is this true about the SAS

I recently watched a documentry about the SAS and there was a story about how a 8 man SAS team killed around 250 Iraqi soldiers is this true??

January 22, 1991: 8 man SAS team was dropped behind Iraqi lines. The team was compromised the next day. The team then attempted to escape to Syria. The team became split up. Of the 8 man team, 3 were killed, 4 were captured, one made it across the Syrian border. 4 members stole a car and drove to within 8 miles of the border before encountering a military checkpoint. They left the car and ran for the border. 2 men were killed during fire fights. one was killed trying to steal a car from Iraqi soldiers. One died from hypothermia. This 8 man team killed around 250 Iraqi soldiers.

That sounds like 'Bravo Two Zero'. Andy McNab was one of the soldiers in that patrol and wrote a book about their experiences in Iraq, imaginatively titled 'Bravo Two Zero'. You should read it, it's really good.

Yeah, although their mission failed and some of them died, they had a major kill ratio over the Iraqis.

Yeah but the one thing about the whole 250 kill thing was that they only had.................wait getting the book by micheal asher.......cant find book BUT the point is that they where only issued 250 rounds for the whole unit, now an SAS man gets a head shot about rouglhy every 10 shots. now even if they did get head shots for every shot that would mean only 250 men died AND not forgetting the fact that one died of hypothermia on his own and they didnt find his body or weapon. Which means they lost his ammo.
Also they went 200+ miles behind enemy lines with out jeeps or even more important, sleeping bags. The mission was doomed from the start.
Andy Mcnab exageratted the distances.
Also many call vince ( forgot his full name) a coward because he exsposed the section, the fact is he didnt. They landed down so close to the farm that the farmer saw the chopper and the troops. The young shepard boy didnt see vince or the section. The poor man died labelled a coward in the freezeing cold far from home on a doomed mission.

Wasp, what's going on, man? That was a bit of a rant, a weird disconnected rant at that. Not like you at all. Vince wasn't a coward, none of those men were.

I know you weren't saying he was, but I wanted to clear it up.

Every man that is accepted into the SAS or SBS is the best of the best. Period. Talk about Navy Seals, Delta Force, Australian SAS, Spetznaz all you want.

We know.

Originally posted by Chris McGee
Wasp, what's going on, man? That was a bit of a rant, a weird disconnected rant at that. Not like you at all. Vince wasn't a coward, none of those men were.

Yeah it was ,sorry, just some people do call him a coward , i dont like people who slag the military. period.

I know you weren't saying he was, but I wanted to clear it up.

As i said people do call him that.

Every man that is accepted into the SAS or SBS is the best of the best. Period. Talk about Navy Seals, Delta Force, Australian SAS, Spetznaz all you want.
We know.

Yeah but some are just A holes......i dont like andy Mc Nab or Chris Ryan.

Originally posted by devilwasp
Yeah but some are just A holes......i dont like andy Mc Nab or Chris Ryan.

There not popular in Hereford either

[edit on 11-12-2004 by weirdo]