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Book · 2008 · Biography & Autobiography

Bravo Two Zero

by Andy McNab · Recommended by 2 people on 1 podcast

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We were like he had his reading reading books and reading Bravo to zero and doing case studies on Bravo to zero and I'm 18 years old not real how much I'm getting pumped into me.
Chad Robichaux · The Shawn Ryan Show · Mar 2024 Listen at 1:02:09

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And it reminded me of I read a SAS guy Andy mcnab's book Bravo 20 and he talks about it in that before their incident where they got snow and I remember thinking wow that's weird like you don't expect to get snowed on in the desert but but yeah we had a little snow.
Chris VanSant The Shawn Ryan Show · Mar 2023

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Bravo Two Zero by Andy McNab is a classic military memoir detailing the ill-fated 1991 SAS patrol behind enemy lines in Iraq. On The Shawn Ryan Show, Chad Robichaux discussed the book, recalling that when he was eighteen years old, his platoon commander and Colonel Mattis had them read and do case studies on it during their training. Later on the same podcast, Chris VanSant also brought up Andy McNab's book during a discussion about unexpected desert conditions. VanSant noted that reading the memoir reminded him of a particular detail from the text where the patrol experienced snow in the middle of the desert. He recalled thinking at the time how unusual it was, noting that people do not typically expect to get snowed on in a desert environment, yet his own deployment unexpectedly featured similar weather, bringing the book's accounts to life in a memorable and surprising way during combat operations. Both guests highlighted the lasting impact and relevance of McNab's operational experiences within military circles and personal recollections of deployment realities.

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Chris VanSant and it reminded me of I read a SAS guy Andy mcnab's book Bravo 20 and he talks about it in that before thei… 2
Discussed
“and it reminded me of I read a SAS guy Andy mcnab's book Bravo 20 and he talks about it in that before their incident where they got snow and I remember thinking wow that's weird like you don't expect to get snowed on in the desert but but yeah we had a little snow”
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“like nothing that stuck, but you know you're in the middle of the desert and it snows and it reminded me of I read SAS guy Andy mcnabb's book Bravo 2-0 and he talks about it in that before their incident where they got snow I remember thinking wow that's weird like you don't expect to get snowed on in”
Chad Robichaux we were like he had his reading reading books and reading Bravo to zero and doing case studies on Bravo to… 1
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“we were like he had his reading reading books and reading Bravo to zero and doing case studies on Bravo to zero and I'm 18 years old not real how much I'm getting pumped into me”

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