My goodness seeing myself after all those years 😊 ex 1 sqn Btp

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.

Too bad this was discontinued. I hope Platatac makes an updated version and sells it on their site soon.

Not available in legacy cam tiger stripe or Rhodesian

What US vendors carry your stuff?

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.

I went through SWC (US Army) in the 1990s and we were required to view this, among others, in our off time.

Flip flops? Who the dickens says that in Australia. 😂

Back when white people were still allowed on television.

Remember watching this 20 years ago, Always made me not give up, remembering those that failed

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

Having the same narrator as Malcolm Douglas is just icing on the cake

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 .

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

Loved the SLR.

It would be great to have more Aussies like this 🇦🇺 👍

Those 1980s ration packs were all 10 ciggies 2 biscuits 1 tin Vegemite 30 dexys.

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! :)

Great documentary...was kinda surprising to see how formal it is when they pass in comparison to how 22 SAS apparently do it.

One guy on the mountain section was wearing jungle boots - no support. What do these guy have against rifle slings? Good film.

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 ....

Most years I ski around Falls Creek patrolling around 20 km from the village, camping out. Australia lacks troops trained in the snow.

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.

The poem is miss-quoted. It’s not “buried with snow”, it “barred with snow”.

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.

Brilliant film! I can't imagine what that would've been like in the Australian heat. Thank you for posting it up!

Bring back mandatory conscription lol it might draw a line of who can cope and who can't

Something today's men should experience if not for the experience alone

FACEBOOK ALGORITHMS MY ARSE. WHY FACEBOOK WHY SUGGEST THIS VIDEO OUTVOF THE BLUE? AM I TOO MUCH FOR YOUR SHIT MARXIST OVERWATCHERS?

This is freaking FORTY(40)Y old, what's with yt algorithms? 🙄

Thank fuck they're on our side

@55:30, is that the fella from ALONE AUSTRALIA?

About time Australia became a republic, stop this limey control

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.

Love cold war stuff Great work

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.

6:00 Rhodesian brushstroke camo.

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.

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.

@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?

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.

@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.✌🏻🍻

its the S∀S

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.

yes!! the full movie !! legend.

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.

..no word about that famous flora and fauna which tries to hurt n kill you all the time ?!

Rhodie brushstroke, DPM, M81 Woodland, OD Greens, ERDL, man these guys have every camo under the sun. Excellent doc!

Made before the ben Roberts Smith era!

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'.