Who'd Want To Stay In These Armed Forces? -- Con Coughlin, The TelegraphVery able officers are leaving because of defence cuts that seem to make no sense.
In normal circumstances, an Army officer who has enjoyed the privilege of holding a command post in the SAS can look forward to a long and distinguished career in Her Majesty's Armed Forces.
Some of our finest soldiers of the modern era have cut their teeth in the SAS, where the experience they gleaned from directing a wide variety of challenging, and highly sensitive, operations has done no harm to their promotion prospects. General Sir Peter de la Billière, who commanded our forces during the first Gulf War, was responsible for the SAS during the siege of the Iranian embassy in 1980, while Lord Guthrie, who was head of the Armed Forces during the early years of the Blair era, was involved in some hair-raising skirmishes in the Arabian peninsula in the Sixties when he was a squadron commander in the SAS.
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