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This is so sad with the benefit of hindsight. As I write this, the Taliban are back in control of Afghanistan and these lads risked, even lost, their lives for very little.

Wow, the talk on the subject of dying in war seems awfully skimpy. I hope it was edited and there's a bit more to it than that!

Why am I being tested over and over again? He was in fact a good grandfather, after learning a thing or two about PTSD and flashbacks. He was not a mysoginistic one. As a kid I didn't understood what triggered him. He made us things to play with, and he was still under the trauma...he bearly had a childhood. When he would find a toy thrown away, he'd give it to me.

Biggest joke here was the boss saying about deploying to afgan 😂😂😂 been in 9 years and not 1 deployment

Captain Christopher Pike was the first commander of the Enterprise (that we know about).

i got rejected a few years ago for being asthmatic i was gutted still am

Rule Britannia

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When I got out of training, in the US Army, I had 3 weeks, just 21 days before I was going to Iraq for, at the very least, a year. I WISH my deployments had only been 6 months

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The spouse is on their own, like a single mom...don't forget this

They had to stop using the word "Oscar" which is why they just became known as "Gotchas". I'm guessing that's why "Oscar" became "Award" at 2m 10s

I never realized Saturday Night Clive was on TVNZ 1

Locker lay out 10:45. Back in Winchester, that would land you in a world of crap. Very low standards.

Ashleys mom thinks she was in the army lol

This aged well. We left Astan in a shit state of affairs. We lost all for what ?! Sweet fuck all.

I don’t recall catterick being so relaxed 😂

They are so brave, they are so young and in war time its a massive desicion to make

That poor lad is so haunted by what happened to his brother its really holding him back

Where part 4 please

20 years in Afghanistan, all that blood, treasure and lives wasted for nothing

probably the best thing i have seen the bbc produce in decades, this is reality and this is what the public should be shown, not the x factor and all the crap that is on tv. i served with the devon and dorsets before the amalgamation, it was sad when it happened but seeing this means it's still going on, hopefully the lads will go far.

I will like to join British army And become military police How can I join

23:46 what a complete waste of time retraining a reservist who’s already deployed to Afghanistan 🤦‍♂️

8:58 my goodness what a pathetic effeminate father. No wonder his son couldn’t wait to leave home.

The British Army is the strongest Army in the whole world. They have aircraft carriers and can reach in a few hours all points

This was the biggest load of crap on a Saturday night, total rubbish

as rough and tough it may seem, and officers go through similar hard training, it is why the British army overcame the Argentine army in 1982 some 8,000 miles from home

Mr Blobby appeared in the next series

Need episode 4

Whitley was a dead cert for the tank he took it in good stride!

The basic recruit training, as shown here (in general), is much more laid back than the same training in the U.S.

Frontline after only 12 weeks training is madness. Its a war of govrnmt. Vs gvmt.

Yes for the job these guys do and the danger they face, they get paid too little while athletes are multimillionaires. Same with the government, they are very rich and they can decide what war they will interfere in and get these guys potentially killed or injured or in bad way mentally. Same with police and firefighters any rescue workers, they all paid next to nothing to die, while the people that do nothing are rich and safe

Nice ending I love it my heroes

I've always wanted to join but being a fat wee dick has put me off Iam 6ft and weigh around 115kg but am fairly muscular can anyone give me advice ? Must be only man in UK hoping for conscription

God bless those boys, just watched a NZ video about the start of their soldiers, no idea how i found this channel, hello from Peterborough Ontario Canada

I was a nine year old boy when my old man was first deployed, ten years old for the second deployment and eleven for his third, to the war in Viet Nam. I joined up when I was fifteen and a half. I understand, only too much, what these lads and their families went through. My great grand dad served in the AIF in WWI, my grand dad in the RAAF in WW2 my dad in Viet Nam, me in the "Cold War". Now, in my seventh decade on this rock, I understand the futility of war, the harm it causes to families, to friends to communities and to countries, no matter to whom what community or country one belongs. And so it continues ad infinitum. War is a crime against humanity.

I can't help but feel that ashleighs dad got into his head a bit

Lees mum is a milf

I'm watching a British program in England and the subtitles are American English . ?

This whining father is a real WUS What an idiot - ruined his sons life cuz he’s SCARED…smh It’s spelled EMBARRASSING

Given the Channel 2 ident at the start of the video, this looks like it was taped in NZ.

Wonder what they are doing now fab documentary

Wow what awesome parents

13 years later, The people who dropped out were the lucky ones.

The music at the end of this episode where they are shipping out/ mums are at home really makes you think. Starts around 53:26

Don't understand the need to swear all the time and shout.

How i got threw basic training in the early 90s without a mobile phone and phoning home maybe once a week ill never know.

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