Is this the British Army's most photographed soldier?

[@magisterrleth3129]

"I make sure the gun is still serviceable." I'm not sure the word "serviceable" applies to the most immaculately maintained weapon I've ever seen. The freaking breach is polished. I think a better phrase would've been, "I make sure the gun maintains its divinity."

[@Kiyoone]

Yep. Never ever seen a cannon THAT clean and shinny...

[@robosoldier11]

Well serviceable just means its functionable to the task. However yes he sure does keep it looking quite prestigious. Though I'm sure when its your job to look after the thing everyday you tend to give it that spit shine lol. I do wish it was one of the older British 25 pounders. Those guns are iconic. The modern day pieces don't really have that vintage vibe to them.

[@Mr.Feckless]

Clean af

[@void870]

Looks clean and polished is not the same as serviceable lol He is probably referring to maintaining the firing mechanism, the bore, the tube, and other parts of the gun that make it function.

[@Archipocalypse]

I have a good question, is this a live round? If it is, where is it going? Into the ocean or what? Imagine a whale or dolphin suddenly getting hit with this live round....

[@SaucyNetworkEntertainment]

Damn...Crazy he has been doing this for more than 160 years

[@maymayman0]

Proof that remaining active and never giving up on doing what you love can lead to a longer life!!!!!

[@waltuh2.3bviews3secondsago3]

He wasn’t wrong when he said he’s been doing it for over 9 years

[@brizzled5193]

I seen couple of your videos Saucy, really enjoyed your videos.

[@nightwing.3378]

He dosn't look a day over 120 years.

[@karlchristoffer1275]

@@maymayman0 So true, so true...! He looks young enough to take another hundred years in service..! 😉

[@iamcarbonandotherbits.8039]

Back in the mid 1970s myself and 5 others had to do a 21 gun salute at Dover Castle, the first salvo went off okay the second salvo No2 gun had a breach malfunction so guns 1and 3 took up the slack, then no3 gun had a misfire so it was left to me and my gun to fire the remaining blank rounds i was 17yo at the time, and absolutely terrified my gun would misfire. The gunnery sergeant told me if my gun fails I would have to fire off the remaining rounds with a hammer and nail as this was a royal salute and had to be completed at any cost, naivety, the playground of old sweats.

[@2MeterLP]

With a hammer and nail :D Ive got tears in my eyes, old men have the best humor!

[@scubajoe3321]

Did it fire

[@bakersmileyface]

This dude can count himself as one of the most disciplined men in the world, no doubt.

[@Despotic_Waffle]

I mean this is standard for any solidier, they live regimented lives

[@ikat_tracer]

@@Despotic_Waffle Not every kind of service is like the other.

[@staticbuilds7613]

@@Despotic_Waffle Regimented lives does not always mean down to the second, Every day.

[@FighteroftheNightman]

​@@staticbuilds7613every job on the military requires you to be on time every day. Showing up late for your job can land you in confinement for 3 months

[@ppstorm_]

@@staticbuilds7613 once a day*

[@TheBeeseik]

Speaking as a US Marine, that's a fine uniform and a Fine Cannon you've got there, sergeant.

[@robinelliott-ni2eh]

US marine = 🤡

[@Mr-Eleven]

Some funny ass drill though lol

[@mr.atomic2970]

Ill be honest the USMC Uniform looks monarchist and thats wrong. Whilst the British one looks monarchist too but it should.

[@Real__ATF]

Thank you for your service, sir. I’m hoping to join the marines or the army sometime 5 years from now. My uncle was a marine for 27 years. He retired in 2019 as an E7. And my grandpa was an O3 in the army transportation corp in Vietnam. You can google him ‘John Michael Lavin’ and you can find his Student Card from West Minister College. If you Go under you should See More pictures of him. Another fun fact about him: his sister gun truck is the only gun truck in the US that hasn’t been scrapped from vietnam. It’s the Eve Of Destruction.

[@Ussonan-Foderation2016]

Quite!

[@stealthassasin1day291]

When someone talks about a time gun, this was not what I expected.

[@blenderfox]

wibbly, wobbly, timey wimey...

[@panda4247]

and what did you expect? I expected exactly this, being a TechDiff fan

[@brandonkoh8361]

If they used a real round, or even a real blank round, it would blow out the eardrums of everyone present, so I'm not surprised that people complain about not hearing it.

[@dangerousthoughts.1591]

I think they should use a real round just to keep it interesting

[@brandonkoh8361]

@@dangerousthoughts.1591 Nah, I dont think that would be a good idea. There would be multiple booms from the gun and the projectile. That throws off the main traditional point of having a 1 o'clock gun to set the time. And some people might die. Theres that too.

[@Aethair]

what do you mean by a "real blank"? i had thought they were using blanks.

[@brandonkoh8361]

@@Aethair I meant that blanks are usually much louder than that (at least from my experience). A normal gun's blank is already loud enough to make normal people flinch without hearing protection. I dont see any of the civilians in the crowd flinching. Its likely a very small grain blank (idk the term for it).

[@GMSA59]

@@brandonkoh8361 Having spent some time in Edinburgh, I am guessing the charge used has been adapted over time, to be loud enough to be heard across the city but not so loud that everyone has a heart attack. The Microphone mutes the sound somewhat, there is still a good proportion of the crowd that still flinches when the gun goes off :-)

[@wendyharbon7290]

Letting soldiers from another regiment fire a Royal Regiment of Artillery Gun, would be sacrilege, especially Sappers. Though the idea of civil servants or council staff being allowed to fire an RRA Cannon, basically is a crime!

[@capnroberts9874]

Us sappers would just blow up the gun

[@neilscarbro3345]

Once a Gunner, always a Gunner Ubique Gentlemen

[@coolfyb]

Met him in 2017, post gun fire. Very disciplined and humble.

[@Keiser-h4z]

we all know its for defending the port from the kraken you don't fool us ! 😆

[@Ussonan-Foderation2016]

He keeps that uniform and gun in shape! Good on him

[@vicanraymoralde2519]

2:42 - Someone might've just dropped their phone off the edge of the castle 😂😂😂

[@adipuppi]

good spot!

[@crunch5956]

You have great eyesight

[@vicanraymoralde2519]

lol thanks! I just saw something small fall in the corner of my eye

[@AlanMakbeth]

LOL True!

[@johnferguson6389]

My wife and I visited Scotland in 2016 and were privileged to see the firing of the 1 o’clock gun one of the days we were in Edinburgh. It is an impressive ceremony.

[@jerrylim6722]

the Captain: we need a way to keep our time synced properly that one drunk Cannoneer in the 1800s: I got you fam

[@Kakarot64.]

That one bored Cannoneer in the 1800's: Finally I actually get to shoot my cannon for once.

[@grahamhill2267]

It doesn’t sound very loud, have they reduced the size of the blank charge? I used to prefer the old 25pdr, that used to be deafening all around Princess Street area. I also noticed that the salute fired by Kings Troop on the day of Trooping The Colour wasn’t very loud either!

[@wendyharbon7290]

Yes the old 25-pounder, was a lovely piece of artillery, which served the RRA for a very long time, also was as loud as hell too!

[@tonys1636]

H & S legislation on sound levels, the audible equivalent to the noon (12:00) GMT ball drop at Greenwich.

[@bountyhuntermk2520]

Bore off you wetter

[@OlaviMurto]

Even though it's obvious that a cannon can be loud, and even if the audience had a hundred signs and audible commands to cover your ears, some people would still miss it and get tinnitus of hearing loss, and subsequently some would blame it on the military. I'm quite sure that has happened at some point, when tourists first started to be interested in the tradition. Also for an old gun, it's safer to use less gunpowder. Also also, it's a blank, so even with the same amount of gunpowder as a regular shell, it's still going to be quieter.

[@Armorpiercer]

@@wendyharbon7290 0

[@GlennLopez]

Thank goodness for subtitles.

[@mario64exprt37]

Oh man....the Ego on this dude...

[@2MeterLP]

I have never understood people who film what has been filmed a hundred times before. They paid lots of money to be right there, but they only stare at their phone screens.

[@FighteroftheNightman]

It doesn't cost a single dime to watch this 😂

[@dereksmall4311]

he will do this until he forgets and adds a real shell and destroys someones house lol i cant wait to read that news article

[@everettstone6574]

We have a noon gun in my city. much bigger cannon with a bigger boom. almost 2 km away, it still rattles my windows a bit.

[@Mark-Haddow]

Do you have a castle and crown jewels there? Oh, and the French Eagle captured at Waterloo?

[@Zantides]

2:39 Someone lost their phone, haha

[@M-u-m-p-e-l]

Damn, I would have never noticed. Good eye !

[@stephenb7829]

Imagine today's council doing it. It would be late and take place once a week by a depressed council worker on minimum wage.

[@toasterboipencil]

I would not be depressed if I got to fire an artillery piece every day-

[@ryn9]

That silver breech and muzzle break are beautiful

[@mikerilling6515]

He’s also the current expert at the Monty Python silly walk

[@BroccoliHead7]

Why is this dude walking around in circles like that? I’m getting second hand embarrassment

[@samcoates7519]

Lived in Edinburgh my whole 21 years of life, I'm in town all the time and yet I only heard the 1 o'clock gun for the first time accidentally a couple weeks ago

[@bingatos1879]

You haven’t missed much at all.

[@DroneStuff402]

Homie got that Minecraft walk 😂

[@danielfourie5500]

No matter how old you are you are always a gunner!!

[@craigcooknf]

Noon day gun fired on Signal Hill, Newfoundland, all summer. Awesome

[@Pr0fanePrayers]

I cant be the only person that finds the way they walk to be hilarious

[@MarkTheTreeManVann]

One day he's gonna snap and throw some live rounds in that thing... LMAO

[@nickgibb4687]

is he shooting confetti?

[@MakeItWithJim]

Leith: too poor to afford a clock

[@MarcelSchr]

Was there ever a misfire? And what happens if the gun doesn't fire? Is it then simply retried immediately afterwards, or does it remain out of operation for the day?

[@bro..stop.]

if i was to guess I’d say they’d seize operations for the day/until the gun is ensured to be safe and or the reason for a misfire is identified

[@monkegaming6416]

imagine if it didnt shoot blanks and a certain area just gets struck with artillery every day

[@BerserkingAirsoft]

Anyone see the guy at 2:43 drop his phone off the edge when he didn't expect the gun to go off, then look over the wall for it?

[@eancola6111]

“Accidentally loads a real shell”

[@aussiemozzie107]

In Hong Kong they fire a noon day gun too at 12:00 pm. When I went there while on holiday in Hong Kong there were only 2 other people there. It’s pretty funny this gets so many more people. I think though one of the reasons no-one goes there much is because it’s not a artillery type cannon like in this video.

[@TJonLongIsland]

Swing that arm!! SWING IT!!!

[@Eric-vs2he]

How loud is that cannon? I've gotten tinnitus from a nail gun and this guy just took it like a champ

[@Quiet704]

So this is what Steve Carrel does in his offtime

[@youtubeviewer5198]

I was fulling expecting this to be an office bit.

[@Haveuseenmyjetpack]

Really important job

[@father6371]

What a chill job

[@PBMS123]

I really don't understand UK military drill, and I say this as an ex aussie soldier. I don't understand why they have a cadence, but then just go spastic whenever they halt, or go through mark time....? He in australia the drill is performed to the same cadence as the quick time, leg comes up on one beat, and down on the next. the UK seem to just do it in half a beat.

[@Perseus7567]

Well, in this case the stomping of the right foot, when he halts, was extremely fast. It's not taught like that as far as I remember, it's taught to be slightly slower and more controlled. He's just sped it up, probably to ensure he is in a position to fire exactly at 1pm. But when coming to a halt, you kick the left foot out as if you're taking another step, but then bring it back to where you currently are, put it on the ground, then stomp the right foot. The Royal Marines don't do this; they just slide their feet together.

[@PBMS123]

@@Perseus7567 Australian drill is very similar, but this video is not the only time i've seen the no offence but rather slapstick version of drill that was shown here. Plenty of other videos showing the same strange insane speed up when coming to a halt. Yes there does seem to be a difference where in the UK they basically mark time twice. Left foot mark time position, and then the right foot. In Australia we call the halt on the right foot, take a proper check pace (i.e. the "check" call is a full pace with the left foot) then the right foot is brought to the mark time position, and then brought down beside the left foot. Watched some UK training vids, and it does seem like they do indeed train it with the "Check. One. Two" or "Check. Left. Right." (in contrast to Australia, check. Halt.) to the same speed/cadence as the quick march. But this video, and others seem to have people attempting to go through the check. one. two. in one single count, instead of 3.. I'd rebut against the claim its to make sure hes there by 1, when he waits for a considerable time after loading to fire, meaning he gets there with enough time to wait, and that is only saving him about 2 beats of quick time (116bpm) or approximately 1 second.

[@thealexanderbond]

@@PBMS123 It reminded me of Alex DeLarge mocking the prison officer's over-the-top marching/stomping antics as he hands him over to the hospital staff in Clockwork Orange.

[@colorado841]

Me: "Yeah but can we talk about all the innocent families that get blow up at 1 o'clock every day?" Him: 2:57

[@Jordan-ce7sf]

If someone knows, how do you check headspace on that gun?

[@Riiyan]

Got tons of respect for carrying on the tradition!

[@nathhenn8966]

The most British cannon I've ever heard.

[@tieradlerch.217]

Firing cannon every 1 PM lol

[@bobograndman]

They still do this in hong kong too! At noon someone still fires a slightly smaller gun than this and tourists like to go and watch.

[@keresztesbotond740]

This sound like something I would want to do after I retire :D

[@GetItRightUpYees]

You can’t spell party without using Arty,Ubique my good man 🟥🟦

[@MasterCheeks-2552]

Respect to the drop shorts

[@robnewman6101]

God Bless The British Army.

[@singlecell2498]

I cant imagine the council being incharge of this bet it wasnt fired on time

[@PhilTheB00mer]

I like how happy he looks to do this

[@beelzybossbee1406]

@1:33 I thought for a sec it was Michael Scott hahahaha..!!!

[@Spacesnakes474]

Whoever decided that March communicated strength and coordination deserves to be placed in front of the cannon at 12:59

[@morespywareforyou2262]

"There was a young soldier named Edser. Who when wanted was always in bed, sir. One day at one, they fired the gun. And Edser, in bed, sir, was dead, sir." Spike Milligan (More or less)

[@patshiels5429]

Nice posting

[@bentyler7927]

Any hostile ships come around, you give him some live rounds and i bet he'd defend that port to the fullest extent of the word.. probably the one guy in the world who has every single spec of that gun and it's rounds memorize to the t.

[@Yabbadabbadoo728]

I see you Michael Scott

[@gondolaservicepeschieradel4115]

Well, i can image his wife when he come back at the evening, how was the work? FIRE 😂

[@theaveragegamerno1589]

"Big brother is definitely watching" here lol

[@Jimmythefish577]

Why is his beret below his eyebrows?

[@skepticalbadger]

Why isn't yours?

[@scotia001]

Must think he’s an Andy Cap beret wearing Para.

[@erikderfreak]

9 years. I wonder how many times it misfired

[@andytraill]

Set your time. Maps showing how much to bracket it too.

[@JonahDyer]

I love all of the naval tradition the UK has (Or maybe just Britain. IgnorAmericant moment). So much history to that country and their magnificent Navy.

[@FighteroftheNightman]

Magnificent? They're a skeleton of their former self

[@clive3490]

this is army though :)

[@AlanMakbeth]

Beautiful!

[@張理-d8d]

As a Taiwanese veteran artilleryman, your gun is well maintained.

[@hoodparticles]

*Chinese

[@TomatoDogMusic]

What happens if he's sick?

[@User-dc6sm]

the gun recoils to little. Or is it an extra small powder charge. Why don't you use a real artillery blank which you would also hear in the city?

[@Doomsday499]

Because you don't want to make the tourists standing 20m away deaf.

[@landonsss8114]

@@Doomsday499 all military artillery jobs are deaf if being within 20m makes you deaf

[@landonsss8114]

@@Doomsday499 well it does a little but not all the way lol not until later in life

[@tykjpelk]

Makes no impact on target either. Why not use a proper L31 HE round that can be experienced by onlookers up to 10 miles away?

[@komradekhrushchev2797]

@@tykjpelk 💀💀

[@eddyd8745]

It was Tam the Gun for years!

[@Yuricen]

one man show, i love that

[@mikewinston8709]

A nice job for a long service SNCO……..good for him.

[@peterbeveridge2816]

done his time and come out as wo2

[@Kiyoone]

This job must be a clock work to be. very nice.

[@sasoshow6587]

Bravo majster

[@notagain9196]

As it should be. After all he gets to point the gun❗️

[@BlueCollarDude101]

That soldier needs to turn his watch to the inside of the wrist so he doesn't have to rotate his wrist to see the time

[@Doofing_Cookies]

I watched this man do it

[@ohnezuckerohnefett]

Poor pidgeon.

[@scotia001]

He needs to get that beret’s headband above his eyebrows. Standards!

[@dalirfarzan1694]

Where's his kilt?

[@namelesswalaby]

is he related to Don Beveridge?

[@markregan4737]

Mate must be one of the easiest postings going 😂

[@buildingglocks5797]

9 years and still only a sergeant is crazy

[@plainenglishh]

sergeant at 9 years is decent, it typically takes 12 years

[@buildingglocks5797]

@@plainenglishh huh not here In the USA

[@JtagSheep]

On average in the British army its about 4 years per rank to earn, sometimes longer sometimes shorter.

[@clive3490]

@@buildingglocks5797 yoou have different grades of Sergeant though, he is the equivalent of your E4, E5 and E6

[@buildingglocks5797]

@@clive3490 wait is he an e4 or e6?

[@craigcooknf]

I got to experience a howitzer going off with a real shell. With hearing protection. It felt like someone hit me on the chest with a mallet

[@dnakatomiuk]

All that stuff in the air after he fired that ladies and gentlemen was a pigion

[@tristanangle]

did it say what gun it was?

[@clive3490]

Its an L118 105mm light gun

[@patkis1679]

If it was a real blank, people would complain about ruptured ear drums and shattered windows not about not hearing it 😂really nice tradition.

[@cornballmcgoo7174]

Idc what the regulations are him or the person before him has a stash of live rounds close at hand

[@Nigelrathbone1]

Original gun? Or present day ?

[@clive3490]

Its modern

[@marco3dartist]

The gun shoots paper. Okay....

[@petergriffin383]

Beats my job...

[@saschapurner9579]

Blick frei Geradeaus, so gehört es sich. Salve Kamerad

[@yayeet2431]

so he didn't trip/slip several times.

[@sandasturner9529]

This guy probably likes shooting that Cannon

[@bobbobby632]

Bruh, when I first saw this guy, I thought he was some sort of ex-nazi soldier or weird neo-nazi or something, I guess it’s all the black with the red outlining, the hat probably doesn’t help either

[@Lvisredalin]

That looks nothing like a german soldier.

[@Gaelic-Spirit]

That outfit is closer to Spider-man than a Nazi.

[@madzz180]

do you also fire the old muzzleloader cannons ? :)

[@HieuNotHue]

1:28 - “Before the plandemic…” I like this guy.