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  • Not only was the Northern Ireland conflict especially harsh due to the inability to pick the IRA members out of a crowd of civilians, the entire environment was designed to fit in a 4:3 aspect ratio!

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  • @bencarver8164
    @bencarver8164 3 года назад +951

    Had a colour sergeant during my training who's first deployment at 18 (his first patrol was on his 18th birthday) was Northern Ireland in the late 90s. During this patrol they stopped a prominent IRA man's daughter from being raped down an alley, then escorted her home.
    A few days later they were out on a patrol when 3 men came out of a Catholic bar and watched them as they patrolled down the street in the bogside. Just as they passed one man shouted up "Ere Royal...we'll remember that" and they had zero issues from the Catholic community from their entire tour.

  • @comeinhendy8931
    @comeinhendy8931 4 года назад +216

    and when we go on night patrol, we hold eachother's hands

    • @durbinmitchell
      @durbinmitchell 4 года назад +30

      "I've got a brand new shiny helmet and a pair of kinky boots"

    • @reneecraig4173
      @reneecraig4173 4 года назад +11

      My good friend Bernie he is so in the UDR how ar how ar he will searching for weapons you'll go in here and far how ar how ar

    • @MsPaintMr
      @MsPaintMr 3 года назад +6

      Homophobic i*ish vs British landchads

    • @andrewmonster9985
      @andrewmonster9985 3 года назад

      @@MsPaintMr why homophobic and not racist or something

    • @heyhoe168
      @heyhoe168 3 года назад +1

      @@andrewmonster9985 cause being homophobic is a personal offence for the british boy.

  • @rafaelpinheiro2332
    @rafaelpinheiro2332 4 года назад +24

    Why British Army don't do the same againt the muslims in UK?

    • @Defaultname0000
      @Defaultname0000 4 года назад +3

      What? Get the fuck shot out of them and ultimately lose? lmao ok.

    • @gravybiscuits3887
      @gravybiscuits3887 4 года назад +3

      They are leaving the European Union in 2020 and they will close the borders so no more Muslims get in.

    • @Philip-b9r
      @Philip-b9r 4 года назад +5

      @Unknown2234 Unknown turkey is Muslim majority and that's in Europe?? Bosnia Herzegovina also has a Muslim majority?? 10% of 60,000,000 (I'm not bothered to look at UKs current pop) is 6 million?? There are plenty of Muslims in Europe twat.

    • @gingeristhebest21
      @gingeristhebest21 4 года назад

      To many of them anyway it would be called racism

    • @dreadpiraterobertsii4420
      @dreadpiraterobertsii4420 4 года назад

      Anglus Patria only place that’s that’s British isn’t even in the British isles it’s the falklands

  • @prointernetuser
    @prointernetuser 3 года назад +1024

    Seeing how the soldiers keep checking their sixes every couple of paces kinda shows how tense the entire situation was and how paranoid they were. .

    • @me5969
      @me5969 3 года назад +98

      Tbf you are trained to do that regardless

    • @jagaterbarn5744
      @jagaterbarn5744 3 года назад +66

      That’s standard procedure when conducting a patrol

    • @greg_4201
      @greg_4201 3 года назад +18

      genuinely just how British soldiers go about things wherever they are, i.e properly. but I'm sure the constant threat from snipers made them scan that little bit more thoroughly...

    • @silvadossantos6803
      @silvadossantos6803 3 года назад +5

      Yes, specifically when they are Para's and Commandos, top tier SOF in their league, and yes their biggest challenge since wwII was faced home, I've remember a IRA action that almost landed a IED, a 'bunker buster' in a high echelon staff room in the middle of London.

    • @josephbowman9456
      @josephbowman9456 3 года назад +6

      Thats just a standard practice anytime you’re patrolling on foot. A well trained grunt on a patrol is going to do that without even thinking about it.

  • @kertaspaper94
    @kertaspaper94 3 года назад +902

    With a mustache like that I'm surprised The Troubles went on for so long

    • @mansurtxafapapaias3517
      @mansurtxafapapaias3517 3 года назад +5

      why? Ist fine... grear

    • @tortillawrapper5454
      @tortillawrapper5454 3 года назад +1

      @Cleto link?

    • @whatulookinat7508
      @whatulookinat7508 3 года назад

      we will make another one

    • @josephbowman9456
      @josephbowman9456 3 года назад +20

      You’re right that combat stache is strong AF. That’s like… warrant officer level mustaching.

    • @johnbower7452
      @johnbower7452 3 года назад +2

      I'm wondering if that was a mate of mine; he had a tache like that and I know he was out there; poor sod was in a Land rover while his mates got out to check something; he was the only survivor when a bomb blew them all to bits.

  • @Jabber-ig3iw
    @Jabber-ig3iw 4 года назад +400

    I was there in ‘98 and whilst it had calmed down a lot we were welcomed to Belfast with a mortar attack. The Omagh bomb also happened whilst I was out there. But most days were spent chasing joy riders and the occasional knee capping. In 6 months I had one round fired at me whilst stood at a cordon whilst dealing with a suspicious package. I can only imagine what it was like in the 60s and 70s. I really enjoyed my time in Belfast and would have been back there this year for a long weekend if Covid hadn’t happened.

    • @willfoster2635
      @willfoster2635 3 года назад +16

      You're most welcome back Jabber 19974. God bless, mate.

    • @judeodomhnaill9711
      @judeodomhnaill9711 2 года назад +4

      Now everyone in Ireland and the UK fears "climate change". Future is crazy.

  • @LittleLoyal
    @LittleLoyal 5 лет назад +3021

    This is like the western version of the Israel Palestine issue

    • @talkingheaded
      @talkingheaded 5 лет назад +84

      No shit

    • @CristianoRonaldo-sg3qt
      @CristianoRonaldo-sg3qt 5 лет назад +125

      LittleLoyal or like Bosnia vs srpska

    • @willysillyplays
      @willysillyplays 4 года назад +372

      Israeli Palestine isn't issue its just a steal by Zionists from Palestinians who were thinking they are giving shelter to Jews who are escaping massacre from Nazis, The little they know these Jews came with some different intentions.

    • @steveaustin6344
      @steveaustin6344 4 года назад +86

      What the actually fuck are u on about nothing like it

    • @WomanBettar59
      @WomanBettar59 4 года назад +132

      EStore4U explain why palestine was offered existance 8 times and tried to conquer isreal several times with the middle east they deserve it

  • @micealmacadaim6550
    @micealmacadaim6550 4 года назад +1139

    Belfast was such a shithole back then. Always felt the tension in the air. Glad to see life back in the city now.

    • @danielk3919
      @danielk3919 4 года назад +57

      Still is

    • @tomaszzalewski4541
      @tomaszzalewski4541 4 года назад +31

      Well, till the Troubles part II hits

    • @jimbob4537
      @jimbob4537 4 года назад +15

      it was, because you were there

    • @cowboy4378
      @cowboy4378 4 года назад +52

      I don’t know why there are hate comments and personal insults to you.
      People must think that the city centre is still covered in bricks and armoured vehicles.

    • @krinos1
      @krinos1 4 года назад +5

      @@cowboy4378 well it still has armoured cars around

  • @Kevin-fj5oe
    @Kevin-fj5oe 3 года назад +95

    1:50 damn, idk that price went to Ireland

    • @martykiely127
      @martykiely127 3 года назад

      Sorry to shit on your parade but that was the style back then

    • @LGriff-fv6dr
      @LGriff-fv6dr 3 года назад +9

      must be his half cousin Cost, if it was Price the IRA would have dissapered a long time ago.

    • @LGriff-fv6dr
      @LGriff-fv6dr 3 года назад

      @Larry Duke magik

    • @Kalashnikingz47
      @Kalashnikingz47 3 года назад +1

      Cpt. Price was strongly based off this S.A.S cat named John Macalise. He was featured on a show called secrets of the SAS.

  • @johnnyryall3966
    @johnnyryall3966 3 года назад +1402

    R.i.p to all of the men women and children lost in those conflicts whether they were catholic, protestant, Northern Irish, British or from the Republic of Ireland. It is calmer now and there is peace

    • @bigjuicypotato1482
      @bigjuicypotato1482 3 года назад +74

      I have a feeling that this comment will cause some controversy

    • @laika6661
      @laika6661 3 года назад +16

      3 months. So far so good.

    • @clutchgorilla0941
      @clutchgorilla0941 3 года назад +92

      Sadly it’s still not peaceful there’s still the IRA but the IRA we know today are scum bags the old IRA were actually fighting for something which was to unite Ireland, as for the new IRA there fighting for drugs (This is based off of the information I know )

    • @bigjuicypotato1482
      @bigjuicypotato1482 3 года назад +118

      @@clutchgorilla0941 The old IRA fought for an independent Ireland. Not for a united Ireland.
      The provisional IRA were the car bomb guys and the new IRA are provisional wanna be's

    • @MrRichymil
      @MrRichymil 3 года назад +26

      Well said, we forget it's not the people of Britain or Ireland or any other country with conflict that cause the conflict. It's all beyond our control, we just exist where we do usually by accident.

  • @jollyjohnzz
    @jollyjohnzz 5 лет назад +1760

    Can you see the tension in the faces ? I know, I was there, intense wan't the word !

    • @thinkbig3384
      @thinkbig3384 5 лет назад +122

      Me too fella. Sometimes intense, sometimes just crazy #REME

    • @littlenemo14
      @littlenemo14 5 лет назад +161

      And me. Hard times indeed. If you weren’t there, you’ve no idea what it was like. Respect to all who walked the walk and to the ultimate heroes who never made it home.

    • @harveymorgan1749
      @harveymorgan1749 5 лет назад +269

      @@littlenemo14 heros oppressing ppl in their homeland for their pedophile elites. Good job man

    • @littlenemo14
      @littlenemo14 5 лет назад +187

      @Pedro Cabral The truth is that the IRA killed far more innocent people than the army by a long way. You are right though, they were degenerates of the highest order.

    • @paulnelson6277
      @paulnelson6277 5 лет назад +67

      @@harveymorgan1749 shut up

  • @lloydfrancisco5287
    @lloydfrancisco5287 4 года назад +210

    Military Intelligence had a double agent at the top of the IRA, Scappaticci was a head enforcer.
    IRA realised that their own top brass couldnt be trusted so was reduced to "cells" of about 4 guys, harder to catch and also easier to exclude potential agents.

    • @irishboer7124
      @irishboer7124 3 года назад +15

      The cell structure was used long before Scap.

    • @fuzzydunlop7928
      @fuzzydunlop7928 2 года назад +9

      And never instituted in South Armagh.

    • @Hangedman11911
      @Hangedman11911 2 года назад +2

      @@fuzzydunlop7928 Still worked out pretty well for them in the end.

    • @joelbilly1355
      @joelbilly1355 2 года назад

      By the end 1in4 were working for British inteligence. The talk was up in derry bombs would be set to detonate at certain times but British Inteligence had already disabled them. Or operations would be about to take place only for the IRA men doing it to already be surrounded before they could do it and rounded up.

    • @tarawalsh7045
      @tarawalsh7045 2 года назад +3

      My experience, as a very quiet young woman who was sent for research from NYC (i didn't ask for that project) was that, if you just don't give a damn and are basically quiet, they cannot stop themselves talking way, way too much. It gets tiresome because they feel they HAVE to tell you what a big man they think they are.

  • @johnk1639
    @johnk1639 4 года назад +998

    Neither side gave an inch, regardless of the politics brave guys on both sides.

    • @E100-l6y
      @E100-l6y 4 года назад +75

      A sensible comment

    • @aaronredmond6396
      @aaronredmond6396 4 года назад +16

      Thanks for saying that boss

    • @eddietuite732
      @eddietuite732 4 года назад +9

      True

    • @keithrose6931
      @keithrose6931 4 года назад +97

      Blowing up women and children ? Yeah very brave .

    • @oisinbyrne5682
      @oisinbyrne5682 4 года назад +31

      You have no fuckin idea what your talkin about the brits were give tanks and guns took all we had and killed thousands of innocent people

  • @larrydunbar7262
    @larrydunbar7262 4 года назад +185

    Go to 1:22, Plastic bullet flies over rioters head, he see it, looks around as it passed. He points at the soldier( curses him, I guess) and then throws a stone.

    • @FirstFamilyCharger
      @FirstFamilyCharger 3 года назад +10

      “Ye big bleedin’ bell-end!”

    • @ca9968
      @ca9968 3 года назад +2

      Yeah, a 7.62mm straight through his skull might have made others think twice!

    • @leepaul587
      @leepaul587 3 года назад

      What crap are you talking more like plastic bullet hits child in the head and kills her #bellend

  • @nikhilpant6428
    @nikhilpant6428 3 года назад +97

    this song is a cure for low testosterone level.

  • @nguyenbaokhiem6728
    @nguyenbaokhiem6728 3 года назад +124

    Whether which side you support or not, I think that we can all agree that this conflict was sad and already caused enough death and destruction for everybody involved. Especially with the recent tensions in NI coming up.

  • @trayzntheinfinite377
    @trayzntheinfinite377 4 года назад +663

    My uncle was in the British army and was deployed to Northern Ireland and the worst thing was he was irish
    Edit: unfortunately he passed away due to a heart attack he died at age 72

    • @caleb4790
      @caleb4790 4 года назад +21

      Unknown2234 Unknown caz he’s a good man

    • @caleb4790
      @caleb4790 4 года назад +90

      We thank him for his brave service

    • @magnusthered4973
      @magnusthered4973 4 года назад +25

      Caleb Emerson no they want to be free from British rule then and they fought

    • @caleb4790
      @caleb4790 4 года назад +28

      Cyberian Wolf who fought? Woman and children murderers ?

    • @bingbongbongbing5932
      @bingbongbongbing5932 4 года назад +100

      @@caleb4790 The Uk never mass genocided native peoples nor ever hurt women or children *wink*

  • @alejandromaldonado6159
    @alejandromaldonado6159 4 года назад +1001

    The Irish are going mental in the comments

    •  4 года назад +148

      To be fair to them, we can understand. I mean, if I was forced to live in Ireland, I'd also be angry all the time. ;-)

    • @Coilin101
      @Coilin101 4 года назад +81

      With good reason

    • @zach4936
      @zach4936 4 года назад +5

      @ ooooof

    • @dreadpiraterobertsii4420
      @dreadpiraterobertsii4420 4 года назад +15

      Anglus Patria Ino lets go England 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 Irish are homophobes I love England 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

    • @Coilin101
      @Coilin101 4 года назад +170

      @@dreadpiraterobertsii4420 that's a very big accusation considering we legalised gay marriage before Britain 🇮🇪😂

  • @mohammadakramali1466
    @mohammadakramali1466 2 года назад +26

    Soldiers in cold countries have the coolest uniforms

    • @James-re1wb
      @James-re1wb Год назад +4

      True

    • @Liam.Walsh96
      @Liam.Walsh96 3 месяца назад

      British army wore kinky boots and held each others hand.

    • @Thomas-uf8si
      @Thomas-uf8si 2 месяца назад

      ​@@Liam.Walsh96you are a brit 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @askindo5466
    @askindo5466 3 года назад +20

    All the Americans who are 0.00002% Irish saying they grew up fighting the brits no Tanner you grew up in the suburbs of Miami

  • @deathangel273
    @deathangel273 4 года назад +397

    1:50 Captain Price :D

    • @gold8857
      @gold8857 4 года назад +40

      Like in the Falklands

    • @doctorchaotic3415
      @doctorchaotic3415 4 года назад +62

      Hes everywhere mate,always there

    • @brianbates7866
      @brianbates7866 4 года назад +29

      If I remember in his bio it mentions he served in Norther Ireland with the paras

    • @Wardy7109
      @Wardy7109 4 года назад +6

      Bravo six going dark
      Edited: I fix your bad english XMOD

    • @TheAgrotechnik
      @TheAgrotechnik 4 года назад +3

      Nope, it must be Sean Connery.

  • @krisc2535
    @krisc2535 5 лет назад +609

    1:06 That's not Northern Ireland, that's the 1996 IRA bomb in Manchester, England.

    • @Normalguy1690
      @Normalguy1690 4 года назад +120

      Mike one raging fenian

    • @Normalguy1690
      @Normalguy1690 4 года назад +68

      General Erich Ludendorff one raging German just cause we beat ur ass don’t hold a grudge.

    • @gravybiscuits3887
      @gravybiscuits3887 4 года назад +16

      normal guy the British can’t even conquer the Irish they bomb your people in Manchester!

    • @Normalguy1690
      @Normalguy1690 4 года назад +51

      General Erich Ludendorff I’m
      Northern Irish and your people couldn’t even conquer my people in 2 World Wars so if we can’t beat the Irish by ur logic what does that make ur sorry ass 😂

    • @nutmaster7242
      @nutmaster7242 4 года назад +38

      @@Defaultname0000 you guys are messed up.

  • @duineeireannach6588
    @duineeireannach6588 4 года назад +192

    Ah yes, the *Dark days*

    • @mannam9468
      @mannam9468 4 года назад +13

      You speak like it's currently not darker days.

    • @CrazyMonkey679
      @CrazyMonkey679 4 года назад +33

      Man Nam well considering what Northern Ireland was like back then..yes they were definitely darker days than what it is now

    • @mannam9468
      @mannam9468 4 года назад +2

      @@CrazyMonkey679 I say stuff like that will come back eventually, given how everything has just been going continuously downhill over time.

    • @mannam9468
      @mannam9468 4 года назад +2

      That's my concern.

    • @duineeireannach6588
      @duineeireannach6588 4 года назад +4

      @It’s ya boy who? Us and the British?

  • @gta1kev
    @gta1kev 4 года назад +84

    I met a Scottish dude that have been in the brittish army. He served in Northern Ireland, Afghanistan, Libanon and around Serbia. I asked him what was the worst he was in (expecting Afghanistan because of the ied) he said it was northern Ireland, he told me it scared the living shit out of him.

    • @smirnov5795
      @smirnov5795 3 года назад +7

      If he was around serbia, then I doubt. Real monstrocities happened there. Then again, matter is personal

    • @gta1kev
      @gta1kev 3 года назад +25

      @@smirnov5795 it was Kosovo, he was there as a peacekeeping force.

    • @rabsmiff
      @rabsmiff 3 года назад

      its a bloody good job he wasn't born earlier in another place and sent to Stalingrad.

    • @laboskie349
      @laboskie349 2 года назад +9

      You know when a Scottish soldier says something scares him, its scary.

    • @KolyaNickD
      @KolyaNickD 2 года назад +5

      I have heard a similar story - you just can't tell who is who in Northern Ireland.. whilst there is an Irish look, so many in the North either don't have it or it turns out they are the opposite you expected...

  • @williamcrowley788
    @williamcrowley788 4 года назад +315

    These things suck for everyone on every side, ptsd, disabilities, loss of friends and family, hatred, “justified” or not, wastes a lot of everyone’s time. I’d like to think problems would fade with time but we all know better. No such thing as a glorious justified war where every killing is celebration and every soldier or freedom fighter or psycho terrorist a saint at least until the space aliens invade. I’ve heard stories from those times in NI and currently try to help ex soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan. Can just imagine what some of those soldiers and civilians went through.

    • @puffodmuff3981
      @puffodmuff3981 4 года назад +11

      "Wastes a lot of everyone's time."
      You know they were fighting for something, right? They didn't just say, "Hey I wanna fight someone".

    • @viviennehickey6580
      @viviennehickey6580 4 года назад +13

      One of the best comments if I may say. My only concern is that sentence as well.( "waste of time") I get you though. If you never experienced the evil, psychotic like, hatred. From people who know nothing about you, or your family. (Apart from the exaggerated stories or myths force fed from their Ma's knee up). I mean on both sides btw.
      If you knew nothing about it, and landed from another continent.
      'Theoretically'
      Ask the gang's of youth rioting, or a gunmen: "what's the murder all about mate?"
      The answer you get, Will sound crazy to an outsider. Unless you have a few days to spare. To get the history of the both communities that is. You're going to think that. Apart from that. Great comment btw.

    • @williamcrowley788
      @williamcrowley788 4 года назад +5

      Thank you both for comments, opinions noted

    • @thefightisalwaysfixed8890
      @thefightisalwaysfixed8890 4 года назад +3

      No peace, no surrender

    • @keno77777
      @keno77777 4 года назад +2

      William Crowley war is a necessary evil.

  • @Coilin101
    @Coilin101 4 года назад +155

    Oh I've got a brand new shiny helmet and a pair of kinky boots
    I've  got a lovely new flak jacket and a lovely khaki suit
    And  when we go on night patrol we hold each other's hands
    We are the British Army and we're here to take your land

    • @vesical7952
      @vesical7952 4 года назад +6

      Kinky boots nice song

    • @vesical7952
      @vesical7952 4 года назад +3

      @Jason relax it's a damn Irish nra song

    • @Coilin101
      @Coilin101 4 года назад +2

      @Jason no not really

    • @Daneclaw
      @Daneclaw 4 года назад +8

      @@Coilin101 The majority of nations have taken land from others at least once in their history.

    • @Coilin101
      @Coilin101 4 года назад +1

      @@Daneclaw kinda just Britain, France, Spain,Portugal, Denmark, Japan

  • @theholyvector
    @theholyvector 2 года назад +25

    most soldiers there looked like they hated the war, and they probably did, my grandad, however, was the opposite, when he got bored of a job, he would either get in trouble, or up and leave, the army kept him on hit toes, gave him structure and routine, and being bomb disposal in the royal engineers, he was almost always up to something.
    an amazing man, god rest his sole

  • @firstordersaint7659
    @firstordersaint7659 3 года назад +77

    Idk how many people know about this but my nan told me this story which came from Northern Ireland.
    This British soldier got friendly with an Irish family who kept on inviting him to their house for dinner. This would keep on going on for a while so they could earn his trust. However, the army caught wind of this. During one night the soldier exited the house and went towards his car and he was stopped by other soldiers who alerted him to an IED under his car.

    • @owenrussell5162
      @owenrussell5162 2 года назад +2

      Fucking terrorist cunts

    • @6Six6Six6Bruh
      @6Six6Six6Bruh 2 года назад +1

      Damn shame they caught wind. Wouldve been a good ending for that pig

    • @ShortArmOfGod
      @ShortArmOfGod Год назад +3

      Absolutely apocryphal.

    • @GAMER123GAMING
      @GAMER123GAMING Год назад +6

      Never happened and if it did it was deserved

    • @lanerussett
      @lanerussett Год назад +10

      @@GAMER123GAMING :( no one deserves hate if they are truly nice :( i am sad and worried about Europe even though I am American. it is hard to accept the hatred

  • @dmcd3895
    @dmcd3895 3 года назад +9

    To the people arguing in the comments. It’s not worth it. So pack it in for fuck sake.

  • @dalehuxtable6517
    @dalehuxtable6517 5 лет назад +457

    My uncle fought in northern Ireland an he lost a bunch of his mates so he left the army

    • @thomasmc9611
      @thomasmc9611 5 лет назад +44

      Which army

    • @АлександрЕгоров-ш7ы
      @АлександрЕгоров-ш7ы 4 года назад +74

      Karl Hanks you are piece dumb animal that always ready to asslick your English masters. Don’t tell me anymore that you are Irish.
      You sold your “irishness” for English money. Enjoy now.

    • @АлександрЕгоров-ш7ы
      @АлександрЕгоров-ш7ы 4 года назад +29

      Karl Hanks and never tell Russians where they can or cannot “stay”.

    • @Defaultname0000
      @Defaultname0000 4 года назад +46

      Unfortunately, Dale, not enough of your Uncle's mates died.

    • @АлександрЕгоров-ш7ы
      @АлександрЕгоров-ш7ы 4 года назад +31

      Darren Richardson imbecile, read carefully what I said.
      And Chernobyl is in Ukraine, dumb animal. Read some books.

  • @brandonbutler6224
    @brandonbutler6224 3 года назад +75

    From someone from Northern Ireland it was worse than you can imagine I wasn’t alive back then but I’ve been told about all the horror and destruction that happened in the 80s so much poor people died

  • @gingeristhebest21
    @gingeristhebest21 4 года назад +291

    Those of us who served in NI know what it was like a picture tells a thousand words

    • @chriswilde7246
      @chriswilde7246 4 года назад +21

      Some soldiers that served in The Troubles say it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. To me? It was the worst of times, all the time!! Derry/Londonderry, end 1982 to end 1984..

    • @georgea7022
      @georgea7022 4 года назад +56

      Fuck the IRA

    • @WalterEKurtz-kp2jf
      @WalterEKurtz-kp2jf 4 года назад +18

      Kill many children?

    • @chriswilde7246
      @chriswilde7246 4 года назад +44

      @@WalterEKurtz-kp2jf No Kurtz, did kick a few up the ass for chucking stones and petrol bombs at us, I would have shot them if I'd had the chance, unfortunately I wasn't in a position to..
      Of course we didn't, clearly your being an idiot!

    • @georgea7022
      @georgea7022 4 года назад +17

      Walter E. Kurtz you’re stupid

  • @Squid728
    @Squid728 3 года назад +18

    Country : Ireland
    Army : British
    Song : American
    Hotel : Trivago

    • @BobisJobsonBBY
      @BobisJobsonBBY 3 года назад +2

      Status Quo are British tho i don't get why they reference Uncle sam haha

  • @LukeNuss1
    @LukeNuss1 5 лет назад +88

    Oh, I've got a brand new shiny helmet, and a pair of kinky boots
    I've got a lovely new flak jacket, a lovely khaki suit
    And when we go on night patrol, we hold each other's hand
    We are the British Army, and we're here to take your land

    • @maitredusoleilquatorze2726
      @maitredusoleilquatorze2726 4 года назад +15

      My good friend Nigel, he's in the SAS
      Oh yes, oh yes!
      He said a change is just as good as arrest
      Oh yes, oh yes!
      But now they've gone and posted him way down to Crossmaglen!
      He wishes to blazes he was back in jail again!!!

    • @steveaustin6344
      @steveaustin6344 4 года назад +10

      Autism speaks

    • @ErikaDatEnbie
      @ErikaDatEnbie 4 года назад +10

      @@steveaustin6344 yup and says: "Autism speaks"

    • @johnwatson3342
      @johnwatson3342 4 года назад

      Taig

    • @joef1110
      @joef1110 4 года назад +1

      @@johnwatson3342 hun

  • @NaughtyBear05
    @NaughtyBear05 2 года назад +19

    my dad was in the canadian infantry and told me how he knew guys from this conflict that got spooked everytime they heard a helicopter or any sort of loud noise. poor souls

    • @tarawalsh7045
      @tarawalsh7045 2 года назад

      Yes, my former spouse was a child when the shit hit the fan an his earliest memories sound like a dream. He thought the world sparkled but all it was was shattered glass. And the sound of the step when the army stopped at the houses: clang. He still has a deep, circular scar from being questioned on his way to meet a friend for his birthday. I've seen a few of them. You know the come from the rifle. Still he had the closest friends both sides and used to get them to keep me entertained with things like the military alphabet (which tickles me to no end. Foxtrot is the end of me), and showing me how fast it takes to dismantle a rifle and put it back together again. He didn't much like me but his friends were all good to me. I was raised by Marines straight out of Vietnam and I was my father's child so the things I learned. No wonder 'regular men' irritate the hell out of me. I wish I'd got that Para with the most amazing eyes i have ever seen on a man. Mine are emerald green and there is a crazy humour in them and his were not emerald green (that I could tell) but he still had the laughter in them. I know if he gave those eyes and that humour.... he's knock all hetero females and maybe anything living straight off their legs. I've never been brazen or coy so ... it's not something you learn being raised by a pack of wolves, I guess.

  • @xoras3085
    @xoras3085 Год назад +5

    equimpment of British army looks better than US even at that time
    🤟

    • @NKR804
      @NKR804 Год назад

      DPM❤❤❤

    • @sundancetitan5675
      @sundancetitan5675 7 месяцев назад

      That 70s-80s British military kit just looks so cool icl it’s just too beautiful

  • @naufalakbar2012
    @naufalakbar2012 4 года назад +20

    Major samm, can you made about Indonesia? Operasi seroja, 1998 riots, ambon riot, poso riot etc with song?

  • @drunkenn1nja
    @drunkenn1nja Год назад +5

    1:50 captain price

  • @epicninjasky1112
    @epicninjasky1112 3 года назад +10

    save yourself don't scroll down

    • @johnchalleen3278
      @johnchalleen3278 3 года назад +1

      Damn...this was like halfway through. Needless to say that I'm stopping here.

    • @redactedagentdataexpunged9431
      @redactedagentdataexpunged9431 5 месяцев назад

      Had to scroll down to find this comment so it kinda defeats the point

  • @Blunt_Raz0r
    @Blunt_Raz0r 4 года назад +12

    2:21 Interesting, look at that girl in the background, she keeps a distance from a soldier and when he stops so does she. Probably she doesn't want to be shoot/blast with him during IRA ambush/bomb attack.

    • @mnd7381
      @mnd7381 3 года назад +1

      @Jagd if a group of militants target the army, it's not a bad idea to keep close to crowds.... anybody would do that.

  • @thesashman6051
    @thesashman6051 3 года назад +3

    Those fenians had it coming.. FGAU WATP GSTQ KAT

  • @frankunjuttu06
    @frankunjuttu06 3 года назад +18

    Somehow 0:33-0:42 is my favorite scene from this video. Maybe ’cause that these weapons and uniforms are cool.

    • @quangcaodo8864
      @quangcaodo8864 3 года назад +3

      2:31 to 2:53 for me

    • @Juk5uttaja
      @Juk5uttaja 3 года назад

      Suomalainen Frank

    • @dmcd3895
      @dmcd3895 3 года назад +4

      @@quangcaodo8864 it’s like a movie

    • @lmilly1359
      @lmilly1359 3 года назад

      They look even cooler being dragged off

    • @symeremeyers4148
      @symeremeyers4148 3 года назад

      All the British “soldiers” deployed in Ireland belong in prison.

  • @jacquelinemullan4900
    @jacquelinemullan4900 4 года назад +47

    I lived in north Belfast in N.lreland during the troubles and remember it very well, surely different times back then in the sixties and seventies etc.... i hope we never go back to the way it was the bombings , shootings and killings.My parents where a mixed marriage and lost two homes during the troubles.My mum's family and relations came from an army background and her uncle served in the army all over the world and seen what was happening in N.lreland in other countries and told them thid2 isn't going to end anytime soon get out of N.lreland.

    • @Typhanos
      @Typhanos 4 года назад +4

      Well buckle up because this century is gona be fucked.

    • @josephfrench5377
      @josephfrench5377 4 года назад +3

      Not looking good here in the United States ether.

  • @reg9569
    @reg9569 3 года назад +6

    isn't it funny whenever there's a video glorifying the ira, everyone in the comments praises them, but one on the British army, it like world war 3 in the comments? I'm not gonna pretend the British army was the greatest in northern Ireland, they did some bad things, but defending your land from terrorists is bad?

  • @thebrit1976
    @thebrit1976 3 года назад +7

    SLR obliterate concrete at 1000 meters 💥🇬🇧

  • @Coilin101
    @Coilin101 4 года назад +167

    It unbelievable to think that even the Irish flag was banned in the six counties and that if it was on a coffin and a funeral the psni or military would rip it off pure disrespect

    • @dreadpiraterobertsii4420
      @dreadpiraterobertsii4420 4 года назад +17

      Anglus Patria England must be some sh1thole if the brigade fighting so hard to not go back

    • @texannapalmdealer1109
      @texannapalmdealer1109 4 года назад +47

      @Anglus Patria this shows your Britain is weak you guys could not even keep a few countries

    • @texannapalmdealer1109
      @texannapalmdealer1109 4 года назад +38

      @Anglus Patria They have at least been defeated by america twice ireland held them off for several years and they got their asses handed to them by the gurka's and zulu's

    • @Coilin101
      @Coilin101 4 года назад +4

      @Anglus Patria that has nothing to do with what I said

    • @Coilin101
      @Coilin101 4 года назад +4

      @Anglus Patria I never said anything about the British empire

  • @TheAgrotechnik
    @TheAgrotechnik 4 года назад +14

    1:49 - Sean Connery?

    • @М.Вахно
      @М.Вахно 3 года назад +2

      Шон Коннори R. I. P🕯️31.10.2020 г.

  • @FirstnameLastname-py3bc
    @FirstnameLastname-py3bc 3 года назад +8

    I don't support or approve Brits there but their uniforms looked super cool in my opinion

  • @maxbruce4220
    @maxbruce4220 4 года назад +84

    Get out ye black and tans

    • @maxbruce4220
      @maxbruce4220 4 года назад +12

      @Patrick Mailey its a reference to their uniforms they wore stating in 1916 if I remember right

    • @cheddarcheeseisgood8030
      @cheddarcheeseisgood8030 4 года назад +8

      @@maxbruce4220 Black and tans weren't in 1916. It was in the 20s during the war for independence

    • @GhostRanger5060
      @GhostRanger5060 4 года назад +5

      @@maxbruce4220 Black and tans were a paramilitary organization started by the UK to give unemployed WWI vets a job patrolling the old Irish Republic in the years after that war (and into the 20s). They were a brutal lot but they weren't the same as the regular British troops used to patrol Northern Ireland. But I get your point.

    • @jimbob4537
      @jimbob4537 4 года назад

      @@GhostRanger5060 the black and tans were a minority really - the actual british were still mainly regular british army, ric/dmp and auxiliaries - interestingly a lot of the auxiliaries were from canada, australia, south africa etc and a lot were former members of the royal flying corps

    • @dylangrufferty30
      @dylangrufferty30 3 года назад

      @@GhostRanger5060 they also employed former convicts who had trouble finding work

  • @robertrobertson8575
    @robertrobertson8575 4 года назад +22

    Lol and now both sides of this conflict are surrendering their land to Islam without so much as a shot fired.

  • @backyardgunner6038
    @backyardgunner6038 3 года назад +9

    I love how upset the Paddys are in the comments.😂😂😂😂

    • @saibow
      @saibow 3 года назад +1

      i have yet to see a single upset irish person in the comments

    • @backyardgunner6038
      @backyardgunner6038 3 года назад +1

      @@saibow then you're fucking blind

    • @backyardgunner6038
      @backyardgunner6038 3 года назад

      @Larry Swoozle aww, how sweet. Another upset Paddy.

    • @backyardgunner6038
      @backyardgunner6038 3 года назад

      @Larry Swoozle you're a Paddy, throwing a paddy.. Lost what? I wasn't even born... Try again "prick"

    • @backyardgunner6038
      @backyardgunner6038 3 года назад

      @Larry Swoozle you have to comment more than once in a row to get back at me 😂

  • @rafac946
    @rafac946 3 года назад +95

    The british look so badass in those uniforms i want one

    • @_e_6456
      @_e_6456 3 года назад +12

      Ikr, I'm trying to collect it but currently have only gloves.

    • @fbiagent9666
      @fbiagent9666 3 года назад +19

      The moustache is extremely important

    • @andrewflow7033
      @andrewflow7033 3 года назад +4

      we are the british army,.,,, u all know the lyrics guys

    • @OCinneide
      @OCinneide 3 года назад +1

      @@andrewflow7033 some kinky boots

    • @dimmadometv
      @dimmadometv 3 года назад +5

      Tbh that 70s and 80s british helmet looks kinda fire

  • @christophbernhardt934
    @christophbernhardt934 4 года назад +10

    IRA 🇦🇹 👍🇮🇪

    • @keithrose6931
      @keithrose6931 4 года назад +6

      🇬🇧

    • @robbieelder4987
      @robbieelder4987 4 года назад +5

      @Alex 28 pahahahahhaha no we didn't northern Ireland is still part of the UK

    • @robbieelder4987
      @robbieelder4987 4 года назад +4

      @Alex 28 mate explain how we lost as far as im aware your goal was to get a united Ireland and it's been 40 years and we're still part of the UK so im pretty sure you lost

    • @broadyyo4988
      @broadyyo4988 4 года назад +1

      Alright lads. Not worth arguing over a war the rich cunts above started.

    • @keithrose6931
      @keithrose6931 4 года назад

      @Alex 28 How do you make that out ?

  • @atlanticocean7211
    @atlanticocean7211 4 года назад +58

    Peace to all may peace last forever.

    • @JackMcNally15
      @JackMcNally15 4 года назад

      Atlantic Ocean until they British government fuck it up again that is

    • @K33MMOBILE
      @K33MMOBILE 3 года назад +1

      British? Peace? Non existent.

    • @matthew1882
      @matthew1882 3 года назад +4

      @@K33MMOBILE get in there then and start stirring or stop LARPing. The IRA campaign is over, if unification comes it will do so in the form of discussion and referendum . People like you have never experienced violence, fear or hardship amd it is painfully obvious. These times are over and the world is better for it.

    • @abunchofiguanaswithinterne2186
      @abunchofiguanaswithinterne2186 3 года назад +3

      @@matthew1882 It sucks seeing kids who hunger for violence without knowing one bit of it. I say it sucks because these are the types organizations and armies love recruiting to further their own sick interests.

    • @tarawalsh7045
      @tarawalsh7045 2 года назад

      Peace is still a long way coming! sad to tell you.

  • @lennonkelly-james2693
    @lennonkelly-james2693 Год назад +4

    I've spoken with family who served in Northern Ireland and lived in England during the troubles and it sounds absolutely horrible. Imagine being sent to a country as a young adult with a gun having to keep the piece between different terrorist factions both loyalists and nationalists who blend into a population that Hates you and who's goals are to blow you, each other and innocent civilians up. The UK hadn't been in a real war in most of the populations lifetime so people were understandable terrified having constant bomb warnings and murders all around.

  • @jasonguy6829
    @jasonguy6829 3 года назад +9

    Great song still listening in 2021

  • @danielnewton5867
    @danielnewton5867 4 года назад +10

    This was such a terrible war. It went in and on and on and so many suffered. I hope we never go back to these times.

  • @guts5135
    @guts5135 4 года назад +75

    Theres still an I.R.A sniper that goes around my town, he's sound but hes a bit mad. He wears a fez and a leather jacket that he painted the back tipp colours😂
    He also sells potéen.

    • @guts5135
      @guts5135 4 года назад +7

      @42 well hes selling potéen and brown so I'd say so, some of the lads in my year knock on the door for a chase. He comes out with a bow saw 😂 would like to get caught by him.

    • @guts5135
      @guts5135 4 года назад +12

      @42 basically just moonshine made from potatoes and brown is heroin.

    • @guts5135
      @guts5135 4 года назад +10

      @42 ya most do go to selling drugs, back in the 90s they used to hang drug dealers by their legs from portroe bridge.

    • @guts5135
      @guts5135 4 года назад +16

      @42 alcohol made from potatoes has to be the most stereotypical irish thing ever😂

    • @guts5135
      @guts5135 4 года назад +2

      @Brendan W makes bucky look like water.

  • @mchausverbot
    @mchausverbot 4 года назад +11

    ULSTER STAYS FREE!

  • @RUDI-UK
    @RUDI-UK 4 года назад +10

    Brave men

  • @robertofraser101
    @robertofraser101 4 года назад +26

    Thank you major samm as I child I went over in 1969 right at start of troubles live through that live through most things in life see tension in soldiers faces very much a mind games tension war thank you for video which shows people who may not know a bit of history thank god its all over now

    • @puffodmuff3981
      @puffodmuff3981 4 года назад +2

      Tensions are back now with the Brexit as people don't know if there'll be any sorta border again up North.

    • @thefightisalwaysfixed8890
      @thefightisalwaysfixed8890 4 года назад +1

      For now....

    • @puffodmuff3981
      @puffodmuff3981 4 года назад +1

      @Brendan W Why should I trust you?

  • @rush2124u2
    @rush2124u2 5 лет назад +220

    For a minute I though the British were using a FN FAL but no
    it’s the famous L1A1 semi auto 7.62 NATO round. She hits hard and far

    • @thomasmc9611
      @thomasmc9611 5 лет назад +27

      Cept the British used them pushed against heads

    • @terryhudson4775
      @terryhudson4775 5 лет назад +16

      SLR 7.62

    • @lesliedodds4011
      @lesliedodds4011 5 лет назад +13

      @@terryhudson4775 762 every trip packs a hard punch my brother used in the IRISH GUARDS .

    • @user-nx8je6qj1t
      @user-nx8je6qj1t 5 лет назад +38

      FAL with imperial system bro...

    • @rhodanjones5155
      @rhodanjones5155 4 года назад +49

      L1a1 was just a semi auto fal, it used the same cartridge.

  • @mt6271
    @mt6271 4 года назад +10

    When having a moustache was cool 😎

    • @fhearrbod858
      @fhearrbod858 3 года назад +5

      When killing innocent Catholic children and blaming it on the ra was cool

  • @randomncrsoldier7162
    @randomncrsoldier7162 2 года назад +3

    And I thought patrolling the Mojave was bad this takes the devil eggs

  • @Journey_to_who_knows
    @Journey_to_who_knows 3 года назад +5

    Every time you put marginally different people in a compact geographical area they will hate each other with vigour, every time

  • @asmodeus0454
    @asmodeus0454 Год назад +2

    Status Quo sang this song but it doesn't sound like Status Quo who played hard rock.

  • @lsnows
    @lsnows 3 года назад +22

    I don't know about you guys, but the British FAL, the L1A1 has got to be the coolest weapon EVER!!

    • @roranger6208
      @roranger6208 3 года назад +2

      Wish it was still in service today

    • @lsnows
      @lsnows 3 года назад +3

      @@roranger6208 I hear you. That L85 has a bad reputation. Known as the "civil servant" it never worked and couldn't be fired.

    • @roranger6208
      @roranger6208 3 года назад +4

      @@lsnows Yeah, reliability isn't a problem with the A2 and A3 variants, its just the poor ergonomics and weight balancing issues

    • @willfoster2635
      @willfoster2635 3 года назад

      The SLR was semi-automatic. It only fired single shots, which lessened collateral damage (unlike the IRA, etc). The problem lay with the barrel. It was too long. Not ideal for use in an urban environment.

    • @GanjaMasterBlaster
      @GanjaMasterBlaster 3 года назад +1

      You're not the only one here, I LOVE THE FN FAL and the L1A1 SLR
      Same with the G3 rifles
      I still wish it was in use
      It feels kinda boring how so many countries now just use 5.56
      Also whenever i play some fps like a tactical one
      I always choose an fn fal
      If there's no fn fal, then G3
      I love Project Reality
      Also love the mini mods like ww2, vietnam
      And even Falklands War,
      Both British and Argy sides use FN FALs
      Atleast variants, and also variants of the Hi Power pistol
      It's a shame the troubles won't be in as a mini mod because of how touchy the subject is
      Also hope there will be a Cyprus map
      Based on the turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974
      I know the Greeks mostly used G3A3s
      They still used old british weaponry
      But they did in fact used FN FALs in some way

  • @124madcow
    @124madcow 4 года назад +30

    Just a reminder that this is an occupying force in a country that isn't theirs.

    • @mrwilsonwilson9599
      @mrwilsonwilson9599 4 года назад +8

      124madcow agreed ... It was a complete shit show ... I just hope the young Irish of today know that 99% of the British people did not want this to happen .. it’s the so called leaders and those soldiers where sent their by them ... on the other side of this life we will all know peace ....all except for the 1% .. I hope they pay for what they have done to Ireland...

    • @YT_changed_my_handle
      @YT_changed_my_handle 4 года назад +2

      Theirs

    • @piper51786
      @piper51786 4 года назад +4

      Ulster could vote to leave the UK at any time but the majority don't want to.

    • @124madcow
      @124madcow 4 года назад

      @@MarcPutniorz I live there mate. I'm Irish so I know a thing or two about it.

    • @124madcow
      @124madcow 4 года назад +2

      @@MarcPutniorz all my uncles and father lived true it my aunt was there when they shot innocent people on bloody Sunday.

  • @thergoezthatman7004
    @thergoezthatman7004 3 года назад +1

    Reminds me of Israel occupying Palestine. Sucks when people don't see the problem with Israel occupying Palestine but if roles were reversed they would cry bloody murder...

  • @ForkLefts
    @ForkLefts 2 года назад +4

    Northern Ireland gameplay: haha British army gay
    Northern Ireland lore:

  • @aryadeepghosh9782
    @aryadeepghosh9782 3 года назад +4

    Even an European version of Kashmir existed.

  • @caledonianamerican41
    @caledonianamerican41 Год назад +2

    Is that the Jacobite rose in your profile picture????:

    • @KHHVKimchicel
      @KHHVKimchicel Год назад +1

      I guess so, also known as Yorkshire Rose.

  • @nijebitno9042
    @nijebitno9042 2 года назад +4

    26+6=

  • @terrencedaviddudley7618
    @terrencedaviddudley7618 3 года назад +4

    I was there 5 times, sometimes good sometimes fu--ing shit

  • @nathanjohnston1176
    @nathanjohnston1176 2 года назад +1

    Basically British version of Afghanistan or Vietnam.

  • @chaz725
    @chaz725 4 года назад +82

    Actually it was some of the most exciting times I've ever witnessed...a pure adrenaline rush..but pity the people killed injured in the province...rest in peace certain people I knew.

    • @JackMcNally15
      @JackMcNally15 4 года назад +3

      Shouldn’t have been here in the first place

    • @stevenbreach2561
      @stevenbreach2561 4 года назад +13

      @@JackMcNally15 not our fault,we go where we were sent.I doubt many GIs had the option not to go to,Nam

    • @JackMcNally15
      @JackMcNally15 4 года назад +4

      Steven Breach just following orders? Doesn’t seem like a good excuse

    • @stevenbreach2561
      @stevenbreach2561 4 года назад +10

      @@JackMcNally15 "just following orders"Hand on heart,I was there to stop the IRA and UVF from killing folk going about their lawful business.

    • @stevenbreach2561
      @stevenbreach2561 4 года назад +4

      @@JackMcNally15 You're right,bloody politicians fucking stuff up again,just don't blame the squaddies.

  • @malcolmcanning548
    @malcolmcanning548 4 года назад +29

    Coming Soon to your town . just watch...

  • @philstevens4536
    @philstevens4536 3 года назад +2

    UP THE RA

  • @davecawood9853
    @davecawood9853 4 года назад +47

    I served in Northern Ireland several times, and for me it was a life experience I wouldn’t swop

    • @markcanning8352
      @markcanning8352 4 года назад +6

      I guess you didn't like patrolling around South Armagh, escorted by helicopters, when one one shot Paddy was about, 🇮🇪🤣

    • @biteycat
      @biteycat 4 года назад +1

      @Alex 28 Or blow them up like those 2 lads in Warrington.

    • @commando4481
      @commando4481 4 года назад +14

      Alex 28 The ira blew up a coach that contained soldiers and their families. There are several more incidents of children dying due to IRA cowardice.

    • @JackMcNally15
      @JackMcNally15 4 года назад

      Xombie when did he say he supported the ira? Assuming he supports them because he’s nationalist is similar to assuming all muslins support Isis

    • @jameshartley6161
      @jameshartley6161 4 года назад +4

      Alex 28
      650 civilian fatalities by the IRA. You don’t have the slightest fucking clue what you’re talking about.

  • @cesarhernandez769
    @cesarhernandez769 Год назад +3

    I’m reenlisting for the Army after a year and a half of being out, and man is this song gonna be appropriate come this Wednesday

  • @jb76489
    @jb76489 4 года назад +41

    Me and the boys on our way to commit some war crimes

    • @cal-qw8ov
      @cal-qw8ov 4 года назад

      jb76489 so will the Britz soon...lol.

    • @caleb4790
      @caleb4790 4 года назад +3

      They never did under orders. The ira did

  • @raygreen5926
    @raygreen5926 3 года назад +7

    And the ghost of Robert Nairac still haunts Ravensdale forest and nevermore return to his homeland

    • @jeffersonwright9275
      @jeffersonwright9275 3 года назад +1

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Nairac

    • @raygreen5926
      @raygreen5926 3 года назад

      Yes, it's about this time 44 years ago this very night he was on stage singing a rebel song but already some people were growing suspicious of him. It was 14th May 1977, and within hour the name of Robert Nairac would enter into Ulster folklore. An enigma to the end

  • @snug-fibbage7441
    @snug-fibbage7441 3 года назад +15

    0:37 it looks like they are running into the black void

  • @mbejmbej5668
    @mbejmbej5668 3 года назад +8

    "War, what is it good for?!"- Seinfeld

  • @thoubosen2779
    @thoubosen2779 4 года назад +19

    So many Britain haters on here, cry more?

  • @thewildcolonialboy8034
    @thewildcolonialboy8034 4 года назад +5

    Brother against brother.

  • @sandwich5603
    @sandwich5603 4 года назад +4

    everybody gangster till the cars smell like fertilizer

  • @bendebeer8607
    @bendebeer8607 3 года назад +11

    F.... man, this really gripes me in the guts!! These are the images of my youth, Belfast, the IRA lads checkmating 40K soldiers and 20K constables; the Rhodesian Light Infantry and Selous scouts in the bush, the Rhodesian war on the ther side of the world ..... so many memories packed that shaped me into the person I am now.....

    • @justonecornetto80
      @justonecornetto80 3 года назад +1

      The IRA checkmated nobody. As soon as British special forces took the gloves off and began wiping out their active service units, they screamed not fair and put the peace feelers out. I had just completed my first month in the army when we got the news that the IRA's so called elite had been turned into colanders by the SAS at Loughgall. We had a party in the mess when the SAS got some more of them at Gibraltar. After another SAS ambush at Coagh, Martin McGuinness sent a letter to the British government telling them that the conflict was over. About 12 years after that, the IRA was shown just how comprehensively they had been penetrated by the British intelligence services. They started murdering each other after that. I was serving in NI at the time. We had another party.

    • @bendebeer8607
      @bendebeer8607 3 года назад +2

      @@justonecornetto80 You sound pissed-off by what I wrote, but it certainly wasn't my intention towards anybody. You have to admit that if you have to insert a world-class elite while you have thousands of troops and a complete constabulary on the ground, there IS a big problem.....

    • @justonecornetto80
      @justonecornetto80 3 года назад +3

      @@bendebeer8607 Not pissed off at all. I just feel it necessary sometimes to correct some people's misperception of the IRA as plucky gentlemen terrorists who cunningly outwitted the British army. They were in fact nothing more than a pack of armed criminal scum who used women and children as human shields which is why a precision instrument like the SAS was used to deal with them whenever possible.
      What you have to realise is that unlike the IRA, the army had a strict arrest policy which was difficult to execute when the provos could whip up an instant riot with kids throwing bricks petrol bombs and you're constantly aware that a stray bullet from your rifle could land a massive propaganda coup for the IRA and you a manslaughter charge.
      Don't buy any of their bullshit about not targeting civilians either because they murdered innocent farmers in the border areas simply because they were Protestants. They even terrorised their own communities by murdering anyone who spoke out against them. They raped women and they sexually abused children, none of which could be reported to the authorities out of fear of being branded an informer or a "tout". The big man himself Gerry Adams even covered up his father's disgusting sex crimes then doubled down by covering up his brother raping and sodomising his own daughter.
      That was the true calibre of the IRA.

    • @GAMER123GAMING
      @GAMER123GAMING 2 года назад

      @@justonecornetto80 300 IRA members died in all the troubles while over a thousand british army personnel died... hmmmmm what a big win

    • @GAMER123GAMING
      @GAMER123GAMING 2 года назад

      @@justonecornetto80 Wheres your proof for all this bud?

  • @gloriousbritannia1667
    @gloriousbritannia1667 4 года назад +4

    Rule Britannia.

    • @Matthew-dn6ss
      @Matthew-dn6ss 4 года назад +1

      tiocfaidh ár lá cunt british duit

    • @gloriousbritannia1667
      @gloriousbritannia1667 4 года назад

      @@Matthew-dn6ss Frank. How could do this to me?

    • @Matthew-dn6ss
      @Matthew-dn6ss 4 года назад

      @@gloriousbritannia1667 Frank says brits out B)

  • @gazamurdock3163
    @gazamurdock3163 4 года назад +6

    Garry Murphy ,has seen this, and been there.??.

  • @avishekchakrabarty2560
    @avishekchakrabarty2560 4 года назад +9

    Its clear that their morale is down!

  • @sambeach2726
    @sambeach2726 4 года назад +3

    It was Harold Wilson, British Labour Pm who sent in British forces in August 1969 to quell rioting.

  • @smtx2117
    @smtx2117 4 года назад +31

    Its Ireland and Ireland it will be!

    • @AB-qz4vb
      @AB-qz4vb 4 года назад +8

      YHWH Like white brits? :-)

    • @paulizzs4720
      @paulizzs4720 4 года назад +2

      Soon N. Irleand does ukexit

    • @dutchvanderlinde8302
      @dutchvanderlinde8302 4 года назад

      @Unknown2234 Unknown I grew up in the troubles if you said it back then in the wrong place at the wrong time you'd be complaining about politics to Saint Michael

    • @dutchvanderlinde8302
      @dutchvanderlinde8302 4 года назад +1

      @YHWH actually it's a roman Catholic majority by 6%

    • @ulfricstormcloak9096
      @ulfricstormcloak9096 4 года назад +3

      RULE BRITANNIA

  • @TheWaggishAmerican
    @TheWaggishAmerican 3 года назад +4

    "We only have to get lucky once- you have to be lucky every time."

  • @2011Oly
    @2011Oly 4 года назад +6

    Imagine fighting in urban combat with a full size battle rifle peaking corners, that would be really difficult

    • @paulmcdonough1093
      @paulmcdonough1093 4 года назад

      British troops are trained in f I b u a the united nations would not last in n i

  • @leewilliam9767
    @leewilliam9767 3 года назад +3

    My dad was there

  • @bigmanchungie8685
    @bigmanchungie8685 4 года назад +17

    Jeez, my mum was telling me about when she heard a bomb go off in Banbridge, she said the glass was shaking outside the hair dressers

    • @majaquinn
      @majaquinn 3 года назад

      HEY I live in banbridge :D

  • @horacethemoocow2320
    @horacethemoocow2320 3 года назад +4

    The British Army did nothing wrong

  • @adityarai5367
    @adityarai5367 3 года назад +2

    Go on start your car.

  • @ШНУБЛИККИЛБУНШ
    @ШНУБЛИККИЛБУНШ 3 года назад +65

    Жизнь военных не назовешь лёгкой по этому моё уважение солдатам и офицерам которые тянут службу в далеке от дома

    • @yup6987
      @yup6987 2 года назад +8

      Not that far from home it was in their country

    • @iwankorzhenevskiy9287
      @iwankorzhenevskiy9287 2 года назад +4

      @@yup6987 are we gonna argue if i say british troops invaded Ireland, therefore it wasn't their country?

    • @GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING
      @GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING 2 года назад +3

      @@iwankorzhenevskiy9287 yeah they invaded it alright, the thing is that the majority of people in N Ireland wanted to remain as a part of Britain, not the Republic of Ireland. So in this situation it's the IRA invading them

    • @ulsterinfidel9897
      @ulsterinfidel9897 Год назад

      ​​​@@GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING wouldn't say Ireland was invaded because most people that came to during the plantation of Ireland from mainland Britain was Scottish so that means fellow celts which I may point out originally came from mainland Europe stretching from France, Germany and the Czech Republic but yes seeing the my wee country is part of the UK it was more of an IRA invasion especially when most IRA terrorists that was murdering people on the border was from the Republic of Ireland and I like yer name the communists are a waste of oxygen just like Irish republicans

    • @Tony2438
      @Tony2438 Год назад +1

      Thanks