SAS, Paras & Royal Marines To Be REBRANDED By EU! | David Ellis | Bought The T-Shirt Podcast #158
We’re losing the control and identity of our UK armed forces to the European Defence Forces and the ‘global’ agenda … and no one knows or cares!
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Chris and David
C – Hello Dave, and what have you got for me this week and is the face of the Royal Marines changing for the better or worse?
D – Very good morning Chris and a big shout out to all the fellow bootnecks and frontline units there. Well we’ve sort of rounded the revelations made yesterday at the defence committee, and we’ve had this integrated review finally being released and it’s full but of course what they’ve done over the previous months is this stuff keeps being drifted out in little snippets. Just as if it’s like a softening up exercise. So there’s several things happening in the same time frame. So let’s go with the Royal Marines and Stonehouse. We’ve got the same M.O. as drifting this stuff out in the press, so they want to shut Stonehouse, that’s the cultural centre of the Royal Marines, and we’re seeing this gambit of a Rangers force coming in but what that really actually what that is and this is where I need everybody to pay attention. The concept of this unification of our military was articulated by our permanent secretary back in 2015…
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#93 The Iranian Embassy Siege | Robin Horsfall SAS | Special Air Service | Bought The T-Shirt Podcast
Robin Horsfall is ‘The Wise Old Paratrooper.’ He served with the Parachute Regiment and 22 Special Air Service (SAS) from 1972 to 1984. He took part in several famous missions including the SAS Embassy Siege in London on May 5th 1980 – later made into the film 6 Days as advised on by Rusty Firmin – and an ‘insane’ mission into Argentina in 1982. These are just some of his many exploits. An acclaimed martial artist, in recent years he started placing philosophical maxims on social media and became known as ‘The Wise Old Paratrooper.’ Robin is a spokesperson for Justice for Northern Ireland Veterans.
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Chris and Robin
C – Robin, how are you Sir?
R – Yeah I’m good, as well as can be expected under the circumstances I think, but I’m still here.
C – Yes, strange times, but you’re no stranger to them.
R – No, no. I’m sixty three now, but have managed to pack a lot into those sixty three years. Depends where you wanna go with it really.
C – Well, I would say a lot of wisdom comes from your sixty three, I was reading some of your paratrooper books, sorry the wise old paratrooper.
R – Yes, yes I did a little trilogy when I broke my neck so I couldn’t carry on teaching Karate, so I went off to Surrey University while my neck healed as an undergraduate at the age of 56, graduated at 59 in English literature with creative writing. I could have stayed on but I just wanted to write…
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#141 US Special Forces In COLD War Berlin | James Stejskal | Green Beret & 82nd Airborne | BTTS Podcast
James Stejskal was recruited from the 82nd Airborne Brigade into an elite military special forces unit, the green berets, to operate espionage and reconnaissance hundreds of miles behind the Iron Curtain in Cold War Berlin. In this podcast we discuss the role of US special ops – US Army Rangers, US Navy SEALs, Delta Force, Green Berets – and their UK equivalent – Special Air Service (SAS), Special Boat Service (SBS), the Royal Marines Commandos, etc – as well as James’s unit’s highly covert mission behind enemy lines during the Cold War.
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Chris and James
C – James, how are you brother?
J – Very well, good morning Chris, well it’s proper afternoon where you are.
C – Hey, the way my head is it could be morning, noon or night?
J – It doesn’t really matter to me at the minute with this Corona thing going on, I’m stuck in the house no matter what.
C – It kinds of bring home the importance of routine.
J – It gives me a lot of time to work on my writing.
C – Of course. I think writing and podcasting are the two disciplines the flourish under these conditions. I call it a fiasco.
J – It certainly does, I don’t have the technical skills down for this, but I’ve been participating in a lot of Zoom calls, more in this last year than in my whole entire life, which is quite a few!
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#124 USMC Drill Instructor PASSES Royal Marines Commando Course | Sgt. Robert Gabrych | SWAT Team
Robert was a platoon sergeant in the United States Marine Corp (USMC) who was later attached to the Royal Marines at the training centre in Lympstone and passed the elite commando course. He was an elite swimmer scout who went on to become a police officer in the SWAT team.
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Chris and Robert
C – Robert, how are you brother?
R – Chris, I’m doing good mate, how are you?
C – Nice to be called a mate by an American! Do Americans know that’s like an English and Australian thing?
R – Yeah, we’ve seen enough Guy Ritchie movies now to understand it.
C – It’s buddy in America right?
R – Brother, brother is the big one.
C -I like brother, it’s what we all should be isn’t it. I wanna say Robert, I’ve had some of the best times ever with Americans. I’m proud to have served with them, I was in Sicily with the USMC. I learnt to fly in America and I learnt to skydive in America. It’s such a kind, and wonderful hospitable country…
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#109 – The History Of The Special Air Service | SAS | Damien Lewis | Bought The T-Shirt Podcast
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Chris and Damien
‘Hello Friends
C – Damien, how are you Sir?
D – Very good, very good. It’s a beautiful morning and the sun is shining.
C – Yes, you’re up in Dorset way I believe.
D – Yeah, I live in the middle of nowhere in Dorset, very peaceful, great for writing. Great for lockdown, if you’re going to be anywhere, it’s here.
C – Are you near the Isle of Purbeck by any chance?
D – Yeah about a twenty minute drive away.
C – I’ve got a good friend who has a holiday home down there … ‘
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