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.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>, for which I’m going to be forever in the show’s debt.<\/p>\n However, I couldn’t help\u00a0 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\u00a0of a clearly-visible sandbag bunker on a rooftop<\/a> might tip one off that something was afoot?<\/p>\n Again – I’m no expert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}