Soldier 'I': The story of an SAS Hero

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How did you know they wouldn’t stamp the f*** out of us?” I asked Steve. “Some ancient bit of Welsh folklore?” We were supposed to be receiving support from HMS Arrow, softening up the enemy positions with bombardments of huge shells at the rate of 30 a minute. This would have shortened the engagement by hours. ONCE again, H would be leading from the front, where he shouldn’t be, but this time it wouldn’t be an exercise. It would be live rounds and H really would be dead. Two rifles and two machine guns opened up on him without a moment’s hesitation. Bullets tore through him and tracer rounds ignited his clothing, lighting him up like a Halloween pumpkin.

Well, I’ve never had to escape and evade but other hardships are things like when you are on a mission like one I had of retaking a plateau where I was in the full heat of Arabian nights. It was hot at night and during the day it gets up to 40 degrees. There isn’t enough water and then on top of that you are lugging all this really, really heavy equipment about – normally uphill. When you are getting bitten by mosquitoes in some stinking jungle or dying of thirst there is no glamour there. But there is, of course, the pride in being part of the élite and there are glamorous jobs when you get taken out of the jungle and find yourself bodyguarding the British Ambassador of Kabul. The SAS look after him. H was on top form. He had plans to formulate and there isn’t an officer on the planet that doesn’t love planning.Argentina’s military junta hoped to restore its support at a time of economic crisis, by reclaiming sovereignty of the islands. It said it had inherited them from Spain in the 1800s and they were close to South America. As I inched forward, I could hear the Argies still chatting away in a low murmur. What were they talking about? Girlfriends? Mothers? The price of penguin meat? Andy McNab, who joined the SAS 11 years after Large's departure, has written about Large's enduring impact on the Regiment:

de la Billière, Peter (1994). Looking for trouble: SAS to Gulf command: the autobiography. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-637983-6. ABOVE AND BELOW: JOHN McALEESE’S TREASURED DAUGHTER HAYLEY PICTURED WITH SOME OF THE EXCLUSIVE SAS MERCHANDISE … FEATURING JOHN MAC, WHICH HAS KINDLY BEEN PERSONALLY SANCTIONED AND APPROVED BY HAYLEY. We can hear automatic fire and explosions upstairs. But that’s not our job and we’re not worried. I get to a room on the right. Blast it open and run in looking left and pointing my MP5. I know my partner Tak is jumping into the room pointing right. Fowler, Will (2006). Britain's Secret War – The Indonesian Confrontation 1962–66. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84603-048-2. [ permanent dead link] Publicity for the treatment of British prisoners of war in Korea by the Communists". Cabinet report produced by the Ministry of Defence. 7 December 1954. p.27.All of us wanted us to get the go ahead and get the job done. We all looked at each other and we knew it was on. The hostage takers had crossed the line. As soon as the doors went in we storm into the ground floor looking left and right and head for the cellar door to the left. I remember seeing loads of books and thinking ‘damn, this is our escape route and that lot will catch fire soon’. a b "The Battle of Imjin River– The first wave". The National Archives . Retrieved 23 January 2011. But is he giving secrets away, because I know that in your book, Soldier ‘I’, you are very conscious of not giving anything away and protecting your code of conduct? One or two hands reached out and briefly clasped mine as they slipped by me into the darkness. Somewhere in the gloom a young para puked up with the tension. BELOW IS AN ICONIC POSTER SIGNED BY JOHN McALEESE AS JOHN MAC PICTURED HERE ON THE FRONT BALCONY AT THE TIME OF THE FINAL ASSAULT ON THE IRANIAN EMBASSY 5 MAY 1980