SAS Training Is Absurd

[@davidhooksteadinterviews]

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[@DataGeek903]

'Chris Ryan' says jungle makes or break it. There was some guy who wanted to quit in jungle training, so Chris told him take 5 minutes think it through then come back. After 5 min he still wanted to quit . So Chris said ok. Then the guy realized afterwards, he still had to ruck out of the jungle. And he realized the mistake he made. But it was too late, and there's no returning once you quit.

[@anthonydonlan3140]

The film was In the Iranian embassy.... Or are you mixed up with the professionals....

[@tsj3025]

Did well to pull that thumbnail from the video, no like or subscribe from me. Considering 'report' for misleading.

[@liverpoolscottish6430]

Here is the clip from, 'Who Dares Wins,' referred to by Lindsay. This is an iconic scene as the SAS CRW team close in on the last couple of remaining terrorists. Lewis Collins joined 10 Para circa 1978-79 and passed P Coy at the age of 32. I know his Recruit Training Team Plt Sgt- Geoff B. He served in the regular Para's in the 70's, saw plenty of service in NI, and rescued an officer from a building bombed by the IRA at great risk to his own safety. I have spoken to Geoff about Lewis, he had a great deal of respect for him. He told me that Lewis was extremely fit, worked extremely hard during training- he was very dedicated. Lewis had a great sense of humour, he took lots of stick from NCO's about his role as, 'Bodie' in, 'The Professionals,' he took it all with good grace- which just made him more popular. Geoff said he an excellent soldier, and he would have gone to war with him without hesitation. He became a good friend of Lew's and maintained regular contact with him right up until his all too early demise. Lew was a Top Bloke according to Geoff. He was a role model for many late 70's junior school boys, and he absolutely would have been a superb Bond. He was an excellent physical actor and looked the part. Lewis was a an excellent marksman- he was competing in shooting competitions when he was 15. He was into parachuting/skydiving and martial arts. I think he owned a half share in an armoury business with his brother. Cubbi Broccoli interviewed Lewis for the Bond role, but apparently thought he was 'too aggressive!' He made a HUGE mistake in not casting him I think. Lew would have done the business as Bond, lots of women fancied him too, so he would have had serious box office draw. kzbin.info/www/bejne/h2m9h3mCn96nbdUsi=zrQBLgfb9uxQYWBM

[@perdix99]

BTW there's a small sequence in the scene right after the assault when 22's CO (played by Tony Doyle) says: "Well done Dave, get the boys out fast" to one of the assault team who face is covered up, he is talking to the military advisor who was an ex RSM of the Regiment. I went on to work with Dave A. on the 'Zero Option'.

[@davidaldridge5716]

Bro I paused the video as soon as he referenced that movie….and I went and made note of a few different vids on KZbin. Then I listened to the rest of this clip Needless to say him describing that made me curious

[@bic1498]

The movie he speaks of in the US is "The Final Option". Absolutely stellar flick. Love the scene(s) where they do the borescope from the neighbor's house and wall breach into the Skellen family's flat with 2 guys with FN HiPowers.

[@G58]

Browning HP

[@bic1498]

@@G58 FN, Browning, Inglis ... whatever. L9A1 .. there, is that better?

[@macchirpy]

Great film, real SAS guys used in the film and were advisors as it was made shortly after the success of Op Nimrod. The theme is by Roy Budd.

[@HUMPTYNUGGET]

​... British army issue, at least when I was serving was the FN version of the Browning Hi power, so the original comment at the top is correct....

[@fuelban]

Respect to you my man, thanks,. Thom in Scotland

[@Mark.G475]

Good interview, Cheers from Milwaukee 🍻🧀🇺🇲

[@RonnieJamesable]

You guys make the best tools! 😅

[@synchc]

Lewis Collins, the star of Who Dares Wins that Mr Bruce is talking about, became so enamoured with the regiment that he actually went through and passed selection for 23 SAS. He got gently 'let down' as he was too famous a face to be SAS, civi or not. I think it was Rusty Firmin, one of the Iranian embassy team, saying he was 100% the real deal - a double hard barstool who was always welcomed in certain Hereford pubs. The troopers loved that film - "It's shit, but it's shit in a good way". Yes, he should've played Bond. He would've been the bondiest Bond.

[@brownson1970]

Good yap bro

[@carforumwanker]

The bullshit around this story is unreal !!

[@synchc]

@@carforumwanker Why not just google it before throwing accusations around? He passed selection in '83. *Ex SAS Soldier Rusty Firmin reviews / talks about the 1982 movie "Who Dares Wins" - Lewis Collins* kzbin.info/www/bejne/rnW4ZYtpap2ChtU

[@synchc]

@@carforumwanker Why not just google it before throwing accusations around? He passed selection in '83. *Ex SAS Soldier Rusty Firmin reviews / talks about the 1982 movie "Who Dares Wins" - Lewis Collins* kzbin.info/www/bejne/rnW4ZYtpap2ChtU

[@synchc]

@@carforumwanker *Ex SAS Soldier Rusty Firmin reviews / talks about the 1982 movie "Who Dares Wins" - Lewis Collins* kzbin.info/www/bejne/rnW4ZYtpap2ChtU

[@clazza65]

The screenplay was based on the book "The Tip Toe Boys." The book is much better than the movie, and the movie was great.

[@michaeldoolan7595]

The tank.

[@haitch2676]

I know exactly the scene he’s talking about! The tempo of the music fits just right, certainly gets the blood pumping. Excellent movie, cheesy but so much fun

[@michaelhyde9070]

Wen he mentioned the film who dares wins and said about the classic sene, I said ahh it's the V shaped running down the corridor sene ❤ never gets old ❤🎉.

[@ThePrivateRusty]

“On me boys”

[@thesheperd7567]

Very articulate and faultless extended answers. You would be under no doubt after a tasking brief, precise and to the point. Amazing how being confident instills confidence. I'm referring to the green army. I was Guards and later Tank Regiment and always forced myself to be confident when leading because any sign of weakness is your demise. Speaking confidently is key and I enjoy these videos where every former SF operator can public speak, no easy task.

[@damianhoratiu2287]

Delta Force learnded their tricks from the SAS.

[@Hunter_Nebid]

Some of them...

[@anthonydonlan3140]

Sas learned from the LRDG...

[@polla2256]

@@anthonydonlan3140 At that time they flew by the seat of their pants but yes the LRDG did a lot in terms of navigation, surveillance and pink panthers

[@anthonydonlan3140]

They still wouldn't last a bank holiday in crossmaglenn.

[@damianhoratiu2287]

@@anthonydonlan3140 Bullshit.

[@Spiderdan-59]

Ive worked alongside as support for 22SAS back in the mid 80s NI ⚔️🇬🇧

[@RipperBravo]

14 Int ?

[@Spiderdan-59]

@@RipperBravoyes worked in the op room radio controller 👍⚔️🇬🇧

[@Notwokeever]

you walter mitty why would you even state that if true, you are now a target for republican terrorism

[@michaelhyde9070]

Iv literally got tears in my eyes wen he's talking about the who dares wins sene, coz I was exactly the same. I'm a few older then him so I remember the movie well. But got me very emotional 😢❤

[@02JAN1970]

Title should have said "SAS Selection is Absurd". No real comments on the training at all. That being said, it's a good clip and I appreciate it being posted.

[@shigatsuningen]

In my humble opinion the only way to avoid the mind game played on one self by pondering if one got through or not is to stay focused on the job it self. No matter what, pass or fail, at the end of the day you still have a job to do. Worrying never brought anyone across the finishing line.

[@stephenbeckley8427]

That was the top film who dares wins. Take me well back in time Hearing him talk about that film

[@stevefournier6375]

I had a VHS copy of Who Dares Wins, my teenage years. Great movie, Lewis Collins great actor, very physically fit guy, heard he was in the SAS reserve unit. One inspirational movie, that motivated me to join U.S. Army, serve as a combat engineer.

[@Stanly-Stud]

He was a TA Para & I read he actually passed selection for the TA SAS but they couldn't take him because he was too well known. Late 70s & early 80s the SAS was not so publicly known until the Embassy sieg & even then no one wrote books or spoke on tv like nowadays also no Internet. Can't really blame the guys nowadays as they're just making a buck 😂

[@liverpoolscottish6430]

He served in 10 Para TA. He was never badged in The Regt.

[@josephking6515]

@@liverpoolscottish6430 Have a look at Lewis Collins and 23 SAS (Territorials). He also knew a lot of the guys who drowned when that Sea King ate the bird in the Falklands.

[@danielmarshall4587]

YES to that...... both those movies are GLORIOUS. For sure they look dated now but....... give 'em a watch well worth your time.

[@fluff4115]

Great interview - Thank you

[@boathemian7694]

Haha! When I was about to finish Infantry training in the US Marines a NCO was asking if any of us wanted to go to the Recon battalion me and couple others stuck our hands up. Oh boy, a fateful day indeed.

[@stubbsieshorse327]

Lewis Collins was a real cool cat. Fun fact and amazing sliding doors moment - as a young man he was actually at barbers school! His best friend on the hairdressers apprentice course knew he played the drums very well and invited him to audition for his big brothers pop group who were looking for a replacement drummer. Lewis decided not to bother with the audition - his best friend was called Mike McCartney - little brother of Paul McCartney. Crazy to think Lewis could have take Ringo's spot if only he could have been bothered!!

[@fuelban]

I am 67 yrs old, leaving school .... Before .... ( Rosla ). I was 14 one day, then 15 the next and left school, & out to work..... In Scotland you had little choice.... But be a 15 yr old boy soldier, or ...... Boy air force, ... ... Boy sailor Royal navy .... Boy sailors merchant navy...... Choices were limited in 1960/ 1970 Scotland... That's for sure... 3 square meals a day, and a warm dry bunk, warm dry ....Feet .... I would do. The same chooses .... today at 67 yrs old... For sure ...... I wouldn't change a jot of it.... Thom in Scotland.

[@sitcorocket]

I worked briefly with the SAS in mid 90s. I expected them to be men mountains with beards and tattoos but the ones i met were young slim lads who you wouldn't look twice at. They were really nice chaps and not big headed or anything. Nothing but good memories from my encounter. ❤️

[@anthonydonlan3140]

Thats why the RA got away with so much that they shouldn't have. Everyone pictured a guy with an eye patch and a hook. While they'd open doors for the cumman.. These were Colleen's..

[@HaveMonkeyWillDance]

Fascinating stuff, really riveting. Is there a second part to this?

[@edwardhannah8507]

UK and US military. The best of the best.

[@kag2306]

How little you know

[@anthonydonlan3140]

Not even close

[@katsullivan]

they were when real men ran the things in west. Its all a shit show now. Emma and two moms..?

[@anthonydonlan3140]

@@katsullivan Emma im a real man

[@anthonydonlan3140]

@@katsullivan I've converted four lesbian's to nuns.

[@kickpublishing]

I was brought up by a single mother, we had no money, but I was a polite lad at school, respectful and an excellent athlete (I still hold some under 16s track records) and a very keen rugby player. The school laid on skiing trips and we had no money at all but every year the teacher told me that my skiing holiday had been paid for - I also got grants for sports clothes and a rugby trip - none of which we ever applied for. I always assumed the school had paid but I found out years later that the Royal Marines had paid for it all when a Royal Marines liaison officer turned up at my house at around 18 and told me that they wanted me to take a fitness test and join via some sort of convoluted process, it was in the 80s so it’s a bit of a blur - completely bizarre experience, obviously I was being groomed for the marines somehow. Turns out my Mums cousin who had been SAS in the 70s had put me forward to the Royal Marines which he’d started out in and had contacts in. I decided instead to take a rugby scholarship to University and revisit it after that - then of course life got in the way - but as I got older and look back on that I realise it was fairly unusual and often wonder what was going on there, the 80s was a strange time in the UK.

[@bigglesharrumpher4139]

One of the SAS regiments (UK/AUS/NZ) has separated the Anti-Terrorist role from the 'Green Role' to a great extent. If you pass at least halfway through the selection, but subsequently drop out, you are offered a place to train for the Anti-Terrorist role, but NOT as a fully badged member. Those who pass the full selection course go to the 'Green Role', and are fully badged members. This was done as they realised they were losing good men during selection who would be perfectly fine in the Anti-Terrorist role. Now they can keep them in the fold. They can also subsequently try again at the full selection and become fully badged. To me, it makes sense that the guys who demonstrate their ability to 'push through' long periods of difficult long-distance navigation and yomping would be definitely suited to the Green role, whereas the Black role is short-sharp bursts of energy, less of the long distance ability required.

[@RoxOutdoors]

I’m sorry mate but your so wrong 😂😂😂

[@bigglesharrumpher4139]

@@RoxOutdoors I will inform the CO of the unit he is mistaken, courtesy of your deeper inside knowledge. Obviously I wasn't talking about the UK mob.

[@bigglesharrumpher4139]

@@RoxOutdoors Gate 1: After four days the first gate is reached which allows a candidate to be considered for a role as a Commando. This phase involves completing "1 NZSAS Regt fitness testing and mixed terrain navigation".[150] Gate 2: Gate 2 is reached after nine days and is the conclusion of the selection course. This phase involves completing "close country navigation and other activities" and those who get to this point are considered for SAS training. Those who are selected go on to complete an intensive period of training to build core special forces skills.[98][150] On average 10-15% of candidates pass both selection and cycle training.[153]

[@kenfowler1980]

Yep yelling doesn’t really work! Great interview

[@petemcphee2]

When he's talking about the movie scene who else was humming the theme tune?

[@moonbear1st]

lewis collins had been in the paras and passed s.a.s selection..also a former boxer..

[@Klemheist-vf1hx]

Closest he got to being SAS was pretending to be one (he was rejected from 23 Reserves).

[@tonyhaitch8385]

@@Klemheist-vf1hxActually he passed the screening phase (hills) for 21 but was not allowed to continue because of his high profile.

[@Klemheist-vf1hx]

@@tonyhaitch8385 Thanks for making my point.

[@tonyhaitch8385]

@@Klemheist-vf1hx What that it was 21 and not 23 or that he was prevented from carrying on because of his fame? Also, I wouldn’t call reserve selection ‘pretending’ either. He was serving with 10 Para at the time, so after passing P-Company and the jumps course was he pretending to be a Para too?

[@Klemheist-vf1hx]

@@tonyhaitch8385 He pretended for a living (acting), and statistically would have failed Selection.

[@MrDominicharrison]

Lewis Collins is an absolute legend RIP Who Dares Wins is a fabulous film, Edward Woodward (The Equaliser) stars in it too

[@hbombharry]

It might be absurd but it works and they are the finest special forces in the world

[@woolyimage]

Not sure how you arrived at your video title? SAS and Delta selection are effectively the same as Delta used the SAS model.

[@alexandertaylor1225]

Liked and subscribed thank you.

[@josephking6515]

When Lindsay Bruce said he kept quiet about applying for selection, he started being the _gray man_ early. You *cannot* fail selection, you can only not succeed. You only fail when you decide to *not* try.

[@user-mjg1067]

Delta Training is taken from SAS Training

[@davidanderson3684]

Yes, compliments of the late Green Beret Col charging Charlie Beckwith, who was an exchange officer with the SAS who was so impressed by their style of training, and that's how Delta force was formed!

[@reasonabledoubt6908]

🙄we know this already 🥱

[@antonleebriebach7745]

SAS Fans did you all miss that? Its not a winged dagger, its Wings with Excalibur Sord. But yes we all think that when you start off down the fan path road.

[@RED_HULK54]

Lewis Collins passed selection for 23rd Regiment Territorial Army

[@PaulHerbert-xv5jr]

He was in 2 Para mate

[@PeterMaddison2483]

@@PaulHerbert-xv5jrHe was, but he also went for SAS and all but passed as he was only failed because he was too famous.

[@woolyimage]

@@PeterMaddison2483To clarify he passed selection for 23 SAS which is the Territorial regiment but as you say they couldn’t let him in due to his high profile. That’s as I understand it.

[@BrendenParker-o5v]

Lewis Collins passed SAS selection in 22 SAS (SAS reserve) but he was too well known therefore couldn't join the regulars.

[@mrwilliams1908]

No he didn’t

[@mattwestby1169]

22 SAS is not the reserve, they are regular. 21 and 23 are the reserves 👍

[@thug4lyfe]

I often face the SAS in battle when my OP uses Kosmoflot!

[@michaelhyde9070]

Bloody amazing film Red dawn ❤ omg I'm welling up again 😢😂

[@jackcloud4728]

Had a guy in basic who said he wanted to try sas selection. Everyone from the corporals to other recruits just ripped into him.

[@zaklambert3102]

why did they rip into him ?

[@robertseavor4304]

Lewis Collins was a scouser, which might explain why he didn't get the Bond gig.

[@MrOtistetrax]

Every single boy that grew up in Britain post 1980 knows what the SAS is.

[@PaisleyKing-zv3kn]

Great film review. Lewis collins would have really appreciated it. 😂 whats your views on the new road house movie...what's your thoughts ? Any good?

[@RugbyMatters]

Never new the film "Who Dares Wins" with Lewis Collins was renamed "The Final Option" in the U.S. 😮

[@anthonydonlan3140]

IT WAS THE IRANIAN EMBASSY WASN'T IT.

[@stephenroberts3810]

That's it just the yanks to call it that

[@brownson1970]

Sadly the yank probably understands 30% of what this legend has to say! Subtle help would be appreciated! Top RAJ!

[@rymoe6299]

Theme tune Who dares wins 😂 Watched that pissed up then went round the accommodation with fire hoses waking everyone up. One black eye and 4 weeks of guard duty I never watched that film again

[@jamiehughes3732]

Good on ya Nick…

[@cantfindmykeys8104]

The stunt men were replaced by B SQN

[@reubenfir849]

Maybe keep the guest's screen much bigger than yours, unless you want us to focus on you as much :s

[@archivedvideos3907]

I agree, and his shirt was made for radio 😂 very loud

[@hulldanfan]

The Lewis Collins scene he mentions is in the middle of the embassy rescue at 13 mins kzbin.info/www/bejne/pGbXZYyHqLRphMU

[@DavDavidson-qo7pp]

Best of the best

[@cattleherder1912]

I thought SAS was supposed to be secretive.

[@joeglabus7255]

Imo u have to really want it to be in it and have a certain mentality to be involved in the SAS never mind the the ARMY NAVY RAf and i have upmost respect for all off them ✊✊✊

[@robertschweppenhauser9891]

SAS STOOD FOR SWEET AND SOUR

[@mcqueen838]

There seems to be a disproportionate number of SAS operators who are from Scotland. It's probably because the Scots tend to be harder than us English.

[@tinkersdug1969]

Na not harder just something missing in our head that makes us do the crazy stuff lol

[@donsmith4044]

Head hunting has happened. A WO from Hereford called me one day but career progression was more important; nevertheless, it was good to be asked.

[@Broski2322]

Red dawn waw!❤

[@Brian-cm5gw]

Sas/sbs THE BEST🇬🇧

[@G58]

All that screaming in the face nonsense is just ridiculous. It’s fear based programming. If you can’t train men by treating them with respect, then it’s obvious there is no respect, and none will be earned, and the end result is entirely predictable.

[@WaynePinkney]

Its designed to disorientate and to see if you can keep clear thinking under pressure. If someone screaming in your face puts you off, you're in the wrong job.

[@sadoldgit313]

You clearly have never done military service! If you’re going to piss your pants with a DS screaming in your face then you’re not the person for the job! There’s far worse more dehumanising things that going to happen before you get badged!

[@MrSimonmcc]

Ever wonder why the British SAS is regarded as the best special forces outfit in the World?

[@G58]

@@MrSimonmcc PPPPPPP

[@jastrapper190]

TRUMP 2024 TRUMP 2024

[@charliethirteen3868]

Chuff off pal.

[@NelsonZAPTM]

A vote for Trump is a vote for Puten.

[@charliethirteen3868]

@nelsonelectrical1972 you know don't ya.

[@adrianrichards247]

Putin and Trump ones a narcissist the others a coward

[@MrSimonmcc]

Ah yes, the only US President who has ever denigrated the memory of its military dead, asked that a severely injured veteran was stopped from attending his public engagements and didn't want to visit a WWII cemetery because the rain would spoil his hair. He's a funking joke.

[@SuperJuiceman11]

SAS I don't know if they trained hard but they sure like to tell everybody they train really hard they also happen to make up fake stories of the Gulf War write books about themselves to make themselves sound really badass so they really don't have that good of a reputation in my eyes... but what do I know I'm just an ordinary civilian I shouldn't know these things anyway

[@steve-xx6or]

Nowhere near spetsnaz

[@oteimoto85]

The SAS has never been manned by conscripts. Enough said.

[@NoFsGiven666]

Thought most of them been killed.

[@steve-xx6or]

Spetsnaz would wipe the floor with all western special forces. They are being kept back just for that.

[@steve-xx6or]

@@NoFsGiven666 I have seen both and my humble opinion you can't even compare western specials to Russian. They have more combat experience which is vital and Thier training is far more vigorous. On a note about hand to hand combat they actually train with shaolin monks which is about 100 levels higher than MMA ect. They are genuinely braver men. Have a look at some of the incidents in Chechnya where they fought and sometimes killed themselves calling in air support knowingly. It's makes me laugh that British people are belittling the Russians and it shows there age. My father a war veteran in the far east had a amazing amount of respect for the Russians. In case you don't know the figures for MIA are around 500k to 35k in Russias favour and it's the same in equipment. Ammunition production is around 10-1 and that's without NK or china or Iran Russia is simply ahead on all counts and I'm not Russian. People who believe this fairy tale of NATO superiority are basically killing Ukrainian conscripts by the millions now . The polish general said 1 million losses.

[@steve-xx6or]

@@NoFsGiven666 What experience do Thais have in war? Also it's not about being beaten with sticks. The Russians are far cleverer as well. Better diet and better genetics. No wokism

[@shecksthesheckler423]

I had a mate who worked on the same wagon as me, then one day he said see you later I am off on a course, he never returned, I then enquired about him 10 years later when I bumped into a mutual friend, said whatever to Kev did he pass his course as he never came back, that's when I was told he did the selection and passed

[@treblerebel2362]

Literally just googled what unit Lindsey was in before he says RHF.

[@jaycochrane97]

Royal highland fusiliers