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SAS Troops Posing as Homeless on UK Streets Amid Terror Fears

posted by takyon on Sunday June 18 2017, @07:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the do-they-beg-for-taxes dept.

n1 writes:

Armed SAS troops have reportedly been deployed to key positions in busy streets across the UK, with hopes that the tactic will have soldiers poised for any unfolding terror attacks.

One source told The Mirror: "The view is there are so many homeless people out there undercover operators will remain safe and anonymous.

[...] Another source claimed to the paper that the operation had been ongoing for "some time", with soldiers stationed around transport hubs and shopping centres.

Soldiers from the Counter Revolutionary Warfare Wing have reportedly been drafted for the operation.

Source: The Sun

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @05:32AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @05:32AM (#527746)

    The SAS are also being given an extra 1500 men.. which will happen when the poor fuckjers can pass the course and I can tell you I have seen some hard as fuck, solid soldiers get minced by that course and come back somewhat more humble than they were before going on selection.

    That's the point, you can't just magically give them an extra 1500 men..

    If, as they say, less that 10% of the current candidates (and they're already a 'pre-filtered' group) pass, then to get this figure you'll have to put well over 15,000 through the course, now, as there's only between 70,000-113,100 soldiers currently in the forces one wonders how this'll pan out.

    Of course, the could 'lower the bar'....somehow, I think not.

    ..The Sceptic Tanks (yanks) get badges of rank thrown at them all over the place..

    Ah, an RE colleague once referred to such things ('Operational' USian military decorations and the suchlike) as 'Muttley medals'..

    As for the Sun, Mirror etc... well if you used them for toilet roll, more shit would come off the paper than your arse..

    I don't know why I've never heard that one before, but thank you for it, made my morning...

  • (Score: 1) by Pax on Monday June 19 2017, @01:39PM

    by Pax (5056) on Monday June 19 2017, @01:39PM (#527893)

    As for the Sun, Mirror etc... well if you used them for toilet roll, more shit would come off the paper than your arse..

    I don't know why I've never heard that one before, but than

    maybe you have never run out of toilet roll!