Currently TDY in Guam, and literally no accountability was done within leaving for Guam or landing in Guam, bros just trusting that they got everyone 😂
Twice in my 34 years of in another service, I recall at least two instances of a Marine dying at 29 Palm from being left behind at checkpoint. Your assessment is spot on!
Navy SEALs “leave no man behind 💀” Army boot camp “I took a nap and the entire base is gone. Like the physical structure and all the people in it are no longer present it’s just cacti and tumbleweed wtf how did they do that”
@@Big_AlMCnobody cares, including other service members. You’re probably the type to correct people on Drill Sergeants and Drill instructors too when I can tell ya, even those of us who know, do not fucking care when we can see what the person is getting at. Stop flaunting your tism hoss.
A man who was in the military who I knew (I never served) Told me how important accountability is. He was leading his men on a patrol in Afghanistan through a city or town and ended up not doing his head count properly and they left one man behind. Once it was realized he was not accounted for they went back and found he had been captured and killed and stripped of most of his gear. Because he simply forgot to do a head count there is a man with a family who will never get to see him alive ever again. This shit is not a joke and can come with dire consequences if you fail to do something so simple. He has to live with this mistake the rest of his life knowing he is responsible for the man not returning home.
Same thing happened to myself and 7 other soldiers in Iraq, were were abandoned by Navy Seabees. We were doing their security, and at night fall they packed up without telling us and ran off. We had to hide alone, in buildings and ditches until we were saved by QRF at 3am.
Thankfully, we weren't found. But those navy clowns were going to let us DIE instead of telling anyone they left us. I am SURE that officer was promoted and us likely an admerial now.
Remember when the US spent $3 trillion, thousands of lives, and 20 years in Afghanistan only to hand it over with zero accountability on withdrawal day resulting in the death of 13 young Americans and dozens more Afghan nationals? Pepperidge Farm remembers.... Cuz Joe surely doesn't. He can't even remember how his *OWN* son died, so why would he remember someone else's?
During pre deployment training in the guard we had a guy that got left in the woods, in full kit, with a m249. He ended up finding a civilian and getting a ride back to our barracks.
I had this happen at NTC. did the same thing. Proceeded to get my ass chewed out by at least half a Dozen E-6 and E-7's until I informed them that they FUCKING LEFT ME BEHIND. It then proceeded to get covered up and so the OC's didn't find out.
I got left behind in August 1995. Thankfully, I was forgotten at the dustbowl and not by the east gate where my ammo unit had been for the previous 3 weeks. I just had to walk to where we were set up near post ASP.
3 times as a medic left in the field because "another group was coming out and needed another medic so just wait for them." Was brought back by range control, then another unit doing range recon and the last time walked back got my truck drove back out to get my gear and didn't go into work for a week and no one noticed. All swept under the rug too.
We had an emergency radio "fall out of the helicopter" while at FOB Spiecher. Nothing like driving up and down a landing strip looking for a handheld radio
Let's not forget Jason Rother. Left out in the desert at stumps. Whole battalion turned to. The armorer even gave a all weapons accounted for when he was missing a A2 with a 203 attached. Head count matters.
From what I remember reading about it it was actually the armorer who reported the discrepancy eventually/that his weapon had not been checked in which subsequently led to them initiating a search party. This is how the armory specific part (and why it was considered accounted for) from the Naval Safety Command's LL 22-06: "The armory was considered in a “thumbs up” status if all weapons were accounted for by a weapon physically present in the armory or by the possession of a custody receipt card of a checked out weapon. With this criteria, the company armory reported to the company gunnery sergeant at 2030 that the armory “was up,” since he had a card for LCpl Rother’s weapon."
@@douglasrose1259 Yes indeed, but the specific LL was published last year, maybe in conjunction with the 2022 September issue of Ground Warrior magazine where the Rother story was featured. The author of the GW article is Mike Del Favero, Naval Safety Command, so odds are he was also the one typing up the LL 22-06.
@@CurseTheVulgar thought so. I was active Marine Corps in 89 and our battalion was getting ready to go to the stumps for desert training from Lejeune and we were all passing our pants that we would get left behind. I was in H&S Company so being around the big brass made it worse because we could take a shit without someone knowing where we were at all times..
I still remember the Marine that got left behind and tried running back through the desert. He died of heat exhaustion. Worst of all, he almost made it back.
Because that's not trained marine corps wide. Also there is a trouble component because even if they left you they'll try to blame it on you. Plus, who knows what else was going on, he might have been in trouble previously.
@@scoutstripedwolf950the desert is a brutal place. It's burning during the day and it is freezing at night. Plus, not being able to see where your feet fall is arguably more dangerous than the heat. If you break your ankle by stepping in a hole, you really aren't gonna be going anywhere.
At least he had a truck to drive. I got left in the middle of 29 with nothing but my pack and a fat Marine. We ended up having to walk 5 miles in the midday sun before we found another group of Marines. We then joined a convoy of Marines we didn’t know and spent a week traveling the desert until we found a single Marine from our unit who just happened to be attached to another unit for the exercise.
Had to be the battle for a guy to go to the ER in boot (Dude had had MRSA he tried to hide). I hung with him until he was admitted to a room and I went back down to the waiting room and called for a pick up. I had the staff duty say they’d grab a sergeant to pick me up. I stayed there from from 9pm to 6am. Nobody picked my ass up, the sergeant never reported in that night and even though I called every few hours no one came. The morning sergeant came and picked me up in her personal car, I asked what happened and all he said was “someone’s going to get fucked”
I had asthma as a kid but grew out of it. During processing they decided to check me again. I was fresh into basic, and was going where people told me to go. I ended up spending most of the day shuffling around Fort Jackson base hospital. They sent a DS to come find me thinking I was AWOL. Nope, just in the waiting room where I was told to go
I'm waiting for the video of the next guy "Some dude just stole my humvee" *Shows guy taking off, dust trailing behind him* "Guess I'll have to take this" *pans over to tank*
Pans over to a F32....."guess I'll have to take that" Next video is of a pilot watching his plane fly away....camera pans over to an aircraft carrier...."guess I'll have to take that."
Dude was lucky he had a HMMWV he could repurpose. I was a Seabee, so I never saw Pendleton or 29 Palms, but I've heard of people trying to walk back after being left behind and ending up as some bones found on another exercise.
While camping near a marine base, NOT ON THE BASE, I know that’s what you’re going to say after reading. We were relaxing, drinking, listening to music when all the sudden two ghillie guys came out of the brush with rifles and said “identify yourselves!” I said civilian! Chill out. I told them we were camping then they said we were on a marine corps base. I said, “no, the edge of the base is 4 miles that way.” They huddled together and talked for a bit, then I showed them my phone with google maps and showed them where they were. Turns out they were doing a little night mission and got lost… really lost. Got them some beer and turned them back the right way. Hopefully they didn’t get into too much trouble.
Well getting lost in the woods at night can happen even to like park rangers and mountain men. That's why only the military ever does that shit. First rule of survival in the woods don't fucking travel at night. I mean even rescue searches for kids get put on hold. Kids innately stay put at night and adding lost adults to the problem reduces manpower at best.(edit) Lots of people seem to feel the need to correct me. To be clear I'm talking about the 99% of people without special training. If you reply "oh we do it in SERE school" or "I'm a Native American tracker and it's easy for me". You are failing to read or comprehend my above statements.
1988 at 29-Palms Marine Corps Base A Marine (road guard) was instructed to get on the last vehicle. The last vehicle told the road guard, "Make sure you get on the last vehicle." There were no other vehicles. He waited several hours and finally decided to walk back to base camp. 21 days later they found his body.
Sounds very much like Jason Rother Jason Rother (July 16, 1969 - August 31, 1988) was a 19-year-old United States Marine Corps lance corporal who was abandoned in the harsh Mojave Desert during a training exercise, causing his death from dehydration and exposure. LCpl Rother's remains would not be found until December 4, four months after his disappearance. All that was left were skeletal remains. It was believed that Rother likely died less than 24 hours before the first search was launched and that the temperature on the day had reached 107 °F (42 °C).
The Lcpl was found with water and rations still in his canteen. In the safety briefs, they tell you NOT to ration your water, and to stay put in the day and find shade.
Like it happened twice? In one year? I know 29 palms and mojave are close, maybe even the same. Thats fucking brutal, and idiotic of them. I guess you are accountable only for yourself. Damn.@@kevinblee6957
When the hospital in Baghdad was done with me, I basically had to hitch flights/rides all the way back to my unit in Ramadi. I probably could have bluffed my way all the way to Germany because absolutely no one was tracking me.
Where were you stationed in 🇩🇪 I was serving in Hohenfels (2000-2004). Were you part of the invasion. If so do you remember the first like 8 months every unit had like 2 or 3 civilian cars that they had acquired and the 1 armored came and started posting speed limits and basically ruined all the fun we were having. I love 3rd ID no rules just war
@@ikep.5325 That’s the thing… I wasn’t stationed in Germany at all. When I got to TQ Airbase, all they asked me was where I wanted to go. Nobody cared or checked anything I said. I literally could have grabbed the next C-17 to Ramstein and no one would have batted an eye.
I was a corpsman at Pendelton Hospital mid 80s. I have a Marine friend that was in rehab daily. So, his unit thought. He spend 6 months living in our barracks, and partying with us. He would check in with his unit occasionally with updates about his health.
I got left in the desert north of Yuma by a C-130 in my forklift because I was supposed to offload fuel containers they brought me to a rough airfield. Had to drive back to Yuma MCAS in my forklift, almost ran out of fuel myself.
Went to basic in 08. Recruiter failed to send my paperwork over. No one knew who I was or anything about me. Sent me to PCP until paper work came back. Was in PCP for almost four months when I was informed my recruiter lost my paperwork and was getting sent home. I had to reenlist and do it all over. Suffice to say, I did not lol.
While in Yuma training with the airwing I was left behind. They called in a 53 to get me. The best part of it was that 53 was practicing evasion of ground to air so I had a hell of a fun ride.
it is hey, when i was a young teenager in the Air Training Corp, RAAF, we'd spend a month of the school holidays on an airforce base. they dumped a bunch of us off in the bush with a compass and topographical map, we spent the day tramping through the aussie bush in summer to a clearing where we were picked up by a UH-1 iroquois. the pilot was in the mood for some fun so he removed the doors and we took the scenic route back to the base. low low level chasing irate farmers sheep and roo's, tearing up and down the valleys. the last flight of that term was in a C-47, low level again beating up the bush, great ride from the astrodome.
There was a story on the Mikeburnfire YT channel about a new PFC being abandoned in a warzone and it was nuts. Poor kid just drove back and forth between FOBs with a concussion...alone.
When my grandpa was in flight school back in the days of prop planes he got lost after dicking around in the air and losing his bearing and landed in a field next to a farm to ask for directions. By the time he got back to base everyone was gone and his name and plane had been marked as returned and his name/plane number erased off the chalk board for flying aircraft. He was so pissed knowing he could have crashed and nobody would have been out looking for him
Sometimes i want to join but then i hear stories of the heartless big green machine that will take all you got and give nothing back, and im not so sure
My 88m instructor got left in 29 palms desert for 3 days before they sent a full blown SAR unit to look for him and his 2 buddies. Drank pee to stay alive. Apparently guy who was in charge was instantly court marshaled and they spent a week in medical.
Had a squad leader leave me behind at NTC (Ft. Irwin, it borders 29 Palms, so both are right next to Death Valley). I was sent to a one person OP to get a better view of what we thought was the objective. Squad picks up and moves back along with the attached TOW (yes, the Army does dismount and manpack the TOW). Fortunately for me, someone noticed I wasn't there before the pickup. Another private was bribed with a peach snack to go get me. Not the most respected NCO in the platoon.
Im civilian. We were tasked to assist the navy. They took 4 civilians and 6 navy personnel to a different base. We took 2 trucks. We come up from working our ship and see both trucks are gone. They left 4 of us with no ride. 3 civ and even left one of their own. They just dont care. And there is no accountability. I had to call my dad to get me. Others got rides and went home. But my dad was badged to get on base and i needed my car so i can go to work the next day. It was a crap show and i refused to work with those sailors or go to the other base after that.
How the fuck does one do this -gets a bunch of civs to help out -leave after the work is done, taking back half of the civs -NOT realise half the civs never ever reached the endpoint Christ I hope they don’t send those people in charge of the two trucks into combat
@@APersonOnRUclipsX I think they realized but didnt want to wait and just left under the excused premise so they could maintain plausible deniability that they were in the other vehicle but with 2 vehicles packed workers navy and civ, tools, there is no way they didnt know they were leaving 4 people behind. The lead guy was first one gone we found out next day and he was the worst in not caring. The one sailor trapped with us was going to fight him at muster until chief knocked that off. 2 weeks later all of us left were in the parking lot because 2 were smokers, chatting. We see the lead guy, the jerks car getting towed we all laughed and refused to let him know until after he was hooked and had to pay the fee. We only told him because we wanted him to panic and see his desperate pleas. Tow driver said "no, you parked illegally, you can pick it up at the base pound". It's cheap 65 dollars but still worth it.
My father got "left behind" whilst in Vietnam. He was out on a 2-day listening post and his unit forgot to come back for him. His 2 days of rations had to last 7 full days. To add to all that, his batteries all died within the first 2 hours of that assignment. Even the new in box batteries were dead. No one in his unit noticed that he stopped checking in until well after the 2 days was up.
@oak510eso , if there were consequences, my father didn't share it/them with me. I do know that he came home with 3 purple hearts and 3 bronze stars (each with a V for Valor device). One of those bronze stars was originally written up for the MOH - I only learned about the write-up last November (2022). My father will not speak about that particular event other than something along the lines of, "I did some things, with some stuff, in some place." This past October (2023), I learned that he went on a couple of missions with some SF guys, of which I have no details.
Man that happened to me in Kuwait after our deuce and a half broke down while convoying to Camp Spearhead. Just left on the side of the road. Had a Kuwaiti jump into the window of the vehicle with watermelons, water and Pepsi pointing to a woman on a balcony waving to us yelling repeatedly “From my sponsor!!!” Ended up getting it started driving through Kuwait City’s neon ass and getting to a random base in the middle of the night. We didn’t get chewed out because we were literally forgotten.
I found myself standing on the side of the road with my platoon and our Sgt maj, and most importantly the logistics officer who said "wow I guess they forgot to schedule a bus to pick us up" I did my best to avoid cracking up when the Sgt maj twitched for a minute and said "THATS YOUR JOB SIR"
We had an M60a1 tank (USMC)lose it's tracks to mines going into Kuwait during Desert Storm. They were left in the mine fields for 5 days and they took Iraqi prisoners. Their radio antennas were blown off by shrapnel.
@@ViisualsHD It was, best guess, March 1st - my Huey was flying missions when I saw the Bradley, one of the guys was on top flagging us down. They had been there 2 or 3 days - their CO said someone would come back for them...guess he forgot. Left them a 5 gallon can of water, case of MREs, called in their location and went about our day... Whoever forgot them probably ended up being chief of staff
@@Huey290-tk9pb In my comment above the Marine M60 tank crew was left in the mine fields after Gunnery Sgt in another tank said he would send help. He was also one of the biggest turds in our unit
Its like a scene in a movie where the protagonist gets left behind or has their vehicle stolen so they get a new one from some place and have a whole new adventure.
German Military; We lost one of our leaders behind. He said fuck it and was wandering through -2°C (Water will get frozen) for about 40 Kilometers during night in full combat suit. He got back in the morning and hell... We had a pretty shitty day. I remember his face covered with camo paint, beard full of snow and ice... I'm glad he's on our team...
I got left in downtown Baghdad during a deliberate action and walked about 4 miles by myself till I got to our national police company HQ that we worked with. In broken Arabic and hand signals I communicated that I needed a couple of them to come with me. They walked the remaining mile and a half or two miles with me back to my JSS. Guards in the humvee at the “gate” were like “Doc where the hell are you coming from?!” Me: “Out THERE where they fucking LEFT ME!” 🤣 My PSG about fucking shit himself when I walked up and asked if he was missing something. Apparently he thought I hopped in another humvee cause we were all a bit scattered. I didn’t blame anyone, but after that day nobody argued with me when I said I needed a radio as the medic in the platoon. Hindsight it’s funny but at the time all I could think about was getting my head cut off on TV.
We were doing 18-20hr missions (infantry) getting up at 4 am, I woke up at 6 and asked hq where my guys were The sheer panic on their face as they radioed my platoon was priceless, so was my plt sgts. It was the first day I got off in probably 2 months. Also the medic, also Baghdad.
had a similar story for one of our FOs, someone talked us into loaning him to an engineer unit for route clearance, he ended up jogging back to base in the middle of the night, rumor had it their entire chain of command below O3 got changed... also we never loaned FOs again...
I got left in the desert once by the shift sergeant and almost got eaten by an entire pack of coyotes that turned out in the middle of the night. I was fighting them off standing on a big rock swinging some of my kit at them to keep them from dragging me down. Luckily after almost completely running out of energy, the LT drove into the area to check the site and found me. That would have been an embarrassing way to go.
Elvis died on the potty from a drug overdose. That was an embarrassing way to go. I'm sure someone would have missed you if the coyotes got you, but man what a story to tell. LOL
@@memowilliam9889 Haha, good point! I guess that would be less embarrassing way to go than Elvis. I'm sure they would have eventually missed me, but it wouldn't have done me any good!
There should be a song about you and a nice piece of art like the doomguy fighting off demons on a rock but it's you fighting off coyotes. What a story!
@@kermitthefrog2578 Haha, I don't know why that's never been a thought in my head or any of the other guys, but that would be pretty hilarious. It's not even a story I tell that often as I forget about it most of the time. My career was so extreme and insane that story kind of falls down the wayside most of the time and I don't think about it much.
This happened to me during our ntc rotation this year. My driver and I were asked to go out and pick up a group of mechanics that were further out in the box. When we returned, the whole company was gone! I said fk it we were leaving. We made it about 12k before an oc captain came speeding up to us asking why we weren’t in a convoy. Once I told him he escorted us the rest of the way out. Must happen a lot because he was very understanding.
Thank you was trying to remember the songs name. I wonder what it's sampled from though? I looked it up: it's sampled from David Matthews rendition of David Bowie's space oddity.
I arrived to Seoul South Korea and no one was there to get me 😂 I walked with my luggage to the base a few miles away after I talked to some locals who were super friendly
Count outside the bus, as they load the bus and twice inside the bus. There’s an NCO supervising extra duty somewhere right now because he can’t count. Lol
@@jonathanweir6084in a school uniformed group Anytime transport is involved: 1. Initial count 2. After a toilet break count 3. Count as enter vehicle 4. Count in bus, 2-3 times 5. Count as exit bus 6. Count after exit bus Works well, usually the only person the counter forget to count is themselves (me)
Some soldiers in my unit came upon a dude in a tank in the middle of California desert during a month long training exercise. Apparently, the tank had broken down and his unit had left the guy to guard the equipment while everyone moved on. He was out there for almost two days before our convoy just happened to stumble across him during a night time resupply mission. This was in the summer at Ft Irwin. Hot as shit during the day, cold at night. He only had a few bottles of water and some MREs when they found him. Had has shirt off and tied around his head like he was mad max. He refused to abandon his tank, so the convoy left him a case of water bottles and a case of MREs and reported his situation to higher. We were a logistics unit, so we sent out a tank recovery vehicle on a quick reaction convoy and brought him and his tank back to our base. Dude could have died out there easy; he had no means of communicating or signaling anyone and people that have been to NTC know that place is fucking huge, you can’t just walk to safety.
I was stationed at 29 from 97-01. We were told that story by our section leader. The whole time I was there. My platoon was religious about headcounts. It was kind of like prison. We did head counts when ever we had a major troop movement, or in the morning and at night, when we were setting up fire watch schedule.
A buddy took over the (engineering) plant platoon. Could find a grader that was on his account. Troops insisted it was there and it had been accounted for in the last two checks. Turns out, it had been left in a forest for 3 months after an exercise.
Were you one of the guys (full squad bar SL and an NCO... from another squad, nvm) Met those guys at a pub near the rhine they had found after getting tired of being forgotten (17 days iirc) and walked to find someone with a phone
This reminds me of a story Zach Hazard, a former US Army soldier, talked about. There was an armoured vehicle convoy making its way through Iraq, and they returned without their escorting Bradley. Some time later, said Bradley was driving up and down a nearby road. The driver was clearly lost and disoriented. They tried contacting the driver but his radio was broken and he was all by himself inside it. What happened was the Bradley had hit an IED, then another, then another. The other crew members got tired of taking IED hits and got out and got in the smaller vehicles that wouldn't be targeted, leaving the young teenage driver all by himself with a broken radio. Some time later, the Bradley is hit with yet another IED, this time knocking out the driver. The rest of the convoy just assumed that the kid is probably just dead, and they left him behind. They didn't even check on him. He woke up later, not knowing where everyone was, and he didn't know the way back to his base, so he just kept driving around looking for his convoy, not wanting to believe that they just left him. He was so paranoid and scared that multiple times he turned around as other US soldiers tried to signal him to stop because he thought they were enemies. Eventually, though, they managed to convince him that they weren’t going to kill him, and he stopped, got out, and got some medical attention. The only reason Zach knew about what happened was because he was the base armourer and had been asked to clear the now-mangled M249 on the front of the Bradley after they finally got it back.
@@slavaukraine5117 Later on, the Bradley commander and convoy commander were both given a court martial. Thankfully. And it wasn't a mangled M249, they needed him to clear the Bushmaster autocannon because nobody knew how to do that other than the currently concussed Bradley driver.
Someone is gonna get fucked up beyond comprehension for this. That battalion is probably going to experience a very sudden change of command on several levels of the chain.
Fuck, that same thing happened to me. Took them 2 weeks to realize I was missing. I just happened to be somewhere at ITX where I could get cell reception when I got a call asking why I never turned in my leave papers. A duty van picked me up the next day. I don't think anyone past Cpls ever found out.
I had a situation similar to this during my time as a cadet. I was feeling exhausted and asked my flight sergeant to take a nap in my accomodation which he allowed and then completely forgot about me. Woke up by myself with no one in pitch black and had to call up one of the senior instructor who was pissed at pretty much everyone for not noticing a missing person. 😂
If this soldier had an accident in a "misappropriated" HMMWV without a co-driver that killed himself and/or another person the entire chain of command would be screwed. And rightfully so.
When (I acquired) ....things in the military. I kept that sh&t on the down low.... and told those above me to ask no questions. 99% of the time they would smile and say ok. Mission accomplished
In basic I came back from a medical and taken out to an exercise with all the guys kit. So after unloading all the kit the driver leaves with the truck. My platoon were supposed to meet up on foot. So I waited, nodded off. A few hours later the truck returned. I had been dropped in the wrong place.
Its how my great uncle became a PoW in WWII, had a guy throw a potato masher at him, he got hit with shrapnel behind the knee, was able to grab the handle at the front of his Bren and hip fired and killed the guy, he limped back into the house he was by and applied a dressing, his platoon moved out and apparently no one did a head count because a few hours later the Germans rolled into town and he surrendered. Survived the war and escaped his PoW camp with 9 others towards the end of the war when the quality of guards went down, young fit soliders replaced by old, pudgy, wounded guys that could hold a rifle but were mostly combat ineffective. Didnt help his captors since the recreation area wasnt fenced in and you could kick a soccer ball out of bounds into bushes, start a argument and have a german speaking guy talk to the guard "did you see who kicked it out? Youre gonna referee this call" meanwhile 3 guys go look for the ball, 2 come back one took off and hid and waited for the other guys to show up before all running west as fast as possible.
Right after Desert Storm in 91 I was in Saudi Arabia and was scheduled to take the transport from my living quarters near Riyadh to Dhahran to catch my flight home. The shuttle driver wouldn’t let me another few guys on because my First Sergeant hadn’t put in the paperwork. I stole a Nissan truck some of our guys had acquired and drove us all to catch our flight. I was sweating it until we landed in the US.
youd be suprised. my dad is in the national gaurd finishing his 20 and he has seen many mnay many vehicles left behind in very odd spots and places. people think its someone elses job @@APersonOnRUclipsX
Considering they have lost F-35's before and accidentally dropped nukes on North Carolina, Canada, Greenland, and spain before I'd say they just probably straight up forgot that shit. The U.S Military is a fucking logistical nightmare.
Unfortunately one of my fellow platoon sergeants from a different battalion was court martialed because they left a profile in the field who was directing vehicles. 30 days later they found the Soldiers body. The PSG was charged because he helped cover up by listing the missing Soldier as present in formations. This shit is real, dangerous, and it happens. Take care of your troops. Hooah!
Theres a youtuber that was an E4 who was in afganistan and he told this story he experianced of a very new driver in a humvee who got left behind by his convoy after being hit by an IED for the 3rd time which gave him a concussion and knocked his radio out so he's just driving around looking for his convoy because they all got out after the 2nd one and then didn't even bother to check on him after the 3rd
It was a Bradley driver and they figured he was dead after the 3rd hit and just left. He woke up from being knocked out and started driving around because he was lost and disoriented.
Heard a story of a marine that turned out to be dead in a ditch in Oki… for THREE DAYS. Everyone stood for him in formations so nobody figured it out until someone literally found a dead body in a ditch.
Yeah... my unit left us on an island in the middle of the pacific overnight, they figured someone got us but dident check til the next morning... 3 hrs turned into around 14 with next to no food or water. Fuckin cream corn
So I got left on Mobile in Iraq by myself for 20-30 minutes When I got back in the MRAP everyone was laughing so I couldn’t quite tell if it was accidental or on purpose
I got separated at JRTC and ended up just walking down a road for like 3 days before i found someone. Had my M4, nods, and a DAGR and no one knew I or that shit was missing. To bad cause someone would have gotten in a fuck ton of trouble for falsifying SI accountability.
We forgot a guy once too, we realized once we got out of the gate too, but only because someone was like "shit who's got the keys to the armory" and someone was like "X has them" .. "wait, where is X?"
You are probably talking about my friend that I grew up with, Lance corporal Jason Rother. Although this turned out better than with my friend, accountability is critical.
That happened during training before getting deployed to Afghan. We got a new Company Co. and first Sgt the next day 😅😂 Saw them having fun at S-1 during deployment .
This always reminds me of Jason Rother, got left in the middle of the desert and tried to walk back. His body was found 4 months later only 2 miles from the base after he had walked roughly 17 miles before that.
I remember a Gunny passing the word to enlisted on where to meet at a movement and then tried to NJP like 50 enlisted when they showed up where he told him to be, but not the correct location.
I got left at Pinon Canyon (Ft. Carson). I was on LPOP and my unit jumped back to garrison after a 5 day FTX. I had a radio, so after about 3hrs of calls, our comms NCO finally heard me from his shop. 1SG came and got me in his pov because my squad leader and team chief were still doing pushups.
We all had to fly from southern to northern sweden in a C-130 for a uhmm... thing... We were already in the air when we realized that one of our guys was missing. He apparently overslept and no one noticed he wasn't there. He ended up having to take a 11h bus ride..
A previous unit that I was in had a soldier kidnapped by OpFor in JRTC and they didn't know he was missing for 2 days. He even had a radio, so the enemy was listening in on comms. I literally went AWOL..TWICE for over a year from that unit and got away with it because thst unit was an absolute disgrace.
@@coolgamer2135 takes the sting out of "super duper paratrooper"! But in fairness, I was also in some amazing units in the 82d. The command climate will make or break an entire unit
"Where the fuck did you acquire a Russian T-72 tank?"
"i got left behind"
God loves you
Lmao
@@CobsTheBearGOD LOVES YOU
It's was his vehicle he was supposed to be driving anyway 😂😂and wasn't in formation so gen z could make a video 😂
Type AIWPRTON.....M1A2 Abrams acquired*
That’s how senior leaders become former leaders.
Or promoted
They will take the top off the tree for a mistake of that level
Currently TDY in Guam, and literally no accountability was done within leaving for Guam or landing in Guam, bros just trusting that they got everyone 😂
They'll blame you for missing movement, and they'll get promoted. 😂
Nope. It’s called you fuck up, you move up.
Twice in my 34 years of in another service, I recall at least two instances of a Marine dying at 29 Palm from being left behind at checkpoint. Your assessment is spot on!
Die?? How far away is it from any base or civilization?
@@cam5816far enough to require trucks and hostile enough to kill people from exposure alone.
@@cam5816deserts get as cold as they do hot. Wouldn't even take a day in since circumstances.
@@cam5816Las Vegas from that point is a hour 20 in a car so I would say its pretty out there.
@@cam5816somewhere between hell and the sun
Navy SEALs “leave no man behind 💀”
Army boot camp “I took a nap and the entire base is gone. Like the physical structure and all the people in it are no longer present it’s just cacti and tumbleweed wtf how did they do that”
Army doesn't have a boot camp. They have basic training.
its just camo
@@Big_AlMCboot camp is also slang for basic just like the word boot neck
@@Big_AlMCnobody cares, including other service members. You’re probably the type to correct people on Drill Sergeants and Drill instructors too when I can tell ya, even those of us who know, do not fucking care when we can see what the person is getting at. Stop flaunting your tism hoss.
@@bobbydonnelly6571 youd get flamed for calling basic, boot camp. Especially by a Marine. Marines have boot camp. Army has Basic Combat Training BCT.
A man who was in the military who I knew (I never served) Told me how important accountability is. He was leading his men on a patrol in Afghanistan through a city or town and ended up not doing his head count properly and they left one man behind. Once it was realized he was not accounted for they went back and found he had been captured and killed and stripped of most of his gear. Because he simply forgot to do a head count there is a man with a family who will never get to see him alive ever again. This shit is not a joke and can come with dire consequences if you fail to do something so simple.
He has to live with this mistake the rest of his life knowing he is responsible for the man not returning home.
This right here.
Yup. We do accountability 24/7 here in the Marine Corps. And each time one person don't do accountability, something bad happens. It really do matter.
Same thing happened to myself and 7 other soldiers in Iraq, were were abandoned by Navy Seabees. We were doing their security, and at night fall they packed up without telling us and ran off. We had to hide alone, in buildings and ditches until we were saved by QRF at 3am.
Thankfully, we weren't found. But those navy clowns were going to let us DIE instead of telling anyone they left us.
I am SURE that officer was promoted and us likely an admerial now.
Remember when the US spent $3 trillion, thousands of lives, and 20 years in Afghanistan only to hand it over with zero accountability on withdrawal day resulting in the death of 13 young Americans and dozens more Afghan nationals?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.... Cuz Joe surely doesn't. He can't even remember how his *OWN* son died, so why would he remember someone else's?
It's like leaving your kid at the soccer game you just watched them play in....
Nice profile picture
For Real!
@@writerseye black hat? Indulge me?
This is an underrated comment
Or a game that you coached
During pre deployment training in the guard we had a guy that got left in the woods, in full kit, with a m249. He ended up finding a civilian and getting a ride back to our barracks.
Can only imagine how that went, just seeing a fully kitted soldier sticking out the thumb lmfao
@@tankiller9638i'd stop
That's some Gomer Pyle shit right there 😂
😂
"Hey kid, there's no front out here."
I had this happen at NTC. did the same thing. Proceeded to get my ass chewed out by at least half a Dozen E-6 and E-7's until I informed them that they FUCKING LEFT ME BEHIND. It then proceeded to get covered up and so the OC's didn't find out.
I got left behind in August 1995. Thankfully, I was forgotten at the dustbowl and not by the east gate where my ammo unit had been for the previous 3 weeks. I just had to walk to where we were set up near post ASP.
Lol they leave you behind then proceed to blame and punish you for their fuck up. Yeah that’s one of the many reasons I got out.
@@notdave2993now you’re not a pawn. Good on ya. Takes brainwashing to get in deep.
And then let me guess they all got promoted 😂😂
@@notdave2993 ya it sounds dumb as hell that a soldier could even make this mistake. I guess counting heads is too hard for the crayon eaters.
3 times as a medic left in the field because "another group was coming out and needed another medic so just wait for them." Was brought back by range control, then another unit doing range recon and the last time walked back got my truck drove back out to get my gear and didn't go into work for a week and no one noticed. All swept under the rug too.
Lol. You could fucking dissappear for months and no-one would know
@@crimsoncrisp8708 yeah. Especially as a Medic
What are you a WO? Those guys disappeared like the Predator in 3-25
Meanwhile the entire base gets locked down if an M249's heat shield goes missing
Bro do I have a story about that holy shit
@@RubleInnawoods pls tell
Classic
Added 2 weeks to an FTX to find a handheld radio. It had been run over by a Bradley.
We had an emergency radio "fall out of the helicopter" while at FOB Spiecher. Nothing like driving up and down a landing strip looking for a handheld radio
Let's not forget Jason Rother. Left out in the desert at stumps. Whole battalion turned to. The armorer even gave a all weapons accounted for when he was missing a A2 with a 203 attached. Head count matters.
I was in when that happened. After that, it seemed like we were required to fall in formation 15x a day.🙄
From what I remember reading about it it was actually the armorer who reported the discrepancy eventually/that his weapon had not been checked in which subsequently led to them initiating a search party.
This is how the armory specific part (and why it was considered accounted for) from the Naval Safety Command's LL 22-06:
"The armory was considered in a “thumbs up”
status if all weapons were accounted for by a weapon physically present in the armory or by the
possession of a custody receipt card of a checked out weapon. With this criteria, the company armory
reported to the company gunnery sergeant at 2030 that the armory “was up,” since he had a card for
LCpl Rother’s weapon."
Wasn't that in 89??
@@douglasrose1259 Yes indeed, but the specific LL was published last year, maybe in conjunction with the 2022 September issue of Ground Warrior magazine where the Rother story was featured. The author of the GW article is Mike Del Favero, Naval Safety Command, so odds are he was also the one typing up the LL 22-06.
@@CurseTheVulgar thought so. I was active Marine Corps in 89 and our battalion was getting ready to go to the stumps for desert training from Lejeune and we were all passing our pants that we would get left behind. I was in H&S Company so being around the big brass made it worse because we could take a shit without someone knowing where we were at all times..
I still remember the Marine that got left behind and tried running back through the desert. He died of heat exhaustion. Worst of all, he almost made it back.
Das wild
Jason Rother
Why not wait for nighttime and travel by stars?
Because that's not trained marine corps wide. Also there is a trouble component because even if they left you they'll try to blame it on you. Plus, who knows what else was going on, he might have been in trouble previously.
@@scoutstripedwolf950the desert is a brutal place. It's burning during the day and it is freezing at night. Plus, not being able to see where your feet fall is arguably more dangerous than the heat. If you break your ankle by stepping in a hole, you really aren't gonna be going anywhere.
At least he had a truck to drive. I got left in the middle of 29 with nothing but my pack and a fat Marine. We ended up having to walk 5 miles in the midday sun before we found another group of Marines. We then joined a convoy of Marines we didn’t know and spent a week traveling the desert until we found a single Marine from our unit who just happened to be attached to another unit for the exercise.
Lol ‘fat marine’ he must’ve been a dick
Thats crazy, did noone notice you guys were missing or something?
@@KilyanAustinprob not. Seems like the military has been taking a turn the last few decades
@@madcow1998bro....it's always been like this lmao
5 miles? poor baby….
Had to be the battle for a guy to go to the ER in boot (Dude had had MRSA he tried to hide). I hung with him until he was admitted to a room and I went back down to the waiting room and called for a pick up. I had the staff duty say they’d grab a sergeant to pick me up. I stayed there from from 9pm to 6am. Nobody picked my ass up, the sergeant never reported in that night and even though I called every few hours no one came. The morning sergeant came and picked me up in her personal car, I asked what happened and all he said was “someone’s going to get fucked”
I had asthma as a kid but grew out of it. During processing they decided to check me again. I was fresh into basic, and was going where people told me to go. I ended up spending most of the day shuffling around Fort Jackson base hospital. They sent a DS to come find me thinking I was AWOL. Nope, just in the waiting room where I was told to go
Question did your sergeant say "someone's going to fucked" with the inflection of seething anger or in a lascivious way?
@@declaringcrab95 mostly pure anger since it was so early in the morning, but probably a little of both knowing him
No one got fucked
Except the guy left
No one was
I'm waiting for the video of the next guy "Some dude just stole my humvee" *Shows guy taking off, dust trailing behind him* "Guess I'll have to take this" *pans over to tank*
"Some dude stole my tank"
*Shows guy taking off, dust trailing behind him* "Guess i'll have to take this" *Pans over to helicopter*
'"Some dude stole my helicopter"
*Shows guy taking off, dust cloud forming around him*
"Guess I'll have to take this" *Pans over to fighter jet*
”some dude stole my fighter jet”
*shows guy taking off, dust cloud forming behind him*
“Guess I’ll have to take this” *pans over to C-130*
@@StaryB1ight”some dude took my c130”
SHOWS GUY WITH DUST TRAILING OFF THE RUNWAY
-PANS OFF TO RUNNING SHOES-
Pans over to a F32....."guess I'll have to take that"
Next video is of a pilot watching his plane fly away....camera pans over to an aircraft carrier...."guess I'll have to take that."
Dude was lucky he had a HMMWV he could repurpose. I was a Seabee, so I never saw Pendleton or 29 Palms, but I've heard of people trying to walk back after being left behind and ending up as some bones found on another exercise.
Can do seabee hoorah 🫡
Whoever drove it there is another story
Hoorah Seabees
@@Ryan-li8qc
Finally someone else wondering where the bloody car came from!
that would be jason rother
While camping near a marine base, NOT ON THE BASE, I know that’s what you’re going to say after reading. We were relaxing, drinking, listening to music when all the sudden two ghillie guys came out of the brush with rifles and said “identify yourselves!” I said civilian! Chill out. I told them we were camping then they said we were on a marine corps base. I said, “no, the edge of the base is 4 miles that way.” They huddled together and talked for a bit, then I showed them my phone with google maps and showed them where they were. Turns out they were doing a little night mission and got lost… really lost. Got them some beer and turned them back the right way. Hopefully they didn’t get into too much trouble.
😂
Sounds about right
To be fair the instructions were written in cursive with a crayon... Oh wait 😂😂
Must've skipped orienteering
Well getting lost in the woods at night can happen even to like park rangers and mountain men. That's why only the military ever does that shit. First rule of survival in the woods don't fucking travel at night. I mean even rescue searches for kids get put on hold. Kids innately stay put at night and adding lost adults to the problem reduces manpower at best.(edit) Lots of people seem to feel the need to correct me. To be clear I'm talking about the 99% of people without special training. If you reply "oh we do it in SERE school" or "I'm a Native American tracker and it's easy for me". You are failing to read or comprehend my above statements.
Accountability and a sweet MF Doom track. Equally important.
Which track is this? Groovy as hell!
@@MineGames131rap snitch knishes
@@MineGames131This is the instrumental from his track Rap Snitch Knishes
@@FroopLoopi wonder what its a sample from. Amazing song and album btw
@@FroopLoopit's called Coffin nails
Sarge walking out of the portajohn,
“Where the fuck did my humvee go?”
1988 at 29-Palms Marine Corps Base
A Marine (road guard) was instructed to get on the last vehicle.
The last vehicle told the road guard, "Make sure you get on the last vehicle."
There were no other vehicles.
He waited several hours and finally decided to walk back to base camp.
21 days later they found his body.
Ooff
That sucks
Sounds very much like Jason Rother
Jason Rother (July 16, 1969 - August 31, 1988) was a 19-year-old United States Marine Corps lance corporal who was abandoned in the harsh Mojave Desert during a training exercise, causing his death from dehydration and exposure.
LCpl Rother's remains would not be found until December 4, four months after his disappearance. All that was left were skeletal remains. It was believed that Rother likely died less than 24 hours before the first search was launched and that the temperature on the day had reached 107 °F (42 °C).
The Lcpl was found with water and rations still in his canteen. In the safety briefs, they tell you NOT to ration your water, and to stay put in the day and find shade.
Like it happened twice? In one year? I know 29 palms and mojave are close, maybe even the same. Thats fucking brutal, and idiotic of them. I guess you are accountable only for yourself. Damn.@@kevinblee6957
When the hospital in Baghdad was done with me, I basically had to hitch flights/rides all the way back to my unit in Ramadi. I probably could have bluffed my way all the way to Germany because absolutely no one was tracking me.
Where were you stationed in 🇩🇪 I was serving in Hohenfels (2000-2004). Were you part of the invasion. If so do you remember the first like 8 months every unit had like 2 or 3 civilian cars that they had acquired and the 1 armored came and started posting speed limits and basically ruined all the fun we were having. I love 3rd ID no rules just war
@@ikep.5325 That’s the thing… I wasn’t stationed in Germany at all. When I got to TQ Airbase, all they asked me was where I wanted to go. Nobody cared or checked anything I said. I literally could have grabbed the next C-17 to Ramstein and no one would have batted an eye.
I was a corpsman at Pendelton Hospital mid 80s.
I have a Marine friend that was in rehab daily.
So, his unit thought. He spend 6 months living in our barracks, and partying with us. He would check in with his unit occasionally with updates about his health.
they actually just found a guy who did this because he was wanted in the US
@@ikep.5325 gtfo our country. 4 occupation bases used for invasions...
I got left in the desert north of Yuma by a C-130 in my forklift because I was supposed to offload fuel containers they brought me to a rough airfield. Had to drive back to Yuma MCAS in my forklift, almost ran out of fuel myself.
What's wild is that I got left again the next year, but it was just down the highway at the 'date shake' place out in the desert. lol@@nahbro3240
that's funny
I live close. Sounds accurate. Imma guess WTI time frame?
Thank goodness you were certified
LOL
The first sergeant, the LTee, and the CO are going to come back from clearing the range, and be like "where's the fk is chock6"
E
bro exactly lmaoo
Went to basic in 08. Recruiter failed to send my paperwork over. No one knew who I was or anything about me. Sent me to PCP until paper work came back. Was in PCP for almost four months when I was informed my recruiter lost my paperwork and was getting sent home. I had to reenlist and do it all over. Suffice to say, I did not lol.
Yeah that's not a good introduction
Bro got the full preview of exactly what his entire contract would be like and said nevermind lol
Did you get paid
2k paycheck I think when I got out.@@tomhenry897
"Acquired"
Indeed, one truck added to inventory. Lvl 3 item, 7Defence,0Attack,5Speed
While in Yuma training with the airwing I was left behind. They called in a 53 to get me. The best part of it was that 53 was practicing evasion of ground to air so I had a hell of a fun ride.
it is hey, when i was a young teenager in the Air Training Corp, RAAF, we'd spend a month of the school holidays on an airforce base. they dumped a bunch of us off in the bush with a compass and topographical map, we spent the day tramping through the aussie bush in summer to a clearing where we were picked up by a UH-1 iroquois. the pilot was in the mood for some fun so he removed the doors and we took the scenic route back to the base. low low level chasing irate farmers sheep and roo's, tearing up and down the valleys. the last flight of that term was in a C-47, low level again beating up the bush, great ride from the astrodome.
Which 53? Please say King Stallion, because that would be fucking badass
@@richardmillhousenixonprobably Mh-53 Pavelow
@@tyricdodson5438 Ah so a Sea Stallion
There was a story on the Mikeburnfire YT channel about a new PFC being abandoned in a warzone and it was nuts. Poor kid just drove back and forth between FOBs with a concussion...alone.
Man, that whole story was fucked, especially after you get more context in the comments there.
I was thinking that exact story when I saw this
A man of culture
Can you link me that video?
@@noobster6587m.ruclips.net/video/WkA3qPzlibw/видео.html&pp=ygUUbWlrZWJ1cm5maXJlIGJyYWRsZXk%3D
When my grandpa was in flight school back in the days of prop planes he got lost after dicking around in the air and losing his bearing and landed in a field next to a farm to ask for directions. By the time he got back to base everyone was gone and his name and plane had been marked as returned and his name/plane number erased off the chalk board for flying aircraft. He was so pissed knowing he could have crashed and nobody would have been out looking for him
Sometimes i want to join but then i hear stories of the heartless big green machine that will take all you got and give nothing back, and im not so sure
@@kevinm.n.5158 border patrol second best
they thought he crashed and tried to cover it up
My 88m instructor got left in 29 palms desert for 3 days before they sent a full blown SAR unit to look for him and his 2 buddies. Drank pee to stay alive. Apparently guy who was in charge was instantly court marshaled and they spent a week in medical.
Had a squad leader leave me behind at NTC (Ft. Irwin, it borders 29 Palms, so both are right next to Death Valley). I was sent to a one person OP to get a better view of what we thought was the objective. Squad picks up and moves back along with the attached TOW (yes, the Army does dismount and manpack the TOW). Fortunately for me, someone noticed I wasn't there before the pickup. Another private was bribed with a peach snack to go get me. Not the most respected NCO in the platoon.
I would have wanted a plum.
Im civilian. We were tasked to assist the navy. They took 4 civilians and 6 navy personnel to a different base. We took 2 trucks. We come up from working our ship and see both trucks are gone. They left 4 of us with no ride. 3 civ and even left one of their own. They just dont care. And there is no accountability. I had to call my dad to get me. Others got rides and went home. But my dad was badged to get on base and i needed my car so i can go to work the next day. It was a crap show and i refused to work with those sailors or go to the other base after that.
that's funny
So, if I am understanding this right. They lost half the people and were like, "we gots everybody?"?
How the fuck does one do this
-gets a bunch of civs to help out
-leave after the work is done, taking back half of the civs
-NOT realise half the civs never ever reached the endpoint
Christ I hope they don’t send those people in charge of the two trucks into combat
@@APersonOnRUclipsX I think they realized but didnt want to wait and just left under the excused premise so they could maintain plausible deniability that they were in the other vehicle but with 2 vehicles packed workers navy and civ, tools, there is no way they didnt know they were leaving 4 people behind. The lead guy was first one gone we found out next day and he was the worst in not caring. The one sailor trapped with us was going to fight him at muster until chief knocked that off. 2 weeks later all of us left were in the parking lot because 2 were smokers, chatting. We see the lead guy, the jerks car getting towed we all laughed and refused to let him know until after he was hooked and had to pay the fee. We only told him because we wanted him to panic and see his desperate pleas. Tow driver said "no, you parked illegally, you can pick it up at the base pound". It's cheap 65 dollars but still worth it.
@@JacobSantosDev lead guy didnt care, wanted just to leave, he was towed and we watched him get towed a few weeks later. So that was karma.
My father got "left behind" whilst in Vietnam. He was out on a 2-day listening post and his unit forgot to come back for him. His 2 days of rations had to last 7 full days.
To add to all that, his batteries all died within the first 2 hours of that assignment. Even the new in box batteries were dead. No one in his unit noticed that he stopped checking in until well after the 2 days was up.
omg
Any consequences?
@oak510eso , if there were consequences, my father didn't share it/them with me. I do know that he came home with 3 purple hearts and 3 bronze stars (each with a V for Valor device). One of those bronze stars was originally written up for the MOH - I only learned about the write-up last November (2022). My father will not speak about that particular event other than something along the lines of, "I did some things, with some stuff, in some place."
This past October (2023), I learned that he went on a couple of missions with some SF guys, of which I have no details.
2 days of rations for 7 days? Not bad
@timothythompson380 from all of us, please thank your father for his service.
Man that happened to me in Kuwait after our deuce and a half broke down while convoying to Camp Spearhead. Just left on the side of the road. Had a Kuwaiti jump into the window of the vehicle with watermelons, water and Pepsi pointing to a woman on a balcony waving to us yelling repeatedly “From my sponsor!!!” Ended up getting it started driving through Kuwait City’s neon ass and getting to a random base in the middle of the night. We didn’t get chewed out because we were literally forgotten.
"Honestl Sarg, I went to use her phone"
This happens a lot at 29 palms, and it is sometimes fatal. There are a few Marines that have died in the desert because of accountability.
I found myself standing on the side of the road with my platoon and our Sgt maj, and most importantly the logistics officer who said "wow I guess they forgot to schedule a bus to pick us up"
I did my best to avoid cracking up when the Sgt maj twitched for a minute and said "THATS YOUR JOB SIR"
I was at Ft Irwin when the marines left a dude in the desert at 29 Palms. Sad story. You gotta always know where your people are.
Lance Cpl. Jayson J. Rother
Just goes to show how little they actually cared about their people.
Ran across a forgotten Bradley crew (with said Bradley) in Iraq, '91. 1st ID, I believe
id love to hear more details on this situation lol
We had an M60a1 tank (USMC)lose it's tracks to mines going into Kuwait during Desert Storm. They were left in the mine fields for 5 days and they took Iraqi prisoners. Their radio antennas were blown off by shrapnel.
@@ViisualsHD It was, best guess, March 1st - my Huey was flying missions when I saw the Bradley, one of the guys was on top flagging us down. They had been there 2 or 3 days - their CO said someone would come back for them...guess he forgot. Left them a 5 gallon can of water, case of MREs, called in their location and went about our day... Whoever forgot them probably ended up being chief of staff
@@Huey290-tk9pb thats crazy haha i hope they got back alright, thanks for taking the time to share that
@@Huey290-tk9pb In my comment above the Marine M60 tank crew was left in the mine fields after Gunnery Sgt in another tank said he would send help. He was also one of the biggest turds in our unit
Its like a scene in a movie where the protagonist gets left behind or has their vehicle stolen so they get a new one from some place and have a whole new adventure.
German Military;
We lost one of our leaders behind. He said fuck it and was wandering through -2°C (Water will get frozen) for about 40 Kilometers during night in full combat suit. He got back in the morning and hell... We had a pretty shitty day.
I remember his face covered with camo paint, beard full of snow and ice... I'm glad he's on our team...
-2? I'm still wearing shorts up here in Canada😂😂😂
@@johanstinson Yeah. And you'll ski in summer. I know but there is some bunch of people who are more comfortable with moderate temperatures.
he had 40km to build up on rage 😂
I got left in downtown Baghdad during a deliberate action and walked about 4 miles by myself till I got to our national police company HQ that we worked with. In broken Arabic and hand signals I communicated that I needed a couple of them to come with me. They walked the remaining mile and a half or two miles with me back to my JSS. Guards in the humvee at the “gate” were like “Doc where the hell are you coming from?!”
Me: “Out THERE where they fucking LEFT ME!” 🤣
My PSG about fucking shit himself when I walked up and asked if he was missing something. Apparently he thought I hopped in another humvee cause we were all a bit scattered. I didn’t blame anyone, but after that day nobody argued with me when I said I needed a radio as the medic in the platoon.
Hindsight it’s funny but at the time all I could think about was getting my head cut off on TV.
We were doing 18-20hr missions (infantry) getting up at 4 am, I woke up at 6 and asked hq where my guys were The sheer panic on their face as they radioed my platoon was priceless, so was my plt sgts. It was the first day I got off in probably 2 months. Also the medic, also Baghdad.
had a similar story for one of our FOs, someone talked us into loaning him to an engineer unit for route clearance, he ended up jogging back to base in the middle of the night, rumor had it their entire chain of command below O3 got changed... also we never loaned FOs again...
I got left in the desert once by the shift sergeant and almost got eaten by an entire pack of coyotes that turned out in the middle of the night. I was fighting them off standing on a big rock swinging some of my kit at them to keep them from dragging me down.
Luckily after almost completely running out of energy, the LT drove into the area to check the site and found me. That would have been an embarrassing way to go.
Elvis died on the potty from a drug overdose. That was an embarrassing way to go.
I'm sure someone would have missed you if the coyotes got you, but man what a story to tell.
LOL
@@memowilliam9889 Haha, good point! I guess that would be less embarrassing way to go than Elvis.
I'm sure they would have eventually missed me, but it wouldn't have done me any good!
There should be a song about you and a nice piece of art like the doomguy fighting off demons on a rock but it's you fighting off coyotes. What a story!
@@kermitthefrog2578 Haha, I don't know why that's never been a thought in my head or any of the other guys, but that would be pretty hilarious.
It's not even a story I tell that often as I forget about it most of the time. My career was so extreme and insane that story kind of falls down the wayside most of the time and I don't think about it much.
@@benjamintherogue2421 hohoho then there are many ballads to be sung good sir! And much art to be made.
Someone list their battle buddy...
"And suddenly, a thousand knifehands formed as if in great disappointment..."
ahh yes
*the knife hand*
My truck got left behind after an ambush n karma…good times. Creeping back to falluja south camp at 25 mph was sketchy 😂
Thank you for your service
Bro that's nightmare shit right there.
Jesus
Man said "Fuck it, we ball." Improvise, adapt, overcome.
This happened to me during our ntc rotation this year. My driver and I were asked to go out and pick up a group of mechanics that were further out in the box. When we returned, the whole company was gone! I said fk it we were leaving. We made it about 12k before an oc captain came speeding up to us asking why we weren’t in a convoy. Once I told him he escorted us the rest of the way out. Must happen a lot because he was very understanding.
For anyone wondering the guitar riff its Rap Snitch Knishes MF Doom Instrumental.
I thought it was MF Doom!
Thank you was trying to remember the songs name.
I wonder what it's sampled from though?
I looked it up: it's sampled from David Matthews rendition of David Bowie's space oddity.
thank you
I arrived to Seoul South Korea and no one was there to get me 😂 I walked with my luggage to the base a few miles away after I talked to some locals who were super friendly
That used to happen a Lot in ROK.
Count outside the bus, as they load the bus and twice inside the bus. There’s an NCO supervising extra duty somewhere right now because he can’t count. Lol
Like thats what they do on a field trip in grammar school. Makes total sense.
@@jonathanweir6084in a school uniformed group
Anytime transport is involved:
1. Initial count
2. After a toilet break count
3. Count as enter vehicle
4. Count in bus, 2-3 times
5. Count as exit bus
6. Count after exit bus
Works well, usually the only person the counter forget to count is themselves (me)
Doubt it
Thanks!
Thank you for the support!
Some soldiers in my unit came upon a dude in a tank in the middle of California desert during a month long training exercise. Apparently, the tank had broken down and his unit had left the guy to guard the equipment while everyone moved on. He was out there for almost two days before our convoy just happened to stumble across him during a night time resupply mission.
This was in the summer at Ft Irwin. Hot as shit during the day, cold at night. He only had a few bottles of water and some MREs when they found him. Had has shirt off and tied around his head like he was mad max. He refused to abandon his tank, so the convoy left him a case of water bottles and a case of MREs and reported his situation to higher.
We were a logistics unit, so we sent out a tank recovery vehicle on a quick reaction convoy and brought him and his tank back to our base. Dude could have died out there easy; he had no means of communicating or signaling anyone and people that have been to NTC know that place is fucking huge, you can’t just walk to safety.
The Marine in 1988 Lcpl Rother got left on CAX in 29 Palms.
I was there shortly after he went missing.
We also saw a half-track park on a PFC in a sleeping bag.
I was stationed at 29 from 97-01. We were told that story by our section leader. The whole time I was there. My platoon was religious about headcounts. It was kind of like prison. We did head counts when ever we had a major troop movement, or in the morning and at night, when we were setting up fire watch schedule.
A buddy took over the (engineering) plant platoon. Could find a grader that was on his account. Troops insisted it was there and it had been accounted for in the last two checks. Turns out, it had been left in a forest for 3 months after an exercise.
Was unaccounted for with my NCO for over two weeks during field maneuvers in West Germany
Were you one of the guys (full squad bar SL and an NCO... from another squad, nvm)
Met those guys at a pub near the rhine they had found after getting tired of being forgotten (17 days iirc) and walked to find someone with a phone
This reminds me of a story Zach Hazard, a former US Army soldier, talked about.
There was an armoured vehicle convoy making its way through Iraq, and they returned without their escorting Bradley. Some time later, said Bradley was driving up and down a nearby road. The driver was clearly lost and disoriented.
They tried contacting the driver but his radio was broken and he was all by himself inside it. What happened was the Bradley had hit an IED, then another, then another. The other crew members got tired of taking IED hits and got out and got in the smaller vehicles that wouldn't be targeted, leaving the young teenage driver all by himself with a broken radio.
Some time later, the Bradley is hit with yet another IED, this time knocking out the driver. The rest of the convoy just assumed that the kid is probably just dead, and they left him behind. They didn't even check on him.
He woke up later, not knowing where everyone was, and he didn't know the way back to his base, so he just kept driving around looking for his convoy, not wanting to believe that they just left him.
He was so paranoid and scared that multiple times he turned around as other US soldiers tried to signal him to stop because he thought they were enemies.
Eventually, though, they managed to convince him that they weren’t going to kill him, and he stopped, got out, and got some medical attention. The only reason Zach knew about what happened was because he was the base armourer and had been asked to clear the now-mangled M249 on the front of the Bradley after they finally got it back.
That sounds like the worst teammates you could ever have. Broke my heart 😢
What happend afterwards to him and everyone who abandoned him?
I would have lost my shit
I would have lost my shit
@@slavaukraine5117 Later on, the Bradley commander and convoy commander were both given a court martial. Thankfully.
And it wasn't a mangled M249, they needed him to clear the Bushmaster autocannon because nobody knew how to do that other than the currently concussed Bradley driver.
Someone is gonna get fucked up beyond comprehension for this. That battalion is probably going to experience a very sudden change of command on several levels of the chain.
Fuck, that same thing happened to me. Took them 2 weeks to realize I was missing. I just happened to be somewhere at ITX where I could get cell reception when I got a call asking why I never turned in my leave papers. A duty van picked me up the next day. I don't think anyone past Cpls ever found out.
Props to the person filming for finding a way back without the bus
I had a situation similar to this during my time as a cadet. I was feeling exhausted and asked my flight sergeant to take a nap in my accomodation which he allowed and then completely forgot about me. Woke up by myself with no one in pitch black and had to call up one of the senior instructor who was pissed at pretty much everyone for not noticing a missing person. 😂
If this soldier had an accident in a "misappropriated" HMMWV without a co-driver that killed himself and/or another person the entire chain of command would be screwed. And rightfully so.
When (I acquired) ....things in the military. I kept that sh&t on the down low.... and told those above me to ask no questions. 99% of the time they would smile and say ok. Mission accomplished
Yeah that soft back fiberglass pig with a top speed of 62 mph, costs about 185,000 dollars.
In basic I came back from a medical and taken out to an exercise with all the guys kit. So after unloading all the kit the driver leaves with the truck. My platoon were supposed to meet up on foot. So I waited, nodded off. A few hours later the truck returned. I had been dropped in the wrong place.
L/Cpl Jason Rother approves of the Humvee acquisition.
Its how my great uncle became a PoW in WWII, had a guy throw a potato masher at him, he got hit with shrapnel behind the knee, was able to grab the handle at the front of his Bren and hip fired and killed the guy, he limped back into the house he was by and applied a dressing, his platoon moved out and apparently no one did a head count because a few hours later the Germans rolled into town and he surrendered.
Survived the war and escaped his PoW camp with 9 others towards the end of the war when the quality of guards went down, young fit soliders replaced by old, pudgy, wounded guys that could hold a rifle but were mostly combat ineffective. Didnt help his captors since the recreation area wasnt fenced in and you could kick a soccer ball out of bounds into bushes, start a argument and have a german speaking guy talk to the guard "did you see who kicked it out? Youre gonna referee this call" meanwhile 3 guys go look for the ball, 2 come back one took off and hid and waited for the other guys to show up before all running west as fast as possible.
Right after Desert Storm in 91 I was in Saudi Arabia and was scheduled to take the transport from my living quarters near Riyadh to Dhahran to catch my flight home. The shuttle driver wouldn’t let me another few guys on because my First Sergeant hadn’t put in the paperwork. I stole a Nissan truck some of our guys had acquired and drove us all to catch our flight. I was sweating it until we landed in the US.
Bruh
How did he just acquire a Humvee out in the field??
Probably the driver and tc left on the bus cause they thought someone else was taking it back.
@@bogustoast22none25 technically a "someone" did
Pocket Humvee
To acquire a Humvee. There's only a cable and lock. Easy to open with a master key. Been there done that!
@@pebarr8085 I’m just saying who the hell left a humvee out in the field lol
😂 Now what about the guy who drove the humvee out there to begin with?
Probably got on the bus thinking it was someone else's job to bring it back.
It's him. The driver just wanted to make a tik tok
They forgot an entire Humvee?
youd be suprised. my dad is in the national gaurd finishing his 20 and he has seen many mnay many vehicles left behind in very odd spots and places. people think its someone elses job @@APersonOnRUclipsX
@@YuriVelcroripperain't no way, dude had no TC with him. That shit is Hella bogus without one
I can't tell whether they also forgot a Humvee or not. Logic tells me yes, but I'm liking the head cannon of no.
Bro the marines lost a whole ass F-35, you think they keep track of the Humvees?
Look the air force lost I think 4 nukes in the last 50 years so yeah.
@@firesturmgamingif you think that’s bad, the Soviet navy has an entire nuclear arsenal stored at the bottom of the ocean lmao.
Considering they have lost F-35's before and accidentally dropped nukes on North Carolina, Canada, Greenland, and spain before I'd say they just probably straight up forgot that shit. The U.S Military is a fucking logistical nightmare.
@@Psyonyxe Really puts into perspective just how much everyone else must suck at logistics then since we're better at it than all of them lmao
"No man left behind" until someone forgets him 💀
Unfortunately one of my fellow platoon sergeants from a different battalion was court martialed because they left a profile in the field who was directing vehicles. 30 days later they found the Soldiers body. The PSG was charged because he helped cover up by listing the missing Soldier as present in formations. This shit is real, dangerous, and it happens. Take care of your troops. Hooah!
Our command once left a dude in gereghsk... had the whole coy out looking for a man securing a corner with his back to us while we left😂😂
Theres a youtuber that was an E4 who was in afganistan and he told this story he experianced of a very new driver in a humvee who got left behind by his convoy after being hit by an IED for the 3rd time which gave him a concussion and knocked his radio out so he's just driving around looking for his convoy because they all got out after the 2nd one and then didn't even bother to check on him after the 3rd
It was a Bradley driver and they figured he was dead after the 3rd hit and just left. He woke up from being knocked out and started driving around because he was lost and disoriented.
"No man left behind" they said
@@SaltOnWoundsyup. Brotherhood they said.
The youtube in question is Zach Hazard, though the main channel is called Mikeburnfire
@@miklovvBut don't forget to put your name into the draft bucket!! You'd love to be forgotten in the middle of a desert somewhere, too, right?
Heard a story of a marine that turned out to be dead in a ditch in Oki… for THREE DAYS. Everyone stood for him in formations so nobody figured it out until someone literally found a dead body in a ditch.
Legend has it through his outstanding acquiring skills he got promoted to SGM on the spot for taking the terms “no man left behind” literally
Yeah... my unit left us on an island in the middle of the pacific overnight, they figured someone got us but dident check til the next morning... 3 hrs turned into around 14 with next to no food or water. Fuckin cream corn
Bro went on a side quest 💀
So I got left on Mobile in Iraq by myself for 20-30 minutes
When I got back in the MRAP everyone was laughing so I couldn’t quite tell if it was accidental or on purpose
"Chill its just a prank", The prank:
That's how you turn a battle buddy into somebody who will let you die if leadership isn't around.
I know how I am, I know how I react to certain situations. If this happened to me I'd cry for about 5 minutes and then get really mad at my unit.
I got separated at JRTC and ended up just walking down a road for like 3 days before i found someone. Had my M4, nods, and a DAGR and no one knew I or that shit was missing. To bad cause someone would have gotten in a fuck ton of trouble for falsifying SI accountability.
I found a guy left on the range in Mohave viper. He was having heat exhaustion and I literally saved his life.
Senior enlisted FAIL. The NCOIC should do a touch-based physical count every time before and after every movement, tactical or not.
We forgot a guy once too, we realized once we got out of the gate too, but only because someone was like "shit who's got the keys to the armory" and someone was like "X has them" .. "wait, where is X?"
That is an “oh shit” moment
We had a Soldier get left on the objective after an Air Assault mission in Iraq, they had to spin up the special people to go get him
You are probably talking about my friend that I grew up with, Lance corporal Jason Rother. Although this turned out better than with my friend, accountability is critical.
That happened during training before getting deployed to Afghan.
We got a new Company Co. and first Sgt the next day 😅😂
Saw them having fun at S-1 during deployment .
Funny to see that roll call and buddy system is a lot more practiced in grade school than in the military
I remember when one of units left a SAW gunner out on an objective.
The kid took a position and dug in until they went back for him
This always reminds me of Jason Rother, got left in the middle of the desert and tried to walk back. His body was found 4 months later only 2 miles from the base after he had walked roughly 17 miles before that.
I remember a Gunny passing the word to enlisted on where to meet at a movement and then tried to NJP like 50 enlisted when they showed up where he told him to be, but not the correct location.
Thank god he had his standard issue universal HMMWV key on him.
This happened to me and my Bradley crew when we were in Kuwait. The low boy eventually came to get us but it took some fucking time😂.
This should result in a Relief for Cause for that dudes 1st line
Yeah me too , got tasked to move containers and they all left me there at the warehouse😂 fun times
I got left at Pinon Canyon (Ft. Carson). I was on LPOP and my unit jumped back to garrison after a 5 day FTX. I had a radio, so after about 3hrs of calls, our comms NCO finally heard me from his shop. 1SG came and got me in his pov because my squad leader and team chief were still doing pushups.
We all had to fly from southern to northern sweden in a C-130 for a uhmm... thing... We were already in the air when we realized that one of our guys was missing. He apparently overslept and no one noticed he wasn't there. He ended up having to take a 11h bus ride..
LCpl Jason Rother... enough said!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Rother_incident
I heard about a marine a long while back that got left behind and ended up dying in the desert on a field exercise
What a true paragon of information, what an utter codex of knowledge you have imparted us with
Bro put “acquired” like he just put in a cheat code 😂
A previous unit that I was in had a soldier kidnapped by OpFor in JRTC and they didn't know he was missing for 2 days. He even had a radio, so the enemy was listening in on comms.
I literally went AWOL..TWICE for over a year from that unit and got away with it because thst unit was an absolute disgrace.
Omg what unit?
@@comet-2987 B co 782D MSB '06. My company commander was captain Anderson.
Bro no wonder the military is in deep sh imagine this is how they treat you now how about the innocent civilians damn.
@@coolgamer2135 takes the sting out of "super duper paratrooper"!
But in fairness, I was also in some amazing units in the 82d. The command climate will make or break an entire unit