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Posted: **Mon 17 Feb, 2003 3:28 pm**

Is it true what the head poncho said?

"70% of the SAS are Scottish"

Posted: **Tue 18 Feb, 2003 9:34 am**

How dare you make comments like that

Posted: **Tue 18 Feb, 2003 11:17 am**

I too wonder why there are more scottish and aussies in the SAS. Double Hard B******?

Posted: **Mon 24 Feb, 2003 3:00 pm**

Im sure many moons ago there used to be a competitive exercise prog on CH4 with british army regiments competing against each other.
I thought that was good as they did everything from navigating to live firing with Charlie Gs.
I think the paras won in the end, but it was only pongo regiments.

Posted: **Mon 24 Feb, 2003 3:25 pm**

They were milling last night! Never laughed so much since........Bremner Bird and Fortune an hour earlier!

Posted: **Mon 24 Feb, 2003 8:03 pm**

Ahoy there qcnr!
I remember that programme. It was a section battle skills challenge thing. As I recall it was actually quite good! Can't remember the name though.

Posted: **Mon 10 Mar, 2003 8:12 pm**

Ahoy there!
Yes I can recall the squeaky voiced Emlyn being involved.

Posted: **Fri 14 Mar, 2003 5:01 pm**

Heard a story that they are going to do the next one in the white stuff then of course they could do one in the gritty stuff the mind boggles

Posted: **Mon 24 Mar, 2003 8:36 pm**

It would be nice to see how the genuine SAS selection contenders would cope with the same tasks. Also be interesting to see how Malay army, RM, US lads and a few others would handle it.

There was a program on Bravo channel with mixed forces competing. Wasn't bad but got in the way of pre-game pint so had to bin it sadly.

Posted: **Wed 26 Mar, 2003 8:46 pm**

There was 1 guy in it who was just kicked out before the final 4, the outdoor pursuits bloke. He seemed to be handleing it well, and the fintess standards of the course was not troubling him in the slightest, but he was kicked out for havin an atitdude.... bullsh*t i think the atitdude was with the staff instructors because he was making it look easy.

Posted: **Wed 26 Mar, 2003 10:58 pm**

jonboy wrote:There was 1 guy in it who was just kicked out before the final 4, the outdoor pursuits bloke. He seemed to be handleing it well, and the fintess standards of the course was not troubling him in the slightest, but he was kicked out for havin an atitdude.... bullsh*t i think the atitdude was with the staff instructors because he was making it look easy.

A distinct possibility (the interest value of the series does rely havily on it appearing to be impossibly difficult), but the DS mentioned eating biscuits on a march, and not looking out for the team. And as footage of people plodding along not doing very much isn't great viewing, areas such as those probably weren't worth showing. And from the short clips of twhen they are plodding along, you can't really tell if they're dong their job unless you're looking out for that sort of thing.

Posted: **Fri 28 Mar, 2003 7:46 pm**

Falkens wrote:I too wonder why there are more scottish and aussies in the SAS. Double Hard B******?

Damn right we are!

Posted: **Tue 15 Apr, 2003 3:55 pm**

What a load of tosh those shows were. Only a very small taste of real selection and none of these so called fit civvies would get through the first leg of the real mccoy. The seond series was so obviously a PC fit up by having a woman pass selection. Like hell those ex SAS would take that bird on patrol with them.

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