User blog comment:MilitaryBrat/ 1st Marine Special Operations Battalion (MARSOC) vs Australian SAS/@comment-3580198-20120919111823/@comment-4098900-20120922192540

Actually, that's quite incorrect. These guys didn't get their asses kicked in Vietnam by the VC, they kicked the living f**ck out of them. The SASR, SEALs and MAC-V did the most damage. Specially SEALs, they killed 900-2,000 VC from when they deployed to when they left. The VC were actually terrified of them, they called the SASR "Jungle Ghosts" because they would strike then dissapear back into the jungles. SEALs and the SASR were creating serious disruption in the VC political infistructure. America only lost because we simply were not equiped and never fought an enemy like that, plus at the very end the American public was completely against it. The VC had the jungles. They were ambushing our troops, and we did not know how to deal with guerillas like that at the time. But, the SEALs and SASR were actually ambushing the VC, not the VC ambushing them. Next off, the SASR don't train SEALs at all. They CROSS-TRAIN with them. It means both units share secrets and techniques with the other to better each other. I don't think the SASR cross-train or train MARSOC though.