the rsm..the wild geese

[rockape560]

hi all,

was a boreing on tv and had not seen this for a long whille..some of these cap badges dont now exist except sas para and ramc but still a great british film

philip


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT1sG9Nmz3w

[Roy]

Hi Philip,

Yes a great film, I have it on DVD. One of the characters (know the face but forget the name) was actually ex SAS..! There was some chat over here (US) on one of the gun forums about the experimental SLR he was using with a shortened gas system (somewhat like the rifle I have now ).

Great stuff

All the best, Roy

[REMEVMBEA1]

There seem to be alot of characters wearing Para badges on strange coloured berets and a lot of infantry badges on maroon berets.

[SAS1]

I think they're all supposed to be wearing their former cap badges, the main on khaki berets, and the officers on maroon, regardless.

[NEMO]

HI good morning , I always thought this was a really excellent film with some top british actors at the peak of their game .

One thing that isnt really put across in the film but is far clearer in the book is the fact of just why these old soldiers have come out of retirment - most of them had been mercenaries 10 15 years earlier but as age crept up they got civillian jobs , the reason they are in the film was non of the ` current` younger mercenaries on the circuit would take the job in question hence the slightly mature age , this point isnt really shown in the film or the fact that so little time is given to them to plan and complete the job is again because the employers agents have spent weeks hunting round for some one to do the job and been turned down as a suicidal mission .One thing that really does come across is the fact that some of these guys were so board senceless with their civi jobs and want just one last ` kick off`

This film and the other from that time ` dogs of war` is often put across as far fetched modern fiction but any one who grew up in the 1970`s will remember many scandals on the news about mercenries been recuited to go to Africa ( Angola ) and then been abandoned by their paymasters.


Isnt there some one running round with an Eastriding yeomanry capbadge ???? the running fox ...?

[rockape560]

hi nemo,

we were just comeing back from leave in 1976,after being in belize for 6 months,and wondered why we were all getting these odd looks around darlington.

then we read what had happened to the mercs in angloa and no one we spoke to would belive us when we told them where we had been,mind you half of them had never heard of belize

philip

[NEMO]

HI philip , yep if you remember one of the stories went on for months as several of the mercs were captured and imprisoned over there , there was a high profile case about a lad from Dewsbury /Yorkshire think the british goverment did a deal an let him serve his time out in a british civi jail ........?

[jeep]

Not from Dewsbury, but this was the famous case at the time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costas_Georgiou

[NEMO]

HI thanks for the link old ` colonel Callan` I new an ex para that served with him said he was the best marksman he had ever seen ........ just a tad unhinged !

No , the guy I remember was definately from Dewsbury theres a photo of him in one of the Angolan jails weight lifting out in the yard with a set of home made weights . OC 14 Paul will know who I mean hes from up that end of the country

[NEMO]

Got it ! Collin Evans was his name 1976 , think they were due to be executed ?

[Voltigeur]

http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/postwar...rcenaries.html