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Old February 21st, 2013, 10:02 PM
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That was more or less what I'd gathered.

Can't say as I've ever heard of "Group 4", and can't find much on the net, could I talk you out of a one or two sentence description of who/what Group 4 is?

I assume by (less then likly) "technical" support team you're implying say an SAS team?
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That was more or less what I'd gathered.

Can't say as I've ever heard of "Group 4", and can't find much on the net, could I talk you out of a one or two sentence description of who/what Group 4 is?

I assume by (less then likly) "technical" support team you're implying say an SAS team?
They now call themselves G4S in the ever diminishing circle of corporate re-branding that companies seem to be going through. Used to be Group 4 Security before. http://www.g4s.com/ - The same lot that had the contract for Olympics and the army had to be drafted in when that went pear-shaped.

"Technical" support is locally-hired armed guards, a term that apparently the UN invented for internal book-keeping PC purposes around the time of Somalia. (We cant admit to paying for thugs with AKs can we?). Its also why the armed pick-up trucks got the term transferred sideways from the armed guards who rode round in them when escorting UN convoys in-country.

The correct term for the Special Air Service Regiment in service parlance is 'Them'. (The ARRSEPedia sez so! ): http://www.arrse.co.uk/wiki/SAS

The ARmy Rumour SErvice (www.arrse.co.uk) is a useful place to go for information on the UK forces. Some searching on that forum might answer your question?. (Be warned that its totally non-PC and conversation is often in squaddie).

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The correct term for the Special Air Service Regiment in service parlance is 'Them'. (The ARRSEPedia sez so! ): http://www.arrse.co.uk/wiki/SAS

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I noticed this wikki was written by someone with absolutely no bias whatsoever
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The correct term for the Special Air Service Regiment in service parlance is 'Them'. (The ARRSEPedia sez so! ): http://www.arrse.co.uk/wiki/SAS

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I noticed this wikki was written by someone with absolutely no bias whatsoever
I have not looked for my old regiment, but the entry probably will have something to say about our alleged attraction to the ovines the guards regiments will be "wooden-toops", The rock apes (RAF regiment) will be the Short Range Desert Group, etc.

Yanking other regiments/services chains is SOP...

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