1LT Creech

All Personnel,
 
 
Op Gatecrasher 02-17.  
 
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Sorry to air guys.  Didn't get much of you in the video.
 
PS Excuse the mistake with the name on the graphic.

Mr. Voce,
 
Welcome to the 4th MRB Realism Unit! I have processed you in as a WOC because of your prior service. Please report into the Phase III: Individual Training Course (ITC) forum at your earliest convenience.
 
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SSgt Stone
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WHAT THE GERMAN'S THOUGHT OF THE AMERICAN FIGHTING MAN AFTER WORLD WAR 1, or THE GREAT WAR (as it was known at that time.)
 
After World War 1, Germans wrote about the war.  Here are some of the quotes from Germans who fought or encountered Americans after the war.
(And, NO, I wasn't there!)
1. Chief of Staff for General v. Einem, Third German Army
 
“I fought in campaigns against the Russian Army, the Serbian Army, the Roumanian Army, the British Army, the French Army, and the American Army. All told in this war I have participated in more than 80 battles. I have found your American Army the most honorable of all our enemies. You have also been the bravest of our enemies and in fact the only ones who have attacked us seriously in this year’s battles. I therefore honor you, and, now that the war is over, I stand ready, for my part, to accept you as a friend.”
 
2. Karl Finkl of Bolingen
 
“The prevailing opinion in Germany before our entry into war, was, that American was a money hunting nation, too engrossed in the hunt of the dollar to produce a strong military force. But since our troops have been in action the opinion has changed, and he says that though Germany is at present a defeated nation, he believes that they would be victors in a war with any nation in the world with the exemption of the United States.”
 
3. Antone Fuhrmann of Mayschoss
 
“There were only a handful of Americans there but they fought like wildmen.”
 
4. Peter Bertram, shopkeeper of Dernau
 
“I had been told by other soldiers that the American infantryman was reckless to the point of foolishness.”
 
7. Postal Censorship, April 12, 1919
 
“Prisoners of war under American jurisdiction continue to send home glowing reports of good treatment. It is clearly deducible that they are more satisfied with their present condition, than they would be at home”
 
8. M. Walter of Minderlittgen
 
“The attitude of the American officer towards enlisted men is very different than in our army in which officers have always treated their men as cattle.”
 
9. Michael Simon of Neuerburg
 
“Children have constantly talked of the Americans’ arrival, and pictured them as a band of wild Indians, however, when they troops arrived, we were astonished at their behavior and pleasant attitude toward our people.”
 
10. Karl Schramem, Landstrumer of Zermullen
 
“The American troops show much more consideration for the private rights of the inhabitants of the village than did the German troops.”

All Personnel,
 
 
A training mission video from over a month ago.  Still trying to get caught up.
 
Don't forget to go to the 4th MRB YouTube Channel. 
 
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Brilliant!! Thanks Captain I promised a trailer, and I got you a solo aha.
 
 
 
1LT Creech, THANK YOU! I wish the Armachinima started about now so I could have a crack at it. Im glad you think its one of the best American Forces Unit trailers I do strive for professionalism and the best ehehhe.  I loved this comment just Thank You Love you Creech

As Stated in a previous conversation, I said I would help promote the Unit and I said I would provide a YouTube Trailer.......So, 3 months down the line.....here it is.
 

 
Let me know what you think!
 
SSgt Spencer if you wanna add this to the 4th MRB Channel im more than happy for you to do so, I have already uploaded the video file to Media Fire incase you want to use it just message me and I will send you the link. 
 
Enjoy Chaps

Last Name, First Name: Chaplin, Robert
ArmA III Player ID: 76561198086439269
Age: 18
 
Have you served in a realism unit?: No
If so detail which unit, time in service, rank, billet:
 
Desired Duty: 0372 Critical Skills Operator (CSO)
Why are you applying to join 4th MRB?:
1. I am currently enlisting in the marines and have plans to apply to MARSOC.
2.I love arma and tactical combat so u thought I would give a realism unit ago, instead of being that one idiot playing things legit in a public game lol.
 
How did you find out about the 4th MRB?: Google Search results on Arma Realism Groups.
 
Confirm you understand the 4th MRB is an immersion-orientated, role-playing realism unit: Yes

All Personnel,
 
 
The exciting conclusion of FTX 03-17, aka Part 2.
 
As always, watch in high definition and click LIKE in YouTube to promote the 4th MRB.
 
 

 
 

Humorous because there is some truth here!!
 

Creech,
 
I truly appreciate your encouragement.  Thanks very much.
 
Childs probably doesn't realize it, but his briefing during the first part of the video is actually two different audio cuts, in reverse chronological order, I matched together to make one briefing with most of the relevant mission information.
 
I'm not saying Childs can be long winded at times, No, I'm not saying that, but, ....  oh, never mind.

All Personnel,
 
Part 1 of 2 part FTX.
 
 

 
 

You're not wrong, though for different reasons.  I play with the room lights off, immersion etc plus it's 2-3am, so my keyboard is only illuminated by ambient light coming from the monitor.  This didn't matter when I had a keyboard with illuminated keys - I'd used Razer keyboards for a decade previously - but when I shifted to this non-lit keyboard it caused an awful lot of fumbling in the dark.
 
As any grown adult will concede, too much fumbling in the dark always results in unwanted shots fired.

I would personally stay away far, far away from this keyboard. It appears from observation that there appears to be some wiring issues with this keyboard. The wiring issues are linked to frequent bad frags.     (I have heard good things about these)

All Personnel,
 
A training video from March.  This video is different from most previous videos as the beginning is different and I used a different type of music than you've become accustomed to hearing.
 
I just wanted to be different and change things up!!
 
As always, watch in high definition and "Like" the video in YouTube.
 
Thanks
 
 

 
 

All,
 
From Hill patrol Training Exercise in March.  I've got several in progress videos I'll start working on now that I'm getting a little more free time.
 
As always, watch in HD, and Click "LIKE" in our Youtube channel.  It helps get more viewers and subsequently draws more recruits.
 
 

 
 

This is a copy of a speech by Marine General John Kelly.   It is long, but worth reading.  I know we play a game together, but in truth, you should be honored to even pretend to be a US Marine.
This is a story of two young Marines, and how they died.  This is an example of the type of men Marines are, and am honored to be a US Marine.
"Everyone should read John Kelly's speech about 2 Marines in the path of a truck bomb"
Paul Szoldra,Business Insider 20 hours ago

 
Nine years ago, two US Marines from very different walks of life met for the first time when they were put on guard duty at 7:30 in the morning.
Just minutes later, the pair of Marines guarding a gate in Ramadi, Iraq, were staring down a large blue truck packed with 2,000 pounds of explosives. They could have sought cover, like an Iraqi policeman on the scene who ran away and lived.  Instead, Lance Cpl. Jordan Haerter and Cpl. Jonathan Yale stood their ground. Their split-second choice saved the lives of 50 people.
 
In 2010, then-Lt. Gen. John Kelly — who now serves as Secretary of Homeland Security — told their story to a packed house just four days after he had lost his own son, Robert, to combat in Afghanistan.
 
He spoke of the 9/11 attacks, the enemy that America was fighting, and praised the brave men and women who had volunteered to go overseas since then. Then he moved to the remarkable story of these two Marines, which he told the crowd, showed the "quality of steel in their backs."
Here's what he said:
 
Two years ago when I was the Commander of all U.S. and Iraqi forces, in fact, the 22nd of April 2008, two Marine infantry battalions, 1/9 “The Walking Dead,” and 2/8 were switching out in Ramadi. One battalion in the closing days of their deployment going home very soon, the other just starting its seven-month combat tour.  Two Marines, Corporal Jonathan Yale and Lance Corporal Jordan Haerter, 22 and 20 years old respectively, one from each battalion, were assuming the watch together at the entrance gate of an outpost that contained a makeshift barracks housing 50 Marines.  The same broken down ramshackle building was also home to 100 Iraqi police, also my men and our allies in the fight against the terrorists in Ramadi, a city until recently the most dangerous city on earth and owned by Al Qaeda. Yale was a dirt poor mixed-race kid from Virginia with a wife and daughter, and a mother and sister who lived with him and he supported as well. He did this on a yearly salary of less than $23,000. Haerter, on the other hand, was a middle class white kid from Long Island.
 
They were from two completely different worlds. Had they not joined the Marines they would never have met each other, or understood that multiple America’s exist simultaneously depending on one’s race, education level, economic status, and where you might have been born. But they were Marines, combat Marines, forged in the same crucible of Marine training, and because of this bond they were brothers as close, or closer, than if they were born of the same woman.
 
The mission orders they received from the sergeant squad leader I am sure went something like: “Okay you two clowns, stand this post and let no unauthorized personnel or vehicles pass.” “You clear?” I am also sure Yale and Haerter then rolled their eyes and said in unison something like: “Yes Sergeant,” with just enough attitude that made the point without saying the words, “No kidding sweetheart, we know what we’re doing.” They then relieved two other Marines on watch and took up their post at the entry control point of Joint Security Station Nasser, in the Sophia section of Ramadi, al Anbar, Iraq.
 
A few minutes later a large blue truck turned down the alley way—perhaps 60-70 yards in length—and sped its way through the serpentine of concrete jersey walls. The truck stopped just short of where the two were posted and detonated, killing them both catastrophically. Twenty-four brick masonry houses were damaged or destroyed. A mosque 100 yards away collapsed. The truck’s engine came to rest two hundred yards away knocking most of a house down before it stopped.  Our explosive experts reckoned the blast was made of 2,000 pounds of explosives. Two died, and because these two young infantrymen didn’t have it in their DNA to run from danger, they saved 150 of their Iraqi and American brothers-in-arms.
 
When I read the situation report about the incident a few hours after it happened I called the regimental commander for details as something about this struck me as different. Marines dying or being seriously wounded is commonplace in combat. We expect Marines regardless of rank or MOS to stand their ground and do their duty, and even die in the process, if that is what the mission takes. But this just seemed different.  The regimental commander had just returned from the site and he agreed, but reported that there were no American witnesses to the event—just Iraqi police. I figured if there was any chance of finding out what actually happened and then to decorate the two Marines to acknowledge their bravery, I’d have to do it as a combat award that requires two eye-witnesses and we figured the bureaucrats back in Washington would never buy Iraqi statements. If it had any chance at all, it had to come under the signature of a general officer.
 
I traveled to Ramadi the next day and spoke individually to a half-dozen Iraqi police all of whom told the same story. The blue truck turned down into the alley and immediately sped up as it made its way through the serpentine. They all said, “We knew immediately what was going on as soon as the two Marines began firing.” The Iraqi police then related that some of them also fired, and then to a man, ran for safety just prior to the explosion.  All survived. Many were injured ... some seriously. One of the Iraqis elaborated and with tears welling up said, “They’d run like any normal man would to save his life.”
What he didn’t know until then, he said, and what he learned that very instant, was that Marines are not normal. Choking past the emotion he said, “Sir, in the name of God no sane man would have stood there and done what they did.”
“No sane man.”  “They saved us all.”
What we didn’t know at the time, and only learned a couple of days later after I wrote a summary and submitted both Yale and Haerter for posthumous Navy Crosses, was that one of our security cameras, damaged initially in the blast, recorded some of the suicide attack. It happened exactly as the Iraqis had described it. It took exactly six seconds from when the truck entered the alley until it detonated.
 
You can watch the last six seconds of their young lives. Putting myself in their heads I supposed it took about a second for the two Marines to separately come to the same conclusion about what was going on once the truck came into their view at the far end of the alley. Exactly no time to talk it over, or call the sergeant to ask what they should do. Only enough time to take half an instant and think about what the sergeant told them to do only a few minutes before: “ ... let no unauthorized personnel or vehicles pass.”
 
The two Marines had about five seconds left to live. It took maybe another two seconds for them to present their weapons, take aim, and open up. By this time the truck was half-way through the barriers and gaining speed the whole time. Here, the recording shows a number of Iraqi police, some of whom had fired their AKs, now scattering like the normal and rational men they were—some running right past the Marines. They had three seconds left to live.
 
For about two seconds more, the recording shows the Marines’ weapons firing non-stop...the truck’s windshield exploding into shards of glass as their rounds take it apart and tore in to the body of the son-of-a-bitch who is trying to get past them to kill their brothers—American and Iraqi—bedded down in the barracks totally unaware of the fact that their lives at that moment depended entirely on two Marines standing their ground. If they had been aware, they would have known they were safe ... because two Marines stood between them and a crazed suicide bomber.
 
The recording shows the truck careening to a stop immediately in front of the two Marines. In all of the instantaneous violence Yale and Haerter never hesitated. By all reports and by the recording, they never stepped back. They never even started to step aside. They never even shifted their weight. With their feet spread shoulder width apart, they leaned into the danger, firing as fast as they could work their weapons. They had only one second left to live.
The truck explodes. The camera goes blank.
Two young men go to their God.
Six seconds.  Not enough time to think about their families, their country, their flag, or about their lives or their deaths, but more than enough time for two very brave young men to do their duty ... into eternity. That is the kind of people who are on watch all over the world tonight—for you.

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Pursuant to the Goldwater-Nichols Defense Reorganization Act of 1986, the United States Special Operations Command was established on April 16, 1987, at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida.
 
MARSOC was not formed and folded in until 2006, nevertheless, Happy 30th Birthday SOCOM.
 

Someone touch my pipe.

All Personnel,
 
A little behind on these videos, but hey, real life important stuff going on here.
 
This is part 1.  Part 2 to follow.  Even with a crazy amount of editing, I couldn't realistically cut this up much more, and I attempt to keep the videos from being too big.
 
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Thanks (virtual) Marines.
 

All Personnel,
 
Part 2 of FTX 04-17.
 
 
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Mr. Reacher,

Welcome to the 4th MRB Realism Unit! I have processed you in as a HR because of your prior service. Please report in to the Phase III forum at your earliest convenience.

Respectfully Submitted,
SSgt Stone
Recruiting Office Detachment Personnel

Creech, 
 
My old unit: 
 
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/anti-fire-foam-spills-at-army-national-guard-base-covering-copters/
 
Not entirely fake news, lol. 

Last Name, First Name: Reacher, Jim
Player ID: 76561198140513734
Age: 32
 
Have you served in a realism unit?: Yes
If so detail which unit, time in service, rank, billet:
15the MEU, 228 TIS, Pvt, 0311
 
Desired Duty: ​HM-8427 Fleet Marine Force Reconnaissance Corpsman (SARC)
Why are you applying to join 4th MRB?: Shoot bad guys and make good friends that like to operate.
 
How did you find out about the 4th MRB?: SSgt Stone's signature on the 15th forums, lol.
 
Confirm you understand the 4th MRB is an immersion-orientated, role-playing realism unit: Yes

All Personnel,
 
Part 2 of FTX 03-17.  
 
At this end of this FTX. we cleared woods where we eventually held up for the night.  
 
FTX 04-17 picked up where FTX 03-17 ended.  That video will be coming next.