SAS Bravo Three Zero: The Gripping True Story

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And as Damien mentioned, when I heard he was on the Bravo Three Zero patrol, the sister patrol to the famous one, I was hooked. I’d always known of the Bravo Two Zero patrol – it’s a famous SAS mission. I never knew there were two other Bravo – B Squadron – patrols, Bravo One and Bravo Three. Just that was amazing – it made the story stand out. The SAS selection training is in three parts. The first part is the hill phase and the navigation tabs. The middle part is the jungle phase and the last part is the escape and evasion phase. So over six months is split into three phases. The most difficult one, I think that most guys find it also, is the middle phase, the jungle. So on selection, because the jungle is such a harsh environment, they keep that as a tester.

How does your time training for and serving in the SF world help you today in your Civvy St, and how does it hinder you? ITV produced a one-off dramatic version of Armstrong's book, also titled The One That Got Away, in 1996. The film starred Paul McGann as Ryan and was directed by Paul Greengrass. Michael Asher, a former soldier with the SAS, went to Iraq and traced in person the route of the patrol and interviewed local Iraqi witnesses to its actions; afterward, he alleged that much of Mitchell's Bravo Two Zero and Armstrong's The One That Got Away were fabrication. His findings were published in a British television documentary filmed by Channel 4 Television, and in a 2002 book entitled The Real Bravo Two Zero. Both Armstrong and Mitchell reacted angrily to the documentary and Asher's conclusions. [3] Now nobody reaches WO2 in the SAS by just coasting through life so he is obviously a good soldier and member of the SAS. But the continual "If only they had listened to me......" tone throughout the book really turned me off. A good point regarding photo captions has been made above and I feel this ethos permeates the rest of the book.And so there I was having a chat with Des Powell about how the collaboration with Damien Lewis and the book came about and about the mission itself. However the stakes couldn’t have been higher. Saddam Hussain had begun to launch Scud missiles at Israel, trying to draw the Arab Alliance against him into switching sides and provoke World War III. I want to preface this short review by saying that my rating does not reflect my appreciation of the heroism displayed by the people in this book. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab McNab, Andy (1993). Bravo Two Zero. Great Britain: Bantom Press. ISBN 0-552-14127-5. a b Cowell, Alan (5 March 1991). "AFTER THE WAR: P.O.W.'S; 6 Americans, Including Woman, Among 10 Released by Baghdad". The New York Times . Retrieved 25 October 2011.

There were three patrols that fateful January 1991 morning: Bravo One Zero, Bravo Two Zero and Bravo Three Zero. It was the opening hours of the Gulf War and the SAS were flown deep behind enemy lines to hunt down Saddam's Scud missiles, the use of which threatened a Third World War. In 2003, the television series JAG ran an episode ("The One That Got Away", S9, EP04) loosely based on the story of Bravo Two Zero involving US Marines Force Recon in Iraq. The name of the team that was involved was Bravo Two One. Mitchell was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for his actions during the mission, [4] whilst Armstrong and two other patrol members (Steven Lane and Robert Consiglio), [5] were awarded the Military Medal.This isn’t a story about Bravo Three Zero, it is the autobiography of someone who was part of that patrol. We had to wait to chapter 8 for it to get to the point. Damien Lewis is known for repeating himself. The last book I read that he was involved in was the one with the Apache crews - not the Ed Macy books. A decent book about an interesting subject. I enjoyed the conversational tone of the book. I liked that the grittiness and raw details of the encounter were not censored, and the nod to the other patrols. Usually, special forces operators have grown up in broken homes, usually the dangle on the edge. If you weren’t military and SF, which direction would you see yourself going?

This is the untold story of the bravo teams in the first Gulf War and in particular Bravo Three Zero written with first hand knowledge of the events leading up to the operation and during. Nothing wrong with the book but had it been offered as another biography of an SAS operative I would not have bothered. No disrespect but I have already listened to many and the difference between each isn’t that great. An enjoyable read of soldiers overcoming adversity, not always of the enemy's making, to achieve success. A very credible 4.5 Mr Mushroom Heads. There were three patrols that fateful January 1991 morning: Bravo One Zero, Bravo Two Zeroand Bravo Three Zero. It was the opening hours of the Gulf War and the SAS were flown deep behind enemy lines to hunt down Saddam’s Scud missiles, the use of which threatened a Third World War.

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w Asher, Michael (2003). The Real Bravo Two Zero. England: Cassell. ISBN 0-304-36554-8.