US Sealift command was started right after WW2. Part of the Sealift command is where ships are "reserved" in case anything happens. So it wasn't free, they got paid for it (like an insurance policy). They thought with the end of the cold war, it wouldn't be used as much. The reason why the US Navy responded was they had the command of Task Force 151, which is a joint operation of about 15 main (with about another 15-20 helping out...EU/NATO/etc) different countries. And the Alabama was a US flagged vessel. Currently TF 151 is commanded by Brazil, and about every 3-4 months another member takes over command. Some of the ships provided are not "combat" ships, but offer support (supplies, fuel, etc), however Spain had a supply ship that was attacked and they had their Marines/helicopters onboard to provide services.
Seals 🦭 letting your frog 🐸 men some confidence opportunities. Same side really. Build a buddy, let him win sometimes or he won’t want to play 🤓
8:15 holy shit!! We lived in Punta Paitilla then because my parents were stationed in panama! We lived about a5 min walk from the church he hid in that got shot up.
The airport was Paitilla Airfield (also known as Omar Torrijos Airport)
The story of the Maersk Alabama situation highlights how stupid it is that these ships don’t have actual defenses