Bosnian War: How Was The British Army Involved? (1992 Documentary) | Forces TV

At the end of 1992, Britain sent troops to the Bosnian War's UN Protection Force on 'Op Grapple'. After this deployment, the force was ultimately to be replaced by a NATO force with greater resources and firepower. In this archive documentary, Forces News travelled through the main supply route from the Croatian Coast to the frontline town of Vitez in Bosnia.
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[@oldplace5]

If your mess sergeant doesn’t have a ‘stache like that, don’t trust the cooking.

Don't trust the cooks either though. As the joke went: Cooks got the highest bodycount of any position in a modern army. ;-)

[@olliephelan]

Whats RCT ?

[@1970swimmer]

Rumour has it only 3 people have ever passed the military cooks course 😃

[@bombaymolotov]

@@olliephelan Royal Corps of Transport, it doesn't exist anymore. This was probably one of the last tours the RCT did before being combined into the Royal Logistic Corps

[@olliephelan]

@@1970swimmer Thats because those 3 people were not cooked properly. A little more time to simmer and it mightve passed.

[@jerikcoone6957]

"Rats size of Jack Russels..." Sounds like Croydon.

[@gstar3824]

That staff Sgt Jim was rockin one hell of a tosh. must admit it made me chuckle quite abit lol

[@jimburns9690]

As the owner of the tash! Nothing wrong with the tash, however It is long gone...

[@tom.cresswell]

My dad's cousin fought and died in Bosnia. I never got to meet him but my thoughts are always with him. May he rest in peace ❤

[@lenasauve3660]

Oh man. I am so sorry for your uncle. RIP. He is in Valhalla.

[@tom.cresswell]

@@lenasauve3660 thank you ❤

[@lenasauve3660]

@@tom.cresswell We honour the fallen warrior, through naming a child in the family after him.

[@RR-pv4dh]

And every other British/American soldier who has ever lost his/hers life through anything

[@kevbeer1]

@@RR-pv4dh nazis? japanese? not me

[@1970swimmer]

As a Canadian infantry soldier I served in Yugoslavia in 1992, 96, and 98. I stayed at Gorne Vakuf in 98 will attending a mine clearing task. It was awesome, the Brits always had cold beer with a relaxed beer policy! There Naffi had plenty of irn bru, and greasy crisps. It was like visiting family back in Scotland but less rain 😜

[@demobbed688]

I'm a former Brit Infantry soldier and I only did one tour in Bosnia based in Banja Luka but I worked in places such as Livno, Tomislavgrad and Bihac and the Canadian base at Drvar.

[@1970swimmer]

@@demobbed688 oh good old Bihac, I was there for 2 months in the platoon house across from the school. We had a section of Britt JCO’s in Bihac down the road from us. Decent bunch of fellas

[@SpencersNightclub]

It was Gornji Vakuk, I was with 845 Naval Air Squadron providing helicopter support and casevac, GV was one of our forward operating bases away from Divulje Barracks near Trogir and Split International Airport, we also ran out of Banja Luka, Kiseljak, Vitez, Sarajevo and Mostar.

[@imperatormouse2735]

Yeah, you drank beer and earned easy money with feeding the local black market in the safe zones while people were suffering and dying. But yes, you had a good time...That's most important.

[@Twirlyhead]

Russian troll in here, folks.

[@enterthevoidIi]

When I was a kid, I almost got ran over by one of these APCs while carrying water to my home. Some of them were really poor drivers lol

[@metrohunter50]

@Sanzhur Tursunov try to drive an apc my myself in city/village

[@TheElDoctoro24]

In their defence the visibility is near nonexistent unless it’s directly in front

[@michaeljohn6623]

5:23 masculinity confirmed

[@dmc7890]

Captin price's brother???

[@bithon5242]

I bet he has a really good hearing

[@zeitgeist909]

Wow - such a window into the Britsh forces at that very particular time! The main concerns were the weather and breakfast. How it changed a few weeks later. Genocide and all that...

[@chaz8758]

Genocide had been happening long before we got there, it was a relative calm period - which is hard when all sides dont trust each other and break treatys

[@rrexp3779]

Got that right they big of waste there

[@agrizic]

@@chaz8758 Brittish forces calmly watched how HVO slaughtered village of Ahmići near Vitez in april 1993. Worst atrocities in Central Bosnia happened after arrival of UN forces.

[@jimmyormerod4075]

@@agrizicthen you clearly don’t know how the un works the same happend in Rwanda un troops can’t get involved unless they are told so by there higher ups if they did do something it could cause an even bigger conflict

[@3204clivesinclair]

I arrived in Yugoslavia (passport stamped) end of April 1992 as part of a reconnaissance part of the UN. We waited outside Pleso camp as the Yugoslavian forces left. Apart from trashing the barracks. They also left several Mig aircraft, which some bad been booby trapped.

[@johnnymlad8472]

Pleso camp is in Croatia. . That was a Croat Stronghold already by 1991 it was seized by Croat defectors from within the JNA. I doubt they had time to wire the jets before the Serbs and others withdrew, that takes time!

[@DJFlying82]

@@johnnymlad8472 you are right! Pleso it wasn't camp... Pleso was the Zagreb airport.

[@andrewcollins3301]

Was that Op Hanwood?

[@adiscomedia2306]

As a 7 year old boy... i got fair bit of candy from these soldiers. I lived through the war and it wasn't pretty. Politics and nationalism destroyed the country and people unfortunately.

[@BosnianPatriot864]

I was there too brother…

[@Giantist]

Father was over there as a RecceMech, he’d been deployed to quite a few conflicts but he said this one was the most arduous and dodgy

[@colingoldthorpe5918]

Served almost 6 months in Gornji Vakuf with B Coy 1PWO. A tough tour for everyone, would never again support the UN 🇺🇳. They tied our hands from making some positive changes in those times. The reality of it all was that there was three sides fighting each other and your in the middle trying to keep the peace.. it was a floored plan from the beginning. We escorted a lot of aid and people thru our area of responsibility. At least we got the summer weather the Cheshire’s were tired when we arrived, winter was tough on them. GV was a lot different place for our tour than theirs. The war arrived and the rest was history. Anyone mocking the British Army has never served, it may not be what it once was but it can always be counted on when things go south. I did 9 years in the PWO three operational tours with some of the greatest men I ever have met in my life. It served me well in my civilian life, but you have to get out early to make a successful civilian transition. Don’t listen to the lifers get out at 25 years old and employers will typically welcome you with open arms. Any longer it’s very tough to deal with civilians and their disorganization and lack of reality....

[@sararedfearn4691]

Never a true,er word said. “. “Nor difficulties deter” nec aspera terrant.

[@DinHamburg]

Bosnian War - somebody remembers the film 'Warriors' with Ioan Gruffudd ...

[@krashd]

Good movie that, doesn't Damian "Major Winters" Lewis play his 2nd in command?

[@flightlinevr6302]

I got on DVD, it's the Dutch Version called "Peacekeepers - Warriors". Really well made TV movie.

[@damianm-nordhorn116]

Intense. It showed how heartbreaking and devastating to the soul it must have been for the UN troops witnessing atrocities and not being able to do something about it. The scene close to the end in the supermarket was brilliant, going beyond the issue of war and showing how spoilt we are in the Western world, taking peace and leisure for granted.

[@damianm-nordhorn116]

@Zuhdi Murich Atrocities (committed by Serbs and Croats armed with Yugoslavian and Soviet made weapons) mentioned, so WHAT'S YOUR POINT?

[@SuperParatech]

Zuhdi Murich - not quite sure what you are trying to prove. British Army didn't inflict the civil war upon Bosnia 🇧🇦. The Army was paralysed from intervening in atrocities by politics from both sides. Peacekeepers had to watch and could not do anything. After it was over, society and media ignored the soldiers who had to bottle up what they saw because something more interesting was on the airwaves ..... like Bobby Brown releasing Humping Around like the dreadful Maastricht Treaty like Fergie and Andy split I remember this time. Soldiers are and were ignored. The British Peacekeepers tried their best and took on personal grief in the process. Yes - what happened in Bosnia was terrible for all the people there. But, the conflict arose from ethnic tensions going back centuries with weapons they manufactured and used indiscriminately by all sides. Bosnians are partly responsible for the suffering they endured because of how they treated each other

[@viper7829]

Thank you for your help, Bosnia will not forget you.

[@seki8063]

How did they help Bosnia? Except through politics made it worse for bosnjaks!?

[@jimmyormerod4075]

@@seki8063are you for real nato attacked Serbia for Bosnia and Croatia wich led to Serbias surrender

[@seki8063]

@@jimmyormerod4075 after all that killing and embargo on weapons for Bosnian people. They had nothing to defend themselves with!

[@jimmyormerod4075]

@@seki8063 r u mad nato was on bonsais side

[@seki8063]

@@jimmyormerod4075 if they were they would bobmbed Serbia before Srebrenica massacres and massacres in other cities.

[@antons777]

5:30 Captain Price in his early days

[@bakpaotjaptjoi5043]

🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

[@darrenabbott6264]

Before Chernobyl

[@ing.hemoroid9938]

Wasn't Price in ww2?

[@Master_Chief_666]

my dad served in bosniea he was in 65 corp support sqn 32 field sqn 3 armored eng sqn royal engineer as a un he said it was the most depressing place he's ever been and his regiment was based in a bombed out fur factory but he said it was a fun experience and hes done great things in his time there and im proud that hes my father.

[@matija3500]

You Brits lost in Bosnia because Serbs have half of Bosnia

[@Master_Chief_666]

@@matija3500 the British weren’t fight dipshit they were there with the un peacekeepers

[@DJFlying82]

@@Master_Chief_666 your father and the British SFOR had transported the Muslim Al Kaida mujahedines to Bosnia to kill the Serbs!

[@olliephelan]

@Desert Rat There was a school in (I think) Vitez where Muslim civilians were being held and abused. The Swedish UN wanted to go in by force to take civilians out , but the HVO threatened to blow the mines if they tried. They were eventually released but the mines would have been left for engineers to difuse. The Swedish plan to rescue the civilians in the school relied on the presence of the BBC camera crew. But when the crew heard what was planned (everyone getting killed) they left, which meant the Swedes had to back down and leave. (the fact that the BBC were there would likely have caused the HVO to allow it without a fight ). Ill have checked the town by the time I get a reply (if I get one). The HVO also rigged an entire explosives plant into one giant bomb in the Lasva valley. They thrratened to blow the whole town if the Muslims attacked. It would likely have been one of the largest conventional explosions in history. Similar to that one in Beiruit. There were entire silos and storage pits of explosives (nitrates etc ) rigged up.

[@seki8063]

What fid your father do except having fun as you are describing that?

[@FoxtrotEchoEcho]

My father was 19 in the Bosnian War and he was in the med corps. He told me he used to pick up severed limbs or what was left of a man after a mortar strike. He also told me that the war was that bad that many people he knew committed s**cide.

[@studas2011]

Great vid, cheers.

[@iainmcloughlin4625]

This brings back fond memories attached to 35 Engineer Regiment. Working as REME support during this tour.

[@exforces2300]

I was there but a few years later with Ifor This takes me rite back recognise a few places there. And them mountain roads combined with dodgy Yugo drivers were lethal !!

[@chaz8758]

Try driving them while we were building them, they were goat tracks not roads, constructed over the winter with the coldest temp being -50 with windchill and around -40 centrigrade straight cold up in the mountains It took a few months while we lived in tents at Happy Eater and Vitez to get everyone in decent accomodation

[@barrybigballs6339]

chaz8758 funny that's the only thing i remember of my time there, how FUCKING cold it was.

[@CrypticSquirrel]

Deployed in 98 with SFOR. Used to drive through TSG daily and stop off at the Belgium Camp for breakfast. Was on Kamensko BXP for 6 months.

[@rhodesianwojak2095]

@@CrypticSquirrel waffles?

[@spoonyspoonicus4648]

my Dad ran aid vehicles to Bosnia and Roumania in the 90`s and said even after the the official fighting stopped people was been murdered and the UN was doing very little to stop it.

[@krashd]

Also the UN had it's hands tied as to what to do about civilians as if they were seen to be removing them from the conflict areas they would effectively be doing the job of ethnic cleansing that they were trying to stop. Not allowed to interfere in the conflict and not allowed to evacuate civilians, all the peacekeepers were allowed to do was keep an eye on the various combatants to make sure they didn't breach the Geneva convention. But as we know now it didn't work.

[@benjaminhodzic4840]

The best part now is that we have to join the EU. Its like inviting your exgf, that cheated in you, on a dinner. And you are paying for it.

[@Thumper118]

I just love the line" people was been murdered"; sad story but that gave a little humor to it thank you

[@karlmorrison2713]

22:25 How do those people get to such high positions? I've never heard a Private with that accent ever. Do those accents get an automatic officer grade when joining up?

[@UFCSTARS]

There's a well worn path that leads from the best of England's elite, public schools like Eton, Harrow, Charterhouse, The King's school...etc (F.Y.I in the UK public school means it's private) and elite Universities like, Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial College London, London School of Economics...to name just a few. For hundreds of years almost all of Britain's Army Officer Class have been educated in our elite schools and universities before being accepted into the Royal Military Training Academy, Sandhurst - Once there, they are trained to be highly effective soldiers and leaders of men. The Royal Navy and RAF also have their own separate but just as good military training colleges where they develop officers & gentleman. (and also woman officers these days) British Army - Royal Military Training Academy Sandhurst Royal Navy - Britannia Royal Naval College Royal Air Force - Royal Air Force College Cranwell So to answer your question @KarlMorrison that's why people in high-up positions all seem to have upper class accents - because our military colleges select their students from upper class, schools & universities. Apparently, they are trying to change this a little bit. Our top Universities are also trying to change things a bit - Oxford said, by 2035 they hope that as much as 35% of their students will be picked from non-private schools or boarding schools.

[@AcutePanic41]

All officers speak like gentleman, act like boys and treat others like scum. Of all the officers I've met, it's the RAF officers that take first place in being c*nts.

[@westerjester5066]

They leave school and enter officer school. The council kids just go to basic training. Ofcourse if your family is "special" you go further in bureaucracy bs. But not always.

[@doug6500]

​@@UFCSTARS It's basically a microcosm for wider British society. Workable but fundamentally flawed.

[@James-dq7oi]

This is also said whilst there are multiple officers in the video who dont speak with the stereotypical accent

[@emirzulic8386]

I appreciate you all un forces that where somhow involved in Bosnian war ,thank you for your bravery.

[@cree983]

I was there October 1992 to March 1993

[@louisbeerreviews8964]

cree983 my dad were there too

[@hrbh8054]

​@Ghost Apophis We saw your warriors down there...

[@robfulano2552]

SAS?

[@armen5944]

@@louisbeerreviews8964 thank you for helping us One day we will help you!!!

[@lee-porter]

Vukovar with the Russians '93

[@dougie22grenadier]

Those bed spaces are pretty awesome!

[@chaz8758]

They were pretty comfy, mine got a little peppered with Shrapnel (which I still have) which trashed my sleeping bag when the Serbs decided to fire a few rounds at us in TSG (I counted approximately 140 in the first barrage and 47 in the second in the middle of the night). The camp only got a few hits and one casualty, a few bits of kit were damaged and lots of shrapnel was collected by the EOD team afterwards.

[@user-ef8ni2gy6q]

​@@chaz8758 By Serbs, why would they do that? There must be a good reason.

[@chaz8758]

@@user-ef8ni2gy6q Who knows, we were just the UN muppets on the ground - the reasons why and where for were kept by the UN commanders.

[@fleetwoodmac4123]

I sailed on the Sir Bedevere. Awesome vessel but flat bottomed so tended to wallow in high seas.

[@dazajh1]

I was there in gv with 6plt B coy 1 cheshire. Brought back some memories watching this

[@michaeldowd8422]

SSgt Jim Burns wins the award for ' Greatest moustache ever' 🥇

[@nickwarmingham1228]

Okay, I have seen a few of Bosnia on u tube, but what we did there in a uniform how ever small in respect of our trade, what we did as a member of the British Armed Forces, we brought peace and friendship!! Think about the bigger picture!!! I still remember those locals I made friends with, and that is over 20 years ago.

[@DJFlying82]

Don't forget the Al Kaida mujahedines that you British have brought to Bosnia!

[@adi862]

​@@DJFlying82they didnt bring them.. Tuđman and Izetebegovć did.

[@DJFlying82]

@@adi862 no they didn't! Whitout Britain and USA theres no chance they can entry in Bosnia.

[@adi862]

@@DJFlying82 So pretty much Alija had brotherly relations with Iran and Tuđman passed them through the border.

[@3204clivesinclair]

The dates are wrong. I have Op Grapple in my Red book dated June 1992 to December 1992. We were the very first UN badged UK troops to arrive in the former Yugoslavia. We arrived by air at Zagreb airport and watched the Yugoslavian Military march out of their part of the airport - leaving many military aircraft behind (most of them containing IED’s).

[@markhanley463]

My unit 24 Airmobile field Ambulance flew to Croatia on 6th June 1992 as part of the British Medical Battalion on Op Hanwood June-December 1992 .I was based at South Sector,Knin .

[@3204clivesinclair]

mark hanley Yep, you correct me. I checked and it was Op Hanwood. I was part of the small REME contingent supporting you (and others). We were based in the old barracks at Zagreb airport.

[@markhanley463]

Clive Sinclair We had two R.E.M.E. lads attached to our sector Gaz Ireland and a Lance Jack called Steve whose surname I forget.Good lads,did a good job keeping the 4 tonners and our decripit ambulances on the road.The standing joke was what can get into a U.N. protected area but can't get back out?A British army ambulance.

[@libertas5005]

@Carroj9 I was 5 when war started in Bosnia. My first memories are of Serbs burning my town. My family had to run for their lives, with me and my 1 month sibling, in order to survive Serbian troops who massacred and burned everything in their way. You can find footage of this everywhere on KZbin. And yet, you call me and my family "terrorists"... Honestly, your type is the worst type in the world. Ask your fellow Brits who went to Bosnia what they actually saw. Who was killing whom, and who had the biggest army at their disposal. You say that "Serbs would have done a better job"... You have no idea what kind of evil you are spreading with that sentence. Here I am, survived, 25 years later and believe me, my brother Bosnians are strong in their heart. So many of you genocidal freaks wanted us dead, and all because you're messed up in your heads. I honestly pity you and anyone who thinks like you. I wish you all the best, but there's very little hope for your kind, because your hatred seems to blind your own judgment. All in all, seems that this world is trapped in perpetual war, and I wish your 5 year old child never has to go through what I and my childhood friends had to go through.

[@harveyyork8370]

@@libertas5005 may Allah bless you and your familys.. im duty under Nato mission at Glamoc.. i know what i see

[@seanlyddall3611]

Doing a presentation next week on this!

[@seanlyddall3611]

janine5090 Thank you for your service!! I've got to do a 5 min presentation and then a 15 minute one.

[@bosnia4ever5]

Would you share it with us?

[@armen5944]

Yes share the presentation

[@HYFN23]

Share

[@priyamitrakaushik3325]

I was there as IPTF police monitor from India March 96 to May 97.. Had good relationships with the IFOR.

[@069220]

“Quite pleasant”?? What he really means it was horrible!

[@aaronwilliamson8604]

Remember being in Maglaj in 94-95 , one of the best tours I ever did with the British Army .

[@paulmcdonough1093]

I watched on tv i was in 3 Para at that time

[@matija3500]

You survived this time but if you ever get back to Serbian land again,you will never get back alive!

[@bozo5982]

@@matija3500 Okay keyboard warrior...

[@matija3500]

@@bozo5982 Just try getting on Serbian land

[@bozo5982]

@@matija3500 I did, multiple times lmao... I’m Montenegrin.

[@zaynevanbommel5983]

The New Zealand army was involved in the British Army Effort under the UNPROFOR effort at Santichi Camp AO 94/95

[@neltfelix7221]

what are you talking about mate? mind elaborating your words to give us what it actually means???

[@juliusschwencke142]

​@neltfelix7221 ...I thought he made himself quite clear. The Kiwi contingent were there with three rotations, K3 being being co located with a Dutch contingent at Santici, and being the last Kiwi contingent to leave in 96 at the dissolution of UNPROFOR. The Kiwi deployment was the largest commitment since New Zealand's involvement in the Vietnam war. Enjoyed working under the auspices of the Royal Fusiliers, and seeing first hand the logistical ability of the Devon and Dorsets. Nice to come home though..

[@Snoochieboochies27]

It’s crazy seeing that many letters. No one uses letter mail like that anymore except for official business or spam mail. Everything is email or fb and all on the internet nowadays.

[@samluca1244]

It's the 90s mate, not yet the heyday of email and facebook (Feb. 2004)...the snail mail is still king!

[@rrexp3779]

We watchtower them every day cou take down in no time but what to with bakers and pizza makers lol they act li,like, idiots there in Vitez we believe they don't have nothing to do with as 8n war so we let them be

[@salfordlad3829]

I think they still use snail mail because phones can give your position away.

[@MrSladej]

20:03 i was half expecting Bear Grylls

[@jimsy5530]

I was expecting James Blunt.

[@LThaPunisha]

@@jimsy5530 He was in this war and stopped WW3 because of it.

[@vitezizsrednjebosne1596]

hello from Vitez and pozz ppn vitezovi

[@chaz8758]

Recognise a few of those places and faces, this film was made before we came under artillery fire at TSG (two ineffective barrages, one casualty in 35 Engr Regt as a result and some minor damage to equipment - including my lovey new doss bag grrr). Not exactly a fan of 'Bob' and definately hated dear old 'Kate Adie' calling everyone a Cheshire. The picture on his face at Vitez when we heard tracked vehicles coming in, he went running off to greet his Warriors with the press - only to see 42 Fd Sqns vehicles with the CET driven by the OC if I recall leading. the warriors being stuck at Redoubt as the weather was too bad ..........

[@cheezycatnip8352]

Was with 44 at TSG, spent most of my time on the mountain with elements of 37 and 44 plant at bth HE and redoubt...just popping by to say hi if youre still visiting KZbin...Ubique Brother

[@Thumper118]

I love military jargon

[@chaz8758]

@@cheezycatnip8352 Still around, just had the vid posted on a FB froup I am in and seen your comment - I was Res Tp running all over as a sparky

[@ttrestle]

I freaking love the British military

[@SR71ABCD]

Life in Bosnia as a Peacekeeper

[@ripstop5122]

Brought back great memories, served two tours 93 in gornji vakuf and another in 96 in Sarajevo.

[@adi862]

Brits are always welcome in Sarajevo

[@zeroyeti563]

супер спасибо

[@RS-rf8sy]

I was there at the same time. Just north of Tomislavgrad. Mud, mud and a bit of rain!

[@gazs4731]

I served in Bosnia and without us Sappers, the British combined army wouldn't have got anywhere. Yes, I noticed how the coverage was biased towards the Cheshire Regt when I was there

[@ApacheNL1]

5:23 It's captain Price!

[@andytaylor97]

Had my wisdom tooth out at DJ Bks!

[@liamr3989]

Seeing a fax machine. Wow something that most people my age group (18) wouldn’t even know what it was

[@dimitarkondev5522]

r/lewronggeneration

[@MohammedAli-zh8kf]

Thank you to all British army personals ❤️💕💖🇬🇧🇵🇰🇧🇦❤️💕💖

[@MohammedAli-zh8kf]

Rave ツ because I am British Kashmiri Pakistan, it's bit complicated mate in

[@MohammedAli-zh8kf]

Rave ツ lol

[@MrKruska11]

As a Bosnian. I can say that they've helped just a litle bit. But it was not about people it was about war profit. But still. Same as United States when they've bombed Serbs with A10's

[@FromthisInstanceOn]

@@MrKruska11 how did they make a profit? does BiH have oil, gold..? These soldiers had good intentions, but the political stance was standoffish. better some help than no help.

[@williamthebonquerer9181]

@@MrKruska11 I wish we profited of the bosnian war. If only we sold you arms so u could defend yourselfs.

[@jimsy5530]

Bahaha, 20.40, wasn't expecting to see my MP... Colonel Bob, lives a few doors down from me.

[@stephenedwards8878]

He was my CO out there at the time. 1st Bn. 22nd Cheshire Regiment

[@matija3500]

@@stephenedwards8878 you lost

[@alessandrocarpi9898]

I think Downing Street simply did not understand the monsters that in 1992 ruled Bosnia and Croatia. If Mr. Major had ordered the bombing of Governative buildings in Zagreb & Sarajevo the Balkan Conflicts would not have lasted until 1995. Tens of thousend of lives would have been saved and UK,Canadian and French ground Forces would not have been exposed to daily danger. Fortunately Mr. Blair used Force quickly in Sierra Leone,Kosovo,Macedonia,East Timor,Afghanistan and Iraq. If nothing else the MoD was able to learn something from the Bosnian lesson.

[@bigmanforce]

lol british soldiers watching ice cube on the tv during the war...what a crazy time!

[@Danny-zi6xw]

5:34 that is a legendary stache staff sgt

[@Hangman84848]

I remember some british soldiers from Banja Luka city, they were patroling near my schoole every day, i was talking with them with a bad english as i was maybe 12 or 13 years old back then and maybe the only one of us kids that could speak english at all, one of them showed me a tattoo of Yosemite Sam a cartoon character on his hand. 😂 Also there were some gurkas from Nepal, they were really good with us kids. At that time war was over in Bosnia, they were there as a peace keepers.

[@brianazmy3156]

Not so good for the French troops. That heavy equipment operator that was shot by a sniper was seen on the news all over the world. My army unit served there but I had finished my enlistment a few months prior. 82nd Airborne division.

[@studavies1967]

Didn't the Canadian commander come out and say they could never get permission to use force from the un on the weekend because the we closed

[@airwulf7123]

Bosnia showed how bad the UN are at peacekeeping missions

[@francisdooley6062]

Got a mention at the very end Ammo Platoon ,fish chips minted mussy peas and a pivo or two.

[@chaz8758]

Frigging pivo, I was advance party in Gungy Bks, assessing it then starting prep work to make it habitable - clearing it up and checking for any sillyness like mines left behind - fisrt night our RSM got us a few bottles each, headache next day.......

[@buckers67buck77]

Ever Glorious 22nd.

[@petermallia558]

Chobham was hardly touched. The best Armour in the world.

[@coops9871]

Stevie lonnen absolute legend

[@NicNic_gogx]

It seems to me they did nothing except supporting and supplying themselves.

[@DJFlying82]

They did support the mujahedines of Al Kaida that they brought and supplied to Bosnia and Hercegovina.

[@Dave-ko2pr]

RCT ( Royal Corps Transport) became the Royal Logistics Corps in April 1993, so this footage must have been before that.

[@zeljkonikolic282]

mz dad was in bosnian serbian border in 1996 but he was a solider

[@FactaNonVerba744]

Ended up B SQDRN 9/12 20 years later in Kosovo.. least good things positive came out of Balkan tours! Shocking what’s now happening in Afghan etc

[@juliusschwencke142]

..looks like a Kiwi swandri being worn by the standing soldier at the end of the table at 13:52 Must have been a Long Looker.

[@TheFearDasTier]

5:37 German WW1 Officer

[@barry6611]

I was there. Royal Engineers.

[@matija3500]

It was your last time being on Serbian land ever

[@Dave-ko2pr]

Is this footage from late 92 then ?

[@banditd6551]

Love Britain 🇧🇬💓🇬🇧

[@vitezizsrednjebosne1596]

Pozz ppn vitzovi

[@newy2277]

1 Cheshire ever gloriuos Col Bob stewart a brilliant officer

[@chaz8758]

Debatable .............

[@newy2242]

@@chaz8758 why do you say that , he was my OC for 2 years

[@SnazzBot]

I enjoyed Mr Moustache 1992 but what's with the army theme?

[@jimburns9690]

As the owner of the tash! It is long gone...

[@iainmcloughlin6305]

@@jimburns9690 You should have kept it.

[@jimburns9690]

It has made an appearance on more than one occasion!

[@Brutal1966]

hmmm as far as i was aware we didnt go into Bosnia until 93? i was with one of the first British Military surgical teams in Vitez in 1993

[@nhall1965]

Paul Cantrill Hi mate. We arrived in Split on October 27th 1992. 360 Supply Coy

[@KHGrinderboy]

Paul Cantrill Grapple 1 went in 1992 like Nigel Said. 1st Fd Sqn Group took over at Vitez in 1993 on Op Grapple 2 as the RE Contingent, so 35 Engr Regt could go home. I remember the Field Hospital at Vitez, but not sure when it was deployed, its all a bit fuzzy now!!!

[@DJFlying82]

@@nhall1965 Split is in Croatia its NOT Bosnia and Hercegovina!

[@Surv1ve_Thrive]

A very complex conflict. Made more complex by the international media and politicians taking sides and looking for black and white stories to tell. Bad guys and good guys. Instead of reporting the conflict as being full of grey, confused areas, not black and white at all. Respect to the Brits who stood up to the risks and tried to help.

[@DM727T]

Not complex at all. Serbia and Croatia attacked Bosnia.

[@purkovic]

@@DM727T What do you think Bosnia consisted of? Only bosniaks? Please my friend, never in life could a war be explained by one sentence. It is always a complex thing but what is of utmost importancy is that the west would never allow an independent Yugoslavia on their doorstep and after the fall of the soviet union there was no counterbalance to stop the planned disintegration through the utilization of nationalistic hatred between the ethnicities.

[@dusan.5193]

@@DM727T serbian as country wasnt been in war

[@DM727T]

@@purkovic I just explained it in one sentence.

[@DM727T]

@@dusan.5193 oh really? No war in Serbia but Serbian army was in Bosnia

[@gooner72]

This was a nasty war, the brutality from both sides was absolutely horrific. To see ethnic cleansing going on in the Balkans was appalling.... especially when you think these Countries are in Europe.

[@montevallomustang]

God bless the British! The US 🇺🇸 would never get to kick anyone's ass without the British widening roads and making sure letters get there on time

[@matija3500]

Serbs already kicked US asses in 1999.

[@montevallomustang]

@@matija3500 how did serbia kick our ass exactly? The taliban put up a much better fight than serbs lol

[@SnakeP1tPoetry]

@@montevallomustang Talibans didnt take down the invisible stealth plane, the only one ever to be ahot down. Thats for history books alone.

[@Ste-fx8dr]

@@montevallomustang the British are always wiping the yanks arses. Seriously you yanks are the most unprofessional and incompetent army of modern days. All the gear with no idea! We have all seen what happens when the yanks try to fight a war without foreign forces to do it for them. VIETNAM....Case and point!

[@DJFlying82]

@@montevallomustang 29 NATO countrys, united forces, didn't make to invade their troops on Kosovo and Metohija against Serbian army like they had in Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam... And so on! Almost 3 months of bommbing, and at the end they had to make ceasefire agrement (UN Resolution 1244) which is harsh broken!

[@SuperEHEC]

BIELEFELD WOOOOHOOOOO!

[@richardgoode5314]

British Army the best as the Army.

[@user-ef8ni2gy6q]

Regards from Serbia.

[@annesmith372]

I was a Teen in Sarajevo in war. Listening to this, them talking about vegetables being shipped to Bosnia and the problems with that, is a travesty. The guy is laughing when he mentions the refugees. He’s literally laughing. This video is a perfect picture of the mindset of the apparent “ effort “ … I’m speechless, can’t go on commenting. Disgusting. They stood there in the rain??? Seriously?

[@nedim_guitar]

5:20 There was no Serb attacks on, or shelling of Tomislavgrad, because of the agreement to partition Bosnia between them that the Serb and Croat nationalists made. That's why in the Summer of 1992, there were no Croat forces joining in on the attacks against Serb forces in the attempts to end the seige of Sarajevo, and that's why the Croat forces never attacked the Serb forces around Sarajevo from Kiseljak. Instead, they had an open route for goods and people between Kiseljak and Sarajevo. Even journalists have taken that route into Sarajevo as early as 1992.

[@chaz8758]

Sorry to disappoint you but TSG was shelled, more than once while I was there - by the serbs - I still got the shrapnel from some of the rounds. Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian troops were all fighting each other at various times up to the end of 1995 when it changed from UN to NATO mandate - even when I was in Sarejevo in 1995 Serbians on the hills surrounding the city were still shooting into it. Aid convoys were regularly stopped, aid removed as bribes or just because - under threat often

[@nedim_guitar]

@@chaz8758 Ah yes, of course. That happened early on, in 1992.

[@3204clivesinclair]

I, along with 16 other Brits arrived before this. We arrived when it was still officially Yugoslavia - we insisted on a passport stamp. We watched former Yugoslavian units march out and then we moved in to the trashed barracks. Anyone come across a bar we built in Pleso? We called it The Rustic Inn?

[@sararedfearn4691]

The good old days. WO2 JR. 1 PWO (The Prince of Wales’s Own Regiment of Yorkshire. ). Well done Ladies and Gentleman you did a sterling job through out this very sad time. And one for the Tiger………..

[@spg77777]

Is this the British Army or the UN?

[@regregan5755]

Are you serious?

[@renjaveln9479]

God i love the British. "Yolly good Sir".

[@paulmcdonough1093]

Brits dont talk like that

[@renjaveln9479]

@@paulmcdonough1093 You don't say!? I'm disappointed.

[@nietzchepreacher9477]

@@renjaveln9479 yeah what does yolly mean?

[@robbo2491]

1RRF bosnia un/ifor

[@richardgoode5314]

Goverment policy by direction.

[@Ferr1963]

5:32 As Private Baldrick would say: My mother told me never to trust men with beards. In this case I would extend the quote to the moustaches. Especially if he's a cook.

[@jimburns9690]

As the owner of the tash! Trust in me....

[@tunichtgut8730]

The Brits were the only soldiers with balls, they would have never surrendered and handed over civilians.

[@stormtroopersquad9889]

I just watched the Canadian version of the conflict in Bosnia and the didnt show everyone standing around eating.

[@renjaveln9479]

Uhm, the Swedish wouldn´t either had surrendered any civilians. We had the "Sheriff of Vares" Colonel Ulf Henricsson, and that says it all. Read about him and we talk balls. BIG.

[@AllisterCaine]

The Danes didnt screw around very much too. They ventured out with MBTs and "lost" some amor piercing shells doing that. They also almost scratched the siege of sarajevo as far as i know.

[@MrKruska11]

but they wew dutch not brits

[@user-wx8si6bf2p]

Sooo ballsy entering a war they arent involved in and triple teaming 1 country

[@garyrayner6501]

Quartermaster general let you down did he

[@zaynevanbommel5983]

The British Scimitars were known as "White Death" lol

[@jyrkimaansiirrotoy1836]

"White death" is the most deadly sniper ever, from WW2 era. Get your facts right.

[@TrigonixZeNW]

Jyrki MaansiirrotOY it’s not like that name is Trademarked

[@robertpeston6692]

ahh der britischer, gentlemen and good fighters: cultured and well educated.

[@NovaScotiaNewfie]

Do hair regulations get relaxed on tour? Looks like in this report senior NCO's and officers seem to have long hair compared to the privates and other jr NCOs.

[@vostokcosomonaut5205]

That's just how it was back then I guess.

[@chaz8758]

Lack of hairdressers out there at the time for us and it was cold - long hair needed to try and keep you warm - in reality Jim had that huge tash before we went out, certain things get relaxed when on tour

[@NovaScotiaNewfie]

@@chaz8758 Makes sense. I figured some members would have Clippers and keep trimmed up. One thing I still do after being in the Reserves is a tapered hair cut lol.

[@Tyler.i.81]

Epic moustaches

[@jimburns9690]

As the owner of the tash! It is long gone...

[@GoxtA]

now i starting to see the slow truth and the operation storm/operacija oluja shielding war starters what injustice and SHAME

[@flyingpuma9729]

During operation storm Croats and Serbs were equal according to the equipment. Then the world saw who are fighters (Croats) and who are the cowards (Serbs). Well, I understand that the truth is very painful to the Serbs. But just think of Vukovar when the serbian forces were 30 to 1 against Croats, and Serbs still didn't managed it to conquer Vukovar within 3 months! While operation storm lasted 3 days.

[@dusan.5193]

@@flyingpuma9729 yeah but averge croatian soldier was a 21 years old, serbs in krajina have much older people, because they sent all their childrens and other young mans to serbia, averge soldier of serbian krajina was 43 years old, so croats fighted against old mans in uniform

[@flyingpuma9729]

@@dusan.5193 And what's with Vukovar? Were there also old men on the serbian side?

[@dusan.5193]

@@flyingpuma9729 Vukovar is special thing

[@flyingpuma9729]

@@dusan.5193 you're absolutely right. It's a special thing. 50 thousand Serbs didn't managed it to conquer Vukovar within 3 months, against 2 thousand Croats.

[@blackops9operation75]

Bosnia, Brotherhood of Nod first base of operation.

[@resistancerat]

5:31 not sure if British or Stalin

[@paulseoighemcgee5772]

Well done sappers !

[@bvonm9557]

best would be if they never came, every time they came on Balkans they only made things worse or they didn't do anything at all ..

[@user-ie4uj1ht7z]

Да те смрадоње нису дошле на територију бивше СФРЈ ми Срби би решили све проблеме за мањр од годину дана, овако још ни један проблем није решен. Млраћемо решавати испочетка.