---
title: "8 epic deployment music videos you need to watch"
description: "Check out these eight totally epic military music videos by your deployed military on WATM. We salute them for boosting morale!"
date: "2021-04-29"
modified: "2021-04-29"
authors:
  - name: "Tim Kirkpatrick"
    link: "https://www.wearethemighty.com/authors/tkirkpatrick/"
url: "https://www.wearethemighty.com/watch/8-epic-deployment-music-videos/"
categories:
  - "Afghanistan War"
  - "History"
  - "War History"
---

# 8 epic deployment music videos you need to watch

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Being forward deployed means a few things — plenty time on post, patrolling through dangerous terrain and a whole lot of downtime to entertain yourself.

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Let's face it, life on a FOB is far from glamorous and music is king when it comes to entertainment during regular working hours – which is every day. Having fun in a war zone is an absolute must whenever and where ever you can fit it in.

Listening to the same song over and over again — even the hardest of the hard — will tap their feet, start lip syncing and some will eventually come up with their original dance moves. It's time to break out the camera!

### Related: [9 examples of the military's dark humor](<https://www.wearethemighty.com/popular/military-dark-humor/>)

With the ability to film and edit all sorts of footage while manning a combat post within every trooper's reach, making an epic music video nowadays should be a must on a deployment checklist.

So check out these epic military music videos by your deployed military. We salute you for boosting morale!

## 1. Military vs. Dolphin's Cheerleaders - Carly Rae Jepsen "Call Me Maybe"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzDPv12ZOEA

*([Theresa R.](<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJiPE7X807_F3vdf_UsV_6w>), YouTube)*

## 2. US Navy and Marines in Afghanistan - Psy "Gangnam Style"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt7pevIvCbQ

*([Ryan Pomicter](<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRCgX8s0PLCwyveRun_Skfg>), Youtube)*

## 3. Sangin's Best Dance Crew - E-40 "Go Hard or Go Home"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnxKTdwHTT4

*([irishboi916](<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh1uOa0BNcgnoIXbIzLSiIA>), YouTube)*

## 4. US Army - Gunter "Steel Ding Dong"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XquUH6vjjLY

*([Chris O'Leary](<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgYNAmTQ1C-GWrdkyFJejtg>), YouTube)*

## 5. Frontline Combatants - Haddaway "What is Love?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGE_vpPIoIU

*([Nathan](<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7HrA6B1vxOk7YqBcaSGkBA>), YouTube)*

## 6. USAFA vs. Army Spirit Video - LMFAO "I'm Sexy and I Know it"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLBlHXor9Hs

*([5starHAP](<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWFOG9dWffFzbi6n75_FEyw>), YouTube))*

## 7. Soldiers Deployed Afghanistan - Bruno Mars "Lazy Song"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od6gwIYdKHs

*([Bradders](<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfMATIyFX6ejMYjc723t40Q>), YouTube)*

## 8. Swedish Marines - Grease "Grease Lightning"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbLwmUdee64

*([Ralf Uhrbom](<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeX5VgFCh4u3ptTfllgEHew>), YouTube)*

Which is your favorite? Comment below.

## Author
Tim Kirkpatrick entered the Navy in 2007 as a Hospital Corpsman and deployed to Sangin, Afghanistan with 3rd Battalion 5th Marines in the fall of 2010. Tim now has degrees in both Film Production and Screenwriting. tim.kirkpatrick@wearethemighty.com