Talk:Mike Calvert

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[edit] Malayan Scouts

The original wording read, forerunner of the modern SAS. The SAS as a regiment was indeed formed long before the Malayan Scouts, but had been allowed to dwindle into a cadre in the Territorial Army. (The aim was presumably to form a nucleus for Auxiliaries i.e. stay-behind troops, should they ever need to be recreated.)

The Malayan Scouts were part of the Regular Army. The original concept (shared by Calvert) seems to have been to form ad hoc Special Forces units in theatres as required, the Malayan Scouts being the first. Later, this changed so that the Malayan Scouts were renamed 22 SAS and became a permanent Special Forces unit.

HLGallon 20:00, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008

Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 18:37, 20 May 2008 (UTC)