{"id":186799,"date":"2019-04-16T08:05:34","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T08:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=186799"},"modified":"2019-04-20T05:36:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T05:36:53","slug":"sas-monitoring-russia-for-first-time-since-cold-war-with-troops-poised-on-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=186799","title":{"rendered":"SAS monitoring Russia for first time since Cold War with troops poised on border"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Charles Wade-Palmer &#8212; The Star April 14, 2019<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_165730\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/British-troops-in-Estonia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-165730\" class=\"wp-image-165730\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/British-troops-in-Estonia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/British-troops-in-Estonia.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/British-troops-in-Estonia-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-165730\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">British troops in Estonia in Feb 2018, during drills close to the border with Russia. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Troops from 21 and 23 SAS, the elite regiment\u2019s two reserve battalions, have been mobilised for operations on the Estonian border with Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The two SAS units are part of the 1st Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Brigade, and have been deployed in Estonia for the past six months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It is understood that the troops are conducting Human Environment, Reconnaissance and Analysis (HERA) operations, where they monitor the movement of a potential enemy and analyse their intentions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The part-time troops are trained by serving members of the SAS and must all pass an extensive selection process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It is understood that in the event of a Russian attack on Estonia, the SAS troops would remain behind enemy lines where they would send back encrypted reports on troop movements. The SAS troops is also trained in using reconnaissance drones which are capable of spying on the Russian as they move along the Estonian border.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The SAS reservists units are made up of civilians from various professions including barristers, accountants, architects and doctors, although their role is combat and life preservation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The troops can undertake voluntary mobilisation where they can be deployed in Estonia for several months at a time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">During this period they will be paid as soldiers, although their jobs will be held open for them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">One source said: \u201cThe SAS reservists are probably the best in the British Army, at least as good as regular infantry troops. They are especially trained in long range surveillance and reconnaissance missions. The regular SAS troops are busy in Iraq and Afghanistan so this highly important operation was passed on to the SAS reservists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/latest-news\/771982\/sas-troops-brit-soldiers-russia-putin-news-cold-war-borders\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Western military build-up on Russia&#8217;s border continues. Imagine if Russian troops were massing on the borders of western Europe. The U.S. and UK would be up in arms. Well, they are doing the same on Russia&#8217;s borders <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186799"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186824,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186799\/revisions\/186824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}