Royal
08-08-2003, 08:35 AM
Tmtsd PM'd me with the article below. (I don't often read the Sun, so missed it). :lol:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2003363129,00.html
The Secret Service
New logo ... for Commandos from the
elite Special Boat Service
By JOHN KAY
Chief Reporter
COMMANDOS from the elite Special Boat Service are getting their own logo — to help them become as famous as the legendary SAS.
Navy top brass reckon the undercover unit are just TOO secret and deserve more public recognition.
Now a special cap badge has been designed to replace the Royal Marines logo members wear on their green berets.
The SBS is also changing its Not By Strength, By Guile motto to the snappier By Strength and Guile.
The makeover is part of an attempt by Royal Navy chiefs to match the SAS’s macho Who Dares Wins image. The new SBS logo shows a dagger facing upwards, with two blue lines through it portraying ocean waves.
Macho ... SAS badge
The SAS cap badge has a downward dagger with wings to underline their role in parachuting behind enemy lines.
Since the early 1990s, the SAS and the SBS have been under joint control of the same Director of Special Forces.
Both units do similar tasks and work together on missions.
But the SAS almost always gets recognition and has been credited with SBS operations.
An SBS insider said: “We seldom get the kind of credit the SAS gets.
“Yet we are as highly trained and feel we are even tougher. Getting our own badge is a massive step forward and we’ll wear it with pride.”
The SBS have built up a formidable reputation as a ruthless and daring unit.
They specialise in counter-terrorism, beach reconnaissance, sabotage and oil platform and large ship assault.
The SBS’s most famous action man was ex-Lib Dem leader Paddy Ashdown.
The Special Boat Section was created in 1940.
It became the Special Boat Squadron after the Second World War and the Special Boat Service in the 1980s".
This is nothing new in the Corps. As I've said in other threads, the SBS has been open to non-RM's for years (Non-RM rates wear a green Commando beret with their own cap badge at present). Hence the 'corporate makeover'. The issue was first raised a couple of years ago, but hasn't been a major one, partly because of operational tempo and partly because SC's rarely wear berets anyway.
Many old hands are unhappy, more about the change in the motto than the cap badge, although most still consider themselves Royal's first and SC's second.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2003363129,00.html
The Secret Service
New logo ... for Commandos from the
elite Special Boat Service
By JOHN KAY
Chief Reporter
COMMANDOS from the elite Special Boat Service are getting their own logo — to help them become as famous as the legendary SAS.
Navy top brass reckon the undercover unit are just TOO secret and deserve more public recognition.
Now a special cap badge has been designed to replace the Royal Marines logo members wear on their green berets.
The SBS is also changing its Not By Strength, By Guile motto to the snappier By Strength and Guile.
The makeover is part of an attempt by Royal Navy chiefs to match the SAS’s macho Who Dares Wins image. The new SBS logo shows a dagger facing upwards, with two blue lines through it portraying ocean waves.
Macho ... SAS badge
The SAS cap badge has a downward dagger with wings to underline their role in parachuting behind enemy lines.
Since the early 1990s, the SAS and the SBS have been under joint control of the same Director of Special Forces.
Both units do similar tasks and work together on missions.
But the SAS almost always gets recognition and has been credited with SBS operations.
An SBS insider said: “We seldom get the kind of credit the SAS gets.
“Yet we are as highly trained and feel we are even tougher. Getting our own badge is a massive step forward and we’ll wear it with pride.”
The SBS have built up a formidable reputation as a ruthless and daring unit.
They specialise in counter-terrorism, beach reconnaissance, sabotage and oil platform and large ship assault.
The SBS’s most famous action man was ex-Lib Dem leader Paddy Ashdown.
The Special Boat Section was created in 1940.
It became the Special Boat Squadron after the Second World War and the Special Boat Service in the 1980s".
This is nothing new in the Corps. As I've said in other threads, the SBS has been open to non-RM's for years (Non-RM rates wear a green Commando beret with their own cap badge at present). Hence the 'corporate makeover'. The issue was first raised a couple of years ago, but hasn't been a major one, partly because of operational tempo and partly because SC's rarely wear berets anyway.
Many old hands are unhappy, more about the change in the motto than the cap badge, although most still consider themselves Royal's first and SC's second.