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Speaker 1: We're on time, on target and it's Big Phil Campion
Speaker 1: this week and I'm talking to you from the UK.
Speaker 1: What we're gonna talk about this week, Well, I'm going
Speaker 1: to take us to Africa this week and we're gonna
Speaker 1: have a quick look around the various bazaars places where
Speaker 1: I worked and served. And we're then going to talk
Speaker 1: to d C and look at different types of carry
Speaker 1: and different types of bad uses of etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
Speaker 1: So a couple of things to talk about this week
Speaker 1: before we start. Then, Africa been in the US this
Speaker 1: week in Europe as firteen soldiers were killed there in
Speaker 1: a helicopter crash. Now, the UK and the rest of
Speaker 1: Europe to a point do have a fair amount of
Speaker 1: troops in Africa, and I think the feeling being that
Speaker 1: if we can train up some of these smaller nations
Speaker 1: to be able to take care of their own problems,
Speaker 1: then obviously it does as a favor because we haven't
Speaker 1: gotta put boots on the ground. So we've found our
Speaker 1: troops just recently in Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria, and the Frenchshire
Speaker 1: in Mali and all over all over Africa. Now you'll
Speaker 1: find training treams from Europe training soldiers up. Now, I
Speaker 1: know what you're gonna say is straight away. I can
Speaker 1: feel it, I can hear it. It's going off already,
Speaker 1: isn't it. You're all saying, but Phil, but Phil, if
Speaker 1: you're training them up, they'll turn against you eventually. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm afraid there is a risk that you run, and
Speaker 1: we've seen it before in Iraq and Afghanistan. But faced
Speaker 1: with that or putting boots on the ground, what is
Speaker 1: the choice left open to the governments? You know, we
Speaker 1: could send thousands of troops over there and we could
Speaker 1: have thousands not come back. And that, I'm afraid is
Speaker 1: the way that the government over here are looking at
Speaker 1: it now. If it ever got to the stage were
Speaker 1: escalated and the training teams weren't being effective, then I
Speaker 1: think they would probably have to pull the plug on it.
Speaker 1: But for now, it looks as if by training a
Speaker 1: limited training, I mean, we don't give them a whole
Speaker 1: tool box. Do you know what I mean? That would
Speaker 1: be absolutely stupid, wouldn't it. That would be that would
Speaker 1: be tantamount of disaster. We give them enough to get
Speaker 1: into the field, deploy and do what they have to
Speaker 1: against what really are in some cases a rag tag enemy,
Speaker 1: a rebel enemy. We're talking variants of al Qaeda, you know,
Speaker 1: people that have been recruited on the ground, et cetera.
Speaker 1: They're doing what they can. And I've done a training
Speaker 1: team myself actually in Nigeria where I trained load of
Speaker 1: bodyguards years ago, and it was a great task. You know,
Speaker 1: we went over there, they were trainable and the soldiers
Speaker 1: that they sent me to trainers bodyguards were actually at
Speaker 1: quite a good standard. One thing I will never touch
Speaker 1: over there, and one thing I always find they aren't
Speaker 1: very good at all is accuracy. I've never found a
Speaker 1: sniper over there. I've never found anybody who was particularly
Speaker 1: good with a weapon, and there seems to be a
Speaker 1: culture of praying and spraying when it comes to fire
Speaker 1: fights over there. I'll leave them with that. Personally, I
Speaker 1: don't ever want to teach them out the trick shoots track.
Speaker 1: That's that's something that you know they can teach themselves.
Speaker 1: That's that's about my limit on that one. But like
Speaker 1: I say, I used to get these soldiers sent to
Speaker 1: me when I was in Nigeria, and they were of
Speaker 1: a good standards. They could shoot to a point, but moreover,
Speaker 1: they were keen and interested and wanting to do a
Speaker 1: good job. And I think that's key in the states
Speaker 1: that are being picked and selected for for training task
Speaker 1: and training teams to go to that they are sending
Speaker 1: train noble people and they are to a point with
Speaker 1: the program, which is extremely important because, like I say,
Speaker 1: we don't want to be responsible for training people who
Speaker 1: later on turn into rebels. And I did do a
Speaker 1: job in Sierra Leone against the rebel force which was
Speaker 1: called the West Side Boys. And how the West Side
Speaker 1: Boys had derived themselves from the r UF. They started
Speaker 1: off with the Sierra Leone government, they crossed debt to
Speaker 1: the r UF, the revolutionally Reunited Front. They've then been
Speaker 1: hounded out there. They found themselves in between government and
Speaker 1: the RUF with nowhere to run, so they became what
Speaker 1: was known as the West Type Boys. And that was where,
Speaker 1: you know, one of the biggest fights I've ever got
Speaker 1: in was a hostage rescue in Sierra Leone where we
Speaker 1: rescued some soldiers had been taken hostage, but they were
Speaker 1: held by this rebel force who had received training, some
Speaker 1: of them from the British and and utilize that training
Speaker 1: ultimately against the British. So that is that I get
Speaker 1: it when people say, but you know, I also get
Speaker 1: it when people say they don't want to put boots
Speaker 1: on the ground. So I'm sure you're going to debate this.
Speaker 1: I will cover it on one of my live shows.
Speaker 1: But I thought I'll just give you a little a
Speaker 1: little tour of where I've been in Africa. So serving wise,
Speaker 1: the British have always been in Kenya, or Kenia as
Speaker 1: they call it. In my first ever trip to Africa
Speaker 1: was to Kenya. We based ourselves out of a place
Speaker 1: called the New Ki which is almost central and from
Speaker 1: there we conducted a series of exercises in the arid
Speaker 1: in the jungle and down by the coast, so we
Speaker 1: we've gotta we've got a good broad brush run out
Speaker 1: the jungle. Training over there was extremely good. It was
Speaker 1: at the bottom of Mount Kenya in a place called Calfandini,
Speaker 1: which was extremely interesting. It was my first ever trip
Speaker 1: into the jungle, so it was all eyes open and
Speaker 1: as you know yourselves, you know, if you can sold
Speaker 1: you in the jungle, you can sold you anywhere. And
Speaker 1: my first trip into Caffandini was exciting as a young soldier,
Speaker 1: I really really enjoyed it. We did all sorts of
Speaker 1: cool stuff. We built our first A frames, we built
Speaker 1: our first bashes under the under the canopy, we trapped animals,
Speaker 1: we did contact drills, we did c QB close quarter
Speaker 1: battle up these little re entrants and stuff. It really
Speaker 1: was a cool place to be. So I had a
Speaker 1: great time. And don't forget I was only eighteen years
Speaker 1: old then, So eighteen years old, first trip to the
Speaker 1: jung called Caffandini, and we were only in there for
Speaker 1: seven days and it seemed like a lifetime. It was
Speaker 1: absolutely super place to be. And then we would go
Speaker 1: to a place called my Parla Farm where we would
Speaker 1: conduct company level as a hundred guys in a full
Speaker 1: frontal advanced to contact style attack, which was really cool
Speaker 1: thing to do. And another place called our just Post
Speaker 1: we could do the same thing with all the artillery,
Speaker 1: the mortars, fire support and a whole lot coming in.
Speaker 1: So a really cool training ban and like I said,
Speaker 1: a British have been there for years. They were there
Speaker 1: when the when the Mau Mau troubles were there again
Speaker 1: more rebels of Africa there you go. That's a surprise,
Speaker 1: isn't it. And we helped quash that. But we stayed
Speaker 1: in Kenya. So that was my first ever trip to Africa,
Speaker 1: was to Kenya and then Monster I was in there
Speaker 1: in the regiment. Was involved in the operation in Sierra Leone,
Speaker 1: as I've alluded to earlier, to release from the West
Speaker 1: Side Boys the Royal Irish. But I did a number
Speaker 1: of other trips. I did North Africa, a place called Mauritania.
Speaker 1: Now Mauritania is a desert type land, and that was
Speaker 1: extremely extremely interesting. It was sort of like proper desert
Speaker 1: for miles and miles and miles as much as you
Speaker 1: can see was desert, really really poor country. And we
Speaker 1: did Morocco while we were there as well, So Morocco
Speaker 1: again North African Morocco. You know, you can almost swim
Speaker 1: to Spain for Morocco, a very very cool place. We
Speaker 1: stayed in Marrakech, which has one of these markets so
Speaker 1: we can buy just about anything. It's absolutely bizarre. And again,
Speaker 1: like I say that that's been there for years, and
Speaker 1: as you go out into the hills and places like that,
Speaker 1: you can still see these French foreign Agian forts which
Speaker 1: are there in abundance. Crazy place, really crazy place. I
Speaker 1: ended another trip further on down down for the first
Speaker 1: time to the south where I went to South Africa
Speaker 1: and the Lawe which was a cool place again next
Speaker 1: to Zimbabwe and all those sorts of places. I went
Speaker 1: to Malawi. It was a really really cool experience. We
Speaker 1: went to the Okravanga Delta, saw all the animals and
Speaker 1: stuff like that, and did some really really high quality training.
Speaker 1: I did a training task there where I trained normal
Speaker 1: normal Army British Army as a Special Forces operator, which
Speaker 1: was really cool because we've got loads of assets and
Speaker 1: stuff like that, and so that was cool. So that
Speaker 1: was my serving experiences in Africa. But then when I
Speaker 1: got out, I hadn't been back for years, and I
Speaker 1: started doing the anti piracy off of Somalia and basing
Speaker 1: out of Kenya, Tanzania and places like that. Now I
Speaker 1: spent a number of years down that way traveling around
Speaker 1: against the Somali pirates, which was like the self or
Speaker 1: have done the anti piracy show. But again I was
Speaker 1: in and out of Africa now when the piracy money
Speaker 1: dropped and it didn't seem to be going anywhere for me,
Speaker 1: and I could see that it has been overtaken and
Speaker 1: everybody was using you know, Indians and Gurkhas and all
Speaker 1: the rest of it. There was no money in Paris anymore.
Speaker 1: I decided to go to West Africa because West Africa
Speaker 1: is and I can see for the few for the
Speaker 1: foreseeable future just gonna be this boiling pot of trouble
Speaker 1: which seems to go around like a wear in derbish.
Speaker 1: If it's not in Togo, it's in code of wire.
Speaker 1: If it's not in Code of Wire, it's in Mary.
Speaker 1: If it's not in Mary, it's in Conically, it just
Speaker 1: goes round and around. And what it seems to happen
Speaker 1: is all these countries are very small, they're very tribal,
Speaker 1: and they don't get along with each other. But what
Speaker 1: will happen is with inside those countries will get warring factions.
Speaker 1: So you get a rebel fashion usy and a government faction.
Speaker 1: They'll fall out. They'll cause a civil war, There'll be
Speaker 1: a massive displacement of people and those people will oversp
Speaker 1: into the next country. Now they'll settle their differences from
Speaker 1: the country they came from, and the war will rage
Speaker 1: out or peter to a stop. But now you've got
Speaker 1: a displacement of people in another country causing civil unrest.
Speaker 1: Civil unrest will lead to rebels versus the government, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
Speaker 1: So you can see this pattern of what happens in
Speaker 1: West Africa, and it's extremely extremely interesting. Now, my first
Speaker 1: trip into West Africa as a civilian was I went
Speaker 1: to Marley and from Marley we traveled down towards ConA
Speaker 1: Cry and we were working on gold mines and we
Speaker 1: were looking at escape routes for that very reason that
Speaker 1: if the place turned into a war zone, we needed
Speaker 1: to be able to get the workers out. So we
Speaker 1: were really there as a expeditionary force looking for routes
Speaker 1: in and out of Guinea from Conic Cry right up
Speaker 1: to Marley to Bamaco, and it was a cracking job.
Speaker 1: We drove all over the country, we drove off road,
Speaker 1: we went all around the place, searching for roots and
Speaker 1: employing what I had learned in the regiment as hearts
Speaker 1: and minds. So we did this hearts and minds things,
Speaker 1: whereby we went out, but we went out as medics.
Speaker 1: We went into local villages and we looked after them,
Speaker 1: and if they had a problem, we looked after whoever
Speaker 1: had the problem. We had medical kids with as etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
Speaker 1: We even had a big sack of footballs and some
Speaker 1: football kits which we gave out in certain areas, and
Speaker 1: we basically employed the hearts and minds things, making friends,
Speaker 1: making allegiances, because we knew if war broke out, there
Speaker 1: was going to be a major troop movement along this
Speaker 1: one main road which everybody was gonna have to evacuate through,
Speaker 1: and you couldn't you couldn't get down it. And moreover,
Speaker 1: they were using child soldiers on there, so every four
Speaker 1: or five miles you had a great big gang of
Speaker 1: child soldiers forming the checkpoint. You can imagine what it's
Speaker 1: going to be like if those turn against you and
Speaker 1: you're in massive trouble. Now, so that they say, our
Speaker 1: faory was to drive all around these other routes, through
Speaker 1: these little villagers, up dirt tracks, across country, through the mountains,
Speaker 1: and find ways that we could get these workers out
Speaker 1: it's all very well and good traveling around and doing
Speaker 1: all this stuff, but that job actually a push count
Speaker 1: to a shove, and we're had to practice what we preached,
Speaker 1: and we had to take people out across country in
Speaker 1: the end because Conical erupted in the civil war and
Speaker 1: then that reverberated throughout the city of Just as we predicted,
Speaker 1: the main road ended up with child soldiers all the
Speaker 1: way along it and you couldn't get up it for love,
Speaker 1: no money, and any round I any white person or
Speaker 1: to Babu as they called us, to Baboo, I was
Speaker 1: to Babu feel white man field. Any to Babo were
Speaker 1: moving on that road were immediately stopped and detained. And
Speaker 1: that's sort of like that's just all part and parcel
Speaker 1: of being in West Africa. So that was my first
Speaker 1: foreign I then came in and out a few times
Speaker 1: to Togo, and I then started this great job in
Speaker 1: Nigeria training government official bodyguards, which was an awesome job.
Speaker 1: So we did that for a little while and then
Speaker 1: stayed in West Africa and I started doing antipiracy out
Speaker 1: of Nigeria. Now anti piracy in the bottom end down
Speaker 1: with Somalia was the case. Of the knick the ship
Speaker 1: and the ship was the worth and they try and
Speaker 1: get money for the ship. Not so in Nigeria, they
Speaker 1: would actually actively target what was on the ship I
Speaker 1: oil and any float money. They weren't really interested in personnel.
Speaker 1: So to that end, you knew if they boarded, you
Speaker 1: ran a great risk of being shot or killed or injured.
Speaker 1: So an extremely extremely difficult time on the West coast
Speaker 1: of Africa with the anti piracy. That said, we managed
Speaker 1: to use local, local people, local security guards who were
Speaker 1: armed because we weren't allowed to be armed, and we worked.
Speaker 1: We worked on these ships. We got away with it,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't You didn't have that warm, fuzzy feeling
Speaker 1: every trip that you had when you've got your own
Speaker 1: M four and your own glock on your hip. And
Speaker 1: again we employed hearts and minds, so we kept the
Speaker 1: soldiers busy, We kept them with activities, we gave them
Speaker 1: things to do, We did loads of stuff with them.
Speaker 1: We did fishing, We did anything we could to keep
Speaker 1: them from getting itchy feet and moreover, richy trigger fingers,
Speaker 1: because when we first got on board with them, they
Speaker 1: used to shoot at just about anything that moved, which
Speaker 1: was which was not great for business. They shot at fishermen,
Speaker 1: they shot at other ships. They were just absolutely so twitching.
Speaker 1: He's it's all that West African guns slinging town and
Speaker 1: it was outrageous. But yeah, like I said, we got
Speaker 1: away with it, but it was cool. Since then, I've
Speaker 1: been back to North Africa. I've been to Morocco and
Speaker 1: I've traveled around a little bit. And now, like I say,
Speaker 1: I'm in and out of Spain and Gibraltar which faces Morocco.
Speaker 1: So I do plan to do a couple of trips
Speaker 1: into into Morocco itself again this year because the Atlas
Speaker 1: Mountains are absolutely phenomenal. South Africa, well, I haven't been
Speaker 1: down there for a very long time, but that's another
Speaker 1: place that I think is interesting the visit as is.
Speaker 1: I should probably get another trip into Kenya at some stage,
Speaker 1: who knows, But there you go. That's my that's my
Speaker 1: experiences of Africa. What we'll do one day as we'll
Speaker 1: break those down and I'll tell you the full story
Speaker 1: from each place that I went, which is quite interesting
Speaker 1: because I've seen all sorts of stuff. I've seen. I've
Speaker 1: seen people with pet crocodiles, I've seen people I'll tell
Speaker 1: you story. We were in Conagry. The governor down there,
Speaker 1: his son was a bit of a wild card, but
Speaker 1: he was the only RF piety, the only r F,
Speaker 1: not RF. It was the only fighter pilot that the
Speaker 1: country had, and they only had two planes, and he
Speaker 1: decided that he'd get in one of these planes, take
Speaker 1: the thing up almost vertical, and inject himself out of it.
Speaker 1: How about that for a story. I'll tell you the
Speaker 1: whole store on that one day. But that was absolute lunacy.
Speaker 1: That is West Africa in the nutshell. It is an
Speaker 1: absolute lunacy. It's a it's a cauldron of of nonsense,
Speaker 1: it really is. It's such a dangerous place, but if
Speaker 1: you get it right, you can have such a good time.
Speaker 1: There's unbelievable. I absolutely loved my time in West Africa.
Speaker 1: It was cool. I've enjoyed all my time in Africa,
Speaker 1: and I'll say, no doubt I should be going back
Speaker 1: there two or three times at least next year to
Speaker 1: do two or three bits of pieces which I'm hoping
Speaker 1: to get off the ground. But we'll talk about more
Speaker 1: of that later. Okay, let's swing fighting. Let's get ourselves
Speaker 1: well and truly out of Africa and let's talk a
Speaker 1: little bit about e d C. Okay, we know that
Speaker 1: over here in the u k. E DC is slightly
Speaker 1: different to the way you do things in America. For one,
Speaker 1: there's nobody over here really can be armed, and there's
Speaker 1: no knives, there's nothing like that. You can't carry just
Speaker 1: about anything that you can carry in the States. We
Speaker 1: have to base our e DC around first aid, around defense,
Speaker 1: around this that, and the etherisde torches all that sort
Speaker 1: of stuff. So with that in mind, I look at
Speaker 1: the different ways of actually carrying your stuff because you're
Speaker 1: not sort of like sold on one thing. So what
Speaker 1: types of carry do I use when I have free
Speaker 1: types of carry are using? It depends on what I'm
Speaker 1: doing as to what I carry, depends on where I'm going,
Speaker 1: what I'm doing, and what what I can carry. But
Speaker 1: in the UK, my main carry is a day sack,
Speaker 1: a dragonhead day sack, which was really cool. It's one
Speaker 1: of the ones I got from Create Club. It's compartmentalized
Speaker 1: and I can get all my stuff in there. The
Speaker 1: biggest thing I find from this sort of carry is
Speaker 1: I can defend myself with the bag. It's off the
Speaker 1: bag turns into my shield and I put a flexible
Speaker 1: ballistic plate in the back of it and that becomes
Speaker 1: my shield. So I feel really comfortable when I code
Speaker 1: is bag. However, that said, it's big, it's cumbersome, it
Speaker 1: can't go everywhere with me and doesn't look right sometimes
Speaker 1: if you're in safe for instance, a suit or something
Speaker 1: like that, and you can't you can't always carry a
Speaker 1: great big day sack on your back. The plus sides
Speaker 1: of it are I can get loads in it and
Speaker 1: I can defend myself with it. It's really cool. So
Speaker 1: like normal, like I said, E. D C would be
Speaker 1: my day sack. Where would I take that day sack?
Speaker 1: I'd take that into town if I was going into town,
Speaker 1: I take it everywhere with me. Out of town, it
Speaker 1: goes in my car. So wherever I go, really that
Speaker 1: day set goes with me. I'm going to cover the
Speaker 1: other times when I can't carry it or I can't
Speaker 1: pack it, how I would want to carry it as well,
Speaker 1: because that's very important. If I go out of town,
Speaker 1: I can carry it. Mariness how on, But I have
Speaker 1: had occasion where I've been visiting places safe and is
Speaker 1: like the passport office where I know I'm going to
Speaker 1: get searched. They took they took my torch off me.
Speaker 1: They took my they took my torch off me because
Speaker 1: they recognized it at a strike bears line and they
Speaker 1: took my torch off me. So you have to be
Speaker 1: careful in some places in the UK that you know,
Speaker 1: even though it might be perfectly legal to carry, if
Speaker 1: they realize that you're carrying it for that purpose, there's
Speaker 1: a chance it could get taken off you. That's the
Speaker 1: primary the day sack, okay, the box standard day set.
Speaker 1: Like I said, make sure it's compartmentalized, make sure you
Speaker 1: can break things up, make sure you know where things
Speaker 1: are in there, okay, because otherwise it can turn into
Speaker 1: and I laugh, but it can turn into like my
Speaker 1: Mrs Wendy's ambag. That's just avoid a pit, a black
Speaker 1: hole where hundreds of things go in and nothing ever
Speaker 1: seems to come out of it. So if you do
Speaker 1: a DC is too big and it's not organized, you
Speaker 1: will just lose things in the E d C. And
Speaker 1: on the day of the race, when the red mist
Speaker 1: comes down and it's all gone wrong and everyone's gone
Speaker 1: pop banging a big border smoke, you will be found
Speaker 1: wanting because you won't be able to get your stuff
Speaker 1: out of your bag. So make sure you're rehearsed in
Speaker 1: getting it in and out as well. Okay, other types
Speaker 1: of bag than that I use, I'll use. You call
Speaker 1: it a fanny pack. I call it a bum bag.
Speaker 1: There you go. There's a there's a British versus americanism.
Speaker 1: Straight There a fanny pack all right. Now, fanny packs
Speaker 1: aren't the biggest in the world, so you have to
Speaker 1: scale yourself down. So I would be taking just the
Speaker 1: bare essentials, a bit of first aid kit. Obviously, I
Speaker 1: can't take my ballistic plate anymore. I can't get too
Speaker 1: much water in it, although I can get a small
Speaker 1: bottle on the side. I have to scale it down.
Speaker 1: When do I take this, Well, I take this if
Speaker 1: I'm wearing a soup and I would wear it under
Speaker 1: my soup jacket on the side of myself, or i'd
Speaker 1: wear it around the back, or i'd wear it as
Speaker 1: it was designed, around the front. It all depends where
Speaker 1: I'm going. If I want to keep it out of the
Speaker 1: the way and I don't want to be seeing, it
Speaker 1: will go on the side where it will be in
Speaker 1: the crook of my back, just to talk up around
Speaker 1: where you with where your pistol if you were oving
Speaker 1: a covert carry I wear it like that so you
Speaker 1: can't see. It goes under my soup jacket. But I
Speaker 1: know I've got the essentials in there, and I've got
Speaker 1: a spare power for my phone. I know I've got
Speaker 1: a tornique in there. I know I've got a dressing
Speaker 1: in there. I know i've got my torch in All
Speaker 1: the little bits and pieces that you might need are
Speaker 1: in there. So that's another character be considered there, and
Speaker 1: it's for when you can't you physically just can't. I mean.
Speaker 1: The other thing is I've worked with clients in London
Speaker 1: as a bodyguard and had to go into various places
Speaker 1: where carrying a great, big day second just isn't practical.
Speaker 1: It just doesn't look right, okay, And you're gonna get
Speaker 1: challenged and people are gonna get fed up when you
Speaker 1: keep getting stopped because you've got a day second it,
Speaker 1: or you might have to try it and they might
Speaker 1: ask you to leave at the door. If I've got
Speaker 1: my d C in a Fannie pack or a bum
Speaker 1: bag and they don't see it, I don't get challenge
Speaker 1: for it. Do it pure and simple. That's the way
Speaker 1: it is. So that's that I then have a series
Speaker 1: of other more handbaggy type bags. Now when I say handbaggy,
Speaker 1: these are more sort of like again for if you're
Speaker 1: going out on a night out. You know, I've got
Speaker 1: one by our many, which is just a square bag
Speaker 1: on a thing. It looks like I know, it looks
Speaker 1: a little bit drug dealers and that you if you
Speaker 1: carry one of these bags, but you do get away
Speaker 1: of it with an e DC. And the one I've
Speaker 1: got actually is big enough to get most flexible ballistic
Speaker 1: plate in it, so I can get a little bit
Speaker 1: of protection from it is you know, I can get
Speaker 1: all my gear in it. But again this is based purely.
Speaker 1: I'm not one thing to look like I'm going to
Speaker 1: war when I'm actually only going to the pub for
Speaker 1: a few beers. All right, you can't be bundling around
Speaker 1: the pub. The dorman just won't have it if you
Speaker 1: try and walking the pub in the UK have a
Speaker 1: great big day, sagne. We don't make you, know what
Speaker 1: I mean, not not your nine the five pubs. That's fine,
Speaker 1: but if you want to go sort of out of
Speaker 1: an evening carrying some of this stuff. It's just not practical, okay.
Speaker 1: And I do have a friend of mine. I get
Speaker 1: a good friend of mine and he carries his e
Speaker 1: DC pack everywhere. Well, he gets turned down from going
Speaker 1: in a lot of pubs. He can't go to a
Speaker 1: lot of pubs purely because I like, we got there, mate?
Speaker 1: What's that? Whereas if you tone it down you carry
Speaker 1: the man bag. Horrible thing to say that that man bag.
Speaker 1: You carry the man bag, you're going to be allowed
Speaker 1: a lot more places what you are if you turn
Speaker 1: up with a great big Greenberg and on the bag
Speaker 1: with your Taliban hunting club patches all over it and
Speaker 1: all the rest of it. Okay, they don't wash in
Speaker 1: many clubs in the UK. They just won't let you in,
Speaker 1: all right. Pubs and clubs are just going down and
Speaker 1: you're not coming in with that. So if I'm going
Speaker 1: on a night out, I have to get It's a
Speaker 1: bit like your missus. You know, you don't carry a
Speaker 1: big Sainsburys background with all the bag she goes shopping
Speaker 1: in to a nightclub. She tiles it down, don't she.
Speaker 1: You have to do the same thing. You're in d
Speaker 1: C you have to tone it all down, which is
Speaker 1: it's just just bart a pass on it. So I'm
Speaker 1: not going to go right into exactly what I carry
Speaker 1: anymore over the over the UK. Would like to say
Speaker 1: the free types of bag that I use the day
Speaker 1: sec compartmentalized. It's no good just having a one bad
Speaker 1: day second one sort of like the zip all in
Speaker 1: day sex that it's no good to you whatsoever. I
Speaker 1: then use the Man Bay all right, which is a
Speaker 1: bit more stylish, or like I say, if I'm if
Speaker 1: I'm working during the day, I will sometimes put on
Speaker 1: the Fannie Pack all right again, tailor the kit and
Speaker 1: pick out the things that I need on that particular
Speaker 1: day and on that particular place I'm going. You might
Speaker 1: not need everything every day, so that's what you've got
Speaker 1: to bear in mind. Okay, that's enough. E D. Siver today.
Speaker 1: Like I say, I will be featuring all this stuff
Speaker 1: on Big Field Live, which airs on soft WAP on
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Speaker 1: catch up on Facebook Live because you can always go
Speaker 1: back to me and see what we're doing. As I'm
Speaker 1: reading this, actually, as I'm do making this show, I've
Speaker 1: just been made aware of a story which is breaking,
Speaker 1: and it's a British couple in dramatic says rescue after
Speaker 1: being kidnapped by ISIS. Now, this is a seventy year
Speaker 1: old and a fifty nine year old in the Philippines
Speaker 1: where obviously they've been held by by ISIS rebels. And
Speaker 1: it's been reported that the SAS and intelligence officers played
Speaker 1: a key role in the dramatic rescue of a British
Speaker 1: couple held hostess by slam It State loyalists. The two
Speaker 1: Britains were free this morning by the Philippine Army after
Speaker 1: being kidnapped on October the fourth. Okay, but British special
Speaker 1: forces helped plan the rescue mission that this is what
Speaker 1: I'm going on about. This is exactly what I'm on
Speaker 1: about now. Where you see the specum, the specialized infantry
Speaker 1: working in all these places around the world. When you
Speaker 1: get something like this happened, the regiment can go in, okay,
Speaker 1: or special forces can go in and they can go
Speaker 1: right this that the other they know what level training
Speaker 1: the people have had, so they're not going to be
Speaker 1: unrealistic and they're gonna they're gonna let let let loose
Speaker 1: what they can. There we go. So Foreign Secretary Dominic
Speaker 1: Rape praise the tremendous efforts of the authorities in the Philippines.
Speaker 1: So there you go. The Philippine military, guided by the British,
Speaker 1: have released two people from the clutches of ISIS in
Speaker 1: the Philippines. You don't really think about ISIS being around
Speaker 1: that part of the world, do you, But they obviously are.
Speaker 1: And what they say the reach of the British Special Forces,
Speaker 1: well we know what that is, don't we. It's everywhere,
Speaker 1: so nobody is safe from us. A security source added
Speaker 1: special forces will have had a significant input on the rescue,
Speaker 1: offering technical advice and help and planning the actual military operation.
Speaker 1: So there you go. We probably didn't have boots on
Speaker 1: the ground. It probably wasn't our guys actually put in triggers,
Speaker 1: but they were being directed and as we all saw
Speaker 1: in Kenya at times, you know what I mean, guys
Speaker 1: will step in when they have to step in, and
Speaker 1: they will get the job done. So another job there,
Speaker 1: well done. I'm sure that will come to light. I'm
Speaker 1: sure we'll read about it on the soft WAP at
Speaker 1: some stage. But a great story just being broken the
Speaker 1: British press about the s as being involved in another
Speaker 1: another hostage rescue around the world today. Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 1: And it's actually got a picture of the couple having
Speaker 1: dinner in a camp afterwards with all these all these
Speaker 1: Filipino special forces around and they look quite happy about
Speaker 1: it as well. So there you go. How cool is that?
Speaker 1: What a great story, And I should be looking out
Speaker 1: for more stories like this, And like they say, we'll
Speaker 1: touch on, we'll touch on what else the British Army
Speaker 1: are doing around the world because the motors oper around
Speaker 1: I of how we seem to do things has changed,
Speaker 1: and I think it's changed. Let's stand let's let's hope
Speaker 1: it's changed for the good, because the last one we
Speaker 1: want really is massi amounts of troops on the ground
Speaker 1: exposed to all sorts of horrendous things. So if we
Speaker 1: can do about getting too many people in too much risk,
Speaker 1: then that's a good thing for me. I think. Okay,
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