RR7704B UK ULSTER PATROLLING CROSSMAGLEN

(28 Jan 1977) RR7704B UK ULSTER PATROLLING CROSSMAGLEN
The British government maintains 14,000 troops in
Northern Ireland to keep the peace between Protestants
and Catholics, loyalists to the United Kingdom and those
who want to sever Ulster's constitutional links with
mainland Britain. The job of the soldiers is a
dangerous one - already this year three have died
and in 1972 some 130 were killed by terrorists'
bombs, booby-traps and gunmen. This item looks at
the work of the Royal Highland Fusiliers detachment
at Crossmaglen, the front line.
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[@salfordladcraigedeane2356]

Thank you for your service lads n lasses, rest in peace to all the fallen soldiers,

[@sexybeast6567]

Rot in hell you fucking gobshites

[@porkypuff5884]

@@sexybeast6567 bobby sands is rotting in hell

[@ulovemymum2963]

@@porkypuff5884 Bobby sands is getting bummed by Satan himself 👍

[@annaconway313]

@@ulovemymum2963 watch out when you get there🤣 better put a plug in it

[@ulovemymum2963]

@@annaconway313 you think a plug will stop the devil himself? 😈

[@Judgementday-qp1ol]

Colonialism, what a Shameful Act on Britain.

[@geordiewishart1683]

As shameful as exporting Irish papist clergy paedophiles around the globe?

[@MasculinityMindset]

Glad these days are behind my Island.

[@charlesuplifted5216]

Still not your island That is unless your Protestant

[@MasculinityMindset]

@@charlesuplifted5216 It's My Island

[@rhysshaughnessy4757]

@@charlesuplifted5216 Doesn't matter what his religion is. To say something like that is just pathetic

[@jimmymcjimmyvich9052]

@@MasculinityMindset I loved you in Braveheart))

[@concong4183]

Did ya ever hear the likes of it... Yer man saying that a Scottish regiment was protecting the locals in Crossmaglen. I laughed so hard that my colostomy bag over flowed.

[@imedi]

lol i know..... i guess thats why they call it propaganda.. sad thing is it works the population on the mainland uk swallow this stuff hook line and sinker even the soldiers themselves start to think it after awhile

[@paulsaul7674]

Kekistani nationalist well they did with the help of the ruc, and the security forces, but not any more, they would obviously love to but without the back up of the state they wouldn't have it in them

[@paulsaul7674]

Kekistani nationalist hahaha they won, wake up, the people they butchered and held a privileged position over are now issuing your giro's lol, this was never about a united ireland just equality lololoo

[@paulsaul7674]

Kekistani nationalist never was, even if you listen to them now it's a new ireland, equality, that's all they ever wanted, and they achieved that, have a nice day lad

[@paulsaul7674]

Kekistani nationalist that's how this all started, South Africa wouldn't have got a look in, now they are in government and the tide has turned

[@alastairwest5200]

The use of the word 'fort' instead of base or camp kinda sums it up...

[@MartySonofaCoward]

You're right Alastair

[@ashleyupshall7641]

Same as the word ‘Troubles’ to describe a war.

[@patkearney9320]

@@ashleyupshall7641 To me troubles was when the car wouldn’t start or my wife was on my case ,or I’d little money it was war or red hot conflict. I fxxking hate that politicians word Troubles ffs no where in any country do they use this gentleman’s word.

[@TyroneMooselips]

@@ashleyupshall7641The brits called it the troubles instead of a war so they wouldn’t face war crimes, slimey bunch

[@stephenholmes1036]

Crossmaglens populace as a whole never spoke or acknowledged the British army and vice versa.

[@quillan7743]

God bless my Toner 🙏 south Armagh family I'm ashamed I am from UK but my 💜 in Ireland ✌️🇨🇮

[@rikoshea5549]

Your heart is in Ireland, yet you can't even get the flag 🇮🇪 correct

[@quillan7743]

True 😂😂

[@quillan7743]

@@rikoshea5549 up forkill ✌️

[@wolfysmith4752]

Nothing to stop you going 'home' and growing spuds for a living.

[@alcoholicjoe6199]

Get the flag right clown ....from a me a Brit.

[@Spiderdan-59]

I did Crossmaglen in the mid 80s, and again end of the 80s, its a hard tour for sure, i been to other areas but Crossmaglen is bandit country, 2RRF (B) COY ⚔️🇬🇧

[@Bellissimovolere]

XMG in 89 (Boruki) and Forkhill (Jonesboro)

[@Roadmaster2006]

😂​@@Poofacei

[@Hoopspur]

Best Provo unit, like the North Armagh Brigade.

[@RalphBrooker-gn9iv]

I was there in 1987 (B Coy, 1 Royal Hampshire). The towers were up by then. My 4th tour. I remember hard-targeting from the RUC station. As I recall the South Armagh tour was alternating rifle coys between rural patrolling from BBK via Lynx (were we mortared there as my brick were taking off in a Lynx). I saw lads hit and fall but soon we were gone down to the border to dropped off. Then there was time in the Golf towers. Finally patrolling XMG. Despite losses and seeing friends lose body parts, I enjoyed it. If you’re a pro footballer you want to get on the pitch. My hardest tour was Fermanagh in 1982 as the Falklands was kicking off. 1 Para took over from us but teased us saying ‘stag on’ because they were sure they’d go down south. I finished my year with Recce pln (formerly COP) on South Georgia. I hope you’re well mate. Infantry ⚔️

[@Hoopspur]

@@RalphBrooker-gn9iv Tell us more about losses and lost body parts. That was the best bit.

[@birmanets]

Crossmaglen is a relatively quiet village since the British left in 2007. It wasn't even supposed to be in Northern Ireland, it was not included in the first 2 original partition maps drawn up I don't think. A slip of a British pen on a map caused all this. How Crossmaglen ended up in Northern Ireland I'll never know.

[@TheScaryTruthCatalyst]

There was an annoying fold in their map.

[@irishsteve209]

It’s part of county Armagh so that is why

[@Hal-zf4fv]

You can have the place back. We certainly don’t want it! Crap hole.

[@bigcyril8500]

It’s now a crap hole for washed up provo’s to sell their laundered diesel

[@bouse23]

It was part of county armagh. and the whole or county armagh was included in northern Ireland. similar things happened all along the border.

[@johnrooney1860]

My best mate Brian pemberton Refs 3batt served 5 tours he had seen so much terrible injury loss of life . But sadly cancer took him 3 years now. John Rooney st.annes Lancashire UK ps

[@tonykelly7863]

God bless him and would you thank his family it means so much in doing his duty I salute him and will say a wee prayer for him god bless you SIR TOTAL RESPECT EX IRISH GUARDSMAN 💂‍♂️ HERE

[@cardigan3000]

john rooney eh - a traitor to your ancestors

[@northwalesmod]

@@cardigan3000 sad man

[@fartsfartington9019]

Your mate took part in a pointless violent conflict to supress the people of Ireland. Your friend was the same as Americans in Vietnam, Russians in Ukraine and israelis in Gaza.

[@socialismotricolore7143]

@@fartsfartington9019 I agree except for Ukraine, where imho Russian are protecting the people of Donbass from the repession of Kyiv fascistoid regime

[@davidmccue1984]

Where in Crossmaglen that fire burns true the patriotic flame will never die and when you hear that battle cry it will be the fighting men from Crossmaglen

[@robroy3838]

HoHo ! You Jest ? As a percentage of active members , Sth Armagh had the most informers. By the end Britain was receiving so much info.

[@garymacdublin]

@@robroy3838 bullhshit

[@brianhughes7042]

I remember when this happened. I lived up the road from these Barracks when this happened I remember it well the windows in the house shook. That happened a few times when I lived there. What gets me is your man saying how can you just murder men like this talking about the soldiers But they have been doing it to the Irish for decades. I don’t think any man woman or child should be murdered but it’s no big deal to them when a catholic gets brutally murdered but when it’s one of there own all of a sudden it’s barbaric. It ain’t no fun when the rabbits got the gun. I lost good friends in school from this war young innocent children. I pray for a United Ireland one day and for all the souls that lost there life in this war on the Irish. 🇮🇪

[@Drivemap]

BS

[@wmr9019]

My brother patrolled this area with 3RGJ 1977 AND 1978 , HEAD WRECKED NOW 😥

[@MBobo18]

He could of had a normal life, yet proceded with oppressing a population in a land he should never have been in. He made his own bed.

[@1535haha]

I hope he suffers some horrible nightmares the rotten cunt it's most likey his own guilt eating him from the inside out

[@mharixx]

That’s what happens when you invade a free people and try oppress them. That’s called karma, fuck him

[@rgbwr]

Hope your brother is ok. From a fellow soldier n

[@rgbwr]

@@MBobo18We all suffered. Have some compassion.

[@TrevorBrass]

The amount of money and resources the UK government put into this operation is simply astonishing.

[@Lorenzo-qz6ce]

Unfortunately they didn't deploy battle tanks. Centurion AVRE's were utilised for only one operation. No Chieftains.

[@conlaiarla]

And it a complete waste of time and money . Did they learn nothing from centuries of conflict against the Irish people?

[@trevorhoward7682]

@@Lorenzo-qz6ce Op Motorman Dirty Thirty (30 Armd Engr Sqn)

[@Lorenzo-qz6ce]

@@conlaiarla Yes. If nothing had been learnt of the Irish people, Northern Ireland wouldn't be 100 years old.

[@conlaiarla]

@@Lorenzo-qz6ce Now comes the blatant disregard for facts . Unification is a demographic fact unfolding as anyone with even a modicum of intelligence can plainly see . I except you of course from this . You are ....different and indeed " special " .

[@raygreen5926]

This town is where Robert Nairac patrolled in the uniform and even drank in the pubs. Vanished May 1977

[@patrickglennon6834]

he sang I the pubs also with a fake Belfast accent, too smart for his own good.

[@harbanskaur6289]

Wrong. The village was dromitee not crossmaglen the 3 steps pub where he was drinking and singing rebel songs with 6 good jonesboro men who taught him a fatal lesson. That is .... Dont fuck with the south armagh brigade.... Best of the best.....real revolutionaries...the full bag... .

[@raygreen5926]

@@harbanskaur6289 Robert Nairac patrolled Crossmaglen in uniform it was the village of Dromintee where he disappeared when he was dressed in disguise and abducted at the roadside pub

[@charlesbukowski9836]

@@patrickglennon6834 a dummy actually... that area down there is TIGHT NIT... the Provos knew something was wrong and would investigate ....

[@paddycampbell8183]

Pigs got Nairac got what he deserved up the ra.

[@greg_4201]

lol that intense light suddenly filling your bedroom in the middle of the night every now and then must have been pretty fucking annoying 😆

[@bigjake2295]

Of the 6 counties in NI, only 4 originally had Protestant majorities. Now it’s only 2, and of those, South Down is RC majority. The bulk of Protestants are in Antrim & North Down. A plebiscite would be interesting.

[@allybally0021]

As long as its down to reason and arguement.....not bombs and bullets. I'm not sure it is as simple as the Catholic/ Protestant split you see it as.

[@alfredroyal3473]

And a third of RCs would vote to remain in the U.K. Polling consistently shows this.

[@amysands8925]

@@alfredroyal3473 At the end of the day its all about living standards. which is best for you and your family. i know a lot wont think like that but when the dust settles thats what it will boil down too.

[@ruairijoseph]

@@amysands8925 yeah tell yourself that… I don’t know a single catholic who supports the NI football team never mind become unionists and support the union with the UK come a border poll. The end is near… TAL

[@ruairijoseph]

@@alfredroyal3473 you are delusional if you think catholics will become unionists come a border poll… the 1000s of marches and hundreds of bonfires and the continued existence of the UDA/UVF burning cars over the Brexit that they voted for and the curry my yogurt DUP are all republican assets. Unionism is in serious trouble… in 20 years demographics will put this all to bed. TAL

[@Fredders88]

Most have been fricking annoying having foreigners stop you in your own country demanding to know your ID, where you've come from, where you're going to, etc. and if you don't answer you'll be kept there for hours by a bunch of thugs.

[@revolutionaryspirit4491]

It must of also been hard for loyal Ulsters having Marxist revolutionary's hopping over the border from the Republic to blow them up and intimidate them with regular violence. Hey ho.

[@Fredders88]

Read a book by a senior British army commander - think it was Carver - which said most IRA attacks (90% plus) started in NI - this hopping over the border thing was largely a myth. Anyway, it wasn't a border that most people in Ireland ever wanted anyway.

[@pedalingthru2719]

That's what terrorist do when they invaded a country. Look what American and England did to the people of Afghanistan.

[@jamesokeeffe3216]

Stay in your own country ☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️

[@ElizabethII-1952]

its an anglo world mate

[@mrfclarke]

“usually without warning” how British.

[@williamtraynor-kean7214]

XMG was described by an American journalist as being "as mean as cat shit" I think he was being over-generous.

[@LOGOS422]

Thank God those bad old days are over. May Ireland be unified peacefully and no other lives be lost to achieve it.

[@davidharrison6615]

it might be more peaceful but it will never unify . the people dont want it .

[@LOGOS422]

Unionists only have a majority left in 2 counties of Ireland's 32. I'm afraid 'the people' will just have to relocate to Britain if they can't live in a unified Ireland. Their choice.

[@LOGOS422]

Yes, Antrim and north Down are unionist heartlands. They might remain as some kind of Gibraltar. But the rest of Ulster will be ruled from Dublin.

[@LOGOS422]

It's a question of democracy and ultimately democracy will decide. Saying it won't happen because you don't like it won't change the reality if a border poll votes for unification.

[@kierangreene6714]

...and only 39% identified themselves as British!

[@bernadettehargreave4569]

Never knew it was a demolition site, it used to be the RUC station!! With funny enough a lawn where they used to play croquet before the army turned up.!! I lived there from 1958 to 1987. My whole teenage years was destroyed by the "troubles" and in Crossmaglen the army!! Grow up people this is a film designed to change history, the army should never have been in Cross and at my age I am still living with the consequences!!!

[@Dooropen69]

😂

[@brownwarrior6867]

I was Mortared in XMG in 1994 putting in new concrete base footings for Alpha Sanger by the main gate. We also replaced the old Borucki Sanger with a new one that had a fire suppression system in built due to a previous attack (in Newry I think) using a slurry tanker filled with fuel. Definitely not a place where you relaxed.

[@kamilskorupa2291]

What is Borucki sanger?borucki sounds like polish name.its very intresting for me couse im from poland.

[@whiskeysk]

@@kamilskorupa2291 Borucki sangar is named after Private James Borucki from the Paras, killed in 1976.

[@kamilskorupa2291]

@@whiskeysk thanks for answer!

[@quillan7743]

My dad a green jacket top cadet in Coventry as well but being a northern Irish guy well his mum and dad were and a Catholic he was on a bit of a sticky wicket but I personally hate sectarianism we are all human beings with heart and feelings hopefully a more peaceful place now

[@seanmccann8368]

I'm sorry to hear you didn't enjoy your visit to Ireland. If you had stayed in your own country perhaps you could have relaxed?

[@oldlimerickgit9408]

British Empire never understands ireland,

[@quillan7743]

True ✌️🇨🇮

[@mstewie9718]

Can someone please tell me at 7:23 is that a Sgt. Young Eddie Stone??

[@johnrooney1860]

Thank you for the service you all gave for us today. John Rooney st.annes Lancashire UK ps

[@mickgrant4262]

The Irish didn't get much warning before British Army Massacres

[@toshe.6690]

just like those 2 boys in Warrington?

[@BeltandBraces]

@@toshe.6690 13 on Bloody Sunday 30/01/1972 that started it all? blame the brit Paras

[@quillan7743]

One love to Ireland

[@TyroneMooselips]

Wow! So the lRA won? Unbelievable

[@calumroney7352]

My Brother was at this very time a Royal Highland Fusiluir.Thank god he came home tae Ayrshire.

[@anthonylambe6812]

That's funny because I don't speak scots and I can understand every word you've written

[@calumroney7352]

Anthony Lambe guid oan ye then

[@anthonylambe6812]

Calum Roney go raibh maith agat horse

[@calumroney7352]

Eyelevel Xyz n whit?..we're still Scots

[@calumroney7352]

Eyelevel Xyz oh I come across regular tae see family ya tosser.As ye should ken by ma sir name I have Ulster Presbyterian family connections.Yer right though that we Scots did come Ireland but I would strongly advise ye tae look up the ancient kingdom of Dalriada and ye will see that Scotland especially the west coast has connections stretching back thousands of years with ULSTER more than any other province of the island of Ireland.So I've tae stay in Scotland?,does that apply tae the thousands of people of Irish descent who currently live in ma beloved Scotland?,should they piss off hame tae?.Ye cany have it both ways fannybaws

[@TyroneMooselips]

7:06 no wonder lRA laughed at these guys ahahaha😂

[@Fredders88]

Under what authority or piece of legislation did the British army use to stop and search people and vehicles?

[@dulls8475]

Rule 7.62 under the heading of S L R.

[@rhysshaughnessy4757]

@@dulls8475 okay that was pretty good 😂😂

[@dulls8475]

@@rhysshaughnessy4757 I got the inspiration from Breaker Morrant. Watch it if you ever get the chance.

[@rhysshaughnessy4757]

@@dulls8475 might give it a go mate

[@cesar7429]

@@dulls8475 Rather authoritarian of them

[@michaelcarlos8686]

I always loved it when the news was read by Lord Ponsonby-Smythe.

[@motortraction]

Sweeping up mud - only in the Army.

[@bubbahubba7238]

This story was published in 1977.

[@MarkIRE1]

Love the use of the word 'terrorist' . An occupying force whom are unwanted and undoubtedly sectarian, invade and then decide to call any form of resistance,may it be physical or political, 'terrorists'

[@shanef8728]

a form of brit propaganda

[@conlaiarla]

No ability to learn absolutely anything on the British side . How did this nation of dimwits ever become a world power ? Baffling !

[@barrycaldwell5461]

@@shanef8728 Bit like the IRA then with all their propaganda bullshit

[@barrycaldwell5461]

The IRA were so squeaky clean weren't they,they never ever terrorised/ killed their own people did they

[@ravenmusic6392]

A terrorist literally means someone who uses violence (typically against civilians) to achieve a political goal via intimidation. In all three of those areas the PIRA checks out as a terrorist group, not to mention the number of civilians they killed was several times higher than the British army, even with collusion estimates

[@homeboy2166]

If the government had have allowed the army to actually fight back this war would have ended a lot faster.

[@ciaranbrk]

They did they just made more enemies. It was completely unnecessary conflict. The only thing they had to do was keep the peace. The nationalists treated them well and welcomed them. It’s when they started helping loyalist mobs burn down nationalist homes, the welcome mat was taken away. Besides if Bloody Sunday was a recruitment tool for the provos can you imagine wide spread killing of Irish civies on a huge scale would have had the Irish people on mass enlisting either in the provos or the Irish army, all intelligence from the republic would have been stopped and it’s very likely the public outcry would have resulted into an even more brutal ground war and made things thousands of times worse than they were.

[@fra-xi5cy]

Wow your funny 😂😂😂😂😂

[@homeboy2166]

@@ciaranbrk it was certainly a wake up call to the British government!

[@conlaiarla]

Such as the indiscriminate murdering of people like the Black and Tans did in the early 1920's ? That did nothing either to endure British victory or enhance the reputation of Britain. Get a satellite photo . Separate countries. Any dimwit can deduce that.

[@pedalingthru2719]

If the terrorist had stayed in England there would not have been any troubles.

[@truebluebears76]

These guys must have had balls off steel couldn't imagine being there

[@duneideannaer5990]

True blue Bears should’ve got themselves to fuck out of there they were not welcome......

[@JordZz1981]

wahhhh wahhhhh

[@duneideannaer5990]

Disorder 1889 aye, true but once yous left the grass started growing again, turning it into the beautiful place it is, was, and always will be, as long as the stench of the trench don’t fancy another try?

[@darrenbayliss2338]

@@Disorder1889 still is

[@BoogalooBoy]

Balls to invade another person's country, damn the brits.

[@rpm1796]

Shouts out to the "71st"...I was seconded from the PPCLI back in the day....They treated me like an ace and always made me feel at home.

[@rapier1954]

When are they in the interest of balanced reporting going to post videos of them physically abusing the local population.

[@rapier1954]

you can get an idea of it on this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y4isiWuprtlqaM0

[@davidharrison6615]

rapier1954 Farrell abusing terrorists or supporters of terrorists . always doing the right thing . god bless the British army .

[@rapier1954]

David Harrison The right thing would have been for the British to have stayed at home and minded their own business in the first place.

[@davidharrison6615]

rapier1954 Farrell but they are our property and therefore it is our business . its always a bad idea to rage against someone who owns you . it never turns out well .

[@rapier1954]

David Harrison It became your property after you took it by force from the Irish. So it is your property - your stolen property. We'll see how much longer it lasts. Given the demographics there will be a Nationalist majority in less than 15 years - BBC just said less than 2 weeks ago it could be as early as 2023. Then it may or may not be your property after that depending on how things go. If Brexit goes sour people will be itching to leave. At any rate, there will be changes.

[@angloaust1575]

Strange how troops were sent to Ulster but not rhodesia

[@doom1894]

Omg you can’t be serious you actually can’t be that dumb

[@angloaust1575]

@@doom1894 Maybe half should have gone there After all they helped us in ww2 with Pilots They were fighting against the Marxist threat

[@citizenfoffie7605]

@@angloaust1575 You had a apartheid regime and lost, get over it.

[@dumplingsbig1184]

@@citizenfoffie7605 apartheid is dutch for segregation. Yea rhodesia did have a segregation system (more or less) but support for rhodesia was massive amomg british citizens.

[@citizenfoffie7605]

@@dumplingsbig1184 The Anti-Apartheid Movement in the UK was massive, british citizens were not a fan of apartheid.

[@tommyroche9142]

Protecting the locals ??? WTF ??? 😂

[@MarkIRE1]

It's the definition of propaganda. Disgrace

[@danielf1313]

The original idea behind the deployment of the British Army was indeed to protect the locals and initially this was appreciated by both sides, Catholic’s included. Everything went south after 1972 and the Army was then seen as the enemy just like the RUC. As far as the Army was concerned, the official mission statement never changed especially in official communication. The reality of course was a bit different.

[@MarkIRE1]

@@paulnelson6277 you cannot be serious

[@paulnelson6277]

@@MarkIRE1 perfectly serious. If it wasn't for the Army, there would have been a lot more deaths.

[@ogrebattle22763]

@@danielf1313 The British Army were there to keep the Brit governments interests intact in Northern Ireland... they didn't give a fuck about the Catholic people that was a good propaganda feed by the Brit media... the PIRA just exploited it for what it was...

[@noelmoran5725]

Dá local, people suffered terrible from da brit soldiers

[@heli-crewhgs5285]

7:16 Lewis Collins?

[@geoffbaines7817]

You got to be very alert in that place

[@terrygraham696]

The British army at its best. Doing a thankless job surrounded by an invisible enemy who never dared to confront them one on one.

[@gladifly]

Miles Coleman - first of all the ira weren't a people's army, they were terrorists which most catholic men did not join with and secondly, the IRA surrendered their weapons and Northern Ireland remains British territory and now the republican cause is dead with only 20% of residents in Northern Ireland supporting a United Ireland even the majority of catholics want to remain British, LOL we well and truly smashed the IRA, god save the Queen!

[@whitedwarf13]

If you want to know what happened when the IRA actually fought their opponents head on, look no further than the story of Corporal Eric Glass - one part time middle aged UDR soldier armed only with a pistol beat back four Provos with automatic assault rifles, killing one, whilst heavily injured from their gunfire.

[@whitedwarf13]

it was never the objective of the British to defeat the IRA though, they only meant to suppress their violence to an acceptable level and allow a political solution to emerge. Mission accomplished. The IRA spoke of having forced a stalemate in their propaganda but they had taken their armed campaign as far as they could and they knew it.

[@whitedwarf13]

By the mid-1990s the Provisional IRA was having every good operation in Belfast compromised by informers and the UVF's war of attrition against them in rural Ulster was grinding them down further. No wonder they sued for peace. It's 2017 and Northern Ireland remains British. More than a few blades of grass I'd say...

[@whitedwarf13]

Shane Waley You don't answer to the first name Walter, last name Mitty by any chance?

[@888ssss]

i was attached to the ruc here and then worked with special branch in belfast on my 2nd tour. bandit country they called it.

[@jamesoneill1087]

Don’t fly your flag on the Dundalk do da do da day.

[@jackstrop8560]

the old farmer who lived alone ,yeah,jus him and his semtex

[@stephendoran2690]

Brits holed up hiding in their base, to scared the face the boys of the Glen!!!

[@dulls8475]

@@kev897 D and D Kev?

[@stephendoran2690]

@Unknown2234 Unknown every engagement really? Are you sure about this hhhmmmm

[@sataniccyanide6976]

@Unknown2234 Unknown lol the ira barely lost 200 security forces lost 900 keep telling yourself that

[@seanmccann8368]

Go on home english soldier go on home!

[@petertaylor6384]

400 yards sounds like a long way for accurate automatic fire hitting individuals.any soldiers here have experience of a scenario like this?

[@FormerVicePresidentDickVeiny]

My unit experienced an ambush in 2007 in the town of saqlawiyah Iraq. We took about 5 WIA I think. The after action had a PKC machine gun emplacement about 400 meters from our patrol. We had no idea where it was coming from when it went down though.

[@petertaylor6384]

@@FormerVicePresidentDickVeiny bloody hell.you are made of some steel to get through that.tgxnks for the reply and cap off to you

[@jacko717]

Possible, as in the other reply that mentions the PK, which as it's bipod mounted would give you a stable firing platform. Fully automatic fire from a hand held rifle/carbine less accurate at such a range imo, more suppressive fire or "spray and pray."

[@carterthiessen2664]

Probably wasn't automatic fire that did the damage. I'm guessing it was old one shot paddy, followed by bursts of fire.

[@angloaust1575]

Changing times instant news now if anything happens Cromwell never had the problem in the 1600s!

[@mikeoneil5770]

Ogláigh na h-eireann abu!

[@brianmcmanus7213]

Tiocfaidh Ar La, my dogs called SEMTEX.

[@stephendoran2690]

British army were totally ignored by the locals in the Glen, foreign occupiers on Irish land. The boys in the IRA made sure they hid in their watch towers

[@Lappy-uz9yt]

The guy in thumbnail looks half asleep 😂

[@jjrj8568]

I don't see any difference between Eire vs Northern Ireland and Croatia vs Serbia vs Bosnia/Herzegovina Shame of Europe.

[@MitzvosGolem1]

True insane hate killing over nothing. Let's pray no more wars. Shalom

[@kewlmanable]

What about all the Irish soldiers stationed in Britain??? All of the instability and deaths they've Caused. Why does that not ever get covered?!?!?!?!?!?!?

[@paulsaul7674]

Most of these poor guys are still on heavy medication, the ones that survived third is...

[@Daneclaw]

"Invaded Ireland" Mate, the English invaded the lords and tribes in Ireland WAAAAY before any of this even happened.

[@chrisfirth8610]

@p dot you never had a choice, if your unit was posted, you went where you were told

[@karlconnolly3994]

Can’t handle their guilt.

[@morgankelly4430]

Good, pricks deserve it

[@paulsaul7674]

@ASCALON self medicating

[@mxferro]

They have not the slightest clue as to proper face camo paint.

[@houstonburnside8985]

May Ireland be unified, under the Union Jack 🇬🇧

[@user-ol3wk2ds9m]

Fuck the queen

[@sexybeast6567]

🖕stick yur union Jack up yer ass ya fucking gobshite

[@paulkinsella6536]

Not a chance! Hell will freeze over first! I've nothing against the Queen personally but I'm not one of her subjects and never will be.

[@mrtbag2730]

I think we Irish would prefer to be citizens rather than anyone's subjects, but thanks for the offer all the same.

[@doom1894]

@@user-ol3wk2ds9m Sorry she married I don’t think she will fuck you

[@johnk1639]

Really pitiful conditions, surely they could have built something better.

[@tearitloosetearitloose4670]

Yeah.. A gas chamber.

[@shanef8728]

perfect conditions for rats!

[@ronancoyne1987]

Yes, something nicer for the Provos to bomb into smithereens.

[@seanmccann8368]

They could have stayed home in britain..

[@quillan7743]

🤣🤣😂

[@bohsgerry]

inti the town for a coupla pints of Churchill after the patrol...………..hahahaha yeah....not

[@quillan7743]

Peace ✌️🕊️ for all mankind but if you fuck with my farthers family it's on Saxon 😭

[@jamesoneill2933]

Ya see if I'm not mistaken, this same regiment probably these same borstal boys helping to hold down the victims , were involved in what became known, the pitchfork murders of two guys , Michael Naan and Andrew Murray. Sgt Stan Hathaway, Cpl Forrester Sgt Chestnut, Cpt Snowball,etc ,etc it went right up the ranks. Person's unknown were of course said to have been responsible, with heavy inference on loyalists. Only when one of the regiment listened to the Wearside Jack , bogus Yorkshire ripper tape , he was convinced it sounded like Hathaway, undeniably a Psychopath ,who he'd been on tour with , he went to the cops in Glasgow , probably looking a reward and was physically thrown out of two separate stations. Only for a Savvy journalist at a Glasgow newspaper it would , like so many hundreds of others, have ended at that. It seems at the beginning of the tour the entire platoon were shown Naans photo and details and that he was to be treated, appropriately, having earlier been involved in the civil rights movement. It went higher than Snowball of course but he was offered a non custodial, with pension in tact no doubt. If you look closely at these individuals you can tell the half of them are unhinged.

[@Drifty40]

Thankyou for your service and bravery in the face of Republican terrorism gentlemen. Truly brave men, who wore a uniform and saved many from Irish republican atrocities. Thankyou ! 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇱

[@MBobo18]

Thank you to the brave men of Crossmaglen 🇮🇪

[@Drifty40]

@@MBobo18 Brave men of Crossmaglen, who murdered women and children in their indiscriminate bombing campaign.......and a group who are responsible for the deaths of more of the catholic community than the RUC and British army combined. Men who couldnt stand up and fight in a uniform, but, plant bombs and run away. Nothing brave about them ! No better than ISIS ! If you search for IRA sex offenders, you'll discover more about the scumbags in the organisation. 🤡

[@MiloManning05]

🇮🇪☘️

[@robbiedev2141]

And you dare to call me a terrorist, while you look down your gun? Most right minded people on the island of Ireland would much prefer to talk of peace and reconciliation instead of reading sectarian bullshit. I’d like to think that we can all agree with the fact that there were wrongs and atrocities inflicted and carried out by both sides of the divide. How can our children and future generations truly live in peace if we continue to live in the past? History (the good and the bad) should never be rewritten/altered or forgotten and it should be taught in our school’s curriculum without bias or sectarianism.

[@Drifty40]

@@robbiedev2141 . Of course soldiers look down the barrel of a gun....someone has to fight back against terrorism, it's the same with virtually every military in the world.

[@pj5517]

You can see my Granny's house

[@leggie65]

British still have soldiers in Ulster the Provos don't exist so who's undefeated. 🇬🇧

[@clintfalk]

From Ireland? From Scotland you ignorant git!

[@leggie65]

DoubleEszpresszo go look for info on settlers in the appalachian mountains in the US not just 1 mob people persecuted for religious beliefs Scots and many Irish settled here.

[@jacksynth271]

Leggie Indeed and your Ulster-Scots set up the KKK

[@jacksynth271]

Jay I was just using a term that the planters use, they usually refer themselves as Ulster-Scots or British. You should try telling them that they're Irish. I think you'll find it's the loyalists that are ignorant of the history and geography of these islands.

[@Jie67]

LEGGIEYTPOWERY we just leaving out the rest of the Island?

[@CARLIN4737]

I was RRF 1994.

[@bwkid1]

I hated doing the run from the camp gate to baruky Sanger. It was an evil town, the hate was bred into them. I had my first contact just outside the town many years ago. The terrorists laid so many IEDs the Army stopped sending any vehicles near the area in the late 70s or early 80s. Then we did the first vehicle partial round the town in 90 I think it was. The locals couldn't believe what they were seeing. They just stood open mouthed.

[@PaddyjCampbell]

Can you blame them?

[@shanef8728]

Lol 'the hate was bred into them'! Wtf did you expect?? The locals to throw petals into your path perhaps as you menacingly patrolled THEIR town in unwelcome ugly army vehicles! Fuckin clown!

[@gerrykeatings1309]

It wasn't hate it was the love of freedom.

[@charlesbukowski9836]

hate kept them warm!

[@johnnyjumpup859]

Warren point was such a bee A ..U tiful thing ...18 nil

[@philmulrooney7020]

Freedom is never free

[@drumnykerne1]

Grateful thanks to those soldiers.

[@cianw2942]

Peepoday grateful that they murdereds civilians?

[@michaelahern9883]

Peepoday For what ?????

[@michaelahern9883]

David Harrison what about collusion in the 80s and all the innocents that died on the pretext of double agents ...were they vermin too....every fenian was guilty regardless of his backround ?

[@davidharrison6615]

Michael Ahern well done your learning . anyone who is not my friend is my enemy. people get hurt when you shelter or support terrorists .

[@michaelahern9883]

David Harrison A lot of the informatiin wasn't true....innocent people ....i'm learrning ... what am i learning ?

[@metallitech]

Does anyone know why the UK didn't keep The Pale?

[@johnwachowicz1966]

Hadn’t been colonised by the Ulster plantations, was overwhelmingly RC

[@killercd7682]

Brave and amazing soldiers!

[@tonykiely3164]

Hell bound tramps please god most of them have committed suicide when they were fucked to the kerb by the government that called them heroes until they were no longer up to the job and left with no income it amazes me how the thick as fuck Britain's can't see they are being used in the army by hateful politicians who would not even have a fist fight for their queen never mind a battle with bombs and guns going off everywhere and all the politicians have to say is your so brave your country thanks you 🤣🤣🤣. And the fucking stupid fools getting bullets shot at them think they are heroes then imagine joining the army at 19 and getting killed and throwing your 1 life away for the likes of borris Johnson and he sitting in his plush home eating lobster and caviar getting a bj off his clearly drugged missus and when he is finished go on twitter and say heroes 1 and all I've a poppy on my coat for you now off you go to be killed for me and my privileged colleagues its astounding how fucking needy and stupid these brave heroes really are 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤣🤣🤣

[@laurencefarrell2775]

cowards killing civilians brits out

[@LibertarianLibrarian1776]

7:38 "imma island boi"

[@patrickohare1681]

Brits are out now stay out

[@revolutionaryspirit4491]

Yeah, apart from the majority of people who live in Ulster see themselves as British.

[@jamesoneill1087]

@Revolutionary spirit I sense that your unaware of how NI came into existence. The Island country of Ireland was partitioned against the expressed wishes of the vast majority of the proper people. Following a mutiny by the British army and is viewed by many worldwide as an illegal and immoral entity.

[@piper0189]

@@revolutionaryspirit4491 really are they out??? Palace barracks Therpial barracks Moscow camp Ballykinler Magillian Not including the various army reserve centers

[@stevebailey6403]

8.15 Not his first day .

[@Mattyuk1]

The Scottish pretty much pushed the Irish around. I’m English living in Northern Ireland. You can hear that droning Scottish/Irish accent. People in Donegal are much better people.

[@leesusphinx7857]

fuckup

[@jamesoneill1087]

@ Mathew Mathews. Exactly , the planters were for the best part a criminal class, cattle and sheep rustlers many of whom could not speak English in a way that someone in let’s say London would recognize they were viewed as undesirables and sending them to Ireland was seen as killing two birds with the one stone, removing a criminal class population and giving them a landlord status in return ,cooperation in subjugating the natives and if you study them I’m confident you will agree that evolution has passed them by.

[@matthewedgeworth4509]

fuck off back to england then

[@allybally0021]

So you invite yourself to Northern Ireland....complain about all the people there...and are now thinking of inviting yourself to the republic. You are a wanker....a total wanker.

[@allybally0021]

@@jamesoneill1087 He is trolling you......or did you not notice?

[@sunrayisdown1690]

Why are Scottish troops always officered by English officers? Are colonial troops now ?

[@rikkivet3407]

Look up how officers work in the army I’ve had plenty of Scottish officers it’s called the British army.

[@thomasweir2834]

Slab Murphy was all over these poor buggers.

[@JammyDodger45]

He was all over any man that would have him. The big tough head of the IRA was so into schlong he made Freddie Mercury look like a womaniser!

[@thomasweir2834]

@@JammyDodger45 🤣 👍

[@neilwillis9113]

Worst case scenario fighting irish living with scottish i likthe welsh very funny😊

[@shanef8728]

I was wondering how long it would take him to refer to the IRA as 'terrorists' in his best plummy accent!

[@Irish-Gael-sg4lv]

Reminds of Russian media calling Ukrainians N*zis. Pompous evil invading scum is all they were, everyone involved from Broatiah government to media puppets

[@jackstrop8560]

it looks like a gay niteclub

[@loyalloyal4442]

2 para well done 👏👏👏👏

[@tugadmundo]

" give the island back to the Irish "

[@johnkane2128]

Thts wat should happen thers no legal way around..it a union tht was signed in 1805 ffs thy gav every where else back...

[@paulquigley9603]

nice one brother 😍

[@johnkane2128]

So how Cum were the only 1s still occupied.. til this day cos thers more infertrators the thn natives 2vote the brits out..thts fcked up shit...

[@doom1894]

Ireland and Northern Ireland has never been joined even before the English got there

[@lindahughes4409]

XMG should have been in the free state when the boundary commission was formed so this Should nt have happen

[@j_f_kyoushallnotbeforgotte2191]

Scottish army in Ireland

[@NoycieBrv]

Derry 1968 British keeping the peace

[@stevem4330]

@@bealfeirste2056 Wanker hahaha

[@matthewb606]

Ian Campbell wankers

[@mickharrison9004]

Did you not know Scotland is part of Britain, its the British army ffs yank.

[@northwalesmod]

9.11

[@cheiftain732]

Like a harry enfield sketch . Up the boys

[@tomthekat2826]

POTATOE

[@bohsgerry]

thick Brit...….of the narrow water variety now munch that

[@raleighburner1589]

@@bohsgerry nice love from cork

[@jdcoffey6]

@@raleighburner1589 I think swett shit his pants

[@gooner72]

Ulster is and always will be British. 🇬🇧✌️

[@AgonafirBanjaw]

What sort of "journalism" is this?!

[@contactacb]

It isn't - whilst it's an AP film that's the voice of Douglas Cameron, a voice over artist used a lot in the 1970's as a training film v/o artist and TV continuity announcer for the BBC who also wrote and directed many of the training/promotional films he voiced too. More a promotional film than journalism

[@AgonafirBanjaw]

@@contactacb I live in a country that year on year bottomed in the free speech index, where journalists are severely prosecuted. The government media (just the régime's mouthpiece) do not even produce such reports.

[@dufmor]

A traditional Irish sceen.....?

[@mlindsey2956]

Brits Out, simple as that 🇮🇪

[@michelob81]

the surrender in Iraq was probably the most profound. when the British army arranged a meeting with the fighters in Mosul and said we will no longer patrol and will pull all our troops out if you agree to no longer attack us. that should have been the wake up call. British soldiers still say they were in Afghanistan. you weren't. you were in one small part called helmand. a joke to the local Taliban and constantly saved by american forces before once again surrendering. enjoy videos like this. this was your heyday. you know it and i know it

[@josephmarsh454]

michelob81 and the Provo’s where on the verge of defeat when they signed the peace treaty. They where riddled with spies you know it and I know. You’re wrong it was basra not Mosul get your facts right, we defeated saddam. No you’re wrong the Americans never saved us in Basra it was the Iraqis who took over. We never surrendered in Afghanistan again wrong shut up you keyboard warrior coward . There have been mistakes in Iraq war thats nothing to do with British soldiers, it’s spineless politicians not giving enough resources or having the will for a fight. Learn the facts and truth before you shout your mouth off behind a keyboard spouting antibritish shit

[@d-rob5513]

Must be amazing being the worlds saviour ? Any one remember that small action called the Vietnam war ? how did that end again for you ? USA USA 😂😂 oh and by the way I served 12 years in 3 PARA and served with the American military a lot . So keep safe keyboard warrior 👌🏻

[@michelob81]

@@josephmarsh454 Only seeing this now. We defeated Saddam. You're hilarious.

[@northwalesmod]

9.11

[@geraldfahey2681]

@@d-rob5513 we killed a lot more nva and vc than they killed US troops...they were chopping little kids hands off someone had to intervene

[@McShag420]

and people from that whole mess of islands call the US fucked up......

[@eliyahum4285]

Ulster staying British was th best thing for Ireland. The British had turned it into a bankrupt welfare state. Ireland wouldn't of been able to support the population on its own.

[@Manasses1961]

Spoken like a true zionist. Ireland has survived for Thousands of years, and under usurpation. We will survive longer than you would ever wish for.

[@cianw2942]

Eliyahu M Ulster and Northern Ireland are two different things you ignorant twat. 3 counties are in the Republic. So Ulster is NOT British.

[@rapier1954]

3 counties of Ulster have never been part of NI but the part they have controlled is now basically a welfare state.

[@rapier1954]

Whisper it, but the Irish economy is booming again, with unemployment expected to dip below 5.5pc this year and GDP forecast to grow by around 4pc. With the recovery come challenges. Housing remains a considerable problem the Government must tackle, while many experts have also warned of the risk of overheating. Brexit also looms large. Five prominent economists give their take on 2018. www.independent.ie/business/irish/the-economy-in-2018-the-expert-view-36456511.html You can read here what 5 leading economists have to say. Or let me save you the bother by telling you the bottom line. You are full of shit. The Irish economy presently is outperforming the UK economy but that wouldn't be hard. Just wait for the consequences of the likely no deal Brexit to kick in and you learn what it is to live in a failed economy. Maybe you can do what you did in 1973 and go to the IMF for a bailout.

[@rapier1954]

IMF says UK has a debt that is 87.02% of GDP while Ireland's is only 68.52% en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_public_debt So the UK isn't exactly the land of milk and honey is it ?????????????

[@Sean-sn9ld]

Never have I once heard one of these videos even mention the loyalist paramilitaries.... And they always lump every nationalist paramilitary in with the Provisionals... Really weird imo

[@user-ze8yy8jg1f]

That's the British tactic blame pub bombing on the provisionals even tho they were never ordered to blow up pubs. There bombing campaign was hitting mainland Britain and Europe why tf would they target pubs. Its all propaganda

[@zombie6364]

they call us terrorists LMFAO

[@CuchulainAD]

All planned and orchestrated