Libs of TikTok, Deception and a Soldier's Missing Gear

I do not believe that Chaya Raichik, the owner of Libs of TikTok, has the military experience to properly evaluate the video she posted on November 20th. This may just be a case of a soldier losing has gear and trying to come up with a way to clear CIF.

If I am wrong, and the soldier's commander contacts me, I will pay any difference not raised in the Venmo account up to the amount he owes.

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I do not believe that Chaya Raichik, the owner of Libs of TikTok has the military experience to properly evaluate the video she posted on November 20th. This may just be a case of a soldier losing has gear and trying to come up with a way to clear CIF.

If I am wrong, and the soldier's commander contacts me, I will pay any difference not raised in the Venmo account up to the amount he owes.

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[Evirthewarrior]

I was infantry and later reclassed to supply and have a few deployments, his story made no sense. If what he said was the case, he would have taken care of it when they returned home. We had guys get things destroyed via enemy action and it was not a complex process to get it replaced or removed from your hand receipt. Also, there is basically zero chance that in 2 years the dude didn't have need of his IFAK, body armor, and assault pack for some type of training as infantry and no one was like "hey where is your gear?"

[JM-vbzo]

I hated dealing with dumb facebook post as an NCO. Now they got to deal with it in the hyper politicized internet we have now. I don't envy them.

[DenysLukoshkin]

I'd also like to note that most of the billions "sent to Ukraine" actually stays in the US. They are spent to order new equipment instead of old one that was sent to Ulraine. Otr to order a new equipment to be produced. In any case, it happens inside the US

[mcnultyssobercompanion]

Last week Ryan dresses down leftwing hysterics acting crazy on a boat in San Francisco. Today Ryan dresses down rightwing hysterics speaking out of turn online.

Ryan is my man.

[borland]

As a US Army Veteran who was every kind of E-4 you described(Well, I ETSed as my Corporal paperwork was still pending) as well as being an E-4 platoon sergeant and E-4 tracked vehicle commander I'd like to weigh in on that person's situation.

He is intercourse up. Now, he did have help, his unit should have had a full layout upon return from deployment. So, that would be on his commander, platoon sergeant, and squad leader. But, if he was told to "leave gear behind" and did so, he should have been up everyone's butt in his chain of command about it, and that failure lays squarely on his shoulders. Everyone knows after the first time they do a layout in the Army that if you're missing something, it either needs to be replaced by you, or the money is coming out of your check.

All of that being said, this jack wagon is a Specialist. How does he not know if stuff is missing he is paying for it? And, most importantly, how can he be an E-4 and not know how to redistribute items to a source of better need?

So I am calling complete male cow droppings on all of this. It is extremely unlikely his unit did not do a full layout after deployment. It is extremely unlikely this Specialist did not know if he was missing stuff he would have to pay for it. It is also extremely unlikely he would not have replaced it BEFORE he has to turn his issued equipment to CIF because EVERYONE knows their ETS date. I cannot imagine how he could be so irresponsible as to NOT KNOW what gear he is missing in the first place. I also find it highly unlikely his Fire Team Leader, Squad Leader AND Platoon Sergeant were not aware of him missing equipment . . . unless he had pawned it.

Based on my experience, the real chain of events he is not telling is probably something like: he left his gear in Afghanistan as he was told. Did a lay out after the deployment. Got his missing gear replaced. Then sold, traded or pawned it, hence him missing training armor and not real armor. It is likely he was either involuntarily separated or medicalled out ahead of his expected ETS and was expecting to have more time to replace his gear. So instead of accepting personal responsibility for his actions, he is blaming others and flinging excrement all over the place to see what sticks in an attempt to weasel out of the consequences.

[mc-zyju]

Lol this guy got the whitehouse confused with his local command.

[stophate]

This dude is e-4 Mafia barracks lawyer 😂

[DumbaBubba]

"You put me here" is such a funny statement to me. Its not like he was drafted.
Also it got within 134 range once Libs of Tictok reposted the vid. It's one thing to complain on Facebook to your friends but once it hit millions of people he was done for.

[wellssterlingw]

He doesn't owe $3500. That is the amount for all of the gear he is currently signed for. There are several items that you don't turn in that will "fall off" once he clears the rest for free. From a former supply NCO.

[grahamhowell]

I'm not an American and I've never been in the military but I find your videos very educational and the dose of calm no politics skepticism and realism is killer

[ifneeded]

I'm willing to bet he was honest in the first part, which is where he said he left 500-1000 in Afghanistan and it wasn't FLIPLed. But then he shows his bill for $3500 (that includes gear lost here) to make people more sympathetic and to hopefully send him some money.

[DahVoozel]

The likelihood this soldier will be a speaker at a CPAC event is not 0%.

[joshthompson]

Hey I called out this guy's bull on his TikTok yesterday! Glad to see it here.

[christophermcanally]

A specialist lied about his lost gear! I am so surprised.

[MarcosElMalo]

I lost a gallon of milk and I received 4 Quart Martials. True story.

[spage]

Total BS once he returned from the combat zone his gear would have been inventory and any loss would have been noted and the paperwork would have been done.

[Jebbis]

That tripled in cost very quickly, and then tried to turn it into a political statement. Something aint right.

[mey.tomhero]

Just another showing of how amazing Ryan is. Really appreciate unbiased reporting like this

[Eddy_Sapo]

It’s been 2 years since the pull out from Afghanistan. I’ve never seen a unit go two years without doing a bag drag (lay out). I seriously doubt the army would just now be finding out about equipment lost two years ago.