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Short clip of SBS teams fast-roping onto the British Embassy, Kuwait City, at the end of the Gulf War (1991).
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[lakeslad29]

these guys are the chosen unit by the sas to help co ordinate and bring in fire from naval,arty and air strikes, any conflict going on that requiers specialist fire control i.e fac,foo, then 148 will be there, when i got on chinooks etc with my cdo unit they never gave a toss who we were, so it is poss they hadnt a clue who they dropped in, i for one never ever talked to a dispatcher or crewman in all my time on helo,hercs etc.

[eliteukforces]

There may have been a small (1-4) party from 148 bty with the SBS on this op, but there's no doubt that the bulk of the force was SBS. 148 may have been there to call in artillery or air strikes. 148 are very good at what they do but there is no way they would be tasked with clearing the buildings, which involved the use of explosives to gain entry. It was feared that the embassy had been booby-trapped or was housing fanatical Iraqi stalwarts. You don't send spotters to deal with such a threat.

[lakeslad29]

this unit is actually 148 (Meiktila) Cdo Bty, 29 commando regt RA, i know this for a fact as one of the lads i served with was one of the lads dropping in, i remember him always laughing about the fact everone inc the press thought it was the sas or sbs, when in fact it wasnt, even the crew man involved didnt know the difference!!

[eliteukforces]

I suspect he was pulling your leg. It's not likely that artillery spotters would be chosen to clear a potentially booby-trapped embassy. They're just not trained for that sort of thing. And how likely is it that the crew of the Chinooks wouldn't know who they were transporting?

[bytio]

I am the author of the book mentioned above, and i can assure you that they were the SBS. We were based at an airfield called Al Jouf, there were RAF 7sqn chinook SF Hercules 47sqn SF SAS AND SBS.

I was in the Chinook delivering therse guys roping down onto the buildings. There were 2 chinooks of 7sqn SF and two Sea kings. There was no great danger involved, and the cameras were there.

Hope this helps

[eliteukforces]

Thanks for confirming that these were SBS. Enjoyed your book too. Cheers.

[mooney13]

no. The SAS are land sea and air. SBS specialize in amphibous assualt, sneaking into enemy harbours and sabotaging ships etc. They do however still operate on land.

[letmeusethisnamenow]

@lukemidson Yeah but so's the Raf Regiment. Well, It's SFSG. Load of bollocks if you ask me

[harrybyles1996]

the sbs operate on land as much as the sas. but are a more amphibious related. they go through sas selection and the have to go on to do sbs selection. they do all that the sas do including halo and haho jumps/wet jumping, sea and land operations

[cdo29mike]

@leonwiganer As for professionalism sbs did shoot up the place but for what the building had already been cleared by regular British army that was just unprofessional destruction. Highly shined boots I don’t know, when I was in we had to have brush shined boots only. Normally that type of thing comes from the commanding officer.

[cdo29mike]

@leonwiganer From 0:00 to 0:08 slow no but under control properly spaced on top of the embassy yes that’s 148 Commando Bty RA. From 0:09 until the end badly spaced nearly fast roping on top of each other yes that was sbs rm and others, fast roping into the court yard and side buildings not the embassy building.

[cdo29mike]

@leonwiganer Just to fast rope on to a building that has already been cleared for a publicity stunt doesn’t take Rambo my 6 year old son could do it and with a little training I am sure j coy rm could ; )

[cdo29mike]

@leonwiganer Well j coy rm, 148 Bty and you can say 29 commando in general are trained slightly different to normal RA solders, Plus you have to remember` you’ are basically infantry RA are trained and can do your job better and their own which includes air, sea and artillery support, reconnaissance, observation posts and far far more.

[lakeslad29]

look guys apart from an Author who wants to sell books, listen to the guys who where either there or who had lads on the op(that i know) no conspiracy no fake bollocks only what we know or saw as commandos in Iraq,we do not claim publicity for op`s that are are not ours, but ask that if you comment on one of our op`s you know what you are talking about before you do, and dont listen to people who want to sell books..

[spongebobrocker13]

@lakeslad29 no my mate wasn't but my dad was

[lakeslad29]

@lakeslad29 not only that one of the lads from my reg was sas rsm.(JD)

. maybe we should ask him?, you guys are digging deeper than you can go, leave it to people in the know.

[lakeslad29]

look at the posts mate, the building was already taken and secured,it was a PR stunt,and believe me, good enough for 3 commando brigade good enough for sas, i suggest you talk to people down at poole if you ever get down that way...out