Former SAS Soldier Survived 400 Taliban Fighters
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- Former SAS Special Operations Soldier Adam O'Donnell shares his amazing story.
Today, I have a very special guest with me, Adam O’Donnell, who has a remarkable story to share. Adam is not only a successful IT executive, but also a veteran of the SAS, the elite Special Forces unit of the British and Australian armies of which he served for over 10 years.
He has served in some of the most dangerous and demanding missions around the world, from Bosnia to Afghanistan, from Tibet to Africa. He has faced life-threatening situations, such as being charged by elephants, falling from a plane, and defending a remote outpost against 400 Taliban fighters. He has also climbed Mt Everest, learned several languages, and trained as a parachutist, paramedic, demolitionist, and close combat specialist.
Adam is now a speaker, mentor, and facilitator, who helps leaders and teams thrive in the complex and disruptive world of today. He shares his insights and lessons from his military and corporate careers, and shows how to apply the principles of excellence, resilience, and leadership that he learned in the SAS. In this video, we will talk to Adam about his amazing journey, in his challenges and achievements, his secrets to success, and his advice for anyone who wants to follow their dreams and make a difference. So, without further ado, let’s welcome Adam O’Donnell to the show!
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Cant believe people are slating this guy for being SAS reserve. Pit it this way,he done selection and passed it,which is more than most people on here have done,especially the SAS armchair encyclopaedias.
99% of people commenting wouldn’t pass selection to SASR
@spudbeans22 And maybe not even NZSAS aswell,as all the SAS regiments have similarities ,just different terrains,in different countries,and all were based on the British SAS selection ,and that even goes for the Americans Delta force which they say is just a mirror Image of British SF selection.
@spudbeans22 I guess you are the 1%, with 22 in the title. I wonder if you are the 6,701 operator on the balcony. It's probably more like a RLC chef with a name like spudbeans. Though pls save your gash responses....
@PabloE888 You do know there have been cooks from the Catering Corp, that have passed SAS selection? Do you believe me??? Well, of not, check who Tommy Tobin was ,and who he first served with,and you'll see he was a chef,that had more about him than just rustling up a few recipes.
@barryhamilton7845 I know, I am not slating chefs or chefs that are badged. They have ended up at Rockley Park Holiday Park as well. Chefs course is well known as the hardest course in NATO to pass, even more than UKSF selection, as to date, not one person has passed. I am slating spudbeans22sas, his shit banter, and comebacks.
The TA SAS attended LRPS school in Bavaria. Those lads all scored in the top 5 percent of the course.
The Regular US Rangers and others could not believe they were Irregulars.
Yeah that's right. For some reason people think coz theyre resrves, they're gonna be crap and nowhere near the standard of the regs. Now i served with both and I can honestly say and most gen sf lads will back me up here, some of the best soldiers I ever worked with, were reservists. You have to remember, that regs do this stuff day in day out, but resrves have to do the exact same job, get to the standard required, but then switch it all off and immediately fit into a civi job once they're stood down. That takes a very particular and very special individual to do.
an sbs guy also said a reserve scored top 3 in sniper course
@AdamLewis-im2on I can well believe it. I was on a pen testing course (if you know you know, if you don't? ) and surprisingly a TA guy had been allowed on to it. Fk knows how or why, don't ask me, that's above my pay grade, but he was there. Anyway, he was top 3 also. So nowadays when I hear green army bods slagging SF reservists, or any other reservists for that matter, I know they're either plain and simple stupid, or they simply don't know what they're talking about.
@@punisher264 it’s just in a hot combat zone they simply can’t do the door kicking job which is why in GWOT they got moved to more intel stuff. i considered joining RM or RM reserves but i mean the politics right now is crazy fighting war for $$$. i’m not sure it’s the way i want to go. i wish i lived in a small country like norway. great commando units
@spudbeans22 mate don't get me started on the politics. Its fkn outrageous
What an amazingly ordinary bloke as an SAS soldier. Love it!
Thank you 👍
Exactly what happens at SAS Volunteers. He definitely served among them.
Awesome interview. Big thank you for O'Donnell sharing his stories.
Thank you for your feedback 👍
Respect I can't believe how lucky you were serving 400 Taliban thanks for sharing your story and serving the rest in the world
People in the comments section disrespecting him ? What have you done?where have you served ? Keyboard warriors
Thankyou 🎉
Jack comes from the old saying ‘I’m alright Jack’
He is in a Reserve sas regiment either 21 or 23 Territorial Army or weekend Warrior if he were 22 sas he would have had to be badged first by a parent company example para, infantry or any British army, Raf, or naval unit, Chris Ryan as most people know him which incidentally is not his real name went the same route, started off life as a sas reservist for a few years which entitled him to do the proper sas selection even though he passed selection he had to go and be blooded by a normal British army regiment which in his case was a parachute regiment. Big respect to the TA units they fight alongside and lose their lives alongside regular UK forces in the most heated of battle theatres across the world
and what is your credentials?
Yeah we know ffs. We get it you've read a few books.
No you didn't have to be a regular pal lol civvys could go for selection too. The biggest hurdle coming in from civvy street in the weapons section, but it can be done, as O'Donnell did.
TA Units don't fight alongside regular ones when you mobilise, you sign out of your TA or reserve contract and accept a regular contract
Great conversation, enjoy it.
Thank you 👍
💯 % respect
🙌🙌🙌
Won the battle lost the war TWICE got chased out of Afghanistan and iraq
Before I watch I am thinking what everyone else is also
At the end of the day, there's no special treatment for TA 21, so respect where respects due.
I SURVIVED MORE THAT 400 TALIBAN .....................I JUST WALKED THROUGH LONDON
X service are always humble even after all what they have been though for are country what a gentleman ❤
"C.H.I.P.S" =
CLASSLESS = it doesn't matter who you are or where you come from, they just want the best.
HUMBLE = the words speaks for itself.
INTEGRITY = the word speaks for itself.
PERSIST to become better in everything you do, time & time again.
Sense of humour = it doesn't matter how tough the going gets, keep a sense of humour.
HUMBLE; INTEGRITY; PERSIST TO BECOME BETTER; SENCE OF HUMOUR
Principles of S.A.S as set out by David Stirling - explained by Melvyn Downes.
He isn’t a Walt he wouldn’t get on a podcast and you can tell he is talking from memory.
Tell me you're embellishing your own cv without telling me you're embellishing own cv.
Brilliant pod
Thank you 👍
@@BehindtheFamePodcast inspired I am heading to the brecons now 🏴🇬🇧🪖 to do a time trial 4.52. Should arrive for sunrise 🌄🌻
Fully agree with his management skills. I’ve always told my guys two things 1, it’s not what you say to me, it’s how you say it. 2, don’t be afraid to make a mistake, just own it and learn from it. Respect to him.
Bear gryils was a reservest i think as well
Yes he was. Either 21 or 23
Leadership is lonely and terrifying. You have self instinct, split second decisions and the dread of getting it wrong. Fear of letting the team down, dragging them extra miles, taking them into miscalculated danger, failing.
I'm now retired and still wake up in the early hours fearing I got something wrong. Thankfully just nightmares and my service was successful.
PTSD is one trauma but to fail leadership is a horrendous fear. Constant self questions afterwards but pure gut feeling instinct at the time. There's no high five well dones because it's expected. It's the beauty of intense training that makes everyone in the team a leader that carries each other. A leader makes the decision to complete the mission and let the team do what they do.
I was not SF but involved a lot in ops. I always gave the team the open floor to decide as a team if the decision was worth input. For the team to remain silent made me a better leader each day. One mistake and it would all have ended different. The nightmares persist and I salute every soldier in the position of juggling death and injury with a mission to be complete.
Its not the same as a lead follower per se, but in the corporate world of analysis and process change, when meeting new teams with high concequence remits. Theres often a reluctance to adjustment of strategy, particularly if the analyst's have come in to move things around, and develop new systems of working. More often than not theres a keen team member, who has bought in. And through their respect within the cohort and agreement with new protocol. You can begin rolling out the formal adoption of the process. For me its critical we have that team member or lead follower. It also gives them credentials and experience in being leaders of change. If it ticks the boxes that is. If it turns out shit good luck.
Hanging onto fashion from 20 years ago.
I wont tell him !!
Brilliant this. Many people should know about jack. I’m all right jack, pull up the ladder.
🤣👍
Jack. As in "I'm alright Jack"
top guy
remind me of david brent
unbelievable bloke
Most here slating the guy and reserve units likely dont know the SAS is the only regular unit formed from a reserve unit
Please ask him what his role was in Afghanistan?
Why do there all want to be on utube..there supposedly be secret....
Learn to write in the Kings English & you may get an answer. There`s a good lad.
Tibet???
Norman?
on your bike?@@CJ0101
@@twmlloyd5257 Long journey
Australian commando
why did he not join the full time SAS regiment ?
you don’t have to. but yeh it must be tricky to do breaching training and then show up to ur IT job on monday
A holding action .
Finally withdrawn when the
Americans left
The brits did try in the 19th century and the russians in 1979!
Not British SAS
Sounds like maybe some TA time and read a lot of SAS books. He keeps tripping up referring to ‘platoon’ then corrects with ‘troop’ and gets the officer/NCO roles reversed. Sad.
He makes it clear at start he joined 21 SAS which is Reserve force. They also served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
What makes you say that? 21 and 23 are British.
Sorry, nothing he says rings true and I’m going to do some digging. 21 nor 23 operated as SF in Iraq or Afghanistan, as a matter of fact they were kicked out of theatre until they could be found a non-SF role as they are not trained anywhere near 22 SAS standards.
@@mikeh692 So I'm not the only one thinking this is a bit of an odd interview (in it's validity) 🤔 Could be wrong here but from all the people I've seen that interview after serving in SF; this just seems a bit off point.
Walt
23rd
u were in 23?
@@roachitane you kidding bro I wasn’t even in the Boy Scouts ! if I said yes I would be the biggest Walter Mitty ever my man
TA STANDS FOR TEDDYS ARMY 🧸
All those shouting walt due to his demeanor etc have a false impression of SF. Now dont feel bad because its common amongst the green army. You all think of the community as lads of a certain ilk for want of a better phrase. And that's complete crap. There are all these misconceptions about the RT, which if im honest, i harboured myself and i couldnt have been more wrong. And this goes for the resrves too. One example was that when i was in the scoff house, its divided into two sections at S lines, one section for those who have passed selection and the other side for those who havent. Anyway, im sat in a particular side and i notice this skateboarder sat a few rows across from me. He was wearing board shorts, flip flops, he had a cap worn to the side and a fkn skateboard next to him. He looked like a student. Streak of piss, the kind of dress youd expect of your teenage son etc etc.Anyway, i thought it must be the son of the big boss. Anyway, long story short, he was 22 and not anyones son lol. So it shows you green army lads that everything you think you know about the RT, you can bin.
Another steep learning curve was to never assume anything on camp. When i first went to the gym there. You go in and theres a climbing wall on the right and a high rope you get to practice your fast roping skills on, on the left. Behind the climbing wall on the right is a fight gym which is only small, but coz i boxed, i spent a lot of time there. Directly in front, across a games hall, you have the old fashioned wooden ladder walls, the type you used to get in school sports halls (in my day anywag 😂) and there was a class being held, with what i assumed to be the lads starting their 6 weeks CRW training which comes after youve completed your course. They were learning rappel / abseiling knots which they wrre using on the wooden ladder bits. Anyway, they all looked like really fkn young to me, as i was thought of as a grandad due to me starting my military career a lot later than most. My point being, is that not one of these lads bore any kind of resemblence to the quintessential RT soldier id previously imagined. During my interview, coz before selection and pre courses etc, you get interviewed (or at least i did, but i left H in 2013 ) and during the interview, my boss actually said that the amount of absolute crap that goes around about this place, is unreal. He stated that the green army just dont know, and that not knowing leads people to make up things to fit their own narrative. So guys and gals, i cant say this strongly enough, this chap is no walt. I can tell you that with 100% certainty and anyone saying that his story doesn't meet their narrative of what they assume SF to be, domt know what the hell they're talking about.
When i was there as attached REME in the late 70’s we had new cpl arrive and i was driving him somewhere and he said, theres a lots of civvies here is’nt there. I had to tell him they were all the badged blokes.
@paralogregt lol exactly mate. If I remember rightly, attached reme were on the left of Med wing? Oh god no, my bad, you'd have been at Bradbury correct? I forgot the difference in era lol
@@punisher264 at first we were in the old spiders and wksp was across the road and then in the new buildings and new wksp when the new camp was built on the same site. I could not understand why they pulled it all down as it would have been a decent camp for other units.
He passed his sas and he served his calling what did you do?? Haters
🇬🇧🪖🙏 Grateful viewer
Can't believe this guy
Mmmmm Dunno about this one..
Shit TA badged dits. Slower on hills 3km an hour. No trees phase. No DA, DSF fucked you guys off to int duties. Never met one that was at any level to a regular blade or bubble head.
did u serve?
Yeah, I served beans in the kitchen, wasn't trusted to cook anything else.
lol that sounds like a chatgpt comment !
@@spudbeans22 I was in Bagdad when you were in your dad's bag 🤣
Guys like Bear Grylls was SAS reserve.
SAS are simply cut from a different cloth. 🇬🇧
Delta force same as SAS
Navy seals same as SBS
Im not sure on this fella
you write like a Hat.
@@Sarky39 I'm glad it makes sense for you ,imagine if I wrote like a para,,,,,,you'd be fucked
@@Sarky39 but only 1 of us is
@@jonathanstuart5893yup you fella 😂😂
@@Sarky39 you wish....fella what battalion you with 1 2 3