Learn more about the Gulf War and read "Remembering The Gulf War: Swift & Effective, But Unfinished?": www.forces.net/news/remembering-gulf-war-swift-effective-unfinished
Johnston Steiner I was in the US Navy / Marine Corps side. We were forward deployed to Okinawa. We had maritime pre positioned ships in Diego Garcia filled with everything First Mar Div needed anywhere. All they did in late August and early September was spray paint vehicles a different shade. We had our entire Desert Chocolate Chip Cookies available pre deployment at Camp Pendleton. Everything except boots. When we would evacuate a patient to the port , 3-4 hours away , we saw all the POGs / REMFs sporting high speed desert boots 2-3 months before the war was over. They had no access to Sand :). Whereas we lived in the desert for 8 months like animals. When we returned to our Saudi Arabia Desert encampment from Kuwait , that week we got two pairs. Never used
UK Army quartermaster, ‘ here’s a rifle that the magazine falls out of when you run, here’s some boots that melt in the heat and there’s one grenade between two as I’ve left most of them in Aldershot. Good Luck’
The British Armed Forces has some of the best light infantry in the world. The British Marines are elite warriors. Many years ago I met some of the Royal Marines in Wyoming USA. This was a few months after their victory in the FALKLANDS. They were staying in the same billeting as I was. The first night there if came a huge snowstorm . With nothing much to do we sat in the bar most of the day drinking beer and telling war stories. My hat is off to our friends form the U.K.
I have just watched this video again, and was amazed to recognize and remember so many people i served with in both West Germany and the United Kingdom.
What an interesting documentary. Even better that it's very high quality footage considering it was from the beginning of the 90's. Really enjoyed it thanks
Not as useless as the Submachine “ gun “ , in 9 mm , made in WW 2. Can’t recall what they were called. We envied the Brits and their SLR In 7.62 vs M16A2 in 5.56
I served in 4 RTR in Osnabruck Germany and we were stripped bare to provide spare parts for the division going to the gulf we were left with 57 hulks on blocks all tracks guns radio equipment final drives suspension units power packs gun control equipment all our optics everything we were left with just one operational vehicle and that was a 432 ambulance it was like biblical plaque of locust when that ordinance Colum rolled into our barrack's
Sorry, mate. That was us. 4 Armd Wksp out of Detmold. And what was worse was we were told to get a wriggle on so bolts and cables were cropped. Leftyou with armoured skips! Your God glared down at us from his place in the Highlands though. When it was all over we were set to rebuilding what we'd stripped, that which was not just scrapped. Much more to tell, but another time. I wish you well, mate
@@MrCollegeSmart that's not what the crusades or the Iraq war were but ok. I'm sure you're exceptionally limited understanding of history is solid fact.
Early in the first Gulf War, the British had an accident with the only two minesweeper tanks they had in the Middle East. One of their tanks caught on fire, and they had to get it away from the fuel depot, so they used the other minesweeper tank. The second minesweeper tank caught on fire, so both burned up..
Fascinating how the senior officers get desert camo and the guys don't...esp. as the senior officers wont be on the ground. A leader would wait until his men have been equipped.
I have an unmade 1/35 scale model of a Challenger (probably about a foot long, maybe a couple of inches either way) complete with 3 crew members, extra stowage bins, ID panels, (plus realistic tow cables, fire extinguishers, shovels, pickaxes, bolt hammers, extra fuel and water jerry cans and ad-hoc carriers and various camouflage nets, infantry and RAC AFV crew helmets, L-7 GPMG with different pintle mounts etc). I bought it about 5 years ago for £25-30 but I didn't really do much work on it until I saw this video. The Challenger 1/2 reversing from the LST/LSL is one of the best pictures of a Challenger MBTs that I've ever seen, I can't believe how freshly painted the desert camouflage looks.
Just stumbled across this video - amazing quality for the year. I arrived in that shed November 1st 1990. We were one of the first ones in and had to sweep it out. We made a bedspace out of pallets. Scoff was made by the Yanks and delivered in their equivalent of norgies three times a day. Never stayed in tent city but I think it was named Baldrick Lines. Our vehicles arrived about two weeks later and off we went into the desert. Happy memories. RIP to our 47 friends who never made it home in March. Nil sine labore ✊🏼
The British Forces didn't, we had no proper equipment from clothing to vehicles, never received any new clothing only original DPM clothing. I remember some desert clothing turning up. But unless you were the size of a small child, they did not fit you. When i got back to Germany, the stores were full of desert equipment, none of it was ever sent out. Body armour - whats that. we even drove vehicles down to the Hook of Holland port that were not working correctly, due to not having enough vehicles to be loaded on P&O ferries, since we did not have enough transport ships.
Not much had changed in 2003 either. I remember spending a big chunk of my savings on decent desert kit before we were deployed just in case, so glad that I did.
its army is the 2nd most powerful in the world because of its training they pick quality over quantity there army has some of the best equipment in the world
Rebecca Emma Hutton Their army is NOT 2nd best in the world Rebecca. Many countries have well surpassed the British army and have done so for many decades since post Victorian era. Countries such as Russia, Afghanistan, Iraq, China Pakistan, India, and Turkey are a lot more powerful and armed to the teeth.
@@lynx8437 It certainly does not - u need to research the facts a lot better. China, Turkey, Germany, India & Pakistan have more powerful military than the UK. Google doesn’t always document such facts very well.
@@Pinkdolly1000 China and Germany yes, the rest no lol. Turkish conscripts don’t count they are not well trained and they are not professional. Uk is 5th I must correct myself but this isn’t just one source, this is from 6 different sources so I don’t know where your getting your information from but it’s wrong
6:15 he's saying it gets above 32 at 10 in the morning. By my burger calculations, that's about 90F. We had a high of 93F today in the south east US and it's October. This weather would be pretty comfy, because i'm sure it isn't nearly as humid there.
Remember my dad saying about how during the 90’s he caught his flight sergeant (or a different higher rank) censoring the mail and went to his higher ups and complained
He's talking about how hot it is and I live in Southern California where it's over a hundred degrees in the summer and 70s and 80s during the winter. Sucks if your not used to it.
Okay but in Britain the hottest day in the summer might be 25-27 ish degrees so to go into constant 32+ degree heat fully clothed and training is near enough unbearable.
@@2011mrzombieslayer True, but now Brittish troops come over to the United States for training, which is pretty cool. The US. Military has it pretty lucky because America has every environment in the world.
Keeping boots clean and polished maintains the leather and stops them cracking. The acid content in soil can degrade the leather, so it makes sense to get any dirt off. Kit and clothing maintenance is more important on ops than in camp as you don't want it failing when you need it most.
What I do today because of what I done yesterday and what I will do tomorrow because of what I done today is how I live one day and how I will live the next. Aphorism.
pollishing boots in the armys is like karate kid in real life...except you need the wax on wax training for actually pollishing cars when the army makes you redundant to make room for a bunch women...gotta meet those target numbers...
Good old Rupert. ...floppy hat to be on head correctly....rim down....no deveation....oh by the way lads sorry you got incorrect body armour and land rovers with no protection...but hats must be on head correctly. ...
We ran round like headless chickens then realised that half the kit we needed was missing had been scraped off sold off or we didn’t have then begged the us to lend it to us including large transport aircraft to move equipmenr
The three lads walking past at 2:15 look like they are carrying SLRs. How common were units with SLRs (and NATO 7.62mm L-4 Bren LMGs)? Were most infantry units equipped with L-85s/etc and the RA, RAC, RE, REME, etc still using the SLRs? Or did most still have SLRs? One other question is about the part of the building of Tent City, with both the Royal Engineers and the Royal Corp of Pioneers both claiming to have built the majority of it. What was the difference between the engineers and the pioneers? Were the RE responsible for the more complicated structures etc, and the Pioneers more about manual work to support the RE? Or were the Pioneers a cross between the Infantry and the engineers? Or was there some other main difference between them?
I and, my Captain, of 7 Armoured Brigade spent, many weeks, prior to the full Gulf war, training troops of The Desert Rats, and 1st Armoured Division how to drive and navigate in the desert. Thoroughly enjoyed it. General Patrick Cordingly is the best General I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing and, working with. A beast of a General. Took no prisoners and, suffered fools lightly.
I still haven't seen the films that HTV news reporters that filmed us brits in USA Yakima training grounds on Exercise Trumpet Dance preparing for the Gulf war, we were filmed for a news documentary but was never shown, any one know how or where to obtain recording. as a lot of old troop friends are dead now and would like to or could see them in training.
Yes. The troops already knew the weapon was unreliable, however this was down played or denied by the powers that be. It was during the Gulf war that the SA80A1 really showed how unreliable it was on such a scale that the MoD couldn't cover it up anymore.
There was at least 5 domestic "British" firearms that were used during the gulf war. There was the SA80 - used by Frontline troops. There was the Sterling smg, and L1a1 slr used by secondary/support troops. And they also had the L4A2 and Accuracy International's AW sniper rifle or L96 the earliest version of it, for sniping.
The SA80s were phased in over a period of 5-6 years and soldiers were dual Skill At Arms trained right up until the early 1990s. At the time of Op Granby, all Infantry units (and I believe most other other Combat Arms) were entirely equipped with SA80s, but a lot of Combat Support and Combat Service Support were not. As mentioned already, the A1 version of the SA80 had some glaring issues, which were mostly due to poor manufacture. The A2 version that we started to get after 2002 was far superior, but still required a high level of maintenance.
Jack Flash yeah, I know about the problems with the A1, but I just thought in 86 all rifles were replaced the same year. I never knew replacement went into the next decade. I use the A2 btw. Bit heavy after a while, but I've never had any stoppages or malfunctions with it
@@pivottech8881 Obviously you weren't at the gulf war. How often do you think these guys and gals have access to your so called "internet was recognized in 1990"?
Learn more about the Gulf War and read "Remembering The Gulf War: Swift & Effective, But Unfinished?": www.forces.net/news/remembering-gulf-war-swift-effective-unfinished
Thank You Forces TV for providing the documentary on the experience of British Army in Operation Desert Storm. 🍊🍎🇬🇧
I remember us being issued with our desert boots 2 weeks after the war was over. Still waiting for the body armour.
lol nothing has changed much then !!
I get conflicted when I want to like and dislike a comment at the same time. Like = Yeah, I hear you. Dislike = Aye, it's shite.
And still waiting for the boot laces I'm sure
But the POGs had them
Johnston Steiner I was in the US Navy / Marine Corps side. We were forward deployed to Okinawa. We had maritime pre positioned ships in Diego Garcia filled with everything First Mar Div needed anywhere. All they did in late August and early September was spray paint vehicles a different shade. We had our entire Desert Chocolate Chip Cookies available pre deployment at Camp Pendleton. Everything except boots. When we would evacuate a patient to the port , 3-4 hours away , we saw all the POGs / REMFs sporting high speed desert boots 2-3 months before the war was over. They had no access to Sand :). Whereas we lived in the desert for 8 months like animals. When we returned to our Saudi Arabia Desert encampment from Kuwait , that week we got two pairs. Never used
Guy: You need to be a bit quicker
Gas mask guys: *confused mumbling*
13:49
Training? What's that.... wait till we get there. Jeez !
That was my battery.
I know the Bdr in the clip
@@SuperParatech Mine too, who are you?
@@keithmitchell6548 Hey Bamber!
I joined 10 Bty after the war.
UK Army quartermaster, ‘ here’s a rifle that the magazine falls out of when you run, here’s some boots that melt in the heat and there’s one grenade between two as I’ve left most of them in Aldershot. Good Luck’
the video quality is absolutely amazing, far better than even 2000s tv, let alone 90s...
Agreed
This was probably ripped from original film vs tape. That's the reason why some old movies and television shows can be reproduced in HD
It’s because of the lighting
This vid looks really good for 1990.
The British Armed Forces has some of the best light infantry in the world. The British Marines are elite warriors. Many years ago I met some of the Royal Marines in Wyoming USA. This was a few months after their victory in the FALKLANDS. They were staying in the same billeting as I was. The first night there if came a huge snowstorm . With nothing much to do we sat in the bar most of the day drinking beer and telling war stories. My hat is off to our friends form the U.K.
5:44, I spent 10 fucking days in that shed!!
i assume felt like a sauna, felt like a shit heap and barely got 10 mins of sleep cos of 100 snoring .... people
Bet that was a shite time
Was that really 27 years ago? How the time has flown by.
The older you get the faster it goes.
Two weeks ago I finally watched General Schwarzkopf mother of briefings. Took me 28 years
@@Wabi-sabi8551 Absolutely. I fully expected the reverse to be true. Nope.
@@Wabi-sabi8551 not only that as the years go by it almost feels like it never happend at all but now its been 30 years since desert storm
@@columnedfox5508 I haven't even been alive that long 😂😂
I have just watched this video again, and was amazed to recognize and remember so many people i served with in both West Germany and the United Kingdom.
7:18 I love that they are talking to the commander of the 7th Brigade, and the guy to his right looks like he's on his way to a frat party.
Absolute melt
Dudes ready to party
Dudes ready to party
Still using the Sterling machine gun!!
They were still using the Bren too.
And the SLR L1A1
Because the L85A1 was horrible especially in the desert.
I loved my SMG. Hated the replacement.
@@elmolikesdrugs7279 Didn't matter if they had cover, we just shot the cover away!
L1A1's and Sterlings, wow.
Boris S still better than the L85A1 lol.
@@orangepekoe5243 The A3 is much better tho.
Boris S Aight I haven't read up that much on the A3 lately so I'll check it out.
And Bren guns in some images
What an interesting documentary. Even better that it's very high quality footage considering it was from the beginning of the 90's. Really enjoyed it thanks
Note the SLR rifles rather than the SA80 which flopped in the desert.
There's still a few LSW tbh
Not as useless as the Submachine “ gun “ , in 9 mm , made in WW 2. Can’t recall what they were called. We envied the Brits and their SLR In 7.62 vs M16A2 in 5.56
@@mikepazzree1340 SMG
Kevin Horne it’s a US Marine thing ....
the irony now, is that a 7.62mm ar-10 rifle was issued to sharpshooters from 2010 in afgan !
I served in 4 RTR in Osnabruck Germany and we were stripped bare to provide spare parts for the division going to the gulf we were left with 57 hulks on blocks all tracks guns radio equipment final drives suspension units power packs gun control equipment all our optics everything we were left with just one operational vehicle and that was a 432 ambulance it was like biblical plaque of locust when that ordinance Colum rolled into our barrack's
Wew lad. I bet if the Cold War was still on there would have been a much more wary position by the tory government.
@@Retro-Future-Land Except now the Russians are big Tory party donors.
@@VanderlyndenJengold Russians-in-name only if it's the oligarch Russians.
Sorry, mate. That was us. 4 Armd Wksp out of Detmold. And what was worse was we were told to get a wriggle on so bolts and cables were cropped. Leftyou with armoured skips! Your God glared down at us from his place in the Highlands though. When it was all over we were set to rebuilding what we'd stripped, that which was not just scrapped. Much more to tell, but another time. I wish you well, mate
Fear Naught Brother...Ex-2 RTR here !
"The Hat, Floppy, Ridiculous" in Receive Pronunciation is just the best.
Yep. Head covering, for the use of.
1990 i was 10 years old. Gulf war is part of my live and history thx for uploading this video
Vladimir Putin look alike at 10:07
Basically the crusades. White man in someone else’s land telling them what to do.
That was not a look-alike that was Putin spying for Russia during his old KGB days
@@MrCollegeSmart that's not what the crusades or the Iraq war were but ok. I'm sure you're exceptionally limited understanding of history is solid fact.
Them shorts
Christian V because he has a clone army of himself
Early in the first Gulf War, the British had an accident with the only two minesweeper tanks they had in the Middle East. One of their tanks caught on fire, and they had to get it away from the fuel depot, so they used the other minesweeper tank. The second minesweeper tank caught on fire, so both burned up..
Sounds about right
Centurion AVREs
MOPP gear in the desert is like being in a dangerously overheated sauna.
Wabi-sabi8551 Worse
16:37 'all the lads love it, cos they get it done for nothing' ... then some lad says 'and the haircut' 😂😂😂😂
Fascinating how the senior officers get desert camo and the guys don't...esp. as the senior officers wont be on the ground.
A leader would wait until his men have been equipped.
british army sucks
"The food is much better now. Since we got the british cooks." That'S gotta be the first time those words were uttered.
I have an unmade 1/35 scale model of a Challenger (probably about a foot long, maybe a couple of inches either way) complete with 3 crew members, extra stowage bins, ID panels, (plus realistic tow cables, fire extinguishers, shovels, pickaxes, bolt hammers, extra fuel and water jerry cans and ad-hoc carriers and various camouflage nets, infantry and RAC AFV crew helmets, L-7 GPMG with different pintle mounts etc).
I bought it about 5 years ago for £25-30 but I didn't really do much work on it until I saw this video.
The Challenger 1/2 reversing from the LST/LSL is one of the best pictures of a Challenger MBTs that I've ever seen, I can't believe how freshly painted the desert camouflage looks.
Greatly appreciated this. Nice quality and very informative.
Imagine all that shit happening to the desert rat's during the second world war.
They fought and worked their balls off in all conditions.
British vehicles had Desert Rat icons on them. Supposedly they were Monty's unit.
Challenger tanks make me moist
this sounds weird but i never thought that tank mod kits would come in carboard boxes
dont really know what to expect tbh
Just stumbled across this video - amazing quality for the year.
I arrived in that shed November 1st 1990. We were one of the first ones in and had to sweep it out. We made a bedspace out of pallets. Scoff was made by the Yanks and delivered in their equivalent of norgies three times a day.
Never stayed in tent city but I think it was named Baldrick Lines.
Our vehicles arrived about two weeks later and off we went into the desert.
Happy memories.
RIP to our 47 friends who never made it home in March.
Nil sine labore ✊🏼
The sun will never set on the British Empire...
Because not even god can trust an Englishman in the shade!
@@handcrafted30 shashi tharoor
@@CKM1909 Not the originator but definitely where it found it’s fame. Great phrase.
@@handcrafted30 who was the originator?
@@CKM1909 No idea but it was a well know joke during the days of the raj amongst the sepoy
look how much good came out from that war. thanx a lot!
The glorious L1A1
The British Forces didn't, we had no proper equipment from clothing to vehicles, never received any new clothing only original DPM clothing. I remember some desert clothing turning up. But unless you were the size of a small child, they did not fit you. When i got back to Germany, the stores were full of desert equipment, none of it was ever sent out. Body armour - whats that. we even drove vehicles down to the Hook of Holland port that were not working correctly, due to not having enough vehicles to be loaded on P&O ferries, since we did not have enough transport ships.
13:10 my Old BSM in 25/170 Bty 47 Regt RA in 1999
Great stuff 🇬🇧👍.
The british r so chill i love it
Not much had changed in 2003 either. I remember spending a big chunk of my savings on decent desert kit before we were deployed just in case, so glad that I did.
You must have been the only man in full desert rig in 2003
we had bacon and pig sausage in the desert, Desantos123UK , alot of troops in 90-91 had SLR/SMGs
10.21 . Going fishing out the back . Who wouldn't ? Arabian Gulf teaming with fish . Great guys . Great British soldiers .
It seems like yesterday. It's so hard to believe that it is now just part of the historical record.
With ruthless efficiency, as always.
5:13 Prince Charles, commanding from the frontlines.
The cook at 3:05 has exactly the same voice as Eddie Stone
Back when Britain had a bigger army!! Many not as well equipped but bigger!
its army is the 2nd most powerful in the world because of its training they pick quality over quantity there army has some of the best equipment in the world
Rebecca Emma Hutton
Their army is NOT 2nd best in the world Rebecca. Many countries have well surpassed the British army and have done so for many decades since post Victorian era.
Countries such as Russia, Afghanistan, Iraq, China Pakistan, India, and Turkey are a lot more powerful and armed to the teeth.
@@Pinkdolly1000 Britain has the third most powerful military and is third on the worlds ranking index
@@lynx8437
It certainly does not - u need to research the facts a lot better.
China, Turkey, Germany, India & Pakistan have more powerful military than the UK. Google doesn’t always document such facts very well.
@@Pinkdolly1000 China and Germany yes, the rest no lol. Turkish conscripts don’t count they are not well trained and they are not professional. Uk is 5th I must correct myself but this isn’t just one source, this is from 6 different sources so I don’t know where your getting your information from but it’s wrong
Were there credits to this originally? Does anyone have a link to it?
Wow were those guys using sterling SMG's?
No one using em in the video but they were carrying them and they did get used!
6:15
he's saying it gets above 32 at 10 in the morning. By my burger calculations, that's about 90F. We had a high of 93F today in the south east US and it's October. This weather would be pretty comfy, because i'm sure it isn't nearly as humid there.
@Drew Pattyson im aware of that. That's the joke.
Yep had well over forty in Africa and Australia
Wish they had shown RAFO Masirah 🤔
I wonder if they still censor mail, probably so.
Remember my dad saying about how during the 90’s he caught his flight sergeant (or a different higher rank) censoring the mail and went to his higher ups and complained
3:38 I thought the Army was using the L85 and got rid of the slr🤔
Some service support arms and TA were still issed them. Most of the regular army had SA80 though.
Groucho ah Ok I see
He's talking about how hot it is and I live in Southern California where it's over a hundred degrees in the summer and 70s and 80s during the winter. Sucks if your not used to it.
Okay but in Britain the hottest day in the summer might be 25-27 ish degrees so to go into constant 32+ degree heat fully clothed and training is near enough unbearable.
@@2011mrzombieslayer True, but now Brittish troops come over to the United States for training, which is pretty cool. The US. Military has it pretty lucky because America has every environment in the world.
@@bobandy7279 That and the U.S. had REONDO School. There is a great book about called Recondo LRPS in the 101 airborn by Larry Chambers.
10:11 Young Putin infiltrated into the british army
Just saw someone I knew from way back when! :-)
In the video?
@@fico8400 yes. From my battery
SuperParatech haha thats so cool, it must have brought back a lot of memories.
Jacob N0506 yup... and they weren’t all warm and fuzzy 😂
@@SuperParatech lol, I can imagine 😂
2:05 is't that a dumb thing to do in war. cleaning your shoe hahahaha. one step and all dust and sand on it again
It is a very British approach to morning routine. Better be shaven and have your over all bearing in order for muster.
helps maintain the leather for one.
It makes them last linger
Keeping boots clean and polished maintains the leather and stops them cracking. The acid content in soil can degrade the leather, so it makes sense to get any dirt off. Kit and clothing maintenance is more important on ops than in camp as you don't want it failing when you need it most.
Were those Sterlings SMGs I saw?
TechNoir: Yes, and plenty of SLRs too.
As seen in Star Wars
Since when have the British armed forces been ready for anything.
When is any armed forces ready for the unknown?
fly bobbie shut up
@moonbeam still got the SAS
Last time I checked England found America so if your ‘American your British really so
they had to special order desert camo...
What I do today because of what I done yesterday and what I will do tomorrow because of what I done today is how I live one day and how I will live the next. Aphorism.
pollishing boots in the armys is like karate kid in real life...except you need the wax on wax training for actually pollishing cars when the army makes you redundant to make room for a bunch women...gotta meet those target numbers...
Good old Rupert. ...floppy hat to be on head correctly....rim down....no deveation....oh by the way lads sorry you got incorrect body armour and land rovers with no protection...but hats must be on head correctly. ...
10:30 I would love to know that dudes jam tunes when tagging toes on the battlefield are. What would your tunes be when fighting?
That Benny Hill theme tune.
Tommy, draw close...…closer still.....you're an idiot.
definitely Mr blue sky
fresh food supplied by the saudi's
so we've been taking their blood money since the 90's???
Nope you have been using them since the 1900'.
Lawrence of Arabia was it? A romantacised version of what happened.
We ran round like headless chickens then realised that half the kit we needed was missing had been scraped off sold off or we didn’t have then begged the us to lend it to us including large transport aircraft to move equipmenr
How did they prepare? They turned up!
Proper lads...I click a mouse for a living but tried the forces and police and couldn't pass the medical due to being 70% deaf
The three lads walking past at 2:15 look like they are carrying SLRs.
How common were units with SLRs (and NATO 7.62mm L-4 Bren LMGs)?
Were most infantry units equipped with L-85s/etc and the RA, RAC, RE, REME, etc still using the SLRs? Or did most still have SLRs?
One other question is about the part of the building of Tent City, with both the Royal Engineers and the Royal Corp of Pioneers both claiming to have built the majority of it. What was the difference between the engineers and the pioneers?
Were the RE responsible for the more complicated structures etc, and the Pioneers more about manual work to support the RE?
Or were the Pioneers a cross between the Infantry and the engineers? Or was there some other main difference between them?
Oh the good old fal(sir)....the best
That kas cap was epic what a puff.
Take pork, bacon, and beer away from me, go on, see what happens...
11:35 scaley with his jungle boots on.... sorted !
funny how he gets Desert camo but not the boys doing the fighting
Dad was gonna fight in the Gulf War... broke his arm he deployed to Northern Ireland instead
Great memories.
Why weren't they allowed bring their iphones?
Nice try 🎣. 😒
Last time when british army used ranks on shoulders
Looks like the 1st gulf war was a lot hotter then the 2nd
I and, my Captain, of 7 Armoured Brigade spent, many weeks, prior to the full Gulf war, training troops of The Desert Rats, and 1st Armoured Division how to drive and navigate in the desert. Thoroughly enjoyed it. General Patrick Cordingly is the best General
I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing and, working with. A beast of a General. Took no prisoners and, suffered fools lightly.
Great how the brig got dessert combats (bet him never left his office) well before the blokes on the ground that really needed them.
i miss being skinny lol
10:07 Putin , just chilling .
I remember that hat brief from that officer on day one!
A lot of these guys would be in there 40s or 50s now
I served in OP Granby and I have just turned 60 🙈😂
I still haven't seen the films that HTV news reporters that filmed us brits in USA Yakima training grounds on Exercise Trumpet Dance preparing for the Gulf war, we were filmed for a news documentary but was never shown, any one know how or where to obtain recording. as a lot of old troop friends are dead now and would like to or could see them in training.
Why do they still have SLRs in the 90s
Front line troops got SA80 first, SLR and SMG for support troops in Gulf War 1.
Blah b They defo didn't draw the short straw. SLR is way better than the l85a1.
Give ya meat a good ol rub SLR,s but you don’t mention the sten guns? Lol
Stens?
Because they were still phasing-in the POS L85A1 bullpup.
I feel bad for them I had a big fan blowing when I was watching this 😂
I always found the Muslim Call to Prayer in the morning really depressing....
Aye, aye, SCOTS DG Challanger1 being driven off the boat by somebody @ 8.37
1:22 oh look its londonistan
@Hammer 001 except dearborn is a small city and london a much bigger one
What kind of cameras were they using?
Wasn’t it in the first gulf war that proved the new UK assault rifle was poorly built?
That was to do with the oil used on the rifles. Wasn't to good in the heat
Yes. The troops already knew the weapon was unreliable, however this was down played or denied by the powers that be. It was during the Gulf war that the SA80A1 really showed how unreliable it was on such a scale that the MoD couldn't cover it up anymore.
I thought SA80’s were introduced in 1985
No good in the desert
I remember those nasty shorts people wore in the 80s. You wouldn't be seen dead in them today.
We were prepared? First I’ve heard.
Hard deployment
Matsimus Gaming, why the FN SLR’s as late as 1991?, were they not enough decent SA80’s back then?
Infantry got SA80 first, support troops got it later. There are plenty of videos of SA80 in the gulf.
There was at least 5 domestic "British" firearms that were used during the gulf war. There was the SA80 - used by Frontline troops. There was the Sterling smg, and L1a1 slr used by secondary/support troops. And they also had the L4A2 and Accuracy International's AW sniper rifle or L96 the earliest version of it, for sniping.
took about another 15 years for the sa80 to get decent
Grennel right sa Vučićem all Hamburg waiting latest is trajekt gore Turku čelik Tuzla right?
Reminds me of the film jarhead.
Why do they have SLR's?
The SA80s were phased in over a period of 5-6 years and soldiers were dual Skill At Arms trained right up until the early 1990s. At the time of Op Granby, all Infantry units (and I believe most other other Combat Arms) were entirely equipped with SA80s, but a lot of Combat Support and Combat Service Support were not.
As mentioned already, the A1 version of the SA80 had some glaring issues, which were mostly due to poor manufacture. The A2 version that we started to get after 2002 was far superior, but still required a high level of maintenance.
Jack Flash yeah, I know about the problems with the A1, but I just thought in 86 all rifles were replaced the same year. I never knew replacement went into the next decade.
I use the A2 btw. Bit heavy after a while, but I've never had any stoppages or malfunctions with it
To shot people if necessary, just a thought.
I want to know how we would prepare nowadays.
Back when internet and smart phones were not available.
thats bs, cus internet was recognised in 1990, and developed in '83 and it may not be smartphones but it was certainly cell phones.
@@pivottech8881 Obviously you weren't at the gulf war. How often do you think these guys and gals have access to your so called "internet was recognized in 1990"?