{"id":38820,"date":"2017-06-13T02:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T06:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=38820"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:36:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:36:53","slug":"roger-courtney-and-a-watery-gamble-the-establishing-of-the-sbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/06\/13\/roger-courtney-and-a-watery-gamble-the-establishing-of-the-sbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Courtney and a Watery Gamble &#8211; The Establishing of the SBS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mXRzgtJJAPA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 4 Jun 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this video:<\/p>\n<p>Described by the BBC as the \u201cShadowy sister of the SAS\u201d, The Special Boat Service (more commonly known as the SBS) is likely one of the most well-trained and elite special forces units around today that few in the world have ever heard of, despite performing countless harrowing missions, dozens of hostage rescues and more than its fair share of daring night time raids going all the way back to WWII when an officer by the name of Roger \u201cJumbo\u201d Courtney risked a court-martial to demonstrate to his superiors just how valuable a unit like the SBS could be.<\/p>\n<p>Want the text version?: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2015\/05\/roger-courtney-establishing-special-boat-service\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2015\/05\/roger-courtney-establishing-special-boat-service\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 4 Jun 2017 In this video: Described by the BBC as the \u201cShadowy sister of the SAS\u201d, The Special Boat Service (more commonly known as the SBS) is likely one of the most well-trained and elite special forces units around today that few in the world have ever heard of, despite performing countless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[1128,690],"class_list":["post-38820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-military","tag-royalmarines","tag-specialforces"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-a68","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38821,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38820\/revisions\/38821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}