Funker530 was started as a hobby project on YouTube by Funker, to show his family and friends some videos from his deployment as a light machine gunner to Kandahar, Afghanistan with the Canadian Forces on YouTube in 2008.
The channel began to grow through YouTube’s algorithm, and more and more veterans began joining the community and submitting their footage. The YouTube channel soon became a place for veterans to share their experiences with the world, and help civilians and military families better understand what their troops go through on a deployment.