Scottish special units
 

I am having some difficulty finding information on Scottish special units, and was wondering if any of you may have some interesting information?

Wouldn't Scottish units fall under the UK Army? I don't recall them having their own seperate army.
Try looking for Highland Special Units perhaps...or simply Special Units based in Scotland.

There is no Scottish army per/se. In fact, there is, as of August, no more Scottish Regiments - they are ALL amalgamated into one colosally large regiment called The Royal Regiment of Scotland. Bloody ENGLISH government!!! That is what the thread is started way back titled Save the Scottish Regiments http://www.airsoftcanada.com/showthread.php?t=11878 was all about.

The website for this new regiment: http://www.it-serve.co.uk/rros/index.php

That means no more:
Royal Scots
Black Watch (RHR)
Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders (PL)
Royal Highland Fusilliers (PMOGAR)
Kings Own Scottish Borderers
The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordon, and Cameronians)
Royal Scots Dragoon Guards

Now each regiment will in turn become a battalion of this new "super regiment".

The capbadge: http://www.army.mod.uk/img/rrs/scots_badge_dress.jpg
The motto translated means: "Noone invokes me with impunity" And is the same motto that the Order of the Thistle has used since the 1700's.

http://www.army.mod.uk/infantry/regts/index.htm

http://www.army.mod.uk/uksf/index.htm

I agree with ya brother.. But still being part English and Scottish at the same times can get really hard for me.. :smack:

Try having Scot, English and Welsh! Lucky for me the Scot dominates the others. Unlucky for me that Scot blood is expensive to feed alcohol to. Lol

gee stalker; looks like you've got the best of all three. soccer hooligan that can drink a ton, then go make love to a sheep :D
I'll go back to my potatoe famine now heh.
I still say that's one of the WORST decisions the MOD has ever made.
Greg

You should see the looks my kilt gets when I go to the Scottish Games in Tulsa, OK.:D

ALBAINN GU-BRATH
 

NE OBLIVISCARIS:
Never Forget… that you have been entrusted by those who have gone before with the Argyll Spirit!

Nothing like taking pride of one's unit out of the army and making generic status quo...

I hear ya brother. Fucking English Army. Can't let the Scottish have anything that is their own.

Yes, our pipes still scare the shit out of opposing armies - the manky English included!!

On REFORGER 1976, I was TDY for a week from the U.S. 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment to a Black Watch infantry battalion as an exchange medic.

yeah the scots are under the british army, so they wear the british stuff, some will wear like a tam oshanter or something like that but nothing really different

This is a little late of me, but as a proud Scot I have to tell you guys... the Prime Minister of Britain (Gordon Brown), is Scottish. The ex Prime Minister (Tony Blair) is Scottish. The Royal Family, which has somehow managed to be so horribly watered down and yet so incredibly inbred is also Scottish.

And remember, who won all their wars for them? Damn right it was the Scots. Remember the thin red line!

Albainn Gu-Brath
Ne Obliviscaris

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Actually, it was generally the lower classes and the downtrodden of the British Isles. The Scots made up a portion of, but not the majority, of the legendary 19th century British 'redcoat' infantry. Many regiments of foot were raised in the 'shires and other parts of England, as well as parts of Ireland.

It is true that Scottish battalions like the Black Watch and the Royal Scots were superb fighting units, but so were other non-Scottish units, like Maitland's 52nd and the 27th Foot (Inniskillings). Let's also not forget the handiness of the King's German Legion, particularly the light cavalry.

Primarily the special forces in the British Army are the S.A.S (special air service), not only are they "counter everything" they are also do "mission based" operations, I had the opportunity to visit one of their small detachments in the Glasgow area while on CF training in Scotland a couple years back, two thing's I found interesting were, the SAS appeared to be primarily Scots (makes sense since most of their training and detachments are in Scotland), second thing was that fact that they had in their possession and wanted to adopt the Canadian C-7!. says a lot for Canadian designing given the fact our C-7 starts out as the US M-16 but the Canadian armourers get hold of them and modify them to CF standards, adding to that the SAS can and do have access to practically any weapons in the world, anyway I am getting off topic as usual.


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"Cuidich'n Righ"

You can recognise Scottish Highland units usually by them wearing Balmoral's, most still identify their original Regiment by wearing a colored "HACKEL" with their cap badge.

Actually when i said remember the thin red line, i meant remember the BATTLE of the Thin Red Line, when the 93rd Highlanders fought off far greater amounts of Russian troops in the Crimean War.

sorry for the necro here, but i do belive that was battle of balaclava in the Crimean war

Leave it to the english to screw something up.

Clearly, none of you have ever heard of the Queen's Own McKamikaze Highlanders, a unit that was so effective that out of 33,000 only three are left.
For more information on this fabled unit please access the historical tapes of Monty Python's Flying Circus.

The Atholl Highlanders are a Scottish regiment. However, they are not part of the British Army. Instead, the regiment is in the private employ of the Duke of Atholl, making it the UK's, and indeed Europe's, only legal private army.

Cap Badge of the Atholl Highlanders
Active 1839- Present
Country Scotland, UK
Type Infantry
Size One battalion
Garrison/HQ Blair Atholl

http://www.whatsonwhen.com/sisp/inde...event_id=24201

Erm... special division there are not... it breaks down now with two main branches.

1) The Scots Guards
2) The Royal Regiment of Scotland

RRoS breaks down as follows:

Black hackle for those affiliated to 1st (Royal Scots Borderers) Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland.

White hackle for those affiliated to the 2nd (Royal Highland Fusiliers) Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland.

Red hackle for those affiliated to the 3rd (Black Watch) Battallion Royal Regiment of Scotland.

Blue hackle for those affiliated to the 4th (Higlanders) Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland.

green hackle for those affiliated to the 5th (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland.

White/Black hackle for those affiliated to 6th (52nd Lowland) Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland.

Red/Blue/Green hackle for those affiliated to the 7th (51st Highland) Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland.

the only difference being is the Guards are the ones you have to put the fear of God up anyone (look at Mount Tunbbledown 1982!), harder trained and damn fine soldiers.

Also if you're interested in WW2 milisim, have a look at 'Lord Lovettes Commandos', he too was one of the handful 'lairds' allowed to have his own private army, and was the one who releived Pegasus Bridge having his bagpipes played under fire.

the sas is made up of 70 % of scottish born troopers

http://i19.tinypic.com/316l252.jpg

Reminded me of this thread.

yeah we know that but we are talking about scottitish units within the uk army. There is a large number of scots in the uk army particulairly in the sas as far as i know.

I love the way a bunch of Canadians think they can tell a guy who is in the British Armed Forces and lives in Scotland how it really is . LOL jokers

I dont recall anyone telling him how it really is , we were simply discussing as to whether or not there are scottish units within the uk forces, try reading the thread at the beginning before you post.

Very True Mate, That's why I said Generally...I have seen SF from several countries wearing Multicam as well. I was only making a point, but Paps seems to know this fellow or the pic in question. No worries though.

so you know this for a fact?

watched a tv show on the sas a few years back and the fellow who was the host was former sas and he said that the sas was made up of 70% scottish, if i recall he said scottish are tough sobs. So thats my source if you feel the need to tell me im incorrect, by all means go ahead.

hey pipefitter you watch too much tv

Way to contribute to the thread, Chico.

Anyway, As for scottish special units? I don't think they would get must distinction as i'm sure there are scottish regiments simply as an addition to the british army as a whole. I do have family in scotland I can reference to if needed. And Pipefitter is right~ We are tough Sonovabitches! I wouldn't be too surprised to see a kilt amongst all of that tactical gear fro time to time ;)
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If someone attached Molle strips to a kilt I'd wear it in combat. I wore one to a semi formal once. They get chilly.

sorry i'm old friends with pipefitter316 if it is who i think it is. and it was the only way to get his attention i havent been to airsoft canada since 2007 sorry guys

Do not worry. The Seaforth's name will not die. Despite the efforts of the Dod UK it will live on here in Canada.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sea...ders_of_Canada

hey chico its all good, dont bust his balls too much guys ,hes got scottish desent in him (lowlander) and a good friend. As for the scottish ,we will never die ,we are immortalized in battle and still are the toughest bastards out there.

Scottish Mercenaries where the only one's trusted to guards the kings of France.

By Special Scotish Units are you talking the SAS "Artists" Squadron? Because the Artists are primarly Scotish.

What the hell are the SAS "Artists" ?
Is it 21, 22 or 23 Regiment?

Made up of 70% Paras. Wherever the hell they come from. Not 70% Scots.
That said the Scot's are tough bastards and always will be.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artists_Rifles

http://www.eliteukforces.info/specia...rvice/history/


It would appear that the 21st regiment was at one point called Artists Rifles. I am not an expert though.

The 21 SAS is a Territorial Army battalion.

The only Regular regiment of the SAS is 22

Ok to put this to bed ....... The 21 SAS (Artists Rifles) was Based in the Duke of Yorks barracks in London (with one company and the HQ of 10 Para) and is a territorial battalion specializing in LRRP. 23 SAS was based in Scotland (I believe Edinburgh and Glasgow) it's also a territorial unit specializing in LRRP.

This info may be a little out of date as it's been a while since I had anything to do with either unit (I played OpFor/Hunter force a couple of times as a Reg Force Infantryman))