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2015-08-09 Britain

UK Special Air Service A&S to Be 'Softened' Due to New Health and Safety Rules

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Posted by Besoeker 2015-08-09 06:17|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 82 and high humidity WTF? Sounds like a late autumn day.

Posted by Shipman 2015-08-09 10:47|| 2015-08-09 10:47|| Front Page Top

#2 This is coming to America as well, as we aim to diversify the Special Forces.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2015-08-09 10:48|| 2015-08-09 10:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Gotta make the special forces like everyone else. Can't have them better than the rest!

Posted by DarthVader 2015-08-09 11:15|| 2015-08-09 11:15|| Front Page Top

#4 Everyone is "Special." Everyone gets to wear a beret made in China. Get over it.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-08-09 11:57|| 2015-08-09 11:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Participant ribbons for everyone!

Posted by Frank G on the road 2015-08-09 12:21|| 2015-08-09 12:21|| Front Page Top

#6 Gentlemen, just a label.
There will always be less visible communities of hard men who choose their own fate.

Posted by Skidmark 2015-08-09 12:21|| 2015-08-09 12:21|| Front Page Top

#7 Harrison Bergeron to the white ~~courtesy~~ handicapper's phone......

Posted by Lone Ranger 2015-08-09 19:14|| 2015-08-09 19:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Has anyone told our enemies that they are not allowed to attack if the Temperature is above 82 degrees F?

Posted by CrazyFool 2015-08-09 21:17|| 2015-08-09 21:17|| Front Page Top

#9 they'll just make the training longer and drop the hammer on them later in the training.

Sort of like Ranger School. I thought the Harmony Church phase was the hardest thing I had ever done until I got to Dahlonega and Eglin. Each phase was tougher and by the time I got back from Eglin, I could had done the Harmony Church morning PT in my sleep...

Of course the other poster is right, if the do gooders soften up the entrance requirements for the SAS, then there will be an "elite" subset of the SAS that is pure hell training.

Its funny though, of all of the people you would think would be trying to diversify or whatever the elite services, you don't hear the French saying that about the Foreign Legion or the Italian's saying that about their rather reclusive unit within the Carbinari.

The real men will find some way around this and we'll still be able to man up no matter what these idiots try to do.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2015-08-09 21:46|| 2015-08-09 21:46|| Front Page Top

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