#258. 12 Years SAS Sergeant Major - Melvyn Downes

Eventful Lives Podcast

Dodge Woodall

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5 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Melvyn Downes is an Ex-SAS Commander who’s been involved with the SAS for the last 40 Years. Melvyn talks in detail about some of the most dangerous tours he’s been on, Hilarious SAS pranks and protecting life in some of the worlds most hostile environments.

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0:00.0	Boom, kill 25 people.
0:02.1	These rounds ain't coming.
0:03.4	You've got your gun as firing above you.
0:05.3	You've got new backup.
0:06.2	Yeah.
0:06.4	You haven't got the cavalry coming out.
0:07.7	You aren't scared because you haven't got time to be scared.
0:10.2	It's a drill.
0:11.0	And you were in the SAS for 12 years in total?
0:13.1	I've actually had over 40 years of either being in the British military,
0:16.7	being in the special forces, training special forces. This little group of Iraqis, they were actually putting up a white flag.
0:23.5	One got up and just fired this RPG.
0:25.4	We shook a massive wasp nest and they just left it as a mess now.
0:28.7	And it's brought on a lot more terrorism.
0:30.3	Bosnia was very brutal.
0:31.3	Certain parts of Bosnia to do with their war crimes,
0:34.1	they were on par with what the Nazis did doing their aid.
0:42.3	Give me an example of a mission you've done, which is your most dangerous.
0:53.3	Welcome to the Eventful Lives podcast. I'm your host Dodge and I'm the founder of Borma Sevens, the world's largest sport and music festival. On this podcast, I speak to proper characters of all lived eventful lives. Do us a favour and hit that follow
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1:04.3	where we've now had over 100 million views. Melvin Downs is an ex-SAS commander who's been involved with the SAS for the last 40 years.
1:13.5	Melvin talks in detail about some of the most dangerous Tours he's been on,
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