“I Seen Combat But Never War” SGM of the Army | Green Beret Reacts

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
00:58 - US Near Peer Threat War Analysis
02:00 - Combat vs. War Explained
03:42 - Next Generation Military Readiness

[Andy-imkj]

A real war against another professional army would be fucking nuts. Both sides using drones and robotics would be a nightmare.

[destroyer]

Consider this. During the Battle of the Bulge, the 110th Infantry Regiment held off an entire German Panzer Corps for 72 hrs. At the end of the three infantry battalions, two tank battalions with artillery, nobody came back. They had no air support, little artillery and fought in the cold with no KBR messhall. They died in place. But their sacrifice of 48 hrs held off the panzers until the 101st arrived at Bastogne. Could it be done again, certainly, but are we, as a country willing to pay the price.

[BeardedChieftain]

Korea was our last "near peer" conflict.

"The Boardwalk" was the shit after 9months living outside the wire.

[erickiyoshiphillips]

We always adapt man. We always do. We will rise to the occasion

[FrankCastle]

On a glass half full note. During a recent exercise I witnessed 4 young PVTS and a PFC use one of their personal vehicles because it was “closer and readily available” to detain a person of interest. The same group were positioned under a pavilion of sorts during 100 degree + temperatures waiting for the next trailing evolution to begin. 100ft away was an industrial propeller sized fan next to an outlet that wasn’t plugged in. I watched multiple groups use that pavilion and nobody walked over and plugged the fan in. These kids had that fan plugged in as soon as eyes were laid on it. I know most of this generation sucks. But there are some real gems 💎 hidden amongst the 💩

[rudd]

Gulf War was considered Near Peer until after the first 100 hours! We trained for near peer war until 2001! I was stationed in Germany in the late 80s n early 90s! When we were alerted we drove to our Battle Positions! The mindset is totally different! The training was hell of different! I was in ftom 86-2007, we trained and qualified with Bayonets! The Army took the bayonets in '93. This generation is not even ready for the training! Its going to be hard to use those phones when you go Black out! No Fobs, No Showers, No PortaPots! Slit trench shyt in the woods wit your battle buddy standing there literally covering your 6! CBRN training! Humping in MOPP4! Shyt! Going to be rough!

[charlesmsloat]

We absolutely are not ready for a near peer war!

[vy]

Um Korea? Guess that’s why they call it the forgotten war.

[jojr]

I jokingly call Afghanistan the ‘Second Forgotten War’ because for most of the time we were there America and Americans forgot about us being there.

[JO_International]

Korean War was “near peer” ish… We fought China

[cjtexas]

As someone who never has seen combat or war, but a casual student of it, the most qualified people would be your GWOT veterans who are all approaching or already at middle aged. Institutionally, this country and the military has changed so much a shift of priorities would be difficult.

[RichardMctere]

I'm 50/50 of what this guy Considers wars, I myself was in 2 conflicts and 1 war sort of speak . I served in the Invasion of Grenada in 1983 we were there for about 4 days some units did stay back until Nov 2 .I then served in the Invasion of Panama in Dec1989 to Jan 1990 again I was their a short time . 5 months later deployed to the middle east and 2 months Before the Gulf war started my unit was deployed Desert Shield/Desert Storm this was my longest deployment in a combat zone about 10 months or so then went on to conduct other operations in Central and South America.The gyus who came after me and served in Iraq and Afghanistan had it much harder than we did .In my opinion I consider both the Korean war and Vietnam as wars along with World War 1 & 2 .Vietnam was no walk in the park just ask the Veterans who served in Vietnam .Thank you for your service to all Veterans and current Members of the US Military.

[blueg]

Our kids will carry the flag. It seems to me that all of us GWOT bros are on the same sheet of music. Not to mention that we'll pick that rifle back up and do what is necessary. 💪🏾

[chad_hagg_TX]

You're absolutely correct, Jay! WW2 was the last, "we don't know the outcome" fight. I tried to instill this into my guys when I was a 1SG, but it is difficult to get it into their heads. I know exactly what he is talking about. The American people do not have the stomach to prepare for this type of fight. It is a you'll know what it means when it happens. It will take a few months to get that mindset into the public. Hopefully, we have enough time to make that change. Another point, we do not have the capital it will take to ramp up and " out produce" our adversaries like in WW2. We're roughly 37+ trillion in debt currently. Our country doesn't have the means to resupply in a sustained fight. Were short 155s, 5.56, rockets, missiles, etc. In a near peer fight, on foreign land, were fu&ked. On the homeland, we probably fare a little better.

[thomasritz]

Wise words from the Sergeant Major of the Army. Coming into KAF to resupply always pissed us off. Was a totally different world. We are NOT ready for that kind of conflict....

[monkeyTim]

Big difference between early GWOT and late GWOT.

[johndoe-ghor]

Americans has always rose to the occasion. They wasn’t ready before WW2 and yet we won that. We wasn’t ready for GWOT and yet we adapted

[roninjanjira]

If we had an Iraq war type situation with a near peer then no. If the freedom of the US was directly threatened like in WW2, then that American spirit will kick in. One thing I've noticed about US service members after 24 years of working with various militaries is that we are in fact "built different".

[DariusGatsby]

As a 23 year old looking to join AFSPECWAR I can definitely say my generation is not at all ready, we forget the world is dangerous

[ominouspuppet]

I’m a holdover after finishing OSUT waiting to go to RASP right now. I’ve been thinking about this more lately:about the reality of fighting against an Army/Armies not unlike our own and what we’re risking as a country if any of us who’ve just entered service aren’t prepared to fight a conventional war. And if the American people are ready to support and defend the Nation despite our internal issues, for the greater good.