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- Опубліковано 16 бер 2024
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The guest today is former Commando Gunner and member of 22 Special Air Service Mick Hawkes. On this podcast we discuss his army career including the Falklands war, volunteering for SAS selection, life and training in the Regiment, his deployment to Bosnia where he was captured by Serb forces alongside his mate Billy Billingham, the pace of operations for UKSF in Iraq and Afghanistan, sustaining SF manpower in a smaller army and finally his post military professional life in private security. As usual we finish off with Desert Island Dits which is the guests choice of book, film and luxury item if they were marooned on a desert island.
You can find Mick's website at www.hawkesandco.uk/
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The beret and tache alone made me listen in..
Thanks for doing this guys, bloody brilliant, so much to learn from Bosnia that hasn’t been unpacked yet. It is hard to explain the esprit de corps and comrades in arms mentality and emotional bond to us civvies because it’s rare that you experience a situation like it. As usual great stories and insight and touching on some of the subtleties of attitudes and interpersonal skills, some people as was described, you might not get on with in normal life, but in war, these people make all the difference. Like some people are natural leaders, but in civvie life that quality would never surface in the same way.
29 Commando Citadel, Plymouth. Sgt Walsh, Sgt PTI Zeb spring, Nogga, forgot the other guys names, training wing at the time. The Staff Sgt head cook was also from 29 Meiktila Bty FO.
Old memories......Sandbag and Swing the light. 😂😂
I’ve watched a lot of these types of interviews from bigger podcasts/channels (those with 100’s of thousands of subscribers plus etc…), but I found this one just as interesting & engaging as them, if not better. Great interview, very engaging, and ended up subbing as a result. Good work.
The Long Good Friday still stands up today as a great film.
Thanks so much for doing these podcasts. Really interesting!
One of the best interviews I have listened to...two very switched on and decent gents
Thanks James 👍
Amazing. I was 12 when the Falklands war started. With my dad being in the RN and living in Portsmouth at the time this is very interesting.
Very clear and concise.
Thank you.
Thanks for listening 👍
Thanks from a civvy, really enjoyed listening to you both, down to earth and interesting 👍👍
Really good listening to his Falklands story.
Really enjoyed listening. Top class👏👏
Great content and further awareness for the potential risks to the general public. The SBM locations I worked in are always high risk and these security consultants are amazing in being both pragmatic and realistic. Thanks for these podcasts and keep them coming! 😎
Cheers for the great feedback 👍
What a really great interview. Humble and genuine BZ🫡👍
Cheers 👏
Top bloke Mick, shared a tent with him in the desert in the early 00s
great listening to all the accounts/trials and tribulations along his path on this mans journey................. ! would have never heard them otherwise, thanks too this .
Thanks for listening
Wow! What a really brilliant interview!😳👍🏼👍🏼
Enjoyed this.
Excellent podcast
Good listen, glad to hear you’re doing well Mick. You were probably one the first people I met when I joined 7 Bty. I was in the next room to you, bottom floor Bty block. You in with the mess tin head, swamp monster 😂😂 Early mornings being woken up with you running up and down the steps of the block 😂😂 top bloke 👍
Great stuff...👍🏻🏴
Thanks 👍
ah so hes the the other soldier that Billy talks about on the recent Mulligan Brothers interview, top men
Really interesting about weekends off in selection
I'm listening to this rolling my fairbairn around in my hands. :)
Never heard it called that before.
Would you prefer "intimate stabby stick"?
Cracking podcast top man
They said he couldn't parachute with his ankles but are happy to send him on the commando course where he will be carrying a heavy bergen and having to negotiate the babyheads on Dartmoor lol
Another super podcast
Thanks for listening
Good to get pre NDA on 😊
Top man interesting
Most of the lads from the 22nd (and 23rd) are unconventional
I will say most of the blokes in the regiment are good lads, humble and with a fkn cracking sense of humour,oh and can throw a range rover round back lanes like sterling moss lol.
Stay Safe😊❤❤❤
Just subscribed so will listen to this at work..ex 7para RHA✌️
Good unit the Rocking Horse, just stay away from the Ruperts!
I was in the mentioned alcoholic battery 😂
137 (Java) Bty, 40 Field Regiment.
A top man
The alcoholic regiment definently for me sounds perfect as long as you can sleep in after a session.
You guys need to get Will Scully on a podcast. Not seen one podcast with him.
Moustache Wars!🌹
Excellent. Typical Hereford, humble with great recall. I would like a chat with you both, my P company was in 79 and after returning from the south Atlantic in 82 and a brief flirtation with the regiment, I dumped my bergan and picked up cameras. After covering war's as a photojournalist around the world, over fifteen years, I moved to the US and became a FAA Commercial pilot. I was one on the day of 9 11, living in Mountain View, California. I knew on that day, as a pilot, that the official narrative was false. I went on to work for a US Congressman and Presidential candidate....... anyway, let's have a conversation about what is really going on. Thanks for the podcast. Let's talk soon. Carry on 🕊️❤️🙏☘️
Can I ask why you need to tell the world about it?
Can you elaborate on why you think the official narrative is false? What do you think really went on?
Absolute work of fiction
protect our troops from organised crime that controls our Governments@@ruperttristanblythe7512
yes, the official narrative is. There is no forensic evidence to support it regarding the aircraft @@bountyhuntermk2520
Had he done a canister of helium before he came on the podcast?
The grey men
that him rocking an A???? in black n white??
A2
That's not Mick.
If mod want more pay them more 😊 like man utd
Great story but they never ask these guys their opinions on what is going on in Ukraine and i would be interested, seens as its the biggest war since WW2 and it is revolutionising warfare.
Fair point but probably a podcast in its own right.
Boots are not reinforced cardboard. Bullshite 8:18
He was taking the piss FFS 😂
Reinforced cardboard would have been more useful 😂
which intelligent sf soldier would put down his life for any of the clowns in buck house .....
Stopped watching way to many adds.
Who dares protest state grooming?
More talk and no action.Why don't you do a video like normal people?
Because it's an audio podcast. Not hard to work out mate. If you don't like it don't listen or is that too difficult for you to work out?
@@unconventionalsoldierpodcast UA-cam is for videos , not audio
@@Katmando376 Who are you? The UA-cam police? 😂 Plenty people disagree with you just look at the comments.
@@unconventionalsoldierpodcast All the other special forces vets.They do videos very interesting, not audio.This must be a first for the SAS.
Cracking interview, humble, no ego and called out McNab.
Scally backs have 23 so 😝