posted 03-31- 03:29 AM               

Followed a close second by the North Pole barber quartet.

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posted 03-31- 09:29 AM               

Seems that the US has all kinds of elite teams, Its crazy. In my mind a good elite force would be trained to use and have access to what every they needed. Air, land and sea, and technological. We are past the age where brute force gets the job done. Sometimes you might need that nerd along with ya. Albeit a highly trained killer nerd.

HAHA.

Are Gurkhas the highly trained Indians from the highlands of India? If so my dad told me about them once. Said they were the shit.

Really it wouldn't matter what country you were from If you get the right men, supplies, training, leadership and plan you should be just as good as anyone else.

I've also read stuff about the Navy Seals and although they are very good at what they do also. I find the Guys in the SAS are more hmm... Refined and such. The Navy seals seems to want to turn everyone into beer swilling killers. Nothing wrong with teaching your men to kill if thats there job. BUT..

posted 03-31- 10:56 AM               

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posted 03-31- 12:35 PM               

Yeah I forgot about the religion factor.

I think it really comes down to what do you want them to do? Best at what? Over all, Hand to hand, urban warfare?

Theres alot of factors. You take all the top trained elite fighting forces and put them through the same tests and I don't think one would come out on top. Well one might but it wouldn't be a clear majority.

The Gurkhas (if they are who I think they are) are more trained in hand to hand and sneaking I think. But how well would they work in a situation where they were going to be going to be Parashuting in calling in Air strikes and being Air lifted out on heli's. Do they know how to clear and assess an LZ? Or guide the ground attack pilot in?

I'm definatly not saying anything bad about them. But we would really need to know what task or tasks they would be undertaking.

I guess another argument would be which army would win in a confrontation with the same amount of troops? But it still wouldn't be easy. Would one side have a technological advantage? Would one side be defending its homeland? Climate, religion, trust in leaders, moral.

Boy it gets pretty complicated.

When you think of it (here we go heheh) Could the allies have won the war if they only had the # of men and amount of resources the axis did?

posted 03-31- 07:32 PM               

Yeah I think we would have lost if it wasn't for shear #s and resources.

posted 03-31- 07:40 PM               

Seal Team 6
Delta Force (said not to exist)
Russian Spetznatz commandos
British OSS/SAS

posted 04-01- 05:42 AM               

The unit was very, very cladestine. Its existance was not made public knowledge until after the war. Most of its records were kept secret under the 50 year rule and were only declassified a few years ago.

They were the guys who sailed the 'Krait' over to occupied Singapore (just a few thousand miles behind enemy lines)and sunk a shite load of Jap ships in Singapore Harbour using limpet mines.

I guess the other reason is that my old man was in the unit .... but he's always been my hero anyway.....just like all our dads.....

Cheers,

AGAS 5

My old man : Signalman
Patrol: AGAS 5
Project: Kingfisher
Unit: Z Force
Location: Occupied Borneo

posted 04-01- 09:13 AM               

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posted 07-11- 12:00 AM               

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