3 Rifles pass off the square at the Double

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11 жыл бұрын

Following their welcome back from Afghanistan, and presentation of medals by General Sir Nick Parker, Commander Land Forces, late Rifles.

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@yasdnilknarf1885 Жыл бұрын

That bugle, my friends, is the sound of freedom.

@Dan-qg1bq Жыл бұрын

Top effort guys. Light Division drill done properly is a joy to behold. 'The Rifles have only two paces, dawdle and quick march"

@pip110.5 Ай бұрын

Brilliant. So proud of our military the finest in the world and my son who served for 13 years with four tours of Afghanistan with special forces, and thankfully survived.Thanks for sharing. 🇬🇧

@adamwhiley4937 2 жыл бұрын

To the contrary of the comments written by angry lizards on their ceremonial performance... I think the lads here put in a sterling effort considering their (at the time of the parade) recent return from Afghanistan. Top lads.

@rayjennings3637 Жыл бұрын

Some people are never satisfied!

@DanBeech-ht7sw 9 ай бұрын

As an angry lizard I take exception to that remark 🦎

@MikeLacey52 4 ай бұрын

It was bl@@dy freezing...😮

@remittanceman4685 3 ай бұрын

They're also marching at "rifle pace". That's too fast for the precision and swinging arms to shoulder height one sees at the King's Birthday Parade on Horse Guards.

@brianjosephproudlock4254 10 күн бұрын

DLI lives forever with these squaddies!!

@jimmymyers8753 7 жыл бұрын

John Pickford Thank you for your kind words concerning The Bi Centenary Parade by 1st Batt KRRC !! I must thank the Boys back from Afghanistan . Well done we are proud of you ! I would not expect a high standard of drill after your active service efforts just a few days ago ! And we had months of rehearsal . And let me point out that our rifles helped with our Dressing , the muzzle overlapped the butt of the man ahead . Plus we were ordered to Swagger!! The grass cancelled out the crash of our steel studded boots !! Pity !! Thanks again to the Chaps !! Incedently , our average age was 19 and our weight was around 10 Stones ! The Rifles now are such Big lumps I dought we could handle them close up !! 90 per cent of our boys were National Service .

@katerinakempb8217 5 жыл бұрын

Why are you whining about, I'm sure these gentlemen would of upped their game if they knew that you were viewing this vid. Considering they have returned from active duty, I really doubt they would of bothered with perfecting drill performance just for you. You should be proud of these men, instead of negative type remarks, WELL DONE MEN👍👌👍👏

@MikeLacey52 4 жыл бұрын

It was bitterly cold that day, too...

@emantide6306 4 жыл бұрын

Put some of these gobshites who are commenting on these Greenjackets in Helmand and they'd piss their pants .

@svetlanadragunovic2948 2 жыл бұрын

cecenia techno

@Painasn Жыл бұрын

Thank You for standing up for our Military Gods that look over us. I am married to an ex 3RGJ have been for 20 years and even though he suffers from PTSD and is messed up in the head he’d go back out anywhere to serve his country again leaving myself and his 6 children knowing he may not return. Anyone got owt to say please feel free to contact me, you seriously have no idea. Oh and this is after he has had bowl cancer!!! 🖕🏻 ungrateful t**t’s. Thank You from a devoted loving veteran’s wife 😤😭😡. Bet none of you halfwits could do what my husband has done and would still do!!!

@Painasn Жыл бұрын

Oh and by the way our 13year old daughter has already a one star cadet in the rifles as RGJ have disbanded and become the Rifles Depo. Yes I am absolutely gutted she wants to be a front line medic, so how many of you ungrateful little minded negative people can say anything about the way they are marching or doing anything else, I really do not know. If you like I can and will share your thoughts and comments on all the military sites that I am a part of. Absolute imbeciles 🥺

@hans2406 3 жыл бұрын

The rifles..... My respect go to them, past, present and future.

@Dibley8899 10 ай бұрын

You gotta love the British Light Infantry.

@davidbevan8402 10 ай бұрын

Remember guys it not what you on the parade ground it’s what you do on the battlefield that matters

@johnsabini3351 5 жыл бұрын

The KRRC 200 year video - double past should be the training video for how to do it well. But total respect to The Rifles. JS ex 3 RGJ

@hugoML652 3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful parade, drill may of been off but I have seen far worse and from what I read it was after a deployment so good excuse. Much love from New Zealand look forward to the day I get to serve

@robertknight5429 Ай бұрын

I got my first spliff at school from my chum... JCW Maciejewski. True story!

@robertknight5429 Ай бұрын

Was it Much who liked my comment?

@sararedfearn4691 2 ай бұрын

Spot on gentlemen. 99% in step. That’s how it’s done in the light infantry. The bugle and drums are also spot on. Ex CSM 1 PWO.

@jerryumfress9030 4 ай бұрын

Britain is the greatest ally the United States has.. to the other allies, that's just the way it is

@user-lb3hd7ip4o 23 күн бұрын

Best in the world ✌🇬🇧🌹

@Someloke8895 2 жыл бұрын

Awful lot of Drill experts and "Not how it used to be" folk coming out the woodwork in this comment section....

@Demun1649 8 күн бұрын

That is not a Double March, it is a Quick March.

@rayjennings3637 3 жыл бұрын

That short pace at 140bpm must be hell on the calf muscles! Respect. I was quite happy with the standard REME pace of 30" at 116/120bpm.

@cycleSCUBA 3 жыл бұрын

Whilst in the Royal Engineers, we were somewhat lazy - we had Land Rover Discovery's !!

@N1611n 2 жыл бұрын

@@cycleSCUBA Lolz!

@N1611n 2 жыл бұрын

At first but you get used to it.

@gagasmancave8859 Жыл бұрын

Arte et Marte brother

@georgerobert4709 Жыл бұрын

In my day attached personnel paraded with the regiment so I would imagine the LAD would have been on parade too, marching at the same speed and no doubt giving the RSM a hairy fit . Arte et Party boys Arte et Party.

@aidjunkie5335 4 ай бұрын

Good to see the famous dance ‘the squaddie two Step’ incorporated into drill. That how I use to dance in the NAAFI.

@jg7739 4 ай бұрын

Jai rifles , Jai gurkhas.

@lachlanguymer3995 Жыл бұрын

Their drill wasn't even that bad. I don't know what people are complaining about honestly. The turn was a bit rough, but look at the amount of people there clapping and cheering. It might be difficult to hear the beat.

@user-sd2rw8di2t 2 ай бұрын

“ Celer et Audax “ Great style. “ Black Bob “ would have approved.

@rightslip8345 Жыл бұрын

Rifles!

@jimmymyers8753 7 жыл бұрын

The Bi Centenary Parade of the 1st Batt KRRC. 1955 is on KZfaq .

@alexweatherburn4390 Жыл бұрын

Glad I was in the Guards marching at a proper pace, marching at 140 paces per minute might be ok for shorter guys and the Ghurkas but looks wrong for taller guys and that square was a mess, it should have been swept first.

@MikeLacey52 Жыл бұрын

Oh, dear. A Woodentop schimpfing about guys that have just returned from a nasty Operation tour. Bet you where BAOR.

@alanhindmarch4483 Жыл бұрын

It makes me made when people who nothing about any regiment from the Light Devision. My Father was Durham Light Infantry, Myself Light Infantry, it takes some doing marching at a 140 paces to the minute and even more so 176, its not done for fun.

@patrickoreilly5150 2 жыл бұрын

Was that an R Irish officer leading the 2nd Company?

@johnmartin9424 3 жыл бұрын

TO Bn, worked with them on H10. Please can you edit your heading? Pass of the square or Pass off the square?

@MikeLacey52 3 жыл бұрын

Done, TY

@henrycastle1 2 ай бұрын

❤

@nathanu425 3 жыл бұрын

Don't know what to think hope they are a good unit. Lost a lot of good units to this "Rifles" thing. Miss the old regiments D &Ds, Gloucesters etc. But obviously someone in Whitehall is happy never got into LI thing. Tho it does have its place but better when it was RG and LI

@stewartie2 7 ай бұрын

Boy listen to that crowd roar when they doubled.

@talloccyclist 4 ай бұрын

Respect !!!!

@johnpickford9749 8 жыл бұрын

yeah, I agree yah, yah. All the best, you related to Maj Chad Lacey ex 60th/ 2 RGJ ?

@MikeLacey52 3 жыл бұрын

If that's to me... Not that I know of... C et A

@petermanning1864 2 ай бұрын

Is this John Beefy Pickford ex 2 RGJ anti tanks?

@richardstoker4963 23 күн бұрын

I was asked to do a demonstration of the light division foot drill on the parade square at HMS RALEIGH. I did 5 year's in 7th Battlion Light Infantry (reserves.) Missed the cut off age for the Army, and joined the Royal Navy instead. It was either them or the RAF.

@ichabodon 3 жыл бұрын

Don’t know when this was, but please we do not scream and shout. We are not Americans.

@Painasn Жыл бұрын

No we are not but we ain’t snowflakes either!!!

@DavidHarrison-js3ji 6 ай бұрын

Wrll done lads , smart as usual

@alanlancaster3703 Жыл бұрын

some people make me sick let them have a go

@samrajbuttar6469 3 ай бұрын

All the lads and ladettes going off to ASDA 😂😂😂❤❤❤

@Brightstarlivesteam 3 жыл бұрын

That was marching at the double, they looked like school boys running on the spot! a line regiment could march quicker that and cover more ground at 80 pace per minute

@MikeLacey52 3 жыл бұрын

Of course. 🙄

@Backs4more 3 жыл бұрын

You don’t really get it do you.

@MikeLacey52 3 жыл бұрын

@@Backs4more of course.

@Backs4more 3 жыл бұрын

@@MikeLacey52 I was not directing that comment at you. (I am ex RGJ by the way). I was directing it at the person who does not have a grasp of the ceremonial aspect of “at the double”.

@Painasn Жыл бұрын

@@Backs4more are you for real 😳? What sort of ex RGJ are you? 1,2,3 or are you LI? (Head in hand shaking)

@simoncampbell3144 10 ай бұрын

Far to fast ,as a cavalry man we like a good stroll , not to brisk mind, one would've like to get out of breath , a tadge unseemly

@MikeLacey52 10 ай бұрын

As a retired Rifleman I snigger at donkey wallopers unable to differentiate between "to" and "too". And i can still march at 140.

@anthonyconnell8670 10 жыл бұрын

Hahaha I know flip flop rifleman Flanagan his sister is a cadet instructor who's is shouting thiers flip flop

@emantide6306 4 жыл бұрын

Plank

@peterleigh7485 2 жыл бұрын

That square looked terrible never seen a square in the LI, RGJ, like that would have had guys sweeping it

@MikeLacey52 2 жыл бұрын

Course you would. Everything harder in your day, eh? The blokes had just come back from Afghanistan. Obviously they should have left a few days earlier to pick up a couple of leaves.

@jacklamb2904 Ай бұрын

As a wounded with bullets in is that doubled off. Remember we actually fought in firefights you melt. So we didn’t have time practice.

@johnpickford9749 8 жыл бұрын

just watched KRRC bi -Centenary parade 1955. Double past, dressing and uniform immaculate. Now watched Rifles parade 2014. What a shambles. Uniform ? Deserts cam, why ? Drill and dressing rubbish. Another fine regt degraded. JP ex 2 RGJ WO.

@MikeLacey52 8 жыл бұрын

obviously you'd have done it better. The blokes had arrived back fro Afghanistan a couple of days prior to this so maybe didnt have much time to rehearse Drill due to Operational necessity. They arent wearing desert DPM, but the new MTP kit. You fail. Mike, ex RIFLES WO2.

@rayjennings3637 2 жыл бұрын

Yet another one who doesn't read descriptions and other comments!

@Painasn Жыл бұрын

Don’t know if same Pickford, not sure where you went when left Winchester if it was 1989 hope it is you as it would be nice to be in touch again. RFN Oates

@richardtranter2273 2 жыл бұрын

I don't get this , we were always made to swing our arms to shoulder height , locked at the elbows , these don't seem to be doing that .

@MikeLacey52 2 жыл бұрын

Light Infantry don't. Try swinging your arms shoulder height at 140 paces per minute...

@rayjennings3637 2 жыл бұрын

Physics! Pendulums don't swing that fast.

@oml81mm 7 жыл бұрын

Woolie pullies and white shirts WTF?

@johnhill8529 2 жыл бұрын

It was actually in the Rifles dress regs. When I was RGJ it was a very RGJ thing, but unofficial, then it was added as a form of dress, current regs show “not outside barracks.” RGJ-no two officers dressed the same and the whole regiment had to be different to the rest of the army!

@NullbYte-gk5jq 18 күн бұрын

Prefer the SAS ramble off, myself.

@normancameron6165 9 ай бұрын

They want get them arms up further lol as an ex army

@rashidahmad7830 3 жыл бұрын

Too many regiments gone when they lumped everyone under the Rifles. Drill is not impressive.

@MikeLacey52 3 жыл бұрын

The blokes had just come back from a tour. Not much time for rehearsals.

@georgebarlow5829 3 жыл бұрын

Only one Rifles, The Royal Ulster Rifles. Sadly now gone.

@MikeLacey52 3 жыл бұрын

@@georgebarlow5829 Nope. You silly.

@georgebarlow5829 3 жыл бұрын

@@MikeLacey52 silly what,??

@rayjennings3637 2 жыл бұрын

@@MikeLacey52 Unffortunately, Mike, some people just don't read descriptions and other comments!

@josefmaureen4386 3 жыл бұрын

lol 🤣marching ,,,,its the quick step.

@alanmatthews4012 2 ай бұрын

They've got potholes on the Square, hahahahahaha

@jimmyjohnson7027 3 жыл бұрын

That was utter dog toffee. I'm glad I was in a regiment that marched properly.

@MikeLacey52 3 жыл бұрын

I'm sure the blokes just back from a tour of Afghanistan having lost some KIA don't give a fark what you think.

@carlbrett6383 3 жыл бұрын

With a comment like that you where probably in the fucking girl guides😂😂

@carlbrett6383 3 жыл бұрын

@@MikeLacey52 sorry that wasn’t to you bud

@trident1314 3 жыл бұрын

@jimmy Oh I bet your one of those old and bold types that did fuck all but march

@andyocallaghan8906 Ай бұрын

yes and goose green was for real men,not spit and polish boy's

@Stanly-Stud 3 ай бұрын

ridiculous

@Brightstarlivesteam 3 жыл бұрын

The bugle playing was disgusting and out off tune, It sounded as if they were blowing raspberries! My father would have chewed them off for the equally poor and sloppy marching! He served with the colours for twenty-seven years!

@MikeLacey52 3 жыл бұрын

Hush, never served civilian.

@Backs4more 3 жыл бұрын

The sound is bouncing around the walls of the barracks. I have been part of pipe bands on that parade ground (Redford Barracks in Edinburgh) and you get a triple beat of the bass drum. Where it is being filmed from there are more buildings behind.

@rayjennings3637 2 жыл бұрын

Lots of echo and a pathetic phone mic! What do you want, Royal Albert Hall sound?

@andyocallaghan8906 Ай бұрын

lumpy jumpers in the ranks,WTF.soldiers or tick tock machines.get a log and see how far you go.maroon machine all the way.hat means craps

@johnpickford9749 8 жыл бұрын

still rubbish. Redcoats should stick to 80 paces per minute. Although, glad to see the use of the noun Afghanistan rather than 'Afghan'. jp

@MikeLacey52 8 жыл бұрын

yeah whatever.

@Cheezsoup 5 жыл бұрын

@ John Pickford Pity these aren't "redcoats". Very famously they were Green Jackets.

@neilmorrison7356 4 жыл бұрын

Also line infantry redcoats 120 paces per minute quick march

@tonycooper633 4 жыл бұрын

Not being one to split hairs, but the only true Greenjackets are the 4th, and the 2nd Bn, who are direct descendants of the Royal Green Jackets, the other Bns were previously Light Infantry and the RGBWLI, all previously redcoat regiments, check your history.

@Brightstarlivesteam 3 жыл бұрын

@@tonycooper633 Many of these regiments were line regiments not Light Infantry, The RGBW&DD were line regiments and only LI for a short period off time before becoming part of the Rifles Super Regiment, These regiments would come out of a combat situation and within days would appear on parade in smart and tidy manner, or would answer for their sloppiness. This battalion does not care and has no pride in themselves or with serving the Queen!

@howardcopestake1036 11 ай бұрын

Baby steps what a waste of energy and totally unprofessional as soldiers

@MikeLacey52 11 ай бұрын

No doubt you were the hardest man in BAOR. Jog on you fossilised simpleton.

@michaeldoolan7595 2 ай бұрын

Oh do fuck off. The rifles are professionally soldiers, not marching dolls. Get them in the field.

@user-lb3hd7ip4o 23 күн бұрын

You no nowt stupid little knod

@glorious..--brit123 3 ай бұрын

I am ex rgj and fkn proud i personally hated square bashing to me being a soldier was fighting learning how to survive in the field and i never heard of the double before where the fuck did that come from

@NullbYte-gk5jq 18 күн бұрын

Yeah, never saw the use of foot drill in a modern army. And yes, I did serve. Too much money wasted on ceremonial and silly uniforms, not enough on training and war kit.