SAS Who Dares Wins

YorkMackem said:
Trust me, the squaddies who go for selection are already super fit and still they struggle massively with it. The show is a million miles away from the challenge of selection. Still entertaining though just to see the absolute naivity of some of them.
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A lot of it, from what I've read, comes down to how you cope mentally doesn't it? Obviously you still need to be fit enough to get through it.
 


YorkMackem said:
Trust me, the squaddies who go for selection are already super fit and still they struggle massively with it. The show is a million miles away from the challenge of selection. Still entertaining though just to see the absolute naivity of some of them.
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This. I had an uncle who went for selection. Got to the last week and was booted off due to injury. Said it was the hardest thing he had done in the army and he was a young fit infantry soldier.
 
Evil Jimmy Krankie said:
This. I had an uncle who went for selection. Got to the last week and was booted off due to injury. Said it was the hardest thing he had done in the army and he was a young fit infantry soldier.
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Definitely injuries, your ability to prepare so that you avoid them and then whether you can continue with them are key. Soldiers are pretty used to a lot of the mental side where you are fucked about from arse hole to breakfast, but once they start with escape and evasion and interrogation that's a whole other level especially when you are completely exhausted and suffering from extreme sleep deprivation.
 
WCC said:
Read Ant, Foxy and Ollie's books now Foxys is easily the best of those 3.
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Ollies is one I still need to read, how good is it? Enjoyed the others, tho I think Ants is just all about bigging up his already inflated ego. Foxies is really good, as long as you know it's about his PTSD and not just all SAS stories.

Billies is the one I was going to read next. Read that one?
 
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Giddup Sausage! said:
Ollies is one I still need to read, how good is it? Enjoyed the others, tho I think Ants is just all about bigging up his already inflated ego. Foxies is really good, as long as you know it's about his PTSD and not just all SAS stories.

Billies is the one I was going to read next. Read that one?
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Ollies is decent mainly about how he grew up and passed SBS selection then what happened afterwards outside special forces but near the end it sounds abit like a sales pitch for his business. Still worth picking up.

I havent read Billys yet but will be getting it soon.
 
YorkMackem said:
Definitely injuries, your ability to prepare so that you avoid them and then whether you can continue with them are key. Soldiers are pretty used to a lot of the mental side where you are fucked about from arse hole to breakfast, but once they start with escape and evasion and interrogation that's a whole other level especially when you are completely exhausted and suffering from extreme sleep deprivation.
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The closest I ever got was applying for the all-arms commando course. I was given a start date of February 1988. So in the November of 1987 I thought it would be a good idea to help someone who had crashed their car. But it wasn’t because I got bastard well run over, knocked out, compound fracture of my right tibia and five of my front teeth knocked out. Leg in plaster for six months then another three or four months of physio. At that point my heart wasn’t in it to train up for it again. So I stayed as a remf for the rest of my time. Looking back now I wish I did try again.
 
Evil Jimmy Krankie said:
The closest I ever got was applying for the all-arms commando course. I was given a start date of February 1988. So in the November of 1987 I thought it would be a good idea to help someone who had crashed their car. But it wasn’t because I got bastard well run over, knocked out, compound fracture of my right tibia and five of my front teeth knocked out. Leg in plaster for six months then another three or four months of physio. At that point my heart wasn’t in it to train up for it again. So I stayed as a remf for the rest of my time. Looking back now I wish I did try again.
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What did they do that for if you were only trying to help?😉
 
Blue Bell Lad said:
What did they do that for if you were only trying to help?😉
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I know. It f***ing knacked as well.
I wouldn’t mind so much but I was on my way to my mates sister’s engagement party, so odds on for lasses who might have been interested in a young single and devilishly handsome young soldier such as myself. Instead I ended up in the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton for a week unable to get out of my bed for a shite.
 
Evil Jimmy Krankie said:
I know. It f***ing knacked as well.
I wouldn’t mind so much but I was on my way to my mates sister’s engagement party, so odds on for lasses who might have been interested in a young single and devilishly handsome young soldier such as myself. Instead I ended up in the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton for a week unable to get out of my bed for a shite.
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😂😂really unlucky marra ,but I hope this taught you a lesson , don't try and yank a 18 stone prop forward from a smouldering wreck by his cock. Was never gonna end well.
 

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