When American special forces and the SAS were training together they had separate barracks. The Americans put a sign above their barracks saying "second to none", so the SAS put up a sign above their barracks saying " none". It was all in good humour though, the British are known for their sense of humour. 😂
Love the story about when a US aircraft carrier was on manoeuvres and had the task of finding a UK submarine, they couldn’t find it and at the end were amazed when the submarine surfaced alongside them, they had been hiding UNDER the aircraft carrier ! 😂😂😂
The SAS rotate standby for certain situations, one of them is hostage (Or "Sausage" if you're Kier Starmer) situations. They practice every day, with LIVE ammunition... every day, in what they call the kill house. Margaret Thatcher, the then Prime Minister impressed the SAS when she sat in a chair in the kill house, where the hostage takers (Cardboard targets) either side of her, where taken out with live ammo. To my knowledge, she is the only PM to have done this!
I think what he’s referring to is the movement of information between certain Jews during the World war 1 and 2 for the English. 2 Jews that come to mind are, Sarah Aarunsohn and Kurt Erich. There were others though.
Sorry to say it Neil but America is basically a mass soldier production line along with weapons manufacturing. But when it comes down to on the ground trained soldiers, uk are 10 steps ahead in tactics, logistics and training. 1000 years of military experience has its perks.
What he's talking about ( The film) is the hostage situation that happened in an embassy in London. Its the 1st time British people got to see how the SAS work and some people found out about the SAS because their very secretive!
I watched it has it was happening on the tv , it was a breathtaking event and that was just what we could see outside the building, what was going on inside would be more staggering than ANYTHING Hollywood could come up with.
@@raz1980.Do you know how longer after? I ask because I too have distinct (though quite possibly mistaken) memories of seeing it happen in real time. Perhaps it's a "Mandela memory" but one I would find difficult to dislodge. I think the images I saw would not have helped the terrorists inside as they occurred after the first explosion: it would have been too late. I dare say some further closeups of the action in detail were repeated through the course of the evening. The TV cameras were at the end of Princes Gate, at the junction with Exhibition Road so some distance away from the embassy.
I know I am biased. But the SAS, DO NOT STOP. they will continue to advance on your posision. And if you are thier target, better make peace with your maker, because you will be meeting him very soon. These guys don't play!
I remember listening to an American CIA deep cover operative being interviewed on radio here in the Uk and he said that if he knew that the SAS/SBS were there too, he always felt that he would get out alive. They had his back. I remember watching Balcombe St siege live as it happened on TV
First time I ever saw the SAS was as a kid when they stormed an embassy here in the UK, within 17 minutes they had freed all but one of the hostages and ended five of the six hostage takers. That was on TV and only because all the cameras were already pointing at the embassy because of the situation. The british military has never liked its soliders being made heros of by the public, when things go right it was the officer who signed the order that done the job, it was Winston Churchill who won WW2 is another example not someone like Brendan Finucane, who most people won't have heard off nor any of the other millions who gave everything to do it. America makes movies about its hero soliders as a contrast.
Neal; Keep Reacting! SAS/SBS I think they took tactical advice from Honey Badgers. British Military Intelligence; Franz von Werra, "The One That Got Away" the only German to be captured in Britain who made it back. He was sent to Canada but escaped to the US. Via the German Consul, he sent intelligence home about the sophistication of British interrogation which was not brutal as German pilots had been told to expect. As a result, the Luftwaffe rewrote its instructions to their aircrew.
I think you got that wrong. You interpreted the SAS speciality as a hostage 'negotiation'. By the point the SAS are involved - negotiation is not the scenario.
The US Army Ranger were given there introduction into Light Infantry warfare and special Forces trying like the Delter Force , not by the SAS but by the British Army Comandos they took what they had learnt back to Amarica and formed the Rangers
@@daftgowk1 oops not quit what I ment British Army Comandos were around before the Royal Marine Comandos , when the Royal Marine Comandos were formed there first instructors were Army Comandos until they built up there owen Carder . That's why when the US wanted a Forse like the Comandos they went to Scotland to Lord Levets estate that had been turned into one of the Army's Comados training centers . Dexter Force went to Herraford to 22 SAS to learn there tactics and build up there owen tactics based on those . And yes we still have Army Comandos like the Artillery Engineers Signels and other specialist Army units . They still do the same training as the RM Comandos which has not changed much from the Army Comandos of the 1938 . If you want to learn about them look up the Greatest Raid Ever by Jeramy Clarkson
you should watch the BBC series SAS Rouge Heroes. its a drama about how the SAS was formed. SAS are essentially the blueprint for all secret army divisions
it troubles me when people misspell 'Rogue'. Rouge heroes?? This isn't an Officers' Mess! I jest, but Rogue Heroes is an excellent show though. Season 2 coming fairly soon I believe.
Maggie was PM so maybe you want to rethink the timing. She on purpose made the world see the S.A.S as until then they had never been seen on operation. They even prepared to go in silent.
A bit of a strange one this, m8? As probably an ex-CIA assassin would not want himself to be known as having been one, or the US Gov might not even permit it . . . So maybe he was an ex-US special forces guy actually? Because in a way here, there was nothing even said about the CIA, or about Britain's MI5/MI6 . . . it was literally all about special forces training, etc . . . and even some parts of the SAS/SBS training is still very classified . . . so we don't know everything about how's it's done even now . . .
@@KGardner01010 SAS and SBS are less secretive than the SRR and E Squadron which are also part of the UK special forces. SRR are reconnaissance while E Squadron are the equivalent to CIA spies.
The Iranian embassy was the first time the world saw the SAS in action, the negotiations finished when an embassy staff member was killed...... during the siege the SAS had built a mock-up of the building from architect drawings and information from people who had knowledge of the building ( one fortunate bit of information was that the ground floor windows had been retro fitted with bullet proof glass) The priminister at the time was Margret Thatcher who told the SAS officers that she didn't want to be left with the problem of what to do with prisoners,or the future terrorists demanding the release of the terrorists for innocent civilians....... the only one to be left alive was protected by the embassy women who didn't identify him as one of the group until they were outside in the garden and the amount of cameras around saved him....... As for humour, one US SF interview tells of the SAS going out on a task wearing the US flag on their gear.... when he asked what was going on the SAS guys laughed and said " hey they've got to blame somebody"! But he said their humour didn't extend to making jokes about the queen......if you want your ass kicked just insult the queen ( anything else is ok.....)
Neal, I'm sure you have heard the expression "Necessity is the mother of invention..." - Meaning, when your 'back is against the wall' and you have nowhere else to turn, you are forced to find ways of getting the job done or achieving a goal with what you have available... AND somehow _(against all odds),_ you DO get the job done ! Well, Brits have often had to persevere in hard times, in wars and in life generally - but the 'proposed' 1939 British poster _(although, and most people dont't even know this - was NEVER actually used)_ sums it up - "Keep Calm and Carry On"!
"I guess the SAS are the guys who mastered hostage negotiation". Not exactly....they will certainly finish it though. Probably with a double tap through your mouth.
I'd love to know who's behind the scenes. These front line members are amazing. But it's like a film. The actors are the ones we see but they don't make the film ont heir own. 🤔. Thanks for another good one.
The thing about the Brits is their bravery and professionalism is unmatched. Special forces are trained to withstand torture and not give any information.
The US Military tend s to throw money and manpower at stuff so they have large well equipped armed forces. The British don't have the resources to do that so have a small, very highly trained armed forces who aim to be the best of the best. This is why the US and British work well together. The US provide the numbers and resources and the British provide very highly trained specialists.
Yes the British are amongst the very best special forces operators and "good" at "war" but the US special forces comprise of more than twice the entire British military! We only lose due to numbers!
NOT amongst the best, they ARE the best - SAS might be second only to the SBS & the SBS are second to nobody. Throwing money at things only works so far, there is a channel run by a US marine and he explained the difference between the US marines and the real marines. The former do most of their 'training' in the gym which apparently gives them great upper body strength BUT the real marines do all round training which gives them, among other things, stamina which counts for a lot in the field. I think there is a video comparing the two because he was commenting on that video and pointing out exactly how and why the real marines were so superior. And as a US marine himself he knew what he was talking about and it motivated him to change his own exercise regime away from just the gym to being more inclusive. It was an interesting video and the commentary from an actual US marine explaining WHY the RM are better was why, he really knew what he was talking about. Wish I could remember the name of the channel, I haven't seen him post this year at all so maybe he's stopped [possibly on active duty rather in a barracks in the US] because he brought a different perspective to the entire debate.
The SAS do not do hostage negotiation. If the SAS are involved the negotiations are over.
They arrive when negotiations start, they go in when negotiations fail 😉
Exactly, if you need a rescue mission SAS are the guys.
The SBS call sas special ass service 🤣
@@luke9669-0 natural inter unit chatter. SAS probably have something similar to SBS.
@@Xenophaige_reads special brat services ?🤣
When American special forces and the SAS were training together they had separate barracks. The Americans put a sign above their barracks saying "second to none", so the SAS put up a sign above their barracks saying " none". It was all in good humour though, the British are known for their sense of humour. 😂
We love a laugh but they are even trying to take that away from us Brits 🤔
Love the story about when a US aircraft carrier was on manoeuvres and had the task of finding a UK submarine, they couldn’t find it and at the end were amazed when the submarine surfaced alongside them, they had been hiding UNDER the aircraft carrier ! 😂😂😂
SAS- simply the best!!!
Yes and '... better than all the rest' with acknowledgements to the late, great Tina Turner. RIP Tina
The SAS rotate standby for certain situations, one of them is hostage (Or "Sausage" if you're Kier Starmer) situations. They practice every day, with LIVE ammunition... every day, in what they call the kill house. Margaret Thatcher, the then Prime Minister impressed the SAS when she sat in a chair in the kill house, where the hostage takers (Cardboard targets) either side of her, where taken out with live ammo. To my knowledge, she is the only PM to have done this!
You had me at the sausage quip.
Love her or hate her,she had great big bollocks.
@@TheCornishCockney More than ANY so called Prime Minister since!
No, the Israelis weren't doing it first. The SAS was formed before Israel existed. They're the original SF.
I think what he’s referring to is the movement of information between certain Jews during the World war 1 and 2 for the English. 2 Jews that come to mind are, Sarah Aarunsohn and Kurt Erich. There were others though.
Sorry to say it Neil but America is basically a mass soldier production line along with weapons manufacturing. But when it comes down to on the ground trained soldiers, uk are 10 steps ahead in tactics, logistics and training. 1000 years of military experience has its perks.
The SAS invented the stun grenade also known as the flashbang which revolutionised hostage rescue.
It's not about who's best. We learn from each other. It's about working as a team
Love from across the pond! 🇬🇧🇺🇸 brothers for life! ❤❤
What he's talking about ( The film) is the hostage situation that happened in an embassy in London. Its the 1st time British people got to see how the SAS work and some people found out about the SAS because their very secretive!
loving the uk stuff man, this julian dorey guy is awesome too, one of the best podcasts out there imo
Iranian Embassy siege, it was on live TV at the time, watch the documentary it’s epic
I watched it has it was happening on the tv , it was a breathtaking event and that was just what we could see outside the building, what was going on inside would be more staggering than ANYTHING Hollywood could come up with.
The SAS attack wasn't live the MSN was told not to film and only release after the fact.
@@raz1980.Do you know how longer after? I ask because I too have distinct (though quite possibly mistaken) memories of seeing it happen in real time. Perhaps it's a "Mandela memory" but one I would find difficult to dislodge. I think the images I saw would not have helped the terrorists inside as they occurred after the first explosion: it would have been too late. I dare say some further closeups of the action in detail were repeated through the course of the evening. The TV cameras were at the end of Princes Gate, at the junction with Exhibition Road so some distance away from the embassy.
@MrBulky992 I don't know how long after but the BBC were told not to put it out live
Op Nimrod.
Check out the movie:
"Who Dares Wins"
It's a 1980's movie with Lewis Collins & Edward Woodward.
I know I am biased. But the SAS, DO NOT STOP. they will continue to advance on your posision. And if you are thier target, better make peace with your maker, because you will be meeting him very soon. These guys don't play!
Who Dares Wins
The motto of the SAS
The SAS don’t negotiate.
If they show up,the baddies know it’s all over.
The ‘baddies’ don’t even know they’re there. It all happens too quickly and they don’t take prisoners.
BIG shout out for the SHAKEY BOATS TOO
I remember listening to an American CIA deep cover operative being interviewed on radio here in the Uk and he said that if he knew that the SAS/SBS were there too, he always felt that he would get out alive. They had his back. I remember watching Balcombe St siege live as it happened on TV
He said he’s not built for that like we don’t see the Barbie poster in the background 😂😂😂
First time I ever saw the SAS was as a kid when they stormed an embassy here in the UK, within 17 minutes they had freed all but one of the hostages and ended five of the six hostage takers. That was on TV and only because all the cameras were already pointing at the embassy because of the situation. The british military has never liked its soliders being made heros of by the public, when things go right it was the officer who signed the order that done the job, it was Winston Churchill who won WW2 is another example not someone like Brendan Finucane, who most people won't have heard off nor any of the other millions who gave everything to do it. America makes movies about its hero soliders as a contrast.
Neal; Keep Reacting!
SAS/SBS I think they took tactical advice from Honey Badgers.
British Military Intelligence; Franz von Werra, "The One That Got Away" the only German to be captured in Britain who made it back. He was sent to Canada but escaped to the US. Via the German Consul, he sent intelligence home about the sophistication of British interrogation which was not brutal as German pilots had been told to expect. As a result, the Luftwaffe rewrote its instructions to their aircrew.
I think you got that wrong. You interpreted the SAS speciality as a hostage 'negotiation'. By the point the SAS are involved - negotiation is not the scenario.
The battle of murbat is another great sas battle
The US Army Ranger were given there introduction into Light Infantry warfare and special Forces trying like the Delter Force , not by the SAS but by the British Army Comandos they took what they had learnt back to Amarica and formed the Rangers
They might object to being called Army Commandoes though, certainly the guys i know in the RMs would.
@@daftgowk1 oops not quit what I ment British Army Comandos were around before the Royal Marine Comandos , when the Royal Marine Comandos were formed there first instructors were Army Comandos until they built up there owen Carder . That's why when the US wanted a Forse like the Comandos they went to Scotland to Lord Levets estate that had been turned into one of the Army's Comados training centers . Dexter Force went to Herraford to 22 SAS to learn there tactics and build up there owen tactics based on those . And yes we still have Army Comandos like the Artillery Engineers Signels and other specialist Army units . They still do the same training as the RM Comandos which has not changed much from the Army Comandos of the 1938 . If you want to learn about them look up the Greatest Raid Ever by Jeramy Clarkson
Hereford is Wales.
They do majority training in Brecon Wales.
At 3:15: the "hostage negotiation" that the SAS carried out at the Iranian embassy in 1980 is worth watching!
Biggest doesn't necessarily mean the best.
That's what I tell my girlfriend but she's not entirely convinced.
@@coot1925 🤭
He’s simply stating what everyone in any military knows.
you should watch the BBC series SAS Rouge Heroes. its a drama about how the SAS was formed. SAS are essentially the blueprint for all secret army divisions
it troubles me when people misspell 'Rogue'. Rouge heroes?? This isn't an Officers' Mess! I jest, but Rogue Heroes is an excellent show though. Season 2 coming fairly soon I believe.
There's no dinner to look forward to in SAS selection.
Super army soilders
Is 6 days the Iranian Embassy in London. I remember watching it unfold on television at the time. I'm sure it was the 70s.
Maggie was PM so maybe you want to rethink the timing.
She on purpose made the world see the S.A.S as until then they had never been seen on operation.
They even prepared to go in silent.
operation nimrod is what he is talking about
Yes in London Iranian Embassy siege. Was first public showing of SAS on TV. Was PM Thatchers finest hour.
Others would argue Falklands was.@@darrellpowell6042
A bit of a strange one this, m8? As probably an ex-CIA assassin would not want himself to be known as having been one, or the US Gov might not even permit it . . . So maybe he was an ex-US special forces guy actually? Because in a way here, there was nothing even said about the CIA, or about Britain's MI5/MI6 . . . it was literally all about special forces training, etc . . . and even some parts of the SAS/SBS training is still very classified . . . so we don't know everything about how's it's done even now . . .
@@KGardner01010 SAS and SBS are less secretive than the SRR and E Squadron which are also part of the UK special forces. SRR are reconnaissance while E Squadron are the equivalent to CIA spies.
The movie is called 6 days
SAS guy didn't catch on fire, fire got SAS on it.
sbs "special boat service" you never hear about
The Iranian embassy was the first time the world saw the SAS in action, the negotiations finished when an embassy staff member was killed...... during the siege the SAS had built a mock-up of the building from architect drawings and information from people who had knowledge of the building ( one fortunate bit of information was that the ground floor windows had been retro fitted with bullet proof glass)
The priminister at the time was Margret Thatcher who told the SAS officers that she didn't want to be left with the problem of what to do with prisoners,or the future terrorists demanding the release of the terrorists for innocent civilians....... the only one to be left alive was protected by the embassy women who didn't identify him as one of the group until they were outside in the garden and the amount of cameras around saved him.......
As for humour, one US SF interview tells of the SAS going out on a task wearing the US flag on their gear.... when he asked what was going on the SAS guys laughed and said " hey they've got to blame somebody"!
But he said their humour didn't extend to making jokes about the queen......if you want your ass kicked just insult the queen ( anything else is ok.....)
Neal, I'm sure you have heard the expression "Necessity is the mother of invention..." - Meaning, when your 'back is against the wall' and you have nowhere else to turn, you are forced to find ways of getting the job done or achieving a goal with what you have available... AND somehow _(against all odds),_ you DO get the job done ! Well, Brits have often had to persevere in hard times, in wars and in life generally - but the 'proposed' 1939 British poster _(although, and most people dont't even know this - was NEVER actually used)_ sums it up - "Keep Calm and Carry On"!
"I guess the SAS are the guys who mastered hostage negotiation". Not exactly....they will certainly finish it though. Probably with a double tap through your mouth.
You should check out the British Gurkhas Regiment selection process in Nepal.
Try reacting to a uk programme called
“SAS: Who Dares Wins”
If you want to see what sort of things are involved in the training 💯👍🏼🇬🇧
I'd love to know who's behind the scenes. These front line members are amazing. But it's like a film. The actors are the ones we see but they don't make the film ont heir own. 🤔.
Thanks for another good one.
The thing about the Brits is their bravery and professionalism is unmatched. Special forces are trained to withstand torture and not give any information.
The Iranian embassy seige in 1980 ish.
6 days good film.
The isrealis were trained by the SAS.
Watch the vid of them going into the Iranian embassy - mad stuff.
They also did stuff don’t approve of.
Amongst? Good?
The US Military tend s to throw money and manpower at stuff so they have large well equipped armed forces. The British don't have the resources to do that so have a small, very highly trained armed forces who aim to be the best of the best.
This is why the US and British work well together. The US provide the numbers and resources and the British provide very highly trained specialists.
Do Americans know what the word literally means? I believe he meant “metaphorically, not a snowballs chance in hell” not literally. Does my head in!
Check out obi one Nairobi. Christian Chraighaid.
Interesting story, SAS and the West side boys ???...
It’s Iraq not Eyeraq!
Mongrels are very intelligent dogs..
Expect the unexpected, think on your feat.
Over confidence?? meh.
As humans in a self preservation state, we have adrenaline as an asset fast furious instant, no contemplating. Do or die. 😅
no mention of MI6, misleading title, shame.
Yes the British are amongst the very best special forces operators and "good" at "war" but the US special forces comprise of more than twice the entire British military! We only lose due to numbers!
Not true the British were training the American forces things like unarmed combat as early as WW2. It`s been an ongoing thing for a long time.
NOT amongst the best, they ARE the best - SAS might be second only to the SBS & the SBS are second to nobody. Throwing money at things only works so far, there is a channel run by a US marine and he explained the difference between the US marines and the real marines. The former do most of their 'training' in the gym which apparently gives them great upper body strength BUT the real marines do all round training which gives them, among other things, stamina which counts for a lot in the field. I think there is a video comparing the two because he was commenting on that video and pointing out exactly how and why the real marines were so superior. And as a US marine himself he knew what he was talking about and it motivated him to change his own exercise regime away from just the gym to being more inclusive. It was an interesting video and the commentary from an actual US marine explaining WHY the RM are better was why, he really knew what he was talking about. Wish I could remember the name of the channel, I haven't seen him post this year at all so maybe he's stopped [possibly on active duty rather in a barracks in the US] because he brought a different perspective to the entire debate.