John McAleese.

Castiel said:
Which seems kind of strange as TF 88 is made up of various SF including elements of the SBS....TF Black is now a joint SAS/SBS unit. I wouldn't take too much notice of Mark Urbans take on banter or the jokes made over a rifle ending up in insurgents hands which they later recovered.

It all boils down to age old para/marine banter...
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Yep, my cousin is an ex marine, he described the rivalry as being pretty hot with the paras. I suppose at the time of the iraq occupation, the sbs mainly concentrated on afghanistan while the sas operated in iraq, coming under us jsoc command in the baghdad area.
 
Strife212 said:
Obviously I'm saying this comfortably sitting in a chair at home, but surely if you know that it's just a test and they aren't really going to kill or seriously injure you, how can it be that difficult?
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Google 'waterboarding'. People who are subject to this tend to know it's only a towel over your face with some dripping water, yet it still gives the required results.
 
Strife212 said:
Obviously I'm saying this comfortably sitting in a chair at home, but surely if you know that it's just a test and they aren't really going to kill or seriously injure you, how can it be that difficult?
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I'd imagine it's quite easy to become disorientated and actually believe that you're in the real thing, the brain is a powerful tool!
 
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I'm pretty sure that this related to "Mac". It was from something I watched many moons a go, but it stuck with me and I have no reason to doubt it's accuracy.

After the Embassy siege all the guys involved went back to their 'staging base' (not a clue what the real term is). They were all there watching themselves on the TV and having a beer, when in walks Maggie Thatcher (the PM) with some other cronies, who wanted to say a personal thank you to them. She walked into the center of the room and was about to address them, but in doing so blocked the view of the TV for a couple of the guys sat around, to which Mac loudly retorted, "Get out the ******* way!!".
She duly did so without a word.

RIP Mac
 
I was watching some videos on YouTube following the link on the 1st page of this thread, they ask him if he or any of the guys were scared/nervous before they went into the Embassy and he said they were all too busy watching the World Snooker Championships in the leadup to the assault to worry about terrorists!
 
Mr Blonde said:
I'm pretty sure that this related to "Mac". It was from something I watched many moons a go, but it stuck with me and I have no reason to doubt it's accuracy.

After the Embassy siege all the guys involved went back to their 'staging base' (not a clue what the real term is). They were all there watching themselves on the TV and having a beer, when in walks Maggie Thatcher (the PM) with some other cronies, who wanted to say a personal thank you to them. She walked into the center of the room and was about to address them, but in doing so blocked the view of the TV for a couple of the guys sat around, to which Mac loudly retorted, "Get out the ******* way!!".
She duly did so without a word.

RIP Mac
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Love this story.

The man was a legend, a true Brit. Harder than a coffin nail. Its people like this our Youth should be looking upto!
 
Mr Blonde said:
I'm pretty sure that this related to "Mac". It was from something I watched many moons a go, but it stuck with me and I have no reason to doubt it's accuracy.

After the Embassy siege all the guys involved went back to their 'staging base' (not a clue what the real term is). They were all there watching themselves on the TV and having a beer, when in walks Maggie Thatcher (the PM) with some other cronies, who wanted to say a personal thank you to them. She walked into the center of the room and was about to address them, but in doing so blocked the view of the TV for a couple of the guys sat around, to which Mac loudly retorted, "Get out the ******* way!!".
She duly did so without a word.

RIP Mac
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Indeed

I also believe Maggie Thatcher watched it with them and requested this photo to be taken of her with them - it was never meant to get out.

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During the balcombe street seige in december 1975, it's reputed that the ira gunmen gave up, after hearing on radio/television that the sas were on standby to mount a rescue operation.
 
Yup, the story about Mac telling the person in front to 'move' so he could see the screen is true. :D Apparently she didn't bat an eyelid, simply apologized and moved her head.

Iirc Maggie used to refer to the SAS as 'her boys'.
 
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