8:23 more tanks in 1 battalion than the current whole Army.

@romeo9017

3 жыл бұрын

At least they worked!

@vanpallandt5799

3 жыл бұрын

Not that there is anything such as a tank battalion in the British Army. Troop, squadron, regiment

@JammyDodger45

3 жыл бұрын

@Mark Miller - so the Chinese are going to invade Europe? What are Russia going to say about all the Chinese tanks passing through their country? Idiot!

@Charles2k

3 жыл бұрын

@@JammyDodger45 Russia won't say much and are more than likely care little about China rolling over Western Europe and America.

@JammyDodger45

3 жыл бұрын

@@Charles2k oh so you think China will take the sea route to the USA and then cross the pond to Europe? That'll be interesting. I'm sure the USN and USAF will happily sit and wait for the Chinese recreation of D-Day. I hope it's televised, this could be entertaining.

Brings back memories, I was an army brat in the 60,s in Germany and then stationed in BAOR myself from 79 to 82.

@grahamethorpe

3 жыл бұрын

I was an Army Brat mid '60s in Germany then serving in RAFG early 80s. I look back and miss being part of a Brit community in Germany. A happy little island overseas

@f-15estrikeeagle35

3 жыл бұрын

Wait so did you to to the Falklands?

That sergeants mess was pretty nice. Its easy to make fun of British food, but it looked better than what we ate in the US Army in Germany in the 70's.

@darthtyranus7683

3 жыл бұрын

Only had steak n shrimp

This is so good. German locals are like "Oh for fucks sake, not again!"

@SNOWDONTRYFAN

3 жыл бұрын

even worse when the black suited Royal Lancers rolled up with their death or glory skull & crossbones cap badge

@monkeydank7842

3 жыл бұрын

The BOAR was and is welcome in Germany.

@dickdastardly635

3 жыл бұрын

@@monkeydank7842 The spelling is a bit out , it's B.A.O.R. . I was part of it 82 to 84 stationed at Moengladbach.

@dickdastardly635

3 жыл бұрын

@@SNOWDONTRYFAN Yes , I can see how that badge would be similar to an SS emblem .

@monkeydank7842

3 жыл бұрын

@@dickdastardly635 You are right. I’m sorry. Thank you for serving.

My mum and dad loved being stationed in Germany, my mum still talks fondly of their time there.

@kennethquesenberry2610

3 жыл бұрын

I was stationed in Germany with the US Army from 66 to 68, although not married. I was in Augsburg, in a division headquarters. I was with them when they came back to the states. My son was also stationed in Germany as a tank crewman. He was there for a year when they deployed to Iraq, where he was for 15 months. His station in Germany was Friedburg, same place Elvis had been stationed in the late 50s. And finally, my Air Force son-in-law and my daughter were also stationed there several years ago, near Trier. My father was also there as a POW in WWII, near Munich.

Just don't tell potential recruits about Track tensioning Track bashing And throwing both tracks in deep cold mud in the middle of winter at 3pm on a Friday

@66kbm

3 жыл бұрын

Have you not heard of Chally 2's hydrolic/automated system, just press a button, the envy of the world for Track Tensioning.

I was at Lothian barracks, Detmold with the Lifeguards on Chieftain in the 70's.

@pawlof9985

3 жыл бұрын

Greetings Form August Dorf

@paulcross111

Ай бұрын

I was at Lothian also , The Life Guards 1980 - it was a nice barracks - just been looking at Hobart Bks 2rtr video , they where the days !

Impressive film. The Centurion was a great tank. I enjoy watching films about the British Army of the 50s and especially the 60s when a lot of it was in colour. The soldiers look smart and confident. The commanders were men who fought in WW2. Very professional. RTR was progressively amalgamated. Now it's down to 1 regiment I think.

@stevenbreach2561

3 жыл бұрын

Korea,perhaps.WW2,unlikely

@davesherry5384

Жыл бұрын

@@stevenbreach2561 Er, nope. WW2. My old man, my brother and I are in this video. The CO and all the RSM and a few others were all WW2 vets. I grew up in this regiment, only leaving it when my old man was posted to the Royal Hong Kong Regiment as a PSI. Which one is my old man? He is the sergeant on the left in the Sergeants and WO's mess holding a glass of beer and a fag in his hand at 5.14. His name is Sergeant David Sherry the youngest sergeant in the 6th Tanks which got amalgamated with the 3rd Tanks. The 6th had recently comeback from Libya, my first overseas posting as a child. I remember those days really very well. In fact we were soon to be joined by my sister born at BMH Rinteln.

I did 18 months in the 80’s; Minden, Clifton Barracks with 2RGJ. Looking back now makes me realise it was a good time

@johntrlong

3 жыл бұрын

@Donald Sinclair Nice one. I transfered to the Welsh Guards (from the then, Light division), did five more years and left in 89; I should of stayed in. If i had known you could go until you reach 55 (which was not the back in the day), I would of carried on. Still I joined as a boy in 1980 and had 9 fantastic years. I'm sorry that your time ended with an MD. Minden was a good posting, but the defense cutbacks, met the band I was in was axed, so it was back to the UK (preston). From there, I transfered to the household division (Welsh Guards). I'm now in Kuala Lumpur (not far from Singapore). I lived (for while) in a flat near brookwood railway station, near the pub (if its still there). It was good fun, my neighbour was a piper in th SG (cannot remember which battalion); we had good times. You've brought back a lot of good memories for me. Thank you.

@TheWizardOfTheFens

3 жыл бұрын

I was a section commander/acting platoon Sgt in C Coy 2RGJ and served in Minden until I was transferred to 1RGJ. The world gets smaller....

@davidinnes247

3 жыл бұрын

2RGJ? You didn’t happen to go on the deployment to Ft Campbell, did you?

For Detmold read Wetmold. I spent 8 years across 2 tours in Germany and deployed many times to training areas, lovely days and nights spent in a freezing cold gunpit or bivouac, wouldn’t have missed it for the world, however, the one thing that was always briefed was “don’t chop down the trees” and “don’t pollute the soil or damage the vegetation” but I guess when your in a tank it’s a bit difficult to not hit the odd tree. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Those were the days…Plenty of kit with outstanding training,ability,discipline and pride…

My dad did his RAF National Service in Germany and loved every minute of it.

When I did my time I wasn't in the tank core but it brings back memories when I served in Germany on manovers as an infantry man and signaller,

I was C Squadron 3 RTR "ECE" when the regiment disbanded in Hemer - BAOR 1977 until 1988 were the best years to be in Germany.

Nice Sunday meal ! I was born in 1964 in Walvis Bay South West Africa today Namibia. Greetings from Pretoria South Africa.

My grandfather worked for NATO in the 60s, and subsequently his family(including my dad) lived in Europe with him, and my dad held onto a little British-made Centurion tank model which he got while living there. I swear, it's the same exact model toy they're using there in the briefing!

My Bro' was in 1RTR BAOR, and in Aiden. Not sure the exact years but later than this as he was 19 when I was born in '65. I think he left the army in '70. RIP Bruv.

@ianduffin2075

3 жыл бұрын

,my old man was 1RTR and was in Aden, he joined in 56 and left in 77, I was born in Germany in 64. They probably knew each other, my old man died back in 95, would have been nice to know if they did.

" I will cook the grub" said no Sgt ever! 😆

@pwareham61

3 жыл бұрын

I was in the Army Catering Corps. And your comment is spot on.

@redrb26dett

3 жыл бұрын

Peter Wareham British army ninja assassin the ACC the most lethal part of the army

This maybe old but I like the old background music while some guy just narrow and describe what the person is doing

In the 70s i was young Lance Bombardier in The Royal Artillery Regiment in Crosby Liverpool as a Army Cadet. One of the best two weeks camp was in Bunde Germany with the Royal Corp of Transport an next door to the camp was the army air core with the links Helicopters was the last of the Cadets to go in the Links with officers. We flew low an high an even chased along the old steam trains' loved Talking with the Army Mechanics an learning about new stuff an the other things about there Army life.I really enjoyed mixing with the Regular Army men.P.S. Even though i was a Army Cadet i still cant go out without Polishing my Shoes,It Taught me Pride an self Discipline which sadly has gone out the window these Days..

Man I love those Centurion tanks! :D

My dad did his national service in a REME Light Aid Detatchment attatched to 3RTR based at Hobart Barracks in Detmold, in the mid 50's. I wish I'd found this when he was still alive, he would of loved it.

I was born out there. We lived in Augustdorf - near Detmold

@RandomGuy9

3 жыл бұрын

I am there now.

There was a Military Police barracks at Detmold. Those guys had massive chips on their shoulders!!

So interesting to see Britain’s post war army in Germany compared to the US

Ah good times I was in West Germany late 70's early 80's at Soltau (att to 7th Armoured) then Hildesheim, what I remember is good German food, and the married quarters were far better then back in the UK.

Quality historical post

Fantastic.

Dad was 3rd RTR 1970 Checkpoint Charlie, first deployment after a few years of being a Boy Soldier.

LOL. Love the period piece music which makes you feel like you're shopping for toys at Disneyland.

Super cool, Detmold is only a few Kilometers away.

Enjoyed my time in BAOR.. cheap booze and a new country to explore but the army was a bit different to that shown in the vid.. take a cutlet then try to take another meat and you would get a ladle over your knuckles and no where near the same variety, It was one and one only. Apart from the RAF, was posted to West Berlin for a few weeks in 1976. Lovely food and plenty of it

Bergen Hohne, I'll never forget that place

I never saw food like that, but then I was poor bloody infantry.

My late Dad, was a chef in the Army, he served in Malaya. After that joined local TA unit, He always said, he should stayed in the regs, couldn't imagine me Mum living on the camp with six kids. lol

When we had an army now its down to 70thousand .

@westerlywind1035

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, because the cold war is effectively over. Large Armies are like battleships, obsolete and vulnerable to air and artillery attack

@lablackzed

3 жыл бұрын

@@westerlywind1035 With the geopolitical change's taking place today a small army will get wipe out no matter how good they are plus the British army is near to breaking point due to its commitments over sea's I know .ex disabled service man.🇬🇧

@westerlywind1035

3 жыл бұрын

@@lablackzed a small army with modern technology is way better than a small army with cold war technology. Puma, Challenger, Warrior, Type 23 all designed to fight yesterday's war.

Ploughing tress over! Oh how times have changed

Soldiers back then really looked and behaved the part, not like the fat knackers we have now. I joined in 2001 and there were some blokes that could barely walk 1.5 miles let alone run it.

@xyz-bz1fc

3 жыл бұрын

but but but... they don't need to be in tip top shape, just enough to drive the tank, load the main gun, and fire it.

My grandad was going to go to Germany in 1964 in TA for annual camp.

3:58 A few trees are no obstacle to a Centurion! A few eight inch diameter trees with decent roots will stop anything!!

Have yuo seen teir dinner? Just 15 yaers after the end of WW2. I remember 1960 in my childhood in Russia. So kind of dinner i had in books or cinema only. Winners.

2:22 It's really incredible to see colour footage at last of something that had previously only existed in my memory -- the playground of the Hobart school in Detmold. If anyone knows Mr. Boden or Mr. Jordan, who were there for its final year in 1978/79, please tell them that I'm forever grateful for their guidance

@handlesarefeckinstupid

2 жыл бұрын

I was a pad brat there as well. My father was 9th 12th.

I came here to look for Ancient Roman history and Astrology. Centurions, Comets, that sort of thing.

@sarkybugger5009

3 жыл бұрын

We have Crusaders, Cromwells, Chieftains, and Challengers too. History and space, in a metal box.

"The tanks roll through villages and vast farms". No change there then.

I feel sad and almost complicit that Sgt Amos and his missus are now dead. Watching him smiling, carefree, in love with life, not realising that his number was gonna be up soon.

@2157AF

3 жыл бұрын

What happened to him?

@leedobson

11 ай бұрын

@@2157AF he'd be in his 90's now, possibly still alive

8:11 I love this

Duty free smokes and booze, drunk on a pound :-)

Good

Nice Reggie tie

Colours were different back then :)

My old Regt, but my time was the 80s

@paganphil100

11 ай бұрын

@dog11222: My old regiment too.....1968 - 1975.

Was there 1956-58 10 th Field reg RA, Then the reg disbanded.

At 5:16, the guy with the specs. Is he Royal Signals. He's the spitting image of my uncle Jim Ross, who was in BAOR.

@peterdignam2397

3 жыл бұрын

Not sure if it is Jim Ross. However I did know him later in life at Blandford. A very good, upright and fair man.

@craigross341

3 жыл бұрын

@@peterdignam2397 I emailed his kid, who agrees it really looks like him, but can't be because, i) they're tankies, and ii) Jim was still in Catterick in 1960. But I think tanks would have signallers above squadron level, and I'm not certain the date's right. It's the spitting image of him (before he bought a Bullworker in Singapore!) and the manner looks right as well, although it's only a couple of seconds. He spend ages looking for me during Lionheart when I was in the TA. I was with E company 1/52. Afterwards he said, "You can't have an E company son. It's A to D, and Support. It doesn't make any sense? 😂

3rd R.T.R. , how many Regiments do we have now .

Wow what memories, my old man was stationed there in the 70’s with the 3rd, I had my first fag outside the camp gates, amazing times as a squadie brat

Hobart Barracks in Detmold was a great posting in the 80s but only for the social life. The regiment had a load of dicks at the time, mostly SNCOs and officers but the camp had loads of bars, a cinema and a short walk into town. One memorable moment, the Grumbleweeds appeared on a Wednesday night in the Chieftain Club! Put on a fantastic nights entertainment! The pads NAAFI on the Hack was one of those 'super' NAAFIs, loads of cheap electrical goods, clothes, fragrances and so on. I must have looked a right twat dressed in the lastest NAAFI fashions and splashed with Paco Rabanne aftershave. I must have gassed many a WRAC with that fragrance. I few miles down the road was a large lake with boating etc and a bar/restaurant. Can't remember its name but it was great in the summer. The boxhead women occasionally sunbathed topless. Very continental to a Brit! And lastly, the used car section in the back of the BFG newspaper Sixth Sense. I must have owned five cars in two years. A top of the range Ford Sierra, M3 BMW, a Porsche, a Ford Escort Ghia and a Mercedes which was like a armoured vehicle. All cost peanuts to buy and run. Great memories.

Special menu in that cookhouse

@duncancallum

3 жыл бұрын

For sure Ray i was at Episkopi Garrison in the R Signals 58-60 and the food was total shite .

Wherever there was an exercise farmers would ask for the vehicles to churn up the ground then claim compensation after giving troops plenty of beet😂

Centurion tanks! Footage could be 50s or early 60s!

and to think in 2021 we have only 1 Regiment of RTR Times are achangeimg

A military soldier's life, hey? What about doing a Civilian Soldier's life next?

@TheWizardOfTheFens

3 жыл бұрын

😂

One wonders what the civvies were thinking when they first saw the tanks, with these guys in black suits wearing beret's with the skull and cross bones cap badge , aka the 17/21st Lancers

@stevenbreach2561

3 жыл бұрын

Don't let a 17/21st hear you call their motto "a cap badge"!!!!!!!

That farmer at 01:56 has a suspicious 'tache

8:43 Imagine Hitler watching this bit

Makes me hungry alreadly

5:17 British forces istationed in Germany served Danish beers? But why???

MIBs in Green coveralls!!!!

Do we have 55000 soldiers anywhere anymore? Criminal.

@BanjoLuke1

3 жыл бұрын

Im not sure it is criminal.... or even a bad decision. Warfare and the nature of the threat have changed. The electorate have become tax-averse and everything from road repairs to the NHS is rotting on the vine. In these economic conditions a small but specialised military seems prudent and appropriate. It may not be the preferred choice of all, but it is not criminal.

@gunner678

3 жыл бұрын

@@BanjoLuke1 I agree but small is a relative term and what ever the size of our forces, we must have sufficient to meet the threat. Unfortunately we do not and that has been the case for a very long time. Of course the books must be balanced, that's fiscally sound, but one cannot constantly place any resource in a deficit situation and expect that resource to pay off every time. In my service, I have seen too many cuts, often at the time when we need our forces most. I would like to think that careful restructuring was the driver here, but we all know it's not, and to think otherwise frankly, is blinkered. As far as criminal, yes it is. People's lives depend on the planning to be right. Historically we know it's usually not.

@greggemerer8251

3 жыл бұрын

@@gunner678 Ummm...exactly what threat? Who in gods name is threatening you????

The British Army Grenadiers.

Wonder what happened to Sargeant Gordon Amos?

@xyz-bz1fc

3 жыл бұрын

I was wondering about that too.

@paulcoale7295

3 жыл бұрын

That would be interesting to know.

@user-zs5nr8dd1z

2 ай бұрын

The one having a beer with him in the mess was my old man. He died two weeks ago at 89. Sgt Amos will be about the same age now.

@phillipecook3227

2 ай бұрын

@@user-zs5nr8dd1z Thanks for that. Sorry for your loss.

Ah occupation of the Huns. Now that's a good feeling!!!

@Mark-vq5dz

3 жыл бұрын

Give over , its 76 years ago, and if you ask any British soldiers who served there , well the ones I know, all say, the German people are friendly and kind. Don't be taken in by Nazi bullshit.

@Mishima505

3 жыл бұрын

@@Mark-vq5dz and they were happy it was the British not the Soviets!

@Mark-vq5dz

3 жыл бұрын

@@Mishima505 as would anyone , because they were as bad as the Nazis

@MikeJones-su3cj

3 жыл бұрын

Oh knock it off. The Germans are good folks. Just cut out the Germans bashing.

Deathmold Not a bad posting The halcyon days of Baor

Those children were suspiciously blonde.

@johnbower7452

3 жыл бұрын

I was blonde at that age; my hair turned brown later; then as it is now grey :(

@snowflakemelter1172

3 жыл бұрын

Herman the lodger was too. Coincidence.

@cricketman1322

3 жыл бұрын

@@snowflakemelter1172 ghahahaha

Not in lybya .we are on the end of the food line. 2rtr had rotten saugages. .I was left behind by the six to join up whith the second.

@stevewebster317

3 жыл бұрын

You had a lucky escape Charlie, 2nd are the cream! Ex Cyclops.

@catlee8064

3 жыл бұрын

@@stevewebster317 Ex-2RTR here....1990-2008....fear Naught Brothers!

@clivepritchard6946

3 жыл бұрын

@@stevewebster317 rock on mate .

@charlieyerrell9146

3 жыл бұрын

Steve the saugages served up in the cook house in homs were absolutely foul .they were injected with a chemical be to stop them going off. Ask any man who served in homs lybiya in 1960. Absolute crap. Compo. Was better. I know Steve I served three years and five months in lybiya. Homs. And meddenine barracks. Lots of memories about lybiya.

Sausages and beans, LMAO. Nothing like some English food to fuel up with.

Are there "non military" soldiers?

The army can buy in bulk but she can’t! Bet she’s gutted 😂

OArgh

Centurion tanks are very good tanks ..this tank help my country in war with American funded Pakistan. Respect from India ❤️ love British tanks India won the war

Its a sad affair to know that in today's world one illiterate bastard hidden in a foxhole far away with an anti tank missile or rpgs can take all of them out.

I was I the US Army in Germany ,after a tour in Vietnam . 1960 Ha ! Least that being in the army then you didn’t have to worry about getting your ass blown away in The Nam !

Such shit nobody needs anymore

"Join the army, travel the world meeting lots of people and shooting them"😅

The tree huggers will not be happy.

I loved Germany in the 80's and 90's, though I cannot remember the mess looking like that.

Fajny film

When I joined in 73 there were 19 Armoured Regiments, I think there are only 8 now. My own Regiment 17th/21st Lancers gone many years ago.