DL021 From United States of America, joined May 2004, 11435 posts, RR: 81 Posted (7 years 11 months 3 weeks 3 days 9 hours ago) and read 1947 times:
Since they had difficulty in getting enough USO and British equiv. acts to come down there they made their own album. Here's their first video with a nice cover of "Road to Amarillo".
DL021 From United States of America, joined May 2004, 11435 posts, RR: 81 Reply 2, posted (7 years 11 months 3 weeks 3 days 9 hours ago) and read 1935 times:
Vulindlela From Germany, joined Apr 2002, 468 posts, RR: 1 Reply 3, posted (7 years 11 months 3 weeks 3 days 9 hours ago) and read 1929 times:
Thanks-I actually saw that a while ago. I liked the one on Bigboys.com where the Norwegians (I think) made a parody of the Beach Boys "Kokomo" into "Kosovo"
-kevin
"If you take everything I've accomplished in my entire life and condense it down into 1 day, it looks decent!"
Jetjack74 From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 7338 posts, RR: 52 Reply 11, posted (7 years 11 months 3 weeks 3 days 4 hours ago) and read 1821 times:
A riot. The two guys in the porto-loo's was a scream. Now, it's up to the US Army o top that one. Either that or the Aussie's
L-188 From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 29367 posts, RR: 61 Reply 12, posted (7 years 11 months 3 weeks 3 days 3 hours ago) and read 1808 times:
Quoting Jetjack74 (Reply 11): Now, it's up to the US Army o top that one.
The Brass would never go for it.
Hell it took Eisenhower's intervention to keep Patton from busting Bill Mauldin.
OBAMA-WORST PRESIDENT EVER....Even SKOORB would be better.
L-188 From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 29367 posts, RR: 61 Reply 13, posted (7 years 11 months 3 weeks 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 1803 times:
Oh and what is it with the British Army and music videos?
DL021 From United States of America, joined May 2004, 11435 posts, RR: 81 Reply 14, posted (7 years 11 months 3 weeks 2 days 6 hours ago) and read 1737 times:
I just watched it again.....and its even better the second time. Its like a movie where you see stuff you missed the first time.
Look at the guy with the short G-36...that's gotta be a RM Cdo. The two squaddies dressed as Bedouins.... this is a classic. They had to rehearse and stage the whole thing.
MD11Engineer From Germany, joined Oct 2003, 13369 posts, RR: 64 Reply 15, posted (7 years 11 months 3 weeks 2 days 5 hours ago) and read 1730 times:
They had all branches in there, RAMC (Royal Army Medical Corps), REME (Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, the guys in the motorpool with the torque wrenches), RASC (Royal Army Service Corps, the guys with the jerrycans and the vegetable boxes in front of the freezer containers), and even a bloke with an AK.
The other one L-188 posted seems to have been footage of a f*cked up RM exercise, where they tried to impress a girl, who was taping it (you can hear here giggle) and ended up in two feet of mud...
DL021 From United States of America, joined May 2004, 11435 posts, RR: 81 Reply 16, posted (7 years 11 months 3 weeks 2 days 5 hours ago) and read 1727 times:
It was the guys with the AK and the G-36.....neither of which are standard issue anywhere in the regular forces that make me think this is a RM motor pool/base
DL021 From United States of America, joined May 2004, 11435 posts, RR: 81 Reply 18, posted (7 years 11 months 3 weeks 2 days 5 hours ago) and read 1720 times:
Jan,
I saw no armour vehicles in the motor pool, more I saw Rovers and a piece of light arty. How are you certain? Not really challenging you as much as trying look for the clues.
MD11Engineer From Germany, joined Oct 2003, 13369 posts, RR: 64 Reply 19, posted (7 years 11 months 3 weeks 2 days 5 hours ago) and read 1715 times:
I got this information from the British army site I mentioned to you. Some guys on the site know the guys who made the movie. BTW, the site got overrun after this clip came out. It also overloaded the serves at the British MOD
Clipperhawaii From United States of America, joined Dec 1999, 2033 posts, RR: 13 Reply 20, posted (7 years 11 months 3 weeks 2 days 5 hours ago) and read 1715 times:
If the U.S. military did something like this I wonder how many of you would still say "thanks for sharing", " ", "hahah", i"t's great", etc...?
You would be calling them insensitive, arrogant, racist, time wasting, and the like.
Hypocrites some of you are. And yes, yes, it was a great video too!
Jetjack74 From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 7338 posts, RR: 52 Reply 21, posted (7 years 11 months 3 weeks 2 days 4 hours ago) and read 1694 times:
Quoting L-188 (Reply 12): The Brass would never go for it
The ACLU would be all over it, while the press would turn it into another Abu Ghraib.
Clipperhawaii From United States of America, joined Dec 1999, 2033 posts, RR: 13 Reply 23, posted (7 years 11 months 3 weeks 2 days 3 hours ago) and read 1682 times:
I call it as I see it Aloges. I call it as I see it. So if and when the U.S. Military comes out with an equally humorous video I will look for you to say "Great! Thanks for sharing." I'll be watching but I wont hold my breath.
GDB From United Kingdom, joined May 2001, 12735 posts, RR: 79 Reply 24, posted (7 years 11 months 3 weeks 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 1657 times:
You have to see it in the context of how that song was used in the UK, fronted by a well liked comedian (Peter Kay), in a video for the annual Comic Relief charity effort, it was a piss take of that, that lead guy in the Army video was chosen as he most closely resembled Peter Kay.
The Army top brass thought it funny, as did both Kay and Tony Christie, who sung the song back in the 70's and for the Peter Kay video this year.
You must also remember that the sort of pounding music, air punching rallying that you sometimes see from the US forces, (remember that Admiral as Iraq started up "It's hammer time"), is really seen as vulgar, simplistic and frankly rather disturbing over here.
One way of seeing this difference was in the nose art on aircraft in the 1991 Gulf War, not many US aircraft had any, those that did were mostly beautifully rendered Eagles, flags etc, the more numerous RAF nose art were mostly of cartoon characters from the popular adult satirical comic 'Viz', such as 'The Fat Slags', 'Buster Gonad And His Unfeasibly Large Testicles', 'Johnny Fartpants', as well as some stylized ladies, which a few USAF aircraft also had.
Jan, RASC was replaced by ROAC in the 60's, since the early 90's much of the Army transport/logistics effort now comes under a single Royal Logistic Corps regiment.
L-188, whatever you do, don't tell any Royal Marine he is part of the Army!
25 MD11Engineer: GDB, I knew that back in WW2 there existed the Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC, responsible for ammo supply etc.) and the Royal Army Service Corps (RA
26 VS74741R: Actually they were 29 Commando Royal Artillery (Army unit attached to 3 Commando Brigade) who tried to copy the Royal marines which didn't quite work
27 MD11Engineer: I though I heard a woman giggling in the background. Did you tape it? Jan
28 VS74741R: funnily enough my girlfriend said just a few days ago that I have a girls laugh! I would have loved to be there as a marine but Im short sighted so i
29 GDB: Jan, yep, the RCT, RAOC and maybe some smaller formations, all now under the RLC. Since the early 90's.
30 Garnetpalmetto: Those insensitive arrogant Americans! THIS is why Iraq is so screwed up and there are so many civilian deaths - they're singing and dancing instead of
31 BHXFAOTIPYYC: Good luck to them. Morale is very important. Remember, most political correctness isn't from Arabs or Muslims, its from stupid white people who THINK
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