ROYAL SCOTS AT 15 | How Far Has The Regiment Come?

[@gazza8436]

some of the best soldiers I will ever know from my time in the Army were Skirt waggling oatmeal savages, great banter too, I salute you all

[@Marcg-b4n]

Cheers🍻, from your cousins across the pond 🇺🇸. Thanks for your support and friendship 🇬🇧🇺🇸

[@allanirvine7304]

🇬🇧🤝🇺🇸

[@AirplaneDoctor_]

There is only one Royal Scots, and that was the First of Foot, not the Royal Regiment of Scotland. If the RRS wants to have its own identity, don’t trade on the name of an antecedent regiment who was treated like rubbish after centuries of service.

[@johnthorburn1913]

Only got yourselves to blame. Poor voting choices usually end up with the poor treatment of those who made them.

[@lordracula2461]

@MG The army just like the other services like police and etc have been rigged to be much harder to join in recent years along with a smaller and less interested pool to recruit from. If they cut the process down to under 3 months and lowered the standard back to what it was the 70s they'd have tons of people coming in but even in the early 2010s they were taking 12 months average to get perfectly normal blokes from application to in the door. There's not any less scottish people now there's just less young scottish people, that's the only current problem in civvie street related to the numbers in the army

[@alexweatherburn4390]

@@lordracula2461 It’s actually easier to join the military now as the standards have been lowered to attract more recruits, women can now join the Infantry, Paras and Marines as it’s been made easier to pass the fitness tests. Most Infantry Regiments are well below strength, it’s not just the fault of our politicians for axing our great Regiments because a lot of our young don’t want to join up, I would rather see the return of our great Regiments and National Service but it’s not going to happen unfortunately.

[@winstoniofarana7720]

@@lordracula2461 you have no idea what you are talking about , the army is much easier to join now than it has ever been, back in the 80s more people joined the army because of high unemployment and we were all Scottish in the Royal Scots back then and I should know because I am one of them, it is full of wimps, foreigners and cry babies now.

[@Stanly-Stud]

​@@lordracula2461 Absolutely ridiculous how they recruit nowadays 🙄 In the 80s it was interview with Sgt, medical then Redford Bks for us jocks. BFT & a few sit ups & other tests. Next morning interview with Officer & you recieved your paperwork & warrants from a,Sgt downstairs 😅 Couple of weeks later I was on a train to Woolwich London. I nearly forgot before Redford Bks you did the Queen's Oath in Glasgow but that was it. Basically no messing around They soon found out who was suitable in Basic training

[@rhett1029]

As our country gets crazier my eyes can’t help but wonder across the pond. Marching in dress uniforms with a kilt to Scotland The Brave must be a experience like no other

[@notnotadev]

just like parading in any other dress uniform

[@cintulator2]

Right done. Good spirit and so on. Welcome to Finland.

[@inthebleakmidwinter9338]

Bring back the individual Scottish Regiments!

[@oxygenwarlord9277]

@@callummacey983 if they don’t say anything then there would be 0 chance of something happening.

[@oxygenwarlord9277]

@@callummacey983 it’s worth trying- you never know

[@blacksmith67]

@@callummacey983 Never say never. In Canada three regiments: The North Nova Scotia Highlanders, The Cape Breton Highlanders, and The Pictou Highlanders were amalgamated in 1954 and rather surprisingly 2011 the second battalion reverted to being The Cape Breton Highlanders. All it takes is for the pendulum to swing the other way (which can take decades). However, the pendulum will never swing if people don’t press the issue. Of course no one single comment in social media is going to change anything, just like a single drop of water won’t breach a dam. But if there are no comments then the government bean counters will have no cause for remorse for their egregious actions.

[@inthebleakmidwinter9338]

@@callummacey983 You think I comment this expecting a reaction from the MoD? 😂😂

[@jimmymc10021]

Not enough people were joining the Scottish Regiments, that's why the RRS was formed.

[@optimismo3525]

I wish they'd reverse the amalgamation process. One can dream.

[@ltcmdrtobyfox3969]

Top boys, here, looking good.

[@gazs4731]

Well, i joined the army when I was 18 in the Royal Engineers and served 22 years 3 months. The time did fly but I miss my mates in the CRE

[@usersaccount5706]

What year did you join?

[@gazs4731]

@@usersaccount5706 1990

[@usersaccount5706]

@@gazs4731 fair play to you

[@rottieman347]

A very sad day when they did away with Pontius Pilot's Body Guards. The OLDEST Regiment in the British Army. 1st of Foot. Right of the LIne. UTR from a former Royal Scot

[@juan-pierreleroux8323]

Sad news, Im South African and a bunch of us wanted to join, some did and had great stories to tell, i however failed initial invitation for medical due to near full deafness in my left ear. I tried to join around Innerleithen area iirc...many many years ago, i was working at Peeble's Hotel Hydro at that time.

[@philipscott2025]

Once a royal scot always a royal. Scot.

[@hudsondonnell444]

GREAT SCOTS!

[@louishundred1812]

Waaaoo👏👏👏☄☄☄🌬🌬🌬 God Blessing All 🤗🤗🤗

[@haroldellis9721]

They can transmit in the clear, and their comms will be secure, as no one will be able to understand their accent.

[@Dayl_Adams]

It’s not just the accent, we use different dialect that formed from the Viking inventions old Scots Gaelic, English and Latin…

[@seanmcilvenie9097]

When a scots soldier runs at you you only know one thing, you're going down. Do you need a translation?

[@aidenb.5293]

I wonder what will happen to units like these if Scotland becomes independent.

[@Lilcalves]

Scotland if it does leave would still be part of the commonwealth, so theyll still be the royal Scots and raf Lossiemouth would still be active

[@mazambane286]

That will never happen. Sanity will prevail

[@scotthendry6298]

The British army wd then just hv to send in the Welsh and Irish rest in 1st without them

[@jameslynch7826]

Who thought a blue/purple hackle was good idea On a khaki headdress which already has a bobble. Amalgamations create some eyesores and abortions of capbadges etc. It’s very very sad and highly damaging to morale. It takes a generation to get over. Ie when nobody is left who was in the original unit/units.

[@drno4837]

So all the original names have gone then? to be replaced by a number? 300 years of history down the toilet?

[@allanirvine7304]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧tell the snp this please x

[@johnthorburn1913]

Why?

[@allanirvine7304]

@@johnthorburn1913 because they would destroy our union

[@mythbusterboyzz]

Couldn’t put it better myself they’d see my old regiment disbanded and formed Into some chip shop mob that’s full of anglophobic mutants.

[@ca9968]

Pack em up and get them out to Mozambique...plenty to get done out there right now!

[@usersaccount5706]

Why should we

[@georgerobert4709]

I've got a better idea ...if it worries you that much pick up a rifle and YOU go !!

[@ca9968]

@@georgerobert4709 already working on it...E.O are hiring again, so it`ll be just like Sierra Leone again, right after the Brits left...a good old fashioned African A** Kicking!

[@gfield1607]

Anyone know what jacket the Major is wearing? I want a black one

[@ms9585]

That’s CARINTHIA MIG 3.0 Jacket Multicam- you can buy it from UKMC

[@gfield1607]

🤦🏻‍♂️ you’ll need a majors salary to pay for it, never mind. Thanks for replying though, much appreciated, didn’t know about the website so that was a bonus. 👍🏻

[@tacticalvelociraptor9458]

@@gfield1607 check out Odin tactical too , they do all the carinthia , keela and montane stuff for cheaper normaly its where all the blokes normaly get their keela's since he has a pop up shop in west down camp when major exercises are on

[@richardadane3421]

Good xxxxx

[@dianam.corpuzimdeaf2407]

Hey God blessed All help your

[@barrynewman4456]

So sad when they trashed the Argylls

[@dezah8360]

THE LADS

[@rhyshutchinson1697]

5 battalions, made up of Northern English and commonwealth

[@tay1903]

Shame all the historical regiments where merged into one, but being represented by the selected battalions surly that tradtion and history lives on ?

[@AirplaneDoctor_]

The traditions of the antecedent regiments are theoretically carried on by the battalions, but it’s mostly down to the Pipes and Drums now, actually part of the Pipe Majors duties. The big joke is that 1 SCOTS no longer have a pipe band at all, 5 SCOTS is just a company with no P&D’s,and the Pipe Major of 2 SCOTS is a Gurkha.

[@desdonaldson5728]

1 Scot’s is now a ranger bun, 5 Scot’s are a cadre not a battalion. Forces news needs to research better

[@leary4]

So Scotland gets the same size army unit........as Nepal?

[@johnthorburn1913]

You need to do a bit more homework.

[@leary4]

@@johnthorburn1913 Are the Gurkhas a regiment? If not is it really worth the bother?

[@Hannymcfee]

Gurkha's are about 2-3 Regiments, Scotland does have some other regiments such as the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards and the Scots Guards alongside some others

[@jamiepeter3567]

Bydand forever

[@CallumMcDonald77]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧

[@stun5700]

So they’ve got a medic on a GPMG LOL

[@lachlanchester8142]

Is that not allowed

[@stun5700]

@@lachlanchester8142 it’s just funny mate I’d be snapped if I was that guy

[@gingerbaker4390]

You're a soldier first before you're a medic.. How long u been forces mate. ?

[@tacticalvelociraptor9458]

@@gingerbaker4390 actually medic's are only allowed to use their "Personal weapons" ie L85/Pistol to defend themselves and patients ONLY if they are under direct attack

[@gingerbaker4390]

@@tacticalvelociraptor9458 You don't know what you're talking about. Everyone does basic training.

[@cheryleewilcox3903]

Please do NOT fight illegal wars for the British Establishment.

[@aaroncousins4750]

Oh shut up

[@bigbird6039]

Flake

[@bigbird6039]

@@cheryleewilcox3903 No madam I believe in the British Army. Satan could only wish to command such a force of life taking, widow making , poms, jocks, taffs and micks. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.

[@cheryleewilcox3903]

@@bigbird6039 Well, good for you.

[@bigbird6039]

@Charlie Sefton why thank you Charlie 👍

[@comradepolarbear6920]

I'm a social Democrat

[@stevengruber57]

Are you aye

[@alanbrooke144]

My condolences.

[@bigbird6039]

I’m a social handgrenade

[@nigelpilgrim4232]

@Charlie Sefton we are not all perfect 🤣🤣🤔