Archive for 'SBS'
Territorial SAS Officer Quits Over Poor Kit
From the Times Online:
The most senior reservist SAS officer in Afghanistan has resigned over the death of three of his colleagues and a female Intelligence Corps soldier who were blown up while travelling in a lightly armoured Snatch Land Rover.
Major Sebastian Morley, who commanded 23 SAS, one of two Special Air Service reserve units, is [...]
Posted: March 7th, 2009 under Andy McNab News, British Army, SAS, SBS.
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Special Boat Service Troops Short-Changed
Special Forces fighting in Afghanistan are among hundreds of troops whose pay is incorrectly docked by a new computerised system, The Daily Telegraph has learnt.
Members of the Special Boat Service who fight the Taliban daily are being short-changed by more than £400 a month and some face defaulting on mortgage payments. They are among 300 [...]
Posted: November 19th, 2007 under SBS, Special Forces.
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SBS Rescues Italian Hostages, Kills Nine Taliban
A daring dawn raid led by the British Special Boat Service in western Afghanistan yesterday resulted in the rescue of two Italian hostages from Taliban hands and the death of nine of the kidnappers.
The multinational rescue team ambushed the convoy transporting the hostages, and after a fierce gun fight nine of the Taliban lay dead [...]
Posted: September 25th, 2007 under SBS, Special Forces.
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Secret war of the SAS
Investigative journalist Michael Smith is the British Press Awards specialist writer of the year. He wrote the following article for the Timesonline.
September 16, 2007
Britain’s elite force is fighting its bloodiest conflict since the second world war in Iraq and has killed thousands of insurgents
Three suicide bombers, three cafes – many dead. That was the warning given [...]
Posted: September 16th, 2007 under Andy McNab Articles, SAS, SBS, Special Forces.
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(Not) Keeping it in the Family
If you thought operating behind enemy lines for days was tough, try keeping your greedy kids from doing the hungry-vulture bit over your leftovers once you’ve ridden the midnight train to Slab City :
A FALKLANDS War hero who was sent to the islands three weeks before the Task Force arrived has put his medals up [...]
Posted: September 7th, 2007 under SBS.
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