#Latest news with #selectionExerciseDaily Maila day agoGeneralDaily Mail'You disgusting n*****,' screamed the SAS officer as he tried to break me in a mock interrogation... but I'd heard it all before on the council estate where I grew up: MELVYN DOWNES tells brutal truth about being Britain's first black SAS soldierThe wooden cabin in the remote Welsh mountains was packed with hulking blokes sitting silently on bunks with our kit taking up whatever space was left. It was filled with the stink made by men living at close quarters. It was also bitterly cold, the coldest winter anybody could remember. And yet there was nowhere else I'd rather be. Because here I was, at last, on a selection exercise for the SAS. I was about to discover if I had what it took to be one of Britain's elite soldiers.
Daily Maila day agoGeneralDaily Mail'You disgusting n*****,' screamed the SAS officer as he tried to break me in a mock interrogation... but I'd heard it all before on the council estate where I grew up: MELVYN DOWNES tells brutal truth about being Britain's first black SAS soldierThe wooden cabin in the remote Welsh mountains was packed with hulking blokes sitting silently on bunks with our kit taking up whatever space was left. It was filled with the stink made by men living at close quarters. It was also bitterly cold, the coldest winter anybody could remember. And yet there was nowhere else I'd rather be. Because here I was, at last, on a selection exercise for the SAS. I was about to discover if I had what it took to be one of Britain's elite soldiers.
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