Most Dangerous Missions Ever Done by Special Forces

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[@danielkarlsson9326]

Just a quick note on the Noriega part, The AT4 is a recoiless rifle and not a rocket launcher. Best regards.

[@matthewhebert8893]

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[@nedkelly9688]

you wouldn't even know half of the most dangerous missions of special forces as many of Australian SASR are still classified top secret. especially Vietnam they had some very dangerous missions even today barely anyone know about. Special Z Force ww2 Australian did over 1200 missions in Asia Pacific and most still classified to this day.

[@archstanton6102]

The lone SAS operator who volunteered to assist Kenyan forces in a shopping mall hostage situation is worth reading about.

[@ImWithBigRed]

And he did it on his day off 😂

[@giantmanice]

Obiwan Nairobi

[@Das_Beachy]

Christian Craighead is an absolute legend!

[@mlee6050]

​@@ImWithBigRedguess was okay then, like some police when off duty pick to break law as they aren't on duty so not need to be role model

[@EGRJ]

I think Simple History has an episode about him. It's called "Obi Wan Nairobi " vJZgRN8Mgsc

[@OswaldBeef]

The more channels Simon is in, the faster he needs to talk as to get all his work done

[@Iaml3j0]

I watch him at 1.5x speed just to fit them all in my day

[@dodoubleg2356]

RIGHT?!?

[@justingrey6008]

Make it easy on him and change the playback speed so he won't need to talk so fast.

[@dodoubleg2356]

@@justingrey6008 I can get onboard with that OR, he can just not talk like the micro machines guy at an auction. Oh, & slowing him down at that speed means slowing the rest of the video down genius.

[@justingrey6008]

@@dodoubleg2356 it was a tongue in cheek way of saying he could talk normal and then speed it up so he didn't have to rush to get everything in during a working day. In no way would that work.

[@aceundead4750]

The Vatican embassy in Panama got Rickrolled lmfao

[@EddyA1337]

Lmao, didn't even think of that until I saw that comment. Then it became all too obvious!

[@SeverityOne]

It's worth remembering _why_ GSG 9 was created in the first place: because of the disastrous way the Germans handled the 1972 Olympics Israeli hostage crisis. At least the lessons learned from there saved many lives later on.

[@TheRealRedRooster]

Well, it is likewise worth remembering that there weren't ANY other special forces units trained to handle situations like that in 1972 anywhere in the world, with the exceptions of the British SAS and the Sayaret Matkal.

[@neilb1619]

It is also worth remembering that at Mogadishu, GSG9 had 2 SAS "advisors" who instructed them in how to assault the aircraft...

[@CaptainSpyware]

​@@neilb1619 That's NOT correct! GSG 9 had trained aircraft assault for years prior to Mogadishu. Ulrich Wegener and Dieter Fox have had to set the record straight about this multiple times: Morrison and Davies brought Stun grenades along with them but those were not used inside the plane but rather outside, and opposed to suggested by the SAS, Wegener decided for the raid to use all entrys on the aircraft instead of one or two ...

[@einundsiebenziger5488]

@@CaptainSpyware ... entries*. Other than that, agreed. The only thing GSG9 adapted from the SAS were the stun grenades.

[@CaptainSpyware]

@@einundsiebenziger5488 In terms of aircraft assault yes. Both units have learned from each other, though cooperation between GSG 9 and SAS is rather kept in the dark. Wegener has stated in a couple of Interviews with Sören Sünkler that the GSG 9 adapted some SAS methods and techniques and customized them after police standards to be suitable for german law guidelines.

[@MW-cs8zd]

The absolute power of Rick Astley to compel is mind boggling

[@ericrubin6875]

I believe the Entebbe hijackers separated not just Israelis but also Jewish passengers. High praise to the Air France personnel who volunteered to remain with the hostages. Good video!

[@davidlevy9430]

Which is why Jews always know that hatred of Israel isn't really about Israel but rather that plain old Jew hatred

[@alfiourso4587]

Simon, Entebbe. It wasn’t 4 men. It was 3 men and one woman. She was one of the German revolutionaries. Epic event nevertheless. The Israeli commando killed, and who led the raid, happened to be the brother of the current Israeli prime minister.

[@mauicountygis5450]

Happy Channukah

[@IRLangmaid25]

Operation Thunderbolt later renamed Operation Jonathan in his honour and was a Lieutenant Colonel at the age of 30 when he was killed

[@neilb1619]

@@IRLangmaid25 Yoni Netanyahu.

[@kleinweichkleinweich]

RIP Yoni Netanyahu @@neilb1619

[@johnbooth3073]

Yep it’s why Benny has hell bent on hurting the Palestinians ever since. He should not be allowed to be in charge of Israel, he wants to liberate Judah and Samaria. I.e. ethnically cleanse, Palestine, Israel, Jordan etc of non-Jews. Bad man !!

[@sebastiang7394]

The Lufthansa pilot was actually executed in Mogadishu. He sneaked away to give the authorities info on the passengers and the situation. This information helped immensely with planing the rescue mission. Then he returned because he feared retaliation on the other hostages if he didn’t return. They then executed him. That’s a true captain.

[@betaich]

He was not executed in MOgadishu but in Yemen and nobody knows why he stayed out longer after checking the plane after the emergency lading they did there.

[@katchaontheflipside]

The operations room gives a very good, detailed report on some of these raids. Highly recommend it!

[@66kbm]

A very good channel.

[@dahlmasen3084]

Sounds interesting, I’ll check it out👍🏻 Thanks

[@Kakkarot211]

wow, rick rolling stopped a dictator, love it

[@cajohnson1234]

6:30, of the Israeli commandos, the one that was killed, was Yonatan (Johnathan) Netanyahu, yes, brother of one Benjamin Netanyahu. 13:01. For those interested, the base closest to Noriega’s house is now a resort, you can walk to Noriega’s house (now a bat sanctuary) from there. As you can imagine, the marines turned that place into Swiss cheese!

[@uncleghandi5771]

The sole Israeli soldier killed during the Entebbe raid was Jonatan Netanyahu brother of current Israeli prime minister Benyimin Netanyahu.

[@johnnyboy1175]

That last operation on the list was epic just for the fact that they annoyed their target into giving himself up by playing music at max volume that included 'NEVER GONNA GIVE U UP~' 😂

[@sydhenderson6753]

And having been Rickrolled he had no choice but to surrender.

[@skwervin1]

@@sydhenderson6753 Never doubt the power of the Rickroll!

[@lborisfromlv426]

You missed a wonderful detail at the Norwegian operation. The story goes that a local Norwegian care taker found the soilders. The soilders helped him find his glasses before they detonated the explosives because glasses were hard to get and very expensive during the war. I read this story in the museum in the at the plant.

Ah yeah!!! I heard that one in another chanel that covered this event in full length. It's a very cool detail indeed

[@einundsiebenziger5488]

soldiers*

[@jdmbacon]

Crazy to think there's groups like this that have done missions such as these that have changed the outlook of the world. We have no idea they happened until much later and no idea who these people are.

[@djjc9782]

crazier is that NONE of these above will be in the TOP 100, as they are public knowledge. the REAL dangerous ones are the ones that NEVER, EVER, EVER come to light

[@tigerman1978]

In the case of opeation Grouse, Freshman and Gunnerside (the successful sabotage of the heavywater plant) its quite well known who was directly involved. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage For as long as operators are in service or they participate in an ongoing conflict, their participation on certain operations can not be disclosed to the public for safety concerns of course..

[@einundsiebenziger5488]

... there are* groups ...

[@nellwhite5659]

I remember parts of Panama, missed the Vatican part, highway to hell would have been a good choice

[@neilb1619]

😂😂

[@DuckAllMighty]

I'm happy that you mentioned the operation in Vemork, but when talking about special force operations, Operation Chariot should get an honourable mention no matter what. It's the story of one of the most daring operations of World War II - the Commando raid on the German occupied dry dock at St. Nazaire in France on 28th March 1942. It was an operation so heroic that it resulted in the award of five Victoria Crosses and 80 other decorations for gallantry. It's arguably the most dangerous, but most successful military raid in history. On paper, it shouldn't have worked, but a mix of diversions from the RAF, cover of darkness, Germans fucking up, ingenious improvisation from the Commandos and stupendous amounts of luck, they pulled it off. Timeline have a great video about it with Jeremy Clarkson narrating it.

[@NachumRobbins]

I’ve been waiting years for you to tell the Entebbe story Simon. Thank you. Please make a dedicated video to it some time.

[@archstanton6102]

Warographics

[@mauicountygis5450]

Happy Channukah

[@SaylerT]

A significant part of Operation Thunderbolt: the Israeli operator killed was Yonatan Netanyahu, older brother of Benjamin Netanyahu, also an operator and a Yom Kippur War vet.

[@cattibingo]

The one hostage being left behind in uganda is heartbreaking

[@S-Ltd1000]

Dora Bloch. Her remains were found in a sugar plantation in 1979.

[@FleetAdmirable]

Considering israeli strategy it was surprising that there were even hostages that survived

[@grahamncaff]

Was an old lady if my history is correct

[@r.s.richey9956]

What! How dare you challenge their brilliant plan of bombing the hostages to freedom /s

[@aadixum]

Considering the circumstances, so many people being saved itself is a big achievement.

[@BudroThePious]

The Operations Room has a really good video breakdown of the Entebbe Raid.

[@jonbroadsword7572]

Other examples in no particular order: The Son Tay Raid - 1970 * Air France 8969 - 1994 * Iranian Embassy Siege in London - 1980 * The bin Laden Raid - 2011 * The Japanese Embassy Crisis in Peru - 1996 and I'm sure we could go on and on. Many have been lost to history or are unattributable to a Special Operations group because of secrecy.

[@neilb1619]

The Iranian Embassy siege has to be the most well known SF raid in history, since it was shown on live TV in the UK over a Bank Holiday weekend. I was 14, and watched every detail, live, as it happened. I've since learned everything I could about operation Nimrod.

[@roelbrandsma8512]

Yes, many more, like the legendary train rescue by Dutch special forces at De Punt in 1977. It's in the text books now!

[@pieterveenders9793]

The BBE raid at De Punt in the Netherlands is definitely one that belongs in your list as well, which along with the Peruvian raid on the Japanese embassy were unique in their special tactics and out of the box thinking, and the great success they achieved under very difficult circumstances.

[@robinhazell6019]

Should have included the SAS rescue in Sierra Leonne when they tookm on the infamous WEST SIDE BOYS.

[@EarthPoweredHippie]

Someone should do a bio of simon butnin simons story telling style, maybe get them incognito joke glasses with the nose and mustache.

[@kevinfoster1138]

One of his writers should do it and have Simon read it without telling him in advance.

[@spartan7375]

>phycological warfare entailed blasting never gonna give you up at the target the meme is eternal

[@claywest9528]

Reports have it that when he surrendered Noriega was screaming: "Please, please, I beg of you! No more Rick Astley!!"

[@Chris-hx3om]

The commandos didn't destroy all the heavy water. There was a shipment that had been dispatched for transport back to Germany. It had been loaded onto a ferry. The commandos then set charges on the ferry and sank it.

[@8BitSamurai]

The mission was so successful that they rick rolled him before rick rolling existed. Damn.

[@billberg2002]

Rickrolling general Noriega to get him to surrender has got to both be simultaneously the funniest and most badass way to get a victory

[@jeremiahcorbett2944]

I never get to comment this soon into the episode. Yes Simon is great, but the writers and behind the scenes are amazing. All the springs and gears. We don’t see. Thank you.

[@KC-nd7nt]

Except the facts are a bit off but what was that about how great this was ?

[@D34ThL1VeS]

Imagine getting Rick Roll’d into coming out of hiding. Solid choice, Seals 😂

[@joemwas1]

Netenyahu's brother was the commando killed, and now you know why shit is popping in Gaza right now

[@pandabytes4991]

So, the hijackers in the first mission demanded 53 prisoners released, 50 in Israel and 13 in Europe... Doesn't that add up to 63?

[@EddyA1337]

I want more stories like this. Im surprised you only had 4

[@fgialcgorge7392]

Respect to all who have served and those who gave their lives in the service of others. Your sacrifices are not forgotten.

[@eaphantom9214]

Don't forget the - Raid on St. Nazaire in France 🇫🇷 durong WWII!

[@Joshua-zx7bs]

That time when SEAL teams rick rolled some dictators💀

[@realandsurreal]

Thanks Simon and SIDEPROJECTS team! Great video as usual. Kind of surprised you didn't mention the famous movie about the Entebbe raid. And thanks very much for not agreeing to do those hideously long sponsor commercials on your channel. Keep up the good work!

[@S-Ltd1000]

I watched Raid On Entebbe the other day. It demonstrates that you really don't want to piss off Israel!

[@theallseeingeye9388]

The Israelis back than and the Israeli today are not of similiar mettle bro. Back than the holocaust was a personal experience of Israelis who joied the defence forces. The reality today is number of soldiers killed is a such a sensitive issue that funerals take place in the middle of the night and the actual casualty numbers are any ones guess.

[@pieterveenders9793]

There's another very well known and impressive SF raid which is still tought in police and military CT units around the world because of their stunning success and brilliant techniques and improvisations; the raid on a hijacked train at De Punt, in the Netherlands by the Bijzonder Bijstands Eenheid (a marine CT unit of the Dutch military). As a result of our colonial history in Indonesia we have a substantial Moluccan community here, who admittedly were quite badly treated by the government, having fought on the Dutch side against the Indonesian insurgents during what are known here as the "politionele acties", which was basically the Indonesian struggle for independence. To keep a long story short, it led to a string of hijackings by young Moluccan terrorists, culminating in a simultaneous hijacking of the above mentioned train, and a primary school full of children. The hostage crisis dragged on for several weeks, and while eventually due to a mysterious disease outbreak at the school it caused the terrorists to release the children and surrender to the authorities, the government resorted to a CT intervention to end the hostage taking at De Punt. The BBE used thermal imaging (mind you, this was in the 70's, when that stuff was completely unknown to anyone but a handful of people) to study the movements of the hostage takers for several days and nights, when they noticed a pattern: at night the hostage takers would sleep in the short hallway where 2 railway carriages are connected to each other, while the hostages slept in the carriages themselves, this was confirmed by long range audio surveilance and stealthily placed listening devices. After it became clear from the audio surveillance that the terrorists were wearing thin and had treatened to blow up the train, the BBE was finally given the order to intervene. In the early morning hours of June the 11th while everyone in the train was still asleep the BBE fired bursts of heavy machine gun fire at the couple meters in between each carriage where they knew the terrorists to be sleeping to neutralise them. They perfectly timed it with the Dutch Royal Airforce, how would do supersonic ultra low fly by's (as low as 30 meters altitude) at full afterburner to hit the train with sonic booms and stun any terrorists who might have survived the inital machine gun volley. Simultaneously with the fly-by's the BBE sieged the train and entered the carriages to neutralise potentially remaining terrorists and free the hostages. Although one hostage sadly got killed (in an attempt to build up rapport with her hostage takers she ended up sleeping close to a terrorist and got hit by the initial machine gun fire, something they had not noticed from the thermal and audio surveillance in the previous days because she only did it this night), it was an otherwise stunning success, especially considering the difficult circumstances (the terrorists had stopped the train in a rural area where it was easy to see anyone coming from kilometers away, but the BBE still managed the element of surprise by using a special vehicle which could drive on the train tracks, and of course using the Airforce's sonic booms as impromptu stun grenades). Only recently a small scandal errupted when it became apparent from some of the marines present at the raid that they were given orders by the government "not to take any prisoners" and instead execute any terrorists if they happened to come across any who were still alive, an order they followed to the letter. Mind you this was an era where the Netherlands faced multiple instances of Moluccan terrorism, and just a short while before during an earlier train hijacking by Moluccan terrorists they had killed a hostage, and thus the government wanted to send a very clear message to anyone else that they would not survive if they had similar plans. And the message was received loud and clear, it was the last such event since...

[@MrBlackfalconuk]

Well, I think I can crown all of them with the Raid on St Nazaire by the Army Commandos and Navy personnel under Combined Opersations during WW2

[@ytcensorhack1876]

Or X craft assault on the tirpitz?

[@bionicgeekgrrl]

​@@ytcensorhack1876as valiant as that was it didn't really succeed in many ways and the raf was the one to eventually destroy the ship with the help of Barnes Wallis.

[@bionicgeekgrrl]

There's a reason its often called the greatest raid of all time.

[@MrBlackfalconuk]

Believe me I know, having this as a subject for my Military Education, I really looked into it, not only that, I am three miles from Sgt Durrant's VC.@@bionicgeekgrrl

[@neilb1619]

Jeremy Clarkson did a documentary on the raid on St Nazaire. It is simply called, "The greatest raid in History" and it was! The fact that he celebrated Allied success, and was incredibly patriotic about it, is probably why the BBC hated him and wanted to get rid of him.

[@williebauld1007]

It wasn’t just GSG9 who carried out the rescue in Somalia, they had two SAS soldiers helping them to, the SAS brought then newly developed stun grenades with them

[@TheRealRedRooster]

But those two never made it on the the runway, let alone the plane. They were in support of some of the equipment the GSG9 had gotten from the British, not only the stun grenades. The assault itself was performed by Col.Wegener himself and and 11 other GSG9 operators (out of a total of 30 present in Mogadishu).

[@poutramos4826]

The SAS were sent to advise and observe but once at the scene in Mogadishu two took part in the assault on the aircraft for which they were awarded the British Empire Medal.

[@tonykennedy8483]

@@TheRealRedRooster They were on the runway, they were under the plane and were involved.

[@tomwithey711]

​​@@TheRealRedRoosterthey were involved, two were on the mission itself

[@tigerman1978]

"Fun" fact; Souhaila Andrawes, the female highjacker who got shot in the raid but survived, was given a 20 year sentence in somalia, but was pardoned and expelled after only two years. She resurfaced in Norway in the early 90s and the germans got here extradited and convicted her to another 10 years of which she served 5, most of them in Norway.

[@Killshot15]

Imagine the missions we don’t know about and probably won’t ever know about those are most likely the most dangerous

[@MayBeSomething]

Sabaton has a song about the Norwegian Heavy Water Plant Sabotage, called "Saboteurs." great song, would highly reccomend it.

[@allanlees299]

It would have been useful to note that the GSG9 team were accompanied by (and had been earlier trained by ) two sergeants from 22 SAS, who also supplied "flash-bang" grenades that were used in this action for the first time against enemy combatants, disorienting them and enabling the GSG9 operators to score kills with less difficulty than would otherwise have been the case.

[@paulbaker534]

There is a good TV series that is present by Lord Ashcroft that details the operating with the former SAS/GSG9 men.

[@hotmechanic222]

Yes I believe it was the SAS who actually planned the operation as well due to them being more experienced than their German counterparts.

[@neilb1619]

@@hotmechanic222 correct. There is also speculation that the 2 SAS troopers actually took part in the assault, although there technically as "advisors".

[@CaptainSpyware]

​@@hotmechanic222 Again, that's NOT correct! GSG 9 had trained aircraft assault for years prior to the Mogadishu raid. The CRW wing of the SAS was set up pretty much around the same time after the Munich massacre. Remember, Wegener got Aid in the setup of GSG 9 by the SAS, but mainly by Sayeret Matkal who came along with a delegation in 1975 to see how far the unit had come. Ehud Barak himself was part of that and had to acknowlegde that GSG 9 had become a prime CT unit on the 1st level.

[@hotmechanic222]

@@CaptainSpyware this is copied direct from the wikipedia page about the kidnapping, so it turns out I am correct Operation Feuerzauber (Fire Magic) Date 18 October 1977 Location Mogadishu, Somali Democratic Republic Result GSG 9 victory Belligerents West Germany GSG 9 United Kingdom 22nd SAS (logistics and planning) Somalia Somali Army (support) PFLP Commanders and leaders West Germany Ulrich Wegener United Kingdom Alastair Morrison Somalia Siad Barre Somalia Hussein Kulmiye Afrah Zohair Youssef Akache [de] † Strength West Germany 30 GSG 9 operators United Kingdom 2 SAS operators 4 hijackers Casualties and losses 1 wounded 3 killed 1 wounded/captured 4 civilians wounded

[@veryunusual126]

Glory to those brave men, who saved so many people, ✨✨rest in peace✨✨

[@Nathan-vt1jz]

Getting rickrolled by special forces lol 😅

[@bleedingpepper]

Who would've thought that Rick Astley and Axl Rose would be heroes? :D

[@einundsiebenziger5488]

1:32 - Correction: Not all of the four terrorists who hijacked the Air France plane to Entebbe in 1976 were men, one of them was a woman by the name Brigitte Kuhlmann. It was her cover name "halimeh" the command that one year later hijacked the Lufthansa plane to Mogadishu adapted. 2:04 - if the terrorists demanded the release of 53 detainees, how can "50 of them" be imprisoned in Israel and another "13 of them" (adding up to 63) be held in various European prisons?

[@BuddhaAfterDark]

fantastic pivot guys, reminding the world how Simon keeps you all chained up in his basement and who he send to catch anyone that escapes :p

[@zephyer-gp1ju]

One of my favorites as told in the book Ghost Soldiers of a US Ranger unit that was sent into the Philippines during WW2 to rescue POWs at a camp because the US learned the Japanese were had murdered POWs at another camp. With the help of the locals they made their way through the jungle and attacked and raided the camp and got the prisoners away. The ones that couldn't walk were put into OX carts and they managed to sneak their way back to US lines without the loss of one ranger. Don't do the raid that Patton ordered to free US POWs, it failed badly.

[@LordSluggo]

Is that the one "The Great Raid" was based on?

[@zephyer-gp1ju]

@@LordSluggo Yes and thank you. I brain farted when I was typing and couldn't remember the name of the movie. Book was better.

[@nedkelly9688]

Are many in WW2 Australia had the most successful special forces of WW2 special z force who carried out 1200 missions like this throughout Asia Pacific and Sparrow Force the longest behind enemy lines guerilla SF of ww2 had to eat off the land with barely no resupplies and sometimes killing japanese after cooking a meal just to survive. what Australia SASR are based on and why were most successful and most feared in Vietnam war also.

[@SideWays8Productions]

Fun fact: Noriega was "convinced" by the nuns of the sanctuary after they got sick and tired of the noise and made him leave so the noise and music would stop.

[@retro_451]

Simon is a legend.

[@adammitchell3462]

An absolute Chad!

[@EarthPoweredHippie]

Not just A legend, he's THE LEGEND

[@rickhamilton2959]

Allegedly.

[@jonnywatts2970]

You have something on your nose.... it's brown...

[@ME10920]

A day in the life of Simon would be pretty cool or is that weird

[@KNETTWERX]

A very interesting Israeli operation to look into is the special operations missions that happened before, during, and after operation orchard. (Aka Operation Outside the Box). It involved multiple intelligence agencies and assets, special forces infiltrating Syria to gather soil samples next to a suspected nuclear reactor, the destruction of the reactor by conventional air forces, and the assassination of a few key individuals.

[@brachio1000]

9:30 -- I had a college professor who'd flown a heavy bomber in WWII. On one occasion at least, he flew a mission against a heavy-water plant. If I'm not merging two anecdotes, he and his comrades met little antiaircraft fire and only two German interceptors, which at first seemed too low and far away to be of immediate concern and which neither my prof nor his co-pilot could identify. The two Me-262s cut through the bomber formation in a flash. They made only one pass but sent two or three of the bombers down engulfed in flame. My professor began the tale with "I remember the first time I saw a jet."

[@SuperKendoman]

I'd like to raise my glass of wine to him, what was your college professor's name?

[@brachio1000]

@@SuperKendoman: I'm embarrassed to say I can't recall. This is particularly odd in that he co-authored a study that appeared in sociology and psychology textbooks for years -- and maybe still for all I know. His name crosses my mind now and then; if it does again, I'll let you know.

[@jodi_kreiner]

ngl the US military blasting guns & roses and ACDC outside the vatican embassy to force a drug smuggling dictator to surrender is kinda iconic.

[@pieterveenders9793]

Yeah, especially considering they knew about his drug smuggling all along and where entirely fine with it. In fact the same US government branch who financially supported Noriega because he was a right winger did a lot of drug smuggling themselves; the CIA. From Heroin in and out of the Golden Crescent to fund their black ops, to Cocaine out of South America.

[@TommyShlong]

Leave it to Navy SEALS for the most epic Rick roll.

[@aredman22]

Operation Nimrod deserves to be covered in this video.

[@Svensk7119]

Yes. Entebbe. That name stands forever for sheer moxie, especially since it was all thrown together ad hoc. You didn't mention the SAS storming of the captured embassy in London!

[@manmohanyadav3473]

The vid is great, I hope they make a full episode for each

[@poutramos4826]

In Mogadishu the GSG9 unit was accompanied by two SAS operatives who also helped plan the operation. GSG9 is now a police organisation but originally it was formed as a border guard unit.

[@TheRealRedRooster]

The GSG was ALWAYS a police unit, rather a military unit. The Bundesgrenzschutz was in fact a federal police unit, which had explicitly non-combatant status. In the 90s. the BGS was itself dissolved and it's roles taken over/move to units of the Federal Police (and the new formed Coast Guard)

[@poutramos4826]

@@TheRealRedRooster The BGS was primarily a paramilitary border guard unit with small arms, anti-tank weapons and armoured cars. The maritime border guards (Seegrenschutz) was taken over by the navy in 1961 but was reformed in 1964 as BGS See. In 2005 the BGS was renamed Bundespolizei.

[@TheRealRedRooster]

@@poutramos4826 The BGS had non-combatant status, otherwise it would have not been able to operate on the territory of then West Germany. Any military unit, even for emergencies, like flooding or the heavy snow and ice back in '78/'79s, needed special permission by the German parliament to operate in such cases. Btw, I grew up less than 10km from the BGS barracks in Hangelar where the GSG9 was stationed and trained...

[@poutramos4826]

@@TheRealRedRooster These old clips of the BGS suggest otherwise... kzbin.info/www/bejne/nnLQqmOBbJWZjc0 And kzbin.info/www/bejne/kKSbgKSkbNuUb8U

[@1FokkerAce]

The American SF community does not consider the Panama action to be a success, even though it ended in mission accomplishment. It did however largely contribute to improved tactics and provided lessons that doubtless saved many more operators over the years.

[@maxdanielj]

Alternative title: that time a dictator got Rick rolled 😂

[@Yupppi]

Special forces are just crazy good at what they do. Yet I can't help but think back to the joint military exercise where finnish conscripts dealt with navy seals. Solid basic training and strategy can cover a lot of ground in the right setting. But the special operations, that's something else.

[@csonracsonra9962]

Just remember everyone that pays for KZbin premium the surf shop actually paid to interrupt your viewing pleasure

[@blagoyavichrod]

The plan to use SEALs to take the airport was odd. Army Rangers take airports.

[@16rumpole]

I thought Delta Force would

[@blagoyavichrod]

@@16rumpole Nope. Delta force is mainly for hostage rescue. To take airports, Army Rangers are your guys. That was one of the reasons for the high SEAL body count. In this case they combined two SEAL teams that had not practiced together, to make up for the lack of numbers (found in a Ranger assault).

[@neilb1619]

Funny how each branch of SF in the US has a dedicated, assigned role. We don't have enough SF in the UK, so they have to cover every type of specialty...

[@theawesomeman9821]

Hollywood should adapt everyone of these missions into a movie

[@neilb1619]

They mostly have! Raid on Entebbe, starring Charles Bronson. 6 Days, starring Jamie Bell. My friend was there. I have signed pictures of him going in through the ground floor window. [RIP Mac.] Zero Dark Thirty, starring a whole heap of Hollywood A-listers. James Galdolfini, Jessica Chastain, Chris Pratt, etc. Not a SF raid as such, but 13 Hours. Friends of my friends, so that one has a special significance for me. There are lots, you just have to research them. IMDB is a good source. Sadly nothing on the Battle of Mirbat. Though Roland White has written a very good book about it. RIP Laba Laba. He should have been awarded the VC. Simon, you should do a side project on the Battle of Mirbat.

[@theawesomeman9821]

@@neilb1619 thanks

[@flyin4352]

13:50 The Greatest Rick Roll of All Time.

[@midsaid2161]

Special forces always a unique kind 1. The lonely SAS in kenya 2. Malaysian paskal in fighting somalians pirates 3. Navy seals in pakistan 4. Spetnaz in afghanistan Too many special forces stories to heard

[@rebeccapaul418]

That last one was epic!

[@jjfromthebigland781]

I seem to recall reading somewhere that the Americans also played Panama by Van Halen... tho that could just be a drug induced hallucination...

[@gblim398]

Yes, I remember hearing the same and laughing at the thought of Noriega watching helplessly as the archbishop began losing his mind and any lingering patience.

[@omrilapidot6770]

Amazing work by an one of the best military units in the world. Well done, Simon (and team!).

[@yayhandles]

They're basically KZbin special forces.

[@rb239rtr]

70 of the Israeli Soldiers at Entebbe were regular soldiers of the Golani brigade

[@kevinfoster1138]

One of the best flights I've ever been on was with Lufthansa airlines now this was in 1992 lol it might not be the same anymore. I'll never forget it.

[@LordPodlington]

They're the only cheap flights i've been on that gave everyone a complimentary chocolate. Not much but when you're competing with the likes of EasyJet and RyanAir it doesn't take much to stand out.

[@sekaramochi]

Simon please please never stop

[@brianthesnail3815]

I know a bloke who is SF and he is in some sort of reserve role. My son knows his son and they met his father in town. He told me he opened the boot (trunk) of his car and it was 'interesting' to say the least. The other SF bloke I know is properly retired and does what I regard as being the scariest and most dangerous job in the world. He almost needs the job to be that dangerous to feel alive.

[@tam19711]

More of this type of history please Simon 😊😊😊😊

[@victoriahunter4684]

Tangent.. sat here with my Online D&D group and talking about what we listen to before bed and I mentioned Factboi was my go to... Turns out he is also two other of my group's go to for bed as well.

[@kiwi_comanche]

You just knew Entebbe was gonna be first 😂

[@danidavis7912]

Right? It was EPIC!

[@0Zolrender0]

"I thought we were the Popular Front." "PEOPLES FRONT." "Splitters".

[@neilb1619]

Can't beat a bit of Monty...

[@tacticooldude7509]

In the US Military Doctrine Special Forces are troops trained to secretly enter a zone, set up a hidden camp, accomplish whatever mission over a few days to a few weeks and secretly leave. We have the Green Berets that do that, they also do FID or foreign internal defense which is training and helping a host nation fight a insurgency. The US only has one Special Forces, but we have a dozen Special Operations Forces which are you're Navy Seals, Army Rangers, Marine Raiders, PJs, Etc. They normally don't do long term missions that take multiple days hidden in the field, they do them but not like the Green Berets who will do it for weeks or months at a time alone or with a local populace. Seals like to sneak in and sneak out in under a 1 hour mission. Rangers like to kick the door in a slap your mother, Raiders can do it all and the PJ and other Air Force SOF units just tag along for the ride. The terms get interchange too much, i was guilty of misunderstanding it for years myself.

[@nitronoah1265]

When speaking from a US military standpoint, yes the SF is just a unit under special operations, but when speaking from an international standpoint which this video is based upon, the US special operations units are all special forces. Btw This isn’t to discredit anything you said bc what u said is correct just in context wording varies internationally

[@Shiny101]

Never heard of "heavy water" until I watched a video today. Now Simon mentions it, glitch in the Matrix.

[@robertphillips6296]

The private rescue of Americans from Iran by Ross Perots team. "On Wings of Eagles."

[@neilb1619]

ARGO?

[@robertphillips6296]

@@neilb1619 "On Wings of Eagles"

[@manilove2pwn]

Do one for SAS SBS

[@claywest9528]

The SAS did give technical support on the Lufthansa rescue.

[@neilb1619]

@@claywest9528 and more. Much more...

[@theclandestinewitness]

You know what’s funny is that if you were to walk into a bar down in Pinehurst and try to pick out who’s tabbed and who’s not, you wouldn’t be able to do it. They’re truly the “quiet professionals”.

[@frasermackenzie7275]

Yeah FYI ... Rick Ashley songs will get EVERYONE to give up to authorities 😂😂😂

[@5Andysalive]

you could spend 3-8 seconds to google the pronunciation of a foreign word :P That "Feuerzauber" was quite the experience.

[@SamlSchulze1104]

It's only a matter of time before Sabaton is used in psy-ops.

[@mrkiplingreallywasanexceed8311]

And another thing "in honour of Entebbe"... Jesus Christ that says it all

[@truekisoka]

There's much more to the story of the Lufthansa flight. The whole ordeal lasted over a week and the presence of the following GSG-9 forces was almost leaked when they made a stop in Turkey. British forces were also part of the team following the highjacked plane and to my knowledge they were the ones throwing the flash grenades. Also no explosives were used in the opening of the doors.

[@SvastaOG]

I'll never forget the picture of a GSG9 operative just standing in full gear with his face covered and in shorts. You know the crazy bastard was just out chilling, myb having a coffee, when all of a sudden he got a call that some shit is going down😂

[@markrunnalls7215]

The one with the air France hijacking involving the German GSG9 was also very much helped by a couple of members of the Brit SAS.

[@betaich]

No it wasn't the GSG 9 trained hijackings since they were founded in 73 and trained with the israelis not the SAS

[@dmc009]

Rick astley😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@thekeytoairpower]

50+13=53? Must be that new math...

[@KXTA007]

Damn Simon. It's to bad you don't know about JADO Bottles. C130 planes used them for fast take off and very short landings.

[@tyrfree5733]

Keep in mind folks that no matter How great special forces units are, their job would be next to impossible without people in other countries that supply Intel and help. There are more people who fight for good than you realize.

[@csonracsonra9962]

2:19 to 3:34 surf shark PAID to interrupt your viewing pleasure even though you have paid for premium and do not see ads! 3:34

[@bennwoodbridge2117]

The poor woman left behind in Uganda when the rest of the hostages were rescued, imagine the horror of finding out about the rescue and that dozens of the people that are holding you hostage have been killed by the rescuers while you were in hospital and left behind, The poor poor lady I can’t imagine what that must of felt like All the soldiers around you are absolutely going crazy with anger And grief that there comrades and no doubt in some cases family members have been killed and you are the only person they consider the enemy left behind Oh lord

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:05 - Chapter 1 - Entebbe raid 2:20 - Mid roll ads 3:35 - Back to the video 6:50 - Chapter 2 - Lufthansa flight 181 9:30 - Chapter 3 - Heavy water sabotage 11:55 - Chapter 4 - Operation nifty package