ludo21
7:08 Tue Feb 5
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Takashi Miike 2:40 Tue Feb 5
haven't read it yet but recently bought SAS : ROGUE HEROES
This is indeed an excellent book... it inspired me to read Fitroy McLean's Eastern Approaches. A very different type of book but absolutely fascinating about his time In Yugoslavia with Tito's partisans.
There were some fucking amazing people around in WW2 who did not shy away and rose to the challenge, that is for sure!
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Northern Sold
6:36 Tue Feb 5
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BBC series a year or so ago... was very good
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eastham75
6:00 Tue Feb 5
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Takashi Miike 2:40 Tue Feb 5
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haven't read it yet but recently bought SAS : ROGUE HEROES
Read it a couple of years ago very good,
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Northern Sold
3:05 Tue Feb 5
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SDKFZ 222
Cheers will have a look
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Takashi Miike
2:40 Tue Feb 5
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haven't read it yet but recently bought SAS : ROGUE HEROES
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SDKFZ 222
2:39 Tue Feb 5
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Northern Sold 2:21 Tue Feb 5
On Facebook there is a page called: ‘Walter Mitty Hunters club’, which is run by ex forces types who out these people. They might be able to help you?
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Northern Sold
2:21 Tue Feb 5
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Ex Forces boys.... oh and girls I suppose....
Got someone I know who is coming across as a bit of a Walter Mitty... reckons he was in the Royal Marines and served out in Afghan... reckons got captured and tortured along with some others by Taliban and was rescued by Special Forces... I have not known or cannot find of any record of RM's getting rescued by SF's?? Latest now he has said that whilst he was a RM he helped train para regiment recruits?? Now as far I knew the para's and the RM's are two totally different entities... one Army and the other navy... that and the two of them don't exactly get on?? As far as I ever known it's Para catterick and P-Coy staff?? So before I buy him a Bullshit meter for his birthday anyone know if this bloke is speaking heep big truth??
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Northern Sold
7:04 Wed Jan 30
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My Sister in Law was out there as a Royal Naval Reserve... done a few months IIRC... all I remember was loads of photo's of penguins and seals
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Grumpster
6:59 Wed Jan 30
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My cousin has been based at the Falklands with the skeleton crew they now have there, though way back when the RAF still used phantoms.
Said it was the most bored and frozen he'd ever been.
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Westside
6:29 Wed Jan 30
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The French supplied them with the Exocet.
The French also supplied Mirages with pilots, to the RAF/RN before the shooting started, so British pilots could find out the Mirages (used by the Argentinians) weaknesses and exploit them. As a result, not a single Harrier was lost in air to air combat in the Falklands war.
Some British ships were also armed with French Exocets, so we were well aware of their capabilities and how to try to counter them.
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J.Riddle
5:42 Wed Jan 30
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cholo, wouldn't be surprised. The French supplied them with the Exocet.
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cholo
5:07 Wed Jan 30
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J.Riddle
In fairly sure I've read certain argentine units had snipers equipped with night vision scopes, not sure they were at goose Green specifically though.
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J.Riddle
2:25 Wed Jan 30
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NS, didn't see that will have a look.
We had the advantage of night vision and they didn't I believe, as was new tech gifted from the yanks. Not taking anything away from our boys, complete and utter heroics.
British pilots first used night vision goggles during the Falklands Conflict in 1982 when Royal Navy helicopter pilots used the then leading-edge technology to fly UKSF teams onto the islands. Since then, the technology has improved, getting clearer and the equipment lighter. Even so, flying long distances at low level is both a mental and physical strain.
They were also used on the attack by 42 commando at mount Harriett.
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Northern Sold
1:59 Wed Jan 30
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`but may in some way explain the first night attacks from British troops since the world wars I believe'.
Korean war so they said in that doc that Cholo put up...
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yngwies Cat
1:56 Wed Jan 30
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Lads if you like reading war fiction particularly from the Second World War, would recommend the Airborne Trilogy by Robert Radcliffe. I've been listening as a audio, pretty gripping.
The final book comes out in March and centres around the assault on Arrnhem.
https://www.fantasticfiction.com/r/robert-radcliffe/bridge.htm
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ludo21
1:14 Wed Jan 30
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I'm sure I read that the Argies actually had better night vision equipment than us but being better trained at fighting at night it was the policy to do all the attacking under cover of darkness.... probably one of the main factors that led Col H Jones to take his rash action. Dawn had just broken and he felt he needed to do something otherwise his men would have been out in the open with the whole day ahead.
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J.Riddle
1:03 Wed Jan 30
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Brave men out in the Falklands, attacking over open land without cover with little back up limited supplies. I did read before that the Americans secretly gifted night vision glasses which had just been invented. I believe the pilots and troops had these, I don't know how much they helped, but may in some way explain the first night attacks from British troops since the world wars I believe.
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Northern Sold
11:38 Wed Jan 30
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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Parachute-Regiment-Keep-Calm-Theyre-only-Crap-Hats-pre-shrunk-Cotton-T-Shirt-/191377915285
Ag Ag... blinding
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sanfrancis-co-uk
6:02 Wed Jan 30
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Para's just used to call over regiments,Hats.
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normannomates
5:49 Wed Jan 30
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2 Para only went down south through pressure...they were in Belize at the time...and were not spearhead battalion.
bad as the RGJ for knobs in high places..
R.Anglians ended up with short straw..
we got lucky in the Falklands..make no mistake...everything against us..the taffs taken out the game along with a lot of the logistics.
only the professionalism and hardcore squaddie attitude saw em through...tabbing serious kms in bone country. and then being switched on to engage the enemy at the end of it.
not many benny
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normannomates
4:35 Wed Jan 30
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*our Nepalese muckers
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