| SAS Rogue heroes 22:12 - Nov 17 with 3693 views | Catullus |
I just watched the 2nd episode, I've read the books. They were completely MAD b'stards but WOW.
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| SAS Rogue heroes on 22:38 - Nov 17 with 3665 views | Boundy |
It's what we do best , a combination of of rebellion, invention and a desire to win makes our special forces one of if not the best in the world. The nearest I ever got to the SAS was being part of the Hunter force during a winter selection course in the mid 70's , we were used trying to capture those on the selection course , tough enough for us and we had all the kit , them poor souls just had old battle dress clothing and a great coat , no buttons or belt , try moving across rough terrain attempting to avoid getting caught holding your trousers, no food water for days on end , physical and mental toughness at it's best | |
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| SAS Rogue heroes on 22:47 - Nov 17 with 3657 views | Wingstandwood |
Rogue being a rather good description!
Take (fact, not an urban myth) Ralph Lazenby a Yorkshireman who latter moved to Swansea who was asked at his SAS interview why he wanted to join the SAS and he joked that he prefered to get behind the Germans and kill them rather than face their tanks and artillery head on.
Now that would normally have been seen as p1ss taking insubordination talking to a superior like that, but it was taken the opposite way in good humour as being exactly the type of loose-cannon the SAS wanted.
Anyhow (not on Google but fact) Ralph visited SAS at Hereford on a V.I.P visit a few years before he passed and had an helicopter flight out to Northern Ireland to see doings out there also.
His lot the 'WW2 originals' were and still are revered by modern SAS because they were basically on suicide missions of type of which would not probably even be attempted nowadays. We will never see their likes again. |  |
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| SAS Rogue heroes on 04:00 - Nov 18 with 3620 views | Treforys_Jack |
Found the music distracting initially, but soon got used to and found it actually fitted. Don't know why they showed Stirling's capture the way they did, if I remember the book correctly, he was captured whilst asleep. |  | | |
| SAS Rogue heroes on 06:27 - Nov 18 with 3603 views | 1462jack |
| SAS Rogue heroes on 04:00 - Nov 18 by Treforys_Jack |
Found the music distracting initially, but soon got used to and found it actually fitted. Don't know why they showed Stirling's capture the way they did, if I remember the book correctly, he was captured whilst asleep. |
David sterling and jock Lewes co founders of the SAS were both Guardsmen the latter being a welsh guardsman [Post edited 18 Nov 2022 11:53]
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| SAS Rogue heroes on 10:50 - Nov 18 with 3535 views | union_jack |
| SAS Rogue heroes on 22:38 - Nov 17 by Boundy |
It's what we do best , a combination of of rebellion, invention and a desire to win makes our special forces one of if not the best in the world. The nearest I ever got to the SAS was being part of the Hunter force during a winter selection course in the mid 70's , we were used trying to capture those on the selection course , tough enough for us and we had all the kit , them poor souls just had old battle dress clothing and a great coat , no buttons or belt , try moving across rough terrain attempting to avoid getting caught holding your trousers, no food water for days on end , physical and mental toughness at it's best |
Sounds like a good away trip in the 80s😂 |  |
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| SAS Rogue heroes on 14:34 - Nov 18 with 3507 views | Boundy |
| SAS Rogue heroes on 10:50 - Nov 18 by union_jack |
Sounds like a good away trip in the 80s😂 |
I remember it being bloody cold wet and windy ,over looking Machynlleth living off 24 hour ration packs whilst the candidates had bog all , so yes some similarities  | |
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| SAS Rogue heroes on 17:50 - Nov 18 with 3460 views | Dr_Winston |
Different breed back then. Reading up on lunatics like Adrian Carton de Wiart, or my personal favourite Mad Jack Churchill, you begin to wonder if we'll ever see the like again. |  |
| Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or f*cking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back. |
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| SAS Rogue heroes on 18:13 - Nov 18 with 3454 views | Catullus |
| SAS Rogue heroes on 17:50 - Nov 18 by Dr_Winston |
Different breed back then. Reading up on lunatics like Adrian Carton de Wiart, or my personal favourite Mad Jack Churchill, you begin to wonder if we'll ever see the like again. |
This kind of thing is being bred out. We have rampant H&S, we have service personnel who complain they didn't join up to fight.
I personally know a woman who joined the Royal Navy and on being deployed to te Gulf, her ship was to hunt pirates, she bought herself out. Apparently she didn't think the armed forces could be so dangerous  | |
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| SAS Rogue heroes on 18:46 - Nov 18 with 3447 views | theloneranger |
| SAS Rogue heroes on 17:50 - Nov 18 by Dr_Winston |
Different breed back then. Reading up on lunatics like Adrian Carton de Wiart, or my personal favourite Mad Jack Churchill, you begin to wonder if we'll ever see the like again. |
Read up on Freddy Spencer Chapman - another brave, mad b@stard.
These are 2 excellent reads -
"Jungle Soldier: The True Story of Freddy Spencer Chapman" and
"The Jungle is Neutral: A Soldier's Two-Year Escape from the Japanese Army" |  |
| Everyday above ground ... Is a good day! 😎 |
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| SAS Rogue heroes on 19:18 - Nov 18 with 3437 views | 1462jack |
| SAS Rogue heroes on 18:46 - Nov 18 by theloneranger |
Read up on Freddy Spencer Chapman - another brave, mad b@stard.
These are 2 excellent reads -
"Jungle Soldier: The True Story of Freddy Spencer Chapman" and
"The Jungle is Neutral: A Soldier's Two-Year Escape from the Japanese Army" |
Read jungle soldier great read , some man he was | | | |
| SAS Rogue heroes on 19:31 - Nov 18 with 3431 views | Catullus |
| SAS Rogue heroes on 19:18 - Nov 18 by 1462jack |
Read jungle soldier great read , some man he was |
It's not SAS but try "From Omaha to the Scheldt" which is about 47 Commando.
The Commando's back then, they were also incredible men. | |
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| SAS Rogue heroes on 21:58 - Nov 18 with 3396 views | Dr_Winston |
| SAS Rogue heroes on 18:46 - Nov 18 by theloneranger |
Read up on Freddy Spencer Chapman - another brave, mad b@stard.
These are 2 excellent reads -
"Jungle Soldier: The True Story of Freddy Spencer Chapman" and
"The Jungle is Neutral: A Soldier's Two-Year Escape from the Japanese Army" |
I've heard of Chapman. Balls of steel.
If we're talking Jungle Warfare, Jacob Vouza's story also takes some beating. First heard about him in Robert Leckie's book about the Battle of Guadalcanal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_C._Vouza | |
| Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or f*cking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back. |
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| SAS Rogue heroes on 23:16 - Nov 18 with 3371 views | Treforys_Jack |
| SAS Rogue heroes on 17:50 - Nov 18 by Dr_Winston |
Different breed back then. Reading up on lunatics like Adrian Carton de Wiart, or my personal favourite Mad Jack Churchill, you begin to wonder if we'll ever see the like again. |
Was Mad Jack, the guy with the longbow ? Been meaning to read up about him. | | | |
| SAS Rogue heroes on 23:52 - Nov 18 with 3352 views | max936 |
Ain't seen it, somin else was clashing with it when it first started, I intend watching it at some point though, but its been manic here lately. |  |
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| SAS Rogue heroes on 10:08 - Nov 19 with 3300 views | controversial_jack |
| SAS Rogue heroes on 18:46 - Nov 18 by theloneranger |
Read up on Freddy Spencer Chapman - another brave, mad b@stard.
These are 2 excellent reads -
"Jungle Soldier: The True Story of Freddy Spencer Chapman" and
"The Jungle is Neutral: A Soldier's Two-Year Escape from the Japanese Army" |
I've read the Jungle is neutral, remarkable. The Japs thought there were 200 Aussie soldiers waging a campaign against them, there were just3 Brits if i remember correctly | | | |
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