I was scared, very scared." He was awarded the Military Medal for this incident. When the shooting started, they were just 20 metres away from my patrol. I was a 19-year-old soldier in Keady, South Armagh, and my patrol stumbled across six IRA terrorists, preparing for an ambush. McNab wrote of the incident: "I remember vividly the first time I had to kill someone to stay alive. In 19, he returned to Armagh as a newly promoted Lance Corporal, and claimed to have killed for the first time during a firefight with the Provisional Irish Republican Army. In 1977, he spent time in Gibraltar as part of his first operational posting, while with 2RGJ.įrom December 1977 to June 1978, he was posted to South Armagh, Northern Ireland, as part of the British Army 's " Operation Banner". After basic training, he was posted to the Rifle Depot in Winchester. He was posted to Kent for his basic training, and boxed for his regimental team. He failed the entry test for training as an army pilot, but enlisted with the Royal Green Jackets at the age of sixteen. Partly inspired by his brother's time in the army, he wanted to join the British Army. He did not do well in school, dropped out and worked at various odd jobs, usually for friends and relatives, and was involved in petty criminality, finally being arrested for burglary in 1976. Found abandoned on the steps of Guy's Hospital in Southwark in a Harrods shopping bag, he was brought up in Peckham, with his adoptive family.
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