British Soldier Reacts to Swedish Ranger Soldier Jägarsoldat #11 - Vinterutbildning 

A little tidbit about conscript soldiers, from a soldier that was deployed in bosnia UN force there. "The British general and UN commander in Bosnia Sir Michael Rose, former chief of 22 SAS Regiment (and previously one of the strongest critics towards the Swedish presence) later wants the Swedish battalion to be a part of a special rapid reaction unit to be deployed in special situations anywhere in Bosnia. The Swedish government declined. Sir Michael Rose later wrote a debate article back home in the UK where the Swedish soldiers are mentioned as a shining example of how a conscript based military system also can produce soldiers of the highest international ranking. One of the "suicidal" journalists on site in Vares was Anthony Lloyd, himself a former soldier in the British army and a Northern Ireland and Gulf War veteran. In his book "My war gone by, I miss it so" he mentions the Swedes in the following manner: "The men inside (the APC) might have been UN but they were playing by a completely different set of rules. They were Swedes; in terms of individual intelligence, integrity and single-mindedness I was to find them among the most impressive soldiers I had ever encountered. In Vares their moment had come."

Impressive that the girl carry all that weight as good as the bigger boys do, she's pretty petite. Staying positive and never complaining 👍

The regular rangers like these guys to don't do the amphibious stuff, we have the coastal rangers for that. They specialise in warfare in the swedish archipelagos. 🙂

Fun thing about the ice bath that they do is that many schools in sweden has a gym day where you are supposed to learn how to get up from the ice. So when i was younger those who wanted could jump into the icy lake and climb out and get a day off from school as a reward :)

15:13 in swedish schools everyone need to do it at some point where i live (uppland) you do it in 9 grade

Winter training is usually quite chill in Sweden becausec you get plenty of rest and food. This is because you need to be alert and remember what you are being taught. The winter unit in Boden does most of the training with support from the visitin units regular officers.

Sweden has two Ranger regiments. K3 in the south and the one we get to follow in this series and their sister regiment K4 in the north, who are experts in artic warfare.

The reason for the strings on the gloves is to be able to jest throow your forarm so they fly off and you can grab your gun

I live watching southerners on skis :p Did all of my service around there, winter for 7 months. Just -20C is quite nice ...

I really enjoy this series and getting your input. Keep the content coming!

Excited for this. Gonna prepare dinner and watch it while I enjoy the food. 😂

I was a jäger soldier 1991 sweden i think it was harder back in the days 14 month. 😂

Nice, a double day!

Thank you for your videos, inspiring my life❤

Not sure its been mentioned, but the translation is a bit dodgy. Every time something translates to "miles" its actually "mil", which is 10km. So if it says 10 miles, its not 16km, its 100km

I was thinking about your comment snow versus rain and rain and cold is worse - I did my service in the north of Sweden and the coldest we had was -43 degrees Celsius. Nothing beats snow and cold.

We had to do 4 months of winter training at I19😅

Gets much harder.

Biggest problem with slepping in the snow was the boots. If they get wet and then freeze its going to be a big problem to get them on.

i was a jägarsoldat...hard but a great journey

The skis are known as White Lightning.

man mår inte dåligt längre.. allt kan klaffa!

these kids are soft, Back ib my dags Jägarutbildning was a little bit more hardcore i remeber us crawling in a 500 Meter pipe that was half frozen with Ice in the middle of the pipe half the platton got stuck under ice and water. ony with the head sticking oit to force panic.. but i suspect they will change some aspects of the trainig, becaus its clear we ae gong to war soon.