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I PULLED A BMW For TWO Days! | British Army Legend | Podcast #217

Posted on 8 October 20218 October 2021 by Luke Pepper

I pulled a BMW for two days, features British army PTI veteran, Captain Daz Hardy, who is a legend in athletism and charity fundraising.

I PULLED A BMW For TWO Days! | Captain Daz Hardy

Captain Darren Hardy joined the British Army in 2003. Darren’s leadership saw him promoted onto officer training at Sandhurst, graduating within the top third of his cohort. After sustaining physical injuries, he was discharged from the forces. With Darren’s experience as an Army Physical Training Instructor, he was selected to represent team UK at the 2018 Warrior Games. Winning two gold medals, Darren continued to take on extraordinary fitness challenges and has supported many charities. Daz’s latest charity event, is to run five marathons in fifty hours for children with the rare brain disease, H-ABC.

Transcript from ‘I Pulled A BMW For TWO Day!’ podcast

Daz – Instantly overnight, I changed from sitting in Tesco’s car park crying to my uncle on the phone and telling him what I planning to do the next day, to being up at zero four-twenty, getting out and training hard. Next we did the the oxygen chamber thing. I’ve always got a good supportive team around me, but generally it’s solo. So that was the world’s highest triathlon; 190 kilometers in a 12 and a half thousand feet, with a mask on. Before that it was ten ultra-distance triathlons in ten days and ten locations; that was pretty pretty epic.

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Beating The Bombmakers | Major Chris Hunter QGM | Podcast # 202

Posted on 18 August 202118 August 2021 by Luke Pepper

Beating the bombmakers, features Chris Hunter, a bestselling author, bomb disposal expert and former British Army officer.

Beating The Bombmakers | Major Chris Hunter QGM

Chris Hunter is a bestselling author, bomb disposal expert and former British Army officer. Chris went on to serve alongside the UK’s Special Forces in conflicts around the world. Awarded the Queen’s Gallantry Medal, Chris retired as the MOD’s senior IED intelligence analyst.

Transcript from ‘Beating The Bombmakers’ podcast

Chris – You go into your twelve months at Sandhurst, where you spend a couple of years as a non-commissioned officer. So in my case I sort of reached my ceiling at lance-corporal. Sandhurst was the only way I hit. After that I wanted to carry on my career and then you could go right the way through the ranks, which we call a late entry commission. Those guys just do a couple of weeks obviously, because they don’t need to to do much longer. There’s not much they need to be trained in, but in terms of when you get there, you’re sponsored by one of the regiments.