Was

Is it ? Were you even born then ?

You obviously weren’t there.

@@George-dx2sd YES ! ! and it WAS ! !

Is it you must be very old then?

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jd9om7t8lbqsg30.html We did it too!

Yep! Took me a bit longer. Wish I'd joined 25 years earlier!

Erm yes😅

​@@roverboat2503Yep badge in two day's most have been Rambo.

21 was at kings road London they shared space with para reserve reg when I was there in the mid 80s 3 mile run around the track even before you got in to see the recruit officer and fill out paper work they don't mess around

@@Grayman58 10 Para 4 Coy was there as was I 😀

Hello and merry Christmas, I'm trying to find more out about my grandad all I have to go off is his artists badges he was called Ralph mcminn I'm pretty sure it was post ww2 so any direction would be great

@@mcminn94 related to a Callum Mcminn at all?

All a bit different now. Ha

let me guess you were the 1st the man on the balcony in 1980 - along with 100000000s other SF heros

@geezerp1982 No he wasn't because I know who was. He made a perfectly innocent statement. And nothing about being a WM. Suggest you swallow your jealousy and go and do something yourself

Damn, you beat me to it😂

In “hearford” 😂

Wasn't that Sean Bean?

@@OoohAaah6603 Robert De Niro.

@@JFDA5458 he said it to Sean Bean as a reference to the non existent boat house doors at the Hereford base of the 22 special air service regiment.

You think Starmer's crowd will be any better? 🤣🤣🤣

You think the government of the day wasn’t in the fiddle as well.

What? There's always been criminals in the government! How many secret wars have we been involved in or started? .....you people seriously need to wake up! ⏰️

What are you talking about? I’m obviously not of your generation. I’m proud of this country. You’re just a bunch of old has beens that will soon be leaving this mortal earth for good thank God.😊

An excellent read.

@@seekerofthetruth1298 isn’t it though? I’m former army, a 2434 from 1974 - 1998 and it’s easily one of the most authentic accounts of this sort of thing I’ve read; funny and bloody hard too!

well lets put that to the test then; CQB fighting - double taps or full auto on each target ? , do 9mm submachine guns have any use in the modern era ? what do you think of the US new 6.8x51 service round ?

Bunhill Lodge, if I remember correctly

I doubt it. the black jock was a Scottish rugby International before the war that good looking Rupert was probably about 10 at the start of the war. Lapraik was honary colonal in the 80's

Sorry you are right it probably was de billiare

He was a pretty boy.

Met DLB more than a few times!

@@mattatkinson1431 And ne when he was DSF

Royal Hamps! Royal??

seen!

Am not sure but I think you had too have some trade or skills too enlist.

Selection was 6 months every other weekend and a 2 week camp, pass rate 10% or less. After the embassy over 150 applied, largest course ever but the pass rate was about 12. Interestingly civies did better than ex Regulars.

That's on continuation 😂

More than likely.

And the FIVE MILER OF DEATH!!!

@@CL-vz6ch got there before me!! lol

I was just going to ask that lol..💂‍♂️🪖⛑️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦

"Security is everyone's business" then everywhere they go they wear the beret. A colleague of mine was in Two Three and he said they were not allowed to wear the beret anywhere until qualified and then usually only when in the TA centre, or MOD property on training courses. I guess this film is intended to show off the Two One as the Corps which led to Two Two (from 1952) and Two Three (from 1959) and is after all a recruitment film, before they became anti-terrorist. Interesting to watch and as a uniform buff to see the Officers in the Blues with the light blue collar (Oxford Blue and Cambridge Blue) plus the light blue and maroon shoulder arc flashes. My friend reminded me that Julie Ege a Norwegian model/actress was trained in survival by Two One sometime around 1970 for some film or something. Apparently Airey Neave MP who escaped from Colditz and later joined MI9 the escape and evasion line experts in ww2 (which led to Two Three SAS via the Reserve Reconnaissance Unit) was their CO for a time, only to be murdered later by terrorists, before taking up his post as Northern Ireland boss to deal with the IRA etc. Looked again and saw the Mars and Minerva patch on the sleeves, later on they had Rifles regiment chevrons green gold black as opposed to those of Two Two and Two Three who wear black on cambridge (light) blue rarely seen. Fascinating historical insight. Thanks for showing that.

Not sure about the 60's but later until you had passed continuation which was about 6 months after selection finished they didn't issue a beret. You were presented it and badge by the colonel

They only got the beret once they’d learned to flip up the sights on the compass 😂

Did you watch the video?

Yes you could join as a civilian with no prior experience up until fairly recently, although most came from previous military backgrounds. Now it's different potential candidates with no previous experience are sent to conventional reserve units first to gain some experience before being allowed to attempt selection.

territorials

Yeah, missed out selection😂

STABS init bruv lol@@creepswithcameraphones2423

Inaccurate video, these recruits would have to pass Selection to get their berets, many months later..... 21 SAS moved to B Block, Duke of Yorks HQ, Chelsea.

I was thinking the same thing. The "game" is to earn the beret. Like the Green berets

​@@irishtony.2879 True the film did not show Selection or Continuation training which might take six months,,,presumably all those in the video had passed..

@@gchqjtrig6492 True the film did not show Selection or Continuation training which might take six months.....presumably all those in the video had passed..

@@gchqjtrig6492 I remember B block well. Remember the running track too. across the way was the med centre and I think the Irish rangers. 10 Para used to be there too. Would have been nice to start your training already badged haha ;)

The Balloon Jump was your first Jump then you progressed to Aircraft.

@@FHIPrincePeter not if the weather was too bad for balloon. I hot ac first.

This is an actual unedited recruitment video that 21 did in the early 60's. While you may think it is pretty poor, for the time it was thought of as a useful tool to get new recruits and was one of the first of its kind.

@@rickydepledge3245 Lucky you. Mine was a Balloon. Scary but did it in the afternoon having watched many Blokes go up in it and jump out I figured based on the stats mine was going to open so although scared was quietly confident.

@@FHIPrincePeter After a few. You sensed your plumit to ground speed and knew chute was open. Low twists was worst if you could not get head back and look up to check. Taught if in doubt reserve out. Did a couple when later i realised should have pulled reserve. Im little like a lot of blokes and usually ended up walking off someone elses chute because they were under me. That always scared me shit less. Never pulled a reserve. Never got badly injured. Training was brilliant.

Piss Artists.."who cares who wins,as long as there's a pissup afterwards"

Artists Rifles look up the wikipedia article

Down range.

7.35 front left

It is a a bit of a propaganda video I think. Lots of incorrect stuff, many details wrong.

This is one of the TA SAS Regiments.

Bisley was not a military camp. It is highly doubtful they would be doing that sort of training on the grass in front of the club house like that. They would be on Shorts. I spent some good days in the Artists Club. This is a propaganda video, nothing to do with reality.

Hardest course in the world, nobody's passed it yet!