Hi Keith and tracer round. Firstly a big thank you to you both for your service 38 year's total respect to you the changes you must have witnessed in those years some probably not always for the better, I've just discovered your channel throughly enjoyed your videos and your Q&A session very interesting I was hooked keep tabbing and posting Keith I certainly will keep watching all the best to you bless you both.
I never served but my dad did... He never spoke much about it. He passed away at the age of 92 last year and when I was going through his papers I found his commission letter and his medals. The old man retired from the army as a Captain and I never knew. Thank you for making these clips, I'm learning so much about what it was like to be in the army.
Good blog. Officers don't get lost as you say they get geographically embarrassed, OR momentarily disorientated. The only issue is that no one has worked out what unit of measure is a momentarily
Re the Question - ‘did the military make you a more understanding person? and your reply. On my lance jacks cadre I was taught a comment made by the former British Commander - Bill Slim - “Leadership is that combination of Example; Persuasion; Compulsion, (EPC by coincidence, remember that!) that makes men do what you want them to do”. I used that theory (in sequence) throughout my career and rarely ever reached the Compulsion stage (Do it, or else! 🤣). I found it worked in both the army and in a second career.
I remember using the ASK TELL ORDER method, always worked for me and in all my time I never once had to charge a soldier for not carrying out an order.
@@LetsTab59-bd4fd that’s very interesting because I don’t recall Ask; Tell; Order and yet indirectly that’s how I too operated, when the exigencies of a task in hand allowed it of course. I too never charged anyone and preferred the ‘round the back of an APC discussion’. (And I didn’t always come off totally the best but always got my point across. 😉) Can you imagine that now? Post Forces I also found it interesting how (almost) civvies thought (military) command operated, tried to emulate how they thought it went, and totally f@cked it up!!! 🤣🤣😮 They couldn’t get their heads around the idea that when the NCO tells you to jump, you don’t ask how high - you just jump! I was warned of that situation in advance however by a former Sgt Major of mine who I met post Forces who said to me, “If you are looking for better leadership here, you won’t find it!” He was spot on. Keep on tabbing.
This is a great way to manage a Q&A on the Toob. I’ve viewed a few others and loads of comments/questions which come in rapidly are missed. Well done to the pair of you. Your comment regarding not covering politics on your channel (with the unavoidable occasional aspect, like financing the military for example!) is spot on, it can become a distracting diversion. And weren’t we told, “No discussing politics; religion and football!” when we first joined up? (I’m a 2-4-3 🤣). Keep up the good work. 👍🏻
Hi Keith. Great show your reminiscing of going to Vogalsang brought back great memories, we went there in the 80s when the Belgian Army was still there, I recall the tank running over us,making Molotov cocktails, live firing with fixed machine guns firing over our head and also being on the side of a hill with a lake below us and firing our GPMGs and SLRs at targets the other side of the being pulled along by a train , great memories thanks mate keep up the good work
Great videos mate you obviously enjoyed the place,,was a bit spooky going into the swimming pool area and imagining the nazis being there in the war years,
Thanks Sir & Tracer Round, enjoyed that and thanks for your answer about the RAF Regt... Hope ya's do another one at some point. Keep up the good work, cheers
Great Q & A. As a former member of the RAF Cadet in the CCF, I had an opportunity to train with the RAF Regiment. They did more than security on the base. I agree they are truly amazing. Thank you for sharing your experiences. It certainly brought back great memories. 👍
I thought that was great 👍 and I always enjoy seeing the two of you interacting. It makes for an even better time. So thank you both! You know I am a new comer to your channel and watching your videos as I can. And enjoy all of them. Thank you!
Hi Keith, who could forget TSM Wells, what a character he was! Had a few forearm smashes from him! 😂😂. One night he was having a walk round the rooms and he threw a comfy chair of mine out of the window as one arm on it was dodge! Took me a hour to clear the mess up! Two days later he had found me a new one to replace it. He was one top guy! 👍
Thank you to Tracer-Round for her preparation and then to you both for taking the time to make the video. I do think it’s a great format for a Q&A👍🏼 That hour passed so quickly I really enjoyed it. Great Questions and great answers. Thank you for your answer about the Royal Irish. Especially on the hoof. The part time element of our Regiment (actually Part Time Regular Army!) paid a particularly high price during the Troubles but are often overlooked. So thank you for acknowledging them all. What a great channel! FAB, Ian
Just sat and watched you Q&A video. FANTASTIC!!!!! I answered the questions that Tracer Round put to you before you did with my answers and the similarity of the answers was uncanny. Maybe because we are from the same era of the Army! As you said, you was 2444, i was 2447. Your videos are a timely reminder of 'The Good Times'.👍 Keep em coming Keith and hope you received my email to try and arrange a get together. Take care and Stay Strong. All the best to you both. Lets TAB!!!😀😀
Your ‘getting lost’ reply with an armed patrol venturing into Southern Ireland had me laughing and recalling an incident: Can you remember the large steel Braithwaite water tanks which were placed on the roads between North and South on illegal border crossing points and then filled with concrete in order to prevent uncontrolled travel? Having just emplaced one AND having cratered the road in front of it, walking happily back along the road for tea and medals ‘a section’ were greeted by a farmer wanting to know what they were doing in the Free State! Guess which bloke with the pips had read the map? 🤣🤣🤣😮
Hi, i have just watch the Q&A and enjoyed it very much, it brought back a lot of memories of my time in the Queens Regt. please keep up with your tabs and stories. all the best Kevin Freeman.
Thank you to Tracer Round for picking my questions and thanks for your answers Keith. Interesting and funny nicknames. Also thanks for explaining about the TA and Army Reserve. As always keep the great videos coming.
😂😂 your story about the cat eating the Chinese food in the van cracked me up as it reminded me of a incident during my tour in New Lodge aged 18. Reports of a gunman in the area meant my patrol were sent out to search the rubbish strewn back alleys between the terraced houses. Being the youngest I was sent up 1st to check the 1st alley. About 100m up the alley I was thinking I was making good progress, then I heard a noise over my shoulder and felt a thump in the back. Turned round and saw my oppo behind me cracked up laughing. Apparently a cat had tried to jump from wall to wall across the alley and above me but had dislodged a brick and had used my back as a springboard to get back onto wall. How I never screamed like a schoolgirl is still a mystery, getting shot at turned out to be less traumatic 😂..Never owned a cat in my/our life because of that, got 2 "Attack" Chihuahuas instead lol
@@LetsTab59-bd4fd 😂🤣 our 2 Chihuahuas are both rescued dogs and while the little female is a excellent guard dog she's ok with ppl and other dogs. The males chihuahua/crossed with?? a bit bigger and a little aggressive ginger git. Only likes me, missus and stepdaughter and few others and he thinks he's a Rotweiler without fear..By pure coincidence, around the same time we got our boy Ron, the nearby clubhouse got Ronnie the clubhouse dog (smaller but also ginger&bad attitude. Bitten most members at least once) owned by my closest mate in the bike club world. We both know a ex L.A. Latino gangbanger who when he found out about our Chihuahuas said in the Mexican neighbourhood he grew up in all had Chihuahuas and a bigger dog eg pitbulls. Reason he gave was the Chihuahua alerts the big dog when theres a intruder, big dog grabs and holds intruder until owner comes downstairs tooled up.. Makes sense and probably cheaper and more secure than Verisure eh?👍
The REME Training camp in Norton Manor will never be forgotten for good food in 1960 . Being amongst the 1st in the new Regular Army, l was very impressed. Happy Memories.
Dear Tracer-Round & Keith, Where you aware that you can no longer get Kiwi boot polish in the UK? If this is duff intel - please advise. Great video, I love the trips down memory lane. Best Wishes Johnny
I read a newspaper article on that. Kiwi sales dropped so much since the UK Armed Forces swapped to brown boots that it’s not financially viable. A shame because no other polish came close for bulling boots!
I really enjoyed your Q&A . My question is while stationed in Germany have you had any funny moments with the locals or the politzie while on exercise. Eg leaving the gate open and the cows or sheep escaped from the field.
Hi Keith, It made me laugh when you said about the Ruperts ! looking back on the early 80's they were a nightmare 2nd Lt's and their Map Reading saga lol
Dear all . Thanks for reading out my message . Had a great hour listening to the Stories . Give Tracer Round a Hug from me . I was in the Engine Room like her Dad - Fireman then PO Motorman . It was the Best Department on the Ship ( Always had the Biggest Bar Bills 😅👍🍻🍻🍻🍻) If you like Military History come to Malta . You'd Love it . Can certainly point you in the right direction . Plus my Local is Johnys Bar a Proper Maltese Bar where you can a Cold Refreshment 😉 or two plus free Appetizers .. Long Weekend or Week with good old Ryan Air . Keep up the Good Work . Stewart Hird 😎💗🇲🇹🇲🇹🇲🇹🍻🍻 2:51 2:55
Hi Keith great program i was in Germany 1964 -1969 cant get why you liked Germany to me most boring place army could have put you we was left on a Friday16.30 till Monday 07.00 no sports no program nothing never had enough money go out maybe once a month maried men were okay officers ect not your private,only bit i enjoyed was going on exercise got you that camp
Hi Norman, thanks for your support mate. Maybe I was lucky with my experience of Celle. Also as time goes by Maybe I forget some of the crap times. Take care mate 👍
We had the Terries in NZ I started off in the TA in 92 as a 16 yr old I was a year and a half too young to sign up but looked much older I slipped thru the cracks 😂😂😂 it’s Reserve in NZ 🇳🇿 now same as the UK 🇬🇧
My experience of STABS & ARABS goes back as far as the 60's my TA service after army cadets was an RAMC Gen Hosp there was some quite cruel ribbing that some, not all Regulars I add, was a bit insulting to some that I served with (not me)they had served in 27th Comonwealth Brigade in Korea also those ww2 vets that were in 51st Highland Div in Greece (spent 4 yrs as POW's in Stalag XV111a ) one of our Col's was a 19yr old med student conscripted in 1945 to deal with the liberation of Belsen Consentration Camp. So they had done more than week end soldiering.so the likes of me didn't have to do it for real. You never know what some guys went through.
Thank you. It's a Citizen ECO 200 WR. I've had it about 5 years now. It's powered by natural and artificial light and apparently can be left in the dark and still run for upto 3 months, never tested that out though.
Awesome slippers but I've lost count how many times I've tripped over in em. They were a Christmas present from my son. Think he online ordered them from the Tank museum
The unarmed combat one was interesting. I wondered that myself. I know the infantry reserves are not taught any unarmed combat during basic or CIC which is bizarre to me. Bayonet training is the closest thing to that.
I hoovered the parade square in pirbright,my son (did his basic trying there too) told the DS what I had done The DS just waited for the right moment after that 🤣🤣
I was wondering if you could help me my dad was in the Royal artillery in the 70s he was a sergeant. His name was Ernest Blake and I was wondering how I could get hold of his record. He was my dad.
I'm afraid I don't have much of an idea however, I'm sure there are some national archives that can help with forces records. I'm sorry for not being of much assistance 😔
Hi m8. Sorry I found the Q&A Too long. Kept stopping every 2-5min. Took me 4 days to watch (about 4 hours). But like the short ones, keep it up.❤ to Sniper.
Thanks for watching, is was a bit long, we had about 64 questions come in and I wanted to answer them all. Thank you for your input it's always good to know what we get wrong so we can make changes for next time. We are learning as we go 😆
I feel like I could sit and talk to you for hours you remind me of many soldiers ive met, I love tabbing but can't walk far my knees are shot could do with that pace stick in background to lean on😂😂😂
No worries thanks again,left 18 years ago now going through some tuff times but im finally getting help not easy at 48 with dodgy knees 3 kids and a Sargent major wife🤣🤣 watching your videos has put a spring in my step so thanks again and i will keep on tabbing.
😂😂😂 we had dude like that my punishment Or the charge types 😂😂😂 I had my secco say that to me so I took his punishment and it was a smack across my mask with the gun parts 😂😂😂 never let them get Rusty ever again 😂😂😂
Blimey our numbers ain't far apart, mine was started 24435 as opposed to your 2444. Dunno why but one bloke in my Training Troop (Inkerman Tp 24 Irish Bty) had a number that started 2439. Like me he was 17 and a half, he hadn't been in Junior Leaders/TA or anything so dunno why that was. Another had been in Junior Marines so he had a Marines style number not Army. Quick "Karma" tale. Said ex Jnr Marine was a bully towards the weaker section members as he was tbf reasonably hard bloke and 3-4yrs older than most, me included. He'd brag about how he was going to go to 29 Commando Regt RA etc but he went to 50 Missile and me 40 Regt after leaving Woolwich. Never gave him another thought but would have guessed he was doing well in his military career if I'd been asked. Fast forward 4yrs and I was with my Regimental Tug of War team training for the Army championships (after coming runners up to ironically 50 Msl Regt in BAOR) staying at Shoeburyness Bks in Essex. 1st day there in front of me appears ex Marine boy (now Sgts Mess barman at said establishment), 1st words out his mouth were "Remember why I punched you in training?".. I did, it was a right hook thrown from behind without warning, not doing my room job quick enough was his reason. In my early youth I'd been a member of the infamous Glasgow street gang the Calton Tongs so I'd taken harder punches from a young age and had let it drop. Not now tho and I bashed the granny out of him in front of the filled cookhouse and as he was already unpopular at his new posting nobody seen anything and nothing was said to me but he got charged after turning up for Sgt Mess duty with a bashed up "boat".. Turns out he'd been disliked from the get go at 50 Msl, turned to drink and became dispensable hence his recent posting.. I've never been a person who bore grudges but not only the kicking but how badly his career had gone gave me quiet (until now) satisfaction.... I've always hated bullies so my conscience is clear on laughing at someone else's failure in life. Waffling again so I'm off to read the instructions for our new Ninja Creami while listening to rest of this video. You got any bullying tales from your Army days?, it was still pretty rife when I joined in 76
Hello there! I lived in rinteln. West Germany In the 1970s ... Do you know the German area of the original west .. 🇩🇪 Ps I like your channel and style and also like your friend tracer Shes nice 😊 Does she want s younger man Thank you 😊
@@LetsTab59-bd4fdSeven years around Celle. A long time ago. I went there in 1977 as a schoolboy and stayed with family (14 Signals Regiment). Given my age there wasn’t much to do although I did take up smoking the cheap cigars from the Naafi. Nice video BTW, especially interesting hearing how you switched from the RA to the infantry. I had been trying to identify your cap badge for ages.
