BRITISH ARMY: Sappers in War (1984)

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17 күн бұрын

British Army Training video covering the role of the elite combat engineers ("sappers") as part of the Cold War mission.

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@biggiouschinnus7489 15 күн бұрын

My old cadet instructor was in the Royal Engineers in the 80s and 90s Funny to think he almost certainly saw this video as an 18-year old sapper

@philstannett-lh4wq 15 күн бұрын

I remember watching this as a recruit in 1985

@Surv1ve_Thrive 14 күн бұрын

Were you in the Stazi? 🙂

@michaelfuller8304 14 күн бұрын

Love seeing the enthusiasm of these soldiers and reading the memories of you guys. I’m proud of you all. Shame about our politicians though

@alanmoffat4454 15 күн бұрын

I'M JUST TOO OLD NOW BUT THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES. 😮😊

@spartan1701 15 күн бұрын

Nice video. Looks like prototype sa80 rifles are being used. Very cool.

@snowflakemelter1172 13 күн бұрын

Well spotted, XL60 prototype rifles before they clunged them up into the XL70 and SA80.

@stevepeake3427 14 күн бұрын

Wow, brings back some memories. 1(BR) and the 4 Armd Divs. I was in 1Div.

@richardhoffmann179 14 күн бұрын

We can't even field one heavy armoured division!

@shirleydrury5565 15 күн бұрын

Thank you for this upload. Much enjoyed 😊regards😊😊

@nobby430 13 күн бұрын

Hope people appreciate how brave and skilled that Frog crew were actually taking it into the water 😂 And the fact they got it from the barracks to any destination more than 200 meters from the camp gates without breaking down shows their superior servicing skills.

@timbo9200 3 күн бұрын

I joined in 1984. This video makes me feel old!

@RalphBrooker-gn9iv 13 күн бұрын

I’m ex-infantry. I think of the sappers I worked with on Op Banner. Remarkable lads.

@DAVYMAC 15 күн бұрын

Super cool!

@davidrobinson6798 14 күн бұрын

I was there, then, doing that and that's exactly how it was. Wonderful memories and grateful thoughs of how lucky I was

@gomergomez1984 13 күн бұрын

I miss those days during my tour in FRG.

@allanxxxxxxxx 14 күн бұрын

Well the officers didn't change in their wonderful voices this is when we had an army based in Germany I don't think we could field 4 divisions in Germany today

@colinjones7741 15 күн бұрын

Iff that was lion heart I was there.

@Surv1ve_Thrive 14 күн бұрын

Amazing to think Exercise Lionheart had +135,000 British troops. With around 10k of extra NATO troops to make +145k total. 🇬🇧👍

@bikenavbm1229 12 күн бұрын

how much of that engineering kit would be available today? I know little about this sort of stuff, I know the Harriers have gone, difficult to imagine the F-35's going anywhere near any grass.

@johnnyzippo7109 11 күн бұрын

Aghhh ! Finally , been waiting for new content .

@Screwball70 14 күн бұрын

It might be on again

@ianstorey8119 7 күн бұрын

Watched this in 1 Trg Reg Gib barracks 1985.

@DAGO58 15 күн бұрын

No sign of Wolfgang

@Surv1ve_Thrive 14 күн бұрын

Feeding the camera crew! 🙂

@nobby430 13 күн бұрын

He was probably in some forward harbour area waiting for the guys to turn up 😊

@RAmey-rr3jx 14 күн бұрын

Pointing on maps using fingers. Shocking I tell you, shocking! 🙂

@paulreeves5012 13 күн бұрын

Disappointed there was no mention of the toilet unit.

@snowflakemelter1172 13 күн бұрын

They got bogged down.

@seanhayes9769 15 күн бұрын

Not sure this 1984 because SA80 wasn’t introduced into service until 1985 and later , good video tho thanks

@Surv1ve_Thrive 14 күн бұрын

Looks like a prototype as another comment mentions.

@dulls8475 4 күн бұрын

My guess is they were given the flash new gear for the making of this possibly a few months in advance.

@wtfbuddy1 15 күн бұрын

Follow the Sapper, CHIMO and UBIQUE

@Surv1ve_Thrive 14 күн бұрын

🇬🇧👍🇨🇦

@jaegarfiftyeight8048 13 күн бұрын

That Light Mobile Digger must have been the only one working in the entire Corps! A great idea but lousy engineering. Pin In!

@alexzanderhussein7313 11 күн бұрын

Literally 1984

@James-zj5qj 14 күн бұрын

Which rifle is that at 10:25? Foregrip / sight etc does not look like an L85A1.

@snowflakemelter1172 13 күн бұрын

XL60 prototype SA80

@ljubomirculibrk4097 9 күн бұрын

"Yugoslavia on the brink of civil war..." In 1982... And now tell us you didnt haw your dirty fingers in this disaster as well...

@Stanly-Stud 15 күн бұрын

Most of the equipment we had then was well used ...i hated the 432's utter crap

@ZeusMyhero 9 күн бұрын

So it’s the sapers you hit ? Ok

@MONTY-YTNOM 14 күн бұрын

Got to be honest, the MOD was rubbish at making films :)

@SenorTucano 14 күн бұрын

These days calling NATO a ‘defensive alliance’ is almost as funny as calling Ukraine a ‘democracy’.

@ljubomirculibrk4097 9 күн бұрын

Just look at the part of fictive BBC report in this, Yugoslavian civil war, in 1982! Those bas... did this to my country...

@nothingnothing8503 7 күн бұрын

oh yeah, at the same time for the other side, someone will claim Donetsk and Luhansk were created by themselves, Crimea was chosen and claimed to be part of Russia, while Little Green has already infiltrated someone's land and taken over, as for some people who don't know or unwilling to know. even always believe Russia is a democratic nation, ha, jokes, I don't help Ukraine & Western but hell with your Russia and Shina either.