0:02 I like the World War II where it's just
0:05 like yeah he stormed an entire Nazi
0:07 bunker by themselves so we made him a
0:10 captain yeah whatever happened to
0:12 Battlefield commissions and [ __ ] we were
0:14 at War for 20 years you're saying like
0:16 not one enlisted men was just like hey
0:18 bro you're a [ __ ] E7 now you're the
0:21 platoon leader like you're promoted
0:23 you're [ __ ] you're on it I will say
0:26 soldiers go ahead no that was it I'm
0:28 just you know that's a [ __ ] video I should
0:28 should
0:33 make you should [ __ ] 100,000 1 million
0:36 Joe's in 20 years of war and not one Battlefield
0:38 Battlefield
0:40 commission what a load of [ __ ] [ __ ]
0:42 holy [ __ ] that doesn't happen
0:44 anymore I'm just saying like I feel like
0:48 that was I call me [ __ ] crazy but I
0:50 gauge how good a leader is by how many
0:52 men are willing to follow him and back
0:53 in World War II it was
0:57 like I trust that guy and they're like
0:58 you know what you're right he's a
1:00 [ __ ] badass we should probably get
1:02 him a promotion not basing it off of
1:03 like how many [ __ ] schools you went
1:06 to and how good your PT test was it's
1:08 kind of scary though cuz you're you're
1:09 also weighing the odds you're like that
1:11 guy's the leader it's like I don't
1:14 know he kind of just stormed three
1:17 Machine Gun Nest by
1:22 himself he might be crazy no he has
1:26 motivation like there's there's there's
1:28 nowhere safer to be than right behind
1:31 the crazy guy I mean the motherfucker's
1:33 wearing plot armor he'll take the brunt
1:34 to that well they had you know what I'm
1:37 saying I didn't know that started in the
1:39 the Roman times with the people that got
1:41 over the gate first you know the ones
1:43 that would Rite ride in or put the
1:45 ladders up they used to fight to get
1:48 open and over because usually you die
1:50 but the first person to actually secure
1:52 a spot get up and start fighting and
1:55 live that dude got a kind of what you're
1:57 saying like a
2:00 promotion yeah they were held a hero and
2:02 they got like this Golden Crown and then
2:04 they got to put them into politics and
2:07 [ __ ] that's how you had everyone rushing
2:10 up to get on the wall first cuz that was
2:12 a good question I was like yeah how do
2:13 you motivate dudes it's like yeah
2:17 chances are you're dying but if you
2:20 win all the glory in the world my guy
2:22 well let's just Mulligan this [ __ ] we'll
2:23 go ahead and go back call up your buddy
2:25 Clint romet let's get Pete heg on the
2:26 phone we're going to make that
2:28 [ __ ] like a major and give him
2:30 major retirement at that [ __ ] it colel
2:32 yeah Lieutenant Colonel yeah major he
2:33 doesn't make coffee Lieutenant Colonels
2:35 kind of do some stuff they look at
2:38 slides yeah now I'm like what is it
2:40 called the first person on the wall I'm
2:42 going to look it up you got like a cool
2:46 little hat it's made of
2:51 gold it's like hey uh oh the mural
2:55 Crown the corona Morales Corona moral
2:57 you be awarded that if you were the
3:00 first one to scale the wall and bes
3:03 during a besieged city you know not you
3:06 know so like the youngest NCO in US
3:07 history I just had to Google this cuz I
3:10 knew it was something [ __ ] yeah the
3:13 the youngest NCO in US military history
3:18 is John Lincoln Clen aka the D the
3:21 drummer boy of chick magua he was
3:24 promoted to Corporal at 12 years old
3:26 during the Civil War after taking
3:30 shrapnel as a Drummer Boy
3:33 yep I like it at 12 I'm a
3:36 fan we we need Battlefield promotions
3:39 they need to make a comeback Wait so the
3:41 Little Drummer Boy was the youngest
3:43 person to get a
3:47 commission yeah well he's an here we
4:02 B and yet I see King
4:11 my um promoted to Corporal at the age of
4:14 12 in the Civil War unofficially
4:16 enlisted in the 22nd Michigan infantry
4:20 at the age of nine notable action at the
4:22 Battle of chamagua he reportedly killed
4:25 a Confederate officer who demanded his
4:30 Surrender At what age 12 I'm
4:37 guy he was the last Civil War veteran to
4:40 retire from service in 1915 at the rank
4:44 of Brigadier General what oh my God
4:46 [ __ ] Drummer Boy in the Civil War
4:48 ended up being a brigadier general till
4:50 1915 what time did you when did you
4:54 enlist when I was nine wait 1915 did did
4:55 did he he would have then served during
4:58 World War I yeah that's what I was about
5:01 to say damn close hold on when was when
5:05 was World War I so 1914 I thought right
5:06 we didn't get we didn't get involved
5:11 until 197 17 okay y started in 1914 so
5:13 he could have been
5:17 like um well well this War's a lot
5:19 bigger than the last one I was
5:22 in The Whole World's on it damn it
5:24 Jeremy that's what we'll call it what's
5:28 that the world war and they called it that
5:35 God and you know as a bror general he
5:37 was like get the 9-year-old boys let's
5:38 get this
5:42 happening nine how do you [ __ ] do
5:45 that imagine your n old joining could
5:47 you imagine serving under a general
5:48 being like
5:52 bro General Clen joined when he was nine
5:54 he was a drummer boy in the Civil War
5:56 that killed a Confederate officer when
5:59 he demanded that he surrender at 12
6:02 that's is the most gangster story on the
6:04 planet the kid's playing some he's
6:06 playing dodgeball on expert level with cannon
6:12 balls I just more picture just walking
6:14 up I guarantee it was like an older guy
6:17 like hey kiddo you need to
6:19 surrender and he pulls out a [ __ ]
6:21 musket and shoots him in the
6:25 chest that's imagine you imagine walking
6:27 up to an 18-year-old drafty in World War
6:30 I Like Son by the I was your age I was
6:33 already in for 9 years oh my God I was
6:35 halfway that's [ __ ] crazy I was
6:38 halfway through my he halfway through
6:40 his 20-year contract her to retirement
6:44 at 18 I was already an officer and had
6:47 confirmed kills on enemy officers as a
6:50 Drummer Boy by the time I was your age
6:52 before my balls dropped I had killed a
6:55 man his voice squeaked when the [ __ ]
6:57 Confederate officer asked him to
6:59 surrender you need to surrender [ __ ] you
7:05 R and you know he had that [ __ ]
7:06 musket it was like he was on a [ __ ]
7:09 like a a milk crate just trying to he
7:11 had a pistol there there's no way he had
7:14 have a pistol he [ __ ] had his
7:17 Grandpa's blunder bus from the pirate
7:25 Hamilton what war uh what war story do
7:28 we got we're an hour and five in I think
7:30 it's a good time to ease in into what
7:32 the podcast was supposed to be I know
7:35 right um so I got one and it it's a
7:37 short one but it reminds me of something
7:39 I saw myself so I was like okay we can
7:43 talk about this you're dick yeah no
7:46 talks about how small he is I'm grabing
7:48 a water real quick okay oh that's great
7:50 Eli why don't you go grab something when
7:52 we're about to read a thing that we're
7:54 about to talk about together is a group
7:57 and so I shot that
8:00 guy so again really short so I went he
8:02 [ __ ] up my
8:11 thumb I was just n years
8:15 old I can't stop it I can't stop it that's
8:22 cotton God damn it I said let's save those
8:28 guys are we going to finish this they
8:48 B oh God this War's kind of fun oh my gosh
