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Life After SAS & Training America’s SWAT Teams | Ep. 292 | Pt. 3

Mike Drop

Mike Ritland

News, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Politics

4.96.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Former SAS operator Phil Singleton reflects on life after the Regiment. He shares his candid thoughts on the Falklands War, his decision to leave the SAS, and the remarkable journey that followed — from bodyguard work in Saudi Arabia to becoming a U.S. citizen, training American law enforcement with Heckler & Koch, and building his own international tactical training company. Now in his 70s, Phil offers unfiltered perspectives on geopolitics, Britain’s direction, America’s strengths, and the simple “Rastafarian lifestyle” he lives today. This episode closes with honest wisdom, humor, and hard-earned life lessons from a true warrior and veteran. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I'm curious, I mean, that the Falklands as kind of an entity in UK history, looking back on

0:32.0

it, what do you think of the decision that the UK government had in terms of, you know, its involvement

0:41.6

in the Falklands? Like, do you look at it as a mistake?

0:44.1

But it's all them islands, I know from Argentina, it's called Malvinas in Spanish, but it's

0:51.0

all they've always been British. I mean,'re British people there. They're white British talking English

0:58.0

I mean sure they may have been the other Argentine or something else there, but those were British Ireland. That was a British country. So at the time at the end, you know say you know Britain you lost your empire no we didn't

1:14.1

we actually didn't one like the Roman Empire where the vandals come in and sack Rome we just

1:19.3

modernized it's now way past into post second world war You think Canada can rule itself?

1:30.8

Do you think India can rule itself?

1:32.7

Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, then Rhodesia.

1:37.5

So it just became a case of, you know, here you go,

1:42.2

run your own country.

1:43.4

But they're still part of the commonwealth every year they

1:45.9

have all the commonwealth all these countries Canada and they send all the guys and they all get together

1:50.9

there with the queen so it was just easing back and i suppose you could say is at the end of post-colonial

1:58.3

the other thing you've got to look at too is with the other things

2:02.9

that we had going on 82, we still had Hong Kong. We hadn't had that over because of a 99-year lease.

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