5 of the Craziest SAS Operations (REUPLOAD)

In regards to Operation Nimrod, the hostage taker hiding among the hostages in the back garden wasn’t immediately thrown into a police van. The SAS grabbed him and attempted to bring him back into the building to make sure they had neutralized all of the hostage takers until they were reminded about the number of cameras recording them, at which point he was begrudgingly brought to a police van.

Simon tries to hide it but he is so proud to be an Englishman

One of the (many) genius parts of Operation Nimrod happened while the SAS were doing their recce. To cover the noise of their drilling through the embassy walls to install listening devices, they had the flight path of the planes approaching Heathrow airport moved so they flew over the embassy. The noise from the planes overhead covered the sound of the drilling, and thus the hostage takers weren’t alerted to the ongoing operation. Genius.

These are the 5 craziest SAS missions we know about...🤫

As Lofty Wisemen said 'Did he take part in the Iranian Embassy siege? No, but he knew 120 guys that did'

A more recent SAS incident was during the DusitD2 complex attack in Nairobi Kenya. While this didn't involve a whole SAS team it did involve SAS member Christian Craighead also known as Obi-wan Nairobi. Awsome story.

Sergeant Talaiasi Labalaba, the Battle of Mirbat. Amazing heroism.

"Now, you probably haven't heard of South Georgia before." 'Course I have. It's where you run to to get away from Florida. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

"We haven't the proper facilities to take you all prisoner. Sorry."

It's simply amazing that Shackleton navigated that little row boat from Antarctica and got to that tiny Island of South Georgia on the Endurance expedition, and further amazing that South Georgia Island was where he died of a heart attack many years later. I think South Georgia Island is considered the most remote inhabitated place on earth.

Fun fact: During the Iraq War, SAS Operators were dispatched during a patrol to deal with a factory that was making self-unalive vests. One of the SAS Operators was armed with a M1014, aka the L128A1 shotgun, and when he entered the room, he immediately took out the heads of 3 enemies, and as another 2 came down, their heads got blown off by the same shotgun as well. The enemies saw this, and with the fear of getting their heads blown off, all surrendered. All of this happened with 5 enemies downed in 7 seconds

The westside boys story has an extra interesting dimension, Phil Campion mentioned on his podcast (he was there) that the negotiation team left several crates of booze for the westside boys the day before as a token of goodwill. This meant many of the men the next day were horribly drunk or hungover

You forgot the Battle of Mirbat in 1972, surely that would be their greatest action?

The South Georgia raid highlights Ernest Shackleton trek what a legend 👏

You promised five, I only count four. I feel shortchanged.

Look up Paddy Mayne, there is a doc about his exploits. Legend.

Fun little story with thermal trivia too: About 3 months ago after a nice weekend skiing at our cabin, Sunday afternoon when packing up to go home we found out that the engine heater had crapped out overnight. So we made a call and got help from the fine folk at the army base a couple of km down the road, that came and towed the car to the base where it could sit inside one the mec maintenance halls to taw out for a couple of hours. At the base entry gate they have 2 fairly large temperature displays, one showing Celsius and one Farenheit. Looking at those was when I learned that the intersection point between Celsius and Farenheit is exactly -40° :)

I've watched entire documentaries about each of these missions... but man Simon, your narration brings back all the excitement. Kudos man!

Happy Monday everybody! Have a great week

You should do an episode about their operations against the IRA. The Loughgall and Gibraltar incidents were big news at the time