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Re: Andy McNab

#11 Post by safetyfirst »

Is your aunts brother your uncle? Or have I lost it again from too much AR porn.
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(Armalite Rifle, not Augmented Reality) ;)
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I know a few SF guys and the rule I always follow is that if someone claimed to be in them, probably wasnt.

Didnt know about his role in Heat thought, that gun battle scene is awesome as it was the first time I'd seen anything Hollywood had done that looked right.
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#14 Post by snayperskaya »

nickb834 wrote:
where the troop commander was one Lt P.De La Billiere - later Director SAS and then GoC commanding British Forces in the sandpit first time round
I shook hands with him in 1990 when I was working at Perkins Engines in Shrewsbury, we built the CV-12 engines and powerpacks for Challenger and the CV-8 Warrior engines and he visited the place during the build up to the Gulf War.I can remember we were working flat-out building spare engines as if they were going out of fashion, the amount of overtime we got was unreal!!!.
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#15 Post by BamBam »

His role is mentioned here.
http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/heat/25 ... c-thriller

And just for interest sake.

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#16 Post by Ovenpaa »

takbok wrote:I also enjoyed Bravo Two Zero. Well done to Andy for making a go of things and for being successful with his books. One needs to be extremely dedicated to get into the SAS.

I'm not the greatest fan of his novels though.
Agreed, BTZ was worth reading, I struggled with his novels and hgave up halfway through one, never to return.
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I bought one of his books probably got a quarter of the way through it before chucking it in the bin.
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#18 Post by Chuck »

Is your aunts brother your uncle? Or have I lost it again from too much AR porn.
The brother of my Auntie. Never referred to him as "uncle", only called him by his name.
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