Bosnian War: How Was The British Army Involved? (1992 Documentary) | Forces TV

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  • @oldplace5
    @oldplace5 6 лет назад +391

    If your mess sergeant doesn’t have a ‘stache like that, don’t trust the cooking.

    •  6 лет назад +17

      Don't trust the cooks either though. As the joke went: Cooks got the highest bodycount of any position in a modern army. ;-)

    • @olliephelan
      @olliephelan 4 года назад

      Whats RCT ?

    • @1970swimmer
      @1970swimmer 3 года назад +2

      Rumour has it only 3 people have ever passed the military cooks course 😃

    • @olliephelan
      @olliephelan 3 года назад

      @@1970swimmer
      Thats because those 3 people were not cooked properly.
      A little more time to simmer and it mightve passed.

    • @olliephelan
      @olliephelan 3 года назад

      @Bombay Molotov
      You mean British Airways ? Or Virgin ?

  • @tom.cresswell
    @tom.cresswell 4 года назад +101

    My dad's cousin fought and died in Bosnia. I never got to meet him but my thoughts are always with him. May he rest in peace ❤

    • @lenasauve3660
      @lenasauve3660 4 года назад +3

      Oh man. I am so sorry for your uncle. RIP. He is in Valhalla.

    • @tom.cresswell
      @tom.cresswell 4 года назад +2

      @@lenasauve3660 thank you ❤

    • @lenasauve3660
      @lenasauve3660 4 года назад +2

      @@tom.cresswell We honour the fallen warrior, through naming a child in the family after him.

    • @RR-pv4dh
      @RR-pv4dh 3 года назад

      And every other British/American soldier who has ever lost his/hers life through anything

    • @kevbeer1
      @kevbeer1 3 года назад

      @@RR-pv4dh nazis? japanese? not me

  • @jerikcoone6957
    @jerikcoone6957 5 лет назад +148

    "Rats size of Jack Russels..."
    Sounds like Croydon.

  • @1970swimmer
    @1970swimmer 3 года назад +29

    As a Canadian infantry soldier I served in Yugoslavia in 1992, 96, and 98. I stayed at Gorne Vakuf in 98 will attending a mine clearing task. It was awesome, the Brits always had cold beer with a relaxed beer policy! There Naffi had plenty of irn bru, and greasy crisps. It was like visiting family back in Scotland but less rain 😜

    • @demobbed688
      @demobbed688 3 года назад +6

      I'm a former Brit Infantry soldier and I only did one tour in Bosnia based in Banja Luka but I worked in places such as Livno, Tomislavgrad and Bihac and the Canadian base at Drvar.

    • @1970swimmer
      @1970swimmer 3 года назад +3

      @@demobbed688 oh good old Bihac, I was there for 2 months in the platoon house across from the school. We had a section of Britt JCO’s in Bihac down the road from us. Decent bunch of fellas

    • @SpencersNightclub
      @SpencersNightclub 2 года назад +3

      It was Gornji Vakuk, I was with 845 Naval Air Squadron providing helicopter support and casevac, GV was one of our forward operating bases away from Divulje Barracks near Trogir and Split International Airport, we also ran out of Banja Luka, Kiseljak, Vitez, Sarajevo and Mostar.

    • @imperatormouse2735
      @imperatormouse2735 2 года назад +1

      Yeah, you drank beer and earned easy money with feeding the local black market in the safe zones while people were suffering and dying. But yes, you had a good time...That's most important.

    • @Twirlyhead
      @Twirlyhead 2 года назад +2

      Russian troll in here, folks.

  • @enterthevoidIi
    @enterthevoidIi 4 года назад +72

    When I was a kid, I almost got ran over by one of these APCs while carrying water to my home. Some of them were really poor drivers lol

    • @metrohunter50
      @metrohunter50 2 года назад

      @Sanzhur Tursunov try to drive an apc my myself in city/village

    • @TheElDoctoro24
      @TheElDoctoro24 8 месяцев назад

      In their defence the visibility is near nonexistent unless it’s directly in front

  • @michaeljohn6623
    @michaeljohn6623 5 лет назад +99

    5:23 masculinity confirmed

    • @dmc7890
      @dmc7890 5 лет назад +5

      Captin price's brother???

    • @bithon5242
      @bithon5242 4 года назад +1

      I bet he has a really good hearing

  • @3204clivesinclair
    @3204clivesinclair 4 года назад +18

    I arrived in Yugoslavia (passport stamped) end of April 1992 as part of a reconnaissance part of the UN. We waited outside Pleso camp as the Yugoslavian forces left. Apart from trashing the barracks. They also left several Mig aircraft, which some bad been booby trapped.

    • @johnnymlad8472
      @johnnymlad8472 3 года назад +3

      Pleso camp is in Croatia. . That was a Croat Stronghold already by 1991 it was seized by Croat defectors from within the JNA.
      I doubt they had time to wire the jets before the Serbs and others withdrew, that takes time!

    • @DJFlying82
      @DJFlying82 3 года назад +1

      @@johnnymlad8472 you are right! Pleso it wasn't camp... Pleso was the Zagreb airport.

    • @andrewcollins3301
      @andrewcollins3301 Год назад +1

      Was that Op Hanwood?

  • @adiscomedia2306
    @adiscomedia2306 3 года назад +21

    As a 7 year old boy... i got fair bit of candy from these soldiers. I lived through the war and it wasn't pretty. Politics and nationalism destroyed the country and people unfortunately.

  • @gstar3824
    @gstar3824 7 лет назад +139

    That staff Sgt Jim was rockin one hell of a tosh. must admit it made me chuckle quite abit lol

    • @jimburns9690
      @jimburns9690 2 года назад +2

      As the owner of the tash! Nothing wrong with the tash, however It is long gone...

  • @colingoldthorpe5918
    @colingoldthorpe5918 4 года назад +11

    Served almost 6 months in Gornji Vakuf with B Coy 1PWO. A tough tour for everyone, would never again support the UN 🇺🇳. They tied our hands from making some positive changes in those times. The reality of it all was that there was three sides fighting each other and your in the middle trying to keep the peace.. it was a floored plan from the beginning. We escorted a lot of aid and people thru our area of responsibility. At least we got the summer weather the Cheshire’s were tired when we arrived, winter was tough on them. GV was a lot different place for our tour than theirs. The war arrived and the rest was history. Anyone mocking the British Army has never served, it may not be what it once was but it can always be counted on when things go south. I did 9 years in the PWO three operational tours with some of the greatest men I ever have met in my life. It served me well in my civilian life, but you have to get out early to make a successful civilian transition. Don’t listen to the lifers get out at 25 years old and employers will typically welcome you with open arms. Any longer it’s very tough to deal with civilians and their disorganization and lack of reality....

    • @sararedfearn4691
      @sararedfearn4691 7 месяцев назад

      Never a true,er word said. “. “Nor difficulties deter” nec aspera terrant.

  • @zeitgeist909
    @zeitgeist909 5 лет назад +49

    Wow - such a window into the Britsh forces at that very particular time! The main concerns were the weather and breakfast. How it changed a few weeks later. Genocide and all that...

    • @chaz8758
      @chaz8758 4 года назад +8

      Genocide had been happening long before we got there, it was a relative calm period - which is hard when all sides dont trust each other and break treatys

    • @rrexp3779
      @rrexp3779 3 года назад

      Got that right they big of waste there

    • @agrizic
      @agrizic 2 года назад +3

      @@chaz8758 Brittish forces calmly watched how HVO slaughtered village of Ahmići near Vitez in april 1993. Worst atrocities in Central Bosnia happened after arrival of UN forces.

    • @jimmyormerod4075
      @jimmyormerod4075 9 месяцев назад

      @@agrizicthen you clearly don’t know how the un works the same happend in Rwanda un troops can’t get involved unless they are told so by there higher ups if they did do something it could cause an even bigger conflict

  • @Master_Chief_666
    @Master_Chief_666 4 года назад +29

    my dad served in bosniea he was in 65 corp support sqn 32 field sqn 3 armored eng sqn royal engineer as a un he said it was the most depressing place he's ever been and his regiment was based in a bombed out fur factory but he said it was a fun experience and hes done great things in his time there and im proud that hes my father.

    • @matija3500
      @matija3500 3 года назад +2

      You Brits lost in Bosnia because Serbs have half of Bosnia

    • @Master_Chief_666
      @Master_Chief_666 3 года назад +4

      @@matija3500 the British weren’t fight dipshit they were there with the un peacekeepers

    • @DJFlying82
      @DJFlying82 3 года назад

      @@Master_Chief_666 your father and the British SFOR had transported the Muslim Al Kaida mujahedines to Bosnia to kill the Serbs!

    • @olliephelan
      @olliephelan 2 года назад +2

      @Desert Rat
      There was a school in (I think) Vitez where Muslim civilians were being held and abused.
      The Swedish UN wanted to go in by force to take civilians out , but the HVO threatened to blow the mines if they tried.
      They were eventually released but the mines would have been left for engineers to difuse.
      The Swedish plan to rescue the civilians in the school relied on the presence of the BBC camera crew.
      But when the crew heard what was planned (everyone getting killed) they left, which meant the Swedes had to back down and leave.
      (the fact that the BBC were there would likely have caused the HVO to allow it without a fight ).
      Ill have checked the town by the time I get a reply (if I get one).
      The HVO also rigged an entire explosives plant into one giant bomb in the Lasva valley.
      They thrratened to blow the whole town if the Muslims attacked.
      It would likely have been one of the largest conventional explosions in history. Similar to that one in Beiruit.
      There were entire silos and storage pits of explosives (nitrates etc ) rigged up.

    • @seki8063
      @seki8063 11 месяцев назад

      What fid your father do except having fun as you are describing that?

  • @antons777
    @antons777 5 лет назад +61

    5:30 Captain Price in his early days

  • @spoonyspoonicus4648
    @spoonyspoonicus4648 7 лет назад +45

    my Dad ran aid vehicles to Bosnia and Roumania in the 90`s and said even after the the official fighting stopped people was been murdered and the UN was doing very little to stop it.

    • @krashd
      @krashd 6 лет назад +4

      Also the UN had it's hands tied as to what to do about civilians as if they were seen to be removing them from the conflict areas they would effectively be doing the job of ethnic cleansing that they were trying to stop. Not allowed to interfere in the conflict and not allowed to evacuate civilians, all the peacekeepers were allowed to do was keep an eye on the various combatants to make sure they didn't breach the Geneva convention. But as we know now it didn't work.

    • @benjaminhodzic4840
      @benjaminhodzic4840 5 лет назад +1

      The best part now is that we have to join the EU. Its like inviting your exgf, that cheated in you, on a dinner. And you are paying for it.

    • @Thumper118
      @Thumper118 4 года назад

      I just love the line" people was been murdered"; sad story but that gave a little humor to it thank you

  • @Giantist
    @Giantist 3 года назад +9

    Father was over there as a RecceMech, he’d been deployed to quite a few conflicts but he said this one was the most arduous and dodgy

  • @Max_Hostility
    @Max_Hostility Год назад +4

    My father was 19 in the Bosnian War and he was in the med corps. He told me he used to pick up severed limbs or what was left of a man after a mortar strike. He also told me that the war was that bad that many people he knew committed s**cide.

  • @DinHamburg
    @DinHamburg 7 лет назад +52

    Bosnian War - somebody remembers the film 'Warriors' with Ioan Gruffudd ...

    • @krashd
      @krashd 6 лет назад +4

      Good movie that, doesn't Damian "Major Winters" Lewis play his 2nd in command?

    • @flightlinevr6302
      @flightlinevr6302 5 лет назад +2

      I got on DVD, it's the Dutch Version called "Peacekeepers - Warriors". Really well made TV movie.

    • @damianm-nordhorn116
      @damianm-nordhorn116 5 лет назад +7

      Intense.
      It showed how heartbreaking and devastating to the soul it must have been for the UN troops witnessing atrocities and not being able to do something about it.
      The scene close to the end in the supermarket was brilliant, going beyond the issue of war and showing how spoilt we are in the Western world, taking peace and leisure for granted.

    • @damianm-nordhorn116
      @damianm-nordhorn116 5 лет назад +2

      @Zuhdi Murich
      Atrocities (committed by Serbs and Croats armed with Yugoslavian and Soviet made weapons) mentioned, so WHAT'S YOUR POINT?

    • @SuperParatech
      @SuperParatech 4 года назад +3

      Zuhdi Murich - not quite sure what you are trying to prove.
      British Army didn't inflict the civil war upon Bosnia 🇧🇦.
      The Army was paralysed from intervening in atrocities by politics from both sides.
      Peacekeepers had to watch and could not do anything. After it was over, society and media ignored the soldiers who had to bottle up what they saw because something more interesting was on the airwaves .....
      like Bobby Brown releasing Humping Around
      like the dreadful Maastricht Treaty
      like Fergie and Andy split
      I remember this time.
      Soldiers are and were ignored. The British Peacekeepers tried their best and took on personal grief in the process.
      Yes - what happened in Bosnia was terrible for all the people there. But, the conflict arose from ethnic tensions going back centuries with weapons they manufactured and used indiscriminately by all sides.
      Bosnians are partly responsible for the suffering they endured because of how they treated each other

  • @viper7829
    @viper7829 2 года назад +8

    Thank you for your help, Bosnia will not forget you.

    • @seki8063
      @seki8063 11 месяцев назад

      How did they help Bosnia? Except through politics made it worse for bosnjaks!?

    • @jimmyormerod4075
      @jimmyormerod4075 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@seki8063are you for real nato attacked Serbia for Bosnia and Croatia wich led to Serbias surrender

    • @seki8063
      @seki8063 9 месяцев назад

      @@jimmyormerod4075 after all that killing and embargo on weapons for Bosnian people. They had nothing to defend themselves with!

    • @jimmyormerod4075
      @jimmyormerod4075 9 месяцев назад

      @@seki8063 r u mad nato was on bonsais side

    • @seki8063
      @seki8063 9 месяцев назад

      @@jimmyormerod4075 if they were they would bobmbed Serbia before Srebrenica massacres and massacres in other cities.

  • @karlmorrison2713
    @karlmorrison2713 6 лет назад +62

    22:25 How do those people get to such high positions? I've never heard a Private with that accent ever. Do those accents get an automatic officer grade when joining up?

    • @UFCSTARS
      @UFCSTARS 5 лет назад +39

      There's a well worn path that leads from the best of England's elite, public schools like Eton, Harrow, Charterhouse, The King's school...etc (F.Y.I in the UK public school means it's private) and elite Universities like, Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial College London, London School of Economics...to name just a few.
      For hundreds of years almost all of Britain's Army Officer Class have been educated in our elite schools and universities before being accepted into the Royal Military Training Academy, Sandhurst - Once there, they are trained to be highly effective soldiers and leaders of men. The Royal Navy and RAF also have their own separate but just as good military training colleges where they develop officers & gentleman. (and also woman officers these days)
      British Army - Royal Military Training Academy Sandhurst
      Royal Navy - Britannia Royal Naval College
      Royal Air Force - Royal Air Force College Cranwell
      So to answer your question @KarlMorrison that's why people in high-up positions all seem to have upper class accents - because our military colleges select their students from upper class, schools & universities. Apparently, they are trying to change this a little bit. Our top Universities are also trying to change things a bit - Oxford said, by 2035 they hope that as much as 35% of their students will be picked from non-private schools or boarding schools.

    • @AcutePanic41
      @AcutePanic41 5 лет назад +13

      All officers speak like gentleman, act like boys and treat others like scum. Of all the officers I've met, it's the RAF officers that take first place in being c*nts.

    • @westerjester5066
      @westerjester5066 5 лет назад +3

      They leave school and enter officer school. The council kids just go to basic training. Ofcourse if your family is "special" you go further in bureaucracy bs. But not always.

    • @doug6500
      @doug6500 5 лет назад +3

      ​@@UFCSTARS It's basically a microcosm for wider British society. Workable but fundamentally flawed.

    • @James-dq7oi
      @James-dq7oi 3 года назад +1

      This is also said whilst there are multiple officers in the video who dont speak with the stereotypical accent

  • @exforces2300
    @exforces2300 7 лет назад +37

    I was there but a few years later with Ifor This takes me rite back recognise a few places there. And them mountain roads combined with dodgy Yugo drivers were lethal !!

    • @chaz8758
      @chaz8758 6 лет назад +2

      Try driving them while we were building them, they were goat tracks not roads, constructed over the winter with the coldest temp being -50 with windchill and around -40 centrigrade straight cold up in the mountains
      It took a few months while we lived in tents at Happy Eater and Vitez to get everyone in decent accomodation

    • @barrybigballs6339
      @barrybigballs6339 6 лет назад +6

      chaz8758 funny that's the only thing i remember of my time there, how FUCKING cold it was.

    • @CrypticSquirrel
      @CrypticSquirrel 5 лет назад +1

      Deployed in 98 with SFOR. Used to drive through TSG daily and stop off at the Belgium Camp for breakfast. Was on Kamensko BXP for 6 months.

    • @rhodesianwojak2095
      @rhodesianwojak2095 5 лет назад

      @@CrypticSquirrel waffles?

  • @nickwarmingham1228
    @nickwarmingham1228 4 года назад +7

    Okay, I have seen a few of Bosnia on u tube, but what we did there in a uniform how ever small in respect of our trade, what we did as a member of the British Armed Forces, we brought peace and friendship!! Think about the bigger picture!!! I still remember those locals I made friends with, and that is over 20 years ago.

    • @DJFlying82
      @DJFlying82 3 года назад +1

      Don't forget the Al Kaida mujahedines that you British have brought to Bosnia!

    • @adi862
      @adi862 Год назад

      ​@@DJFlying82they didnt bring them.. Tuđman and Izetebegovć did.

    • @DJFlying82
      @DJFlying82 Год назад +1

      @@adi862 no they didn't! Whitout Britain and USA theres no chance they can entry in Bosnia.

    • @adi862
      @adi862 Год назад +1

      @@DJFlying82 So pretty much Alija had brotherly relations with Iran and Tuđman passed them through the border.

  • @emirzulic8386
    @emirzulic8386 4 месяца назад +1

    I appreciate you all un forces that where somhow involved in Bosnian war ,thank you for your bravery.

  • @Surv1ve_Thrive
    @Surv1ve_Thrive 6 лет назад +20

    A very complex conflict. Made more complex by the international media and politicians taking sides and looking for black and white stories to tell. Bad guys and good guys. Instead of reporting the conflict as being full of grey, confused areas, not black and white at all. Respect to the Brits who stood up to the risks and tried to help.

    • @DM727T
      @DM727T 5 лет назад +2

      Not complex at all. Serbia and Croatia attacked Bosnia.

    • @purkovic
      @purkovic 5 лет назад +7

      @@DM727T What do you think Bosnia consisted of? Only bosniaks? Please my friend, never in life could a war be explained by one sentence. It is always a complex thing but what is of utmost importancy is that the west would never allow an independent Yugoslavia on their doorstep and after the fall of the soviet union there was no counterbalance to stop the planned disintegration through the utilization of nationalistic hatred between the ethnicities.

    • @dusan.5193
      @dusan.5193 5 лет назад +2

      @@DM727T serbian as country wasnt been in war

    • @DM727T
      @DM727T 5 лет назад

      @@purkovic I just explained it in one sentence.

    • @DM727T
      @DM727T 5 лет назад

      @@dusan.5193 oh really? No war in Serbia but Serbian army was in Bosnia

  • @MohammedAli-zh8kf
    @MohammedAli-zh8kf 5 лет назад +15

    Thank you to all British army personals ❤️💕💖🇬🇧🇵🇰🇧🇦❤️💕💖

    • @MohammedAli-zh8kf
      @MohammedAli-zh8kf 5 лет назад +5

      Rave ツ because I am British Kashmiri Pakistan, it's bit complicated mate in

    • @MohammedAli-zh8kf
      @MohammedAli-zh8kf 5 лет назад +3

      Rave ツ lol

    • @MrKruska11
      @MrKruska11 5 лет назад +6

      As a Bosnian. I can say that they've helped just a litle bit. But it was not about people it was about war profit. But still. Same as United States when they've bombed Serbs with A10's

    • @FromthisInstanceOn
      @FromthisInstanceOn 4 года назад +3

      @@MrKruska11 how did they make a profit? does BiH have oil, gold..? These soldiers had good intentions, but the political stance was standoffish. better some help than no help.

    • @williamthebonquerer9181
      @williamthebonquerer9181 2 года назад

      @@MrKruska11 I wish we profited of the bosnian war. If only we sold you arms so u could defend yourselfs.

  • @aaronwilliamson8604
    @aaronwilliamson8604 5 лет назад +6

    Remember being in Maglaj in 94-95 , one of the best tours I ever did with the British Army .

    • @paulmcdonough1093
      @paulmcdonough1093 4 года назад +1

      I watched on tv i was in 3 Para at that time

    • @matija3500
      @matija3500 4 года назад +3

      You survived this time but if you ever get back to Serbian land again,you will never get back alive!

    • @bozo5982
      @bozo5982 4 года назад +4

      @@matija3500 Okay keyboard warrior...

    • @matija3500
      @matija3500 4 года назад

      @@bozo5982 Just try getting on Serbian land

    • @bozo5982
      @bozo5982 4 года назад +4

      @@matija3500 I did, multiple times lmao... I’m Montenegrin.

  • @cree983
    @cree983 7 лет назад +29

    I was there October 1992 to March 1993

    • @louisbeerreviews8964
      @louisbeerreviews8964 5 лет назад +1

      cree983 my dad were there too

    • @hrbh8054
      @hrbh8054 5 лет назад +4

      ​@Ghost Apophis We saw your warriors down there...

    • @robfulano2552
      @robfulano2552 5 лет назад +1

      SAS?

    • @armen5944
      @armen5944 4 года назад +1

      @@louisbeerreviews8964 thank you for helping us
      One day we will help you!!!

    • @lee-porter
      @lee-porter 4 года назад +1

      Vukovar with the Russians '93

  • @dazajh1
    @dazajh1 3 года назад +2

    I was there in gv with 6plt B coy 1 cheshire. Brought back some memories watching this

  • @zaynevanbommel5983
    @zaynevanbommel5983 5 лет назад +8

    The New Zealand army was involved in the British Army Effort under the UNPROFOR effort at Santichi Camp AO 94/95

    • @neltfelix7221
      @neltfelix7221 5 лет назад

      what are you talking about mate? mind elaborating your words to give us what it actually means???

    • @juliusschwencke142
      @juliusschwencke142 5 лет назад +6

      ​@neltfelix7221 ...I thought he made himself quite clear. The Kiwi contingent were there with three rotations, K3 being being co located with a Dutch contingent at Santici, and being the last Kiwi contingent to leave in 96 at the dissolution of UNPROFOR. The Kiwi deployment was the largest commitment since New Zealand's involvement in the Vietnam war. Enjoyed working under the auspices of the Royal Fusiliers, and seeing first hand the logistical ability of the Devon and Dorsets. Nice to come home though..

  • @iainmcloughlin4625
    @iainmcloughlin4625 7 лет назад +5

    This brings back fond memories attached to 35 Engineer Regiment. Working as REME support during this tour.

  • @dougie22grenadier
    @dougie22grenadier 7 лет назад +9

    Those bed spaces are pretty awesome!

    • @chaz8758
      @chaz8758 6 лет назад +2

      They were pretty comfy, mine got a little peppered with Shrapnel (which I still have) which trashed my sleeping bag when the Serbs decided to fire a few rounds at us in TSG (I counted approximately 140 in the first barrage and 47 in the second in the middle of the night).
      The camp only got a few hits and one casualty, a few bits of kit were damaged and lots of shrapnel was collected by the EOD team afterwards.

    • @Победник
      @Победник 5 лет назад

      ​@@chaz8758 By Serbs, why would they do that? There must be a good reason.

    • @chaz8758
      @chaz8758 5 лет назад

      @@Победник Who knows, we were just the UN muppets on the ground - the reasons why and where for were kept by the UN commanders.

  • @3204clivesinclair
    @3204clivesinclair 7 лет назад +11

    The dates are wrong. I have Op Grapple in my Red book dated June 1992 to December 1992. We were the very first UN badged UK troops to arrive in the former Yugoslavia. We arrived by air at Zagreb airport and watched the Yugoslavian Military march out of their part of the airport - leaving many military aircraft behind (most of them containing IED’s).

    • @markhanley463
      @markhanley463 7 лет назад +2

      My unit 24 Airmobile field Ambulance flew to Croatia on 6th June 1992 as part of the British Medical Battalion on Op Hanwood June-December 1992 .I was based at South Sector,Knin .

    • @3204clivesinclair
      @3204clivesinclair 7 лет назад +2

      mark hanley Yep, you correct me. I checked and it was Op Hanwood. I was part of the small REME contingent supporting you (and others). We were based in the old barracks at Zagreb airport.

    • @markhanley463
      @markhanley463 7 лет назад

      Clive Sinclair We had two R.E.M.E. lads attached to our sector Gaz Ireland and a Lance Jack called Steve whose surname I forget.Good lads,did a good job keeping the 4 tonners and our decripit ambulances on the road.The standing joke was what can get into a U.N. protected area but can't get back out?A British army ambulance.

    • @libertas5005
      @libertas5005 6 лет назад +2

      @Carroj9 I was 5 when war started in Bosnia. My first memories are of Serbs burning my town. My family had to run for their lives, with me and my 1 month sibling, in order to survive Serbian troops who massacred and burned everything in their way. You can find footage of this everywhere on RUclips. And yet, you call me and my family "terrorists"... Honestly, your type is the worst type in the world. Ask your fellow Brits who went to Bosnia what they actually saw. Who was killing whom, and who had the biggest army at their disposal. You say that "Serbs would have done a better job"... You have no idea what kind of evil you are spreading with that sentence. Here I am, survived, 25 years later and believe me, my brother Bosnians are strong in their heart. So many of you genocidal freaks wanted us dead, and all because you're messed up in your heads. I honestly pity you and anyone who thinks like you. I wish you all the best, but there's very little hope for your kind, because your hatred seems to blind your own judgment. All in all, seems that this world is trapped in perpetual war, and I wish your 5 year old child never has to go through what I and my childhood friends had to go through.

    • @harveyyork8370
      @harveyyork8370 5 лет назад +1

      @@libertas5005 may Allah bless you and your familys.. im duty under Nato mission at Glamoc.. i know what i see

  • @ripstop5122
    @ripstop5122 Год назад

    Brought back great memories, served two tours 93 in gornji vakuf and another in 96 in Sarajevo.

    • @adi862
      @adi862 Год назад

      Brits are always welcome in Sarajevo

  • @alessandrocarpi9898
    @alessandrocarpi9898 7 месяцев назад +1

    I think Downing Street simply did not understand the monsters that in 1992 ruled Bosnia and Croatia. If Mr. Major had ordered the bombing of Governative buildings in Zagreb & Sarajevo the Balkan Conflicts would not have lasted until 1995. Tens of thousend of lives would have been saved and UK,Canadian and French ground Forces would not have been exposed to daily danger. Fortunately Mr. Blair used Force quickly in Sierra Leone,Kosovo,Macedonia,East Timor,Afghanistan and Iraq. If nothing else the MoD was able to learn something from the Bosnian lesson.

  • @studas2011
    @studas2011 4 года назад

    Great vid, cheers.

  • @ttrestle
    @ttrestle Год назад +3

    I freaking love the British military

  • @annesmith372
    @annesmith372 2 года назад +8

    I was a Teen in Sarajevo in war. Listening to this, them talking about vegetables being shipped to Bosnia and the problems with that, is a travesty. The guy is laughing when he mentions the refugees.
    He’s literally laughing.
    This video is a perfect picture of the mindset of the apparent “ effort “ … I’m speechless, can’t go on commenting.
    Disgusting. They stood there in the rain??? Seriously?

  • @airwulf7123
    @airwulf7123 Год назад +2

    Bosnia showed how bad the UN are at peacekeeping missions

  • @banditd6551
    @banditd6551 5 лет назад +8

    Love Britain 🇧🇬💓🇬🇧

  • @tunichtgut8730
    @tunichtgut8730 5 лет назад +19

    The Brits were the only soldiers with balls, they would have never surrendered and handed over civilians.

    • @stormtroopersquad9889
      @stormtroopersquad9889 5 лет назад +3

      I just watched the Canadian version of the conflict in Bosnia and the didnt show everyone standing around eating.

    • @renjaveln9479
      @renjaveln9479 5 лет назад +2

      Uhm, the Swedish wouldn´t either had surrendered any civilians. We had the "Sheriff of Vares" Colonel Ulf Henricsson, and that says it all. Read about him and we talk balls. BIG.

    • @AllisterCaine
      @AllisterCaine 5 лет назад +1

      The Danes didnt screw around very much too. They ventured out with MBTs and "lost" some amor piercing shells doing that. They also almost scratched the siege of sarajevo as far as i know.

    • @MrKruska11
      @MrKruska11 5 лет назад

      but they wew dutch not brits

    • @Милошелики
      @Милошелики 5 лет назад +3

      Sooo ballsy entering a war they arent involved in and triple teaming 1 country

  • @priyamitrakaushik3325
    @priyamitrakaushik3325 4 года назад +2

    I was there as IPTF police monitor from India March 96 to May 97.. Had good relationships with the IFOR.

  • @michaeldowd8422
    @michaeldowd8422 Год назад +1

    SSgt Jim Burns wins the award for ' Greatest moustache ever' 🥇

  • @gazs4731
    @gazs4731 3 года назад +2

    I served in Bosnia and without us Sappers, the British combined army wouldn't have got anywhere. Yes, I noticed how the coverage was biased towards the Cheshire Regt when I was there

  • @069220
    @069220 5 лет назад +11

    “Quite pleasant”?? What he really means it was horrible!

  • @petermallia558
    @petermallia558 3 года назад +1

    Chobham was hardly touched.
    The best Armour in the world.

  • @seanlyddall3611
    @seanlyddall3611 7 лет назад +15

    Doing a presentation next week on this!

    • @seanlyddall3611
      @seanlyddall3611 7 лет назад

      janine5090 Thank you for your service!! I've got to do a 5 min presentation and then a 15 minute one.

    • @bosnia4ever5
      @bosnia4ever5 5 лет назад +1

      Would you share it with us?

    • @armen5944
      @armen5944 4 года назад

      Yes share the presentation

    • @Adventureswithkyle97
      @Adventureswithkyle97 3 года назад

      Share

  • @richardgoode5314
    @richardgoode5314 6 лет назад +12

    British Army the best as the Army.

  • @SR71ABCD
    @SR71ABCD 2 года назад +2

    Life in Bosnia as a Peacekeeper

  • @chaz8758
    @chaz8758 6 лет назад +11

    Recognise a few of those places and faces, this film was made before we came under artillery fire at TSG (two ineffective barrages, one casualty in 35 Engr Regt as a result and some minor damage to equipment - including my lovey new doss bag grrr).
    Not exactly a fan of 'Bob' and definately hated dear old 'Kate Adie' calling everyone a Cheshire.
    The picture on his face at Vitez when we heard tracked vehicles coming in, he went running off to greet his Warriors with the press - only to see 42 Fd Sqns vehicles with the CET driven by the OC if I recall leading. the warriors being stuck at Redoubt as the weather was too bad ..........

    • @cheezycatnip8352
      @cheezycatnip8352 5 лет назад

      Was with 44 at TSG, spent most of my time on the mountain with elements of 37 and 44 plant at bth HE and redoubt...just popping by to say hi if youre still visiting RUclips...Ubique Brother

    • @Thumper118
      @Thumper118 4 года назад

      I love military jargon

    • @chaz8758
      @chaz8758 4 года назад

      @@cheezycatnip8352 Still around, just had the vid posted on a FB froup I am in and seen your comment - I was Res Tp running all over as a sparky

  • @newy2277
    @newy2277 5 лет назад +4

    1 Cheshire ever gloriuos Col Bob stewart a brilliant officer

    • @chaz8758
      @chaz8758 4 года назад +1

      Debatable .............

    • @newy2242
      @newy2242 4 года назад

      @@chaz8758 why do you say that , he was my OC for 2 years

  • @renjaveln9479
    @renjaveln9479 5 лет назад +13

    God i love the British. "Yolly good Sir".

  • @Snoochieboochies27
    @Snoochieboochies27 5 лет назад +8

    It’s crazy seeing that many letters. No one uses letter mail like that anymore except for official business or spam mail. Everything is email or fb and all on the internet nowadays.

    • @samluca1244
      @samluca1244 4 года назад

      It's the 90s mate, not yet the heyday of email and facebook (Feb. 2004)...the snail mail is still king!

    • @rrexp3779
      @rrexp3779 3 года назад

      We watchtower them every day cou take down in no time but what to with bakers and pizza makers lol they act li,like, idiots there in Vitez we believe they don't have nothing to do with as 8n war so we let them be

    • @salfordlad3829
      @salfordlad3829 3 года назад

      I think they still use snail mail because phones can give your position away.

  • @fleetwoodmac4123
    @fleetwoodmac4123 5 лет назад +1

    I sailed on the Sir Bedevere. Awesome vessel but flat bottomed so tended to wallow in high seas.

  • @NicNic_gogx
    @NicNic_gogx 6 лет назад +12

    It seems to me they did nothing except supporting and supplying themselves.

    • @DJFlying82
      @DJFlying82 3 года назад

      They did support the mujahedines of Al Kaida that they brought and supplied to Bosnia and Hercegovina.

  • @RS-rf8sy
    @RS-rf8sy 2 года назад

    I was there at the same time. Just north of Tomislavgrad. Mud, mud and a bit of rain!

  • @peteryokahui
    @peteryokahui 8 дней назад

    i didn't know you could cut up track, it looks to me like land development without no government looking around

  • @MrSladej
    @MrSladej 5 лет назад +7

    20:03 i was half expecting Bear Grylls

    • @jimsy5530
      @jimsy5530 5 лет назад

      I was expecting James Blunt.

    • @LThaPunisha
      @LThaPunisha 4 года назад

      @@jimsy5530 He was in this war and stopped WW3 because of it.

  • @montevallomustang
    @montevallomustang 4 года назад +3

    God bless the British! The US 🇺🇸 would never get to kick anyone's ass without the British widening roads and making sure letters get there on time

    • @matija3500
      @matija3500 4 года назад +3

      Serbs already kicked US asses in 1999.

    • @montevallomustang
      @montevallomustang 4 года назад

      @@matija3500 how did serbia kick our ass exactly? The taliban put up a much better fight than serbs lol

    • @SnakeP1tPoetry
      @SnakeP1tPoetry 4 года назад +2

      @@montevallomustang Talibans didnt take down the invisible stealth plane, the only one ever to be ahot down. Thats for history books alone.

    • @Ste-fx8dr
      @Ste-fx8dr 3 года назад

      @@montevallomustang the British are always wiping the yanks arses. Seriously you yanks are the most unprofessional and incompetent army of modern days. All the gear with no idea! We have all seen what happens when the yanks try to fight a war without foreign forces to do it for them. VIETNAM....Case and point!

    • @DJFlying82
      @DJFlying82 3 года назад +1

      @@montevallomustang 29 NATO countrys, united forces, didn't make to invade their troops on Kosovo and Metohija against Serbian army like they had in Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam... And so on! Almost 3 months of bommbing, and at the end they had to make ceasefire agrement (UN Resolution 1244) which is harsh broken!

  • @gooner72
    @gooner72 3 года назад +2

    This was a nasty war, the brutality from both sides was absolutely horrific. To see ethnic cleansing going on in the Balkans was appalling.... especially when you think these Countries are in Europe.

  • @ApacheNL1
    @ApacheNL1 4 года назад +3

    5:23 It's captain Price!

  • @vitezizsrednjebosne1596
    @vitezizsrednjebosne1596 6 лет назад +2

    hello from Vitez and pozz ppn vitezovi

  • @brianazmy3156
    @brianazmy3156 3 года назад +1

    Not so good for the French troops. That heavy equipment operator that was shot by a sniper was seen on the news all over the world. My army unit served there but I had finished my enlistment a few months prior. 82nd Airborne division.

  • @Danny-zi6xw
    @Danny-zi6xw 2 года назад

    5:34 that is a legendary stache staff sgt

  • @Hangman84848
    @Hangman84848 2 года назад +1

    I remember some british soldiers from Banja Luka city, they were patroling near my schoole every day, i was talking with them with a bad english as i was maybe 12 or 13 years old back then and maybe the only one of us kids that could speak english at all, one of them showed me a tattoo of Yosemite Sam a cartoon character on his hand. 😂 Also there were some gurkas from Nepal, they were really good with us kids. At that time war was over in Bosnia, they were there as a peace keepers.

  • @TheFearDasTier
    @TheFearDasTier 5 лет назад +4

    5:37 German WW1 Officer

  • @francisdooley6062
    @francisdooley6062 4 года назад +1

    Got a mention at the very end Ammo Platoon ,fish chips minted mussy peas and a pivo or two.

    • @chaz8758
      @chaz8758 4 года назад

      Frigging pivo, I was advance party in Gungy Bks, assessing it then starting prep work to make it habitable - clearing it up and checking for any sillyness like mines left behind - fisrt night our RSM got us a few bottles each, headache next day.......

  • @nedim_guitar
    @nedim_guitar 4 года назад

    5:20 There was no Serb attacks on, or shelling of Tomislavgrad, because of the agreement to partition Bosnia between them that the Serb and Croat nationalists made. That's why in the Summer of 1992, there were no Croat forces joining in on the attacks against Serb forces in the attempts to end the seige of Sarajevo, and that's why the Croat forces never attacked the Serb forces around Sarajevo from Kiseljak. Instead, they had an open route for goods and people between Kiseljak and Sarajevo. Even journalists have taken that route into Sarajevo as early as 1992.

    • @chaz8758
      @chaz8758 4 года назад

      Sorry to disappoint you but TSG was shelled, more than once while I was there - by the serbs - I still got the shrapnel from some of the rounds.
      Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian troops were all fighting each other at various times up to the end of 1995 when it changed from UN to NATO mandate - even when I was in Sarejevo in 1995 Serbians on the hills surrounding the city were still shooting into it.
      Aid convoys were regularly stopped, aid removed as bribes or just because - under threat often

    • @nedim_guitar
      @nedim_guitar 4 года назад

      @@chaz8758 Ah yes, of course. That happened early on, in 1992.

  • @zeljkonikolic282
    @zeljkonikolic282 2 года назад

    mz dad was in bosnian serbian border in 1996 but he was a solider

  • @SuperEHEC
    @SuperEHEC 5 лет назад +6

    BIELEFELD WOOOOHOOOOO!

  • @barry6611
    @barry6611 4 года назад +4

    I was there. Royal Engineers.

    • @matija3500
      @matija3500 4 года назад +2

      It was your last time being on Serbian land ever

  • @FactaNonVerba744
    @FactaNonVerba744 3 года назад

    Ended up B SQDRN 9/12 20 years later in Kosovo.. least good things positive came out of Balkan tours! Shocking what’s now happening in Afghan etc

  • @bashkillszombies
    @bashkillszombies 5 лет назад +12

    Whoa, back when British people were still white. I remember those days!

    • @davefloyd9443
      @davefloyd9443 5 лет назад +2

      Multiculturalism son. Have you heard bout it yet? 😉

  • @liamr3989
    @liamr3989 5 лет назад +3

    Seeing a fax machine. Wow something that most people my age group (18) wouldn’t even know what it was

  • @tituspullo9210
    @tituspullo9210 4 года назад +2

    The U.N. let the Bosnian people down and allowed genocide. I do remember that there were some British soldiers almost crying in frustration, not being allowed to do their job properly, due to the restrictions laid out by the U.N.

    • @Sturminfantrist
      @Sturminfantrist 4 года назад

      Latin Nick from HBO Series and SA forces avatar :O
      Was the UNs climax of shame
      It was after the Ahmici massacre 93 when a unit with Scorpion or Scimitars came into the Village and they saw what the croat vojna policija had done, i never saw a brit Soldiers cry before, some were furious, later they had a short firefight with croats.
      Ahmici was a big mistake made by the croats to wage war against their Bosnian muslim allies and it was the end for all croat HVO and HOS units in Travnik/Turbe /Vlasic area because the ToBiH /armija BiH units went out for revenge.
      Was in spring 92 there in and near Travnik when croats and muslims were allies and fought the Serbs but you could nearly smell the hate between them, more hate on the croat side a bit less in muslim units

  • @juliusschwencke142
    @juliusschwencke142 Год назад

    ..looks like a Kiwi swandri being worn by the standing soldier at the end of the table at 13:52 Must have been a Long Looker.

  • @bigmanforce
    @bigmanforce 3 года назад +1

    lol british soldiers watching ice cube on the tv during the war...what a crazy time!

  • @buckers67buck77
    @buckers67buck77 4 года назад +1

    Ever Glorious 22nd.

  • @Dave-ko2pr
    @Dave-ko2pr Год назад

    RCT ( Royal Corps Transport) became the Royal Logistics Corps in April 1993, so this footage must have been before that.

  • @SnazzBot
    @SnazzBot 4 года назад +2

    I enjoyed Mr Moustache 1992 but what's with the army theme?

    • @jimburns9690
      @jimburns9690 2 года назад

      As the owner of the tash! It is long gone...

    • @iainmcloughlin6305
      @iainmcloughlin6305 Год назад

      @@jimburns9690 You should have kept it.

    • @jimburns9690
      @jimburns9690 Год назад

      It has made an appearance on more than one occasion!

  • @studavies1967
    @studavies1967 5 лет назад +1

    Didn't the Canadian commander come out and say they could never get permission to use force from the un on the weekend because the we closed

  • @GoxtA
    @GoxtA 7 лет назад +9

    now i starting to see the slow truth and the operation storm/operacija oluja shielding war starters what injustice and SHAME

    • @flyingpuma9729
      @flyingpuma9729 5 лет назад +1

      During operation storm Croats and Serbs were equal according to the equipment. Then the world saw who are fighters (Croats) and who are the cowards (Serbs).
      Well, I understand that the truth is very painful to the Serbs.
      But just think of Vukovar when the serbian forces were 30 to 1 against Croats, and Serbs still didn't managed it to conquer Vukovar within 3 months!
      While operation storm lasted 3 days.

    • @dusan.5193
      @dusan.5193 5 лет назад

      @@flyingpuma9729 yeah but averge croatian soldier was a 21 years old, serbs in krajina have much older people, because they sent all their childrens and other young mans to serbia, averge soldier of serbian krajina was 43 years old, so croats fighted against old mans in uniform

    • @flyingpuma9729
      @flyingpuma9729 5 лет назад

      @@dusan.5193
      And what's with Vukovar?
      Were there also old men on the serbian side?

    • @dusan.5193
      @dusan.5193 5 лет назад

      @@flyingpuma9729 Vukovar is special thing

    • @flyingpuma9729
      @flyingpuma9729 5 лет назад

      @@dusan.5193 you're absolutely right. It's a special thing.
      50 thousand Serbs didn't managed it to conquer Vukovar within 3 months, against 2 thousand Croats.

  • @Dave-ko2pr
    @Dave-ko2pr Год назад

    Is this footage from late 92 then ?

  • @blackops9operation75
    @blackops9operation75 2 года назад

    Bosnia, Brotherhood of Nod first base of operation.

  • @neanderthaloutdoors9202
    @neanderthaloutdoors9202 5 лет назад +4

    The War where Britain and the UN helped Islam and Muslims get a real foothold in Europe.

  • @jimsy5530
    @jimsy5530 5 лет назад

    Bahaha, 20.40, wasn't expecting to see my MP... Colonel Bob, lives a few doors down from me.

    • @stephenedwards8878
      @stephenedwards8878 3 года назад

      He was my CO out there at the time. 1st Bn. 22nd Cheshire Regiment

    • @matija3500
      @matija3500 3 года назад

      @@stephenedwards8878 you lost

  • @sararedfearn4691
    @sararedfearn4691 7 месяцев назад

    The good old days. WO2 JR. 1 PWO (The Prince of Wales’s Own Regiment of Yorkshire. ). Well done Ladies and Gentleman you did a sterling job through out this very sad time. And one for the Tiger………..

  • @robertpeston6692
    @robertpeston6692 4 года назад +1

    ahh der britischer, gentlemen and good fighters: cultured and well educated.

  • @vitezizsrednjebosne1596
    @vitezizsrednjebosne1596 5 лет назад +4

    Pozz ppn vitzovi

  • @coops9871
    @coops9871 4 года назад

    Stevie lonnen absolute legend

  • @Brutal1966
    @Brutal1966 5 лет назад +3

    hmmm as far as i was aware we didnt go into Bosnia until 93? i was with one of the first British Military surgical teams in Vitez in 1993

    • @nhall1965
      @nhall1965 5 лет назад +2

      Paul Cantrill Hi mate. We arrived in Split on October 27th 1992. 360 Supply Coy

    • @KHGrinderboy
      @KHGrinderboy 5 лет назад +1

      Paul Cantrill Grapple 1 went in 1992 like Nigel Said. 1st Fd Sqn Group took over at Vitez in 1993 on Op Grapple 2 as the RE Contingent, so 35 Engr Regt could go home. I remember the Field Hospital at Vitez, but not sure when it was deployed, its all a bit fuzzy now!!!

    • @DJFlying82
      @DJFlying82 3 года назад

      @@nhall1965 Split is in Croatia its NOT Bosnia and Hercegovina!

  • @3204clivesinclair
    @3204clivesinclair 4 года назад +1

    I, along with 16 other Brits arrived before this. We arrived when it was still officially Yugoslavia - we insisted on a passport stamp. We watched former Yugoslavian units march out and then we moved in to the trashed barracks.
    Anyone come across a bar we built in Pleso? We called it The Rustic Inn?

  • @robbo2491
    @robbo2491 2 года назад +1

    1RRF bosnia un/ifor

  • @Ferr1963
    @Ferr1963 4 года назад +2

    5:32 As Private Baldrick would say: My mother told me never to trust men with beards. In this case I would extend the quote to the moustaches. Especially if he's a cook.

    • @jimburns9690
      @jimburns9690 2 года назад

      As the owner of the tash! Trust in me....

  • @andytaylor97
    @andytaylor97 4 года назад

    Had my wisdom tooth out at DJ Bks!

  • @zeroyeti563
    @zeroyeti563 5 лет назад +2

    супер спасибо

  • @danieldunne68
    @danieldunne68 4 года назад +4

    Shame and eternal shame for what was NOT done here. SHAME. The yanks lost one plane and made a big film about it. HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE EXTERMINATED? Shame.

  • @colinfletcher7629
    @colinfletcher7629 4 года назад +1

    Ex OP Lodestar/Resolute. Resupply all AOR. Beautiful country ruined by yet more intolerant religious factions. Just another place I witnessed the worst of human nature.

  • @amirbiscevic8944
    @amirbiscevic8944 4 года назад +4

    Nothing but a waste of time and money these people have stood by for years watching slaughter all around them

  • @richardgoode5314
    @richardgoode5314 6 лет назад +1

    Goverment policy by direction.

  • @spg77777
    @spg77777 4 года назад

    Is this the British Army or the UN?

  • @DM727T
    @DM727T 5 лет назад +3

    Useless. They should have armed everyone and let them fight it out. Only Bosnians had embargo imposed on them. Serbs had 4th army in Europe supporting them and Croatians got everything they wanted. Should have let Bosnians arm themselves and fight it out

    • @DM727T
      @DM727T 5 лет назад

      @@jasip1000 what didn't they get? They had limited supply of tanks but HV supplied them when needed. Everything else they had

    • @jasip1000
      @jasip1000 5 лет назад

      De Me HV couldn’t just supply the HVO like they wanted to.
      Everything had to be smuggled in across the Croatian/Bosnian boarder.
      I where a soldier in the HVO in 1993/94, and we where in shortage of practically everything that you could think of.

    • @DM727T
      @DM727T 5 лет назад

      @@jasip1000 only in few areas where you were isolated or surrounded. There wasn't borders between Bosnia and Croatia in some areas