Re: HIGH TECH WONDER INDIVIDUAL WEAPON

At 09:54  7/02/02 +1100, you wrote:
>From: <KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de>
>
> > > >It seems Canada & Australia have SpecOps with rare
> > > abilities - they can do
> > > >their job without a blaze of publicity...
> > >
> > > So do we (.uk). They're called the SBS. :-)
> >
> > I have seen various books on the SBS. Admittedly rather less than
about
> > the SAS.
>
>There's also been a movie made about people in the Australian SAS
>during the Vietnam days, called "The Odd Angry Shot". Few Combat
>scenes though, and none of the LRRPS duties.

The lack of combat scenes was there for a reason, the title of the film 
(and the novella, the film is based on) is a bit of a hint. Long periods
of 
boredom punctuated by the odd angry shot. The film also did show LRRPS 
duties, it just didn't make it all that obvious (if you remember the
film, 
the search of the temple was one example) as the conduct of the war was
not 
the film's main intention, the characters were.

Cheers

Derek

PS Trivia warning ******* There is one scene where the main characters
vent 
their frustration on a rifle range, shooting the place up. During the 
filming the Australian Army provided help and I once met a WO2	(Warrant

Officer, class 2) who as a young Corporal got to help in the making of
the 
film by doing the actual 'shooting' of the rifle range (with his
section). 
Of course, where did I run into this guy on a ..... rifle range :)

Derek Fulton
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