I have a feeling perhaps that these hooray Hendreys won't fit in now . 😀🥳😝

They can't comprehend being commanded by a prat !

When you meet Royal Army NCO s , you realize why they were the greatest empire in world history.

Putting aside all the pros and cons of SA80 versus SLR as weapons (give me an SLR everytime!), I thought the SLR looked so much better when performing drill.

I served my twenty in the royal navy, we had our fair share of officers like him , however we also had those i would have stormed the gates of hell for if asked . This type just gives the forces a bad name sadly ,

Did you the pretentious git ever know that Duff Cooper said on his biography , grenadier guards ,thet all the officers came from factory hands at the he end of WW 1.

Why can't Guards Officers salute correctly?

My first Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Prince John Ghika.

What a wonderful video. The very smart sergeant at the beginning was the great Sgt Geoff Willetts Green Gds who was the Squad Sergeant of the 1970 Brigade Squad. The officer cadet being measured by the regimental tailor became Major General Evelyn Webb-Carter.

Are the lads sitting on the beds officer cadets or trainee guardsmen?

As a former senior officer, I agree that it is difficult to say what one is looking for in selecting candidate officers, or indeed what it is about them that means they may not fit in. However, as a general rule, it seems wise to avoid those who hail from working-class backgrounds and those with regional accents. Also foreigners, of course. All this may seem rather obvious, perhaps, but you'd be surprised how many people these days don't immediately understand. It takes a certain sensitivity to immediately rule people either in or out as officer candidates. And that in turn requires breeding, experience and common sense. Above all, breeding. I must dash now, I'm afraid, because Pippa is calling me again from the orangery. She will keep buying jodhpurs.

Officer bit of a nob...he us5ft 3 if at a push poison dwarf..qs😅

Why is the brim? on the Officer's caps different to the one on the OR's caps?

Hard to believe that these Lads will be pushing nearly 80 years old 😮

Donkey kicks & officers who are a joke! Fortunately, the rank and file are top quality! Cede Nullis

I was in the Royal Navy fleet air arm for 9 years and to be honest the officers on the whole were the decent sort. If you had a birthday they would turn up and if someone had a wedding you would get an invite. There was one or two who were pricks, usually daddy was a commodore type. But there wasn’t many.

We used to have the Best army in the world till Woke took over

Another shit officer who if crap hit fan men would not respect..been there ..arrogant asshole ...Qs

The officer in this is a total knob..been through depot I wouldn't respect him total cock ..Qs

I can't even be bothered watching them nowadays because all I see is mediocrity. Right across the board.

That’s how leadership is done

May I screen record these videos and upload them to tiktok I will credit you in the description?

Half those officers are probably fucking paedophiles!

The saluting from the Wuperts was bloody awful and a disgrace. It's as though being Guards officers they think it's ever so 'chic' to do everything with a certain casualness.

I was there in 1972, six years after this doc was made. I did manage to pick out a couple of the NCO's who were still there during my tenure at The Factory and still screaming like bloody insane banshees on the drill square. It is hard to believe we put ourselves through this training as youngsters. It's like another world to me now. I do remember those first few weeks as a recruit was like a furious tornado hitting me. The language, the insults and never having enough time between beasting on the drill square, barrack room inspections, weapon training, PT and hauling ourselves over the dreaded assault course for anything but eating and sleeping.

'Honi suet que molly ponce', says the poor hapless recruit (who obviously didn't have the benefit of a classical education') as he attempts to pronounce the Grenadiers motto to the unbearable Wupert.. When I was at Pirbright we used call the Grenadiers 'Mars Bars'. I never did find out why? I love the platoon sergeant's face as he picks up a recruit's drill boots and disdainfully throws them back on the bed.

This really is the very worst of what the Army was about in those days. The Guards did no favours, Wooden-tops, tick-top soldiers, shrieking and rubber arm saluting. I chose the GreenJackets in the mid 1960's because they were the opposite to the Wooden-tops, minor Public Schools, Grammar Schools and State schools. As Light Infantrymen (Riflemen) we were allowed independent thought. I would suggest a more intelligent soldier.

At what point in their training are the recruits permitted to slash the peaks of their caps I wonder - ?

Angels doing their push and pull method on the Caesar King whom they can never control because he knew them well and whats behind their manipulative mindsets those angels are categorized as neglect angels set to be replaced by the Devian characters of the Olympians.

This brought back so many memories from my time in the Guards, some good some bad..I honestly can't believe i did this back in the seventies, but I wouldn't swap the experience.

Double the size of the modern army and per man, far fitter and much more capable

Stuck up, upper class Pommy wanker

That Rupert is a serious bellend

And I'm sure the Taliban have a training academy as well😅

Makes me want to race off and sign up to join the..... anything but this mob!

4:44 love it! Just itching for a monty python twist!

They obviously teach their YOs (young officers) how to salute sloppily and how to mince around sounding as effeminate as possible!

That plummy voiced officer represents what I detested about the British Army in the sixties. I later joined the Australian Army where I remained for more than twenty years. That British class system is a real pain in the a-------.

When I mentioned i was guardsman back in the day... They always say to me did you see much action.... I say yes I was attached to the housing benefit unit jokingly, And they say that so interesting

Nice of the Major to give his men a friendly little😊 wave 🙄

When was in the Para in the early 60s we used to say Theres a fairy at the bottom of my guardsman.

Officer sloppy as shite.

The spring loaded salute of some of the Guards regiments always makes me laugh - ! 😅

I served in the Army during the 1970s. As with all regiments in the British Army there was rivalry and banter. Guards were always referred to as tick tocks (strange how that has a different meaning these days). But excellent soldiers. But watching this documentary makes me realise how far Britain has now fallen in tradition.

Ruperts biggest usless officers i use to give them hell in training.😱💩🇬🇧

WTF is it with gaurds NCO and squeaky voices?

No woder the British are despised these are A**whole people.

The commentator at 3:00 epitomises everything wrong, at that time. The Parachute Regiment, for example, was barely 20 years old and not hung up on tradition, yet over-performed; the amalgamated "Line Regiments", to a lesser degree, too. To their credit, 30 years ago, they dispensed with the racism and begun to faze-out aspects of the chinless entitlement, so that now, the only proponents of this are "Sloane Square Poseurs", fit for nothing, after they leave, except propping-up a Fulham bar and boring-on about their time...

Served 25 years. The Guards Officer is a stuck up knob end !! NWO?

Served 25 years in the Guards. I can tell you these Officers are deluded. Pumpers !!!