Chris Ryan tried this selection exercise severally in every weekend and was always selected. However, he was then too young to continue to the next test that could have led him to joining his cousin. Chris Ryan later passed all the stages when he was old enough and was admitted to the 23rd SAS. Sergeant Chris Ryan born in 1961 at Rowland Gill is a pseudonym of a retired British special forces operative soldier Colin Armstrong who turned to writing novels later in his life. Chris Ryan came to the limelight for being the only man among the eight on the SAS mission dabbed Bravo Two Zero’s narrow escape from death during the First Gulf War of 1991.

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During the Gulf War, Ryan was a team member of the ill-fated eight-man SAS patrol, with the call sign Bravo Two Zero. The patrol was sent into Iraq to "gather intelligence,... find a good LUP (lying up position) and set up an OP (observation post)" on the main supply route (MSR) between Baghdad and North-Western Iraq, and eventually take out the Scud TELs. [3] :16Bowman is an experienced SAS Staff Sergeant but he has a problem, an opioid addiction that he is just about keeping secret. Shortly after been selected into 23rd SAS, he began a selection to the then Regular 22 Regime and later joined squadron ‘B’ as a medic. Since they wanted a parent regime, Chris Ryan and one soldier who had just joined the SAS from Royal Navy, spent about 8 weeks with a Parachute Regime before they returned to Squadron ‘B’. During his escape, Ryan suffered injuries from drinking water contaminated with nuclear waste. [8] Besides suffering severe muscle atrophy, he lost 36lb (16kg) and did not return to operational duties. Instead, he selected and trained potential recruits, before being honourably discharged from the SAS in 1994. [ citation needed] Burke, Jason (26 May 2002). "Battle of SAS gets bloody". The Guardian . Retrieved 31 December 2016. Chris was born in Rowlands Gill, which is a small village on the north bank of the River Derwent. It has a population of around 6,000 and is around nine miles from the major city of Newcastle in the North of England. Very little is known of Chris's early life - little about his school days, little about his hobbies, little about his family life. What is known is that he attended the secondary school at Hookergate School, which was around three miles from his village of Rolands Gill. The school has since been renamed Thorp Academy. He stayed at Hookergate until he was 16 years old, at which point, instead of going into further education as many of his fellow authors did, which would have been easy as Hookergate School also had a college section to it, he signed up to join the British Army.

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John Pilger who was a journalist wrote in end of October 2009 that the Thatcher government had incredibly continued to support the Pol Pot regime in United Nations and said that they have even sent SAS to train the exiled troops in Malaysia and Thailand.In the beginning of March 2009, Ryan admitted that John Pilger who was the foreign correspondent discovered his plans of training the Khmer Rogue at the Far East. They were sent home and made to return the 10,000 pounds they had been given to pay for accommodation and food. Bravo Two Zero