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At the moment I'm reading the book Warrior Brothers - My Life in the Australian SAS by Keith Fennell and in it he describes a time when his SAS squadron was deployed to East Timor to deal with rampaging pro-Indonesian militias and the Indonesian special forces troops who were supporting them. The 2IC of Fennell's patrol during the deployment was a British SBS sergeant on a two year exchange posting.

I know that probably everyone here knows that such exchange postings occur but I thought I'd mention it just as a reminder of one of the ways a special forces type unit contain all kinds of wierd and wonderful characters. In the third of the Last Submarine modules it describes a mixed bag special forces unit working for the King of Norway that contains British SAS, SBS, USN SEALs and other NATO special forces soldiers. What an incredibly hard core bunch. Scary.