I believe this comment is undeserved. Storbust didn’t made up anything, since we’re still waiting for the fact he intends to make up…
I don’t know if the SAS includes snipers but my guess is they do (and if they don’t I’m sure the British and American armies have some lying about somewhere). A vaguely recollected memory of something I once read (perhaps here on this board but a quick search didn’t turn it up) said that sniper action is VERY demoralizing to an army. It is very tough on moral when an officer drops dead during morning roll-call in front of his troops and the troops can’t figure out where in the hell the shot came from. After a few of those officers tend to get a bit twitchy as well (can’t blame them).
I have a feeling that even the promise of paradise won’t help moral in this case.
It’s not so much that the officer doing the morning formation dropping dead that causes morale trouble, it’s when his head bursts in a fine spray of blood, brain and bone fragments.
The primary function of sniping is to convince the enemy that no place is safe and to disrupt operations. It is a very nasty business. Captured snipers are unlikely to make it to the POW compound. The line grunt regards the enemy’s snipers as a particularly vile form of common murderer.
man, I don’t care what the experts say. Anyone who can write a book like the SAS Survival Handbook is the best damned special forces unit in the world. Bar none.
The SAS camouflaged their Land Rovers in the Sudan and Aiden by painting them pink, which apparantly made them harder to see, hence the reference to ‘Pink Panthers’.
Gotta respect any unit that can drive around in pink cars and not get their asses kicked.
I remember having seen a documentary about a training center in South-America (Brazil? Peru?) where special forces from various countries were trained for jungle operations, and apparently even them thought this training was particulary hard. Does someone know where it is situated?
Belize I believe. Formerly know as British Honduras.
Brazil has its CIGS (Centro de Instrução de Gerrra na Selva) school for jungle warfare. The U.S. sends people there on exchange programs.
CIGS’ website (in Portuguese) is at http://www.cigs.ensino.eb.br/index.html
One thing that separates Brazil’s special forces from SAS, Delta, GSG-9, et al is that CIGS has its own zoo! If you’re in Manaus, stop by to see animals captured during CIGS operations. scroll down to near the end of http://www.amazonguide.com.br/mef/city/bcity.htm#anchor709196
You are correct in your guess - they do have snipers.
What does the SAS do? Anything they want, normally including the impossible.
An earlier post mentions they’ve been in Afghanistan. When? For what?
We could learn well from what they did in Oman.
P.S. I’m getting the hang of his style now:
I think they meant very recently (about the SAS being in Afghanistan). A few days ago there were reports that British soldiers were fired upon. The details were sketchy at best and I don’t know if they were independently confirmed or not. Still, it made the major news services so that’s probably where it came from.
As to what they are doing there it is a secret (or at least the British government isn’t saying). That said a military expert on NPR speculated that they are probably there for reconnaissance at this time. The pundit on NPR was very explicit that he was just guessing but figured at this point it seemed a reasonable guess.
What did the SAS do in Oman that we could learn from?
I still think it’s psychologically very convenient that (if the reports are to be believed) they announced their arrival in an exchange that didn’t cost them casualties. Not far from Kabul.
That’s got to hurt.
Of course the SAS would go to Afganistan. They helped train the Taliban soldiers in the first place!
Let’s hope they didn’t train them very well - not that they seem to need it. They’ve got home court advantage, after all. Has anyone ever been able to win a war under such circumstances? (Fighting a guerilla force, that is.) I don’t think so, but then, I’m not real big on history.
Anyway, anyone that’s seen the Princess Bride knows not to get involved in a land war in Asia.
I’m sorry. I seem to have lost the train of this thing. What fact is it you are waiting for me to make up?
It seems that your are right, Spavined Gelding.
What’s amazing about this (–to me, anyway–) is that I’ve believed that BG Roosevelt was caught in a stick of misplaced bombs (and died thereof) for some 25 years! Perhaps I misread or, maybe, incorrectly interpolated GA Omar Bradley’s writing.
This one:
Perhaps you didn’t notice the reaction this got…
As a break from studying your history books, perhaps you could usefully check the following in a dictionary:
‘fact’, ‘evidence’, ‘cite’, ‘spurious’, ‘unsubstantiated’, ‘allegation’ and ‘ignorance’.
[inigo montoya]
My name is George Dubblya
You crash my towers,
prepare to die!
[/inigo montoya]
Earlier in this thread I had posted:
Twenty-five years !
Perhaps I took the legend of* Pinoccio* too seriously when first exposed to it as a kid; but my nose keeps getting the feeling that it wants to grow longer.
On further thought, the number “25 years” is not quite accurate. Perhaps I slipped a decimal point or something**:** maybe to the right (250 years) or maybe to the left (2.5 years), but the number “25” is not quite accurate. The fact, however, is.
Sea Sorbust,
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you make an vague allegation, but seem averse to clarifying it
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when challenged, you waffle about something else, and produce the depressing follow-up:
‘There are many ways to “assassinate” someone other than killing them.’
(Since you don’t mention reputation, you’re left with definition 1 in the dictionary, where assassinate means kill.)
Are you averse to using accurate English? -
you post to the thread, but seem averse to reading it. Please respond to our requests.
P.S. there’s a Pit thread about you - have you read it?