British Reservists Before Their BIGGEST EVER Deployment | Forces TV 

DDougz look at the dudes beret at 1.11. Trying as hard as he can to make a UN look ally and he just looks a chopper.

@@johnfletcher9907 They should just wear proper hats instead of those pointless, ridiculous berets.

Anthony Purvis it’s the way for many western militarily powers ..the US and many others included, reservists , national guard etc..with smaller budgets and heightened commitments it’s makes sense ...not saying I agree, however it’s makes sense ....

leif liltorp was one 25 yrs

No one can beat a volunteer

@@paulmorgan121 they get paid mate

Good at litter picking

Why would the give them weapons on UK Soil?

@@bain468 Its not uk soil dumbass.

A lot of Reservists have died fighting for their country. Have some respect

Why are they a joke? Because they give up their free time to do something productive for their country?

@Erich Addler Simple fact , he attempted to make up for the massive defence redundancies by coming up with the notion of recruiting 6000 + new reservists to form a so called new look British Army, which everyone laughed at , example weekend soldiers are not of the same standard and more so fitness as a infantry regular soldier, plus their day job employers would be put under pressure if they were deployed over a considerable time away from their work place, as for Hammond's crystal ball gazing about the future rolls of the British Army, and more counter insurgency wars, that went out of the window after Putin decided he wanted to make Russia great again ? as for the recruitment drive, it was a complete failure, even the once proud professionals said no to his proposal of going part time, fast forward today, that massive cull is coming back to haunt the UK , who as we speak are finding it hard to recruit regular soldiers. According to a National Audit Office (NAO) report, UK armed forces have fallen short of filling its recruits by 8,200 military personnel - the largest gap in a decade - and the NAO states will unlikely be filled within the next five years.

@@SNOWDONTRYFAN I disagree with Hammonds decisions, but one element is specialism. Why would a Doctor, a Roboticist, a Software Developer, an Engineer etc join the Army as a regular when they can make 4 or 5 times the amount in civvy street? Reserves let these people still have good civvy careers, but help the army with their skills at the same time. There's no way the army can afford some of the £100k+ a year salaries some specialisms expect, certainly not in the numbers required, and this is a good compromise. As for replacing the frontline with reserves, yeah I'm against that.

@@flamdwyn2523 totally agree, and have real time experience with the Reservists , more so on the tech side , and importantly how the Regular Army massively depends on the NHS etc , it was the poorest of excuses to attempt to recruit a new look Army based on a part time Army and to rub salt into the wound to even offer cash inducements to the very people they made redundant, to sign up !

@@SNOWDONTRYFAN Saying weekend warriors is a mocking term so you were knocking them. If anything, it takes balls to work all week and then go work a weekend too. How many reg squaddies would be willing to give up their weekends that often? "real time experience with the Reservists , more so on the tech side" So youre not infantry? If not i dont think you can call them "weekend warriors" when they probably do more direct combat training than some techy regiments..

one should understand when one posts a comment , especially one on the subject of the British Army that it should talk from a position of experience and the subsequent knowledge gained from ones own long Regular Service which includes being a TA centre PSI , as for the idea that reservists would take the place of Regular front line units as and when called up , sheer folly , however one does have a deep respect for example the reserve medical services who are on long tour attachments , especially during combat ops , and yes the TA / Army reservists will always effectionalty be known as the week-end warriors with no disrespect , which of course may ? offend the woke brigade /snowflakes etc that have infiltrated the UK Armed Forces !

Or Exercise Lionheart, or Afghanistan!

@Pugna yeah I think that's the case.

Rifles

7th batalion

Nope, just their turkish buddies. Besides we dont need them.

AlexThe RoamingMemester yeah our army looks good defending other people’s lands at the will of a power above our national government

@@dillon3426 oy

@@dillon3426 jacktion. good channel.

Thats the queens job.

So what?

CKR Cadet Kit Reviews I don’t see why that should matter?Isn’t a chapel welcome to all religions,which holds the same for other religions’ holy places,at least it means more Muslims will be in the army and serve the country than not going in cause of nuisances such as not being able to do their daily prayers.Your just making a mountain out of a molehill.

A chapel is a place for Christian worship.

Mike Foxtrot Well my friend,what they did is the best option,otherwise do you want the army to fork out money to build places for worship for every religion followed in the army? The conversion will effectively save money whilst providing facilities so more of the muslims,sikhs and other faiths;primarily 2nd generation of migrants, which certain people deem ‘benefit grabbers’ serve in the army. Thus why the main comment was making a mountain out of a molehill.

But more than happy to be shipped off under orders from Uncle Sam.

@@danlugo4365 With the absolute state of the UK they shouldn't be going anywhere. The problems are at home.

Hammerschlägen M he didn’t say they did

Hammerschlägen M what he means is he would happily fight for America but not the UN

dan lugo So this is ok with the Queen Mother?

5 times? Says who?

They're reserves, let them be...

@@SgtSayWhat They're being trained to accept UN command, this is the priority. Curious.

@@Joe-fe4xi says the drill manual me being a DI

@@joe7d321 well I do, do it right or don't bother because they look a joke

We have no paramilitary force here in the uk, army and police that's it. We have some armed police units, but they are few in number and mostly deal with criminals and the thankfully few terrorists. Respect from the dreaming spires of Oxford.

In the UK paramilitaries are generally banned. This is evident in that regular Police do not routinely carry guns, the rationale being to keep society civil and to avoid public fear. The main phrase is 'Policing by consent'. The only regularly armed Police Forces are the Ministry of Defence Police, and the Civil Nuclear Constabulary who protect military and nuclear facilities respectively. Any armed policemen get trained to a very high standard and if shots are fired they must account for every shot and are liable to prosecution if unlawful and disproportionate force was used. The military have no authority on policing the public. I do admire the ANSAR & VDP.

@@koolyman thank you

@@mshatters28 thank you

The closest thing the UK had to a paramilitary gendermerie would've been the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), but they eventually were assisted by the Army who took over security in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. Both the Army and RUC have been replaced by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). They are not considered a paramilitary, but are routinely armed in response to the elevated threat from illegal paramilitary groups. This is considered a better situation than previously.

longshot11223344 RU-vid ah yes the military expert in the cadets a youth group...

Adam Griffin all i’m saying is that most the cadets at my det have better standards lol

Correct they looked like they just pulled there kit out of the bottom of the cupboard. I blame the PSIs they should of grip them knowing they were getting filmed

Carl Seddon yep 👍🏻

@@adamgriffin8197 standards are standards simple as that

Mickh 279 we might only be STABs, but we have saved the regular army in every major war since the regular army has a really bad habit of destroying itself. Go back even further sunshine to the days of the longbow. Agencourt was won by an army solely made up of STABs. So much for the regs, they are there to try and hold the line till the real fighters are mobilised

Historical revisionism at its best.

What's a STAB?

oh look girls a "A.R.A.B made a comment, se i seen this over 30+ years where arabs call us STABS we ARE good at what we do...be proud to have a stab serving with you......

I guess maybe people want to be able to start a career outside of the forces but at least be ready to be deployed (idk fully but that would be my guess)

Art3mis02 that makes sense, but other than that it seems pointless.

@@coreyg670 maybe also they want to be able to have the chance to serve but can't full time at their current stage due to home/personal problems maybe?

allot of reserves are actually ex regulars who still wanted to be ready for war but also to start a new life of civi street

@@Mr.Sam321 exactly, and IMO, being a reservist is still more than what a lot of normal civilians would be willing to do.