Fighting in Villages | BAOR | 1979 | Instructional Film | British Army

[@Plumduff3303]

Brilliant film ❤

[@N.Knackered]

For the ex Foot Guards that served in the 80s, that are watching this - remember Exercise Sand Swallow on HDCC courses, were you did all of this and then had to put the buildings back to as you found them

[@gumpyoldbugger6944]

I was in the Canadian Forces during this time period, and oddly enough it wasn't the Soviets that worried us the most, though they did scare us with their numbers, it was the thought of having Semi's......errr I mean US forces anywhere near us that gave us the most concern. We were sure we could hold off the Soviets but we didn't trust the US forces at all. We figured that they would be the first to break and run or would hit us with so-called "friendly fire". You have to remember that at this point in time, the US army was still recovering from Vietnam and had a massive problem with drugs and racism within the ranks. We exercised with them a lot in both Canada and the US and they rarely if ever left us impressed. We found them to be poorly trained and lacking in professionalism at the time. As an MP, I got a see a demonstration of their MP dog unit and while talking with them, I was told that they wrere hated not only by the common soldier, but also by their fellow MP's, because their main duty at the time was searching for illegal drugs on the base. We were also told to avoid certain on base establishments, clubs etc due to our colour. Given we were a multi-cultural unit, we found this both surprising and alarming. As an old CSM of mine put it, "If the Soviet come over the pole, the first thing we had to do was take out any and all US forces near us, then engage the Soviets as we would have a better chance of not only defeating them, but also surviving." That was some 40 years ago, maybe things have changed since then.

[@RMMilitaryHistory]

Me and @thearmourersbench paid to get this digitised a few years ago. 😅

[@Plumduff3303]

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