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Sas boots9/10/2023 My friend's brother, who is still serving, is typical: while still at school he would steal a car to drive home after a night on the tiles. They were teenagers from rough neighbourhoods whose prodigious energy got them into trouble. Most of the men I have spoken to over the years have come from similar backgrounds. This is precisely the sort of the thing their training and selection is designed for – the SAS only wants men with that level of mental strength.Īnd not being big and muscled-up like the US Delta Force of Navy Seals makes them more effective at mountain combat. He was no great physical specimen and could have passed for an ordinary working man until one night he went drinking in Hay-on-Wye 27 miles away and ran home.Īnother trooper, the brother of a friend who is still in the Regiment, walked more than 100 miles across mountains in Afghanistan with a broken ankle. We had a mutual friend in Terry, a builder and local lothario, and over whisky at Terry's after closing time I tried to winkle stories out of Rob.Īll I got was a playful smile and the fact that after six weeks of living in the jungle, a human's senses were so heightened they could smell things as keenly as an animal. I learned from other neighbours that he was in the SAS and often vanished for months on end. When I reached university age, we lived in a little village seven miles from town and, one summer, I got to know a near neighbour, Rob, who was no more than 5ft 6in, quietly spoken and never discussed his work.
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