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Originally Posted by Stan187
That's really interesting how they put people back in their unit, but it makes sense, they only keep the best. I wonder how much SAS knowledge/technique actually gets cross-trained to the guys who are in units to which ex-operators have been RTU'd
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certainly whenever i've come into contact with officers who done tours with THEM i've noticed - on the whole - those officers to be more relaxed with their men, more likely to encourage and applaud personal initiative from the most junior ranks, and be a very odd mix of officer and troop Sergeant - that is one who is able to let his NCO's get on with the job because he has absolute confidence in them, yet has the somewhat ferocious weapons and field skills not normally associated with the Officers Mess.
soldiers tend to flock around them for the above reasons, but the 'skills transfer' shouldn't be taken too far, 22SAS are quite vociferous about not being an 'uber-infantry unit', indeed they publicly maintain that for a number of the operations they conducted in A'stan a decent county infantry regiment would of been better suited and would probably have achieved better results than they did.
personally i wouldn't absolutely disregard a political angle on this story, assuming it has some element of truth it, remember the events surrounding Tpr Ben Griffen...