The Sun ran this today.
To quote: a sledgehammer by Para bullies, reveals SAS hardman Ant.
You’re so easily influenced when you are young, especially when you are entering an environment with a really strong identity, like the Paras. Their idea of a good night was to head into town to savage a few pubs before coming back to the squadron bar to start drinking p*** from pint glasses.
Going into town, beating each other up and drinking until they were sick was the only way they could get the aggression and anger out of their systems. I got why they behaved like that, but it just wasn’t me. Still, for a while I tried to fit in. I matched them drink for drink. After a while I stopped trying to fit in. My attitude became: “F*** the lot of you.”
I stopped going out on the lash with the lads. What was increasingly clear to everyone was that I didn’t want to be around the other Paras, and they — quite understandably — didn’t want to be around me.
Quote ends.
He wasn’t in the SAS nor was he a Para but top marks for trying Sun.
More here. Gulp,
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To quote: a sledgehammer by Para bullies, reveals SAS hardman Ant.
You’re so easily influenced when you are young, especially when you are entering an environment with a really strong identity, like the Paras. Their idea of a good night was to head into town to savage a few pubs before coming back to the squadron bar to start drinking p*** from pint glasses.
Going into town, beating each other up and drinking until they were sick was the only way they could get the aggression and anger out of their systems. I got why they behaved like that, but it just wasn’t me. Still, for a while I tried to fit in. I matched them drink for drink. After a while I stopped trying to fit in. My attitude became: “F*** the lot of you.”
I stopped going out on the lash with the lads. What was increasingly clear to everyone was that I didn’t want to be around the other Paras, and they — quite understandably — didn’t want to be around me.
Quote ends.
He wasn’t in the SAS nor was he a Para but top marks for trying Sun.
More here. Gulp,

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