Military Intelligence Battalion is a regular Army unit under the operational command of the 1st Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Brigade.

You will complete basic training and throughout your career maintain your shooting, fitness, and ability to live and operate in austere conditions. Whilst the military provided all the courses to develop and enhance my analytical skill set, the experience of working on live intelligence problems counted for everything. company members were taught how to employ their weapons from within vehicles as part of anti-ambush drills. Military Intelligence Battalion is an Army Reserve unit under the operational command of the 1st Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Brigade, within the Field Army. The Special Reconnaissance Unit (SRU) was an undercover British Army unit which operated in Northern Ireland from 1972.LIFC provides fused, multi-disciplinary intelligence in support of Land Forces in the home base and on operations. Operator's cars would also be fitted with systems to detect any tampering with the vehicle's electronics - a sign that a car bomb had been planted. Before 14 Company was created, undercover military surveillance in Northern Ireland was carried out by a unit known as the MRF (referred to in different sources as the Military Reaction Force, Military Reconnaissance Force or Mobile Reconnaissance Force).

The candidates had to go through and pass a rigorous selection process that screened for: excellent observational abilities, stamina, and the ability to think under stress, as well as self-reliance and self-confidence in carrying out operations alone. Chest sizes available from 22" to 62" however there is also the option to choose a Long fit which is 1.We immediately put down our binoculars and cameras because we knew that these types of ruby lasers could burn holes in camera shutters and in eyeballs. Selection and training of personnel from all arms of the British Armed Forces was conducted in a number of locations in Great Britain.

George describes the successful surveillance of a loyalist arms transfer, an operation which greatly displeased the RUC special branch. Provides intelligence support to the Brigade Commanders and staff within 1st (UK) Div with a variety of roles and commitments. For example, the names and places changed include that of an SAS soldier, Al Slater, shot dead by the IRA in Fermanagh in December 1984. 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. In one selection course, out of 1000 applicants, only 17 were ultimately deployed to Northern Ireland.Video and still cameras were often secreted about the vehicles, allowing the operators to film surreptitiously. But, this dedicated force of highly-trained plain-clothes operatives worked to gather the intelligence needed for the British Army and others to maintain their peacekeeping role between the IRA and the unionist paramilitary forces. For an OPTI, there is no better feeling than knowing that the intelligence you provide allows the Commander to make the right decision. available in a wide variety of Regiments Please use drop down boxes to select size, colour and regiment.

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. The Gazelles carried sophisticated surveillance gear which was uniquely suited to the operations of 'The Det. Probably also doesn't help that the author is an officer who is therefore largely removed from the front line and instead organising operations. GALLERY FOR THIS REGIMENT Intelligence Company(14 INT 'THE DET') Polo Shirts Please use drop down boxes to select size and colour. For there are, to my personal knowledge, at least three uncoordinated (and apparently competing) censorship teams setting out to hunt down wayward authors and publishers from their separate lairs within the same ministry.This is the inside story of 14 Company, an elite corps of men and women as highly trained in combat as the SAS and as highly trained as MI5 and MI6 in intelligence techniques, seen through the eyes of an ex-Operations Officer, James Rennie. IRA double-agents that the MRF had turned were discovered by the Provos and interrogated, spilling the details of a covert MRF operation based out of the Four Squares laundry in Belfast. One apparent reference comes in Martin Dillon's 1990 book The Dirty War, which reports that according to Special Branch inspector Jimmy Blair, Special Branch Sergeant Charlie McCormick and informer Anthony O'Doherty both "worked for a special unit of the Army. The ability to observe, follow and communicate over the radio network, all covertly, were ingrained in the operators.