Hey man respect bro from England 🇬🇧 it don't take balls it take protect your loved ones.. I only say as I was 16 in 02 when I joined n on front line in 03 Bless to you n your
It really hit me when Andrew said footballers are getting paid thousands of dollars but what soldiers are getting paid for sacrificing their whole lives and families are nothing compared to that. All brave heroes! Always wish them to return back as they are. Honestly it’s hard for them to return as themselves after going in to a war but I pray for them to survive and comeback.
Top officer, that is how an officer should be. I'd have every confidence in that man leading me, he made me laugh when he called that guy boring for taking his wife to Thailand. Legend! 🤣
@@dozer1323 No war is justified, it's war. It's hell, so as much as you try and make sense of it and justify what happened or this and that, just stop because you'll never achieve it.
I was a nine year old boy when my old man was first deployed, ten years old for the second deployment and eleven for his third, to the war in Viet Nam. I joined up when I was fifteen and a half. I understand, only too much, what these lads and their families went through. My great grand dad served in the AIF in WWI, my grand dad in the RAAF in WW2 my dad in Viet Nam, me in the "Cold War". Now, in my seventh decade on this rock, I understand the futility of war, the harm it causes to families, to friends to communities and to countries, no matter to whom what community or country one belongs. And so it continues ad infinitum. War is a crime against humanity.
probably the best thing i have seen the bbc produce in decades, this is reality and this is what the public should be shown, not the x factor and all the crap that is on tv. i served with the devon and dorsets before the amalgamation, it was sad when it happened but seeing this means it's still going on, hopefully the lads will go far.
The way I see it we will always need soldiers, we will always need men and women like these and I have the utmost respect for every man and woman who sign on the dotted line to serve their country. Hell I can't wait to join them.
Please check the English oath that soldiers swear. No where is says you are serving your country. It says your job is to protect the aristocracy NOTHING ELSE. You've been duped. Luckily you survived the duping many don't.
Thank you for making and sharing this series. Much apreciated! Hope they are all back safe now and enjoying their lifes with wife, kid(s), new girlfriend, mothers, friends and others. Love from Holland ❤
The saying goodbye to the family bit is fucking tough.. My first time away I was living with my parents, the taxi came to pick me up and the last hugs & kisses were made.. I got into the cab and told him what barracks I was going to, I was still trying to hold my shit together but the cab driver knew and said something like ''mate, its tough. I've been there and done that, you'll be grand'', that broke the ice and put me back into army mode. Then you walk in through the gates and all the lads are still, and already you've begun your tour.
I joined the army in 1998 and got through phase one and two but ended up losing my marbles and got a medical discharge so hat's off to any of these lads who went on and had a career within the British forces, it's noble and brave and not for the weak
no one understands the pain till they truely go through someone leaving to a life or death situsation. it was the hardest thing saying goodbye to my dad, he went to Afghanistan himself and i have the up most respect for soldiers
I left the army before my old regiment was swallowed up by the rifles (ex light infantry). But watching this brought back some great memories of times gone by.
Can't believe I'm just watching this on you tube, never saw it when it was first aired, it's a brilliant warts and all documentary about turning a civilian into a soldier and sending them to war. I'm ex Scots guards so can relate to the trials and tribulations of being a soldier and being sent on tour with a battalion.
More difficult to turn a soldier into a civilian sometimes. I have been both, and learnt more as a civilian than I did as a soldier. In fact, I learnt most of my skills as a soldier at school cadets. You tell me what a soldier does that they don't teach you at school cadets? I learnt marching there, and in the band. In the band, you need the best marching skills.
@@pablomulvihill So tell me what you can learn in the Army that you don't learn in the cadets? I was in the Army, by the way. School cadets was more concentrated learning, in my experience. Young men tend to be more enthusiastic.
@@peace-now cbrn, sword/bayonet training. Proper cqb tactics (not half arsed stuff) specialist weapons training. Specific fire support roles ie javelin, mortors etc. Cold weather training. I can go on for paragraphs. You may cover basic soldiering skill in cadets but it isn't any where near the enhanced training what a regular soldier does.
@@chucky2316 ive found the full series, its on Tubi but you need a VPN to go on Tubi cos its only in America that Tubi works, I have a VPN and I changed the country to USA an ive found the series, hope that helps lol
You'll never loose the warrior spirit out of a uk man, its fortitude is ancient....i would have thought the guy from northampton would have gone to the poachers...
agree it's bullshit, like i know they dont have to pay for food and rent as such when living on barracks but having to pay for government issues kit insurance is horseshit.
My partner is an ex soldier you never really come back from the wars he has bad eyes from grenades exposure and deafness nightmare s and alot of guilt just for surviving
This seemed like one of the best times to be a soldier am not sure why anyone would join today given that no major action apart from humanitarian missions is going on. Must be frustrating to do all that training yet not able to put it into action.
Watching this at the end of August 2021, just as the allies have scurried out of Afghanistan . It's, I don't know, real shame a lot of these kids died plainfully for fuck all.
Why does he want to be a soldier and not my daddy - fuck man that’s the saddest thing I’ve heard. I still have the copy of the gruffalo from when my parents used to read it to me
@@freemanoYT Mine says GB next to the Premium logo. I suppose your channel is for Americans. I'm able to understand American spelling just found it a bit odd.
IED lesson, on OP Banner ITA & PIRA used mechanical, pressure, pressure release, trip wire, don't pull unless with A&H line, do not cut tight string, anti lift and what the officer said, light sensitive switch (torches in dark areas) , there was also a switch, not often used, was cutting light out , tilt switch, electrical switch, delayed switch (2 electrode in a water bottle) with a 9v or a couple of AA's, radio control. Being a RE search commander as well as all our sapper work, I had the not so much pleasure of coming across all the above and a few I've forgotten. IRA and PIRA pretty good at placing booby yraps
its on Tubi but you need a VPN to go on Tubi cos its only in America that Tubi works, I have a VPN and I changed the country to USA an ive found the series, hope that helps lol
43:17 "Commanidng Officer?" There only one CO in a battalionand that's te Lt-Col! Bloody civvies! The on Officer Commanding or a Company Commander, not a CO. It's the British Army not the US Army!
Do it. I will always regret letting life get away from me and not joining. If you dont love it you can leave in 4 years. When you are 18 four years is nothing.
Gee Paul I’m 18 in two weeks but I’m not fit enough, I’m running and doing some exercise but my wrist has issues so I’m waiting for this to heal. I may go for the RAF as a weapons system operator or regiment gunner hopefully
What a load of bollox. Piss poor pay £29 - £30 a day. Then you got get insurance for yourself & your kit. What kind of country is this when you have to get your service personal to insure themselves. So wrong!
When I got to my first unit in the US Army, they were just getting BACK from 15 months in Iraq. Was a shitty time. Didn't have a deployment to prove myself. Took a while. The hazing went on and on and on haha. Made me strong though.
The UK should never have gone into Afghanistan. There was no possibility of a 'win'. The country should be sealed off. Let them do whatever they want internally. No aid. Nothing. Let them self destruct.
Too much rare earth minerals, gold, gems, copper, nickel etc under the ground in Afghanistan for us to seal it off. More lithium there than anywhere on earth and we need it. The Taliban know that too.
You can find other the other episodes by other uploaders as well they are are just worded different in the titles, I've just watched a few mins of episode 5.
its on Tubi but you need a VPN to go on Tubi cos its only in America that Tubi works, I have a VPN and I changed the country to USA an ive found the series, hope that helps lol
its on Tubi but you need a VPN to go on Tubi cos its only in America that Tubi works, I have a VPN and I changed the country to USA an ive found the series, hope that helps lol
When somebody mentions them going on tour it sounds like they are talking about a music band, there's nothing exciting about the type of tours they young lads will be experiencing. And especially how it ended. Terribly frustrating.
It kills me that these brave men and women went to fight for nothing. The Afghanistan pullout destroyed everything that these people died/put their lives for.
@@l3w1scal11 It was never worth it and they shouldn't have been there in the first place. No occupying force has ever won in Afghanistan so why would any one have expected this time around to be different? There are lots of questions left unanswered about 911, the so called 'war on terror' and the massive disruption to the Middle East brought about by Western interventions. These soldiers and many more were used by politicians, as soldiers often are, that's the job. Win or lose it doesn't matter. What do you think should have happened that would have made the loss of life worth it? It'll be different to what a politician would say I bet. You think they'd have pulled out if they hadn't met their objectives? From the political perspective, it was worth it. Yeah the politicians shit on the soldiers, but what's new there? Staying would have cost more lives and still nothing would be any different, just more dead.
This is so sad with the benefit of hindsight. As I write this, the Taliban are back in control of Afghanistan and these lads risked, even lost, their lives for very little.
Nothing really. I predicted it before we went there. All those young lives lost and I can't see the reason why. Bin Laden wasn't even found in Afghanistan! That country has broken empires since Alexander the Great, thought they might have learned something from the Russians losing in the 80s.
That OC, chuckles, what a soldier. What a great family man too. Decent human being, who organised a good - GOOD - pre tour training package and got involved with his company ... a far cry from the fucking ruperts we endured and, on tours, fucking ignored because they were arrogant and high handed and pompous and knew fuck all about real soldiering! I grew up in 1 Para and only ever spoke with my OC on the day I left the Reg. Stood in his office as he read out what he'd written in my red discharge book, telling me what an exceptional Paratrooper I was, how good I'd been etc etc and all I was thinking at the time was 'how the fuck would you know, you prick?!' Joined as a schoolboy and left as a capable man and all I remember of the ruperts was that they couldn't ... whatever it was, they just fucking couldn't do it.
i think i would be more scared climbing aboard that Lockheed Tri-Star aircraft than fighting taliban. blimey, it was obsolete by airlines in 1980's where the hell did the RAF get that from?
its on Tubi but you need a VPN to go on Tubi cos its only in America that Tubi works, I have a VPN and I changed the country to USA an ive found the series, hope that helps lol
its on Tubi but you need a VPN to go on Tubi cos its only in America that Tubi works, I have a VPN and I changed the country to USA an ive found the series, hope that helps lol
I realise that this video is a decade old but seeing the accommodation that they are provide with is a disgrace to the British Army, the M.O.D and to the British taxpayers, I left service life behind in 2003 and I only ever had one single persons accommodation in my 24 years service, and it was superb, that was back in 1980, single room, well built with a decent amount of storage space, built in desk and sink, shared ablutions and common room and a door that I could lock for privacy and security, and yet these guys have little more than a a bed, table and chair, lockers and NO door, a curtain for goodness sake, NO privacy and NO security, and to cap it all the HAVE TO PAY FOR IT, deducted from their salary alongside food, prisoners in jail and illegal immigrants get better accommodation and food FREE OF CHARGE, unless the system has changed, which I doubt, I find it offensive and disgusting how they are treated, shame on you the British Army and M.O.D.
footballers get paid vast sums just to play a game of football once or twice a week and are called heroes !!! and these fellas here ??? I get dissalusioned with life sometimes 😡
These blokes are tough as. No question. Takes balls of steel to knowingly go into danger and put everything on the line. Respect from Australia 🇦🇺
Charles Bawden , the Taliban are tougher.! A few lads running around in sandals kicked the fat brit arses out of Afghanistan altogether.😂😅🤣😂😂🤣🤣
Hey man respect bro from England 🇬🇧 it don't take balls it take protect your loved ones.. I only say as I was 16 in 02 when I joined n on front line in 03
Bless to you n your
@@tazgroceries4309 how are they protecting their loved ones in foreign countries
@@Muaythai.19are you that stupid
@Hardy Kruger real talk G
It really hit me when Andrew said footballers are getting paid thousands of dollars but what soldiers are getting paid for sacrificing their whole lives and families are nothing compared to that. All brave heroes! Always wish them to return back as they are. Honestly it’s hard for them to return as themselves after going in to a war but I pray for them to survive and comeback.
We live in a capitalists society. People don't pay to watch soldiers die, they do pay to watch men play football.
It's sad.
@@reheyesd8666 exactly
@@reheyesd8666we also live in under a tory government who promote “lower taxes” and cut spending to absolutely everything
Labour and tories and other mainstream political parties are the same ... two cheeks of the same ass have you not realised this yet @@willbagnall3416
It's criminal, it really is.
Chuckles is a legend, clearly loves his troops
Top officer, that is how an officer should be. I'd have every confidence in that man leading me, he made me laugh when he called that guy boring for taking his wife to Thailand. Legend! 🤣
@@kevinhoughton9134 That's exactly how the old senior ruperts are lol
I like that moment when he realises his kid has the same birthday as the soldiers kid.
Absolute heroes, all of them. I'm ex-military myself, and miss it terribly! I hope all the men featured are doing well, wherever they may be now 🙏
Do you think the Iraq war was justified
@@dozer1323absolutely not
@@dozer1323 No war is justified, it's war. It's hell, so as much as you try and make sense of it and justify what happened or this and that, just stop because you'll never achieve it.
@@dozer1323 Hell Yes the Taliban destroyed the poppy crop. The CIA are desperate for that black project money.
I was a nine year old boy when my old man was first deployed, ten years old for the second deployment and eleven for his third, to the war in Viet Nam. I joined up when I was fifteen and a half.
I understand, only too much, what these lads and their families went through. My great grand dad served in the AIF in WWI, my grand dad in the RAAF in WW2 my dad in Viet Nam, me in the "Cold War".
Now, in my seventh decade on this rock, I understand the futility of war, the harm it causes to families, to friends to communities and to countries, no matter to whom what community or country one belongs.
And so it continues ad infinitum.
War is a crime against humanity.
probably the best thing i have seen the bbc produce in decades, this is reality and this is what the public should be shown, not the x factor and all the crap that is on tv. i served with the devon and dorsets before the amalgamation, it was sad when it happened but seeing this means it's still going on, hopefully the lads will go far.
Can we just appreciate the high fidelity of that simulation? Those Afghans did an incredible job.
The way I see it we will always need soldiers, we will always need men and women like these and I have the utmost respect for every man and woman who sign on the dotted line to serve their country. Hell I can't wait to join them.
We only need soldiers because of statism. We only have statism because of arseholes.
Please check the English oath that soldiers swear. No where is says you are serving your country. It says your job is to protect the aristocracy NOTHING ELSE. You've been duped. Luckily you survived the duping many don't.
Fantastic series, thank you for posting this
Thank you for making and sharing this series. Much apreciated! Hope they are all back safe now and enjoying their lifes with wife, kid(s), new girlfriend, mothers, friends and others. Love from Holland ❤
I love the fact in the middle of the video their uniform changed from the DPMs to MTPs.
I hate DPM. It just doesn’t look right to me
Probably a lot to do with the Training Depot having older equipment as in training they have SA80 A2 but in their unit they have A3
@@thoraneh7365 as
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I was thinking that 🤣🤣
The saying goodbye to the family bit is fucking tough.. My first time away I was living with my parents, the taxi came to pick me up and the last hugs & kisses were made.. I got into the cab and told him what barracks I was going to, I was still trying to hold my shit together but the cab driver knew and said something like ''mate, its tough. I've been there and done that, you'll be grand'', that broke the ice and put me back into army mode. Then you walk in through the gates and all the lads are still, and already you've begun your tour.
I joined the army in 1998 and got through phase one and two but ended up losing my marbles and got a medical discharge so hat's off to any of these lads who went on and had a career within the British forces, it's noble and brave and not for the weak
no one understands the pain till they truely go through someone leaving to a life or death situsation. it was the hardest thing saying goodbye to my dad, he went to Afghanistan himself and i have the up most respect for soldiers
I left the army before my old regiment was swallowed up by the rifles (ex light infantry). But watching this brought back some great memories of times gone by.
Oh to be young again…..that touched my heart, you’d just follow chuckles and his men wouldn’t you….. brilliant
The music at the end of this episode where they are shipping out/ mums are at home really makes you think. Starts around 53:26
It’s from the soundtrack for the movie sunshine released in 2007
This series is brilliant we done men stay strong
Can't believe I'm just watching this on you tube, never saw it when it was first aired, it's a brilliant warts and all documentary about turning a civilian into a soldier and sending them to war. I'm ex Scots guards so can relate to the trials and tribulations of being a soldier and being sent on tour with a battalion.
More difficult to turn a soldier into a civilian sometimes. I have been both, and learnt more as a civilian than I did as a soldier. In fact, I learnt most of my skills as a soldier at school cadets. You tell me what a soldier does that they don't teach you at school cadets? I learnt marching there, and in the band. In the band, you need the best marching skills.
@@peace-now I wouldn't know I wasn't in the cadets or boy scouts.
@@peace-now lol a ton, you clearly never made it past cadets. Walt.
@@pablomulvihill So tell me what you can learn in the Army that you don't learn in the cadets? I was in the Army, by the way. School cadets was more concentrated learning, in my experience. Young men tend to be more enthusiastic.
@@peace-now cbrn, sword/bayonet training. Proper cqb tactics (not half arsed stuff) specialist weapons training. Specific fire support roles ie javelin, mortors etc. Cold weather training. I can go on for paragraphs. You may cover basic soldiering skill in cadets but it isn't any where near the enhanced training what a regular soldier does.
Gutted part 4 isn't on anything anymore, good series this
Yeah I wanted to watch it I'm guessing it's been removed by the you tube police
@@chucky2316 ye it must have been, such a shame
ive found whre you can watch the whole series
@@chucky2316 ive found the full series, its on Tubi but you need a VPN to go on Tubi cos its only in America that Tubi works, I have a VPN and I changed the country to USA an ive found the series, hope that helps lol
@pearlkelly6337 oh really where?
Ex British Military Sniper with the RGJ back in the late 70'so I agree with you David Martin
Meads is so switched on. Smart young man.
The look Darren's Mum gives him at 52:11 is just heartbreaking. . .
I crieds after watching all episodes
Awww, bless.
When the bbc used to actually make good documentaries
Absolutely beautiful
Wonder what they are doing now fab documentary
You'll never loose the warrior spirit out of a uk man, its fortitude is ancient....i would have thought the guy from northampton would have gone to the poachers...
They need to pay for insurance of themselves and their kit?? What madness is that? Life insurance...maybe. But their kit? That's ridiculous!
And they only get £17,000 per year, if they go to Afghanistan they only get £30 extra a day.
It’s bollox. Putting your life on the line for just 17k
agree it's bullshit, like i know they dont have to pay for food and rent as such when living on barracks but having to pay for government issues kit insurance is horseshit.
EnglishAndy You now get free kit insurance and the way is 20,000 a year for a regular soldier.
@@raphaellwsh was 17k when this was filmed
My partner is an ex soldier you never really come back from the wars he has bad eyes from grenades exposure and deafness nightmare s and alot of guilt just for surviving
This seemed like one of the best times to be a soldier am not sure why anyone would join today given that no major action apart from humanitarian missions is going on. Must be frustrating to do all that training yet not able to put it into action.
Something is going to kick off, only a matter of time.
They probably thought the same in 1981 before the Falklands, 1990 before the Gulf and on 10 September 2001. Conflicts can kick off quickly.
@RifleEyez Not really kicked off though, hopefully we stay well clear of Ukraine
sad seeing jonathan mckinlay at 34:15
Who
@@cals_revolution6345 he was killed in afgan, i dont know if it was on that tour though. rip
27:48 BLoody good effort by the civ pop! Well done!
Chuckles and his misses look so much alike. I think thay maybe brother and sister!!!
Watching this at the end of August 2021, just as the allies have scurried out of Afghanistan . It's, I don't know, real shame a lot of these kids died plainfully for fuck all.
i do wonder how many of these in this series have been killed
@Michael Hudson the Rifles Regiment lost loads of good blokes... not only to Combat... but the effects of war
@cringegamer2075 What affects of war?Don't say ptsd!!! It's the new bad back.
Why does he want to be a soldier and not my daddy - fuck man that’s the saddest thing I’ve heard.
I still have the copy of the gruffalo from when my parents used to read it to me
I'm watching a British program in England and the subtitles are American English . ?
TH-cam automatic subtitles are american english because YT is american.
@@freemanoYT Mine says GB next to the Premium logo. I suppose your channel is for Americans. I'm able to understand American spelling just found it a bit odd.
IED lesson, on OP Banner ITA & PIRA used mechanical, pressure, pressure release, trip wire, don't pull unless with A&H line, do not cut tight string, anti lift and what the officer said, light sensitive switch (torches in dark areas) , there was also a switch, not often used, was cutting light out , tilt switch, electrical switch, delayed switch (2 electrode in a water bottle) with a 9v or a couple of AA's, radio control.
Being a RE search commander as well as all our sapper work, I had the not so much pleasure of coming across all the above and a few I've forgotten.
IRA and PIRA pretty good at placing booby yraps
where can i watch the other 2 episodes really like this series
its on Tubi but you need a VPN to go on Tubi cos its only in America that Tubi works, I have a VPN and I changed the country to USA an ive found the series, hope that helps lol
I noticed there a Royal Marines Officer, maybe attached as a Troop Commander. How do I know he was an officer, the split cap badge
43:17 "Commanidng Officer?" There only one CO in a battalionand that's te Lt-Col! Bloody civvies! The on Officer Commanding or a Company Commander, not a CO. It's the British Army not the US Army!
Is anyone thinking of joining this year I’m turning 18 soon
Do it. I will always regret letting life get away from me and not joining. If you dont love it you can leave in 4 years. When you are 18 four years is nothing.
Gee Paul I’m 18 in two weeks but I’m not fit enough, I’m running and doing some exercise but my wrist has issues so I’m waiting for this to heal. I may go for the RAF as a weapons system operator or regiment gunner hopefully
Shaun yep, hoping to join end of this year just wanna finish my A levels first so I can have something for when I'm back
Borat Sagdiyev sane boat but I finish my courses this March coming up
Shaun yeah, I finish in June sadly, but the extra time allows me to get even fitter I suppose
So is everyone here going to forget the fact the taliban have 100% control of the country and we lost men and resources for nothing.
No we didn't, that's just a narrow, reductionist thinking error.
Yes that is what we have decided to do.
What a load of bollox. Piss poor pay £29 - £30 a day. Then you got get insurance for yourself & your kit. What kind of country is this when you have to get your service personal to insure themselves. So wrong!
When I got to my first unit in the US Army, they were just getting BACK from 15 months in Iraq. Was a shitty time. Didn't have a deployment to prove myself. Took a while. The hazing went on and on and on haha. Made me strong though.
Totally agree with what Forti said 😊
I love Thetford!
The UK should never have gone into Afghanistan. There was no possibility of a 'win'. The country should be sealed off. Let them do whatever they want internally. No aid. Nothing. Let them self destruct.
Too much rare earth minerals, gold, gems, copper, nickel etc under the ground in Afghanistan for us to seal it off. More lithium there than anywhere on earth and we need it. The Taliban know that too.
@41:47 - That's exactly why I hate sports people like footballers as they are given money, they dont 'earn' it. A Soldier more than earns their pay.
Excellent but where's Episode 4?
on Tubi but you need a VPN for it
th-cam.com/video/HibnSowQ7kg/w-d-xo.html
Respect 2 all of english soldiers God bless you all
British soldiers*
Will anyone be there in 4 year if so leave your Instagram and we’re your from
Robert McCay hoping to be but I’m only 14 at the moment
I start my training in November
Keaton Hellewell where are you training
Im 13 at the moment will be joining whem im 17
Tutorial Josh Why not 16?
45:24 man couldn’t help himself 😂😂👀👀
You can find other the other episodes by other uploaders as well they are are just worded different in the titles, I've just watched a few mins of episode 5.
Got a link to episode 4?
Boy does all the predeployment activities bring back some painful memories
Felt sick watching the last 10 minutes of this. Something i'm glad now thay i didnt have to deal with, leaving a family.
Someone link me the next episode plz
its on Tubi but you need a VPN to go on Tubi cos its only in America that Tubi works, I have a VPN and I changed the country to USA an ive found the series, hope that helps lol
When you have 18 years old you are an Adult to make dicisions to do or go wherever you want...
Circumcisions?
The eyebrows on that lass are noodles
Where part 4 please
if you look it up on google you can find episode 4
th-cam.com/video/HibnSowQ7kg/w-d-xo.html
EYEBROWS
Tom Irvine 😂
I think this is the hardest but the best
45:50 - dont do it son! You don't need jody!
Why does a Darren already have his Afghan Medal at the wedding but has yet to deploy???
Don't quote me but I think when I first saw this years ago it explained that he had been deployed whilst in the TA, before he joined the regular army
Need episode 4
its on Tubi but you need a VPN to go on Tubi cos its only in America that Tubi works, I have a VPN and I changed the country to USA an ive found the series, hope that helps lol
Are the Soldiers mainly Darren and Andrew are still in the Army today?
Samuel Joseph most likely
Darren ain't, not sure about forte
@@cameronkennedy116 what is Darren doing now?
He is apparently working as a surveyor.
When somebody mentions them going on tour it sounds like they are talking about a music band, there's nothing exciting about the type of tours they young lads will be experiencing. And especially how it ended. Terribly frustrating.
do soldiers get paid more when being deployed to Afghanistan
Harvey yes
Yep soldiers on deployment recieve a daily bonus on top of their usual salary
Phil Henderson 5 grand deployment bonus
Our boys, including our brothers in arms in America, should have never been there. Horrible decision to send these young men to Afghanistan.
Ya work hard
It kills me that these brave men and women went to fight for nothing. The Afghanistan pullout destroyed everything that these people died/put their lives for.
Don’t be so naive, the soldiers do it for pay. Not to be a hero liberating the 3rd world.
@@ElBoxeo1 does that mean they shouldve died for nothing? These people are hero's and deserve our highest respect.
@Jordan Belfort no but do you think that sacrificing the lives of our brave men to just pullout and let the taliban take control again was worth it?
@@l3w1scal11 It was never worth it and they shouldn't have been there in the first place. No occupying force has ever won in Afghanistan so why would any one have expected this time around to be different? There are lots of questions left unanswered about 911, the so called 'war on terror' and the massive disruption to the Middle East brought about by Western interventions. These soldiers and many more were used by politicians, as soldiers often are, that's the job. Win or lose it doesn't matter.
What do you think should have happened that would have made the loss of life worth it? It'll be different to what a politician would say I bet. You think they'd have pulled out if they hadn't met their objectives? From the political perspective, it was worth it.
Yeah the politicians shit on the soldiers, but what's new there? Staying would have cost more lives and still nothing would be any different, just more dead.
@@l3w1scal11 blame tony Blair not the Taliban or our soldiers work
The narratieve that they fight for there country is like they fight for the power of oil metals
Ah man. I remember that feeling of being the new lad. Feeling home sick for Catterick😂😂
This is so sad with the benefit of hindsight. As I write this, the Taliban are back in control of Afghanistan and these lads risked, even lost, their lives for very little.
Nothing really. I predicted it before we went there. All those young lives lost and I can't see the reason why. Bin Laden wasn't even found in Afghanistan! That country has broken empires since Alexander the Great, thought they might have learned something from the Russians losing in the 80s.
That OC, chuckles, what a soldier. What a great family man too.
Decent human being, who organised a good - GOOD - pre tour training package and got involved with his company ... a far cry from the fucking ruperts we endured and, on tours, fucking ignored because they were arrogant and high handed and pompous and knew fuck all about real soldiering!
I grew up in 1 Para and only ever spoke with my OC on the day I left the Reg.
Stood in his office as he read out what he'd written in my red discharge book, telling me what an exceptional Paratrooper I was, how good I'd been etc etc and all I was thinking at the time was 'how the fuck would you know, you prick?!'
Joined as a schoolboy and left as a capable man and all I remember of the ruperts was that they couldn't ... whatever it was, they just fucking couldn't do it.
It’s a bit grim having your photograph taken. Knowing it’s so they can put it in the news if you get killed.
Shocking display of berets though 😂
i think i would be more scared climbing aboard that Lockheed Tri-Star aircraft than fighting taliban. blimey, it was obsolete by airlines in 1980's where the hell did the RAF get that from?
Next episode????
its on Tubi but you need a VPN to go on Tubi cos its only in America that Tubi works, I have a VPN and I changed the country to USA an ive found the series, hope that helps lol
So anyone know what happened to Young Soldiers 4? Can't find it anywhere!
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38:08
Episode 4 please
its on Tubi but you need a VPN to go on Tubi cos its only in America that Tubi works, I have a VPN and I changed the country to USA an ive found the series, hope that helps lol
th-cam.com/video/HibnSowQ7kg/w-d-xo.html
@@freemanoYT legend
Can't you get 4/5 uploaded
I realise that this video is a decade old but seeing the accommodation that they are provide with is a disgrace to the British Army, the M.O.D and to the British taxpayers, I left service life behind in 2003 and I only ever had one single persons accommodation in my 24 years service, and it was superb, that was back in 1980, single room, well built with a decent amount of storage space, built in desk and sink, shared ablutions and common room and a door that I could lock for privacy and security, and yet these guys have little more than a a bed, table and chair, lockers and NO door, a curtain for goodness sake, NO privacy and NO security, and to cap it all the HAVE TO PAY FOR IT, deducted from their salary alongside food, prisoners in jail and illegal immigrants get better accommodation and food FREE OF CHARGE, unless the system has changed, which I doubt, I find it offensive and disgusting how they are treated, shame on you the British Army and M.O.D.
20 years in Afghanistan, all that blood, treasure and lives wasted for nothing
Small battallion 110 men think that means company
The UK has a small army. It is like the US.
What is the title of the outro music?
You still active?
Andrew forti left in 2012
UndeadGaming Where you in the army with him or something?
I'll be there soon
Robert Mccay I'll be there in 1 year and I can't wait
Robert Mccay haha enjoy catterick
Oi mate when's your ITC intake?
Robert Mccay we’re u from
Hats off to all our armed forces who are definitely underpaid and underappreciated by some 👏👏👏
25:58 looks like a normal day in england 🤣🤣
Like Birmingham for example 😂😂😂
Lmao
Aye that one lassie at 27:56 just waving a severed foot around 🤣🤣 I was totally invested in the mock event, then saw her, couldn't keep it together
@@emile4114 never noticed that 😭😂 absolutely howling
Afghans neutralized how many Brits?
What a complete waste of life Afghanistan was. Now they have all pulled out. All those having been killed for what?
Bet she did wait for him...🤔
Where is episode 4 😬
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footballers get paid vast sums just to play a game of football once or twice a week and are called heroes !!! and these fellas here ??? I get dissalusioned with life sometimes 😡
They juat came out of basic training so they should be fit as fuck compaired to the old sweats
That tells me all I need to know about the Trifles.
Hi
Where is episode 4?
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@@freemanoYT amazing, cheers pal! It was the only one I was missing, much appreciated!
Meeting a chick you really like before you head off, would be bloody tough!!!!!!
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