Bear Grylls Quote

The meeting was set for between 0300 and 0500 hours.Matt and I reached the RV early and sat and waited.Deep in a thorny thicket, the wind and rain having returned now, I pulled my hood over my head to try and keep warm.We waited in alternate shifts to keep awake. But Matt, like me, was dead tired, and soon, unable to stay awake any longer, we both fell asleep on watch. Bad skills. I woke just as I heard the rustling of the other patrols approaching.One of the 23 DS was in the first patrol, and I quickly crawled forward, tapped him on the shoulder, and began to guide him back to where we had been waiting.The DS gave me a thumbs-up, as if to say well done, and by the time I had returned to where Matt was, he had shaken himself awake and looked like a coiled spring who had been covering all his fields of fire vigilantly all night long.Little did the DS know that five minutes earlier, Matt and I had both been fast asleep, hats pulled over our eyes, snoozing like babies in a pram. If we had been caught we would have been binned instantly.(I challenge you, though, to find any SAS soldier who didn’t have at least one such narrow escape at some point during his journey through Selection.)No one is perfect.