Mark 'Billy' Billingham: Surviving The Jungle In SAS Selection - Danger Close with Jack Carr

Today’s guest on Danger Close is former SAS operator Mark “Billy” Billingham.
From 1983 to 1991 Billy served in the UK’s Parachute Regiment before joining SAS where he was a Mountain Troop specialist conducting operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, South America and Africa.
He is a certified SF and Counter Terrorist Sniper Instructor, an Advanced Evasive Driving Instructor, a Combat Survival/RTI Instructor, a Tracking/Jungle Warfare/Navigation Instructor, a Demolition/Sabotage Instructor, a Ski Mountaineering/Rock Climbing/Abseiling/Ice climbing Instructor, a Counter Terrorist Instructor. He is also a philanthropist and highly sought-after speaker. He is the author of The Hard Way: Adapt, Survive and Win and the new book Call to Kill: The Enemy Is Everywhere.
Following his career in the military, Billy served as a personal bodyguard for high-profile clients including Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Sir Michael Caine, Jude Law, Hulk Hogan, Kate Moss, Russell Crowe and Tom Cruise.
Since 2015, Billy has been one of the lead instructors on the television series SAS: Who Dares Wins.
You can learn more about Billy at markbillybillingham.com or follow him on social @billingham22b.
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[@alexwilliamson1486]

6 months Belize, I wasn’t SF, but I have to say it was brutally hard work, and if your admin was bad, you suffered….came back to Scotland before Xmas, I’d lost that much weight, my mum and sister walked right past me at the train station!

[@anthonywright6237]

But you did it marra.. there's not much in life you can't conquer

[@markthome1673]

A Yank who trained with 'em all...love the Brits

[@SpookyFox1000]

Thank you sir ! USA, Best mates we could wish for !

[@ArturBruch33]

​@@SpookyFox1000 Nay! Canadians!!!

[@simonrogersparachuteregime3022]

Billy taught me out in belize and always moaned about not being able to grow a beard 😅

[@markcamilleri7959]

Jack it's a great place the beckons.. I live just up the road from Brecon Beacons I go there all the time

[@tomsmith2209]

So basically UKSF selection is about pitting you against your worst possible enemy......You. This is very interesting from a psychological point of view and when I stop and think about it this is far more intimidating than the thought of having someone screaming at me every 2 mins.

[@anthonywright6237]

Screaming and shouting..dosent get learning across.. officers will only shout when they sick of repeating their selves.. 2 ears one mouth you should be listening a more than you speak

[@ilikeboobas]

I dont know if they still do this (everything constantly changes) but us SF used to do the psy exam, where you spend 2 weeks in field ops literally pushed until you are on the verge of snapping, your wet, cold, hungry, and 5-6 days of sleep deprivation on the brink of physical / mental exhaustion. when your on the verge of going postal then they just end it. let you go inside change clothes take a shower, warm up, give you a full belly, then just when your on the brink of giving a sigh of relief and thought you made it, they come crashing in harder, push you harder for a couple extra days. then when you are at your breaking point, then and only then you have your psy eval. when you are at your most venerable and mentally broken then they will give you up to 500 questions.

[@mikewinston8709]

Speak softly, but carry a large stick…..Masai warrior saying from Kenya.

[@reasonabledoubt6908]

Ive seen so many interviews about this yet i still come back for more. Looking for that one special insight or anecdote . Always wonder how id cope with that lack of direction and stressed. Proppa head fuck.. its the psychological reasoning behind the design of the course interests me . What was the motivation for each stage. Deep.

[@Kongo-Slade007]

the most brutal part as he said , is the lack of encouragement and motivation by the ds ,so basically you are trapped in your own mind ,thinking weather you doing good or bad ,second guessing yourself and trying to self motivate yourself,on top of everything else ,that’s brutal

[@blaineedwards8078]

During Mountain Phase, you have to start each tab with extra water. As you drink water throughout the march, your ruck will be weighed at various checkpoints and it had better be the required weight the DS want. If it's under, they will put a bigass rock in your ruck that you're stuck with.

[@shinyhappyshibas1385]

Great stuff!

[@jamesupton5601]

I lived in Brunei as a kid, and we would do these hikes ( two or three miles) and people don't realise that even some of the bark on trees would be covered in spikes. Combine that with razor grass? The leeches eat well.

[@peterarmstrong6928]

Yeah,, their called bastard tree's,, work it out 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@ryanmurphy7976]

​@@peterarmstrong6928 lots of bastard trees in Belize 😂

[@northernwhatshapping6724]

Bastard tress for sure 😂 brushed my arm past a tree and shredded my arm. Couldn't wait to get out of that country

[@peterarmstrong6928]

Mr Mcaleese is,, the legend.

[@BarnaySlb]

Motivation speech ia amazing 👏👏💪

[@pault1964]

Had a work mate ex green jacket he was doing jungle training as a a squad a soldier not a green jacket walked through said morning and strolled off the paras with them said SAS training

[@mikewinston8709]

I spent 24 years in the army and only met 2 members of the SAS. Both were on my EPC (A) in Preston; and yes, they do have to do dull stuff like education to get promoted. It was May 91, post Gulf 1. They were no different from the rest of us; all struggled with the maths lol…..They wore no badges of rank and no beret either. Ummmmm…..that’s it…😂

[@grahamobrienverynicex9804]

There clever men ,

[@dcmulhol]

Legend! Now do Jason Fox!

[@peterarmstrong6928]

Foxy is a dolphin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@peterarmstrong6928]

A reliable one 👌

[@peterarmstrong6928]

Foxy is a dolphin.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@SwaghettiYoloneses]

You get guys with heat exhaustion and lack of salt with cramping issues quickly see them go pale and nearly lifeless. You just have to stick it out and tell yourself you aint going home until it's done.

[@kevinhudson3032]

Don’t care I ain’t going back in there I’ve done me best!!

[@newton18311]

Love the Jungles. Leaches, Your just on the menu for every biting insect in the universe, then there's the snakes, yep maybe I will retire there, Not