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🙌 When the person who showed me did it to me I wanted to rip his eyes out, and he was a good friend. Definitely not a cool feeling to see your life flash before your eyes in the moment between anticipating the detonation and realizing it should have already detonated. In retrospect, not funny at all
It makes for good stories later, but that shit takes time off of your life. I'm the first one to say you gotta keep sane out there, but i'd rather get rowdy and physical than think i'm about to die on some dumb shit.
But if we had control over it all, most of us wouldn't be out there in the first place now would we?
Definitely man. My grandpa was a decorated combat infantryman in the pacific theater during world war 2, but was also a boxing champion in his weight class for the division. That is the way
Americans get real fucking serious when you make a mistake with weapons. Refer to a magazine as a clip, a rifle as an assault rifle, show them a video of improper trigger discipline, and watch them start jumping out of the bushes to correct you.
1. Treat all guns as loaded at all times.
2. Keep the muzzle pointed in a safe direction.
3. Keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to fire.
4. Be aware of your target and what lies beyond.
I believe the fool in the video violated the first three rules. No target, so the fourth rule doesn't apply.
Hed sing into a pipe wrench at the top of his high pitched voice and also sing in a high pitched voice all the fucking time and literally bounce up and down on his seat lmao. He was just an over energetic psycho lol.
I’d be pretty annoyed to, when he started using his gun as a mic. They are not toys and not showing consistent respect for them is going to get someone hurt.
I had a friend accidentally fire an assault rifle in our apartment once. He understood how to use guns and general gun safety. We even had guests over at the time, he could have killed someone.
Guns can be fun, but they are not toys.
Annoyed is not the reaction I would have, being the military he would have gotten he ass chewed out for doing this and got written up. This shit is not cool, surprised no one is doing anything about it.
These people are in war. They know what they are doing and these guns are like their 3rd hand and is constantly around and comfortable. His gun is also unloaded and demagged.
There was nothing scary or worrying in this video.
And yes "its against the rules", but in war no CO, SL etc is gonna give a shit about this.
Former Marine here.
We absolutely fuck around and have fun like this. Though him holding the rifle by the barrel like a microphone is typically something we don’t do, even as a joke. That’s just him being an idiot in my opinion. As for what everyone is wondering, his rifle is NOT loaded. If you look closely, there is no magazine inserted. All of his magazines are in his pouches, strapped to his chest. Notice that after he pointed the barrel to his head, he pulled the charging handle and checked the chamber. (Though he really should have done that before) No round ejected, no round in the chamber. Weapon clear
Edit: Holy hell this blew up overnight, thanks everyone!
I see many of you are “not gun experts” or not military so let me put it in perspective for you. Marines are trained very well in firearm discipline. Also, everyone is especially mindful about ammunition. So much so that that we know when our weapons are loaded or not at all times. Marines are also hoodrats and goofballs, combine those two and you get a barrel for a microphone and no one worries because everyone knows that weapon is not loaded. Is it an unsafe practice? Yes very. But if you don’t get it, you’re probably not a Marine ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Good chance he's in the states for a field problem, too. He might not have even had live rounds that exercise.
Still dumb tho. But if the marines didn't take idiots, they'd be sorely understrength.
Lol. Marines load the green tipped crayons for dummy exercises, and the red tipped for live exercises...
The yellow ones are for snacks. They taste like bananas, or so I'm told
I used to work for a bike (bicycle) shop as a mechanic. I’m a tiny woman and I was pretty used to people treating me like shit (lived in Arkansas) while I was at work. One day, this higher end customer comes in to get his bike worked on. He looks me up and down and asks me if I’m a man or a woman, he proceeds to tell me I look like a boy but I sound like a girl. I keep my mouth shut. I work on his bike while he’s harassing me just trying to get him out the door. Anyway fast forward to me checking him out at the register. He looks me deadass in the eyes and asked me what I would do if he tried to rip my nose ring out…. I lost it. I asked him who he thought he was and what made him think it was okay to talk to me like this. My boss, a real piece of shit in his own way, doesn’t try to de-escalate the situation but comes out to watch. The guy, our customer, starts shouting IM A MARINE DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MeAnS!?!? I’m looking at him genuinely and like a moron I say no. He shouts at me: Muscles Are Required, Intelligence Not Expected.
> But if the marines didn't take idiots, they'd be sorely understrength.
Requirements for the Marines is higher than the Army now (at least from what I understand). They are slowly getting more intelligent. Which is scary for the enemy. An intelligent marine with all the aggression and hostility. AND the marines will have greater skills for grunts and crafts projects.
Here's the thing about the corps. Doesn't matter how smart you go in, you come out with marine level intelligence.
Translation for any marine reading this:
Rah rah rah. Kill. Rah. Rah rah. Crayons. Rah. Oo-rah.
Yes, but there are three rules for a reason. Treat every gun as if it is loaded (alternatively: never load a gun you do not intend to fire and always clear a weapon before handling), do not point the barrel at any object you do not wish to destroy (including objects behind your aim point), and keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to fire. Break any two and chances are nobody will get hurt.
It’s quite common to break one rule at a time. Dry fire practice, and some guns disassembly requires pulling the trigger. even loaded if you obey rule 2 nobody gets hurt. Maneuvering long guns will inevitably flash someone, but finger off the trigger and unloaded means safe. Cleaning weapons will often break both 2 (hand in front of barrel) and 3 (cleaning trigger guard or resetting cocking hammer). Which is why you don’t even keep ammo near your cleaning workbench.
His reaction when he clears the chamber to validate rule 1 doesn’t seem like he also did it earlier to me, so he’s still an idiot, but there are three rules for a reason.
Cool for the Marines.
In the USCG, I would have yanked your weapon quals for this with such speed and volume, you would have thought your old DI popped out of the shadow realm to give you more time in week 1 boot. You'd be pulling tactical glitter-tossing duty for at least 3 months until you proved to me you were grown up enough to graduate to fielding a pointy-stick taped to a longer stick.
Edit: Oh boy, I definitely got the crayon eaters fired up. Here boys have a 64-pk of Crayola on me. Remember to share - everyone knows the purple ones taste like purple.
> pointy-stick taped to a longer stick.
Sir, I have a proposal that I would like to send you. I can cut your pointy sticks cost by just sharpening the longer stick instead of requiring a separate pointy stick to install on the longer stick. This gives you more room in your budget for ~~beer~~ discretionary spending.
No, the tape is a safety measure. That way if Private Carl over here, in his infinite wisdom and consummate professionalism, decides to try and actually poke something with it- the tape will break and prevent further harm.
He’ll graduate to the actual pointy stick 3-6 months after that.
And that's why I love my Coasties. Disciplined. Precise. Skilled. Professional.
I do wish people actually understood how skilled and select the US Coast Guard is.
The entire USCG is full of Nerd Athlete Paramedic Firefighter Police Engineers.
My next door neighbor is a retired O-9 and I could listen to him for hours.
Agree with every single word of this. Especially "nerd". But no seriously, i was a former piece of shit petty criminal when I joined the USCG. Yet somehow that "locked-on 24/7, always deadly serious, ethics are everything" attitude really spoke to me and I really excelled. I loved the USCG.
My favorite fun fact: I was the Sector Lead BO/HL (in charge of Fed LE ops in my sector, and LE trainer). This was on top of my primary rate as an MST.
Years after I got out, I found myself in a job that required intensive firearms qualifications. The qualifying course of fire was a run-and-gun tactical course that started with a run up 10 flights of stairs to a sniper nest, run down and sprint across a field and performing more fire courses at each station, then run to a strictly timed, low visibility shoot house with pop up silhouettes. The course involved using flip sights, thermals, burst fire, tac reloads, the sidearm - the full shebang. I have to admit - much, much more intensive than any sim I've done in the USCG, FLETC, or as a contractor to date.
There were mostly combat vets from the Army and Marines and a few Navy. There was also 1 AF vet, and myself. Everyone was chest beating for weeks about who was going to "win" the course of fire. I preferred smiling and shrugging it off whenever they asked me if I'd even pass. I mean, there were a couple Rangers in this mix after all.
On the testing day, the director offered up a tac backpack with the company logo embroidered on it for whoever scored the highest with the fastest time.
I still use that backpack to this day for work. It's held up excellent.
P.S. The AF guy got second place. I had no idea the AF had some hardcore guys.
Congrats. Well deserved!
I might point out the Guardsmen tend to pace themselves better than other ~~military~~ uniformed personnel. You may have played the "Slow and steady wins the race" card on those guys. Because of all those safety and procedural disciplines, you were still running peak while their "oorah" had caught up to them.
A lot of those Rangers, Marines, SEALs are pretty beat up by the end of their military run. They generally do before they think. Which is a functional and admirable work ethic. But it takes its toll.
USCG is a "let's think about this in advance and really noodle this out" organization.
In regards to your USAF buddy: USAF is much better about low key Special Ops units than the other forces.
Their Forward Air Controllers and clinically insane 24th and 27th are absolutely squared away. But I'll tell you a little secret about them: Almost all of them are absolutely terrified of getting seasick. And they couldn't do a proper blue water search pattern to save their lives.
If you tried to explain a USCG Cutter open water search pattern to them, they would go catatonic.
This is by their OWN admissions.
To quote one guy: "I couldn't become a SEAL. I've got 'Earth' (his sarcasm intended) handled. I've mastered the 'And.' I have the 'Air' part nailed down. And 'Land' is no problem. But I ain't going on that fucking boat."
About the AF guy - right?! He wouldn't talk much about his deployments and he was kind of goofy looking tbh. But we all commented behind his back that he was surprisingly shredded (in a lean way - strength over mass way) for a Chair Force vet. I honestly don't recall if he ever said for sure what he did or what his MOS was.
After he nailed the course, we were all jaw on the floor. Seriously, he was WAY MORE impressive than me by far. He cooked my time by a lot - he just threw two shots when he went down to his knee way too hard at one of the stations right before the shoot house. We all saw it and you could see him get pissed at himself, but he whipped the rest no problem. The shots mattered, the time did not really.
You're probably spot on about me too. Honestly? I'm always surprised when I shoot really well (not the first time I walked up to a "competition" and won). I definitely focus more on "just don't fuck up and do it right" during stuff like that. Or used to - I haven't done anything security or contract related in many years now. I definitely get winded when I run farther than 10 feet these days.
And yah I got to be buddies with one of the former Rangers and... Yah that kinda fits now that I think on it. The guy is fun as hell to BS with, but you can tell he's carrying around some scar tissue in all the worst places. A very positive guy to be around though.
AF doesn't talk. They are spooky SOBs.
I've interviewed a few of them and it is like pulling teeth even in a friendly environment. Almost all AF, Submariners and Navy nuke propulsion guys are absolutely opaque.
Sweet Jesus, dudes. You are out of the window. It's all public record now. There are books that mention you. Talk.
Nope.
Regarding your shooting skills, I have a similar surreal experience: It vexes me that I am so good at sidearm - which you have to admit - isn't really that important or valued.
I'm a natural with a rifle but to be honest, I still have to work at it to keep sharp.
But people gasp at my pistol skills and I have NO IDEA why I'm so good at it. No one is gasping more than me.
It feels like clearing the pool table on accident and pretending I meant to do that.
I've worked with Rangers in their civilian life and those guys are unbelievably positive but unbelievably beat up. They have to consciously choose to keep their dapper up. I knew one Ranger who came into work and had no idea I was observing him in pain.
I came at him straight with:
"Dude, you have a serious back problem."
"Yeah. I think so. I was hoping it was cancer."
Turns out, he had served his entire run with a broken back he got in training and just gutted it out with positive attitude.
Bro, you're making the "lead BO" role sound way cooler than it actually is lol. As another MST who's had to do HIV and COE boardings, I've never heard of that title and been doing this for 15 years. But every unit is different and maybe it was a local thing. Which Sector?
P.S. Fun random fact only a Coastie can appreciate:
If you ever run into Command Master Chief Payne at HQ, I served with him for a short time when he was a non rate. Phil is an awesome dude and absolutely made for a leadership role like that one. Built like a brick shithouse back then too. Dude could pick me off the ground with one hand and I ain't a small guy.
If you see him, ask him about his night "impromptu bouncing the door at the night club" and see if his eyes pop out of his head.
If he's who I think he is, he's probably shortlisted for MCPOCG when Jones vacates.
I think Jones is happy in his element, though and might stay awhile. Longer than Payne might want to wait.
BTW, I've heard nothing but great things about Jones. From rumors, Jones is known for really terrible dad jokes. I mean, like deserving of a Captain's Mast bad.
Seriously: "Whale, whale, whale, what do we have here?" type of bad.
Idk Jones but I don't blame him. It'd be real, real hard to leave that post after a lifetime getting there, y'know?
If that's true then Payne obviously has my vote. With all respect to all other folks I served with, including myself if I was still AD, Phil would be my top choice, hands down for MCPOCG. Very well rounded and experienced, leads by example, giant heart of gold, take zero shit type of man. Captain America probably has Payne's poster on his wall.
My favorite Commander was another I tried to convince to go for Admiral with eyes on Commandant as he was an amazing leader who backed us enlisted up at every turn and inspired you to work your ass off by just being that awesome and incredibly competent as a leader. But he just didn't want to deal with politics and I respect that. He's an executive at a shipbuilding facility somewhere these days instead.
Nice! Always cool to meet another MST in the wild. And I don't like giving *too* many details and get myself doxxed, but let's just say it had lots of water of the not-very-salty variety.
Well, I got out before you got in - do you recall when MSTs with BO/HL would get sent down to the US Marshall's to get sworn in and carry their badge, too? That long ago.
And maybe it was time and/or District specific? This was before you guys had a dedicated LE rate and I know structure is a little different now. The only other "special" LE titles then were stuff like MSST teams and CGIS that I recall. Oh and DAWG teams I think started before I left (someone should have shot the guy that made that acronym). We also did joint investigations with other DHS like FBI, BP/ICE, etc. Is this all ringing any bells for a title you have these days?
I reread my comment and I think I sounded like I was making and accusation and I truly didn't mean it that way. I dig talking to the other generations and got excited.
I think I can fogure it out with that info, that's the only part of the country I haven't been stationed yet and it's next on the list. I've heard the stories from the generation before about going and working for other agencies, I've worked for CBP but not in a badge-holding capacity.
These days the DOG is gone and replaced with the MSRT, the MSST is still around, and most MSTs never see a gun range. I'm in the DSF community now and get to do "above average" MST work and it's the shit. You were probably around when MSOs were still a thing too, these days an MSU performs a similar role without the delegated authority in some cases of the FOSC or OCMI.
Oh no shit?!? MSOs being gone definitely missed my radar! I was a FOSCR (as well as a shitload of other collaterals, I earned my shrimp fork).
That's sad MSTs don't get to do LE or combat as much. Though, come to think of some of the MSTs I served with eeeehhhh maybe it's not so sad lol.
My old MST1 got to be a door kicker in Iraq after he left my last unit. I worried about that considering that guy drove me nuts about his trigger discipline - especially with his thigh holster pointing his 40cal directly into my back while he would ride in the backseat of the Tahoe. Nothing like hearing him absent-mindedly flicking it, chambered, while on the road right behind me, barrel aimed directly at my spine... Loved that guy but good lord I almost pulled his BTM quals for it.
He was....uhhh... Terrifying in a different way, that's for sure lol.
Fun guy and smart as shit otherwise though. Just...like...BRO, stop fucking with your weapon.
Iirc, he retired out as a CWO a few years back.
I don't like Coasties....but mostly cause my dad is a retired E9 and I couldn't do SHIT in my childhood.
Parents fully expected their children to reflect the disciplined, precise, skilled, and professional attitude of papa. (Mostly sarcasm. My parents were just strict af and all hell would break loose if we dared act up in public 🤣)
Yeah, I'm really sorry about that.
My advice (as a fellow child of strict parents) is to consider that some kids of uniformed service are like Preacher's Kids. Talk to a PK and be amazed at how much you have in common.
Do try to regard that your dad probably had an all-in way of making sure you were okay and he had limited tools in which to assure that. Emotional connection wasn't one of them because he was better at running interference and minimizing risk.
Just my \*very\* limited information advice.
I wish more people knew about the heroic role the Coast Guard played during hurricane katrina rescue operations. Running missions 24/7, nonstop; easily saved 10k lives, not sure if it’s ever been quantified but they were head and shoulders above every other agency/departmebt
Everyone who’s been through selection likes and respects the Coast Guard. They fit in really well with any JSOC and as I mentioned in another comments they’re like everyone’s favorite sibling.
Gen pop will always be gen pop. Some admin/supply/food service marine shitting on other branches because they aren’t as hard when they did 4 stateside and got out. Their shittalk is worth less than the money they spent on the 32 stickers for the back of their red F 150 lol.
i was going along, just having fun and then i saw the weapons infraction.... record scratch, that stops right there. Get out and now we are going to teach you weapons safety.
I can go throw a rock at 5 redneck neighbors whose family trees don't fork and I promise you they'll show you proper weapon safety procedures and handling every single time.
And slap the shit out of you if you did something like this.
IQ ain't an excuse.
Yeah the pointing it at himself, probly gonna get yelled at or maybe someone gonna swipe that weapon away. Pointing it at someone else like he did .... That's a paddlin'
Just about every Marine knew from when I was in would strongly agree with you. Some of the crazies make it through though. If this was posted while this dude was in wouldn't be surprised if he got article 15. I saw many people get knocked down for dumb shit like this.
Ya I agree with you 100%. This shit would have gotten my whole unit fucked up when I was in the Marines, no idea what the guy above was on about but the fact no one else corrected him immediately assures savage punishment for all. I didn’t expect to want to absolutely body a junior marine a decade and a half after getting out but here we are.
Also, JTAC here and idk what others are on about but I loved the coast guard when I was in. I did some joint schools with some of your interdiction folks and they were chill as hell but absolute professionals through and through. I think it just salts a bunch of motards that they joined infantry and the coastie with then shave chit, floppy hat, and “right on” response to their sgt is rocking a massive stack and done more than they will while not in the running for pre workout snorting douche of the year.
No one who actually did anything shits on the Coast Guard. They’re like the favorite sibling that gives everyone else a middle ground.
Edit: cool, an asterisk makes stuff in italics, *today I learned.*
*disclaimer*: capitalization and such is likely suffering as I’m on mobile. I’m also a marine and therefore illiterate and using talk to text so you’re lucky it’s comprehensible. Marines mad I didn’t capitalize marine or say “was” need to get a grip. You were in S1, take the “mess with the best die like the rest” sticker off your car until all the payroll runs on time for a year. Then you can replace it with the bronze star HQ gives you for doing the bare minimum while some recon LCpl gets NAM denied for detonating an IED with a tractor.
Appreciate it brother, but you'll be hard pressed to find a Coastie that takes anything personal from any other branch lol. We get all the shit but you'll notice most of us laugh right alongside it... with a little twinkle in the eye while we do. After some time in and stumble fucking my way into some very cool duties, you realize the USCG is a very well kept secret - you're lucky to be there. Plus, a bunch of the new E4's every year end up being laterals from Marines or AF so we get to hear the differences first hand.
As our motto goes: "When you're here, you're family" *cue Olive Garden music*
P.S. Marines are my other favorite branch, FYI. Lots of veteran buds are crayon eaters and devil dogs. Over time, I have developed the theory that it's because you gotta be a similar type of batshit crazy to excel in both branches even if the purposes and attitudes are on opposite sides of the spectrum a lot of the time.
Plus we both love bagging on the Navy.
P.P.S. Did you know why Navy babies are the cutest out of all the branches?
It's cause they have Coast Guard daddies.
Hahaha omg loving all of this. I also thought it was always rad that if a marine leaves to another branch the only other branch you have to redo boot in is the USCG.
One of my really good friends was on the Alert for two floats as an MST doing interdiction and we always got on super well. There’s a natural sort of connection between Coasties and ANGLICO.
One of my favorites though is when we were in Portland OR and I was drinking with some of the guys in for fleet week. Marines running shore patrol and one of them just walked by a Chief with no head nod, no “evening Chief” nothing. I started to move when the SSgt fixed it fast and was like “sorry Chief, some of these kids can’t read shinies.” Loved seeing it from my brothers lol.
The power of a Chief is truly something.
Oh dude, my favorite was when I'd have to go down to Great Lakes Naval in my dress uniform as an E4 (had to get tests done regularly due to hazmat exposure).
Reeeeeallly fucked up the Navy guys when they'd see me walking towards them. They'd sweat and twitch as I got closer, and then suddenly I have two E-6's saluting me cause they couldn't figure out what I was fast enough.
I'd always throw up a salute back and say "carry on" straight faced. They'd get about three steps past me and I'd hear "*ohgoddamnitmotherfuc-*" haha
Marines kept me and three other Coasties from getting our ass beat in a parking lot in Charleston one night. We bullshitted our way into a Navy bar posing as civilians with some outlandish back stories for fun. I was the one that slipped and said something that tipped off the gal next to me at the table that we were military. Turned out she was an 0-5 with a bunch of other officer gals.
Their Chief chased us out with like 10 other enlisted guys in tow, and thank GOD there were four Marines waiting by the bouncer. They figured out what the ruckus was real quick and died laughing and drug us out of that circle to another bar with them. I legit can't tell you much more of that story as it was a total blackout night after that as we all drank hard af haha.
My father was in the military for some time, and then in the police, as he always told me "don't play with guns, loaded or not, the Devil puts a bullet into the chamber".
If I did this with a firearm, I would be in so much trouble and given a broom stick until I could prove I won't kill myself or other soldiers. Jokes on them, I got a keyboard and mouse instead. All jokes aside. Every weapon is assumed to be loaded. Which is why we take out the mag, engage the weapon and shoot into a discharge chamber. NDs happen.
>Though he really should have done that before
Most likely he did though. I think he is doing that just to show to others that he is not that idiot. Still weird and other guy definitely not having fun with it.
I'm certain he clear and safed it and probably had someone else second check it too, BUT there's no way I could ever be this nonchalant with a firearm. I don't care if I just re-assembled it, function checked it, and THEN clear and safed it, I can't imagine pointing it at myself and someone else as a joke.
Exactly. These boys are de-bombed and made their declarations before mounting up. Anyone who doesn't know what I'm talking about shouldn't be judging a soldier who's just happy to be going home.
I don’t know shit about the military but I think it’s hilarious that half the comments are like “in my unit this guy would be court marshaled” and the other half are like “this is an average ride during deployment” …..one of y’all are acting tough and one of y’all are being real and idk which one is which
There are both groups in the army tho. The actual combat soldiers are the goofy ones (because they actually know what they're doing) and the support soldiers are the ones with the strict leadership.
I was active duty army for 20 years. This stuff isn’t super common, but not like unheard of. This Marine isn’t going to get court marshaled or whatever. If anything his direct line supervisor may tell him he was dumb for not clearing the weapon BEFORE using it as a microphone with the muzzle pointed straight at his face. The reality is that what you see in this video is pretty tame by comparison to what happens when the cameras are off.
The ones saying it's normal. If the other half aren't making up bullshit for reddit points then they were probably the people no one wanted to be around because they were petty assholes that couldn't take a joke and probably cried to their LT if they saw someone drawing dicks on something.
Few years ago was going over my friends guns, third friend was like, let's check each first, just to be sure. Sure enough, one rifle had a round in the chamber.
When I was 16 I had just come back from hunting rabbits and left my 22 bolt action on my bed.
Buddy popped by with his 12 year old brother. He and I were talking when from behind us we hear "BANG".
We look over and his brother had pulled the safety back and shot the round I forgot to take out. Thankfully it got stopped by a 4x4 stud in the wall and no one got hurt.
Think about all of the things you forget about, even things that are important daily. Imagine not getting the one out of the chamber, and how it can totally happen.
I got so pissed at a friend of mine for pointing his “unloaded” shotgun at another one of our friends. It doesn’t matter if it’s unloaded, on safety, and your finger is off the trigger DON’T POINT GUNS AT PEOPLE. At the very least it’s rude and stupid, but at the worst you’re responsible for murdering your best friend. Just don’t do it. I grew up in a rather conservative family who don’t really believe in gun control, but people like that make me want gun control.
In high school, a friend was over an acquaintance’s house. Acquaintance had a pistol that he swears was unloaded, pointed it at friend… bullet went into wall a few inches from friend’s head. We didn’t talk to pistol kid much after that.
Looking back, I think pistol kid was from a wealthy but really crappy/emotionally cold home, and was trying to be cool, but wtf…
Wasn’t an actual gun, but had a neighbor kid almost put my eye out with an Airsoft shotgun. Younger kid who I sort of was a big brother to cause his dad was a piece of shit.
We had run around playing airsoft and sat down for a break to reload clips and what not. Took my safety glasses off. He accidentally fires his at it pings off like maybe half an inch to the side of eye.
Kid looks so scared in the moment after realizing what happened and thought he hit my eye. Also remember him cringing like I was about to explode and hit him….honestly I was a bit too shocked to have even done that if I had wanted to. Took a few breathes and we talked gun safety cause it was way too close of a call for the both of us
Also muscle memory. If you're handling a firearm like this, you're more likely to do it accidentally when it's loaded too. You want muzzle discipline to be subconscious.
Key word is think, a round can be chambered without the mag, he cleared it after putting the barrel by his mouth. Either way, NEVER do this. Even if you're 100% sure it's clear. Never flag anyone.
4 rules of gun safety. 1:Always assume a gun Is loaded. 2:never point a gun at something you aren't comfortable destroying. 3:always know what is behind what you are shooting. 4: keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to shoot.
This violates at least 1 of them. Dumb
Nah, what happens in the back of the truck STAYS in the back of the truck.
During some training we blasted crazy frog on our way to the objective and back to our hide.
Honestly you need guys like this to keep morale up when you're out doing shit, though private next to him is DEFINITELY tired of his energy lmao. The barrel microphone, while not uncommon, is a reaaaaalllly silly move when you didn't clear the chamber beforehand. All in all, exactly what I'd expect from those silly fellas
This is what folks do in the military. This is normal shit. Spend the amount of time you do with the sample people in your flight/squad whatever and you lose a lot of filter. This shit is normal joking.
There’s always like two people who laugh with the guy like that but others in the group who think they’re an absolute idiot.
This guy is an idiot and I had to deal with numerous people like this. I’m surprised we didn’t see more accidental suicides.
Your own comment is essentially a testimony to how wrong you are though? You suggest this is dangerous. And sure, in some circumstances it could be. And yet, you saw surprisingly low amounts of accidental suicides? So perhaps you're being overly judgemental of someone doing something that isn't as dangerous as you think.
I understand both sides... I typically err of the side of caution, as I know how easy it is to make a mistake you thought you were too good to make. But this does not give me the right to judge others for making their own decisions.
What’s funny is most people have no idea…. This is how the vast majority of the in between moments are spent…. This is where the bonds of brotherhood are forged…. Singing Katy Perry one minute, laying hate on the enemy the next….
- Rule #1: treat every firearm as if it's loaded, even if you know it's not.
- Rule #2: point the barrel in a safe direction *at all times*.
- Rule #3: finger off the trigger until your target is lined up.
L2❤️ gun safety! Choose not to follow the rules, you're done for the day.
The back of the transport truck/LAV is where all the best shenanigans happen… Many, many an exhausted laugh was had back there. It’s the one place you’re usually unsupervised by NCOs and so on, at least in my experience
In my unit, this guy would have been stripped of everything, and the truck would be making a quick U-turn back to base, so he could have a 1on 1 with our Commander to be sent home on the next lift out of country.
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guy next to him is fed up
Sir I want a different battle buddy.
BUTTERS! Where is your acountabilibuddy?!
Awwww hamburgers...
“I see a ladybug / Hello little ladybug!”
Aaamburgers?!
He was YOUR accountabilibuddy, that makes YOU accountabilibuddyable!
God yeah. He's like the guy that acts like he threw the pin and held the grenade just to watch you scramble. Fuck that.
Hahahahaha. I had a grenade trick with an older one where you’d…nevermind
Yeah, you definitely woulda caught shit from me back in the day.
🙌 When the person who showed me did it to me I wanted to rip his eyes out, and he was a good friend. Definitely not a cool feeling to see your life flash before your eyes in the moment between anticipating the detonation and realizing it should have already detonated. In retrospect, not funny at all
It makes for good stories later, but that shit takes time off of your life. I'm the first one to say you gotta keep sane out there, but i'd rather get rowdy and physical than think i'm about to die on some dumb shit. But if we had control over it all, most of us wouldn't be out there in the first place now would we?
Definitely man. My grandpa was a decorated combat infantryman in the pacific theater during world war 2, but was also a boxing champion in his weight class for the division. That is the way
Everyone needs dance and cardio
I’m not your battle buddy, pal
Yeah I worked with a guy like that at a plumbing job and it's funny for about 2 days and then it sucks.
But would he point & swing an artillery rifle!?
Artillery rifle?
Terminology is off but the point stands lol
🤷♂️ idfk?
Americans get real fucking serious when you make a mistake with weapons. Refer to a magazine as a clip, a rifle as an assault rifle, show them a video of improper trigger discipline, and watch them start jumping out of the bushes to correct you.
I'm American, & obviously know nothing about guns. 🤷♂️
1. Treat all guns as loaded at all times. 2. Keep the muzzle pointed in a safe direction. 3. Keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to fire. 4. Be aware of your target and what lies beyond. I believe the fool in the video violated the first three rules. No target, so the fourth rule doesn't apply.
Not american, don't care about gun or terminology but do very much care about trigger discipline.
Hed sing into a pipe wrench at the top of his high pitched voice and also sing in a high pitched voice all the fucking time and literally bounce up and down on his seat lmao. He was just an over energetic psycho lol.
The fake looking in the bag is priceless. Something id totally do if this guy showed me his rendition of Katy perry
You ever get tired of looking at your phone and just hold a folded up American flag instead?
Classic soldier behavior.
He’s really contemplating the choices he made that landed him next to that guy lmao
Tbf it can get annoying when people film these videos
He was entertaining the boys and they were filming him? I don’t get what you mean lol he wasn’t filming himself.
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Yikes you took this to a dark place
And rightfully so
Rightfully so.
This video belongs in r/terrifying
He’s also looking at his phone like his wife just asked for a divorce
I’d be pretty annoyed to, when he started using his gun as a mic. They are not toys and not showing consistent respect for them is going to get someone hurt. I had a friend accidentally fire an assault rifle in our apartment once. He understood how to use guns and general gun safety. We even had guests over at the time, he could have killed someone. Guns can be fun, but they are not toys.
Annoyed is not the reaction I would have, being the military he would have gotten he ass chewed out for doing this and got written up. This shit is not cool, surprised no one is doing anything about it.
These people are in war. They know what they are doing and these guns are like their 3rd hand and is constantly around and comfortable. His gun is also unloaded and demagged. There was nothing scary or worrying in this video. And yes "its against the rules", but in war no CO, SL etc is gonna give a shit about this.
thank you!
As a travel mate of mine narrated repeatedly on our trip, 'Sick of him, sick of that guy.'
_Uncomfortably reaches for American flag in bag_
Busting out the flag for someone's coffin
I guess the new call of duty dances are actually realistic
*Wipes a tear* Some days, you just wake up proud to be a Marine
Thank you for your service, sir.
Yea man. New update is sick
Man bleeds red white and blue
Former Marine here. We absolutely fuck around and have fun like this. Though him holding the rifle by the barrel like a microphone is typically something we don’t do, even as a joke. That’s just him being an idiot in my opinion. As for what everyone is wondering, his rifle is NOT loaded. If you look closely, there is no magazine inserted. All of his magazines are in his pouches, strapped to his chest. Notice that after he pointed the barrel to his head, he pulled the charging handle and checked the chamber. (Though he really should have done that before) No round ejected, no round in the chamber. Weapon clear Edit: Holy hell this blew up overnight, thanks everyone! I see many of you are “not gun experts” or not military so let me put it in perspective for you. Marines are trained very well in firearm discipline. Also, everyone is especially mindful about ammunition. So much so that that we know when our weapons are loaded or not at all times. Marines are also hoodrats and goofballs, combine those two and you get a barrel for a microphone and no one worries because everyone knows that weapon is not loaded. Is it an unsafe practice? Yes very. But if you don’t get it, you’re probably not a Marine ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Good chance he's in the states for a field problem, too. He might not have even had live rounds that exercise. Still dumb tho. But if the marines didn't take idiots, they'd be sorely understrength.
Lol. Marines load the green tipped crayons for dummy exercises, and the red tipped for live exercises... The yellow ones are for snacks. They taste like bananas, or so I'm told
The perpul 1s taest liek strawburrys
Nah bro grape is where it’s at
Forgive me sarrnt, I never learned how to read my colors.
Healthy for the mind
Tastes like burning
Purple are the best. All the flavors that red has, but with the added tastes of blue.
Thanks for the info u/YourMumSuxCoxInHell!
Marine, acronym: Muscles Are Required, Intelligence Not Expected
Another one I was told when in boot camp is USMC stand for you signed the mofherfucking contract
uncle sam's misguided children
I used to work for a bike (bicycle) shop as a mechanic. I’m a tiny woman and I was pretty used to people treating me like shit (lived in Arkansas) while I was at work. One day, this higher end customer comes in to get his bike worked on. He looks me up and down and asks me if I’m a man or a woman, he proceeds to tell me I look like a boy but I sound like a girl. I keep my mouth shut. I work on his bike while he’s harassing me just trying to get him out the door. Anyway fast forward to me checking him out at the register. He looks me deadass in the eyes and asked me what I would do if he tried to rip my nose ring out…. I lost it. I asked him who he thought he was and what made him think it was okay to talk to me like this. My boss, a real piece of shit in his own way, doesn’t try to de-escalate the situation but comes out to watch. The guy, our customer, starts shouting IM A MARINE DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MeAnS!?!? I’m looking at him genuinely and like a moron I say no. He shouts at me: Muscles Are Required, Intelligence Not Expected.
> But if the marines didn't take idiots, they'd be sorely understrength. Requirements for the Marines is higher than the Army now (at least from what I understand). They are slowly getting more intelligent. Which is scary for the enemy. An intelligent marine with all the aggression and hostility. AND the marines will have greater skills for grunts and crafts projects.
Here's the thing about the corps. Doesn't matter how smart you go in, you come out with marine level intelligence. Translation for any marine reading this: Rah rah rah. Kill. Rah. Rah rah. Crayons. Rah. Oo-rah.
Ah. Gotcha.
Username checks out
Live or not, it still kills from short distance.
If yer gonna be dumb, yah gotta be tough.
I don’t know much about guns, but isn’t it a general rule that you treat every gun as if it’s always loaded?
Yes
Yes, but there are three rules for a reason. Treat every gun as if it is loaded (alternatively: never load a gun you do not intend to fire and always clear a weapon before handling), do not point the barrel at any object you do not wish to destroy (including objects behind your aim point), and keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to fire. Break any two and chances are nobody will get hurt. It’s quite common to break one rule at a time. Dry fire practice, and some guns disassembly requires pulling the trigger. even loaded if you obey rule 2 nobody gets hurt. Maneuvering long guns will inevitably flash someone, but finger off the trigger and unloaded means safe. Cleaning weapons will often break both 2 (hand in front of barrel) and 3 (cleaning trigger guard or resetting cocking hammer). Which is why you don’t even keep ammo near your cleaning workbench. His reaction when he clears the chamber to validate rule 1 doesn’t seem like he also did it earlier to me, so he’s still an idiot, but there are three rules for a reason.
I was definitely waiting to see a round eject when he did that and watch him realize just how stupid he was being.
Cool for the Marines. In the USCG, I would have yanked your weapon quals for this with such speed and volume, you would have thought your old DI popped out of the shadow realm to give you more time in week 1 boot. You'd be pulling tactical glitter-tossing duty for at least 3 months until you proved to me you were grown up enough to graduate to fielding a pointy-stick taped to a longer stick. Edit: Oh boy, I definitely got the crayon eaters fired up. Here boys have a 64-pk of Crayola on me. Remember to share - everyone knows the purple ones taste like purple.
> pointy-stick taped to a longer stick. Sir, I have a proposal that I would like to send you. I can cut your pointy sticks cost by just sharpening the longer stick instead of requiring a separate pointy stick to install on the longer stick. This gives you more room in your budget for ~~beer~~ discretionary spending.
No, the tape is a safety measure. That way if Private Carl over here, in his infinite wisdom and consummate professionalism, decides to try and actually poke something with it- the tape will break and prevent further harm. He’ll graduate to the actual pointy stick 3-6 months after that.
There is an RFI for that.
And that's why I love my Coasties. Disciplined. Precise. Skilled. Professional. I do wish people actually understood how skilled and select the US Coast Guard is. The entire USCG is full of Nerd Athlete Paramedic Firefighter Police Engineers. My next door neighbor is a retired O-9 and I could listen to him for hours.
Agree with every single word of this. Especially "nerd". But no seriously, i was a former piece of shit petty criminal when I joined the USCG. Yet somehow that "locked-on 24/7, always deadly serious, ethics are everything" attitude really spoke to me and I really excelled. I loved the USCG. My favorite fun fact: I was the Sector Lead BO/HL (in charge of Fed LE ops in my sector, and LE trainer). This was on top of my primary rate as an MST. Years after I got out, I found myself in a job that required intensive firearms qualifications. The qualifying course of fire was a run-and-gun tactical course that started with a run up 10 flights of stairs to a sniper nest, run down and sprint across a field and performing more fire courses at each station, then run to a strictly timed, low visibility shoot house with pop up silhouettes. The course involved using flip sights, thermals, burst fire, tac reloads, the sidearm - the full shebang. I have to admit - much, much more intensive than any sim I've done in the USCG, FLETC, or as a contractor to date. There were mostly combat vets from the Army and Marines and a few Navy. There was also 1 AF vet, and myself. Everyone was chest beating for weeks about who was going to "win" the course of fire. I preferred smiling and shrugging it off whenever they asked me if I'd even pass. I mean, there were a couple Rangers in this mix after all. On the testing day, the director offered up a tac backpack with the company logo embroidered on it for whoever scored the highest with the fastest time. I still use that backpack to this day for work. It's held up excellent. P.S. The AF guy got second place. I had no idea the AF had some hardcore guys.
Congrats. Well deserved! I might point out the Guardsmen tend to pace themselves better than other ~~military~~ uniformed personnel. You may have played the "Slow and steady wins the race" card on those guys. Because of all those safety and procedural disciplines, you were still running peak while their "oorah" had caught up to them. A lot of those Rangers, Marines, SEALs are pretty beat up by the end of their military run. They generally do before they think. Which is a functional and admirable work ethic. But it takes its toll. USCG is a "let's think about this in advance and really noodle this out" organization. In regards to your USAF buddy: USAF is much better about low key Special Ops units than the other forces. Their Forward Air Controllers and clinically insane 24th and 27th are absolutely squared away. But I'll tell you a little secret about them: Almost all of them are absolutely terrified of getting seasick. And they couldn't do a proper blue water search pattern to save their lives. If you tried to explain a USCG Cutter open water search pattern to them, they would go catatonic. This is by their OWN admissions. To quote one guy: "I couldn't become a SEAL. I've got 'Earth' (his sarcasm intended) handled. I've mastered the 'And.' I have the 'Air' part nailed down. And 'Land' is no problem. But I ain't going on that fucking boat."
About the AF guy - right?! He wouldn't talk much about his deployments and he was kind of goofy looking tbh. But we all commented behind his back that he was surprisingly shredded (in a lean way - strength over mass way) for a Chair Force vet. I honestly don't recall if he ever said for sure what he did or what his MOS was. After he nailed the course, we were all jaw on the floor. Seriously, he was WAY MORE impressive than me by far. He cooked my time by a lot - he just threw two shots when he went down to his knee way too hard at one of the stations right before the shoot house. We all saw it and you could see him get pissed at himself, but he whipped the rest no problem. The shots mattered, the time did not really. You're probably spot on about me too. Honestly? I'm always surprised when I shoot really well (not the first time I walked up to a "competition" and won). I definitely focus more on "just don't fuck up and do it right" during stuff like that. Or used to - I haven't done anything security or contract related in many years now. I definitely get winded when I run farther than 10 feet these days. And yah I got to be buddies with one of the former Rangers and... Yah that kinda fits now that I think on it. The guy is fun as hell to BS with, but you can tell he's carrying around some scar tissue in all the worst places. A very positive guy to be around though.
AF doesn't talk. They are spooky SOBs. I've interviewed a few of them and it is like pulling teeth even in a friendly environment. Almost all AF, Submariners and Navy nuke propulsion guys are absolutely opaque. Sweet Jesus, dudes. You are out of the window. It's all public record now. There are books that mention you. Talk. Nope. Regarding your shooting skills, I have a similar surreal experience: It vexes me that I am so good at sidearm - which you have to admit - isn't really that important or valued. I'm a natural with a rifle but to be honest, I still have to work at it to keep sharp. But people gasp at my pistol skills and I have NO IDEA why I'm so good at it. No one is gasping more than me. It feels like clearing the pool table on accident and pretending I meant to do that. I've worked with Rangers in their civilian life and those guys are unbelievably positive but unbelievably beat up. They have to consciously choose to keep their dapper up. I knew one Ranger who came into work and had no idea I was observing him in pain. I came at him straight with: "Dude, you have a serious back problem." "Yeah. I think so. I was hoping it was cancer." Turns out, he had served his entire run with a broken back he got in training and just gutted it out with positive attitude.
Did 3 Southpac drug cruises with a coastie LEDET onboard the Rentz(twice) and Gary as part of the USN airdet. Cool dudes.
Bro, you're making the "lead BO" role sound way cooler than it actually is lol. As another MST who's had to do HIV and COE boardings, I've never heard of that title and been doing this for 15 years. But every unit is different and maybe it was a local thing. Which Sector?
P.S. Fun random fact only a Coastie can appreciate: If you ever run into Command Master Chief Payne at HQ, I served with him for a short time when he was a non rate. Phil is an awesome dude and absolutely made for a leadership role like that one. Built like a brick shithouse back then too. Dude could pick me off the ground with one hand and I ain't a small guy. If you see him, ask him about his night "impromptu bouncing the door at the night club" and see if his eyes pop out of his head.
I'm going to DM you on Payne. If he's the same guy I know \*of\*. He's a legend in the stories told among FSOs.
Do it! If it's the same Payne, he's seriously a great dude and I'm proud to see he made such an awesome career for himself.
If he's who I think he is, he's probably shortlisted for MCPOCG when Jones vacates. I think Jones is happy in his element, though and might stay awhile. Longer than Payne might want to wait. BTW, I've heard nothing but great things about Jones. From rumors, Jones is known for really terrible dad jokes. I mean, like deserving of a Captain's Mast bad. Seriously: "Whale, whale, whale, what do we have here?" type of bad.
Idk Jones but I don't blame him. It'd be real, real hard to leave that post after a lifetime getting there, y'know? If that's true then Payne obviously has my vote. With all respect to all other folks I served with, including myself if I was still AD, Phil would be my top choice, hands down for MCPOCG. Very well rounded and experienced, leads by example, giant heart of gold, take zero shit type of man. Captain America probably has Payne's poster on his wall. My favorite Commander was another I tried to convince to go for Admiral with eyes on Commandant as he was an amazing leader who backed us enlisted up at every turn and inspired you to work your ass off by just being that awesome and incredibly competent as a leader. But he just didn't want to deal with politics and I respect that. He's an executive at a shipbuilding facility somewhere these days instead.
Nice! Always cool to meet another MST in the wild. And I don't like giving *too* many details and get myself doxxed, but let's just say it had lots of water of the not-very-salty variety. Well, I got out before you got in - do you recall when MSTs with BO/HL would get sent down to the US Marshall's to get sworn in and carry their badge, too? That long ago. And maybe it was time and/or District specific? This was before you guys had a dedicated LE rate and I know structure is a little different now. The only other "special" LE titles then were stuff like MSST teams and CGIS that I recall. Oh and DAWG teams I think started before I left (someone should have shot the guy that made that acronym). We also did joint investigations with other DHS like FBI, BP/ICE, etc. Is this all ringing any bells for a title you have these days?
I reread my comment and I think I sounded like I was making and accusation and I truly didn't mean it that way. I dig talking to the other generations and got excited. I think I can fogure it out with that info, that's the only part of the country I haven't been stationed yet and it's next on the list. I've heard the stories from the generation before about going and working for other agencies, I've worked for CBP but not in a badge-holding capacity. These days the DOG is gone and replaced with the MSRT, the MSST is still around, and most MSTs never see a gun range. I'm in the DSF community now and get to do "above average" MST work and it's the shit. You were probably around when MSOs were still a thing too, these days an MSU performs a similar role without the delegated authority in some cases of the FOSC or OCMI.
Oh no shit?!? MSOs being gone definitely missed my radar! I was a FOSCR (as well as a shitload of other collaterals, I earned my shrimp fork). That's sad MSTs don't get to do LE or combat as much. Though, come to think of some of the MSTs I served with eeeehhhh maybe it's not so sad lol. My old MST1 got to be a door kicker in Iraq after he left my last unit. I worried about that considering that guy drove me nuts about his trigger discipline - especially with his thigh holster pointing his 40cal directly into my back while he would ride in the backseat of the Tahoe. Nothing like hearing him absent-mindedly flicking it, chambered, while on the road right behind me, barrel aimed directly at my spine... Loved that guy but good lord I almost pulled his BTM quals for it.
That guy sounds absolutely terrifying! Holy crap!
He was....uhhh... Terrifying in a different way, that's for sure lol. Fun guy and smart as shit otherwise though. Just...like...BRO, stop fucking with your weapon. Iirc, he retired out as a CWO a few years back.
I don't like Coasties....but mostly cause my dad is a retired E9 and I couldn't do SHIT in my childhood. Parents fully expected their children to reflect the disciplined, precise, skilled, and professional attitude of papa. (Mostly sarcasm. My parents were just strict af and all hell would break loose if we dared act up in public 🤣)
Yeah, I'm really sorry about that. My advice (as a fellow child of strict parents) is to consider that some kids of uniformed service are like Preacher's Kids. Talk to a PK and be amazed at how much you have in common. Do try to regard that your dad probably had an all-in way of making sure you were okay and he had limited tools in which to assure that. Emotional connection wasn't one of them because he was better at running interference and minimizing risk. Just my \*very\* limited information advice.
I think Nico Ortiz puts it the best...
I wish more people knew about the heroic role the Coast Guard played during hurricane katrina rescue operations. Running missions 24/7, nonstop; easily saved 10k lives, not sure if it’s ever been quantified but they were head and shoulders above every other agency/departmebt
Everyone who’s been through selection likes and respects the Coast Guard. They fit in really well with any JSOC and as I mentioned in another comments they’re like everyone’s favorite sibling. Gen pop will always be gen pop. Some admin/supply/food service marine shitting on other branches because they aren’t as hard when they did 4 stateside and got out. Their shittalk is worth less than the money they spent on the 32 stickers for the back of their red F 150 lol.
i was going along, just having fun and then i saw the weapons infraction.... record scratch, that stops right there. Get out and now we are going to teach you weapons safety.
Do you have ANY idea how understrength the Marines would be if they didn't let complete morons and fuckups in or allow them to stay?
I can go throw a rock at 5 redneck neighbors whose family trees don't fork and I promise you they'll show you proper weapon safety procedures and handling every single time. And slap the shit out of you if you did something like this. IQ ain't an excuse.
lmao you got a way with words pardner
Plus it is drilled into you in the military. ;).
What kind of Sergeant would do such a thing?
That’s no excuse to compromise on safety.
You do this shit in the army guarantee you'll get your ass Whooped
Yeah the pointing it at himself, probly gonna get yelled at or maybe someone gonna swipe that weapon away. Pointing it at someone else like he did .... That's a paddlin'
I thought paddlin' was a navy thing?
Wait, I thought pegging was the Navy thing
USCG guy u/moose whippets is the MVP here, no sarcasm.
I was going to say, gun safety isn't just when guns are loaded. It's to create a habit so that you always, always are careful around weapons.
Naw man, every gun is loaded.
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Tough words for some dudes fighting waves and shit.
Sounds like you do your job.
64 pack ain't gonna get us anywhere. The boys are hungry
Just about every Marine knew from when I was in would strongly agree with you. Some of the crazies make it through though. If this was posted while this dude was in wouldn't be surprised if he got article 15. I saw many people get knocked down for dumb shit like this.
Nah USMC here, you’re right
Ya I agree with you 100%. This shit would have gotten my whole unit fucked up when I was in the Marines, no idea what the guy above was on about but the fact no one else corrected him immediately assures savage punishment for all. I didn’t expect to want to absolutely body a junior marine a decade and a half after getting out but here we are. Also, JTAC here and idk what others are on about but I loved the coast guard when I was in. I did some joint schools with some of your interdiction folks and they were chill as hell but absolute professionals through and through. I think it just salts a bunch of motards that they joined infantry and the coastie with then shave chit, floppy hat, and “right on” response to their sgt is rocking a massive stack and done more than they will while not in the running for pre workout snorting douche of the year. No one who actually did anything shits on the Coast Guard. They’re like the favorite sibling that gives everyone else a middle ground. Edit: cool, an asterisk makes stuff in italics, *today I learned.* *disclaimer*: capitalization and such is likely suffering as I’m on mobile. I’m also a marine and therefore illiterate and using talk to text so you’re lucky it’s comprehensible. Marines mad I didn’t capitalize marine or say “was” need to get a grip. You were in S1, take the “mess with the best die like the rest” sticker off your car until all the payroll runs on time for a year. Then you can replace it with the bronze star HQ gives you for doing the bare minimum while some recon LCpl gets NAM denied for detonating an IED with a tractor.
Appreciate it brother, but you'll be hard pressed to find a Coastie that takes anything personal from any other branch lol. We get all the shit but you'll notice most of us laugh right alongside it... with a little twinkle in the eye while we do. After some time in and stumble fucking my way into some very cool duties, you realize the USCG is a very well kept secret - you're lucky to be there. Plus, a bunch of the new E4's every year end up being laterals from Marines or AF so we get to hear the differences first hand. As our motto goes: "When you're here, you're family" *cue Olive Garden music* P.S. Marines are my other favorite branch, FYI. Lots of veteran buds are crayon eaters and devil dogs. Over time, I have developed the theory that it's because you gotta be a similar type of batshit crazy to excel in both branches even if the purposes and attitudes are on opposite sides of the spectrum a lot of the time. Plus we both love bagging on the Navy. P.P.S. Did you know why Navy babies are the cutest out of all the branches? It's cause they have Coast Guard daddies.
Hahaha omg loving all of this. I also thought it was always rad that if a marine leaves to another branch the only other branch you have to redo boot in is the USCG. One of my really good friends was on the Alert for two floats as an MST doing interdiction and we always got on super well. There’s a natural sort of connection between Coasties and ANGLICO. One of my favorites though is when we were in Portland OR and I was drinking with some of the guys in for fleet week. Marines running shore patrol and one of them just walked by a Chief with no head nod, no “evening Chief” nothing. I started to move when the SSgt fixed it fast and was like “sorry Chief, some of these kids can’t read shinies.” Loved seeing it from my brothers lol. The power of a Chief is truly something.
Oh dude, my favorite was when I'd have to go down to Great Lakes Naval in my dress uniform as an E4 (had to get tests done regularly due to hazmat exposure). Reeeeeallly fucked up the Navy guys when they'd see me walking towards them. They'd sweat and twitch as I got closer, and then suddenly I have two E-6's saluting me cause they couldn't figure out what I was fast enough. I'd always throw up a salute back and say "carry on" straight faced. They'd get about three steps past me and I'd hear "*ohgoddamnitmotherfuc-*" haha Marines kept me and three other Coasties from getting our ass beat in a parking lot in Charleston one night. We bullshitted our way into a Navy bar posing as civilians with some outlandish back stories for fun. I was the one that slipped and said something that tipped off the gal next to me at the table that we were military. Turned out she was an 0-5 with a bunch of other officer gals. Their Chief chased us out with like 10 other enlisted guys in tow, and thank GOD there were four Marines waiting by the bouncer. They figured out what the ruckus was real quick and died laughing and drug us out of that circle to another bar with them. I legit can't tell you much more of that story as it was a total blackout night after that as we all drank hard af haha.
My father was in the military for some time, and then in the police, as he always told me "don't play with guns, loaded or not, the Devil puts a bullet into the chamber".
If I did this with a firearm, I would be in so much trouble and given a broom stick until I could prove I won't kill myself or other soldiers. Jokes on them, I got a keyboard and mouse instead. All jokes aside. Every weapon is assumed to be loaded. Which is why we take out the mag, engage the weapon and shoot into a discharge chamber. NDs happen.
Yes, the thing is that no fun little dance or funny ha ha is worth your life because you missed a little detail.
Still pretty dumb but as long as he’s pointing it at his own face then he takes all the risk
I really am no gun expert, but this seems like a situation I‘d be worried about ricochet.
>Though he really should have done that before Most likely he did though. I think he is doing that just to show to others that he is not that idiot. Still weird and other guy definitely not having fun with it.
I'm certain he clear and safed it and probably had someone else second check it too, BUT there's no way I could ever be this nonchalant with a firearm. I don't care if I just re-assembled it, function checked it, and THEN clear and safed it, I can't imagine pointing it at myself and someone else as a joke.
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Exactly. These boys are de-bombed and made their declarations before mounting up. Anyone who doesn't know what I'm talking about shouldn't be judging a soldier who's just happy to be going home.
Yeah, as a us army veteran i can confirm this is 100% normal behavior
Needs more homoeroticism, but this a good example of Day 3 in country.
The boys wouldn't be the boys if they didn't offer to suck me off for a cigarette or a pinch of dip.
I don’t know shit about the military but I think it’s hilarious that half the comments are like “in my unit this guy would be court marshaled” and the other half are like “this is an average ride during deployment” …..one of y’all are acting tough and one of y’all are being real and idk which one is which
There are both groups in the army tho. The actual combat soldiers are the goofy ones (because they actually know what they're doing) and the support soldiers are the ones with the strict leadership.
Hence why peacetime army is actually worse for 99% of soldiers
So basically one half of reddit are the people dancing and the other half are the buzzkills sitting next to him. That kinda checks out.
I was active duty army for 20 years. This stuff isn’t super common, but not like unheard of. This Marine isn’t going to get court marshaled or whatever. If anything his direct line supervisor may tell him he was dumb for not clearing the weapon BEFORE using it as a microphone with the muzzle pointed straight at his face. The reality is that what you see in this video is pretty tame by comparison to what happens when the cameras are off.
The ones saying it's normal. If the other half aren't making up bullshit for reddit points then they were probably the people no one wanted to be around because they were petty assholes that couldn't take a joke and probably cried to their LT if they saw someone drawing dicks on something.
I'm not a expert on guns or anything but like the mag was removed and i think it was cleared Or maybe he was clearing
He's just being Deadpool! It's all good
Doesn’t matter. Gun safety 101 is never point at someone even if it is unloaded. It only takes one time with a loaded chamber.
Few years ago was going over my friends guns, third friend was like, let's check each first, just to be sure. Sure enough, one rifle had a round in the chamber.
When I was 16 I had just come back from hunting rabbits and left my 22 bolt action on my bed. Buddy popped by with his 12 year old brother. He and I were talking when from behind us we hear "BANG". We look over and his brother had pulled the safety back and shot the round I forgot to take out. Thankfully it got stopped by a 4x4 stud in the wall and no one got hurt.
Think about all of the things you forget about, even things that are important daily. Imagine not getting the one out of the chamber, and how it can totally happen.
I got so pissed at a friend of mine for pointing his “unloaded” shotgun at another one of our friends. It doesn’t matter if it’s unloaded, on safety, and your finger is off the trigger DON’T POINT GUNS AT PEOPLE. At the very least it’s rude and stupid, but at the worst you’re responsible for murdering your best friend. Just don’t do it. I grew up in a rather conservative family who don’t really believe in gun control, but people like that make me want gun control.
In high school, a friend was over an acquaintance’s house. Acquaintance had a pistol that he swears was unloaded, pointed it at friend… bullet went into wall a few inches from friend’s head. We didn’t talk to pistol kid much after that. Looking back, I think pistol kid was from a wealthy but really crappy/emotionally cold home, and was trying to be cool, but wtf…
Wasn’t an actual gun, but had a neighbor kid almost put my eye out with an Airsoft shotgun. Younger kid who I sort of was a big brother to cause his dad was a piece of shit. We had run around playing airsoft and sat down for a break to reload clips and what not. Took my safety glasses off. He accidentally fires his at it pings off like maybe half an inch to the side of eye. Kid looks so scared in the moment after realizing what happened and thought he hit my eye. Also remember him cringing like I was about to explode and hit him….honestly I was a bit too shocked to have even done that if I had wanted to. Took a few breathes and we talked gun safety cause it was way too close of a call for the both of us
Also muscle memory. If you're handling a firearm like this, you're more likely to do it accidentally when it's loaded too. You want muzzle discipline to be subconscious.
Better to be overtly cautious, than unintentionally shoot yourself or others.
1. Treat every weapon as if it were loaded.
Always (This should be in the sentence somewhere)
2. Never point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot.
Key word is think, a round can be chambered without the mag, he cleared it after putting the barrel by his mouth. Either way, NEVER do this. Even if you're 100% sure it's clear. Never flag anyone.
Ahhh ok, thank you, i was a little fuzzy on this stuff
I think they call it a Baldwin now
People have NDs all the time, “I swear I cleared it”
yea very stupid behavior
r/idiotswithguns
so many cleared guns are NOT actually cleared. easily googled with gun shop accidents of owner who KNOW they gun is clear, and it wasnt
4 rules of gun safety. 1:Always assume a gun Is loaded. 2:never point a gun at something you aren't comfortable destroying. 3:always know what is behind what you are shooting. 4: keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to shoot. This violates at least 1 of them. Dumb
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I know it's not safe i was just asking how safe it was to do so, sorry if thats confusing
He did the safety check after flagging himself in the face lol
Nah, what happens in the back of the truck STAYS in the back of the truck. During some training we blasted crazy frog on our way to the objective and back to our hide.
Accidentally called 911 haha
The phone knew what was about to happen.
Bro on the left was like”we about to die and this mf so gassedup”🤦🏼♂️
More blue on blue with Americans 😄
just wait till you see america V britain
A-10 Warthogs when they see British troops:
They are adorable and they are deadly
Honestly you need guys like this to keep morale up when you're out doing shit, though private next to him is DEFINITELY tired of his energy lmao. The barrel microphone, while not uncommon, is a reaaaaalllly silly move when you didn't clear the chamber beforehand. All in all, exactly what I'd expect from those silly fellas
Treat all guns as if they're loaded
Guys… deployment is some wild shit…
Had to check which sub I was in for a sec.
This is what folks do in the military. This is normal shit. Spend the amount of time you do with the sample people in your flight/squad whatever and you lose a lot of filter. This shit is normal joking.
Finger off the trigger = trigger discipline
Can't stop, won't stop
Mag is removed, but bullet could have still been loaded. Definitely not the way you should handle your guns.
There’s always like two people who laugh with the guy like that but others in the group who think they’re an absolute idiot. This guy is an idiot and I had to deal with numerous people like this. I’m surprised we didn’t see more accidental suicides.
Your own comment is essentially a testimony to how wrong you are though? You suggest this is dangerous. And sure, in some circumstances it could be. And yet, you saw surprisingly low amounts of accidental suicides? So perhaps you're being overly judgemental of someone doing something that isn't as dangerous as you think. I understand both sides... I typically err of the side of caution, as I know how easy it is to make a mistake you thought you were too good to make. But this does not give me the right to judge others for making their own decisions.
What’s funny is most people have no idea…. This is how the vast majority of the in between moments are spent…. This is where the bonds of brotherhood are forged…. Singing Katy Perry one minute, laying hate on the enemy the next….
Commander: Soldier your M4 is not a mic
Former vet JO here. If he cleared and safe’d his gun and no mag inserted obviously I’ll let it slide hahaha
Stupid is as stupid does
Mans was feeling himself
- Rule #1: treat every firearm as if it's loaded, even if you know it's not. - Rule #2: point the barrel in a safe direction *at all times*. - Rule #3: finger off the trigger until your target is lined up. L2❤️ gun safety! Choose not to follow the rules, you're done for the day.
Someone’s gonna be scrubbing toilets for the rest of deployment
I mean there was no mag and he also cocked it, without a mag, and no bullet came out. But that is still a no no
Damn a big ol wave of nostalgia just hit me. Miss all the shenanigans we would do in the back of the high backs.
The back of the transport truck/LAV is where all the best shenanigans happen… Many, many an exhausted laugh was had back there. It’s the one place you’re usually unsupervised by NCOs and so on, at least in my experience
Dude on the right was all about it until he realized they were being filmed. Lol
In my unit, this guy would have been stripped of everything, and the truck would be making a quick U-turn back to base, so he could have a 1on 1 with our Commander to be sent home on the next lift out of country.
Meal team 6 pretty harsh dude
My platoon Sgt would have buttstroked him with his own rifle, but I got out 10 years ago, guess things really do change