User talk:USER6655

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OPCOM of 21/ 23 SAS
Hi. I noticed that you added a comment about 21/23 remaining within the UKSF Group but placed under OPCOM 1ISTAR Bde. It strikes me as a little odd, but I can see the sense that the Director would want to keep his AR SAS units within the wider Regiment and continue to access the personnel as IAs for the regular unit.

Do you have any evidence to support that, it would be useful to include it in that article and elsewhere. At the moment the only evidence available suggests that the two units have been transferred to 1ISTAR in the HERA role, but nothing else about their support, selection and training process.

GhostlyLegend (talk) 12:44, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

I suppose I am making the distinction between operational command and administrative place. Going on the British Army's website is revealing, where 21/23 SAS remain within the general UKSF(R) group (alongside SBS(R)), even though on the same website UK military intelligence battalions are now publicly described as within 1 ISTAR. As you will see on the Army's website, special forces pay rates also continue to apply to SAS(R), which again implies 'home' as remaining within UKSF, even if operations are directed elsewhere. Finally, SAS(R) selection does not appear to have changed with the transfer of operational command to 1 ISTAR, and special forces tactics are still cited as forming part of 'continuation training'.

Therefore, I am wary of saying that SAS(R) have been 'removed' from UKSF in every sense of the word, and have thus tried to distinguish between the operational command and the 'home' of the units in question. A little odd as you say, but I think that reflects the strange/unique nature of SAS(R), comprised of two units that don't always fit comfortably alongside regular SF, but which are also unlike any other reserve units.

Your point about IAs may also be true, and has certainly happened in the past. However, obviously such information cannot be publicly verified.

USER6655 (talk) 15:28, 18 October 2014 (UTC)