I was there at the start of OIF back when we were at Camp Doha, Kuwait in late 2002. Pushed all the way to Baghdad during the initial invasion and came right back in 2004-2005 during the "Wild West Times" just after "de-Baathification" failure. To me it was and felt like a repeat of Vietnam from the various stories of family and fathers of friends who had served during the Vietnam War period. Excellent video, brings back memories (good and bad) of rolling down Route Irish in downtown Baghdad waiting for the next turn or object in the road to be an IED. Rocks being thrown on top of the vehicles, grenades, small arms fire. Crazy times.
Wow. i'd love to interview you about your experiences over there, even if it's a virtual interview. Let me know if you're interested, would be honored to help tell your story.
@@chinawhite2554 I wasn't tasked to go roving around Iraq in search of WMDs but there were ample stockpiles of Iran-Iraq War surplus chemical-biological artillery rounds sitting in former Iraq military ammo supply points which the insurgents grabbed and used on several occasions for IEDs. Also, where did I state I supported the idea of the WMD narrative. Ask the majority of troops who found themselves stuck there in Iraq that removing Saddam was a mistake as it would merely allow Iran to increase influence in the Southern Shia dominant parts of the country. So yeah I didn't find any WMDs "much" but I rode through one IED blast site on Route Irish that had CBRN type round that set off chemical sensors in 2004.
@@coltondunham695most definitely not. M16’s are a thing if the past.. hell the M4 is being phased out, the SMAW replaced by the MAAW. Kevlars, the Flaks, and other gear is all different.
My dad fought in Bagdad. He tells me story's of how a 7.62 bullet scratched his helmet and knocked him back off his feet, and how he remembers the tracers going by the helis missing them by as close as 2 feet.
what was he doing there ? huh WHAT WAS HE DOİNG THERE!!! YOU AMERİCCANS KİLL TONS OF İNNOCENT CİVİLİANS FOR STUPİD DEMOCRACY LİE (!) SHAME ON YOU MURDERERS
@@NativeAmerican_warrior bruh your nickname is native american and you defend white americans. Lmao thats funniest shit i've ever seen. Go up loser, defend your american masters so you can get bone right ? 🐶
my dad was in the invasion of iraq, my mom and i were alone on base at the time worried about my dad. I remember sitting on our old gateway computer for hours looking through all the photos he brought back on his camera. It was such a surreal time back then. We were at war for so long that we became numb to it after awhile and almost forgot it was even still happening. When my dad got back from iraq he would pick me up from school every single day and we would go surfing afterwards, and then get frostys from wendys after that. i cherish those times so much now and this video brought it all rushing back.
amazing comment bro, thank you for sharing. Yep for those of us born at a certain time, this war is a fundamental part of our childhood memories. It really was the defining event of our upbringing.
I hear you. I was born in 96. I grew up as a young boy with us being at war really the majority of my life. It really did just become numb and feel like nothing separate from everyday life. Now as a 27 year old grown man I look back with a lot of sadness. I pray we have better days ahead for humanity brother.
As weird as it might sound, war is one of the most humanizing expeirence you can have. I ended up speed running high school cus I was a dumb asf and was afraid I would miss my chance to go to combat. That was my mindset as a reckless teen with no concept of kids or a future. The idea of living past my 20s wasn't a thing. But somehow ironically I ended up with all my body parts in tact while half my friends are missing limbs but have kids now. Its really hard to rationalize sometimes and reading comments like youirs reminds me of that.
That intro had no room being such a clean transition, from presidential announcement on the telly to news coverage of the battle, to just getting the view of the boots on the ground. You did good, man.
So many of our sons, brothers, and fathers died for such a pointless war. Thank you all who've fought in the middle east! I make this statement in no bad way, you gave everything and we still can't figure out what you were fighting for. You have bigger balls then I could ever dream of having! Thank you again for everything!
Sudi Arabistan çokmu özgür ve demokratik özgür ve demokratik olmayan her ülkeye abd nin girme hakkı varmı neden ukraynanın yanında rusyaya karşı savaşmıyorsunuz bence ukraynanın özgürlüğe ihtiyacı var .
I was 5. I took part with my dad and big brother in one of the many protests against our governments decision in the UK to go along with this barbaric invasion.
I feel the same way. I was there in 2003, crossed the berm with the 3rd ID, was at the Battle of Najaf, the Battle of the Karbala Gap, and the assault of Saddam International Airport, but I can't believe I was there. It was completely unlike anything I had ever been part of, and completely unlike anything that I will probably ever be part of again. It feels like it was all just some vivid, wild, unforgettable dream.
@@beslanintruder2077 Yes, from January '01 to August '04. Randomly got orders to go to Korea while the division was getting ready to the sandbox for the second time.
I was in Baghdad, I remember all the friends I had there. In the comments, I'm reading people talking about their dads being there! Jesus, has it been that long?
Only if the background music was something by Jethro Tull, then your statement would be priceless. Something like "Aqualung". You know you're Heavy Metal when you beat Metallica at a music awards show.
0:26 the contrast of the beautiful, nostalgic, American music with the chaos, horror, all-out destruction, and absurdity of war works so well. Great edit. If I was to do a movie about war from an American perspective, I would 100% make a scene like that. RIP to all the soldiers that passed away.
A buddy of mine I met in jail served in Iraqi Freedom with the Marines. He said the thing that haunts him most was when he was the M203 gunner on top of his humvee, how he saw some kid step out of a house 100-200 meters away. As he gets closer he realizes she had a grenade in one of her hands. Now John, not being psycho, didn't want to blow this poor little kid to bits, but he couldn't endanger the lives of his squadmates and the guys in the convoy either. So he flipped the switch on his M16 and shot about 20 feet to the right of her, enough to scare her but not enough to get close enough to hurt her. Poor kid, when he fired that shot, he said she was like a deer in the headlights. Dropped the grenade at her feet. And that was that, as they say. Now he's dying of colon cancer and he's being framed for something he couldn't have done. God I love this country.
As someone who is too much into warwave/war montages, this is very well done, from start to finish. But the first 30 seconds in particular are a 11/10 intro.
I love this stuff man. When I was a kid I would watch these devils and soldiers doing work and these videos got me to actually enlist and join the infantry in the marine corps. I caught the ass end of the war but we always looked up to these guys as heros man . They taught us everything to stay alive. Brings me joy years and years later
This made me shed a tear. This is what my father went through and now I’m going to watch the AFG one and be sent into a whole whirlpool of memories. Thank you for this video. I appreciate you, cheers for a Texas boy
God I love the US' Uniform and Battle Gear from the 1990s and 2000s, looks so damn nice. My unwavering thanks goes out to the Veterans who served in Iraq in both Wars, thank you for your service and God be with you.
@ultracougar brother, these young men were forced to do the most difficult thing any of us could do, and they did it well. They are soldiers who risked and gave their lives so that someone else didn't have to, and you should respect that regardless of whether or not we should've been there.
This unlocks a core memory I don't have (I was too small for the time nor I'm an American), but man growing up with news of the War on Iraq for most of my formative years at the same time the internet exploded does something.
Yeah it does something. It brainwashed little punks like you into believing that being a government tool i.e. soldier is “normal” and fighting on behalf of the Military Industrial Complex is noble. It’s Not. It’s all lies and drama and money for a government that uses these guys and pounds it into their heads that their fighting for a “cause” -They’re fighting to make dollars for Corporations who have politicians and world leaders in their pockets. Don’t you get that??
I was 4 when 9/11 happened. I recall having to write letters to the guys over in the middle east during grade school. It's crazy to think that by the time I graduated and was old enough to enlist, the war was still going on.
I really hope to see movies about the Iraq and Afghanistan war in similar style to the Vietnam movies of the late 70s and early 80s. Imagine seeing a movie about Fallujah but as if it were Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket or Platoon
No way most Vietnam movies suck cause it’s all dumb dialogue about how war is terrible and gets emotional or whatever. Make movies showing the tactics of the war and about the men who were actually there like they did in We Were Soldiers or Black Hawk Down or The Outpost
This is the perfect edit! Holy moly thank you for this. I was too young to remember stories from Iraq and by the time I started looking up these stories I realized it was too late for me to truly appreciate the sacrifice of all our Iraq and Afghan Veterans. Thank you for this
This shit is heavy, and whoever did that intro deserves an award of some sort because that was art! The language stays the same, and the BS never changes. 'Safety', 'danger', 'freedom'. Yea, sure!
My dad fought in Iraq and Afghanistan and other places in the Middle East I never did but this video brings me back so many memories. As a kid living in a military base while my dad was gone. All of us kids on the base where the same we all had atleast one parent gone it was war time In The early 2000s I can’t really describe it as how I remember or picture it this video brought back so much nostalgia and memories though I honestly don’t know how to describe how it makes me feel I miss those days though, that time. Living on base and all of us kids We all had toy army men and Humvees. We all saw the Iraq war movies we all wanted to be like are parents we all shared that pain and sorrow and happiness and literally every other feeling together I have never had anything else like it. We all had squadron cookouts and baby showers we all lived close by. I just wish so badly that I could go back to that
I love how the music starts when bush says military operations. It gives be cold chills down my neck. And when the soldiers drop when it says "I get down on my knees and pretend pray"
My Uncles who fought in Vietnam had this song in their heads. Years later after remembering this song from the early 70s as a kid hearing this from radio and into the 1980s, it was embedded into my mind about the Vietnam War. The year 1989 the Coup Attempt in October I was a young Airborne Infantryman in Panama, I really thought I was going into combat. My mind was going to overdrive that we were going into combat that day, I was scared but I had no choice but going to go through it. California Dreaming kicked in my head as the helicopter I was in and I had my M-60, pack, and ammo ready to go into combat. Later we got off the choppers and went to Ft. Amador via landing craft. There was combat going on with Rebel PDF and Loyalist PDF (Panama Defense Forces), the Rebels did take General Noriega hostage but later defeated by Noriega Loyalists. We never went to combat that day, Noriega got lucky and executed his enemies hours later. We went back to barracks and thinking that day we could have been in combat but it never happened. The real combat in December 19th after midnight became real, but that's another chapter.
No cinematic music, no amazing camera shots. Just raw footage of soldiers doing their job. It’s these videos that remind me that these warriors are in fact human as we are.
@@eunicederuiter6629 Really ???? Like which one ? Christianity? Islam ? Taoism ? Judaism? Have not found one yet, that doesn't have conflict or some kind of struggle.
More than 20 years have passed since the war. Baghdad is different now. For me, the United States killed 4 of my brothers and imprisoned my father in Bucca until he lost his sight due to torture. I welcome any American citizen who comes to my country.
@@صمتالسنين-س2ق My deepest sympathies for your brothers and to your beloved father. Saddam Hussein was an evil man who should not have had power, but the war was a colossal mistake and what your family went through should never have happened. Best wishes and all kindness possible from Texas in the USA..
Really just fuels my inner American to watch these men put their lives on the line. Two more years and I’m signing those papers. Been dreaming of that day for too long.
2025, and I’m here! I’m Brazilian, and I respect my American brothers. 👏🏻 In a world full of hate, we need heroes like this to keep our countries safe and continue protecting the people, the country, and respecting our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
A friend of Mine an old Veteran now was in Iraq and Kuwait during operation Iraqi freedom and operation endurance freedom. The Man drinks All the time and I'm really the only friend he has...His time in the military and his life has him suffering everyday...Thank you for all our veterans who have Sacrificed especially during this conflict....As My Friend Says to me all the time I sacrificed for you so you can have your freedom and Safety...Don't ever let that go to waste or be in vain for Anyone who is a civilian.
Thoughts and prayers go to Soldiers from Both Sides and all the Civilians that died during the Invasion. God Damn you Bush. FOR WHAT DID THE SOLDIERS DIE? MONEY?
@@gab4638 It’s gritty and the song in the background was about a soldier in Vietnam who wishes he could be in California, the soldiers in Baghdad during the war on terror probably felt the same way
a lot of people died in this war and this war is another excuse to "spread democracy and freedom", respect to all the soldiers and civillian alike who died of this war
All I can say after watching this is that God bless our troops while dealing with whatever confrontation they might get sent into. While it isn't a given that any or all wars they may get placed into are necessarily 'just wars', it is our duty as America citizens to support them and do whatever we can so that they know we are on their side.
The pain, and the trauma I am going through, is always taking me to this video. More than anger, I feel a kind of sadness. I feel a sense of sadness that America has not done worse things to Arabs. I feel anger, I feel nothingness. I feel sorrow. I feel like a lowly woman. With all my existence, my experiences and my sights
I live my life quoting lines from this show it can be as little as two words "8 dollars"!!! drives my wife crazy. Best episode when Larry dirs and goes to Heaven.
My Dad was in Iraq twice. I don't know much about his first deployment in 2002-2003, but he has told me a lot about his second deployment 2006-2007. I remember that once while they were on patrol one day they were just about to clear a building when a car pulled up and the sergeant that was out on patrol as about to explain to them through the interpreter that this was currently a restricted area but the interpreter said they were his friends. just about then two insurgent came running out of the building, jumped in the car, and drove off. apparently the sergeant just about shot the interpreter on the spot.
Have friends that fought in Baghdad, they told me it was absolute chaos, they got little rest. And the civilians looked at them like they were killers. I’ve heard some crazy stories from them.
Everything about that war was wrong, from the hunt for phantom WMD's, to the turmoil the civilians of Iraq had to deal with and the young Americans sent to die in a war that shouldent of even happened if our leaders at the time weren't so psychotic.
my father told me one time "..son you're going to war for this man..I never thought my own son has to do another mans dirty work..shit son I did it Vietnam and now you're doing it..best of luck.." RiP father and you were always right on that.
currently serving but never deployed... i look upon this footage, of the faces of the various men there. and i see all of my friends and brothers. i see all of the people i know doing these things. and. it frightens me. it makes me hope everyone comes back ok. they dont always. but i feel like its so close to a reality that i can see that i could reach out and touch it. i love you all. my current comrades and veterans. god speed and peace be upon us for decades to come... "Till the End"
while I was a Police Officer for 26 years, I also was in my countries (Canada) Militia (Army reserve) for 4 years, i never experinced armed conflict, an I'm very grateful, I have enough bad dreams as a cop, never mind as a soldier.
Nobody lied. Iraq had WMDs, we know this because we watched Saddam Hussein use chemical weapons against his own people during the ethnic cleansing of the shia muslims, when the US invaded, he pushed em over the border into Syria where Al-Assad then used them on his people as well
@@Truth_Hurts528 Sorry I don't remember any new wars under Trump, I don't appreciate the drone strikes but glad he actually wanted to pull US troops out of the middle east? The closest we've been to WW3 has been under Biden.
Saw this and thought I know those guys. I was there with the guys from the beginning of the video our first platoon had a guy with them who did a documentary called Virgin Soldiers. Even though we are Marines. I was in second platoon 3/7 India was quite a 9 month deployment he left a bit after the first month as we set up in Karbala.
Hey! Outstanding job. Wojak videos are being run into the ground (and so is the meme), so it's nice to see someone make something as tasteful and cool after being inspired by those.
This nailed the soul to finally join. My brothers and sisters out there without me. It makes me want to be there and have there back. Grew up in the streets of south central Los Angeles. The tension, adrenaline, fear, happiness, duty, joy, pain, sadnesss but this is other level type duty. I’m game with War. Will to Kill and a will to Die. ❤ Thanks for the vid. God only knows what we all going through. John 15:13
I feel the same brother I'm from sw houston texas and will be joining the marines soon , good luck to you and thanks for all combat vets! Nothing but love
Thanks to that lying Bush many of my fellow vets died for a lie. Just like Nam. Mr. Bush I hope you can sleep at night knowing a lot of innocent people died for your lies. To the troops thank you for your service and may God bless you and your families. N.Catino Cpl USMC 73-77.
Many did, I hope one day even if he isn’t brought to justice a light will be shown on just how much we have been deceived and steered like cattle. It’s funny, we all think we’re in control right now but we’re not and we haven’t been. We could be again though but we need a strong leader for that.
I was born in 1999 - it's so wild to me to think that the men who served and gave their lives for this war, would be the inspiration for many video games I grew up on.
@@TheVeteranFilesno I never got the chance to combat deploy, but I have buddies who have. They were in the artillery unit that was bombing ISIS back in 2016.
I’m sorry I didn’t make myself clear, I followed in his footsteps by joining the marines. I was 19 and wanted to combat deploy but by 2014 most troops were rotating back. Honestly my cousin has only ever talked to me about Iraq once and that was a few days before I shipped out to boot camp. Never talked to me about it ever again and I never asked.
My dad was gonna go to Afghanistan. He tried to sign up in 2001 after the World Trade Center incident. He was only 16 at the time so my grandma had to sign a petition but she did not do it. I’m glad he’s ok.
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I was there at the start of OIF back when we were at Camp Doha, Kuwait in late 2002. Pushed all the way to Baghdad during the initial invasion and came right back in 2004-2005 during the "Wild West Times" just after "de-Baathification" failure. To me it was and felt like a repeat of Vietnam from the various stories of family and fathers of friends who had served during the Vietnam War period. Excellent video, brings back memories (good and bad) of rolling down Route Irish in downtown Baghdad waiting for the next turn or object in the road to be an IED. Rocks being thrown on top of the vehicles, grenades, small arms fire. Crazy times.
Wow. i'd love to interview you about your experiences over there, even if it's a virtual interview. Let me know if you're interested, would be honored to help tell your story.
What about those WMD? Find much?🤔
@@chinawhite2554 Shut your unfunny as up, don't blame the Soldiers, they're all doing their job.
@@chinawhite2554 I wasn't tasked to go roving around Iraq in search of WMDs but there were ample stockpiles of Iran-Iraq War surplus chemical-biological artillery rounds sitting in former Iraq military ammo supply points which the insurgents grabbed and used on several occasions for IEDs. Also, where did I state I supported the idea of the WMD narrative. Ask the majority of troops who found themselves stuck there in Iraq that removing Saddam was a mistake as it would merely allow Iran to increase influence in the Southern Shia dominant parts of the country. So yeah I didn't find any WMDs "much" but I rode through one IED blast site on Route Irish that had CBRN type round that set off chemical sensors in 2004.
@@TheVeteranFiles Sure. I assisted in writing the last chapter in Damon Dimarco's book "Heart of War: Soldiers Voices From the Front Lines in Iraq."
The scariest thing about this is that this is no longer modern warfare, we are seeing something more than 2 decades old
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@@power_plushi_emperor97thank you for your contribution to this post
You must be referring to the World War I style trench warfare of the Russia - Ukraine war.
Most of the infantry equipment and weaponry is the same still
@@coltondunham695most definitely not. M16’s are a thing if the past.. hell the M4 is being phased out, the SMAW replaced by the MAAW. Kevlars, the Flaks, and other gear is all different.
My dad fought in Bagdad. He tells me story's of how a 7.62 bullet scratched his helmet and knocked him back off his feet, and how he remembers the tracers going by the helis missing them by as close as 2 feet.
Holy shit man, tell him a random guy on internet thanks him for his service!
Your father fought for ZOG
Bless your dad, major respect✌️.
what was he doing there ? huh WHAT WAS HE DOİNG THERE!!! YOU AMERİCCANS KİLL TONS OF İNNOCENT CİVİLİANS FOR STUPİD DEMOCRACY LİE (!) SHAME ON YOU MURDERERS
@@NativeAmerican_warrior bruh your nickname is native american and you defend white americans. Lmao thats funniest shit i've ever seen. Go up loser, defend your american masters so you can get bone right ? 🐶
my dad was in the invasion of iraq, my mom and i were alone on base at the time worried about my dad. I remember sitting on our old gateway computer for hours looking through all the photos he brought back on his camera. It was such a surreal time back then. We were at war for so long that we became numb to it after awhile and almost forgot it was even still happening. When my dad got back from iraq he would pick me up from school every single day and we would go surfing afterwards, and then get frostys from wendys after that.
i cherish those times so much now and this video brought it all rushing back.
amazing comment bro, thank you for sharing. Yep for those of us born at a certain time, this war is a fundamental part of our childhood memories. It really was the defining event of our upbringing.
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@@ed-lm8bzshut up
I hear you. I was born in 96. I grew up as a young boy with us being at war really the majority of my life. It really did just become numb and feel like nothing separate from everyday life. Now as a 27 year old grown man I look back with a lot of sadness. I pray we have better days ahead for humanity brother.
As weird as it might sound, war is one of the most humanizing expeirence you can have. I ended up speed running high school cus I was a dumb asf and was afraid I would miss my chance to go to combat. That was my mindset as a reckless teen with no concept of kids or a future. The idea of living past my 20s wasn't a thing. But somehow ironically I ended up with all my body parts in tact while half my friends are missing limbs but have kids now. Its really hard to rationalize sometimes and reading comments like youirs reminds me of that.
That intro had no room being such a clean transition, from presidential announcement on the telly to news coverage of the battle, to just getting the view of the boots on the ground.
You did good, man.
Chyba ropa a nie wolnosc
Oiiiii the telly maaate, big British stuffs
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Bush not only killed the Iraqis but also deceived his soldiers
Agreed!
So many of our sons, brothers, and fathers died for such a pointless war. Thank you all who've fought in the middle east! I make this statement in no bad way, you gave everything and we still can't figure out what you were fighting for. You have bigger balls then I could ever dream of having! Thank you again for everything!
What did you expect was gonna happen when you threw your hat in with the juvves? Karma is a B, I guess?
You know shits f up when the 2000's are now considered historic
It's how time works, but it still feels wrong
20 years ago.... man, where did the time go?
Not really fucked up, that’s how time works. What is fucked up though are my knees cause now I feel old
@@Andrewbaysura1Damn Andrew is neo Nazi
@@jonathanrichwine1996 Jonathan is just a regular slave
"Freedom and democracy"
Cope
Sudi Arabistan çokmu özgür ve demokratik özgür ve demokratik olmayan her ülkeye abd nin girme hakkı varmı neden ukraynanın yanında rusyaya karşı savaşmıyorsunuz bence ukraynanın özgürlüğe ihtiyacı var .
@@ramazancam8530 they do
Just kidding irdk
@@bail1s939 hahahaha tool, boot licking tool
Who are you to impose your laws on the world ???
I’m 18 now, born in 2005. It’s crazy for me to think that most of these men were literally the same age as me now if not a little bit older.
youre 18 quit reminiscing about something that happened before youre born. im 19 and i feel like youre a straight dumbass.
You are just a small piece of shit , lears all history or u will be a dumb trash for a rest of your life
That's the year I got out of high school and was stuck playing call of duty finest hour.
I dropped out of high school at 15, Got my GED at 16 and joined at 17 (Guardian signature) Iraq or Afghan you wont be forgotten.
The year 2003.
I was 15 and remember watching the initial phase of the invasion on television here in Sweden. 20 years has passed.
i was in middle school i remember all of this .
i was not even born in 2003
I was 5. I took part with my dad and big brother in one of the many protests against our governments decision in the UK to go along with this barbaric invasion.
@@chadgaming8071 the 2000s been wild lets put it this way
@@GusArchievsit was a deserved invasion tho
Holy fuck. that was 20 years ago.
Its like yesterday and like it never happened all at the same time.
I feel the same way. I was there in 2003, crossed the berm with the 3rd ID, was at the Battle of Najaf, the Battle of the Karbala Gap, and the assault of Saddam International Airport, but I can't believe I was there. It was completely unlike anything I had ever been part of, and completely unlike anything that I will probably ever be part of again. It feels like it was all just some vivid, wild, unforgettable dream.
@@archerj.maggott1372 you were at Stewart ?
@@beslanintruder2077 Yes, from January '01 to August '04. Randomly got orders to go to Korea while the division was getting ready to the sandbox for the second time.
@@archerj.maggott1372 welcome home! ❤️
Iraq was easy walk
I was in Baghdad, I remember all the friends I had there. In the comments, I'm reading people talking about their dads being there! Jesus, has it been that long?
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"We were soldiers once....and young"
Been that long.... you were at BIAP??
pity the only kids that had the opportunity to say their dads had been there were the kids of those that returned home...
This edit deserves more appreciation
Cheers dude, I appreciate it
That flute goes goes hard af during the combat scenes
Only if the background music was something by Jethro Tull, then your statement would be priceless. Something like "Aqualung". You know you're Heavy Metal when you beat Metallica at a music awards show.
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20+ years and I still remember it like it was yesterday.
glorified be the soldiers and cursed be the war
There would be no war without soldiers.
Both of them be cursed.
@@Medium341 no
@@Medium341 Shut up
@@SR.PEKKA1 fck yes
0:26 the contrast of the beautiful, nostalgic, American music with the chaos, horror, all-out destruction, and absurdity of war works so well. Great edit. If I was to do a movie about war from an American perspective, I would 100% make a scene like that. RIP to all the soldiers that passed away.
Marines never die, they just go to hell and regroup.
They didn’t "pass away". They were murdered. Murdered by stupid, selfish politicians in their warm, gilded offices in D.C. and Baghdad.
The United States is the son of the devil
A buddy of mine I met in jail served in Iraqi Freedom with the Marines. He said the thing that haunts him most was when he was the M203 gunner on top of his humvee, how he saw some kid step out of a house 100-200 meters away. As he gets closer he realizes she had a grenade in one of her hands. Now John, not being psycho, didn't want to blow this poor little kid to bits, but he couldn't endanger the lives of his squadmates and the guys in the convoy either. So he flipped the switch on his M16 and shot about 20 feet to the right of her, enough to scare her but not enough to get close enough to hurt her. Poor kid, when he fired that shot, he said she was like a deer in the headlights. Dropped the grenade at her feet. And that was that, as they say.
Now he's dying of colon cancer and he's being framed for something he couldn't have done. God I love this country.
insane story...thank you for sharing. god speed to your buddy
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@mumil2005really?
@mumil2005damn the evil fuck who gave a little girl a grenade. They didn’t have the balls to do themselves so they used little children.
some times the enemy is in your bed and your head can't accept it.
As someone who is too much into warwave/war montages, this is very well done, from start to finish. But the first 30 seconds in particular are a 11/10 intro.
thanks!
I love this stuff man. When I was a kid I would watch these devils and soldiers doing work and these videos got me to actually enlist and join the infantry in the marine corps. I caught the ass end of the war but we always looked up to these guys as heros man . They taught us everything to stay alive. Brings me joy years and years later
This made me shed a tear. This is what my father went through and now I’m going to watch the AFG one and be sent into a whole whirlpool of memories. Thank you for this video. I appreciate you, cheers for a Texas boy
God I love the US' Uniform and Battle Gear from the 1990s and 2000s, looks so damn nice.
My unwavering thanks goes out to the Veterans who served in Iraq in both Wars, thank you for your service and God be with you.
the woodland camo and desert mix certainly was slick, my favorite as well
@@TheVeteranFiles Yeah such a dope combo, and the camo still holds up pretty well to this day.
Salute to the veterans who helped bolster Haliburton's stock prices! true heroes!
@@MrUltracougar Yeah whatever, keep Coping Commie.
@ultracougar brother, these young men were forced to do the most difficult thing any of us could do, and they did it well. They are soldiers who risked and gave their lives so that someone else didn't have to, and you should respect that regardless of whether or not we should've been there.
This unlocks a core memory I don't have (I was too small for the time nor I'm an American), but man growing up with news of the War on Iraq for most of my formative years at the same time the internet exploded does something.
I feel ya, man. We really did grow up in the shadow of 9/11... what a time to be a kid...
@@BarabasDantioch123 Facts
Yeah it does something. It brainwashed little punks like you into believing that being a government tool i.e. soldier is “normal” and fighting on behalf of the Military Industrial Complex is noble. It’s Not. It’s all lies and drama and money for a government that uses these guys and pounds it into their heads that their fighting for a “cause” -They’re fighting to make dollars for Corporations who have politicians and world leaders in their pockets. Don’t you get that??
I was 4 when 9/11 happened. I recall having to write letters to the guys over in the middle east during grade school. It's crazy to think that by the time I graduated and was old enough to enlist, the war was still going on.
I really hope to see movies about the Iraq and Afghanistan war in similar style to the Vietnam movies of the late 70s and early 80s. Imagine seeing a movie about Fallujah but as if it were Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket or Platoon
Hot Sand.
Jarhead
No way most Vietnam movies suck cause it’s all dumb dialogue about how war is terrible and gets emotional or whatever. Make movies showing the tactics of the war and about the men who were actually there like they did in We Were Soldiers or Black Hawk Down or The Outpost
@@jonathanrichwine1996 Hamburger hill
There is "Generation Kill".
Underrated edit, good job 👍👍
Thank you sir
@@TheVeteranFilesانتصروا عام 2050
This is the perfect edit! Holy moly thank you for this. I was too young to remember stories from Iraq and by the time I started looking up these stories I realized it was too late for me to truly appreciate the sacrifice of all our Iraq and Afghan Veterans. Thank you for this
Liberating the ideal for the sake of oil. Unfortunately, Bush did not kill the Iraqis and Afghans, but rather killed his soldiers as well
This shit is heavy, and whoever did that intro deserves an award of some sort because that was art! The language stays the same, and the BS never changes. 'Safety', 'danger', 'freedom'. Yea, sure!
thanks bro, appreciate it!
Vietnam War (50,000 US deaths)
Iraq War (5,000 US deaths)
Ukraine War (???)
@@camdenkeeton2411forgetting about the local deaths, almost a million Iraqis died since 2003
@@LordofEvilKills I’m aware, I was just mentioning US deaths
I fought in this war. I was there, in the battle of Baghdad.
Thanks for your service from Spain 🇪🇦.
Thank you for your service. God bless you.
Thanks for your service mate :)
Thank you for your service fuck ZOG
Sorry for your service
My dad fought in Iraq and Afghanistan and other places in the Middle East I never did but this video brings me back so many memories. As a kid living in a military base while my dad was gone. All of us kids on the base where the same we all had atleast one parent gone it was war time In The early 2000s I can’t really describe it as how I remember or picture it this video brought back so much nostalgia and memories though I honestly don’t know how to describe how it makes me feel I miss those days though, that time. Living on base and all of us kids We all had toy army men and Humvees. We all saw the Iraq war movies we all wanted to be like are parents we all shared that pain and sorrow and happiness and literally every other feeling together I have never had anything else like it. We all had squadron cookouts and baby showers we all lived close by. I just wish so badly that I could go back to that
I love how the music starts when bush says military operations. It gives be cold chills down my neck. And when the soldiers drop when it says "I get down on my knees and pretend pray"
2:07 dude thats acutely my uncle
I thank him for his service 🫡
Did he return home safe?
@goinawol9447 yeah he's fine now he has 2 kids haha
Is he still active or has he retired? Thanks
@marcinhobelota22 he's still active he's only 41 haha
This gave me chills. One of my favourite quotes comes from a Vietnam Vet.
My Uncles who fought in Vietnam had this song in their heads. Years later after remembering this song from the early 70s as a kid hearing this from radio and into the 1980s, it was embedded into my mind about the Vietnam War. The year 1989 the Coup Attempt in October I was a young Airborne Infantryman in Panama, I really thought I was going into combat. My mind was going to overdrive that we were going into combat that day, I was scared but I had no choice but going to go through it. California Dreaming kicked in my head as the helicopter I was in and I had my M-60, pack, and ammo ready to go into combat. Later we got off the choppers and went to Ft. Amador via landing craft. There was combat going on with Rebel PDF and Loyalist PDF (Panama Defense Forces), the Rebels did take General Noriega hostage but later defeated by Noriega Loyalists. We never went to combat that day, Noriega got lucky and executed his enemies hours later. We went back to barracks and thinking that day we could have been in combat but it never happened. The real combat in December 19th after midnight became real, but that's another chapter.
You dont know what song they had in their heads
We for democracy, We for thrust❤🇺🇸
Lol
This is so much higher quality than the other one with more views
When you go somewhere like that, God willing you make it home. You never really truly leave. You'll be there forever.
I can make this my kingdom
said to perfection---your dreams are always with you.
I was stationed post initial invasion at FOB Echo my tent was by a generator and now I’m deaf in that ear.
"This is pure democracy "
Yes sirr
To be fair Iraq is now a democracy
@@vyros.3234 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@vyros.3234 haven't had a free election in decades bro
@@vyros.3234 all it took was creating ISIS to become slightly less despotic, but still not a democracy
This is what I grew up watching on the news. This is why I became a solider 15 years ago and still am today.
Even though I’m not American, May god bless you and keep you safe wherever life takes you,Salute.
i do indeed salute you mr fox, what branch are you in?
What is your mos ?
No cinematic music, no amazing camera shots. Just raw footage of soldiers doing their job. It’s these videos that remind me that these warriors are in fact human as we are.
i dont know
california dreaming is pretty cinematic
Yup 🇺🇸 some of us actually attended Religious services....In OIF 2-3.
Recon 278th RCT. / Team Braves 🇺🇸.
real religion don't participate in war
@@eunicederuiter6629
Really ???? Like which one ?
Christianity? Islam ? Taoism ?
Judaism?
Have not found one yet, that doesn't have conflict or some kind of struggle.
@@stormynatero1385 buddhism. it's literally 🗿 turned into a religion.
@@unorthodoxpickle7014 LoL I guess you haven't been paying attention in some countries..
crazy to think im going to work as a contractor in Baghdad and its pretty safe now
More than 20 years have passed since the war. Baghdad is different now. For me, the United States killed 4 of my brothers and imprisoned my father in Bucca until he lost his sight due to torture. I welcome any American citizen who comes to my country.
@@صمتالسنين-س2ق My deepest sympathies for your brothers and to your beloved father. Saddam Hussein was an evil man who should not have had power, but the war was a colossal mistake and what your family went through should never have happened. Best wishes and all kindness possible from Texas in the USA..
@@صمتالسنين-س2ق hope iraq and usa become closer allies with military cooperation in near future
Watch your head, colonizer
@@halebopp4747 I dont remember colonizing anything lol
Love you yanks from Canada 🇨🇦 ❤
Love my brother's and sister up north 🇺🇲🇨🇦😊
1:34
i wasn't expecting that, and so did the driver of that humvee...
Yeah I've seen that footage before so i knew what was going to happen
I think they did that on purpose
Very few Americans understand what an open sewer most of the world truly is - materially, politically and socially.
US is the only source of sewage, corruption, degradation and lack of morals. Murderous-terrorist state.
Really just fuels my inner American to watch these men put their lives on the line. Two more years and I’m signing those papers. Been dreaming of that day for too long.
PTSD, War crimes, participating in wars based on false accusations. The American dream eh?
It sucks in peacetime bro, go be an officer unless some shit goes down like in isreal rn
2025, and I’m here! I’m Brazilian, and I respect my American brothers. 👏🏻 In a world full of hate, we need heroes like this to keep our countries safe and continue protecting the people, the country, and respecting our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
A friend of Mine an old Veteran now was in Iraq and Kuwait during operation Iraqi freedom and operation endurance freedom. The Man drinks All the time and I'm really the only friend he has...His time in the military and his life has him suffering everyday...Thank you for all our veterans who have Sacrificed especially during this conflict....As My Friend Says to me all the time I sacrificed for you so you can have your freedom and Safety...Don't ever let that go to waste or be in vain for Anyone who is a civilian.
He was a sacrifice---he did not sacrifice= he had no choice. time to awake.
my cousin fought in afghanistan. he lost many friends, and saw many things. god bless our troops
Thoughts and prayers go to Soldiers from Both Sides and all the Civilians that died during the Invasion. God Damn you Bush. FOR WHAT DID THE SOLDIERS DIE? MONEY?
thanks Astolfo
Don’t worry, George can’t take his blood money to hell with him, and he knows that.
@@Mobius95 :3
@@luki188 ;3
And when you come back home people say “you’ve changed.” And society wonders why we can’t be normal.
ربي يحفظ العراق
He didn't protect Iraq
@@hiojttoh9684 Lmao these people are insane. They think God is protecting them? America is their God now.
اميين
@@hiojttoh9684he didn't saved you from Jews too.
One of the hardest edits on youtube even in 2024.
Why
@@gab4638 It’s gritty and the song in the background was about a soldier in Vietnam who wishes he could be in California, the soldiers in Baghdad during the war on terror probably felt the same way
This is nostalgic, this is so wrong to be nostalgic but it is somehow.
Lt.Vasquez: Alright lets get'em marines
a lot of people died in this war and this war is another excuse to "spread democracy and freedom", respect to all the soldiers and civillian alike who died of this war
All I can say after watching this is that God bless our troops while dealing with whatever confrontation they might get sent into. While it isn't a given that any or all wars they may get placed into are necessarily 'just wars', it is our duty as America citizens to support them and do whatever we can so that they know we are on their side.
Your duty to support illegal wars and the killing of millions? Ok
Amen
It is not our duty to support war criminals. Any volunteer that got killed got what they deserved for illegally invading a another nation.
That's all you have to say while you watch us destroy a foreign country?
Removing Saddam Hussein was a just cause, though. People tend to forget what a monster that guy was.
The nightly news report in the 2000s look like
I remember this like it was yesterday. I was just a kid but every night while we were eating dinner it was a soldier "killed by a roadside bomb."
Same here man
I grew up on it. 24 now, just turned last Sunday.
I feel nostalgic for a time I lived through but don't "remember" because I was just a little kid.
@@Aqueox I feel the same way I'm 25.
@chazzyboi_7778 I remember growing up remembering hearing people talk about it. Having friends parents go to. I feel like I was part of it. The war
The pain, and the trauma I am going through, is always taking me to this video. More than anger, I feel a kind of sadness. I feel a sense of sadness that America has not done worse things to Arabs. I feel anger, I feel nothingness. I feel sorrow. I feel like a lowly woman. With all my existence, my experiences and my sights
The bit between 2:00 and 2:20 is on a Hollywood level.
No, it's real life level
@@prizrak-br3332I mean it in terms of how well the montage goes with the music.
My dad doesn't tell story's about Iraq, but the way he thinks and acts says it all. There was no weapon of mass destruction.
دم العراقي يبقى خاداً
@@ZainAl-Abideynand so does the Kurdish blood that Saddam took. God bless our American soldiers
I live my life quoting lines from this show it can be as little as two words "8 dollars"!!! drives my wife crazy. Best episode when Larry dirs and goes to Heaven.
Adult version of Seinfeld best episode Larry dies goes to Heaven .
This is how the intro to a military movie is done, my friends
I remember in 2009 watching the US pull out of iraq. Crazy to think of little 6 year old me watching that. I remember thinking "cool army men"
The U.S. retreated from Iraq in 2011, not 2009.
I was a producer of many with dave rabbit for radio first termer iraq and and afghanistan hope you boys enjoyed us
Located in a underground jihadi hut near you 😂
I thought it was epic as a child...
*Now I realize the horror of this...*
My Dad was in Iraq twice. I don't know much about his first deployment in 2002-2003, but he has told me a lot about his second deployment 2006-2007. I remember that once while they were on patrol one day they were just about to clear a building when a car pulled up and the sergeant that was out on patrol as about to explain to them through the interpreter that this was currently a restricted area but the interpreter said they were his friends. just about then two insurgent came running out of the building, jumped in the car, and drove off. apparently the sergeant just about shot the interpreter on the spot.
2014-2020. Always heard stories and learned lessons on how to fight from older Marines. They taught me everything I knew. Never felt I proved myself.
Have friends that fought in Baghdad, they told me it was absolute chaos, they got little rest. And the civilians looked at them like they were killers. I’ve heard some crazy stories from them.
Everything about that war was wrong, from the hunt for phantom WMD's, to the turmoil the civilians of Iraq had to deal with and the young Americans sent to die in a war that shouldent of even happened if our leaders at the time weren't so psychotic.
my father told me one time
"..son you're going to war for this man..I never thought my own son has to do another mans dirty work..shit son I did it Vietnam and now you're doing it..best of luck.."
RiP father and you were always right on that.
1:34 Man that explosion is wild.
currently serving but never deployed... i look upon this footage, of the faces of the various men there. and i see all of my friends and brothers. i see all of the people i know doing these things. and. it frightens me. it makes me hope everyone comes back ok. they dont always. but i feel like its so close to a reality that i can see that i could reach out and touch it. i love you all. my current comrades and veterans. god speed and peace be upon us for decades to come... "Till the End"
while I was a Police Officer for 26 years, I also was in my countries (Canada) Militia (Army reserve) for 4 years, i never experinced armed conflict, an I'm very grateful, I have enough bad dreams as a cop, never mind as a soldier.
"A million Iraqis are dead because you lied. My friends are dead because you lied."
Dubya is cool now though. He's defending democracy from Trump like the Cheneys.
Nobody lied. Iraq had WMDs, we know this because we watched Saddam Hussein use chemical weapons against his own people during the ethnic cleansing of the shia muslims, when the US invaded, he pushed em over the border into Syria where Al-Assad then used them on his people as well
@@Truth_Hurts528 Sorry I don't remember any new wars under Trump, I don't appreciate the drone strikes but glad he actually wanted to pull US troops out of the middle east? The closest we've been to WW3 has been under Biden.
"Then tell saddam to actually allow the UN to do inspections, otherwise congress wouldnt pass the authorizarion dumbass''
A million iraqis didn't die. What you smoking.
Saw this and thought I know those guys. I was there with the guys from the beginning of the video our first platoon had a guy with them who did a documentary called Virgin Soldiers. Even though we are Marines. I was in second platoon 3/7 India was quite a 9 month deployment he left a bit after the first month as we set up in Karbala.
Glad to have done my time as an Aussie during the storm, part one and two.
Sotgc or Sasr ???
Forgive my ignorance. What 2 parts are you referring to?
@@nicholasmuro1742i think he is reffering for both gulf anf 2003 wars
Maybe im not specialist in australian involvement other then ww1 and ww2 xd
" That's Vietnam music, can't we get our own music?" - Jarhead
I watched this video 2 dozen times, and I will continue to watch this
This is the best edit I have ever seen
appreciate it bro
Well now that is US Army Rangers.. Love from Srilanka ❤️❤️❤️❤️🇱🇰🇱🇰⚔️🪖
Hey! Outstanding job. Wojak videos are being run into the ground (and so is the meme), so it's nice to see someone make something as tasteful and cool after being inspired by those.
“They lookin at us like we are crazy (laughs and smirks)” sounds like my kinda guy
This nailed the soul to finally join. My brothers and sisters out there without me. It makes me want to be there and have there back.
Grew up in the streets of south central Los Angeles. The tension, adrenaline, fear, happiness, duty, joy, pain, sadnesss but this is other level type duty. I’m game with War.
Will to Kill and a will to Die. ❤
Thanks for the vid.
God only knows what we all going through.
John 15:13
I was in Iraq 1 with 4-7 CAV. Civilian life is a drag
I feel the same brother I'm from sw houston texas and will be joining the marines soon , good luck to you and thanks for all combat vets! Nothing but love
@@smileyabk5683Don't fall for it.
Great Respect and Glory to those american sons whou foght in this war, God bless you. From Lithuania.
This masterpiece is at 1 million views now
yessir thanks bro
Thanks to that lying Bush many of my fellow vets died for a lie. Just like Nam. Mr. Bush I hope you can sleep at night knowing a lot of innocent people died for your lies. To the troops thank you for your service and may God bless you and your families. N.Catino Cpl USMC 73-77.
Many did, I hope one day even if he isn’t brought to justice a light will be shown on just how much we have been deceived and steered like cattle. It’s funny, we all think we’re in control right now but we’re not and we haven’t been. We could be again though but we need a strong leader for that.
@@bobldldl7944 Your right by friend. Vietnam was a lie just like Iraq. And both liars were from Texas.
How was Nam a lie? Middle of the Cold War and communism was the threat. South Vietnam didn’t want to be communist just like South Korea.
@@bobldldl7944 the CIA is still doing it.
All true but Bush was a pawn. It’s Dick Cheney we should be mad at
Very,VERY,well done vid👍🤝🇺🇸75th Ranger. You captured it🤝❤️
Military gotta get recruitment videos like these. They would get so many.
A war that lasted 20 years and we hardly even talk about it.
Are you talking about Afghanistan?
That was Afghanistan. We haven’t even been out 5 minutes and you’ve already forgotten 🤦🏽♂️
It was all fake for polititions to money grab on lives
@@jonathanrichwine1996😆
@@jonathanrichwine1996 Baghdad is in Iraq not Afghanistan but, I get your point.
bro dropped the most fire ass iraqi war edit and thought we wouldn't notice? no way bro
I was born in 1999 - it's so wild to me to think that the men who served and gave their lives for this war, would be the inspiration for many video games I grew up on.
My cousin was in Iraq in 2007, he told me it was one of the worst years of the war. I followed in his footsteps and joined the marines in 2014.
thanks for sharing man, were you also deployed?
@@TheVeteranFilesno I never got the chance to combat deploy, but I have buddies who have. They were in the artillery unit that was bombing ISIS back in 2016.
I’m sorry I didn’t make myself clear, I followed in his footsteps by joining the marines. I was 19 and wanted to combat deploy but by 2014 most troops were rotating back. Honestly my cousin has only ever talked to me about Iraq once and that was a few days before I shipped out to boot camp. Never talked to me about it ever again and I never asked.
@@Oderus.Urungus thank you for your service brother. I couldn’t even begin to imagine what it was like.
I was in during the SURGE. Mixed emotions.... Good video. Thanks for posting. Seems like lifetimes ago../
My dad was gonna go to Afghanistan. He tried to sign up in 2001 after the World Trade Center incident. He was only 16 at the time so my grandma had to sign a petition but she did not do it. I’m glad he’s ok.
I was there on a USS Ranger in the Persian Gulf
Were you working the flight deck? My grandfather was an airman on the USS Randolph, launched jets in 58'-59', his interview is on my page.
No drones, no fancy optics, just people living in the moment.
76-96, and when I look back on this now, I can't help but think what a terrible waste of our lives, time, and place in the world.
God bless America
u have no clue.
Respect from Brazil 🇧🇷