SAS training
redgrant63
Posts: 5MI6 Agent
An interesting tidbit from the 100th episode of the excellent military history podcast regarding the test SAS aspirants have to pass:
-they have to complete a 40mile mountainous hike with 80 pounds of equipment. This hike has to be completed in 120 days
-Right afterwards they are shipped in the tropical forest in the heart of malaysia where they have to survive 1 week with SAS officer hunting them.
-finally they are interrogated by the SAS officer "hunters" to the point of torture.
If they pass all three tests successfully they become full fledged SAS members.
No wonder Bond made it through CR.
http://www.militaryhistorypodcast.blogspot.com/
-they have to complete a 40mile mountainous hike with 80 pounds of equipment. This hike has to be completed in 120 days
-Right afterwards they are shipped in the tropical forest in the heart of malaysia where they have to survive 1 week with SAS officer hunting them.
-finally they are interrogated by the SAS officer "hunters" to the point of torture.
If they pass all three tests successfully they become full fledged SAS members.
No wonder Bond made it through CR.
http://www.militaryhistorypodcast.blogspot.com/
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I know all this due to a talk with Chris Ryan about the SAS selection process I was at earlier this year.
is there any interrogation training?
and yeah there is interigation training where your stripped of all clothing and put in a room. they normally have an agresive interigator a passive interigator and a woman.
the the Agressive one will just shout at the trainee and beat him up etc. the passive one will come in with a bar of chocolate and a cup of coffee and say the trainee can have it if they sign a piece of paper and leave the training. and the woman will basically slag off the size of your manhood. if they provoke a response from them their off the course.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
More accurately, a 40 mile hike with 120 pounds of equipment in 8 hours.
Don't forget, Bond is in the SBS, and they're much tougher than their gravel-belly cousins
And apparently his surname rimes with anchor,according to a guy who may or may not be a member of the "Det" who I met a few weeks ago,he also had a nice selection of "toys
That sounds incredibly difficult. (obviously) If you run (on average throughout eight hours) a ten minute mile, you get 6 miles an hour, meaning 48 miles in 8 hours. That would be hard enough without any gear.