American Couple Reacts: Royal Marine Corps of Drums and Secret Drum Corps! First Time Reaction! WOW!

My nephew is a Royal Marine; my proudest moment was when he came home for my Mum's funeral, in uniform, and was one of her pall-bearers. (he had been overseas on manœuvres when Mum died and we didn't know whether he'd get home and be allowed out [covid] to be with family.)

My dad was a Royal Marine with both 40 and 42 Commando. My proudest, and saddest, moment was at his funeral, when the Marine Bugler played Sunset in the church. Apparently, he'd practised by playing at Margaret Thatcher's funeral the day before.

Top Secret Drum Corps is a drum corps based in Basel, Switzerland. With 25 drummers and color guard section, the corps became famous for its demanding six-minute routine performed at the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo in 2003. With its invitation to Edinburgh, Top Secret became one of the first non-military, non-British Commonwealth acts to perform on the Esplanade at Edinburgh Castle.

I was in the audience for this. Hairs on the back of my neck stood up then and now. As a RM veteran, have marched behind this band several times and am still lost in admiration of our fantastic band

This performance is already mind-blowing, but it actually goes to a whole other level when you know that this performance is not the result of months or even weeks of choreography and practice, but rather the Swiss I believe flew in to the UK just the day before, and the time to practice together was at most just a couple of hours. To me, the level you have to already be at to so quickly pick up a whole routine, especially one that uses moves entirely alien to the traditions of a Corps of Drums and not just confidently give such an important performance, but to do so with such flawless precision that you can't believe this is not the result of months or years of shared drills... Insane.

The Royal Navy field gun race is a must see, Two teams trying to kill themselves in the fastest time possible. It will blow your mind!! Another great video Ladies.

glad you like it. The top Secret Drum corp are civilians from Switzerland, world famous. The Royal Marines Band Service also have other duties being military, so trained medics, plus all of them play at least two other instruments, plus, the drummers would have, in the past gone into battle to pass messages via their bugles! In my view, (I'm biased being a former Royal Marine Commando) our band is the best military band in the world.

Being former member of HM Royal Marines Corps of Drums, I am thrilled that you love this. An insider piece of info that you might find interesting is that the white cotton gloves worn by the RM Buglers (yes, all members of the Corps of Drums are referred to as Buglers) make holding the white gloss painted sticks difficult. We used to dampen them with clean water in order to aid grip. It was okay in warm weather but it was certainly felt in cold weather or on a cool evening.

PLEASE READ THE COMMENTS BEFORE COMMENTING PLEASE This was one of the Coolest things we've ever seen!! We could have sat here for hours watching!! We hope you will Like it & hit the Like button. Thanks for watching and we LOVE the Military!!

We Brits are so proud of our amazing military including the Gurkhas, they are our heroes . The best military in the world ! No offence intended just a fact .❤️🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸

Makes me proud to be British and I am so glad you enjoyed it.

Wow great reaction ladies, there is something mesmerising about our old traditional stuff and I love that, our service men get the chance to show off like this and be enjoyed for there skills and not just war xx

Before Everyone comments We do know now that the Top Secret Drum Corps are not active military! Thanks!

As far as I am aware the Top Secret Drum Corps are not serving military. They are a military style drum team. The Royal Marines of course are serving soldiers as you can see by the medals and ranks on their uniforms. Both are awesome though and I bet they had a lot of fun working together. I suspect the reason US Marine uniforms are similar to Royal Marine uniforms are for obvious historical origin reasons.

You should watch the actual performance they gave in front of the Queen at the weekend.

Loved this. Giving a shout out to The Royal Navy here, a must see is the 'HMS Daedalus Mast Manning Team 1992 at East of England Show' This display used to be done onboard a ship but now it's done just using the mast so it can be seen around the country.

Absolutely fantastic 👏 you certainly wasn't the only one with goosebumps.

As a Sea Cadet drummer, I had the honour of being able to learn from and play alongside the Bands of HM Royal Marines, it was one of the greatest experiences of my life

Not many countries does pageantry like the UK, its Unique, plus all the skills

Amazing choice of video Ladies. It was EPIC!!!!. They work so hard to get it right. They have kept us all safe in times of national security.