Sgt. Sam pairs an Afghan firefight with military training clips
Four uploads range from a SAW gunner behind a mud wall to American and Canadian soldiers in a tug of war.
Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
He finally got to unload the SAW...
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Dust kicks up around a mud wall as American soldiers take cover in an Afghan compound. In "He finally got to unload the SAW...", Sgt. Sam adds a narrated breakdown to helmet-camera combat footage, following a gunner who reloads while his squad tries to establish where the incoming fire is coming from.
The pause matters: the gunner says he needs to locate the opposing positions before firing again. Later, he rests the weapon on the wall and fires a sustained burst toward distant structures. At roughly 50,000 views, it is the most watched of the clips channel's four uploads this week, not footage presented as a newly reported engagement.
The other additions move into training and physical tests. "He went red in the face..." features US and Canadian soldiers in a tug of war and has already drawn more views in nine hours than the artillery-record attempt has accumulated since Wednesday. A recruit receiving coaching while stuck on a rappel tower rounds out the week.
Away from the new uploads, the Cambodian police conditioning clip we covered earlier remains the channel's strongest daily draw, adding roughly half a million views a day. The tear-gas-chamber clip, featuring a recruit reciting the infantryman's creed without his mask, is also drawing substantial attention.
Sgt. Sam added subscribers over the week, though more slowly than across the past month. Daily views are close to their usual level. Among nearby military channels, Greg Terry Experience is seeing a pronounced daily viewing lift; Sgt. Sam's own week brought nearly seven million views across its mixture of combat breakdowns and training clips.
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The videos drawing views on Sgt. Sam right now
- Channel
- Sgt. Sam
- Subscribers
- 130,000 ▲ 3,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 6,913,934
- Videos published this week
- 4
- Video published
- November 11, 2026
- Video views so far
- 49,768
- Views on its first day
- 29,596
The numbers
Here is the week in views, subscribers and uploads for Sgt. Sam.







