Shane Willard on the "Takies" of the South African Police Special Task Force, Ep. 49

The Team House

dee takos

History, Documentary, Society & Culture, Government

4.7 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2020

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Shane Willard served in the South African Police Special Task Force and details the unit, its mission, their selection and training, as well as key operations and some that he participated in. These are some of the most dangerous, and most professionally run, hostage rescues and criminal apprehensions that you've never heard about before. His book is called The South African Police Special Task Force: An Operator's Perspective and can be found at: https://www.warbooks.co.za/products/t... Find out more about the Task Force at https://www.sapstf.org/ Support the stream on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/TheTeamHouse

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0:45.0	Okay guys, we are live.
0:50.0	Welcome to the team house. I'm Jack Murphy here with co-host Dave Park and we have a special
0:56.8	guest here tonight this is Shane Wade Willard Shane previously served in the South African Police Special Task Force.
1:06.0	It's one of the lesser known units. We don't talk about it so much over here in the states, unfortunately, and I hope that we can change that because this afternoon I finished reading Shane's book as you can see here it is the South African Police Special Task Force
1:22.5	and Operators Perspective, one of the world's most elite
1:25.7	special force units.
1:27.4	And I think there's a lot of units out there,
1:30.5	including police units, that on paper they claim that they can do it all but they can do any
1:35.9	any sort of mission set but I think the South African special task force is one of those
1:41.1	units that you guys can make a legitimate claim that you kind of did do it all. It's pretty amazing the variety of operations that the special task force participated in.
1:53.6	And Shane's book talks about the history of the unit,
1:56.7	how the operators are selected and trained,
2:00.2	talks about the equipment, the weapons,
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