My goodness seeing myself after all those years 😊 ex 1 sqn Btp
@southaussie510815 күн бұрын
As an Airfield Defence Guard of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF ADG) back early 1970s twice we played enemy for the SA. Mullawea (i think east of Geraldton) and Collie River/ Stirling Ranges. Great times and great memories now that I am 72yo.
@EquipaPatriotАй бұрын
Too bad this was discontinued. I hope Platatac makes an updated version and sells it on their site soon.
@SenorTucanoАй бұрын
Not available in legacy cam tiger stripe or Rhodesian
@yoinkyАй бұрын
What US vendors carry your stuff?
@zb1307Ай бұрын
To any Sasr vets reading this thank you for your service. Don’t believe what the disgusting abc and the traitor politicians and bureaucrats say in the media. 99% of Australians absolutely respect you guys and love you for what you do for us. The politicians put you impossible situations and expect ridiculous lolly pop and rainbow outcomes. Average Australians understand you guys have been scape goated and it’s disgusting. These same bastard politicians wonder why they can’t get Aussie men to sign up to go fight their wars now.
@seanwatts8342Ай бұрын
I went through SWC (US Army) in the 1990s and we were required to view this, among others, in our off time.
@Leftyintollerable2 ай бұрын
Flip flops? Who the dickens says that in Australia. 😂
@isntimportant2 ай бұрын
Back when white people were still allowed on television.
@MrOptimusheath2 ай бұрын
Remember watching this 20 years ago, Always made me not give up, remembering those that failed
@chriswatson62312 ай бұрын
Reminds me of camp carlton which i did aged 10. Anyone from hobart, tasmania who went to a certain boys school in sandy bay i am sure will relate. Long running in full clothing, orienteering, eating food that made you spew, and of course who could forget the games of "mugby" ( 4 team no rules rugby union- you get the idea ). Of course it doesn't compare with sas selection, but we were kids and this film brings back so many memories of the camp that was meant to instill self reliance. And it worked. I learned that when your sick, tired, wet ,cold, sleep deprived, and you know you're on your own, its not a fatal condition. And if your going to cry, (we were 10 year olds) you do it silently when running in the rain
@meinhoffendant3 ай бұрын
Having the same narrator as Malcolm Douglas is just icing on the cake
@zb1307Ай бұрын
I knew I recognised it haha awesome
@chriscollardey81553 ай бұрын
I remember my fourteen kilometres jog army boit's rifle Thirty five kg back pack. But also Ten kilometres zodiac against half knot current upstream. But before all that we had seventy kilometres march. But that was in my young days .
@double-O-9_and_a_half3 ай бұрын
SAS.. they don't f*ck around. When they kick a door in, it's a wrap for any opposition... that is fact. They dish out professional ass whippings
@colinjones77413 ай бұрын
Loved the SLR.
@AusFeral233 ай бұрын
It would be great to have more Aussies like this 🇦🇺 👍
@Nosedruul3 ай бұрын
Those 1980s ration packs were all 10 ciggies 2 biscuits 1 tin Vegemite 30 dexys.
@liverpoolscottish64303 ай бұрын
The Aussies- Top Notch 'shit kickers!' RESPECT from Britain- it's a privilege to call Australia a friend and ally- even if you buggers do have an annoying habit of winning The Ashes far too often! :)
@trident13143 ай бұрын
Great documentary...was kinda surprising to see how formal it is when they pass in comparison to how 22 SAS apparently do it.
@timp39313 ай бұрын
One guy on the mountain section was wearing jungle boots - no support. What do these guy have against rifle slings? Good film.
@turbocalves3 ай бұрын
If Andy McNab is to believed, the lack of sling is used by UK SAS to make things harder. It's a small thing. But from my very limited experience it makes sense. (I once carried a Carl Gustaf for a day without a sling, hated life)...
@kwakagreg3 ай бұрын
back in the early 60s I was a sport parachutist at Camden. The original Sydney Skydivers . One day a Lieutenant turned up with a couple of troopers (cant remember how many didn't write it in my log book) and asked could we show them how to sky dive using what then was called the French FROG position which we were teaching ourselves from American magazines and through trial and error. They were using the delta method which gave little control. They were great blokes and very disciplined. One incident stands out in my memory, after jumping on the Saturday we retired to a local pub at which a local truckie miner started making rude remarks about one of our lady jumpers called Kay. Suddenly this trooper jumped up grabbed him by the collar and lifted him up against the wall and looked like he was going to drive his fist through his head. The Lieutenant (Danny if my memory serves me)) saw this and just yelled out 'Name" put him down!" the trooper sprang to attention with "SIR" and just dropped him on the floor! and went and sat down again. We had no trouble with the miners after that! I later heard that they had come down privately without authorisation and I'm not sure but heard he was court martialed. I hope not because he was only trying to do the right thing and they were thoroughly nice blokes. Many years later in Thailand I played squash with an ex CO and in Defence I worked with a Lt Colonel engineer who had been in SASR so long he needed experience back in the engineering world !! A nicer bloke it was hard to imagine. His idea of brisk walk was to lead a team of volunteers from (I think) Batemans Bay to Kosciusko across country... ..took them a couple of days>>> P.S I'm 84 now so please excuse any memory lapses or omissions but it still seems to be very clear like last week. About that time I didn't quite manage the commando course on Middle head (couldn't get up that Damn rope!!! ) so they were much fitter than me ....
@perpetualgrin58043 ай бұрын
Most years I ski around Falls Creek patrolling around 20 km from the village, camping out. Australia lacks troops trained in the snow.
@ray.shoesmith3 ай бұрын
Yeah, because Aussie troops do a shitload of fighting in snow
@Aaronsmith-cu8ii3 ай бұрын
How refreshing, not one pixelated face, not one altered voice, no nondescript baseball cap or flannel top, not one tacticool beard no one trying to hide their identity but just a bunch of no nonsense blokes out there to work.
@maxaug1003 ай бұрын
Unfortunately it's a security risk so they don't get targeted when they are back at home
@OldFellaDave3 ай бұрын
It's because it was an internal Army filming project, not a commercial or news organisation, and none of these men are still serving as it was 40 years ago now.
@maxaug1003 ай бұрын
@@OldFellaDave It was literally filmed by channel 9 I get what you're saying but i doubt they blurred faces back then
@nacholibre19623 ай бұрын
The poem is miss-quoted. It’s not “buried with snow”, it “barred with snow”.
@Laconic-ws4bz3 ай бұрын
Met a bloke in Canberra who was an original member from Britian. He was a quietly spoken gentleman who became a social worker. I stayed at his home for a couple of weeks and saw some of his SAS memento's. This was in the early 80's.
@davecook74873 ай бұрын
Brilliant film! I can't imagine what that would've been like in the Australian heat. Thank you for posting it up!
@friendlybut67533 ай бұрын
Bring back mandatory conscription lol it might draw a line of who can cope and who can't
@friendlybut67533 ай бұрын
I wonder if these generations could keep humanity alive asif it needed to be kept alive as it used to be
@friendlybut67533 ай бұрын
Something today's men should experience if not for the experience alone
@christopherwhippy31813 ай бұрын
FACEBOOK ALGORITHMS MY ARSE. WHY FACEBOOK WHY SUGGEST THIS VIDEO OUTVOF THE BLUE? AM I TOO MUCH FOR YOUR SHIT MARXIST OVERWATCHERS?
@larstueschjth26583 ай бұрын
This is freaking FORTY(40)Y old, what's with yt algorithms? 🙄
@ray.shoesmith3 ай бұрын
omfg 🤣 Its an old VHS movie that was uploaded onto youtube 12 days ago. KZbin didn't even launch until 2005 ya fkn Gronk 🤣
@eddieandrews33353 ай бұрын
Thank fuck they're on our side
@sebduncan57963 ай бұрын
@55:30, is that the fella from ALONE AUSTRALIA?
@LifeBetter-lh5zs3 ай бұрын
About time Australia became a republic, stop this limey control
@steveforster97643 ай бұрын
Why?
@flowerpower87222 ай бұрын
People say stuff like that, but nobody ever states an alternative proposal. Personally I prefer the current system, developed over several hundred years, to handing the reins to some self absorbed rabble.
@tmac87183 ай бұрын
This is how an Army builds tough warriors. No better way to do it. The powder puffs of today's Army need to go back to this.
@terminal.man023 ай бұрын
Love cold war stuff Great work
@gregmcmanus98133 ай бұрын
I remember watching this in the 80's and then completed selection in 1990, great memories of The DS trying their best to get you to pop smoke.
@johnsmith-ht3sy3 ай бұрын
6:00 Rhodesian brushstroke camo.
@chrisg35173 ай бұрын
Argh nightmares of Northam in the mid 90’s as the place was falling apart. Heaps of the buildings disappeared between 1996 and 1998. I swear I met Cpl Cole in 1996.
@user-lr2jv7dh7t3 ай бұрын
That’s right, we used to use the old 30cals then. Used to have them dual mounted with a 50cal on the buckets, bloody things firing 2 inches from my head, no wonder I’m deaf as a post now. Not to mention when you slam your top lip into the cupola ring cause your fkhead driver buries it nose first in a ditch.
@precessionoftheequinoxes32243 ай бұрын
Or the butt of a Mag58 in the middle of your chest 😅.
@buzz59693 ай бұрын
@1:13 whats the purpose of having a vehicle that dont work? And they ALL had the same rations, why would I gove someone else mine?
@me-cq7wv3 ай бұрын
All over the comnonwealth the SAS are legends. Their endurance and being able to fight and leg it over vast distances with kit is just astounding. To think they are the best in their regenment at the time of selection and when they pass their just starting in the SAS. Amazing I take my hat off to you guys. Regards from Scotland.
@buzz59693 ай бұрын
@26:14 Dude smoking a cig lol. Thats should be a disqualifying habit as in the bush that shit can be smelled for miles and give away the entire Team.✌🏻🍻
@test-2013 ай бұрын
its the S∀S
@TonyDonovan-yv2es3 ай бұрын
Completed the Cadre course in 1967. We were aged between 19 and 30 years, it was a six week duration course. Conducted at Swanbourne and on Rotness Is. We all passed and were awarded our Sandie Beret, most of us posted to 3 SQN.
@chaffcutter58.3 ай бұрын
Noddy says Hi !
@kingmany13 ай бұрын
yes!! the full movie !! legend.
@appptyltd94363 ай бұрын
I shot much of the footage in the Stirling Ranges and at Northam, including dangling off a knotted rope halfway down a grain silo. It was the first of many similar "real-life" military documentaries. The concept and much of the "producing" was the work of the then Major John Weiland. Sadly, Colonel Weiland died recently; he was an inspiring boss and became a great friend. Watching the film again brings back many powerful memories of the project, not the least of the determination and stamina of the men on selection and the regiment's very professional DS.
@friendlybut67533 ай бұрын
How do you feel about that because humanity is getting scarce these days and what remains is animalistic
@friendlybut67533 ай бұрын
Thank you for everything you have done by the way
@aussie_xsf3 ай бұрын
Well done, your footage shows the selection course ( well, back in 84 ) in all its glory, it is almost impossible to give viewers an insight to it, however you nailed it..
@friendlybut6753Ай бұрын
Some of us still remember reality
@easygroove3 ай бұрын
..no word about that famous flora and fauna which tries to hurt n kill you all the time ?!
@kevman01543 ай бұрын
Rhodie brushstroke, DPM, M81 Woodland, OD Greens, ERDL, man these guys have every camo under the sun. Excellent doc!
@EEST-Militia3 ай бұрын
the men's camo, unlike nowdays, rubbish multicam makes me sick.
@OldFellaDave3 ай бұрын
also early DPCU Trial Cams
@chaffcutter58.3 ай бұрын
The bloke's that appear to be wearing Rhodesian cam,are really wearing Malaysian cam, i believe, Used to do A.M.E. for the "cadre" course, even saw some super Troopers wearing ww2 marine cam.
@kevman01543 ай бұрын
@@chaffcutter58. wow i just searched foe malaysian brushstroke. You are right! Never knew that camo even existed. Good eye.
@angloaust15753 ай бұрын
Made before the ben Roberts Smith era!
@wiggles71723 ай бұрын
Question everything.
@leonardgmiller89242 ай бұрын
Made before the Muslim era if you had ever read the Quran you would know to fight in this manner against Islamic holy warriors would've meant your death all Ben Roberst-Smith did was fight the way they did which if we want to win we have to or we will never win another war. There are no 'rules of war' in jihad
@PersonalityMalfunction3 ай бұрын
Back in the bad old days when performance mattered, when merit was more important than 'attributes' and results were accurate, without being adjusted and corrected for 'privilege'. Our current generation of soldiers are fortunately ranked according to social credit scores, not just by accomplishment and results. We are indeed lucky to have progressed beyond this barbaric practice of not accounting for 'identity'.