What Life In The Army is really like My Experience 7 PARA RHA & HCR
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I was in 3 para, then 2 para, the the SBS, SAS, Delta force, SEAL team 6, then my mum took my Xbox off me. 😵
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@@billsmith-hl8rk you gotta wear those medals with pride dude
I was in the tuffty club and the curlywurly club
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@@_stoatchaserthat taking. The p 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I passed out of Prince of Wales Div Depot (Royal Hampshire Regiment). Spent a month in Training Wing, rear party until until I was 18 then sent to Londonderry, Op Banner.
On rear party there were people on their way out. There were soldiers awaiting MCTC. They largely waffled and gave you grief.
I remember looking at other soldiers’ NI ribbon or gong. At the time Op Banner was THE test for proper infantry soldiering. Derry was effin’ hard yards at my age. I recall getting my gong and sending my No.2 dress to the tailors to have the ribbon stitched on. I went to complete 4 Op Banner tours between 1978-1990.
@@RalphBrooker-gn9iv hey Ralph, how you doing! It’s Ben from Berlin!
@@paulbenson8962 Ben!! Awesome. B Coy and Mortars? Wow, I hope you’re well mate. I live in France now. I worked in forestry and wildlife preservation. If you see this we can arrange a time and I’ll post my email then delete. Would love to know how you are.
@@RalphBrooker-gn9iv still
Drop you my e mail mate. Not sure if you got it.
@@paulbenson8962 yeh sure. Look at this space 1800hr tomorrow (Sunday11). I’ll drop the details.
I was 2 para, can confirm most of what he’s saying is true 😂 earned my wings in 2008 served until 2018 best time of my life
Nice one mate, would have been in Colly at the same time. Was an absolute mega time in Colchester and 16 Air Assualt
It was a hard, man's life in the Women's Auxiliary Balloon Corps
@@Wobbler619 ok mate. I’ll set my alarm. 😂👍🏻
Area cleaning used to piss me off back in the day, passed out the Light Division Depot Winchester in '85, you soon get accustomed to be treated as 'dog' albeit one that was a very fit one..
I was P coy staff 86-88 we had plenty of 7RHA on the all arms and to be honest they were pretty good as were 9Sqn RE great times for us anyway no so much for students.
No wonder young kids don't want to join up listening to this. I was in the Scots guards in the 80,s and every working day in barracks we started with PT but not as mad as 7RA I don't think. We were infantry so it was up to us to keep ourselves fit as well so we usually did our own thing after work. The only time we didn't do PT was on operations or exercise. The thought of doing it all over again gives me shivers. 😢
Joined the Army in the early 90s just after the Gulf War. Got sent to an armoured unit then did a tour in Bosnia... hated barrack routine. Just mundane tasks... and drinking.... quite a few dickeheads and some sadistic bastards that enjoyed exercising their authorities too much. so quit after 3 1/2 years.
Got bored and joined the RN and went on Submarines... completely different life. I was more mature. But far more relaxed, especially on boats. Everyone had a job, and we all got on with it. Officers were far more competent as they had to start at the bottom and work their way up like the ratings.... not straight out of college into leading a platoon or squadron.
Fair one mate I totally get what you are saying, definitely some right nobs in the army who think they are better then everyone else and like to push you around because they have some rank. Shame you quit but looks like you had a mega career in the navy, submarines would be an awesome job to do
Defo one of the main reasons why squaddies got out after doing the minimum, I was lucky I joined an EOD unit for almost 2 years, but SNCO bullies, dicks, the class system, crap pay and equipment was a good incentive to leave.
Arrived at battalion and walked straight into a "nasty little man" culture of drill, bull, block cleaning, bullying, beastings and feudal baron style leadership. Loads of random violence, a non-stop alcohol culture and endemic drug abuse. There were also good blokes, and when we actually did some soldiering it was exciting - and occasionally amazing - but barrack life was gash and there was a serious retention problem. Very different to the army portrayed in the recruiting leaflets - and about 300 years behind the rest of society...
@@user-he5so4gz4r yes mate it is for a lot of people
@@A.Mardle that’s what it is like, and so true barrack life is boring and crap! And there is a lot things going on that people don’t know about. Being on exercise and ops are the best times
What you said about swimming... I remember a beat up for an exercise where the OC had a bee in his bonnet about river crossings and ordered extra swim training. That was the day I discovered that it's actually possible to sweat while underwater. Horrendous.
i,m ex army myself, and when i think back on some of the attitudes and sayings some of the blokes came out with, i think they must have come out of caves, they were propper "MONGS" what prompted me to say this was what you said! the girls dont want you they want an airborne bloke" 😂😂😂😂 , i had forgotten the single mindfulness of some of the idiots the British Army had and still have.
Awwww bless 😊
If it works it works.. It was that attitude that got me through Arnhem, Mt Longdon, 2006 Afghanistan, 2008 and 2013 Afghanistan.
I think it’s worth pointing out, that whilst it’s a short working week whilst you’re not deployed or on exercises. Whilst on exercise, deployment and ops then you get very little down time. One balances the other 🤷🏼♂️
Also LG / HCR, also did pre course with 7RHA in the 80s, great Regiment, then passed P Coy straight afterwards. Hard work but like you absolutely loved it.
Ah nice one mate! Two great regiments and I had a great career with both and loved my time with them
I saw something similar fitness wise.. I was 2nd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment when I first joined, after a while I went to the Queens Royal Lancers which do the same sort of job as the HCR but without the ceremonial side, armoured recce.. And I couldn't believe the drop in fitness standards, I went from a mediocre runner in the Yorkshire Regiment to one of the fittest in the Regiment in the Lancers, their PTIs were considered machines because they had 8.13 PFT run times when we had lads in Yorks who were absolute piss heads running the PFT in 7.50! It really shocked me, I knew that QRL were armoured but they were still a combat unit and recce as well!! I wasn't expecting it... But like you say, some of the best soldiers I ever met were actual cavalry soldiers, there was brilliant soldiers in both but some very clever switched on lads in the armoured corps.. I just hated armour, so I went back to Yorks when QRL amalgamated with 9th/12th Lancers.. Thank god.
Typical infantry pissheads but absolute racing snakes 🤣
How did you find Yorks? Considering signing up to the reserves.
@wibblegorm Hello, I can't speak for the reserves, but I'd not recommend the regular Battalions these days! In the older days, between 2008 and 2013, when each Battalion still had its name and identity of the Battalion that formed each one, as in 1YORKS(Prince of Wales Own), 2YORKS(Green Howards) and 3YORKS(Duke of Wellingtons) we still had our Regimental culture and each and every man was proud of it, but in 2013, they did away with the old names, becoming just 1 and 2 Yorks, and it became punishable to even mention the old Regiments.. It sort of killed the pride, personality and historical love the lads had, the identity was gone and we just became another infantry Regiment without a culture.. So if I was gonna join regulars today, I'd join Parachute Regiment or Rifles, both have a cool personality and culture that makes the lads proud to be part of it.. If it's the Reserves you're set on, 4YORKS is as good as any, you can apply for more operational opportunities and don't always have to go do stuff with the Regiment you're the reserve for, so it can be very good depending what you want.. I knew a reservist lad who had more medals than our Sgt Major, because he'd put his name down for every tour or operation going from UN Cyprus tour and Kosovo to the Iraq invasion and 3 Herrick tours! We still give him stick for being reserves tho! Lol, it's gotta be done.
These knock the socks off other videos mate! The view count also agrees! Keep these coming
Thank you mate, yeah I do enjoy these videos and looks like others too, will keep them coming
We called guys that had not earned there wings but wore the red beret penguins ( birds that can,t fly)
Haha yeah the guys who had passed p coy but hadn’t done their jumps yet were called penguins, I was called that a few times lol
When i was in the gunners most battery's were a fairly eclectic mix of all strata's of working class society... with a few posh boys mixed in. what i did notice though was a prepencity for the lads from the mersey/ Tyne / seven/ clyde and drop estates to try and re-create they're clicky little pecking orders that they picked up from the estates and factory's they had inhabited in civvy street.... Its was almost semi feral in its form and reach , and fitted into the rank and structure of the army perfectly .. with the officers at the top of the pile and the ' regimental butcher ' at the bottom ! .... The whole system seemed more set up to carry on the high days of the Raj for the officer class than it ever did to pick out and promote the most capable of leaders .... playing sports being the best way to gain favour and promotion within the regiment .... I spent most of my time applying and getting various 'ERE ' postings to other royal artillery regiments around the world so i did'nt have to knuckle under to this donkey walloping system ... and i actualy did get to travel the world and canoe down foreign rivers and sunbath on tropical beaches as they showed in the recruiting office windows !!! The whole thing was just a game .. the army game , and once you cottoned onto the rules it was easy to out manouver and use the system to get where i wanted to be .. rather than where they forced me !!! Ubique quofas et gloria ducunt ....
I’m based with a different unit in 16 brigade and have friends in 7RHA and from speaking to them the stuff mentioned in the video doesn’t happen anymore
Just take a look at the way vererans who have been injures are treated after they have left!
On ex in Wales when our company ran into a company of para little men with big egoes some of our lads had to put them right they never open there mouths the whole time we where there by the way we where the guards reg
Cheers dits
sounds like you had it pretty good.
i was the youngest in 1995 to sign up for adult parachute regiment at 16 and 17 when i passed and into 1 para.
before this it was junior parachute company that got disbanded in 1993 for 15-17 year olds
in dont think the guys thought there would be the internet in the future and so things were really bad in barrack life in the 90s.
so much so that i have been in maximum security prison since and it wasn't all that bad in there.
video coming soon
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yeah mofos im still alive😁😁
lam old school, l did three tours of Op Banner, back in the day, when it was like Dodge,.. the shade of your lid, made no difference, to a bullet, check the stats...
Nice one. Joined Parachute Regiment as a JINF in the mid-1970s. Left regiment 1980s. Talking with airborne gunners, sappers and sigs I get the impression that in those units there is a culture of wanting to 'out-para' the Paras during pre-P-Coy beat up. Fair comment, or what?
Ah nice one mate, yeah sort of mate, definitely bit of competition within the brigade on who’s the fittest etc, and a lot we airborne but it’s what makes the brigade so good but the earlier pre paras were basically how much can we beast them, who can beats them the most so
Dad was Hcav 2988-2010, if he wasn't cav he's always said that he would've probably been RN
The irony is as RHA the Paras still do not consider you a proper para and still give you grief.
Mate I saw some Argylls batter 2 para guys in about 92/93 at Leconfield 😂
They never opened their Gobs again
I served for a total of eighteen years in the reserves and I was literally kicked up the arse when it came to signing ‘off’ and handing in my kit. It literally has sowered my whole experience. I would never recommend serving at all !
Five years later and I can’t get any information from the MoD about your pension.
this is a real shame. thanks for serving though mate. shame they don't look after us lads very well once we get out, i had a similar experience. some good memories, but also some rotten ones.
Did p coy 88. Beat up was with 7rha up at lille brks north camp first phase aldershot then 2nd part in wales fan dance ect. Past first time .Found that 5 airbourne brigade as it was then was airbourne
Mad .
Ah nice one, yeah they moved from Lille Barack’s to Colchester, apparently it was amazing when they were at Lille barracks and so was 5th airborne brigade, to be honest when I was in 16 air assault was just as airborne mad
Always wondered why Paras, SBS, SAS, Commandos don’t go for the Olympic Games .
As ex 22regt Ra
Done an NI tour 2001 with 7RHA
Names! Jarvis and mal reedman
What was it like going from the artillery to having to learn to ride a horse and doing ceremonial duties?!
I never ended doing ceremonial because I transferred in I no of the choice to go straight across to armoured
Roger that brother. Hope your good man 👍🆎️
IN OTHER WORDS..YOU REALLY WANTED IT 😊
Class system with officers is very outdated , when young officers dropped thunder flash down chimney it was high jinks and fine for silver fund, about a dozen pissed mattresses in the basement of officers mess in Lippstadt - that's class lol.
I was in the Salvation Army, stagged on the latrines, then eventually I earned my brown wings
I was a TA chef for a year. Basic training was two weeks and it was just as hard as this.
Never understood why phase 2 recruits to 7 and 29 were allowed to ware their berets before being earned. The Nasty lads beat them on the gun run on my course in 97😁
I know it shouldn’t be that way, I hated receiving my maroon beret before passing p coy
@@CombatReadyHQ 29 arent allowed to wear the green beret until theyve passed the 30 miler
@@thelonegamer7482 yes true they don’t, it’s only 7 who get the beret, airborne units do bit commando units don’t
@@CombatReadyHQ its still bollocks m8, takes away the prestige of passing PCoy. I was an OP Ack down the Royal Citadel and also got my wings. That was the most enjoyable part of it for me. Never forget the amazing feeling of pure silence when youve done all your drills and are floating down 🙂
More Airborne than the Airborne standard 7 hat shit pump barely on exercise out on the ground.
You back in yet mate
Haha no mate, I’m not getting back in
@@CombatReadyHQ think we all we be back in with this global bs they want bodies in the trenches. You like the light role anyway;) how old are you now mate?
@@CombatReadyHQ your be back. They need bods for the trenches
@@alextop1850 haha not me they don’t
@@CombatReadyHQ they need manpower in the trenches. My q is why not use apaches in certain conflicts happening now because I doubt they really have much air defence prob mainly protecting critical assets if you get what I mean
11 years in Dsqn hcr herrick 4 8 13. And Stint at the bridge. Not sure when you joined hcr ? As dont Recognise ya. Great guys in hcr obviously you get the odd cunt but in general great bunch. Army sounds very different now for sure 💃😅
Hey mate yes I was D Sqn but did not arrive until September of 2017, as I put my transfer in while a section commander at Pirbright. Not sure when you left, I went to the bridge a few times but never done a stint there. Yeah definitely a few cunts but some great guys and soldiers
I was 7th in 84
Ah mega mate! How was it in 84
Ping you a line late mate.
Did u never consider pathfinders ?
Basically your working week in barracks is physical training, sports,checking kit and having breaks. You think that is hard?
I joined the
Army Air Corp.
Fuck all that army shit.
Shouting etc 😂🤣
Why didn't you just stay in 7 and become a forward observer??
I was mate already mate I was a forward observer my whole career in 7, just wanted a change and to give recce a go
@@CombatReadyHQ fair play mate. I wish I'd have stayed in for several more years and transferred into the Artillery in UAV, Air defense, or ISTAR role.
@@parky5329 they are good roles, yeah maybe mate that’s good thing now as transferring is easily done now
Your mistake for being a dropshort
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Never saw the point of para units. You have been obsolete for decades. You are just fit grunts.
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@@Dd-fb2tjyou are only saying that because with your beret on you are ten feet tall! Cheers mate Harera
@@philstannett-lh4wq awww bless
Wish they wouldn’t call it 7 para … there not paras
Exactly mate, it’s 7 para rha as mentioned in the video.
I spent 24 years in the army (a 2434…74 - 98)…I loved it, ended up as a SSGT, but never fitted because of the drinking. The drinking/smoking culture in the army really is pathetic; the army turns a blind eye still. The fitness thing is something of a myth too; it’s enforced. Very few I found took exercise for recreational pleasure. Years later all the boozers I knew are dead, dying or very ill. Curiously, at 69, I’m not; no NHS thief me……i can’t think why? 😂
Similar experience, unit I was in, all their money went down their throats or up in smoke. Chainsmoking, I used to finish every day smelling like an ash tray, never smoked in my life. In a way I blame the pay, it wasn't enough to actually buy anything, it was all on tick or HP through the NAAFI, but just enough for either a couple of big piss ups or socially drinking until next pay day.
Loads of my former peer group are dead and many didn't even make it to 40. A number of tragic suicides, road traffic accidents, and a range of (avoidable) health problems. I reckon booze - plus smoking and overeating - was a contributing factor in most of the deaths. Reckless and damaged men who just kept on living like they were still invincible teenage squaddies. I ran into a former PTI who is now overweight and looks 20 years older than his actual age. His knees gave out, but he kept on boozing and eating like he was still training three times a day.
@@A.Mardle Good points…well observed; especially the still living as a teenager thing. These people never/wouldn’t learn…..they never grew up and out of the institution; they thought it a permanent way of life.
@@mikewinston8709 many vets when they first came out carried on the drinking culture, but eventually unless they were alcoholics that fizzled out because they couldn't afford it. By then they'd pissed up any savings or discharge payouts, so they ended up in the same boat as everybody else in civvy street, broke and just getting by.
@@A.MardleWhen I left I’d bump into old mates. I’d ask after so-and-so only to hear that they’d committed suicide or in prison. I never adapted to civvy st. Left for France in 2008 to pursue a job in forestry & wildlife preservation. Stayed. I see a psychiatrist.