I love seeing this from your perspective. I know that being USMC you’re more interested in Marine stuff, but you should check out a documentary called the Queens Cavalry. These are the guys who ride on horseback with shining breastplates and helmets and escort the Queen. But, they are also fighting troops and when they’re not doing ceremonial stuff, they form light armoured recon units. They are also the only troops who can have an unsheathed sword in the presence of Her Majesty, as they’re her bodyguard. I’d love to see your perspective on it.
The reason the training team aren’t on top of them 24/7 about the mess is what’s typically done is you’re shown how to do it once, after that you know how to do it, from there on out it’s your responsibility to deal with admin, on operations you won’t have a training team or drill sgt to constantly tell you to get on top of your admin, so they ensure that personal responsibility is learned
And not just posh kids...these guys are the officers aka tell the hard as nails bastards what to do. The English army is random. All officers should be high iq and Braun not just brains n use a gun. Those u want on the computers and radios not calling shots.
I got the chance to train with British Army during a CAX (Combined Action Exercise) at Camp Pendleton in early '90s ('92 or '93). A lot of countries were on hand. Italy, Spain, South Korea, Australians. The British were the biggest drinkers I have ever seen. Yes! They out drank the Aussies! And they hated Coors Light and Budweiser. Kept on saying "How do you blokes drink this piss?" Great group of guys to train and drink with. Any former British military who came out to Camp Pendleton California in early 90s , give a shout out.
@@JamesonsTravels You where there? Awesome! What year was it? Who were you with? I was with 2nd BN 25th Marines Weapons Co Dragon Plt (0351). Camp Pendleton is my favorite duty station. I hated Camp Lejeune. Keep the videos coming! Oorah!
Sidro c. The Aussies can't drink, their xxx and castle maine beers are like water. Coors and Budweiser are also water. The only military that comes close to the drinking ability is the russian military. You know where they have been by the empty vodka bottles.
I'm sat watching this reading your comment whilst drinking kronenbourg laughing at the fact that I dont, cant and wont drink Coors or Bud. It's like piss. Good old blighty get the beers in.
Part 3, hope yo see you use the "How to Make a Royal Marines Officer" I think its more "open" and not so much "soap opera". And you did get some pushing this time ;)
The officer series was waaay back in the 1980s. it was very good. Richard Van Der Horst won the sword of honour as best on that course, became commander of SBS, sadly died in a diving accident. I also remember PARAS filmed during the Falklands war, that was great too. Corporal Slater (scary man) went SAS and died in Northern Ireland
This documentary is garbage compared to the older documentary called Royal Marines on the front line which is on youtube. This one really plays down training.
Regardless of the intensity or lack of in the training, it does seem like US Marine Corps training is much more intense, and that's why Marines kick some serious ass. I am not in the military and have never been, tried but was rejected due to some physical issues. But I've done enough digging to know if that United States Marine Training it's probably one of the most difficult training courses to pass, and then you have Navy SEALS. I can't even believe what I've seen of their training. I watched an exercise wear they had to inhale water in the pool having absolute trust that their brothers in arms will resuscitate them immediately. Now that is some serious training. Hell, you got to be able to run 4 miles in full uniform in 32 minutes on the beach the minute you show up. These guys are in great shape to begin with but our consistently just wrecked by their DI(s). A whole new level of breaking someone and rebuilding them, and I'm not seeing this in the Royal Marine training here.
@@stevencederakis9113, royal marines are harder and are more elite to get into then usa marines, the royal marines consist of im pretty sure quite a lot less troops and make it more of an elite force rather then quite a large infantry of soldiers that the usa have.
I was in the 2nd Battalion, Royal Anglian Regt. in the late 80's/early 90's. Part of our 24hr ration pack was cheese in a tin, and a small 18th century style tin-opener leaving jagged edges.... Cheese in a tin. Brilliant! Looked and tasted like yellow rubber.
The Italian Alpini REG. are the only ones issued Italian rum (cordiale) in the combat ration pack and we used to exchange it with the other NATO soldiers for bits of their kit or their patches...
There is a reason why we called the "Rat Packs!", I was only OTC (equivalent to US ROTC - i think) and the ration packs we got were all out of date! No idea if it has changed now but back then you would get a 24-hour ration pack that had breakfast, lunch, dinner and desert as well as tea, coffee, hot chocolate (which we used to put altogether to make a brew), energy sachet, small chocolate bar (mine all were Yokies) and biscuits browns (which will stop you sh*tting for a week!). (Sure I've missed something but its been 10+ years!) Some ration packs were better than others, but the ones I had weren't great (though that could have been down to the expiry date!) - however you could eat it cold if you really had too and was better than going hungry!
I still remember my recruit training back in the 90's where the rat packs we were eating were vietnam leftovers. Expiry dates just don't matter but it was different to see a can with a date of 1972 on it...
One of the factors in deciding who gets the kings cross, or whichever it was called, is a test on corp history. You dont get it based solely on leadership ability and performance. I believe it gauged on overall investment in the corp.
From experience I can tell you our Rat packs are better than MRE's. Plus ours last 24hrs so resup is less. I'm in Civ Div now but did 25 years. Liking the content by the way!
@@JamesonsTravels the old tinned rations were ok, but traditional stuff, the new ones are boil in the bag and the menus are varied. Maybe someone still serving can throw one your way?
@@zarelli7831 it always depends on your tastes obviously, the only thing I thought was good in the MRE's was the Tobasco sauce, and that's in our new Rat packs now. The New ones are bloody great in my opinion! Shame bacon grill isnt in the new ones though...that was great!
2:44 British military uses lasers on the barrels of their weapons and sensors on every soldier so you know exactly when you were hit and exactly where you were hit, watch paras pass out to see how it works, - side note: you should watch The paras men of war- gruelling Bayonet training, you will then see the the real side of our military, love your vids man
I feel ill on my training in week 29 , had to pull out n retake it from start a month later n joined 45 commando that had a great reputation among the armed forces , semper fi , rip those who never came home 🇬🇧
To funny because we painted our entrenching tools too ! But only after scrubbing them clean! ( the were old and had some slight rust spots ). We were trying make them black again.Buts what's funny with that crew is it sounds like the didn't at least try to clean them first,they just sprayed them.Also I do remember the break free and carb cleaner ! Too funny ! Some things don't change ! They just were not so smart about how to properly execute a short cut .
Just a little point on British Army ratpacks (like US MRE)... I wasnt a soldier, but trained for 2 and a half years TA. Our ratpacks were pretty good, I reckon, but I always carried a bottle of Tabasco (wrapped in a bit of scrap DPM material) in my mess tins, just to get a bit more intensity to my meals. It also meant that if there wasnt any opportunity to heat the pack, itd still be HOT. I got a bit ribbed by the other guys when they first saw my Tabasco, but very soon after, Id have a bunch of them wanting some... In training excercises, wed never have the priority for the full range of menu options, so wed always get rather samey options. Beef stew, sticky toffee pudding, biscuits brown, biscuits fruit... All that good stuff. This was all around 2003-05, and I know the menus have changed since then...
Being ex-British Army (12 years RAMC) from way back when (I left in 1978), I was genuinely surprised that the lads there were obviously still being issued with cap-comforters. I'd have thought that they'd have something "more modern" by now. In spite of all the years since I served, I still sort of remember the "cardinal rules" we were taught as sprogs in "The Shot" - you don't fuck with the Sikhs, you don't fuck with the Ghurkas, you don't fuck with the Paras and you certainly don't fuck with the Booties (although I'm pretty sure the RGJ and the A&SH were also in there somewhere)! All good advice:-) MsG
I've had the 'MREs' we call them 24hr ration packs. I've only had two as I'm not in the actual army, I'm in a military organisation; but from the ones I've had they're not too bad. I mean you can't really complain, its a meal in a bag and you're in the outdoors so you can't as for much! In ours, we obviously get the meals/desserts tea bags, sugar etc, we get mini hot sauces in a bottle, chewing gum, creamer which is for the tea I think?, juice powders! I personally don't think they're bad, you get what you're given.
Watched some blokes doing it on the hard shoulder of a live motorway at 70mph, for weeks on end, clearing a few metres of tree line back from the carriageway. Balls of steel, I tell you.
I'm from the UK. You've probably had this answered already, but you're asking, so I'm answering. _Tree surgery_ is a literal term, pretty much. A fairly accurate description of the role, I'd say. Not so much landscaping, although I'm sure many tree surgeons do also landscape! And I'm sure there's a few landscapers that'll do some tree surgery. More even, probably. In fact, one of my pals is a landscaper, but he'll do it all. Trees, the lot! Whatever you want doing outside. He'd build you a house too, I'd you'd like me to enquire! 😂 Lol
Theres a show called 'Paras: Men at War' which follows recruits who have joined the Parachute regiment and it follows them through their training. In my opinion it's a much better show than this one and paints a better picture of british armed forces training.
Some of the equipment the British Army use in training is a little old but its designed that way to show that if you can bog standard stuff you can use anything.
Always remember the story of a young marine in 82 coming up against his first 'kill'. In a blink of an eye, his whole life flashed before him, family, all of that. Then it's either me or him. But to this day he regrets killing the Argentine. He knew he had a family too. No harm in feeling that way and didn't stop him killing countless others. He had a story for all and none were ever forgotten. Etched in his soul, every death. There's no glory in killing someone. You do your job and move on. He took no pride in it. Always admired that. He spoke with true feeling and regret but it was war. He was trained to kill and duly did. Wise old owl was Steve and he never revelled about his army days. He just did his job. He just did it very well.
Ration packs are luck of the draw which number pack you get. If you get stuff like sausage and beans or spaghetti bolognese then happy days but if you pull a chickpea curry then you are going to have a bad exercise in the field.
The 'final ex' varies a bit with each training team and weather. You can expect to sleep about 4-6 hours in seven days (depending on your training team), do 3 big yomps with 100 pounds at least depending on how much ammo they give you. During the exercise you will do alot of attacks some recces, patrols, observation posts etc. And It is very common to get injured in training and usually only about 20 lads out of 60 will pass out without getting backtrooped/discharged/injured or just deciding to leave
Suppose you don’t really think about dying when young. Reality never hit me until I got to basic and learnt about the large number of 88M’s who were blown up in Iraq and Afghanistan. Being a convoy driver and getting hit with the stats was an eye opener. Had a few battle buds who were EOD. Their life expectancy was even worse.
kingsbadge definition is; King George V also directed that his Royal Cypher, surrounded by a Laurel Wreath, would be known as the King's Badge, and would be awarded to the best all round recruit in the King's Squad, provided that he was worthy of the honour. The badge was to be carried on the left shoulder, and worn in every rank. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was graciously pleased to approve that the custom and privilege of the King's Squad remain unaltered. The King's Badge is not awarded to every squad, and is only presented if a Recruit measures up to the very exacting standards required. My Dad PO34244B Marine Woodworth was awarded it in 1975
Not an actual service men just an air cadet (JROTC and air patrol I believe put together) got this from online buts all numbers you don't get to pick the drink is usually just powder and you add water (shock) us Brits call squetch (probably spelt it wrong) so it may be said wrong. Btw the ration packs usually change yearly ( thought there were more than 10) 4000 Kcal pack Fully cooked meals Eat Hot or cold 3 main meals High energy snacks Electrolyte drink 24hr Menu's No 1 to 10: Menu 1 - Natural Muesli with Milk /Vegetarian Pasta with Beans in Tomato Sauce/Chick pea Curry/Plain Rice/Chocolate Brownie/Hot Pepper Sauce Snacks - Oatmeal Block x 2/ Dried Mixed Fruit Cocktail in Pineapple Juice/Cookies & Cream Cereal Bar/Mexican Sweet Chilli Peanuts/Smooth Peanut Butter Menu 2 - Chicken Sausages & Beans/Tuna Chilli Pasta/Chicken & Mushroom Pasta/Sticky Toffee Pudding/Hot Pepper Sauce Snacks - Cheese Oat Biscuits/Mixed Dried Fruits Nougat Bar/Dried Pineapple in Light Syrup/Sesame Bar/Mexican Sweet Chilli Peanuts Menu 3 - Chicken Sausages & Beans/Thai Style Chicken Soup/Steak Vegetables & Dumplings/Sticky Toffee Pudding/Hot Pepper Sauce Snacks - Biscuits Brown/Sesame Bar/Tropical Fruit & Nut Mix/Smooth Peanut butter Menu 4 - Vegetarian All Day Breakfast/Tomato Pasta Salad/Indonesian Style Spicy Rice with Pork/Ginger Pudding & Ginger Sauce/Hot Pepper Sauce Snacks - Oat Digestive Biscuits/Cherry Flavoured Boiled Sweets/Cranberry Cereal Bar/Just Nuts/Smooth Peanut Butter/Strawberry Jam Menu 5 - Maple syrup Bun//Thai Style Chicken Soup/Meat Sticks & Rice/Ginger Pudding & Ginger Suace/Hot Pepper Sauce Snacks - Biscuits Brown/Diced Mixed Fruit Cocktail in Pineapple Juice/Cookies & Cream Cereal bar/Just Nuts/Smooth Peanut Butter Menu 6 - Chicken Sausages & Beans/Vegetarian Pasta with Beans in Tomato Sauce/Chicken Meatballs & Pasta/Chocolate Pudding & Chocolate Sauce/Hot Pepper Sauce Snacks - Oatmeal Block x 2/Cola Flavoured Sweets/Caramel Cereal bar/Fruit Flapjack/Just Nuts/Smooth Peanut Butter Menu 7 - Fruit Muesli with Milk/Bean & Pasta Salad/Vegetable Korma/Cherry Turnover/Hot Pepper Sauce Snacks - Biscuits Brown/Caramel Cereal Bar/Just Nuts/Tropical Fruit & Nut Mix/Cheddar Cheese Flavour Spread Menu 8 - Vegetarian All Day Breakfast/Chickpea Curry/Beef Meat Balls & Spaghetti/Ginger Pudding & Ginger Sauce/Hot Pepper Sauce Snacks - Oatmeal Block x 2/Mixed Dried Fruits Nougat Bar/Dried Mixed Fruit Cocktail in Pineapple Sauce/Cranberry Cereal Bar/Just Nuts/Just Fruit Menu 9 - All Day Breakfast/Tuna Chilli Pasta/Lamb Rogan Josh/Chocolate Pudding & Chocolate Sauce/Hot Pepper Sauce Snacks - Oat Digestive Biscuits/Cola Flavoured Sweets/Sesame Bar/Just Nuts/Just Fruit/Smooth Peanut Butter Menu 10 - All Day Breakfast/Moroccan Style Bean Stew/Beef Goulash/Sticky Toffee Pudding/Hot Pepper Sauce Snacks - Dark Chocolate Chip Oat Biscuits/Lemon Flavour Boiled Sweets/Cookies & Cream Cereal Bar/Just Nuts/Smooth Peanut Butter Drinks Include - Isotonic Drink Powder/Flavour Drink Powder x 3/Regular Flavour Hot Chocolate Drink Powder Sundries Include - Re-Useable Polybag/ Wet wipes x 2/Teabags x 2/Instant Coffee x 2/Matches x 5/Assorted Chewing Gum x 2/Water Purification Tablets x 6/Sugar x 4 /Beverage Whitener x 4/Plastic Spoon
British MREs are usually 24hr packs not individual meals like US MREs. Some a very good and others are fucking awful. Nepalese pork curry and rice was my favourite but they stopped doing it for some reason, alot of the items like peanut butter/cheese spread and the bread stuff cinniman bun things were the same as the US rations made by the same US company.
A bloke I work with was In the royal marines 40 company. Now I've heard all the stories and I'm afraid the way the sergeants are portrayed if that was publicised they would never get a recruit. His first introduction his Sargent took out his front teeth and said any of you that thinks you can take me let's step outside now straighten it out . On dartmoor same officer made them get in the water, now everything was damp and they couldn't start a fire so the commanding officer did give them some diesel and the bloke who made them get wet was disciplined. Also they were taught how to kill rabbits and the officer teaching showed grabbing it by the legs flicking it breaking its neck then said or my personal favourite then proceeded to bite the throat out of the rabbit and throw it down at a lads feet , he flinched and had to skin all of them. I think the exercises are accurate but more parental guidance version. Also at anytime after training in January the either March left back to barracks or right into a container full of water they had to break the ice to get in. Now this was 25 years ago but they pride themselves in 99.9% need not apply.
Tree surgeons or tree surgery is like what I assume are lumber Jack's in the US the trim hedges to falling trees etc etc alot of knowledge to be learnt about trees believe it or not and land scraping is what it is haha
never tried american MREs but the British ones are banging if you order the right one, theres a menu of around 28 meals i believe and yea i love the meat ones, you normally get something for breakfast (eg. muesli cereal), lunch (eg. curry), dinner (eg. chopped beef and potatoes) most meals require hot water, some require just heating but you can always eat them cold. they also come with 2x peanut butter most the time, some granola bars or crackers, some drink flavour dust like orange, and tobacco chilli sauce if you ever get something you hate then just wash the taste away with chilli
One guy screws the pooch, we all got punished. It usually wasn’t too long after that, that the Company or Platoon Members started exercising their own punishments to square them away. They either saw the light or they saw the door.
... I can tell you straight up that...And even with the Legion!... There is always some ... Putain de merde!... Who will fuck it up for everyone! ... And we have to do PT!
It's not 6 months training it's 8. It's 32 weeks which is 4 (average weeks per month) x 8. That poor lad that was injured and went through hunter company was in training for roughly 13 months
Depends what you get in your MREs in Britain most generally don't taste the worst but it's usually the aesthetics that are off putting, but in general it's better than starving aha
British rations are not good at all. They fill you up but I have not met anyone who has actively enjoyed them. Some differences is we get way more snacks than the US, we get hot chocolate, coffee, tea (of course), sweets (candy), some sort of cake or desert, and of course the standard army peanut butter.
British MRE’s are ok got a chance to try one slightly better but quite a bit healthier, tried one a good while before I got out I was rear D and the British where cool Guys.
@@JamesonsTravels Looking forward to it. Im from South Africa. Like to see you do a segment on our Recce's and 32 Paras. When our army was still worth its salt.
I love seeing this from your perspective. I know that being USMC you’re more interested in Marine stuff, but you should check out a documentary called the Queens Cavalry. These are the guys who ride on horseback with shining breastplates and helmets and escort the Queen. But, they are also fighting troops and when they’re not doing ceremonial stuff, they form light armoured recon units. They are also the only troops who can have an unsheathed sword in the presence of Her Majesty, as they’re her bodyguard. I’d love to see your perspective on it.
The reason the training team aren’t on top of them 24/7 about the mess is what’s typically done is you’re shown how to do it once, after that you know how to do it, from there on out it’s your responsibility to deal with admin, on operations you won’t have a training team or drill sgt to constantly tell you to get on top of your admin, so they ensure that personal responsibility is learned
There's a series called "Sandhurst" about how British Army officers are trained. It'd be interesting to see what you think
AH Sandhurst!....Fucken Hell it is like Duntroon and their military wank college in Australia!
Posh school kids at Hogwarts just with military lessons and pe classes from school
@@michaelpolo2750, i suggest you watch it, seems like roughly half the entry is public and half are privately schooled.
And not just posh kids...these guys are the officers aka tell the hard as nails bastards what to do. The English army is random. All officers should be high iq and Braun not just brains n use a gun. Those u want on the computers and radios not calling shots.
Does it show the point where unlearn how to read a map?
I got the chance to train with British Army during a CAX (Combined Action Exercise) at Camp Pendleton in early '90s ('92 or '93). A lot of countries were on hand. Italy, Spain, South Korea, Australians. The British were the biggest drinkers I have ever seen. Yes! They out drank the Aussies! And they hated Coors Light and Budweiser. Kept on saying "How do you blokes drink this piss?" Great group of guys to train and drink with. Any former British military who came out to Camp Pendleton California in early 90s , give a shout out.
I was there. 92-93. Good duty station when you are there.
@@JamesonsTravels You where there? Awesome! What year was it? Who were you with? I was with 2nd BN 25th Marines Weapons Co Dragon Plt (0351). Camp Pendleton is my favorite duty station. I hated Camp Lejeune. Keep the videos coming! Oorah!
Sidro c. The Aussies can't drink, their xxx and castle maine beers are like water. Coors and Budweiser are also water. The only military that comes close to the drinking ability is the russian military. You know where they have been by the empty vodka bottles.
Drinking is our national sport! 🏴🇬🇧👍
I'm sat watching this reading your comment whilst drinking kronenbourg laughing at the fact that I dont, cant and wont drink Coors or Bud. It's like piss. Good old blighty get the beers in.
Part 3, hope yo see you use the "How to Make a Royal Marines Officer" I think its more "open" and not so much "soap opera". And you did get some pushing this time ;)
Yes it seems to be a far better series though a bit old before combat95 and the new DPM I don't recognize
The officer series was waaay back in the 1980s. it was very good. Richard Van Der Horst won the sword of honour as best on that course, became commander of SBS, sadly died in a diving accident. I also remember PARAS filmed during the Falklands war, that was great too. Corporal Slater (scary man) went SAS and died in Northern Ireland
This documentary is garbage compared to the older documentary called Royal Marines on the front line which is on youtube. This one really plays down training.
@stanly stud Hey wankstain, go change your fanny pad,,,Twat!!
If what happens in military is shown, mothers won't send their sons to the force ever.😆
Regardless of the intensity or lack of in the training, it does seem like US Marine Corps training is much more intense, and that's why Marines kick some serious ass. I am not in the military and have never been, tried but was rejected due to some physical issues. But I've done enough digging to know if that United States Marine Training it's probably one of the most difficult training courses to pass, and then you have Navy SEALS. I can't even believe what I've seen of their training. I watched an exercise wear they had to inhale water in the pool having absolute trust that their brothers in arms will resuscitate them immediately. Now that is some serious training. Hell, you got to be able to run 4 miles in full uniform in 32 minutes on the beach the minute you show up. These guys are in great shape to begin with but our consistently just wrecked by their DI(s). A whole new level of breaking someone and rebuilding them, and I'm not seeing this in the Royal Marine training here.
@@stevencederakis9113 shut up
@@stevencederakis9113, royal marines are harder and are more elite to get into then usa marines, the royal marines consist of im pretty sure quite a lot less troops and make it more of an elite force rather then quite a large infantry of soldiers that the usa have.
I suffered a slipped disk and a cracked hip spent 10 months recovery and earned my green beret! , I have worked with the USMC and love it!
4:30 Fun fact, in the 80's we got a small bottle of wine ( 20 cl ) and a pack of Galouises ( smokes ) in the Legion MRE's
that is another reason i like the French. I remember the Grom having vodka somehow. We got nothing but did trade for a lot of goodies.
We also had wine in the dining hall for lunch and dinner back then.
I sent you a few email Jameson with some info and some links ;)
WOW 😳
Definitely part 3, really enjoy these
Attended training with Royal Marines Commandos, really good bunch of fellas...
I was in the 2nd Battalion, Royal Anglian Regt. in the late 80's/early 90's. Part of our 24hr ration pack was cheese in a tin, and a small 18th century style tin-opener leaving jagged edges.... Cheese in a tin. Brilliant! Looked and tasted like yellow rubber.
The Italian Alpini REG. are the only ones issued Italian rum (cordiale) in the combat ration pack and we used to exchange it with the other NATO soldiers for bits of their kit or their patches...
There is a reason why we called the "Rat Packs!", I was only OTC (equivalent to US ROTC - i think) and the ration packs we got were all out of date!
No idea if it has changed now but back then you would get a 24-hour ration pack that had breakfast, lunch, dinner and desert as well as tea, coffee, hot chocolate (which we used to put altogether to make a brew), energy sachet, small chocolate bar (mine all were Yokies) and biscuits browns (which will stop you sh*tting for a week!). (Sure I've missed something but its been 10+ years!)
Some ration packs were better than others, but the ones I had weren't great (though that could have been down to the expiry date!) - however you could eat it cold if you really had too and was better than going hungry!
I still remember my recruit training back in the 90's where the rat packs we were eating were vietnam leftovers. Expiry dates just don't matter but it was different to see a can with a date of 1972 on it...
One of the factors in deciding who gets the kings cross, or whichever it was called, is a test on corp history. You dont get it based solely on leadership ability and performance. I believe it gauged on overall investment in the corp.
Very similar over here. History is a big part. We took that from our British roots.
@@JamesonsTravels makes sense, you wouldn't really want someone winning if they could just run fast or something
Be good to see a part three.
From experience I can tell you our Rat packs are better than MRE's. Plus ours last 24hrs so resup is less.
I'm in Civ Div now but did 25 years.
Liking the content by the way!
Thanks Jaimie. Good stuff to watch and learned about. Mre sucked when I was in.
@@JamesonsTravels the old tinned rations were ok, but traditional stuff, the new ones are boil in the bag and the menus are varied. Maybe someone still serving can throw one your way?
Jaimie Hardy maybe it’s changed when I was in but I always thought the American ones were better. And I agree all are ration packs last for 24 hours.
@@zarelli7831 it always depends on your tastes obviously, the only thing I thought was good in the MRE's was the Tobasco sauce, and that's in our new Rat packs now. The New ones are bloody great in my opinion!
Shame bacon grill isnt in the new ones though...that was great!
Jaimie Hardy I remember the boiled sweets and the baked beans and sausage one.
Great to hear the commentary - always good to hear from our USMC brothers.
2:44 British military uses lasers on the barrels of their weapons and sensors on every soldier so you know exactly when you were hit and exactly where you were hit, watch paras pass out to see how it works, - side note: you should watch The paras men of war- gruelling Bayonet training, you will then see the the real side of our military, love your vids man
Aqua man I never said otherwise did I, I just told him Britain used it because he didn’t know what they were 🤷♂️
@@jordanelder321 Haha hes probably just older. May of never used that system.
Thanks for cutting this program up so that we get your thoughts on what you kept in. Having seen the whole thing already, I'm just here for that. :D
I feel ill on my training in week 29 , had to pull out n retake it from start a month later n joined 45 commando that had a great reputation among the armed forces , semper fi , rip those who never came home 🇬🇧
This really play's down the hardcore training. The 30 miler ECT!
Hope you getbroind round to doing part 4 showing the final tests..tough as hell.
To funny because we painted our entrenching tools too ! But only after scrubbing them clean! ( the were old and had some slight rust spots ). We were trying make them black again.Buts what's funny with that crew is it sounds like the didn't at least try to clean them first,they just sprayed them.Also I do remember the break free and carb cleaner ! Too funny ! Some things don't change ! They just were not so smart about how to properly execute a short cut .
Love to hear your comments on the doc "They shall not grow old". If you haven't seen it, you need to.
Just a little point on British Army ratpacks (like US MRE)...
I wasnt a soldier, but trained for 2 and a half years TA.
Our ratpacks were pretty good, I reckon, but I always carried a bottle of Tabasco (wrapped in a bit of scrap DPM material) in my mess tins, just to get a bit more intensity to my meals. It also meant that if there wasnt any opportunity to heat the pack, itd still be HOT. I got a bit ribbed by the other guys when they first saw my Tabasco, but very soon after, Id have a bunch of them wanting some...
In training excercises, wed never have the priority for the full range of menu options, so wed always get rather samey options.
Beef stew, sticky toffee pudding, biscuits brown, biscuits fruit... All that good stuff.
This was all around 2003-05, and I know the menus have changed since then...
Joined infantry but was medically discharged and can rejoin after 18 months. Only have 14 more left. Can’t wait to get back in.
FIBUA is definitely one of the funnest parts of training. Surprisingly anxiety raising as well, even though it's simulated.
There was an excellent series showing experienced Commandos doing Arctic training in midwinter also.
It may have been "Commandos on the Front Line".
Being ex-British Army (12 years RAMC) from way back when (I left in 1978), I was genuinely surprised that the lads there were obviously still being issued with cap-comforters. I'd have thought that they'd have something "more modern" by now.
In spite of all the years since I served, I still sort of remember the "cardinal rules" we were taught as sprogs in "The Shot" - you don't fuck with the Sikhs, you don't fuck with the Ghurkas, you don't fuck with the Paras and you certainly don't fuck with the Booties (although I'm pretty sure the RGJ and the A&SH were also in there somewhere)! All good advice:-)
MsG
I'd recommend watching the series produced in the early 2000s. Completely different to this. That training was brutal.
Part 3!!! also you should check out how to make a Royal Marines Officer.
I've had the 'MREs' we call them 24hr ration packs. I've only had two as I'm not in the actual army, I'm in a military organisation; but from the ones I've had they're not too bad. I mean you can't really complain, its a meal in a bag and you're in the outdoors so you can't as for much! In ours, we obviously get the meals/desserts tea bags, sugar etc, we get mini hot sauces in a bottle, chewing gum, creamer which is for the tea I think?, juice powders! I personally don't think they're bad, you get what you're given.
1990-2000 the ration packs were awesome..being held back is called `back squading` here in the uk.
British rations are quite varied. Some are pretty good, others are shocking. From what i can tell they are more compact
Tree Surgeon = Arborist. (Fancy words)
Hell yes Part 3!
Biscuits Brown as part of the rat packs will definitely give you piles or constipation lol.
They make you wonder why you ate them
You get 1 biscuit to bung you up one to make you go its not really that hard to comprehend is it?
To quote a RM I once knew: "fuckin' sweat the small stuff and the big shit will take care of itself"
Tree surgery is really dangerous
You basically have a harness and you go up huge trees and cut them and one wrong cut can crush you
Watched some blokes doing it on the hard shoulder of a live motorway at 70mph, for weeks on end, clearing a few metres of tree line back from the carriageway. Balls of steel, I tell you.
Thank you for your review man !
(MRE’s) We call them “Rat Packs”
Makes sense. MRE. Meals refuse to escape.
@@JamesonsTravels Meals Rejected by Ethiopians
Biscuit brown's ;)
Chicken curry! Never the fruit dumplins!!!
@@insertnamehere5660 yorky "it's not for civis"
I'm from the UK. You've probably had this answered already, but you're asking, so I'm answering. _Tree surgery_ is a literal term, pretty much. A fairly accurate description of the role, I'd say. Not so much landscaping, although I'm sure many tree surgeons do also landscape! And I'm sure there's a few landscapers that'll do some tree surgery. More even, probably. In fact, one of my pals is a landscaper, but he'll do it all. Trees, the lot! Whatever you want doing outside. He'd build you a house too, I'd you'd like me to enquire! 😂 Lol
Tuna Pasta Bake Rat Pack is the best one
Theres a show called 'Paras: Men at War' which follows recruits who have joined the Parachute regiment and it follows them through their training.
In my opinion it's a much better show than this one and paints a better picture of british armed forces training.
Is that anything like down under by men at work?
The British "MRE's" are called 24 hour ration packs they are alright but they seem to give heartburn like hell
They taste like shit but when u hungry af and cold you eat whatever u have haha even if its shit food
@@AndrewR2130 you ever eat that shitty tuna bean pasta it was dripping with oil
Some of the equipment the British Army use in training is a little old but its designed that way to show that if you can bog standard stuff you can use anything.
Always remember the story of a young marine in 82 coming up against his first 'kill'. In a blink of an eye, his whole life flashed before him, family, all of that. Then it's either me or him. But to this day he regrets killing the Argentine. He knew he had a family too. No harm in feeling that way and didn't stop him killing countless others. He had a story for all and none were ever forgotten. Etched in his soul, every death. There's no glory in killing someone. You do your job and move on. He took no pride in it. Always admired that. He spoke with true feeling and regret but it was war. He was trained to kill and duly did. Wise old owl was Steve and he never revelled about his army days. He just did his job. He just did it very well.
The old Rat packs are class, the new ones are really shit though
Ration packs are luck of the draw which number pack you get. If you get stuff like sausage and beans or spaghetti bolognese then happy days but if you pull a chickpea curry then you are going to have a bad exercise in the field.
Same with our MRE's. One the Cheese Omelette no longer exists but I am sure giving it to a POW would have been a war crime
They do their training in South Wales mountain. 🏴
The 'final ex' varies a bit with each training team and weather. You can expect to sleep about 4-6 hours in seven days (depending on your training team), do 3 big yomps with 100 pounds at least depending on how much ammo they give you. During the exercise you will do alot of attacks some recces, patrols, observation posts etc. And It is very common to get injured in training and usually only about 20 lads out of 60 will pass out without getting backtrooped/discharged/injured or just deciding to leave
most recruits get sent out around bottom field yeah your absolutely right
With our finex it all went to shit and didnt sleep in those 7 days haha
jan kaas what unit where you, I’m sorry I don’t know the proper terminology for the various commando sections ie. 40 commando 45 commando etc.
@@jordanelder321 RNLMC
jan kaas oh fuck your from the Netherlands, that’s badass
Part 3 my mate, it's good stuff!
Had sausage, beans and hash brown in an MRE once, was banging.
would love to see you try British MRE's haha would make for a good video
Suppose you don’t really think about dying when young. Reality never hit me until I got to basic and learnt about the large number of 88M’s who were blown up in Iraq and Afghanistan. Being a convoy driver and getting hit with the stats was an eye opener. Had a few battle buds who were EOD. Their life expectancy was even worse.
Tree surgery is like landscaping. But for trees...
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King George V also directed that his Royal Cypher, surrounded by a Laurel Wreath, would be known as the King's Badge, and would be awarded to the best all round recruit in the King's Squad, provided that he was worthy of the honour. The badge was to be carried on the left shoulder, and worn in every rank. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was graciously pleased to approve that the custom and privilege of the King's Squad remain unaltered. The King's Badge is not awarded to every squad, and is only presented if a Recruit measures up to the very exacting standards required. My Dad PO34244B Marine Woodworth was awarded it in 1975
MRE I love my chicken curry and rice, Hmmm
the worst MRE i ever had in BAF ration pack is mexican tuna pasta. I never met a mexican person who even heard of it
Brit mre’s are awesome. Are American chow is pretty rough. French have good stuff too.
Tree surgeon is a lot more specific than just a landscaper. Focus heavily on trees bushes generally
Bring on part 3 good video's
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Might I recommend for review, the 1982 BBC series The Paras, it is on BBC i player but I don't know if it would be available in your country.
Not an actual service men just an air cadet (JROTC and air patrol I believe put together) got this from online buts all numbers you don't get to pick the drink is usually just powder and you add water (shock) us Brits call squetch (probably spelt it wrong) so it may be said wrong.
Btw the ration packs usually change yearly ( thought there were more than 10)
4000 Kcal pack
Fully cooked meals
Eat Hot or cold
3 main meals
High energy snacks
Electrolyte drink
24hr Menu's No 1 to 10:
Menu 1
- Natural Muesli with Milk /Vegetarian Pasta with Beans in Tomato Sauce/Chick pea Curry/Plain Rice/Chocolate Brownie/Hot Pepper Sauce
Snacks
- Oatmeal Block x 2/ Dried Mixed Fruit Cocktail in Pineapple Juice/Cookies & Cream Cereal Bar/Mexican Sweet Chilli Peanuts/Smooth Peanut Butter
Menu 2
- Chicken Sausages & Beans/Tuna Chilli Pasta/Chicken & Mushroom Pasta/Sticky Toffee Pudding/Hot Pepper Sauce
Snacks - Cheese Oat Biscuits/Mixed Dried Fruits Nougat Bar/Dried Pineapple in Light Syrup/Sesame Bar/Mexican Sweet Chilli Peanuts
Menu 3
- Chicken Sausages & Beans/Thai Style Chicken Soup/Steak Vegetables & Dumplings/Sticky Toffee Pudding/Hot Pepper Sauce
Snacks - Biscuits Brown/Sesame Bar/Tropical Fruit & Nut Mix/Smooth Peanut butter
Menu 4
- Vegetarian All Day Breakfast/Tomato Pasta Salad/Indonesian Style Spicy Rice with Pork/Ginger Pudding & Ginger Sauce/Hot Pepper Sauce
Snacks - Oat Digestive Biscuits/Cherry Flavoured Boiled Sweets/Cranberry Cereal Bar/Just Nuts/Smooth Peanut Butter/Strawberry Jam
Menu 5
- Maple syrup Bun//Thai Style Chicken Soup/Meat Sticks & Rice/Ginger Pudding & Ginger Suace/Hot Pepper Sauce
Snacks - Biscuits Brown/Diced Mixed Fruit Cocktail in Pineapple Juice/Cookies & Cream Cereal bar/Just Nuts/Smooth Peanut Butter
Menu 6
- Chicken Sausages & Beans/Vegetarian Pasta with Beans in Tomato Sauce/Chicken Meatballs & Pasta/Chocolate Pudding & Chocolate Sauce/Hot Pepper Sauce
Snacks - Oatmeal Block x 2/Cola Flavoured Sweets/Caramel Cereal bar/Fruit Flapjack/Just Nuts/Smooth Peanut Butter
Menu 7 -
Fruit Muesli with Milk/Bean & Pasta Salad/Vegetable Korma/Cherry Turnover/Hot Pepper Sauce
Snacks - Biscuits Brown/Caramel Cereal Bar/Just Nuts/Tropical Fruit & Nut Mix/Cheddar Cheese Flavour Spread
Menu 8 -
Vegetarian All Day Breakfast/Chickpea Curry/Beef Meat Balls & Spaghetti/Ginger Pudding & Ginger Sauce/Hot Pepper Sauce
Snacks - Oatmeal Block x 2/Mixed Dried Fruits Nougat Bar/Dried Mixed Fruit Cocktail in Pineapple Sauce/Cranberry Cereal Bar/Just Nuts/Just Fruit
Menu 9
- All Day Breakfast/Tuna Chilli Pasta/Lamb Rogan Josh/Chocolate Pudding & Chocolate Sauce/Hot Pepper Sauce
Snacks - Oat Digestive Biscuits/Cola Flavoured Sweets/Sesame Bar/Just Nuts/Just Fruit/Smooth Peanut Butter
Menu 10
- All Day Breakfast/Moroccan Style Bean Stew/Beef Goulash/Sticky Toffee Pudding/Hot Pepper Sauce
Snacks - Dark Chocolate Chip Oat Biscuits/Lemon Flavour Boiled Sweets/Cookies & Cream Cereal Bar/Just Nuts/Smooth Peanut Butter
Drinks Include - Isotonic Drink Powder/Flavour Drink Powder x 3/Regular Flavour Hot Chocolate Drink Powder
Sundries Include - Re-Useable Polybag/ Wet wipes x 2/Teabags x 2/Instant Coffee x 2/Matches x 5/Assorted Chewing Gum x 2/Water Purification Tablets x 6/Sugar x 4 /Beverage Whitener x 4/Plastic Spoon
British MREs are usually 24hr packs not individual meals like US MREs. Some a very good and others are fucking awful. Nepalese pork curry and rice was my favourite but they stopped doing it for some reason, alot of the items like peanut butter/cheese spread and the bread stuff cinniman bun things were the same as the US rations made by the same US company.
Good vid. Part 3 👍
Coming soon!
A bloke I work with was In the royal marines 40 company.
Now I've heard all the stories and I'm afraid the way the sergeants are portrayed if that was publicised they would never get a recruit.
His first introduction his Sargent took out his front teeth and said any of you that thinks you can take me let's step outside now straighten it out .
On dartmoor same officer made them get in the water, now everything was damp and they couldn't start a fire so the commanding officer did give them some diesel and the bloke who made them get wet was disciplined.
Also they were taught how to kill rabbits and the officer teaching showed grabbing it by the legs flicking it breaking its neck then said or my personal favourite then proceeded to bite the throat out of the rabbit and throw it down at a lads feet , he flinched and had to skin all of them. I think the exercises are accurate but more parental guidance version.
Also at anytime after training in January the either March left back to barracks or right into a container full of water they had to break the ice to get in.
Now this was 25 years ago but they pride themselves in 99.9% need not apply.
Don't know if they still get them, but Yorkie bar in your rat pack was the best
"NOT FOR CIVVIES"! WE HAD THESE WHEN I WAS IN CADETS! YOU ARE THE ONLY OTHER PERSON IVE FOUND WHO REMEBERS!
Tree surgery. You can paid by the local government to chop high tree branches in parks and near roads. and of course rich people's houses.
This show was filmed 7 years ago and was posted 1year ago so the gear they are using is to date and not old for its time
And also as you could guess in our MREs we have tea 😂
Part 3 pls
Tree surgeons or tree surgery is like what I assume are lumber Jack's in the US the trim hedges to falling trees etc etc alot of knowledge to be learnt about trees believe it or not and land scraping is what it is haha
My memory of ration pack from the early 90,s were yours were a lot better, i had to carry curry power and other stuff in webbing to add flavour.
Good training small groups with experienced instructors away from the B.S.
never tried american MREs but the British ones are banging if you order the right one, theres a menu of around 28 meals i believe and yea i love the meat ones, you normally get something for breakfast (eg. muesli cereal), lunch (eg. curry), dinner (eg. chopped beef and potatoes) most meals require hot water, some require just heating but you can always eat them cold. they also come with 2x peanut butter most the time, some granola bars or crackers, some drink flavour dust like orange, and tobacco chilli sauce if you ever get something you hate then just wash the taste away with chilli
my bad its 10 meal variations
btw dont ever get the tuna pasta or veg pasta because you will throw up
Part 3 please 👍
On it. Part 3 and 4 are good.
Those MREs are disgusting. Bean pasta salad is the worst.
Tree surgery is basically cutting down trees
One guy screws the pooch, we all got punished.
It usually wasn’t too long after that, that the Company or Platoon Members started exercising their own punishments to square them away.
They either saw the light or they saw the door.
Part 3 Please
the ration packs are really hit or miss some are alright some are like dog food but the cereal bars and hot chocolate are like gold dust
I proper shocked by that mess...fuck me I was only bog standard infantry ..we never did that
... I can tell you straight up that...And even with the Legion!... There is always some ... Putain de merde!... Who will fuck it up for everyone! ... And we have to do PT!
uk mres are called rat packs and the only way you can eat them is if you douse everything with tabasco (which is included )
Tree felling with climbing, chainsaw , "TIMBER"
It's not 6 months training it's 8. It's 32 weeks which is 4 (average weeks per month) x 8. That poor lad that was injured and went through hunter company was in training for roughly 13 months
In my opinion the British Armed Forces Ration Packs taste much better than the US MREs.
Depends what you get in your MREs in Britain most generally don't taste the worst but it's usually the aesthetics that are off putting, but in general it's better than starving aha
British rations are not good at all. They fill you up but I have not met anyone who has actively enjoyed them.
Some differences is we get way more snacks than the US, we get hot chocolate, coffee, tea (of course), sweets (candy), some sort of cake or desert, and of course the standard army peanut butter.
You should watch “Royal Marine On The Frontline” it’s still not represented correctly but it’s a lot more realistic than this one mate
British MRE’s are ok got a chance to try one slightly better but quite a bit healthier, tried one a good while before I got out I was rear D and the British where cool Guys.
Why do you keep saying "England"? England doesn't have a military. It's the UK.
Their "MREs'" are much better re flavour.
P3 lets go
Part three is funny. the old timer in the show does some. good one liners.
@@JamesonsTravels Looking forward to it. Im from South Africa. Like to see you do a segment on our Recce's and 32 Paras. When our army was still worth its salt.
Do you think you are looking through 'Their NVG"s" or through the system the film camera is using? Hmmm
another good un but i would like to take a s ing at the prod company I calmed down after pt 2 now for 3 Stay well matey
Meatballs and pasta is the daddy of the ration pack.
British army MRE are ok. My favourite is all day breakfast with beans and sausage. Least favourite is vegetarian curry🤢.
i knew a geezer who used to spray paint his boots, went on parade in the rain it turned green