America's Ace Of Aces - Richard Bong | Reaction

I don't know about that thumbnail bro. Looks like you're gesturing for something ✊😮✊😮. 😂

To answer your question about the Medal of Honor. Its the highest award that one can get in the United States Military
The Purple Heart is received by getting injured or fatally wounded in combat

I would have joined if I was able to pass the physical unfortunately I didn't pass the medical either but why because my grandfather was making me at 15 he told me by 17 I decided I wanted to do it and bring my grandfather and army ranger coin.

What would it take me? Hmmm... Well I was in 8th grade science class on September 11th, 2001... As soon as I was 17... I signed up! No regrets!!!! I joined in 2005 as infantry and deployed 2007-2008 as a part of "the surge"

Both Top Gun movies, and The most recent Midway. You got to watch those two.

Well it didnt take much for me. Got a random call from a recruiter just after 17 and i signed up a week later.

Your chat is trippin lol, coke was invented in 1886 not ww2 😂

For me to join? Getting to fly fighters. Unfortunately, that was never in the cards for me, I was nearsighted and type 1 diabetic, being nearsighted means no flying and diabetes means instant rejection at recruitment

Apparently a whole hell of a lot. There was a survey done recently of young fighting age people, 17-30 I think, and apparently 5% said they would consider a military career, 12% said they would willing go and fight if drafted, and 16% said they wouldn't even fight if the US was invaded. Appalling. I know we've done some fucked up shit, but apparently people really dont understand how good we actually have it here in the US, and how much better millions if not a billion or more people's lives have been during the "pax" Americana. Like, the Rules Based International Order is the reason we have cell phones and computers to watch these videos on. International shipping and our protection of that ideal is fundamental to the way the world functions today, and there are ungrateful young people cursing the very tit that nursed them.

Most badass fighter pilot movies are based loosely on Col. Robin Olds.
Fat Electrician has a video on him too.

Wait hold up a second, Bong is a fascinating name so I checked it out.
Swedish: From the word bång, which means "noise" and is used as a soldier's name.
When America comes together it is perplexing and beautiful, Dick Noise is the main character blasting planes apart like it was just what he was meant to do. This could not happen anywhere else on Earth. :D

Got fired from a car dealership because I wanted a week off because my best friend died. Zero leadership.

The rules in war should be..." no rules"

Purple heart is injury or death during a mission, medal of honor is achievements above and beyond what is expected/ required for the mission like saving "men"/ mission against an overwhelming opposition.

That part about Bong getting in a P-38 just to buzz his childhood home, his wife's home, his 2 hometowns, is the stuff that dreams are made of, that is something every human being wants to do in their life, it's to something cool in front of family and friends, and be known for it. I envy Richard Bong that he got to do that, and I am proud that he represented my homestate of WI.

What would it take me? I should go and fight for this country so that nobody else doesn't have to.

Early jet engines were not very reliable.

Wasn't really a Lockhead specific issue, but the reason you have test pilots is to iron out all those issues before production.

He was a test pilot because that's what he wanted to be.

I was 11 when 9/11 happened, it pissed me off so much that I decided to enlist when I could. 2007, my junior year of high school, I signed my enlistment contract and left for boot camp the next summer. I grew up in a military family, have had a member of our family serve in the military since the Revolution. What does it take for me to want to join and serve my country? Just a threat to the freedoms, liberties and values we have here.

The moment TFE said he became a test pilot I got a feeling of dread. Test pilot is a dangerous job today, back in those days you were flipping a coin with your life.

it would take nothing for me to join the military, if i could id roll up to the marines and join, sadly life had other plans for me, i mean whats to lose really, you get fit, thought manners and life lessons you would have to learn the hard way otherwise, and you get to be a badass, and in 20 years you can be retired with a full pension, not a bad deal compared to a normal boring office job where you sit on your ass all the time.

Prior to Pearl Harbor the general sentiment in America was to stay out of WW2. Immediately after massive numbers of people started signing up. Immediately after 9/11 massive numbers of people started signing up. During Vietnam it was hard to get people to sign up. When America is attacked directly people will volunteer. When it's not an attack on us people are less likely to volunteer.

And if all of this happened in modern day every kill he got would be called a Bong R.I.P.

i tried to join out of hs but was denied

YES the Grumman F6F Hellcat had the very best kill ratio of ANY and ALL U.S. fighters in WWII, that is a verifiable fact, with a 19.1 to 1 kill ratio, followed by the F4U Corsair with an 11.3 to 1, and the P-61 mustang with an 11 to 1, and then the P-47 Thunderbolt with a 4.6 to 1, the P-38's kill ratio was hurt pretty badly by the P-38's that operated in the European theater with their 1.5 to 1 kill ratio, really dragged down the high kill ratio of the P-38's used against Japan in the Pacific with the ending being 4.3 to 1 for the P-38 lightning, IF the European P-38's would have done as well as the Pacific one had done, that kill ratio would have been 11.9 to 1, and the P-38 would have ended up in second place.

the CMOH is the highest medal that can be awarded and yes about 50% of the recipients of the CMOH, never know they are awarded it as it is presented to his family members, but yes a lot of men have lived to have the President of the United States hang that medal around their necks, you should watch his video about Dan Daly, wh was 1 of only 2 Marines to have been awarded the CMOH (TWICE) and he was in fact recommended and put in for a 3rd CMOH, but Congress said absolutely not, but did authorize him being awarded the Navy cross, and the Distinguished service cross instead of a 3rd CMOH.