Getting TEAR GASSED is not for the WEAK // Bootcamp 5

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:04]This, how do I explain this? The tear gas chamber was never really part of the plan. Miscalculation. Before I signed up, I had zero research, zero planning, zero prep time. I'd heard it in like passing like once or twice. I was thinking like, I signed up to be a mechanic. If I'm fixing a plane, right, and we're getting teargassed on base, it's because we've already lost. You get me? I feel like I I took it better than most, though. That being said, nobody tanks tear gas, right? Before we get into that though, I got to tell you about all the dumbass we got into leading up to this. Between week three and five, it was fairly lax. Very easy.

[00:00:43]We were well-trained dogs. Still dogs though. Week five, we were kind of just getting things out the way. We were cramming all the cool basic training things into one week because week six is when we get into what we called beast week. Beast week is something else entirely. So, we aren't going to talk about that right now. But instead, weapons training. I I don't know. This part was a little bit of a blur. I'm not going to lie to you. I just know it ended poorly. We did all the normal basic training things in the morning and then headed straight to the facility. We walked in, sergeants disappeared.

[00:01:12]Another group of sergeants come in and pull us into little classrooms. This is where we learned every small individual detail about these gum. Nerf. Nerfs is what we're going to call them. I know these apps won't like gum, so we're going to use Nerf. I'm going to make this quick for your convenience because they did the exact opposite for us because we spent that entire day literally like 10 hours getting lectured on whatever whatever all important stuff I'm sure we don't like.

[00:01:45]Oh my god. Oh my CAN SOMEBODY HELP PLEASE?

[00:01:52]>> YO, >> don't look at me like that. You know how sensitive this trigger is? What are you talking about? Why is your trigger sensitive? It shouldn't have feelings.

[00:02:01]>> You're so dumb. It's trigger discipline.

[00:02:04]Why does your trigger need disciplining?

[00:02:06]WAS IT A BAD BOY? I CAN'T I CAN'T DEAL WITH THIS. IT'S GOT TO HAPPEN like this.

[00:02:12]I'm sorry. MAKE IT AT LEAST LIKE SEMIENTERTAINING. You have free will.

[00:02:17]Make things fun. I'm going keep it real with you. I don't learn this way. This is why I was a D average student. 90% of what this man said did not stick.

[00:02:25]Literally nothing was clicking. I was struggling through the basic assembly and disassembly of this thing. Doesn't matter. What did matter was how each person did at the range. We were all dead eyes with these things. Except me.

[00:02:39]I was embarrassingly bad. I legit popped the clip out to make sure there were still pellets in there. I fired like three more. Still nothing. I keep this all to myself. I I couldn't let the people know that I I I don't got it like that. people were showing each other their mosaics, the Picasso level art that they were leaving out on their paper. And I'm just here with uh my modern interpretation. It's it's contemporary. It's different. It's original. I'm an out ofthe-box thinker.

[00:03:04]You wouldn't understand. People would ask me to see mine and I I literally told them I accidentally left it.

[00:03:11]There's no way I could ever let somebody see that. Look. All right. My shot's kind of shoddy, but what my fellow trainee did next made me want to blow all of their tops smooth off. So ridiculously insane that the sergeants have never seen anything like it ever.

[00:03:25]It's 3:30 a.m. Okay. The two traineees that had night shift on the door got a call from a random sergeant saying that we all had to get up and go work the chow hall that morning. They get the dorm chief up and he gets active screaming, shouting. You would have thought a sergeant was in there with the way he was moving. We got dressed and started cleaning immediately as we do.

[00:03:44]Dorm chief Stratfield said, "WE DON'T GOT TIME. LINE UP. LINE UP NOW." IT WAS INSANE. HE WAS ON OUR ASS. We marched down and we get to the chow hall. Met immediately by random sergeants and airmen that happen to be working that breakfast. We got our orders and we broke off. We had like six too many people, right? Sent just a small group back to the dorms. Their jobs are to clean and to study. That is it. That is all dorm chief Staffield gave them. It was stay up, clean, and study. All right. No more, no less. Honestly, I don't care what they do. I already know that this breakfast isn't going to end until like 10:30. 8:30 comes around and we're all tired as hell, ready to be done, really waiting on this day to end.

[00:04:23]Would have 10,000% preferred to work out in the morning because this this ain't it. Sergeant C comes in. And mind you, in the last couple weeks, we've actually like started becoming cool with Sergeant C. He's telling us stories, making fun of us, letting us ask him questions, having like an open dialogue with him.

[00:04:40]He was extremely relaxed, super chill.

[00:04:43]So when we saw Sergeant C and realize that he was pissed, we knew we had to have [ __ ] up bad. He finds dorm chief Stratfield quick. Lights him up and I hear him scream, "WHY IS MY DORM A damn mess? Dorm chief, why are my trainee asleep in THE DORM ROOM? STORM CHIEF, WHY WERE THE trainees that were asleep in my unclean dormatory telling me that you told them not to clean? There was only one trainee cleaning in that dormatory. Dorm chief one. You've got to be [ __ ] kidding me. These people literally marched back, had extra time to clean, and yet everything looking fine. Not wait. They could have went back to sleep, woke up on time, and still had time between 5:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. to clean everything so we weren't completely [ __ ] But instead, they went back to sleep and overslept 3 hours. And only one person stayed up to clean. Yo, hollow. We are so [ __ ] Another day of family time gone. Just like that, Sergeant M comes in, takes another way of family time. She didn't think the punishment was enough. All of our family time is gone. All three days gone forever. Sergeant M's so mad that she's threatening to recycle all of us 2 weeks. She's telling every sergeant during dinner that night. There's this table where like all the sergeants sit and like they'd call trainees up to like step to the table and they would have like the most prolific intimidation tactic they can put on one trainee staring down the barrel of like six to eight sergeants. All right, it's a scary place to be and I don't intend on ever being there because if you step out of line just a little bit, they're lighting you up and all I could hear from the table is no way you're really trying to do it. This is the most trainee I think I could ever hold back. I'm already down six. I could set a new PR right now if this gets approved. Right, dorm chief.

[00:06:48]How does it feel to lead your entire flight to getting recycled? Dorm chief again. Remember from last vid? I will not be held back. Remember, makes us none. I'm about it. Now, she didn't get approved. All right. Or she had a change of heart. Doubt it. But either way, we're still here somehow. All right. Big problem, though. No family time. We've reached the worst case scenario. And it's not like I can contact my family and let them know to cancel their flights. This is like a horrible situation. We have lost with no chance of getting it back except for one. With 3 weeks left, the sergeants let us know that we have one opportunity to get our family time back. Just one day. Option one, ace the final test. I'm a D student. We've gone over this. That's not happening. Option two, I have to reach the pinnacle of fitness. I have to achieve this thing called Warhawk. I'm going to talk about that next video, though. We got to get to the chamber.

[00:07:46]Skipping all the filler. We show up to what's called SEAB burn, aka chemically uh burning real. I don't know what it's called.

[00:07:56]Anyways, we show up. Sun's going down.

[00:07:58]There's like five flights here all at the same time. Not going to lie, kind of hype. I personally was getting bored of the daily routine. Weeks 2, three, four, and five are all very much routine- based. So, even though we're literally here to gasperate directly into our corneas, I was kind of hyped for the experience a little bit.

[00:08:16]>> So bored. Severe pain sounds fun, huh?

[00:08:20]>> Yeah. I shouldn't be here. I should be here. Signed to the military. I should have enlisted my ass into therapy. They line us up eight people at a time. All right. I don't go in the first group.

[00:08:31]I'll be honest. I won't do anything first. Like say my friend jumped off the cliff, right? I'mma look at my friends and be like, "Hey, I'm about it if you're about it." But maybe we should wait to see if he sticks the landing. To add on top of it, I don't trust these people. I don't know these people.

[00:08:45]Obviously, they're not here to harm us.

[00:08:47]But at the same time, they're here to cause literal harm. It's like your siblings got like a wet towel and they're like, "Don't worry, it's not going to hurt. Lies." I hit the second group. All right. We put our gas mask on and we all go into the room. Dark room.

[00:09:01]One light at the top. As soon as we're all situated, the room turns red. Like we're being executed. An orange gas fills the room. Like we're being executed. We're not allowed to move in any way, shape, or form unless instructed. And after the room is full, the sergeant says, "Take your masks off." We take them off and not a soul breathes in. We're all holding our breaths for dear life. The guy on my left was holding his breath until he couldn't and he took one whiff.

[00:09:38]He's literally dying in this chamber. I connected eyes with the guy across the way from me and we locked in. We're not trying to end up like bro. This continues for far too long. He's literally looking like he's about to collapse on the floor. I'm looking at the sergeant trying to get him to check on this guy and he's just stoic. Zero emotion, unfazed by what's soon to be a corpse. Another minute passes and everybody's about to crack. I'm literally pointing at this guy with my eyes.

[00:10:08]>> Please help this man. Holy [ __ ] >> He cracks and we finally get some instruction. He tells everybody, "If you take a deep breath right now, he will open the door." At this point, we all agree reluctantly because like we got to save this kid. We take a deep breath like we're in a yoga class from hell.

[00:10:27]And now the Google explanation for reaction to tear gases. A potent sensory irritant causing immediate involuntary and severe reactions to the eyes, nose, mouth, skin, and lungs. Common effects include blinding tears, intense burning, coughing, choking, skin burns, and temporary incapacitation.

[00:10:46]You got it? You hear me? Now, [ __ ] all that. The only explanation you need is what the [ __ ] is going on. The only thing that you really notice is everything everywhere at all times. And if it was me writing this definition, it would just be we got told to take a walk. Just walk it off, I guess. uh with our arms stretched all the way out. If we touch our faces, we could accidentally rub it into our skin like some lotion for mascist. Also, if we use our hands to touch our body in any way, shape, or form, including using the restroom without washing our hands thoroughly, we're cooked. Irreparable damage in that bathroom. We get water bottles and we spend the next 30 minutes rinsing our eyes out till we could hopefully eventually see again. Not guaranteed, hopefully eventually. I feel bad and have a newfound respect for bro.

[00:11:57]He would have lasted way longer than me if we were in the same situation. I thought she was sweet. I was so wrong.

[00:12:06]Anyways, that's the vid. Sorry it took forever to make. Next one will not be taking this long. I promise. Uh, as always, like and subscribe if you want to see more, and I'll catch you in the next one. Bye.