 I'm just going to ask you a question sorry if it sounds a bit cliche but it's just I'm aware of my American audience who will want to know what is the difference between the navy seals and say the SA and the SAS. Well there's a number there's a number of differences one would be so isn't it I'll describe what we are and then I'll describe what I think navy seals are to make that distinction but certainly for the SAS we traditionally recruit from REF army, navy, territorial and the law come in and then they're split into troops and that's it and we have our boat troops if boat troops one quarter of our squadrons that do that and they'll do traditional navy seal type operations generally. What happens normally for the SPS the special boat service is that they are primarily recruited from Marines and that Marines will then join the SPS and the SPS will then do their boat course whichever boat troop guys go and do with them. Now that SPS boat course and sort of parts of the marine course will be similar to what the navy seals go through when they do their training and the navy seals in my understanding is that SEAL Team 6 are the sort of main counter-terrorist unit within the navy seals they'll go through quite a rigorous sort of marine based selection process which will have different modules attached to it but then navy seals and this is where some people get mixed up navy seals are probably because particularly SEAL Team 6 are predominantly the main sort of door kickers counter-terrorism unit within the US people think it's DILA Force. DILA Force are completely separate and DILA Force were modeled on the SES so there was a major I'm trying to remember his name he came across and he saw selection he saw how the SES were sort of structured and what they were meant for and he went back and he designed almost a sort of replica in terms of a six month selection process what they were looking for and that made DILA Force who are traditionally from all sorts Green Berets Rangers and all that sort of stuff and they have a counter-terrorism element to them as well but they operate slightly differently in how they go about doing their business and the only reason I say that is because I was fortunate enough to do an exchange with both of them so when we went out to the Middle East I ended up in a team with SEAL Team 6 and one of the DILA Force teams as well so yeah they're slightly different in how they are people get mixed up between the SES and the SPS and the SPS are probably closer to SEAL Team 6 and the SES are a sort of hybrid of SEAL Team 6 and DILA Force you know just like their Rangers are like our parrots but to put it in perspective the US Marines have more soldiers than our army more ships than our Navy and more aircraft than our RAF and that's just their Marines so they're a big unit the US so when the US talk about special forces you know they've they've got over a hundred thousand special forces you know we have maybe 500 you know and of course another thing to remember is the SES of our army and the SPS and the Navy SEALs are a Navy just I just thought I'd clear that up for people who didn't know yeah and with the special air service although you know people might think that's RAF or it might be Navy but we also have there's quite a lot of Marines in the SES so we have a lot of X Navy just like we have a lot of RAF there might be guys from Rafferage and stuff in there and so the SES are a sort of hybrid of all the units within the British military really which is one of our strengths you know we wouldn't want to have all paras all Marines you know all Navy we would we like the fact that we've got people from all different backgrounds and stuff hello friend I'm Chris Fraule I'm a former Royal Marines commando and I'm the only person I know that's ticked every item of my bucket list now if you'd like to achieve all your goals hit the subscribe button and I'll show you and smash it out the park