Wow That’s nice that the soldiers are getting shown some care

So well deserved. Well done the Army. Worlds best Standards.

Living close to these bases, I can say that they have been totally transformed in the last few years. Well done all who were involved, you have improved the whole area for everyone 👍👏👏

Very impressive, looks alot like the facilities we had in Fort Bragg. I hope the solder's enjoy the new accommodation and little added privacy those single units provide.

Folk have always been saying how wonderfully green the grass is in Germany but now the grass is Greener at home!

I served in Germany and England from the mid 70s to mid 90s and our accommodations were diabolical and falling apart so it’s nice to see such a massive improvement.

And that’s why people before joining the Army have to do proper research on what regiment they going to join because not all regiment will have them nice accommodations...

The kid skipping in the back at 2:54 lol

Wow, they are certainly actually sticking to their promise this time of giving soldiers actual good homes and areas to live in. Certainly better than those the boys got when they came back from the first and second world Wars.👌🏼 You really couldn’t tell the difference here between this and any other large-scale good quality housing project with actual modern facilities that will last and age better over time. This certainly isn’t the housing projects of the 90s and early to thousands. All they need now is some trees and to make sure the whole base runs on green energy (Solar panels on roof which we can clearly not see yet). Something which I imagine will be implemented very soon under new policies. Well deserved to all. Great work here.👍🏼

2:42 that housing estate is nice and close to a school and many pubs. Looking forward to having army people in ludgershall

Long time coming. 10/10.

So glad those that are serving are getting the best👍 They truly deserve it, and much more! 👋 All the best, to each and everyone of you. ❤

Housing in itself is good in the garrison, but the lack of commercial properties, such as corner shops, pubs, restaurants, etc holds it back from being a great place to live.

Civilian living in Tidworth. I love it!!!!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The report's segment on communities was insightful and unique.

About time, keep on and keeping provinding for our troops

What a marvellous integrated works service project rebasing, a far cry from the old facilties and infrastructure of decades past

Was looking for the OMO in the windows

There’s only one place I used to live in Tidworth, the “Ram” pub!

Well deserved for our armed forces

My Goodness; Pete Gentles is still soldiering on and looking good with it! 2:08 I worked with him more than 20 years ago now...

Tim Cooper with another amazing report 👏

It still comes second compared to the accommodation being based over in Germany. Those where the days.

Nice lines them

Impressive.

Might as well give some good accommodation, which has always been the case with Salisbury, but this is a rarity. It is a wonder we have any armed forces left.

We used to call the blocks 'chicken coops', cooped up like battery hens in our ISO containers

Amen to this. All we have heard of for decades is disgracefully underfunded military accommodation and building maintenance, which I'm guessing is still on-going but getting resolved? Well done all, particularly if this came directly from government initiative. I hope this ain't a PR stunt so soldiers and families (RN and RAF likewise) are being properly taken care of at last. No one could be more deserving.

And who REALLY wants to live in Tidworth. Nice housing YES but it’s not Germany by any means the standard of living and amenities were far better than any garrison in the UK.

Shame they don't know how to make car parks for the single living in soldiers.

Was in Tidworth between 82-85 accommodation was over 100 years old then, when I first arrived I wss the 9th person in an 8 man room

Our company (AMF(L) COY R.A.O.C) went from our barracks (spider huts) in Devizes to Ward Barracks, Bulford in 1983. Went back to Bulford one year ago, first time in nearly 37 years. Hardly recognised the place 🙃. All single accommodation and now home to The Rifles.

Big Tim on a mad one

Wow Tidworth has changed from the early 90s when I was there with 1 QDG on exchange.

Wow military village

I was a motor cycle Vedette stationed near Shrewton in the 1950s and it was our job to keep the ranges clear of trappers while explosives were being used. I see that the area from Lavington to Netheravon is still unoccupied. Anyone know, is it still used for weapon training or just dangerous because of unexploded ordinance.

Spent a lot of good years in Bulford. Never found better married quarters in any other posting.

Very different from when I was there in 84-85 but as "silverflashwillo123 " asks below and which I thought on seeing the single soldiers blocks...Where do the single soldier park their car? Is it miles away? PS. where's the RMP Dutyroom?

its all change since we were there , lived at gunner road opposite st Georges church everything looks new . went to kiwi then Durrington sec mod schools , sis was born at tidworth milt hosp. and the old man was GARRISON SGT MAJOR and boy was he well respected and listen too by all ranks including the brigadier good times until we were stationed back to Bielefeld

Served in BAOR in the late 70s, was a bit of an eye opener in the old SS Barracks 😧 German writing still in the corridors…

This is all very good but what about transit camps on Salisbury Plain??? Knook Camp for instance is in dire need of improvement!

Me and Mark were full screws in 9 sqn.

Got to love the YT algorithm. I got here from watching a Tic Tak joke played on a cashier in a supermarket...... I worked on Project Allenby in Tidworth. The Accm is so much better than I lived in from 88 - 07 both the Quarters and SLA. Except for Holland, 4 Years in Holland in a privately owned house, 3 Bedrooms and a Man Cave in the Attic. The Army is not starting to give a damn about the men and women in uniform, it is about time. Do all of the GSMs allow the men and women in the Z Type SLA to use the Cooking Facilities they pay for now? I read some Soldier Mag letters and online posts that certain WO2s and WO1s were cutting or allowing plugs to be cut off the equipment in the kitchens. Or are these young men and women we trust with Live Ammunition and Rifles not allowed to cook for themselves yet?

No sign of the promised off road safe cycle path from Ludgeshall to Larkhill to help reduce traffic, as promised in the theatre at Tidworth to a large audience by DIO head of housing?

Canadian

I don't miss the Salisbury plains at all lol cold wet and very miserable !

WO2 Fulton being AGC att. to QRH Surely🧐

Aces

Those houses will have been built as quickly and as cheaply as possible. You’d be able to hear your next door neighbour breathing.

Better than the karsi that was Kiwi barracks Bulford!

I have been watching this channel a while now and really enjoy it. However why is is always army? Can we see how navy and raf are getting on?

A lot of paper over the cracks going on here. Belford and Tidworth are lousy places to be stationed, I know I've been stuck there

Mashallah very good news thanks to government

Villagers still turned against the proposed New Royal Artillery Museum though

There are a lot of 'eggs in one basket', 'it'll get nuked' kind of comments. But, IMO, ALL the troops and equipment will have been deployed a long time before any nukes arrive. These new facilities have been a long time coming. I hope the British Legion Club is still on the main drag through Tidworth.

Give it a few years and the place will look like a 💩 🕳

Shame accommodation won’t upgrade anywhere else...

Long long over due and there's still plenty of bases needing up grades people still living in married quarters from ww2

Meanwhile at Wattisham, the squalid rat infested accommodation is condemned.

80 mile cannon

I think that in 2021 the MOD should be building better and more modern houses than those. That's just my pedantic opinion.

Would anyone go on there and say anything bad ? Nothing is perfect and i know ive been based there . Compared to Germany the guys lock themselves in the rooms at night messes are closed due to no one using the facilities and the shops on camp are over priced and the food quality is questionable since the got private contractors in thus forcing you out of camp to buy food . The local area isnt bad but is lacking resources for any kind for activities . if you do want to venture out to say Andover /Salisbury you are looking at a taxi fare of around £100 . In summary its been done on the cheap the blocks are falling apart and how long will it be until they are not fit for purpose and the community is more like being on a tube in London than Mary Poppins . its not ideal but its okay but i find there to be less unit cohesion due to the set up and the garrison being run by civvies ..

3:23 what’s that accent?

I see our (US) KBR lobbying group got to your MOD for these new facilities, should have gone local.

Still not as good as the modern US bases with big PX shopping , cine , bowling alley and eating out

Politics aside. From the military point of view perhaps it is not desirable to have all your eggs in one basket? Seems crazy to abandon our bases in Germany where there were excellent training facilities. There was certainly no lack of community spirit over there and in my experience military civilian co operation was good with many friendships established. Sadly our withdrawal has left some previously first class bases and accommodation in a dreadful state.

And only one missile to take the lot out, smart move...not

British army is strong.

A far cry from the married quarters in Catterick Garrison during the 80s.... Number of complaints by army spouses... Poor quality indeed - back then - not now.. ..

Need to come see the state of Buckley Bks, hullavington - Asbestos, lead in the water, infested with rats, no heating or hot water, buildings held up only by the black mould, real grot hole🤮

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Such bland and cold looking buildings and general area's. Must be a Traditional British System.

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Crashed plane house do my taxes

I want to join the Canadian army

You call that a garrison? Might wanna take a note from your ex-colony xD

4:05 what's that under his nose 😂 does he think he's living in the early 1900s?

Horrible looking houses for the troops

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That thing on his face: too much time grooming, not enough time looking after his vehicles.

all get taken out by one nuke the army should be local and take a active part in the local communities and schools should be in the towns and cities not just out of the way in the country side what are they thinking a peoples army is what is needed

most of these bases should of been scrapped years ago and relocated or merged to units further up north.nearly all has wasted millions and probably billions on operational and planning issues especially larkhill .the ra should of been moved to scotland 70 years ago along with most salisbury plain with most of the affiliated units moved up north. when the uklf was closed in wilton it should of moved up north instead of andover.there was and still is acres and acres of unused mod land up north with all the access and benefits of wiltshire. absolutely disgusting waste of money.

Sadly such a big base would an attractive nuclear target.

A popular upload in Russia I'd say .