I work with a total bull¥$€#er!

[Scousefella]

red_slr said:

Scousefella said:

264 SAS Signal Squadron is attached to 22 SAS - shared some course time with some 264 chaps many moons ago and they were fitter than a fit thing from fitsville. When they mentioned the standard for 22 SAS selection they all admitted that they would need to seriously up their game to even get close.

264/63 no longer exists - 18 SF Sigs now.

As I said, many moons ago.

As a lardy beer swilling ex squaddie I have not kept up to date with such matters.

[StuntmanMike]

fking hell, there has certainly been some changes, when I left being a reservist meant that I turned up at my local STAB barracks once a year and was paid 100 pounds for my trouble.

[TheLordJohn]

Cfnteabag said:

Sas reserves are 21 and 23 regiments, one based in London and one based in Wales if I recall correctly, had a friend who worked in their lad for a while

Pretty sure 23 are up Hexham way.

[StuntmanMike]

TheLordJohn said:

Cfnteabag said:

Sas reserves are 21 and 23 regiments, one based in London and one based in Wales if I recall correctly, had a friend who worked in their lad for a while

Pretty sure 23 are up Hexham way.

Used to go up there for a Brigade exercise every year, Otterburn training area.

[Cfnteabag]

I can say for sure that 63 signal squadron still exist, they may have changed who they come under by they still go under that name

[Asterix]

I work in the Defense & Security industry and deal with ex-SF and other experienced & qualified bods so it's funny when you meet walts. "Sure mate, you sound like the sort of rufty tufty warrior we're always looking for. Here's my card, send me your CV".

Never hear a squeak.

Love the comment above about the SAS being the biggest regiment in the Army - so true. It was a fking big balcony as well!

[LimaDelta]

TheLordJohn said:

Cfnteabag said:

Sas reserves are 21 and 23 regiments, one based in London and one based in Wales if I recall correctly, had a friend who worked in their lad for a while

Pretty sure 23 are up Hexham way.

Prudhoe

[jdw100]

Loudy McFatass said:

Scooby84 said:

Also stabbed someone in a pub until his intestines were poking through.

Edited by Scooby84 on Thursday 27th November 21:24

Yeah go ahead and laugh. The doctors said if I wasn't the fittest man they had ever treated I'd have been dead in minutes. Luckily my SAS training had kicked in and I was able to patch up the wound with a couple of beer mats and then drive myself to hospital in my Ferrari.

No its not an MR2 replica...I got given it by a rich sheikh when I saved his life in the Falklands.....

[dudleybloke]

Well, I painted the boathouse door.

[prand]

JonRB said:

Not bigging myself up there. Anyone with more than a basic grasp of computers and programming could have called him out. And, unfortunately for him, I lived and breathed the stuff. And it's now my career.

I've made a lucrative career from IT too and I can just manage to work iTunes, it's not hard! (Edit - ...to do well in IT not knowing much, my job is mainly herding the slightly autistic geniuses and making them focus on a job at hand long enough to produce somthing useful!)

Edited by prand on Monday 1st December 11:29

[JonRB]

Well, the point was that when a Billy Bullstter pretends to have a certain level of knowledge and they come across someone who has a genuine level of knowledge in excess of that, then it's never going to go well for them. The truth will always out in those circumstances.

It would be like the guy claiming to be ex-SAS talking to someone who was actually was in the SAS at the same time that he claimed to be.

Anyway, no matter. Obviously I came across badly in my original post(s) and they were taken in a way I didn't intend.

[JonRB]

prand said:

my job is mainly herding the slightly autistic geniuses and making them focus on a job at hand long enough to produce somthing useful!

[Fas1975]

Saw this one on LAD Bible today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSHgREUQz_g

NSFW Language. Soldier (ex?) confronts uniform wearing faker

If you youtube "Stolen Valor", loads on there. Fun to watch

[9mm]

Is there some sort of threshold you need to pass to count as legit and talk about your forces career. I mean, it's obviously ok for SAS balcony boys and people who did five tours of NI, etc, but what about the % of service personnel who never go anywhere near a bullet, or is just signing up enough to make you well hard and credible?

[PanzerCommander]

I don’t work with one but I have known one or two.

The best one by far was in the Air Cadets; there was one lad who:

Knew somebody that had a stinger missile launcher which he had apparently a) locked onto the police helicopter with and caused it to take evasive action (would a police helicopter even have RWR). b) fired it (no warhead) out of a window of a small room but forgot about the exhaust blast and gave himself serious burns. The missile body was recovered several miles away apparently. He had also apparently fired field artillery at rabbit warrens (or something involving rabbits and field artillery – it was a while ago). Strangely when I asked if I could come and see this Stinger missile launcher the excuses started.

And of course there was also the lad at school (I think everybody knew one of these) who’s **insert male relative/male relatives friend here** had a Ferrari (or some other super car) but strangely this car was never ever seen.

Though I am sure there are a great many people that think the race numbers and name that my car carries during the race season are fake.

[northwest monkey]

PanzerCommander said:

And of course there was also the lad at school (I think everybody knew one of these) who’s **insert male relative/male relatives friend here** had a Ferrari (or some other super car) but strangely this car was never ever seen.

Sort of - a lad at my school told everyone his Dad had an Aston Martin Virage which nobody believed until the day he got a lift off his Dad to school in it!

Kids do make stuff up though - it's adults that do it that I find weird!

[Asterix]

9mm said:

Is there some sort of threshold you need to pass to count as legit and talk about your forces career. I mean, it's obviously ok for SAS balcony boys and people who did five tours of NI, etc, but what about the % of service personnel who never go anywhere near a bullet, or is just signing up enough to make you well hard and credible?

Regardless of trade, every member of the British Army is a soldier first and foremost, with ongoing regular training to be prepared for the pointy end of battle. No doubt there's different levels of competency, fitness etc... but it's all relative. Everyone gets to play with guns and stuff. Most civvies don't and I guess there's a bunch that would like to pretend they have - they just escalate it to the max.

I'm yet to hear a Walt say he/she was a driver in the RLC.

Also, they probably think they can hide behind the clandestine nature of the Special Forces.

[selym]

doogz said:

My brother is a musician. A Sgt Major.

He's been in Iraq, both times, Bosnia, and a few other places.

He's a soldier. And a medic. (I think all bandsmen are?) He's only ever told me little bits and pieces of what he's seen and done, but jesus, some of it is seriously grim. These days they're encouraged a lot more to talk to the 'shrink', than 20 years ago when he was out in the desert the first time.

For people that haven't ever been there and had to deal with it, to pretend they've been there and boast about it? fked up.

Medics, especially on the MERT teams in Afghanistan, have my undying respect.

[pherlopolus]

prand said:

I've made a lucrative career from IT too and I can just manage to work iTunes, it's not hard! (Edit - ...to do well in IT not knowing much, my job is mainly herding the slightly autistic geniuses and making them focus on a job at hand long enough to produce somthing useful!)

Edited by prand on Monday 1st December 11:29

Solution Architect?

[Eddh]

red_slr said:

Scousefella said:

264 SAS Signal Squadron is attached to 22 SAS - shared some course time with some 264 chaps many moons ago and they were fitter than a fit thing from fitsville. When they mentioned the standard for 22 SAS selection they all admitted that they would need to seriously up their game to even get close.

264/63 no longer exists - 18 SF Sigs now.

The 264 tag is still used though. For example someone would be 18SR-264-Blah Blah Blah.