The Queen's Own McKamikaze Highlanders is a fictional regiment of the British Army from the television series Monty Python's Flying Circus.
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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.
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 three (that we know of) by the end of the sketch.