Hero SAS Sniper Demonstrates Skills
Andy McNab : Biography.
Andy McNab joined the infantry in 1976 as a boy soldier.
In 1984 he was badged as a member of 22 SAS Regiment. He served in B Squadron 22 SAS for nine years and worked on both covert and over special operations worldwide, including anti-terrorist and anti-drug operations in the Middle and Far East, South and Central America and Northern Ireland.
Trained as a specialist in counter terrorism, prime target elimination, demolitions, weapons and tactics, covert surveillance and information gathering in hostile environments and VIP protection, McNab worked on co-operative operations with police forces, prison services, anti-drug forces and Western-backed guerrilla movements, as well as on conventional special operations. In Northern Ireland he spent two years working as an undercover operator with 14th Intelligence Group, going on to become an instructor.
McNab also worked as an instructor on the SAS selection and training team and instructed foreign Special Forces in counter terrorism, hostage rescue and survival training.
In the Gulf War, McNab commanded the famous Bravo Two Zero patrol, an eight man patrol tasked with destroying underground communication links between Baghdad and north-west Iraq in January 1991, but were soon compromised. A fierce fire fight with Iraqi troops ensued and the patrol was forced to escape and evade on foot to Syria. Three of the eight men were killed; four were captured after three days on the run; one escaped.
One of the four taken prisoner, McNab was held for six weeks and was relentlessly and savagely tortured. By the time he was released he was suffering from nerve damage to both hands, a dislocated shoulder, kidney and liver damage and had contracted hepatitis. After six months of medical treatment he was back on active service.
The truly heroic exploits of the Bravo Two Zero patrol have been recognised the world over and, in the word of the patrol’s commanding officer, “will remain in Regimental history forever.”
Awarded both the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) and Military Medal (MM) during his military career, McNab was the British Army’s most highly decorated serving soldier when he finally left the SAS in February 1993.
POST-SAS
Andy McNab has written about his experiences in the SAS in two best selling books Bravo Two Zero (1993) and Immediate Action (1995). Bravo Two Zero is the highest selling war book of all time and has sold 1.5 million copies in the UK alone. To date it has been published in seventeen countries and translated into sixteen languages.
He’s since written a series of acclaimed and hugely successful novels, most recently Crossfire, which is out in paperback on 2nd June.
Outside of his writing career, McNab was technical weapons adviser and trainer on the hit Michael Mann film Heat and spent five months in Hollywood.
Also a director of a Hereford-based security company, McNab developed and runs a specialist training course for news crews, journalists and members of non-government organisations working in hostile environments (including war zones). The course is currently the only one of its kind in the world.
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Wow. That’s a straight up BAMF. 
June 12th, 2008 at 9:52 amthey made a movie of this guy’s story starring sean bean.
June 12th, 2008 at 10:57 amGreat book “Bravo Two Zero”
June 12th, 2008 at 11:57 amthats the thing with these SAS guys they literally just look like the quiet guy next door. but are really bad ass motherfuckers
June 12th, 2008 at 12:05 pmAndy is one of the all time warrior greats. I loved Bravo 2-0 and found myself rereading several paragraphs over and over again because I was astounded at what the elite warrior can endure. Amazing.
My favorite story told by Andy: His team was practicing house clearing and Margaret Thacher (whose idea it was to advance the SAS) wanted to see first hand their training. Mind you, they’re using live rounds, the house was filled with smoke, lots of noise and as real as they could make it. Maggie (as the SAS called her) and her male assistant were ushered into a room and were the hostages. Maggie took a seat by a table and deposited her purse on top of the table. Her assistant stood by her side. There were kill targets stationed around the room. The SAS began their mission, blasting through the house. They entered Maggie’s room, blasting away taking out the kill targets. When the dust cleared, Maggie’s assistant was spread eagle on the floor and there was Maggie, still sitting primly in her chair. She took her purse off the table and put it into her lap, looked at her assistant and said “Really, be a man and stand up before you embarras yourself.” She then went on to tell the SAS how proud she was of them and enjoyed a beer with “her boys.”
June 12th, 2008 at 12:16 pmDamn, this dude is one serious BAMF!
June 12th, 2008 at 3:53 pm