Actually the importance to this is that the Irish Guards remain a regiment entirely. They were probably the closest to the chopping block within the Guards Division.

@vipiccb6896

Жыл бұрын

how?

@Peoples_Republic_of_Devonshire

Жыл бұрын

Never going to happen. The Household Division is protected by its status and will never suffer disbandment

@fod1855

Жыл бұрын

The welsh would go before the Irish.

@maquettemusic1623

Жыл бұрын

@@Peoples_Republic_of_Devonshire Div wouldn't no, but I've never heard of there to be a protection on putting regiments into suspended animation given the number of btns they have before.

@Peoples_Republic_of_Devonshire

Жыл бұрын

@@maquettemusic1623 they'd disband every other regiment in the British Army before they touched the Toff's Division

Lovely to see more companies get reactivated we need all the soldiers we can get!

@anglo2664

Жыл бұрын

@Michael Pezzullo Maybe not that much, also there is no point we aren't even in a active war?

@MRMK24

Жыл бұрын

@Michael Pezzullo National Service and you're absolutely right. It's time to put the balls back into modern British lads.

@codyhearne932

Жыл бұрын

They haven’t got more man power, just once you finish training, you’ll do a small stint in 2nd battalions and do ceremonial duties and then you will go to 1 battalion for the rest of your time

@anglo2664

Жыл бұрын

@@codyhearne932 Explain please I don't quite understand?

@user-ir7os6wh1w

Жыл бұрын

@@anglo2664 2nd Bn Irish Guards was reactivated with guardsmen from 1st Bn and the London Irish Rifles forming No's 9 and 12 Coy. It wasn't created entirely new. Essentially, it's the same like what the other guards regiments did: Nijmegen Coy Grenadier Guards, No 7 Coldstream Guards Coy and F Coy Scots Guards were created from their respective 1st Bn to carry on the tradition of the deactivated 2nd Bn. Now the Irish Guards have joined the party (with 2 companies forming the 2nd Bn). And as Cody Hearne said before, once guardsmen finishing their basic training at Catterick, they will join the 2nd Bn in London for public duties before joining the 1st Bn for green duty (who will also rotate to public duties after some years). With the exception of the Welsh Guards, who currently only have 1 battalion.

My old Division was deactivated. Always good to see someone else's brought back to active service.

@douglastaggart9360

Жыл бұрын

See you've fell for the Ukrainian propaganda . So you stand with the asov battion which as been murdering Russian civilians and torturing Russian prisoners. I suggest you do some research. Or watch chris thrall video's too enlighten yourself.

@blessedheavyelements8544

Жыл бұрын

@@douglastaggart9360 Thank you, Ivan, for the Russian FSB/GRU Disinformation POV. Now F Off. Russian Disinformation Troll.

@cbroz7492

Жыл бұрын

...my led Armored battalion was deactived the day I left Getmsny to return home...I'll ALWAYS be an Iron Horsemsn!!!! 4/35 Armor..the Iron Horsemen!!!

As an American...I remember reading about the Welsh and Irish Guards being a part of the Guards Armoured Division in WW2.

@edgaraquino2324

Жыл бұрын

Yes...I believe J.O.E. Vandeleur commanded 3rd Battalion, I.G. & his cousin,Giles, commanded the 2nd...

@PoliticalMatter

Жыл бұрын

More people died from the UK colonies than UK citizens.

@edwinmorris1635

Жыл бұрын

Greetings to our American friend.

@marlianmansion7982

Жыл бұрын

As an American means F#£k All 😎

Should be at least two battalions for every Regiment!

@keenobservations3050

Жыл бұрын

Should be three divisions worth of men for each squad. Aiming high

@danielwhyatt3278

Жыл бұрын

Totally agree

@StevenHanover

Жыл бұрын

Are they going to Ukraine

@columnedfox5508

Жыл бұрын

@@StevenHanover not exactly..

@andys7314

Жыл бұрын

Well this comment makes no sense 😂😂 as you can’t have a battalion in a regiment let alone 2 battalions in a regiment

This is great to see an old Battalion resurrected after so many lost to history.

More money for the Miltary Britain first always 🇬🇧

@douglastaggart9360

Жыл бұрын

You really mean more money for Ukrainian military

The Irish Guards are amazing. Their professionalism, ethos, traditions and esprit de corp which are woven through the philosophy of the British army contribute to making the British army amongst the best in the world. With this caliber of soldiers the future of the British army is positive. 👍🏻

@jspee1965

Жыл бұрын

Nicely said Sir. May I interest you in a pinch of snuff before we go in?

We need at least a 180,000 strong army.

@LookHereMars

Жыл бұрын

A Royal Navy and Airforce of at least 50 thousand servicemen each would also be welcome. A total military of around 280 thousand active duty personnel would be a steady number for a peace time force.

@danielwhyatt3278

Жыл бұрын

You are definitely right there.

@maximillanmoseskawotjo3385

Жыл бұрын

No 600k strong army from all type in army , engineer , special forces and sapper and tech men in battle field and artillery specialist , etc and total need to be min 600k-900k strong army

@stephenmurphy5204

Жыл бұрын

Yes. Or Rambo.

@dnguyen9747

Жыл бұрын

UK needs at least 3 Million strong military and 500 Billion annual budget. King Charles must rule over the Empire once again. India, Canada, Australia, New Zealand must all return to Empire.

Congratulations form the Netherlands❤

Welcome back second battalion Irish guard. Hope to see more of you on you tube.

It's like F Company Scots Guards and Nijmegen Company Grenadier Guards, Company's from both regiments 2nd battalion's whilst in suspended animation, custodians of the colours untill the day 2nd battalion is reformed. Its really just so each regiment has active public duties presence in London while the 1st battalions do whatever is required of them whilst posted away from London. At least that was the case when I joined 1SG 20ish years ago shortly before we left for Munster, Germany.

Suspended animation seems common in the Guards. 2nd Bn Scots Guards for example. Placed in suspended animation March 1970, reactivated January 1972 and then placed back into suspended animation 2 Novemer 1993.

Still can’t understand why they merged the oldest regiment in the British Army making it lose its name The Royal Scots the Royal Regiment

@jspee1965

Жыл бұрын

Don't get me started mate. See my somewhat angst driven post above. "Nemo me impune lacessit".

@Scipionic1941

Жыл бұрын

You missed out the rest of it, Ian. The Lothian Regiment, First of Foot, Right of the Line, Pontius Pilate’s Bodyguard.

@ianmuir3640

Жыл бұрын

@@Scipionic1941 I did mucker sorry

@Scipionic1941

Жыл бұрын

Why do you think that?@SL

@Scipionic1941

Жыл бұрын

@SL I see what you mean. Perhaps a reason is the problem with recruiting in both Scotland and Northern Ireland. Just look at all the Fijians and South Africans in the RROS. 1 Scots still have a regimental HQ in Scotland. Being stationed in NI is nothing new. My neighbour was until recently an officer in 1 Scots. He did a tour in Belfast a few years ago. He was also in Canada and Kenya. Nothing sinister.

Nice one........ We need more Soldiers.

@shitheadmachin

Жыл бұрын

Don't trust them! They will have reduced the numbers somewhere else or something.

@dazza9326

Жыл бұрын

@Michael Pezzullo Why?Do we need it?

@vipiccb6896

Жыл бұрын

Michael Pezzullo really does have issues

I still think it was wrong to do away with the height restrictions for the guards.

@gordonsmith8899

Жыл бұрын

I agree - the uniform height requirement produced impressive guardsmen.

@danielwhyatt3278

Жыл бұрын

I do agree there.

@stuartandrews4344

Жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more..

@gordonsmith8899

Жыл бұрын

@Will Rose Thanks Will, I didn't know that.

@oltyret

Жыл бұрын

I, too, agree but there are two trends that make that difficult to retain: Fewer children mean fewer Guardsmen in the future. A shrunken recruiting pool means you can maintain height standards with fewer Guards or remove restrictions to maintain force strength. Women in every Western country simply aren't interested in replenishing their country with more countrymen anymore. The second is that society wants more inclusion and elite military organizations are inherently exclusive.

It is good to see Ron Weasley serving.

@raymondweaver8526

Жыл бұрын

Secret weapon

How about reasurecting our historic county regiments too, along with local malita?

@stuartandrews4344

Жыл бұрын

👏👏👏👏👏

@johndowns4770

Жыл бұрын

I think you mean militia always check your spelling mate

@genwoolfe

Жыл бұрын

@@johndowns4770 A typo while using a thumb operated bluetooth mouse on a smart TV at a range of 5m with failing eyesight and a lifetime of dyslexia is ok though, innit?

@johndowns4770

Жыл бұрын

@@genwoolfe Thats better. No mistakes, well done. Your readers will thank you

Any addition to British Army is most welcome

They should introduce a unit within the rifles that focuses on special skills such as spec ops & demolition

So no mention of why they decided to reactivate 2nd btn Irish Guards. And when are they going to bring back the ancient Scots regiments like the Black Watch, Highlnders and others that they horrifically smooshed into the Royal regiment of Scotland?

@fod1855

Жыл бұрын

They never will, they're essentially lost now unfortunately.

@fod1855

Жыл бұрын

@Will Rose If the government wanted them to be reactivated as individual regiments it’s entirely possible for that to be done regardless of army regulation

@crowbar9566

Жыл бұрын

@Will Rose interesting..cheers

@widsof7862

Жыл бұрын

was thinking exactly that, i thought it was a mistake given how important regimental history and identiy is in the Armed Forces, even though they were doing it to reflect post Cold War changes - and being stingy with the military whilst talking a good talk - and it would be good to see some of these come back.

Lovely to see Seamus, beautiful dogs Irish wolfhounds (Gaelic name for James) .

@beaglaoich4418

Жыл бұрын

@SL probably why they’ve called the dog the last Catholic King of Britain that the beloved billy defeated

Our family regiment Kings Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) is sadly no longer with us. " The Lions of England"

@apropercuppa8612

Жыл бұрын

Is that the same Regt that was merged by the Manchester and Liverpool Regiments?

Excellent move. Now re activate 46 Commando Royal Marines, disbanded in 1946.

Up the Mick's👍

Future soldiers program is battalion = company so you can scale down and scale up all at the same time. Then you can be neither up nor down.

This is absolutely joyous occasion.

So now we can go back to 8 Guards at Trooping The Colour I hope.

Looking sharp there.

i really hope some of the historic regiments, with the local links and history come back.

@pauldurkee4764

Жыл бұрын

It would be lovely to see, but being realistic its unlikely, if you look at the number of amalgamations alone in the second half of the 20th century, the regiment which features strongly in my family tree, Royal Welch Fusiliers is gone. It's such a shame because the british army had something very special. You wonder if in the end we will end up with just 4 infantry regiments covering the four home countries.

Bring back the cavalry regiments the government destroyed.

This sounds like some spin to hide cuts.

The narrator does say that eventually the soldiers will be absorbed back into the 1st Batallion, so it's not as if, the Irish Guards has suddenly grown by 4 Companys to double the size of the regiment!

@rayjennings3637

Жыл бұрын

​@Ryan It's all a bit of a sham then, isn't it!

I've been saying for years they need to do this due to having to utilize Line Infantry battalions for London District Public Duties. Hopefully they'll soon raise a PD Company to represent 2nd Battalion, Welsh Guards.

Gleaming!

Brilliant however I had a friend who was 2nd Battalion during the early eighties.

Welcome back HOME!!!!!

Really great to see, instead of our great forces being cut all the time.

So not a battalion, just an additional company for public duties.

It would have been fairer to reactivate line regiments such as the RWF rather that a second guards battalion

@connorlee5873

6 ай бұрын

It's only for the recruits coming out of Catterick won't be full strength and only for public duties and further training all guards regiments have incremental companies bar the welsh guards now

After all the cuts and restructuring of regiments and battalions over the years we have lost some of the history and identity. Yes it is still there within the regiments they was restructured to like battle honours etc. But it will be excellent to see more regiments/battalions reactivated other than history and pride we need the manpower the needs of the armed forces have changed drastically since the invasion of ukraine we need to be ready for anything both in manpower and capability which is entirely possible with more funding, time and recruitment of the right people

That’s great….but let’s keep massacring the Scottish battalions where some of the greatest and proudest history of the British military exists

It’s come out of suspended animation……did Hanssolo come out too?

"..activated to counter threats to worldwide peace". Ok.. but how, by carrying out "ceremonial duties".?! Someone needs to check their phrasing.

Stop moaning, every Battalion brought out of mothballs is a plus for the UK, and a kick in the arse for our Feinds. God Bless all of my comrades in arms.

Reactivate everything!!!

Sadly double speak !What appears to have happened is that two companies of the 1st Battalion , 9 and12 have been put on permanent ceremonial duties and allowed to use the traditions of the 2nd Battalion rather than re-raising ('reactivation' is so American ) the 2nd Battalion.

Just need to get more bodies in ..rather than paper thin

Bring back the county regiments.

@gordonsmith8899

Жыл бұрын

Local pride was a great boost to morale.

@fod1855

Жыл бұрын

yep and the Scottish regiments.

from the USA: We're totally impressed!!!

@leftsidem5030

Жыл бұрын

Americans are easily...

How canst 'restart' a battalion of a vanished regiment?

With the UK military at a fraction of the manpower they were 30 years ago, do new military units need to be made?+

Just form a Fijian Foot Guards

@gennibeaumont737

Жыл бұрын

Right, The Fijian Contingent sent under UN orders excelled themselves brilliantly in the the Lebanon. They terrified the local militia on a daily basis. 🇫🇯🇫🇯🇫🇯 Proud warriors. 🇫🇯🇫🇯🇫🇯

@michaelholden5131

Жыл бұрын

If the Brits Don't want the Fijians, can we have them here in USA?

That lad doesn't sound very Irish.

I like the dog!

Isn't MOD cutting the numbers? Then how come a battalion is activated?

@connorlee5873

6 ай бұрын

It's only for fresh recruits to go through be there 6 months to a year for further training

Is this some dodgy arithmetic Jedi mind trick? Company and Battalion aren’t equivalent or interchangeable. Comments from Ben Wallace former Scots Guards officer, please.

@oml81mm

Жыл бұрын

Misleading video... Two new public duties companies are being formed from existing manpower as I understand it

1:15 Not to belittle the young man's service for his country but dang. They've recruited a Weasley!

@Bonzman

Жыл бұрын

I'd rather have one Ron Weasley than 10 Draco Malfoys 👍

When Britain leaves Northern Ireland, changes the Union Jack to reflect this, will an Irish regiment be necessary?

@sidpheasant7585

Жыл бұрын

St Patrick was from Wales, so their country is kind of represented ... though most are unaware...

I love Shamus ❤️❤️🇬🇧🇬🇧

@seanmcardle9585

Жыл бұрын

Seamus

Don't know what it is, maybe the lochs and estuaries or maybe the beer, but I like chad morgan

Reactivated. I like that word. You have been reactivated. Yeah cool.

Reform the RGJ. Swift and Bold.

Welcome back to the Order of Battle. Quis Separabit

Very handy to exspand numbers. W11 2nd was a tank battalion. A Bridge to far amongst ma y battles.

What is the blue plume significance ? Is it historic ? The Colours of Irish soldiers were indeed blue at one time, before green became the Irish Colors. Can anyone inform me ?

How? Is it on paper? The british forces have a huge recruitment problem. Nobody wants to stay In. Each year manning fudges figures to look good to top brass but alas people are leaving fast. In 20 years only 4 of them have the forces broke even with joiners and leavers.

We need more soldiers not Guards. 90% of soldiers hare guard duty. Last thing on most Civilians joining up is standing in a soldier box in the rain on a Saturday night.

@connorlee5873

6 ай бұрын

Don't do guard after 6 so your wrong there mate

I guess the NI Talks aren’t going well?

Is going to Battalion strength soon looks more like a Coy to me at present

@connorlee5873

6 ай бұрын

It will be a company like the grenadiers, Scots and Coldstream

This is a joke. The entire British Army (79,000 active duty) is less than half the size of the American Marine Corps (180,000 active duty).

@sidpheasant7585

Жыл бұрын

From now on, at last, numbers serving are to be increased...

@gerdbonk3582

Жыл бұрын

@@sidpheasant7585 Yeah, from 79,000 to 80,000. Putin and Xi are scared now.

@OzyTheLast

Жыл бұрын

@gerdbonk3582 putin certainly is, his army's a paper tiger

❤️ the Irish WolfHound!

They will be needed if Ireland rebels again.

This whole nation needs sorted in everyway then we can have a top class well drilled army and equip with the latest weapons and trade with the world EU stay out of Uk and Ireland ok.

@Tuhoeterra

Жыл бұрын

what does the EU have to do with defunct Tory governance?

@thecurlew7403

Жыл бұрын

@@Tuhoeterra Can you not see they are connected tony blair never left uk yet he was speaker in eu its set up that way europe is the last beast in revelation were nealy their Gds kingdom is about to appear very soon.

@Tuhoeterra

Жыл бұрын

@@thecurlew7403 thats some serious mental gymnastics😶

@thecurlew7403

Жыл бұрын

@@Tuhoeterra Not as mental as the british government everything lines up with scripture you need to be saved your not right with God.

@Tuhoeterra

Жыл бұрын

@@thecurlew7403 what a daft assumption.

95th battalion is where

@robertstallard7836

Жыл бұрын

It's now part of The Rifles. To answer your question: 1 RIFLES based at Beachley Barracks, Gloucestershire 2 RIFLES based at Lisburn Barracks, Northern ireland 3 RIFLES based in Edinburgh 4 RIFLES now form 4th Battalion Ranger Regiment 5 RIFLES based at Bulford Camp, Wiltshire There are also three Reserve Battalions

Would 'nt it be nice if the Irish guards would dedicate a tune to their Colonel in Chief Princess Catherine that they could play when she inspects the regiment c'mon the Micks do us all proud

The Irish are are good fighters they will make tremendous guards.

Is this the same outfit Rudyard Kipling’s son was a member of?

@allenwandrews1925

Жыл бұрын

Yes it was.

GREAT AM EX COLDSTREAM GUARDS NULLI SECUNDUS RESPECT 💂‍♂️💂‍♂️💂‍♂️💂‍♂️💂‍♂️

@TooEssgee

Жыл бұрын

I'm ex-Scots Guards. Nulli. The Coldstream Guards were formed in Scotland. They were going to call them the 'Scots Guards', but then someone pointed out that name was already in use. 1642 BRB :)

They are not IRISH...they are part of the British army and nothing to do with Ireland.

Reactivate them all.

So... are there actually any Irish in the Irish Guards?

@sidpheasant7585

Жыл бұрын

Only they can know that, but traditionally there were some.

@OzyTheLast

Жыл бұрын

If I recall from a freedom of information query, statistics have it at about 15% ROI Irish

@ciaran1659

Жыл бұрын

If you are Irish and join them you might as well renounce your citizenship

Not an Irish regt Irish regiments are in Ireland not this country

Make your Marks ready get set go

@teodytrinidad9497

Жыл бұрын

Shopping

Great use of our public money, good to know we have our priorities right 👌

About time Whitehall got it's a act together.. Treasury ought to start spending more on defence . No public -Private Partnership in regard to Defense . Restore Defense UK back to 1970/80s standards ASAP Whitehall must make sure Service personal are properly look.after in Service and Retirement, after all Politican's Pension.Perks there never enough question asked ,. Veterans are Homeless retired Politicans NOT

♥️💯

Same Irish Guard from Market Garden?

@KB4QAA

Жыл бұрын

No. Those men are dead.

@lemmdus2119

Жыл бұрын

@@KB4QAA The unit is what I’m asking

@robertstallard7836

Жыл бұрын

@@lemmdus2119 Yes - the Second Irish Guards led the armoured advance to Arnhem.

@lemmdus2119

Жыл бұрын

@@robertstallard7836 Thank you. Though they never reach Arnhem in time to relieve British 1st Airborne.

@robertstallard7836

Жыл бұрын

@@lemmdus2119 That's right. C'est la geurre.

what do these blokes actually do?

@sidpheasant7585

Жыл бұрын

If Putin does many more dumb things, you may find out soon enough!

It's a pity the MOD doesn't reactivate 22 Air Defence Regt RA.

@the_urge_to_pee639

Жыл бұрын

Not a cat in hells chance. After 22 went they also got rid of the two RAF Rapier squadrons. I think 16 RA are the only dedicated anti air unit now.

@Louis-ej1lx

Жыл бұрын

12 and 106 also

Up the Micks!

There is no second battalion Irish guards 🤬🤬🤬

Allow commonwealth to enlist!

@robertwelsh6878

Жыл бұрын

We do already

@bunnymc25

Жыл бұрын

They can apply already

@docdildonica7515

Жыл бұрын

@@robertwelsh6878 not enough and not from enough places

@robertwelsh6878

Жыл бұрын

@@docdildonica7515 I agree with you and I’m talking from 12 years in the Army we should recruit more from the commonwealth.

@docdildonica7515

Жыл бұрын

@@wor53lg50 not nearly enough!! Learn more before you respond!!

Watch them disband it in 8 years.

@gordonsmith8899

Жыл бұрын

I didn't know "Old Moores" was published so many years in advance.

Born free in Ireland not afraid to die for freedom

@vipiccb6896

Жыл бұрын

what?

So they stopped having the second battalion Grenadiers and Coldstream guards and restarted the Irish 2nd battalion. Are they just messing about?

@connorlee5873

6 ай бұрын

Nope they all still exist just as incremental companies or public duties most of the lads leaving training will go through their

Why are they called the Irish Guard

@Sir_Gerald_Nosehairs.

Жыл бұрын

They recruit in Ulster and from the Irish diaspora in the UK. People like me with Irish ancestry could join it. I believe people from mainland Ireland also are allowed to join due to a blind eye being turned by the Republic in exchange for the UK unofficially guaranteeing Irelands defence.

@siobhanharte4781

Жыл бұрын

So you are British solders serving a British monarch or are you Irish who want to be British very confusing I understand the Welsh and Scottish as they are not independent countries.

@Sir_Gerald_Nosehairs.

Жыл бұрын

@@siobhanharte4781 It's no different than the Gurkha regiments, who are Burmese, not British. Or the French Foreign Legion. Effectively a mercenary.

@seancardiff8669

Жыл бұрын

@R B Ireland ‘turning a blind eye’ is complete nonsense. The security is not guaranteed but would expected because the UK and Ireland are two allied independent nations. Not to mention that the US is a much stronger ally to Ireland than the UK has ever been and we would be more than happy to not have to have any ‘guarantee’ from a lying Tory establishment. They should be called the Ulster guards if anything, even though 1/3 of ulster is actually part of the republic. The use of symbols such as the harp and shamrock by the British army is cultural appropriation. British rule in Ireland sought to destroy Celtic culture so why have they adopted the Celtic harp in their coat of arms? Despite us achieving an Irish republic the British continues to view Ireland as some kind of dominion of Britain to insult all Irish that fought against the empire over hundreds of years.

Send 'em to Dover, stop the invasion.

Gurkha soldiers guard of duty.

@gennibeaumont737

Жыл бұрын

@Shi hair Gurung ‘Ayo Gorkhali! 🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵

Are the Irish guards Irish?

@connorlee5873

6 ай бұрын

Made up of lads from all over Britain but mainly Republic and Northern, and English lads it's quite famous for people to join from the west Midlands especially Birmingham and the back country, they have a regimental association in Birmingham that do regular meetings