I agree. Wonderful young men still prepared to fight for King & Country. God bless them all.

What's the bloody point? All this pomp and 47,000 illegals invaded our south coast in 2022.

Thank you for your service Alex.

Well done. Now get down to Kent and protect our shores from an invasion of illegals. "Ooooo no, We can't do that. We're a woke army now."

@@bobblue_west Much as we would love to unfortunately our Army can only do what our Governments tell us to do, in other words ‘Lions led by Donkeys’.

That's when it was really tough to get in the guards.

Nulli Secundus indeed , my unit 4 Battalion The Royal New South Wales Regiment, was raised from the St George Regiment the Australian Rifles who shared this motto.

Thanks for your service ! Appreciated pal

I passed out from 11th Sig reg at Catterick too. About 55 yrs ago October(ish)

Me too , 1984.

Would you join these days for all the crap they have to endure. More money stacking shelves at Asda. Like most jobs these days hard to recruit. Just let them have their day without being negative.

@@markevans6973 you contradict yourself, I said how much recruitment had gone down, you agreed but said I was being negative, recruitment has gone down because people don't want to join anymore and the armed forces have shrunk a lot since 1971.

I went through The Guards Depot ( The Old Guards Depot at Elizabeth Brks ) in 1967 as an Household Cavalry Recruit we trained as H/Cav but 26weeks as an Infantry Soldier or as a Guardsman then onto Catterick for trade training for AFV vehicle's in The 70s i was back at The Guards Depot ( Now The New Depot ) as a member of staff and there is no comparison between The Household Division of the 60s & 70s of that of today.

Impressive, I passed out of Mons in 65 and it helped my business career good luck boys David Jamison

Your King too!

Did you watch the video? England, really! Amongst the Guardsmen on parade I saw members of the Irish Guards, the Welsh Guards, the Scots Guards and the Coldstream Guards (raised in Coldstream in the Scottish borders). English exceptionalism has no place in the British Army!

@@Phlegmwahn Did you miss the Grenadiers?

​@@Phlegmwahn coldstream foot guards regiment was formed in 1650 at Berwick Northumberland by George monck 1st duke of Albemarle dates back to the English civil war !!!

God bless the United kingdom would be more appropriate 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Ditto , crack on soldier boys…….

All guardsmen on this parade though, that’s what separates them.

@@michealk5136 Just never knew they trained as guardsmen together. But great to find out.

Inthe old days of the guards depot the colonials Scots, Irish and Welsh trained together in the same platoon, the English guards Coldstream and Grenadiers trained together and the two regiments of horse guards did too. 😊

Sign of the times...no-one cares anymore

I get what you are saying, but just remember not everyone is fortunate enough to to afford a new suit or have they had the same up bringing as you. Most people join the army to try and escape poverty and shithole council estates in the UK.

@@phucknuts.7065 Seriously. I joined the military in 1972 and people had a lot less back then. Nowadays, you can go into a supermarket and get a descent suit/dress etc real cheap. Nice to know you think those people attending this passout couldn't afford to dress descent on these soldiers special day.

@@1442GlennLane i was just thinking back to when i did training in 2001 and to my shock families of fellas couldn’t afford anything after lives of living off welfare. My family were suited and booted but we never judged.

@@phucknuts.7065People don't turn at weddings in jeans and t shirts, even if they're on welfare, what's the difference....none.

Grenadiers never use the word yes and will use any other suitable word instead. I was jock guards and we had some grenadiers attached to us in Canada, I thought our traditions were a bit crazy.

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They was fine and joined the parade again for the march off.

Unfortunately the quality of kit we get isn’t great and how the forage cap was is how it got given to him which the co understood. He just said it needed exchanging he wasn’t to fussed as is wasn’t fault of the guards as himself

That is called right dress

Symbolises the different guards regiments, Grenadiers with the Red band, the Irish with the green band, scots with the red and white chequered, the Coldstream with the white and the Welsh with the green black stripe.

As he's in the household frock coat. Ribbons not medals are worn.

They’ll be OK. They’re British ! Hard as nails and proud.

True, compared to the other platoons passout the standard of drill has been superior, reminds me of the 1980s depot a bit. Best drill honestly was the present arms. Crisp and nicely done.

2 in January and one in Feb 2023 that I know of Graeme

Why would a height restriction give a drop in standards. You're saying someone 5ft 10 is not as good as someone who is 6ft 2. You're a complete pleb, then I'm guessing putting a statement like that.

@@desmondhull5778 Same as the police. Employing dwarfs these days.

@@desmondhull5778 6ft2 and an ex Guardsman and served with some excellent guardsman who was small and definitely mighty. You touched no nerve. You just needed to be told you are a DISRESPECTFUL.

@@desmondhull5778 A once respected man said, "You measure a man from the neck up."

Yes they do. They're all Guards Division but separate Regiments within the Div.