Brothers in Arms | The Bands of HM Royal Marines 

yeah

Beautiful❤

thanks for youer service

KOBAColo, I'm not a "Jungle Vet", my CA was 50 miles of the coast but I hear you Brother.

@@thomasnewsom7570 Thank you for your Service! On this day (11Nov), We Honor those who Serve and have Served. We Respect the Families of those who Serve and have Served fir in their own way, they have Served also. My Thanks to all those who Served and their Families!

@@KOBAColo Key word son, COMBAT VETERAN

Thank you for keeping us free! Props.

My friend, This is a soldiers song to the core. I feel I can truthfully say that I am among this Sacred Brotherhood, as was my Father who served in the United States Marines. I have come to the belief that more of my Brothers in Arms have been felled by politicians lies than enemy bullets. Please, do your best to hold any you know to be liars accountable. Dune U.S. Army 67-70 ....

I’m Ex RN WEM ‘O’, Ever need a chat I’m here.

Ich werde es versuchen aber versprechen kann ich nichts❤

May your brothers be at peace sir . Lest we forget ✝. Thank you for your service x.

@@loyalsupportisthebestever At the setting of the sun we will remember them.

Sorry brother, I got a tear in mine.

I saw Bloody , first ( Bluey my awesome proud Korean Air Force but bloody. was dad’s word and I , bloody beautiful , Nots ( nickname ) I love ❤️ this and is used for a friends , mate (27 ) drowned at Gunamatta Surf 🏄 beach ,huge RIP , 6 years ago . . I had never heard it until then ! Bless you , all those who have given lives to their countries . Boy I miss Bluey , red hair self made everything , who smart also ! South Korea , have more free speech than me , me dad , here in worlds most locked down city 🌃 you loved , so proud , zoo guide, bloody fiasco dad !

As a South African who fought in the Border War, I felt it in my heart. We will NOT forget.

it is not dust

I take your word for it.

That is a class comment sir. Very much appreciated.

Thank you Sir🤝

God bless you

U.S. Army 66-70 , This is a soldier's song. Mark Knopfler understood the pain any righteous soldier feels to have to take the life of another soldier, no matter how necessary it may seem at the time. Millions up millions of soldiers lives have been lost because the people of their own country did not have the Love of Jesus Christ in them and therefore lacked the courage to tell the truth. Fear is the opposite of having the Love of Jesus Christ in you. Jesus was a *WARRIOR* for the truth, and died on the Cross. Any person that protects a lying politician or any world leader that has sent a soldier to die because they lied is responsible for the death of that soldier more than their supposed enemy on the battlefield.

God bless you my friend ❤

My Condolences, sir.

@@mattcavanough Thank you Matt, take care

Take care sir !

@@bartmotte1069 Bart, you take care as well Sir & Thank you 🌟

Sorry for your loss my friend

Thank you for your service! I only wish "we" could prevent 'others' from having to experience the same/similar ever again. God Bless.

Me too, mucker, the "Jollies" band could always play a good tune.

And we, thank you.

I'm an Argentine Soldier... not old enough for taking part in that crazy conflict... but very respectful to those from both sides who fought with bravery and comradeship.I served with many UK soldiers in Cyprus and I'm really proud of it... 💪🏼

@@lucasfilippi5556 I think most British military personal would feel the same as you. My father and uncle both went to the Falklands. They never said bad word against the Argentinian soldiers , not once.

С сердцем на плече? Это как?! 🤔

​@@kozerogmoskva112I think they mean "sleeve" instead of "shoulder". It means to make your feelings and emotions obvious rather than hiding them.

whatever it means... all I know when I was in phenomen of my exaggeration I have heart on my shoulder to became my own myself@@bengmelea8646

Thank you for your service, so I may rest at night.

Thank you sir,from the uk

My father served as an MP and was sent to Vietnamin 1965 where he became a door gunner with the aviation battalion that was assigned to the 173rd AB for their first 16 months in Vietnam. He was one of four in his entire company that came home without a Purple Heart. He later re-enlisted and went into the Air Force. As the dice that was my destiny were rolled, I ended up enlisting in the Marine Corps (mainly because of this very song and bearing witness for almost three straight weeks walking past the hangar where countless Marines were brought to be made ready for their "final" deployment (the Beirut barracks bombing) as a 15 year old on his way from school to football practice. I drew the long straw and luckily never had to go to war. But I was in Germany for countless terrorist attacks, the deaths of 14 men in my Dad's squadron and the Combat Controllers they worked with daily, seeing the men and woman (some only 3 or 4 years my elder) fighting back tears and choking down cigarettes one after another on breaks from the ghastly duty of theirs with those Marines. Death has visited me, even though I never had a bullet or bomb thrown my way "directly" in anger... It does not matter if you are not a Marine, you are still my brother... SEMPER FIDELIS!!!

@@Wolverines77 Thank you for your kind words!

Sono italiano e credo nell'amore e nella pace tra i popoli. Lo sto proponendo in tanti post. Questa poesia in musica deve diventare un inno. Ci proviamo? La vostra versione è bellissima. La voce di chi la canta trasmette un pathos unico. Grazie.

What I really like about them is you can tell that they actually done tours of "active duty". This song has a proper connection to them rather than just a well rehearsed military trained performance. Some of the other songs are just well drilled rehearsals.

God be with you brother! Bosnia 97

Bless You Brother. Kosovo ‘99. Iraq ‘03. Afghanistan ‘11

I don't understand something here. You served 2004-2006 and served active duty. So if you serve active duty in your first year you can leave? I was under the perception that if you joined the services that you had to do a minimum of 2 years regardless of whatever happened in that time or where ever they sent you, unless invalided out?

@@paulmitchell4544 A Mission / Deployment was for only 6 Months. You could extend for a second, maximum a third Mission, before they send you Home, back to Civilian Life. I made my Military Service in Switzerland. For KFOR you could volunteer.

Sorry, don't know your name. When you come home from a mission you can't talk to the average person; You can only SHARE with people who have seen what you have seen.

He is brilliant

Knopfler would be proud

Did you notice the guitar player finger pics like Mark does

I had Never seen David Gilmour play on a Les Paul :B

Almost 60 years ago I walked through those same gates. My brother in arms!

So true..Lols

Dankjewel voor jouw dienstbaarheid aan ons land. Veteranen krijgen veel te weinig waardering.

Sorry to hear that mate, but thank you for your service and also to your lost 12 brothers, I salute you all - Doe altijd je best en wat juist is Leer van fouten Wees trots op de Koninklijke Landmacht door houding en gedrag Respecteer en heb je collega’s nodig als onderdeel van een team U bent verantwoordelijk voor de aan u toevertrouwde benodigdheden en materialen Houd rekening met uw omgeving en geef prioriteit aan beveiliging Vermijd drugs en drink met mate Respecteer de mensenrechten en volg de oorlogsregels - Damn respect to you my friend!

Semper Fi

Gen Z USMC veteran Here. She along with Her Majesty’s Band definitely made mission with this performance. I wish the Marine Corps Bands would step up their game and cover songs like this one.

@@richirich999 His Majesty's cock! do keep up, make's you Yank's look stupid.

Je suis un vétéran des "french Marines" et j'adore cette chanson et cette interprétation. Bravo

​@dudulima291these are british royal marines

Well said Chris!

Да! Невероятно прекрасная песня! Пусть будет мир на всей планете! Пусть будет проклята любая война!!!

Amen

Less we forget Certa Cito IAF Brothers and Sisters from the ex Job Mob NHS Medic 🇬🇧

@@user-dl9mx5ld1z Be safe. And when your country is done with their misdeeds, come to the UK and have a drink with us.

Prenez le temps d’écouter la version merveilleusement bien chantée par Joan Baez et qui date des années 90....

Yeh she has a captivating voice, so strong, clear, perhaps the best female vocalist I’ve heard.

@@c.martin4836 Have you seen the vid of them doing Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin? that I find even more interesting for them to do.

@@Kiyarose3999 definitely

@@c.martin4836 : I think you have missed the point of the song?? This is not a 1960's anti war (on any circumstances) song but a soldier's remembrance song of fallen colleagues who went to War (in this case the Falklands War) to free the Falkland Islanders from captivity and lost their lives doing so. Military people are seldom warmongers, but people who go to war voluntarily knowing it's they who will always pay the bill. It's the same today, no Ukrainian soldier wants to go to war, but the harsh alternative to this is losing their Country, their political freedom and culture to Russian aggression. The point here is, in a just war soldiers fight for the freedom of everybody, including the freedom of the so-called Liberal/ Woke anti-war pacifists types. A good number of the Marines here (including vocalist & guitarist) are wearing the Afghanistan Operational Service Medal, so know 1st-Hand what the song is about. Reflect on this?

Ха у меня нет мурашек потому что Русский ю андестенд

​@@user-to4wr8mk4b Это потому, что вы, "русские" - параллельная ветвь развития человечества, к сожалению, для такого большого количества населения, и вы этим гордитесь. Где бы вы были, если бы не помощь Америки в 20-30 годы прошлого столетия, когда вам помогали продуктами, а потом строили заводы и фабрики. Но вы любите нравиться "хозяину" - личности, партии ... , а потом ваш "хозяин" задружил с другим "хозяином" из Германии. Но тот первым, не дожидаясь, когда вы нападёте, "вероломно" напал, и вам снова начали помогать - Ленд-лиз, второй фронт для отвлечения Германских войск от Восточного фронта, чтоб вам легче было ... , да и "ножки Буша" ещё не забыли, в 90-е? Вы как тот глупый щенок, которому показывают - как надо жить, чтобы выжить, но вы постоянно кричите, что не такие как все, и у вас другой путь! Так почему "ваш путь" проходит по чужим территориям, и по чужим судьбам? Просто вы не ищете "царя в голове", вам важно, чтоб царь был в Кремле, и руководил вами, и за всё отвечал, но беда в том, что царь "за всё" отвечает вашими жизнями. Вам нельзя помогать именно из гуманных соображений - ваша страна скорее развалится, перестанет влиять на жизнь соседей, а менталитет вашего население быстрее изменится, и оно заживёт, как живут люди во всём Мире. А на счёт комментариев - не забывайте о "тридцати серебренниках", и о том, к чему приводит желание заработать на обмане.

Exactly! These people don’t think about their innocent brothers on the other side their fighting. You are all humans, you’re all being controlled like puppets. Think about the hypocrisy, killing millions on innocent women and children, bombing their homes, devastating countries.

The Military/government doesn't stand up for them when they get too badly injured to serve during combat or training. They have to rely on charity to support them afterwards.

You are kidding right. That lady sang so many notes flat i lost count. Very ordinary to be kind. But the guitarist really did a fine job on Knopflers tone,.

I don't know why they didn't get a male singer or a better one. There's a delivery that lacked.

Non sibi sed patriae

Tibi gratias ago

Take care, mate

May your brother rest in peace, Doug.

RIP sailor. Thank you

Fair Winds and Following Seas to your brother, Stand Down, your Watch is Over.

Legends never die. I wish your family the best

The responsibility for the deaths of millions of soldiers has often been with those soldiers fellow countrymen, ... much more so than the soldiers of the country they fought against. This Includes American citizens for the past 50 years.

As a Canadian citizen, I thank you for your service.

Thank you. Love from Denmark.

I'm a UK veteran and worked very closely with the US forces Bill god bless you mate, we are ALL Brothers in Arms!

Amen🇺🇸

And you too Sir.

The US contributes more deaths in war than any nation. Why? They’re a creepy bunch who screw the world for a profit

Check out James Marcal he sings a few dire straights songs sounds like knopler

Love the sound of that Les Paul! great stuff!

Respect

amazing performance

Jesus, Adrian. It wasn't THAT good.

@@kar2ouche I am saying that I am a US Marine and really am moved by the performance of these RM performers-not that they are yanks. It was a compliment. Maybe you should read more carefully. I have had liberty with your Marines, they are fine companions.

Now I understand. Thank you.

@@warshipsdd-2142 : I assume you will have noticed that both of these "RM performers", as you put it, are sporting their Operational Service Medal for Afghanistan.

@@stuartmccall5474 I have the highest respect and fraternal admiration for HM RM Musicians. I am aware of their excellent training and dual role. I regard them as I do the US Navy Corpsmen who fought along US Marines and tended to our wounded at great risk to themselves. I only used the term performer because in the video they were showcasing their outstanding vocal and instrumental skills. I would be honoured to have either one alongside me in a hostile engagement.

Bless your heart John ❤️ I was in the WRNS in 1982 and I cried, listening to this…🥹😢

God Bless from this U.S. Marine (86-90). I was 14 and living in West Germany as a U.S. Air Force brat when you were on your way there. This song came out as my world view was crumbling before my eyes. The bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut (dad was stationed at Rhein Main AB where most of the bodies were brought to be put back together for their "final" deployment, home and onwards to heaven). I would walk past the hangars (where all of this was happening) every day on my way from school to where we had football practice. I was 15 and to see these young men and woman, just a few years my senior, when they were on breaks was unimagineable. I grew up in and around the military as our family spent about 70% of dad's time in the Air Force less than 150km's from the Iron Curtain. I knew that bombing would forever change the world. Five months later, we lost 17 "family members" in a crash in the mountains a few miles southwest of Zaragoza AB, Spain. This song came out later that summer and it immediately stopped my downward spiral. It was a few days after hearing this song that I knew my course, either enlisted air crew in the Air Force or becoming a Marine... The Eagle, Globe and Anchor won out...

If you have not seen it, watch the "One Night in London" BBC televised special with Mark Knopfler version. As amazing as this version in, that performance is hauntingly beautiful...

@@Wolverines77 Thank you, I will 😊and God bless you too…❤️

@@Wolverines77 Strangely, also recorded from the Royal Albert Hall only a few years ago 👍

Really proud moment to appreciate these are serving Army personnel for our country.............How lucky are we!!!! xxx

Absolutely fantastic singing and guitar playing ,such a powerful song,brilliant

Hmmm, not for me.........Brothers in Arms was written as a lament to the folly of war......it was meant to be sung softly and made all the more powerful for that. It was Knopflers' guitar work that wrought the emotion, pain and sadness into the song.......never the voice. This rendition bordered on operatic in parts and hard, almost abrasive and in that.........entirely missed the point ? Soz

@@garymoore2535 It's not the same song in that regard. I completely agree with you, but I don't see it as a butchering of it. More like a different interpretation. that I found entertaining. I do understand your point though.

I take nothing away from the singer, she can sing, I take nothing away from the band, they can play.....it is just the particular choice of song mixed with the nature of her presentation that completely misses the mark.......for me at least.

@@garymoore2535 Understood and perfectly acceptable imo. I have songs that hold a special reverence to me and I'm usually not a fan of alternative interpretations of those songs. Some songs that even the live versions irritate me. lol No, seriously, in this case, I absolutely get it. :)

dem kann ich mich nur anschliessen

@@schraubi44 hab das Lied auf der E Gitarre gelernt bzw bin noch dabei. Einfach nur Liebe !! Musik ist Emotion. Und das ist schön so :)

In 83/84 In the portugueses army (Nato Troops) I met and trained with soldiers who were in Falkland. One of them offered me a camouflage shirt.

Gibson not fender

Let’s not mention any Germans of war🙄

@@martinafranca6609 danke Sir!. Ignore her, we British are so immensely proud of to be your cousins.

@@martinafranca6609 you know not what you say or think!

Greetings from a 69 yr old fart from over in South Africa, Salute sir, respect to all who serve

That's 'Royal' for you shippers!

@@michaelmclaughlin9410 lol

40 years ago....I hadn't realised that......WOW......always has and always will be my favourite Dire Straits song

Maybe its because they (the military musicians) have seen the face of war in that of their comrades and can feel the pathos of this song.

@@ukrainiansniper5916: Hi Dan, If you know what you are looking at, you will see from the Medal immediately next to both their tunic buttons that both have done a full Tour of Duty in Afghanistan so have seen it with their own eyes whilst doing their "other role".

@@stuartmccall5474 I am not well versed in British or Commonwealth service ribbons, so now I know thank you.

If you want to see another good cover. Watch Hayde Bluegrass. Their country/bluegrass cover of this song is amazing.

I would agree, but i find it very strange that a fighting unit should sing this song, after all, its about NOT fighting, or at least i am sure that is the moral of the song. This does not detrcat from a very very good performance, the guitar player did very well indeed as this is a bit of music where breaks are taken in unsual places, which is what makes it special. After twelve years of sevice, at i may say the worst time to have been in the service due to ongoing conflict, i have said goodbye to many good friends who I can only wish peace without end, i must also add that we should in fact be listening to the story told, we are certainly fools to make war on our brothers in arms, but we were there to follow orders, the only thing that stuck in my throat was that those who decided on the conflict are in all cases never at the sharp end, but have a lot to say about itwhen in fact they have no idea about the subject and its outcome to thousands of men who just did as they were told, nine times out of ten regardless to their own safety. It taught me a lot, but after a lot of funerals i have to say that it is then we reflect on the loss of life, not before as it should be, and certainly not by those responsible, and it realy does upset me that this happens without us all learning just one word, that instead of saying yes we should all be saying NO . May i say that i can see no dignity in dying in conflict, and i say that from being at too many funerals of people i have known and worded with, it is a painful event and stays with you from day one. It really does concern me that as a race this seems to be the hardest addiction to kick, yet none of us goes out there to die for kicks. The song i am sure is now known world wide, so why is the message so hard to get through our heads. I recall the very first, we wre in training right at the start age fifteen and a half years old, and that funeral will be with me to the ends of my days as clear as if yesterday, and we were supposed to stand there without showing any imotion, for me impossible, God willing, we mnay someday take note of these great words and their moral standing. For the song itself it is a masterpiece and i personally offer my thanks for Mark who wrote it, and sings it so well unlike anyone else, may it stay forever in our minds, as will those whom we have known and lost in conflict, may they know they will never be forgotten, and have eternal peace and knowledge that they will not be forgotten ever because right up to today, those who forget are doomed to make the same mistake. Thank you Mark for a superb bit of work may your life be long and productive in your own field, nobody does it like you.

While Mark has a very distinct voice, I honestly think this was an even better version.

This is good, i'm not even going to try and critisize that.... But when Knopfler finishes that '....we're fools to make wár on our bró-thers in arms"...and melts faces with that solo... its different... Still better? But this comes scaringly close though! Very impressive performance yes!! Beautiful!

Totally agree, Mark K is one of my top 5 songs, this is up there as good.

@@andy70d35 Always possible to find a better singer with a more beautiful voice... or improve on an existing piece of art. But Mark Knopfler wrote this masterpiece. And many more. That's the real impressive part.

My vote goes to Mark. Call me old fashion :) To me it's a song about a soldier looking back, not some triumphant song. For me it's a bit of a mismatch. Regardless of her good voice btw.

Всё "герои" т.н."украины", должны быть уничтожены, и будут. Даже не сомневайтесь, а русские земли, пока у самозванцев и наглецов. Но они(земли) вернутся в Россию. Не надо было НАТО"расширяться", тем более за счёт русских земель и нанимать это продажное отребье. Не стоило🤭🥱

I'm with you on that, I too am a very proud parent of a serving Australian soldier and another son who also served. This band did a great job playing this amazing and very moving music.

God bless you Anne, war is a horrible business I'm afraid......

Не надо лезть в другие страны и все будут живы. На вас никто не нападает. Англо-саксы достали уже всех на планете. / No need to climb into other countries and everyone will be alive. Nobody attacks you. The Anglo-Saxons have already got everyone on the planet.

"There's so many different worlds So many different suns And we have just one world But we live in different ones" Thats what this verse means to me

Amen To That Bro... 11-Bravo, 2000-2016...

YOU CAN FACE A WAR BUT NEVER FIGHT ... That two different things...

People have there own internal wars..

Never mind, you can't help where you are born 😂

let's get out of uk reign and stop antagonizing russia its none of our buisness thank you

@@anthonymitchell8893 a bully must be shown his error... Russia is the aggressor and the Bully.

@@anthonymitchell8893it will be our business when the idiot, encouraged by the bigger idiot Trump, invades Europe

@@DaleHartleyI’m with you friend.

An putin

Indeed.

WW1 veteran? Bet you still do the goose step

We never will unfortunately there's just to much money to be made in WAR and past history hasn't taught us humans anything..

I wish our politicians would listen..

I am glad someone else noted that the Fender was in fact a Gibson Les Paul.

Actually Mark Knopfler plays this on both a Fender and a Gibson. He is amazing.