Motionless in the freezing cold during the day, the patrol split up. And now we know that ourĬalls were received, it makes me feel even more bitter."Īfter running for 10 hours through the desert at night and lying Their own careers while lives were being lost. "We even made two additional requests for immediate extractionīy emergency signal just before and just after we were compromised. "It is the whole ethos of the regiment to support the men in
"That is rock standard SAS procedure, but for us it Search and rescue mission automatically within 48 hours of a loss in Or, most importantly, whether we would get a Would work - which they didn't - or whether we had the right kit. Mal said: "I never questioned whether the radio frequencies They were also wearing the wrong weather dress and had faulty Terrible intelligence had placed them hundreds of yards from two "classic" undercover SAS operation behind enemy lines.īut 36 hours after the patrol were dropped 200 miles into Iraq by aĬhinook helicopter, they were spotted by a goat herd and their cover wasīlown. Mal describes the Bravo Two Zero mission in January 1991 as a "That is the only way the lessons can be learned, proceduresĬan be changed and lives will not be put at risk in the future." We owe it to the men who died and the men still in the "These officers not only betrayed us, but the whole ethos of "It was a betrayal of trust on a massive scale and then thatīetrayal, it seems, was covered up to stop any other men finding out "But at the same time, the regiment promises to do all it can "We all joined the regiment prepared to die for our country. "And it was obvious what the consequences of that decision To save theirĮmbarrassment in sending us right in beside an entire Iraqi infantryĭivision, they left us in there to fend for ourselves. Mal said: "The officers in charge - for whatever reasons. Out for the first time about the fiasco made famous by patrol member and It ended in disaster after the eight men were given faultyĮquipment and dropped near an entire enemy division. Left his patrol to die in the Iraqi desert.Įx-trooper Mal Stewart, 41, was on the ill-fated Bravo Two Zero mission to hunt Scud missiles behind enemy lines during the Gulf War. Retrieved from ĪN SAS hero told The Mirror yesterday how bungling senior officers APA style: We joined the SAS prepared to die for our country but we were abandoned and sacrificed to cover up our own officers' mistakes EXCLUSIVE: BRAVO TWO ZERO HERO SPEAKS OUT.We joined the SAS prepared to die for our country but we were abandoned and sacrificed to cover up our own officers' mistakes EXCLUSIVE: BRAVO TWO ZERO HERO SPEAKS OUT." Retrieved from
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