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Originally Posted by Egg
Nope James, Malayan emergency was from 1948 till 1966. You were not born then, sorry mate.
http://www.britains-smallwars.com/malaya/index.html
You were not born when the SAS fought in Malaya. However, the use of cover stories is a given in the SF world. In other operations SAS teams actually 'retired' from the Army and were sent as total deniables into war and other situations. If caught, they were labelled as mercenaries or private contractors.
They were promoted and reinstated into the army on their return.
Founder of the SAS and SOFD-D? interesting.
SOFD-D / CAG was formed in 1977 after 'charging charlie' spent time with the SAS and came away realising that an effective, iron willed counter terror unit was needed. From him SOFD-D was born. It never had anything to do with the Green berets.
(The 'Delta' moniker was from 'Operation Delta', which was a special team during Vietnam war to train south vietamese and other troops in long range recon patrol and recce skills. Col. Beckwith was aprt of this and used 'Delta' in later years as it was skills he saw were vital to specialised troops). |
The Delta moniker means much more than Operation Delta, that was just one op. Delta 'zombie squads' under total mind control are often in a delta brain wave state during ops. This is similair to sleep walking ( why the memories of these ops seem dream like )
I'm sure the delta symbol is the inverted triangle ( an ET related symbol )
Egg, you are recounting the official version of Delta Force but it runs much deeper than this