{"id":105006,"date":"2026-09-25T05:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T09:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=105006"},"modified":"2026-09-25T10:29:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T14:29:22","slug":"shock-horror-civil-servant-says-sas-troopers-are-feral-and-nasty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/shock-horror-civil-servant-says-sas-troopers-are-feral-and-nasty\/","title":{"rendered":"Shock! Horror! Civil servant says SAS troopers are “feral” and “nasty”"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’ve ever met a regular soldier, you’ll have noticed that some of them are not comfortable in ordinary civilian settings for quite some time after they get back from active service … they have to re-adapt and that takes time and effort. Out in the field, the niceties of civil society are contra-survival in many cases. Special forces soldiers, who are much more likely to see the colour of blood (their own, their mates’, or much more likely, the enemy’s) find it even harder to be “nice” around dainty civilians like Monica Grenfell<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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EXCLUSIVE: Special forces soldiers believe they are “untouchable” and not all of them are the heroes they think they are, according to a former female civil servant who worked alongside them.<\/p>\n

Monica Grenfell, who was employed at the Special Air Service (SAS) headquarters in Credenhill, near Hereford, for three years, said some of the elite troops were “feral” and it was “the nasty characters who really ruled the roost”.<\/p>\n

She has given evidence under oath to the Afghan Inquiry and has now been interviewed by @thetimes<\/p>\n

During a security briefing, Grenfell claimed that an officer joked about the deaths of three SAS reservists in the Brecon Beacons, saying that “dying on selection is nature’s way of saying you have failed”, to which others laughed<\/p>\n

Grenfell described how she was told that soldiers dropped detainees in Afghanistan from forklift trucks “for fun”. She said she asked someone what they did in their spare time in the country and they said they got forklift trucks and “drove really fast then slammed on the brakes so they fell from a height”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The comments certainly trend a certain way:<\/p>\n

Hector Drummond<\/strong> @hector_drummond<\/a>
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\nShe should never have been allowed to be around them.<\/p>\n

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Integral Views<\/strong> @Integral_Views<\/a>
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\nSwearing and ‘being feral’ is actually just normal male behavior in groups, including friendships. All workplaces used to be like this. <\/p>\n

Women find this atmosphere to be threatening and have gone about changing every working environment to suit their preferences without a single thought that men might find those new female coded, HR dominated safe space environments uncomfortable. <\/p>\n

We do, by the way. We hate them.<\/p>\n

Men retreated into gaming and now that’s also been infiltrated by woke game developers. Masculinity is simply no longer acceptable. <\/p>\n

I’m sick of what women prefer being the unchallenged yardstick for what’s apparently morally virtuous.<\/p>\n

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Shine Like Marble<\/strong> @MoscowIn2008<\/a>
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\nThe “female civil servant” rather sums up modern Britain. A feminised state obsessed with risk, HR and safeguarding, passing judgement on institutions like the SAS.<\/p>\n

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Cedric Cipherclo\u0394k<\/strong> @Cycario<\/a>
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\nWhich one didn’t text her back the night after the squadron function?<\/p>\n

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Bea Johanssen<\/strong> @bea_johanssen<\/a>
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\nGrenfell worked as a kitchen assistant and storekeeper between 2015-2018 — why would she be attending security briefings?<\/p>\n

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The Officers’ Mess<\/strong> @officersmess<\/a>
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\nCool. Let Monica pass selection & do the grimy shit that affords her the freedom to have opinions.
\nOpinion she would be denied if not for the folks at the pointy end of the spear who have been protecting it.
\nIf its too much for the Monica’s of the world: Find a new line of work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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