What soldiers go through | watch this before you disrespect a soldier | #Iwasthinking

hello everyone Mickey here once again thank you very much for checking my channel and as always I really appreciate you taking that time listening to me and watching me right now so how's your weekend my weekend was okay so it is remembering Sunday and I had the opportunity to pay tribute to men and women who are sacrificing their lives 7 in the forces around the world and in this video I'm going to try and paint a picture of what the reality of war does to a soldier what a soldier and their family goes through was there 7 but before I carry on I want to say two things one I want to say that it is not in my place to talk about the morality of war it is not in my place to talk about whether is right or whether is wrong or whether it's justified and two I want you to be I want you to know that I'm aware that there are a lot of people around the world all over the world who one or two ways affected by the reality of war but in this video what I'm going to do is I'm going to pay tribute and mourn the man or the woman or the men or women who for the love of their country or for the loyalty for their country caught up in the reality of war that's what I'm going to do so that when you sit there today or the rest of your life and you are observing your minute or two silence you know you have a focal point something to reflect on and know that you're not doing any vain so I will share my experience with you I had the opportunity to do a military exercise like a boot camp with them with the military and they did something they took me to the field for five days and for us to know how they do like they treat themselves on the war front you know tactically so they call something morning routine and this is like in a bush for five days you know into the elements open to snore up into the you know some open to the rain and they don't eat like a proper they call it Russian Park you know and in the mornings when it's cold and you have to change your plan tear your underwear and you have to change your socks and sometimes when you're doing it they call something bug out so they will someone will play an enemy and then they'll start shooting and you have to put everything in your bag and run away with it and in the heavy bag as well and it was so uncomfortable and when I was going through it it tell it opened my eyes to how we take for granted certain things like the warmth of your bed it was only five days right but when I came back I hugged my pillow and I realized that we take a lot of things for granted but one thing I was thinking when I was going through that all uncomfortable you know moment in the bush was the men and women who fought in a World War one and World War two in the trenches some of these guys were there for weeks months if not years I'm sure they did not have enough socks enough underwear to last them that long the way in the ditches they way and when it was raining you know just picture it when it was raining they got their feet got rotting have you ever tried working for a whole day in a wet boots you know in when you have wet socks wet fields for a whole day how uncomfortable it feels these guys I'm sure did it for weeks and months and if they were smokers right when they run out of facts when they ran out of cigarettes where they haven't enough supplies when you don't smoke for five minutes when you don't smoke for a day how do you feel these guys have to stay there and wait for supplies and if they came you know and nowadays soldiers have got good kids you know more advanced you know gloves and stuff like that to keep them warm how did these men and women how did these soldiers kept warm how did they keep warm so basically they sign up to say to give their life away for their country right and it's thinking about that it's not easy and another thing was I my wick I was privileged enough for my work to take me to Afghanistan and I worked alongside these guys guys and when we talk about Afghanistan what comes to mind is the heat it was so hot that I drank a lot of water and I wasn't even normally when you drink a lot of water you have to urinate I was not urinating I don't know much about the amount I'm not on the human are not on me about the only thing I can say is instead of my the water that I was drinking going through my kidney and my bladder it was being evaporated out of my skin the sweat I had the I was in a place that they come busting right and it was fairly safe compared to those outside so I was able to work you know with my shirt off and stuff like that and it got me thinking about the guys who goes out on patrol wearing their four kids where in your body ammo so wearing their body ammo and I got the weight of the body ammo and the old ones with seven kilos the new ones now 4.7 kilograms they were wearing helmets that weighs two kilograms or one kilo 1.5 kilograms and then the way they have to carry all their kids they have to carry radios they have to carry ECM they have to carry extra batteries for the radio they have to carry a struggle or they have to carry water they have to carry food and if you are the lead man you carry your gun and some of the gun did one of them is called gpmg general-purpose machine gun and I googled anyways tend to 11 kilos can you believe that some of these guys some of these women are barely men and women some of these are only 18 year old and they have to carry that they have to think about the weight that burden so the heats the weight on their body on their back on their knees and they have to carry the gun and they have to walk how and they have to tell their minds to forget about all this uncomfortable you know the weights and the heat and they have to think about the a military drill they have to look around their surroundings right and make sure that no one shoots them think about that when you are observing your mini silence think about that and apart from looking around and making sure that no one kills them they have to be mindful of where they put their food where they step because of something they call ie D an improvised improvised explosive device it's like a bomb that people plant that when you step on the a explodes so after all the heat how do you look around to make sure that no one wants to kill you how do you look and then also think about the ground where you are stepping the heat and when they are doing sometimes accidents do happen you know when acident happen in your in your wet place it is someone falling down and then you know when acident happen in your workplace is someone twisting and uncle or something like that when accident happened in a soldier's workplace it is someone stepping on an improvised explosive device and their legs getting blown up it is someone having to look at their friend's face right and picking their legs and putting it together waiting for the helicopter to pick them to the hospital it is someone watching the getting shot think about that taking about the bedding that all these things happens to the men and women think about when they come back when they come back and one thing is thinking about them being shot and everything they also thinking about the rule of engagement because every shot that they fire has to be lawful think about that and when the money to come back you know ask yourself how many times how many we're colleagues have you lost in the last two years in your workplace and if you did lose someone in your workplace how much did I achieve these young men and women the age of 18 19 20 in a space of seven months or six and a half months are losing at least five people guys that they share their identity with guys that they say in the pub with guys that they hang around with gals that they shared intimate secrets with they are looking at their men their friends their you know their comrades being shot and they are patching them up sometimes they pick up pieces of their body and put it together and send it back home when you are thinking think about when they come back sometime when they come back they don't come back to hero's chair sometimes they come back to face the law sometimes they come back to face people who does not think whatever they are doing was right they come back to you know people who don't like the things they do their line of duty the hostility that's the word I'm looking for and they come back with all these beddings and these young men and women don't have anyone to speak to because the guys they are friends around them that they speak to have their own war that they are fight in their brains and in their physical body and those who don't have war in their brains don't understand what these men and women has been to sometimes when they come they have to fight this war themselves it's not easy what a soldier goes to that's the reality of war and they deal with it somehow and sometimes some of them are not able to deal with it so they kill themselves so when you observe in your silence think about them when you observe in your silence think about that young baby the own kid who is used to daddy coming home at 5:00 and then in a space of 5 5 months 7 months 9 months or even a year that is not coming home right and think about the husband or the wife who have to explain to this young kid that for the next year that is not coming home or even if that comes home right that will not come home the same man or maybe they will have to explain to them that that is not coming home at all think about them nobody goes to order right and comes back the same think about the women who apart from the women and the husband who apart from the stress of looking after the kids bringing up kids alone have to think about every minute have to think about their loved ones whether they are safe where they are are they eating right are they taking their medications what whatever they are doing is it dangerous are they coming home at all or even if they come home are they coming home the same way they when or they are not coming home at all think about that the woman who have to deal with that the man who have to deal with her think about the parents who never got a chance to take the loved ones to walk them to the aisle some of these guys who's lost their their lives in the war barely saw women or barely go into a relationship think about the girlfriend who will have to stay away who have to you know do without the warmth of the earth or the boyfriend and girlfriends right and think about that girlfriend who will never ever meet their boyfriends again think about the boyfriend who never meet the girlfriend again because of the relative war all this I'm saying right I'm trying to tell you that when you observe your minute silence or two-minute silence you are not doing it in vain and for our men and women who are seven I take my hat off to you I don't know how you do it and may God bless you may God guide you as always whatever I said if I offended someone please forgive me and thank you very much for listening to me and thank you very much for subscribing and may God be with you bye