1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:19,079 Speaker 1: M oh beat force. If it doesn't work, you're just 2 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:24,880 Speaker 1: not using enough. You're listening to soft a Gradio Special Operations, 3 00:00:24,920 --> 00:01:09,040 Speaker 1: military news and straight talk with the guys and the community. 4 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 1: Welcome to softwarep Radio on Time on Target. It's Big 5 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:18,920 Speaker 1: Phil Campion, former D Squadron twenty two. S A S. 6 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:22,080 Speaker 1: I'm doing a bit of a standing job and I've 7 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 1: got three subjects that you might be interested in UK 8 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:27,960 Speaker 1: s A S. What it takes to become a trooper? 9 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:31,280 Speaker 1: How do you pass selection? UK? E d C. We 10 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 1: can't carry too much gear over here, to have a 11 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:35,760 Speaker 1: look at what we can do to make ourselves as 12 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:39,080 Speaker 1: safe as possible on our streets. And finally a trip 13 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:42,160 Speaker 1: around the rangers in Europe? Where can I actually use 14 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 1: a gun? And where can't I here in the UK? 15 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:47,920 Speaker 1: We like to think our Special Forces selection is the 16 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:50,440 Speaker 1: toughest in the world. Now. I know there's a few 17 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 1: of you over the bond will probably disagree with that slightly, 18 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:56,760 Speaker 1: but I gotta tell you it was our idea. David 19 00:01:56,840 --> 00:01:59,800 Speaker 1: Sterling ninety four yard. He came up with a special 20 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 1: for his concept and the selection process has been more 21 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 1: or less the same ever since, with an average turnout 22 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:10,919 Speaker 1: of play people. The pass rate is as low as 23 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:14,040 Speaker 1: five six and possibly up as money as ten. It's 24 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:17,720 Speaker 1: not the easiest cause in the world. Special forces selection 25 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:21,720 Speaker 1: processes are based on what we do. First thing David 26 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:24,239 Speaker 1: Sterling did when he wanted to identify what sort of 27 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:27,639 Speaker 1: soldiers he needed for the Elite Regiment was write an ethos. 28 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:30,560 Speaker 1: There's four parts of ethos, and I'm going to go 29 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:34,480 Speaker 1: through them with you now. Number one an unrelented pursuit 30 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 1: of excellence. Each man needs to strive to attain the 31 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 1: best levels in everything he does all the time. It's 32 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:44,119 Speaker 1: no good just resting on your laurels. Every man needs 33 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:46,720 Speaker 1: to be prepared to go that little bit further, and 34 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:48,840 Speaker 1: that is something he has to take with him to 35 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:52,680 Speaker 1: his grave. Inn thin that Sterling identified was that the 36 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 1: soldiers must have the highest standards of self discipline. Self 37 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:58,800 Speaker 1: discipline is everything for a soldier. If you can't be 38 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:00,679 Speaker 1: trusted to get on and do what you're supposed to 39 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:03,600 Speaker 1: do on your own with no fuss, you are of 40 00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:06,720 Speaker 1: no use to a squadron. Only you know sometimes if 41 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:09,080 Speaker 1: you've done the best you can, so the only person 42 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:12,480 Speaker 1: you can truly lie to is yourself, and that's why 43 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 1: self discipline is so important. We only want a special 44 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 1: forces operators we can like rely on one hundred and 45 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 1: million created a classless but not rankless society. That's to 46 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:28,800 Speaker 1: say we need rank, we need structure. We're in the army. 47 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:31,519 Speaker 1: Everybody knows that the boss is the boss, the team 48 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:34,280 Speaker 1: leaders a team leader. But what we do have is 49 00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:37,320 Speaker 1: an ability to listen to everybody. So the lowest of 50 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:40,600 Speaker 1: the low, the humblest trooper who's just passed selection, he 51 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 1: might be the one who has all the right ideas. 52 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:47,920 Speaker 1: Listen to everybody. Sterling new that in small teams you 53 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,720 Speaker 1: have to listen to everybody within that team, because if 54 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:54,880 Speaker 1: you don't, you might just miss something. In qualities for 55 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 1: humility and humor. Now, I've always been taught that you 56 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 1: can judge your man by the way he treats somebody 57 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 1: who can do nothing for him. That is to say 58 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 1: that somebody who's looking for the d solution, somebody who's 59 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:10,440 Speaker 1: trying to impress ultimately probably isn't trying to do that 60 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:13,400 Speaker 1: all the time. So you can judge your man extremely 61 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:16,360 Speaker 1: well by how he treats people who can do nothing 62 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:19,560 Speaker 1: for him. That's an important thing to remember. And the 63 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:22,400 Speaker 1: other thing, of course, in that sentence is humility and humor. 64 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:26,559 Speaker 1: Humor is extremely important. It will get you through so much. 65 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:30,120 Speaker 1: Having a sense of humor will calm situations down. Being 66 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:32,320 Speaker 1: able to laugh at your own mistakes, being able to 67 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:35,360 Speaker 1: recognize them and not get too excited and upset is 68 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:39,960 Speaker 1: an extremely important quality. But in reality, before you turn up, 69 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:43,160 Speaker 1: before you even show your face on camp, you have 70 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:45,600 Speaker 1: done some pre training. Now, the advice that goes with 71 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:50,120 Speaker 1: the pre training is simple, don't overdo it. Too Many 72 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:53,320 Speaker 1: guys I see go absolutely mad running up and down 73 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:56,160 Speaker 1: the mountains loads of kits on. They're picking up stupid 74 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 1: little injuries, they're knocking to nails off, they're chafing the 75 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:02,240 Speaker 1: skin off their backs, and all for what, Because when 76 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:04,440 Speaker 1: you get on selection, they're going to take you for 77 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:07,039 Speaker 1: all that pain and misery anyway. So the best you 78 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:09,640 Speaker 1: can do is just keep yourself battle fit at a 79 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:12,520 Speaker 1: good standard, and then you don't have to worry too much. 80 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 1: Some of the other exercises I did involved the stuff 81 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 1: that wasn't going to do my joints too much, so 82 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:20,479 Speaker 1: I did a lot of swimming. I used to swim 83 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 1: nearly a kilometer every other day with all my kitten, 84 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:25,839 Speaker 1: not because it was hard, but to get my body 85 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 1: really exercising and to get my heart and lungs wide open, 86 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:32,800 Speaker 1: wide open and working hard. Sub cycling. I did some 87 00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:36,760 Speaker 1: cross training on the machines and basically I did stuff 88 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:40,120 Speaker 1: that got me fit, maintained the fitness I had, but 89 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:43,159 Speaker 1: moreover didn't injure me. Because if you turn up on 90 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:47,120 Speaker 1: selection often and graphin bombed out, pumped up like a lunatic, 91 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 1: you ain't gonna find it very easy. Is also important 92 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:54,640 Speaker 1: now people are on these bizarre diets, not eating this, 93 00:05:54,839 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 1: not eating that, not even the other. I'll tell you now, 94 00:05:57,240 --> 00:05:59,719 Speaker 1: whilst you're on selection, you're going to burn thousands and 95 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:02,840 Speaker 1: thousands of calories. So if you've got a little bit 96 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:04,839 Speaker 1: of puppy fat left in your body, I would worry 97 00:06:04,839 --> 00:06:07,680 Speaker 1: about it too much. In fact, in December, when I 98 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:10,960 Speaker 1: was getting ready for January selection, I actually hate myself 99 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:13,599 Speaker 1: after death. I had a good Christmas. I trunk loads 100 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:15,800 Speaker 1: and I put on nearly a stone because I'm you 101 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:19,080 Speaker 1: come January. I've been running up and down those hills 102 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:21,159 Speaker 1: and I'll burn the lot off. And I'll tell you 103 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:24,000 Speaker 1: what I burnt off that and some So if you 104 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:27,280 Speaker 1: turn up bulging and ripping out of your shirt purely muscle. 105 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:29,920 Speaker 1: You're soon going to go downhill and go down all 106 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:32,880 Speaker 1: you will because you'll burn the muscle because you've got 107 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:34,960 Speaker 1: no fat and the calories you will be able to 108 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:36,680 Speaker 1: put into your body there just won't be enough to 109 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:39,039 Speaker 1: sustain yourself. And when you've got nothing enough to once 110 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:41,440 Speaker 1: you start burning your muscle, you're going to start breaking 111 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:45,720 Speaker 1: pretty quickly. So you get there, it's day one. You've 112 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:48,320 Speaker 1: been put in a classroom, you've been read the regimental ethos, 113 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:52,480 Speaker 1: you sign your disclosure forms bizarrely enough, and then you're 114 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:55,359 Speaker 1: start into a series of lessons. Now they're not just 115 00:06:55,440 --> 00:06:57,960 Speaker 1: gonna bund you straight out on the hills. They want 116 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:00,720 Speaker 1: to tick the boxes first, so you do your map 117 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:03,000 Speaker 1: reading lessons, a bit of first aid and all the 118 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 1: stuff you need to know bolst operating a loan in 119 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:07,960 Speaker 1: the mountains. They also test your fitness, so you do 120 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:12,640 Speaker 1: some basic level military tests. You'll be well surprised how 121 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:15,160 Speaker 1: many people actually fail some of these tests. And it 122 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:16,640 Speaker 1: used to be a bit of a thing, and right 123 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 1: there when I did selection that guys would turn up 124 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 1: just to get a Special Forces selection on their paperwork. 125 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:26,320 Speaker 1: Nowadays they hold a briefing course. So week one draws 126 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:29,400 Speaker 1: to a close, but before you get into week two 127 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:33,040 Speaker 1: you have to do the fear test. The fan dance. 128 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:37,360 Speaker 1: Now the fan dance really, for some reason, phases people out. 129 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:40,520 Speaker 1: All it is, in fact is it tab or a 130 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:45,080 Speaker 1: march over a large mountain in Wales. It's six ms high. 131 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:47,760 Speaker 1: It's called the Penny Fan. Now you leave from a 132 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:50,320 Speaker 1: small car park called the Story Arms by a red 133 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:53,000 Speaker 1: phone box. You go up the hill top of a fan. 134 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:55,680 Speaker 1: You come across down the other side along an old 135 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 1: Roman road to a turnaround point at tor Panto. When 136 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:00,960 Speaker 1: you get to tor Panto you have a drink of water. 137 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:03,400 Speaker 1: He set off back again. You go back up the 138 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:06,520 Speaker 1: hill fire a very stupid called Jacob's ladder, back up 139 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:09,000 Speaker 1: to the top of the fan and then back down 140 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:11,800 Speaker 1: the Story Arms. Now the deal is this is a 141 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:15,880 Speaker 1: squaded march, so yourself in two ranks and all you 142 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:18,880 Speaker 1: have to do is keep with the instructor. If you 143 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:21,960 Speaker 1: stay with the instructor, you pass the march. That's the 144 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:24,920 Speaker 1: good side of things. The downside of it is he's 145 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:27,760 Speaker 1: gonna set off like an absolute maniac. He's going to 146 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:30,800 Speaker 1: be up there hill, but at least halfway, probably before 147 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:33,360 Speaker 1: you've even left the door. But the time you catch 148 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:36,040 Speaker 1: him up, if you're lucky, you'll see him at the 149 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:39,800 Speaker 1: turnaround point. If not, it'll be well past Jacob's ladder 150 00:08:39,800 --> 00:08:41,559 Speaker 1: and on the way back down before you even get 151 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:43,760 Speaker 1: a sniff of him. Now, he's not doing this to 152 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:45,839 Speaker 1: mess you up, but what he is doing is put 153 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:48,800 Speaker 1: a little bit of psychological pressure on you. He knows 154 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:51,360 Speaker 1: that you're looking at him thinking to yourself, I've got 155 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:53,600 Speaker 1: to come in with this man, and he knows if 156 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:57,560 Speaker 1: he pushes the pace and loses you, You've got two choices. 157 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:00,520 Speaker 1: You have a really push your pace to catch him, 158 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 1: or you give up. And what he wants you to 159 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:04,840 Speaker 1: do is give up. But the day I did it, 160 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:07,600 Speaker 1: he was gone and he was just a speck on 161 00:09:07,679 --> 00:09:10,000 Speaker 1: the hill by the time I'd even gone. With boots, 162 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:14,360 Speaker 1: bulled up, propably, I set off. I'm legging it, absolutely legging. 163 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:15,840 Speaker 1: I'll get to the top of the family. He's never 164 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:18,000 Speaker 1: able to be saying. I looked down the other side, 165 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:20,560 Speaker 1: I can see halfway along the Roman road. He's already 166 00:09:20,559 --> 00:09:23,160 Speaker 1: down there. By the time I'll get to the turnaround point, 167 00:09:23,559 --> 00:09:25,760 Speaker 1: He's already gone past me about fifteen minutes ago on 168 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:28,840 Speaker 1: his way back. So I'm now thinking to myself, Wow, 169 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:31,520 Speaker 1: this is going to be impossible. I've got Jacob's ladder 170 00:09:31,559 --> 00:09:35,000 Speaker 1: to go now. Jacob's ladder goes almost vertically to the 171 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:36,360 Speaker 1: top of the fan. You've got to go up this 172 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:39,520 Speaker 1: with your pack the whole shooting match, and it's no 173 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:41,560 Speaker 1: moon feat. I've got to tell you, it's one of 174 00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:44,600 Speaker 1: the hardest things you do at that stage of selection. 175 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:48,480 Speaker 1: You're up that Jacob's ladder and every step your legs 176 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:52,000 Speaker 1: are screaming, screaming out and by the time you get 177 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:54,280 Speaker 1: to the top you've just about had enough. But that 178 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:56,000 Speaker 1: ain't good enough because by the time you get to 179 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:59,160 Speaker 1: the top, you know you've only got a few kilometers 180 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:01,520 Speaker 1: to go and you need to be with that instructor. 181 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:03,160 Speaker 1: So when you get to the top of chake and gladder, 182 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:05,200 Speaker 1: you can't have a rest to brew a cup of 183 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:07,680 Speaker 1: tea or a cigarette. You've got to get running and 184 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:11,360 Speaker 1: running fast. You better now, in reality, he's probably gonna 185 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:13,160 Speaker 1: wait just around the next two free pens for you, 186 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:16,040 Speaker 1: but you don't know that. You have got no idea. 187 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:18,400 Speaker 1: So your best bet is to just get your skates 188 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:20,719 Speaker 1: on and go as fast as you can. Now. I 189 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:24,440 Speaker 1: remember catching them up. Probably will about two kilometers to go, 190 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:27,360 Speaker 1: but I caught him up, and I got to say, 191 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:29,960 Speaker 1: the deal is you come and move the pack. That's 192 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:33,800 Speaker 1: the end of week one. You don't, well, it's a 193 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:37,559 Speaker 1: train ticket or the long drive home bill free them. 194 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:41,360 Speaker 1: Get progressively longer and progressively harder, and you're now on 195 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:44,480 Speaker 1: the hills and your own to every march you do. 196 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:46,120 Speaker 1: You get in the car park of wherever it is, 197 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:49,240 Speaker 1: they drop you off, they will your kit, they stick 198 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:50,839 Speaker 1: it on your back, and the d S will give 199 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:53,080 Speaker 1: you a grid. He'll ask you if you're happy, He'll 200 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:54,839 Speaker 1: ask you to show it on the map, and you 201 00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:56,880 Speaker 1: make your way to that spot. When you get there, 202 00:10:57,320 --> 00:10:59,840 Speaker 1: you'll get given another grid. He'll ask you if your 203 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:02,160 Speaker 1: he'll ask you if you know who you are. He'll 204 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:03,880 Speaker 1: ask you to share him on the map. He'll give 205 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:06,920 Speaker 1: you another grid. And the deal is you just keep 206 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:12,600 Speaker 1: doing that all day, uphill, round corners, through forests, over lakes, 207 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:16,880 Speaker 1: whole day until you're done, until he says stop now. 208 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:19,760 Speaker 1: Sometimes you might think, well, this is definitely the last checkpoint, 209 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:22,640 Speaker 1: and he'll give you another one, or I'll set you off. 210 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:25,480 Speaker 1: Just when you think it's over, you'll set you off again. 211 00:11:25,880 --> 00:11:28,640 Speaker 1: He might even call you back, but he's doing it 212 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:32,240 Speaker 1: all the time just to give you that psychological kick 213 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:34,679 Speaker 1: in the face, just to say have you got it? 214 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:37,319 Speaker 1: Do you really want to be on stelation? Do you 215 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:39,679 Speaker 1: really want to be in the Special Forces? Or you 216 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:42,360 Speaker 1: just pluffing me. By the end of the third week, 217 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 1: then you're in pretty poor repair. You've probably got a 218 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:49,000 Speaker 1: few tonnails missing, you've definitely got more than your share 219 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:51,280 Speaker 1: of pistols, and you've probably got a rash on your 220 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:53,280 Speaker 1: back from where your pack's been chaffing up and down. 221 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:55,640 Speaker 1: So you won't be the happiest bunny in the punch. 222 00:11:56,320 --> 00:11:59,200 Speaker 1: But by the end of that week, you're hitting what's 223 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:02,400 Speaker 1: known as test week. Now test week is it straight 224 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:05,800 Speaker 1: past every day and you stay on foul, you'll get 225 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:08,320 Speaker 1: a yellow card, which is a warning, and then the 226 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:10,839 Speaker 1: next day and you're off. So you're allowed a bad day, 227 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:13,200 Speaker 1: but don't throw a joker in because if you throw 228 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:15,920 Speaker 1: the joker in, you're going around the corner. So you've 229 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:18,360 Speaker 1: just got to give it a hundred percent every day 230 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:21,480 Speaker 1: that you're out the traps. So it starts off in 231 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:24,200 Speaker 1: a place called the Elan Valley. The Elan Valley isn't 232 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:27,520 Speaker 1: too hilly, but what it is, it's like this marshy, 233 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:30,360 Speaker 1: horrible boggy land and when you run it and running 234 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:33,240 Speaker 1: and walking your feet, this will be you're falling over 235 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:35,800 Speaker 1: every two seconds. And by now your packs up to 236 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:40,120 Speaker 1: fifty pounds, so it's weighing. It's weighing you down, it's 237 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:42,439 Speaker 1: dragging you back, and it's spent two or three days 238 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:47,000 Speaker 1: on this horrible moonlight plateaus. With this, we call it 239 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:50,679 Speaker 1: baby's heads, a big tufts of grass that every footstep 240 00:12:50,760 --> 00:12:53,560 Speaker 1: it feels like you're going two forwards and free back. 241 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:57,200 Speaker 1: It's absolutely honking Get from your own valley then and 242 00:12:57,240 --> 00:12:59,400 Speaker 1: you're back into the hills. For your last couple of days. 243 00:12:59,679 --> 00:13:02,839 Speaker 1: You do a couple of marches, big marches v W Valley, 244 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:05,080 Speaker 1: a valley that just goes up and down. It's the 245 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:07,280 Speaker 1: steepest one of the lot. And then you do an 246 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:11,520 Speaker 1: iron Man march again, which is absolutely heamus. Get through 247 00:13:11,559 --> 00:13:13,120 Speaker 1: that and you get it down when you get a 248 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:16,840 Speaker 1: fairly simple march after that. The final test is a 249 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:21,160 Speaker 1: test called long drag. It's about sixty long, and it 250 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:24,400 Speaker 1: encompasses all the land you've covered all week, so it 251 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:26,719 Speaker 1: goes all over the breck and beacons. You're going to 252 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:29,199 Speaker 1: visit the Fan, You're going to visit v W Valley, 253 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:31,840 Speaker 1: You're going to visit all these honking places. And the 254 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:34,680 Speaker 1: final bit online took us all the way around a 255 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:37,520 Speaker 1: reservoir called the Talibant Reservoir and you can see the 256 00:13:37,559 --> 00:13:39,760 Speaker 1: finished point on the other side. By now you've been 257 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:42,520 Speaker 1: down fifteen or sixty hours. Do you get about twenty 258 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:44,840 Speaker 1: hours to do it? But you never told exactly what 259 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:47,680 Speaker 1: you've got. It's best effort everywhere you go because you 260 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:50,280 Speaker 1: just don't know what the couple times are now. I 261 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:53,280 Speaker 1: remember getting to the final culf and I got there 262 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:55,080 Speaker 1: and I'm looking at the DS as if to go, 263 00:13:55,280 --> 00:13:58,360 Speaker 1: I really really have had enough to day, and you 264 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:00,640 Speaker 1: know what, they didn't play anymore games on us in 265 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:03,200 Speaker 1: It was like you've done the hill phase. Well done, 266 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:06,720 Speaker 1: get on the truck. But by then he's still only 267 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:10,480 Speaker 1: a number as far as thes are concerned. So that's 268 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:14,040 Speaker 1: the hill's phase of selection. It's extremely hard. You're gonna 269 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:16,360 Speaker 1: lose a lot of weight, You're going to have a 270 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:19,720 Speaker 1: terrible time of your toes, your heels and your back. 271 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:22,680 Speaker 1: You're gonna really really cream in with some of these injuries. 272 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:25,000 Speaker 1: And of course you've got what we call the sword 273 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:27,960 Speaker 1: of fanaclest above your head all the time. For any 274 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:30,480 Speaker 1: reason or excuse, they can get rid of you whenever 275 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:34,960 Speaker 1: they like. So if you pass aptitude or the hills, 276 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:39,640 Speaker 1: it's on then to what we call well after after 277 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:41,680 Speaker 1: you clip back to Hereford, you know, leave, you leave 278 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:44,120 Speaker 1: Whales and you go to Hereford and you go under 279 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:47,080 Speaker 1: what they call a little bit of pre training, predeployment 280 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:50,160 Speaker 1: training before you go to the changle. But I want 281 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:53,000 Speaker 1: to tell you about the changle next time. I'm on UK. 282 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:56,600 Speaker 1: We are no strangers to terrorism. We hadn't ten years 283 00:14:56,640 --> 00:15:00,000 Speaker 1: of the IRA and now we've got Islamic militants running 284 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:03,080 Speaker 1: all over the place. It doesn't give you the greatest 285 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:05,680 Speaker 1: of things to know that I can't carry a proper 286 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:09,360 Speaker 1: weapon here. In fact, I can't carry any weapon. No knives, 287 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:13,080 Speaker 1: no guns, no extendable batterns, no electricity. There is nothing 288 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:16,000 Speaker 1: I'm allowed to carry in this country which is deemed defensive. 289 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:18,560 Speaker 1: So when it comes to things that E d C. 290 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:21,520 Speaker 1: We've got a box clever. We've got to think about 291 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:24,000 Speaker 1: stuff and we've got to utilize what we can to 292 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:27,600 Speaker 1: give us the best chance should we find ourselves surrounded 293 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:31,120 Speaker 1: and in the middle of a terrorist attack. Okay, Number 294 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:34,360 Speaker 1: one that E d C. For us over here, prevention 295 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:37,640 Speaker 1: is always better than a cure. So before I go anywhere, 296 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:39,800 Speaker 1: if I'm planning somewhere that I've got to go that say, 297 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:42,040 Speaker 1: maybe like a big sporting event or something like that, 298 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:44,720 Speaker 1: I look at what the threat is first. I'm checking 299 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:47,680 Speaker 1: my social media all the time, just to make sure 300 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:49,600 Speaker 1: that I don't miss anything in the build up to 301 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:51,800 Speaker 1: what could possibly be the worst day of my life. 302 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:54,360 Speaker 1: That said, then I've still got to go, and I've 303 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:57,840 Speaker 1: got to carry some gears, so everything I carry goes 304 00:15:57,880 --> 00:16:00,280 Speaker 1: into my day sec Now, I've got a really decent 305 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:03,080 Speaker 1: day set from the Crate Club last year. Sometime I 306 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:06,520 Speaker 1: think it's my It's a dragonshell one absolutely phenomenal piece 307 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:09,360 Speaker 1: of kit, loads of pouchers, loads of bits and pieces. 308 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:11,800 Speaker 1: I've got everything in there I need. What can I 309 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:14,040 Speaker 1: carry in this country and what can't I? Well, I 310 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:17,440 Speaker 1: start off the day sak itself offers me some protection 311 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:20,480 Speaker 1: because inside, at the back, I've got a ballistic play. 312 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:23,800 Speaker 1: It's a flexible one. It's good up for nine meal 313 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:26,040 Speaker 1: and it will stop a blade as well. So that's 314 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:28,840 Speaker 1: my first first line of defense and a blade or 315 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:31,760 Speaker 1: shooting attack. Either get the thing on and run away, okay, 316 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:33,760 Speaker 1: in which case I'm minimize the chance of getting shot 317 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:35,600 Speaker 1: in the back, or I'm using the thing as a 318 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:37,640 Speaker 1: shield if i have to go forward, or if I 319 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:40,120 Speaker 1: have to palm off a knife mom or something like that. 320 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:42,480 Speaker 1: I've got something that I know will stand up at 321 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:45,320 Speaker 1: least to a blade. So that's number one, a decent 322 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:50,240 Speaker 1: day sec Number two, a flexible ballistic play. Number three. 323 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:53,520 Speaker 1: Then I don't go anywhere without a decent torch. Now 324 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:55,760 Speaker 1: at the moment, I've got an O light torch which 325 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:59,000 Speaker 1: is rechargeable, is one hand operate, it's got a strobe 326 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:03,080 Speaker 1: it is it's extremely extremely powerful. This thing in your 327 00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:05,240 Speaker 1: eyes at night, it's gonna stop you. You're not going 328 00:17:05,320 --> 00:17:07,240 Speaker 1: to be able to see me. So my torch is 329 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:10,159 Speaker 1: extremely important. And even if I'm not using it to 330 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:12,320 Speaker 1: try and defend myself, I might have to look look 331 00:17:12,320 --> 00:17:14,320 Speaker 1: where I'm going. I might have to go into buildings 332 00:17:14,320 --> 00:17:16,119 Speaker 1: that have possibly got the electric cut and all that 333 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:21,200 Speaker 1: sort of stuff. A torch is extremely important. Next, then communications, 334 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:26,720 Speaker 1: you need communications. Nowadays everything that's done by communications, social 335 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:29,360 Speaker 1: media and all that sort of stuff. If something goes 336 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:31,720 Speaker 1: wrong is so important. You can be checking stuff, you 337 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:34,720 Speaker 1: can be watching live updates and all the bits and pieces. 338 00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:37,520 Speaker 1: So with social media you need to bear power. So 339 00:17:37,560 --> 00:17:40,600 Speaker 1: I've got a power bank. Again, a power bank is 340 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:42,760 Speaker 1: extremely important if you can get to a free and 341 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:44,840 Speaker 1: you can get too free in there. But you need 342 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:47,119 Speaker 1: not just one field for your phone. You should have 343 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:49,159 Speaker 1: two or three fields for your phone. Some of this 344 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:51,000 Speaker 1: stuff could have you hooked up and out the way 345 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:54,120 Speaker 1: for three days perhaps, Okay, if it was a really 346 00:17:54,119 --> 00:17:56,199 Speaker 1: serious one, you might have to go into hiding. You 347 00:17:56,240 --> 00:17:58,040 Speaker 1: want to know what's going on and you don't want 348 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:01,639 Speaker 1: your phone running out battery. Phone goes without saying. But 349 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:04,120 Speaker 1: I also carry a spare phone just to cheap pay 350 00:18:04,119 --> 00:18:05,879 Speaker 1: as your talk one with a SIM card in it. 351 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:10,119 Speaker 1: That's all that's required. Next, then I need a comprehensive 352 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:12,640 Speaker 1: first aid kit, and I also need a few bits 353 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:14,679 Speaker 1: and pieces like torn case and that that even if 354 00:18:14,720 --> 00:18:17,560 Speaker 1: I can't use them the emergency services there, you go 355 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:21,400 Speaker 1: have their utilize them somewhere else, field dressings, blast dressings, 356 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:23,360 Speaker 1: all that sort of stuff. Get it all in there, 357 00:18:23,359 --> 00:18:25,520 Speaker 1: whatever you can carry. If it's going to help with 358 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:30,040 Speaker 1: mass honking wounds like gunshot and severed limbs from explosions 359 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:32,920 Speaker 1: and that sort of stuff. You need to be saving lives. 360 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:35,200 Speaker 1: So stuff that will clock blood and all that sort 361 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:37,600 Speaker 1: of game is all in there, all right, And not 362 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:39,679 Speaker 1: like I say, just so we can be used on 363 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:42,080 Speaker 1: on myself. But you may turn up on a scene 364 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:45,000 Speaker 1: and find casualties all over the place and medics who 365 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:46,960 Speaker 1: have not got enough kit to get them through the day. 366 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:48,720 Speaker 1: So if you've got it on you can you pass 367 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:51,199 Speaker 1: it on to somebody else. All is the better for 368 00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:55,000 Speaker 1: you and everybody else around you. Water in London, we've 369 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:57,040 Speaker 1: had acid attacks and all that sort of stuff going on, 370 00:18:57,280 --> 00:18:59,960 Speaker 1: so there's always watering my kit. I've always got water drink, 371 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:02,399 Speaker 1: and I've also got water that can be used to 372 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:06,040 Speaker 1: flush any horrible foreign bodies or acid out of anybody's face. 373 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:08,680 Speaker 1: I'll always have my shades in there or some form 374 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:10,840 Speaker 1: of glasses that I know if it's going to be 375 00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:13,320 Speaker 1: people start slinging stuff like that about, at least I 376 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:15,400 Speaker 1: can put something on my face and offer my eyes, 377 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:18,119 Speaker 1: a little bit of protection. Always have some sugary foods 378 00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:21,160 Speaker 1: in there, and probably an energy drink, because that sort 379 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:23,399 Speaker 1: of stuff once the ship it's the fan and it 380 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:26,560 Speaker 1: all goes wrong, you're hanging out. A bit of sugar 381 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:28,639 Speaker 1: can sometimes give you that little bit of inspiration, that 382 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:30,879 Speaker 1: little bit of a kick to get your going again. 383 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:35,200 Speaker 1: Decent pair of gloves. Now in London we've got the underground. 384 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:37,440 Speaker 1: If it all goes off in their good time, you 385 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:39,240 Speaker 1: need to put something on your hands. You can't just 386 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:41,360 Speaker 1: get grabbing old of hot lumps of metal. You might 387 00:19:41,359 --> 00:19:43,560 Speaker 1: have to climb through broken glass and all sorts of stuff. 388 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:46,879 Speaker 1: Get something to protect your hands. A decent pair of gloves, 389 00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:50,280 Speaker 1: a mechanics set at minimum. But I don't know, there's 390 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:52,240 Speaker 1: a lot of gloves on the market there will protect 391 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:54,840 Speaker 1: your from things up broken glass, and even some of 392 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:56,840 Speaker 1: them nowadays will give you a little bit of kevlar protection. 393 00:19:56,880 --> 00:19:58,560 Speaker 1: Should you need to start trying to grip a knife 394 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:00,560 Speaker 1: of somebody and you never know it might come to 395 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:04,920 Speaker 1: that medication. Make sure you've got plenty of backup medication 396 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:07,160 Speaker 1: on you should you end up unable to get back 397 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:09,920 Speaker 1: to where you live and get that medication, gid it 398 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:12,720 Speaker 1: to anything. Make sure you're carrying anything that can be 399 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:15,440 Speaker 1: like the insulin and that sort of stuff. Make sure 400 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:17,760 Speaker 1: you've got enough to cover you for at least a 401 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:20,879 Speaker 1: couple of days. The notebook and pen in there. It 402 00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:23,400 Speaker 1: sounds basic, but you'd be surprising the amount of people 403 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:25,800 Speaker 1: nowadays who end up with no power on their phone 404 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:28,600 Speaker 1: and no way of recording down around them what's going on. 405 00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:31,640 Speaker 1: A notebook and pen will work no matter if it's 406 00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:34,280 Speaker 1: got battery or not. So it's old school, but a 407 00:20:34,359 --> 00:20:36,400 Speaker 1: note book and pen always comes in my day set. 408 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:39,560 Speaker 1: I can tell you when the nicest of days, I 409 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:42,800 Speaker 1: always have some sort of warm kit. Okay, Now, the 410 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:46,080 Speaker 1: reason I do this is shock can kill, and people 411 00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:48,919 Speaker 1: don't recognize that, but shock is a massive killer. And 412 00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:52,280 Speaker 1: keeping people warm after incidents when they're all ruffled up 413 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:54,720 Speaker 1: and their body temperatures are all over the place, to 414 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:57,600 Speaker 1: put a little blanket over them or a fleece jacket 415 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:00,399 Speaker 1: or something to make them warm. It's such a comfort 416 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:03,240 Speaker 1: and feeling. It can dispel all this shock type stuff 417 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:07,119 Speaker 1: and just aid you in making people better money. It 418 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:10,159 Speaker 1: sounds stupid nowadays when everybody uses their card or a 419 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:12,719 Speaker 1: phone to pay for stuff. But if the electric has 420 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:15,439 Speaker 1: gone down, if there's no way of paying for stuff, 421 00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:18,240 Speaker 1: a bit of casual help. It might be even that 422 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:21,000 Speaker 1: you have to bribe someone you never know, especially if 423 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:24,600 Speaker 1: you're traveling the broad Money is important. You need money. 424 00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:26,960 Speaker 1: I mean even in Britain, you can still walk into 425 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:29,600 Speaker 1: a pay phone if you've got fifty pound and make 426 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:33,040 Speaker 1: a phone call. So even if everything else communication wise 427 00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:35,359 Speaker 1: is gone, if you've got some money in your pocket 428 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:38,000 Speaker 1: and some spare change, you can use the phone box. 429 00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:41,439 Speaker 1: And with that in mind, keep the numbers or the 430 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:44,440 Speaker 1: important numbers that you think might save your life close 431 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:46,600 Speaker 1: to you, all right. You don't have to put the 432 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:48,399 Speaker 1: names down, You just have to know which order they 433 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:51,199 Speaker 1: go into. You're not compromising anybody's safety, but you have 434 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:53,480 Speaker 1: got the numbers of the people you need should your 435 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:55,399 Speaker 1: phone be blown out of your hand and suddenly you 436 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:57,679 Speaker 1: find yourself in a position where you can't talk to 437 00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:02,040 Speaker 1: anybody anymore. We meant that I've always got more than 438 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:04,800 Speaker 1: one card on me. And why do I do this? Well, 439 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:08,520 Speaker 1: it's quite simple. My main bank account, well I don't 440 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:10,840 Speaker 1: want anybody hacking into that. And people are dipping your 441 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:13,440 Speaker 1: pockets and swiping your cards while they're in your pockets nowadays, 442 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:15,640 Speaker 1: So you don't want to be in a situation where 443 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:17,720 Speaker 1: you've lost your wallet and someone's got access to all 444 00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:20,199 Speaker 1: your cash, all right, So what I do is I 445 00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:23,159 Speaker 1: have pays your talk type card like a Monso or 446 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:25,200 Speaker 1: something like that, where I can have a small amount 447 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:27,199 Speaker 1: of money to keep me going during the day, and 448 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:28,959 Speaker 1: I'll have something that I can feed into that with 449 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:31,399 Speaker 1: and back it up, so I've always got two efforts 450 00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:33,840 Speaker 1: of payment on me within my wallet and I'm backed 451 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:36,480 Speaker 1: up with cash. It's extremely important that you keep this 452 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:38,520 Speaker 1: sort of stuff with you because if you haven't got 453 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:40,000 Speaker 1: anything on the day of the race and it goes 454 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:42,840 Speaker 1: wrong or you need to sort yourself out. In London, 455 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:45,239 Speaker 1: you can't even jump on a bus nowadays unless you've 456 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:48,080 Speaker 1: sorted your cash out. There's all sorts of optionals. You 457 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:51,480 Speaker 1: can also consider things like plastic cuffs. If you don't 458 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:54,760 Speaker 1: want plastic cuffs that obvious, just take with you to 459 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:57,879 Speaker 1: normal to normal sort of like zip tice type stuff, 460 00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:00,400 Speaker 1: so that you have got the capability of restraint someone 461 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:03,080 Speaker 1: should you need to. Now, that's not aggressive and there's 462 00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:05,520 Speaker 1: nothing illegal about carrying a zip tie but we all 463 00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:08,040 Speaker 1: know if we put free together we can quite successfully 464 00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:11,800 Speaker 1: restrain someone long enough until the police or the authorities 465 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:15,399 Speaker 1: get so worth thinking about the field, I always have 466 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:17,520 Speaker 1: a compass, And because I have a compass and it's 467 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:21,160 Speaker 1: only small, it stays in my bag anyway. How you'll 468 00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:22,879 Speaker 1: be saying to me, well, Field, you don't really be 469 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:25,560 Speaker 1: cutting around town. We were compass. Well, it's not just 470 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:28,639 Speaker 1: a compass. Actually, I've got a little magnifying glass on 471 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:31,040 Speaker 1: my compass that I can read stuff with. There's all 472 00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:34,320 Speaker 1: sorts of added bonuses to just keeping that compass in 473 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:37,320 Speaker 1: your E d C. There's lots more stuff that you 474 00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:39,480 Speaker 1: and I can think after putting your A D d 475 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:42,000 Speaker 1: C to aid you on the day of a race. 476 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:45,159 Speaker 1: One thing is for sure, though, cut about with nothing, 477 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:47,480 Speaker 1: and if it all goes wrong, you are well and 478 00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:49,919 Speaker 1: truly up the creek without the paddle. And you know 479 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:53,560 Speaker 1: what I mean, didn't you. It's a prepare is preparing 480 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:58,760 Speaker 1: to fail clichee, but never a truer word spoken. So 481 00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:01,919 Speaker 1: to that end, what do us Brits do when we 482 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:04,480 Speaker 1: need to do some serious training? And when I say 483 00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:07,520 Speaker 1: serious training, we've still got guys deployed in Iraq and 484 00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:11,360 Speaker 1: Afghanistan doing it privately working for the private military companies. 485 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:14,000 Speaker 1: They need to be trained, they need to do their 486 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,359 Speaker 1: courses and they need to be competent in the weapons 487 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:18,080 Speaker 1: systems that it might be asked to use when they 488 00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:21,320 Speaker 1: go overseas. So how do we do it, Well, there's 489 00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:22,840 Speaker 1: a number of ways we can do it. In the UK. 490 00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:25,960 Speaker 1: You can book yourself onto a course here, or you 491 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:28,159 Speaker 1: can go to Europe and find yourself of course, or 492 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:30,960 Speaker 1: you can get the same thing online. Outside of using 493 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:34,720 Speaker 1: airsoft weapons in the UK, it is extremely difficult. Now. 494 00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:37,520 Speaker 1: You can use rifle ranges such as Busley, but most 495 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:40,720 Speaker 1: of it's just target practice. There's no moving ranges, there's 496 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:43,520 Speaker 1: no type of tactical firing. There's none of this sort 497 00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:47,320 Speaker 1: of stuff available here life, which makes it extremely difficult 498 00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:50,119 Speaker 1: to get anything done. One of the in places at 499 00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:54,160 Speaker 1: the moment then is Bulgar Area. Well why Bulgar Area? Well, 500 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:57,639 Speaker 1: the Eastern Europeans really really don't have the same problems 501 00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:00,480 Speaker 1: as we do with gun control and gun laws, so 502 00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:03,440 Speaker 1: it's a lot easier to source places where you can 503 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:07,119 Speaker 1: use these arms, and they're readily available. One place in particular, 504 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:11,040 Speaker 1: just outside severe in a place called plod Div and 505 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:14,720 Speaker 1: it's called the three sixty shooting Range. It's Europe's most 506 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:19,520 Speaker 1: advanced training and shooting center bear aspect, there's a few 507 00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:22,200 Speaker 1: others claim now as well. They reckon they've got over 508 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:25,840 Speaker 1: fifty weapons systems, and they've certainly got all the gear. 509 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:29,960 Speaker 1: They've got pistols, they've got longs, they've got Eastern block weapons, 510 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:32,480 Speaker 1: they've got more more up to date type stuff like 511 00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:36,000 Speaker 1: we have M four platforms, all that sort of stuff. 512 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:40,160 Speaker 1: They've got the lot. So weapons selection over there isn't 513 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:42,920 Speaker 1: so much of an issue. Pistol wise, they're going to 514 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,600 Speaker 1: have your glocks and your six they're also gonna have 515 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:47,600 Speaker 1: a few of your other hand can and type stuff 516 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:50,840 Speaker 1: in the site itself. They claim they've got over fifty 517 00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:54,439 Speaker 1: weapons systems, different types. That is point of view, to 518 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:56,600 Speaker 1: be honest. If you're an operator, you need to know 519 00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:59,080 Speaker 1: how to operate an a K forty seven and you 520 00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:02,119 Speaker 1: should verse yourself and anything on an M four platform 521 00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:06,120 Speaker 1: outside of that, your blocks, your SIGs, those sorts of weapons, 522 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:08,879 Speaker 1: you should know them off by heart. So it's not 523 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,879 Speaker 1: so much a case of learning weapons over there is 524 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:15,080 Speaker 1: being able to utilize what they've got of courses can 525 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:17,679 Speaker 1: you do over there? Well, the free sixty range in 526 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:22,160 Speaker 1: particular says it will take you from complete beginner all 527 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:25,719 Speaker 1: the way up to operator. What do I mean by operator, Well, 528 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:30,359 Speaker 1: their definition is probably slightly different to mine, but they're 529 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:35,240 Speaker 1: talking live drills, walking drills, CP type stuff, a few 530 00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:38,200 Speaker 1: car drills. They've got a driving range, so there are 531 00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:41,240 Speaker 1: there are practical CQB type stuff you can do there. 532 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:43,920 Speaker 1: They don't really have a killing house, not what i'd 533 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:46,280 Speaker 1: call a killing house anyway, but they do have some 534 00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:49,359 Speaker 1: CCUB stuff. You can move around couns, your cones, you 535 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:51,320 Speaker 1: can shoot through windows and all that sort of stuff. 536 00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:55,520 Speaker 1: So there is a tactical element there. Health and safety 537 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:58,199 Speaker 1: absolutely huge on it. So the first thing you do 538 00:26:58,240 --> 00:26:59,800 Speaker 1: when you turn up any of these sites is you 539 00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:02,760 Speaker 1: can they get briefed on safety. Their records with health 540 00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:05,399 Speaker 1: and safety actually are quite decent. They don't tend to 541 00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:08,400 Speaker 1: have a lot of exit accidents, but they do. They do. 542 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:11,639 Speaker 1: Like I say, take it extremely seriously. There's always decent 543 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:14,560 Speaker 1: first aid on gone site, and there's always a decent 544 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:16,280 Speaker 1: first aider there to back up the kid that They've 545 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:20,000 Speaker 1: got civilians as well as armed forces, so you could 546 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:22,800 Speaker 1: find yourself on the beginner's course with somebody who's done 547 00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:27,399 Speaker 1: absolutely nothing anywhere whatsoever, or you could find yourself at 548 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:29,240 Speaker 1: the top end on a course with someone who served 549 00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:31,639 Speaker 1: with some of the elite units across the region. And 550 00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:34,080 Speaker 1: even like I say, there's essays guys I know go 551 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:36,560 Speaker 1: there all the time. There's sps over there. There's Tier 552 00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:38,920 Speaker 1: one and Tier two operators from all over this country 553 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:43,320 Speaker 1: converging on Bulgaria because we can't do it here. As 554 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:46,119 Speaker 1: well as just doing the weapon handling and the range stuff, 555 00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:50,160 Speaker 1: they also offer extensive first aid packages and they also 556 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:53,480 Speaker 1: do Myra type work, so anything in halfstyle environments they'll 557 00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:56,959 Speaker 1: cover at this site. They've got accommodation on site, and 558 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:00,280 Speaker 1: it is it's probably one of the most comprehensive sites 559 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,520 Speaker 1: in the whole of Europe, if not just Europe. It's 560 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:06,280 Speaker 1: certainly is one that anybody can get on if they 561 00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:08,840 Speaker 1: need to. Like they say, I'm going to be there 562 00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:10,920 Speaker 1: this weekend and I'm gonna be doing some stuff with 563 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:13,959 Speaker 1: their police force, and they've got they can put up 564 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:19,080 Speaker 1: over sixty people. They've also got classrooms, they've got projectors, slides, 565 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:21,440 Speaker 1: televisions and all that sort of stuff. So it really 566 00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:24,800 Speaker 1: is a comprehensive place to go locations to go shooting 567 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:28,040 Speaker 1: in Bulgaria, but now we're talking a bit more limited. 568 00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:31,439 Speaker 1: There's certainly isn't anywhere where you can do the tactical stuff. 569 00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:34,399 Speaker 1: Most of the ranges they have over there outside of 570 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:37,480 Speaker 1: plot div or cater for just your gallery type shooting, 571 00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:40,160 Speaker 1: where you'll be stood at one end, you'll be controlled, 572 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:43,360 Speaker 1: you'll be loaded and unloaded, you won't be holstering your weapon, 573 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:45,320 Speaker 1: and it'll all be put out and easily in front 574 00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:47,760 Speaker 1: of you, and you'll be you'll be pretty much restricted 575 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,600 Speaker 1: to doing what they want. Most of these rangers also 576 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:54,080 Speaker 1: coupled themselves with shotguns, and actually when I saw the 577 00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:56,400 Speaker 1: standard of shotgunning out there and some of the practices 578 00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:59,440 Speaker 1: they were doing, I was quite impressed. Especially at one 579 00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:02,160 Speaker 1: site they like an almost an Olympic team there, which 580 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:04,600 Speaker 1: was ridiculous. They were shooting all sorts of skeets from 581 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:06,960 Speaker 1: all different angles. They were bouncing them off the floor, 582 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:09,400 Speaker 1: sticking over their heads and they were knocking these things 583 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:12,000 Speaker 1: out of the sky for a laugh. In the UK, 584 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:14,680 Speaker 1: if you even just want to use a shotgun, you've 585 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:17,360 Speaker 1: got to have a license somewhere to keep it, somewhere 586 00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:20,520 Speaker 1: to use it, somewhere to travel with it. It's an 587 00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:24,080 Speaker 1: absolute nightmare. So Bulgaria, like I say, has become an 588 00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:27,680 Speaker 1: extremely popular destination for people in this country who like guns. 589 00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:30,680 Speaker 1: Come on here, then I'll take you over to Spain, 590 00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:32,680 Speaker 1: which is where I'm going the week after next to 591 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:35,480 Speaker 1: do some shooting there. Now. Although they're not as lenient 592 00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:38,560 Speaker 1: as the Bulgarians or the Eastern Europeans in general, you 593 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:41,040 Speaker 1: can still get quite a lot done in Spain, even 594 00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:43,360 Speaker 1: if you're only restricted to using nine mills on most 595 00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:46,640 Speaker 1: of the locations. That's about it for this week. What 596 00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:48,400 Speaker 1: have we coverned? Well, we've had a look at the 597 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:51,160 Speaker 1: first part of selection, the hills. We've had a good 598 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:54,240 Speaker 1: tear around you around Bulgaria looking at the ranges. So 599 00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:57,920 Speaker 1: I looked at the d C which is extremely important nowadays. 600 00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:00,000 Speaker 1: And something actually over here that a lot of people 601 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,680 Speaker 1: and play lip service too. 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