It is one of three recent memoirs derived from the experience of the undercover, armed, plainclothes team commonly known as 14 Intelligence Company.

One officer and 30 soldiers serving with the SRU since early January are due to resume service with 22 SAS by 7 April. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Most of its officers and soldiers have completed operational deployments to the Balkans, Iraq, and Afghanistan. All this for someone twenty years old and only a few months out of training - it was incredibly rewarding.According to Ken Connor, 14 Int was organised into 3 detachments, each about the size of an SAS troop, corresponding to three IRA brigade areas.

During my first foreign language conversation with a friendly local, I worked out that an enemy ambush had been set up in front of a coalition patrol. The Special Reconnaissance Unit, also known as 14 Intelligence Company, was the successor to the Military Reaction Force (MRF).Everyone's heard of the SAS and SBS, but I wasn't even aware of the existence of 14 Company until I read this. A rag tag collection of specialised civilians forms the first 'Intelligence Corps', which is disbanded in 1918. Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. INTELLIGENCE COMPANY:If Ian Fleming's 'James Bond' exists anywhere today, he is to be found within the ranks of 14 Company. Provides intelligence support to the UK’s rapid reaction forces: 16 Air Assault Brigade Combat Team, 3 Commando Brigade, and Joint Force Headquarters.

In his book, he said that the best time to try and STOP a plane hijack is during the first 10-15 minutes. It is alleged by former British soldier Seán Hartnett that the corporals were members of a military surveillance unit known as the Joint Communications Unit (JCU). Everything was going well, and they had their successes until two IRA double-agents working for the MRF were discovered and interrogated by the Provos, spilling the beans and compromising the MRF’s secret operation running out of the Four Squares laundry in Belfast.

Members of the Battalion work alongside their regular counterparts both in the UK and on deployments around the world.