RIP Major Mike Sadler. Just saw he died last month, 4 January, at the age of 103. Navigator legend. He was the last original member of the SAS and last survivor of the LRDG. 🇬🇧
Don't let this man's polite and soft spoken manner fool you ! He is a highly trained survivor and killer who has skills we can only dream of having. This guy is the real deal.
I've noticed something eerily similar. Some of the portraits of ex deltas, spec ops look like these guys could easily pass for chemistry professors, or high school janitors. It's mad 😂
@@davidharris4062 Exactly but still with knowing all this people would still perceive a guy who looks mean, is a big unit or someone just tall who has a big mouth ahead of someone who is friendly looking or softly spoken and mild mannered and not the biggest. Women are the same, they will often go for the bigger guys or the aggressive looking ones because it makes them feel safe while the grey men who just blend in and are in the special forces like this guy are the real tough ones
''A week in the jungle would break a man''. This gives me chills as my father spent 18 months in the jungle against the Japanese, the canopy was so thick that the radios would not work so they used carrier pigeons. He once told me the nights were the worst thing in the jungle. Hearing this man say when the light goes down in the jungle is like being locked in a room without windows with a blanket over your head. Now I can understand why my father said that.
A long time ago I worked with a man who had been RAF Regiment in Burma. He would not tolerate anything made in Japan in his house. Apart from that he would not speak of his experiences. Several years ago I met an older lady who was entitled to wear the Burma Star on her left chest. She declined to explain why. Massive respect to your father.
I was lucky enough to be on the hunter force during escape and evasion phase of selection the SAS guys I worked with was so down to earth and humble I had a fantastic week and got to see things I will never forget .
Bro watched this and reminded me of doing hunter force..... Loved it and always wanted selection but life's twists took me elsewhere...... My only real regret in life was never going for selection......
I love the incredible honesty of this mans describing what it takes to be a SAS. I was absolutely floored by his describing the guy who quit after the 3 day recce into the jungle. I did a trans Canada bicycle trip and during a horrible phase of everyday riding in the mountains with rain and snow, I was at my wit's end. I was trudging away up this mountain pass and I finally just said, "That's it I give up!" I threw my 60-kgs bike and gear into the ditch and just sat on the side of the road yelling at God! I was out in the middle of nowhere and after a while of sulking and feeling sorry for myself, I realized that if I was going to quit, I had to ride to wherever I needed to get to actually quit. I got back on my bike and finished the journey I'd set out to do. What I took from that trip was the most hellish times turned out to be the best and most memorable times. I doubt I could've completed the SAS training as I hate Spiders! haha Bravo, great interview!
@@Simon-nv5zj I was a soldier to dim wit and not all trials and tribulations in life are experienced strictly as a soldier. But you, being the SJW are the God of all Gods when it comes to lifetime experiences, apparently. LO$er!
That story about the guy quitting floored me too, but for a different reason. I was thinking about all these influencers obsessively telling everybody to do what you love, quit what you're doing if you don't like it, take risks, and so on, without proper context. I remember telling my mother when I was in my early '20's that I am quitting a particularly stressful job, and she asked me: OK, so what's next? To which I said: Well, I have to think about it. She said: well, while you're thinking about it, remember that you won't be earning anything, you'll be idling and you will have to explain to your future employer why you took a break...Nowadays, we like to talk about sabbaticals, finding yourself and so on, and meanwhile there are jobs that nobody wants to do anymore, and most importantly, everybody just ignores the fact that out of 10 so called risk-takers, 9 will mostly end up worse than they were.
I've met a few SAS lads, we did a lot of loans for them back when I was working. I can say that if you put them in a line up with several soldiers they would be the last you would pick! Nothing like the huge muscle bound giants you see in the movies!
Exactly - able to lie in a wet ditch for days and nights with no hot scoff observing then slink away undetected leaving no trace and give a detailed report from memory.
muscle mass in not going to help you trecking through hot humid jungles etc with little food always makes me laugh when i see these hulking roided up blokes, they are pretty much good for nothing other than lifting weights its like modding a car to the point that it handles and drives like shit :)
Fascinating interview. I love the fact that Chris was able to put the DS side of the selection. First time I have seen both sides of this legendary selection process
Like many here I've watched and heard many special forces people speak about their selection process. Hearing Chris talk about it from the point of view of assessing candidates is fascinating given pretty much all of them say they had no way of knowing how well/badly they were doing during selection . The fact that such a tiny % of those who start are accepted speaks volumes. Whether by nature or nurture these people have a degree of physical and mental resilience possessed by very, very few.
Yeah this was really cool and helpful. It's useful to know what someone has to be prepared for if they ever have the opportunity to attempt the selection process.
I agree it's impressive but let's face it - there are many many elite professionals in different fields that require a rare set of skills and talents. Even those who go off to the most elite universities have to be extremely smart and focused and then go though a very difficult selection process against hundreds if not thousands of competing candidates. Most SAS soldiers wouldn't stand a chance in that context. Likewise for elite athletes, elite economists, elite engineers etc. They're all impressive and have almost superhuman strength in one way or another.
@𝕾𝖗𝖎𝖏𝖎𝖙 𝕾𝖚𝖗𝖊𝖓𝖉𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖆𝖙𝖍 You're under the impression that Norway is a former Soviet block state? That's a level of ignorance normally reserved for Americans... 🤣
I have a very dear loved one who was in the SAS. a Posso boy which im VERY VERY proud of and love dearly. Yip its a heavy. Serious tough job .. Merry Christmas young James to you and your beloved x
Wow. Thank you to all the amazing men and women who serve our country. If you are ever in Manchester, then the is both a pint (or two or three) and respect. We salute you with pride and humility x
I never wanted to join the army. It had zero appeal to me, until an American acquaintance mentioned it changed his life. He described it as boot camp destroyed your personality and then rebuilt you but stronger. In his case they discovered he was mechanically minded and smart, so they sent him on a Mandarin immersion language course. He is an impressive character and he credits his military training for it all. When all the wars are done, the military should train civvies.
Salute to all served Regiment Who Dares Win. I got family and friends who served and currently serving in MOD ... awesome video listening to this Gentleman.Godbless🇬🇧
These blokes are next level. Absolutely cannot imagine getting through even 1/1,000th of this. Them I start thinking about what so many young and barely trained men endured in the two world wars. Massive respect is all I can say.
My great-uncle Samuel was SBS 2 in WWII. Started out in the Royal Navy as a gunner aboard a destroyer fought in the Mediterranean, North Africa and ended up in the jungles of Burma towards the end. Having grown up in the states I wish I had spent more time around him.
This was another cracking interview. Love seeing ex soldiers give their insight & knowledge as to what it's like to be a SAS soldier the training they have to go through. No wonder SAS selection is the most toughest most brutal demanding selection in the world. Chris Ryan made history back when he evaded & escaped capture back in Iraq crossing the desert on his own the amount of miles he covered completely battered
I used to hear stories of selection from my father Terry (Jickells). He and Lofty ran selection back in the 70's. Them instructors had their own time of it.
Real Men there in the SAS. As an American, I'm grateful we are allies. God Bless America and Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Gurkhas, and all others supporting a just cause. War is evil, awful, and only rewards the greedy.
Y00're a f001. It's illegal for the US gov to spy on it's own citizens, BUT, they do it anyway (we've seen it with PRISM, exposed by Snowden). Besides PRISM, All the US gov does is get it's minions (UK, Canada, Aus, NZ) to spy on us American civilians, then those govs report to the Deep State. *The big picture exposes on who's side our government is on:* The American middle class has been shrinking steadily since 1978, BECAUSE (according to Professor Michael Hudson) the middle class is being strangled by the top 1% (the ruling class), and this class has bought off our politicians (D & R), not "China", as is their alabi. The point is that "our" gov doesn't work for us. Political system is a JOKE, it's designed to look like a system that is "by & for the people", but it ain't. The top 1% has bought off BOTH parties, AND, both parties use "election law" to keep any 3rd parties from emerging, so no non-bought off individual will ever enter power to make change. What would happen if an insider tried to do what's right? Here's an example: President JFK vowed that he would "shatter the CIA into a million pieces", and, as Vietnam Veteran Oliver Stone (and he was in the Vietnam war, btw) explained, it was the CIA who got rid of JFK. I don't expect y00 to care about any of this, since y00re government muscle.
Really enjoyed all of the projects Chris has been involved with.Chris will forever be remembered for Bravo two zero but he was great in the worlds elite cops all these years on from leaving the regiment Chris can still soldier with the best of em.
Awesome interview being an American 🇺🇸 we have the Navy Seals but personally I would request the SAS to get the job done..these guys are at a whole another level..
The RT are the equivalent to Delta and the SC’s are the equivalent to Team 6. This notion that regular seal teams are the equivalent is not the case. If anything, they’re more alike certain units within 3 CDO brigade, like Recce Trp etc.
Im 55 now i served in a British infantry regt in the 80s it was a hard slogg,I done an NCO cadre for 6 weeks it was headed up by a warrant officer who had served for 9 years in the regt,he based all our course on selection and was looking for potential candidates i passed the course and was promoted straight away,he got me and two others and said in a while i would like to see you all apply for selection,i said to myself imagine what selection is like ive just had six weeks of hell,total respect.
There was a saying in the Scots guards, even the SAS would struggle on a Scots guards nco, s cadre. 6 weeks beasting with no sleep. 😂Hardest thing I ever did in the army.
Love this Chris spent time with you in Belize in 1987? If I remember right. You looked right at home. I was with 264 and attached to B Squadron (B troop). Laughed when you also mentioned interrogation. Remember someone screaming in my interrogation and thinking it was false. Found out after it was someone cracking up. On a side note I was in chopwell woods recently…..😊
This was brilliant...Thanks for this. I worked with couple 22 SAS guys on a CTR-Terrorism gig and they were all Top Drawer. They would talk about the various training phases and it is cool to hear from the trainer what he put them through. The jungles of Brunei sound like a nightmare. The SAS are Legend status in my book.
I read about a Catering Corps private who worked at the barracks in Hereford. Some of the SAS lads were ribbing him about not being fit enough to pass selection so he began a training programme, took selection and passed!
Once I stayed awake for 4 days (living in Kyiv when Russia invaded), and on another occasion 7. After 6 of the 7 I was having audio and visual "hallucinations", though they didn't feel like hallucinations. The voices sounded like a group of people discussing my life and present movements, with threats of torture...and my senses were heightened and my brain seemed that it was working 100 times faster than it ever had before. I still can't really explain what I experienced and I'm still not certain what was "reality" and what was my "imagination"...but the SAS training must be mentally many times more hardcore than this.
We wouldn’t know how hard SAS pushes the limits of human endurance but for sure you reached yours. I’m happy that you recovered and stayed sane. You made me recall a cruel soviet experiment that were tested if I remember on prisoners to figure out how long a human can survive without sleep. After 4 and 5 days of zero sleep or a nap majority died but before they had hallucinations and lost sense of reality. The remaining survivors turned insane. I have a good acquaintance of mine, a girl in her early twenties who also lives in Kyiv and her dirty blond hair gone fully grey in a span of just two weeks because of sleep deprivation and stress during the siege but it is nothing compared to what happened with her mental health😔 It even worsened when shaheds exploded close to her apartment building. I can’t imagine what you all are getting through. Stay strong, тримайтеся оскільки ви переможете, вітаю від қазақтар🇰🇿! 🇺🇦🌻🌻🌻
@@kamilashamuratova1159 Lie. Our troops do not shoot at residential areas and social objects. Ukrainian Nazis do this every day. You have problems in Kazakhstan.
@@kamilashamuratova1159 Wow I never knew you could die from not sleeping...maybe in the soviet experiment they were being put through more than just sleep deprivation. When I was awake for 7 days I never felt like I was close to dying, except feelings of confusion, extreme fear and loneliness. I'm not actually from Ukraine, I'm from England, though I was living in Kyiv when Russia started their attempted invasion...and stayed for a week before heading to Lviv, then being awake at the train station for about 26 hours as they were not allowing foreigners on the trains and there was nowhere to sleep or sit, and hotels were all closed...and it was dangerous to sleep anyway as there were lots and lots of foreign people and people who looked like gypsies everywhere. I wrote an article about my experience if you want to read ; ) I'm actually in Warsaw now, but I'm finding it difficult to find people here to relate to who were also in the invasion, so I'm thinking to probably go back to Kyiv soon. It's definitely dangerous a bit as Russia have more people and if Russia wanted to launch hypersonic missiles against Kyiv with aerial bombardments they could...though I feel like I can't live a normal life anymore around normal, happy people, who don't understand how being invaded feels...if your acquantance needs someone to talk with, she can message me.
Hi, thankyou for this episode, I got lost on the sugar loaf on brecons many moons ago, was so glad to get back to civilization street and get hot food and drink in me, awesome area of welsh hills, 4 seasons in one day, mental, respect, peace and love J&HXx
Got a lift with a retired sas officer back in the mid 1980s, hitchhiking. Nicest bloke ever, totally down to earth. He had a satellite hands free phone in the car and took a voice activated call from Los Angeles. Year was 1986.
What a well spoken and knowledgeable man. Not once during the intervirew '"did he say' you know what i mean '' like you know'' and all other non sensical words used by the non educated. Unlike so many who want to show off and are loud mouths , this man could probably tear someone"s head off while saying "sorry mate did not realy want to do it but that is my job'. RIP Major Sadler go in peace and the world is not as safe without you.
My hardest selection was me working class, meeting my wife's mother, upper-middle class, for the first time in a restaurant. I had huge sweat patches under my arms. Passed.
During Apache pilot officer training the capture/ interrogation, you had your arms tied behind your back, picked up and forced to balance on a pair of 2 by fours on their edge. Very painful. They collapse, you were instantly yelled at, picked up and back balancing on your knees. Collapse.. Repeat for hours. Meanwhile, another candidate was allowed special treatment, food and the team was told "he talked". Of course this was to break up the team and was very effective.
I was in Brazilian rainforest 20 years ago on an Earthwatch ecological expedition. One day I was walking through the forest with a Brazilian ecology student called Alessandra. She pulled some bark off a rotten log and there was a 2 cm wide black spider underneath. We pushed the spider into a specimen bottle with a leaf, and screwed top on. Took it to the ecology professor. He looked at it and started laughing. Said that the nearest hospital was one hour away, and if that spider had bitten one of us we would have been dead before we got there. The rainforest is a hardcore place.
Great informative interview. The SAS or SBS Special forces regiments are always copied but will never been equalled by any other country SF’s. These are real tough Men, not like plastic gangsters fighting over drugs. Proud to be English and have these Men doing their clandestine black ops.
@@williammcilwraith9304 He sounds like a Geordie. But yes to say English is wrong - the SAS are a UK wide force. I don't know what the split is between the 4 nations.
Awesome interview, amazing story! James my man! Every time I watch a belter I say to myself 'He's upped his level again' and then you go and surpass it with this!!!!! Mate, the saying is 'The sky's the limit' Not in your case brother! Keep delivering!
Very quiet,extremely disciplined and professional soldiers. Our regiment had a number go for it. At least 3 got through and a number failed,including an extremely cracking soldier who was flying it but had a ding dong with a para on his team on the jungle phase who's admin was in plod. Safe to say,a ds stepped out from nowhere and informed him he'd failed after he'd dropped the para. Shame but flew through the ranks on his return.
@@lukewarm7744 No i was in the Army,we don't tend to read shit like that.I still don't understand the correlation between my post about my experience and his books,when i haven't mentioned him or McNab. They can write what pish they want.
One SAS candidate was laughed at by an older and younger woman because his todger had shrunk due to the cold. Who do you think you're going to please with that they asked. His reply was ME! Apparently he went on to pass the course. They know a sense of humour is very important.
I've never done special forces but I was briefly a regular soldier in a medium (armoured) reconaissance regiment. I don't understand people who go to special forces selection/then quit. Maybe you won't pass but all you have to do is put one foot in front of the other and go. That's literally all you need to do - when you think it's hard. Just take one more step. Whatever the task is just break it down to it's smallest most simple step and do that step. Then the next one. Then the next one. Each step is achievable, therefore the whole task is achievable as long as you don't run out of time or guts. You can't do anything about time, so if you fail because of time, so be it, you did your best. But guts is totally on you and if you fail because you decided not to go forward that is totally on you.
Respectfully mate, I think you answered your own question: "I don't understand people who go to special forces selection then quit." "I've never done special forces."
I spent a bit of time in a jungle and what he said about it is spot on. It's a great equalizer, the absolute BEST environment to survive in, but incredibly dangerous. The animals, reptiles, plants, insects, EVERY thing in the jungle is designed to kill.
@A Volpe He never said 'designed to kill humans.' With the exception of certain plants, everything kills something, that's the way of the world. Spiders kill smaller insects, which are toxic and/or consume plant matter.
Do you have any idea how demanding the selection process is for a US Army clerk? These guys have to process redundant paperwork on only eight hours sleep, and sometimes the air conditioner goes out. They may have to endure paper cuts and maybe even scalded tongues from overheated coffee, and still continue the mission. That's dedication.
I spent 7 years in Wales and saw many guys trying to become SAS soldiers, and I have a great deal of respect for those who finally achieve their goal of becoming a member of an elite organisation. The best in the world
I know the SAS are working on another level. However a lot of what he says applied to a lot of what I did in the British Army re team work. Having said that what they go through is unbelievable.
5:03 landed at "Basra" then a two day road move to "up country Afghanistan"! Might want to do a check-nav there Chris? Great interview - i could listen to Chris Ryan for days
I find it interesting that he says that the jungle phase is so tough where you have to deal not only with the task at hand but also extreme heat, bugs etc. The South African Recon Forces selection is a similar situation where they get dropped off and evaluated in the bush. There they have to deal with inhuman long marches , extreme heat, no food and water, heavy packs and wild animals. The wild animals part alone scares off a lot of people. I read a story about a group of wannebe Recces who slept in a circle with their one hand tied to a string so that they can wake each other up (quietly). The leader slept in the middle. A lion managed to get into the circle, the one guy saw it, popped up, the lion scared run to the other side where another guy popped up, the lion turned around again and with that they unintendedly basically kept the lion inside the circle, with the lion literally running over the guy in the middle.
a mate of mine went through recce in the 70s . it was ruthless . he also went through selection in 1980 , served with the reg until retirement . then ruc .
@@phil-zz5hk I read the other day about a guy who used to be a British Parabat who went to SA to join the recces. Aside from a brutal business did they also have to swim through a crocodile invested river. That is where a lot of guys balked. He against better judgement jumped in and made it through, practically walking on the water. Another guy wrote a book called Recce( Kindle) Initially he was with 31 Battallion( Bushmen) , then did Bat training with a couple of Bushmen. He made it but they couldn' t complete the course. Their built was too slight for it and yet this guy who later became a recce, claims that the 31 Battalion training was harder on him than recce training. Just goes to show...don' t expect the Bushmen to run around with marbles and telephone poles ( they don' t have the strength for it) but in the bush they can keep going forever like a machine
I was in the Scots guards in the 80,s and 3 lads from battalion went for selection, one lasted three weeks but got injured one lasted 3 months then got injured and the last one failed on the interigation phase, all good nco, s and soldiers. It takes something else to get through selection apart from good luck and being keen.
He Was Exposed AS A LIAR HIS EX TEAM.THERS A DOCUMENTARY HE SAID THEY FOUGHT A GROUP OF IRAQ Sqadron.A farmer n son saved Chris here n show SAS goggles etc.they fed him he his father n son with old rifle v SAS man.HES FULL OF IT.EXPOSED CHRIS THERES PROOF YEAH HE LEFT HIS MEN N WALKED SAVE HIMSELF LOOK INTO IT MADE $$$ FROM LIES IN BEAVO TWO ZERO.JOKE MATE
On return from jungle to Hereford . The ones that pass that pause are technically‘ ‘in’ although not badged . This is in April . Continuation training is the next phase where you do your first jumps and have to get your SAS wings . Plus all the other stuff Colin mentions here . Then Badging day is in June . ( winter selection) . Where you them stay at Credenhill or go to Poole SBS
that was great. “the shite on tv” lol made me think of the buds documentary…which I know isn’t shite, but seems much different than the sas process. I worked with a former sas guy in the corporate world and he made a joke about it being a breeze and referred to it as ‘saturdays and sundays’ he was a good dude…smart and very quick outta the box…plus witty af.
I think he's referring to those "SAS style" reality TV shows and Bear Grylls's survival stuff. Bear Grylls was in the SAS Reserve for 3 years, but the SAS Reserve is a totally different thing to to the regular SAS.
This guy is 1000x harder and more dangerous than 10 of the gangster/drug dealers you have had on. I'm not saying this to belittle them but reality has just hit home the difference
I don't know about that. While tough, my hatred for people like him is that he would be the person murdering a British person on the orders of the government. He is a tool for the government, much like how a lower down villain is a tool for those higher up. Maybe we will have a big revolt one day of the government really tried stopping our lives if we fail to have every vaccine they bring out etc, this guy would be the one murdering you or your family. Some of us though have wanted a civil war for a long time, 80k poxy soldiers can't kill us all.
@@interestingvideos4728 What are you actually on ? Ultimately everyone answers to someone, at least these guys have disipline, fotitude, resilience etc......pretty sure the SAS arent hitmen for british citizens lol, unlike your bmx riding, mac 10 weilding, not yet shaving gangsters lol
@@rtorbs I did not say hitmen for British citizens, I said hitmen for the British government. As for 'not yet shaved gangsters', you also have 'not yet shaved soldiers'. Many are young and easy targets to brainwash and go fight unwinnable wars such as in Afghanistan. They get paid peanuts, come back with post traumatic stress and many are homeless and end up in prison. They get used. People at the top are the ones making the money, which is what these wars are about. Look at how many soldiers are left homeless while illegal immigrants are put up in hotels with tax payers money.
@@interestingvideos4728 My bad I meant of not for lol but the principal is still the same. Every country is the same mate, you have people that fight for the values they believe in but yes war is futile
@@rtorbs The vast majority of people who join the British army are not fighting for the values they are fighting for. What they are fighting for is big businesses profiting out or war, along with corrupt Politicians who do as well. The average soldier might say they are fighting for their country, then if you ask what that means, most will not have an answer. Many come from working class backgrounds and as said, are an easy target. Exactly the same with kids in gangs btw. The fact I dislike soldiers is largely because aside from murdering Muslims on a huge scale, and invading countries which were never a threat to us which is what they have been doing, is that they would also be the first to kill us the people if ordered to do so by the government. They 'just blindly follow orders'. The people who do fight for the values they believe in are groups like the Taliban or religious fundamentalists. That is why they won the wars. It was an honour for them to die. The Western soldiers must have asked themselves what on earth they were doing there and just wanted to go home!
I spent three weeks in "the trees" in Belize. Exciting at first, but it soon gets to you, where everything you can see looks the same, so you put your head down for the long slog, then without any warning there will be something right there a few feet away from you. It does your head in. We are so used to seeing things around us, or being wary when we come up to an intersection. But losing the ability to see what is just six feet away makes you paranoid. Same with the constant noise. The locals can sleep through it, but without years of getting used to it, all those sudden noises put you on edge and make your imagination go crazy.
This gentleman is really great and humble and a credit to our UK. Nothing is easy as he rightly says. . It also comes at a time when people like this are needed. I am nearly 80 and remember the ban the bomb lunacy that was going on during my youth . That we now have great technology and in particular have nuclear submarines that defend us in places in the world when threats from people like Putin make me thankful for our real nuclear deterrent . I am sad also for the government of Ukraine after the fall of the Berlin Wall. They could have kept their nuclear weapons if they had been smarter . If they had, Putin would still be in Moscow and not outside the gates of Kiev . This it seems is at last a wake up call for Europe and even perhaps the world . Who would rather be speaking their own languages and freely trading with others than being in the grip of a despot or in a Gulag ?.if Putin loses and a better Government comes to power I suggest they pass legislation that ex members of the KGB not be allowed into politics ? Please remember freedom is so easy to lose. Gladly it seems that we are starting to realise this .
''A credit to our UK'' and ''Who would rather be speaking their own language''. Your acting like the UK never invaded Ireland and made them learn English 😂
There is no such thing as "freedom" in a nationalist world. Being free and having borders is an obvious contradiction. "Freedom" in the West just means nicer open prison conditions than other parts of the world, but it's still a prison at the end of the day. The fact that you live in fear is proof of that.
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The hardest course in the British Army is the catering/cooks course. Judging by the state of the food no one has ever passed it.
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Mate that joke's been around since Pontius was a navigator 😁
@@PaddyInf sadly so have i.
And that's what they give their own troops. Don't even get started on how they treated the ANZACs
Gen this was the funniest thing I've read in a long time
RIP Major Mike Sadler. Just saw he died last month, 4 January, at the age of 103. Navigator legend. He was the last original member of the SAS and last survivor of the LRDG. 🇬🇧
No way!! what a warrior, RIP
To me the SAS has always been the grand daddy of all special forces. SAS "who dares wins". Great interview. FLY NAVY!!!
@A Volpe I'm assuming you are or were Special Boat Service. Thanks for your service. "By Strength and Guile". FLY NAVY!!!
A friend of mine failed the SAS selection course. He was so proud to have even attempted it.
Yes be a gud challenge
Did he tell you he failed on day 1 .....?
No. He packed it in on the brecons but I don't know what that stage would be.@@barrypoupard7009
First few weeks
Still a brave and fucking badass warrior right there! To have the gull to even go through that level of dedication deserves the highest merit.
Don't let this man's polite and soft spoken manner fool you ! He is a highly trained survivor and killer who has skills we can only dream of having. This guy is the real deal.
IKR. It gets you thinking. This is why it is wise not to start trouble, you never know who the other person is.
I've noticed something eerily similar. Some of the portraits of ex deltas, spec ops look like these guys could easily pass for chemistry professors, or high school janitors. It's mad 😂
That’s the point, he could be anyone, he’s the grey man, not the loud muscle bound, look at me
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@@davidharris4062 Exactly but still with knowing all this people would still perceive a guy who looks mean, is a big unit or someone just tall who has a big mouth ahead of someone who is friendly looking or softly spoken and mild mannered and not the biggest. Women are the same, they will often go for the bigger guys or the aggressive looking ones because it makes them feel safe while the grey men who just blend in and are in the special forces like this guy are the real tough ones
''A week in the jungle would break a man''. This gives me chills as my father spent 18 months in the jungle against the Japanese, the canopy was so thick that the radios would not work so they used carrier pigeons. He once told me the nights were the worst thing in the jungle. Hearing this man say when the light goes down in the jungle is like being locked in a room without windows with a blanket over your head. Now I can understand why my father said that.
And he didn’t even speak about the noise in the jungle. During the night the sound can be almost unbearable loud. It’ll wear you out.
@@davidmitchell2926 Thanks for those kind words, David. All the best.
I hear this. My grandad was a dispatch rider in Burma, crazy to think what they went through for such a prolonged time
A long time ago I worked with a man who had been RAF Regiment in Burma. He would not tolerate anything made in Japan in his house. Apart from that he would not speak of his experiences. Several years ago I met an older lady who was entitled to wear the Burma Star on her left chest. She declined to explain why. Massive respect to your father.
There’s no jungles in Japan you bell end
I was lucky enough to be on the hunter force during escape and evasion phase of selection the SAS guys I worked with was so down to earth and humble I had a fantastic week and got to see things I will never forget .
Bro watched this and reminded me of doing hunter force..... Loved it and always wanted selection but life's twists took me elsewhere...... My only real regret in life was never going for selection......
It made you forget how to punctuate.
@@MichaelKingsfordGray jealous much.
@@MichaelKingsfordGray Did you understand what he was saying? I think you did. So stfu.
@@jesseolson3142 Foul-mouthed remarks do not change facts.
I love the incredible honesty of this mans describing what it takes to be a SAS.
I was absolutely floored by his describing the guy who quit after the 3 day recce into the jungle.
I did a trans Canada bicycle trip and during a horrible phase of everyday riding in the mountains with rain and snow, I was at my wit's end.
I was trudging away up this mountain pass and I finally just said, "That's it I give up!"
I threw my 60-kgs bike and gear into the ditch and just sat on the side of the road yelling at God!
I was out in the middle of nowhere and after a while of sulking and feeling sorry for myself, I realized that if I was going to quit, I had to ride to wherever I needed to get to actually quit.
I got back on my bike and finished the journey I'd set out to do.
What I took from that trip was the most hellish times turned out to be the best and most memorable times.
I doubt I could've completed the SAS training as I hate Spiders! haha
Bravo, great interview!
Yes im sure its a normal reaction. We've all been there. You made it through kid so good job
IMAGINE COMAPRING A BIKE RIDE WITH SAS SELECTION..WTF ARE YOU EVEN COMMENTING FOR?
@@Simon-nv5zj I was a soldier to dim wit and not all trials and tribulations in life are experienced strictly as a soldier. But you, being the SJW are the God of all Gods when it comes to lifetime experiences, apparently. LO$er!
That story about the guy quitting floored me too, but for a different reason. I was thinking about all these influencers obsessively telling everybody to do what you love, quit what you're doing if you don't like it, take risks, and so on, without proper context. I remember telling my mother when I was in my early '20's that I am quitting a particularly stressful job, and she asked me: OK, so what's next? To which I said: Well, I have to think about it. She said: well, while you're thinking about it, remember that you won't be earning anything, you'll be idling and you will have to explain to your future employer why you took a break...Nowadays, we like to talk about sabbaticals, finding yourself and so on, and meanwhile there are jobs that nobody wants to do anymore, and most importantly, everybody just ignores the fact that out of 10 so called risk-takers, 9 will mostly end up worse than they were.
I've met a few SAS lads, we did a lot of loans for them back when I was working. I can say that if you put them in a line up with several soldiers they would be the last you would pick! Nothing like the huge muscle bound giants you see in the movies!
Exactly - able to lie in a wet ditch for days and nights with no hot scoff observing then slink away undetected leaving no trace and give a detailed report from memory.
Gray man isn't a myth ...
If I had to guess, I'd say they're more like people who run marathons.
Always play the grey man….
muscle mass in not going to help you trecking through hot humid jungles etc with little food
always makes me laugh when i see these hulking roided up blokes, they are pretty much good for nothing other than lifting weights
its like modding a car to the point that it handles and drives like shit :)
That's why the SAS are second to none!! 👏👏👏
Except delta
Fascinating interview.
I love the fact that Chris was able to put the DS side of the selection.
First time I have seen both sides of this legendary selection process
This has to be one of the best interviews I've seen in a while
Like many here I've watched and heard many special forces people speak about their selection process. Hearing Chris talk about it from the point of view of assessing candidates is fascinating given pretty much all of them say they had no way of knowing how well/badly they were doing during selection . The fact that such a tiny % of those who start are accepted speaks volumes. Whether by nature or nurture these people have a degree of physical and mental resilience possessed by very, very few.
Yeah this was really cool and helpful. It's useful to know what someone has to be prepared for if they ever have the opportunity to attempt the selection process.
I agree it's impressive but let's face it - there are many many elite professionals in different fields that require a rare set of skills and talents. Even those who go off to the most elite universities have to be extremely smart and focused and then go though a very difficult selection process against hundreds if not thousands of competing candidates. Most SAS soldiers wouldn't stand a chance in that context. Likewise for elite athletes, elite economists, elite engineers etc. They're all impressive and have almost superhuman strength in one way or another.
And being a bit mad helps id say....
@S̊яιʝιт S̊υяєи∂яαиαтн I got a great respect for them. A cold shower is as tough as I can master
@𝕾𝖗𝖎𝖏𝖎𝖙 𝕾𝖚𝖗𝖊𝖓𝖉𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖆𝖙𝖍 You're under the impression that Norway is a former Soviet block state? That's a level of ignorance normally reserved for Americans... 🤣
I have a very dear loved one who was in the SAS. a Posso boy which im VERY VERY proud of and love dearly. Yip its a heavy. Serious tough job ..
Merry Christmas young James to you and your beloved x
I've met many. Your loved one is a real life super hero.
@elduchie68 thankyou im blessed by his courage and his humility. God bless 🙏🏼
Thank you to all those who have served in any country to keep world peace. I have tremendous respect and love for you all
Great interview! Cheers to our cousins across the pond! 🇺🇲🇬🇧. From Milwaukee Wisconsin 🇺🇲🧀🍻
Class interview lad, kept your trap shut when he was talking the whole time and didn’t interrupt
Total respect to Mr Ryan and all in the SAS , excellent interview .
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Wow.
Thank you to all the amazing men and women who serve our country.
If you are ever in Manchester, then the is both a pint (or two or three) and respect.
We salute you with pride and humility x
I never wanted to join the army. It had zero appeal to me, until an American acquaintance mentioned it changed his life. He described it as boot camp destroyed your personality and then rebuilt you but stronger. In his case they discovered he was mechanically minded and smart, so they sent him on a Mandarin immersion language course. He is an impressive character and he credits his military training for it all. When all the wars are done, the military should train civvies.
Salute to all served Regiment Who Dares Win. I got family and friends who served and currently serving in MOD ... awesome video listening to this Gentleman.Godbless🇬🇧
These blokes are next level. Absolutely cannot imagine getting through even 1/1,000th of this. Them I start thinking about what so many young and barely trained men endured in the two world wars. Massive respect is all I can say.
My great-uncle Samuel was SBS 2 in WWII. Started out in the Royal Navy as a gunner aboard a destroyer fought in the Mediterranean, North Africa and ended up in the jungles of Burma towards the end. Having grown up in the states I wish I had spent more time around him.
The special boat service the navy's version of the sas cool stuff 🏴👍
@@jasondylansargent2195like the u.s. seal teams.
This was another cracking interview. Love seeing ex soldiers give their insight & knowledge as to what it's like to be a SAS soldier the training they have to go through. No wonder SAS selection is the most toughest most brutal demanding selection in the world. Chris Ryan made history back when he evaded & escaped capture back in Iraq crossing the desert on his own the amount of miles he covered completely battered
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to my knoweldge, Chris's march still stands as the regiments longest march..Love Chris's book and Andy's
the original SBS selection process was actually harder than the joint SAS SBS course they do now.
I used to hear stories of selection from my father Terry (Jickells). He and Lofty ran selection back in the 70's. Them instructors had their own time of it.
Real Men there in the SAS. As an American, I'm grateful we are allies. God Bless America and Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Gurkhas, and all others supporting a just cause. War is evil, awful, and only rewards the greedy.
Y00're a f001. It's illegal for the US gov to spy on it's own citizens, BUT, they do it anyway (we've seen it with PRISM, exposed by Snowden). Besides PRISM, All the US gov does is get it's minions (UK, Canada, Aus, NZ) to spy on us American civilians, then those govs report to the Deep State. *The big picture exposes on who's side our government is on:* The American middle class has been shrinking steadily since 1978, BECAUSE (according to Professor Michael Hudson) the middle class is being strangled by the top 1% (the ruling class), and this class has bought off our politicians (D & R), not "China", as is their alabi. The point is that "our" gov doesn't work for us. Political system is a JOKE, it's designed to look like a system that is "by & for the people", but it ain't. The top 1% has bought off BOTH parties, AND, both parties use "election law" to keep any 3rd parties from emerging, so no non-bought off individual will ever enter power to make change.
What would happen if an insider tried to do what's right? Here's an example: President JFK vowed that he would "shatter the CIA into a million pieces", and, as Vietnam Veteran Oliver Stone (and he was in the Vietnam war, btw) explained, it was the CIA who got rid of JFK. I don't expect y00 to care about any of this, since y00re government muscle.
Viva la LEGION!
I heard SAS will often launch from American ships
I wouldn't pass anyone who believed in pregnant married virgins riding donkeys at christmas
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Really enjoyed all of the projects Chris has been involved with.Chris will forever be remembered for Bravo two zero but he was great in the worlds elite cops all these years on from leaving the regiment Chris can still soldier with the best of em.
Awesome interview being an American 🇺🇸 we have the Navy Seals but personally I would request the SAS to get the job done..these guys are at a whole another level..
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Delta is our sas
Your SEALs aren't even close to the SAS.
Anyone can be a SEAL.
The SAS requires 4 years military experience.
Agreed
The RT are the equivalent to Delta and the SC’s are the equivalent to Team 6. This notion that regular seal teams are the equivalent is not the case. If anything, they’re more alike certain units within 3 CDO brigade, like Recce Trp etc.
Im 55 now i served in a British infantry regt in the 80s it was a hard slogg,I done an NCO cadre for 6 weeks it was headed up by a warrant officer who had served for 9 years in the regt,he based all our course on selection and was looking for potential candidates i passed the course and was promoted straight away,he got me and two others and said in a while i would like to see you all apply for selection,i said to myself imagine what selection is like ive just had six weeks of hell,total respect.
id like to go on a sas cooking course il shore il get in one chop from me add your dead
@@guy4469 wasn’t 1987 by any chance?
There was a saying in the Scots guards, even the SAS would struggle on a Scots guards nco, s cadre. 6 weeks beasting with no sleep. 😂Hardest thing I ever did in the army.
What great warriors. I salute you.
I was in the Marines infantry I can tell you the elements of the weather is the biggest thing to over come it really fucks with you
Great interview. Fantastic listening to Chris. Amazing.
Love this Chris spent time with you in Belize in 1987? If I remember right. You looked right at home. I was with 264 and attached to B Squadron (B troop). Laughed when you also mentioned interrogation. Remember someone screaming in my interrogation and thinking it was false. Found out after it was someone cracking up. On a side note I was in chopwell woods recently…..😊
Small world mate, I was with D troop then finished up R Troop under Cleggy and Frank G?
The whole interview was very entertaining. Well done lads
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SAS BEST IN THE WORLD….. Chris Ryan, the real deal , proud to be British! 👍👍
I Agree 👍
Chris Ryan...I SALUTE YOU......
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This was brilliant...Thanks for this. I worked with couple 22 SAS guys on a CTR-Terrorism gig and they were all Top Drawer. They would talk about the various training phases and it is cool to hear from the trainer what he put them through. The jungles of Brunei sound like a nightmare. The SAS are Legend status in my book.
I read about a Catering Corps private who worked at the barracks in Hereford. Some of the SAS lads were ribbing him about not being fit enough to pass selection so he began a training programme, took selection and passed!
Chris is a humble and sincere person- admirable
Great interview with a top man !
My deepest love and respect to the awesome sas, sbs, and our British military allies
Once I stayed awake for 4 days (living in Kyiv when Russia invaded), and on another occasion 7. After 6 of the 7 I was having audio and visual "hallucinations", though they didn't feel like hallucinations. The voices sounded like a group of people discussing my life and present movements, with threats of torture...and my senses were heightened and my brain seemed that it was working 100 times faster than it ever had before. I still can't really explain what I experienced and I'm still not certain what was "reality" and what was my "imagination"...but the SAS training must be mentally many times more hardcore than this.
During the invasion of Russia, he lived in Kiev. Really? Why didn't you sleep in Kiev? Russia did not invade Kiev.
We wouldn’t know how hard SAS pushes the limits of human endurance but for sure you reached yours. I’m happy that you recovered and stayed sane. You made me recall a cruel soviet experiment that were tested if I remember on prisoners to figure out how long a human can survive without sleep. After 4 and 5 days of zero sleep or a nap majority died but before they had hallucinations and lost sense of reality. The remaining survivors turned insane.
I have a good acquaintance of mine, a girl in her early twenties who also lives in Kyiv and her dirty blond hair gone fully grey in a span of just two weeks because of sleep deprivation and stress during the siege but it is nothing compared to what happened with her mental health😔 It even worsened when shaheds exploded close to her apartment building. I can’t imagine what you all are getting through.
Stay strong, тримайтеся оскільки ви переможете, вітаю від қазақтар🇰🇿!
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@@kamilashamuratova1159 Lie. Our troops do not shoot at residential areas and social objects. Ukrainian Nazis do this every day. You have problems in Kazakhstan.
@@kamilashamuratova1159 Wow I never knew you could die from not sleeping...maybe in the soviet experiment they were being put through more than just sleep deprivation. When I was awake for 7 days I never felt like I was close to dying, except feelings of confusion, extreme fear and loneliness. I'm not actually from Ukraine, I'm from England, though I was living in Kyiv when Russia started their attempted invasion...and stayed for a week before heading to Lviv, then being awake at the train station for about 26 hours as they were not allowing foreigners on the trains and there was nowhere to sleep or sit, and hotels were all closed...and it was dangerous to sleep anyway as there were lots and lots of foreign people and people who looked like gypsies everywhere. I wrote an article about my experience if you want to read ; ) I'm actually in Warsaw now, but I'm finding it difficult to find people here to relate to who were also in the invasion, so I'm thinking to probably go back to Kyiv soon. It's definitely dangerous a bit as Russia have more people and if Russia wanted to launch hypersonic missiles against Kyiv with aerial bombardments they could...though I feel like I can't live a normal life anymore around normal, happy people, who don't understand how being invaded feels...if your acquantance needs someone to talk with, she can message me.
Da, keep drinking the koolaid
Hi, thankyou for this episode, I got lost on the sugar loaf on brecons many moons ago, was so glad to get back to civilization street and get hot food and drink in me, awesome area of welsh hills, 4 seasons in one day, mental, respect, peace and love J&HXx
Got a lift with a retired sas officer back in the mid 1980s, hitchhiking. Nicest bloke ever, totally down to earth. He had a satellite hands free phone in the car and took a voice activated call from Los Angeles. Year was 1986.
@ Aah the age old I wasn't there and never served but here you are shouting your mouth off. Anonymously
@@nilepax8168 no you're right you melt i wasn't there.
@ I love the fact you are radiating your misery and cynicism for the world to see. Anonymously. What a hero.
@@nilepax8168 "nile pax" accusing another of anonymity?
How ironic!
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Respect To this man.
We had an Aussie instructor, who was on R + R from Vietnam, and he said " you look through the trees and not at them", that advice served me well
What a well spoken and knowledgeable man. Not once during the intervirew '"did he say' you know what i mean '' like you know'' and all other non sensical words used by the non educated. Unlike so many who want to show off and are loud mouths , this man could probably tear someone"s head off while saying "sorry mate did not realy want to do it but that is my job'. RIP Major Sadler go in peace and the world is not as safe without you.
My hardest selection was me working class, meeting my wife's mother, upper-middle class, for the first time in a restaurant. I had huge sweat patches under my arms. Passed.
LOL....Nice 1!!
What makes it even harder is the stuff he isn#t telling us
During Apache pilot officer training the capture/ interrogation, you had your arms tied behind your back, picked up and forced to balance on a pair of 2 by fours on their edge. Very painful. They collapse, you were instantly yelled at, picked up and back balancing on your knees. Collapse.. Repeat for hours. Meanwhile, another candidate was allowed special treatment, food and the team was told "he talked". Of course this was to break up the team and was very effective.
'The one that got away' was the best SAS book i read, second is Lofty Wiseman SAS Survival.
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I was in Brazilian rainforest 20 years ago on an Earthwatch ecological expedition. One day I was walking through the forest with a Brazilian ecology student called Alessandra. She pulled some bark off a rotten log and there was a 2 cm wide black spider underneath. We pushed the spider into a specimen bottle with a leaf, and screwed top on. Took it to the ecology professor. He looked at it and started laughing. Said that the nearest hospital was one hour away, and if that spider had bitten one of us we would have been dead before we got there. The rainforest is a hardcore place.
Wandering spider by the sounds of it
Black wanderer
Yeh there's a spider there ,that can kill a man ,just by looking at him 😳
Liar!
Darwin awards all round.
Nice one James, Great intervice with one great guy,, for who I have massive respect and admiration as I do the rest. Thanks for sharing..
Great informative interview. The SAS or SBS Special forces regiments are always copied but will never been equalled by any other country SF’s. These are real tough Men, not like plastic gangsters fighting over drugs. Proud to be English and have these Men doing their clandestine black ops.
Plastic gangesters fighting over drugs. LMAO
English? Most are from the rest of the United Kingdom!
Got taken to task in NI never ventured into Ar 6
Australian and New Zealand SAS are considered equal. All three SAS have their own unique strengths.
@@williammcilwraith9304 He sounds like a Geordie. But yes to say English is wrong - the SAS are a UK wide force. I don't know what the split is between the 4 nations.
Nothing like that shite on TV. Love it
Awesome interview, amazing story!
James my man! Every time I watch a belter I say to myself 'He's upped his level again' and then you go and surpass it with this!!!!! Mate, the saying is 'The sky's the limit' Not in your case brother! Keep delivering!
Thanks for the support brother
@@JamesEnglish Always! Have a great Christmas and New Year 🙌🏻
Loved that interview! Amazing. 🇬🇧
Very quiet,extremely disciplined and professional soldiers. Our regiment had a number go for it. At least 3 got through and a number failed,including an extremely cracking soldier who was flying it but had a ding dong with a para on his team on the jungle phase who's admin was in plod. Safe to say,a ds stepped out from nowhere and informed him he'd failed after he'd dropped the para. Shame but flew through the ranks on his return.
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@@lukewarm7744 i never mentioned the book
@@lukewarm7744 No i was in the Army,we don't tend to read shit like that.I still don't understand the correlation between my post about my experience and his books,when i haven't mentioned him or McNab. They can write what pish they want.
@@lukewarm7744 have you actually been in the forces?
@@lukewarm7744 mmm🤔 wmh need to check you out. Still didn't answer why you think my opening post correlated to Ryan's books?
This is fantastic , thankyou for your service sir
One SAS candidate was laughed at by an older and younger woman because his todger had shrunk due to the cold. Who do you think you're going to please with that they asked. His reply was ME! Apparently he went on to pass the course. They know a sense of humour is very important.
lmfao fuckin loved that thank u
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I'm feeling it.omg what a great man.,💯
Remember These 3 Saying's:
1) The Only Easy Day,
Was Yesterday...
2) Pain Is Just Weakness,
Leaveing The Body...
3) Who Dare's, Win's...
4) This time next year we'll be millionaires.
Amazing. Some boy Chris.. sas has always fascinated me
I met 'Geordie' aka Chris Ryan at his book signing. Absolute top bloke.
So totally cool. This guy is why I love Halibut fish & chips. Because I love England. Thanks for your service, honestly amazed you're still alive.
I've never done special forces but I was briefly a regular soldier in a medium (armoured) reconaissance regiment. I don't understand people who go to special forces selection/then quit.
Maybe you won't pass but all you have to do is put one foot in front of the other and go.
That's literally all you need to do - when you think it's hard. Just take one more step.
Whatever the task is just break it down to it's smallest most simple step and do that step. Then the next one. Then the next one. Each step is achievable, therefore the whole task is achievable as long as you don't run out of time or guts. You can't do anything about time, so if you fail because of time, so be it, you did your best.
But guts is totally on you and if you fail because you decided not to go forward that is totally on you.
Respectfully mate, I think you answered your own question: "I don't understand people who go to special forces selection then quit." "I've never done special forces."
BADASS!! Great interview. Very interesting Thankyou
I spent a bit of time in a jungle and what he said about it is spot on. It's a great equalizer, the absolute BEST environment to survive in, but incredibly dangerous.
The animals, reptiles, plants, insects, EVERY thing in the jungle is designed to kill.
@A Volpe He never said 'designed to kill humans.' With the exception of certain plants, everything kills something, that's the way of the world. Spiders kill smaller insects, which are toxic and/or consume plant matter.
Do you have any idea how demanding the selection process is for a US Army clerk? These guys have to process redundant paperwork on only eight hours sleep, and sometimes the air conditioner goes out. They may have to endure paper cuts and maybe even scalded tongues from overheated coffee, and still continue the mission. That's dedication.
They deserve a medal - I was a private in the catering corp - most kills in the regiment
I was an MP. Two people we never fucked with: Cooks and Clerks. Both MOS could make your life a living Hell…..
Jokes are supposed to make people laugh
@@deusvult8251 You recognized my post as a joke. That's something.
@@deusvult8251 Do you often find that people laugh at you, without provocation?
I spent 7 years in Wales and saw many guys trying to become SAS soldiers, and I have a great deal of respect for those who finally achieve their goal of becoming a member of an elite organisation. The best in the world
I know the SAS are working on another level. However a lot of what he says applied to a lot of what I did in the British Army re team work. Having said that what they go through is unbelievable.
it's a Mental Game You Either have it or you don't
5:03 landed at "Basra" then a two day road move to "up country Afghanistan"! Might want to do a check-nav there Chris? Great interview - i could listen to Chris Ryan for days
I just commented the same as it's the first time I've heard the interview. Probably meant Bastion but hey don't argue. He is a celeb now.
I find it interesting that he says that the jungle phase is so tough where you have to deal not only with the task at hand but also extreme heat, bugs etc. The South African Recon Forces selection is a similar situation where they get dropped off and evaluated in the bush. There they have to deal with inhuman long marches , extreme heat, no food and water, heavy packs and wild animals. The wild animals part alone scares off a lot of people. I read a story about a group of wannebe Recces who slept in a circle with their one hand tied to a string so that they can wake each other up (quietly). The leader slept in the middle. A lion managed to get into the circle, the one guy saw it, popped up, the lion scared run to the other side where another guy popped up, the lion turned around again and with that they unintendedly basically kept the lion inside the circle, with the lion literally running over the guy in the middle.
a mate of mine went through recce in the 70s . it was ruthless . he also went through selection in 1980 , served with the reg until retirement . then ruc .
@@phil-zz5hk I read the other day about a guy who used to be a British Parabat who went to SA to join the recces. Aside from a brutal business did they also have to swim through a crocodile invested river. That is where a lot of guys balked. He against better judgement jumped in and made it through, practically walking on the water. Another guy wrote a book called Recce( Kindle) Initially he was with 31 Battallion( Bushmen) , then did Bat training with a couple of Bushmen. He made it but they couldn' t complete the course. Their built was too slight for it and yet this guy who later became a recce, claims that the 31 Battalion training was harder on him than recce training. Just goes to show...don' t expect the Bushmen to run around with marbles and telephone poles ( they don' t have the strength for it) but in the bush they can keep going forever like a machine
The Recce are underrated! The terrain, elements and wild life they have to face is insane!
@@lukasg9031 😂😂😂😂😂
Cats get really scared by these things. Poor kitty...
This was fascinating to listen to. Amazing!
Love this one...totally genuine man
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Good interveiwer, there to listen to the guest not his own voice. Subscribed because of that.
Hardest man you’ve had on the pod by far
When he mentioned about working undercover it reminded me I sensed someone following me today. Surely that’s confirmation🙏
Chris is an absolute pro
Very interesting. Actually true. The most effective person is the person trained the right way. 👍👍
Read Des Powell's book. He was in Iraq in with Chris. Speaks very highly of him. All round lovely bloke and top operator.
Which book?
@@ryand141 Bravo Three Zero
Aye, Andy McNab was so jealous of Chris.
Awesome interview👍
I was in the Scots guards in the 80,s and 3 lads from battalion went for selection, one lasted three weeks but got injured one lasted 3 months then got injured and the last one failed on the interigation phase, all good nco, s and soldiers. It takes something else to get through selection apart from good luck and being keen.
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He Was Exposed AS A LIAR HIS EX TEAM.THERS A DOCUMENTARY HE SAID THEY FOUGHT A GROUP OF IRAQ Sqadron.A farmer n son saved Chris here n show SAS goggles etc.they fed him he his father n son with old rifle v SAS man.HES FULL OF IT.EXPOSED CHRIS THERES PROOF YEAH HE LEFT HIS MEN N WALKED SAVE HIMSELF LOOK INTO IT MADE $$$ FROM LIES IN BEAVO TWO ZERO.JOKE MATE
Some feat though marching 200 miles though and drinking radioactive water.
"Well, how am I getting back"? "The same way you got here mate. " Think!!! Just don't feel. Mind over the heart. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
On return from jungle to Hereford . The ones that pass that pause are technically‘ ‘in’ although not badged . This is in April .
Continuation training is the next phase where you do your first jumps and have to get your SAS wings .
Plus all the other stuff Colin mentions here .
Then Badging day is in June . ( winter selection) .
Where you them stay at Credenhill or go to Poole SBS
Good lads, former APTC SERGEANT INSTRUCTOR, worked and trained with the regiment, their tenacity is unquestioned
Finally a match for Ronnie Pickering!
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Who?
Brilliant.
You mean the interviewer 👍
"Do you know who I am?"🤣
Good old Chris. He's a legend👍👍👍👍👍
I was in the Territorial army and called it the SAS as it was Saturdays and Sundays.
Think the interviewee started off with you.
The SAS and SBS are tough mates!
that was great. “the shite on tv” lol made me think of the buds documentary…which I know isn’t shite, but seems much different than the sas process. I worked with a former sas guy in the corporate world and he made a joke about it being a breeze and referred to it as ‘saturdays and sundays’ he was a good dude…smart and very quick outta the box…plus witty af.
I think he's referring to those "SAS style" reality TV shows and Bear Grylls's survival stuff. Bear Grylls was in the SAS Reserve for 3 years, but the SAS Reserve is a totally different thing to to the regular SAS.
This guy is 1000x harder and more dangerous than 10 of the gangster/drug dealers you have had on.
I'm not saying this to belittle them but reality has just hit home the difference
I don't know about that. While tough, my hatred for people like him is that he would be the person murdering a British person on the orders of the government. He is a tool for the government, much like how a lower down villain is a tool for those higher up. Maybe we will have a big revolt one day of the government really tried stopping our lives if we fail to have every vaccine they bring out etc, this guy would be the one murdering you or your family. Some of us though have wanted a civil war for a long time, 80k poxy soldiers can't kill us all.
@@interestingvideos4728 What are you actually on ? Ultimately everyone answers to someone, at least these guys have disipline, fotitude, resilience etc......pretty sure the SAS arent hitmen for british citizens lol, unlike your bmx riding, mac 10 weilding, not yet shaving gangsters lol
@@rtorbs I did not say hitmen for British citizens, I said hitmen for the British government. As for 'not yet shaved gangsters', you also have 'not yet shaved soldiers'. Many are young and easy targets to brainwash and go fight unwinnable wars such as in Afghanistan. They get paid peanuts, come back with post traumatic stress and many are homeless and end up in prison. They get used. People at the top are the ones making the money, which is what these wars are about. Look at how many soldiers are left homeless while illegal immigrants are put up in hotels with tax payers money.
@@interestingvideos4728 My bad I meant of not for lol but the principal is still the same. Every country is the same mate, you have people that fight for the values they believe in but yes war is futile
@@rtorbs The vast majority of people who join the British army are not fighting for the values they are fighting for. What they are fighting for is big businesses profiting out or war, along with corrupt Politicians who do as well. The average soldier might say they are fighting for their country, then if you ask what that means, most will not have an answer. Many come from working class backgrounds and as said, are an easy target. Exactly the same with kids in gangs btw. The fact I dislike soldiers is largely because aside from murdering Muslims on a huge scale, and invading countries which were never a threat to us which is what they have been doing, is that they would also be the first to kill us the people if ordered to do so by the government. They 'just blindly follow orders'. The people who do fight for the values they believe in are groups like the Taliban or religious fundamentalists. That is why they won the wars. It was an honour for them to die. The Western soldiers must have asked themselves what on earth they were doing there and just wanted to go home!
Great interview!
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SAS soldiers are not supermen but they are the finest special forces in the world. I worked with them they are very hard tough men!
Most mentally strong people in the world
Awesome & interestingly insightful.
If you need a drill instructor screaming at you, you’re not Tier1 material.
I spent three weeks in "the trees" in Belize. Exciting at first, but it soon gets to you, where everything you can see looks the same, so you put your head down for the long slog, then without any warning there will be something right there a few feet away from you. It does your head in. We are so used to seeing things around us, or being wary when we come up to an intersection. But losing the ability to see what is just six feet away makes you paranoid. Same with the constant noise. The locals can sleep through it, but without years of getting used to it, all those sudden noises put you on edge and make your imagination go crazy.
This gentleman is really great and humble and a credit to our UK. Nothing is easy as he rightly says. . It also comes at a time when people like this are needed. I am nearly 80 and remember the ban the bomb lunacy that was going on during my youth . That we now have great technology and in particular have nuclear submarines that defend us in places in the world when threats from people like Putin make me thankful for our real nuclear deterrent . I am sad also for the government of Ukraine after the fall of the Berlin Wall. They could have kept their nuclear weapons if they had been smarter . If they had, Putin would still be in Moscow and not outside the gates of Kiev . This it seems is at last a wake up call for Europe and even perhaps the world . Who would rather be speaking their own languages and freely trading with others than being in the grip of a despot or in a Gulag ?.if Putin loses and a better Government comes to power I suggest they pass legislation that ex members of the KGB not be allowed into politics ? Please remember freedom is so easy to lose. Gladly it seems that we are starting to realise this .
''A credit to our UK'' and ''Who would rather be speaking their own language''. Your acting like the UK never invaded Ireland and made them learn English 😂
There is no such thing as "freedom" in a nationalist world. Being free and having borders is an obvious contradiction. "Freedom" in the West just means nicer open prison conditions than other parts of the world, but it's still a prison at the end of the day.
The fact that you live in fear is proof of that.
Good interview.! Top shelf
Someone once said, if you can soldier in the jungle you can soldier in any environment.
snow and desert can be just as rough
I did a couple of courses at Hereford 10yrs ago. The food at Creden Hill and Pontrilas is on another level. 👍