My son was in 42 Commando and I’m beyond proud of all of his achievements. He is no longer with us and I miss him every day. R.I.P. my boy Love you always, mum xxx❤️❤️❤️🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

I’ve gotta say - the productions coming out of the Armed Services these past few years has been exceptional.

Thank you UK for being our allies, good to have you on our side. Norway will never forget your support during WW2.

"you will find little sign of life in the Norwegian mountains" - 0:09 can literally see my own house

Just like my service as a conscript in Brigade North in Norway in the end of the 90's. Minus 30 - 40 C° in winter, skiing and hiking around mountain with a heavy backpack, freezing my balls of any other day. Digging snow trenches with shovel the size of a spoon. Forced to snowbath in the middle of exersizises, stuck in blizzard high in the Mountains. I will say that the standing norweagian army in the north was quite capable because of their training in harsh conditions. Today the number of conscript are much smaller and more modern equipt.

The cinematography on this is spectacular. I could pause this at any point and put it on my wall

Brings a whole new meaning to the saying 'It's grim up north'. Absolute respect to all who undergo this training.

Exceptional production guys. Graphics, editing bang on.

Commando at 5:27’s mustache could deter a war all by itself.

Spent time with royal marines when i was in the Norwegian 2BN, good soldiers and well trained.

That was far too short. I want something longer to watch.

Funny point, is that winter training is part of the basic training for many Norwegian conscripts. During my National Service in Tromsø in 1988/89, I had the honour and privilege to be assistant ski instructor to HMS Intrepid, when she visited. Quite amusing to see them struggle with skis, but all smiles, and sporty attitude. A fine bunch of sailors and Marines....

Thats what we like to call "Grillvær" also known as perfect weather for a BBQ here in Norway :)

And the Royal Marines continue the tradition. Badass. 👍🏻👍🏻

My last station in the US Army was Fort Wainwright Alaska. The Arctic/ sub Arctic is absolutely the most challenging (and miserable) environment for soldiering. And its not even close. Good video and good training. Love the Royal Marines.

Great respect Royal Marines 🇧🇻 from 🇵🇱 Beautiful material.A great team of professionals. 🇵🇱🤝🇧🇻🕊️

subscribed here through Combat Arms Channel,i must say the quality of your uploads is Fantastic in all aspects!!,look forward to seeing more content 🙂👍.

Damn that cinematography though. Subscribed within one minute of watching.

During my compulsory military service back in 1985 i participated in NATO exercise " Avalanche express". At a point in time we got to chat with some Royal marines, testing each other weapons and so forth. Really nice and professional guys. Also excellent skiers.

I have a lot of respect for the british armed forces and their capability. For some 20 years ago I had the pleasure to meet and spend some time with a british cavalry recon platoon under a NATO exercise, they really knew how to connect with us in the Home guard and collect intelligence true our knowledge of the local area. The campaign in april - June 1940 was however not the finest hour for the british army, the british troops sent here was not much better equipped than the our troops and didnt stand much chance against the germans in southern and the mid of Norway. In northern Norway it was the Norwegian 6 th army division that stopped and started to push back german troops north of Narvik, and soon after was supported by allied forces in the offensiv. Anyway, I am glad the Commandos continue to do exercises here in Norway, and the same with all our other allies😊💪

The Brits learned everything they know about artic warfare from the Norwegians.

Royal marine: ive got arctic training Norwegian conscript: thats normal training

Strange to see the area where my kids are playing outdoors (and my own playground) presented like this....

Really good mate thank you for making the video. Looks very slick, very current and most importantly relevant, in this very difficult to appeal across all culture sets age. 👍 I wonder if this is the answer to recruitment issues that have been up and down rather than a constant drumbeat for many years? The pennies just dropped for me at how important spreading the word is on social media for the military. It really is how so many people ‘now’ find out etc about ‘everything’. I’m not of that gen so clearly I’m slower on the uptake than more tech savvy people (or I’m just solid😂) but even at my age I’m seeing more of the Corps, and the armed forces as a whole because of videos like this on KZfaq. And when they’re this good then it’s even better. Cheers buddy👍

Excellent production! Well done

More of this!!!!! I need an hour

Nothing but love for the Bootnecks, but your right of passage is a normal Tuesday for us :) Come back right after new years, much colder and a lot darker ;)

I was a US Marine and spent some time with the UK Marines in Afghanistan. Dudes are legit.

My uncle took part in the liberation of Norway, he stayed with a family in Oslo, they even sent food parcels to my grandmother in the late 40’s, my mother corresponded with Elna Bjork, until she passed away in the mid 80’s, my mother always rooted for Norway in any sporting event if GB wasn’t competing, my Nephew had a run ashore in Tromso, during Cold Response 22, said Norway was awesome, couldn’t say where he was this week, but it was snowing and he’s never been so cold......BZ everyone

Top notch quality and editing.

Loving this content!!! I have great respect for the British armed forces for the extremities they operate in and most of all the team behind these amazing videos.

Can’t wait to join.

Sitting on my coach thinking how badass these guys are. Gods speed lads.

As a ex Royal Marine i think you will find that the Royal Marines did not become the commandos till after the second world war, commandos were mainly from army regiments.

oh i remember in the 90's, every winter they where using the fields around where i live and went too school for skiing practice. So when we where at school and they where around, in the breaks we where out having fun skiing with the poor bastards to try and help them a bit, having some races and jumps with them. And they gave us chocolate, chewing gum and we learnt some english, what more does a kid need 😂

Around 2001, I did a small job for a particular CSM in 539 Assault Sqn when they were alongside in HMNB Portsmouth. Now, I found the RN to be professional in our dealings, but the RM were even more switched on. But that CSM had such an effect on me that I remember his name 20 years later. Back then, I didn't know about Mountain Leaders, but now, I do wonder if he was one of them, just by his force of character.

British Army back in the day also had a force based in Bulford called the AMF (L) Ace Mobile Forces part of the Allied Command Europe (ACE) basically a NATO quick reaction force to deploy to the Northern Flank Norway or South to Italy , The infantry Battalion had a permanent RM officer attached to it, and Mountain cadre guys to supervise the arctic training which took 09 weeks , one of the hardest course that I did , but happy days in Norway with lots of free down hill skiing when on RNR days , so expensive in the bars , but received plenty of daily oversea allowance to compensate ! used to just fill up a hip flask of duty free , and buy a coke !The Norwegians for years had a thing about non permanent troops in country, apart from the BOBC adventure training school in Kristiansand's , no uniforms and all the transport painted blue , so you arrived, exercised and left simple as that, they have since changed that policy as their is a USMC force now based in Norway , .As their was a big shortage of Norwegian defence force accommodation in the training areas , companies plus sub logistical units had to hire these amazing mountain hotels that were closed in the winter , a hot shower , decent food after days in the field , happy days ,

Great stuff brothers, stay hard, stay frosty.

So good I’m from Norway

National Geograph worthy.Hands Down!

beautifully shot doc.

Great video, chaps 👍

Good documentary, good tempo!

Brill flick, nicely filmed! Hope the lads learned something.

Can we just take a second to appreciate that the cinematic quality of this 8 and a half minute video is better than 99.5% of every movie and TV series to come out in the last 5 years? #Netflix I hope you're taking notes, you hacks.

Now that’s a recruiting ad

This is in March! Come back in the winter, when there is no sunlight and pretty much colder all over.

UK and Norway are very close military wise,The UK respect and trust the Norwegians.

Take care. And you are so necessary I thank you all

Awesome

Lets not forget the Royal Navys effort in Norway during the war. Putting down Kriegsmarine left and right.

Amazing

Fundamentally the training is the same as many many years ago good to see

BFBS kept me sane whilst in bfg Bielefeld Osnabruck 🇬🇧🇩🇪 93-2013 great memories

Greetings from Poland :))

Wow, no standing back and bombarding civilians, from a safe distance; they must be the real deal!

Really, no comments about the manly moustache at 4:46?

Interesting stuff

I wish I could vitness a cold response training session, being from Northern Norway I met a few marines in early 2000s or 2010s

between Bodø and Tromsø I would say are well known arctic exercises take place Sætermoen as example

Happy days, like it was yesterday, and not 15yrs ago!

Super

Great stuff, takes me back to the early 90s … even in -35 / -40 wind chill you are still piss wet through with sweat 😅 pulling those pulks with full kit going up the mountains 😂

Those green berets are real baddas

Norway has the best AW instructors in NATO. They also have lutefisk, which really is a rite of passage. Coffee's good, though.

And those of us who are old enough remember the RMF(L) days when it wasnt just booties wooden skis without metal edges !!

Do a video about tirpitz, the German warship that was sunk by British bombers under WW2

Comments section full of armchair military experts. 🤨

Apparently in Norway time is running a lot slower

🏆🏆🏆👍🇺🇲🙏 Thank you for sharing .

What a scary time to be any kind of ground troop, death from above is on everyones mind

You should look into what a de-esser does

They can't even get a cat off a tree :))

Yep

Better you than me…. I finished my service a long time as go but I will neverrrrr forget the bloody cold. It did toughen me up…. But I’m happy at home now 😂

Did he say maletting a position?

No cold protection at all for the face and you going by boat in the artic but maybe it was in the spring? (refering to the reporter :) )

Attached to them in 1976. USMC

I enjoyed a week long gliding course during the Cold War in Scotland at the Marine base, then they had white painted tracked vehicles very similar to the ones featured in the film. Fingers crossed the capability will be retained even if partners fully join NATO.

Nice place to going skiing and mountaineering, even in winter. There is no need to make so much fuss about cold and snow.

Vikings!!!

🔥🔥🔥

SLAVA NORWAY!

Was this shot in November by chance?

Old ant was young there!

The only problem is that Namsos was 1940 and the first RM Commando unit was not formed until February 1942. So the small detachment of Marines at Namsos were not Commandos. The only Commandos in existence in 1940 were the Army Commandos

As a soldier in the Canadian armed forces, this is basically every fucking exercise. shoveling into the snow to pitch your 10 man tent and no escape from the cold. You never get used to the cold either, absolutely miserable the whole time.

Using the exact same sound every time there's a shot of the M240 firing, brilliant. lol

Fuck finding/counting link clips in that environs...

Don't forget, the Army has commando's too. we work out there as well. Best regards booty. RE👍

Velkommen to Norway ❄️ The last guy who is speaking is from Finnland

Was this the 2021 cold response?

Beautiful scenery.... hated my 3 tours with 45-Zulu. Buggered off to Australia .... then was too hot there ...booty never stops moaning. Hooroo

Get yer ‘air cut!

Great to see the Royal Marine Commandos Mountain Leaders honing their winter warfare skills, and building on NATO's evolving competence system, which is the modern and optimal way of thinking. Within NATO, the official specialist in Arctic Warfare and Cold Weather Operations in the alliance is the NATO Centre of Excellence Cold Weather Operations (COE-CWO). The NATO-accredited COE-CWO is located in Norway, and provides NATO and partner nations the necessary competence in order to operate under Arctic, sub-Arctic and Cold Weather conditions. This is done through utilising the full spectrum of competence in the Norwegian Armed Forces, and the keyword is: knowledge sharing. NATO COE definition, quote: "NATO Centres of Excellence are nationally or multi-nationally funded institutions accredited by NATO. They train and educate leaders and specialists from NATO member and partner countries, assist in doctrine development, identify lessons learned, improve interoperability and capabilities, and test and validate concepts through experimentation. They offer recognized expertise and experience that is of benefit to the Alliance and support the transformation of NATO, while avoiding the duplication of assets, resources and capabilities already present within the NATO command structure. ... As per Military Committee Policy MC 0685, a NATO-accredited COE is a COE that has been established by SACT, has received MC endorsement, and has received subsequent North Atlantic Council (NAC) approval. Only when these steps are complete can a COE be called a "NATO-accredited COE". Further, Once accredited, the NAC may grant a COE international status under the Paris Protocol". NATO-accredited Centres of Excellence include (full list): - Centre for Analysis and Simulation of Air Operations (CASPOA), Lyon, France - Civil-Military Cooperation (CIMIC) COE, The Hague, the Netherlands - Cold Weather Operations (CWO) COE, Bodø, Norway - Combined Joint Operations from the Sea (CJOS) COE, Norfolk, Virginia, USA - Command and Control (C2) COE, Utrecht, the Netherlands - Cooperative Cyber Defence (CCD) COE, Tallinn, Estonia - Counter-Improvised Explosive Devices (C-IED) COE, Madrid, Spain - Counter Intelligence (CI) COE, Kraków, Poland - Crisis Management and Disaster Response (CMDR) COE, Sofia, Bulgaria - Defence Against Terrorism (DAT) COE, Ankara, Turkey - Energy Security (ENSEC) COE, Vilnius, Lithuania - Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) COE, Trenčín, Slovakia - Human Intelligence (HUMINT) COE, Oradea, Romania - Integrated Air and Missile Defence (IAMD) COE, Chania, Greece - Joint Air Power Competence Centre (JAPCC), Kalkar, Germany - Joint Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defence (JCBRN Defence) COE, Vyškov, Czech Republic - Maritime Security (MARSEC) COE, Yenilevent/Istanbul, Turkey - Military Engineering (MILENG) COE, Ingolstadt, Germany - Military Medicine (MILMED) COE, Budapest, Hungary - Military Police (MP) COE, Bydgoszcz, Poland - Modelling and Simulation (M&S) COE, Rome, Italy - Mountain Warfare (MW) COE, Poljče, Slovenia - Naval Mine Warfare (NMW) COE, Oostende, Belgium - Operations in Confined and Shallow Waters (CSW) COE, Kiel, Germany - Security Force Assistance (SFA) COE, Rome, Italy - Stability Policing (SP) COE, Vicenza, Italy - Strategic Communications (StratCom) COE, Riga, Latvia Many of these centres are accredited just recently, which only shows how highly this system is regarded, i.e. how quickly this kind of structuring and - most importantly - SHARING of knowledge and competence can show actual results. And even more COEs will be established and accredited. While eliminating redundancy, it will also allow NATO to evolve and modernize much faster, increase cooperation between member nations, and build a more modern and even stronger security alliance. As an example, look at the ongoing RUS-UKR war in Europe: compared to previous wars, this war proves that sharing methodology (e.g. command structure for adaptability) and technology (e.g. the impact of small UAV/drones, operated by 18 year old "gamers") is becoming increasingly important. Modern defence methodology and technology (e.g.: Cyber Warfare, AI, robotics & autonomous systems, Internet of Military Things + Big Data/Analytics, Additive Manufacturing in the field, Advanced Defence Systems, Military Space Systems, etc) will accelerate even faster, in future. And this is where the new NATO Advisory Group on Emerging and Disruptive Technologies (EDT) comes in. At the 2021 NATO Summit in Brussels, as part of the "NATO 2030" agenda, Allied Leaders agreed to launch the Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) and to establish a NATO Innovation Fund. Exciting times ahead!

Brilliant stuff from the Royle marine commandos 🇬🇧👍.

Operations are at all times supervised by several trained Norwegian personell..... no mention at all?!

sweden took part in the exercise aswell!

If they had an real professional boat like the Swedish CB90, then theirs guns would hit targets even in choppy waters.

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