BRITISH ARMY: Urban Patrolling (1979)

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Mike Guardia

Күн бұрын

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@dennycraig8483 Ай бұрын

This is how I move through London in 2024, obviously without any firearms though.

@Arthur54321 Ай бұрын

Wont be long before they are issued 🤣

@dogwhistle8836 Ай бұрын

@@Arthur54321 to Muslim gangs keeping London pure for them

@bfc3057 Ай бұрын

Is there something wrong with you that you need to?

@Brecconable Ай бұрын

@@bfc3057What is wrong with carrying an FN these days?

@bfc3057 Ай бұрын

@@Brecconable grow up

@Iolis Ай бұрын

My goodness. What memories this brings back! More than half my service with 1 GREEN HOWARDS was on deployment on OP BANNER - 13 out of 23 years (March 1972 to April 1995) . both roulemont and Garrison tours in some awful shitholes. I hated everything about the place when I served there as a young man. It was not until many years after retirement in my declining years that I began to appreciate that despite the stain of 'Bloody Sunday', the Army as a whole acquitted itself extremely well during those years. I really do not think that any other Army would have been as effective in holding the line or would have acted with the same restraint. At least something good came out of it in the end for those who live there now.

@Brecconable Ай бұрын

Maybe the Rhodesians or the Apartheid era South Africans could've handled Nire exceptionally but not many other mobs. Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum.

@borntoloselivetowin3752 Ай бұрын

XIX

@jockstrap Ай бұрын

Awful shitholes like England is full of ? Or worse ? I don't think you could get worse that what England is

@naguerea 27 күн бұрын

Lolis, well said sir.

@rayandmary1 11 күн бұрын

You were in same time as lads i trained with at ijlb shorncliffe simpson and carnell

@TheCatBilbo 26 күн бұрын

All of this material is so important for historical study & you've done a fantastic job putting it all on KZfaq & preserving it!

@762parabillim Ай бұрын

Gawd. Didn't go through all that stamping about before a patrol in in my time. Everyone knew (after a bit of time) what they needed.

@Safespacesareforcunts Ай бұрын

Had a feeling that wasn't happening in reality day to day when I was watching that bit.

@k.r.baylor8825 Ай бұрын

Absolutely fascinating piece of NI history! Thanks for posting this; I've read extensively about Op Banner and this is the first NITAT training film I have seen of urban movement techniques in the 1970s-1990s era.

@davidthefirst6195 Ай бұрын

That video has been blast from the past Havent seen any of these old NITAT films from the late 80's

@williamdhughes6039 Ай бұрын

Made up to have found this channel Haven't seen a video i haven't already seen as a sprog yet. This in particular has brought back (mixed) memories Great channel though buddy

@matthewjones9565 Ай бұрын

I've done a lot of urban patrols, literally thousands, and at no point did we do drill at the loading bay, or parade and start emptying pouches out on the floor.

@shecksthesheckler423 Ай бұрын

Exactly, I never once had a kit check, I was asked to jump up and down once to ensure I wasn't rattling for a night time op but other than that we were trusted to be professionals, I remember a few years later in Catterick a SSgt telling me my webbing was too tight, I said jump up and down he rattled like a tin can, I jumped up and down, no noise, I said you've never been on an operational tour have you? No! It shows

@SuperBettyswollocks Ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@user-ck2sg7hw5g Ай бұрын

@@shecksthesheckler423it makes sense t bs

@dan8031 Ай бұрын

Aah Tin City. I learnt to drive here when I was 12. My father was with Nitat based there and Killymurphy was a playground to me

@wullieg7269 Ай бұрын

today they use for training Ukraine troops thats why theyre so good

@gm837228 Ай бұрын

I wondered where they got the kids for the video. I am surprised they were so young. No fear? I sure hope the bricks had no live rounds issued when doing that.

@mohammedsaysrashid3587 Ай бұрын

Sure, the deciplined practicality of Urban patrolling .thank you (🙏 Mike Guardia) channel for sharing

@fireforger9192 Ай бұрын

Aah tin city Sennelager, spent a fair amount of time here in 88 & 92 before tours in Belfast & E Tyrone looked a bit different from what’s in this video but the basic shape and road names were the same. As others have noted in Belfast we wore our berets apart from top cover on mobile patrols. Helmets definitely worn in E Tyrone as the risk of long range shoots was higher also fitted in better with the rural environment, where I was we right on the border full of farms and small villages.

@SnakePliskin762 Ай бұрын

Same

@davidpowell6098 Ай бұрын

I spent my 18th birthday hear in prep for a tour of Derry, looks so dated now.

@Stanly-Stud Ай бұрын

was there in `87 was there still a NITAT Instructor there who was an Australian Serving in the Queens Own Highlanders?

@jockstrap Ай бұрын

@@davidpowell6098 That 18th should have been spent studying for an English O level, and perhaps for learning how to spell some simple words from elementary school, such "Here." Rather than getting ready to go harass the fine people of Gobnascale, who didn't want you anywhere near them.

@Cyraxx2944 Ай бұрын

@@jockstrapNow they have planters from 50 third world countries who took their place,I’m sure Paddy would trade back for the old days now

@peteb8556 Ай бұрын

We had the blue plastic 7.62 rounds, at Sennelager CQBR in 1973.

@andersonec1 22 күн бұрын

And one of our guys lost a knacker with one of those due to an ND which ricochet off the floor

@melbeasley9762 9 күн бұрын

I used them there too.

@paddyb1957 Ай бұрын

I was in Derry 75/76 I don’t remember doing any of those bs drills before patrolling, we just got on with it.

@user-lb3hd7ip4o Ай бұрын

I always remember my friend coming to my house crying my brother is dead my brother is dead. He was in the Army in 1972 he was 19 years old. 💔🇬🇧

@user-br3bw7wr2l Ай бұрын

What regiment was he ?

@OperatorJackYT Ай бұрын

I love the Bri'ish instructional videos :D

@notreallydavid Ай бұрын

Everything was slightly blurry back then, and all the colours were muted - I remember it well.

@danielw5850 Ай бұрын

How about the regulation, standard-issued, 1970s "Porn Tash"; no respectable Tommy ever deployed w/o such facial hair, then 🤣@@notreallydavid

@fasteddie406 Ай бұрын

One music tune for all of them

@paraguard60 Ай бұрын

I was in Ballymurphy 78/79 with the 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards (Moyard Camp) One lad Tom P. was "cradling" his SLR in front of his chest (Not carrying it the prone position as he should of) Well a round hit his rifle shattering his thumb! (Lucky for him) If he´d of carried the weapon properly he´d probably of been killed...............

@matthewjones9565 Ай бұрын

I was 1st Battalion, then 2nd Battalion, then went to 6 Platoon 3 Para.

@Bongo-sm3mf Ай бұрын

Ballymurphy. Moyard camp used to be known as Henry tigered base way back I recall being brought there to have my hand bandage after an injury by the MO they were the days

@brickie59 Ай бұрын

Nice seeing the patrolling in Paddy land,

@fellspoint9364 Ай бұрын

Haha, Paddy Land . Sounds like an amusement park

@Bongo-sm3mf Ай бұрын

I remember when army showing us these films during my time in ni early 1980s lot's of cinema shorts about safety and what to avoid nice memories

@naguerea Ай бұрын

how I miss my 'PIT', on going on leave a pal from Leeds asked me to call in at a large store where the love one his life worked. telling her family of the adventure the comment was "you could have brought him home"

@apimyfriend Ай бұрын

8:07 Damn! Intense stuff. I doubt they'd include sprinting out of base in the doctrine nowadays considering the amount of equipment and gear each modern soldier is carrying.

@evillabrador1 Ай бұрын

There is a good documentary called The Secret Army on BBC IPlayer if you like all this sort of thing

@sebjones1566 Ай бұрын

This FIBUA setup is in Sennelager. Went there last year, some of buildings are still standing.

@Stanly-Stud Ай бұрын

Did my NI training there in '87. 😅

@Stanly-Stud Ай бұрын

Was a NITAT instructor who was Australian in the Queen's own Highlanders, a Sgt who obviously transferred..good bloke . Was just funny at first seeing his cap badge then his Australian accent 😂

@notreallydavid Ай бұрын

Thanks. Was wondering where it was filmed.

@edpzz Ай бұрын

@@Stanly-Stud Yep I remember him

@peteb8556 Ай бұрын

I was there at Sennelager in 1973. It was called a CQBR back then - 'close quarter battle range' . Don't think it had been opened long, when we were there ?

@mpsymonds1 Ай бұрын

That’s an impressive training ground. It’s typical seeing some of the comments from ex soldiers that some of procedures were not the reality. Isnt that always the case 😂. Those army trousers looked a bit tight. I was 7 years old when we moved to England from NI 1971. I was living just outside Belfast and can’t remember seeing any soldiers. My family often talk about the patrols and random stop patrols on country roads. I went back to visit and remember being searched going into shops in the city and having to walk through security checks on the perimeter of the city centre in Belfast. Remarkable today to think this was a thing in the UK. It’s almost impossible to think it could happen today. What we went through with COVID lockdowns and the BS that’s going on in London, Europe and the Middle East I get the feeling it wouldn’t take much for something similar to the military patrolling we see in this film.

@SafetyProMalta Ай бұрын

Ahhh memories

@normanmaclean7684 Ай бұрын

What a load of crap ,we carried 5 magazines of 20 rounds each and we didn’t do all that shit before we went out we knew our jobs .

@davidpowell6098 Ай бұрын

On our tour of Derry, we had four four man "Bricks" three on foot, one mobile, which was shared around during a four hour patrol, an hour mobile, and three foot, we only carried a mag of ten, (Officially). I had the baton gun, had four 45 grain, and two 75 grain rounds.

@ashleyupshall7641 18 күн бұрын

It’s an English propaganda film. Duh !

@Damo3445 27 күн бұрын

The movement out of the FOB seems so alien to me. No zigzag movement, no smoke, no I'm up he see's me I'm down. We have learned so much from this type of patrol. It's not an advance to contact, but still advancing to an unseen enemy.

@jockstrap Ай бұрын

As kids we loved waiting for them coming (Bricks) , football whistle or just our own calls to the older lads as an early warning to any one about who was up to something i.e. preparing a mix or a blatter . I loved the 70s and the 80s in my awful shitehole .

@TheWizardOfTheFens Ай бұрын

Lol! I still have a “map” of “tin city”

@michaelstephanides1854 Ай бұрын

Coming soon to many towns in the UK (as is the plan).

@RayCyst310 Ай бұрын

The troops will be islamic though

@Arthur54321 Ай бұрын

Scary thought - UDR becomes EDR

@tonyg25 Ай бұрын

Lol, imagine thinking the uk is some sort of prize people want. The best thing you've done for years is quarantine yourselves away from civilization with Brexit.

@michaelwhittaker5432 5 күн бұрын

Oh you mean all thoses boat people ??? all 20 /30 years old , no old men ,no over weight or disabled ,no women or children ??? just all fit male of military age been brought over by our own goverment

@WO2Royalengineersretired Ай бұрын

Those Derry girls were gorgeous to a young totesterone filled squaddie? !

@conlaiarla 27 күн бұрын

Nothing says sovereignty like having the necessity of deploying soldiers to maintain authority. 😊

@naguerea 27 күн бұрын

Professional is the word.

@cycleSCUBA Ай бұрын

Well at least we came out in broad daylight and showed ourselves. The IRA could call us anything apart from cowards. That's reserved for them. 🇬🇧

@bastogne315 Ай бұрын

Maybe they were a bit smarter than the Zulus.

@alanfrost4661 Ай бұрын

100%

@user-hi1mj4mc3w Ай бұрын

...and they won 😂

@commandingjudgedredd1841 Ай бұрын

@@user-hi1mj4mc3w Not really. Ireland has been sold down the river again by the EU and UN, and Gerry's mob are assisting in it.

@Dibley8899 Ай бұрын

I Ran Away.

@davewolfy2906 Ай бұрын

Luckily, I went everywhere by MT Air

@anonymous2513456 Ай бұрын

going out with just 18 rounds must have been a worry. What if the magazine was dodgy?

@maxasaurus3008 Ай бұрын

Madness

@bastogne315 Ай бұрын

Stop em carrying out mass murder I'd guess.

@covidcol3505 Ай бұрын

always check mags as you would your weapon..

@alanfrost4661 Ай бұрын

You checked it first

@jimjackson1795 Ай бұрын

We always went out with four mags down on the border.

@bobwalsh2112 Ай бұрын

How come the soldiers only 1 magazine with 18 rounds ?

@coops1964 Ай бұрын

"KillyMurphy" brilliant 😂😂😂

@evillabrador1 Ай бұрын

They haven’t got any ECM. When did all that stuff start.

@roberthewer2268 Ай бұрын

We had very basic ECM.in derry Nov 79

@user-he5so4gz4r Ай бұрын

@@roberthewer2268joker

@guy4469 Ай бұрын

i was in palace barracks in 1980 i slept with loads of magazines under my bed , This is true 4 off sat in a pig and fired 86 batton rounds out off the flap in 2 hours ,then we were put on orders pending investigation by SIB. this is CQBR training area .

@Arthur54321 Ай бұрын

86 Batton rounds good on ya mate.

@guy4469 Ай бұрын

@@Arthur54321 yeh we put loas off windows through in the divis flats and cars

@Brecconable Ай бұрын

@@guy4469what!? So you're arse is caught between a rock and a hard place (I Ran Away vs the other exteme SIB!?)

@wullieg7269 Ай бұрын

that lads something in front pockets......

@juanmontoya6622 Ай бұрын

Looks like a posh version of a Latin American shantytown.

@coolsceegaming6178 Ай бұрын

Basically correct, yeah.

@brookwimbury8342 Ай бұрын

My last tour in NI was 1979, very active

@v0LcaN_o___ Ай бұрын

one mag of 18 ?? surely they needed 3 minimum

@anapaulatillman.6133 Ай бұрын

I must be mistaken...one mag with eighteen rounds? In NI? I used to work security with a guy who'd done two tours and I wondered why he was so cynical...guess I'm not wondering anymore!

@Arthur54321 Ай бұрын

Yeh Tin City

@colinmelling6369 Ай бұрын

Any one still got a tail end Charlie certificate !

@roberthewer2268 Ай бұрын

Lol still got my PR CARD from 79 .WE UNDERSTAND IN TRYING TO DEFEAT TERRORISM SOME INCONVENIENCE IS CAUSED WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE AND UNDERSTANDING. HAVE A NICE DAY .PR CELL 3RD BN ROYAL REGIMENT OF FUSILIERS. LOL THAT WAS OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD 😂😂😂

@roberthewer2268 Ай бұрын

still have my aid memoir and a stack of C1s 😂😂😂😂😂

@peteb8556 Ай бұрын

Yep, and highly skilled at walking backwards. 🙂

@roberthewer2268 Ай бұрын

@@peteb8556 💯 derry belfast South armagh lurgan portadown 47 years later still turn around see who's behind me never walk in a straight line 😂

@jackblack7827 Ай бұрын

Northern Ireland was/is an anti-colonial struggle. The loyalists are descendants of British colonialists imported into N Ireland in order to control it and maintain British hegemony over the Irish. The Irish correctly saw the British army as an occupying force and they had every right to resist this force including the use of armed resistance.

@ulsterinfidel9897 9 күн бұрын

Sit down plastic paddy your opinion doesn't matter and isn't wanted

@boathemian7694 Ай бұрын

Free Ireland!

@maxasaurus3008 Ай бұрын

One magazine of 18 rounds? Please tell me I’m misunderstanding something, one spare mag? Dear god I don’t know if that’s balls or …?

@Dadopersoblueboots 11 күн бұрын

Fire card. Really.

@user-er4os9km9n 28 күн бұрын

Сейчас Ирландия свободена Северная

@alanmacpherson3225 Ай бұрын

Why was the term brick used?

@colinmelling6369 Ай бұрын

Solid all round protection.

@alanmacpherson3225 Ай бұрын

@@colinmelling6369 That makes sense thank you for the information.

@bastogne315 Ай бұрын

Sounds like prick cept there was more than 1.

@AbuHajarAlBugatti Ай бұрын

Because they were shitting bricks thinking about the ira

@colinmelling6369 Ай бұрын

@@AbuHajarAlBugatti nah never. That was the 24 hour ration packs that caused our blockages !!

@user-rj5db6nt4i Ай бұрын

It is like the IDF but whiter people on both sides....same non- sense of '' God made us better' ..." ..we have to rule the heathens" ....'' for God and duty" .....then when shot...all sides shed the same blood....and the reaper comes to sort who's really from ''God's people" and who's really going to ''Hell'' no matter what he was told and taught.

@Hereford1642 Ай бұрын

I spotted loads of terrorists.

@TheCatBilbo 26 күн бұрын

Ah, not everyone is carrying their regulation moustache!

@bombfog1 Ай бұрын

These guys appear to be wearing flak jackets so why aren’t they wearing helmets?

@geordiegeorge9041 Ай бұрын

I did two tours, 77 & 80. We didn't wear helmets.

@bombfog1 Ай бұрын

@@geordiegeorge9041 I did many hours of patrolling in Iraq and Afghanistan in the past 20 years and we always wore helmets because they save lives. So I’m wondering WHY you guys didn’t.

@geordiegeorge9041 Ай бұрын

@@bombfog1 Probably because the helmets that we had at the time were crap. If there was a riot, we wore motorcycle helmets with visors.

@evillabrador1 Ай бұрын

This was 6 years before Kevlar helmets. So they wore berets unless doing top cover in vehicles or geared up for a riot.

@bombfog1 Ай бұрын

@@geordiegeorge9041 Ah, very good. Thank you!

@julianmarsh2758 Ай бұрын

With 18 rds, the start of snowflakeness. I will say no more.

@mrlegoface Ай бұрын

? you stupid?

@dulls8475 Ай бұрын

We never went on patrol with 18 rounds. Mid 80s it was 80 rounds plus GPMG ammo. Cant remember the amount and if we were Urban then a mag for the LMG.

@siras2 Ай бұрын

Not sure what point you're try to make - this is NOT a war scenario and the most one could be expected to encounter would be a brief skirmish not a sustained firefight. 72 live rds per "brick" is more than adequate for peacetime patrolling in an urban area, with reinforcement from other bricks and the local QRF on call if needed. I did 3 tours in NI (2 in West Belfast, 1 in South Armagh).

@grahambuckerfield4640 Ай бұрын

@@siras2 Seems like a tradition, a small bunch of people always say the current generation are ‘soft’, they would have said it at the time this was made, ‘all punk rockers’, the one before, ‘long hairs’. Not from any who have done it themselves of course. A bit like the temporary peacetime National Service from 1947-60, really done to garrison the British parts of post war Germany, so as West Germany was allowed to have from the mid 50’s a military and the UK nuclear deterrent came into being ,it ended. As we have seen recently clowns think it should be brought back even though most of the Cold War did not require it. They also did not do it themselves. Do you know who you rarely heard saw this crap about the succeeding generations of military? WW2 veterans.

@julianmarsh2758 Ай бұрын

@@grahambuckerfield4640 Wrong answer, the politicans were soft in NI, the rules of engaugment were awful, not the guys the politicans.

@littlenemo14 Ай бұрын

What a pile of crap this is. That palaver was Almost as long as a patrol.

@zjaaht 4 күн бұрын

🇮🇱🇺🇦🇷🇺

@sidewindersid4180 Ай бұрын

All of this is utterly pointless unless each soldiers gender has been properly categorised. I reeeeally mean that.

@buy.to.let.britain Ай бұрын

pawns army

@Brecconable Ай бұрын

Steeds Wenners

@buy.to.let.britain Ай бұрын

knorben knusson@@Brecconable

@Brecconable Ай бұрын

@@buy.to.let.britain Jy praat nie Afrikaans nie?

@72marshflower15 Ай бұрын

Traitors in uniform.. 👎👎👎

@paraguard60 Ай бұрын

Silly person!

@charlietullos6726 Ай бұрын

Get out of Ireland and wouldn’t have had this issue

@paraguard60 Ай бұрын

N.I. is British and doesn´t belong to Eire, Prodestants are British, and needed protection..................

@cycleSCUBA Ай бұрын

The United Kingdom had and still has the right to use force to defend the choice and will of its people, whichever part of the United Kingdom they live. Quite sure this fully clarifies your point.

@matham625 Ай бұрын

oopppsssy.. you need to know some History and do some reading... they Army were there because Ulster "Had this Issue" not the other way round

@RayCyst310 Ай бұрын

Muslims won't be so disciplined once they have taken over, which isn't far away 😂

@JohnSmith-ei2pz Ай бұрын

The Catholics asked the Govt. to send the Army to protect them! tell reading a book fenian!