SAS Who dares wins

somapop said:
Wasn’t Middleton SBS anyway?

It is indeed a TV show.
Jason Fox (he’s done a few decent docs on Mexican drug cartels) comes across well as does Ollie.
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He was SBS but they often work together on operations.

Middleton probably played the bad guy in the show. Although all instructors are tough on the contestants one is normally a bit meaner.
 
BigOscar said:
Wait, really? I thought we were training up a bunch of z list celebs to be in the real SAS, to find out it was just for TV is very disappointing. In hindsight, it was strange that they were releasing the film so foreign countries could see who our new recruits were, then again, like most of us I imagine they'd struggle to recognise any of the "celebs" anyway
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thanks for the sarcasm, my point is maybe Middleton felt by adding all those who would never be considered or get through the front door was making the show a bit of a joke. Yet like every program it seems if you don’t have “diversity” then it’s wrong.
 
paulchapo said:
The actual programme has annoyed a lot of serving and ex serving special service soldiers. They hate their name being used in it because it devalues what they had to go through to get into the regiment. While the challenges look and are tough for your average civilian they're not a patch on the real deal for obvious reasons. When you look at the minuscule pass rate for the real regiment and that's amongst motivated highly fit soldiers you can understand them not wanting it to be called SAS anything.

Somebody once said a soldier is everyone's hero in wartime and everyone's pariah in peacetime. Ask any garrison town in the country and they'll agree as gangs of young fit men trained to be aggressive descend on their town centres of a weekend. If you then add in service trauma into the mix then that's a lot of potential ticking timebombs in society. Civvy street is hard to readjust into for a lot of ex servicemen/women and that's a fact.

Many can sit and slag off Middleton for the crime he committed n 2013 and he himself has said he regrets it and is sorry. He was sentenced to 14 months inside and served 4. It is credit to him he turned his life around and indeed tries to help others now.

As for the show, ex battle hardened ex special forces soldier meets luvvie programme producers was always going to lead to confrontation somewhere along the line.

The chasm between society and the military is only going to grow wider as pc and wokeness increases. While that same society still wants and needs mainly young fit men to go and fight wars and deal with terrorists in it's midst it will have to deal with the odd fall out now and then.
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When all is said and done, the world asks men and women like these to go into the most dangerous situations and eliminate those who threaten our idea of living.

For years you've been able to walk the streets because of what service men and women in the forces, army, navy, air force, police etc have done often secretly, to try and keep us safe.

Of course the odd horrible event occurs and we all see the pain and horror attacks bring into our life. But I won't be rushing to have a go at anyone who has put their own life on the line to keep danger away from me.

Perhaps people slagging off anyone who's been front line should get out from behind the keyboard and get across to the front line and face the bullets, bombs and suicide bombers that these people have faced up to.
 
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