Continuity Notes
By Mitch Berg
While doing research on how to run better, more effective business meetings, I tripped across a bunch of YouTube links for a 2001 BBC TV show, “Survival Secrets of the SAS”, out on YouTube.
The show – featuring Falklands vet Eddie Stone and 1980 Iranian Embassy rescuer John MacAleese – covers a lot of basic hints about how the SAS (the British Army’s special forces, and the model for groups like the US Delta Force), including some very useful info for dealing witth teenagers, at 7:14 into this segment, for which I’m going to be forever in the show’s debt.
However, I couldn’t help noticing in the episode on protecting VIPs – one of the SAS’s jobs – that in the section on dealing with ambushes, at 6:14 into this segment – I’m no expert (far from it), but I’d think the presence of a clearly-visible sandbag bunker on a rooftop might tip one off that something was afoot?
Again – I’m no expert.
June 29th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
I think the guy standing straight up behind the knee high sandbag wall might tip one off as to the IQ of the attacker.
Of course the use of a sub machine gun on a target about 50 yards away already tipped me off as to the lack of brain power at work.
June 29th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
tipped me off as to the lack of brain power at work.
Or to the fact that the Prop Wranglers had plenty of Ingrams, no SVDs.