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Yes, the troop at the end were Gurkhas, highly admired in the UK.
Some of the bravest men on earth. The Gurkhas. Hundreds apply to join for recruitment, few are chosen. They're not badges Connor, they're medals
I have ALWAYS admired the Gurkhas!
20,000 applicants were accepted into testing and only 204 were accepted in 2023 - Thousands apply each year and some years acceptances are higher.
A standard US cop (with a gun) has an average of 12 weeks training which includes everything. A standard UK cop (without a gun) has an average of 20 weeks training. Then if they wish to become a firearms officer they'll need to wait 2yrs before 5-20 weeks of firearms training, depending on the role.
And for comparison: The Danish police officer education/training is 2.5 years....
@@dockingtroll6801 Slow learners?
Hi Connor, the mounted guys in the uniform you love are members of The Household Cavalry Regiment, the ceremonial Part of the Royal Armoured Corps, The Household Cavalry is a union of the two most senior regiments in the British Army; The Life Guards and The Blues & Royals. It is divided into the Household Cavalry Regiment and the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment.
The Household Cavalry Regiment is the operational unit, providing an armoured reconnaissance capability with the state-of-the-art AJAX armoured fighting vehicle. Our soldiers are first are foremost armoured reconnaissance experts but also specialise in other battle winning capabilities, including snipers, anti-tanks, remotely piloted air systems, and information activity.
The Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment are the ceremonial face of the regiment, conducting mounted state and public duties in London. Their prestige and horsemanship takes them across the UK and the rest of the world on key international events, all whilst representing the Monarch and the Nation.
I absolutely love this! So proud to be British 🇬🇧💪🫡
Liked London when I visited once.
🇪🇸❤️🇬🇧
What you thought was part of Trafalgar Square is actually the Victoria Memorial, it's outside of Buckingham Palace. It also has the nickname of the Wedding Cake because it's reminiscent of a traditional wedding cake from the UK.
If you like the guards on the horses, you really need to check out more videos from Horseguards. The ones you saw are 'The Lifeguards' (red with white plume) riding up (or leaving) to replace the 'Blues and Royals' (blue with red plume), they change everyone 2-3 days. I prefer the Blues, but that is just my personal preference 😊
There are also some behind the scene videos of both regiments at Hyde Park Barracks.
The Gurkha's, I used to live in the town they were based many years ago (no longer) in Hampshire. I remember working in a shoe shop in my late teens and they'd come in to buy ladies shoes for their relatives. Lovely friendly guys. Our market square and library is in an area named Gurkha Square, including a restaurant by the same name. Our town saw them in very high regard.
The common medal you pointed out is the king’s coronation medal. The one chap without one will have not had enough service to be entitled to it.
No I think it’s the queen’s final jubilee medal. The ribbon is a different colour and anyway the original video is from 2022. Charles’ coronation was 2023
Talking of our wonderful Gurkha regiments much favoured by the Late Queen - have you reacted to the British Forces video 'The Life Changing Journey of being Selected as a Gurkha'. For over 200+ years Gurkha's have fought alongside the British. They are fierce and formidable soldiers. This video tells the story of the new recruits in Nepal.
The spacing of the buttons on the red tunics indicate which regiment they are a member of.
These are police that work for the Ministry of Defence. They guard all Military Bases & similar high security places. These are mostly to be seen in central London, but also at sensitive sites around the country. They are not military, but civilian police that work for the military, because this is not a military controlled state, but a Civil state with military defence forces. The soldiers you see usually have no ammo in their guns, but they may have, & they can act to defend themselves if necessary, but it's the civil polices job really. This scene is at Buckingham Palace, with the Victoria monument in front. The mounted soldiers in red are the King's Life Guards. There is an identical Regiment, who wear dark blue uniforms, called the Blues & Royals. The foot soldiers in front of the Palace, with the band are the foot guard regiments, of which their are 5. the Changing is when one of these regiments takes over guarding the Palace from another. There is a display of the regimental Colours, the flags you see, embroidered with the names of battles the regiment has been in over the centuries, these are different for each regiment.
The retiring Guard, the old guard, march out of the Palace courtyard carrying their Colour, the new guard having taken over the duty of guarding it.
Yes it is the Gurkhas, for occasionally other military units, like these, take turns on guard duty. The group that left are going to St James Palace which also has a Royal Guard. Meanwhile the mounted Guard go to Horse Guards on Whitehall to Guard the official gateway to the Royal Estate, about half a mile from Buckingham Palace. The Palace Guard is about 50 men, who stay at the Palace for a few days, rotating the men on Guard duty, in usually 2 hour shifts. If the King is in the Palace there will be 4 guards visible at the sentry boxes in front, if he is elsewhere then usually onto 2 men are seen. Another group is doing the same at St James Palace. The Guards Regiments have barracks, for both footguards & cavalry, not far away by Hyde. They also have other premises outside London in the countryside, & when not on Ceremonial Guard duty they operate as full military units, operating armoured vehicles etc. This is done by rotating the men through the various roles in periods of deployments. So soldiers could be on Guard in London one week, in full ceremonial uniform, & the next week he may be somewhere in the wilds driving an armoured personnel vehicle, or until recently he could be in Afghanistan facing the Taliban.
The guys at the back are members of the Royal Gurkha Regiment, Those badges, are Operation Tour medals, the one you were looking at is the Afghanistan medal, a serving member is awarded a medal after completing an operational tour that normally lasts six months.....you can normally judge a soldiers rough length of service and where they have served by which and the amount of medals they wear.
10 Gurkha Logistics Regiment not Royal Gurkha Rifles.
@@Richard500 I didn't specify they were Rifles, I said Regiment...do you think Connor would know the difference? I suppose I could have just said Gurkha's..
but I thought I would use title Royal Gurkha Regiment as a show of respect to all Gurkha regiments..
Love the British GUARDS and HORSES 🇬🇧🐴 love their slow walk...🇦🇺❤
Beautiful horses. Did you notice they do a sitting trot, not a rising one, which is the norm. Its tidier. Yes the Gurkhas.
😂😂 that wasn’t Trafalgar sq , it’s the Victorian memorial outside Buckingham Palace Palace , they might look pretty but they are real soldiers who do tour duties , I take my hat off to them for their discipline and service to the country 👌👏🙋♀️
Not Trafalgar square. Just outside Buckingham Palace is a huge fountain to honour Queen Victoria. The guards were riding past this.
Yes The new Guard are the Gurkhas.
If you want to watch the King's Guard's look for London City Walks John explains everything and he does video on his way to the Horse Guard's. He talks the whole time and he's the only one pretty much that does. Then there is Buska in the Park. If he sees someone disrespecting the Guards or the horses he doesn't keep his mouth shut. He goes over to the police to let them know when they need help. I've been watching them since Thanksgiving or before. And it's for people who love big horse's and the are beautiful and different breeds.
Gurkhas also perform ceremonial duties at Windsor castle , Tower of london and Buckingham Palace Hope your doing well too Connor 😊
The Gurkas often take Guard at the Palace and Windsor Castle, if you watch the Queen when she is Kighting someone at the Palace she walks into the room guarded by 2 Gurkas,her personal body Guards
Yes the finger on the weapon is in ready-position... Right now the weapon is on safe, so step one will be to slide the finger up to the safety, then back down to the trigger...takes less than a second for a trained gunner
At 2:35 , no, not Trafalgar Square - it's the Victoria Monument at the top of the Mall.
COLDSTREAM GUARDS my youngest son's Regiment
No! Connor. Not Trafalgar Square; The Mall and the Victoria Monument.
If you see a UK cop with a gun, think 007. He is not messing around. It must be awful to think you need a gun because you are afraid of your fellow citizens! We don't need guns, we have an army to defend our boundaries.
If you like the Life Guards you should watch the Horse Guards Parade live it's you tubers filming live ,you wlll see the changing of the of the Guards, Life Guards and the Blues & Royals,the 4'o clock parade which used to be called the Punisment Parade,when Queen Victoria going through Horse Guards Parade back to Bukingham Palace found her Guards sitting around smoking playlng cards buttons undone on their tunics instead of been on Guard she was absolutly furious and told them from now on they had to present themselves on the Parade ground for inspection every day fore the next 100 years that ran out during Queen Elizabeth early Rein but she kept it going because it was poular with tourists.
Red jackets are King's Life Guards. Navy tunice are Blues & Royals LifeGuards. Both from 1600's. I think but latter was an
amalgamation of two older regiments.
As someone has already posted, those are not 'badges' but campaign Medals that are awarded to the soldier if he has served in a particular conflict theatre.
Not all some are ceremonial medals ie Queens Jubilee medals Kings coronation medal and long service good conduct medal
Theyre Medals, nor badges.
The wonderful Ghurkas occasionally act at the Guard for Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle. We love them!!
1:20 Thats not a assault rifle, its a sub machine gun. H&K MP5. It fires a pistol round, not a full rifle round.
The finger, and not just for law enforcement, should be kept off the trigger un till you are going to press it, this is the nearest they can get without breaking that "rule" for quickest reaction time
That's a Minstry of Defence Policeman not your normal Bobby on the street,they Guard Military Establisments the military ,nuclear sights,Etc:
You rest your finger like that on the trigger housing so it isnt resting on the trigger and you do a negligent discharge but its also where most safety catches are so you are ready switch to fire while raising to the shoulder firing position.
A negligent discharge got a bloke 28 days detention at a unit I was with. His defence at COs Orders was that he was bored and fiddling with his weapon in the sentry box. I don't think anyone let him near a firearm afterwards... he was only a Driver though.
Yes your right it was the ghurkas
Medals....some are Queen's Jubilee etc. Some are battle honours. Should watch the Guards coverage - they are good.
Back in the early 1980s, I remember seeing the Gurkhas doing the beating of the retreat at Edinburgh Castle for the first time. It was rather strange to see a small Gurkha in his pillbox hat next to a big Scottish pipe major wearing a tall feather bonnet.
These police are special force for high security areas - like Buckingham Palace, the Royals etc. Nothing like local police forces
My late father was a Grenadier guard. However he thought the Gurkhas were the bravest soldiers.
He went on to serve on the police force for thirty years
The Guards can be identified in several ways...tunic buttons, tunic cuffs, bearskin plumes, collar insignia and tunic tails.
There is an order of seniority which I'll give you the correct order of precedence - but here, just by the tunic buttons and plumes.
Buttons: Single-spaced row are Grenadiers. Spaced in Pairs are Coldstrream. Spaced in threes are Scots. Spaced in fours are Irish. Spaced in fives are Welsh.
Grenadiers - white plume on the left. Coldstream -red plume on the right. Scots - no plunes. Irish - Azure plume on the right. Welsh: white and green plume on the left.
That should be enough to get you started, as you wouldn't know the others by name or by design!
I don't know what you mean by "badges," unless ytou mean their collar insignia, so there are none with none! if mean "Plume," a plume is not a badge!
The medals are awards - earned through their service in a theatre of war, rather than most American awards which have no merit, but tend to look good (apart from any awarded for some military action).
Did anyone see James Bond at the window on the 2nd floor ?
The best you tuber to watch is LONDON CITY WALKS because he explains whats going on the others are must silent .
I think that the changing of the guard ceremony shown in this video is the change over from one division or regiment to another every 24 hours, but within that 24 hours the 2 guards on duty are only on guard for a few hours before being replaced by 2 others while the first 2 rest up for several hours. That’s why there are so many guards (not including the military bands) so that they have enough pairs of guards to rotate through 24 hours. That’s roughly it, although I’m sure someone else with more knowledge can fill in the details or correct my misunderstanding.
not trafalgar square lol, its the square in front of buckingham palace, with the statue of queen victoria in the middle
I THINK that the Gurkhas are from the 10 Gurkha Logistics Regiment and not the Royal Gurkha Rifles who have red pompoms on their caps and these are black. In fact, I am pretty sure they are Logistics.
Bearskin caps were copied from the French regiments when we beat them at Waterloo I think
Love watching everyone of your video there was very good
Due to budget constraints, many of the horses have been replaced with coconuts.
Good callback to the reaction video on Monty Python and the Holy Grail’s budget 😂😂😂
All armed personnel that includes all branches are taught for safety reasons your trigger finger is put along the trigger guard
No not Trafalger square,it's the Queen vitoria monument outside Buckingham Palace
1 medal is the Kings Coronation Medal ,the othere medal are from their deployment in the Gulf wars Afghanistan some are bravery medles won in these conflicts or D.S.M Disdinguished Service Medal.
Yes they are Gurkas the bravest of the brave
I know that the foot guards rotate between ceremonial and normal military operations, but I’m never sure if the Household Cavalry do the same or do they choose either ceremonial (mounted) or military (tanks) and don’t rotate between them? Does anyone know for sure?
The household cavalry rotate too. You spend up to 3 years in ceremonial and then are rotated into the regular regiment. Rotation will occur every couple of years thereafter with the exception of farriers and vetinary officers who will stay in the mounted regiment for most of their career. Once you become an NCO I believe you get more of a choice on if you want to do more ceremonial stints.
@@Tom-bs1em thanks I had thought they did too, but had never actually seen it explicitly stated in the same way I had for the foot guards.
Those aren't badges, they are medals. The people without them are newbies, most of those guys have seen active service in places like Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Gurkhas are technically part of the British Army, they are brilliant!
Technically? No, they are actually part of it.
Yes, you are correct, wrong choice of word on my part 🥴@@Richard500
That's the military of defence police
Kinda wrong, its a civil police of the ministry of defence. But the officers belong to met police.
@@alejandro7980 no they don't there military police only read about them if you notice their at every military base abd palaces
When they arrived they brought the new guard then march back with the old guard.
Should check out Mr Baton for guard changes as he is more indepth follows as best he can plus has other good musical videos.
You will see military police at Horseguards as that is a military facility which tourists in their ignorance don't realise and that's when you get disrespect for the soldiers in ceremonial uniforms not understanding they are combat soldiers.
Not having your finger on the trigger is a safety precaution. The safety catch should be on, but accidents do happen...
@elizabethmcintyre8529 The police you see here will be armed Metropolitan Police. They will deal with any civil disturbances. The Military Police do guard military bases, but are not guarding Buckingham Palace. The MoD Police are responsible for guarding MoD establishments, such as the UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent. Those police are not RMP.
Don't mess with a gurkha!
To be honest most of us don't have a clue , 🇺🇲 cheers anyway 👍🏻
Sorry I meant about the Guns
There is not British tradition any more