For those of you complaining about how they're "actors"/ you don't get what they're trying to do psychologically. It's helping them get into character to honor the brothers. I'm Army Airborne myself and I see no problem with it at all.
Necramonium hey moron, im talking to the reply. Saying you are an army airborne to make yourself seem cool, i also don’t know what “army airborne” would play kerbal space program
I was proud after doing my 5 jumps and getting my Airborne Wings. I thank these actors for portraying WWII Paratroopers. This movie is apart of my heritage as a Paratrooper.
His character is very underrated. Damian Lewis stole the show which took away from Schwimmers excellent performance. Id have been asking what was it like makin out with Jennifer Anniston and id have slipt the ol' french on her. Now she is blah
We pull upon the risers We fall upon the grass We never land upon our feet We always hit our ass Hide tidee, Christ almighty Who the hell are we? Zim zam, goddamn! We're actors!
how is it I can watch a group of actors going through this and not get emotional, thank you Ron for your videos they are truly amazing you guys made probably in my opinion the best war movies ever made
Ron love your acting: very real and down to earth. Miss your Laudermilk series really quirky but relevant to anyone that has dealt with substance abuse issues hope it comes back
This is awesome and the camaraderie made, even in under two weeks, is a testament to the great miniseries they made with their training. My favorite of all time!
And here's the fun part: EVEN 20 years later the actors still have a 'bond'--I think they might even do periodic reunions with each other, so these parts had a great impact on them.
@@nickmitsialis Haha cool, a reply from a comment two years ago. Still my favorite miniseries of all time! One of my favorite youtube videos is of the actual Bill Guarnere (RIP) leading a troop of paras in singing, "Blood on the Risers"!
As it happens, David Schwimmer said in the now sadly deleted YT interviews of the BoB cast that he deliberately avoided the main lot so as to build a sense of unfamiliarity between them and himself. He DID train, but not with the others (though you do see him a little in the PT segments). He was actually very conscious of being one of the older guys there and that he probably had this reputation as Ross from Friends to them. The only person he apparently interacted with regularly was Simon Pegg.
I still think HBO should of let them all jump for real, The training they did for it is the exact shit you do on Jump course, But in the end they got no Joy by doing the real jump. Yes I know about the risk and insurances and such, but they put that much effort into the training, In my view they were missing the vital test :)
@@Loosehead yep count 5 as i recall then check canopy. all static line. stand up. hook up. wait for my signal. go. go. go. winds always had to be 9 knots or less. they just waited for the gust to pass from the ground reporting station then out you went and piled in at 50kmh because the winds were definitely not 9... full pack rifle and snowshoes middle of summer. 60 lbs. plus chute and a rifle. the snowshoes were aluminum at least. i think we were carrying 110lbs all told. the ramp jumps sucked but they made them out like they were the best. the view was terrifying the first time.
I get what he means towards the end of it being completely new. But in reality alot of countries had paratroopers way before america. It was rather on the scale of which america did it that was a first, but not really the idea of dropping troops behind enemy lines to disrupt and initiate attack on key positions to open for a larger land assault.
Marc Jansson well other countries did it before them but the United States had never done it before. None of their allies had done it either so for them it was completely new. But I get what you mean
Even then you're talking other countries doing it before the US, its really in the few years preceding this during this war. In terms of large group combat jumps. So calling it completely new would be pretty fair.
Was this a version that they made, or the actual soldiers? We're Easy company (*didn't catch the last word) We're raiders of the night We're dirty son's a bitches We'd rather fuck than fight We drink up all the whiskey We drink up all the gin We take 'em to the shitter We throw the bastards in Hidee Tidee, Christ Almighty Who the fuck are we? Zim Zam, Goddamn We're Airbourne Infantry!
Italy first developed paratroopers in the 1930's. Germany and the Soviet Union soon followed. Germany was the first country to use paratroopers in WWII."Nazi Germany´s Luftwaffe Fallschirmjäger units made the first airborne invasion when invading Denmark on April 9, 1940 as part of Operation Weserübung." "The 101st Airborne Division was activated on August 16, 1942, at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana." "On 15 August 1942, the 82nd Infantry Division, now commanded by Major General Ridgway, became the first airborne division in the history of the U.S. Army, and was redesignated as the 82nd Airborne Division."
Not exactly true. Enlisted men are sent to the front lines too and unlike the officers flying in the relative comfort and safety in the cockpits, PJs and Combat Controllers often have to fight up close and personal with the enemies. The most recent recipient of MOH was a CC who was killed in action in Afghanistan.
As a service member (not infantry/Airborne) myself, I honestly would trust these men in actual combat. I get that their basic training wasn't as long as actual basic/AIT/jump school, but they experienced some thorough training and self indoctrination to a level that some actual service members don't undergo. Bravo Zulu, men.
Joon I’m Airborne Infantry, I would under no circumstance follow anyone one of these men into combat. They are fantastic at what they do as actors but being a soldier is completely different. I would not follow a single person into battle who has only received 10 days of training, let alone only 1-2 days of actual combat (react to contact) training. That’s suicide.
There as many "Did it first" as there are deffinitions of "did it first" Actually it was Polland, Norway and Denmark which saw the first para trooper attack. In Norway it was first time paratroopers faced opposition. Crete was special because it was an all airborne invasion (and very costly) The soviets was actually first in creating an airborne division. The first allied combat deployment was in Sicily by British para troopers(same guys that got stuck in Arnhem) and sucessfully fought of the Crete guys until reinforcements came.
I'm retired Army. The Marines used here for cadre are kinda weak on their actions in the aircraft/jump commands. Surprised they didn't dig-up an actual Army Black Hat for the training...
It seems as though I must post an ammendment to my previous post where I cited the Germans pre-empting the U.S. On the idea of the paratrooper when apparently it was an idea put forth in 1917 by Winston Churchill who had served as the First Lord of the Admiralty (1911-1915). or so the research tells me. But it was the U.S. Brigadeer General Billy Mitchel Who first came up with a plan to carry it out near the end of world war one. the plan was shelved at the imminent occurance of the armistice... That doesnt take it away from the Germans being the first to pull it off successfully in Crete but still.. My apologies to all for an initially misleading post.
Thanks for sharing! I recently read some of that -- but I didn't know about Billy Michell's involvement. Reminded me of The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell -- which I haven't seen in ages. I found this article that you'll find of interest: www.airforcemag.com/PDF/MagazineArchive/Magazine%20Documents/2014/August%202014/0814mitchell.pdf An excerpt from it: The commander of the First Allied Airborne Army for Market Garden was Lt. Gen. Lewis H. Brereton-the same man who had had plans “dumped” in his lap by Billy Mitchell in October 1918. In his memoirs, Brereton recalled Mitchell’s idea: “The armistice cut short General Mitchell’s plans. Now, 26 years later, we had the same thing in mind.” As usual, Billy Mitchell was years ahead of his time. ■
@@koroniriaryder4410 I didn't know that. Thanks. Even though Sobel was a mean, vindictive person, this actually turned out to be a blessing, by bonding the men closer, and being in top physical shape.
@@davidmiller767 I mentioned this in another comment, but David Schwimmer deliberately gave them all a wide berth so as to make them feel unfamiliar with him. Then, when the actual acting portion came, as far as they were concerned, Ross from Friends was just screaming in their face pretending to be their CO (at least, that's how Schwimmer thought of it). Considering they had probably all read Ambrose' book, he likely felt like the real Sobel they'd read about.
The Germans were the first to use paratroopers in battle, they were also the first to show the heavy cost of parachute attack. Crete was so bad hitler forbade further operations. That's why D day drop was at night.
Check this out. I jumped with the 101st, 75th infantry airbourne to get my wings .....five times. Brings back memories. But the only thing I didn't like is that they all get a individual go where we put I free arm on Our partner and push......$0 guys with us in 40 seconds....Not with them....LOL
Great show and honor to the real men! One of my favorites. But the arrogant bullshit of how scary filming was should never be spoken or thought of. Otherwise go get paid big bucks for doing REAL shit.
@Montana Roots I was in the Army for 25 years amd deployed four times to combat. You, on the other hand, can barely write and you spell like a 1st grader. If you did serve, which I highly doubt, you were likely chaptered from the Armed Forces for eating your boogers during your free time and licking windows while on patrol. We cant have booger eating, window licking morons fighting for our Country
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"are those dusty jump wings? how do you expect to slay the hun with dust on your jump wings?"
"luz just get me damn drink"
@@jordynnm3711 Three miles up, three miles down.
@@jordynnm3711 Helluva idea, Joe
For those of you complaining about how they're "actors"/ you don't get what they're trying to do psychologically. It's helping them get into character to honor the brothers. I'm Army Airborne myself and I see no problem with it at all.
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Parker Koppes= AIRBORNE ALL THE WAY!!
Necramonium hey moron, im talking to the reply. Saying you are an army airborne to make yourself seem cool, i also don’t know what “army airborne” would play kerbal space program
so because they were in the army airborne they cant play kerbal space program? im genuinely confused
I was proud after doing my 5 jumps and getting my Airborne Wings. I thank these actors for portraying WWII Paratroopers. This movie is apart of my heritage as a Paratrooper.
Cool that David Schwimmer went through this after being one of the biggest TV mega-superstars ever. You'd expect him to be a diva.
His character is very underrated. Damian Lewis stole the show which took away from Schwimmers excellent performance. Id have been asking what was it like makin out with Jennifer Anniston and id have slipt the ol' french on her. Now she is blah
He finally got to act. Instead of being on a garbage show like friends. And he did an excellent job in BOB.
now after all 12 parts it is absolutely clear why Band Of Brothers is the best WW2 Airborne related show ever made , well done to all of you .
Yep it’s about that time of the year to go re watch it again lol
I know they all use character names.
But you know they were all calling him Ross behind his back.
Fabisch Factor
I find this disrespectful.
Schwimmer did an excellent job portraying the hated commanding officer.
I for one not once thought of him as Ross.
@@joyl7842 I agree, when the actor can make you dislike him this much when he's portraying a disliked character he's done a good job.
We pull upon the risers
We fall upon the grass
We never land upon our feet
We always hit our ass
Hide tidee, Christ almighty
Who the hell are we?
Zim zam, goddamn!
We're actors!
how is it I can watch a group of actors going through this and not get emotional, thank you Ron for your videos they are truly amazing you guys made probably in my opinion the best war movies ever made
Ron love your acting: very real and down to earth. Miss your Laudermilk series really quirky but relevant to anyone that has dealt with substance abuse issues hope it comes back
they ARE their characters. omg
I will never forget my wings being pinned on me, July 1981 Ft. Benning GA. Army carreer ended Feb 2015.. ( including break in service)..loved it. AATW
Wow. Wish we could have seen more. What a show. What men. Those men who jumped out
This is awesome and the camaraderie made, even in under two weeks, is a testament to the great miniseries they made with their training. My favorite of all time!
And here's the fun part: EVEN 20 years later the actors still have a 'bond'--I think they might even do periodic reunions with each other, so these parts had a great impact on them.
@@nickmitsialis Haha cool, a reply from a comment two years ago. Still my favorite miniseries of all time! One of my favorite youtube videos is of the actual Bill Guarnere (RIP) leading a troop of paras in singing, "Blood on the Risers"!
So many riser burns haha, love this video diary
Did they just bring Ross in on grad day only to make everyone resent him? It looks like it worked.
Same thing they did with Matt Damon on SPR
i saw him during the physical training exercises early on tho
Its called acting
He's been there the whole time? You see him in the earlier videos too.
As it happens, David Schwimmer said in the now sadly deleted YT interviews of the BoB cast that he deliberately avoided the main lot so as to build a sense of unfamiliarity between them and himself. He DID train, but not with the others (though you do see him a little in the PT segments). He was actually very conscious of being one of the older guys there and that he probably had this reputation as Ross from Friends to them.
The only person he apparently interacted with regularly was Simon Pegg.
I still think HBO should of let them all jump for real, The training they did for it is the exact shit you do on Jump course, But in the end they got no Joy by doing the real jump. Yes I know about the risk and insurances and such, but they put that much effort into the training, In my view they were missing the vital test :)
At least should have done it tandem with a jump instructor.
Got my wings in 83
Were you taught to count, then "Check canopy" as my father was?
@@Loosehead yep count 5 as i recall then check canopy. all static line. stand up. hook up. wait for my signal. go. go. go. winds always had to be 9 knots or less. they just waited for the gust to pass from the ground reporting station then out you went and piled in at 50kmh because the winds were definitely not 9... full pack rifle and snowshoes middle of summer. 60 lbs. plus chute and a rifle. the snowshoes were aluminum at least. i think we were carrying 110lbs all told. the ramp jumps sucked but they made them out like they were the best. the view was terrifying the first time.
2:31 Winters that was about the nastiest about face I've ever seen. Lmao
3:31 the funniest freeze frame on youtube
Damian Lewis is locked in.
Heidi deidi christ almighty
who the hell are we?
Zim Zam god damn
We‘re airborne infantry
Very catchy tune😂
now a days there is so much hear and the parachutes come down so fast. you can easily break your legs if you dont land right
3:49 I love this moment
they should have sent them to Benning for jump training, that would have wiped the smiles off their face.
still would have been funny to see.
Their actors trying to get a sense of what it was like, not actually becoming soldiers. This is all about the film, nothing more.
I get what he means towards the end of it being completely new.
But in reality alot of countries had paratroopers way before america.
It was rather on the scale of which america did it that was a first, but not really the idea of dropping troops behind enemy lines to disrupt and initiate attack on key positions to open for a larger land assault.
Marc Jansson well other countries did it before them but the United States had never done it before. None of their allies had done it either so for them it was completely new. But I get what you mean
Even then you're talking other countries doing it before the US, its really in the few years preceding this during this war. In terms of large group combat jumps. So calling it completely new would be pretty fair.
Was this a version that they made, or the actual soldiers?
We're Easy company (*didn't catch the last word)
We're raiders of the night
We're dirty son's a bitches
We'd rather fuck than fight
We drink up all the whiskey
We drink up all the gin
We take 'em to the shitter
We throw the bastards in
Hidee Tidee, Christ Almighty
Who the fuck are we?
Zim Zam, Goddamn
We're Airbourne Infantry!
Did any of the EZ Company veterans see this diary? What did they think?
it's Easy btw. not EZ. it's legitimately Easy.
Frogtac's Airsoft Sanctuary shut up
Italy first developed paratroopers in the 1930's. Germany and the Soviet Union soon followed. Germany was the first country to use paratroopers in WWII."Nazi Germany´s Luftwaffe Fallschirmjäger units made the first airborne invasion when invading Denmark on April 9, 1940 as part of Operation Weserübung."
"The 101st Airborne Division was activated on August 16, 1942, at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana."
"On 15 August 1942, the 82nd Infantry Division, now commanded by Major General Ridgway, became the first airborne division in the history of the U.S. Army, and was redesignated as the 82nd Airborne Division."
AIR FORCE!! We're the smart ones...send the officers out to fight. :-)
Steven Wiederholt you know they are the army right ?
LOL that's a great one and i am gonna use it!
Not exactly true. Enlisted men are sent to the front lines too and unlike the officers flying in the relative comfort and safety in the cockpits, PJs and Combat Controllers often have to fight up close and personal with the enemies. The most recent recipient of MOH was a CC who was killed in action in Afghanistan.
I was Army and a Lt. Last one into the chopper, first one out. Thats the way it goes.
@Robin_Wilson- Well, I hope the real soldiers had more training than actors. I mean, they did invade Western Europe.
Wow....
Feet apart! PLF, PLF, PLF, medevac!
As a service member (not infantry/Airborne) myself, I honestly would trust these men in actual combat. I get that their basic training wasn't as long as actual basic/AIT/jump school, but they experienced some thorough training and self indoctrination to a level that some actual service members don't undergo. Bravo Zulu, men.
Joon I’m Airborne Infantry, I would under no circumstance follow anyone one of these men into combat. They are fantastic at what they do as actors but being a soldier is completely different. I would not follow a single person into battle who has only received 10 days of training, let alone only 1-2 days of actual combat (react to contact) training. That’s suicide.
German paratroopers already did it with the Crete landings.
And? The were the first in USA.
@@Brickcellent late is late
There as many "Did it first" as there are deffinitions of "did it first"
Actually it was Polland, Norway and Denmark which saw the first para trooper attack. In Norway it was first time paratroopers faced opposition.
Crete was special because it was an all airborne invasion (and very costly)
The soviets was actually first in creating an airborne division.
The first allied combat deployment was in Sicily by British para troopers(same guys that got stuck in Arnhem) and sucessfully fought of the Crete guys until reinforcements came.
@@slitor thanks for the info.
@@slitor 82nd Airborne of the US Army were also deployed during Sicily
I'm retired Army. The Marines used here for cadre are kinda weak on their actions in the aircraft/jump commands. Surprised they didn't dig-up an actual Army Black Hat for the training...
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It seems as though I must post an ammendment to my previous post where I cited the Germans pre-empting the U.S. On the idea of the paratrooper when apparently it was an idea put forth in 1917 by Winston Churchill who had served as the First Lord of the Admiralty (1911-1915). or so the research tells me. But it was the U.S. Brigadeer General Billy Mitchel Who first came up with a plan to carry it out near the end of world war one. the plan was shelved at the imminent occurance of the armistice... That doesnt take it away from the Germans being the first to pull it off successfully in Crete but still.. My apologies to all for an initially misleading post.
Thanks for sharing! I recently read some of that -- but I didn't know about Billy Michell's involvement. Reminded me of The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell -- which I haven't seen in ages.
I found this article that you'll find of interest: www.airforcemag.com/PDF/MagazineArchive/Magazine%20Documents/2014/August%202014/0814mitchell.pdf
An excerpt from it:
The commander of the First Allied
Airborne Army for Market Garden was
Lt. Gen. Lewis H. Brereton-the same
man who had had plans “dumped” in his
lap by Billy Mitchell in October 1918.
In his memoirs, Brereton recalled
Mitchell’s idea: “The armistice cut short
General Mitchell’s plans. Now, 26 years
later, we had the same thing in mind.”
As usual, Billy Mitchell was years
ahead of his time. ■
Think about how many millions david schwimmer had during this and took a pretty small part in this
I wonder why Sobel wasn't in any of his diary ??
He was in the earlier videos? They even talk about him one or two times too.
@@koroniriaryder4410 I didn't know that. Thanks. Even though Sobel was a mean, vindictive person, this actually turned out to be a blessing, by bonding the men closer, and being in top physical shape.
@@davidmiller767 I mentioned this in another comment, but David Schwimmer deliberately gave them all a wide berth so as to make them feel unfamiliar with him. Then, when the actual acting portion came, as far as they were concerned, Ross from Friends was just screaming in their face pretending to be their CO (at least, that's how Schwimmer thought of it). Considering they had probably all read Ambrose' book, he likely felt like the real Sobel they'd read about.
@@DeFactoLeader That makes sense. Thanks!!
You see sobel (or actor playing sobel) at 3:30
The Germans were the first to use paratroopers in battle, they were also the first to show the heavy cost of parachute attack. Crete was so bad hitler forbade further operations. That's why D day drop was at night.
Check this out. I jumped with the 101st, 75th infantry airbourne to get my wings .....five times. Brings back memories. But the only thing I didn't like is that they all get a individual go where we put I free arm on Our partner and push......$0 guys with us in 40 seconds....Not with them....LOL
Great show and honor to the real men! One of my favorites.
But the arrogant bullshit of how
scary filming was should never be spoken or thought of. Otherwise go get paid big bucks for doing REAL shit.
completely new and innovative... except the German did this very thing in the taking of Crete a few years earlier...
@1:38
dale dye is way too over the top and dramatic
@Montana Roots I was in the Army for 25 years amd deployed four times to combat. You, on the other hand, can barely write and you spell like a 1st grader. If you did serve, which I highly doubt, you were likely chaptered from the Armed Forces for eating your boogers during your free time and licking windows while on patrol. We cant have booger eating, window licking morons fighting for our Country