SAS interview with David Sitrling and the Originals

[@colmcc-ij3nn]

It's amazing how the hardest men are always soft spoken

[@frankyyaggabot6222]

"A timid dog barks more violently than it bites" - Quintus Curtius Rufus.

[@colmcc-ij3nn]

@@frankyyaggabot6222 Yip.....Or A dog that barks doesn't bite.....

[@Sundae_Times]

Always? 🤔

[@DianaKazimiera-]

A true Legend lives forever 🕊️ Great respect,Sir BOWS !

[@SF-pq3sq]

The world owes these men much. They had lead the way for every operator ever😉🇦🇺🇬🇧🫡

[@rangerwhite5165]

These were proper hard men. A total breed apart.

[@gordonbennett835]

Great shame Paddy Mayne was not given the VC

[@ariveitz1941]

Yes probably earned at least three!!

[@ronangaelicprince3239]

Being irish is a big part of it

[@australianmade2659]

He has surpassed the VC. He is Paddy Mayne

[@XRP-4EvA]

Shame it a friggin insult

[@SF-pq3sq]

Agree😉

[@wareidav]

So much respect for these guys and the guys that followed. Thank you. So many people have the attitude that someone else will do what`s needed. These guys where the someone else

[@iancampbell7791]

Legends really brave men

[@garryleeks4848]

Legend of a man

[@lyno1980]

These men were wonderful heroes, never forget. Tim Collins is also a modern day Irish hero!

[@thesiger1]

Amazing..

[@leematthews5697]

A special breed of men.

[@MeT2338]

Legends.

[@gordonbennett835]

Many of our greatest soldiers were from Ireland

[@albertograssi3675]

Irish and Scots did the major contribuition. And I know that this comment won't like to English lads 😊

[@angelastephenson1950]

Seekings cooper sadler all English ​@@albertograssi3675

[@harryplummer6356]

@@albertograssi3675 I'm English and totally acknowledge the contribution of the Scots and Irish - great soldiers indeed!

[@LuisFigorar]

​@@albertograssi3675English and no have so much respect and acknowledgement

[@Jonesyb90]

Northern Ireland not Ireland. Great soldiers in the armed forces have come from every country in the UK and outside.

[@BanIslam-j6p]

They would be ashamed of us for letting the country go the way it is today without a fight

[@theingiyegaung7484]

Respect

[@andrewarthurmatthews6685]

Legend

[@Giantist]

Legends

[@FlyingWoolf]

The original Hereford Gun Club

[@dirtsmegee]

Where can I see this doc ?

[@beenthere54]

Stirling rode the coat tails of an Irishman. Blair Mayne.

[@Valhalla88888]

The Lads had a good night

[@GunfightersINC]

no sound

[@mikebarton]

Interesting clip. Then there was GB75 and Stirling's anti-trade union mess. What was he thinking?

[@attackpatterndelta8949]

David Stirling was heavily involved in trying to undermine the trade union movement in Britain in the 1970s. Mostly funded by James Goldsmith, the original Brexiteer. Without the trade union movement, working people wouldn’t have weekends, paid annual leave, paid sick leave, maternity and paternity leave, and a whole host of other benefits. We’d all live in some Jacob Rees Mogg inspired Dickensian nightmare, where the poor end up in the work house or a debtors prison. I’ll never understand why the British (mainly the English) hero worship men like Stirling (and Churchill for that matter). They accomplished some amazing fetes, but that should not absolve them of their indiscretions.

[@hannotn]

It does seem that Stirling was fighting to preserve a UK that served his interests, but not those of the men beneath him.

[@scruffy5119]

Cry harder unions are shit

[@philipcamp1370]

There wasn't Balance with .the unions in the 70s . In place of strife wasn't allowed to work . Being vetoed ironicly by James callaghan who ten years later had to ..deal with the winter of discontent .

[@hannotn]

@@philipcamp1370 So unions are only acceptable as long as they're not successful at getting results for their members?

[@philipcamp1370]

@@hannotn you don't remember the late 70s where Union barons ruled the country .

[@bobyouel7674]

REspect

[@Sundae_Times]

13 years and the uploader still hasn't realised that they've spelt the title wrong? LOL!

[@simondoody2995]

What do you get when you put a Scots man, English man, and an Irish man together 🤔🤔🤔.... the template for all of the modern special forces to date around the globe.... you're welcome 😁😁

[@DM-kv9kj]

Just found this after trying to watch SAS: Rogue Heroes...David Stirling was clearly NOTHING like the overtly foul-mouthed, vulgar and cretinous egotist in that show.

[@northover6015]

You say that but that ‘persona’ is probably what kept him going through those times as a defence mechanism. After the war he probably mellowed out. My great Gramp served in Palestine during WW2 and the only thing he said about it was “it turned boys into men”. So, I’d say he probably was exactly how the describe him as in the drama. Just a bit glossed up for TV.

[@geoffthompson9521]

I agree misfits yeah brave enough to build what is today the most highly skilled soldiers david sterling created

[@ChrisM541]

1) Like virtually all factual-based drama shows, there is an 'entertainment/embellishment' requirement. I wouldn't hold that against 'SAS: Rogue Heroes' makers - unless they've really screwed up, and they most definitely haven't here - the majority (and all the crucial elements) of what you see, did happen. The music is mixed-era too, to try to appeal to a larger audience and 'make use of' the obvious nature of these tracks. I personally think the AC/DC, Stranglers etc tracks don't detract from the series, and remember, they do use the correct 'context' music where it matters e.g. the Cairo club/s. 2) This is the most important point for you to understand...the SAS are, as we all know, THE most self-controlled military force in the world, and when they need to be, they...'unleash Hell'. Do you really think the real Stirling & Co, in the video above were not capable of being - and never expressed - "overtly foul-mouthed, vulgar" sentiments? - in the middle of a War? - that is a 'loaded' question, obviously. Do you also truly think they would be "overtly foul-mouthed, vulgar" at this event? - another 'loaded' question. 3) SAS are selected not to stand out from the crowd - you would never be able to pick them out, outside of combat.

[@MrMjp58]

I tried watching it, but could only stand about 10 minutes.

[@ChrisM541]

@@MrMjp58 Why?

[@tudormaureenjones7030]

They were British.and where have the British gone.

[@michellegash1319]

They are in the current SaS !!

[@jmwh9654]

I always prefer Jellicoe or Wilson for my HMMLER path

[@babss2285]

A bag of vagabonds.

[@RebelofIreland]

What is it with Nordies and their love of all things Brit military?