Andy McNab: Behind Enemy Lines - Danger Close with Jack Carr
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2021
- Andy McNab is a former member of the British SAS who led Bravo Two Zero during the first Gulf War.
Over his time in the military, he conducted counter-terrorist and anti-drug missions in Central and South America and throughout the Middle East and worked undercover in Northern Ireland. He was captured in Iraq on a mission during the first Gulf War in 1991, an experience he recounts in his first book, Bravo Two Zero. Andy was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) and Military Medal (MM). At the time he left SAS in 1993, he was the British Army's most highly decorated serving soldier.
In his post-military life, he has instructed special operations forces in survival, hostage rescue and counter terrorism. He was also the technical advisor on the classic action film Heat.
He is the author of the Nick Stone and Tom Buckingham thriller series, the co-author of the Boy Soldier series, and the author of three books about his own military experience: Bravo Two Zero, Seven Troop, and Immediate Action.
Andy’s novel Red Notice, was recently adapted into a major motion picture, and is currently available on Netflix as SAS: Rise of the Black Swan.
You can follow him on Twiter @the_real_mcnab.
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Speaking from Northern Ireland 🇬🇧 SAS did a first class job here, loved the interview!
I guess it's a question of how you view murder, mayhem and collusion with loyalist paramilitaries.
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Some people love lickin bumcrumb
@@cormacconaghan2715 They smashed the scum. Simple as.
@@cormacconaghan2715 indeed. to me it's nonsense to support people killing your own people but whatever.. loyalists aren't exactly the smartest individuals.
@@cormacconaghan2715 it's a good way to deal with someone trying to destroy the UK of Great Britain and northern Ireland
Had to pause the immersive video to simply state an appreciation of your genuine courtesy and humility with allowing your guest to free flow off the back if your concise topic starters. Bravo Sir and I have subbed and will recommend.
Brilliant interview. I was an Australian soldier and ended up in the British Military Hospital at Dhekelia Barracks for two weeks in July 1991 after we (Australian contingent) took part in the US humanitarian initiative to help the Kurdish called Operation Provide Comfort. I was billeted out of the hospital and taken under the wing of a British Army Major whose son had recently (1980s) had been killed by an IED in Ireland. During my time at the British Military Hospital a British squaddie had armed and locked himself in the barracks and unfortunately later took his own life.
Bravo Two Zero was the first military book I read followed by The One That Got Away, been reading military books ever since. Fantastic interview.
Much respect to SAS, BRAVO2ZERO. Thank u Andy, Chris Ryan & the rest of BRAVO2ZERO!!!!
Great interview you can picture it all.,lovely humor as he relates his experience. The tough hard training and a bit of luck got him through and so many others.
We are all internally grateful to these great men . We can’t thank them enough .
A great interview with a legend.
Amazing interview, really engaging, listened to it from start to finish.
Thank’s for another great interview jack. I love the way listen and don’t interrupt .
Great to hear from the legend himself Andy.
Watched this one twice. Truly an amazing story.
That was a great interview. I listened to it in one sitting. The time flew by. Andy McNab is a truly humble warrior. I shall "crack on" as well! Thanks Jack for the interview.
🤣😂🤣😂 he’s persona non grata at the Regiment
Its blokes like this, that keep everyone safe.
Top podcast capture bro!! 👍
Bravo 2 zero started me reading other SF books, im terrified but fascinated by these brave men 👏👏🇬🇧
bravo two zero is bull shit watch the true story by Michael Asher The true story of Bravo two zero The SAS said they made it up
Great to have British special forces operators on here. The SAS wrote the book for modern special operations.
Yeah but seals wrote the book on writing books about modern special operations. Lol.
@@michailbest1122 nah, seals can't read or write, they just lay on the sand and sometimes play hide and seek with white sharks.
@@mark3427 touche! Some of them are pretty crafty with a beach ball too
Remember, Delta Force was modeled after the SAS.
@@michailbest1122 there was a story of a team of 50 us marines ambushed by Taliban it took 5 sas guys to get them out I know thats not seals but that's what they end up like(USA gloryboys only happy when they can come last minute and take the glory) then they all run away? Major difference between any us and UK forces we have brains and don't need a burger king in the camp
Ex British Military myself and have read some of Andy McNabs books but thought this interview really interesting and a real relation to the demands of a SF soldier.
What a class act, cheers Andy and Jack!
Awesome!! Immediate Action is the first military cool guy book I ever read! I still have it and his other non fictions.
Excellent podcast from Jack Carr and always a pleasure to listen to McNab. The story of Bravo two Zero is timeless
And it's also a fantasy, most of it is fiction.
@@markjones1337 Finally someone else who recognised all the BS Andy is spouting.
No, there's plenty of you arseholes who weren't there.
Outstanding interview!!!
Very interesting what he went through. Mad respect
This was outstanding. Read McNabb's books years ago. Thanks Jack.
I met `Andy` during his transition from SF to a a new civilian life as an author at RAF Leuachars during his initial promotional tour of his first book (B2Z). He seemed, like other SF lads I have met, to be very polite, humorous, humble, engaging but also quietly confident but not to the point of arrogance. He was one of the first former SF lads to gain celebrity status after the release of the book `Soldier I` by Michael Kennedy. It seems like a lot of former SF lads are fast becoming well known after they leave the Sf world as the public seem to not be able to get enough of them. As mentioned in an earlier comment to another post, we must remember that all current and former SF lads are, first and foremost, fallible, imperfect human beings and not the supermen they are deemed to be, impervious to the professional and personal life challenges we all face!
Absolutely. Well said pal.
@@reeceyoutuber You sound like a spoilt petulant child. 'McNab' isn't my mate. I don't know the man. I met him whilst serving in the military. He promoted his book at military units during his transition from the military to 'civi' street'. From time to time, and depending on your role in the military, you may encounter SF lads, yes, but this is rare. Lastly, it's 'you're' and not 'your' in the context of your sentance!
Cheers!
I remember at my first unit in Germany when Bravo Two Zero first came out. I had been in the REME less than 3 years at this point. I was in Op Granby 1.5 and spent 3 months in the desert. We were all reading his book and were amazed at how much he was ‘like us’. Squaddie humour at it’s finest. Andy McNab and all SAS and SBS are The Best.
PWRR when it come out !!
as a brit i have been loving these conversations. really interesting listening to 2 perspectives of the same mission with the counter part being the conversation with Chris Ryan! awesome pair to listen to back to back definetly
And neither of them told the truth
@@tommears7321 ok, what and where is the truth? i would like to know cheers
@@SkuseyBoy the truth I believe lies with the dead and with "dinger" who hasn't released a book as far as I know.
Michael Asher found the truth, he wrote a book and made a documentary covering it all, been out for years. Peter DLB also eluded that his account was far from accurate and wasn't what was in the debrief. Another one of the B2Z patrol also wrote his account of it which differs hugely from Mcnab and Ryan's accounts. His name escapes me, he was the kiwi. Its pretty common knowledge that mcnabs account is complete bull, Ryan's has much more truth but is still heavily examined parts.
Your podcasts are very interesting! Bravo 👏 👏 et Merci beaucoup!
Fantastic interview!! 👍👍
I throughly enjoyed this Podcast ! Took my appreciation of British Special Forces up a notch ! Well rounded operators. And what sense of humour he has , had me laughing especially when he was trying to show when he was captured that he wasn’t Jewish and it was cold February!LOL!
Thank you Sirs! Shared.
Will listen later. 7 Troop is my favourite book. Met Andy at a book signing a few years ago, very inspiring person.
Great book.
Hey Andy, love your Nick Stone books. 😊
Great interview guy's
Bravo two zero is a great book and movie.sean bean plays Andy brilliantly
He did might watch it again later 👍
@@oakashthorn5714 I watched it last week again.its on RUclips you know mate.
@@tommyfoley462 cheers fella..I’ll look it up when her indoors has gone bed😉
Loved hearing about heat. That bank robbery scene is amazing.
Great interview. It's amazing out of an 8 man patrol. Two would become best selling authors.
Wow, wasnt expecting this one.
Bravo, Two, Zero was the first "soldiers book" I read when I was 11 in the nineties.
It shaped my path down a long road of personal choices in life and literature.
Regards.
I remember my dad bringing it back after working in Syria and it was such a simple but interesting title.
@@andyj2597 👋🏻👍🏻
So far this has been my favourite episode of your podcast. Nice work.
Theres some that say he made most of it up too make some dosh😆
@@EnglishSaxonsthat's pretty much fact
- Again .. ?
Great : he's seriously interesting to listen to !!!
I'm 38 now spent my childhood from 11 -16 reading bravo two zero and andy mcnab books. I used to collect his books every until 10 years ago. I stopped.
I'm sure me and my mum watched a documentary in 1995 in the uk bravo two zero sean bean ( ned stark in game of thrones plays andy mcnab )
liked the books, Loved HEAT !
Shame he didn't mention mick gould who was the main instructor on the film heat.he was a principal instructor of cqb at Hereford and a lifelong martial artist in nagassu do.also the instructor for collateral and ronin. Doesn't get the recognition he deserves.
Bloody hell can Andy talk! He has such clear mind to remember so much. I love his 'normal speaking ' of such big things. That was a great interview made me laugh so many times... being English I love his franknesss of speaking. Great interview!
I enjoyed that one, thanks Jack.
Awesome send it🤘🏻
True men spot on!!
Love your podcasts, absolutely brilliant... Really be great to hear you speak to Robin Horsfall.. Really interesting and amazing life.
I find his account rather strange after Chris's interview... Two veeery different accounts and responses. Chris wasn't captured or tortured yet you can hear the strain it took and the visceral memories he has, whereas Andy almost sounds unaffected by the events he's recounting. Fascinating to listen to these heroes! Thanks for the absolute best interviews, Jack! You're a legend and the best interviewer I've ever had the pleasure of listening to.
Michael Asher covers it well in his revist to the key areas in the books. They both allegedly added stuff to make it more attractive to civvies buying the book. Their opinion of Trev Phillips never sat right with those who knew him or others in their regiment. This isn't uncommon when blokes write books about ops, most of the lads who were also there read it after and remember differently, sadly "Andy and Chris" were in a patrol where most didn't come back to dispute events. Even if they hadn't exaggerated their kills (there werent any), everyone's memory of events in every contact will be different, it's just what happens and why hot debriefs are so important . None of that takes away from the care hes taken with veterans since then. Spent a good night with him near Edgware after hr gave a talk to guys with ptsd and he also done some predeployment work around RTI which we learned a lot from before my first tour. Best learning point is that you should take any account of combat/ops with a pinch of salt because it's an almost certainty that the writers memory won't be accurate more so far after the events.
@@weegie558 There were no kills? WTF are you on about man. They had heaps of contatcs, including one at a checkpoint crossing where one of the SAS was killed. You are telling me that the most highly trained special forces in the world didnt manage to kill one Iraqi but took casualties? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Even if they inflated the enemy casualties, they would still have dropped a lot of them. I saw the Michael Asher documentary and it was laughable. Interviewing Iraqi's. Like they are going to admit what the SAS did to them. I know who I believe.
@@Sdea1903
Plus Michael had the Iraqi secret police escort him everywhere, and no one in the Regiment ever denied what happened to Philip because Hypothermia can kill the toughest men on the planet with absolutely no warning.
Plus Andy and Chris had to exaggerate or point blank give false details about certain events as they can't by law describe the operation in its fullest or give details about the exact equipment they had
@@sc0ttishnutj0b75 ok mate, i will take the word of the iraqi secret police over british troopers do you know how mental you and michael asher sound? It is quite pathetic
@@weegie558Yes, the Michael Asher documentary was really dubious. But I did question the 250 casualty number in Andy's book from the first firefight. That would be about 30 rounds each hitting a target per SAS soldier. In a firefight it's lucky if you get 1 round on target for every 5 fired (the enemy don't just stand in the open asking to be shot!), so that would be 150 rounds fired per soldier. Sure, they were all carrying lots of ammo, and some had gpmgs, but the 250 casualty number sounded grossly exaggerated to me. I mean, surely an Iraqi company, taking that many casualties, would retreat prompto...we are talking about Arabs here! When they realised they were up against that strong a force, they would have retreated... surely, rather than let 250 of them get killed or injured.
That's just my thoughts.. it seems a bit unrealistic.
Nevertheless, I am quite sure they DID inflict a number of casualties... just not as many as the book says.
Wow!! Great listen! Get more ex SAS guys please!!!
Great podcast mate
It’s great to hear a legend like Andy revisit his past and tell us some of his exploits whilst serving with the SAS it was pretty cool. My grandad fought in the British Forces first against il Duce’s forces and later the Afrika Corp in the North African desert, Italy and Germany in WW2 and was one of the few lucky enough to survive. The Long Range Desert Group were I believe the pre-cursor to Colonel David Sterling’s and Paddy Mayne’s L Detachment the original SAS. It’s such a shame that these guys are no longer with us, somebody like Ridley Scott should seriously consider producing a movie covering their exploits, young people of today need to know what real life heroes these guys truly were.
Just finished Bravo Two Zero and this added so much color to the book, hearing the authors own voice telling the tale.
If you liked that, read Immediate Action, then Seven Troop ( in that order ) then you will have graduated the school of Mcnab.
He also co-authored The Good Psychopath's Guide to Success, which is definitely worth a read.
Totally agree. Very interesting book. Also Mcnab & Dutton: The Good Psycopaths ' Guide to Bossing Your Life. Check it out 🤘
@@colinstewart1432 Been aware of it for a while. Will do, mate👍
XMG-Sgt.Mc.-thanks mate
Brilliant interview Jack Andy mc nab aka William mark Mitchell Brilliant stuff SAS WHO DARES WINS 🇬🇧👍.
Always thought Billy Mitchell was someone in Eastenders and he's just havin' a laugh 😂
His name is Steven.
Hello Andy, do you remember me,we were both AJ fans,please take care,wishing you good luck 👍 always,from Janet,
He is a typical Sth London Geeza of a certain vintage and a Legend.
Loved the bravo book but should be in the fiction section
There’s another good B2Z book written by the kiwi he mentions called “Soldier 5” by Mike Coburn. Makes a nice counter point to McNabs book and “The One that Got Away” by Chris Ryan.
I served in the same battalion as "Andy" in the Royal Green Jackets. Always breaks my heart when he slags of that regiment.
i didnt hear him slagging RGJ , but i might be wrong , where?
RGJ are lizards though
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"How did you plan to destroy the comm line on the MSR"? "Well it was such a rush to get out there that we didn't know whether to blow them up or headbutt them" (I'm still laughing 😆)
Five Fucking Stars. Intense life. Ireland was rough. Iraq was rough. He brought the Heat though. Great interview.
legend
My 2 favourite authors 😁 im squeeling like a little girl right now!
Brawo two zero Andy Legend
Andy a uk hero
Anyone looking for a brilliant book as good if not better than B2Z should seek out a copy of David Blakeley's 'Pathfinder. A Special Forces Mission Behind Enemy Lines'.
Great book, pretty much read it in 3 sittings😂
The SAS and the Troubles with Northern Ireland have always fascinated me as an non serving American. Haven’t found a good book on either anywhere.
Sas lost to the ra lol. IRA ran sas back to UK lol.
@@jb6368 afraid not, the SAS obliterated the IRA on numerous occasions, and when the IRA cowards got their Comeuppance they squealed like little babies about 'rules of engagement'!!
@@jb6368 go trolling sum were else 🤡
@@nickjohnson710 at least trolling on home soil. Enough said.
@@jb6368 yeah, it's real brave to leave bombs in shopping centres - deliberately target women with prams - IRA SOP. Fucking terrorists
Swift and Bold
Wow
Why do interviewers never ask about about the controversy over bravo two zero?
Out of respect, I guess. But, I'll bet you he & McNab talked about that stuff off camera.
Great interview but just to clarify it is the Republic of Ireland not the Free State
Do a shot of Jameson every time Andy says, “Right” or “Basically”.
Or just get on with it you know
Spoiler alert: he reads the final line of the book! Some of us have not read it yet..
Second only to Black Hawk Down, AS FAR AS BOOKS
Not a patch on Chris Ryan
Why no mention of chri Ryan?
Great interview just wondering why andy mcnab won't show his face yet chris Ryan does.
He does show his face
Very private person maybe he's done some nasty stuff and doesn't want retribution although he does do talks on security oil companies for example protection of off shore rigs where you see his face
Anyone going to ask him about his work with the Kmher Rouge?? Innocent Blood on his hands
I’ve met Andy mcnab years ago he came to a school did a talk and I have my copy of bravo two zero signed. I used to wonder if it was really him nobody believes me!
broad brushstrokes.. what did he look like?
@@powerbite92 his voice matched what I’ve heard in interviews and outline matches up. It was him I don’t see why anyone else would go to a small school to give a talk and sign books pretending to be him. I’m not going to describe him.
@@tanto20 I met the guy myself in the past. Interested to see if it was who you met. No need to get indignant/security conscious at this point in time when he's been doing book signings in shops off Tottenham Court Road.
You need to get Peter Ratcliffe on
Jack can you read your own book plz
Bravo two zero and operation red wings are very similar stories
Almost identical eh. Both made millions spinning yarns
Brothers in arms - USA & Uk
Is an interesting documentary about the accounts in Bravo Two Zero on Amazon Prime and it's free
Link?
I'd like to know if my suspicion is correct on the identity of the whimpering pilot
👐🏻
reading immediate action at mome
Great book , loved it , audio book is really good aswell !!
Seven Troop also great
I'm from the UK i read a lot about the sas unfortunately this bravo two zero episode has so many different books written about it all of which contradict each other.
I understand you have to put a bit of spice in to the story to make it readable but the truth of it is they didn't have to spice it up these guys did things most of us would run a mile from so the truth was all they needed to tell.
You have Andy McNab's version and Chris Ryan's "The one that got away"..And then u have another SAS Soldier's who (Q) the accuracy of these Stories...Quite controversial to say the least!.,Mike Coburn (who was a member of that Team,)wrote a Book which is out there(A different version to there's)
And finally u have another former SAS Man&,Middle East Expert, and Desert Explorer, Michael Asher,who reconned over the path that they apparently took and (Q) the veracity of there stories!!. .
So what it comes down to is,who's version do u believe?
But I will say both McNab and Ryan(which are their Aka's by the way) are interesting Guys to listen to..
Just Like Mark Billingham (SAS) and Jonny Kim (from the Navy SEALS).
@@jerryoshea3116 Michael ashers book is all speculation he wasn't there so you can't really use his account as he thinks it went .
Out of all the books of people on that patrol I found myself believing Mike coburn over the others he seemed to keep it how I would imagine that sort of thing to go .
But in saying that I don't begrudge any of them making money from there experience they deserve it
@@bruce1049 Ur right Asher wasn't there,but he has indepth knowledge of that region (He's a Linguistics expert) and traveled the route that was supposedly taken by the two Trooper's and as far as he was concerned after interviewing various people,local Herdsmen etc,he was satisfied with their version of events!(Which contradicted the Stories that they told)
.And yes I would like to read Coburn"book!
...And I'm in agreement with u,I certainly don't begrudge them any opportunity to earn a few $$$$ writing..But if stories are being told"As factual" then they had better be accurate!
@@jerryoshea3116 I would recommend coburns book I think its been overlooked for the more exciting stories which have been told on this and what makes it more believable is where he tells you the lengths the British government went to to try and stop it from being published.
Also the book by Peter Radcliffe eye of the storm Peter was the regimental sergeant major at the time and he says in his book that none of the more colourful encounters portrayed in these books ever came up in debriefs he was party to.
I totally agree with you if your going to put this information out there for the public it needs to be as accurate as it can possibly be as ive said before they didn't have to make it up just being there is more than I would ever dream of doing
Gotta note that McNab isnt very well liked amongst his former colleagues
When I had my security briefing at Credenhill, the guy that took the briefing highlighted Mitch’s book Bravo Two Zero and he stated that in no uncertain terms, would there ever be another book of that ilk. It was because OPSEC wasn’t adhered to; too much TTP (if you don’t know what that is, then there’s no reason that you should) was described in the book. Nowadays there’s a unit called ‘disclosure’ that check publications for anything that compromises OPSEC and they’d never have given it the nod (apparently). I’m not sure whether disclosure was a thing back then? If anyone knows differently, please feel free to comment, as I left in 2015. Mitch was a different generation.
I know the guy that is the subject of that book who was wounded and captured in Iraq. His name isn’t Andy McNab.
It's his pen name
Went to Botswana and lernt Swarheli 🤔
Slongburg 'C'
The British have been training on using Jet packs to take down ships!!
We're getting to the point where Spec ops meets the Jetsons? Shit"s fixing to get weird?
The Ice Cream Boys.
Should’ve took land rovers like the other patrols David Stirling learnt that on forming SAS
The vehicles they wanted to take were not available as they were being used by other squadrons out there, the one's left would not have been suitable for the task.
Throw another mag... I'm out.
Four different accounts of the
Mission
Mcnab ryan coburn asher
Much like the movie rashomon!
Have a look at and read the real bravo two zero book by Michael Asher. Andy's book of derring do was somewhat different to what actually happened on the ground. Yes, he was there and has the t shirt, however, what actually happened differs somewhat from Andy's book. Not taking it away from "Andy" and the boys that were lost; Vince Philips, Bob Consiglio and Steven legs Lane. These guys gave their life and they should be applauded and remembered. These boys were trained to the highest level; they were SAS!!
But it should be known that the book is very different to what happened.
May those boys rest in peace.
That's only if you believe someone who re-traced bravo two zeros step's and disbelieve the one's who were actually there.iv read all 3 book's and think the truth is normally somewhere in the middle, especially when you take into account the fog of war.
@@badrobot78 Hi Kellie, thanks for your comments. What's the third book?
I'd like to read that one too.
Best wishes.
@@johnpirie3800 Chris Ryan's-the one that got away.great book
@@badrobot78 Thanks Kellie. I'll get a hold of a copy and give it a read. Thank you and best wishes-John.
You think men like this could lie like that and live with themselves? You only believe that's possible based on your own lack of honour.
Connor McGregor was speaking... you can't convince me otherwise
No doubt an excellent career in the military etc but Bravo 2 zero is well known in the relevant circles to be mostly a work of fiction. I guess that sells more books than the real story which is sad because the real story is still very compelling.
My thoughts exactly
Your correct Peter Ratcliffe book eye of the storm debunks these accounts as he was the regimental sergeant major at the time and when the members of bravo two zero were debriefed none of all the exciting encounters portrayed in these books was ever mentioned at the debrief
SAS are no f*ckin joke. Right up there with Seals.
SAS is Tier 1; Seals, Tier 2.
Seals???I think you've been misinformed my friend. 22 SAS are the natural equivalent of Delta.😄👍
Seal team six maybe. Even then lol
Who do you think seal and delta training is based on? 22sas are the standard bearers