#228. 20 Years in the SAS - Des Powell

Eventful Lives Podcast

Dodge Woodall

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5 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2024

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

Des Powell is an elite SAS Legend and author of the #1 Best-selling book Bravo Three Zero.

We discuss his journey in the forces from selection to tours or Iraq and the Gulf war.

We also delve into his time in the parachute regiment, going into his first hand accounts of terror.

This is the Eventful Life of Mr Des Powell

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0:00.0	How did you end up spending 20 years in the SAS?
0:03.0	Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, Bosnia, Latin America, Middle East.
0:10.0	Firing rocket sets us, why we was on the ground, dropped a bomb near us.
0:15.0	The tension changed. Third World War could come about.
0:18.0	Saddam Hussein was on the run, wasn't it?
0:20.0	He ruled the Middle East. He was the big guy on the run, wasn't it? Yeah. He rolled the Middle East.
0:21.6	He was the big guy on the block with the biggest army.
0:23.6	He had all the strength and all the power.
0:25.6	I was actually with the media crew that actually found him.
0:29.6	We were in the vehicles, this is Bravo 3-0 and we could see bombing going off in Baghdad.
0:33.6	We don't do something that a lot of innocent people are going to die.
0:37.9	Yeah.
0:38.7	So...
0:41.3	Welcome to the Eventful Lives podcast.
0:43.4	I'm your host Dodge and I'm the founder of Bournemouth Sevens, the world's largest
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0:48.0	On this podcast, I speak to proper characters of all lived eventful lives.
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0:54.6	check us out on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok at Dodge Woodle, where we've now had over
0:59.9	100 million views. Des Powell is an elite SAS legend and author of the number one best-selling
1:06.9	book, Bravo 30. We discuss his brutal journey in the forces from selection to tours of
1:12.9	Iraq and the Gulf War. We also delve into Desh's time in the parachute regiment as a
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