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    Quote Originally Posted by Cletus View Post
    The Brits are no slouches either. Both the SAS and SBS are very good and very tough units. The SAS is the British equivalent of US Army Special Forces. the Royal Marine Commandos are more like US Army Rangers.

    The reason I brought it up may seem kind of petty to some, but it is a matter of accuracy. "Special Forces" is an element in the US Army, as Pete mentioned, they are best known as "The Green Berets". No other branch of the US military has "Special Forces". They do however have elements commonly referred to as Special Operations Forces. In the Navy, that would be the SEALs. In the Marine Corps, the closest thing would probably be Force Recon. The Air Force has their PJs (ParaJumpers), more properly called Pararescue. Some would classify Air Force Combat Control Teams also, but I wouldn't. They are just Air Traffic Controllers on steroids.

    Each of those units have their own specialized missions and those missions may occasionally overlap, but they are different from Army "Special Forces".

    It just annoys me when people lump them all together under the label "Special Forces".
    Thanks to you and Peter both for the clarification. You'd think the American participants would point this out to producers, but I imagine it's hard to say no to all those zeros on the check.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Not that we need another reality show. I guess people do watch them.

    A new reality show will put a bunch of celebrities through ‘Special Forces’ training.

    Picture yourself as part of an elite special operations unit on a covert mission. You’ve got the beard, the velcro, the dip, everything. On your right, Mel B, who you might remember as Scary Spice from the Spice Girls. On your left, Dwight Howard, who you might remember as a basketball player who admitted to eating 24 candy bars a day.


    That’s the premise of a new show set to air on Fox.


    Dubbed Special Forces: The Ultimate Test, the premise is that 16 celebrities, or at least 16 people who fall into the category of “wouldn’t recognize them on the street but they have a Wikipedia page,” are dropped into the Jordanian desert to undergo training overseen by, as Fox describes it, “an elite team of ex-special forces operatives.”


    The show is based on a similar British program, called S.A.S.: Who Dares, which began airing in 2015.


    According to Fox, the elite team of special operations trainers is comprised of Rudy Reyes, Mark “Billy” Billingham, Jason “Foxy” Fox and Remi Adeleke.


    Reyes you probably know as one of the recon Marines profiled in Evan Wright’s book, subsequently adapted into the HBO series, Generation Kill. Billingham is a former British paratrooper and member of the Special Air Service, an elite special operations unit. Fox is a former Royal Marine commando who served with the Special Boat Service. And Adeleke is a former Navy SEAL who also appeared in Transformers: The Last Knight.


    As Fox Alternative Entertainment president Rob Wade said in an interview with Variety, “They’re completely removed from society and producers. The staff sergeants control everything within the camp. They live in the middle of the desert, 100 degrees, in a place where the toilets are literally a hole in the ground. Their beds are just a sheet over a metal bar. It’s completely back to basics.”


    What better fate could await former New England Patriots football player, who also managed to piss off Boston sports media, Danny Amendola? Or Dr. Drew Pinsky, star of countless seasons of those celebrity rehab shows.


    Other cast members include Kate Gosselin, who had eight kids and a TLC reality show, Jon & Kate Plus 8; Nickelodeon star and Britney Spears sister-haver Jamie Lynn Spears; Anthony Scaramucci, a Wall Street finance guy who paid $100,000 for a bit part in Oliver Stone’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and spent 11 days at the White House communications director in 2017; and Montell Jordan, who you might remember from the song This Is How We Do It being played at every wedding, birthday party, and graduation held since 1995.


    Throwing celebrities, or people who meet some criteria for fame, into survival scenarios isn’t a new premise. After all, this is copied from a British show where Love Island contestants and soccer — sorry, for all the U.K. readers out there, I mean football — stars go through some simulacrum of British Special Air Service training.


    But the chance to watch baseball Hall of Fame catcher Mike Piazza or Real Housewives of Atlanta cast member Kenya Moore don some fatigues, crawl through the mud and get yelled at by one of the guys from Generation Kill? That’s entertainment we can’t pass up when it premieres in January 2023.
    IMO, reality shows are scripted

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Right. Seals are on team badass. All special operators are.

    Seals and special forces are both tier 2 organizations (a funding term, not really an operational term).
    They should have Bear Grylls on there, he is BADASS!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cletus View Post
    The Brits are no slouches either. Both the SAS and SBS are very good and very tough units. The SAS is the British equivalent of US Army Special Forces. the Royal Marine Commandos are more like US Army Rangers.

    The reason I brought it up may seem kind of petty to some, but it is a matter of accuracy. "Special Forces" is an element in the US Army, as Pete mentioned, they are best known as "The Green Berets". No other branch of the US military has "Special Forces". They do however have elements commonly referred to as Special Operations Forces. In the Navy, that would be the SEALs. In the Marine Corps, the closest thing would probably be Force Recon. The Air Force has their PJs (ParaJumpers), more properly called Pararescue. Some would classify Air Force Combat Control Teams also, but I wouldn't. They are just Air Traffic Controllers on steroids.

    Each of those units have their own specialized missions and those missions may occasionally overlap, but they are different from Army "Special Forces".

    It just annoys me when people lump them all together under the label "Special Forces".
    I imagine the guys in the show told the Fox crew this, but got overruled. Also, using Special Forces in the title isn't accurate because it is more likely going to be like Ranger School or Ranger Assessment (for the Regiment) than the Q-Course. And I doubt if they are going to do anything not a physical challenge like get a bunch of indigs to win their civil war.
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    Quote Originally Posted by countryboy View Post
    Thanks to you and Peter both for the clarification. You'd think the American participants would point this out to producers, but I imagine it's hard to say no to all those zeros on the check.
    I would say 100% the guys told FOX this. They were overruled. 99.9% of the population wouldn't know the difference and SF sounds cooler. But with the Seals so "embedded" in Hollywood I am surprised they didn't highjack the show into something Seal like.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mini Me View Post
    They should have Bear Grylls on there, he is BADASS!
    I saw him a couple of times. Also read something about him. Can't remember if it was a good review or bad. I am leaning towards good- that he actually did the stuff in the show and roughed it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    I saw him a couple of times. Also read something about him. Can't remember if it was a good review or bad. I am leaning towards good- that he actually did the stuff in the show and roughed it.
    I've seen a lot of Bear, and he is the 'real deal'!
    He once killed some animal, and drank his own urine out of the intestines! Ugh!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mini Me View Post
    I've seen a lot of Bear, and he is the 'real deal'!
    He once killed some animal, and drank his own urine out of the intestines! Ugh!
    The drinking your own urine thing is stupid and doesn't work.

    According to Brown, it is actually not completely unsafe to drink your own urine, as it is mostly water, sodium, and potassium, but that you can only do so once, maybe twice, before your urine becomes poisonous.


    “You could wake up tomorrow, and drink your pee, and you’d be fine,” said Brown. “You could probably drink your next pee, too. After that, you’re starting to drink pee that has gone through your system multiple times, and that is going to cause problems. That is what happened to Mr. Grylls.”
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    4 of 16 contestants were booted in the first episode. Dr. Drew Pinski was one.

    Celebrities forge bonds on ‘Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test’

    In last week’s premiere, “Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test” unveiled a slew of challenges that pushed the show’s new “recruits” to their limits.


    Four of the 16 celebrity participants were eliminated, including TV host and celebrity addiction specialist Dr. Drew Pinski. He joined singer Montell Jordan and reality star Kate Gosselin, who were medically eliminated from the show. Celebrity chef Tyler Florence left voluntarily.


    “I got sicker than crap in like an hour,” Pinski told Military Times. “I just went completely down. It caught me so off guard. They took me to the hospital, I was in the ICU a few hours later, and I was going in and out, I was not there. I’m furious about that.”


    Despite the short tenure on the new FOX reality show, which forces recruits to complete challenges out of the Special Forces selection process playbook, the trials the celebrities faced in the Jordanian desert made a family of them all, Pinsky said.


    “No matter how long you spent in the camp, we were all equally bonded,” he added. “It’s very strange, but we’re all close friends now. It was that camaraderie, that closeness, that connection to each other that made it tolerable. ... We were sort of in it together.”


    During the episode, participants were ordered to run two miles in the Wadi Rum Desert and jump out of a helicopter into the sea, among other tasks that tested mental fortitude and physical strength.


    “It could traumatize you really easily,” Pinski said. “You do a lot of psychological screening before you go in and a lot of psychological follow up. ... I could see where, if somebody were traumatized, watching the show could be a little problematic.”


    Olympic skier Gus Kenworthy, who is still in the game, said parts of the show were surprisingly difficult despite making a career as a professional athlete.
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