My old cadet instructor was in the Royal Engineers in the 80s and 90s Funny to think he almost certainly saw this video as an 18-year old sapper

I remember watching this as a recruit in 1985

@Surv1ve_Thrive

3 ай бұрын

Were you in the Stazi? 🙂

I'M JUST TOO OLD NOW BUT THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES. 😮😊

Love seeing the enthusiasm of these soldiers and reading the memories of you guys. I’m proud of you all. Shame about our politicians though

Hope people appreciate how brave and skilled that Frog crew were actually taking it into the water 😂 And the fact they got it from the barracks to any destination more than 200 meters from the camp gates without breaking down shows their superior servicing skills.

Nice video. Looks like prototype sa80 rifles are being used. Very cool.

@snowflakemelter1172

3 ай бұрын

Well spotted, XL60 prototype rifles before they clunged them up into the XL70 and SA80.

Wow, brings back some memories. 1(BR) and the 4 Armd Divs. I was in 1Div.

@richardhoffmann179

3 ай бұрын

We can't even field one heavy armoured division!

Thank you for this upload. Much enjoyed 😊regards😊😊

I’m ex-infantry. I think of the sappers I worked with on Op Banner. Remarkable lads.

Super cool!

Well the officers didn't change in their wonderful voices this is when we had an army based in Germany I don't think we could field 4 divisions in Germany today

I was there, then, doing that and that's exactly how it was. Wonderful memories and grateful thoughs of how lucky I was

I joined in 1984. This video makes me feel old!

Iff that was lion heart I was there.

@Surv1ve_Thrive

3 ай бұрын

Amazing to think Exercise Lionheart had +135,000 British troops. With around 10k of extra NATO troops to make +145k total. 🇬🇧👍

I miss those days during my tour in FRG.

how much of that engineering kit would be available today? I know little about this sort of stuff, I know the Harriers have gone, difficult to imagine the F-35's going anywhere near any grass.

It might be on again

Aghhh ! Finally , been waiting for new content .

Follow the Sapper, CHIMO and UBIQUE

@Surv1ve_Thrive

3 ай бұрын

🇬🇧👍🇨🇦

Watched this in 1 Trg Reg Gib barracks 1985.

No sign of Wolfgang

@Surv1ve_Thrive

3 ай бұрын

Feeding the camera crew! 🙂

@nobby430

3 ай бұрын

He was probably in some forward harbour area waiting for the guys to turn up 😊

5:24 the infamous Warsaw Pact Invasion of Yugoslavia, who could ever forget it😂

Disappointed there was no mention of the toilet unit.

@snowflakemelter1172

3 ай бұрын

They got bogged down.

4 to 1 we were told it was a target rich environment

Pointing on maps using fingers. Shocking I tell you, shocking! 🙂

Not sure this 1984 because SA80 wasn’t introduced into service until 1985 and later , good video tho thanks

@Surv1ve_Thrive

3 ай бұрын

Looks like a prototype as another comment mentions.

@dulls8475

2 ай бұрын

My guess is they were given the flash new gear for the making of this possibly a few months in advance.

That Light Mobile Digger must have been the only one working in the entire Corps! A great idea but lousy engineering. Pin In!

Which rifle is that at 10:25? Foregrip / sight etc does not look like an L85A1.

@snowflakemelter1172

3 ай бұрын

XL60 prototype SA80

Literally 1984

"Yugoslavia on the brink of civil war..." In 1982... And now tell us you didnt haw your dirty fingers in this disaster as well...

So it’s the sapers you hit ? Ok

Got to be honest, the MOD was rubbish at making films :)

These days calling NATO a ‘defensive alliance’ is almost as funny as calling Ukraine a ‘democracy’.

@ljubomirculibrk4097

3 ай бұрын

Just look at the part of fictive BBC report in this, Yugoslavian civil war, in 1982! Those bas... did this to my country...

@nothingnothing8503

2 ай бұрын

oh yeah, at the same time for the other side, someone will claim Donetsk and Luhansk were created by themselves, Crimea was chosen and claimed to be part of Russia, while Little Green has already infiltrated someone's land and taken over, as for some people who don't know or unwilling to know. even always believe Russia is a democratic nation, ha, jokes, I don't help Ukraine & Western but hell with your Russia and Shina either.

@billpugh58

Ай бұрын

Anything is better than crazy Putin invading your country illegally.

Most of the equipment we had then was well used ...i hated the 432's utter crap