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1) A melodic punk band from Richmond, VA that draw heavy influences from the likes of Jawbreaker and Rites of Spring. (http://www.myspace.com/friendlyfireva)

2) A fast paced street punk band from Munich, Germany(http://www.myspace.com/friendlyfiremuenchen)

3) About 3 or 4 brocore type bands.

4) Friendly Fire produce deep Drum and Bass from St Petersburg , Russian Federation. "Super Logic" and "No Gravity" have been received with great acclaim by DJs worldwide and a new album is due for release soon . . http://www.myspace.com/ffdnb

5) Friendly Fire is a Maximum Fun podcast starring Benjamin Harrison, Adam Pranica, and John Roderick.

timeline
Friendly Fire Lyrics

We have lyrics for 'timeline' by these artists:

3rdivison Got some baddies on my timeline Bitch bad on my timeline Sha…
A.S.I. Been around the world seen a whole lotta girls my…
Andup 하루의 끝에 내 방의 먹먹함은 소리 없는 헤드폰을 쓴듯해 대단히 축제 같은 삶이…
Apes of the State Two years ago I was sitting on a tiny blue…
ApologetiX Living on enlightened planes, the professing ones feel That…
ARP-1 Been around the world seen a whole lotta girls my…
Balik Paroles officielles {Timeline} Cour après le temps Qui cass…
Blaze Ya Dead Homie (Blaze) Solomon was the father, the casketmaker In 1920 some…
Bokke8 Girl Ik wil dat je draait Ik wil dat je whined Ik heb…

C.L. Lobbestael I saw it on the timeline Pictures kissin' the beautiful brid…
Colobar We run, we fight against each other, we live in…
D. A. S. I know the bright lights and limelights will follow me…
Danakil REFRAIN Cours après le temps Qui casse et répare inlassabl…
Darkness Falls I ran to the lake to get a better space Breath…
Drop Your Pants We're out of timeline I feel the leak has just begun We…
Experimento Holy Factor Olhe pro espelho E observe o prisioneiro Que trabalha incans…
G&D Yeah, Uh, Ay Sitting in the crib like a baby straight…
I.D. Project I know the bright lights and limelights will follow me…
Junggigo 거리엔 수많은 사람들 어딘가 바쁜 걸음 상관없지 습관처럼 내 손에 들린 화면…
Lena KitschKrieg Trettmann & 2.5.5 (Aha) (Aha) (K-k-k-k-kitschkrieg) Bin heute aufgewacht (ah…
Lunetia Its not a lie, its not a lie But its not…
M-Seven Wake up in the morning อากาศกำลังสบาย ในยามเช้า ตื่นลืมตาขึ้…
Machinae Supremacy (The idea of reincarnation comes from a natural sense that…
Macky Som domino många dem har fallit Folk äter skit från sin…
Mayberg Geteiltes Glück ist halbes Glück Außer bei Instagram Ja, ich…
Mild High Club Como te pago todas las noches Todas las veces que me…
MorpheuZ Jede Nacht schläft sie allein ein Ihr Herz zerbricht in zwei…
Nathan Trent I haven′t seen you in months But lately I been wondering Wha…
Nicolay & Kay It's almost morning I'm still waiting On you to come home Th…
Parts & Labor A light frozen point chosen fixed arbitrary Imbue meaning f…
Rayden feat. Ensi, Raige, Dj Double S io vi dico che l'hip-hop non cade finché vive e sopravvive…
S.M.D Music Wake up in the morning อากาศกำลังสบาย ในยามเช้า ตื่นลืมตาขึ้…
Sashcloth and Axes Sun leaks in through my windowpane But this heat doesn’t…
The Big I Am We were sixteen, we were at different schools Before we met…
Trettmann (Aha) (Aha) (K-k-k-k-kitschkrieg) Bin heute aufgewacht (ah…
Victon 오랜만에 사진을 봤어 행복했던 날들 제일 아래 타임라인까지 다 사실 지우지 못했어…
X-Ray Dog I saw a witch hunt in a carpark toilet With my friend…

We have lyrics for these tracks by Friendly Fire:

Hawaiian Air Taking a ride to another climb Knees in my back 'cause…
Kiss of life Rub that line out of the sand I can see you…

Paris One day we're gonna live in Paris I promise, I'm on…

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Most interesting comment from YouTube:

Rexeit

1y↑6

There was a ..... "game".... by some French viets veterans that goes like that :
When you were stressed to the point of not being stressed anymore, when you could die at each step you took so you became insensitive to death, they gathered in a dark house, put something on the eyes of one dude with a loaded gun, and the others wandered around in the house.

Then, one of them said "COUCOU !" (Hello !) and the blinded one needed to shoot in that direction while the other needed to dodge. In a completely dark room.

Just to feel alive again.

Weirdly enough, there weren't that many casualties. Just a rare few, most of them did get hurt though. Because they didn't want to kill their friend, they fired just a bit away from were they were supposed to be, but sometimes, well, it didn't miss

Also, in operation, we did tome tactical shooting exercice, and one of my officer wanted to dual-wield Tomb Raider style, it was a fun, but extremely dumb idea.
Guess who took 2 pistols and shooted while jumping backwards.

Guess who shoot his feets.

Yeah.... Sometimes officers are morons. Yeah I know, inconceivable, right ?

I think shooting yourself can be considered friendly fire ? Lmao

And not getting into detail, but almost got shot by a 105mm tank shell from my own tank group.
Almost pissed myself (maybe one or two drops) and I'm pretty sure my buddy shat itself, but who can blame him...

And last but not least """""fun fact""""" :
Execution during war times due to desertion is still up in most militaries.

All comments from YouTube:

Nathaniel Moore

2y↑1.7K

There's a Vietnam vet that my grandpa knew who "tripped" and "accidentally" shot his officer, killing him, after his group was ordered to march toward a very large group of NVA which they thought was a suicide mission. After he died they walked back to base.

jeff larrabee

@dejuren "i for one" lol

Doc E

That doesn’t make sense at all and is a pretty common story around barrooms but untrue. The office leading the march would most often not be the one that gave the order to take the position. Those orders come from higher up and the officer leading the raid would have been ordered to do it just like every else. Fraggings did happen but not like that what you are describing is pure fiction.

Psycho3747

I work with a Vietnam vet. He's retired but he still works part time just to have something to do... Anyways one day I was working with him together with another vet. They were talking about an unpopular manager on site. They both compared him to incompetent officers and said if he had been in the field with them that manager wouldn't have made it home. I asked him about that statement and he said in Vietnam a soldiers only goal was to return home. Working as a team was absolutely necessarily to reach that goal but if one individual could potentially get in the way of that, officer or otherwise, he'd very likely end up dead. There was no law, only the rule of the jungle. I knew the Vietnam war was absolutely awful but hearing it from the horses mouth was something else.

Killjoy

1y↑1

Fake story. All troops can carry out missions regardless if an officer is alive or dead. The squad leader is whoever has the highest rank, after that is seniority (who has been in the squad the longest)

John Doe

their’s a bunch of better excuses than tripping and shooting your officer. why not say the enemy got him?

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Nate Norris

1y↑26

My grandfather told me in the navy during ww2 if a guy was too unpopular, he would be "lost" at sea

KrusherMike

1y↑9

So... the "psychotic prankster" achievement in Fallout came from British soldiers in WWI, who in a disagreement with their NCO, reverse pickpocketed a live grenade into his inventory.

Legends.

Hugo Larget

2y↑720

My grandfather told me the story of when he went to do is military service, which was mandatory here in France. There was this officer that liked messing with him, and disliked him for some reason. One night, my grandpa was affected to guard a hangar, in which were placed all of the bases bed sheets on lines for them to dry. So, there is this huge hangar and my grandfather watching over it, when in the middle of the night, there’s this guy sneaking in. My grandpa sees him, recognize his officer. Before this guy realizes, gramp takes his rifle by the cannon and smack his officer in the face with the butt. The man end up knocked unconscious, and when the others arrive to see what’s the commotion, my grandpa explains to them he warned the guy to identify himself, which he ignored so he went straight to violence (obviously there was no first steps to this story except straight fking vengeance) . He told me that after this incident, the officer kept himself from bullying though I highly doubt he liked my grandfather any more than prior to this.

TheWitac

I'm pretty sure this didn't happened. After all he is officer and your grandpa is private. I'm pretty sure officer would make sure your grandpa regret what he did.

Sebastian Jasen Soetantio

2y↑3

Your granpa is really cool

KyuzoMugenUndPanzer

2y↑15

It's actually within the US militaries handbook to do that actually, I doubt your grandfather got into any serious trouble, as technically he had every right to shoot the officer dead since the officer didn't identify himself and the assumption could've been made that he was an enemy attempting sabotage.

Rusty Howe

2y↑4

I like that, no nonsense and straight to the point.👍

Stephen Le-surf

2y↑22

I think I would have liked 👍 having a drink 🍸 with your grandfather 👴 🤣

David Henderson

2y↑3.6K

One problem with Vietnam was the so called "90 day wonder". Young officers that had never seen combat being put charge of battle harden soldiers. These young go by the book officers tended to get people killed. In Vietnam you had to throw away the book if you wanted to live. There is a scene in a movie that shows just how this worked. This new young officer gets off a helicopter. No one salutes him. He gets all mad and demands he be saluted. They salute him and down he goes. A sniper was just waiting for an officer to shoot and he found one. He went back on the same chopper he came in on. This kind of stuff happened a lot.

snowest gaming

@Julian Brien I could believe That The M16 was A garbage replacement for the M14 Constant jamming and misfires On top of being less powerful a lot of soldiers were trained with the m14 There were Loads of soldiers that once they used the M16 Begged to have their M14s back

WLT

@Bumble Bee What a bleak outlook

Slowissmooth

@Dale Newson SRR?

TheToughUnicorn

@Irish Luvr7745 yea him

Irish Luvr7745

@TheToughUnicorn Lieutenant Dan Taylor

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txgunguy

2y↑264

There was an incident in Vietnam when a company of LRPs(later Rangers) got a new commander who tried to run the company by the book. Daily formations and inspections etc. He also tried to run their missions from the basecamp instead of allowing the team leader in the field to run it. One day he came out of his hooch and stepped on a "toe popper" mine. It was officially determined to be the work of VC sappers.

Peter White

@wyatt hatch From what i understand (i may be mistaken on a few things), new officers or commanders would often be trained in the US and then sent to Vietnam, so they would understand basic standard procedures and warfare, while not understanding that wasnt the way in 'Nam.
Infortunally either due to Pride (from being higher rank) or Ignorance (not fully understanding) or a combination of both, they often didnt last long compared to the people who had actual experience but were lower ranking.

wyatt hatch

1y↑1

I don't understand why you would be so "by the book" when it's widely known that the most effective soldiers completely throw it out
Just look at SOG or Delta Force

Trésor Irumva

2y↑18

those goddamn VC sappers. stay woke guys

Smegmɑ

2y↑4

thanks for naming the incident

Arabella Garcia

1y↑21

In the 50s, my grandpa had an officer who dove onto a live grenade someone had dropped during a training exercise, and saved my grandpa's (among others) life

Boghman22

@Lance Lewis riiiiight

Lance Lewis

One of my ancestors planted a live grenade in the warden's underpants back in those times.

John Dohn

1y↑1

Wow respect to the officer

Артур Бурак

My acquaintance's father (a brigade commander in 2019 Ukraine) was allegedly led onto a mine close to the battlefield due to conflict of interest with his subordinates

Rexeit

1y↑6

Immortal SoFar

Dumb stuff sometimes works. Kind of an aside but I think you'll appreciate my cousin in Northern Ireland in the '80s - not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Their squad had a mob beginning to attack, throw stones etc and were ordered to load their plastic bullet guns. He did, it went off and shot himself in the foot. He dropped the gun and hopped around as his mates and the rioters cracked up laughing and then the rioters went to the pub for a laugh. I guess there's more than one way to defuse a situation but he was forever teased that, while many people shoot themselves in the foot to get out of the army, nobody had used a plastic bullet before.

Corrupt Cape

2y↑7.9K

I had the privelage to know an English korean war vet. He said the yanks used to mortar quite near to them a lot. Every time they went to command and complained, nothing happened, one day however, the yanks mortared too close and killed a 19 year old boy, the unit decided enough was enough and to take matters into their own hands by firing back with their own howitzers. he didn't tell me whether they hit or missed, but he said the yanks never fired their mortars near them ever again.

Hugh Jeff

Shoulda had nord vpn

If your married Your a simp and a cuck

Lmao, you have never read a history book have you. You know why America brags about being undefeated because we kill as many Americans as our enemies do 🤣

ENizcedt E

Legends 🇬🇧🤩

Frank Linkz

@Irkkunen lol ok Lazer Pig 👍 honestly glad you said it cause i was gonna lol

Trey 816

I knew an American Korean War vet, and he told me a story of when the Brits fired their howitzers at them.

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Fey J

2y↑279

I remember someone telling a story from his grandma about how her husband had fought in The Great War. He was serving under a coward and incompetent lieutenant who would order a daring charge, only to hide under a crater. Eventually, one of his men threw a grenade at the hole and carried on.

LKH9Channel

@sandir toukaev lol, sampled like YouTube Shorts

The Catfather

2y↑5

@LKH9Channel Bayonet Charge > Banzai/Katana Charge

LKH9Channel

2y↑16

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I've seen a black&white footage of WW2 Japanese Banzai charge against American soldiers.. Their officer leads from the front! The one holding his Katana on top of his head ready to hack and slash. Sadly all died within a few seconds from the BAR M1 Garand firing...

B.C.buddy.eh?

2y↑273

My grandfather is a Canadian Korean War vet and he recounted many times the American troops would bomb the hillside they were stationed on. Thankfully no one was ever killed from what I know but he did say it was quite the experience hearing the roar of their fighters and soon the sound of their bombs hitting the ground.

Cam Murray

Seems to be a common theme that across all wars, the Americans tend to be absolutely braindead

ashinTheBlunt

2y↑1

Muricuh 🇺🇸

Nicholas Neyhart

2y↑2

No idea how he got transferred btw, but it was on his record.

Nicholas Neyhart

2y↑5

My grandpa was an american and served in both ww2 on the Pacific front and korea, he got injured twice the same way, in ww2 he was helping some Australian soldiers with a radio and got bombed by his own, and during Korea he transferred to a squad of Canadian soldiers because one went missing(was his cousin the rifle was recovered but no body) and got shelled. To his last breath he said that the biggest threat to our allies is our own incompetence.
R.I.P. Poppa Tom.

Smegmɑ

2y↑8

they did a lot of that in the pacific islands as well. the IFF technology was not the greatest back then

Switchblade1950

1y↑2

Really scary blue on blue I thought was the Korean War when a A-1 skyraider had a malfunction and a napalm canister left on its own according and hit friendly troops.

Mikkel

1y↑2

One of the worst enemies an officer can make, is the men under him.

Lil' Toaster

2y↑5.6K

A very disturbing friendly fire incident was described in the WW2 memoire "With the Old Breed" by USMC veteran Eugene Sledge. During the battle of Peleliu, Marines were taking up positions in a heavily defended swamp one night. One Marine woke up screaming as he had lost his mind. Despite giving him morphine, punching him and trying to talk him down, the Marine kept screaming and thrashing, thinking the other Marines were Japanese troops. Not wanting their positions to be given away, someone hit him with an entrenching shovel to knock him out, but the sharp edge of the shovel went into his skull and killed him instantly. Everyone unanimously agreed it was better he was killed than risk everyone else's life and the murder wasn't too seriously questioned.

Soonshi

Me when I see this comment No im not reading all of this

Frosty the Snowman

Yeah I've seen the Pacific..

GetmeoutofSanFrancisco

@Anthony Carrion Makes sense seeing as The Pacific is based off of Eugene Sledge's "With the Old Breed" as well as Robert Leckie's "Helmet for my Pillow"

Gary Pulliam

@melissa green Battle of Kiska in the Aleutian Islands. Canada won the battle. U.S. loses were heavy.

melissa green

@Gary Pulliam which battle was that because as I recall Canada and America were on the same side?

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CaptainOfHawkRepublicForge

2y↑34

Those officers that were unpopular and died to their own troops never heard of Sun Tzu's "Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death."

Hoosier Patriot

"It's estimated that 1017 fragging incidents took place in the Vietnam war"... that's an awful specific number to be estimated.

Jonathan Scott

2y↑134

An old German soldier told me of an incident, during the invasion of Poland. An officer made them round up civilians and put them in a barn which was then set on fire, and anyone running out shot. During the units next attack, that officer was "accidentally" shot in the back. Not all Germans were nazis, and didn't like what they were made to do.

Misses Hippy

1y↑1

@Quester Peripatetic My father-in-law was in the Luftwaffe as a navigator on cargo planes. His dad a banker. Also, the offending persons and their families have been protected by the government in the interest of social healing and cohesion. Everyone except the top ruling Nazis had their second name recorded with a single initial. Chapter closed.

Quester Peripatetic

1y↑1

@Misses Hippy True that. During my time there, every war age German male had served in the Navy, ha.

DRD

@D.R.M. Mefreji Yeah, the "Only Following Orders" defence did not work in trials after the war

D.R.M. Mefreji

@Canes Venatici When did I mention the Middle-East? Considering your degenerate profile, I honestly don't expect any valuable opinions from you.

D.R.M. Mefreji

@potato boi Yes, idiot.
"Muppet" who still uses that word?

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Frosty the Snowman

"I just took out an entire enemy fleet of tanks with a drone strike!"

"We just had an entire fleet of tanks taken out by an enemy drone!"

😀...🙂🙃

Wolf Schadow

2y↑178

The A10 warthog actually has one of the highest blue on blue incident records because the plane has nearly no electronics in it and IFF detection via binoculars is really hard.

Elliot Smith

@Gud the b52 is more often used to launch cruise missiles from afar then do bombing runs, so it isn’t actually too vulnerable compared to the A-10

randall mules

2y↑1

What’s cheaper than an a10 to operate and effective in anti terrorisim and low intensity conflicts ? The super tucano . It’s time to retire the a10

KyuzoMugenUndPanzer

2y↑2

@Gud Close Air Support has nothing to do with carpet bombing or long range strategic bombing runs. And your assuming air superiority is already gained.

Gud

@Christian Bendix Mau I don't see why that invalidates my point though, unless someone was willing to enlighten me.

Christian Bendix Mau

2y↑2

@Gud did you just compare CAS to a strategic bomber? It’s in the word CAS.

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Razzle

2y↑8

I'm kinda shocked they never mentioned Pat Tillman, y'know the guy that got shot and killed by one of his guys from 90 feet away? It was clearly a case of deliberate friendly fire and I'd heavily recommend reading about it if you don't know about it already.

Simple History

1y↑2

we are releasing a dedicated video this week

Brad

2y↑40

My grandfather served in Vietnam as a dog handler, he told me about how when officers screwed up the men would sometimes throw live grenades under their bunks while the officers where sleeping to try to kill them/send a message for putting everyone in danger.

Crimson fang

in the darkness of the 40k universe, there is no such thing as friendly fire. especialy if your commissar CO doesnt like you

SHOTGUNNER

2y↑19

I have always been amazed at how accurate the details are in the renderings and how there is actually a ton of loaded humor going on behind the script in these videos. I really enjoy these. As a “gun” guy your renderings are always spot on.

Jennifer Stewarts

2y↑5

There is also a form of "sacrificial" deliberate friendly fire. Cases where air strikes or artillery are called down right on top of friendly troops, because enemy forces and friendlies are in close proximity. In this case, if a position is being overrun officers may call down artillery or air strikes on their own position... In other cases, brass will realize a line is breaking, and just poor artillery into the hole to stop any advance while moving troops up... this kind of strike often kills or injures friendly troops too.

carlos Henrique Zimmer

2y↑58

I am a little disapointed that you had not mentioned the tird reason for deliberate friendly fire: MEDICAL DISCHARGE.
A seriously injured soldier (shot, stabbed and so on) would be sent back home to heal, or at least back to base.
So there were many reported cases of soldiers shooting theyr comrades in the legs or shoulder, so they could be sent back home. Very ofthen captured weapons were used, to mask the truth.

During WWI the French and British Armies had to create special penal codes in order to punish the men that did it.
If they were sent to jail others could start to see this as a prize (leaving the trenches), and the cases would start to ballon out of control; if they were shot, the soldiers would see this as murder, because killing a defenseless injured man is a cowardice, and the officers could end up with a rebellion in theyr hands.
More ofthen than not, this cases ended up with the men sent to foward sentry posts, doing patrols or other jobs that would make them easy targets for the enemy.

Wes P

1y↑1

Was pretty cool they animated that scene from platoon

Ives

2y↑4.1K

"War does not determine who is right, only who is left." — Bertrand Russell

ITZ NEPPHEW

"I like Hitler" -Ye

xisotopex

"war is just diplomacy by other means..." Clausewitz

Philip Vk

that was a clean one

5haial

free for all

RoachDoggJR

You mean the robot in fallout 3

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Nic Flatterie

Ah yes the classic flying shovel at night! You have to be careful!
An a@@hole officer was left in the woods with two broken legs during an exercise. He was transferred out of the infantry battalion ad sent to public relations in NDHQ.

purpleYamask

2y↑10

In Nam, my grandpa kept hearing from a friend that their CO was horrible. While said CO wasn't great he wasn't horrible, at least in my grandpa's eyes. They were all stressed. Until the friend took a fist to the jaw and a trip for the Medic for accidentally damaging a machine gun. That night, there was an explosion and they all snapped to attention, running to stations. There was no further gunfire. They found my grandpa's friend chainsmoking outside the barracks, and the CO soaking into his bedsheets. Those frags are nasty when they're 2 feet under your lower back.

Paul Kent

2y↑6

I knew a marine that said the first thing he'd do in a combat operation is shoot the officer in charge. His reasoning was that whenever he was training, officers ordered a frontal assault, while sergeants ran enveloping attacks. The former looks good to superior officers, where as the latter suffered fewer casualties.

rejuvenator89

2y↑5

Another friendly fire story from Eugene Sledge's book With the old breed is when in Peleliu they were sleeping in fox holes and two japanese soldiers infiltrated them at night. One of the marines ended up leaving his fox hole and was shot and wounded badly. To make matters worse, after the incident was over, in the pitch black night one of the marines went to the wounded marine, thinking he was a wounded japanese infiltrator and shot him in the head point blank, killing him instantly. Only in the morning they found out it was one of their own.

John Doe

2y↑8

Afghanistan and Iraq saw a ton of deliberate green on blue friendly fire incidents; Afghan and Iraqi people signed up to be trained by US&coalition soldiers, went a long with it all until they got their hands on a weapon for shooting exercises, to then use the weapon instead to kill their foreign instructors. In Afghanistan one of these insider attacks even killed a US general, wounding more than a dozen people, among them also a German general.

S. C.

2y↑15

Great video, really interesting. I love the comments in which people either tell their own story, second hand story or just stories they read about. Thanks for the upload and comments with more stories 🧡

Richard Kent

1y↑2

Had a great uncle that fought in WW2. Was Canadian with British commander. They were to take a bridge, with a German machine gun on the other side. The British officer wanted the men to march four abreast across the bridge. They were getting torn to pieces, my uncle was in line to march across when that officer was shot in the back of the head. As soon as that happened the second in charge pulled everyone back. That night they snuck through the river and took the machine gun out without losing another man.

Pauligon

2y↑4

Friendly fire, the incident that never stops in war.
I also like how the word "among us" was a normal word before 2020.
Here is the timestamp where the narrator said "among us": @8:05

thatoneguy

2y↑1

There were many sus imposters in ww2

Eric Ford

2y↑24

In WW2, the 325th Fighter Group, stationed in Africa was flying P-40's. They often got "bounced" by P-38 groups, whose pilots mistook the single engine fighters for German aircraft. Col. Bob Baseler, the 325th's CO decided to get even. He took a captured BF-109 (nicknamed "Hoiman") over the offending fighter group's airfield at noon, at very low level. The men were at mess. Trays flew. The P-38 pilots got the point.

BuzzLightYearPFP

this episode is the best we've gotten in a long time. the animation feels like it's definitely gotten an upgrade

accckiy

Strange that you didn't mention Germans who had the same practice as Russians

HATECELL

2y↑2

I wonder how many of the accidental friendly fires weren't that accidental. There have been stories of officers going from one foxhole to the other at night that got mistaken for an enemy, but mayve whoever killed them knew exactly who they were. There's no way to know for certain

StormLaker1975

2y↑2

My dad served in Thailand during Vietnam (Air FOrce) the base he was at was also home to covert operations conducted by US, Thai, Korean, and Australian special forces. One evening a Thai soldier decided he'd had enough of his officers and rolled a live grenade into the Officer's club, killed one of them and injured about a dozen others in the club at the time.

Mosya

2y↑1

8:22

Almost 80% of caught deserters were returned to their units.

8:35

During the period from August 1, 42 to October 15, 42, 1,000 people were shot in Stalingrad by barrage detachments. Apparently, the remaining 10,000 were shot in the winter and another 2,000 people were shot in the period from July 17 to August 1.

Ant

2y↑2

he says among us at 8:05

Cody Sing

2y↑43

Lest we forget the greatest single case of friendly fire.
The "Assassination" of Emperor Lucius Aurelianus.
"The Restorer of the World"

Killed by his officers because of a falsified document that implied the Emperor would have them killed, which was proved to be fake after the officers committed the killing.

Those responsible were punished severely by the Legionaries who loved and adored their Emperor who brought the Romans and the Empire back from the brink of Death.

kirk jason beltran

2y↑2

But if you think about it, the officers already felt threatened so they had to take action first.

Carlos Santillan

2y↑3

We had a Brigade Commander (COL) who had supposedly lost one of his balls in Vietnam as a Butter-Bar because one of his own troops shot it off because he was generally hated by his own Platoon. I can believe it because he was such a weenie that we generally hated him ourselves and was very happy when he was finally reassigned elsewhere.

ben trimble

2y↑2.3K

It would be interesting to see just how many friendly fire incidents were due to grunts taking out incompetent "superiors". I mean, I don't know anything about leading military units, but I do know you don't piss off a bunch of guys carrying guns, explosives, and sharp, pointy knives/bayonets.

DickEnchilada

2y↑1

I mean the Praetorian guard killed off emperors more than Rome's enemies did, so it's pretty freaking common lmfao

manu Man

In Vietnam alone : 900 of those according to Wikipedia

Lord Bertox

Usually if you get in the position to command you aren't either the smartest or the best in human relations.

zakugm

Even Patton wasnt exempt from ut

Anarcho mando

Even the international, the famous socialist song has something to this effect

And if those cannibals keep trying, to sacrifice us to their pride
They soon shall hear the bullets flying we'll should the generals on our own side

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Martin Walker

I am aware of three times officers ordered artillery on own troop positions during WWII. Two of those officers ordered the artillery on their own positions, Lieutenant Audie Murphy and Lieutenant Fox. The third case, a platoon had gotten into a planned ladder barrage area and when it was discovered they were ordered out and before they reported that they were out the barrage was ordered. Fortunately the platoon had cleared the area. No one in the platoon was injured.
Lieutenant Fox was killed and Lieutenant Audie Murphy was injured.

nonegocuro

2y↑2

0:42 neat fact, the warthog has zero targeting equipment they use binoculars to spot targets, and radios to confirm them. They've killed more friendlies than foes.

justinw1198

I know PLATOON when I see it, even in awesome animation 🤙

Southron Jr

2y↑1

My late father in law was drafted into the US Army around 1970, he served as a truck driver in the 7th air cav logistics and bragged about fragging at least 3 different superiors. He said he did it once when his Lt. drove his jeep beside his truck while they were in a hot area. He simply tossed a frag grenade into the Jeep while he drove and it went off just as their column was hit by NVA. The jeep driver was wounded by the grenade also but not killed but was then shot up by the attacking NVA and then died. At least that's the story he told me, he couldn't even remember why he hated the officer, just that he wanted him dead.

Chris.

2y↑1.3K

Carlos Hathcock address this breifly in his book. Telling tales of how you didn't want to be an officer that 'accidentally' frogot to turn in his hand grenade. He spoke of how common it was for disgruntled men to toss them under an officers tent flap late at night. Spooky stuff.

NIHILUS

@Sandraker Hate to be a gravedigger but what about that is funny

Osmosis Jones

@Sandraker Ah, a pizza cutter.

The Catfather

@Sandraker wtf

Chrismofer

2y↑2

@Sandraker makes no difference to me what country it is, it's an absolute shame that human beings are put into wars with each other just because a few people decided it to be so. if those few people disappear in a fragmentation all the better.

Chrismofer

@My Name Is Jeff for me it's the revenge, commanding officers whove sent young men to their deaths to advance their own careers deserve nothing more or less than to die by explosion. it's kinda funny, as a form of retribution.

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TheManWhoKnows

2y↑10

I was in the marines for 8-years. Let me just tell you that there is nothing worse then a NCO or CO that is sickly by the book. Luckily for me I was never in any form of combat situation.

justinl458

There's a grenade laying around somewhere.

thomas diamond

2y↑5

I was told by a Canadian officer that the pistol he carried was not for the enemy but for his own troops, since the pistol is not much use on the battlefield because of its short range.i believed him.

Quester Peripatetic

As a US Army officer, we had that same rumor among ourselves. But that's all it is. We carry rifles, too. Marine officers don't though. Hmm.

Nuclearpoweredturtle

2y↑3

Accidental friendly fire occurred with my great grandfather serving in the polish army. After my grandfather was evicted from his farm from Soviet’s in an area now belonging to Ukraine and deported to Siberia, my Great grandfather served in the polish liberation army and at one point served in Italy. He and a group of soldiers commandeered a train from the enemy, which unfortunately the Americans believed to be operated by the enemy, where his train was then bombed. I remember talking to my dad why nothing was done about it, to which my dad replied “it’s war, it’s happens, and sadly happened to your grandads dad”.

Evan Dunford

2y↑1

my great uncle vietnam vet, told me of a fragging incident he witnessed. the officer, boy who cried wolf story. the new officer use to yell of incoming enemies, because he thought it was funny how everyone "would freak out, and how on edge they were" well people started to not believe him and react and even had to second guess whether it was him who was yelling it when someone rlly did, eventually the enemy rlly was coming and got two people killed and a few wounded because they didn't react fast enough! well the officer was shot in the head with an enemy tokerev pistol.

Erel

2y↑1

Great video! I've got one question about it though, how did the soldiers during the Vietnam War got their hands on drugs? I know it's probably more obvious than it seems but I'm just curious.
Luv ur videos keep it up ❤️

Highly Erogenous Banana-man

2y↑1

Same way most people do: a very resourceful friend.

gfresources.video

in a Italian book written by a veteran of WWI (Emilio Lussu) he tells about an unpopular general. They offer the general the opportunity to watch the enemy line from a point of a trench where they know guarded by an austrian sniper... unfortunately the sniper didn't shoot that time !! and the crazy general survive

Rikki0

If you discount about 95% of the fragging stories you hear about from Vietnam you will have a pretty good picture of the reality. I spent 13 months and 9 days operating in the An Hoa River Basin out of An Hoa base camp in Quang Nam province. I never once saw an incidence of fragging nor did anyone I knew ever mention a credible incident. It did happen, but was far more rare than you have been led to believe. Semper Fi. 5th Marines 2/1.

SMToon World

2y↑1

"War does not determine who is right, only who is left." — Bertrand Russell

cannonball666

2y↑443

One friendly fire scenario you left out is the firing on an enemy position without regard for the proximity of friendly troops because they were to be sacrificed. i.e. Longshanks orders his archers to fire vollys at the Scots who were intermingled with his own troops.

Michael Larocca

2y↑3

Thats bc arrow volleys werent fired the way they are in movies where they just unleash enough arrows to block the sun. Arrows werent cheap and neither were armies. Doing it that way wouldve been an expensive way to kill your own guys and make the ones that didnt get hit think twice about fighting for you.

humpteedumptee

this is pretty rare. but there are a lot of danger close scenarios. outside of a absolute monarchy or some despotic tyrant this is next to impossible politically to survive.

Smegmɑ

hollywood is not far off the mark. you can read for yourself primary source books such as De re militari that are first hand accounts
@Michael Weir

Cody Sing

2y↑3

@Michael Weir
It's a good movie, not saying it's historical fact.
No one was saying that.

Fact is we were not there, we can only imagine what it was like, regardless of sources we have.
It's staggering how little we know about these events.

Michael Weir

2y↑9

That never happened in history, medieval battles didn't carry out the way hollywood likes to depict them.

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Nicholas Sweeting

2y↑11

I recall that Ciaphas Cain, Hero of the Imperium of Man, comments that Imperial Commissars’ number one cause of death was not the Warp or Xenos, but deliberate friendly fire by their fellow Guardsmen.

Because of this, he takes great effort to ensure that he is seen as as friendly, likable and fair by the men and women who work under him. It not only works for him, but having a leader who they see as genuinely looking out for them, gives them some of the best morale on whatever battlefield they fight on.

Nicholas Sweeting

@Grizzly Owlbear I think he internally noted that the standard response for breaking out into a violent brawl was immediate execution to make an example out of them. Cain felt that was a waste of living bodies between him and the enemy.

Grizzly Owlbear

The trial that was held for the guardsmen who rioted and killed their fellow soldiers in the first book comes to mind

SasquatchyCowboy

As a vet I totally understand the need for good order and discipline. And in a truly professional military this should never happen. But anyone that doesn't understand the necessity of the occasional fragging incident need to read about the last day of WWI.

Spazzz

2y↑4

during the final days of ww2, 2 soviet armies were racing to berlin. both armies would deliberately fire artillery at each other to slow the other army down. both generals wanted the 'glory' of capturing berlin

Daniel Reardon

@Spazzz Thanks man

Spazzz

2y↑2

@Daniel Reardon the book "When titans clashed" by historian David Glantz who is one of the worlds leading experts on the eastern front.

Daniel Reardon

Crazy, do you have any sources?

DraBattle - Lịch sử chiến tranh

2y↑1

The video is very good, the historical knowledge about the war is good and easy to absorb. I hope the channel grows more and more🤗🤗🤗🤗

Rodrigo Fernández

2y↑5

I immediately remembered three incidents.
-Barnes killing Elijah.
-Sergeant Skinner taking a bullet in the butt without enemy presence.
-Blackadder killing the homing pigeon.

Tyler Wear

2y↑5

Can’t forget Luigi Cadorna’s order to practice decimation (killing one of every ten men in a unit) against his own Italian troops during WW1. His entire ideology was “If you don’t win this war, you don’t love your country. It doesn’t matter how much better or worse the enemy is. If you even look back, you’re a coward.”

Drake Mcfee

2y↑9

You can never keep your troops in line with violence and tyranny. Nor can you be their friend. You command through respect, harsh but fair discipline and while cliche never ordering a soldier to do something you wouldn't

kirk jason beltran

@Daniel Reardon unless some soldiers survived, they would have probably placed matters into their own hands and killed their superiors

Daniel Reardon

2y↑1

@kirk jason beltran YEah or the officers force the soldiers into a almost suicidal mission while the officers stand back

kirk jason beltran

@Daniel Reardon specially if the soldiers are conscripted against their own will or the officials refused to honor their part of the deal

Daniel Reardon

2y↑1

There also has to be a sense of voluntarism..... Conscripting soldiers into highly risky and painful battle situations is asking for trouble.... If you consript soldiers, you deserve a revolt

Killean McChesney

Lmfao I never heard of the booming bloomers method. Throwing a hand Granada down the officers pants lol I could see him going wtf is going on???

gcb345

2y↑719

During my service there a few people that I wanted to kill. And the feeling was mutual. But we never carried it out. Transfers have a way of keeping order and morale when you know that the enemy who wears the same uniform as yours, either leaves first... or you do.

Tango Alpha

@Mace kreisla Homes "Happens in all jobs." Spoken like a true mercenary. I 100% guarantee it didn't happen in all Wars.

zakugm

2y↑2

No body no crime aka awol

Jay Ayerson

2y↑1

@Mace kreisla Homes No worries. The one I saw definitely did not have a similar name, and it was an ad spam.

kman 4443

2y↑12

I had a shitbag 1st Lt. when I was in the Army during Desert Storm. I never thought to kill him, I wasn't going to take the risk of Leavenworth and I knew it wasn't right. One thing the Army and other life experiences taught me is "this too shall pass" and he's only here temporarily. I figured (although the war went quick) the Iraqis would get him and if they did, I wouldn't shed a tear for that POS. A lot of others thought the same in my platoon.

Mace kreisla Homes

2y↑1

@Jay Ayerson Thanks. I also reported a scammer that's impersonating Simple History. Something weird is going on. I already tried explaining what I saw happening here. Thanks for helping and confirming that it's really happening. There was more I said that looks like got wiped out from existence. It's probably one of my comments that got hidden. It's possible their trying to scare me in calling them and other scammers out across the platform. Looks like another rabbit hole. No subscribers new channel, same strategy on trying to get others to get scammed for a gaming system and/or reward. Very interesting and strange. I hope it helps with the information. I'm not sure what else we can do.

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Ray

2y↑2

Barier forces in USSR sentenced to death only around 1% of people they catched. Most of their job is to get troops together and send them to their units, because not all of them were runing aways, some of them just MIA that literally lost

chicken profile picture

is that a platoon reference? 1:43

Soul Retriever

Very sad to hear a loved one has died in the war but never knew it was by the hands of their ally

Patty Ross

2y↑3

My grandfather was an MP in the 2nd Marines stationed at Khe Sanh during the siege. He was in charge of guarding the brig on the base, and one morning he woke up to a grenade underneath his pillow, still with the pin in it though.

the geth

Your grandfather or the brig?

Daniel Reardon

faaaaark

Jaden Pongracz

2y↑2

Hey, can you do a video on Sergeant Bill? The Canadian Goat who served as the mascot of the 5th infantry? I heard some really interesting stories of him saving Canadians from incoming artillery

Jon M

2y↑2

I've known several Vietnam veterans, I'm not surprised when I hear about a LT who "didn't make it" considering the arrogance and stupidity of much of the officer class coming out of West Point. It wasn't uncommon for someone to pick up an AK and carry it on patrol instead of their M-16.

D Moore

2y↑2

heard that was Very practical - early in when M-16 had many problems ...

Peter Ruiz

2y↑3

Eric Hartman said, after being shot down, that he watched
Germans holding high ground mowing down droves of
Russian waves...He said the Russians were obviously drunk,
and others pointed weapons at them keeping them from
retreating. This event made Hartman sick.

Paul Skowronski

5:54 is actually very true during the great war if your line broke you were screwed meaning the enemy can now attack you trench lines

Spetsnaz

2y↑888

That is why it takes guts to be a true leader in the military. This video reminds me of Captain Sobel from band of brothers who was so hated by his men that many of the NCOs from his company resigned as they did not want to follow him in combat.

xisotopex

yes and plenty from band of brothers about Cpt Sobel was bullshite. he certainly didnt make LtCol by being incompetent.

Fullsound

yeah if sobel was left in charge and made it through the jump i believe they would frag him

The Shah of Iran

@Cvetomir Georgiev so what ? he is not allowed the opinion that some graphical art looks cool ?

Cvetomir Georgiev

2y↑1

@bxbalisong I will just start quoting myself now, as obviously basic literacy is rare "this is the 4th or 5th comment I've received that is the EXACT. SAME. Maybe instead of waiting for me to tell you something, you can read the several times I've already responded to you. But I guess reading before replying is just really straining for your eyeballs"

bxbalisong

@Cvetomir Georgiev And the US hasnt?

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The Autumn Fox

1y↑1

6:18

I think it is likely that the German has surrendered, is wounded and the British seeks to take him to first aid, since the subject is not one to give orders and go "directly to action", I would not be surprised if this has been a war crime.

Hooligans World

There was time an officer ordered an Apache in the early desert storm, even though the Apache had asked to confirm orders and the pilot even said it was friendly, The officer stood by his order and the Apache pilot ended up killing the armored vichs. Fratricide is no joke.

SMToon Entertainment

Ross Spragg

My great great uncle was killed by friendly fire in WW1. He was the first one in town killed in the war.

Leighton roblox

i got my friend nordvpn and i shot him with an rpg..... why didnt the shield appear?

Ángel Parris

2y↑8

In the day this video was released, an episode of NCIS was aired and mentioned the fragging incidents, what a coincidence.

Andreas R

2y↑1

Damn that platoon scene still hits me hard until now. Poor elias

Theo VAISSIE

- War is a tragedy without limits.
Well said Simple History !

Lookin fishy

2y↑693

My uncle deserted in Vietnam. He didn’t wanna go back so he didn’t show back up. He woke up to his house surrounded as he was put in handcuffs and shackles. And forced back into the war

mc4906

@Christoffer so much for the land of brave as well lol

Willjan Alaurin

@SPEARHEAD yeah sounds like McNamara's Moron.

BIG MAC

@Van respect sir! My dad sure didn't wanna be there either but when he was drafted he did his duty.

spookson

2y↑1

@Van why serve when you don't want to it's not your duty

Joe Biden Sniffs Kids

@Christoffer your not free in the military government owns you

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Jack King

2y↑1

If anyone ever gets the chance and are in the UK, go visit The Durham Light Infantry Museum in Durham City, NE England. The museum tells of the horrors of war and how soldiers were treated by their own superiors. I visited for the first time and took my young son along. It was a quiet day and staff were awesome. They took my son and dressed him up as a soldier, showed him guns and basically spoiled him rotten. I stood to one side and began reading the museum displays. At that time I'd never even considered how superiors behaved toward soldiers and I kid ye not by the end of my museum wander I was in floods of tears. I tried questioning staff about the behavior toward soldiers and they all nodded at me. I was speechless. Obviously my son had a great time that day but I left mentally scarred by it all. War is a terrible thing that brings out the worst in humans - even at their own side.

Brendon Mills

2y↑1

From what I understand, 'barrier troops' are still used in the Russian army -- most recently in Ukraine .

C “Cor” R

2y↑18

1:35 Willem Dafoe made it into Simple History. Amazing.

shorgoth

During ww1 there is more than a few English speaking officers that got shot by French Canadian troops. Keep in mind French Canadians were treated as second class citizens and out of power and economic roles on their own territory in a sort of apartheid until the mid 60's.

SEAZNDragon

2y↑672

At 1:34 they recreate the scene in Platoon where Barnes tries to kill Elias while mentioning fragging. Thing is the killing was to keep Elias from telling their superiors of Barnes' war crimes. It doesn't really goes with the fragging out of rebellion concept but is more in straight up murder.

powerist

2y↑2

Ironically, a rare moment where a Lieutenant's issue was that he was spineless.
Like he did let Barnes and Elias push him around. I know listening to NCO is one thing, but entire movie showed him being too scared to assert his command.

Ben Jamin

but he died later in the movie

Apples and Grapes for dinner

2y↑1

@Enzo_gaming00 If true, that's actually damn sweet

Enzo_gaming00

2y↑4

Did you know the disabled kid they made “dance” was actually blind and the actors helped him get a surgery that made him see for the first time

happyzone1000

I mean shooting another human being is murder. Even if it is warfare.

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Chazz Cañete

This happened in Philippines too, one of there greatest general.. Back then US was invading Philippines in 1898, The president of the Philippines (Emilio Aguinaldo) was told by his generals or his dictators too assasinate General (Antonio Luna) cause of his strictness.. He was one of the greatest General in Philippines

Dr. Micheal J. Morbius

the reason most accidental friendly fire incidents happen is because they have no way to identify a comrade when they're trying to ambush the enemy like that, they need some way to discreetly signal one another to avoid it

Simon Yip

2y↑16

A good story would be about the Soviet KV-1 tank that was able to delay a whole German Division in late summer 1941.

The Germans had to send 25-30+ Pz-III/IV tanks & other armoured vehicles, plus 10.5cm and 8.8cm field guns & AA guns, Stukas, infantry & combat engineers etc to deal with a single tank that kept fighting for a day or two (at least if irc).

It's easy to Google the event 'The Monster of Raseiniai'

Simon Yip

@pyro yep, you're right, I wasn't sure which model of KV it was.

pyro

2y↑1

It was a KV2 not a KV1

Suddsy

1:40 reference to platoon, i see you

David Lyle

2y↑325

As a quality control professional I would point out that one of the more serious issues that businesses face is management that alienates internal personnel. Usually protest takes the form of quitting but dissatisfied personal are very often careless and inefficient (I.e. languishing.) it’s pretty serious, companies can go under in those conditions. Having a work force that is armed AND unable to quit. It’s less of a question of how often it’s happened but how often people have gotten away with it.

Unknown Soul

Well when companies only promote self serving, brown nosing, sociopathic pieces of garbage to management ya thats what happens.

crimmy

2y↑5

@No it's called acting your wage, and it's people starting to realize they don't get anything extra for going above and beyond, so they fill the minimum required and go home.

No

2y↑1

There's this quiet quitting that's going on, I don't know if they'll go into it during my business management course

Michele Conley Eckert

2y↑6

Ur right t, I knew a guy that was promoted really fast in a trucking co. He was a lot younger than the men who worked under him.
He told me ( a friend of his wife ) about being left out of after work stuff. From bowling to drinking and how it upset him. I told him, Ur either their boss or their friend, but u can't be both demanding respect the way u do. He thought about it all weekend and on Monday morning called a meeting to apologize for his behavior. All his bosses thought he'd lose respect, but he didn't. It changed the way he acted and was invited to functions, having a card game at his house. ( my idea) but no shop talk allowed.
Some people are not aware that their insecurities make them arrogant
✌️

Mustard Bastard

@J They get it in the neck when the higher ups wonder why productivity is so far down.

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Zack Leaf

2y↑1

Would you be able to do a video on the airship Italia disaster? I think that it is quite an amazing tale of tragedy, mystery and survival from the North Pole expedition age that not many people know about

jhilyard1

There's no such thing as "friendly" fire. It's better called blue-on-blue force due to negligent targeting. Battlefield executions, extra judicial punishment, negligent discharge describes it better than calling it "friendly."

Consequence No. 62

2y↑1

A question about fragging: I get that you can't know who fragged who when it happens at a US Base, but when soliders get deployed, I thought it was documented what items they are carrying while on patrol. Can't they just ask "Yo, who is missing a grenade?"

Karl Dubhe

@Nene Muy Not in Russia.

Nene Muy

2y↑1

Nowadays, if you frag someone theres 99% chance that you’re getting caught.

Karl Dubhe

The serious answer is that their weapons aren't accounted for. You're going to put a report of some kind out after action, but detailing who shot what when, or used which weapon at a certain time, isn't going to be a known thing. Not accurately anyhow.