"Get Off This Op, Sir" — The SASR Sergeant Who Threw Out A US Colonel
Join this channel to get access to perks: / @australiashiddenwar "Get off this op, sir." You don't say that to a US Army colonel. You especially don't say it as a sergeant — four ranks below — while he's standing on your operations floor watching your patrol prepare for a night raid. Unless you have the institutional authority to back it up. And SASR sergeants did. This documentary unpacks the Australian Special Air Service Regiment's unusual command culture — a doctrine that gave senior NCOs and patrol commanders the operational authority to override visiting officers, even ones holding eagle rank. Why did the Australian Defence Force structure SASR this way? Why did it work in Afghanistan when conventional US Army doctrine would have buried the sergeant who said those words? We examine the institutional reasons, the documented operational incidents where sergeants ejected colonels from active ops floors, the immediate aftermath in Bagram and Tampa, and what it cost both sides. If you're into special operations history, command friction in coalition warfare, and the kind of stories that get told quietly after deployment, this one matters. In this video: Australian SASR's institutional command philosophy Why patrol commanders had authority over visiting senior officers The specific operational incidents during Operation Slipper How the US Army responded — and why nothing happened to the sergeants The cultural gap between SASR doctrine and US conventional command What career consequences came down on both sides Why Australia consistently backed its sergeants in these disputes The price of being right when you're four ranks too junior Sources and further reading: Australian War Memorial – Afghanistan, 2001-2021: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/CN5... Australian Army – Special Operations Command: https://www.army.gov.au/about-us/lead... Special Air Service Regiment: https://www.army.gov.au/our-people/un... Australian Department of Defence – Operation Slipper: https://www.defence.gov.au/operations... US Army Center of Military History – Afghanistan: https://history.army.mil/html/bookshe... National Archives of Australia – Defence records: https://www.naa.gov.au/explore-collec... #AustralianSASR #SpecialOperations #AfghanistanWar #MilitaryDocumentary #SAS
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