Good stuff sappers, this exactly what we need during these trying times of need. "Like a brigade over troubled water I will lay me down, like a brigade over troubled water I will ease your mind". To all the brave service men and women, thank you for your service.
We used to put up a 30 ft double storey in 20 mins from arrival on-site. As it happens we showed the Australians how to build a double storey as they had never done as of 1979.
@@pablogonzalez8304 Well they did say they were training in slow time to maximise safety. I've been on a bridging site in the dark in a hurry (I was a customer) and they tend to work much quicker then.
Good drills. You didn't say if the Australian combat engineer was a reg or a reservist but there are exchange schemes for both- unfortunately you never see his right arm side which is where his unit colour patch is! My bet its a reg on EX LONGLOOK....
I first built an MGB back in 1984 at SME, Linton Camp, NZ. It is a good assault bridge system, especially with the ‘link reinforcing? ‘ kit added on to increase the maximum safe load capacity. The downside of the system is that: if it gets hit by a shell or bomb you have to pull it all back and salvage what you can whereas the Bailey Bridge, in either original 1930s version, the slightly updated version or the NEW 1980s version can typically be repaired in place. Everything is a compromise and the MGB is great for a fast build, especially when you do the most basic version over a short gap as an Open Day competition build!
Props to these engineers! Kinda click baited myself, thought this was a US army vid, but still Brits are pretty cool. If you're joining the reserves to see if the military is the right fit for you, ok, but bear in mind reserves/national guard operate and behave differently than active/regular units
We were under canvas with beds and mattress at wyke Regis bridging camp, a lot of the lads tried the local scrumpy ,at the end of the camp you had too hand your mattress into storage, needless too say there was a few paying the cost of having a skinful,🛌🤪 happy days back in the 70 s
We're are the real Royal Engineers !! Leave it to the best Regiment in the British Army, and the World . I know Because I'm a Grandson and a Son of ex Majors retd ( Deceased ) Royal Engineers, 900 years of service to a King or Queen of this fair Isle . HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE. Ubigue.
Look good for reserves these days I was going to say that the girls didn't have there hair up but they are wearing helmets of course stupid me. Good to see look professional
@@justinr2564 think it comes from the early times when armies would send troops to undermine/sabotage/create tunnels under castles/fortifications to create an entry point for their troops. To "sap" means to weaken or destroy
More bending of knees, shouting "towards the gap" and drinking either rum or port. Then my son, or female child who identifies as a hairy arsed bloke whilst still enjoying a damn fine rogering from a hung artillery gunner, you'll become a B3 Combat Engineer. HURRAH FOR THE CRE!
I wondered when the little girls would come into it, Rather silly really we know that females will not be able to do the lifting of bridge parts. So do they get the easy tasks?
Very sad that you felt the need to use the sexist comment: "little girls". Given the one they interviewed does martial arts I suspect you wouldn't last long if you upset her. AND whatever you think she has joined up and will be a regular next year. Props to her and the other lassies. There is a place for everyone.
I really do not have a problem with women doing the same jobs as men as long as they are completely capable of doing so. Unfortunately what you have said is true ! We seem to have been passified into not telling it as it is ( the truth ). This bridge building excersise is being carried out in a controlled envirenment. If this was for real in a combat zone, bullets flying & the fog of war etc where you do what ever job requires you to do without question, where giving out easier jobs to the less capable is out of the question, im afraid lives could be lost. My comment will predictably be ridiculed but its the truth !!
@@clivemaskell2439 Just remind me who it was that was awarded a Military Cross in 2009 aged 21? A slight built Navy rating Medic who went into combat zones with her Marine mates and saved lives. Her name is Kate Nesbitt. Pretty sure a woman Officer qualified for her Royal Marines Green Lid last year as well. As long as they pass out on fitness don't tell me women cannot do the job.
and the famous sapper order went out. "HANDS ON, LIFT UP!"
and my back, ""oh no""!
Good stuff sappers, this exactly what we need during these trying times of need.
"Like a brigade over troubled water I will lay me down, like a brigade over troubled water I will ease your mind".
To all the brave service men and women, thank you for your service.
Ahh! Wake Regis. Fond memories doing wet bridging. The best times were making heavy ferry on the Weser River in Germany in the middle of the night.
We used to put up a 30 ft double storey in 20 mins from arrival on-site. As it happens we showed the Australians how to build a double storey as they had never done as of 1979.
1:06 Australian Army Personnel in AMCU, looks like a WO2
Oof, didn't realise he was teaching them, just saw him in the first minute and said "I'm gonna comment that"
@@underlands9353 Yes on exchange, probably from SME.
No wonder it had a laid back feel
@@pablogonzalez8304 Well they did say they were training in slow time to maximise safety. I've been on a bridging site in the dark in a hurry (I was a customer) and they tend to work much quicker then.
He looks like the kind guy who’s hat got sat on an exploding pigs head when he was a young sapper. Good times Wilson.
I built this many times, loved it.
The british forces is very strong and technical.
Good drills. You didn't say if the Australian combat engineer was a reg or a reservist but there are exchange schemes for both- unfortunately you never see his right arm side which is where his unit colour patch is! My bet its a reg on EX LONGLOOK....
Full time Army, and it was a 2 year exchange posting..best 2 years of my career!
@@ArtVandelay21 cool, glad I got that right, thanks!
I first built an MGB back in 1984 at SME, Linton Camp, NZ. It is a good assault bridge system, especially with the ‘link reinforcing? ‘ kit added on to increase the maximum safe load capacity. The downside of the system is that: if it gets hit by a shell or bomb you have to pull it all back and salvage what you can whereas the Bailey Bridge, in either original 1930s version, the slightly updated version or the NEW 1980s version can typically be repaired in place. Everything is a compromise and the MGB is great for a fast build, especially when you do the most basic version over a short gap as an Open Day competition build!
88 for my spec at Linton.
The commanding officer at rourkes drift was a Royal Engineer, 👍
Not true. Theatrics. The commanding officer at Rourkes Drift was Infantry.
My great uncle was a sapper for his national service.
Really want to become a sapper
Sam Osa what does a sapper do ?
So this is where the wedge heads build there bridges
Their
Yep sappers are even useful when dead to wedge the artillery’s guns. What other corps can boast that. Ubique
We get the job get job done, even when dead, glad you're satisfied. Do you need help?
It would be interesting to see the Truck/Storage/Transportation of the pieces to a problem zone too ...
It gets palletized
I love the army👍💪
Props to these engineers! Kinda click baited myself, thought this was a US army vid, but still Brits are pretty cool. If you're joining the reserves to see if the military is the right fit for you, ok, but bear in mind reserves/national guard operate and behave differently than active/regular units
And at the other end of Chesil Beach is.... the Bridging Camp!!
Is it still a tented camp, I hope so? It has a certain charm to it.
Looks easier than a Bailey!
So that’s what the army camp at my town does.
We were under canvas with beds and mattress at wyke Regis bridging camp, a lot of the lads tried the local scrumpy ,at the end of the camp you had too hand your mattress into storage, needless too say there was a few paying the cost of having a skinful,🛌🤪 happy days back in the 70 s
Swampy! Map of Africa!
3:03 is he a Bailey bridge builder 😉
good spot!
GIB barracks.
In the words of Mr Samuel - "The sapper is the lowest rank of the Royal Engineers"
Err, my grandad would tell you he won the war!
Well it's always the lowest rank that does all the heavy lifting, be it infantry riflemen or combat engineers.
We're are the real Royal Engineers !! Leave it to the best Regiment in the British Army, and the World . I know Because I'm a Grandson and a Son of ex Majors retd ( Deceased ) Royal Engineers, 900 years of service to a King or Queen of this fair Isle . HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE. Ubigue.
Don't carried away and it's UBIQUE not Ubigue
Silly little boy. You're not even in the army mate chill out. And it's not Ubigue....
Evil be to him who evil thinks! First in, Last out!!
@@harryfleming6575 I wasn't in the Army that is correct. I admit I spelt UBIQUIE incorrectly. Were you in the Sappers? And where have you served ?
@@pablogonzalez8304 I made a mistake okay I admit that . And why shouldn't I get carried away ?
Look good for reserves these days I was going to say that the girls didn't have there hair up but they are wearing helmets of course stupid me. Good to see look professional
What’s a sapper anyway?
A combat engineer
@@jomiles3605 Ahh, and why the name 'sapper'?
@@justinr2564 think it comes from the early times when armies would send troops to undermine/sabotage/create tunnels under castles/fortifications to create an entry point for their troops. To "sap" means to weaken or destroy
@@jomiles3605 Very nice, thanks buddy!!
@@justinr2564 From the French - Sapeur. We're the morris dancers of the battlefield ;}
First in, last out. God Bless You REME.
They aren't reme
They’re Royal Engineers, not REME?
REME are the clever ones. These lot just put big Lego bricks together..
Lol, not sure if you are trolling, RE do a lot more than putting ‘Lego bricks’ together 😂
@@davewhyte6944 he was joking
Honi Soi Qui Mal y Pense
More bending of knees, shouting "towards the gap" and drinking either rum or port.
Then my son, or female child who identifies as a hairy arsed bloke whilst still enjoying a damn fine rogering from a hung artillery gunner, you'll become a B3 Combat Engineer.
HURRAH FOR THE CRE!
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naruto tricked me sry it was a social experiment
Ex Reg really 😂😂😂
I wondered when the little girls would come into it, Rather silly really we know that females will not be able to do the lifting of bridge parts. So do they get the easy tasks?
Very sad that you felt the need to use the sexist comment: "little girls". Given the one they interviewed does martial arts I suspect you wouldn't last long if you upset her. AND whatever you think she has joined up and will be a regular next year. Props to her and the other lassies. There is a place for everyone.
I really do not have a problem with women doing the same jobs as men as long as they are completely capable of doing so. Unfortunately what you have said is true ! We seem to have been passified into not telling it as it is ( the truth ). This bridge building excersise is being carried out in a controlled envirenment. If this was for real in a combat zone, bullets flying & the fog of war etc where you do what ever job requires you to do without question, where giving out easier jobs to the less capable is out of the question, im afraid lives could be lost. My comment will predictably be ridiculed but its the truth !!
@@clivemaskell2439 Just remind me who it was that was awarded a Military Cross in 2009 aged 21? A slight built Navy rating Medic who went into combat zones with her Marine mates and saved lives. Her name is Kate Nesbitt.
Pretty sure a woman Officer qualified for her Royal Marines Green Lid last year as well.
As long as they pass out on fitness don't tell me women cannot do the job.
MGBs are lighter then Baileys You will be surprised to know that some guys are weak as well so...
200kgs split 4 ways I'm sure she's fine. It's a team game the army we all have our strengths and weaknesses.