when I joined the regiment you read
about SES history and I can remember
reading a story about a guy called
Geordi silico and he held the record for
walking through the desert in in North
Africa and it was a hundred miles and it
was the longest escape-and-evasion when
I found out that I’d walked some 200
miles I know it felt like it was
breaking a record and I didn’t think was
ever anything special it was our you
know we were just doing our job we were
sent in actually to do something that
was quite important it sadly it went
wrong and you know it cost three three
men their lives sadly two of them died
of hypothermia and and one was killed by
Iraqi Iraqi forces once I got out and
had the checks everything else it took
six weeks for the feeling to come back
into my fingers and toes
I had a damaged liver kidneys and a
blood disorder from the contaminated
water that I had consumed the blisters
healed you know after a few weeks the
weight loss came back after a few months
the the mental toll the well that came
out on another operation several months
later and basically that was just a
matter of time before you get over that
you know there is a big thing about you
know post-traumatic stress and
everything else
basically times a great healer the blood
disorder that’s still haunting me at the
moment 25 years after the event once you
get home you contemplate on on what
we’ve achieved and what what what went
down and who you lost the first thing is
you think of your colleagues that aren’t
coming back and the devastation on their
families then you think of the other
side and the devastation you know the
Iraqis went through
and what did we achieve from that you
can run it through your mind you’re not
going to change it you know it’s
happened so you’ve got to accept it and
just move on if you let it clear on your
mind you’d go crazy
about SES history and I can remember
reading a story about a guy called
Geordi silico and he held the record for
walking through the desert in in North
Africa and it was a hundred miles and it
was the longest escape-and-evasion when
I found out that I’d walked some 200
miles I know it felt like it was
breaking a record and I didn’t think was
ever anything special it was our you
know we were just doing our job we were
sent in actually to do something that
was quite important it sadly it went
wrong and you know it cost three three
men their lives sadly two of them died
of hypothermia and and one was killed by
Iraqi Iraqi forces once I got out and
had the checks everything else it took
six weeks for the feeling to come back
into my fingers and toes
I had a damaged liver kidneys and a
blood disorder from the contaminated
water that I had consumed the blisters
healed you know after a few weeks the
weight loss came back after a few months
the the mental toll the well that came
out on another operation several months
later and basically that was just a
matter of time before you get over that
you know there is a big thing about you
know post-traumatic stress and
everything else
basically times a great healer the blood
disorder that’s still haunting me at the
moment 25 years after the event once you
get home you contemplate on on what
we’ve achieved and what what what went
down and who you lost the first thing is
you think of your colleagues that aren’t
coming back and the devastation on their
families then you think of the other
side and the devastation you know the
Iraqis went through
and what did we achieve from that you
can run it through your mind you’re not
going to change it you know it’s
happened so you’ve got to accept it and
just move on if you let it clear on your
mind you’d go crazy
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