Doom and Gloom: A Russian Soldier's Perspective of the War in Ukraine
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- Опубликовано: 7 авг 2024
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Looking at the life of a Russian soldier at the front lines in Ukraine, what they're facing, how they're dealing with it and what they think the future holds.
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smooth operator
any way .. stay ..go ... don't care ... you have be warned ...
Gaining grounds with such low moral 😮imagine if their moral was high
Happy it worked for you. When I quit smoking it was 12/27/2020 at 1900 I took a drag off an Old Gold in the softpack. I just put them in the container I used and they sit right next to me along with the 13 cartons of smokes I still have from my last trip to North Dakota. I would drive a round trip of 500 miles for a Carton of smokes was 54.99 where I live it was closer to 85.99. So it only made sense to drive 8 hours return trip and pretty much get by one get one. I would get 50 cartons at a time and return to family and friends who chipped in on my munchy fund and fuel. I am glad I quit smoking but if you have the will power and ability to just stop something cold. I hope those who want to quit will because if that person is doing it for any reason other than themself they will not make it. That person has to want to quit or they will be doomed to fail.
Preston, please do a video " Looking at the life of a Klingon warrior at the front lines against the Star fleet, what they're facing, how they're dealing with it and what they think the future holds."
I just ask you to use the same fact checking technique you used for this video.
Sounds like Vietnam. My husband was shot right through the neck. It didn’t hit anything crucial but he spent ten days in the hospital and sent right back out into the jungle. That was his second deployment. He re-enlisted but switched over to the Army and retired after 20 years. Now he has what I call his Frankenstein scars on each side of the neck. The wounds healed, the PTSD didn’t.
God bless and heal him.
🙏🏻 Thank you sir for your service
BP , please tell your hubby , an old RVN medic said Welcome Home . Some scars , as they say . Cannot be seen . Stay strong brother ! There are less of us by the day .. doc lll Corp
@@indycharlieThank you for your service sir!
Ukraine is Russias Vietnam. where USA lost 50,000 people, Russia has lost 500,000 people.
So we can say Ukraine is Russia's Vietnam ×10
There was a Chinese volunteer who shared his experience in Ukraine. His squad was wiped twice with him and an African volunteer as the only survivors. He described it as an unwinnable hell hole and meat grinder. He's been on the frontline 2 weeks.
@@c1v1c2v2 I watched that too.
Fake news
@@jaxonl7810it's didnt make the news. It's his experience in war in ukraine that he want to share so everyone can know what happen.
it's didnt make the news. It's his experience in war in ukraine that he want to share so everyone can know what happen. @@jaxonl7810
@@jaxonl7810 No news here… it’s a video on RUclips.
LOL at the segue into the advertisement. Very smooth.
LoL look who's back the apologist
smooth as a füm
kind of disingenuous too, unlike a smooth delicious Fume™. Women are more attracted to me when I smoke my Fume™.
@@jaxonl7810 Як справи Дяксоне
I thought the same thing. very good plug, get that bag.
Interesting... Just today a famous Z blogger Sergey Aliev said that this pointless war needs to stop right now. He said russians have no idea what they are fighting for and what victory even means in this context.
It sounds like he's going to meet concrete pavement after a hike up a multistory building. Or maybe they'll be crueler and put him in prison just to reconscript him back to the front lines but in a Storm Z unit.
@@that1guy_248 We'll see... His friend Girkin is already serving time
@@tomhenry897 And just why would one of the largest countries on the planet need to expand? Expand where? Ok they have the Donbas, so what? The original plan, as per Putin's words, was a 3 Day Special Military Operation to "de-nazify Ukraine." It's been 2 and a half years and 1/3rd of this objective is nowhere close to have been reached. Even Stalin himself would not double down to this level.
@@tomhenry897 famous Z blogger disagrees with you after talking to ruZo soldier
@@tomhenry897yeah! Expand!
Wait what’s the point of ‘expanding’? Why? For what? What’s been gained? How does that impact anyone positively?
Thanks, I have read about Swedish guys coming home wounded in UA heal and then go back to UA.and fight again, and they do it as volunteers.
@@JJORIS4199says the same type of guy who also opposes conscription in the case of even something like WW2
If someone enters your home and begins killing your family, do you need to fight? How would you feel if your neighbor stood in his lawn just watching? @JJORIS4199
@@JJORIS4199 Heroes disagree with you. No one would be free with this loser outlook
@@JJORIS4199 evil succeeds when good people do nothing.
@@stinkycheese5369I am for conscription. Of your own people. Not taking in foreigners.
I've lost family to lung cancer. Lung cancer is a horrific way to go. Grandfather quit chewing gum, gave him an extra ten years which allowed him to be at some major family events. Lung cancer still got him with the amount he used to smoke.
Get off the vapes/smokes as soon as you can. Not just for you, for everyone around you.
The vapes help people get off the smokes, best not to vape at all but vaping is far more healthier than smoking. Vaping has been around for 20 years and there are no records of it causing lung cancer, unlike smoking.
Lung cancer can get you even if you don't smoke. Life's a lottery, some win, some lose. Only the odds change a bit.
In regards to him saying that the Ukrainians are in the same situation as him, I think the closest would be that once you are in uniform it is very very difficult to get out. There is a major rehabilitation hospital in the city I live in, and I get to grab drinks with those recovering there, at a close by bar. They use concussions as a euphemism for sever PTSD, the bar for a medical discharge is far higher than Western military standards, but I don't think it is as bad as on the Russian side where they are sending men back into the fight with their medical dressing still on.
Also, the Ukrainians are fighting for their homeland, their people and their families… makes it much easier when you can see the purpose in what you are doing.
You don't think??? we've seen hundreds of videos of men going to work or riding a tram getting kidnapped by SBU and send to the front, none of that from Russia
@@dpmjole You're joking? Literally have people being arrested in Russia for a petty crime and handed a mobilization notice while in the police van.
@@benbevan1442 I'm not taking about criminals, honest working men arrested on their way to work or a grocery store or just walking a dog ... literally kidnapped and taken to the front
It is the easy way out to just say "oh it is terrible on both sides". Ukraine doesn't have Storm Z troops like Russia does. Ukraine also does not hit their head against a wall like Russia does. When they tried to push in their summer offensive and it did not result in massive gains, they did not say "at least we are getting some territory, we are keeping the pressure on Russia", they said "this is not working now, we will change course".
Russia has been attacking and attacking into Ukrainian lines, taking horrific losses and gaining little ground. That little ground is worth something to Russia while Ukraine does not risk their strength for meagre gains.
One main difference in how the US/West does things: You don't bribe your chain of command.
No, America gives up and leaves. They never win a war or conflict they just leave. For example the taliban is still incharge while America ran back home lol
@@jamesdixon2857the taliban hid in Pakistan until we left.
Orly? How did George W get into the air force.
@@dynamicascension981Case in point.
@@jamesdixon2857LMFAO you can’t cite more than two instances throughout the whole of American history
War Is Hell,no matter what side you're fighting for😪
Says the putin apologist
@@jaxonl7810bro, you believe the Ukrainians are faring better?
@@jaxonl7810you’re fat
@@jaxonl7810fat
@@jaxonl7810you look goofy asf. Go outside.
Preston, I was born and grew up in Russia, but served in the US Air Force, including a deployment in AFG. It’s not really comparable, even to remote FOBs. Russian forward bases lack infrastructure (housing, food, clean water, showers, etc.) on permanent basis. Ours did not. If you were at a remote location, you were there for a week, two tops. Then you came back to a larger base for a while. Not the Russians. They don’t have the logistics for it. They get supply trains, but they’re not getting the big stuff or quantities. There are no C-17s, C-130s or even Chinooks full of stuff coming their way. All their stuff is brought by stake trucks or flatbeds. That’s why they went into towns for toilet paper, food, soda, booze, batteries. blankets, etc. They have no PXs. They don’t do MWR. There are no movies, no gyms… nothing.
Without the ability to go into a town they have nothing, which feels like a prison.
Russia lacks logistics because they never intended attacking overseas. Just look at all of the last conflicts Russia has been involved in Afghanistan, Chechnya, Syria, and Ukraine all accessible by road.
I get them
I wonder what the conditions were like for the Soviets during their time in AFG. The real question is, will the US be able to maintain comparable logistics during a peer to peer conflict.
thats what happens in a pier conflict nobody has air superiority
omg what a piece of western propaganda...
Energy drinks are everywhere, all the time, in the US Army. It’s crazy. If you see someone walking out of a Costco with a 24 pack or Monster, theyre a veteran.
Costco needs to sell rip it.
I sometimes watch the Funker350 channel and always thought it strange how such a macho military guy was so into the energy drink 'Pink Mist'. 'Paul The Combat Vet' advocates for 'Strike' gum, which seems like a product name much more on point for a military man. However, I recently found out that the military jargon for blood splatters is 'pink mist'. Now it all makes sense.
"You see, killbots have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them until they reached their limit and shut down." - Captain Zap Brannigan
Fratricide not causing massive holes to open along the Russian front is a testament to these guys toughness, fealty, stupidity, or a combination of those.
A bit of both keeps a man stable enough to
Honest to God, both sides have shown sheer tenacity and a will to fight to the bitter end.
@@airon89toyotamost of us peasants do while the rotten royalty watches; maybe in the next life it will be different
@@awol333 you ain't wrong
@@awol333 lol the fact you said all that good stuff and finished off with hoping its better in the next life.the next life was given by the royalty to the peasants so that they'd at least take solace in the fact that theres a "next life" and its gonna be "heaven".
Thank you Preston, I always look forward to your videos.
As a military man myself, i can only feel bad for the Russian soldier.
To be treated so poorly, have little to no direction, no hope or real motivation to get out alive... and be expected to still give it all courageously? Damn.
They're still people in a "professional" military.
Thet don't show anyone else any sympathy. Why should I feel sorry for them? They're there to absorb Ukrainian ammunition. Some of them are dual use. 🎻
do not feel sorry after children hospital strike
Man, just don't believe all you see on RUclips. I work in Shebekino, you can find there is it and how far from battlefield. RuAF staff so much food, they share with us. Cherry drink is awesome:) The most important thing for me- 99% of soldiers I see are optimistic.
@@NikolayBychkovRus do you ever see them twice? 🤣
Why would you? War crimes are committed in such numbers you almost get to a point where for every one Russian participant a war crimes or crime against humanity can be found
An interesting & insightful perspective; from the soldiers view point! I liked that analogy, the “wheel of fortune”, laid out with all the horrors of war on it, catastrophic!
I should say that it is the wheel of misfortune!
I was in Ukraine for almost 6 months. Im 55, never had a drop of coffee prior to my arrival. Now I'm a coffee hound. Lol
I imagine being on the front lines in any conflict is not good.
True
what an understatement
I recommend reading first hand accounts of the difference between Japanese and American soldiers experiences in the Pacific War. "Not good" is a very very wide spectrum.
Yep - East coast city boy here... a few years in the Army and a combat deployment later, I was hooked on dipping, courtesy of my buddies from the South. Gave it up when I got out (because I had to) but years later while backpacking in the woods (civilian kids thing) I could feel those old cravings for dip return.
Thanks for staying busy Preston your take is probably one of my favorite perspectives on this conflict followed by Paul from Combat Vet Reacts then Ryan McBeth. Cappi and Task and purpose and Habitual Line Crosser are good, but I think they’re more comedy mixed in with informal material. Where as you and Paul seem to criticize all sides when it’s apparently needed at times. Kudos!
Hey thanks for the note Nick, that’s some high praise being mentioned alongside those guys!
One important thing about your videos... While I may not always hear news that I like, I always feel more informed.
Very good video Preston, I really appreciate you talking about this with us! Gets me a clearer view on the situation. Thank you!
Listening to this guy, you are not any clearer on the situation.
Dude that segue...masterful. Just about fell outta my chair. Fum owes you a handy at least.
Too bad you didn't get to meet Peter "Hasta" Fouché, from Project Konstantin. Sadly he got KIA just recently. He speaks from a combat medic point of view, and he also said what is needed and what is lacking at given times. 🕯
My brother was a Seabee stationed in and around Kandahar for his first deployment, he'd talk about how bad his smoking got while on base and how expensive it was once he was cycled back to Cali. But he LOVED the British and French commissaries because it was new and different.
Nice Work Mr. Preston! Thank You!
Must be depressing if you're 300 km from the front line and watching your comrades die around you from himars.
That advertisement transition though
one of the most harrowing reveals has been prestons thick ass head of hair he's been hiding from us under hats
maybe he got a turkish transplant
I often wonder what conditions for US/Canadian/UK/French/Etc. forces would be like if we were to get directly involved in Ukraine.
Russian and Ukrainian forces are telling these kinds of stories that seem horrendous to us here in the west, but they are not that different from the stories we hear from WW1 and WW2 vets. Western coalition forces are so used to the conditions we have faced in Iraq/Afghanistan that everything going on in europe sounds almost barbaric. would NATO forces have to endure the same trench warfare? or would the technological and logistical advantages of NATO prevent the same experiences for our boots on the ground?
I hope we never have to find out, but I fear that we will soon get a reminder of what war is like when we are not absolutely dominant over land, sea, air, and initiative.
As far as Ukraine war goes, seems unlikely You folks would have forward bases with all the amenities You enjoy at home. I mean it's not like Iraqi/Afghani insurgents had any long-range artillery, rocket systems, helicopters and fighter jets to bomb the heck out of the facilities, right? These were closer to police operations than to peer vs peer military conflict.
@@tyguy6296 Western forces have insane amounts of long-range weapons that would absolutely devastate anything within 1000 km of the front line, thinning out the enemy’s ability to attack large formations. Then those formations attack, following massive air strikes delivered by bombers and attack fighters, all while controlled by airborne command centers. It’s a VERY different type of warfare which Russia cannot fight, and it’s why it has nuclear weapons.
Thank you for bringing every perspective preston!
+, I get perspective now. Another Estonian nazi says "Russians gonna lose whoa", and he puts Nafo on his avatars. Another delusional source of noise.
The new study on brains of vets shows that the waves from explosions do harm to brains, not CTE but similar. Makes them aggressive, fragile. The mass shooter from Maine was a trainer for grenades. He apparently had it.
Took me 25 years to quit smoking after the army
Took me 20 years to stop drinking
Still smoking
@tomhenry897 😆 still drinking
Still haven't gotten to that first step yet
Would it be good to ban smoking in the military? The idea being two fold: One, your military isn't addicted to something, and two: Those who do survive (which in the american military is a lot of people) will have adverse side effects later on that are under health care.
That video of the Russian commander giving the speech to a thousand new recruits is very eerie. “You will die soon, but know this, mother Russia will never forget you”. The opposite of what my SF friends went in with. They always acted like it’s just a job and there was no chance of them not coming back from their tours.
This war is completely different than what western countries have been fighting since the korean war.
@@BradfordRMcKnight Acting it and thinking it are different things. What you think about on your long flight there is a lot more real than what they tell you.
Which is a very practical point of view when you fight rebels/gangsters in third world countries with the full weight and power of the worlds superpower behind you. The Russians understand at their core that things are not like that in the real world and for soldiers from almost any other nation. Once America gets involved in another massive land war they will quickly find that even superpowers are limited in what they can do to preserve their soldiers in fundamentally attritional warfare.
Dude. There is a difference between a WW1 style war and your usual African safari
lol flavored air is wild Preston, cool idea tho. I picked up my smoking habit in Korea. The Afghan Ciggs def made deployment a little smoother. Had to quit cold turkey after I got out and tried out for a Junior College basketball team.
Was that a Warhammer reference? Why are there so many Warhammer references involved in this war?
Because some of the people that volunteered or dragged into the trenches were nerds, with nerdy interests. World of Tanks servers look like they were hit with a freaking plague for the very same reason.
@@fillosof66689 interesting- just Ukrainian servers or globally?
@@Journeyman107 Eastern European ones where Russian, Ukrainians and other post Soviet states play together
Russia loves warhammer - grimdark is their reality
@@artnull13 nah, I'd say that in Russia WH 40k is far from being on the top of the mind of even certified nerds and people steeped in internet countries. Maybe among the wacky monsrchists, imperialists, nationalists and the like. During the Soviet and post Soviet eras local writers created fictional universe of their own that can give WH a run of its money in terms of grim darkness and opressive regimes. After all, they had experiences to draw upon, instead of just writing an abstruct satire on spherical dictatirhips in vacuum.
Intersting video today! Thanks for bringing us daily news. Its much appreciated coming from someone like youraelf who has military experience.
Yoy are my first source to go to when i finish work to find out what and how things are going down.
Keep up the great work
Very interesting video. Thanks.
@PrestonStewart
Hey man, it's good to have you and a few select other youtubers giving info. I'm volunteering over here, and it can be difficult to get a perspective as to how things are going. Your videos are always well researched and level-headed. Thanks :)
Hey I'm fighting in Ukraine as well... I have a 500 KD ratio
70% of my kills where from headshots
@samholdsworth420 haha you are so funny. Here take 20 rubles
Kudos man! Stay safe out there!
Go home.
@@cka4ok51rus8 You go home
Fuck you've upped your sponsor segment lead in game! I didn't even see that coming. I was busy thinking about all the Rip-Its I drank and bottles of plastic water that had baked in the sun.
Imagine how these Russian soldiers are gonna be treated by their government after the war is over. Severe PTSD will be widespread and ignored
The Warhammer reference at 6:10 is interesting.
Warhammer is pretty big in Russia. Apparently there are even some Russian units using patches and even symbols on vehicles. Not as insane as the fortnight dancing Wagner soldiers in bakhmut but its a weird world we live in.
@@lucagerulat307 There's also a Ukrainian unit called Khorne Group, there's been sightings of Russians wearing BEAR and Ukrainians USEC patches from Tarkov and the separatists have a unit called Sparta Battalion after Metro 2033.
@@ChucksSEADnDEAD Russia's entire fake modern history is based on LARPing after all. It only makes sense their military are the biggest LARPers.
My friend plays Warhammer 40k professionally, he's one of the top rated Ultramarines players and plays on a team, i wont say which one but hes ranked 150 out of like 14,000 on the international circuit. We started playing in 2nd edition but only he kept up with it all these years. I still remember my mom and dad saying, "ahhh you guys will never keep up with it when youre older" and my friend always reminds me of that quote.
Great video sir
that was one of the best ads inserted into a video. Hands down. Im not even a smoker and im considering a purchase
If you're not a smoker, then don't
it will do the opposite for you
😂
Love your videos man, always giving us a new perspective on things. I learn something new every time I watch one of your videos
Nobody smoked more on the CG cutters than the cooks. And if you had messcook duty, you wouod probably pick up smoking if you didn't already smoke
@@pyrho1 Not anymore.
mmm warm rip-its and pines… so much nostalgia. i think i’ll order a pack or two on line if that’s possible just for old times sake lol.
thanks for that reminder!
As a sponsor, Füm is both interesting and relevant!
better than better help or robin hood that's for dang sure
My second tour I was a M2 gunner, I think I smoked 3 packs a day. Still having a hard time kicking the habit. 😢😢😢
Really enjoyed this thanks Preston and team! 🤘🇨🇦🇺🇦
Keep it up Preston. Really great content.
Locking down a unit to prevent desertions and having military police behind the unit was pretty standard practice in both world wars. In WW1, countries would readily make an example of soldiers found outside their unit's zone. Plenty of executions happened. Even if the soldier was just lost after a battle.
Shocking
Very strong similarities to the first big one. There is a front line and then there is a suicide line in front of that where you are going to catch hell it's only a matter of time, everyone is afraid when it's their turn there.
@@kev_sen Reminds me of Spears from Band of Brothers. Soldiers need to accept that they are already dead in order to survive. Sadly, I actually heard that from a DPR soldier in the documentary "Airport Donetsk". He said that he had to rid himself of his will to live in order to charge through a hailstorm of bullets.
I’ve talked to Russians that my team has captured (International Legion, Code 9.2)…Russia also has an incentive to use these soldiers up so that Russia doesn’t have to pay benefits or the land grants they have promised to those that signed contracts.
Hhhahahhah this is a very funny story. Did you make that up kid or did you use some AI to help you?
Hhhahahhah this is a very funny story. Did you make that up kid or did you use some AI to help you?
You must be really desperate for likes and validation in your life to spend time making up a story in the comments section of a RUclips video.
You must be really desperate for likes and validation in your life to spend time making up a story in the comments section of a RUclips video.
@@JM-ct9mx Nope, some of us just do something other our life, and therefore don’t need validation by losers on the internet.
Troop rotation is no longer measured in months, it's in percentage now. 40 ish percent down you rotate. [UA]
Minor quibble, your camera's auto focus is struggling with focusing. You can see this as the books in the background come in and out of focus (see the text on the spines).
That's intended, like portrait mode on an iphone. It blurs the background a bit to give the actual target extra pop.
I just quit smoking Mx never smoked before Iraq .. smoked like a chimney in Iraq and for over 10 years
Hey Preston. Big fan of yours for quite some time now. This piece has really shown your growth online. It humanizes what, at times, seems inhuman. I know it must be hard presenting any media in today's hyper-partisan world. You really go out of your way to show the harsh realities of conflict. Keep up the good work.
Very interesting video, I would like to hear more content like this from you. Subscribed.
Thanks!
"have you ever wondered what live was like for a Russian soldier on the frontline?" - No. No I have not.
Excellent Video Thanks 🫡🇺🇦🇺🇸
Ur a good guy. I like how not only do you credit sources, you support them as well.
Are you going to do any meet and greet while in DC?
great reporting!
What would we do without plausible, quality, deep analysis like this? No wonder the MSM hate social media.
Still addicted to energy drinks I've tried to drop it since I got out in 09 can't kick it
try harm reduction, get a powdered drink mix that you like instead, still sugary, without the caffeine, and ween yourself off one onto another drink that is less harmful - as much as that can be said about energy drinks. Then you can go from 4 scoops of sugary powdered drink mix to 3, to 2, to 1, to water; then you will have won the ultimate prize, healthy liquids. Get a Brita water filter thing if your water isnt great, makes it more palatable. I did this with trying to quit Coca Cola that I drank too much of every day on work sites, as well as Monster energy drinks. good luck!
I went cold turkey on all caffeine about 18 months ago. For the first two weeks I felt awful, but it gets better..
It requires a mental switch being operated in your head, I view them as poison now.
Unfortunately Preston, Fum wouldn't work on me. I want that buzz, not the physical habit haha.
yeah i heard someone say once, as a fellow stoner, just smoke a joint instead of a cigarette, i tried that and it didnt work, i just burned through grams and grams chasing that nicotine high.
Maybe you could get an interview with CivDiv
civdiv is on drugs often
🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢
Hell nah
@@adriantepes-qu8wm proof?
@@adriantepes-qu8wm who isn't?
Adding to favorites
At the end he was talking about very specific type of soldier - assault troops. They have minimal training, old gear, 4 mags. They role is to do two waves of “recon by force” , reveal Ukrainian positions and deplete drones. Third wave will be an actual soldiers, you will easily recognize them on footage because they often have optics.
Thx
Thank you Preston for these remarkable reports both Middle East and Ukraine. Appreciate the level headed and reality based reporting.
Is this the only perspective of a Russian soldier or are there other Russian soldier perspectives, as well?
Welp,I'll try out FUM. I've been smoking since I joined in 2007. Can't breathe and cough/gag all the time.
Anyway, good video as always.
TY Preston. Suffering is the universal outcome of war, and perhaps humanities destiny. We do know this in our many tales of pain, from all nations.
Ty Preston
A fascinating and uncommon perspective of what the Russian soldier probably experiences in Ukraine, from an American with front-line service in Afghanistan. Thank you Preston and I hope you find a soldier from Ukraine, who can tell you like the war is like from the Ukrainian experience.
Im surprised your subs aren't more than tnp. Both great channels.
Great job brother 👏
Читал этот пост в оригинале. Престон зачитал его не полностью, там ещё немало интересного.
interesting, thanks for sharing.
Thank you and your family for your service to the American Military. You are a true American Hero.
Well, doesnt look like that in the front, they continue to advance in all directions...
😂😂😂😂 no they aren't you propagandist
Well said big bad Preston as always
Hmm ... MAN ! I wish we'd of had energy drinks in RVN ! None of this is different than it was for us . Unless it was daylight , and in a " claimed " safe village or town . We never left our FSB , LZ or base camp . We sure as hell didn't go driving around to see the sights ! As far as injuries go , there were lots of guys who returned to the bush after wounded . Did anybody get gut shot , get bandaged and return to the bush ? Only on a FSB or remote LZ or battle where you were about to be overrun , and couldn't get in a bird . BITD the vast majority of guys smoked and we all ( mostly ) used our choice of intake of a stress reliever . Though most did , I never took a R&R . IMO , according to the guys I talked to after coming back . It was a very mixed bag , about if they regretted going or not . Stay strong LT , cool video . And for any of you RVN guys out there . Welcome home and STAY STRONG! There are less of us by the day ... doc 68-71 lll Corp
You understand that you are saying absurd things? Ukraine cant find enough men but you are saying about Russia sending wounded back to front line.
And Zelensky is talking about Ukraine having 30k casualties
How are those things connected at all? Where's your logic?
Sounds like a personal problem to me. Do you think SF and Seals would complain when their usual relaxed FOB is a daily target of high tech missiles. The US is trying to get Russia to roll out their good stuff and so far the US can't stop the common stuff Russia uses or get US equipment to have reliable results. Russians aren't villagers.
You got this.
Link to the post?
I didnt start smoking till a few of my buddies died and took me 6 years to quit after my deployment when i started smoking and everyone but 1 guy in my platoon came back a smoker
LOL. I'm literally using my FUM now. I'm partial to Maple Pepper.
I remember the pines and Miamis $5 to $10 a carton or the counterfeit Marlboros for $1 a pack.
If anyone is wondering about FUM I actually got one a couple months ago. Neat product and definetly a tool to help quit smoking, however you need to have the willingness to quit as well- it won't do the work for you.
I need that sponsor Preston
1:40 guy shouldering a MG3 or MG42
Would the old Mauser caliber work with russian ammo?
It could never work with Russian ammo. It's a captured NATO caliber MG3.
"Have you ever wondered what life is like for a russian soldier?"
I'll give you all the most Ernest Hemingway answer i can: "It sucks."
Who doesn’t love pine cigarettes! The best was ”WILD TIGER”!!!!
I remember the maiwans. Tasted like shit but when theres nothing else and you sleep 3 or 4 hours a day its better than nothing
I studied the art of War until I realised my superiors were finger painting with our blood. Then I tried to deprive them of paint. I failed. Now everyone is a ghost to me and I have to pretend to feel things. I hate loud noises and I am a chain smoking alcoholic with a savage caffeine addiction and trust issues. I said I wouldn't be anywhere else but now I know I can not leave. Gonna try and get it together again but I'm running out of room to maneuver.
Pretty interesting