The Gulf War: How Did The British Army Prepare? (1990 Documentary) | Forces TV 

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lol nothing has changed much then !!

I get conflicted when I want to like and dislike a comment at the same time. Like = Yeah, I hear you. Dislike = Aye, it's shite.

And still waiting for the boot laces I'm sure

But the POGs had them

Johnston Steiner I was in the US Navy / Marine Corps side. We were forward deployed to Okinawa. We had maritime pre positioned ships in Diego Garcia filled with everything First Mar Div needed anywhere. All they did in late August and early September was spray paint vehicles a different shade. We had our entire Desert Chocolate Chip Cookies available pre deployment at Camp Pendleton. Everything except boots. When we would evacuate a patient to the port , 3-4 hours away , we saw all the POGs / REMFs sporting high speed desert boots 2-3 months before the war was over. They had no access to Sand :). Whereas we lived in the desert for 8 months like animals. When we returned to our Saudi Arabia Desert encampment from Kuwait , that week we got two pairs. Never used

Agreed

This was probably ripped from original film vs tape. That's the reason why some old movies and television shows can be reproduced in HD

It’s because of the lighting

i assume felt like a sauna, felt like a shit heap and barely got 10 mins of sleep cos of 100 snoring .... people

Bet that was a shite time

The older you get the faster it goes.

Two weeks ago I finally watched General Schwarzkopf mother of briefings. Took me 28 years

@@Wabi-sabi8551 Absolutely. I fully expected the reverse to be true. Nope.

@@Wabi-sabi8551 not only that as the years go by it almost feels like it never happend at all but now its been 30 years since desert storm

@@columnedfox5508 I haven't even been alive that long 😂😂

13:49

Training? What's that.... wait till we get there. Jeez !

That was my battery. I know the Bdr in the clip

@@SuperParatech Mine too, who are you?

@@keithmitchell6548 Hey Bamber! I joined 10 Bty after the war.

Absolute melt

Dudes ready to party

Dudes ready to party

Boris S still better than the L85A1 lol.

@@orangepekoe5243 The A3 is much better tho.

Boris S Aight I haven't read up that much on the A3 lately so I'll check it out.

And Bren guns in some images

They were still using the Bren too.

And the SLR L1A1

Because the L85A1 was horrible especially in the desert.

I loved my SMG. Hated the replacement.

@@elmolikesdrugs7279 Didn't matter if they had cover, we just shot the cover away!

There's still a few LSW tbh

Not as useless as the Submachine “ gun “ , in 9 mm , made in WW 2. Can’t recall what they were called. We envied the Brits and their SLR In 7.62 vs M16A2 in 5.56

@@mikepazzree1340 SMG

Kevin Horne it’s a US Marine thing ....

the irony now, is that a 7.62mm ar-10 rifle was issued to sharpshooters from 2010 in afgan !

Wew lad. I bet if the Cold War was still on there would have been a much more wary position by the tory government.

@@LandersWorkshop Except now the Russians are big Tory party donors.

@@VanderlyndenJengold Russians-in-name only if it's the oligarch Russians.

Sorry, mate. That was us. 4 Armd Wksp out of Detmold. And what was worse was we were told to get a wriggle on so bolts and cables were cropped. Leftyou with armoured skips! Your God glared down at us from his place in the Highlands though. When it was all over we were set to rebuilding what we'd stripped, that which was not just scrapped. Much more to tell, but another time. I wish you well, mate

Fear Naught Brother...Ex-2 RTR here !

Wabi-sabi8551 Worse

Basically the crusades. White man in someone else’s land telling them what to do.

That was not a look-alike that was Putin spying for Russia during his old KGB days

@@MrCollegeSmart that's not what the crusades or the Iraq war were but ok. I'm sure you're exceptionally limited understanding of history is solid fact.

Them shorts

Christian V because he has a clone army of himself

Sounds about right

Centurion AVREs

You must have been the only man in full desert rig in 2003

British vehicles had Desert Rat icons on them. Supposedly they were Monty's unit.

Because not even god can trust an Englishman in the shade!

@@handcrafted30 shashi tharoor

@@CKM1909 Not the originator but definitely where it found it’s fame. Great phrase.

@@handcrafted30 who was the originator?

@@CKM1909 No idea but it was a well know joke during the days of the raj amongst the sepoy

No one using em in the video but they were carrying them and they did get used!

@Drew Pattyson im aware of that. That's the joke.

Yep had well over forty in Africa and Australia

That Benny Hill theme tune.

Tommy, draw close...…closer still.....you're an idiot.

definitely Mr blue sky

TechNoir: Yes, and plenty of SLRs too.

As seen in Star Wars

Some service support arms and TA were still issed them. Most of the regular army had SA80 though.

Groucho ah Ok I see

Okay but in Britain the hottest day in the summer might be 25-27 ish degrees so to go into constant 32+ degree heat fully clothed and training is near enough unbearable.

@@2011mrzombieslayer True, but now Brittish troops come over to the United States for training, which is pretty cool. The US. Military has it pretty lucky because America has every environment in the world.

@@bobandy7279 That and the U.S. had REONDO School. There is a great book about called Recondo LRPS in the 101 airborn by Larry Chambers.

Infantry got SA80 first, support troops got it later. There are plenty of videos of SA80 in the gulf.

There was at least 5 domestic "British" firearms that were used during the gulf war. There was the SA80 - used by Frontline troops. There was the Sterling smg, and L1a1 slr used by secondary/support troops. And they also had the L4A2 and Accuracy International's AW sniper rifle or L96 the earliest version of it, for sniping.

took about another 15 years for the sa80 to get decent

In the video?

@@fico8400 yes. From my battery

SuperParatech haha thats so cool, it must have brought back a lot of memories.

Jacob N0506 yup... and they weren’t all warm and fuzzy 😂

@@SuperParatech lol, I can imagine 😂

Remember my dad saying about how during the 90’s he caught his flight sergeant (or a different higher rank) censoring the mail and went to his higher ups and complained

its army is the 2nd most powerful in the world because of its training they pick quality over quantity there army has some of the best equipment in the world

Rebecca Emma Hutton Their army is NOT 2nd best in the world Rebecca. Many countries have well surpassed the British army and have done so for many decades since post Victorian era. Countries such as Russia, Afghanistan, Iraq, China Pakistan, India, and Turkey are a lot more powerful and armed to the teeth.

@@Pinkdolly1000 Britain has the third most powerful military and is third on the worlds ranking index

@@lynx8437 It certainly does not - u need to research the facts a lot better. China, Turkey, Germany, India & Pakistan have more powerful military than the UK. Google doesn’t always document such facts very well.

@@Pinkdolly1000 China and Germany yes, the rest no lol. Turkish conscripts don’t count they are not well trained and they are not professional. Uk is 5th I must correct myself but this isn’t just one source, this is from 6 different sources so I don’t know where your getting your information from but it’s wrong

When is any armed forces ready for the unknown?

fly bobbie shut up

@moonbeam still got the SAS

Last time I checked England found America so if your ‘American your British really so

they had to special order desert camo...

The SA80s were phased in over a period of 5-6 years and soldiers were dual Skill At Arms trained right up until the early 1990s. At the time of Op Granby, all Infantry units (and I believe most other other Combat Arms) were entirely equipped with SA80s, but a lot of Combat Support and Combat Service Support were not. As mentioned already, the A1 version of the SA80 had some glaring issues, which were mostly due to poor manufacture. The A2 version that we started to get after 2002 was far superior, but still required a high level of maintenance.

Jack Flash yeah, I know about the problems with the A1, but I just thought in 86 all rifles were replaced the same year. I never knew replacement went into the next decade. I use the A2 btw. Bit heavy after a while, but I've never had any stoppages or malfunctions with it

To shot people if necessary, just a thought.

It is a very British approach to morning routine. Better be shaven and have your over all bearing in order for muster.

helps maintain the leather for one.

It makes them last linger

Keeping boots clean and polished maintains the leather and stops them cracking. The acid content in soil can degrade the leather, so it makes sense to get any dirt off. Kit and clothing maintenance is more important on ops than in camp as you don't want it failing when you need it most.

Sterlings, not Stens.

MANPAD unit probably

I served in OP Granby and I have just turned 60 🙈😂

No good in the desert

Ha ha body armour wasn't even on issue in the 2nd gulf war 12 years later, squaddies used to ask their families to buy it as Christmas presents.

Nope you have been using them since the 1900'. Lawrence of Arabia was it? A romantacised version of what happened.

Front line troops got SA80 first, SLR and SMG for support troops in Gulf War 1.

Blah b They defo didn't draw the short straw. SLR is way better than the l85a1.

Give ya meat a good ol rub SLR,s but you don’t mention the sten guns? Lol

Stens?

Because they were still phasing-in the POS L85A1 bullpup.