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Please Shawn get some of the 22 regiment guys on for us Uk fans , please 🙏

“Doesn’t matter who you are, you are dying” hell yeah respect to our neighbors across the pond 🇺🇸🇬🇧

I was part of a raid with Rangers and SAS in Baghdad in 2003 or 2004 and the SAS had a team in trucks and 2 in little birds. They simultaneously hit several apartments at once and those little birds came in QUICK and basically bounced off the roof, dropping an assault team. I mean the aircraft were down and back up so quick, it looked like they bounced off a trampoline! That was the coolest shit I have ever seen!

You know you're in for a bad day when Delta and the SAS come knocking

From an ex UK forces guy, this was really interesting, thanks guys.👍🏻🇬🇧🇺🇸

Delta and SAS breathing down your neck, what a nightmare. I'm glad they are on our side.

UK and US brothers in arms. Absolute respect from UK.

I watched both parts of this episode already but Im re watching the clips. This was one of the best episodes and I had no expectations going in. Incredible guest and a true member of history

Crazy that in 2003 22 SAS weren't rocking NVG and lasers. Their precision at night time must have been otherworldly when they finally transitioned!

If the SAS get in the 'doesn't matter who you are, you're dying' I'd break the land speed record getting out of the way

I did a small amount of the SAS selection course. It is by far the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life. I was in great shape at the time but still didn’t come close to the SAS cut off time. I’m sure they aren’t human.

“Right mate, frag out” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Man can’t get enough of this guy what an amazing individual and tier 1 bad ass.

SAS and Delta… “like father like Son” 🇬🇧 🇺🇸

So, I know this story, I was there (Incidentally MUCH respect for Mr VanSant! A true hero. FYI though, this was actually in Ramadi, just down the street from the Glass Factory, not Fallujah. I know it can be easy to confuse the locations, especially that night, I had guys in Ramadi, Fallujah, and Al Habbiniyah as well. A very interesting Halloween night in 03 Iraq. I was a 1SG then in Cco, 1/16 IN, the Bradleys firing into the buildings were Bco 1/16, I was probably 20 meters from the front of the gate as the SAS made entry on that compound and I recall the absolute hail of rounds hitting the gate and flying everywhere. The entry at the 1st house across the street had just happened right before this happened. That was my first experience with having a RPG fired at me and it wasn't at all like the movies. In fact at first I couldn't figure what it was, more like small explosion and lots of sparks. I had my fingers on the trigger of an M249 up to that point but couldn't positively ID good guys from bad but once the RPG came at me I returned fire. Not knowing where everyone was here was simply no way to offer up support and not potentially hit a friendly. We were trying to help evac the SAS injured/dead but that was a process as we were helpless. The Bradley's, at first, tried shooting the walls with the 25MM but while it put up a pretty show it accomplished nothing. Then we went to the TOW's with some effect but now what we had hoped for. When EOD got there later they entered the house but immediately ran out as they found one bad guy that wasn't dead with a hole in his leg big enough to put a fist into. He was young, early 20's, and somehow managed to survive under a pile of bodies. I called it up and was told to have him evacuated for medical and apparently as soon as they got a bag of fluid in him he woke up. The 3 letter guys took him from there. Learned how accurate those little birds are, at night, and just how much hell they could bring down on a bad guy right in front of us. Funny story out of it all, there was a small mobile shop in the big open area where we were just off the street, one of those where one would just push up the boards over the openings and shop was open type thing, and apparently there had been a father and son in there, right in the middle of it all, the entire time. They came out around 0900 that morning and showed themselves. I can only imagine what had to have been going through their minds as they sit just a few meters from this whole incident. I recall the house Chris went into next door (to the right) and there was a mother and children we pulled away from there after they came out, thankfully alive. I often wondered what they must have been through with all that happening right next to them. Mark Owen wrote about something similar in his book No Easy Day and I wondered if it was this incident but his recount is somewhat different. I know this incident however was definitely in Ramadi though, had it been in Fallujah our sister company there would have told us about it, that and almost impossible odds this same thing happened in two places on Halloween night 2003. There is a chance I met Chris VanSant (what an honor if so) the night of the raid as we all stopped and had a One over the World brief on the hoods of the HMMWV's before we went in. For some reason I thought there was also a couple guys from the Ausie SAS there as well but I could be wrong. As we were clearing that house the next morning we were dragging the bad guy dead out of the upstairs and two of my guys had this one by the feet dragging him down. His head was bouncing off each stair as they drug him down. Incidentally a rather large crowd of not so happy locals had gathered, the sun was up at this time and gunfire died down , some who were heavily armed, so I quickly got word to my guys to take better care bringing them down. Not that I cared about the bad buys but there was no need to enflame an already very upset crowd who happened to be fairly well armed. The mention of the bad guys wearing the ridiculous athletic suits brings up something, at subsequent raids we were always keyed in on the guys wearing these as they always seem to have come out of Syria. Maybe they thought they would blend in but that simply wasn't the case unless you were under the age of say, 12. Another funny now story, we were trying to maneuver a HMMWV into the vicinity to help get the wounded/KIA SAS guys out and I way trying to explain to my guy at the end of the street between the houses to bring the HMMWV down the road towards the house. He had been watching all the bullets fly between us, which would have been his left/right across the street I wanted him to come down and as I said come down the street he was like, you want me to come down THAT street? I was like, yes come down the street and again he yelled down THAT street. Not letting me get to the point where I wanted him to stop and be close but still in cover. He wasn't having it. Anyway, yea, this was in Ramadi, just down from the infamous Glass Factory, Halloween 2003. It was a bad night for our SAS brothers.

Glad you're on our side. Keep up the hurt to those who ask for it.

Great interview, glad to hear about the cooperation between the British SF guys and the Americans.

It’s so amazing to see the difference and similarities between old and new CAG guys such as him and Kyle

We did a Op with mix team of Delta force and UK and AUS SAS in basra back in 2007 conducting strike ops from the back of our Warriors excellent watching these guys operate under pressure literally blowing compound doors off and snatching targets

Fascinating. Just articulate, clear and we'll told.

I would love to see an episode with an SAS operative. Those guys are bad ass.

You know Shawn, you don't hafta kill it so hard I feel like I never have enough time to watch all your increasingly better content. You just keep upping the ante.

This guy is soooo mellow and an AWESOME story teller!😊

The “no frag” line honestly made me die. No sounds like go is what I was always told

We got briefed by a SGT from E sqn at Um Quasar about HVT’s they were after in our objective areas, after the SR he handed out some phots which we stowed away and thought nothing about. Two weeks later and our team took out two of the HVT’s and captured one while operating in Basra. The 22 guys were happy we’d lightened there work load and D bought us a crate. Top blokes.

I just want to say I'm new to your channel but I really enjoy it. I have been binge watching. I wish you a lot of success and really appreciate these videos.

Some SAS/SBS guys would be awesome!

Fascinating clip and thanks both for your service. A left of field question: after an operation such as the one mentioned, is there any sort of analysis as to how the buildings are so tough, what weapons/tactics could have been better....but more in an engineering/structural sense? If so, who does that? Finally, who was funding these tracksuited, well-armed foreign fighters?

It’s awesome how unassuming these guys look lol and hes a combat wizard looks like a personal injury attorney i love it

Your interviews Rock! I enjoy hearing about our professional warriors! Bad a$$!

Respect tot you . I always mention that I’m Canadian and catch heat for it. But less people know that you special forces from all counties work together. I know I appreciate what you do

Would be sweet to have a convo with Chris and one of the SAS guys.

Hands down Shawn’s best episode to date

This was a great interview.. He's really sharp..

Wow! It's so mind-blowing that he makes it sound so normal.

You have set a new standard for interviews. Your guests are not only very interesting but educational. This stuff should be in every high school in America.

Love the sas respect without stating they are as good over the years of teamwork Love USA and UK won't end!!!

Solid...total respect.

This channel just popped up on my feed , awsome, gave a sub and going to go through and watch your videos .🇬🇧

You know your in really big big trouble if delta force and SAS knock on your door

All the people wanting SAS interviews. Search for SAS Billy Billingham. He had like 22yrs service and then became a bodyguard for Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. He's done a few interviews and reacted to some military videogames. Also Big Phil Campion. Phil's got a hell of life story and is a good laugh.✌️🍻

Awesome story. We in the US need to acknowledge, and often do, that the Brits were our instructors on how to do SOF. Raider Marines and Navy Frogmen being notable exceptions. Army Rangers trained by seasoned commandos. Delta founded as a copy of 22 SAS by Beckwith. We honor and respect the British veterans who taught our forebears how to fight elite Nazi troops. Give them credit, they taught our boys well. Godspeed and much love to our 5 eyes brothers.

Great interview Shawn 👍🇬🇧🗡️

Respect from Australia

This long form stuff without mics in peoples faces reminds me of the pre internet days. Nothing compares to good storytelling.

Love it, Always A Little Further 🏴‍☠️

This is one interesting interview.

Colin McClaghlan from the SAS would be good Shaun. Done the full yards with the regiment. Really articulate and funny aswell.

The little I get out of my dad of his stories he loved the Brits because the things the us couldn't do they would and as he says "God save the queen and they took care of it"

I was with 2nd MarDiv in '03 during the invasion, and we had intel on there being foreign fighters entering the country before we ever entered Baghdad. I think it was sometime after we went through An Nasiriya. We mostly encountered them, assuming the very dark men that looked like they were from Africa were in fact foreign fighters, around the suburbs of Baghdad.

'doesnt matter who ya are ya dying' should be the new SAS motto

lol @ 22SAS "No matter who you are, you're dying!"

For anyone wanting to watch interviews with SAS guys, Dodge Woodall has had a few UKSF troopers on

“Cause that’s what we do” is a very very bad ass statement.

VanSant is the shit. Almost all of his deployments seem pretty much rock & roll hitting HVT’s and cool assaults. Guess it was a great time to be in Delta.

These stories are just wild. I can listen to them for day's. You know, he brought back memories with the track suits. I was on FOB Normandy in Diyala Province when this happened, back in early '06. One of our battalions signal support guys was bringing food up to the guys pulling week shifts on the retrans site they established. It happened to by on the Iraq side of our FOB, being that we were embedded and trying the Iraq forces up. So anyway, apparently he was driving up to them when three men in track suits waved him down. I do not know why he stopped, why he got out by himself and why there was not someone else with him. Because, this retrans sites was actually right outside our Battle space. Ohhh and he left his weapon in the humvee when he dismounted out of the vehicle. They immediately overtook him, knocked him to the ground and wrapped wire around his neck. One of those razor thin type wire they would use to take your head off. He was saved by an Iraq soldier, who happened to hear the commotion and walk by. The Iraqi soldier fired on them, but he was a ways off and they managed to flee. QRF was sent out, but they never found them. I will never forget, he had a nasty ring around his neck. A perfect cut all around and he was just extremely lucky. If that Iraqi soldier had not engaged them and if they went a little further, it would have been over.

Hey Shawn…you should try to get some SAS/SBS and also Sayaret Maktal guys on here.

moral of the story... don't tell the 22nd to not throw a frag.. you can bet your ass they going to throw all they f****n have

More 22,SAS guy's please Sean 🙏 😀

I expect when the SAS lose someone, there's no screaming or anger. It would be something like Christian Bale in Equilibrium (the film), suddenly going zero emotion and killing everything within a 10m radius without even thinking about it.

I read David Bellavia’s book House to House a while back- I think he was there and describes this same firefight from the infantry’s perspective. He was with the Bradelys that were shooting the TOW missiles at the house.

" ..why are these foreigners coming from other countries...?" I feel we should address the irony in the room.

My dad re-engineered the TOW Missile, improving its first hit ratio from 66 to 92 percent.

"Alright mate, frag out". That's the most british thing I have heard. 2nd was from Phil campion during his pod cast when he rescued british military hostages in Sierra Leone. They got off helicopter and his friend looked at him.and said " hey Phil, we're pointing the wrong way mate"🤣🤣🤣.

I worked with a group of lads from 22 SAS on a strike Op just outside of Basra in 2007. Incredible guys!! One was killed the following week whilst on a mission in Baghdad. I've been looking for some more information regarding his death but of course information is very limited due to the nature of 22 SAS missions i guess

I met some SAS boys at Lympstone back in the 90's. Those fellas are proper tasty when it comes to rucking.

I’d love to see you talk to Ben Roberts-smith Australian SASR Victoria Cross winner. Dude is absolutely ferocious.

I think vansant is my fave,but when Mikel vega does the hummer minigun 😍🤘

Doesn't matter who you are you're dying, having pissed SAS coming for you're gonna have a bad day.

4:48 glad the Brit's could join us in wiping rooms indiscriminately.

And thats why a good friend of mine who is ex sas has always said we are the only special forces that are trained to use the bare minimum simply down to funding,.....now things have changed alot but that was always the case apparently

Fucking love the SAS story.

Great interview of a great American. Can you get Kevin holland on?

Damn!!😮

If the SAS weren't using NVG's and LLM's it was through choice. I was a Booty in 2003 and we had them and we were working alongside some B squadron guys.

That sounds like quite the welcoming party!!

Like father like son🇺🇸🇬🇧

I love the 22 SAS .. complete nut cases 😂

We had no business being in Iraq. Sorry to see such a loss of life there.

This guy looks like country star TG Sheppard. Also Chris is a dawggggggggg

Yikes,. imagine joining the fight and yous first battle is with delta force and 22 SAS

Have a British mate who lost 3 limbs in Iraq to a IED upon breaching into a house. He reckons He hit the roof. Wild. Great interview.

See, the internet Americans who haven't served like to talk whack about the SAS, but those who have met them know what they're about. You never hear anything bad about them from those who have operated with them.

"This is weird why are foreigners coming to the country.. what's their goal.. what's their objective." the irony. It's the same both sides feel they are fighting the bad guy. Love these interviews. They are eye opening. And of course these guys are so badass.

So he had an Operation on Halloween night in 2003. The exact day I was born, kinda crazy to think I was being born while he’s kicking some ass.

British SAS and delta force are one of the same really.. I believe delta force came from the concept of the SAS. They seem to team up and do way more joint missions together then say the SAS and the navy seals.

You need to get some SAS guys on here.

When he says "We hadn't got Saddam yet" - he means it. He didn't pull Saddam out of the hole, but he was on the mission which got Saddam, he just got unlucky that Saddam was in the other site the boys hit, not the one he hit.

Bad guys always wore track suits

They should go hunt HVT's in Washington D.C.

What about when SAS and paras broke in to an Iraqi jail to free 2 SAS, officers wouldn’t let them but who’s gonna tell them to their face, still went ahead and rescued their 2 brothers 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

"Right mate, frag out!" 😅😅😂

Would love if got a ex sas member to come do a small vid with you. Ofcause if guy from the sas tough enouth would be good aswell. But love fact both delta and sas were in same area,, cause you know you guys are safe hands with one another

watching his eyes when he talks, you can see is searching for what he Can say.

As a Brit, I want some SAS guys on here but the issue is the MOD have most of them by the balls & watch every word with what they say.. either that or the SBS guys are on ITV 😂

Hey Shawn. Love your podcast. Small tangent: do we really need to provide highlights at the start of a highlight clip. Its alreay short enough that they basically just spoil the video. Maybe that's just me though. Keep up the great podcasts brother.

If you’re interested the book Task Force Black by Mark Urban is an account from the SAS point of view of this time in the war. It’s a fantastic book.

Be cool for you to get a 22 guy highly recommend mark billy Bingham absolute legend 🤟

You'd expect nothing less from SAS lol.