Des Powell: Bravo Three Zero - Danger Close with Jack Carr
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- Today’s guest is Des Powell, a veteran of the SAS who served 28 years in the British military going behind enemy lines in one of the Gulf War’s earliest and most dangerous missions.
His new book, SAS Bravo Three Zero: The Explosive Untold Story tells the story of Des’ experience during the opening hours of the Gulf War.
From the publisher:
There were three patrols that fateful January 1991 morning: Bravo One Zero, Bravo Two Zero … then there was Bravo Three Zero. These men were different. Thought differently. Acted differently. Treating as gospel the SAS’s saying ‘any fool can be uncomfortable’, they deployed with vehicles, and while there was nowhere to hide they could make a dash for the border if desperate. Even as warnings came in that McNab’s patrol was on the run, Bravo Three Zero remained undetected - the furthest Coalition forces behind Iraqi lines. Slipping through enemy positions, a string of targets were taken out. But with the desert turning bitter and snow starting to fall, they were forced to fight a running battle against the elements as much as the enemy.
You can follow Des on Instagram @des.p22
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Jack is such a student of all things military. I love his interviews with the British SAS. Would like to see him speak to a Ghurka
DES is such a humble guy. An absolute credit to our country.
It's amazing how the' Creme de la Creme' of the British Military are deprived of the correct equipment..It beggars belief! It demonstrates such an lack of respect for these elite Brave Soldier's!
Classic legend taking to a legend, I’m going to watch this with the troops and every time we hear Jack we’re going to have a shot, should be a good night 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Are you boys still alive?! 😂
The testament of how the sas overcome in the past with the wrong equipment and still perform shows their skill above and beyond .
Read his book last week. Fantastic read and a real warrior. A real bloke. SAS legends are a breed apart as all SF. QUALITY HUMAN BEING. Superb book. Thankyou for your service Des.
Proper Yorkshireman 👏👏👏👏👏
I love how Des pronounces "JACK."
What a shambles that these men weren't provided with the right equipment and intelligence for the bravo missions and unbelievable that they had to appeal to allied forces for equipment - just embarrassing. It's a testament to their training and fortitude that these men continued with their mission(s) despite all this. Looking forward to reading Des' account - enjoyable interview.
In the UK there is meant to be a covenant between the politicians and the military. Basically our troops are supplied on the cheap. Iraq, Afghanistan etc poor British troops have to scrounge to get the kit to do the job. Disgraceful
Sas was born not having any equipment the lads in 1941 stole pretty much everything they had. Beg steal or borrow, Who dares wins
@@jakhaughton1800 it's a lot better these days, my sa80 goes bang without the cheek plate falling off
@@bravo2zero796 the Aussies stole a German tank
@@mayhem1994 not sure I understand your point
Nice! Another SAS legend
Was my goal when i was a kid to be in SAS, not just be a normal soldier.
There was some good monthly magazine collections about Militaries around the world, and it even had weapon stripping etc included, including the MP5
My friend owned them but i used to read it everytime i went there. He tried for Royal Marines but failed in the end.
I knew what it was, but didnt know what it entailed......i tried to join UK Army, just as an Engineer.
Was medically denied, which lead to being pretty lost in life.
But hey, it wasnt meant to be, and i'm ok with that now
Look into becoming a CFAV .
This poor damn team.
Insufficient clothing, weapons missing, lacking ammo, shitty vehicles, faulty comms, bad intel.
And that’s how they went in!
If someone was resupplying the enemy army, are they still a civilian?
“Civilians” running to inform the opposition typically ends very poorly for the compromised team members.
That’s a really tough situation to be in. Crazy story.
Nice to hear the other side of the war from the spec ops side. I was there with the Patriot Missile batteries. Great interview Jack!!
Brilliant interview. Thanks for your service. He is the epitome of 22. You just wouldn’t know. No bullshit no bravado, looks like a bloke who loves a pub quiz🤣 . The lad interviewing is humbled.
Excellent interview. Learnt a new expression. No bellyaching!
Love the shout-out to Patrick Johnson.
Well done Des, I know the B10 TL, he’s a solid character, took a load of flack from the Head Shed on his return, but went on to win the MM!! Great interview
2 stops in the chopper, bullshit intelligence, nah mate take us home we can't do the missions, couldn't hide a bulldogs balls out here
Des is a harder Fred Dibnah, respectfully, he'll get it
Ha ha yea love that analogy mate
Jack I love your SAS legend chats. Keep up the great work.
The gulf war I think boots failed as the glue used wasn't suitable for hot conditions. I know soldiers who bought own equipment spending £400 pounds on stuff. My opinion is £400 to possibly save my life is money well spent
Unbelievable man,fantastic man and a proper down to earth northerner! SAS the best 👌
Nice to see Jack's profile really growing with the books and podcasts. Been following this underrated channel since early last year.
An unassuming man that has killed and fought in places we don't hear of. The classic example of the (grey man ). Excellent interview as usual and thanks for the repect you show to the original pilgrims. 👍
I luv to sit an listen to Jack's podcast s. Thank u for this one Jack. And des. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
The SAS was formed on beg steel or borrow,they had to steel their first camp from the kiwis in North Africa,piano and all.👌
steal
Thank you gentlemen. Excellent interview!
Jack..please try get a guy Called Danny Cluskey ex Irish army ranger wing ( Irelands special forces unit ) on your podcast..I heard him on Danny Cluskey And CiCP
Conversations In Close Protection podcast. Very interesting from a unexpected Source.
Jack, you need to get Nims Purja on your pod cast. As you are probably aware, he has achieved so much in his life as follows: 1): Was selected from thousands to train and serve as a Gurkha from his native Nepal. 2): Went from there, to volunteer for and pass selection for UKSF (SBS) with all the other hardships that went with that for someone from his background. 3): Most notably, his recent, mind blowing achievement, is to scale all 14 Himalayan peaks over 10000 meters just over SIX MONTHS!! It`s still difficult to fully grasp the shear magnitude of what he achieved. I live in the US now and only learned about this via a Netflix documentary chronicling his remarkable achievement. His book (Mission Possible) is well worth a read. I have to say, had he been a white `westerner` his achievement would probably have been more widely known! Cheers, Jack. Garry H. South Carolina, RAF retired.
Peaks over 8000, but yeah I’d would like to hear more about Nims military time.
@@scottgibbs2243 Sorry, 8000!
Listened to bravo two zero and the one that got away on audio book . Wow! Great interview! Looking forward to more great interviews this year.
could listen to des all day very down to earth man. jack is great at interviewing guys coz he lets them talk and tell their stories. at this moment in the uk the sas and the rest of our military is the only thing to be proud of.
Just listened to the Audible version. His narration brings it alive.
IF ONLY OPERATION RED WINGS WOULD HAVE HAD THESE SKILLS.........SMH!!!!! 🏴☠️
There was more than bravo one two and three zero out there A+D squadrons were out there aswell Alpha one two and three zero from A squadrons and they done a lot of damage with some great success people forget about the other squadrons out there which is a bit unfair in my opinion all in all Des lovely fella by the way great story I will buy the book 📖
Brilliant interview, podcast. 2 extremely brave & courageous gentleman. Thank you.
Brilliant listen love the respect jack has for our armed forces all the best to our brothers in the us 🇬🇧🇺🇸
Bravo Four Zero, standing by.
So that makes me the bravo three zero 😂
Good old des, can't get a Yorkshireman down. Not enough Iraqis on the planet to upset a yorkie. I'm from north Yorkshire and to hear an expert with a steel city accent I laugh but des is an expert at been at an expert
Yes,indeed these are the guys u listen to&take notice of .No BS&chest Pumping here!..And I would recommend to anyone to listen to one of Jack's former Colleagues "Jonny Kim..I hope he gets him on soon?
.If u look him up&check out his Bio,u will understand!
He had the best plan appart from Bravo one who decided not to go
Easiest interview you ever have to do Jack! It was light the blue touch paper and watch!
Nice interview with a straight talking Yorkshireman
this guy is inspiring
Thank you for sharing Jack! Love your channel and the get the way you line up different, new thing's and player's , Wich is hard to do apparently these days. Really good stuff , keep up the solid work 🇺🇸
Top man and legend
What a sensible man. I loved this interview.
I just discovered your channel after watching the (excellent) series of The Terminal List about a week ago. Will soon pick up the books as well.
You've got a great thing going with this podcast, Jack.
not read this one, I have a number of the books by the boys and always enjoyed reading about their lives that led them to joining up and their army experiences before, during and after selection so its a shame he hasn't included that but i'll give it a look. by far the best books if you haven't read them are:
Soldier i
killing zone
eye of the storm
ghost force and the joker, ( sadly passed away as has the main guys he talks about ) his book made me smile, all well worth a read
It's excellent.
I have known Des for a long time, and he was never ever refered to as Kamikaze Des. A lot of other names which depicts his status within the Regiment
@williamfalcon7351 Good or Bad status mate?
Not quite the legend he portrays, i will leave it at that.@@mikegleed5842
1:00 beginning of Bravo Three Zero
52:00 "We've been through the same Sausage Factory, Jack" 💂♂️😎👍
Great interview, didn’t even know bravo 3 zero was a thing! When you look at Des you would never connect him to being SAS and in a pub you’d probably tell him to be quiet, yet the reality is this man has done and seen more things than you could imagine, plus he’d beat you up for telling him to be quiet! Thank you for your service sir, people like me sleep nicely at night cos of people like you, I salute you.
@JackCarrUSA Thankyou for this great episode with Des !!!
i remember sitting as a 12 year old boy watching sky news coverage of the first gulf war with my parents and feeling real excitement watching the green night vision coverage of air strikes raining down in iraq, i also had a scrap book that i cut and pasted of the iranian embassy operation, i had a real love of the sas because of the embassy op that i watched on tv, when i heard the bravo 2 zero story i had no idea there was 3 patrols i have the utmost respect for the sacrifice and work ethic of our SF's troops, but how they were illegally implemented in the 2nd iraq and afghan wars for corporate profits based on false intel is no disgrace on them but on our corrupt government interests that have never been held to account for the blood price paid for by our troops, i loved hearing des bravo 3 zero story, would love to hear his manouvres in my country of northern ireland but i know they kicked ass, thanks for the podcast jack
Watched a few of Des,s interviews this week,definitely one of our good guys.If he was in Air troop he would have been in the same troop as McNab.Gonna have to go back now and see from McNabs books what pseudonym he,s used for Des and find out about him from one of his troop pals! I remember McNab talking about a "Des Doom"? Can't remember if he was in Air Troop though.Will have to check. Great interview, cheers mate! 😁👍
It certainly is des doom
@@robdean704 I don't think it is. If my memory serves me correctly, McNab described Des Doom as being 5'10 with he biggest chest he'd ever seen in Seven Troop. Also described him as being very aggressive.
Brilliant interview Jack 👍great guy 👦 Des powel just finished the book 📖 Brilliant 👍.
Considering the experience of desert (middle east, Oman, Aden, Yemen etc etc ) ops its staggering that this Regt of all Regt,s given its role of deep covert strategic recce did not prepare for the winter environment. Summer desert combats, t shirts and shemags alone were never going to cut it.I spent quite a few years working in the middle east and yes, winter months can be damn cold with very heavy rain downpours that quickly turns into sleet then snow. The locals wrap up in hats and coats, light fires to keep warm. Common knowledge. I,m sure a valuable lessons learnt post op was recognised.That is all….out.
If you served in the British Army and never ponced a bunch of kit off the well equipped Americans did you actually do your job properly?! Under equipped British Troops: saving tax payer's money since forever!
I managed to prof some gucci american cot beds at a time when the British camp cot was a bit of canvas with four w shaped legs that sank into the sand in Oman on Saif Sareea 2, a pretty awful bit of kit. four of us had to take a WPU NBC to the island of Masirah and found a Yank detachment and they had hundreds of cots set up. anybody that has put one up will know it's a strength test unless you know the special technique, this must explain why the Yank troops are all built like Garth!
Yeah I did also during the invasion in 2003. We were sleeping in the desert floor with the camel spiders. I was down in Umm Qasr port one day collecting equipment off the boat and I managed to Prof a load of cot beds off the Americans enough for my troop lol.
@@malcolmcave1613 one of our plant operators filled the bucket of his case medium wheelie up with cots from the Italians in Macedonia in 99, he’s Italian/Welsh himself and a bit of a wheeler dealer! Bloody squaddies eh?! Lol
That's planties for you, I am proud to say I was one myself 👍
What’s going on now is, the British troops are getting some nice Gucci kit. But they’re cutting the numbers to ridiculous levels.
Jack is so knowledgeable when it comes to special forces especially british and obviously is native country.
Awesome interview...
What a legend. Great interview guys
👍🇺🇲
He must have met Solder I, who was on Iranian hostage siege, and spent time in Hong Kong, and the rotan cane.
Great interview. Don't forget David Stirling's brother, William,Paddy Mayne, Jock Lewes and Dudley Clarke. Arguably all founded the SAS? Get B3Z audiobook too, 💩💩💩 your 👖😎
Bill stood up 2 sas but because they weren't been used strategically he quit and Brian Franks took over and because he wasn't bill or David Stirling and had the right connections he managed to get most of bill's ideas implemented. The Stirling brothers had upset some very important people in the military
Great discussions gents. Thank you!
Hi Des, As always very interesting much respect!
Razor
This guy is the quintessential Yorkshireman
‘Who dares wins’… one of the coolest mottos
From Del Boy Trotter himself no less!
They say who cares who wins .
A new and good perspective on the unit
love all things brit sas ...
Op Nimrod , Des. Mel P.
Great talk. Enjoyed.
Excellent presentation!
Best in class podcast
What a man.
What has fascinated me over the years is how the British military so often send highly trained troops into battle with the shoddiest equipment imaginable! For example, the defence of Malta against the Luftwaffe with ancient Gloster Gladiator biplanes, the attack on the Italian Fleet in Taranto harbour with Swordfish torpedo bombers, which were also biplanes, fought the Battle of Britain with planes (Hawker Hurricanes) using only .303 machines guns, while the Yanks were later using .50" calibre heavy machines guns, and the German using cannons! Here the SAS going into Iraq in Land Rovers, over rough terrain strewn with football sized rocks and stones, and NO cold weather gear. Their cars weren't even equipped with water boilers!
I think there's many reasons(some valid,some ridiculous and I'd imagine some from out an out disrespect and incompetence from f##king Buerocrats!
But from having lived in the UK&the U.S (since 1999) the whole approach towards the Military,it's Culture,&how it's perceived and of course the $$$$,spent,well there really is no comparison!
I think they're might still be an attitude in the UK towards their Serviceman,where those serving should consider themselves grateful for whatever they receive& obviously this even transfers to it's most elite forces! ..
"We cant be spending that kind of money on such an such,they'll be fine,they'll get by!"....Which is a ridiculous, condescending and disrespectful attitude for their Military!!
A lot of it comes down to necessity, for example the biplanes used in Malta and Taranto was the equipment we had spare or available considering we were fighting a global war but the job we had to do was necessary so you just have to make do in some situations with what you have
Hey the swordfish were brilliant. So were the hawker hurricanes
First
Just picked this book up today. Cannot wait to start it . Awesome
I seem to remember Des on his Freefall training in Cyprus. Thanks for these chats. 🪂