Queen's Own McKamikaze Highlanders
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The Queen's Own McKamikaze Highlanders is a fictional regiment of the British Army from the television series Monty Python's Flying Circus.
[edit] History
The regiment features in a sketch during Episode 12 of Series 3 of Monty Python's Flying Circus. The regiment is introduced as Britain's first "Kamikaze Regiment". They are shown taking part in a training exercise which mainly involves members of the regiment throwing themselves out of a window in (the precipitously high) Edinburgh Castle. In addition, another member demonstrates the art of self-strangulation. In order to carry out this act, the man in question is said to have induced in himself a state of "Itsubishi Kyoko McSayonara", it being the fifth state that a Scotsman can achieve.
[edit] Order of battle
The regiment is said to have once numbered 30,000 members, but due to the success of their training methods, these have dwindled to 3 (that we know of) by the end of the sketch.
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