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Bramage
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Dutch-Corporal wrote:
Bramage wrote:
RobT wrote:Is that possible? I thought you had to be from a comonwealth country to join the british forces?

The SAS dont have a official website. The only websites you'll find are done by so called "ex-SAS men" and little kids who watched "SAS are you tough enough?" and know it all. Beware of cheap immitations mate!

if you did want to go into the SAS i think you would have to serve for 3 years beforehand in the british forces to go into selection(?) I dont know much on the matter maybe chunky and the rest may know.

Ps dont the dutch have special forces?
Yes the Dutch do have special forces, the Green Berets aka 'Commandos'.
And some of them are lucky enough to get sent to the SAS and follow tha training course, but after that they return to the KCT and stay in the Netherlands, but they are legal to wear the SAS Beret.
There ain't any Dutch Commandos who did the SAS selection and so have the right to wear the SAS beret. Yeah, there are guys who followed classes in the SAS (like E&E) but other stories than that are just b"%llsh@t.
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Check, I read that on a forum (don't know wich one anymore, I thought about Inhail), but sorry for the mistake then :wink:
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That's ok. I know the Inhail-forum and know also that there are a lot of people there who think they know everything about SF etc. but don't even have the legal age to join the army... :)
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Turning pedantry into an art form................

You don't have to pass selection to wear the beret. You have to pass selection to wear the badge.

Aye.

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pondlife252 wrote:Turning pedantry into an art form................

You don't have to pass selection to wear the beret. You have to pass selection to wear the badge.

Aye.

:o
Ok, didn't know that. Here it is quite different. You wear a brown beret with badge during "selection" and have to earn the (green) beret itself.
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