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Speaker 1: and it's Big Field Campion from across the pond with
Speaker 1: Software Radio. Okay, on target, on time, and we have
Speaker 1: subjects that we're going to talk about this week. Let's
Speaker 1: have a quick butchers at what they are that I'm
Speaker 1: going to cover a little bit of E. D C.
Speaker 1: And we're gonna talk about acid attacks. I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: you another Dog this week, and we're going to talk
Speaker 1: about well, I'm not going to tell you, you'll find
Speaker 1: out a bit. I'm also going to be talking to
Speaker 1: you this week a little bit more about the troubles
Speaker 1: and Operation Banner and giving you a perspective and looking
Speaker 1: at terrorist organization Okay, and I'll let you know which
Speaker 1: one as we get there. So a fun packd week.
Speaker 1: It's been a fun packed week in the UK as well.
Speaker 1: The settled settling down period from the from the elections
Speaker 1: is now well underway and the parties and all back
Speaker 1: at work doing this out and the other. I think
Speaker 1: Jeremy Corbyn is probably going to stand down from his position.
Speaker 1: Looks likely that the latter appoint somebody else as the
Speaker 1: opposition leader, so that will be interesting to see how
Speaker 1: that develops. You've got Boris Johnson, now, well let's see
Speaker 1: if you can deliver what he's promised. As from a
Speaker 1: veterans point of view, there's still veterans being pulled over
Speaker 1: the coals. There's still historic allegations going on, so we're
Speaker 1: not out of the woods of any of this stuff yet.
Speaker 1: It's going to be a very interesting time to see
Speaker 1: that if, like they say, all the promises they made
Speaker 1: during the election campaigns, Let's see if you can actually
Speaker 1: start delivering. But in the meantime what they say the
Speaker 1: other parties are all rejigging and reshaping. But we've now
Speaker 1: got five years of Boris Johnson and his lot, so
Speaker 1: let's see what they can do. And I hope they
Speaker 1: can deliver what they promised. And their first, their first
Speaker 1: real hurdle is the B word or Brexit, so let's
Speaker 1: see if they can actually deliver Brexit. They're already rattling
Speaker 1: on about having it all done by January and the
Speaker 1: trade duels in place and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: So it's interesting times in the UK politically wise. Let's
Speaker 1: see if in the next few weeks I can give
Speaker 1: you some decent reports back as to say, well, yes
Speaker 1: they've done this so far, Yes they've done that. They're
Speaker 1: helping here, they're helping there. I had an interesting week
Speaker 1: this week, although I can't talk about too much of
Speaker 1: it yet because it's not in the public domain. I
Speaker 1: went for a briefing at m O D. Whitehall, and
Speaker 1: I've looked at the Army's new recruiting campaign, which will
Speaker 1: be launching on the second of January next year, so
Speaker 1: we've got that to look forward to because I've got
Speaker 1: my opinions on it. And actually, I think it's going
Speaker 1: to be a fairly decent time for the British military recruising.
Speaker 1: I really do. I think they're getting a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff right. They're not completely right, they're not completely out
Speaker 1: of the woods yet, but they're getting there and things
Speaker 1: are stepping up. After the last campaign, the Snowflake campaign,
Speaker 1: which was actually one of the most successful recruiting campaigns
Speaker 1: they've ever done and recorded, the next one follows suit
Speaker 1: and like they say, I'm not allowed to talk about
Speaker 1: it yet, but on the second of January you will
Speaker 1: be getting my full report and you can find out
Speaker 1: what I've been talking about with the Ministry of Defense,
Speaker 1: because it's quite cool. It's certainly cool to be invited
Speaker 1: back to a place like Whitehall, which is the heart
Speaker 1: of the British military, and being involved in such a
Speaker 1: such a high level discussion. We've recruiting being one of
Speaker 1: the main focuses of any army in the world. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's nice to have you little piece and going and
Speaker 1: be able to say your thing in front of generals
Speaker 1: and all sorts. Of that sort of stuff. So the
Speaker 1: generals are listening to the big field now, which is
Speaker 1: nice and our okay, and I've had a thoroughly good
Speaker 1: catch up with two or three people aren't seen for
Speaker 1: a very long time, so that's cool. We've got all
Speaker 1: that coming in the post. Okay, right, where do we start?
Speaker 1: This week's shown, But look at the d C and
Speaker 1: I decided to cover d C A because we haven't
Speaker 1: we're not out of the woods with this terrorism stuff yet,
Speaker 1: as we are not out of the woods with gang culture,
Speaker 1: so we still got these problems. They're still going on
Speaker 1: in London, as I'm sure they're going on in other
Speaker 1: parts of the world. I'm sure America isn't completely free
Speaker 1: from free from violent crime and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: And unfortunately, acid attacks are a consideration that we need
Speaker 1: to need to think about, and our e DC needs
Speaker 1: to needs to sort of echo the way we're thinking,
Speaker 1: all right, because it's all right, you know, talking about
Speaker 1: these things and being pre warned and pre armed and
Speaker 1: right sort of stuff, But we've got to actually carry
Speaker 1: the gear to follow this stuff through, because if we
Speaker 1: can't follow this sort of stuff through, then you know,
Speaker 1: we're wasting our time having an E d C. Okay,
Speaker 1: acid attaction. We had a spit here in two thousand
Speaker 1: and seventeen where acid attacks were huge. Okay, they were
Speaker 1: happening all the time. There was all sorts of stuff
Speaker 1: going on, they were frequent, they were happening all over London,
Speaker 1: and it really was it really was a scourge the
Speaker 1: nature of the attacks. Okay, we're talking we're talking powder,
Speaker 1: we're talking air rifle. They're not air pistols, water pistols,
Speaker 1: you know, filled with this honking stuff or just squeezy bottles,
Speaker 1: so the delivery was accurate. Most of these attacks were
Speaker 1: happening on people's faces, on their chests and on places
Speaker 1: that we're going to massively affect them. So it was
Speaker 1: you know, if you get involved in an ascid attack,
Speaker 1: the chances are, you know you're gonna get extremely injured,
Speaker 1: extremely quickly, with extremely long term effects such as the
Speaker 1: nature the attack, so you don't need to think about it,
Speaker 1: you don't need to take it seriously. Okay, let's have
Speaker 1: a look at what what the NHS said over here.
Speaker 1: So the NHS were massively behind all the stuff that
Speaker 1: went on, and I'm going to cover what they said. Then,
Speaker 1: So in a guide produced by the NHS, they came
Speaker 1: up with this thing called the three hours in the
Speaker 1: event of an attack, an acid attack number one report
Speaker 1: dial nine or nine on one as it is in
Speaker 1: the States, Remove contaminated clothing, carefully, rinse immediately in running water. Okay,
Speaker 1: so the free our report report, remove and rinse. All right,
Speaker 1: So that was that was the sort of like parting line.
Speaker 1: Let's just go into that in a little more detail. Okay,
Speaker 1: so what do we actually do if we stumble across
Speaker 1: somebody who's been involved in an ascid attack. Well, the
Speaker 1: most important finger first aid for me is not to
Speaker 1: become a casual for yourself. So you've got to actually
Speaker 1: make sure that the attack is not still ongoing or
Speaker 1: that the people that are you know, participating in this
Speaker 1: attack have been taken down, whether you can do it
Speaker 1: yourself or where somebody else has done it. But don't
Speaker 1: go bowling in if they're still slinging this stuff about.
Speaker 1: If you don't or not capable of that you're doing
Speaker 1: anything about it, because you will become a casual with yourself.
Speaker 1: But the most important thing once that's all done in
Speaker 1: the first aid sense is to immediately wash the effective
Speaker 1: part of the body with plenty of fresh or saline water.
Speaker 1: It needs to be fresh or saline. It needs to
Speaker 1: be clean. There is no if you if you do
Speaker 1: this with dirty water. What what you do is although
Speaker 1: there might be some sort of short term gain as
Speaker 1: in getting the acid off, long term you could set
Speaker 1: some horrendous affections in there because what this acid is
Speaker 1: doing really is just lifting layers of skin off of
Speaker 1: the victim. And now all that stuff that's protected by
Speaker 1: the skin, you can deliver germs and disease straight in
Speaker 1: there if you do the wrong thing. And so you know,
Speaker 1: all right, you might have relieve the pain temporarily, but
Speaker 1: in the long run, you know, somebody's infections can even
Speaker 1: cause death. So you need to get this right. You
Speaker 1: need to make sure that you know the water that
Speaker 1: you use is clean. I can't stress that enough. You
Speaker 1: need to keep flushing the effective burn area with plenty
Speaker 1: of cool water, not too cold, if you can help it.
Speaker 1: Although beggars can't be choosers until the patient's burning sensation
Speaker 1: starts fading. This could take thirty to forty five minutes.
Speaker 1: It's not going to be something that happens straight away. Oh,
Speaker 1: there you go, it's all better. Now. Acid attacks are
Speaker 1: particularly hideously painful. Okay, if you can, you've got to
Speaker 1: remove all jewelry or clothing, which is how contact with ascid. Obviously,
Speaker 1: If if your clothes are drenched in the acid or
Speaker 1: still got acid dust all over it all the time
Speaker 1: you're wriggling about, you're just delivering this acid to even
Speaker 1: more places on the body. That is no good. You
Speaker 1: don't want that to happen. That's gonna just that's just
Speaker 1: gonna inflame, aggravate and make the whole thing worse. Okay,
Speaker 1: And like they say, you're now actually spreading the stuff.
Speaker 1: So you've got to get this stuff off. If you can,
Speaker 1: have to rip clothes off, cut clothes off. Okay, that's
Speaker 1: what you're gonna have to do. All right. We're going
Speaker 1: to talk about what we put in the E d
Speaker 1: C in a little bit. But like they say, bear
Speaker 1: out in mind, you're gonna have to remove people's clothes
Speaker 1: and jewelry, all right, and you're gonna have to get
Speaker 1: it off their prompt as you can, because otherwise I
Speaker 1: can say it's going to become a bigger problem. Don't
Speaker 1: apply any kind of cream a oointment on the effective area,
Speaker 1: as this may slow the treatment receded by doctors and
Speaker 1: it might actually accelerate the burning. So if you put
Speaker 1: the wrong cream onto a burn, you can actually start
Speaker 1: cooking people properly, right or you know, they become slippery.
Speaker 1: You can't get it off. It infuses with the acid
Speaker 1: and you've now got you've now made it a stick.
Speaker 1: He acid has opposed the one that can be washed off.
Speaker 1: Don't start stick dream on people, all right. It ain't
Speaker 1: gonna happen for you, all right, it ain't the work properly, Okay.
Speaker 1: It would be an absolute travesty if you turned up
Speaker 1: started to help somebody and then made it worse with
Speaker 1: your own actions. So please, please please don't do that.
Speaker 1: And if possible, once you manage to get all this
Speaker 1: stuff off, okay, successfully use sterilized gauls to loosely about
Speaker 1: the effective area. The gauls protects the skin from the air,
Speaker 1: Debri's dirt and contamination. All right. Once a person has
Speaker 1: been treated, they need to go straight at the hospital
Speaker 1: if there isn't stuff on the scene immediately to take
Speaker 1: things further than what you can do it, all right,
Speaker 1: And like they say, once they've been to hospital, dressings
Speaker 1: and that are gonna have to be changed frequently, and
Speaker 1: these wounds are going to have to be treated with
Speaker 1: extreme caution so as that they don't get infected any
Speaker 1: further than what they were. Okay, so that's more or
Speaker 1: less a treatment as far as we can go. Obviously,
Speaker 1: in hospital, they can you know, we can start talking
Speaker 1: skin graphs, we can start you know, putting people on
Speaker 1: on on proper on proper stuff so that they can
Speaker 1: bring this stuff down, you know, all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: But on the street, on the E. D C level, Okay,
Speaker 1: all you can really do is what I've discussed above. Okay,
Speaker 1: So what can I carry? What can I carry to
Speaker 1: aid me with this? Well, obviously we can carry gauls.
Speaker 1: It doesn't take a lot to have two or three
Speaker 1: large pieces of gauze in your in your kit. In fact,
Speaker 1: I've got two or three big patches which go up
Speaker 1: against my ballistic plate. Okay, they're just flat. I don't
Speaker 1: have to roll them up. I know where they are, okay,
Speaker 1: and there's stuff they're okay, they're clean, they're sterile, and
Speaker 1: they're in sterile dressing containers. Okay, you know you rip
Speaker 1: them open and you get in there. So I've got
Speaker 1: that water. You need water in your kit. You need
Speaker 1: clean water in your kit. Now I'm not you know,
Speaker 1: saying you've got to carry leaders and leaders of war,
Speaker 1: but you need war in such a way that you
Speaker 1: can deliver it out, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Whether it's in a squeezy bottle yourself with the water
Speaker 1: or in just a normal water container. You need clean water.
Speaker 1: And that's you know, immediately you can get that water
Speaker 1: out and start working straight away with water that you
Speaker 1: know is clean. You've had a result. You need scissors
Speaker 1: or some sort of J knife with which you can
Speaker 1: remove clothing straight away. Okay, you need to be as
Speaker 1: soon as you started washing stuff off, you need to
Speaker 1: removing that clothing. And you know, the old emergency silvers
Speaker 1: are fairly decent. Or like I said, I used to
Speaker 1: carry a J knife everywhere with me when I was
Speaker 1: a bodyguard and I had had an incident where out
Speaker 1: to cut the star's T shirt off because his fans
Speaker 1: were grabbing him so much that they were actually restricting
Speaker 1: the blood flat whose neck. Now, on the same score
Speaker 1: of things, you know, if you need to get clothes
Speaker 1: off quickly. A jay knife just goes pull straight up
Speaker 1: the back of it, straight off, undoes it like a bib,
Speaker 1: and you just pull your clothes off of them, right,
Speaker 1: So a great bit of kit if you know you're
Speaker 1: going to be in a location where this might happen.
Speaker 1: Are you you're a nightclub dorman, or you are a
Speaker 1: bodyguard and your client has a particular threat against them,
Speaker 1: as such as an acid attack or something like that.
Speaker 1: It ain't a bad idea to have some clear protective
Speaker 1: glasses for yourself to help you not become a casualty,
Speaker 1: all right. Or you can just slip them on. See
Speaker 1: a large gang of you just coming over there, you go,
Speaker 1: oh they go. You don't have to stand with them
Speaker 1: on all night. But if the if the situation calls
Speaker 1: for it, it's not bad to be able to think.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what it might go off. Here, band,
Speaker 1: let's bunk some protective our way on straight away, just
Speaker 1: in case somebody starts slinging around something stupid, all right,
Speaker 1: because it can happen. And to assume to make an
Speaker 1: house happen. Me and you we all know that, we
Speaker 1: all know how it goes, all right, If you think
Speaker 1: it's not going to happen. The chances are it probably
Speaker 1: will and it will go extremely wrong. So there you go.
Speaker 1: So that's what you can carry, all right, not to
Speaker 1: say dressings, clean water, and scissors to get the clothes off.
Speaker 1: And if you can, or you think that you're going
Speaker 1: to be in a position whereby you might have to
Speaker 1: do something like this, it's not a bad idea, okay
Speaker 1: to have some former glasses with you, all right, So
Speaker 1: there you go. That's your e DC acid attacks this week.
Speaker 1: You can find out all sorts of other stuff by
Speaker 1: going on the NHS website. You can look on Wikipedia
Speaker 1: even and find about ASCID attacks. All right, So if
Speaker 1: you're worried about them, pre harm yourself with a bit
Speaker 1: of training, find out a little bit more, find out
Speaker 1: what's like to happen, on what you can do about it.
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Speaker 1: I like my dogs. As promised, I said, I'll bring
Speaker 1: you a lot of dogs this year, and then we
Speaker 1: talk about different breeds and their roles and what they
Speaker 1: do and how they fare up and just general chitchat
Speaker 1: about each breed that I decided to talk about. Now,
Speaker 1: this week's dog is an extremely famous dog. In fact,
Speaker 1: if one walked into any rhythm room in the world
Speaker 1: right now and you were sat there, you know exactly
Speaker 1: what it was. You would have to say to me, Hey, peel,
Speaker 1: what kind of dog is that? You would know? All right?
Speaker 1: And he guesses so far? When I tell you what,
Speaker 1: I'm going to keep you guessing for two more seconds. Right,
Speaker 1: it's a white dog, all right, but it's a white
Speaker 1: dog with black spots? Are we getting any closer? Here?
Speaker 1: Is it on a typical tongue? Do you know what
Speaker 1: this dog is? You must do by now? Well as
Speaker 1: you don't know. It's been the feature of a very
Speaker 1: very very well known film. And on this film there
Speaker 1: was under and one of them. Are we any closer
Speaker 1: to guessing what this week's dog is? Yeah? Of course
Speaker 1: you know. The hundred and one Dalmatians by British offer
Speaker 1: Dodie Smith and later on reproduced by Walt Disney is
Speaker 1: featuring My Dog of the Week, which is the Dalmatian.
Speaker 1: All right, here you go. You don't like a Dalmatian?
Speaker 1: I absolutely love Dalmatians. What a lovely, lovely looking dog.
Speaker 1: Will it's class as a medium sized dog. They don't
Speaker 1: get massive, but they're not small. They're masterly. There's never
Speaker 1: an ounce of fount on the Dalmatian as you see
Speaker 1: a Dalmatian. And they're a fit, fit animal, all right.
Speaker 1: They are, really are most Dalmatians I've ever come across
Speaker 1: a bit extremely fit animals. Okay, they're a great dog
Speaker 1: all right, well defined, muscular, excellent endurance and stamina. And
Speaker 1: they stand from nine in the twenty three inches tall.
Speaker 1: The males are usually slightly in the females. And like
Speaker 1: I say, there ain't no fat on these dogs. Let's
Speaker 1: have a look at the history of the dogdon all right,
Speaker 1: the Dalmatian. Where does it come from? Well, the first
Speaker 1: documented Dalmatians were absolutely years ago, years and years and
Speaker 1: years ago. In fact, there's sixteen hundreds, all right, the
Speaker 1: sixteen hundreds. They were first depicted in pieces of art.
Speaker 1: These pieces of art came from Croatia. Okay, years and
Speaker 1: year sixteen hundreds. In Croatia during the regency period. Then
Speaker 1: the Dalmatian became a status symbol and he used to
Speaker 1: trot alongside horse drawn carriages. They became a bit of it.
Speaker 1: Like I say that you have you had a Dalmatian,
Speaker 1: you have money, all right, so you'd have your horse
Speaker 1: drawn carriage there. You'd be Lord Mark on the back
Speaker 1: of your horse drawn carriage, and you'd have your Dalmatian
Speaker 1: running down the site, or maybe you'd have a couple
Speaker 1: of Dalmatians running down each side, all right, and they
Speaker 1: would act as escort to the to the carriage, all right,
Speaker 1: so much so that they were actually known as they
Speaker 1: actually got sort of like nicknamed coach dogs. All and
Speaker 1: if you had though in those times, you were somebody,
Speaker 1: all right, and they were coach dogs, and they would
Speaker 1: follow a coach up and down. And I'm telling you're
Speaker 1: white because these dogs are extremely loyal, all right. They
Speaker 1: make great guard dogs, all right, because they say they fit.
Speaker 1: They're athletic, their medium side dogs, and they're not small,
Speaker 1: so they can get amongsture if they have to, all right.
Speaker 1: They are a very very loyal breed, all right. And
Speaker 1: they are actually known to have been used as war
Speaker 1: dogs in Croatia where they used to they used to
Speaker 1: help guard the troops and guard areas, and you know,
Speaker 1: they would wander about and they would become your sort
Speaker 1: of like first line defense. A very well disciplined dog,
Speaker 1: and not they say, with its sense of loyally, it
Speaker 1: will stay by your side. Later on, then they became
Speaker 1: known in the in the firefighting days all right, and
Speaker 1: especially in the US. Dalmatians used to accompany fire carts
Speaker 1: in the days when they were still drawn by horse
Speaker 1: and cart, right, and Dalmatians would go everywhere and they
Speaker 1: but they were used not to put the fires out,
Speaker 1: but when the when the horse and cart used to
Speaker 1: get to the location and the firefighters would get off
Speaker 1: and do their thing and bravely go into these buildings
Speaker 1: and start putting out fires and all that sort of stuff,
Speaker 1: all the good stuff that firefighters do and still do
Speaker 1: to this day. The dog would stay with the car, okay,
Speaker 1: and guard the car because as we've alluded to before,
Speaker 1: these dogs would extremely extremely loyal, and you wouldn't get
Speaker 1: near it. You wouldn't getting near the near the fire
Speaker 1: car to turn the water off with that dog there,
Speaker 1: I've gotta tell you. So they've got a history of
Speaker 1: guarding and looking after things. They're also well known as
Speaker 1: a as a hunting dog, okay, a trail hound. They
Speaker 1: can retrieve or you can use them. You can use
Speaker 1: them in packs. You can actually use these dogs in
Speaker 1: packs and they'll go after wild boar, they'll go after stacks,
Speaker 1: all right. Their intelligence has also led them into a
Speaker 1: few circuses now and again, all right, and they have
Speaker 1: been used to circus dogs. So they're very very triantable
Speaker 1: as a dog that you know, they are an extremely
Speaker 1: intelligent breed. You can do a lot of stuff with them,
Speaker 1: you know, and like they say, this is this is
Speaker 1: this is why they have become so popular. And even
Speaker 1: at this day, you know a lot of firefighters haven't
Speaker 1: forgotten the history of these dogs and to keep them
Speaker 1: as pets because they are such a decent dog. All right.
Speaker 1: There is, however, a couple of ailments with it. The
Speaker 1: one is one in particular. All right, all dogs have
Speaker 1: dog to yips, you know that if you're just about
Speaker 1: every dog I'll discussed about his hips will go eventually
Speaker 1: if if that's the nature of the dog a day.
Speaker 1: But this dog in particular has a only seventy of them, okay,
Speaker 1: are known to have decent hearing. Okay, So the Dalmatians
Speaker 1: basically are known as a dog that is likely to
Speaker 1: go death or have some sort of hearing hearing impeachment
Speaker 1: in his time. Alright. So if you if you get
Speaker 1: yourself a Dalmatian and it won't come back before, it
Speaker 1: won't listen to what you're saying. It's not because it's
Speaker 1: a bad dog and untrainable. It's not because it's stupid.
Speaker 1: It's not because it ain't clever. It's because probably is deaf.
Speaker 1: Al Right, it won't be able to hear you. That's
Speaker 1: a bad thing for your dog. You don't want the
Speaker 1: death dog. But they're still lovely doms whether they're death
Speaker 1: or not. Right, Okay, So there is actually a Damatian
Speaker 1: Heritage project, and the Dalmatian Heritage Project began in two
Speaker 1: thousand and five. The goal of the project was to
Speaker 1: preserve and improve the emation breed by breeding parent dogs
Speaker 1: with the following traits right, normal urinary metabolism, okay, bilateral hearing.
Speaker 1: They needed to be friendly and confident, and all puppies
Speaker 1: in inheritent projects are descendants of Dr Robert Scables parent line. Today.
Speaker 1: Dr Scables lines produces the only damations of the world
Speaker 1: today that are free of metabolic defec that can lead
Speaker 1: to urine problems. Alright, So it does show that you
Speaker 1: can't breed, you can't. You know, they've actually you know,
Speaker 1: set up projects, you know, like the Dalmatian Heritage Project,
Speaker 1: which can actually look after the breed. I am going
Speaker 1: to tell you though, the downside of that is a
Speaker 1: dog that comes from that bloodline is probably going to
Speaker 1: cost you a little bit more than your average dog.
Speaker 1: But then you go, some things you can't put a
Speaker 1: price on Kenyan if you can afford it. Especially, So
Speaker 1: there you go, like I say, the Dalmatian, then a
Speaker 1: superb dog. And I'd recommend to anybody like to say,
Speaker 1: use a friendly child, friendly, loyal, all the traits that
Speaker 1: you need and a dog and what a super who
Speaker 1: don't like a Dawnmatian? Who doesn't know the Dalmatian? All right,
Speaker 1: So that's this week's dog, this released dog, the Dalmatian.
Speaker 1: What a great what a great breed, and what a
Speaker 1: great dog. There you go. In fact, just before I
Speaker 1: leave the breed completely, you could forget that, you know,
Speaker 1: the dogs associated with Bob Wiser. And I think you've
Speaker 1: actually got a beer company over there that has their
Speaker 1: beer wagons drawn by Klysdale horses and they're always accompanied
Speaker 1: by the Dalmatian. And there again those beer wagons were
Speaker 1: accompanied by the Dalmatian because the owners of the beer
Speaker 1: company recognized that the Dalmatian, if you left the wagon
Speaker 1: unattended by the dealt with your load, would be well
Speaker 1: looked after by a decent dog that would do something
Speaker 1: about it if required. Ego, I just thought i'd throw
Speaker 1: that in at the end. There my Dalmatians. What a
Speaker 1: great dog. Okay. Finally this week, then, before we disappear,
Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about I'm going to talk about
Speaker 1: the troubles again. Like I said, we're going to do
Speaker 1: a fair few pieces about the troubles. And if I'm
Speaker 1: going to deliver all sides of this, all sire to
Speaker 1: this story correctly, I've got to explain to you all
Speaker 1: sides and all aspects and all angles of the troubles. Okay.
Speaker 1: And although, like they say, a lot of people don't
Speaker 1: understand it fully, which is why I'm trying to explain
Speaker 1: it in such a format that you can. It's interesting
Speaker 1: that some people will only remember the bits that they
Speaker 1: want to remember, and not necessarily the whole story. So
Speaker 1: as as much as there was the ira A and
Speaker 1: all these Catholic terrorist organizations, the Protestants and organizations which
Speaker 1: were classes as paramilitary class, as a legal class, as
Speaker 1: terrorists themselves. So both sides of the community at their wrongings,
Speaker 1: their patterns, their people. Although like they say, both sides
Speaker 1: of the community are people have believed in these people
Speaker 1: and and believe that they were doing the right thing.
Speaker 1: As far as the British government were concerned, and certainly
Speaker 1: as far as I was concerned as a serving soldier,
Speaker 1: a terrorist was a terrorist. If you picked up a
Speaker 1: gun to prove a point, you were a terrorist, okay.
Speaker 1: Whereas people will have a freedom fire on this on
Speaker 1: that the other if you try and improve your point
Speaker 1: by violence, as far as I'm concerned, you with terrorists.
Speaker 1: So I need to highlight both sides are the coin
Speaker 1: on this one. So I'm going to talk this week
Speaker 1: about a loyalist paramilitary the UVF. The UVF then the
Speaker 1: Ulster Volunteer Force, was an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group dated
Speaker 1: back the nineties sixties and its first leader was Dusty Spence.
Speaker 1: Now he was a former British soldier. The group undertook
Speaker 1: an armed campaign of almost thirty years, all right, so
Speaker 1: they were they were there for almost the entirety of
Speaker 1: the troubles. I think they first declared to see fire
Speaker 1: in n but officially ended their campaign in two thousand
Speaker 1: and seven. Some of its members are rumored to have
Speaker 1: continued to engage in violence and criminal activities. The group
Speaker 1: is classified as a terrorist organization by the United Kingdom
Speaker 1: and the Republic to Ireland and your lot the United
Speaker 1: States of America. So what were they home to achieve? Well,
Speaker 1: their main role, or what they would have claimed was
Speaker 1: their Their number one thing was to combat Irish Republicanism
Speaker 1: and in particular the i r A. They believed that
Speaker 1: they were sort of like where they would have said
Speaker 1: that the British Army had the shortfalls and not been
Speaker 1: able to go after them one after one. Because of
Speaker 1: the nature of how terrorism works, a lot of these
Speaker 1: would argue that they would go they would go straight
Speaker 1: in for the kill. Okay, it was responsible. The organization
Speaker 1: was actually responsible for more than five hundred desks, and
Speaker 1: the vast majority of those victims were Irish Catholics. They
Speaker 1: were allegedly often killed at random. They didn't just operate
Speaker 1: north for the border as well. They were known to
Speaker 1: operate down south in southern Ireland and in ninety seventy
Speaker 1: one they conducted or allegedly conducted. I think it was
Speaker 1: mcgook's bar bombing, which killed fifteen civilians the group. They
Speaker 1: are also alleged to have carried out tax in the
Speaker 1: Republic of Ireland from nineteen six nine onwards. The Bastes
Speaker 1: was in was in Dublin and Monahan bombings which killed
Speaker 1: thirty fourths of and intomaking it the deadliest the terrorist
Speaker 1: attack of the conflict. Whereas the I r I used
Speaker 1: to bug out warnings, the UVF never never adhered to
Speaker 1: that and never gave warnings on on any of their attacks,
Speaker 1: which was one of their sort of trademarks, if you like.
Speaker 1: So where were they based and how did they operate?
Speaker 1: There were They were based in Belfast, and they actually
Speaker 1: had what they what they called brigade staff. They had
Speaker 1: high ranking offices, a chief of staff, they had a
Speaker 1: brigadier general. So they made themselves up in a real
Speaker 1: military way. They understood the ways of the military rank
Speaker 1: system and they sort of applied that to their own organization.
Speaker 1: So they were, you know, they built themselves up. There
Speaker 1: was a definite chain of command, so they were they
Speaker 1: were in terms of organization, fairly well organized in terms
Speaker 1: of ranks. It's never been complete clear how many people
Speaker 1: they actually had in their organization. But their nickname was
Speaker 1: the Black Necks, and that was derived from their uniform
Speaker 1: with black polo neck jumper, black trousers, black leather jacket,
Speaker 1: black forage cap, along with a UVF badge and belt.
Speaker 1: The uniform was based on the original UVS introduced in
Speaker 1: the early nine and seventies. Okay, so they were you know,
Speaker 1: not only did they have this sort of like strategy
Speaker 1: and structure as a military organization, they had a uniform
Speaker 1: and even at cap, badgers and belts and stuff like
Speaker 1: that that were all that were all in line with
Speaker 1: what they were doing. So they had finance, They had
Speaker 1: a fair amount of support and a lot of the
Speaker 1: more staunch estates in Northern Ireland certainly, you know, if
Speaker 1: you were to areas of Belfast, if you looked at
Speaker 1: places like the Diamond in London, Dairy, you know, in
Speaker 1: certain areas they would have a massive amount of support.
Speaker 1: And with support comes finance, doesn't it. So they were
Speaker 1: you know, they weren't completely outlawed by everybody, you know,
Speaker 1: they were accepted on many of the larger estates. They
Speaker 1: had both men and females amongst their amongst their ranks,
Speaker 1: and I let's say probably predominantly they were. They were
Speaker 1: they were Bellfast based, although like I've said, you know,
Speaker 1: they had other other areas which had staunch, staunch following
Speaker 1: as well. I've mentioned finance. They also ran black cabs
Speaker 1: in their own areas. So as the ira A were
Speaker 1: known for running the black cabs and making money out
Speaker 1: of the black cabs in their areas, the UVF did
Speaker 1: exactly the same in theirs, and so we're making money
Speaker 1: that way as well. None of these organizations survive without
Speaker 1: support and money, and they had both. They never on
Speaker 1: the support side of stuff, really had much outside of
Speaker 1: Northern Ireland though, and whereas you know, the ira had
Speaker 1: all sorts of support coming in from nor Aid, the
Speaker 1: Middle Eastern places like that. The only links that I've
Speaker 1: ha seen to find for the UVF came from Liverpool,
Speaker 1: Preston a little bit from Canada. Most of its support
Speaker 1: came from within Northern Ireland itself, so they probably didn't
Speaker 1: have the fun in without the funding, you don't get
Speaker 1: the capacity there, so you don't you know, they didn't
Speaker 1: have as many weapons, they didn't have as much access
Speaker 1: to the explosives that were coming into the Republican organizations.
Speaker 1: Because they didn't have the support outside of Northern Ireland,
Speaker 1: they certainly weren't as publicized as much in the papers
Speaker 1: and pressed as the Irish Republican Army. I've even spoken
Speaker 1: to people you know recently who've gone who what the
Speaker 1: Loyalers have paramilitaries as well, So they weren't, you know,
Speaker 1: they weren't as well known globally as perhaps they were
Speaker 1: withinside their own territories. They did, however, have a number
Speaker 1: of affiliated groups and someone who's included the Red and Commandos,
Speaker 1: an organization that was established in nineties seventies to the
Speaker 1: Young Citizen Volunteers, the y c V, which was a
Speaker 1: uth section of the UVS the Progressive Unionist Party or
Speaker 1: the PUP. They also had links there and the Protestant
Speaker 1: Action Force as well, So there was you know, there was,
Speaker 1: there was. There was a fair amount of sort of
Speaker 1: like linked linked organizations that were sall smaller organizations of
Speaker 1: the organization and that sort of thing, you know, which
Speaker 1: we saw a lot with the Irish Republican Army, who
Speaker 1: had all sorts of different factions and factors going on
Speaker 1: political wings and side arms and you know, all this
Speaker 1: sort of stuff, all all this different sort of support.
Speaker 1: So the UVF had this as well, just wasn't all
Speaker 1: just hasn't been as well documented. I don't think the
Speaker 1: official seats fine then was in two thousand and seven,
Speaker 1: although the report there was an independent report into paramounts
Speaker 1: we activity launched in you know, I think about two
Speaker 1: thousand and fifteen, which said that the UVF still had
Speaker 1: activities going on and there's some people that they're implicated
Speaker 1: in drug dealing and that sort of stuff. Now in
Speaker 1: North Belfast, that's what the police should have you believe,
Speaker 1: if you looked at a number of independent sources would
Speaker 1: say that you know that they are still alive and
Speaker 1: kicking the UVF and they still have their hand in
Speaker 1: sort of like criminal activity and and and drug dealing.
Speaker 1: So there you go. I just thought it was doing
Speaker 1: an opportunity this week to give you an insight into
Speaker 1: the other side, or part of the other side of
Speaker 1: the coin. It's a massive complicated thinger troubles and so
Speaker 1: you know, when we put all these shows together at
Speaker 1: the end, hopefully you'll have had a look at every
Speaker 1: side of the tale. You can have a broader brush
Speaker 1: picture of what happened on Operation Banner for that thirty
Speaker 1: year period of insecurity and troubles in Northern Ireland. Okay,
Speaker 1: and it's you know, for me, it was quite a
Speaker 1: big part of my life. It took up five years
Speaker 1: of my time over there working in the capacity of
Speaker 1: a soldier. And like I said, although probably in terms
Speaker 1: of you know, notoriety and that has been overshadowed in
Speaker 1: recent conflict, nonetheless this thing went on for thirty years.
Speaker 1: So the next few episodes is my aim to give
Speaker 1: you a little bit of an insight and explain to
Speaker 1: exactly what happened. So that's that almost concludes this week's
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Speaker 1: There'll be no doubt bunging a few more out in
Speaker 1: the near very near future. Got loads of dogs to cover,
Speaker 1: loads of more stuff. With Northern Ireland. E d C
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