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🗓️ 23 September 2022
⏱️ 138 minutes
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Note: This episode originally aired in September 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, Andy conducted counter-terrorist and anti-drug missions in Central America, South America and throughout the Middle East. He also 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, Andy has instructed special operations forces in survival, hostage rescue, and counterterrorism. 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. It is currently available on Netflix as SAS: Rise of the Black Swan.
You can follow him on Twitter @the_real_mcnab
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0:00.0 | This is The Danger Close Podcast, beyond the books of me, Jack Carr. |
0:17.4 | Welcome to The Danger Close Podcast, an ironclad original presented by Navy Federal Credit |
0:21.6 | Union. |
0:22.6 | The podcast is a re-broadcast of a conversation I had with Andy McNabb of the SAS. |
0:30.0 | If you came into the military in the late 90s, you probably read Bravo 2-0, even if you |
0:35.0 | came in later about the mission that Andy McNabb led during the first Gulf War. |
0:42.4 | So Bravo 2-0, we talk about this. |
0:45.5 | He also has seven troop and immediate action. |
0:49.1 | Immediate action came out after Bravo 2-0 and talked about the rest of Andy McNabb's |
0:54.4 | time in uniform. |
0:56.5 | He also has a series of thrillers out there, some young adult fiction out there, and was |
1:02.0 | a technical advisor on heat. |
1:05.9 | Very cool. |
1:06.9 | Now, that further ado, Andy McNabb. |
1:10.9 | I mean, I don't even know where to start with you because I feel like I know you |
1:18.8 | from all the books that I've read and from just diving into Bravo 2-0 when I was a young |
1:23.4 | seal. |
1:24.7 | Everybody was reading it back then. |
1:25.7 | This is the late 90s when I came in. |
1:28.6 | And there were very few books on modern warfare out there that we could study most everything |
1:33.0 | as you know is from Vietnam that we had to look back on at that point. |
1:37.7 | So this and we just dove into this and we had so much respect for you guys and everything |
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