Beyond Torture: Andy McNab's Mental Fortitude in Bravo Two Zero

[@jasonbraun]

Ordering now on audible. Thanks!

[@mariolopez-oi2td]

Seven troop is my favourite as you get this quite intimate character portraits of guys in his troop, and how deeply many of them were affected by Al's death in Northern Ireland.

[@LK-bz9sk]

That book was one fantastic read.

[@mikewithers299]

Thank you to all who served. Your sacrifice is never rewarded enough. 🇺🇸

[@Error_404_Account_Deleted]

Amazing book!

[@Freddygotfingered84]

Another legeng though hat off mate ❤

[@indianajones4321]

Bravo Two Zero is fantastic!

[@markwanner6213]

I was deployed days before the ground offense, to Al Jousf, SA. It was a hodge podge of Coalition SF. I became friends with a SAS guy named Mick. He told me that an SAS team was missing in the area. Later, I found out it was B20. The SAS was conducting RECON activities in the area, which involved female US military POW held captive across the border. Thats another story.

[@MONKeEeYboi]

Was that Mick Hawkes.

[@markwanner6213]

@@MONKeEeYboi I honestly can't remember.

[@pm3577]

Seems a lot of detailed information to be giving someone you’ve just met.

[@RollingRigTraction]

​@@pm3577not uncommon between other service members, the fact they were missing in the area more than likely at that level, wouldn't have been classified information.

[@mikeaaron2819]

The siege in 1980 where Johnny Mac explodes the window and his team courageously enter through the now hole in the concrete wall was my favourite movie ever.

[@markkehoe4333]

Operation nimrod

[@stuartgebbie5639]

I wonder if Jack ever worked with the SAS or SBS

[@RollingRigTraction]

It's not uncommon for Seals to Cross train with foreign special forces groups and the US Marine Corps Recon units.

[@stuartgebbie5639]

@RollingRigTraction not sure if it filters down from our tier one units to tier two units

[@User-gd5un]

Sorry if I’m a dumbass but what does he say in the ending line of the book? He’d “slaught em”?

[@Pugggle]

"I'd slot 'em " Put captions on, makes it easier to tell what he's saying 😉

[@RollingRigTraction]

Slot, meaning stab Hell out of them😂. It's a good effective and quiet means of giving the goodnight.

[@Muffdaddy28]

Slot them is an old British army saying for shooting someone

[@drspock3454]

My question too i couldnt understand his accent

[@patrickbarrett5650]

‘Slot’ comes from deforming the muzzle to make the bullet tumble, causing a slot instead of a clean hole (more damage).

[@ronkeely909]

McNabs fiction and non fiction are incredible! Been reading his stuff for years.

[@PaulParrish-c3m]

He writes nothing but fiction.

[@BigKingNasty]

Course he doesn't 😂

[@phillipcraddock8248]

I Have two copies of BRAVO TWO ZERO In hardback,my prize possession such a great book

[@fooleanperspective1426]

Yeah because it’s half fiction

[@phillipcraddock8248]

@@fooleanperspective1426 HOW SO

[@chrissamuel495]

You need to get "The real bravo six zero" it debunks it all.

[@phillipcraddock8248]

@@chrissamuel495 NAME AND AUTHOR PLEASE

[@paulsweet6235]

@@phillipcraddock8248 it was proved beyond doubt that it was nearly fiction by a previous sas operative and the fact that very little of what he wrote was included in the debrief. he also degraded the memories of the soldiers on that patrol who died. hence the sas "disowned" him.

[@Michael-4]

The pilot he's talking about is Jim Stockdale who was a practitioner of stoicism. I'd also recommend a book called Mans search for meaning by Victor Frankl. If you've heard of it, have you read it? If you've read it, how have you applied it?

[@martynmcnulty782]

I have actually seen him in person !

[@drspock3454]

What was the last line? I couldnt understand that guys accent

[@johnnunn8688]

Does English confuse you?

[@TS-ew5sm]

What about Asher’s debunk video of the whole mission?! That it was embellished?

[@The-egg-cult.]

The vid that all his reg mates said is bullshit aye?😂

[@PrescottChapHouse]

You should do an episode about doing illegal psychological operations on civilians with Rich Di Sabatino

[@saltdog7585]

My favorite author from the SAS fiction club

[@PaulParrish-c3m]

Andy McNab. The king of bulls**t. After watching the documentary, The real bravo two zero. I don't believe a word that comes from this man's lips. 🙂

[@chrissamuel495]

Copy that. I read the book " The real bravo six zero" debunks it all.

[@Daz759]

​@chrissamuel495 no it doesn't

[@Daz759]

Why?

[@PaulParrish-c3m]

@Daz759 Yes, it does 🙂

[@Daz759]

@PaulParrish-c3m bravo 6 zero?

[@tomasdemeter5804]

Andy is legend

[@PaulParrish-c3m]

@@tomasdemeter5804 in his own mind😂

[@LolaEverywhere]

Odette Sansom?

[@mrfireblade900cc]

Or Odette Marie Léonie Céline Hallowes but yes the same

[@LolaEverywhere]

What an amazing woman. During the interrogation (torture) she was sat in a room with a window. From that window she could see (imagined) her children playing and with that vision she knew nothing could do hurt her. Shame more people don’t know her story. #StrangerThanFiction

[@jaytomo617]

everyone nos who you are and look like!!!😂😂😂😂😂

[@user-mr9qt5ki6q]

Ahh the one who ran away

[@soldier-Dave]

Andy mcgrab!

[@angloaust1575]

It sold well so obviously money became the issue Maybe a mixture of fact And fiction however one Would have to question All books that ex soldiers Have written!

[@johntait491]

Steven Mitchell is a good story teller. The "Real Bravo Two Zero" by Michael Asher is a bit more factual. kzbin.info/www/bejne/o4HIXpaVaMp0f8ksi=RXch6YkM3nPNo32m

[@armentansarian]

The incompetence of this man , got most of his patrol killed

[@GLYDR]

How was it his fault?

[@MickAngelhere]

⁠@@GLYDRwell for starters, not taking a vehicle on the mission for one. I was in Iran near Iraq a few months before Kuwait was invaded. He apparently kept banging on about being compromised using a vehicle and decided that he and his team would be on foot instead, in the desert of all places and with the Coalition Forces having air superiority. That decision alone was and still is utterly unbelievable, the last thing that you want to be in the desert is being on foot when you are attacked, that and just travelling in it as it is. Not only that, the amount of gear that they were carrying was such , that any hope of getting away when comprised was gone. One thing about the desert it’s not to be taken lightly when you go in. It’ll will always punish those who are foolish enough not to respect it

[@theoutlier9053]

​@@GLYDRdidn't follow SOPs

[@GreekLady188]

🎉🎉🎉

[@pikemaster1972]

Wanted in Ireland

[@Barneybhoy]

Why are folk still posting about this guy when his story was proven to be pure fiction?

[@zeramoke]

Soldier five is the best book about the bravo two zero operation. Mcnabs book isnt pure fiction the contacts were embellished but i wouldnt entirely trust the iraqis that asher spoke to either, mcnab did fuck up as the patrol commander for sure. Soldier five by coburn (the kiwi of the patrol) is the must read book about B20

[@SteveR-w1q]

So it’s pure fiction that a 8 man SAS patrol went behind the lines and got bumped 3 were killed 4 captured and brutally tortured in Baghdad and one completed on of the greatest escape and evasion in military history, numerous gallantry awards that’s all made up, he himself awarded the DCM after already holding a military medal MM🤡the reason he still hides his face is back in the day the threat from the IRA was still looming and no ex member showed themselves, now of course he doesn’t need to but it gives him total anomity so he can go about his life without people pointing oh look it’s andy mcnabb

[@Barneybhoy]

@ no the fictional part is the made up gun battles and taking out dozens of combatants. It’s not difficult really.

[@Barneybhoy]

@ kzbin.info/www/bejne/o4HIXpaVaMp0f8ksi=J3TN8qmaGd60VQ9B

[@Daz759]

By who?

[@debbiemoore4628]

His Bravo Two Zero exeperiences are largely a work of fiction.

[@orca2162]

Stop believing his shit, watch the real bravo two zero,

[@Daz759]

Why do you instantly believe that over him?

[@GLYDR]

I'd believe the people who were there over someone who wasn't. Every surviving member of the patrol says Michael Asher's documentary is a crock of shit.

[@theoutlier9053]

Don't believe everything you read

[@peanutaxis]

Just like his book this is all complete and utter bullshit.

[@JeffGush-pu8fy]

Bravo 2 0 was an ill fated failure of a mission. Major mistakes were made in the prior planning. Major mistakes were made in the choice of equipment. Major mistakes were made in the execution. Undoubtedly these men went through a terrible ordeal, but this was largely due to inadequate preparation. SAS Patrol commanders are not trained to fail. They are trained to succeed. Telling a fancy story about escape and evasion does not cover up the fact that men died and the mission failed. I wish these guys would be honest and accountable for what happened.

[@Graham-zh4cp]

I was at the ijlb with him at shorncliffe as a junior leader soldier cracking boxer you wouldnt want to get in the ring with him g.m.albuhera company.