Military Service Memories : Making a Military Bed.

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  • @mokgz169
    @mokgz169 10 месяцев назад +56

    No attempt will be made to explain this too you
    We slept underneath the bed😂

    • @Lovelylove4everyone
      @Lovelylove4everyone 8 месяцев назад

      Yet, they'd klaar you aan for sleeping on the floor, so we just took the opvok for not having a great inspection

    • @mokgz169
      @mokgz169 8 месяцев назад +4

      @@Lovelylove4everyone Hulle het. Maar hulle slaap ook.
      Die floor was soos hard soos die bed
      Allmal loop as een bed kak gemaak is

  • @erickdavid2412
    @erickdavid2412 4 месяца назад +5

    if you apply patience discipline and focus to the littlest things it trains you to do so even more for what matters. EVERY army does this. You set an unachievable standard to strive too and make them immune to suffering. So many lessons here. This was one of the greatest armies ever assembled.

  • @bangochupchup
    @bangochupchup 9 месяцев назад +19

    I was in the USMC forty years ago. The 1st Sergeant would throw your mattress and bedding off the third floor into the muddy hedge if it wasn't right, lol. Much respect to the SADF.

  • @frednel4326
    @frednel4326 3 года назад +37

    Dang I'll never forget those days lol.. then our military was still a force to be reckoned with and army life was hard, but it made men outta boys 😉👍.. 1979 jan to 1980 Dec at 1rst Sai mech division in Bloemfontien was my intake as a 20mm ratel gunner and I loved it and the bush .. maar ons het hard geveg vir vokkol man 👎

    • @tripwire8457
      @tripwire8457 5 месяцев назад +2

      Not completely for 'vokkol' - at least 2 generations grew up in better circumstances.

    • @francoisduplessis2413
      @francoisduplessis2413 4 месяца назад

      @@tripwire8457 en as die kak die fan strike wat dan?

  • @chuckbester8430
    @chuckbester8430 10 месяцев назад +18

    Infantry School 1983 intake. Cpl Snygaans !
    If things were not to his liking he would chase us around the amblition blocks " kakhuis gaan" if we really upset him we had to go up the hill around the flagpole "vlagpaal gaan" The crem of afkak was when the samejoor waited outside the camp backgate with the medics and the field ambulance. That was for a kompenie opfok. Not for the faint harted. It made men of boys.

  • @gerhaldlaubscher8321
    @gerhaldlaubscher8321 10 месяцев назад +14

    Ek was in die TDK. 8 SAI. Leër geveg skool, oorlog oefening Blits 2. Het af gekak in my tyd. Daar was geen liefde tussen die infanteriste en tiffies nie. As ons uit daai LWT gestap het is ons gedril solank daai infanteris seksie korporale hulle ons kon raaksien, maar dit het my hard en n beter mens gemaak. Ek is trots op wat ek moes deurmaak. N tiffie met n infanteris beret. So jammer ons geskiedenis is onder die mat in gevee en dieselfde gemors wat ons van skool af teen voorberei is, is nou in beheer van wat ons so hard voor gewerk het.

    • @KonradvonHotzendorf
      @KonradvonHotzendorf 9 месяцев назад

      Dit was kak.

    • @tripwire8457
      @tripwire8457 5 месяцев назад +1

      Wel gedaan boet! Respek. Ek het my basiese opleiding in die infanterie by 8 SAI gedoen. Taai tye, wonderlike herinneringe ook. Skeerinspeksie. Dril en merkeer die pas vir 'n volle 30 minute, knieë so hoog soos jou heupe. Ek kan steeds beter as die meeste by veteraanparades dril (gedenkdienste). Goeie ou 8 SAI.

  • @jemtuck1
    @jemtuck1 3 года назад +34

    I tried slinging a hammock under my bed, technically not on the floor :-). My corporal thought otherwise and that ended in a Opv*k

    • @ZaraPoeta
      @ZaraPoeta Год назад +3

      Jha... Die goeie ou dae... Kyk noord en...

    • @nixops
      @nixops 7 дней назад

      You were not allowed to sleep on the floor but nobody mentioned sleeping on their trommel, ironing room or bathrooms

  • @WarOfootage
    @WarOfootage 11 месяцев назад +23

    0:54 nobody can convince me that that guy doesn’t look like Leonardo DiCaprio

    • @triobros98
      @triobros98 8 месяцев назад +5

      He was in a movie where he played a rhodesian man

    • @jaygatsby5013
      @jaygatsby5013 7 месяцев назад +1

      he doesn’t

    • @ernestalexander3205
      @ernestalexander3205 7 месяцев назад +2

      When I saw this photo I thought it was me , then i saw the emblem , not a granaat . Agter elke Bok Kop staan n' f@*op , agter elke granaat staan n' soldaat . Gunners rule 😉😉😊👍

    • @PeterNgola
      @PeterNgola 6 месяцев назад +1

      @WarOffootage the man in this video is in fact Danny Archer bru

    • @hestervandermerwe7828
      @hestervandermerwe7828 6 месяцев назад +1

      Dalk sy pa😂😂

  • @markwillies7666
    @markwillies7666 8 месяцев назад +16

    I can assure you Mr Narrator there were no recruits amongst that lot.We were all conscripts.

    • @ObelixBarbatus
      @ObelixBarbatus 4 месяца назад

      Semantics...I say tongue in cheek....

    • @markwillies7666
      @markwillies7666 4 месяца назад +1

      @@ObelixBarbatus 2 long kak years of semantics

  • @mikewood9514
    @mikewood9514 10 месяцев назад +60

    This is needed for every single young person today.

  • @Offshoreorganbuilder
    @Offshoreorganbuilder 11 месяцев назад +9

    I like the shaving foam trick: must try that!

  • @simonmcourt
    @simonmcourt 8 месяцев назад +6

    Remember this..as if yesterday..tough but got easier.36 years ago.6 SAI.

  • @jovanblom7742
    @jovanblom7742 Год назад +9

    The edges of our beds had to be 'sharp enough to shave on' and we all slept under them, not on or in them.

  • @LitoGeorge
    @LitoGeorge 5 месяцев назад +2

    In Oudtshoorn, I was fortunate enough to receive a mattress that resembled a banana shape it was so old and used. But true fortune favoured me, because underneath that mattress was a metal frame whose slats were broken in a few places. I bent them every single morning in a bell shaped curve, which then propped up said mattress into a rectangular box shape after all the tricks. I never used shaving cream I dont think. I used water from a spray bottle, and with an iron + dixie it was enough to get perfectly crisp 90degree corners on my bed sides. We won about 60-70% of our inspections and they were intense given the JL's leadership course we were on. Charlie Coy, Infantry School 1991.

    • @TheRiddir
      @TheRiddir Месяц назад

      @LitoGeorge Who was your Company commander? I'm thinking either Major Jumat or Lt Beeselaar. I had Major Heyns - Alpha co.

    • @LitoGeorge
      @LitoGeorge Месяц назад

      @@TheRiddir Major Jumat! What an incredible leader and man. I had, and have, so much respect for the man. You guys in Alpha - didn't you have a specific speciality or something? I can't recall clearly, but I do remember your barracks were slightly separated from B, C, D coy's. Lekker to hear from a fellow 1991'er

  • @endofunk2174
    @endofunk2174 6 месяцев назад +2

    We slept on the floor one time, and the corporal used a fire extinguishers to wake everyone up; huge mess than required massive after hour effort to remedy; wooden floors were permeated with white powder and we struggled to get it to shine. Spent the next few days carrying around sand bags during training as reminder to not try this again, and spent the nights cleaning our equipment, ironing and polishing floors.

  • @deerasmus3870
    @deerasmus3870 3 года назад +6

    Reminds me on Instructors we had to Startch that f$cking seam😂

  • @GuySuremill
    @GuySuremill 8 месяцев назад +2

    They forgot the washing line pegs between the frame and the foam mattress so your " beddens lyk nie soos n boot nie". Brings back fond memories which I don't want to repeat.

    • @NZJamesMitchell
      @NZJamesMitchell 4 месяца назад

      @user-xj8vm6me5m the pegs!!! Far out, how could I forget about the pegs? My bed must have been used by a 200kg Goliath, because it had a parabolic shape, and without those pegs, would have been impossible to make straight!

  • @joeavent5554
    @joeavent5554 3 года назад +17

    I had it easy in naval boot camp compared to these recruits. I remember sleeping on the floor night before a formal bay inspection.

  • @robert-trading-as-Bob69
    @robert-trading-as-Bob69 8 месяцев назад +4

    I was at 2 SSB in Zeerust in 1989. I ended up with the worst bloody bedframe and mattress you could think of.
    The metal cross slats were bent down as if the worlds fattest troep had jumped up and down on the the damned thing like a trampoline.
    The foam mattress cover was brand new, making me think the mattress was too... it wasn't.
    The foam was so old it had lost it's form.
    Try making a sharp looking bed out of that lot, I challenge you to try!
    I propped up the sagging mattress from underneath with tensioned clothes pegs and anything else I could find to make the bed look presentable, but nothing could have made that bed look acceptable in the eyes of a blind corporal.
    To my horror, after hours of work on it, the NCO grabbed the blanket and yanked it off the bed.
    Yeah... the way the pegs flew through the air like slivers of shame still haunt me over 30 years later.
    Later I would wish that an errant peg had staked the corporal in his black heart, and even wondered if I'd get a medal for ridding the army of that sadist...
    The next day School of Armour held selection for JL's, and I bullshitted my way out of Zeerust to Bloem just to get away from that damned bed.
    I did not make the same mistake at Pantserskool.
    Oh no, not me, I inspected the bed frame and foam mattress with a professional eye the second time around.
    Mind you, I still made a crappy bed no matter how hard I tried, despite making my bed everyday in boarding school.

    • @tripwire8457
      @tripwire8457 5 месяцев назад +1

      I was the only guy in my entire bungalow with a 'chicken wire' bed. I don't know where the hell it came from, but there was always a piece of sheet poking through underneath, not matter what I did. That bed caused me a lot of grief, including a six hour oppie.

    • @robert-trading-as-Bob69
      @robert-trading-as-Bob69 5 месяцев назад

      @@tripwire8457 6 hours is a bit drastic over a damned bed!
      F-ing up on the shooting range, yes, and deserved.
      It sounds like you just dodged DB and got a groot oppie instead.
      Were you the 'example' our beloved corporals liked to torture to keep the rest in line?

  • @america3744
    @america3744 3 месяца назад +1

    "I don't want to catch you sleeping on the floor" We'd always sleep on the floor before inspections or during AIT.

  • @ernestalexander3205
    @ernestalexander3205 8 месяцев назад +3

    Did my Service at 10 Anti Aircraft Regiment in Youngsfield as an Instructor ( Bombadier ) Their we use to have a Witbed ( Hospitaal ) inspection. June 1971 to July 1972 Lekker Afkak . 😛😛😛😛

  • @danielfourie5500
    @danielfourie5500 Год назад +6

    Well army taught me to drive and when i left they helped me convert to code 10 civvy licence.too bad you thought you wasted your time there.most wasters do waste time anyway!

  • @Loggies-n9z
    @Loggies-n9z 10 месяцев назад +4

    Was in 7SAI Phalaborwa het van Burcksluck oor getrek was eerstes om nuwe basis te begin nie skeerroom kak gebruik nie baie mooi flash gehad ROOIKAT

  • @Ginger4789
    @Ginger4789 4 месяца назад +1

    1976 intake best time of my life loved it ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @davecsa7286
    @davecsa7286 3 года назад +13

    Who remembers ? How could we forget, our Corporals were much worse than these two at 5SAI

    • @shadekiahpops8988
      @shadekiahpops8988 3 года назад +10

      This corporal seems very polite.

    • @scottwarwick7514
      @scottwarwick7514 2 года назад +9

      Can only be the cameras 😂

    • @monikalupp1137
      @monikalupp1137 10 месяцев назад +1

      If they where too bad corporal would find himself wrapped in his bed sheet randomly getting skopped

    • @piet8803
      @piet8803 9 месяцев назад +3

      When I was still a child those guys looked like grown men to me, but now you can see they were only boys. Only on the outside obviously.

    • @NZJamesMitchell
      @NZJamesMitchell 4 месяца назад +1

      For me it was basics at 5 SAI E-Coy 1989, then off to Provost Scool for JLs. What a time to be alive!

  • @aprilsmith3683
    @aprilsmith3683 8 месяцев назад +3

    I admire the Israelis when it comes to all citizens doing mandatory military service...
    After matriculating and attending Teacher's Training College for four years...my only option as a female in 1987 was the navy...
    Four years of military service plus two years of compulsory teaching seemed a long time at the age of twenty one...
    I taught for twenty-five wonderful years...
    I have always wondered though...
    🇿🇦

  • @monikalupp1137
    @monikalupp1137 10 месяцев назад +5

    Most of us slept beneath the bed 😂🇿🇦😂☺

  • @manseljames
    @manseljames 5 месяцев назад +2

    We we not TRAINED fighting soldiers, we were canon fodder............................

  • @africansinclair
    @africansinclair 7 месяцев назад +1

    A long time ago in a place now far away, 12SAI, then SADF dog centre, BurkesLuck potholes. 1992-1994

  • @NicoBotha-t2z
    @NicoBotha-t2z 10 месяцев назад +7

    Todays kids are softys

  • @mazambane286
    @mazambane286 2 года назад +13

    Hardloop om die bungalow tot EK moeg is! Weg is julle!

    • @jovanblom7742
      @jovanblom7742 Год назад +4

      Korporaal: "Troep, gaan haal vir my 'n blaar van die boom op daai koppie - daar gat jy, cheers!" And then, "Wat? Is jy terug? Nee, dis die verkeerde blaar - gaan haal die een langs hom!"

    • @kingsman3087
      @kingsman3087 Год назад

      @@jovanblom7742 Afrikaans kan in die riool gaan

    • @bolshoefeodor6536
      @bolshoefeodor6536 10 месяцев назад +1

      😂😂😂 Ja, ou beeu! Lat waai, julle vokken moes troepe!

    • @wallaceminnaar7727
      @wallaceminnaar7727 9 месяцев назад +1

      Ja nee met n marble of n sand sak😂

  • @Smitesaures
    @Smitesaures Год назад +9

    Nou Kan Lesotho se vloot on wen.

  • @nowhearthis5067
    @nowhearthis5067 7 месяцев назад +2

    Yes Corporal! How many men have said THAT in their lives? LoL

  • @wallaceminnaar7727
    @wallaceminnaar7727 9 месяцев назад +8

    Good old days

  • @nixops
    @nixops 7 дней назад

    One thing we did learn is how to gyppo that bed so that it could be made quickly, neatly and correct. However, this 2 liner cannot be real, waaaay too polite.

  • @gandalf87264
    @gandalf87264 5 месяцев назад +3

    Where on earth did we talk English in the army back in the day? Jy is nou in die weermag. Of jy praat Afrikaans of Jy is gefok.

    • @NZJamesMitchell
      @NZJamesMitchell 4 месяца назад +2

      The army was bilingual, according to our samajoor. Ons praat Afrikaans, ons lag in Engels... en ons lag maar Baie min!

  • @alanthom4641
    @alanthom4641 4 месяца назад +1

    Dang.......I was in the Air Force ......Valhalla Sands.
    There, the corporals made our beds for us!!!😂😂😂😂

  • @whangjohnlizhao550
    @whangjohnlizhao550 7 месяцев назад +2

    250 ADAG Hammanskraal.

  • @goldenlion647
    @goldenlion647 3 месяца назад

    We never slept on the beds, they were purely for inspections.

  • @brucebanner9911
    @brucebanner9911 24 дня назад +1

    SADF het die kuns om ons af te breek perfeksioneer..
    Van opbou het hulle byna fokkol geweet

  • @antascii
    @antascii Год назад +3

    I did just 4 months short of a full two years in the airforce - the intake after me did just one year.
    Then did one month long camp during Mandela’s inauguration.
    In total the biggest waste of time ever. 21 wasted months I’ll never get back.

    • @mikebacklund5044
      @mikebacklund5044 7 месяцев назад +1

      I did 2 years (79 - 81) Army and 13 camps. Last one was in 94 with the elections.

    • @antascii
      @antascii 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@mikebacklund5044 - I was in primary school when you did your national service: Started High School (Std 6) in 1982.
      Did you enjoy the military experience?
      I suppose if you love that kind of life then national service wouldn't seem so bad.

    • @mikebacklund5044
      @mikebacklund5044 7 месяцев назад +1

      It wasn't too bad in retrospect but I wouldn't want to go through it again😅

    • @antascii
      @antascii 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@mikebacklund5044 - me neither!

  • @killermarfidyoh138
    @killermarfidyoh138 Год назад +2

    What's the name documentary did this scene come from?

  • @adduplessis713
    @adduplessis713 7 месяцев назад

    I'm in the military,I use though a shoe brush to iron correctly against the sides of the bed,not a dixie.

  • @The_Comedian556
    @The_Comedian556 4 месяца назад

    Based

  • @TravisKnott-f8v
    @TravisKnott-f8v 4 месяца назад +1

    my dad was there no jokes

  • @wijpke
    @wijpke Год назад +3

    Love the bed making routine 😅if you make it like the corporal wants every morning you will have very little sleep which makes you very docile and open to brainwashing....😅

    • @KonradvonHotzendorf
      @KonradvonHotzendorf 10 месяцев назад +5

      That's wh we slept underneath

    • @wijpke
      @wijpke 10 месяцев назад +6

      @@KonradvonHotzendorf I still sleep on the floor

  • @Thebudokid87
    @Thebudokid87 Год назад +8

    Wish my corporal was this nice😢

    • @kingsman3087
      @kingsman3087 Год назад +2

      question: what was the point of the SADF ?

    • @Thebudokid87
      @Thebudokid87 Год назад +8

      @kingsman3087 the same as any other defense force. To protect the country and its people.

    • @KonradvonHotzendorf
      @KonradvonHotzendorf 10 месяцев назад +4

      I am sure that guy will switch when the camera is gone 😅

    • @wallaceminnaar7727
      @wallaceminnaar7727 9 месяцев назад

      Staff Fritz sal jou se jou ma is n hond, jou pa is n hond en nou stuur hulle jou army toe want n hond kan nie agter sy eie puppy kyk nie nou moet die army dit doen😂😂😂

  • @naguerea
    @naguerea 7 месяцев назад

    How I miss my military bed, I have one I my room and sleep well I it.

  • @Kevin-sp7wp
    @Kevin-sp7wp 6 месяцев назад

    English, coming from Randfontein. Difficulty in understanding afrikaans in the beginning.

  • @GLEES345
    @GLEES345 3 месяца назад

    Ok. So the logical thing is not to sleep in the beds. Those of you who slept under your beds, did you have some sort of informal watch posted / early warning system in the bungalow should the korporaal come sniffing about at night or did you just take a chance and they never came?

  • @zenzeleluckymtshali8433
    @zenzeleluckymtshali8433 7 месяцев назад

    different rstuarant ttype with london citizens for trauma for those abroad in mid country britain in 2003/4 continuity or a stall in services in that area yes foreign allowances for citizens like us

  • @simonecanepa721
    @simonecanepa721 3 месяца назад

    Were there only Afrikaans or English descendents in SA Army or were there even "coloured" young men?

    • @nixops
      @nixops 7 дней назад

      If my memory serves me right there was SAKK (SA Kaapse Kleurling) battalion, they were ferocious, often to each other. Hats off to them.

  • @johnlouiswessels6083
    @johnlouiswessels6083 3 месяца назад +1

    Stryk van bed, wat n sinnelose rydmors.

  • @sidewindersid4180
    @sidewindersid4180 6 месяцев назад

    This is how we do it in Sith Ifrika....

  • @willemesterhuizen8037
    @willemesterhuizen8037 7 месяцев назад +1

    If you were a real soldier you would have realised that the beds are not the same size you had to measure them and swap them out from adjacent empty bungallows everything had to be the same and be measured with a string !!! If the corp or Samajor comes in at the one end he has to be amased at the conformity of the bungalow as a whole once you realize that than you had won !!!!!!!

    • @willemesterhuizen8037
      @willemesterhuizen8037 7 месяцев назад

      I realized a few things early and it made my journey through life much easier the military trainining made me and today i still live diciplined !!!!!!

  • @DanTheZombieGaming
    @DanTheZombieGaming 7 месяцев назад

    Dienspilg moet terug kom. Die jong outjietjes van vandag moet bietjie afkak. Dan kan daar weer disapliene kom. Kort hare,netjies aangeteek staan regop as jy praat. Diesplig vir almal temisnste 6md of 1 jaar. Kies weermag,polisie of bewaarder .

  • @YouTubePrimer-zm1xi
    @YouTubePrimer-zm1xi 5 месяцев назад

    That's pretty excessive

    • @ObelixBarbatus
      @ObelixBarbatus 4 месяца назад

      You are hilarious! It was standard - and should be standard in all armies.

    • @erickdavid2412
      @erickdavid2412 4 месяца назад

      if you apply patience discipline and focus to the littlest things it trains you to do so even more for what matters. EVERY army does this. You set an unachievable standard to strive too and make them immune to suffering. So many lessons here. This was one of the greatest armies ever assembled.

  • @Byron-g5l
    @Byron-g5l 11 месяцев назад +5

    I hated every minute of every day in the South African Defense force...thank God Mandela in 1994 was elected and that brought the end to the MADNESS

    • @douwhurter8935
      @douwhurter8935 10 месяцев назад +12

      So you must then hate all aspects of discipline. The new South Africa should suite you 100% then.

    • @KonradvonHotzendorf
      @KonradvonHotzendorf 9 месяцев назад +5

      Was a continuation of boarding school
      We where well trained, equipped and our Officers cared about us
      You just soft. A squishy

    • @jack-ch5lr
      @jack-ch5lr 8 месяцев назад +4

      Run back to mummys apron sonny !!!

    • @gerhardvanderpoll7378
      @gerhardvanderpoll7378 7 месяцев назад +2

      Now we have a DEMOCRAZY...what can be madder....????

    • @ernestalexander3205
      @ernestalexander3205 6 месяцев назад

      Slap Gat , you've got no Balls Wanker

  • @billyjohnesterhuizen6340
    @billyjohnesterhuizen6340 11 месяцев назад +2

    janee die bokkoppe het alles oordoen!!!!

    • @ObelixBarbatus
      @ObelixBarbatus 4 месяца назад

      Was self een: 3 SAI. En oordoen was dit!

  • @Jok-g9i
    @Jok-g9i 6 месяцев назад

    Wtf🤣🤣🤣

  • @NicoBotha-t2z
    @NicoBotha-t2z 4 месяца назад

    Engels innie army 😂😂😂 nooit britse taal gehoor nie

  • @tuntuntumtum8887
    @tuntuntumtum8887 5 месяцев назад

    that like the dumbest thing ... whats the point ?

    • @erickdavid2412
      @erickdavid2412 4 месяца назад +1

      if you apply patience discipline and focus to the littlest things it trains you to do so even more for what matters. EVERY army does this. You set an unachievable standard to strive too and make them immune to suffering. So many lessons here. This was one of the greatest armies ever assembled.

    • @marcgardiner6278
      @marcgardiner6278 Месяц назад

      @@tuntuntumtum8887 Discipline.

    • @marcgardiner6278
      @marcgardiner6278 Месяц назад

      Discipline.

  • @GeraldPapier
    @GeraldPapier Месяц назад

    87 Sakk opleidings eenheid o/kpl hopley Kpl George. Sers de lange s/ sersant pertersen kapt camelo. Echo komp Peleton 4 vasbyt min dae. Kpl Skei

  • @CasperEloff-eo1lh
    @CasperEloff-eo1lh 8 месяцев назад +1

    The 6th Trumpet War (WW3) started on 07 October 2023 in Israel. Most people missed the previous Trumpets because they do not really understand Bible Prophecy symbolism. Google: quora message of hope hidden Bible Prophecy in Torah casper eloff. Plus my recent Posts (03 MARCH 2024) explaining the other Trumpets. Too detailed to reply here.
    DO REVELATION 14:12 AND TELL THE WORLD TO DO IT TOO. Thank you.