A mistake by the narrator in the first few minutes. He said that the Brits were being deployed to British soil, but they weren't. They were being sent to Ireland
@@davidlysaghtlegupability2924 if some group kicked in your door of your house and started to occupy every room. Would you concede that it was now their house and you and your family were now part of their people? And if you managed to evict them from all but one room, would you then regard the house apart from that one room yours again and regard that room as theirs, with maybe your Mother left in there with them. Is she then of a different people than you, is she one of them. Would you feel you needed their permission to enter that room? HELLLLLLLLLOOOOOOO, IRELAND IS IRELAND, EVERY LAST BIT OF IT WHETHER OCCUPIED CURRENTLY, PREVIOUSLY OCCUPIED, OR GOVERNED FROM DUBLIN OR FROM A FOREIGN SHORE. There is no Ireland without all of its parts. It is not, cannot, never has been and never will be British. It can't, it is NOT in Britain. Britain is our neighbour. When re-unification happens it won't be the case that suddenly our country grew, got a brand new piece added on, a "British" piece. It will not be the case that British territory was lost, or that a British population in that corner of Ireland overnight becomes Irish. No. It will be the case IRELAND will be complete and whole again, free to rule itself. Occupation is NOT OWNERSHIP. If I take someone's car, I do not own it. I might keep it, control it. I possess it, but it is NOT mine. Wrong is Wrong, everyday, always, no exceptions.
@Cameron Renwick, You are absolutley right, we cannot change the past. What is done is done. Thanks for saying that. And we can decide the future by consent, too true
@@friotaiocht101 It’s the fear of death that keeps you alert and alive. I served there for 2 years and met very few who weren’t fully aware of the situation we were in. Anyone who claims any different is either a sociopath or a liar.
That brought back memories. My uncle was in RGJ’s and I’m pretty sure he was on those first two tours....I think it messed his head up a bit to the point he PVR’d with my grandad buying him out. I ended up in Clogher in 1991 with 1st Btn R Anglian Regt, so the memories came flooding back when I saw that...I reckon it was even the same ‘room’ that I bedded down in as the one in the film in the bunker cabins. Certainly looked out of that sanger more than a few times. I remember we were often invited into farmhouse’s and homes for tea and scones whilst out on patrol and I don’t think they where exclusively Protestant or loyalist homes.
this brings back memories. I grew up in NI during the early 70s mid 80s and remember this well. father , uncle and cousin all in.the Royal Green Jackets. fantastic regiment. great soldiers. probably did more tours of NI than any other regiment. some of the stories .
@@liamoloveboxing6844 Are you talking about the Republic, or Northern Ireland? If the first, there were many more factors and it's significantly more complicated than that simple story. If the North, well, it's still a firm part of the United Kingdom, so what are you talking about?
I was based at the Deanery a few years after this and the village hadn't changed a bit but the camp had. Sniper screens all round and a super sangar at the back gate. We didn't live in portacabins anymore either, we lived in a massive mortar hardened concrete block known as the cube but had to wear body armour and helmet and double down to the cook house which was still in a portacabin. Downtime was spent either in the cube or in the bar in the R IRISH block watching telly with your two cans when you weren't dry.
Total respect to these brave Warriors. I live in Protestant, West Belfast and remember the Royal Green Jackets serving in Belfast. I then moved to the Crumlin road, Belfast where I seen the RGJ serving in Girdwood barracks. I joined the local Army Cadets up in Girdwood Park. My daddy was Ulster Defence Regiment and he always had great respect and admiration for the Green Jackets because they lost so many men up in Ardoyne if I remember right? God Bless those fallen soldiers and their families 🙏✝🇬🇧💔
Served in 91 with 1st battalion THE ROYAL HIGHLAND FUSILIERS was a experience that I will never forget and I just came back from the 1st gulf war to go to another war great video of brilliant men who are my brothers
The laughter of our children? It'll be the laughter of islam dominating Ireland but the stupid shinners will say 'Brits out but blacks and browns are as Irish as we are'.
@irbfenian2594 you are typical of the dumbed down shinner that no longer thinks Ireland is the Irish homeland. I bet you're waving your palestinian flag even though muslims hate you and are here to conquer. You remember that when they're ruling Ireland.
Save your Irish writing, whatever it means. As long as the majority of Citizens of Northern Ireland chose to remain part of the UK, you will not consign them to be part of Ireland against their will. 🇬🇧 Rule Britannia
Did 6 Months there in Clougher, not long after this. Got Mortared not long after we got there. As we were Royal Irish Rangers we were treated decently most of the time by the locals. Had plenty of tea stops and the odd full breakfast in the odd farmhouse. 12, of us in the multiple, muddy boots etc. The people were good to us.
Growing up i wanted to join the Army, but Mum said she didn't want me to go to Northern Ireland, so that and a number of other factors caused me to join the RAF, where was my last tour? Aldergrove, the RIC(NI) to be exact. I had a great 2.5 year tour, lots of great experiences, both off and on duty, mixing with all sorts and if me mum knew what i got up to at times she'd kill me.
How can Soldiers be made so welcome at the Start from the Whole Minority of Catholics that were under siege at that time, and over a very short period, be despised?? How come no one ever asked these questions?? There was something missing and left out here?
@blahblahblah blah Thanks, I just read a few books on it. The Unionists never wanted the Sectarian Colony to be shared equally with it's native residents. I always wondered what really happened.
Still av nightmares about it all. It could have been sorted a lot sooner if politics n pals in media hadn't roused an stirred hatered on both sides for political gains . I feel so sorry for that lady after loosing her boy, i mean that. But i also feel sorry/pain over the filthy covert killings, collision, hassessment and mental and physical torture inflicted on us..
After the soco’s had done their stuff, I was tasked by the CSM to go to Queen Street RUC station with my section and clean out the landrovers from the Crocus St attack. It was the worst thing I have ever done in my whole life. My lads refused to do it, so I did it myself. I’m 64 now and that day haunts me still. They should have got another unit to do do it…..
I,m an ex para did many tours including Fermanagh. Survived numerous incidences whilst in the province and if that wasn’t enough survived the bombing on our barracks in Tern Hill. This was a war in all respects.
"An enemy on British Soil" Pretty much defines the problem with the British attitude being that it's in IRELAND. It's got nothing to do with religion. That's the distraction. Its been about everything since the initiation of the Ulster plantations established in the 1600's and the displacement of the Irish natives.
@@jonwoo8217 Woo? that's like saying Taiwan is part of China. Or the Spratly Islands for that matter. Look at a map. Read some history before you make asinine comments.
@@MrJerryrigged1 I am aware of the history, christ half of my undergrad degree was history, it doesn't matter. NI is part of the UK, no matter what philosophical historical comparisons you attempt to ham handle in. Suck it up you commie.
only part intelligible comment I've seen on this, going back to 1600 ish that being your opinion, can you please explain who exactly is the Irish man or how did they suddenly own or populate( Ireland) or where did they come from, think you need to read a bit more history.the leprechaun didn't jump out of the center of Ireland...read more
1975, 1976 and 1977 - Long time ago but just yesterday for me. RGJ in Dungannon (1975) thoght they looked scruffy when we relieved them...just inter regimental banter really. Respect due and given from XIX of foot.
I thought the lad who made the analogy about Portugal spoke well and truthfully. Not particularly a good thing though in the British army in terms of pleasing your superiors.
A squaddie who really didn't know much about the new Dail (with its Sinn Fein majority) that approved the Six Counties of Ulster on Partition in 1921. Or that the IRA lost the Civil War in 1923. Meaning that the IRA/PIRA have never had any democratic legitimacy to wage a terrorist war in Northern Ireland.
Your army sided with one community against another. Your army occupied and oppressed people in my country. Yee deserved everything yee got. And don't give us crap abut a job...there was always work in the US or Australia. Plenty of people in Ireland had this attitude to yee...ruclips.net/video/fTS09G__CqQ/видео.html
@@paddy864 Plenty. So? That was our job to resist your occupation. You oppressed our people, not for this conflict but for centuries, you get what you deserve.
@@RebelofIreland well done for owning up to numerous counts of mass murder, because of something you think Cromwell did four centuries ago, you morally deficient moron.
i was in clogher in 1992 joined up in 1990 : watched the police station blow up in five mile town that year and area search for a device provrd fruitfull as it blew about 800m from us and cuaght the bastard heading towards us in our road block.
Yeah I was down there that time and had RMP, s attached on the pvcp, s. Remember one called Poulton I think a good lad. Did all of the pvcp, s on the border and the watch towers in South Armagh in 86.
I was a kid in the 80's here in America and my first introduction to "the troubles" was a gun shop in my city was caught shipping guns to N. Ireland. Mostly AR15's and AR180's. I can't remember if he was supporting the IRA or the UDF, but it made me follow what went on there ever since. If anyone was wondering, the gun shop was in Baltimore Maryland.
It depends on who owned the shop ...in my opinion it was headed for the IRA I know that whitey bulger used to organise arms shipments to the Irish also ex marines gave a lot of know how when it came to explosives
Andy McNab was in the SAS at the time this documentary was made, and he got his MM for an action in South Armagh and the sniper in this documentary took out Jim Bryson and Paddy Mulvenna in 1973 in Belfast. McNab didn't join until 1977
@No Togoogle Doesn't show anything happening to him in the end. Personally, and I'm a Irish men born and bred I hope he's still very much alive and well. In fact, what was it all for in the end?. All the deaths, injuries and miseries on all side's, it was all for fuck all.
The journalist doing the interviewing is Peter Taylor, & the stupid questions he was asking were typical of large amounts of the defeatist press coverage of the Ulster War whilst it was going on, i.e. "it's all hopeless, troops are making it worse - troops out". This type of reporter carrying on like this - & he did it all thru the conflict - was a bloody menace as all it did is encourage P-IRA to keep going thru the 70's/80's thinking they were getting somewhere. Ironic that for all his ?'s here implying the war was unwinnable for the British Army, it was winding down, & P-IRA surrendered only a couple of years after this.
You have a bit of a warped view point on this.. So did ya know since the early 70`s the IRA were setting up a political movement through shin fein , in order to reach a political settlement to the conflict,however the British gov wanted this to continue and would dub over any speeches , banned any dialogue with both sides?. AS long as its over there and not on the mainland the gov were happy to send young naive lads and ladies to the conflict, but once it became a mainland bombing campaign and was at the doors and threatening the British public at large was the turning point in the conflict and forced the gov to open back channels to talk directly with both sides.. also long before you were born there`s been an IRA . your little time in the north is like a tear drop in the ocean with regards to Irish history 300 yrs of occupation crown forces driven out ,split between state and original combat forces which went on to be today's IRA. there`s been no surrender by the republican movement, but by all means keep telling yourself that.. after all the biggest recruitment driver into the ranks of the provisional was the British state itself , the soldier in the vid covered it.. based in every Irishman`s soul is the history of the island , which inc resistance from any occupying force , from the vikings to the British crown.. and it would only take an insensitive gov in parliament, to send some toff clown no idea about the conflict and history and make him minister for N-Ireland the fuck things up and find an insurgency again acting inside the British state with a ballot and bomb approach to the goal. N-ireland has now gov a generation which has not seen conflict i sincerely hope for all our sake`s , the gov of Britain finally learn after trying 3 times now to fight an insurgency that is a force which cant been seen or differentiated from the civilian in the street.
Funny the candor of the unit leader : good quality fertile land there is protestants, crappy quality hilly bog is the Catholic land, hmm I wonder why those catholics are pissed off?
Who wants land ? , no money in farming anymore . Catholics have 9 MPs out of a total of 18 in the North . They make up 85% of the population of Derry . They have three out of four MPs in Belfast and make up 60% of the student population in Queens University . Most solicitors in the North are now Catholic .Give it another 20 years and the Protestants will be begging for a United Ireland because the only other option they will have is to go back to Scotland or wherever they came from.
@@harrystiles8195 there's still protestant on Catholic sectarian attacks in Belfast, mostly housing intimidation. If it were as you say it would be the other way around.
@@paulbrowne5049 The PSNI is 70% protestant and that is why the loyalist thugs get away with what they are doing , not only to working class Catholics but to immigrants as well . Catholics who join the PSNI are treated like outsiders by the PSNI and the dissident Republicans in their own community . Getting blown up by a car bomb puts a lot of Catholics off from joining the PSNI .
10:48 A mortar attack alarm for a mortar attack against the soldiers presence. If I don't wish to get splashed at a puddle I stay away from the puddle. It was so easy to save so many soldiers lives. I think a lot of really bad politicians and leaders made this event escalate. RIP to those who died.
When Maj Daniell claims that the UK army is not a foreign power he is the reason why they promote of have people like him leading the privates who know they are foreigners in a strange land. To be a British Major I think requires one to be book smart and care about the little things yet can't see the big picture. Otherwise they would see what that war was, a foreign army shaking down citizens who live with a history of being treated like serfs by British foreign lords. Then add on the British army defending a British state like Northern Ireland, which antagonized the minority Catholic community within their boarders and you get the troubles. The Major either can't see it or won't accept it and it comes with the cost of tax payer's money and destruction.
@jon tyler Full time results: British forces killed 146 IRA. IRA killed 1058 British forces. An additional 852 soldiers died due to "vehicle accidents" and suicide. The 14 innocent civilians you mentioned are not accounted for here. They're part of the 2000 civilian dead. (Of which British forces killed 1074 and Republican paramilitaries killed 829.) No offence intended, just giving the numbers. ://cain.ulster.ac.uk/sutton/book/#append www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1482975/Troop-deaths-in-Ulster-higher-than-thought.html
@@paulduffy4585 well you need to learn how to read properly then. The figure of 763 relates to security forces killed in terrorist actions. Adding deaths from natural Causes, road accidents and suicides to that is stupid as they had nothing to do with terrorism. This is what happens when you make hasty assumptions and allow your biases to kick in. I served many tours of NI over my 22 year career during which time I knew of one suicide, which was totally unrelated to NI, and four dead in traffic accidents, again unrelated to terrorist activity. Only 10% of those killed in NI were at the hands of the Security Forces, the other 90% were killed by terrorists of whom most were killed by republicans .
Provos? Their now antifa and they spend their time attacking actual patriots fighting for their rights against mass immigration in the next plantation of Ireland.
@@gw2891 dunno I'm mates with some of them and good lads.. its the government not doing their job not vetting people....like in scene in scarface...us cop goes that fucker Castro is shitting all over us
Royal Green Jumpers? Please tell me that used to be 'Jaegers'. Does "PI" stand for Private Investigator(s) or what? Is this even supposed to be in English? ;P
It's Pl (PL). It means platoon. So it's Mortar Platoon, 2 Battalion of the Royal Green Jackets. The Green Jacket bit relates back to when most of the Army wore red coats, their antecedent regiments wore green.
That's exactly what we were on the border because it was too dangerous for the cops to patrol the border without an armed escorts, the IRA would just pick them off.
I was on a signals course in Warminster. We had a presentation down in the cinema. So the Sgt in charge of us fell all the gurkhas, green jackets and light infantry out. Formed up the heavy guys, told me "Cpl Weston, form up the light division. Wait 5 mins and then march them down, you'll probably beat us anyway". So he formed up the heavy mob and set them off. "Left" naafi break "right" naafi break "left" naafi break "right". 5mins later, I said to the squad. "OK guys, I'm warning you now, I'm really gonna knock the pace out here, let's show these twats what light division pace is like" "SQUAD, move to the left quick, MARCH. Left, right, left, right". A few minutes later we caught them up, wheeled out into the centre of the road, passed them by, cracking out the pace. We got to the cinema, everyone was fucked, breathing hard. I told them to stand easy. Then as we heard the heavies coming round the corner I braced them up. I looked at them and we were all smiling, proud as fuck to be Light Division.
We are speaking of dreadful days Those days and what i saw shocked me as a young manand changed my perspective foreverThe actions of the police then Bspecials ant RUChelping protestant mobs to burn catholics and nationalists out of homes and areas where they had lived for years No British troops then No IRA either The army came in We thought they had come to protect us from the Protestant mobs Instead we got what we called counter insurgance Kitson and his murder squad shooting in an effort to take the heat off the protestants and make it look as if the catholics had started all this It was then when we realised that we had the state against us as well that the IRA began to reform If you are interested in truth and really want to know why the IRA reformed a very good book called BURNT OUT written by Michael McCANN is very informative Read carefully some real information in there and it is not a political document
@@dannyboy5517 Us British soldiers were caught in the middle never expecting to go to NI but had to. I've hated the Irish for donkeys years because I was there however I'm coming round a bit and don't feel that way now. We both have a different enemy now whatever that may be. I hope one day our countries can really get along.
And I've seen the original...it wasn't the BBC who cancelled out a certain word....." When I walked down a school bus,kids @ 14.."so you knew there age...,....???!!!!!!!!
@@gearosin81 you're definitely right about him being a green jacket! Was he a Geordie though? I can't remember. Before they were amalgamated did rgj recruit in the north east?
There in better military than the British armed forces. They never get the right equipment and never get clear instructions from the politicians but their training prevails. RIP those that never came or come home.
@@allenomalley4014In response to Jak Haughton above, I was simply including all murders by crown forces too. While he expresses an RIP for troops that never returned to GB after their post in Ulster, I thought that I would add to it those who he overlooked. Are they not people too? Are they less deserving of mention because they didn't wear a British army uniform? Or do you naively think that the British army did no wrong in that campaign? I don't understand what your issue is with that or how my comment identifies me as a clown or as sectarian. If anything my comment highlights the sectarian nature of Jak's ommision, with his hierarchy of victims. By the way I never said that any and all murders in that period of history did not count. I did not deny Jak or anyone here their views or right to remember as they wish deaths arising in the conflict.
Criostoir O'hEidirsceoil Sectarian as it was a little one sided so you’re telling me that there was nothing implied and I inferred incorrectly that you just wished to slur UK armed forces when you just wanted to point out the tragedy of war and remember all the casualties on both sides. Pull the other one it’s got bells on it PS your assumption that I believe Armies never step out of line is false and off the point and not what I said
At approximately 22:30 the interviewer asked if the Cpl should have given a warning before opening fire, technically yes but that is only because we tried to play by the rules, personally I think that if you can identify a person as a threat to you or anyone in your vicinity then you should just open fire, and in this case the answer was they were definitely a threat. Why should the British military be constrained by rules when the enemy aren’t, they only care about one thing, killing us.
Like when you opened fire on civilians at a civil rights march?.Brit army started this when done it...IRA was defunct since 1916.... majority not politically minded at all just looking revenge....sad but true
No not Irish in any shape or form done 2 tours bessbrook mill south Armagh and Fermanagh st Angelo loved every minute shitting in the fields praying the cowards would take us on every day and when they did hide over the border for a cross border shoot (Nerwy railway line ) they got smashed 👍👍👌
Phil Shaw the interview in this must of been done few years before. As no way he could of joined passed Selection Done his training to then become the patrol commander for the gulf
Dude, they were armed. Fuck them, well within the rules of engagement ... Besides live by the sword ... die by the sword. One man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter.
Great soldiers, always used to let me look threw the sights of the gun when I was young, pity they were murdered for tryin to keep the peace in Northern Ireland. And to make things worse the serial killers that done the bombing and killing were all let out of prison , madness. And worse again the leaders of Northern Ireland praise the murder that went on 😣😣
Were helmets not worn back in the late 80s in more rural areas? I don't recall any soliders wearing soft covers until around the mid 90s and there was a big deal made about it. And this was in more netural / Unionist areas in Belfast as opposed to the most ropey areas as shown in the video.
We started off our NI training in berets then we’re told we would wear helmets on tour.. that was in ‘88 ..I remember us wearing our beret’s on our last patrol though..
Yeah they were, I was in Tyrone the end of '88 and we wore our "bone domes" right to the end. We were also the last unit to use the SLR as well for what it's worth, even the the UDR was using the "new" SA80.
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I'm an old veteran. I was in N. Ireland in 1977 and 1981. I just want peace and friendship. We can't change the past, but we can decide our future.
A mistake by the narrator in the first few minutes. He said that the Brits were being deployed to British soil, but they weren't. They were being sent to Ireland
Could not agree more
@@OhEidirsceoil No its british soil on the Island of Ireland granted but still British soil, wether we like it or not
@@davidlysaghtlegupability2924 if some group kicked in your door of your house and started to occupy every room. Would you concede that it was now their house and you and your family were now part of their people? And if you managed to evict them from all but one room, would you then regard the house apart from that one room yours again and regard that room as theirs, with maybe your Mother left in there with them. Is she then of a different people than you, is she one of them. Would you feel you needed their permission to enter that room? HELLLLLLLLLOOOOOOO, IRELAND IS IRELAND, EVERY LAST BIT OF IT WHETHER OCCUPIED CURRENTLY, PREVIOUSLY OCCUPIED, OR GOVERNED FROM DUBLIN OR FROM A FOREIGN SHORE. There is no Ireland without all of its parts. It is not, cannot, never has been and never will be British. It can't, it is NOT in Britain. Britain is our neighbour. When re-unification happens it won't be the case that suddenly our country grew, got a brand new piece added on, a "British" piece. It will not be the case that British territory was lost, or that a British population in that corner of Ireland overnight becomes Irish. No. It will be the case IRELAND will be complete and whole again, free to rule itself. Occupation is NOT OWNERSHIP. If I take someone's car, I do not own it. I might keep it, control it. I possess it, but it is NOT mine. Wrong is Wrong, everyday, always, no exceptions.
@Cameron Renwick, You are absolutley right, we cannot change the past. What is done is done. Thanks for saying that. And we can decide the future by consent, too true
R.I.P to all the British lads who lost their lives during OP Banner. Gone but never forgotten. 🇬🇧✌️
They are forgotten nobody commemorates those foreign terrorists.
@@Scotia6261 how can british soldiers be "foreign" on british soil? 🤔🇬🇧
@@MrMinimanmatt They've no blood links to the native Irish don't know about the planters.
@@Scotia6261 you're as bigoted as any Paisileyite
nice one@@Scotia6261
I appreciate the honesty of the soldier at ten minutes. "Are you frightened"? "yes" - in the macho army world, full of bravado, that takes courage
If he said no he was not scared i wouldnt have believed him anyway but i give him credit for admitting it.
Everyone was frightened !!
Asusual we didn't get the real story what going on in the North it must have been mental
Any real soldier is going to admit he was afraid of dying it's only a normal reaction ... how could you not be....
@@friotaiocht101 It’s the fear of death that keeps you alert and alive.
I served there for 2 years and met very few who weren’t fully aware of the situation we were in.
Anyone who claims any different is either a sociopath or a liar.
That brought back memories. My uncle was in RGJ’s and I’m pretty sure he was on those first two tours....I think it messed his head up a bit to the point he PVR’d with my grandad buying him out.
I ended up in Clogher in 1991 with 1st Btn R Anglian Regt, so the memories came flooding back when I saw that...I reckon it was even the same ‘room’ that I bedded down in as the one in the film in the bunker cabins. Certainly looked out of that sanger more than a few times.
I remember we were often invited into farmhouse’s and homes for tea and scones whilst out on patrol and I don’t think they where exclusively Protestant or loyalist homes.
Glad you made it home mukka 👍🏼
this brings back memories. I grew up in NI during the early 70s mid 80s and remember this well. father , uncle and cousin all in.the Royal Green Jackets. fantastic regiment. great soldiers. probably did more tours of NI than any other regiment. some of the stories .
Green jackets didnt have a good time in ardoyne 😜😜
I grew up in occupied ireland too, around galbally. stiffed a few brits and gransdchildren lookin to do the same now.
I was part of this platoon till 1986, did my first tour with them. Good to see knowen faces. Swift and bold
I was in the RRF.Never served in Northern Ireland and have the utmost respect for every man and boy that did. Well done lads.
@blackzed no did you? I spent 1992/1993 in MCTC! Colchester.
@blackzed that's when I was born ? 1971? Fair Play to you sir!
@@liamoloveboxing6844 Are you talking about the Republic, or Northern Ireland? If the first, there were many more factors and it's significantly more complicated than that simple story. If the North, well, it's still a firm part of the United Kingdom, so what are you talking about?
@@liamoloveboxing6844 proper fuckwit.
Yep D Wing 11 months.served every day plus months in close arrest awaiting my court martial in Catterick.
I was based at the Deanery a few years after this and the village hadn't changed a bit but the camp had. Sniper screens all round and a super sangar at the back gate. We didn't live in portacabins anymore either, we lived in a massive mortar hardened concrete block known as the cube but had to wear body armour and helmet and double down to the cook house which was still in a portacabin. Downtime was spent either in the cube or in the bar in the R IRISH block watching telly with your two cans when you weren't dry.
Demobbed sprog!
Total respect to these brave Warriors. I live in Protestant, West Belfast and remember the Royal Green Jackets serving in Belfast. I then moved to the Crumlin road, Belfast where I seen the RGJ serving in Girdwood barracks. I joined the local Army Cadets up in Girdwood Park. My daddy was Ulster Defence Regiment and he always had great respect and admiration for the Green Jackets because they lost so many men up in Ardoyne if I remember right?
God Bless those fallen soldiers and their families 🙏✝🇬🇧💔
Brave 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 dickheads
@@joemoore4037 😂😂
Great to see the young faces of old mates.
Served in 91 with 1st battalion THE ROYAL HIGHLAND FUSILIERS was a experience that I will never forget and I just came back from the 1st gulf war to go to another war great video of brilliant men who are my brothers
damn shame you couldn't figure out that you dont belong there. RIP to the irish who protected their land and fought you
@@eriktml Childish uninformed nonsense, you haven’t the faintest clue what you’re talking about.
@@paddy864 Whats your address?
@@eriktml clayton le woods lancsshire come over u prixck and we can have a chat about NI .
Ex 2/1RGJ
@@eriktmlYou mean the murdering Provisional IRA, who killed innocent civilians in both NI and mainland Britain?
Peter Taylor has been the biggest cheer leader for P.I.R.A. for almost 45 years or more.
He's very impartial without biased opinions
Our victory will be the laughter of our children. Bua don Óglaigh na hÉireann.
The laughter of our children? It'll be the laughter of islam dominating Ireland but the stupid shinners will say 'Brits out but blacks and browns are as Irish as we are'.
@@Augh98-nt2zn You do know it's not mutually exclusive to be Irish and Muslim, right? Or brown and Irish?
@irbfenian2594 you are typical of the dumbed down shinner that no longer thinks Ireland is the Irish homeland. I bet you're waving your palestinian flag even though muslims hate you and are here to conquer. You remember that when they're ruling Ireland.
Totally agree. Not mutually exclusive to be Catholic and British either@@irbfenian2594
Save your Irish writing, whatever it means. As long as the majority of Citizens of Northern Ireland chose to remain part of the UK, you will not consign them to be part of Ireland against their will.
🇬🇧 Rule Britannia
Did my tour of Clogher in 87 and the place looks like it has never changed 2 years later.
Still hasn't changed 35 years later !
Spent many days walking the bogs down there in '92 and along Augher Fivemiletown to say just a couple of others short of PB's
Did 6 Months there in Clougher, not long after this. Got Mortared not long after we got there. As we were Royal Irish Rangers we were treated decently most of the time by the locals. Had plenty of tea stops and the odd full breakfast in the odd farmhouse. 12, of us in the multiple, muddy boots etc. The people were good to us.
Same here mate,Faugh A Ballagh
@@kjbbc FAB.
Growing up i wanted to join the Army, but Mum said she didn't want me to go to Northern Ireland, so that and a number of other factors caused me to join the RAF, where was my last tour? Aldergrove, the RIC(NI) to be exact.
I had a great 2.5 year tour, lots of great experiences, both off and on duty, mixing with all sorts and if me mum knew what i got up to at times she'd kill me.
Did you ever flip the bird upside down flying to iceman?
These days seems so far yet still close for those who've lost a loved one.
My left ear loved this.
Lol thought earphones were fucked
Am deaf in my right ear anyway 🤪🤪🤣🤣
@@darrenlacey8015 Same mate. Never went on patrol but my deafness is from being under various choppers refueling whilst on TSW.
Its my right thats got it i must of went deaf in my left ear ffs doc's appointment tomorrow
Turn your headphones around for both channels. At different times
How can Soldiers be made so welcome at the Start from the Whole Minority of Catholics that were under siege at that time, and over a very short period, be despised??
How come no one ever asked these questions??
There was something missing and left out here?
@blahblahblah blah Thanks, I just read a few books on it.
The Unionists never wanted the Sectarian Colony to be shared equally with it's native residents.
I always wondered what really happened.
The unionists went to war with the Catholic community
@@georgebrowne5935 Was going to say the same.
@@georgebrowne5935books mean dick Georgie boy
Love these old documentaries
Reminded of my first patrol in Afghanistan
Leading a multiple
Very nervous but settled down after three weeks or so.
Glad you made it home.
Jamie Daniels was my Plt Commander in the Anti tanks 1971...good guy and a great officer
Daniels didn't see himself as a foreigner.....nobody speaks like him in Tyrone.
@@Scotia6261 I doubt if anyone speaks like you in Tyrone,
Still av nightmares about it all. It could have been sorted a lot sooner if politics n pals in media hadn't roused an stirred hatered on both sides for political gains . I feel so sorry for that lady after loosing her boy, i mean that. But i also feel sorry/pain over the filthy covert killings, collision, hassessment and mental and physical torture inflicted on us..
After the soco’s had done their stuff, I was tasked by the CSM to go to Queen Street RUC station with my section and clean out the landrovers from the Crocus St attack. It was the worst thing I have ever done in my whole life. My lads refused to do it, so I did it myself. I’m 64 now and that day haunts me still. They should have got another unit to do do it…..
At least hospital only across the road
I,m an ex para did many tours including Fermanagh. Survived numerous incidences whilst in the province and if that wasn’t enough survived the bombing on our barracks in Tern Hill. This was a war in all respects.
"An enemy on British Soil" Pretty much defines the problem with the British attitude being that it's in IRELAND. It's got nothing to do with religion. That's the distraction. Its been about everything since the initiation of the Ulster plantations established in the 1600's and the displacement of the Irish natives.
negative it's part of the UK, aka, Great Britain
@@jonwoo8217 Woo? that's like saying Taiwan is part of China. Or the Spratly Islands for that matter. Look at a map. Read some history before you make asinine comments.
@@MrJerryrigged1 I am aware of the history, christ half of my undergrad degree was history, it doesn't matter. NI is part of the UK, no matter what philosophical historical comparisons you attempt to ham handle in. Suck it up you commie.
only part intelligible comment I've seen on this, going back to 1600 ish that being your opinion, can you please explain who exactly is the Irish man or how did they suddenly own or populate( Ireland) or where did they come from, think you need to read a bit more history.the leprechaun didn't jump out of the center of Ireland...read more
Not for long Jon woo , not for long
Brings back memories from that place. 6 months of tiredness and no booze!
When you don't want to be there and,
the people who live there don't want you to be there.
Prayers for Ireland.
That spit though , that will go down in history.
Takes me back thankyou
1975, 1976 and 1977 - Long time ago but just yesterday for me. RGJ in Dungannon (1975) thoght they looked scruffy when we relieved them...just inter regimental banter really. Respect due and given from XIX of foot.
I thought the lad who made the analogy about Portugal spoke well and truthfully. Not particularly a good thing though in the British army in terms of pleasing your superiors.
A smart squaddie.
A squaddie who really didn't know much about the new Dail (with its Sinn Fein majority) that approved the Six Counties of Ulster on Partition in 1921. Or that the IRA lost the Civil War in 1923. Meaning that the IRA/PIRA have never had any democratic legitimacy to wage a terrorist war in Northern Ireland.
@@DPG214 I don’t recall any of them saying anything like that actually?
Memories of good guys in this.
Ex 2RGJ
Celer Et Audax
Seen a few familiar faces waxk durch 😅😉
Derry. Not londonderry. Derry. That's what it's called.
All you guys who done their bit over here just wanna say thank you !!!
Swift and bold brothers ...ahmen
I was on this tour and A Coy didn’t go to Fermanagh and get drowned in bogs but went to Cookstown and Pomeroy……and had a really busy tour
U make it sound like you in a rock band playing stadium venues for the summer
Oddly, I was in Northern Ireland when I first saw this on telly.
Always great to hear the voice of Peter Taylor
Agreed. He makes the best documentaries about the whole heartbreaking war. He's always fair and balanced in his coverage
@@colinstewart1432agree
I love the "feel like a foreigner" admission
The foreigner making them feel like foreigners
i really feel for the families though, most squaddies were like myself, just working class lads who could'nt get work.
Your army sided with one community against another. Your army occupied and oppressed people in my country. Yee deserved everything yee got. And don't give us crap abut a job...there was always work in the US or Australia. Plenty of people in Ireland had this attitude to yee...ruclips.net/video/fTS09G__CqQ/видео.html
@DML1888 lol, who pissed on your tatties?
@DML1888 How many incidents of deliberate, planned mass murder were carried out by republican terrorists? Fuck off you thundering hypocrite.
@@paddy864 Plenty. So? That was our job to resist your occupation. You oppressed our people, not for this conflict but for centuries, you get what you deserve.
@@RebelofIreland well done for owning up to numerous counts of mass murder, because of something you think Cromwell did four centuries ago, you morally deficient moron.
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Many young men of 20 said goodbye. Ta ar la tagtha 🕊️🕊️🕊️
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i was in clogher in 1992 joined up in 1990 : watched the police station blow up in five mile town that year and area search for a device provrd fruitfull as it blew about 800m from us and cuaght the bastard heading towards us in our road block.
@Shane Gallagher im 52 now and my eyesight is going typing any kinda sentence these days is an accomplishment.
solomonstemplers crow
@@daveadams3989 yeh i was
Pity all the same.
I was there 1992 after taking over from the King's 🤔
Ex RMP...was down there myself around that time....did Rosscor Bridge with the Scots Guards in june 89....a few sleepless nights but good times 👍👍👍😄😄
Yeah I was down there that time and had RMP, s attached on the pvcp, s. Remember one called Poulton I think a good lad. Did all of the pvcp, s on the border and the watch towers in South Armagh in 86.
I was a kid in the 80's here in America and my first introduction to "the troubles" was a gun shop in my city was caught shipping guns to N. Ireland. Mostly AR15's and AR180's. I can't remember if he was supporting the IRA or the UDF, but it made me follow what went on there ever since.
If anyone was wondering, the gun shop was in Baltimore Maryland.
@@TICTACMANTIPS UDF got their guns closer to home.
If the US or would have deffo been the provos.
It depends on who owned the shop ...in my opinion it was headed for the IRA I know that whitey bulger used to organise arms shipments to the Irish also ex marines gave a lot of know how when it came to explosives
Definitely for the RA. Baltimore, (named after Baltimore in Cork) has a large Irish andIrish/American population of the freedom loving kind
Baltimore! aye shipping off to IRA commies definitely.
Auger, Clogher, Fivemiletown. It was six miles up and seven miles down.
Fond memories of fishing a certain private lake at 5MT in 79-81.
Oh that long drag brings memories back 😂
Your deeds they would shame all the devils in Hell every battalion
😂
Never patrol in land rovers in hard areas…use a pig or foot patrol,we did tell the RGJ that when they took over from us.
The guy around 21 minutes is “Andy McNab” his mother regiment was the green jackets
Andy McNab was in the SAS at the time this documentary was made, and he got his MM for an action in South Armagh and the sniper in this documentary took out Jim Bryson and Paddy Mulvenna in 1973 in Belfast. McNab didn't join until 1977
There's some familiar faces there & of course yourself Brian, hope you're keeping well Geordie.
Yea was thinking that my self I was in the old first what where you in?
Doing fine, cheers how are you keeping.
Was inneson in 2RGJ .met him after our contact on the bog rd .
Surprised they put the colour sgt on the telly - sounds like he was orginally from Ireland.
I am happy that they did. And, I am happy that this is over.
Dublin accent
Spoke a great deal of sense though.
@No Togoogle What do you mean?
@No Togoogle Doesn't show anything happening to him in the end. Personally, and I'm a Irish men born and bred I hope he's still very much alive and well. In fact, what was it all for in the end?. All the deaths, injuries and miseries on all side's, it was all for fuck all.
Brilliant bit of tv back when the BBC coupé ben trusted.
No Dave, even then they were up to their tricks. You maybe didn't notice then because you weren't the target.
To be honest, the United States is about to see its own troubles soon enough.
Lol Gibbo my old Screw in Depot and Colour Boy in Weeton, good squad
The journalist doing the interviewing is Peter Taylor, & the stupid questions he was asking were typical of large amounts of the defeatist press coverage of the Ulster War whilst it was going on, i.e. "it's all hopeless, troops are making it worse - troops out". This type of reporter carrying on like this - & he did it all thru the conflict - was a bloody menace as all it did is encourage P-IRA to keep going thru the 70's/80's thinking they were getting somewhere. Ironic that for all his ?'s here implying the war was unwinnable for the British Army, it was winding down, & P-IRA surrendered only a couple of years after this.
You have a bit of a warped view point on this.. So did ya know since the early 70`s the IRA were setting up a political movement through shin fein , in order to reach a political settlement to the conflict,however the British gov wanted this to continue and would dub over any speeches , banned any dialogue with both sides?. AS long as its over there and not on the mainland the gov were happy to send young naive lads and ladies to the conflict, but once it became a mainland bombing campaign and was at the doors and threatening the British public at large was the turning point in the conflict and forced the gov to open back channels to talk directly with both sides.. also long before you were born there`s been an IRA . your little time in the north is like a tear drop in the ocean with regards to Irish history 300 yrs of occupation crown forces driven out ,split between state and original combat forces which went on to be today's IRA. there`s been no surrender by the republican movement, but by all means keep telling yourself that.. after all the biggest recruitment driver into the ranks of the provisional was the British state itself , the soldier in the vid covered it.. based in every Irishman`s soul is the history of the island , which inc resistance from any occupying force , from the vikings to the British crown.. and it would only take an insensitive gov in parliament, to send some toff clown no idea about the conflict and history and make him minister for N-Ireland the fuck things up and find an insurgency again acting inside the British state with a ballot and bomb approach to the goal. N-ireland has now gov a generation which has not seen conflict i sincerely hope for all our sake`s , the gov of Britain finally learn after trying 3 times now to fight an insurgency that is a force which cant been seen or differentiated from the civilian in the street.
I’d suggest you watch Peter Taylor’s new video on his time during the troubles. It’s on RUclips
Funny the candor of the unit leader : good quality fertile land there is protestants, crappy quality hilly bog is the Catholic land, hmm I wonder why those catholics are pissed off?
Rubbish. Slab's farm looks lush..
Does not help, long term deep seated problems, crazy situation.
Who wants land ? , no money in farming anymore . Catholics have 9 MPs out of a total of 18 in the North . They make up 85% of the population of Derry . They have three out of four MPs in Belfast and make up 60% of the student population in Queens University . Most solicitors in the North are now Catholic .Give it another 20 years and the Protestants will be begging for a United Ireland because the only other option they will have is to go back to Scotland or wherever they came from.
@@harrystiles8195 there's still protestant on Catholic sectarian attacks in Belfast, mostly housing intimidation. If it were as you say it would be the other way around.
@@paulbrowne5049 The PSNI is 70% protestant and that is why the loyalist thugs get away with what they are doing , not only to working class Catholics but to immigrants as well . Catholics who join the PSNI are treated like outsiders by the PSNI and the dissident Republicans in their own community . Getting blown up by a car bomb puts a lot of Catholics off from joining the PSNI .
Clogher 89 - Derryard was in December that year and not far from Clogher.
Thats was a great job Derryard
10:48 A mortar attack alarm for a mortar attack against the soldiers presence. If I don't wish to get splashed at a puddle I stay away from the puddle. It was so easy to save so many soldiers lives. I think a lot of really bad politicians and leaders made this event escalate. RIP to those who died.
Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England 🇬🇧
When Maj Daniell claims that the UK army is not a foreign power he is the reason why they promote of have people like him leading the privates who know they are foreigners in a strange land. To be a British Major I think requires one to be book smart and care about the little things yet can't see the big picture. Otherwise they would see what that war was, a foreign army shaking down citizens who live with a history of being treated like serfs by British foreign lords. Then add on the British army defending a British state like Northern Ireland, which antagonized the minority Catholic community within their boarders and you get the troubles.
The Major either can't see it or won't accept it and it comes with the cost of tax payer's money and destruction.
Typical upper class mentality.
Did he say ballbag has been shot dead 😂
If it is the mortar platoon then none of them will be 19..all older soldiers.
I was 18 in the mortars
lol 3.nil haha that good old irish sense of humour... Priceless
@jon tyler no offence ...but 18 nil at Warren point 1979 ...just my Irish sense of humour
@jon tyler Full time results:
British forces killed 146 IRA. IRA killed 1058 British forces. An additional 852 soldiers died due to "vehicle accidents" and suicide. The 14 innocent civilians you mentioned are not accounted for here. They're part of the 2000 civilian dead. (Of which British forces killed 1074 and Republican paramilitaries killed 829.)
No offence intended, just giving the numbers.
://cain.ulster.ac.uk/sutton/book/#append
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1482975/Troop-deaths-in-Ulster-higher-than-thought.html
@@paulduffy4585 Full time results:
NI is part of the UK 🇬🇧.
It’s easy to kill as a guerrilla force. Doesn’t take any bravery to plant a bomb.
@@Noname47122 how do you know?
@@paulduffy4585 well you need to learn how to read properly then. The figure of 763 relates to security forces killed in terrorist actions. Adding deaths from natural
Causes, road accidents and suicides to that is stupid as they had nothing to do with terrorism. This is what happens when you make hasty assumptions and allow your biases to kick in. I served many tours of NI over my 22 year career during which time I knew of one suicide, which was totally unrelated to NI, and four dead in traffic accidents, again unrelated to terrorist activity. Only 10% of those killed in NI were at the hands of the Security Forces, the other 90% were killed by terrorists of whom most were killed by republicans .
The soldier at the end summed up vietnam and Afghanistan, tragically sad
Crazy to think Jamie Daniell went on to be a colonel who went civvy after 30 years service and torched his neighbours place causing 150k in damage
Arse... onist. 💥🙈
Fire starter twisted fire starter 😂
Plenty of practice in Ireland no doubt, or maybe his neighbour was Irish and he just got those old memories back.
Anyone recognise Kid Curry, came to A Coy 3RGJ for a while in the early 80's.
left in a box ...
Up the Provos
Provos? Their now antifa and they spend their time attacking actual patriots fighting for their rights against mass immigration in the next plantation of Ireland.
Big difference, immigrants don't have rifles
@@jackietreehorn5561but will be far more dangerous
@@gw2891 some aren't bad skins... But I agree definitely a problem with letting any Tom dick and harry in
@@gw2891 dunno I'm mates with some of them and good lads.. its the government not doing their job not vetting people....like in scene in scarface...us cop goes that fucker Castro is shitting all over us
Barn dogs been drinking 😂😂
Royal Green Jumpers? Please tell me that used to be 'Jaegers'. Does "PI" stand for Private Investigator(s) or what? Is this even supposed to be in English? ;P
Royal Green Jackets, PI person of interest.
@@ivorlongshot Oh, THOSE green-wearers. Did pro golf steal the 'jackets'?
It's Pl (PL). It means platoon. So it's Mortar Platoon, 2 Battalion of the Royal Green Jackets. The Green Jacket bit relates back to when most of the Army wore red coats, their antecedent regiments wore green.
@@johnd2058 I'd say as the Green Jackets were first worn during the Peninsula War the Golf Pros were beaten to it 😂
@@PaddyInf Aye Sharpeys mob.
SOLDIERS SHOULD NOT BE ASKED TO BE POLICEMAN
They weren't, they were protecting the cops from revolutionary terrorists.
That's exactly what we were on the border because it was too dangerous for the cops to patrol the border without an armed escorts, the IRA would just pick them off.
you dudes march at a fast pace
140 a minute try and catch us 😂
I was on a signals course in Warminster. We had a presentation down in the cinema. So the Sgt in charge of us fell all the gurkhas, green jackets and light infantry out. Formed up the heavy guys, told me "Cpl Weston, form up the light division. Wait 5 mins and then march them down, you'll probably beat us anyway".
So he formed up the heavy mob and set them off. "Left" naafi break "right" naafi break "left" naafi break "right".
5mins later, I said to the squad. "OK guys, I'm warning you now, I'm really gonna knock the pace out here, let's show these twats what light division pace is like"
"SQUAD, move to the left quick, MARCH. Left, right, left, right".
A few minutes later we caught them up, wheeled out into the centre of the road, passed them by, cracking out the pace.
We got to the cinema, everyone was fucked, breathing hard. I told them to stand easy. Then as we heard the heavies coming round the corner I braced them up. I looked at them and we were all smiling, proud as fuck to be Light Division.
Paul weston who where you with?
@@chrismarshall8526 3RGJ, actually we might have been 2RGJ by the time I was on that course.
This is the army i served in when it was ficking hard core.I done two tours and yes i was scared.
Why not explain why the nationalists turned against the army
Why dont you? The IRA hijacked the situation to wage war
We are speaking of dreadful days Those days and what i saw shocked me as a young manand changed my perspective foreverThe actions of the police then Bspecials ant RUChelping protestant mobs to burn catholics and nationalists out of homes and areas where they had lived for years No British troops then No IRA either The army came in We thought they had come to protect us from the Protestant mobs Instead we got what we called counter insurgance Kitson and his murder squad shooting in an effort to take the heat off the protestants and make it look as if the catholics had started all this It was then when we realised that we had the state against us as well that the IRA began to reform If you are interested in truth and really want to know why the IRA reformed a very good book called BURNT OUT written by Michael McCANN is very informative Read carefully some real information in there and it is not a political document
@@treblerebel2362 No. They didn't. The IRA weren't even armed. FFS read some history books. The peer reviewed kind.
@@dannyboy5517 Us British soldiers were caught in the middle never expecting to go to NI but had to. I've hated the Irish for donkeys years because I was there however I'm coming round a bit and don't feel that way now. We both have a different enemy now whatever that may be. I hope one day our countries can really get along.
And I've seen the original...it wasn't the BBC who cancelled out a certain word....." When I walked down a school bus,kids @ 14.."so you knew there age...,....???!!!!!!!!
Served in Clogher in 1988
Afew familiar faces from 3RGJ,my company commander RCoy
Is the "concealed" sniper Andy mcnab? Or was he a Geordie, I can't remember!! He might be Chris Ryan?
@Yourda 473i Sage medical advice there pal! I'll try my hardest not to have that fit!!
Definitely McNab. Recognise his voice. He was a Green Jacket
@@gearosin81 you're definitely right about him being a green jacket! Was he a Geordie though? I can't remember. Before they were amalgamated did rgj recruit in the north east?
@@keithpringle3940 Stephen Mitchell. Cockney
🇮🇪🇮🇪Derry 🇮🇪🇮🇪👍💕
There in better military than the British armed forces. They never get the right equipment and never get clear instructions from the politicians but their training prevails. RIP those that never came or come home.
And RIP to all those in Ireland terrorised and killed by British occupying forces
J M I think if you check the stats on the baby killing I think the Provos win that honour hands down silly bhoy
Criostoir O'hEidirsceoil RIP all those murdered and terrorised by Er terrorists or don’t they count you sectarian clown
@@allenomalley4014In response to Jak Haughton above, I was simply including all murders by crown forces too. While he expresses an RIP for troops that never returned to GB after their post in Ulster, I thought that I would add to it those who he overlooked. Are they not people too? Are they less deserving of mention because they didn't wear a British army uniform? Or do you naively think that the British army did no wrong in that campaign? I don't understand what your issue is with that or how my comment identifies me as a clown or as sectarian. If anything my comment highlights the sectarian nature of Jak's ommision, with his hierarchy of victims. By the way I never said that any and all murders in that period of history did not count. I did not deny Jak or anyone here their views or right to remember as they wish deaths arising in the conflict.
Criostoir O'hEidirsceoil Sectarian as it was a little one sided so you’re telling me that there was nothing implied and I inferred incorrectly that you just wished to slur UK armed forces when you just wanted to point out the tragedy of war and remember all the casualties on both sides. Pull the other one it’s got bells on it PS your assumption that I believe Armies never step out of line is false and off the point and not what I said
At approximately 22:30 the interviewer asked if the Cpl should have given a warning before opening fire, technically yes but that is only because we tried to play by the rules, personally I think that if you can identify a person as a threat to you or anyone in your vicinity then you should just open fire, and in this case the answer was they were definitely a threat. Why should the British military be constrained by rules when the enemy aren’t, they only care about one thing, killing us.
Like when you opened fire on civilians at a civil rights march?.Brit army started this when done it...IRA was defunct since 1916.... majority not politically minded at all just looking revenge....sad but true
No not Irish in any shape or form done 2 tours bessbrook mill south Armagh and Fermanagh st Angelo loved every minute shitting in the fields praying the cowards would take us on every day and when they did hide over the border for a cross border shoot (Nerwy railway line ) they got smashed 👍👍👌
The sniper instructor. Famous pixelated person anywhere else recognise the voice Andy McNabb
ahh that would make sense, thought about him when they said RGJ .
kustjagara can’t stand the guy my self. Something about him says not a team player. And if he disregarded rules Back then as well says a lot
Phil Shaw yeah. As he talk about that being RGJ in his interviews. It’s him
@@LC128 aye in the book Bravo Two Zero he says they were his first regiment.
Phil Shaw the interview in this must of been done few years before. As no way he could of joined passed Selection Done his training to then become the patrol commander for the gulf
It was just considered an Internal security situation.
Because that is what it basically was, let’s not exaggerate eh?
Longest war in British army history
My father is in this
Clogher & Augher & Kildress forest
...rhyming slang?
@@johnd2058 🤣🤣🤣.
9:26 Did he say "hard porn"? Can't make it into anything else.
Yeah, one of the lads had some particularly arty photos of his ex girlfriend on his wall, very arty indeed.
Funny how most of the comments are people claiming they did tour and this reminds me of this and that.. Remember the last war the brits won was ww2 🤣
@20:30 the soldier says "I got the first shot off" and "I killed two".... doesnt that contradict rules of engagement?
Dude, they were armed. Fuck them, well within the rules of engagement ... Besides live by the sword ... die by the sword. One man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter.
Fuck that I would rather be judged by 12 then carried by 6 ...if they are armed and prepared to use them it’s within the rules of engagement 👍
Card alpha. You can fire first if you think there is an immediate threat to life.
The guy they shot had killed quite a few soldiers...They were about to ambush a patrol...
They had rifles, they made themselves into combatants so they got it.
love
@37:54...Why is a certain word muted???!!!!!!!
Chris O Neill It’s a glitch in the recording. Probably off an old VHS. *He says the invisible wall between the army and the catholic community*
Calling the occupied 6 counties "British soil", {LOL]
Calling British soil "the occupied 6 counties" lol
Great regiment
Great soldiers, always used to let me look threw the sights of the gun when I was young, pity they were murdered for tryin to keep the peace in Northern Ireland. And to make things worse the serial killers that done the bombing and killing were all let out of prison , madness. And worse again the leaders of Northern Ireland praise the murder that went on 😣😣
14:54 Balllbag has been shot dead
Were helmets not worn back in the late 80s in more rural areas? I don't recall any soliders wearing soft covers until around the mid 90s and there was a big deal made about it. And this was in more netural / Unionist areas in Belfast as opposed to the most ropey areas as shown in the video.
We wore helmets in South Armagh '90-'91
We started off our NI training in berets then we’re told we would wear helmets on tour.. that was in ‘88 ..I remember us wearing our beret’s on our last patrol though..
Yeah they were, I was in Tyrone the end of '88 and we wore our "bone domes" right to the end. We were also the last unit to use the SLR as well for what it's worth, even the the UDR was using the "new" SA80.
We wore berets in Fermanagh,81
We wre berets in Derry 1972
I remember watching this when it first went out. Ironically, i was in NI myself, South Armagh.
That's not irony, that's just coincidence.
That's not irony, that's just coincidence.
Little bit different today when they get their apples out
Shooting soldiers in the back with heavy calibre machine guns, disgusting!
Troll
@@paulduffy4585 At least i'm only a youtube troll and not out trolling loyalists.
@@ProfileP246 I'd be happy to respond if I had any idea what you're talking about.
You don’t know anything anyone’s talking about.
@@ProfileP246 No, I don't know what you're talking about, and don't want to know because, clearly, neither do you.
Got chased out like in Afghanistan and iraq
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