yego.me
💡 Stop wasting time. Read Youtube instead of watch. Download Chrome Extension

The Lasting Scars of War | No Man Left Behind


2m read
·Nov 11, 2024

[Music] When I joined the regiment, you read about SAS history, and um, I can remember uh reading a story about a guy called uh Jordi Silico. He held the record for walking through the desert in North Africa, and it was 100 miles. It was the longest escape in Asia. When I found out that I'd walked some 200 miles, I never felt like it was breaking a record. I didn't think it was ever anything special. It was uh, you know, we were just doing our job. We were sent in actually to do something that uh was quite important. Sadly, it went wrong, and uh, you know, it cost three men their lives.

Sadly, two of them died of hypothermia, and one was killed by Iraqi forces. Once I got out and uh, had the checks and 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 mental toll, well, that came out on another operation several months later.

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, time's a great healer. The blood disorder uh, that's still haunting me at the moment, 25 years after the event. Once you get home, you contemplate on what we've achieved and what went down and who you lost. The first thing is you think of your colleagues that aren't coming back and uh, 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 play on your mind, you'd go crazy.

More Articles

View All
Revealing My Entire $6 Million Investment Portfolio | 29 Years Old
What’s up you guys, it’s Graham here. So, a few months ago, I made a video breaking down in graphic detail each of my seven income sources: how I built them up, what’s involved in running them, and then most importantly, the question everyone wants to kno…
The FED Just RESET The Housing Market
What’s up, Graham? It’s guys here, and you’re not going to believe this. In the middle of a real estate slowdown, a possible 30% hit to home prices, and seven percent mortgage rates, a brand new policy was just released that would loosen credit score requ…
The Real Reason I Left California
What’s up, guys? It’s Graham here. So, as some of you know, after spending my entire life in California, one year ago, I decided to leave. It was a difficult decision, but ultimately we felt like the increased cost of living, decreasing quality of life, t…
15 Mistakes You Make In Your 30s
Your 30s are a time of transition and change. You had 10 years of trial and error, and now it’s time to get serious. These are 15 mistakes you can’t afford to make anymore. Welcome to Alux. Number one: Not thinking of retirement. Newsflash! If you only r…
Better models, better startups.
Um, this can just basically supercharge that and, you know, have one person do the work of 10. Yeah, we call this episode “Better Models, Better Startups.” I think that is literally true for B2B companies, where it’s like the underlying models—like B2B s…
Jane Goodall: The Hope – Trailer | National Geographic
Ladies and gentlemen, you are in for a special treat tonight: Dr. Jane Goodall. I’m a huge fan. I hate how people think of her as being associated with chimpanzees only, but actually, she’s much more than that. All these young people looking at her like s…