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