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

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For small and chest patches the text will be circa 6cm and large patches circa 15cm, so the badge would reduce in size accordingly. THIS LISTING IS FOR STANDARD SHIRTS IN 2 COLOURWAYS FOR BESPOKE 3+ COLOURWAYS SEE OTHER LISTING YOU CAN MIX INSIGNIAS, HAVE ONE TO CHEST, ONE TO SLEEVE ETC. Defensive Brief D Meeting between the Prime Minister and the Taoiseach 5 April 1974 Army Plain Clothes Patrols in Northern Ireland, UK National Archives PREM 16/154. Video and still cameras were often secreted about the vehicles, allowing the operators to film surreptitiously.

A poor condition book can still make a good reading copy but is generally not collectible unless the item is very scarce. Selection to 14 Intelligence Company was available to all serving members of the British armed forces and to both sexes.No one will ever know for sure the extent of the effect we had, but we know that we probably saved lives and prevented people from being killed or maimed. Breaking into houses and businesses and planting bugs and gathering intelligence without being detected was also taught, as were the arts of lock-picking and key-copying. August 1978: Lance Corporal Alan Swift was shot dead while undercover in the Bogside area of Derry City.

INTELLIGENCE COMPANY:If Ian Fleming's 'James Bond' exists anywhere today, he is to be found within the ranks of 14 Company. GALLERY FOR THIS REGIMENT 14 Intelligence Company(14 INT 'THE DET') Rugby Shirt Please use drop down boxes to select size and colour. You are entering a highly sought after profession where we will give you the opportunity to earn graduate and postgraduate qualifications throughout your career. With women and men from across the Army, the Det has spread its wings in recent years and has been used in providing what is known in the jargon as "Close Target Reconnaissance" ahead of SAS snatch operations to capture war criminals in the former Yugoslavia. The local Afghans we were supporting were taking heavy casualties from Taliban Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs).General Support (GS) Intelligence Sections evaluate and assess our adversaries activities in the medium to long term. The Det was formed after the British Army's intelligence unit, the Military Reaction Force, was compromised.

Barrett products are used by civilians, sport shooters, law enforcement agencies, the United States military, and more than 75 State Department-approved countries around the world.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). These units communicated with each other and there was one in South Derry which probably trained O'Doherty and liased with McCormick. The support element of the Battalion, enabling the outputs of the MI Companies and the Battalion Headquarters. Cookies allow us to track when you enter, leave, and re-enter our sites and your navigation through our sites.

March 1988: Corporals Derek Wood and David Howes were killed when they drove into a IRA funeral in Belfast. I braced myself to read the book hoping it would fill the gaps about my time in NI and instead forgot my troubles to enjoy a riveting read. The Det was set up in 1973 after it was decided to establish a dedicated force of highly-trained plain-clothes surveillance operatives for Northern Ireland operations.If you have concerns about the language in this record, or you have information to improve it, please share your feedback. The book is superbly written on every level and the author delivers a genuinely gripping account of a training programme of such intensity that one wonders how anyone manages to complete it, followed by vivid insights into actual operations in Ulster during the Troubles. Military Intelligence Battalion is an Army Reserve unit under the operational command of 1 Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Brigade within Force Troops Command and is based in London and Cambridge.