Well, it worked in WWI. Oh, wait...
Fact Check: This is inaccurate from the Daily Mail, anyone who has seen the documentary SAS Red Notice on Sky TV knows that all Super Army Soldiers officers are posh!
SAS 'needs more posh officers amid influx of working-class recruits' https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10004569/SAS-needs-posh-officers-amid-influx-working-class-recruits-soldiers-say.html?ito=amp_twitter_share-top … via @MailOnline
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Nope, in WW1 a lot of officers were commissioned from the ranks due to numbers required. Post-war there was the phenomenon of unemployed working class officers trying to fit back in. DH Lawrence alluded to it in Lady C’s Lover with Mellors the gamekeeper being a former officer.
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Well the Australian SAS is fucked.
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Won’t somebody think about the Ruperts of this world, born to lead but as think as mince etc etc.
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Thank goodness tory pms are all posh.
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I finally have to join to the people who reply to
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You do always need a few Scots NCOs from the Clyde though. This is a hill I would be prepared to let them die on for.
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And yet, on that page is a link to an article about an officer who groped a Lance-corporal...
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*Not posh, never got invited to the boathouse at Hereford
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#Hearford actually. Bob De Niro says so.
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