sipowicz
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Quite a tight lipped band of gentlemen...Too bad Joe Biden didn't read it...
BBC News - SAS war diary: The SAS secret hidden since World War II
BBC News - SAS war diary: The SAS secret hidden since World War II
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mamasfatty
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ive got a british ballester molina used in ww2. nice gun ,,shoots well,,copy of a colt 1911,supposed to be used by sas troops?
beach elvis
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I read, "Stirling's Desert Raiders" about a month ago!
Those were some hardcore Brits.
Those were some hardcore Brits.
Magnumdood
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SEALs or SAS
Who is the most hardcore? Who produces the best warrior?
The US SEAL Teams, or the British SAS?
Who is the most hardcore? Who produces the best warrior?
The US SEAL Teams, or the British SAS?
I wouldn't want either one hunting me!
Anybody recall Mr Rogers? He was a navy SEAL. Saw enough killing and became an ordaned minister and then a TV host for a childrens show.
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The British sure can be tight lipped.
The Security Service (MI5) chose not to share their 1956 "Survey of Russian Espionage of the U.K.", with the British SIS, the Commonwealth, and especially not the Americans.
"It must certainly not go to the Americans, since it reveals an alarming number of known spies walking about as free men."
You can download the original report from the UK National Archives.
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sipowicz
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The Mr. Rogers business is urban myth. He was never in the military.
mac2
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They do different things: the SAS is part of our army, the SEALS part of your navy right?
ThirtyAcres
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There was a great movie out in the early to mid 1980's called THE FINAL OPTION.
It dealt with the SAS. Great shots of training and tactics.
It dealt with the SAS. Great shots of training and tactics.
CelticSire
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Correct. And asking which produces the best warrior is liking asking which is the better vehicle: a Land Rover or a Corvette.
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g_conway
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Ah yes. Facts don't seem to be to important today do they.
"Mr. Rogers" was never even in the military.
"Mr. Rogers" was never even in the military.
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Navy SEALS weren't formally established until 1962. The urban legend I heard about "Mr. Rogers" was that he was a pedophile forced to make children's programs as penance.
I would probably pick the SAS, from what I've read once you get through Selection and are accepted, you aren't hassled as much and subject to petty annoyances. Once David Stirling and Jock Lewes sold the British higher ups on the concept of the SAS, they were pretty much given a free hand. And in peacetime the British government seems to back its forces better than Uncle Sam, there isn't the micromanaging and constant looking over your shoulder and scapegoating that is the bane of the U.S. military.
I would probably pick the SAS, from what I've read once you get through Selection and are accepted, you aren't hassled as much and subject to petty annoyances. Once David Stirling and Jock Lewes sold the British higher ups on the concept of the SAS, they were pretty much given a free hand. And in peacetime the British government seems to back its forces better than Uncle Sam, there isn't the micromanaging and constant looking over your shoulder and scapegoating that is the bane of the U.S. military.
mac2
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But our government does whatever it can to cut the armed forces to the bone, and not only in peacetime, embarrassing us on the world stage in both Iraq and Afghanistan because it wouldn't fund them properly.
Mid-80s stationed in the Netherlands-went to England-briefed the SAS-As with all special operatives-everything is classified. No one is "better" Everyone has missions that call upon the superior nature of our character. We are lucky to have such people-to the misfortune of tyrants.
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