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Welcome to another edition of Soft Rep Radio. I'm your host, Rad, and I'm coming to you from Salt Lake City today, and I have a very special guest all the way from the United Kingdom in England.

I have Anthony Steven Malone, former para regiment, which is a parachute regiment, and those guys were created. I think what about 80 years ago by Winston Churchill to be what are called shock troops.

Yep, that's about right. Yeah, well, yeah, served in the parachute regiment, served in Fort Battalion when I was 17 years old, 1988. Then in the early 90s, when to get more power again, don't be coming from the second town basket when the three power spent about three and a half years in three power as well.

Then I was fortunate enough to be able to to was in all over the world, best day. I don't know short to in Northern Ireland. We don't can use Cyprus policy in for a month, but Germany then came out, and as a proud veteran, started doing a lot of work in the veteran community.

Yeah, it's needed over there. You guys as a veteran community get together with a lot of different charities to make it happen for veterans who are not able to afford things and take care of it. It's a really prideful thing when I've gone over to visit. I just want to say, you know, applaud to you for dedication.

It's actually good to see a lot of different companies and private organizations, a lot of small groups here. It's exactly the same as what you've got over in America. A lot of veterans get together and help the veterans over veterans that are not as fortunate as some of us.

Yeah, correct. Now you being a veteran, you've jumped out of an airplane. Have you ever had any type of a crazy incident jumping out of an airplane being in the parachute regiment?

Did you ever have an issue where you're like, Oh, what do I do right here?

Yeah, I think pretty much everyone who's ever jumped as always, I'd want one or two with me. I'm fortunate. I've done over 100 static language jumps.

We had one really bad one. That was in four pound Germany went out there, so the C 130 Hercules and have gone through some ones.

Bringing lines came down upside down with a container that was actually struck to me legs at the time.

Managed managed to get into container, get the subscribe the way managed to come down feet first, just in time.

Wow, harrowing story right there. And I know you have so many and it's my my duty to to ask you these questions and and get you to tell me some stories.

And I know that there's something that's really being talked about right now that has a lot of you've been all over the circuit.

You've been talking about how you were captured in Afghanistan by the Taliban for a period of time.

You know, a lot of my listeners may not realize that you are a former CIA operator. You're, you know, British soldier, American ally.

And here you are in Afghanistan boots on the ground. Take me there.

Yeah, well, I was that was the same as a lot of veterans across America and the United Kingdom.

And obviously the world about a year ago, 18 months ago, we started seeing everything on full in Afghanistan.

Well, I had to point out at this point, I was retired for about 10, 10 years or more.

I was out with the military, out of the television services. I was enjoying my nice and peaceful life with my family and just purely doing work.

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