US Marine reacts to Canadian Special Operations Regiment (CSOR)

deployed all over the world these canadians can fight on land air or sea this promotional video is the only time they've ever been seen until now all right y'all welcome back to combat arms channel so it is raining a bunch outside so you might start hearing that in the background so i do apologize i think 2020 it's just going to be one of those years it's kind of just a scrub because you have all this crazy stuff going on at this point you can't really predict what's going to be happening next but uh yeah i do apologize for that if you start hearing that i also don't have any sheets on my bed right now because it's laundry day you know it's just one of those things i apologize if you're going to be seeing that in the background but i did order a green screen so i'm very excited for that to come in so my idea with the green screen is whenever i'm doing the intro it'll be this you know the normal background and everything um but when i'm actually looking at the video i'll just drop the green screen and try and just like superimpose myself over the video see if that's a better format but yeah i'm definitely trying to to try new things out now i also found this on amazon and i think it's a i think it's pretty funny i've used it a bunch already when i was playing uh ghost recon wildlands so yeah it's a lot of fun i'm just trying to add these these small things to my channel um i'm definitely limited on space and whatnot just because i'm in a barracks room but whenever i get back to the states it'll be a little bit better because i can have my own studio and whatnot so you can see you guys have also been sending me a bunch of stuff like the yorkshire tea the patches this hat so you guys are sending me a lot of awesome stuff to actually help with the uh the video quality or the background itself so i do appreciate that um but yeah this video it's been a it's been a long time coming i'm not gonna lie this is about the canadian special forces now i've done reactions to the canadian military previously and also the mounties but not really their special forces so we're gonna be looking at their seesaw which stands for canadian special operations regiment so the seesaw i've been getting this recommendation a lot so i i figured i might as well check it out now i have a little bit of time opening my schedule so yeah we'll check this one out together but very excited to see how the canadian special forces do it now again people think canada is all like nice and whatnots but i'm sure these guys can be a little rough around the edges when they need to be so looks like it's titled secret warriors so let's let's get into it [Music] okay [Music] a top-secret canadian regiment to the most dangerous places on earth they really hated us with a passion bring their skills to a new front in the war on terror we want to be here well before they escalate in hopes that they don't escape the heart of the new terrorism spreading across the sahara mercedes stephenson on a scale of one to ten how hard was that training i'd say 11 really embedded with an elite there's some pretty good makeup on for being in the middle east our toughest warriors they test you thoroughly mentally and physically and the dedication that makes them heroes we're actually serving our country and to daddy i miss you and i love you the invisible victims oh that's too sad for this channel but okay so i i'm going to be trying to branch off as far as like looking at things or looking at videos that might get copyrighted or whatnot because i think most of the awesome documentaries that i can actually find are copyrighted but i think it's just the nature of the beast if it is something that's being highly requested like this and like the the battle of mir bots uh operation bar us that was a big one if it's going to be copyrighted that's totally fine i'm totally fine with checking it out and uh not making any money off of it but yeah definitely feel free to keep those subscribes coming i really do appreciate it you guys really uh bumped up to subscribing and uh it definitely showed so it's very exciting to see but yeah i'm gonna try and check out some more of these badass videos so so far this is looking pretty cool we'll skip a little bit welcome to w5 seal teams delta force spatsnats sas sbs the names of elite teams of commandos british american russian who carry out special missions usually behind enemy lines well here's another seesaw it stands for canadian special operations regiment never heard of them that's not surprising is ultra secret it's missions classified ultrasound till now for the first time these canadian commandos are opening up inviting w5 to watch them train and to hear their stories what we found is a team that's among the best in the world deployed to hot spots like afghanistan belize libya small teams working in the shadows they are canada's secret warriors and now they're in the fight against terrorists in africa which is where mercedes stevens had found them mercedes in the desert it's a badass name under a scorching african sun in the middle of the sahara desert an elite team of secret canadian commandos gets ready for action these are the troops canada sends into the toughest missions to take out high value targets to rescue canadians to go where no one else dares their official name the canadian special operations regiment oh seesaw there so far their kid already looks like super streamlined so you can see it looks like a a cry jpc i could be wrong on that but that's what it looks like as far as his body armor he's got a nice belt so i wasn't a huge fan of the belt setup until recently once you get a solid belt set up then you're totally good but i don't like having a whole bunch of stuff on my body armor itself because if you have a bunch of stuff on the body armor whenever you have to lay down or do anything like if you feel a bunch of stuff and you can't even get your arms tight or your weapon you know your arms tights or your shooting position tights if you can't get any of that tight it just feels super annoying and if you have a bunch of stuff whenever you're trying to lay down you'll be like raised off of the ground in certain areas it's just a huge pain in the butt but the belt really helps out so it really helps streamline everything and keeps everything in a nice position and even if you need to you can just take the belt off get your medical kit get your admin pouch or what have you and yeah it makes your magazines like natural to actually get to so so far their kit looks pretty cool i like how they're rocking the hats and whatnot that looks like the team leader jordan 30 years old a career soldier there's tv cameras everywhere and they're probably going to look at your target so don't miss new rules no missing no pressure they make it look effortless but to move shoot reload and shoot again with that kind of speed and precision is a skill that takes years to perfect this is the baseline for what we do everything else gets bolted on but this is you know this is the first thing that we need to be proficient at be safe and accurate and efficient with our weapon systems how long did it take you to mask this me personally uh it took a little while but these secret soldiers aren't training for a regular war they work in the shadows covertly in small teams deployed all over the world these canadians can fight on land air or sea this promotional video is the only time they've ever been seen until now very cool [Music] he's like knee in that dude did you see that oh no that's that that's the violence watch oh yeah hey i mean if they're not complying then you got to do what you got to do but all right so so far we're seeing a lot of cool stuff again they do have promotional videos out there and whatnot but this video might give us a little more insight as to how they actually do things especially when they're forward deployed and yeah so far they seem really cool they seem like a you know a really tight-knit group but at the same time they're very proficient and disciplined when they need to be so i'm very excited to see how these guys get things done [Music] you engage in very dangerous situations when you are shooting your firearm in real life what's going through your head that's part of why we do these drills is to make sure it is second and second nature and we don't have to think about it because if if you have to think about your shooting you're not thinking about the enemy shooting back at you very good point at 34 steve a corporal is already one of the oldest on this team steve why did you join the canadian forces i saw it as a challenge and i've uh i've always dreamt of it when i was a a little a little guy i didn't oh my gosh i didn't expect uh him to sound like that i mean he doesn't sound like you know pre-pubescent or anything but he just sounds like a really down-to-earth guy and that's that's what you can really see with like uh special operations special forces kind of guys is they're really down to earth and a lot of times they're not really as hard as as people might expect unless you're stepping on their toes or being like a jerk or getting in the way in the army oh he's zeroing it's a long way from the degree in fashion marketing he got before joining seesaw well after my time in afghanistan i came back and i decided that uh i was gonna i was gonna give it a shot a lot of people think of of the special forces community as these these muscle-bound you know super jocks that go running around and think they're better than everyone else but in in reality we're pretty much you know regular dudes that just hang out you know go do our job this is our job slightly different drink red bull in the desert slightly different try dangerous and shrouded in secrecy we can't show you these operators without their sunglasses or hats and we can't tell you their last names make sense this security extends right up to the unmarked helicopters they use to fly them in and out of remote and dangerous locations start from the back we have our right side door gunner who's uh in charge of the gau 2150 nice the 35 year old pilot jamie a captain shows us around his griffin sorry what would you use this gun for because these bullets if we can get shot massively they are the size of anything and everything uh they're self-defense it's it's for self-defense out here so we'll employ it for self-defense reasons what kind of scenario would you need to use self-defense in uh if someone's shooting at us uh if someone is engaging us with the type of weapon system we can use self-defense in that scenario so basically this thing makes everything dead is what he's trying to say it's vague truth is jaime can't tell us when where or if he's ever used these weapons c-source missions are classified what we can tell you in afghanistan these were the men sent on covert operations against the taliban is it hard to explain what you do to your friends or your parents you can't just go to your friend who's who works in an office nine to five and say yeah well i'm gonna be gone for a couple months and i'll i'll catch up with you later and then he asked questions and you're all i can't really say exactly what i'm doing and the struggle so it makes it awkward so awkward does it take to join one of the most elite military regiments in the world lieutenant colonel hank celeste is sea source commanding officer and one of the few we don't have to disguise within the military we're very much a performance oriented culture and it's always that fear of failure that prevents a lot of guys from just you know taking that chance and stepping forward so i always tell the guys that is the biggest criteria for success yeah that's a very good point i've noticed especially in the military people are afraid to you know branch out and try different things especially if it's challenging some people just aren't willing to challenge themselves they're sort of comfortable in their position because it takes a lot of time for you to get comfortable in a position in the military and people feel like whenever they get comfortable that's like that's it they've made it they just need to stick around and and do what they're what they've been doing for the last like two three four years so a lot of people get complacent in those regards and it's totally okay to challenge yourself it's totally okay to to face failure so me specifically i went to you know i joined the army uh in 2017 after switching from the marines and i wanted to try ranger school because everybody you know was talking about it now i did go but i got rhabdo which is basically like um when you don't have enough body fat uh or you know calories because we didn't eat you if you don't have enough body fats or calories to use as energy your body breaks down your muscles and those muscle fibers will end up clogging your kidneys and that's basically what i got but i wasn't like bitter about it it's cool to actually go out there and try different things you know if you're not really challenging yourself then you're not really going to to grow professionally as a person or grow in maturity because you do need to fail a couple times for you to really understand where you stand with certain things and just remain humble honestly you know getting rhabdo is never good for your health but failure is definitely a good thing to grow you mentally you know criteria for success is just taking that step forward and playing details about the selection process for those wanting to join are classified but the operators confirm it's grueling weeks of pure hell on a scale of one to ten where one is really easy and ten is extremely difficult how hard was that training oh i wanna i'm gonna make myself sound really good about this so yeah it's i'd say 11 really yeah yeah so that's an 11. it's really hard i personally wanted to succeed this is like no idea me quitting so it's that kind of attitude you have to go in with it and you also have to be uh fairly intelligent there they they they test you thoroughly mentally and physically is there a certain kind of person that is most likely to get selected you know you've got type a personalities who are hugely invested in their jobs and they just want to knock it out of the park right right that's a good point so like for me when i was joining the recapture tactics team going through the selection and whatnot it if you're really into something then it's not really an option you kind of just do it and you keep doing it until you get through it uh or you get injured or what have you but it's definitely a good mindset to have of you know there is no other option than just getting through it and some people are able to adapt that personality and that mindset but some people sort of struggle with that here in the middle of the sahara desert counter-terrorism training in africa for the first time ever they've allowed television cameras behind the scenes on one of their missions we're in niger a west african country that is one of the poorest in the world yet full of friendly faces this is agadez a historic town in the sahel region of africa and the heart of the new terrorism spreading across the sahara a breeding ground for militant groups like aqim al-qaeda in the islamic maghreb the threat is to the local population as well as foreign aid workers and tourists who have been kidnapped and held for ransom that's why just a few kilometers from here western militaries have gathered to teach their african allies counter-terrorism techniques on exercise flintlock an annual military exercise and this year 18 western and african nations invited here by the government of niger working training and living together at desert military bases like this one near agadez it's all been organized by the americans james linder is the special forces general in command at the end of the day whether in nigeria or any other country it's the host nation's problem it's their fight it's their effort you're getting in before things escalate we want we want to hear well before they escalate in hopes that they don't escalate this is a funny way of putting it's their problem so we're just here to help them out and some people will will disagree with that but at the end of the day it is going to be up to them teach them to fish and they have food for a lifetime or give them a fish and they have food for a day or something so it's one of those sort of things you know you just need to be able to give them the skills that they need to to do it on their own and be self-sustaining so it's a very good mindset to have and um yeah it's it's important for people to make that distinction that the united states can help with certain things but you know the united states and other allies of course they can help with certain things but at the end of the day they need to be able to be self-sufficient you know for for whatever operations or what have you he worries this entire region of africa is at a dangerous tipping point with kidnappings arm smuggling bank robberies violent extremists are well funded and well armed in niger may 2013 suicide bombers killed at least 20 people and in neighboring mali in 2013 al qaeda tried to take over the country niger worries they're next yeah and few understand more about how these extremists operate than former canadian diplomat robert fowler this fanatic known to fowler as omar 1 was one of his kidnappers an al-qaeda terrorist what's he what's he saying to us just to tell you that the mujahideen the warriors of god are ready to do what's necessary to spread god's word in 2008 while on a u.n mission in niger fowler and fellow u.n diplomat louis gay were abducted at gunpoint and thrown into the back of a truck oh dang it happened in about 40 seconds very slick very professional they were held captive in the african desert for 130 days how do you experience a day in that situation where you're thinking that at any moment these people could decide to kill you and and some of them said that said they said that you know we would really like to be cutting you up a little bit but unfortunately the boss won't let us that boss was moktar belmokhtar a feared and elusive one-eyed terrorist responsible for the 2013 attack on this algerian gas plant killing almost 40 foreign workers we were filthy to them they we were we were obscene we were decadent western apostates they would get physically ill i mean i mean in the in the tracks this is [Music] [Applause] they share the reconnaissance and sniper skills you go through that basic cyber course 26 year old sniper jesse gives us some insider tips the actual shooting is a very small part of actually being a sniper which is unfortunate but true the larger part that they're looking for sniper force building up your position so putting lots of stuff between you and the target is what we call depth and it makes it harder for the target to see you two on one canada's most critical contribution to flintlock strategy and tackle if you guys can hear it's uh really starting to rain now yeah so what he was saying is very true unfortunately sniping is if you want to call it that it seems kind of weird cause sniping but yeah being a sniper that there's a whole lot that goes into it i mean snipers and spotters really because you need to talk about the spotter the spotter is what you what really does the work as far as making the adjustments and making sure the shots are are actually on targets because it's not always you know the the one shot one kill that's almost never a thing so you do need to be a proficient shooter of course when you're a sniper but you really need to understand the depth understanding how to build your position understanding camouflage and your equipment and what can actually give your position away and everything so there's a whole lot that goes in goes into it and yeah people think oh yeah i'm a great shooter i can be a sniper yeah you need to learn a whole lot more than just being able to shoot so it's important that he made that distinction jeff a major is the canadian task force commander what are some of the skills that you would be teaching them we force them to work together to conduct things like raids or ambushes so surprise attacks which are very which is a very important skill for them these african soldiers are learning how to plan a raid on terrorist cells that's so sick the canadian commandos show them how a helicopter can survey and track the enemy's secret hiding spots caches of water fuel and weapons in the desert colonel noma is the nigerian zone commander in agadez canadian soldiers are very professional very courteous and we're very happy to be living with them here i wonder what if that's like a traditional thing for for people to be doing that's interesting to see it looks like he just got like straight cut um so if y'all can provide some context as to what that actually means if it's like a traditional thing that they might be doing or if it's just something that might have happened to him that i don't know that seemed like a really awesome story in and of itself but we'll we'll keep pushing on the trees and everything put it through here and these toy soldiers looks like child's play but it's serious business jordan is teaching the nigerians how to plan an attack so the first nigerian platoon with the jabril comes up that's good training the vehicle should remove vehicles today everyone is gathering to analyze the final battle plans and to put on a show these nigerians never fail to make a grand entrance [Music] [Applause] and the mauritanians these are proud professional armies with their own traditions the africans usually don't work together but facing dangerous terrorists they have no choice and the canadians watching from the sidelines will hopefully manage to keep this coalition together so i'll say like the whole what you have like right over here that's like a what we call like a terrain model or um a sand table is what the army would call it but yeah that's actually really solid training and you would make those for pretty much any mission uh you know if you're if you're trying to brief something like whether it be the commander or even a squad leader if they're trying to brief something they would have people arrange this terrain model and oversee the construction just so they can see that's actually accurate and so whenever they're actually briefing everyone as far as their individual roles and whatnot you can go over and be like okay so you're you're going to be right here and you can have like a visual visual representation whether it be like a toy or like a an emblem or something and you can actually just run everyone through it's like a rock walk as you would say it but it's very awesome training and it's very awesome for briefing because it really allows people to picture what they're doing and if the terrain model is actually accurate then you can picture it even better as far as what the terrain might actually look like when you're when you're moving up on it we managed to keep this coalition together the stakes are high robert fowler's captors came from across africa if the jihadis are uniting allies for humans next targeting the terrorists the men and women of the regiment are very strong willed people and winning the gratitude of new allies we're humans and we're soldiers right and we all do the same job when w5 continues 5 a.m deep in the heart of the sahara desert african and western forces get ready for battle among them the canadian special operations regiment an elite team of covert soldiers their mission here counter-terrorism training in al-qaeda's newest breeding ground africa they may be getting ready for a mock raid but the threats of violent extremism faced daily by these individual soldiers are very real when all the soldiers are geared up they roll out yeah it's one thing for you to be training in a certain area but when you're training in you know your actual home and your home is under threat then that really has like a weird thing to i mean it adds something to your training for sure because you can really put yourself in the mindset of yeah i'm training for this right now but in reality i'm in a i'm in a position or i'm in a location where this stuff actually might happen so it really allows them to focus their mind for sure as the sun rises over the sahara the african armies take their positions okay see how it goes commanding officer lieutenant colonel hank celeste is overseeing this final exercise you could see how the guys moved quickly there was little talking good communication at the team level all that's indicative that they really have hoisted aboard the the skills that we've imparted over the last couple of weeks but an unexpected turn of events the radios don't work ah who's a combo guy i want to you're coming in broken so dude let us know when you guys that is the worst freaking thing when you're doing all this you're getting all like ready and whatnot and then the columns fail sometimes it is human error where you know someone just didn't fill the the radio properly or they didn't have the the right channel or frequency but man comms are a very weird thing they can fail at the weirdest points they can work in the weirdest locations and the weirdest weathers and whatnots so it's a it's a hit or miss sometimes but you really need a solid communications person to be able to troubleshoot all those those errors because if you have communications then man things can get very sloppy very quickly so that kind of sucks i can trigger understand that radios from one country can't always connect with those from another but this is why they train more weights for no one the mission must go on right they'll rely on runners for communication finally this is roadhouse one two good to have you with us some of the radios are working now hilo's inbound on call for hr the helicopter flare signal the start of the raid the objective take out a terrorist cache all the armies descend and the canadians are right there with them analyzing their every move okay roadhouse one two commando if you guys uh can either confirm or deny that you have one of the high value targets success they've captured the cash and eliminated the actors posing as the enemy anticlimactic he shouldn't be doing that either it's not his job not his job that's the role of the medics he should stay focused on his surroundings yet while we're teaching these african soldiers our trade secrets how do we know they won't switch sides are you concerned when you're here ever and okay you could be fighting the same people down the road who you've trained absolutely um you know it's like in any relationship especially it's like yeah that's a very real thing and it's kind of a struggle and people don't really understand why some militaries we even get invested in training other militaries like that but you know again it is that uh that thing where they need to be self-reliant so we can sort of be a little bit more hands-off um but yeah that is a very real possibility and it can be pretty scary especially if you still have your actual operators on the ground when they decide to do stuff like that and it might not be everyone at once it could just be you know a couple people but yeah relationship as you know is built on trust and you don't get that every day um so as we work and partner with different nations especially in initial stages of a relationship we're always cognizant of what we're doing in terms of capacity building that's more than just teaching them how to shoot capacity building also means helping african armies care for their own people like this health clinic organized by western special forces lieutenant colonel colleen forestier a doctor is with cesar and niger too training their army medics to improve life-saving skills so the casualty can come in this way and this is our resuscitation area colleen runs the mobile surgical unit and travels with the operators on their missions her role is critical say if someone got shot through the chest we'd be able to perform surgery on on on the chest area or the abdominal area if there were life-threatening injuries in there and here's another example of how they went over hearts and minds caleb he's their logistics officer and he's a common presence in these markets showing the face of canada to the local residents cool so this is the main market yeah it really also does come down to the the hearts and minds aspect of everything like you could be there for a training however you're not really going to get too far really build any trust or relationship unless you're having these these face-to-face engagements with the with the local populace so it's cool to see that and it's cool to see how it actually helps uh you know even both sides though it's because they might hook them up later on in the future and be like hey you guys want some some solid food we can cook for you or or what have you so it's a cool relationship going on egg it is here where we buy the majority of our produce uh vegetables do you ever feel that you're in any kind of danger when you're out and exposed in this way first and foremost you know everywhere we go you know we're always prepared you know their heads on a swivel uh vehicles are always parked in a way they can be driven immediately away we always travel in partners i don't want to say there's no danger because obviously there are violent extremists operating in this area but we're always prepared every time we leave home base for anything cesar labels itself a high readiness unit that means they can deploy anywhere anytime always on call hank has a wife and two young children back in canada how do they manage while he's gone on secret high-stakes missions the men and women of the regiment are very strong-willed people and they tend to have spouses that are very strong-willed spouses girlfriends significant others very strong-willed as well but he admits it's a real sacrifice from my perspective it's very difficult but you find ways around it right i really do believe that families do adapt to some of the chaotic environments that we force them into yeah it's very true but again at the end of the day it doesn't get any easier whenever you have to to leave at certain points or do any training that the whole separation aspect yeah you do sort of get used to that in the regards of knowing what you should be focusing on so like whenever you're away you can just focus on your work and sometimes you know it'll be a struggle but it sort of works out but yeah it doesn't get any easier having to manage these struggles especially like with him and his position changing constantly he's going to start focusing on different things and you know the scheduling might change and you know it's very unpredictable for the family life which kind of sucks but yeah you do sort of work around it many of the team are gone for months at a time caleb is getting married soon but has only seen his fiancee two weeks this year how did she feel about she's peeing away so much and sometimes i'd imagine you can't tell her where you're going or what you're doing there well we have a good relationship i mean she she understands what i do and part of you know the seesaw ethos is uh service first so we're very aware that uh you know we have to go where where we need to go and for the past month that has meant training soldiers from the world's poorest nations to fight their own wars the exercise is over mission accomplished [Music] wherever we go i mean we're still fundamentally all the same we're humans and we're soldiers right and we all do the same job this is the first canada special forces regiment opening up to w5 the americans are used to this kind of media attention and general james linder thinks it's a good thing the canadian people may not know as much about their soft as we would expect well i think there is a message to the canadian people there learn more about it that is a story that's well worth listening to it's a story of competence it's a story of pride it's a story of men who go out there and represent your country exceptionally well it's a story of heroes it's a story of lawyers what are your hopes and dreams for the future of your unit cesar i hope that we continue we continue to deliver what the government of canada has asked us and when i say delivered i always say that in our community not only do we we under promise but over deliver and i just hope that we keep doing that that's a good point now these soldiers are gearing up for their next mission could be on a plane or a helicopter ready for action anywhere in the world at any time in the words of their regiment service first [Music] all right yeah very valid points i know like with the sas they made it pretty easy just because you know they had the iranian embassy situation where they were able to showcase themselves and what they can do with the us you know you hear green berets you see them in the movies you see them on tv shows and whatnot but some countries you don't really get too much exposure with like the special operations and whatnot which again it is for a reason but it's very important to look up these certain things and even for me it's cool to check out the videos uh of you know like what my special forces or what my country's special forces has done but also special forces from other countries but yeah canadian special operations i wouldn't have even considered that canada has a special operations you know of course they probably do but it's not something that i was familiar with until you guys actually recommend it you know again with special operations either you read it in a book or you hear from a story or you have a relative who is in that certain units or you see them live on tv like the sas so there's certain situations where you'll get more influence and uh you know exposure to other special operations but sometimes you really need to do a little digging to find some of the history and some of the stuff that they're actually involved in so it's cool that this news agency was able to actually go over there and see what they're doing in africa it really allows you to get a better appreciation for what they're doing and uh yeah it allows you to appreciate the position that you're in especially since you know you might not necessarily be doing something that's uh that rough or sacrificing as as much as these guys might be but yeah i can definitely appreciate what they're doing solid work over there so canadian special operations regiment very solid recommendation again something i would not have really checked out if it weren't for y'all's recommendations that's another reason why i really love this youtube channel it really allows me and allows all of us together to check out all these different people check out the histories and check out stuff that we wouldn't have checked out otherwise so yeah if you guys liked the video hit the thumbs up and consider subscribing hit the bell if you want to check out any other special operations or any other badass units or training events happening around the world because it's always cool to get a little bit of exposure to all this stuff but yeah hope you guys enjoy the video i'll see you all in the next one [Music] you

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Published: Thu Aug 27 2020