Publicly known job off the coast of Africa. We attract this boat from South America. They had met up with the mother ship, offloaded, 180 million pounds worth of cocaine. How quick do you have to think in terms of, it's either me or him, if he comes back with a shooter or stuff, you'd like bang, good night. That's what you're training's for, isn't it? You build up that, I wouldn't to call it a sixth sentence, but you're on it.

And your instincts take over because you've trained so much. You're not thinking. A huge part

of what SF is all about as well actually, and staying calm and choosing what fights.

What was that feeling like knowing that you're the youngest ever person to get into the special forces?

Yeah, well, I knew there was still hard work to go, you know, giving farmers money to burn their puppies. To stop the heroin coming over. Why were we in Afghanistan? Oh, you don't want to go there with me. Really? You angry, you look back and go, why are you sent there? That wasn't mine. Have you ever been in a position where you've been close to losing your life? I thought about this a lot. I got threatened in a very different way to what I ever, ever expecting and to what I trained for and that was a... Welcome to the Eventful Lives podcast. I'm your host Dodge and I'm the founder of Bournemouth Sevens, the world's largest sport at music festival. On this podcast, I speak to proper characters of all lived eventful lives.

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Greg, welcome to the show, mate.

Good to see you, mate.

Yeah, really good.

It has been a long time.

Yeah.

Last time I saw you were at Bath Rugby.

What must have been last year? Yeah, I vaguely remember that, but obviously we go back. Yeah, a bit further than that, don't we? Yeah, we do. Back to our rugby days. Yeah, that's right. Amazing. Amazing. It's lovely to have you here, mate.

Thank you for a way.

Yeah.

Let's roll the way back.

How did you end up becoming the youngest ever person to get into the special boat service?

Yeah. Let's roll the way back. How did you end up becoming the youngest ever person to get into the special boat service?

Yeah, well, I think that has to go back to my granddad, primarily.

He was a 10-pound pom, moved into Australia or emigrated to Australia and in the 70s took my mum out there with

him they literally took your old belongings to put it in a five by five meter part of a ship and

shipped entire families out to to pop up to pop up to pop up to Australia back in their day

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