Can't help misting up a bit when Marks pulls that reflective stare, the crossing paths of young and old, them entering one end hoping to gain something useful in life and him being spat out the other end of the machine into an uncertain future, a sad but true indictment of life in the forces, great writing
My father did 37 years in the RAF . 1935 to 1972 . Joined as an electrical apprentice Airman and finish as a Squadron leader . He Had a very good pension !
My Grandpa did duty guard at RAF Greenham Common during an airshow, there were more complaints about the British Soldiers going round with pick axe handles, than there were about Americans walking round with their Colt pistols.
Patrolling around camp at 4am with your pickhelve in hand thinking the bad guys are out there shaking in their boots if you came face to face with them, ho the memories 😂
I joined the RAF in 1988 and after training stints at swinderby and st athans I was posted to RAF Wyton. I remember being told to guard the main gate and given a pick axe handle, thinking what the hell im going to do with this…..play baseball 😂
I had to patrol the fences and check the padlocks of unused gates during the night at Cameron Barracks , Inverness in 1994 when I was on Guard duty ! I wasn't given a weapon only a pickaxe handle and a torch ! I often wonder what would I actually done if I had encountered an intruder ! Run most probably ! Run to get help!
Kelly Squadron at HMS Mercury must have used this episode for an instructional video back in the 1980's when we were armed to the teeth with a bit of wood as we patrolled the base at night
No fire sticks when I did guard. Pickaxe handle, and the other chap had a touch. So, should we have spotted someone 100yards away and challenged them as 'armed guards', they would have shot us both; then wandered off while everyone else on the base was scanning the sky for the next fire work to go off. "Security is not a dirty word Blackadder."
I know it's only a show but if it follows even a bit of reality, So very different from USMC. DI's are loved by the brass for being as hard on the recruits as possible. Just short of death is the goal. Maybe that's why everyone in the world is happy when the USMC show up in battle.
@@ephphatha230 Don't talk about yourself like that, i'm sure if you look really hard. I mean really hard you can some little sliver of something good about yourself. Highly trained is far from robotic. Unlike the Kaos going on in your head.
Can't help misting up a bit when Marks pulls that reflective stare, the crossing paths of young and old, them entering one end hoping to gain something useful in life and him being spat out the other end of the machine into an uncertain future, a sad but true indictment of life in the forces, great writing
Ah memories Capes-Anti-gas also button two together and youve got a two man bivi if your both midgets
Little bit of trivia...Alfred Marks was a Flight Sergeant in the RAF and organised concert parties in the Middle East.
My father did 37 years in the RAF . 1935 to 1972 . Joined as an electrical apprentice Airman and finish as a Squadron leader . He Had a very good pension !
7:52 The Sergeant makes a good point. A lot of veterans ended up as buskers.
I've seen Tony Selby in other shows and he's nothing like Corporal Marsh.Shows what a good actor he is.
R.I.P. Tony Selby. Just Wonderful.
Our Gunnery instructor in basic was like that Sergeant, a really chilled out, good bloke yet very good instructor.
My Grandpa did duty guard at RAF Greenham Common during an airshow, there were more complaints about the British Soldiers going round with pick axe handles, than there were about Americans walking round with their Colt pistols.
My dad was in the MOD police at RAF green ham common dealing with all the stupid peace protesters
Green ham common was essential in the Cold War so nato had a decent nuclear deterrent
Patrolling around camp at 4am with your pickhelve in hand thinking the bad guys are out there shaking in their boots if you came face to face with them, ho the memories 😂
I joined the RAF in 1988 and after training stints at swinderby and st athans I was posted to RAF Wyton. I remember being told to guard the main gate and given a pick axe handle, thinking what the hell im going to do with this…..play baseball 😂
That must be why we civilians were able to get in the front gate to go to Skyways for the all nighters and wet T-Shirt contests :)
@@Derek_S Great times 👍
I had to patrol the fences and check the padlocks of unused gates during the night at Cameron Barracks , Inverness in 1994 when I was on Guard duty ! I wasn't given a weapon only a pickaxe handle and a torch ! I often wonder what would I actually done if I had encountered an intruder ! Run most probably ! Run to get help!
R.I.P. Tony Selby, great actor & heard on great authority that he was an absolute gentleman & a brilliant fella! Sad news.
Also RIP Gerard Ryder (aka Matthew Lilley) - he passed away within months of Tony Selby.
@@MalcNedd62 Thanks for letting me know..👍
Good days' when tv made great shows great actors well written and funny...
TV of this period was for entertainment only, not to teach 'morals', that was down to your parents and family.
The acting and script are great
Kelly Squadron at HMS Mercury must have used this episode for an instructional video back in the 1980's when we were armed to the teeth with a bit of wood as we patrolled the base at night
Bangy things were issued to us airmen in the early 80s naturally no ammo
No fire sticks when I did guard. Pickaxe handle, and the other chap had a touch.
So, should we have spotted someone 100yards away and challenged them as 'armed guards', they would have shot us both; then wandered off while everyone else on the base was scanning the sky for the next fire work to go off.
"Security is not a dirty word Blackadder."
Memories on picket,every gaurd room,you never got any sleep 😂😂😂
Good to see Alfred Marks a fine actor commic and TV presenter
I have forgotten about this TV show
It's a good TV show
Get some in from the 1970s
Just like when l was in
7:31 I doubt it sergeant, we were petrified.
That’s the word son.. that’s it..😢
Alfred Marks..classic.he had a series called "alfred marks time" years ago,,,,,,anyone remember ??
Well, we're the ones with the pick-axe 'andles ...
Cpl Marsh is a great character
Pity about the wife though. Wot a pain in the arse she is.
wonderful acting
yes, the writing is surprisingly good too.
Berets were shocking!
We soaked ours in hot water then stretch it over your head, it took a few attempts to get it right😂😂👍👍
Alice is the brains 🙂
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I know it's only a show but if it follows even a bit of reality, So very different from USMC. DI's are loved by the brass for being as hard on the recruits as possible. Just short of death is the goal. Maybe that's why everyone in the world is happy when the USMC show up in battle.
Mindless robots
@@ephphatha230 Don't talk about yourself like that, i'm sure if you look really hard. I mean really hard you can some little sliver of something good about yourself. Highly trained is far from robotic. Unlike the Kaos going on in your head.
@@leostgeorge2080Bet you'll be voting for the orange man-baby too! ....if you're even American or over 18 😂😂😂
@@cricketbatguitar Yes i will be voting for the next president TRUMP. Not some woke brainless bimbo who can't run a hotdog stand.
retire as Sargent seems like a broken system
Lilly rip !
No! 😢.
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13-07; oh to be able to be p*ssed like that! Me, I just feel like sh1 and throw up!!!!