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SAS Movies
Just wanted to see if there are any other movies I have missed on the SAS.
The Final Option (aka Who Dares Wins)
Bravo Two Zero-Sean Bean
These are the only 2 I am aware of. Are there any more? Or any well put together documentries?
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The Final Option (aka Who Dares Wins)
Bravo Two Zero-Sean Bean
These are the only 2 I am aware of. Are there any more? Or any well put together documentries?
Cheers.
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OT,
It depends on your required level of accuracy.
The BBC did a good series on the SAS and its techniques recently, I am trying to remember what it was called.
It had several ex-members in it.
Another reasonable show is Ultimate Force. It is not 100% accurate but it is not bad. The first series was actually co-created by Chris Ryan (who appeared in the first episode).
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It depends on your required level of accuracy.
The BBC did a good series on the SAS and its techniques recently, I am trying to remember what it was called.
It had several ex-members in it.
Another reasonable show is Ultimate Force. It is not 100% accurate but it is not bad. The first series was actually co-created by Chris Ryan (who appeared in the first episode).
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Another reasonable show is Ultimate Force. It is not 100% accurate but it is not bad. The first series was actually co-created by Chris Ryan (who appeared in the first episode).
Too right, it's less than 1% accurate and it's fecking laughable!
Anyone who thinks otherwise has no Earth-bound idea about miltary operations in general, never mind the sneaky stuff.
It's Grange Hill with guns.
Although Ryan was in the first few episodes, I find it very hard to believe he genuinely co-created such utter bolleaux. Maybe you mean he "Got paid loads of cash to put his name to it, thus giving it some faux-authenticity"?
The follow on to "SAS: Are you a Publicity-Seeking Egotist Enough?" was "Secrets of the SAS" IIRC, and both featured 'ereford 'ardman Eddie "I've got a tough Glaswegian accent" Stone, who no doubt has a dog called "Semtex" or something.
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I have sources who tell me that the SAS generally hate Chris Ryan, Andy McNab, et al. Such transgressors of the Service's tradition of secrecy and esprit di corps are usually viewed with a combination of derision, distaste and disgust. A bit like jobsworth MOD-plod persons, I suppose, but with stronger feeling...
Apparently Ultimate Force is "a nice bit of escapism with bollocks all to do with the Service apart from that tw*t Ryan" (attributed to a Capt earlier this year).
So there we go.
Apparently Ultimate Force is "a nice bit of escapism with bollocks all to do with the Service apart from that tw*t Ryan" (attributed to a Capt earlier this year).
So there we go.
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BBC did a reasonably accurate documentary series about the Regiment roughly 6-7 years ago called "SAS - A Soldiers Story",
It's repeated quite often on BBC3 or some other Sky/Cable channel.
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It's repeated quite often on BBC3 or some other Sky/Cable channel.
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General de B is no longer welcome, (or so I hear), at SAS functions, anymore than anyone else who breaks the required code of behaviour for serving and ex members of the SAS.
Not the best written book in the world but an interesting read is 'The Eye of The Storm', written by ex- RSM(SAS) Peter Ratcliffe DCM who served twenty five years with the SAS. Ratcliffe disputes the authenticity of a lot of what McNab and Ryan have published as their account of Bravo20.
Not the best written book in the world but an interesting read is 'The Eye of The Storm', written by ex- RSM(SAS) Peter Ratcliffe DCM who served twenty five years with the SAS. Ratcliffe disputes the authenticity of a lot of what McNab and Ryan have published as their account of Bravo20.
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Something satisfying about a bunch of civvies wandering around in DPM playing "hard man" games and eating beetles, led by grasping wa
rs who are legends in their own lunchtime. Lovely wind up though.
And B20 was a glorious clusterf k
rs who are legends in their own lunchtime. Lovely wind up though. And B20 was a glorious clusterf
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There was Vietnam War film that featured the Australian SAS. This showed them mainly in camp but deployed on a regimental basis.
It particularly pointed up the difference between well trained professional soldiers trained in jungle warfare and conscripts. It had nice touches such as the now obsolete can opener hanging from the tent roof or the rubber band around the ubiquitous zippo lighter to stop it falling out of your pocket.
Before I am rhubarbed, remember this film was about 35 years ago.
The other special forces film was made by the MOD Film Unit and called Top Mallo House - a short documentary style - that featured the special forces assault on an Argentine SF at TMH on FI.
Another MOD Film was Yesterday's Enemy, circa 1955, a jungle warfare film against the Japs. I think Richard Todd may have starred. It had all the trappings on the JW SAS series in ITV a couple of years back.
It particularly pointed up the difference between well trained professional soldiers trained in jungle warfare and conscripts. It had nice touches such as the now obsolete can opener hanging from the tent roof or the rubber band around the ubiquitous zippo lighter to stop it falling out of your pocket.
Before I am rhubarbed, remember this film was about 35 years ago.
The other special forces film was made by the MOD Film Unit and called Top Mallo House - a short documentary style - that featured the special forces assault on an Argentine SF at TMH on FI.
Another MOD Film was Yesterday's Enemy, circa 1955, a jungle warfare film against the Japs. I think Richard Todd may have starred. It had all the trappings on the JW SAS series in ITV a couple of years back.
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The de la Billiere story is complex, I believe.
It all spilled over, again, at the funeral of Tanky Smith (see The Telegraph of about a year ago), when DLB was asked to leave the wake at the OM in Stirling Lines. A number of others walked out in protest.
It all spilled over, again, at the funeral of Tanky Smith (see The Telegraph of about a year ago), when DLB was asked to leave the wake at the OM in Stirling Lines. A number of others walked out in protest.
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Pretty shoddy affair all round with lots of flecks of prima donna dna spittle flying around.
In these troubled manpower deficient times, it did lead to the formation of the new "Hollywood Squadron" though ?
About your quick jump on the 12th - anyone we know ?
Good Luck - you stay in the VC at any time during your foray down South ?
Pretty shoddy affair all round with lots of flecks of prima donna dna spittle flying around.
In these troubled manpower deficient times, it did lead to the formation of the new "Hollywood Squadron" though ?
About your quick jump on the 12th - anyone we know ?
Good Luck - you stay in the VC at any time during your foray down South ?
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Pontius,
The Aussie film to wich you refer may have been "The Odd Angry Shot". The star of that movie, Graham Kennedy, died in Oz this week.
The Aussie film to wich you refer may have been "The Odd Angry Shot". The star of that movie, Graham Kennedy, died in Oz this week.