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The Operators: Inside 14 Intelligence Company - The Army's Top Secret Elite

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Like all other officers, you must first attend the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and then be selected for Intelligence duties. company members were taught how to employ their weapons from within vehicles as part of anti-ambush drills.

March 1988: Corporals Derek Wood and David Howes were killed when they drove into a IRA funeral in Belfast. Still it is extremely impressive, you get the idea that 14th Intelligence is about the closest thing you'll ever get to the real James Bond. Ever since it has deployed in support of every British operation, from the jungles of Malaya to the deserts of Iraq. GALLERY FOR THIS REGIMENT 14 Intelligence Company(14 INT 'THE DET') Hoodie Please use drop down boxes to select size and colour. MI Coy is co-located with the Battalion Headquarters in Ashford House Army Reserve Centre on Worship Street, very close to the City.GALLERY FOR THIS REGIMENT 14 Intelligence Company(14 INT 'THE DET') Tee Shirts Please use drop down boxes to select size and colour. The censorship of Jackie George's story displayed Whitehall's characteristic incompetence even before the injunction. During my first foreign language conversation with a friendly local, I worked out that an enemy ambush had been set up in front of a coalition patrol. available in a wide variety of Regiments Please use drop down boxes to select size, colour and regiment. The Det was formed after the British Army's intelligence unit, the Military Reaction Force, was compromised.

So from then on, their like would be especially vigilant during the first 10-15 minutes of a hijack, due to the increased risk of intervention (by passengers, flight crew or cabin crew! I recommend you also read Fishers of Men by Rob Lewis which covers the same subject from an NCO's perspective, Former Soldier Seeks Employment by John Miller and Stakeknife by Martin Ingram (although take the latter with a large pinch of salt) . Unarmed combat was taught to Det operatives, particularly techniques to disarm and neutralise knife or gun-weilding assailants. Battle Group Intelligence Support Sections (BGISS) work alongside the combat elements in the field help them understand the environment and adversaries they are facing. Members become experts at using pistols (usually browning high powers or Walter PPKs), sub machine guns such as HK MP5ks, carbines ( HK53) and assault rifles ( G3KA4).

Every day was different and you didn't know what was going to happen on the way into work each morning. According to Urban, the NITAT name was replaced in 1978 or 1979 by Intelligence and Security Group (NI) or Int and Sy Group. might equally have been taken from the pages of one of Ian Fleming's 'James Bond' adventures: instead - and proving that fact is often stranger than fiction - it appears in Tony Geraghty's factual account of Britain's most daring Cold War spy mission BRIXMIS.

In such a role, it is likely that 14 Company identified and tracked targets for SAS arrest operations such as Operation Tango. I could see that my work had immediate real world effect - identifying threats to soldiers on the ground and warning them in time to prevent casualties.At first we thought it was a drugs lab, and for six weeks we painstakingly developed the intelligence picture.

Selection to 14 Intelligence Company was available to all serving members of the British armed forces and to both sexes. Along with this specialized training, the Det was also equipped with unique equipment much of which could be considered ahead of its time.

Military Intelligence Battalion is an Army Reserve unit under the operational command of the 1st Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Brigade, within the Field Army. As it was co-located at Castledillon with an Engineer regiment, a second layer of cover was provided to satisfy soldiers of this regiment. Probably also doesn't help that the author is an officer who is therefore largely removed from the front line and instead organising operations.

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