Still av nightmares about it all. It could have been sorted a lot sooner if politics n pals in media hadn't roused an stirred hatered on both sides for political gains . I feel so sorry for that lady after loosing her boy, i mean that. But i also feel sorry/pain over the filthy covert killings, collision, hassessment and mental and physical torture inflicted on us..
A mistake by the narrator in the first few minutes. He said that the Brits were being deployed to British soil, but they weren't. They were being sent to Ireland
@@davidlysaghtlegupability2924 if some group kicked in your door of your house and started to occupy every room. Would you concede that it was now their house and you and your family were now part of their people? And if you managed to evict them from all but one room, would you then regard the house apart from that one room yours again and regard that room as theirs, with maybe your Mother left in there with them. Is she then of a different people than you, is she one of them. Would you feel you needed their permission to enter that room? HELLLLLLLLLOOOOOOO, IRELAND IS IRELAND, EVERY LAST BIT OF IT WHETHER OCCUPIED CURRENTLY, PREVIOUSLY OCCUPIED, OR GOVERNED FROM DUBLIN OR FROM A FOREIGN SHORE. There is no Ireland without all of its parts. It is not, cannot, never has been and never will be British. It can't, it is NOT in Britain. Britain is our neighbour. When re-unification happens it won't be the case that suddenly our country grew, got a brand new piece added on, a "British" piece. It will not be the case that British territory was lost, or that a British population in that corner of Ireland overnight becomes Irish. No. It will be the case IRELAND will be complete and whole again, free to rule itself. Occupation is NOT OWNERSHIP. If I take someone's car, I do not own it. I might keep it, control it. I possess it, but it is NOT mine. Wrong is Wrong, everyday, always, no exceptions.
@Cameron Renwick, You are absolutley right, we cannot change the past. What is done is done. Thanks for saying that. And we can decide the future by consent, too true
@@liamoloveboxing6844 Are you talking about the Republic, or Northern Ireland? If the first, there were many more factors and it's significantly more complicated than that simple story. If the North, well, it's still a firm part of the United Kingdom, so what are you talking about?
That brought back memories. My uncle was in RGJ’s and I’m pretty sure he was on those first two tours....I think it messed his head up a bit to the point he PVR’d with my grandad buying him out. I ended up in Clogher in 1991 with 1st Btn R Anglian Regt, so the memories came flooding back when I saw that...I reckon it was even the same ‘room’ that I bedded down in as the one in the film in the bunker cabins. Certainly looked out of that sanger more than a few times. I remember we were often invited into farmhouse’s and homes for tea and scones whilst out on patrol and I don’t think they where exclusively Protestant or loyalist homes.
"An enemy on British Soil" Pretty much defines the problem with the British attitude being that it's in IRELAND. It's got nothing to do with religion. That's the distraction. Its been about everything since the initiation of the Ulster plantations established in the 1600's and the displacement of the Irish natives.
@@jonwoo8217 Woo? that's like saying Taiwan is part of China. Or the Spratly Islands for that matter. Look at a map. Read some history before you make asinine comments.
@@MrJerryrigged1 I am aware of the history, christ half of my undergrad degree was history, it doesn't matter. NI is part of the UK, no matter what philosophical historical comparisons you attempt to ham handle in. Suck it up you commie.
only part intelligible comment I've seen on this, going back to 1600 ish that being your opinion, can you please explain who exactly is the Irish man or how did they suddenly own or populate( Ireland) or where did they come from, think you need to read a bit more history.the leprechaun didn't jump out of the center of Ireland...read more
@@friotaiocht101 It’s the fear of death that keeps you alert and alive. I served there for 2 years and met very few who weren’t fully aware of the situation we were in. Anyone who claims any different is either a sociopath or a liar.
Funny the candor of the unit leader : good quality fertile land there is protestants, crappy quality hilly bog is the Catholic land, hmm I wonder why those catholics are pissed off?
Who wants land ? , no money in farming anymore . Catholics have 9 MPs out of a total of 18 in the North . They make up 85% of the population of Derry . They have three out of four MPs in Belfast and make up 60% of the student population in Queens University . Most solicitors in the North are now Catholic .Give it another 20 years and the Protestants will be begging for a United Ireland because the only other option they will have is to go back to Scotland or wherever they came from.
@@harrystiles8195 there's still protestant on Catholic sectarian attacks in Belfast, mostly housing intimidation. If it were as you say it would be the other way around.
@@paulbrowne5049 The PSNI is 70% protestant and that is why the loyalist thugs get away with what they are doing , not only to working class Catholics but to immigrants as well . Catholics who join the PSNI are treated like outsiders by the PSNI and the dissident Republicans in their own community . Getting blown up by a car bomb puts a lot of Catholics off from joining the PSNI .
I thought the lad who made the analogy about Portugal spoke well and truthfully. Not particularly a good thing though in the British army in terms of pleasing your superiors.
A squaddie who really didn't know much about the new Dail (with its Sinn Fein majority) that approved the Six Counties of Ulster on Partition in 1921. Or that the IRA lost the Civil War in 1923. Meaning that the IRA/PIRA have never had any democratic legitimacy to wage a terrorist war in Northern Ireland.
No not Irish in any shape or form done 2 tours bessbrook mill south Armagh and Fermanagh st Angelo loved every minute shitting in the fields praying the cowards would take us on every day and when they did hide over the border for a cross border shoot (Nerwy railway line ) they got smashed 👍👍👌
this brings back memories. I grew up in NI during the early 70s mid 80s and remember this well. father , uncle and cousin all in.the Royal Green Jackets. fantastic regiment. great soldiers. probably did more tours of NI than any other regiment. some of the stories .
How can Soldiers be made so welcome at the Start from the Whole Minority of Catholics that were under siege at that time, and over a very short period, be despised?? How come no one ever asked these questions?? There was something missing and left out here?
@blahblahblah blah Thanks, I just read a few books on it. The Unionists never wanted the Sectarian Colony to be shared equally with it's native residents. I always wondered what really happened.
I,m an ex para did many tours including Fermanagh. Survived numerous incidences whilst in the province and if that wasn’t enough survived the bombing on our barracks in Tern Hill. This was a war in all respects.
When Maj Daniell claims that the UK army is not a foreign power he is the reason why they promote of have people like him leading the privates who know they are foreigners in a strange land. To be a British Major I think requires one to be book smart and care about the little things yet can't see the big picture. Otherwise they would see what that war was, a foreign army shaking down citizens who live with a history of being treated like serfs by British foreign lords. Then add on the British army defending a British state like Northern Ireland, which antagonized the minority Catholic community within their boarders and you get the troubles. The Major either can't see it or won't accept it and it comes with the cost of tax payer's money and destruction.
i was in clogher in 1992 joined up in 1990 : watched the police station blow up in five mile town that year and area search for a device provrd fruitfull as it blew about 800m from us and cuaght the bastard heading towards us in our road block.
Your army sided with one community against another. Your army occupied and oppressed people in my country. Yee deserved everything yee got. And don't give us crap abut a job...there was always work in the US or Australia. Plenty of people in Ireland had this attitude to yee...ua-cam.com/video/fTS09G__CqQ/v-deo.html
@@paddy864 Plenty. So? That was our job to resist your occupation. You oppressed our people, not for this conflict but for centuries, you get what you deserve.
@@RebelofIreland well done for owning up to numerous counts of mass murder, because of something you think Cromwell did four centuries ago, you morally deficient moron.
I was based at the Deanery a few years after this and the village hadn't changed a bit but the camp had. Sniper screens all round and a super sangar at the back gate. We didn't live in portacabins anymore either, we lived in a massive mortar hardened concrete block known as the cube but had to wear body armour and helmet and double down to the cook house which was still in a portacabin. Downtime was spent either in the cube or in the bar in the R IRISH block watching telly with your two cans when you weren't dry.
The journalist doing the interviewing is Peter Taylor, & the stupid questions he was asking were typical of large amounts of the defeatist press coverage of the Ulster War whilst it was going on, i.e. "it's all hopeless, troops are making it worse - troops out". This type of reporter carrying on like this - & he did it all thru the conflict - was a bloody menace as all it did is encourage P-IRA to keep going thru the 70's/80's thinking they were getting somewhere. Ironic that for all his ?'s here implying the war was unwinnable for the British Army, it was winding down, & P-IRA surrendered only a couple of years after this.
You have a bit of a warped view point on this.. So did ya know since the early 70`s the IRA were setting up a political movement through shin fein , in order to reach a political settlement to the conflict,however the British gov wanted this to continue and would dub over any speeches , banned any dialogue with both sides?. AS long as its over there and not on the mainland the gov were happy to send young naive lads and ladies to the conflict, but once it became a mainland bombing campaign and was at the doors and threatening the British public at large was the turning point in the conflict and forced the gov to open back channels to talk directly with both sides.. also long before you were born there`s been an IRA . your little time in the north is like a tear drop in the ocean with regards to Irish history 300 yrs of occupation crown forces driven out ,split between state and original combat forces which went on to be today's IRA. there`s been no surrender by the republican movement, but by all means keep telling yourself that.. after all the biggest recruitment driver into the ranks of the provisional was the British state itself , the soldier in the vid covered it.. based in every Irishman`s soul is the history of the island , which inc resistance from any occupying force , from the vikings to the British crown.. and it would only take an insensitive gov in parliament, to send some toff clown no idea about the conflict and history and make him minister for N-Ireland the fuck things up and find an insurgency again acting inside the British state with a ballot and bomb approach to the goal. N-ireland has now gov a generation which has not seen conflict i sincerely hope for all our sake`s , the gov of Britain finally learn after trying 3 times now to fight an insurgency that is a force which cant been seen or differentiated from the civilian in the street.
The documentary conveniently glosses over the fact that the british army brought it all on themselves. The parachute regiment alone was largely responsible with really igniting the fighting.
After the soco’s had done their stuff, I was tasked by the CSM to go to Queen Street RUC station with my section and clean out the landrovers from the Crocus St attack. It was the worst thing I have ever done in my whole life. My lads refused to do it, so I did it myself. I’m 64 now and that day haunts me still. They should have got another unit to do do it…..
And I've seen the original...it wasn't the BBC who cancelled out a certain word....." When I walked down a school bus,kids @ 14.."so you knew there age...,....???!!!!!!!!
Total respect to these brave Warriors. I live in Protestant, West Belfast and remember the Royal Green Jackets serving in Belfast. I then moved to the Crumlin road, Belfast where I seen the RGJ serving in Girdwood barracks. I joined the local Army Cadets up in Girdwood Park. My daddy was Ulster Defence Regiment and he always had great respect and admiration for the Green Jackets because they lost so many men up in Ardoyne if I remember right? God Bless those fallen soldiers and their families 🙏✝🇬🇧💔
Great soldiers, always used to let me look threw the sights of the gun when I was young, pity they were murdered for tryin to keep the peace in Northern Ireland. And to make things worse the serial killers that done the bombing and killing were all let out of prison , madness. And worse again the leaders of Northern Ireland praise the murder that went on 😣😣
Royal Green Jumpers? Please tell me that used to be 'Jaegers'. Does "PI" stand for Private Investigator(s) or what? Is this even supposed to be in English? ;P
It's Pl (PL). It means platoon. So it's Mortar Platoon, 2 Battalion of the Royal Green Jackets. The Green Jacket bit relates back to when most of the Army wore red coats, their antecedent regiments wore green.
We are speaking of dreadful days Those days and what i saw shocked me as a young manand changed my perspective foreverThe actions of the police then Bspecials ant RUChelping protestant mobs to burn catholics and nationalists out of homes and areas where they had lived for years No British troops then No IRA either The army came in We thought they had come to protect us from the Protestant mobs Instead we got what we called counter insurgance Kitson and his murder squad shooting in an effort to take the heat off the protestants and make it look as if the catholics had started all this It was then when we realised that we had the state against us as well that the IRA began to reform If you are interested in truth and really want to know why the IRA reformed a very good book called BURNT OUT written by Michael McCANN is very informative Read carefully some real information in there and it is not a political document
@@dannyboy5517 Us British soldiers were caught in the middle never expecting to go to NI but had to. I've hated the Irish for donkeys years because I was there however I'm coming round a bit and don't feel that way now. We both have a different enemy now whatever that may be. I hope one day our countries can really get along.
10:48 A mortar attack alarm for a mortar attack against the soldiers presence. If I don't wish to get splashed at a puddle I stay away from the puddle. It was so easy to save so many soldiers lives. I think a lot of really bad politicians and leaders made this event escalate. RIP to those who died.
I was on a signals course in Warminster. We had a presentation down in the cinema. So the Sgt in charge of us fell all the gurkhas, green jackets and light infantry out. Formed up the heavy guys, told me "Cpl Weston, form up the light division. Wait 5 mins and then march them down, you'll probably beat us anyway". So he formed up the heavy mob and set them off. "Left" naafi break "right" naafi break "left" naafi break "right". 5mins later, I said to the squad. "OK guys, I'm warning you now, I'm really gonna knock the pace out here, let's show these twats what light division pace is like" "SQUAD, move to the left quick, MARCH. Left, right, left, right". A few minutes later we caught them up, wheeled out into the centre of the road, passed them by, cracking out the pace. We got to the cinema, everyone was fucked, breathing hard. I told them to stand easy. Then as we heard the heavies coming round the corner I braced them up. I looked at them and we were all smiling, proud as fuck to be Light Division.
The laughter of our children? It'll be the laughter of islam dominating Ireland but the stupid shinners will say 'Brits out but blacks and browns are as Irish as we are'.
@irbfenian2594 you are typical of the dumbed down shinner that no longer thinks Ireland is the Irish homeland. I bet you're waving your palestinian flag even though muslims hate you and are here to conquer. You remember that when they're ruling Ireland.
Save your Irish writing, whatever it means. As long as the majority of Citizens of Northern Ireland chose to remain part of the UK, you will not consign them to be part of Ireland against their will. 🇬🇧 Rule Britannia
I peeled potatoes in the McDonald’s regiment 2nd mall cafe We did a lot of under cover surveillance at KFC......can’t say too much about it......hush hush and all that
Did 6 Months there in Clougher, not long after this. Got Mortared not long after we got there. As we were Royal Irish Rangers we were treated decently most of the time by the locals. Had plenty of tea stops and the odd full breakfast in the odd farmhouse. 12, of us in the multiple, muddy boots etc. The people were good to us.
1975, 1976 and 1977 - Long time ago but just yesterday for me. RGJ in Dungannon (1975) thoght they looked scruffy when we relieved them...just inter regimental banter really. Respect due and given from XIX of foot.
Provos? Their now antifa and they spend their time attacking actual patriots fighting for their rights against mass immigration in the next plantation of Ireland.
@@gw2891 dunno I'm mates with some of them and good lads.. its the government not doing their job not vetting people....like in scene in scarface...us cop goes that fucker Castro is shitting all over us
Growing up i wanted to join the Army, but Mum said she didn't want me to go to Northern Ireland, so that and a number of other factors caused me to join the RAF, where was my last tour? Aldergrove, the RIC(NI) to be exact. I had a great 2.5 year tour, lots of great experiences, both off and on duty, mixing with all sorts and if me mum knew what i got up to at times she'd kill me.
When you say "British soil" you are talking about Irish territory under British occupation. Your narrative is pack of lies designed to support British imperialist occupation of Ireland. The more you talk, the more you lie.
Before Britain made it a single country, when was Ireland a unified country? It was fiefdoms and feudal lords, just the same as England and Scotland before it.
That's exactly what we were on the border because it was too dangerous for the cops to patrol the border without an armed escorts, the IRA would just pick them off.
@No Togoogle Doesn't show anything happening to him in the end. Personally, and I'm a Irish men born and bred I hope he's still very much alive and well. In fact, what was it all for in the end?. All the deaths, injuries and miseries on all side's, it was all for fuck all.
@jon tyler Full time results: British forces killed 146 IRA. IRA killed 1058 British forces. An additional 852 soldiers died due to "vehicle accidents" and suicide. The 14 innocent civilians you mentioned are not accounted for here. They're part of the 2000 civilian dead. (Of which British forces killed 1074 and Republican paramilitaries killed 829.) No offence intended, just giving the numbers. ://cain.ulster.ac.uk/sutton/book/#append www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1482975/Troop-deaths-in-Ulster-higher-than-thought.html
@@paulduffy4585 well you need to learn how to read properly then. The figure of 763 relates to security forces killed in terrorist actions. Adding deaths from natural Causes, road accidents and suicides to that is stupid as they had nothing to do with terrorism. This is what happens when you make hasty assumptions and allow your biases to kick in. I served many tours of NI over my 22 year career during which time I knew of one suicide, which was totally unrelated to NI, and four dead in traffic accidents, again unrelated to terrorist activity. Only 10% of those killed in NI were at the hands of the Security Forces, the other 90% were killed by terrorists of whom most were killed by republicans .
At approximately 22:30 the interviewer asked if the Cpl should have given a warning before opening fire, technically yes but that is only because we tried to play by the rules, personally I think that if you can identify a person as a threat to you or anyone in your vicinity then you should just open fire, and in this case the answer was they were definitely a threat. Why should the British military be constrained by rules when the enemy aren’t, they only care about one thing, killing us.
Like when you opened fire on civilians at a civil rights march?.Brit army started this when done it...IRA was defunct since 1916.... majority not politically minded at all just looking revenge....sad but true
@@gearosin81 you're definitely right about him being a green jacket! Was he a Geordie though? I can't remember. Before they were amalgamated did rgj recruit in the north east?
Andy McNab was in the SAS at the time this documentary was made, and he got his MM for an action in South Armagh and the sniper in this documentary took out Jim Bryson and Paddy Mulvenna in 1973 in Belfast. McNab didn't join until 1977
R.I.P to all the British lads who lost their lives during OP Banner. Gone but never forgotten. 🇬🇧✌️
They are forgotten nobody commemorates those foreign terrorists.
@@Scotia6261 how can british soldiers be "foreign" on british soil? 🤔🇬🇧
@@MrMinimanmatt They've no blood links to the native Irish don't know about the planters.
@@Scotia6261 you're as bigoted as any Paisileyite
nice one@@Scotia6261
Still av nightmares about it all. It could have been sorted a lot sooner if politics n pals in media hadn't roused an stirred hatered on both sides for political gains . I feel so sorry for that lady after loosing her boy, i mean that. But i also feel sorry/pain over the filthy covert killings, collision, hassessment and mental and physical torture inflicted on us..
I'm an old veteran. I was in N. Ireland in 1977 and 1981. I just want peace and friendship. We can't change the past, but we can decide our future.
A mistake by the narrator in the first few minutes. He said that the Brits were being deployed to British soil, but they weren't. They were being sent to Ireland
Could not agree more
@@OhEidirsceoil No its british soil on the Island of Ireland granted but still British soil, wether we like it or not
@@davidlysaghtlegupability2924 if some group kicked in your door of your house and started to occupy every room. Would you concede that it was now their house and you and your family were now part of their people? And if you managed to evict them from all but one room, would you then regard the house apart from that one room yours again and regard that room as theirs, with maybe your Mother left in there with them. Is she then of a different people than you, is she one of them. Would you feel you needed their permission to enter that room? HELLLLLLLLLOOOOOOO, IRELAND IS IRELAND, EVERY LAST BIT OF IT WHETHER OCCUPIED CURRENTLY, PREVIOUSLY OCCUPIED, OR GOVERNED FROM DUBLIN OR FROM A FOREIGN SHORE. There is no Ireland without all of its parts. It is not, cannot, never has been and never will be British. It can't, it is NOT in Britain. Britain is our neighbour. When re-unification happens it won't be the case that suddenly our country grew, got a brand new piece added on, a "British" piece. It will not be the case that British territory was lost, or that a British population in that corner of Ireland overnight becomes Irish. No. It will be the case IRELAND will be complete and whole again, free to rule itself. Occupation is NOT OWNERSHIP. If I take someone's car, I do not own it. I might keep it, control it. I possess it, but it is NOT mine. Wrong is Wrong, everyday, always, no exceptions.
@Cameron Renwick, You are absolutley right, we cannot change the past. What is done is done. Thanks for saying that. And we can decide the future by consent, too true
I was in the RRF.Never served in Northern Ireland and have the utmost respect for every man and boy that did. Well done lads.
@blackzed no did you? I spent 1992/1993 in MCTC! Colchester.
@blackzed that's when I was born ? 1971? Fair Play to you sir!
@@liamoloveboxing6844 Are you talking about the Republic, or Northern Ireland? If the first, there were many more factors and it's significantly more complicated than that simple story. If the North, well, it's still a firm part of the United Kingdom, so what are you talking about?
@@liamoloveboxing6844 proper fuckwit.
Yep D Wing 11 months.served every day plus months in close arrest awaiting my court martial in Catterick.
That brought back memories. My uncle was in RGJ’s and I’m pretty sure he was on those first two tours....I think it messed his head up a bit to the point he PVR’d with my grandad buying him out.
I ended up in Clogher in 1991 with 1st Btn R Anglian Regt, so the memories came flooding back when I saw that...I reckon it was even the same ‘room’ that I bedded down in as the one in the film in the bunker cabins. Certainly looked out of that sanger more than a few times.
I remember we were often invited into farmhouse’s and homes for tea and scones whilst out on patrol and I don’t think they where exclusively Protestant or loyalist homes.
Glad you made it home mukka 👍🏼
"An enemy on British Soil" Pretty much defines the problem with the British attitude being that it's in IRELAND. It's got nothing to do with religion. That's the distraction. Its been about everything since the initiation of the Ulster plantations established in the 1600's and the displacement of the Irish natives.
negative it's part of the UK, aka, Great Britain
@@jonwoo8217 Woo? that's like saying Taiwan is part of China. Or the Spratly Islands for that matter. Look at a map. Read some history before you make asinine comments.
@@MrJerryrigged1 I am aware of the history, christ half of my undergrad degree was history, it doesn't matter. NI is part of the UK, no matter what philosophical historical comparisons you attempt to ham handle in. Suck it up you commie.
only part intelligible comment I've seen on this, going back to 1600 ish that being your opinion, can you please explain who exactly is the Irish man or how did they suddenly own or populate( Ireland) or where did they come from, think you need to read a bit more history.the leprechaun didn't jump out of the center of Ireland...read more
Not for long Jon woo , not for long
I appreciate the honesty of the soldier at ten minutes. "Are you frightened"? "yes" - in the macho army world, full of bravado, that takes courage
If he said no he was not scared i wouldnt have believed him anyway but i give him credit for admitting it.
Everyone was frightened !!
Asusual we didn't get the real story what going on in the North it must have been mental
Any real soldier is going to admit he was afraid of dying it's only a normal reaction ... how could you not be....
@@friotaiocht101 It’s the fear of death that keeps you alert and alive.
I served there for 2 years and met very few who weren’t fully aware of the situation we were in.
Anyone who claims any different is either a sociopath or a liar.
Funny the candor of the unit leader : good quality fertile land there is protestants, crappy quality hilly bog is the Catholic land, hmm I wonder why those catholics are pissed off?
Rubbish. Slab's farm looks lush..
Does not help, long term deep seated problems, crazy situation.
Who wants land ? , no money in farming anymore . Catholics have 9 MPs out of a total of 18 in the North . They make up 85% of the population of Derry . They have three out of four MPs in Belfast and make up 60% of the student population in Queens University . Most solicitors in the North are now Catholic .Give it another 20 years and the Protestants will be begging for a United Ireland because the only other option they will have is to go back to Scotland or wherever they came from.
@@harrystiles8195 there's still protestant on Catholic sectarian attacks in Belfast, mostly housing intimidation. If it were as you say it would be the other way around.
@@paulbrowne5049 The PSNI is 70% protestant and that is why the loyalist thugs get away with what they are doing , not only to working class Catholics but to immigrants as well . Catholics who join the PSNI are treated like outsiders by the PSNI and the dissident Republicans in their own community . Getting blown up by a car bomb puts a lot of Catholics off from joining the PSNI .
I thought the lad who made the analogy about Portugal spoke well and truthfully. Not particularly a good thing though in the British army in terms of pleasing your superiors.
A smart squaddie.
A squaddie who really didn't know much about the new Dail (with its Sinn Fein majority) that approved the Six Counties of Ulster on Partition in 1921. Or that the IRA lost the Civil War in 1923. Meaning that the IRA/PIRA have never had any democratic legitimacy to wage a terrorist war in Northern Ireland.
@@DPG214 I don’t recall any of them saying anything like that actually?
No not Irish in any shape or form done 2 tours bessbrook mill south Armagh and Fermanagh st Angelo loved every minute shitting in the fields praying the cowards would take us on every day and when they did hide over the border for a cross border shoot (Nerwy railway line ) they got smashed 👍👍👌
this brings back memories. I grew up in NI during the early 70s mid 80s and remember this well. father , uncle and cousin all in.the Royal Green Jackets. fantastic regiment. great soldiers. probably did more tours of NI than any other regiment. some of the stories .
Green jackets didnt have a good time in ardoyne 😜😜
I grew up in occupied ireland too, around galbally. stiffed a few brits and gransdchildren lookin to do the same now.
Derry. Not londonderry. Derry. That's what it's called.
How can Soldiers be made so welcome at the Start from the Whole Minority of Catholics that were under siege at that time, and over a very short period, be despised??
How come no one ever asked these questions??
There was something missing and left out here?
@blahblahblah blah Thanks, I just read a few books on it.
The Unionists never wanted the Sectarian Colony to be shared equally with it's native residents.
I always wondered what really happened.
The unionists went to war with the Catholic community
@@georgebrowne5935 Was going to say the same.
@@georgebrowne5935books mean dick Georgie boy
When you don't want to be there and,
the people who live there don't want you to be there.
Calling the occupied 6 counties "British soil", {LOL]
Calling British soil "the occupied 6 counties" lol
I,m an ex para did many tours including Fermanagh. Survived numerous incidences whilst in the province and if that wasn’t enough survived the bombing on our barracks in Tern Hill. This was a war in all respects.
When Maj Daniell claims that the UK army is not a foreign power he is the reason why they promote of have people like him leading the privates who know they are foreigners in a strange land. To be a British Major I think requires one to be book smart and care about the little things yet can't see the big picture. Otherwise they would see what that war was, a foreign army shaking down citizens who live with a history of being treated like serfs by British foreign lords. Then add on the British army defending a British state like Northern Ireland, which antagonized the minority Catholic community within their boarders and you get the troubles.
The Major either can't see it or won't accept it and it comes with the cost of tax payer's money and destruction.
Typical upper class mentality.
i was in clogher in 1992 joined up in 1990 : watched the police station blow up in five mile town that year and area search for a device provrd fruitfull as it blew about 800m from us and cuaght the bastard heading towards us in our road block.
@Shane Gallagher im 52 now and my eyesight is going typing any kinda sentence these days is an accomplishment.
solomonstemplers crow
@@daveadams3989 yeh i was
Pity all the same.
I was there 1992 after taking over from the King's 🤔
Funny how most of the comments are people claiming they did tour and this reminds me of this and that.. Remember the last war the brits won was ww2 🤣
Falklands?
Your deeds they would shame all the devils in Hell every battalion
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To be honest, the United States is about to see its own troubles soon enough.
Peter Taylor has been the biggest cheer leader for P.I.R.A. for almost 45 years or more.
He's very impartial without biased opinions
Brilliant bit of tv back when the BBC coupé ben trusted.
No Dave, even then they were up to their tricks. You maybe didn't notice then because you weren't the target.
Swift and bold brothers ...ahmen
Did he say ballbag has been shot dead 😂
i really feel for the families though, most squaddies were like myself, just working class lads who could'nt get work.
Your army sided with one community against another. Your army occupied and oppressed people in my country. Yee deserved everything yee got. And don't give us crap abut a job...there was always work in the US or Australia. Plenty of people in Ireland had this attitude to yee...ua-cam.com/video/fTS09G__CqQ/v-deo.html
@DML1888 lol, who pissed on your tatties?
@DML1888 How many incidents of deliberate, planned mass murder were carried out by republican terrorists? Fuck off you thundering hypocrite.
@@paddy864 Plenty. So? That was our job to resist your occupation. You oppressed our people, not for this conflict but for centuries, you get what you deserve.
@@RebelofIreland well done for owning up to numerous counts of mass murder, because of something you think Cromwell did four centuries ago, you morally deficient moron.
If it is the mortar platoon then none of them will be 19..all older soldiers.
I was 18 in the mortars
the major is badly out of touch..
I was based at the Deanery a few years after this and the village hadn't changed a bit but the camp had. Sniper screens all round and a super sangar at the back gate. We didn't live in portacabins anymore either, we lived in a massive mortar hardened concrete block known as the cube but had to wear body armour and helmet and double down to the cook house which was still in a portacabin. Downtime was spent either in the cube or in the bar in the R IRISH block watching telly with your two cans when you weren't dry.
Demobbed sprog!
Never patrol in land rovers in hard areas…use a pig or foot patrol,we did tell the RGJ that when they took over from us.
These days seems so far yet still close for those who've lost a loved one.
14:54 Balllbag has been shot dead
Great to see the young faces of old mates.
The journalist doing the interviewing is Peter Taylor, & the stupid questions he was asking were typical of large amounts of the defeatist press coverage of the Ulster War whilst it was going on, i.e. "it's all hopeless, troops are making it worse - troops out". This type of reporter carrying on like this - & he did it all thru the conflict - was a bloody menace as all it did is encourage P-IRA to keep going thru the 70's/80's thinking they were getting somewhere. Ironic that for all his ?'s here implying the war was unwinnable for the British Army, it was winding down, & P-IRA surrendered only a couple of years after this.
You have a bit of a warped view point on this.. So did ya know since the early 70`s the IRA were setting up a political movement through shin fein , in order to reach a political settlement to the conflict,however the British gov wanted this to continue and would dub over any speeches , banned any dialogue with both sides?. AS long as its over there and not on the mainland the gov were happy to send young naive lads and ladies to the conflict, but once it became a mainland bombing campaign and was at the doors and threatening the British public at large was the turning point in the conflict and forced the gov to open back channels to talk directly with both sides.. also long before you were born there`s been an IRA . your little time in the north is like a tear drop in the ocean with regards to Irish history 300 yrs of occupation crown forces driven out ,split between state and original combat forces which went on to be today's IRA. there`s been no surrender by the republican movement, but by all means keep telling yourself that.. after all the biggest recruitment driver into the ranks of the provisional was the British state itself , the soldier in the vid covered it.. based in every Irishman`s soul is the history of the island , which inc resistance from any occupying force , from the vikings to the British crown.. and it would only take an insensitive gov in parliament, to send some toff clown no idea about the conflict and history and make him minister for N-Ireland the fuck things up and find an insurgency again acting inside the British state with a ballot and bomb approach to the goal. N-ireland has now gov a generation which has not seen conflict i sincerely hope for all our sake`s , the gov of Britain finally learn after trying 3 times now to fight an insurgency that is a force which cant been seen or differentiated from the civilian in the street.
I’d suggest you watch Peter Taylor’s new video on his time during the troubles. It’s on UA-cam
The documentary conveniently glosses over the fact that the british army brought it all on themselves. The parachute regiment alone was largely responsible with really igniting the fighting.
Did my tour of Clogher in 87 and the place looks like it has never changed 2 years later.
Still hasn't changed 35 years later !
Spent many days walking the bogs down there in '92 and along Augher Fivemiletown to say just a couple of others short of PB's
There's some familiar faces there & of course yourself Brian, hope you're keeping well Geordie.
Yea was thinking that my self I was in the old first what where you in?
Doing fine, cheers how are you keeping.
Was inneson in 2RGJ .met him after our contact on the bog rd .
After the soco’s had done their stuff, I was tasked by the CSM to go to Queen Street RUC station with my section and clean out the landrovers from the Crocus St attack. It was the worst thing I have ever done in my whole life. My lads refused to do it, so I did it myself. I’m 64 now and that day haunts me still. They should have got another unit to do do it…..
At least hospital only across the road
And I've seen the original...it wasn't the BBC who cancelled out a certain word....." When I walked down a school bus,kids @ 14.."so you knew there age...,....???!!!!!!!!
Total respect to these brave Warriors. I live in Protestant, West Belfast and remember the Royal Green Jackets serving in Belfast. I then moved to the Crumlin road, Belfast where I seen the RGJ serving in Girdwood barracks. I joined the local Army Cadets up in Girdwood Park. My daddy was Ulster Defence Regiment and he always had great respect and admiration for the Green Jackets because they lost so many men up in Ardoyne if I remember right?
God Bless those fallen soldiers and their families 🙏✝🇬🇧💔
Brave 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 dickheads
@@joemoore4037 😂😂
9:26 Did he say "hard porn"? Can't make it into anything else.
Yeah, one of the lads had some particularly arty photos of his ex girlfriend on his wall, very arty indeed.
🇮🇪🇮🇪Derry 🇮🇪🇮🇪👍💕
My left ear loved this.
Lol thought earphones were fucked
Am deaf in my right ear anyway 🤪🤪🤣🤣
@@darrenlacey8015 Same mate. Never went on patrol but my deafness is from being under various choppers refueling whilst on TSW.
Its my right thats got it i must of went deaf in my left ear ffs doc's appointment tomorrow
Turn your headphones around for both channels. At different times
Oddly, I was in Northern Ireland when I first saw this on telly.
Great soldiers, always used to let me look threw the sights of the gun when I was young, pity they were murdered for tryin to keep the peace in Northern Ireland. And to make things worse the serial killers that done the bombing and killing were all let out of prison , madness. And worse again the leaders of Northern Ireland praise the murder that went on 😣😣
Royal Green Jumpers? Please tell me that used to be 'Jaegers'. Does "PI" stand for Private Investigator(s) or what? Is this even supposed to be in English? ;P
Royal Green Jackets, PI person of interest.
@@ivorlongshot Oh, THOSE green-wearers. Did pro golf steal the 'jackets'?
It's Pl (PL). It means platoon. So it's Mortar Platoon, 2 Battalion of the Royal Green Jackets. The Green Jacket bit relates back to when most of the Army wore red coats, their antecedent regiments wore green.
@@johnd2058 I'd say as the Green Jackets were first worn during the Peninsula War the Golf Pros were beaten to it 😂
@@PaddyInf Aye Sharpeys mob.
Why not explain why the nationalists turned against the army
Why dont you? The IRA hijacked the situation to wage war
We are speaking of dreadful days Those days and what i saw shocked me as a young manand changed my perspective foreverThe actions of the police then Bspecials ant RUChelping protestant mobs to burn catholics and nationalists out of homes and areas where they had lived for years No British troops then No IRA either The army came in We thought they had come to protect us from the Protestant mobs Instead we got what we called counter insurgance Kitson and his murder squad shooting in an effort to take the heat off the protestants and make it look as if the catholics had started all this It was then when we realised that we had the state against us as well that the IRA began to reform If you are interested in truth and really want to know why the IRA reformed a very good book called BURNT OUT written by Michael McCANN is very informative Read carefully some real information in there and it is not a political document
@@treblerebel2362 No. They didn't. The IRA weren't even armed. FFS read some history books. The peer reviewed kind.
@@dannyboy5517 Us British soldiers were caught in the middle never expecting to go to NI but had to. I've hated the Irish for donkeys years because I was there however I'm coming round a bit and don't feel that way now. We both have a different enemy now whatever that may be. I hope one day our countries can really get along.
10:48 A mortar attack alarm for a mortar attack against the soldiers presence. If I don't wish to get splashed at a puddle I stay away from the puddle. It was so easy to save so many soldiers lives. I think a lot of really bad politicians and leaders made this event escalate. RIP to those who died.
Barn dogs been drinking 😂😂
💣BOOM
you dudes march at a fast pace
140 a minute try and catch us 😂
I was on a signals course in Warminster. We had a presentation down in the cinema. So the Sgt in charge of us fell all the gurkhas, green jackets and light infantry out. Formed up the heavy guys, told me "Cpl Weston, form up the light division. Wait 5 mins and then march them down, you'll probably beat us anyway".
So he formed up the heavy mob and set them off. "Left" naafi break "right" naafi break "left" naafi break "right".
5mins later, I said to the squad. "OK guys, I'm warning you now, I'm really gonna knock the pace out here, let's show these twats what light division pace is like"
"SQUAD, move to the left quick, MARCH. Left, right, left, right".
A few minutes later we caught them up, wheeled out into the centre of the road, passed them by, cracking out the pace.
We got to the cinema, everyone was fucked, breathing hard. I told them to stand easy. Then as we heard the heavies coming round the corner I braced them up. I looked at them and we were all smiling, proud as fuck to be Light Division.
Paul weston who where you with?
@@chrismarshall8526 3RGJ, actually we might have been 2RGJ by the time I was on that course.
it does not belong to the UK.
Memories of good guys in this.
Ex 2RGJ
Celer Et Audax
Seen a few familiar faces waxk durch 😅😉
Our victory will be the laughter of our children. Bua don Óglaigh na hÉireann.
The laughter of our children? It'll be the laughter of islam dominating Ireland but the stupid shinners will say 'Brits out but blacks and browns are as Irish as we are'.
@@Augh98-nt2zn You do know it's not mutually exclusive to be Irish and Muslim, right? Or brown and Irish?
@irbfenian2594 you are typical of the dumbed down shinner that no longer thinks Ireland is the Irish homeland. I bet you're waving your palestinian flag even though muslims hate you and are here to conquer. You remember that when they're ruling Ireland.
Totally agree. Not mutually exclusive to be Catholic and British either@@irbfenian2594
Save your Irish writing, whatever it means. As long as the majority of Citizens of Northern Ireland chose to remain part of the UK, you will not consign them to be part of Ireland against their will.
🇬🇧 Rule Britannia
Shooting soldiers in the back with heavy calibre machine guns, disgusting!
Troll
@@paulduffy4585 At least i'm only a youtube troll and not out trolling loyalists.
@@ProfileP246 I'd be happy to respond if I had any idea what you're talking about.
You don’t know anything anyone’s talking about.
@@ProfileP246 No, I don't know what you're talking about, and don't want to know because, clearly, neither do you.
Afew familiar faces from 3RGJ,my company commander RCoy
My father is in this
All you guys who done their bit over here just wanna say thank you !!!
Clogher & Augher & Kildress forest
...rhyming slang?
@@johnd2058 🤣🤣🤣.
Prayers for Ireland.
I peeled potatoes in the McDonald’s regiment 2nd mall cafe
We did a lot of under cover surveillance at KFC......can’t say too much about it......hush hush and all that
Thanks buddy.....just think of me on ANZAC Dayr
You know all about biological warfare then.
Thank you for your service.
Oddly, I was in Northern Ireland when I first saw this on telly.
Yes that's very odd
Did 6 Months there in Clougher, not long after this. Got Mortared not long after we got there. As we were Royal Irish Rangers we were treated decently most of the time by the locals. Had plenty of tea stops and the odd full breakfast in the odd farmhouse. 12, of us in the multiple, muddy boots etc. The people were good to us.
Same here mate,Faugh A Ballagh
@@kjbbc FAB.
1975, 1976 and 1977 - Long time ago but just yesterday for me. RGJ in Dungannon (1975) thoght they looked scruffy when we relieved them...just inter regimental banter really. Respect due and given from XIX of foot.
Holy shit, the sniper admitted to war crimes.
Up the Provos
Provos? Their now antifa and they spend their time attacking actual patriots fighting for their rights against mass immigration in the next plantation of Ireland.
Big difference, immigrants don't have rifles
@@jackietreehorn5561but will be far more dangerous
@@gw2891 some aren't bad skins... But I agree definitely a problem with letting any Tom dick and harry in
@@gw2891 dunno I'm mates with some of them and good lads.. its the government not doing their job not vetting people....like in scene in scarface...us cop goes that fucker Castro is shitting all over us
Growing up i wanted to join the Army, but Mum said she didn't want me to go to Northern Ireland, so that and a number of other factors caused me to join the RAF, where was my last tour? Aldergrove, the RIC(NI) to be exact.
I had a great 2.5 year tour, lots of great experiences, both off and on duty, mixing with all sorts and if me mum knew what i got up to at times she'd kill me.
Did you ever flip the bird upside down flying to iceman?
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Wank Durch
LOL, someone had to say it. 👍
@@Paul-Weston S&B Brother!!
Green Jackets are soft.....wank durch
When you say "British soil" you are talking about Irish territory under British occupation. Your narrative is pack of lies designed to support British imperialist occupation of Ireland. The more you talk, the more you lie.
When you dumb people learn Northern Ireland is British and always will be Unfortunately 😂 shit hole
Before Britain made it a single country, when was Ireland a unified country? It was fiefdoms and feudal lords, just the same as England and Scotland before it.
Jon Healey Where are you from Jon?
Planet vallhalla
@@Dennismenace-h3i like yer mas shithole
SOLDIERS SHOULD NOT BE ASKED TO BE POLICEMAN
They weren't, they were protecting the cops from revolutionary terrorists.
That's exactly what we were on the border because it was too dangerous for the cops to patrol the border without an armed escorts, the IRA would just pick them off.
Anyone recognise Kid Curry, came to A Coy 3RGJ for a while in the early 80's.
left in a box ...
Surprised they put the colour sgt on the telly - sounds like he was orginally from Ireland.
I am happy that they did. And, I am happy that this is over.
Dublin accent
Spoke a great deal of sense though.
@No Togoogle What do you mean?
@No Togoogle Doesn't show anything happening to him in the end. Personally, and I'm a Irish men born and bred I hope he's still very much alive and well. In fact, what was it all for in the end?. All the deaths, injuries and miseries on all side's, it was all for fuck all.
I was part of this platoon till 1986, did my first tour with them. Good to see knowen faces. Swift and bold
lol 3.nil haha that good old irish sense of humour... Priceless
@jon tyler no offence ...but 18 nil at Warren point 1979 ...just my Irish sense of humour
@jon tyler Full time results:
British forces killed 146 IRA. IRA killed 1058 British forces. An additional 852 soldiers died due to "vehicle accidents" and suicide. The 14 innocent civilians you mentioned are not accounted for here. They're part of the 2000 civilian dead. (Of which British forces killed 1074 and Republican paramilitaries killed 829.)
No offence intended, just giving the numbers.
://cain.ulster.ac.uk/sutton/book/#append
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1482975/Troop-deaths-in-Ulster-higher-than-thought.html
@@paulduffy4585 Full time results:
NI is part of the UK 🇬🇧.
It’s easy to kill as a guerrilla force. Doesn’t take any bravery to plant a bomb.
@@Noname47122 how do you know?
@@paulduffy4585 well you need to learn how to read properly then. The figure of 763 relates to security forces killed in terrorist actions. Adding deaths from natural
Causes, road accidents and suicides to that is stupid as they had nothing to do with terrorism. This is what happens when you make hasty assumptions and allow your biases to kick in. I served many tours of NI over my 22 year career during which time I knew of one suicide, which was totally unrelated to NI, and four dead in traffic accidents, again unrelated to terrorist activity. Only 10% of those killed in NI were at the hands of the Security Forces, the other 90% were killed by terrorists of whom most were killed by republicans .
At approximately 22:30 the interviewer asked if the Cpl should have given a warning before opening fire, technically yes but that is only because we tried to play by the rules, personally I think that if you can identify a person as a threat to you or anyone in your vicinity then you should just open fire, and in this case the answer was they were definitely a threat. Why should the British military be constrained by rules when the enemy aren’t, they only care about one thing, killing us.
Like when you opened fire on civilians at a civil rights march?.Brit army started this when done it...IRA was defunct since 1916.... majority not politically minded at all just looking revenge....sad but true
Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England 🇬🇧
Got chased out like in Afghanistan and iraq
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Chucky air law 🇮🇪☘️🇮🇪
You’ve been going on a mad one with the comments haven’t you.
And a Chucky Air Law to you too...
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Justin Martin - Still waiting
We all are... 26 + 6 = 1 🇮🇪☘️🇮🇪
Justin Martin - Hitting us with your funny slogans isn’t changing anything, it only makes you sound American.
Auger, Clogher, Fivemiletown. It was six miles up and seven miles down.
Fond memories of fishing a certain private lake at 5MT in 79-81.
Oh that long drag brings memories back 😂
Here's an idea. Don't join the Army. Any Army. Don't point guns at people. Plenty of other jobs to do.
Someone has to teach the savages how to use a knife and fork properly
Lol Gibbo my old Screw in Depot and Colour Boy in Weeton, good squad
Is the "concealed" sniper Andy mcnab? Or was he a Geordie, I can't remember!! He might be Chris Ryan?
@Yourda 473i Sage medical advice there pal! I'll try my hardest not to have that fit!!
Definitely McNab. Recognise his voice. He was a Green Jacket
@@gearosin81 you're definitely right about him being a green jacket! Was he a Geordie though? I can't remember. Before they were amalgamated did rgj recruit in the north east?
@@keithpringle3940 Stephen Mitchell. Cockney
An antler and a back pack, would have hated to carry both, never mind a bloody antler
Add a GPMG to that list for making boys to men, fermanagh fencing disco dancers 😂😂😂
Now ur talking, disco fencing and a few volts for good measure keep u on ur toes
Many young men of 20 said goodbye. Ta ar la tagtha 🕊️🕊️🕊️
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@37:54...Why is a certain word muted???!!!!!!!
Chris O Neill It’s a glitch in the recording. Probably off an old VHS. *He says the invisible wall between the army and the catholic community*
I was on this tour and A Coy didn’t go to Fermanagh and get drowned in bogs but went to Cookstown and Pomeroy……and had a really busy tour
U make it sound like you in a rock band playing stadium venues for the summer
Jamie Daniels was my Plt Commander in the Anti tanks 1971...good guy and a great officer
Daniels didn't see himself as a foreigner.....nobody speaks like him in Tyrone.
@@Scotia6261 I doubt if anyone speaks like you in Tyrone,
Brings back memories from that place. 6 months of tiredness and no booze!
The soldier at the end summed up vietnam and Afghanistan, tragically sad
Warning warning. Don't walk around with weapons. That's the warning
The guy around 21 minutes is “Andy McNab” his mother regiment was the green jackets
Andy McNab was in the SAS at the time this documentary was made, and he got his MM for an action in South Armagh and the sniper in this documentary took out Jim Bryson and Paddy Mulvenna in 1973 in Belfast. McNab didn't join until 1977
Takes me back thankyou
Whale oil beef hooked
Little bit different today when they get their apples out
Clogher 89 - Derryard was in December that year and not far from Clogher.
Thats was a great job Derryard
Well that took me back...I hear the deanery has been demolished?
The road up to it is still there? I drove through Clougher only a few weeks ago. I done 6 Months there as well.
Sounds like Andy mcnabb
That spit though , that will go down in history.
Wobbly fences classic