UK SAS Sergeant Major | 7/7 SAS Ground CDR | Who Dares Wins TV | The Hard Way | Billy Billingham
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Today we hear an incredible Combat Story from across the pond from a legendary UK SAS operator Billy Billingham who served over 30 years with deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan, South America, Africa, and many other places we can’t discuss.
Billy came from an extremely challenging childhood drinking and fighting on the streets of Birmingham to being appointed a Member of the British Empire by Her Majesty the Queen for his efforts on select hostage rescues and serving as the SAS Ground Commander on what is known as 7/7 or the deadly coordinated attacks in London on July 7th, 2005.
Billy went from being the absolute elite leader, working alongside our own Delta and DEVGRU operators for years in the post-9/11 world, to hanging up his uniform and finding a new path. He has know written an autobiography aptly titled ‘The Hard Way’ and two fiction novels based on his own exploits titled ‘Call to Kill’ and ‘Survive to Fight’ (think SAS meets 007).
He is also a lead on two incredibly successful programs in the UK and Australia titled “SAS: Who Dares Wins” where he and other special operators take civilians and celebrities through punishing special ops training; he shared that the show is coming to the US soon! He and his wife run a charity organization and he does public speaking engagements across the UK.
I hope you enjoy this incredibly humble story that takes us inside the “Interest Room” (which I learned is the term for the SAS Team Room) and the highs and lows of a life well-lived at the tip of the spear from our UK brothers and sisters as much as I did.
This video covers the following subjects:
- SAS Sergeant Major - 7/7 SAS Ground CDR - SAS Ground Commander - UK SAS operator Billy Billingham
Billy is a certified SF and Counter Terrorist Sniper Instructor, Advanced Evasive Driving Instructor, Tracking/Jungle Warfare/Navigation Instructor, Demolition/Sabotage Instructor, Ski Mountaineering/Rock Climbing/Abseiling/Ice climbing Instructor, Combat Survival/RTI Instructor, Counter Terrorist Instructor (all options) and has worked as a Patrol Medic/Trauma Life Support agent for 5 hospital attachments.
If you would like to learn more about SAS Sergeant Major, Billy Billingham I suggest you look into our various other video clips: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCyApoJr-mNmdMNwdk22xEQ _________________________
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Billy Billingham
Chapters
- 0:00Intro
- 0:41Guest Introduction (Billy Billingham)
- 2:36Interview begins
- 5:11Rough childhood in Peaky Blinders neighborhood in Birmingham, England
- 17:26Cadet School experience
- 22:12Overcoming getting burned by caustic soda at 15 yrs old and almost dying in a gang fight to still join the military
- 28:30Joining The Second Battalion, Parachute Regiment (2 PARA)
- 30:03Lessons from the PARAs and first jump in the jungle of Belize
- 42:48First time in a combat zone in Cypress
- 44:23Fighting terrorists in Ireland
- 48:15Why SAS route and the brutal training and selection process
- 57:50Path after SAS selection into Mountain Troupe
- 1:01:25Excitement of first op in first week as SAS
- 1:04:17Squad "Interest rooms"
- 1:05:45The squadron dynamic and respect for those who came before
- 1:09:21Why the B Squadron are characterized as the "rogues"
- 1:11:12Combat Story - A hostage rescue during a bloody time in Bosnia
- 1:19:36The sixth sense that comes with experience
- 1:2102 - Emotions after a mission and after getting out
- 1:24:25Where were you on 7/7 during London bombings?
- 1:27:56TV show "SAS: Who Dares Wins" and what is coming to the US
- 1:30:40"The Hard Way" autobiography and "Call to Kill" novel
- 1:35:46What did you carry into combat?
- 1:39:40Would you do it again?
- 1:42:55Listener comments and shout outs
