SAS Operators Explain Selection - How to Survive | Chris Craighead, Billy Billingham, & More

[@cera5456]

Great stuff to listen to whilst in prep phase. Top blokes, all of them!

[@teenafrench7236]

You always deliver the best interviews. But guys, forget what it takes to be IN the SAS. Tell the story of what it’s like to live with PTSD for 50+ years AFTER you survive (IF you survive) the SAS. What it’s like having them as family members. Much love from a SAS Military survivor family member in New Zealand ❤❤❤

[@chakko007]

The good thing is that they take only the best of the best, which means that they also only take the people with the most optimal mindset. The guys who are less likely to get PTSD after what they do.

[@teenafrench7236]

⁠@@chakko007I’ve never met anyone that comes out of SAS detail without PTSD. They are only human, and torture is one of their training tactics. There are some mindfulness techniques you can employ but you had better be really good at it, cause EVERYONE is human and every mind has a tipping point. I know a lot of military, police, secret service…they ALL have PTSD in some form. That was my point…the real story is in their survival afterwards, not in the lean muscle mass ratio or high performance fitness regime. We buried the last of our 28th Maori battalion yesterday at age 100, he fought in Japan WW2 with my grandfather. Before he died he said if he had had his way no one would haven gone to war. So many innocent lives were lost, broken families, mothers left without their sons for the rest of their lives. Grief and trauma is something our society does treat properly because it invokes uncomfortable feelings. But feels are dangerous when left unprocessed in the body. Trigger warning: I myself was tortured by an ex SAS officer until I pretended to be dead in a pool of my own blood. I was found catatonic, hospitalised in a mental institution, and tranquilliser for 6 weeks. When I got my ability to speak back NO ONE believed my story of being tortured and I was diagnosed falsely with Bipolar disorder. 20 years later I’m fine, but it literally DID take 25 years to heal. There’s no hero’s…just innocent victims and justifiably angry people. If you want to talk me…I’ll easy enough to find on LinkedIn Teena Ngapo-French

[@igotsome4526]

@@chakko007 Unfortunately that is Incredibly untrue. Thats the fantasy version.

[@lsvlogs4769]

amazing video mate, applying to royal marines next year ill be 17 cant wait

[@blackyout7824]

Good luck hope you make it

[@heatpump8566]

Good luck bud, hope you make it. Train hard before

[@rico23232]

Excellent interview. Great honest direct blokes who say it how it is

[@robmills7611]

SAS/SBS-Simply the BEST!! 👍❤️🇬🇧

[@heatpump8566]

Good luck lad

[@robmills7611]

Their ability to survive and even thrive in the most miserable and painfully difficult situations is what sets them apart and what I admire and respect the most about them because even in the prime of my youth when I was in great shape and very athletic I never would have made it through ANY special operations selection because I know that mentally I would have reached a point of "that's enough misery for me!" 😂 I definitely would have believed that I could back then but knowing myself much better now in my sixties I KNOW I wouldn't have made it! 😂 I did go into the Marine Corps though, that would have been my limit

[@leeomahoney9516]

Brilliant men respect

[@Prepper-go5sr]

Some very true early words by Christian. I remember when the rest of lads were going for a "sports afternoon" I used to pretend I was going swimming and get a taxi from camp with a Bergen and go running up hills for the afternoon. Before meeting in the bar on a Friday afternoon I'd come an our later because I'd run 2 BFT's back to back before joining them. Definitely made a difference

[@garrybaldy327]

The best story about SAS selection is the Para who passed the mountain phase, passed the jungle phase, got through Evade & Capture, endured the beatings and torture without breaking, only to be told to strip naked by a female soldier whose job it was then to laugh at his cold, shrivelled up willy and humiliate him. He couldn't take it, launched himself at her, had to be held down by her bodyguards and failed selection right at the very end. To me, that says everything about being SAS/SBS. You must be UNBREAKABLE.

[@TJMcKenna-c9h]

Ollie Ollwrtons is worse, accepted a lift to be grassed up by a farmer, he'd passed hills n jungle the lot. He had to pass selection again, first person to do old selection then newer selection as they amalgamated course with SBS. He went SBS. That would be a killer

[@OllySANDOH.24.]

Full RESPECT ❤👍🏻🇬🇧🇬🇧🌏

[@matthewharris3993]

what a lovely man.iknow what he did in africa.

[@alexkerr8770]

Need to get billy and Christian

[@grahammcrobert7141]

How to pass is get a backpack on your back and start walking a few miles per day then get yourself mentaly fit and you will pass

[@heatpump8566]

Interview guy has been to Turkey recently 😉 #turkeyteeth

[@edwardodonnell6857]

All soldiers of all regiments serve with integrity dedication to duty.The SAS like the Navy Seals Commandos Paras French foreign legion the Special boat service are world class soldiers democratic nations turn to when negotiations fail like the police armed response units we need them to defend our freedoms.We want fair equitable trade sincere diplomacy but we will always need the stick when that carrot fails.War is a awful nasty business I despise stolen valour because these men earn the right to wear their badges of honour.War should always be the final option.I believe men of this calibre need real commitment conditioning.If I was a hostage I would be hoping to be rescued by proffesional operators.

[@TJMcKenna-c9h]

Legionnaires aren't Spec forces, nor paras or Royal marines they're elite. And SEALS except DEVGRU wouldn't be classed as tier 1 in UK. CAG would also be tier 1 here. You can walk in off street and apply to be a SEAL Royal Marine Para Legionnaires etc. SBS SAS DEVGRU and CAG, you can't. Additionally, the US won't deploy military onto its streets, the UK has and does deploy SAS when situation escalates, you wouldn't have had a WACO if DEVGRU CAG SAS or SBS where deployed. You can apply to FFL aged 40 too, much older than the 32 threshold of tier 1. But all great units.

[@garrybaldy327]

When Christian says you're born to be in the SAS, he means it's your upbringing. No one is born an SAS soldier, that's ridiculous.

[@Mr_Originality]

Exactly

[@Joe11-fl1hy]

He’s a proper blurt to be fair

[@JohnAdams-vb9yv]

He’s referring to your Character, what your born with …..

[@Laurab.8]

He’s referring to innate character traits and personality…. There are certain things you can’t teach..you either have it or you don’t

[@michaelanwyll]

getting in is the easy part of being in the SAS (relatively speaking). Staying in and remaining a Wolf and not getting Rtu'd as a sheep dog is much much tougher.

[@TaylorJermy]

Sausage

[@JamesyLeet]

My Gdad was an original (A sqn 1 SAS) He taught you how to dodge bullets by pulling out his false teeth and flicking the food off of them, violently. 'Who Cares Who Wins' gramps ❤️

[@Christian-fx2sp]

Lets Get Muligan Brothers to 1,000,000 subscribers 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Lets Go Trump Lets Increase The Human Population Lets Increase the peace on earth

[@martintop777]

Please don't bring politics into this respect you choice but not appropriate for these conversations thanks.

[@andrews2990]

Increase the human population? …nah. No thanks.

[@Jrichards30]

At last actual Sas not SBS wannabes

[@tengrisherpa4517]

You need to have a IQ over 80 and be willing to take orders whitout questioning, Thats why its so insainly hard!

[@rm9719]

Completely wrong

[@Mr_Originality]

@@rm9719completely right

[@rm9719]

@@Mr_Originality average IQ is 100. So you're saying they need below average intelligence? Also, UK special forces soldiers are selected on their ability to think for themselves under immense pressure. So it's not about simply "taking orders without questioning."; even at the most junior (trooper) level, they take part in planning as soon as they join their squadrons.