You Tube Posts

[BMCS J. Egelston]

Hey All, I was sitting here bored tonight, and I did a search on YouTube for Coast Guard. While most of what I saw was rather impressive, and made me proud to be a part of our great organization, some other things I saw were on the opposite end of the spectrum. Take a look at this for example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4-o8WtjKiY
Am I off track here? Is this acceptable? Feel free to tell me if I am. I can already hear the rebuttal........"It's just a young kid having fun, you were young once to". Yeah, I was young once, however I didn't telegraph my actions on the internet for everyone else to see. Having privacy during your liberty time to do what you want to is expected and should be a given, however you give up that right (In my opinion) when you post it on the internet. What perception of our organization do some of these videos give to the public? Especially when your profile on YouTube is USCG007 ?????

[BMCS J Lucas]

That was a bit disturbing. I'm curious as to if Young 007 is of age to be hammered?

I agree, most all of us were probably in that same shape a few times. But when you post it on the internet with a username as obvious as that, you might as well put your ODU's on and walk down the street in that condition.

[BMCS J. Egelston]

My thoughts exactly. If you read his profile, it states he's 21. So either he's underrage, or he needs to update his profile. Then again, he just joined YouTube 3 months ago..........

[BMCM Wray Gillette (Ret)]

Speaking of "Hammered", Seen this one?

http://s22.photobucket.com/albums/b317/Stingwray/?action=view&current=higherQ.flv

I'm glad we didn't have you tube during my day.......

Wray... :cool:

[BMCS J. Egelston]

Wray, I have seen that one. I think it's much more "appropriate" than the one I posted.

[BMCM Stuart S. Slesh]

Sooner or later people are going to realize that they should watch what they're advertising. Our hero is going to wonder how people discovered his secret identity if his adventures ever came to his command's attention. Maybe if he didn't tag his videos with Coast Guard, he could continue to show the world how he's practicing for that eventual Darwin Award Nomination.
Do you think the cameraman will put down the camera long enough to rewrite that definition for shipmate? I hope they video tape themselves trying to talk their way out of whatever situation they eventually get caught for and share that with us as well.

[BMCS Ian McVicker]

I'm guessing he is not one of the "Smarter Generation" in the Coast Guard folks.

This member in particular, and a couple of his shipmates had a pretty good string of videos over there. Some involving parties, some involving vidoes from the unit, and my personal favorite was where one of the supervisors in the crew was drawing inappropriate stuff all over the intoxicated guy.

Hmmm...videos of the crew in uniform, video of his barracks room at Patrick Air Force Base, videos with a bunch of his buddies, not very smart:rolleyes:

Was pretty easy to figure out what unit this young man was from...Those folks will probably not be Happy Campers here soon.

[AMTCM John Long]

He wasn't too smart to put his drunk vids on there, along with his unit vids. Hopefully the BM1 (at the range) in there "opens up a can" on this kid once he finds out. It does make one worried about the dangerous attitudes of some (not all) young folks finding humor about alcohol and drunken stupors. We'll see how much longer the vids stay posted.

[BMCM Wray Gillette (Ret)]

In my opinion none of these are very smart things to do... of course in our younger years I'm sure all of us have done some things that weren't too smart...

I did some things in airplanes & cars that make me wonder how or why I'm still alive.... Sure glad we never put it on film...

Wray... :cool:

[AMTCM John Long]

In my opinion none of these are very smart things to do... of course in our younger years I'm sure all of us have done some things that weren't too smart...

I did some things in airplanes & cars that make me wonder how or why I'm still alive.... Sure glad we never put it on film...

Wray... :cool:

Wray,

I'll speak for myself. I'm not a drinker so I can't claim any drinking related stupidity. However, I agree we have all done things we wish we could go back and redo. I know I have a couple things back from my afloat days I wouldn't mind revisiting. I was 20-21 yoa back then....young and dumb.

I personally don't care what the older folks do.......up to the point where the older folks send the wrong message to these young, impressionable folks. I was lucky back in my early days. I had a crusty CO/XO/BMC/BM1/SS1/RM1/YN1/SK1/ET1 that looked out for us young pups. I would thank them for it if I ever saw them again. I still remember all of their names. I will add some of us young folks back then still didn't get it. They either got kicked out or in a couple of cases did hard time (years).

I hope these guys in the vid catch on quick.

John

[BMCM Wray Gillette (Ret)]

John, I was not referring to just alcohol related incidents.. I NEVER drank when I was flying.. 24 hours --- bottle to throttle...

I just meant I had done stupid things while flying airplanes or driving cars.... Not all aircraft are meant for acrobatic manuvers.....

Wray.. :cool:

[AMTCM John Long]

Ahh....gotcha.