Really watch the real bravo 2 Zero and the RSMs take on it. McNab failed as commander on the ground then blamed others for it. RIP Big Vince and Wee Bob 🤫 Veteran
For the sake of the people who admire and are proud of our SAS soldiers, and western civilization in particular, can you please stop the criticism? I read people criticising for giving away secrets and the rest complaining that it was all made up. Do you see how stupid you all look? You can't have it both ways. Of course he is limited by what he can tell us! Similarly, he has clearly stated he is protecting the people who are working for the SAS now, not himself, because he worked undercover in Northern Ireland. Micheal Asher is either a liar or a fool and he's never spilt blood for England.
For those who’ve not seen it watch the REAL bravo two zero, on you tube, Michael Asher tells it like it truly was, even the regiment was disgusted with his story.
To be fair it tells it like Asher says it was. Ashers conclusions were based on 'eye witness accounts' that were conveniently easy to locate, discussing events from decades earlier and under supervision and direction of the Iraqi security forces. McNab is full of crap, but I wouldn't take Ashers documentary as being incontrovertible. I suspect the truth sits somewhere in the middle.
In hindsight we can all call names, the truth is they were behind enemy lines doing a job that they had little training to do, however wrong it went. It is true that their story has been ripped apart not only by the Regiment, Micheal Asher but by their own "Boss", but would a normal boring book get the sales, I think not! Remember there are countless books out there full of inaccuracies and hyped up to tell a story and called non fiction, do we rip them apart, NO, the reasons we do with this one, is because it was the first major conflict since Korea and was used as a media tool post the conflict and because we had done very little since Op Corporate 9 years earlier. There are many who worked for all types of "Agencies" in Northern Ireland and other countries that do not exploit anonymity, but this just adds to the scope of the book and increases its' sales so used as sales tool although not employed by "Chris Ryan". Lastly, how many of us have exaggerated a story in the past to give it more impact, I would like to ask @Saul Ted did you enjoy the read before you knew that 90% was fiction and I suggesting by your comments that you did, it accomplished its task!
Watch Michael Asher's film The Real Bravo Two Zero before buying any books from this "hero". Also check out the statements of fellow Bravo Two Zero members or the SAS's Regimental Sergeant Major at the time, Peter Ratcliffe. I'm not saying the ordeal the Bravo Two Zero members went through wasn't worth the medals. But when someone claims a kill ratio only plausible in Battlefield 3 (8 soldiers causing more than 200 enemy casualties in just a few days) some fact check might be necessary.
Who are YOU to second guess? Were you THERE? Have you ever met him? Until you can substantiate your claims, I think you might be well advised to moderate your ASPERTIONS.
The guys a liar with the majority of his story telling but when he said their next of kins needed therapy more than them it's true. Dinger is my uncle and I remember the night we found out something had gone wrong, we was all sat in my nana and grandads house, my auntie - dingers wife (obviously cant mention her name) and the rest of the adults was sobbing their hearts out, at the time I was only 9 years old and when I asked why everyone was crying all they said to me was "Uncle Dinger is lost on a helicopter and no one knows where he is" .... obviously I knew he was a soldier but at that time I didnt know he was SAS or that he was in Iraq and they wasnt going to tell a 9 year old that Dinger could be dead or captured .... It's only as I got older I realised what had happened.... it's funny because I've spent a lot of time in his company when we go and stay at their house but I never mention it, I want to ask him so much but it's like an unsaid rule ... just dont f*cking ask because he would never tell me anything, the only thing hes ever said to me that's related to the army was when he used to tell me to join up when I was younger but I couldn't, it wasnt for me, I didnt want that to be my mum sobbing her heart out worrying if I was dead or alive in a warzone, I respect him, hes one of my heroes, I respect anyone that serves but nah not for me even though I've always been fascinated by the military and wars. I'll just stick to firing his shotgun in his field as he lobs rocks over my head as targets 😄
Absolute legend!!
Really watch the real bravo 2 Zero and the RSMs take on it. McNab failed as commander on the ground then blamed others for it. RIP Big Vince and Wee Bob 🤫 Veteran
The guy is a lying sack of shit. He's a disgrace to the SAS.
Reg Sgt Major Peter Ratcliffe, who served 25 years in the SAS, gave a very different version of events.
What version was that?
@@AslanW Read his book. It's very detailed.
@@AslanW take some bloody vehicles, the book is called eye of the storm. But soldier five is the real story
It's all in his book
Maybe after other versions
Were given he felt he had
To clarify certain events!
I would really like to know how he knows one of his interrogators now lives in the UK....
He knows, due to security reasons. Any conceived threat to any member of the Regiment, is conveyed to them.
Great man,
A Fantasy book , NOBODY LEAVES MATES BEHIND,
Shut up
how do people know its his real name, because someone once put it on the internet.
Hez bullshitting
He has the same side profile as Sean Bean
@anthbooth got any prove saying that?
Asher speaks to his old boss who says he never said one thing in the debrief that's in the book and he wouldn't be able to
What do you mean, put it in a better way
For the sake of the people who admire and are proud of our SAS soldiers, and western civilization in particular, can you please stop the criticism? I read people criticising for giving away secrets and the rest complaining that it was all made up. Do you see how stupid you all look? You can't have it both ways. Of course he is limited by what he can tell us! Similarly, he has clearly stated he is protecting the people who are working for the SAS now, not himself, because he worked undercover in Northern Ireland. Micheal Asher is either a liar or a fool and he's never spilt blood for England.
Scary that he knows that one of them lives in the UK now.....
He's former regiment and 14 int he will have links into all sort of information, if I was that fella I'd be back off to Iraq.
For those who’ve not seen it watch the REAL bravo two zero, on you tube, Michael Asher tells it like it truly was, even the regiment was disgusted with his story.
To be fair it tells it like Asher says it was. Ashers conclusions were based on 'eye witness accounts' that were conveniently easy to locate, discussing events from decades earlier and under supervision and direction of the Iraqi security forces.
McNab is full of crap, but I wouldn't take Ashers documentary as being incontrovertible. I suspect the truth sits somewhere in the middle.
Groucho His debriefing back in the U.K. didn’t involve a single shot being fired throughout the entire mission.
@@tonychilds4579 Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest but I wasn't there.
@@tonychilds4579 that is just a lie. What that fuck. That is the dumbest comment i have read
Cheek Boy I take it you’ve not seen it then.
who's Steve?
If they think your special forces. You take the interrogation to the hardest. Your training tells you what.???
How do we know that's him?...
Cyril Mcnabs real name is Andy Clunge
Who the F is Cyril Mcnabs?
Nice One Andy McNab Sir; Who Dares Wins.
Kevin Baker watch the real bravo two zero on you tube.
his real name is Stephen Billy Mitchell from South London.
I believe Asher totally
Had a more "polished" accent back then, interestingly
In hindsight we can all call names, the truth is they were behind enemy lines doing a job that they had little training to do, however wrong it went. It is true that their story has been ripped apart not only by the Regiment, Micheal Asher but by their own "Boss", but would a normal boring book get the sales, I think not! Remember there are countless books out there full of inaccuracies and hyped up to tell a story and called non fiction, do we rip them apart, NO, the reasons we do with this one, is because it was the first major conflict since Korea and was used as a media tool post the conflict and because we had done very little since Op Corporate 9 years earlier. There are many who worked for all types of "Agencies" in Northern Ireland and other countries that do not exploit anonymity, but this just adds to the scope of the book and increases its' sales so used as sales tool although not employed by "Chris Ryan". Lastly, how many of us have exaggerated a story in the past to give it more impact, I would like to ask @Saul Ted did you enjoy the read before you knew that 90% was fiction and I suggesting by your comments that you did, it accomplished its task!
First major conflict since Korea? What about the Falklands war in 1982
@@johnraby4214 what do you think Op Corporate was?
You failed as commander on the ground then wrote a fairy story to cover your arse. RIP big Vince and Wee Bob 🤫 Veteran
Watch Michael Asher's film The Real Bravo Two Zero before buying any books from this "hero". Also check out the statements of fellow Bravo Two Zero members or the SAS's Regimental Sergeant Major at the time, Peter Ratcliffe. I'm not saying the ordeal the Bravo Two Zero members went through wasn't worth the medals. But when someone claims a kill ratio only plausible in Battlefield 3 (8 soldiers causing more than 200 enemy casualties in just a few days) some fact check might be necessary.
Who are YOU to second guess?
Were you THERE?
Have you ever met him?
Until you can substantiate your claims, I think you might be well advised to moderate your ASPERTIONS.
Six years of torture?
He says five in the book.
But who cares?
Not fit to tie laces of Chris Ryan
Yeah, his own opinion :/
Is this really what happened 🤔 apparently not 🤷♂️
It's all about money 💰 🤑 💸 that's why mcnabs book bravo two zero is a best seller all lies
Steve aka Andy...
@Nathan Wind why?
@Andy Gerrard what do you mean?
SHAM
@matt damon How is he a bullshitter? What has he said which you think is bollocks?
Watch the real bravo two zero on here ! He blamed his men and disgraced the unit
His whole book is more or less fiction, he made bad decisions from not taking pinkies, to blaming his own men. But, hey who cares, money talks.
Shame.
The guys a liar with the majority of his story telling but when he said their next of kins needed therapy more than them it's true.
Dinger is my uncle and I remember the night we found out something had gone wrong, we was all sat in my nana and grandads house, my auntie - dingers wife (obviously cant mention her name) and the rest of the adults was sobbing their hearts out, at the time I was only 9 years old and when I asked why everyone was crying all they said to me was "Uncle Dinger is lost on a helicopter and no one knows where he is" .... obviously I knew he was a soldier but at that time I didnt know he was SAS or that he was in Iraq and they wasnt going to tell a 9 year old that Dinger could be dead or captured ....
It's only as I got older I realised what had happened.... it's funny because I've spent a lot of time in his company when we go and stay at their house but I never mention it, I want to ask him so much but it's like an unsaid rule ... just dont f*cking ask because he would never tell me anything, the only thing hes ever said to me that's related to the army was when he used to tell me to join up when I was younger but I couldn't, it wasnt for me, I didnt want that to be my mum sobbing her heart out worrying if I was dead or alive in a warzone, I respect him, hes one of my heroes, I respect anyone that serves but nah not for me even though I've always been fascinated by the military and wars.
I'll just stick to firing his shotgun in his field as he lobs rocks over my head as targets 😄