I remember being shown this when I joined in the late 1970s. The uniforms, kit and weapons may have changed but the basic principles of cam and concealment, fieldcraft and fire and manoeuvre are still relevant. This video clip makes it look and sound easy but getting this right requires hard work and effort for the soldiers on the ground. The consequences of getting it wrong, however, can be a great deal worse.
@buzzinbenny8 жыл бұрын
Smack bang on. I watch this video prior to teaching cam and council to recruits
@marbrower11605 жыл бұрын
Thanks for verifying it as authentic
@Jimmyboy16742 жыл бұрын
@@marbrower1160 Yes these are actual training videos for the British Army!👍🏼
@johngwheeler3 жыл бұрын
We were taught: 7 "S"s plus "M": Shape, Shine, Surface, Shadow, Silhouette, Spacing, Sound and Movement
@derptomistic8 жыл бұрын
A thing to always remember is that this is specially designed to hide you at range. The closer you are the more care you will need to take to avoid getting shot in the face.
@TheIndia2112 жыл бұрын
Another classic! From the pre-DPM era but was still in use in my day (late '70s). And just as relevant today as it was then.
@Jimmyboy16742 жыл бұрын
Still used in 2003 when i joined!🤣👍🏼
@bicolouredprawn5 жыл бұрын
I wonder if this film was the inspiration for Monty Python's "How not to be seen."
@johngwheeler3 жыл бұрын
Exactly what I was thinking!
@blainebaxter76846 жыл бұрын
This might sound weird but this video helped me when I play airsoft just simple things like lying down and not using sudden movements really do help because the human peripheral vision detects movement really well.
@SPiderman-rh2zk9 ай бұрын
It feels counter intuitive to freeze when you believe you've been seen, but you have to fight the urge to hide. We were told to freeze if caught in the open when a tripflare or parachute flare is fired. It's all well and good if you're near some cover you can dive into but out on a billiard table-flat field you absolutely can freeze until the darkness comes back, but if you move, you'll be seen instantly.
@KB4QAA7 жыл бұрын
Great film. This is the sort of thing that Lord Baden-Powell developed and taught to troops in the Boer War.
@marceloduran79392 жыл бұрын
Escoutismo 🇨🇱
@AnonymousCaveman9 жыл бұрын
I'm watching this because I'm a Cpl In the ACF and I love fieldcraft so much and these videos just makes me so happy to watch. Awesome video bro :)
@eddywiggins6208 жыл бұрын
Anonymous Caveman just remember , over doing it can have the same effect as too little. I remember being taught this as I to was in the ACF Twickenham 196 RE
@AnonymousCaveman8 жыл бұрын
Eddy Wiggins Yeah I agree. It's mainly interesting :D
@siveth81497 жыл бұрын
Anonymous Caveman I am a training one star, I was at altar doing camouflage at night in the rabbit warren, I didn't have any type of uniform, it hadn't been issued, but I was the only one of 14 who made it past the PI & SMI
@moj62417 жыл бұрын
Siveth what company ?
@siveth81497 жыл бұрын
Joseph Gillon 1 coy, 1st Irish guards
@1truthbegettingtold2753 жыл бұрын
One small detail that is overlooked, the crawling guy at 0:30 so close to the guy on the tree. Any sound of movement, any kind like scuffling of cloth against ground, leaf dragging, twig snapping or cracking is going to compromise him. I know they wanted it to seem all cool but only wet leaves soggy flexible leaves and plants can be crawled over silently. Details will keep you alive.
@SPiderman-rh2zk9 ай бұрын
Thank you
@1truthbegettingtold2759 ай бұрын
@@SPiderman-rh2zk Thank you for bringing me back here. I have Disassociative Identity Disorder, many that know many different subjects. I am learning from another one of myselfs.
@CharlesvanDijk-ir6bl5 жыл бұрын
The Soviets were excellent in fieldcraft, that's according an SS veteran. It has evolved now electronics pick up body temperature and the trajectory of individual arms. I do camerawork and surprise bird in foliage and photographed one from less than 10 metres distance.
@ged15077412 жыл бұрын
Fantastic video clips. Takes me back to when I joined the army back in the early 1990's
@davidsmith23565 жыл бұрын
I remember this film...in training.
@tonycavanagh19295 жыл бұрын
Shape, Shine and Shadow of the top of my head and silhouette. LOL I remember advancing to contatct during training you dodge the nettles and mud if you can, when going to ground, but when have real rounds blatted at you, you dive to the ground. roll shoot scamble to the left or right and up again.
@tonycavanagh19295 жыл бұрын
LOl and pushing the head and shoulders out of your eyes when sighting. Used to feel like a dredd with the bits hanging of your helmet, real shitty when wet.
@BLACKTHUMB017 жыл бұрын
For more info on how not to be seen watch: British government film (No. 42, PARA. 6.)
@Bearded_Tattooed_Guy5 жыл бұрын
Monty Python reference detected.
@gunnerjames10565 жыл бұрын
Hah! Actually used burned corks on midnight raids on local airport! Not so easily removed. Twelve year old's in dark clothing, black toques, and burned corked rubbed on face for camo. Never damaged anything, but the commando raid as twelve year old's was quite the adventure!
@oldsoho620211 жыл бұрын
The L1A1 Self Loading Rifle SLR. Instant Erection material.
@arkansaswookie10 жыл бұрын
Bwahahahahahaha! Fully! Instant erection material! That's great! And i agree.
@gillesguillaumin66037 жыл бұрын
Oldsoho. Holly shit, I don't want to swim in sheep's shit and eat ravens.
@commander31able605 жыл бұрын
it takes a relic to make another relic erect.
@simposayerman5 жыл бұрын
Oldsoho -I couldn’t agree more 7.62 = hit = lights out!
@Sakkehattu8 жыл бұрын
Hah, we used a lot of these same things when I was doing my conscription couple years back. Up close it looked silly, but damn if it didn't camouflage you well into the forest :)
@armyman96711 жыл бұрын
is there a way i can download this... i am a CFAV and this clip is a useful training aid
@johnybranton872812 жыл бұрын
These videos are still great now, really helpful thanks :)
@tinysaxon382610 ай бұрын
The best weapon !! The SLR, I LOVED IT !
@OldNavajoTricks9 ай бұрын
Pellpax are releasing a co2 powered replica 😀
@sean_mccormack4 ай бұрын
@@OldNavajoTrickswhere did you hear this
@OldNavajoTricks4 ай бұрын
@@sean_mccormack read it a while back, google 'Co2 fn fal' and you'll be right marra 🤘
@OldNavajoTricks4 ай бұрын
@@sean_mccormack my reply keeps getting deleted...
@anders16217 жыл бұрын
The good old days.
@mackenshaw81695 жыл бұрын
I can remember being shown this at Puckapunyal.
@josephdavis89768 жыл бұрын
Damn, we Yanks rely on too much firepower. We've lost the concealment and maneuver aspects of fieldcraft. In fact, the U.S. does not have a doctrine for fieldcraft. At least the Army doesn't. I haven't seen a FM on this in my 17 years of service.
@JohnyHimalaya8 жыл бұрын
This seems to be a main difference between British/Australian tactics versus American.
@eddywiggins6208 жыл бұрын
Joseph Davis even our army cadets over here in the UK are taught and tested on camouflage and concealment. I was back in the early 80s and my cousins son is in now and he is still taught it.
@eddywiggins6208 жыл бұрын
Joseph Davis even our army cadets over here in the UK are taught and tested on camouflage and concealment. I was back in the early 80s and my cousins son is in now and he is still taught it.
@TheRustylungs7 жыл бұрын
maybee in the US army more people have hunted game before they enlisted and they learnt camouflage from that I dunno just a thought there's gotta be more hunters in USA than uk
@stevenpremmel41167 жыл бұрын
I think with Iraq/Afghanistan, the British army have decided to go to war the American way, with a reliance on firepower and I don't think that the supply chain can handle it, especially during the "platoon house" strategy in Helmand in 2006. I hope that the current situation in Eastern Europe leads to a revival in more conventional methods.
@wessexheathen57084 жыл бұрын
" the shape of his weapon" 🤣🤣🤣 ooh matron!!!
@johngwheeler3 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of a similar Monty Python sketch!
@mole3896 ай бұрын
SLR how we miss THAT RIFLE
@aaronquak21395 жыл бұрын
One great big Monty Python episode from 4:05
@KakarotMarine9 жыл бұрын
what type of knife is the soldier using in the beginning of the film?
@muppeteer8 жыл бұрын
+Colton Adams Pretty sure it's the bayonet from his rifle. Back then we didn't carry knives just bayonets, at least in the infantry.
@4002corbe6 ай бұрын
It’s the bayonet for the SLR …
@mwnciboo12 жыл бұрын
Not sure on that one, I reckon they would have hit you with Non-persistent Agents though, like blood agents etc. But yeah, I think you are right in the fact they would have gone for an-all-out preemptive bumming of the highest order.
@scouttroop2917 жыл бұрын
good show that tommy good lad his acting top shelf
@VaciliNikoMavich9 жыл бұрын
Wow, 3:36 thats actually really good. If he remained absolutely still, that would indeed be a challenge to see, unless you have excellent eyesight. (I have 20-20 plus)
@commander31able605 жыл бұрын
"skin - anything to break up the *whiteness* " that's almost prophetic in current year.
@natturner16195 жыл бұрын
Cry some more
@johngwheeler3 жыл бұрын
Particularly given the South African narrator....Apartheit was in full swing then! The idea of a black soldier didn't occur to them clearly!
@mclmm67735 жыл бұрын
John Ramboski attacks at 1:04
@gabecota40046 жыл бұрын
I thought that white arrow was Jesus for some reason
@TaylorGerrior12 жыл бұрын
Still good for the 60's
@eddywiggins6208 жыл бұрын
Emiya Gerr try late1970s
@Jimmyboy16742 жыл бұрын
@@eddywiggins620 still shown in basic in early 2000's!🤣👍🏼
@monkeyspankerful6 жыл бұрын
Turning a body over with your boot?!!!! Who taught him that?
@johngwheeler3 жыл бұрын
Yes, I noticed that - I was taught to drop heavily onto the back of the enemy soldier (to see if they were still alive and feigning death, or injured), then roll them over using their body as a shield, and have a buddy check for booby traps. If they yelled "bomb", you would push the body back over, and roll away ASAP. Also, the recommendation to rest the rifle fore-stock on a hard surface like a wall if terrible for accuracy. Yes, it is slightly lower than placing your hand underneath, but what's the point if you miss your target?
@RodgerBirddog13 жыл бұрын
Judging by the kit and weapons this is the 1960s
@simposayerman5 жыл бұрын
RodgerBirddog -mid to late 60’s battle dress ( Green fatigues) replaced khaki battledress ( WW2 fatigues ) plus 58 pattern webbing I around this period
@tomservo53475 жыл бұрын
Really doesn't matter all that much if you're bad a field craft in the Red Army at that time. They had millions of replacements and if it was a 15 to 1 kill ratio against them they'd still win. (Ask the Germans who had that ratio.) My Dad was stationed in Germany late 60's and wondered very seriously how they were expected to stop a full on Soviet attack considering the bottom of the barrel soldiers the draft was producing.
@alexwilliamson1486 Жыл бұрын
Unless you’re left handed…
@JohnWiseman6 жыл бұрын
This doubles as a PUBG training video.
@johndavis78686 жыл бұрын
I wonder who the fuck took over the army and stopped implementing these tactics
@curt6926 Жыл бұрын
What are you waffling about lad we still do all this shit
@cdtdelta17509 жыл бұрын
great training video however, some fieldcraft methods are outdated.
@mkrump94037 жыл бұрын
Not really outdated. They dont mention any weapons or any tactics. It`s done for infantry recruits operating individually on open field. The bushes, trees and deep country sides will remains the same...
@FN_FAL_4_ever6 жыл бұрын
How not to be seen
@nacholibre19623 жыл бұрын
12:47 Skin...anything to break up the whiteness. Man, they were even woke back then! ;-)
@johnnyjohn-johnson7738 Жыл бұрын
These days it would be replaced with "anything to break up the reflective surface" with a demonstration involving at least one black soldier, because there would always be a BLM minded recruit who would scream "hey! I don't have any whiteness to break up! [flips table] screw this! I'm done with the white man's training films!".
@mkrump94037 жыл бұрын
I never see this level of extreme violence. I find funny to express this common sub human covered idea of killing for job. The commentator really speak and giving instructions as it is for instructing a bus driver recruits.
@australianmade26597 жыл бұрын
M Krump he is training killers not bus drivers. Negotiations are useless on the field of battle.
@mkrump94037 жыл бұрын
His voice and ton sound the same... just different procedures and different universal mission haha...
@misfit43735 жыл бұрын
either kill or be killed on the battlefield its hard but thats the truth
@seses39977 жыл бұрын
It's be british or nothing
@lordemarsh68045 жыл бұрын
Germans were the best with camouflage till today...