In Northern Ireland, he spent two years working as an undercover operator with 14 Intelligence Company, going on to become an instructor.

He worked on cooperative operations with police forces, prison services, anti-drug forces and Western backed guerrilla movements as well as on conventional special operations. McNab trained as a specialist in counter terrorism, prime target elimination, demolitions, weapons, tactics, covert surveillance roles and information gathering in hostile environments, and VIP protection. McNab worked on both covert and overt operations including counter terrorism and drug operations in the Middle East and Far East, South and Central America and Northern Ireland. In a November 2008 Interview with the Daily Telegraph, McNab describes Bruce as one of my heroes. During his 10 years with Air Troop, B Squadron, 22 SAS, McNab served with Al Slater, Frank Collins and Charles 'Nish' Bruce. After failing his first attempt, he passed in 1984, and transferred to the SAS. In 1982, after eight years with the Royal Green Jackets, he attempted SAS selection. However, security sources later reported that the person McNab shot was only wounded and died as a result of injuries from a separate shootout later that day. I was scared, very scared.' He was awarded the Military Medal for this incident. When the shooting started, they were just 20 metres away from my patrol. I was a 19-year-old soldier in Keady, South Armagh, and my patrol stumbled across six IRA terrorists, preparing for an ambush. McNab wrote of the incident: 'I remember vividly the first time I had to kill someone to stay alive. In 19, he returned to Armagh as a newly promoted Lance Corporal, and claimed to have killed for the first time during a firefight with the Provisional Irish Republican Army. In 1977, he spent time in Gibraltar as part of his first operational posting, while with 2RGJ.įrom December 1977 to June 1978, he was posted to South Armagh, Northern Ireland, as part of the British Army 's ' Operation Banner'. After basic training, he was posted to the Rifle Depot in Winchester. He was posted to Kent for his basic training, and boxed for his regimental team.

He failed the entry test for training as an army pilot, but enlisted with the Royal Green Jackets at the age of sixteen. Partly inspired by his brother's time in the army, he wanted to join the British Army. He did not do well in school, dropped out and worked at various odd jobs, usually for friends and relatives, and was involved in petty criminality, finally being arrested for burglary in 1976. Found abandoned on the steps of Guy's Hospital in Southwark in a Harrods shopping bag, he was brought up in Peckham, with his adoptive family.

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