Green Berets React to Band of Brothers

The Doc wasn’t pulling bone fragments out of the private’s leg, it was wood splinters from a tree burst.

Buck: "The day that we hit episode 10 it's gonna be kind of sad..." Brother, you have no idea...

They grew up during the Great Depression, most worked to help support their families. These men fought WWII and then went to work paying off 30 year mortgages the hard way, in steel mills, coal mines, driving taxis. They understood that happiness is a paycheck and a family. They expected nothing and fought hard for everything.

Gen. McAuliffe wasn't even the division commander, that was Gen. Taylor, who had gone on leave, to London shortly before it all popped off in the Ardennes. Gen. Anthony McAuliffe was actually the division's artillery CO. He was thrown into command of the entire division during their toughest battle. He was the one who, when asked to surrender by the German commander gave the legendary reply, "NUTS!"

The Officer you got stuck into over the Xmas Message was Colonel Robert Sink, commander the 506th who refused several promotions to stay with hie men, did several combat jumps as a Colonel, so beloved by His Men the 506th regiment was often referred to as the Five-Oh-Sink, I think you can give some slack.

The empty Morphine Syrette was to be attached to wounded's gear at a particular spot so the subsequent medics/doctors would no how many doses the wounded had received so as to avoid overdosing the wounded patient.

BTW, the "Full Bird" that's reading the letter, that's Dale Dye. he is the founder of Warrior's Inc. he is responsible for the Technical Accuracy depicting the Military. remember the movie Platoon, he is also in it and is the Technical Advisor.

John Keegan, in his book, Faces of War, interviewed a World War I doctor. The doctor, who saw thousands of soldiers, said courage was a finite resource that could be exhausted like any other resources. The bravest man would need to be pulled from the front for shellshock after expending all of his courage. The doctor estimated that it took about 90 days for that to happen.

I appreciate you brothers, just started my first session of PTSD counseling. It sucked. It's been over fifteen years and finally I'm facing my demons. I love that you talk openly about shit.

Easily one of the greatest war series ever made. I need to go back and rewatch this show myself. XD

Combat Medics can't get enough love, battlefield angels of mercy for real!

They actually were on frozen ground. That’s what one of the last surviving members of easy company and the 4th infantry said about fighting in Bastogne.

“Don’t put yourself in a position to take anything from your men” -Lt Winters

We demand more Terminal List reviews ASAP 😂

My Gramps who was in WW2 said that the difference in his generation was that most of them already went through a ton of loss before they joined. They made is through the depression and the dust bowl before going to fight. It's almost like they were being prepared for the challenges they were going to face overseas. I didn't serve, but my buddies who did 20+ years back definitely stand apart from many who didn't.

In all fairness to General McAuliffe his job was to command the division artillery for the 101st airborne but when the Germans launched their offensive the actual General of the 101st Maxwell Taylor was in Washington at a staff conference so he really wasn’t supposed to be in charge for as long as he was he actually did a pretty good job under the circumstances.

The downside to having an brave medic that takes such risks, is that he if he dies while helping others.. you suddenly left with none at all!

Really appreciate you guys for not only running this phenomenal series but for what you do. I came in as a USAF flight mechanic on C130s out of Dyess, TAC Airlift at the time. Met some great fellows & made friends with a bunch of guys in the 82nd & 101st doing airdrops at Bragg, Benning etc. Finally had enough of the PC crap that began to infect everywhere so I punched out at 24 in a CSAR unit…I overstayed my welcome. Dad was Marine Corps, Korea veteran…he passed away when I was 10, never got to hear about his service. These men of Easy Co., of that Greatest Generation are my heroes, whom I greatly admire. I grew up listening to my grandfather & great uncles telling a few stories here & there. My Uncle JP was at Bastogne but he didn’t say much, while Uncle Charles was in the Pacific on a destroyer. Grandad was a waist gunner on B-24s & said little other than it was terrible. They were made of the toughest stock…from the Depression Era & lean times. I’ve taught my kids…to never forget what they did. Look forward to next episode.

My dad said when he was in Korea before going to Vietnam, he was on the DMZ one night at an observation post in the freezing winter. They started a fire to warm up even though they weren’t supposed to. A few minutes later a jeep came buy and stopped. A captain got off the jeep and ran up to them telling them you guys aren’t supposed to have a fire out here, and how dangerous it was, all the time rubbing his hands together and warming up by their fire. He said he’s pretty sure he was purposely being long winded just so he could warm up a little longer lol

Ya'll did a great job breaking this episode down. My grandad served in Germany a a medic, he had a CJ-2 he would take out at night to pick up wounded soldiers, he didn't care what uniform they were wearing, he'd bring 'em back to camp. Hat's off to you fellas!