British Army Bayonet Training

This is British Army bayonet training in an infantry training base in Catterick. This clip was features on a BBC3 documentary called 'Young Soldiers' all rights go to the BBC.

[@Warmaker01]

There was an event years ago involving a British unit that got ambushed in Iraq. The proximity was close, and several of the British soldiers immediately counterattacked by going in with bayonets fixed. Stuck a couple insurgents, the rest changed their minds, and it got the unit out of the ambush. Seeing somebody getting run through by something like a bayonet, or being threatened by it is still a shocking effect for morale.

[@lewiswilson3224]

Holy crap lol, a comment made 10 years ago 😳

[@Cardboardbocs]

The old brit bayonette charge was "How does the grass grow?! BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD" good times

[@TalltallTim16]

That's from full metal jacket :I

[@Cardboardbocs]

older still, sonny Jim!

[@TalltallTim16]

***** We haven't been at war now for quite some time

[@TalltallTim16]

***** Not really recent is it?

[@asahdo]

It still is.

[@TheUnboxer073]

From there old traditions to the modern age... British do love there bayonets....

[@Figgy_23]

Bayonets are rarely used, even back when muskets we're used.

[@TheUnboxer073]

Mick Mink Well muskets with bayonets are used allot in close combat, but in modern. It's to deadly to come close, just like what happened to the japanese during ww2...

[@ChrisJones-eq6uj]

As said in the video, the bayonets were psychological. Like how bullets don't get many kills compared to other forms of offense, they're still useful to have to psych out the enemy. Military goals aren't usually to genocide people, but to capture/liberate objectives. The easiest way to do that is to make the enemy run away

[@TheUnboxer073]

Chris Jones Blade is still one of our favorite weaponry..

[@samuel10125]

EmperorPangulo its the fact that we still use this tactic and it works because our troops have actually killed taliban with the US don't really use this if at all and are confused when we do it.

[@LBUK2010]

The documentary doesn't show them being beasted around their block for about a hour and then being made to crawl in the mud on the way to the bayonet training area

[@russbooth6766]

So true. Then the beasting back to the barracks

[@sitdownshutup8813]

just a name standard practice apparently to fix bayonets and apparently in Iraq they didn’t think much of putting a bayonet on as it was just skills and drills and never expected to use them

[@ezioclarketheninth]

Mate your not fucking wrong I must’ve ran to that post box and back a bar 200 times

[@lilrara1291]

The bloodthirst must never rest

[@xxxcatch22xxx1]

Run to heaven, crawl to hell we had At grantham

[@StoicListener]

5 years later... Timmy now works a regular 9 to 5.

[@jimanderson6544]

StoicListener as an HGV driver

[@samain11]

But he knows how to fight and no society has ever survived that has forgotten that.

[@ReasonAboveEverything]

Lol

[@gunnerkermit7885]

Will always have a more adventurous career than what you’ll ever have.

[@notreallydavid]

with transferable skills in disembowelment

[@RifleEyez]

Yup was used even in WW2. In the book by Holger Eckhertz I was just reading has interviews with German soldiers post-Normandy (1950's) and it's stated multiple times how the German units were essentially shitting themselves because the Brits were running in with Bayonets and fighting hand-to-hand, especially in all the small bunkers and defensive trenches. Even the look in the eyes of the British unnerved them, one quote (paraphrasing) was that the Germans "couldn't understand how someone who looked just like they did and were from the same stock/race wanted to kill so badly".

[@Peoples_Republic_of_Devonshire]

Bayonets have been used by the British in the Falklands Conflict, Iraq and Afghanistan. When the British go to war they always take the cold steel

[@jeroen79]

@@Peoples_Republic_of_Devonshire They don't like it up 'em!

[@TeaLordTime]

Great. The British bayonet charge has been a thing to fear for hundreds of years.

[@vectorbrony3473]

Always made the French think twice. To take British volleys and then see them charge forward must be terrifying.

[@matseg7103]

Vector Brony wtf english were known in all the Europe to only stay defensive on their position.And you say they were bayonet charging? Haha nice try^^

[@Xenophaige_reads]

Mat Seg Yep, we did both of those at the same time. We usually found a really good bit of defensive terrain, shoot the enemy as they closed on us then once they were close enough charge and.... not kill them. They didn't stay around for that.

[@Joneiighh]

True been there during WW I times as well :)

[@simonwatts8338]

+Mat Seg From 1914-18 bar the Michael offensive, the British army was constantly attacking. We've also kicked the shit out of virtually every country in Europe at one time or another.

[@Thisisahandle701]

This is the kind of training that changes who you are.

[@pohjantuulet247]

Or rather, forces you to unveil your true colors. *"Fear the fury of a patient man."*

[@robertchubb1518]

I have seen bayonet and hand to hand through my night vision in Iraq...the professionalism of the British infantryman (and yes..we had our fights in the bars in Germany etc) is absolutely SECOND TO NONE

[@jonathannorris8992]

I remember a Scots Guards soldier talking about taking trenches in the first Gulf war with bayonets. He said while the Americans were showing of there Smart technology he and his mates were butchering young men with bayonets. He was a very hard man but you could see he never really got over the reality of what he had done with this very old British army skill.

[@alanthomas2064]

No more chilling sound to an enemy than.... FUX BAYONETS!

[@boxereng9871]

Actually I remember watching a series 'Royal Marines, Commando on the frontline' and the bloke talking said "Afghanistan for British troops has seen some of the most fiercest hand to hand fighting since the second world war" I was surprised at that but I assume that the hand to hand fighting will have involved bayonets haha

[@Heshem_Joel]

Of course there is the Afghan pulwar (scimitar).

[@xxxfirehuunterxxx]

Respect to our British allies across the pond.

[@USMarineRifleman0311]

***** shut up dumbass

[@manbearpiggore6429]

Coming,on leave, to a nightclub near you!

[@simonyip5978]

😂😂😂

[@omegaphoenix068]

Man I love that Brit accent no homo, I mean, he makes "they would be shittin their pants" sound classy.

[@DuckProductionsQuack]

Compared this to the US bayonet video, I'm scared of Britain's bayonet charges now

[@aryanvats6922]

Check out indian bayonet charges

[@nosamsemaj9150]

@@Alexlucic93 I’ve got bayonet 2 next week after patrols ex 😂

[@sultansuleman1046]

This is bayonet 1, wait until you see bayonet 2

[@louissanderson719]

The taliban certainly found out the hard way

[@Warmaker01]

Bayonets are of course not the primary means of fighting, but some military circles still believe in its training and "just in case" use. As for this video, love how the Brits still believe in traditional Cold Steel.

[@mwnciboo]

Anyone who thinks Bayonets aren't used should read the Citation for Lt Adamson who in 2009 who won Two Military Gallantry Awards in Afghanistan. He killed a gunman at point blank range and when out of Ammunition he dove across a River Bank and Bayoneted a Taliban Machine Gunner. Words fail me for just how incredible this was...

[@Westyrulz]

When I was in the army they told us bayonet training was to teach us to fight on regardless,like your not beaten even if your out of ammo.Aussie army.

[@maycontainnuts3127]

I'd crack up if he shouted "show me your war face" at me. Goddamn memes.

[@dammyjodger4950]

No you wouldn't

[@lonewarrior6633]

What’s a bayonet for……….for killing! Those words I will never forget from my training in basic training. That switch has been built in to me. If ever the time comes again, in a war scenario, I can flip that switch again. Best times of my life in the Army!!

[@anglohistorian8687]

No matter how advanced our weapons get, there will always be a point in war where the only way to end the fight is to do it with your bare hands.

[@LCDqBqA]

+Chris QF "Only a fool would trust his life to a weapon."

[@Fakeslimshady]

except those are knifes lul

[@80ki68]

How the fuck should you know?

[@justnoob8141]

Pope Guilty XIII when you run out of ammo

[@cbjm4568]

28 days later vibes right here...

[@samain11]

Best years of my life, the bayonet was a lot more effective on the end of an SLR though.

[@SvenTviking]

The trouble was it bent the barrels.

[@tommyatkins2527]

Definitely bit more distance between you and enemies

[@andromidius]

The A2 is a great fun. It was the original that left something to be desired - though even that was a perfectly functioning weapon. Most of the time. I got to fire the semi-automatic 'Cadet' version when I was a teenager. Even that felt like a good gun, even if it was 'well used' and the dampness made the bolt a bit stiff after a while. But my goodness was it accurate on the range.

[@wraith_1367]

I used it as a cadet too, things definitely a very beautiful weapon. I found that it Feels more comfortable in the hands than most other guns

[@thgentleman9210]

0:33 when you get grounded and its Halloween..

[@jimbobhk2009]

😂🤣🤣

[@coledonaldson3855]

Don’t know if anyone will see this but I just completed mine today, 6 hours long 5 hours of pure beasting and they’re definitely still using the same targets as on the video 🤣

[@tomsheppard378]

Was best part of basic training, wish could do far more often

[@adambrittain3552]

You forgot the part we're we get beasted for two bloody hours

[@dailygurrilavideos]

This isn't just done for the sake of keeping up "muh British traditions". It's done because there is a chance that shit will hit the fan with either the enemy getting too close or you running out of ammo.

[@EthanThomson]

a lot of times in afghanistan, bayonets were used

[@Peoples_Republic_of_Devonshire]

@the noah lucario during the Falklands War the Scots Guards made a bayonet charge during the Battle of Mount Tumbledown, in Iraq the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders made a bayonet charge at the Battle of Danny Boy, and in 2011 in Afghanistan a Princess of Wales Royal Regiment fire team conducted a bayonet charge

[@Tricyclejam]

I wish the US army did bayonet training when I was in.

[@Aikidobear129]

I have nothing against the British Army but every time I see them in this type of video I always think back to that classic Monty Python's episode "Self defense against fruit"

[@dannylamb456]

+Aikidobear129 "What if they attack us with pointed sticks?"

[@fds7476]

*Bang*

[@ContradictoryNature]

You'll not be fighting them with bayonet. You'll be firing at indistinct shapes on an opposite mountainside as you constantly second-guess which direction the gunfire is coming from. That's assuming you actually get into a firefight, rather than spend most of your time on a base or on patrol, praying you don't hit an IED or get shot by a sniper.

[@mrbones26691]

😂😂😂

[@A.Mardle]

Until the moment when you do come face to face with the enemy and bayonet him. It's unusual these days, but by no means unheard of. It happened a lot in the Falklands, and in GW1, GW2, Bosnia and Afghanistan.

[@2fast2block]

There are many more reasons for the bayonet. It's not the bayonet that needs further improvements, it's the soldiers using them.

[@xxxfirehuunterxxx]

Buuut that Full Metal Jacket reference, "Show me your war face!"

[@acidfreakout1]

im hopefully joining coldstream guards in a few years

[@-lightningwill-6014]

So howd that work out?

[@harrywarner4843]

everyone whineing about how they aren't very good at fighting with the bayonet? it's training controlled aggression not CQB combat

[@katoyushiromitsu]

Ello matey, The L85A2 doesn't ave that much recoil to be honest firing in bursts there is barely any recoil at all. The weapon is a bit heavier then most (negligible talking grams here) but the weight actually lowers the recoil not exaggerates it. The bayonet however lengthens the overall length dissipating the main advantage of the weapon, it being a bullpup. Can i just say, the bullpup and compact design make it outstanding in close quarters.

[@dingus_doofus]

Beautiful poetry of the blade!

[@NoName-oh6pc]

“There's no substitute for cold steel. They do not like it up 'em, they DON'T LIKE IT UP 'EM”

[@nigelwhybrow9257]

What it doesn’t show you is the blasting and room inspection the night before that you needed up having to sort out before the next morning only for them to come in about 5 in the morning give you another besting ,a changing parade and then a cross country run and assault course , all designed to wind you up and get you ready to kill,I had todo it twice as got back medically back squaded ,,,the second time I was aware of it all and just laughed to myself all the waythrough

[@sonaliano]

Is that factory new? Nice!

[@SD78]

"Bayonets are awesome!" -Major (now Lt.General Ret.) Kiszely

[@GrrrIamMad]

Ok, that settles it, I'm joining the army when I'm older. (Canadian army, close enough though)

[@Chewable396]

They charged with bayonets in Helmand province, Afghanistan. They did it again in Basra city, Iraq. Before that, they stabbed, chopped, rifle-butted their way up and down Mt. Tumbledown in the Falklands, and before that in the jungles of Borneo, Malaya, the highlands of Kenya. Every year, every generation, arm chair generals and analysts say the spirit of the bayonet is obsolete. Every war, Tommy Atkins proves them wrong. So long as men attack to take ground there will be a place for the bayonet.

[@lindgrenland]

It always seemed weird to me with bayonets on bullpup configs. Not the concept of the bayonet itself, but just the way they have to grasp the firearm somewhat awkwardly, and some bullpups do look kinda flimsy. I prefer a trusty, good old 1.5 meter long (or ~60in) musket for my personal bayonet fencing needs!

[@geod5]

brutal to think that in the falklands conflict the royal marines actually did bayonet charge the Argentine positions in the rear and did that to real people

[@Dasistrite]

It's beautiful and natural.

[@kmart6411]

Miracle Gro, water, and sunshine? Actual answer from my friend who was 11B lmao! He got smoked shortly after.

[@smudgeyarksha3514]

Whats the Bayonet for? To Kill Kill Kill! What Makes the Grass Grow? Blood Blood Blood! Whats the time? Time For War...Arghhhh

[@eggy2003]

as far as im aware it is out of production now, if you're looking to buy some, your best bet is an army surplus store

[@TaZ101SAGA]

Young Soldiers! Good series!

[@wikieditspam]

Depends entirely on who is holding the knife vs the bayoneted rifle.

[@nderezic]

such noble music for such savage acts 😮

[@cormacmcg1232]

I Love Them Shouting When They Are Stabbing The Dummies

[@RythOfTheForest]

To be fair I don't know an awful alot apart from my friend who is serving haha, thanks for the info dude!

[@andromidius]

Wait, someone suggested that a modern day rifle would have a bayonett that prevented the weapon firing? Yeah, there's not been a weapon like that since the Musket. And even later models of those were designed to fire with it attached. Just makes it harder to aim accurately.

[@Clarkey129]

What's the music playing or is it something made specifically for the programme?

[@EnglandsLastPatriot]

Bayonet charges are not done via platoons lining up and doing a grand impression of the Light Brigade at the battle of balaclava.

[@utahlobster]

Those are some mighty fine bayonets. Looks like good training. We spent one day on bayonet training during basic for US Army. It was....lame.

[@eeeeeeee7535]

This is fucking badass

[@yomanry1]

I don't think it's strictly: "Riflemen have to be taught by riflemen." Perhaps Bayonet training only was under the supervision of this particular KINGS corporal.

[@Inpiron1501]

its can be a big buzzz, but also phsyically and mentically draining. because when i did it. My platoon had just came off an live firing exercise 15miles away from camp that we "tabbed" (jogged) back from.

[@jasonrigone7771]

brave men...thx for your service lads

[@liamrowe5156]

I am signing up for the British army soon

[@HistoryMonarch1999]

im sighing up when im older for the british army

[@Redoralive]

Last I checked the USMC still train with the bayonet.

[@mikeburrell5109]

I think the main issue here is that Perry is a type of cider made from pears. You may be referring to the parry. It is difficult to take your comment seriously when you can't get simple things like words right. Also, the fact that the last Aussie Bayonet charge was in 1967, as opposed to the British using it multiple times in both Iraq and Afghanistan does not really help your argument.

[@tnhl77]

WHAT MAKES THE GRASS GROW?????

[@Kaibutsu_lol]

BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD!!!!!!!!!!!

[@acescyrax3351]

Whats the name of the music

[@iKernowz]

why must i know how far the full lunge is? it doesnt matter, its for close encounters and the lunge distance obviously varies depending on the person. but its better having one than not.

[@jamesgordon2060]

You guys understand that they're only showing you the really nice bits here right?

[@notBrie]

Seems like the first scream is to get the enemy to notice you and the second one is practice for when you get shot.

[@tombrigden7075]

You've obviously never had a very pissed off Brit rush you with a bayonet then have you. It's all in the mind.

[@Longshot88]

It's a natural human response. If some enraged guy was running at you screaming with a bayonet, I'd like to see you try and stand your ground. Good luck.

[@wasiabbas9238]

What's the song called

[@madelinekoster4583]

LordGeorgeRodney 0:33, -Imagine that's rifleman receiving the steel.

[@fritzduquesne3691]

madeline koster They should take the scabbard off first.

[@madelinekoster4583]

He is stolen valor lol! Some Limey from the navy exposed him.

[@gamestation9437]

WHAT YOU MEAN LIKE THE RIFLES WHO LOST 50 MEN IN AFGHANISTAN AND CAME FROM THE LIGHT INFANTRY WHO HAVE MORE VCS THAN ANY REGIMENT IN THE BRITISH ARMY WHO BEAT 10.000 FRENCHMEN AT VERA BRIDGE WITH 70 MEN WHO FOUGHT AT WATERLOO IMJIN RIVER THE SOMME AND EVERY MAJOR WAR IN BRITISH HISTORY COZ IF THATS WHO YOUR TALKING ABOUT YOU WANT TOO LEARN HISTORY AND SHUT THE FUCK UP MATE DONT GO THERE IF YOUR RGJ LI YOUR A RIFLEMEN OX AND BUCKS LI TOOK PEGASUS BRIDGE IN WW 2 MATE LIGHT INFANTRY GREEN JACKETS ARE RIFLEMEN THATS WHERE THEY CAME FROM ALSO THE FIRST TOO CARRY RIFLES AND WEAR GREEN WHEN THE REST HAD SHIT MUSKETS AND WORE RED FIEST EVER ELITE UNIT AND FASTEST MARCHING IN THE WORLD. BET YOUR A PARA ARENT YOU THEN YOU KNOW P BRIDGE WAS OUR BATTLE HONOUR NOT YOURS YOU CUNTS GET PUT IN OUR REGIMENT AND WE DONT WANT PARA REJECTS

[@SoundsofWarOfficial]

@@gamestation9437 user name checks out

[@Pilgrim2501]

Drill and 'bullshit' like keeping your boots clean is preparing a mindset of looking after your kit. If your kit is in bad condition then your life is at risk at the end of the day. The person who keeps their boots cleaned at all times is the person i bet will have a clean and well maintained rifle, for example.

[@DavidParker-hc1kz]

gotta love the infantry.

[@80ki68]

That's one way to get the lads some of that PTSD.

[@80ki68]

@timetowaste Actually bayoneting does though, surely. They don't care about that though, because by then the soldiers have already fulfilled their purpose, and they won't be leaving any time soon.

[@rhodezy92]

Well as my best friend is in the Coldstream Guards and my brother is in the Para's I think I would know as I have asked them. Common sense indeed.

[@Groombridgiovski]

To assume this is the only training they receive is ignorant. The idea of this particular drill is to develop aggression in the troops and get them used to using the bayonet, rather than to simulate an actual combat environment. Granted charging suicidally across open ground is a thing of the past, but this sort of thing will mean they don't flinch when they actually use a bayonet, like in an enclosed space or something, and get the job done.

[@kirbs5432]

THE BAYONET IS STILL USED !!! ITS A PART OF THE RIFLE, AS CLOSE QUARTER WEAPON

[@katoyushiromitsu]

Its alright mate, but the gun isn't that bad at all to be honest, its pretty reliable. We clean our guns everyday so I've never had mine miss firing or resulting in catastrophic failure and I spend large amounts of time in the dust on my front or walking through ditches and swampy lands. We have had the ability to use other guns over the years for different roles and I prefer the weapon over HK417 but thats just me

[@roybennett6330]

is it best to charge,walk or at the trot??

[@jameseddy8776]

Just done my first bayonet lesson

[@Thorny5718]

💪🏻👌🏻 good drills lads, still miss bayonet training. Tip fucking top. Motivational controlled aggression. ‘KILL, KILL, AAAAARGHHHHH’

[@SmokeRingsPipeDreams]

In the fauklands war they did end up fighting with bayonets. In grenada our marines ended up fighting with bayonets. It is rare, but it does happen.

[@alanthomas2064]

Granada?

[@robertchubb1518]

I taught this lesson at Winchester to the recruits...very difficult to convey (on a lesson) This IS the most point of the enemy...(and if we are to get even more in depth....the point of our political masters of whom have sent us their) It is very difficult to get these lads upto this point of the lesson..yes..controlled aggression is key...but even in a training environment and getting them “keyed up” does not convey what really happens on the field WITH that enemy..the recruit STILL KNOWS they are at “home” (UK) and they know the jurisdiction that the training staff can only do so much....HOWEVER...as this footage demonstrates..(but does not show!) IS the build up for THAT recruit (in a controlled way) during that day...to BECOME CONTROLLED AGGRESSIVE....

[@chauchat3137]

could any of you guys tell me where the DPM camo is made??

[@2fast2block]

I'll say this, I applaud the British military for at least allowing training with the bayonet. Our Army dropped their training of it and I think only the Marines use it. It's like we've become "too modern".

[@robertchubb1518]

Which country are you from?

[@2fast2block]

@@robertchubb1518 USA.

[@robertchubb1518]

@@2fast2block I am old school..England....but the woke would call it UK

[@robertchubb1518]

@@2fast2block I am actually surprised they have dropped it...however...l must admit..with the numbers you have in training (compared to England) and what it means to “beat up” for this bayonet training..I do not blame the US Forces for foregoing it

[@robertchubb1518]

@@2fast2block ...BUT....It NEEDS to be taught at INDIVIDUAL Unit level....hand to hand is tough...it can last seconds..and in spurts hours and days! (Look at Stalingrad...........

[@D04S02B04]

Wow, this shows how awkward it is to do bayonet fighting (not that you should need to in today's battlefield) with a bull-pup rifle. As to relevance... the important thing about fighting from a strategic perspective is not about being able to defend yourself. It is about having the best offence. This is embodied in Japanese Kendo and the effectiveness of kamikaze bombers in ww ii. It is also much easier to train a soldier in a single dimension, only to attack and to do the best attack.

[@snoopprd]

Well, this is a valuable lesson. From now my perception of army changed a little bit. To worse.

[@chauchat3137]

your damn right it is!

[@blackvalkyrie_xx3266]

"Let me hear you WAR CRY!"

[@georgealgeo5829]

We had Just a little Advantage with the SLR...about 40cm !!!!

[@mwnciboo]

What did you have a Mental image that War is fun and games and no-one gets hurt?

[@mikeburrell5109]

I see your point there, but the whole purpose of the bayonet is to thrust hard straight through the ribcage. It would be almost impossible to get under the ribs and up with a bayonet thrust in combat. And whilst I have no experience with the Steyr bayonet, I would be very surprised if you actually managed to snap a blade against it!

[@robertchubb1518]

Erm...TEXTBOOK states the rib cage...the bayonet goes WHEREVER in order to kill, immobilize, destroy, prevent them making a move against you or even make them run....l have heard men involved in this for real saying they put the bayonet through the skull...such is the Adrenalin that one musters...one other stated he put his though a mans eye...the results are obvious Look..the whole point of this viewing IS to try to convey to “the civilian, or average Joe” that these young men although in training may well come up within a situation such as this. The recruits are getting a feeling (in a controlled environment) of what leads upto, being involved, and then the aftermath of such an event. However in reality..the event is both shockingly violent and is a scar on anyone’s moral and sane view (Only Edited because yt like to put/spellcheck words that come from the military but make no sense)

[@2fast2block]

Sure thing. ONLY YOUR comments count. Got it. Gee, what a great, logical exchange.

[@brknsh6689]

Brooo why nobody notices how much he sounds like ros kemp i mean wtf hahah

[@mrstopmotion1234]

and a little bit of sunshine

[@danielaung691]

Quick question guys. I'm in the reserves, I'm a qaranc, at my civi job I know a nurse who said he was a cmt, most of the stuff adds up however alot of stuff doesn't. One of the things is that he said he did bayonet training. I didn't think medics did bayonet training is that true or is he walting?

[@tombrigden7075]

Nah you can do Bayonet training, pretty much everyone does it when they do their green training. I think nowadays everyone from RLC to the Coldstreamers do it

[@mwnciboo]

Killing that close isn't pleasant, but Professional Troops are trained and indoctrinated to do it, in stressful situations training and muscle memory kicks in, this kind of training is brutalizing but war is brutal, you don't win by being pleasant. It is however relatively rare, although running out of ammunition is not as rare as you'd think, Afghanistan and Iraq had a lot of engagements where it came down to "Bayonets", as long as you've got strength to wield it you are still a threat.

[@latinkon3]

the subtitles make this hilarious :L