Prepared for a warmer climate, the team members were freezing and battling hypothermia. Survival was key, especially after they were compromised, and the team began a 100-mile trek to Syria where they could find safety. Their radio communications were failing, it was unusually cold, and they discovered that there were humans with dogs right in their vicinity in areas that they thought were isolated. Right from the start, their mission was difficult. They had two weeks to complete their mission. So they did not take vehicles, but asked to be dropped off by helicopter. They also knew that their mission was very dangerous because the terrain was so flat that there was nowhere to hide.

The team had limited information to go on since there weren't very many updated maps. He left his girlfriend, Jilly and his daughter, Kate and went off to Iraq. There were seven other men on a mission, and it was called Bravo Two Zero. In 1991, Andy was sent on a mission to destroy landlines in the Northern Main Supply Route and to find and destroy a Scud. He loved the adventure and excitement that came along with the job and he remained dedicated to his work even though it was the source of the demise of three marriages. At first he did not like the rules and structure, but soon found out that the negatives far outweighed by the positives of other aspects of military life. The story tells of the struggles they faced from communication failure to snowstorms and captivity.Īndy had a propensity for getting in trouble and after his first arrest when he was 16, he decided to join the Army. In January of 1991, Andy and seven other men were sent behind Iraqi lines to complete a top-secret mission called Bravo Two Zero. Dirty, deadly, and fought outside the rules.'Bravo Two Zero' by Andy McNab, Sergeant, SAS, tells the story of a soldier in the British Special Forces in the early 1990s. Filled with no-holds-barred detail about McNab's capture and excruciating torture, it tells of men tested beyond the limits of human endurance. They were fabulous.- John Major, British Prime Minister. I'll tell you who destroyed the scuds - it was the British SAS. Their only chance at survival was to fight their way to the Syrian border seventy-five miles to the northwest and swim the Euphrates river to freedom. The weather turned cold enough to freeze diesel fuel. Dropped into -scud alley- carrying 210-pound packs, McNab and his men found themselves surrounded by Saddam's army.

They are the true unsung heroes of the war.- Lt. In January 1991 a squad of eight men went behind the Iraqi lines on a top secret mission. They were British Special Forces, trained to be the best.

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