Air Force Afghanistan E01 (2009)
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- čas přidán 9. 08. 2020
- There are emotional scenes tonight at RAF Honington. The Air Force WAGs say goodbye to their men, who are leaving for a tour of duty guarding Kandahar air base in Afghanistan.
But whether the girls left at home will be reassured by this new documentary series about life at Kandahar is doubtful - now not only do they have the Taliban to worry about, there’s the Thai massage parlour on the base to occupy their waking thoughts.
When one of the new arrivals describes the surprisingly well-equipped Kandahar as being like a summer camp, he’s right in some respects.
There’s American football, ice hockey (without the ice), a pizza bar that’s open till 2am and a weekly market where you can go to be ripped off by the locals.
In fact, everything about this series - from Dexter Fletcher’s jokey, blokey voiceover to a lengthy report on Kandahar’s Strongest Man contest - seems designed to distract us from the serious purpose of the troops’ presence.
But all those jets, bombers and unmanned reconnaissance planes on the base aren’t simply elaborate fairground rides, and occasionally the war is allowed to intrude on proceedings. As the new boys make their first, nervous mission outside the wire, pilot Richard Hillard takes to the air in a Harrier GR9 jump jet laden with rockets and bombs weighing over 2,000lb.
His mission is to take some aerial photos - until he gets a call that the ground troops are under attack... - Hry
Mate I have been looking for this documentary for years and years. Today I wasnt even looking for it and it popped up thank you so much.
Same I remember it being shown under a different name though I believe it was “warzone” on channel 5
240p tho :/
Same! Reminds me of being a kid
This was a weird time growing up as a kid seeing these documentaries on the telly all the time treating war like a reality show
The generator they talk about 3.25 got to the dam but never installed again says it all about the mission
Is it just a coincident, the colours displayed are those of Ukraine. That’s really strange but thankfully appropriate to show support for those brave men and women of the Ukraine armed forces.
Yes as this was 2009
I've been looking for this for years. I kept typing in 'Kandahar' and it didn't come up.
Those old Harrier jets have now been retired and replaced by the US-built F-35B (the short takeoff/ vertical landing version of the F-35).
I was thinking that, never realised the Harrier was such a old plane , shame Britain never brought out a next Gen model instead of buying the F35 from USA
All variants of the F-35 are STOVL/VTOL capable
Tri-star Timmy - respect….
Afghans call the jets “Gods Wrath” and they are genuinely hard to scare lol
No malice to the once great empire but now they also call the withdrawal of these troops “gods true victory”! In the end “superior faith” wins !
Now it’s airforce Taliban
I don't think so.
wow whee wonderful
Short Range Desert Group, stand by, stand by, incoming!
nice just sad 240p
Hats
Shame about the ally berets…
To bad we in America let you all down.
Only the orange man, you civilians are ok! 😉👍
And pretty good shots by all accounts from the QM who took in their body armours after the "battle of bastion"
You are clearly projecting your own insecurities, and lack of personal achievements.
For thr record, I have friends that almost died that day, where shot multiple times that day. And a friend that killed talaban that day. It was the raf regiment that helped cleared the attacking talaban out the us flight lines. You simply don't know your talking about.
@@Arborist5851 well said , per Ardua!
An utter failure, an utter waste. What would a competent Roman General have done?
Probably murder their Caeser!
Is this a Parody?
its a comedy ... no wonder they lost ...
Remember Rich Bollard from the vid with Julia Bradbury where he tried out for the Reds, wonder if he's still married to that hottie female jet jockey? Looks like he got his Sqn Ldr's for not getting on the team and a move to Harrier.
You can't remember him that much pal, his name's Rich 'bolly' Hillard!
@@keithpringle3940 Nah nah it was Hillbilly Richard
@@csh5414 Ha ha was it! The narrator's been fed the pc nickname of hillbilly's choice then for the telly! He'd of been missing his slk convertible being out there! I'm watching part 2 just now actually!!
@@keithpringle3940 lol, no part 2 for me..it’s a different world from the what Army did out there. I am finding it embarrassing to watch.
@@csh5414 I'm a former rlc blanket stacker but I was long out by then, my old man and my uncle are both ex crabs and my youngest brothers still in! I call them blomonge bodies, then they just come back with the we check in and you Mongs dig in patter! I was particularly unimpressed with the rock apes sgt and his shit shaped beret and need of a haircut!!
what a movie, can you Imagine in this role for Russia. what hippocrates media says
What has happened to the British Army beret forfolks sake!!! Only Royal Marines wear the beret correctly.
These aren’t British Army so what’s your point….
Thai massage parlour wtf
I thought that they probably make a lot of money for.thdm.with happy ending
@@tobiasgriffin4263 you need it ….
Little extra money for a little extra.
I can confirm there definitely is some weird stuff happening at these parlours on American-led bases.
I know some in the modern day Regiment will criticize my comment but had we taken out the hard backing behind the cap badge you were made to purchase a new one and warned about defacing government property. Now it seem some make their own style. Old fashioned I may be but it looks like the badge is hanging off the beret, not a good example from a SNCO.
Someone should show the air com how to wear a beret
That sgts beret looks fucking ridiculous.
No more different than some army berets, particularly the Paras, Rifles and others.
@@davidhumphreys7035 seriously? It’s not folded over properly, it looks as if it’s been squashed down. No beret in the Army I’ve ever seen looks as ridiculous at that, and that’s including the peaked berets of the Para’s and the wannabe Para’s!
@@davidhumphreys7035 akin to the shameful berets worn by the UN detachment in Mali!
@@ChrisKlein0 they're called forage caps.
@@samgarrod4781 no they’re not. The parachute regiment don’t wear forage caps. They do however shape their beret into a peak, a throwback from fighting in the desert many years ago to keep the sun out of their eyes. No issue with Para’s doing it as it’s their heritage, however when you get RLC or REME bods attempting it with their maroon lids it snaps me, mainly because they don’t do it properly and it looks shit.
Ration packs ???? I thought the RAF got hampers.
is this a British Mockumentary? hilarious.
Well they lost and the taliban won so think that says everything. Now a just a waste land of dust the base is.
To think they all got the same campaign medals as us frontline guys!
RAF Regt personnel were killed and injured fighting in Afghan and iraq and so do deserve the same campaign medals as you.
it’s a campaign medal so did the other personnel obtain it while working within the wire
I was one of the first British guys in the south. Air Force medic. I did the med recce with two other airforce personnel all over the south. Apart from UKSF I didn’t see any British Army on the ground until midway through 2005. 39 Engineer Reg were good lads. They did KAF infrastructure upgrades for the harriers that deployed. I deployed on op dittany a year before anyone did a Hedrick tour. Kandahar sangin Tarin kowt and spin baldok with the Aussies. Hardly behind the wire. And bastion didn’t even exist at that time .
You didn’t anything special you just did your job and you got a medal for doing your job, like all of us who were there.
@@gfield1607 well I supplied healthcare and vaccinations to hundreds of Afghan civilians and well as saving the lives of several afghan and coalition soldiers. Not to mention I helped provide security along with thousands of other servicemen and women to the first free elections in Afghanistan in almost a quarter of a century. Apart from that I didn’t do much or anything special.
Fence walkers
That’s funny cos on herrick 14 is was an army regiment who was guarding the cook house and the fence
Battle of bastion 😂
Why are you laughing about an attack into the USMC section of camp that resulted in US deaths?
Are you pro-Taliban?
pushed back in a month
chew on that nato
chocolate soldiers hiding within bastion telling each other war stories.
You obviously served?
dont worry they wont be anywhere near danger
I remember friends dying, being wounded, i remember running over IEDs i remember them trying to hit us with VBIEDs, it's afghanistan why do you think we wont be anywhere near danger?? or are you trying to say, you are a real war hero, you are a real man lol
@@Arborist5851 he's a nobody. Hasn't got a clue. True the RAF Regt Squadrons take the piss with shite berets but they certainly do go outside the wire. Shame that gobshite walts such as Patrick here hasn't got a clue.
Getting a hot coffee spilt over you at Starbucks is not to be sniffed at 😁
5 seconds on Google i found this freedom of information requests covering a small part of the war between 2005 and 2008
"I am treating your correspondence as requests for information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 (FOIA). We have now completed a search of our electronic records for the information you requested and I can confirm that some information within the scope of your request is held."
"Between 1 January 2005 and 31 December 2008 two members of the RAF Regiment were killed in Afghanistan. Both lost their lives as a result of hostile action. Over the same period, 43 members of the RAF Regiment were casualties. Of those nine were battle related whilst 34 were non battle related."
You are disrespecting my frends that died in Afghanistan, to make yourself feel superior.
As a civilian I think u are a complete bellend to disrespect these lads, especially since they lost soldiers in afgan. If they were not doing airfield protection the army would take the role and nobody would say shit about it.
😂😂😂😂 the raf reg 😂😂😂😂😂. That’s all folks 😂😂😂