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Royal Marines King’s Badge To Kingsman | Kev Bland | Bought The T-Shirt #310

Posted on 7 January 20237 January 2023 by Chris Thrall

Royal Marines King’s Badge To Kingsman, features Kev Bland who served with the Royal Air Force before becoming a Royal Marines Commando.

Royal Marines King’s Badge To Kingsman | Kev Bland

Kev Bland served in the Royal Air Force, then became a Royal Marines Commando. He is now CEO of The Leg-Up Project. This was a direct response to the heart-breaking number of men, some good friends, taking their own lives. Kev has also acted in some major films, including Kingsman, Stratton and Criminal with Ryan Reynolds, Gary Oldman and Kevin Costner.

Transcript from ‘Royal Marines King’s Badge To Kingsman’ podcast

Kev – We got in these grots and you know there’s loads of stories that were spooky and all that. I opened up the locker and it’s like a cash bag you know, those canvas cash bags? I think they just got back from Belize so I stuff that in my car. You’re young and when you say stuff like that nowadays, it sounds horrific. I chucked it in my car and took it home. We had a few goes with this sawn-off shotgun and eventually someone says, Kev you’ll get seven years if you get caught with that! I’m only shooting bits and bobs so I ditched that. 40 commando was not for me and I didn’t have a good time. I had so much going on at that point in my life and with the injury I just hadn’t got a stress management technique.