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23/10/2024 9:59 am
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Watched a Doco on BBC 4 last night
Dave Tompkins was a petty thief who craved adventure. His career as an international mercenary began in Africa and took him all over the world - to Afghanistan, Croatia and later to Colombia, where he led a team commissioned to assassinate notorious Columbian drug lord Pablo Escobar. He went out with Callan and Copland to Angola he was the explosives guy in the team. While laying some mines he was injured by one going off. Got casavact back to uk just before Callan executed some of his men. Peter McAleese featured. We had one guy in our squadron who was out there he told me that the only way he survived was to keep to SOP’s staying in the bush and no tracks/roads
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0024986/storyville-dogs-of-war
28/06/2026 9:56 am
Remember Black Bog in NI ? We lobbed on there once and it lived up to its name as far as big Pete Bailey was concerned. To get him out we had to lay his chute out and pull like a tug of war, he was like a sink when his legs came free.
That was a series of events that lob, we were in a Hastings half way across the Irish Sea when we were told to stand by , because a rare hailstorm was pelting the aircraft with golf ball size pellets. And the pilot thought he might have to chuck us out. Thankfully that didn't happen and the journey continued.
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