One of the UK's Deadliest Snipers | Ted Shirley | Ep. 386
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🗓️ 14 December 2025
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00:02 — START
01:02 — Growing Up Military | Why He Joined the Army
02:26 — First Afghanistan Deployment | British Infantry
07:06 — How Sniper Selection Works | British Army
14:33 — Pre-Deployment Training & First Combat Loss
20:52 — Counter-Sniper Fight | Enemy Sniper Encounter
26:15 — Helmand Firefight | “The Longest Day”
38:10 — 1-Mile Sniper Kill | Combat Turning Point
49:59 — PTSD & Moral Injury | Suicide Attempt
59:03 — Sniper Recovery | Therapy, EMDR & Writing the Book
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| 0:00.0 | Special Operations |
| 0:04.0 | Covert Ops |
| 0:08.0 | Espionage |
| 0:10.0 | The Team House |
| 0:12.0 | with your host |
| 0:14.0 | Jack Murphy |
| 0:16.0 | and David Park |
| 0:18.0 | Hey folks, this is episode 386 of the team David Park. |
| 0:25.3 | Hey folks, this is episode 386 of the Team House. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm Jack Murphy with our guest today, the author of Afghanistan sniper Ted Shirley. |
| 0:42.2 | He served in the British military from 2007 and 2013 in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, giving them sniper support, and deployed to Afghanistan and then wrote this book and now does some public speaking about his struggles |
| 0:48.3 | and recovery from post-traumatic stress. Ted, thank you very much for joining us. |
| 0:53.7 | My pleasure. Thank you so much for having me, |
| 0:55.8 | mate. Yeah, absolutely. So, Ted, the first question I always ask our guests, tell us a little |
| 1:01.8 | bit about your upbringing and how that took you towards military service. Yeah, absolutely. So |
| 1:08.1 | my dad was in the Navy, and he was in the Falklands War. So always, I've had all these stories growing up as a kid out of this life of adventure. So I very much wanted a bit of that for myself. |
| 1:25.3 | So then various family members and stuff had been in. |
| 1:28.7 | And, yeah, it just sort of led straight away, really, from school. |
| 1:32.6 | I knew I was always going to go in the forces. |
| 1:35.9 | Okay, so it really was, you know, like a family tradition for you. |
| 1:40.1 | Yeah, yeah, very much so. |
| 1:41.9 | Yeah, yeah. |
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