Comments by "Jammy Dodger" (@JammyDodger45) on "Ranger Regiment: What it means to be part of the elite infantry unit" video.

  1. It's worse than that. The original units had a war fighting role and capability. The Ranger Regiment doesn't. So we're down on Infantry capacity.
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  2.  @dmid1274  - you're absolutely clueless if you think ITC is even close to CTCRM. I was part of the Defence Training Review team which visited CTCRM & ITC(C) and I assure you the differences and standards are myriad and wide.
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  3. You can't make a Regiment elite 😂
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  4. Beautiful work CJ, you know that's going over 99.9% of readers heads!
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  5. 😂 nice try 🎣
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  6.  @dazza7999  - no it isn't. The course is run in an entirely different manner to ITC for the lesser Regts. Put the 2 programmes together, read them, and then come back and comment. When you do how about you also tell me how many lads fail Depot Para and go Line Regt V how many lads fail ITC and go Depot Para?
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  7.  @SugarRayValentine  - the Paras don't do the same course, it has significant differences in attitude, tempo and approach.
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  8. Why? They're a pointless PR exercise not a fighting unit.
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  9.  @ancientmachine9070  - your post is nonsense. You need to take the BFA off to clean the barrel anyway, why would you be cleaning gas parts with a BFA on?
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  10. It wouldn't be a challenge. Just a waste of time.
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  11. It was never SF and will never be elite infantry.
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  12. Except they don't do any press ups, running or carrying.
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  13. No. RMC and Paras are warfighters. This is international PR work.
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  14.  @ancientmachine9070  - of course you clean the barrel when you use blanks! Where has all that carbon that dirties the gas parts travelled along? Have you actually ever fired a weapon?
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  15.  @TheCCBoi  the berets are completely different colours.
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  16.  @dand6520  - no it isn't. The UK doesn't 'Tier' it's units, that's a US SOCOM categorization. Nor do we have Special Operations units, we have the renamed Special Operations Brigade which is what the Rangers are part of but it's a naming exercise not an upskilling.
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  17.  @ancientmachine9070  - no you don't.
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  18.  @adamatch9624  - and? That doesn't make them elite in any way at all.
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  19.  @TheCCBoi  - Was is the key word here buddy. Something's gone wrong since if you can't distinguish tan from grey, maybe take your RayBans off and have another look. 😁
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  20. At best 10% of those lads would pass the All Arms Commando Course!
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  21.  @SugarRayValentine  - what would you know about being 'elite'? You're basic Infantry with about 15mins experience.
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  22. Rangers aren't a war fighting unit so it would be a figurative bloodbath ... and probably a literal one in the bar later.
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  23.  @mattiep2505  - that shows how little I know, although tbf it was about a decade ago that I worked with them so the change must have already happened.
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  24. SJ - no you aren't you cockwomble.
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  25. Did you misspell Eat as Elite?
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  26.  @Ry43deck  - 🙄 what do you think Tiering relates to?
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  27.  @andyt3304  - no, that's SERCO. I'm thinking of their Mobile Catering Support Unit which is 💯
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  28. Well everyone was a civilian before they joined!
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  29. It's isn't 'copied', it's a pure coincidence that a senior army officer put the design forward and didn't know of the resemblance. 😳
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  30. @Goat - that makes no sense. There isn't 'lost manpower shortfall' as none of those battalions were at full strength. I am not in the Army so this is pure speculation but the ORBAT of a Ranger unit is not the same as a Spec Inf unit so we're defacto down on deployable warfighting capability.
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  31. @Goat - ah now I get you, thanks for the added detail.
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  32. Because literally 1/2 of the Trifles are utter 🐕💩
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  33.  @mattiep2505 - I don't think it ever existed. Surely the Duke of Lancs was only formed in '06 and it had 2 Battalions 🤷🏻‍♂️
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  34.  @herrickmaster77  - I'm going to guess that you read it in your notifications though ... thoughts?
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  35.  @herrickmaster77  - did you report my response to your question? It seems to have disappeared!
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  36. Really? No one has mentioned that before.
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  37.  @herrickmaster77  - I'm definitely not, nor have ever been, a Pongo.
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  38.  @bighands69  which 'elite' army units have the Rangers drawn their troops from? The donor units are all utterly average with no stand out capabilities at all.
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  39. Not even worth the 🎣.
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  40.  @herrickmaster77  - bog trotter is slang for an Irish person, I've done a Tour in XMG and a wedding in Dublin but I don't think that makes me a Paddy. And I was once a prime example of a Council House brat with holes in my shoes but now I'm at the opposite end of that scale and I have no dramas mentioning it as an anonymous username to an anonymous reader. Funnily enough 🙄
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  41.  @TheCCBoi  - off to the opticians for you ... the UK Ranger Regiment beret is Gunmetal grey.
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  42.  @herrickmaster77  - oh how harsh, calling me a silly girl, I'm wounded. I don't do job hunting, I'm minted, that's why I work so few months. You're not very quick on the uptake are you Kiddo? Today I'm busy spec'ing an EX90 to replace my XC90. Such a chore.
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  43. Check your eyes fella ... it's gunmetal grey.
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  44.  @joesgotya9930  - do you pay Wiki for your cut and paste job? And, most importantly, how much of that 💩 do you understand or believe?
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  45.  @herrickmaster77  - yet another nonsensical answer from you. Are you having a psychological episode?
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  46. @Leon - stop talking 💩
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  47. @Akira Sharma-Barkess - now @Leon has stopped talking💩 you should do the same.
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  48. I'd imagine they'd have a similar pass rate to All Arms P-Coy
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  49. Other than Para Veg the Army has a worryingly low fitness standard. I can't believe how many fat JOs and SNCOs I see cutting about. And don't get me started on the RAF 🤬
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  50. Another civvy with no idea what they're chopsing off about 🙄
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  51.  @paraguard60  so why's your username "paraguard"?
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  52.  @herrickmaster77  - well TT were released in the mid 70s so if I had been 12 then I'd be hitting my 60s now. Not sure why you're looking to interact with pre-teens though 🤷🏻‍♂️. And I am sort of unemployed, I only work for a maximum of 5mths of the year and employ Managers to run my company so life is pretty relaxed.
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  53. That's a poor attempt at 🎣, 2/10
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  54.  @herrickmaster77  - you've had 2 days to think about it and that's your response? Wow. You bottled playing Top Trumps too. That speaks volumes. 🤡
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  55. @Goat - which other ways are the to test that capacity? Given that every military on the planet uses essentially the same testing methodology I'm interested to find out.
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  56. @Goat - 🤣 all the events you listed are part of P-Coy. Classic way to shoot yourself in the foot 🤦🏻‍♂️
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  57.  @herrickmaster77  - as far as responses go that's just too cruel. How will I recover from that? Being called a Walt by a Walt, that's too complex to cope with. Let's play military CV top trumps, you go first...
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  58.  @garagenigel  - I'm neither a Pongo nor a Rock and, as per usual, you can't post anything of sense. Just another clueless civilian jumping on a bandwagon they don't understand.
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  59. Have either of you 2 clowns been to a SF Briefing Day recently? I'm assuming not as you're both undoubtedly civilians. If you had been you'd know where RAF Regiment come on the list of successful applicants for SF and then you'd maybe button it and stop making yourselves look stupid.
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  60.  @garagenigel  - and your experience of the RAF Regiment is ... 🤷🏻‍♂️
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  61.  @herrickmaster77  - and you've served with the RAF Regt in how many conflicts?
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  62.  @ImpetusM  - I'm asking a question not offering a logical opinion. But thanks for playing.
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  63. But then only 7% of them would pass 😱
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  64. For an AK platform since that's what most Developing Nations use.
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  65. Neither. They're a specialized infantry unit.
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  66.  @CancerGaming56  🤣. Nailed it.
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  67. So you never even made it as a cadet then Danny? Sad times for you.
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  68. From my extensive experience all the 'elite' chefs are in the RAF!
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  69. There you go again buddy, you're obsessed with your ass ! 😁
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