SAS insider / [Robert Macklin, Clint Palmer].
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TextPublisher: [Sydney, N.S.W.] : Read How You Want, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Edition: [Large print edition]Description: x, 343 pages (large print) ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781459683754Other title: Clint Palmer SAS insiderSubject(s): Palmer, Clint | Australia. Army. Special Air Service Regiment -- Biography | Soldiers -- Australia -- Biography | Soldiers -- Training of -- Australia | Parachuting | Military assistance, Australian -- Afghanistan | Military assistance, Australian -- IraqGenre/Form: Large type books. DDC classification: 356.167092 Summary: Clint Palmer has spent much of his adult life in the SAS and has fought in this elite military unit as it developed from its fledgling beginnings into the highly trained, specialised fighting force it is today. He is an insider with the long view and this is his unique story of life in the SAS. As a bush kid in the Northern Territory of Australia, growing up in a one dog mining town, Palmer's best friends were mostly Aboriginal kids, and the outside world barely existed. But he always had one driving ambition - the army. Enduring the toughest of tough training, Palmer soon demonstrated his fighting capabilities and became part of the Australian SAS. So began almost thirty years of service. We go with him to Iraq and Afghanistan, where he is at the heart of some of the worst fighting in Operation Anaconda in the Shahi-Kot Valley in 2002. He lets us in on what it's like to have made well over a thousand parachute jumps, many of them in terrible conditions and into treacherous terrain which may have ended not just his career but his life. And he shares with us how this adrenalin fuelled world has become a lifelong commitment. Palmer is the man who knows the Regiment almost better than anyone and is a gripping account of one Australian soldier's life at the sharp end.
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Regular print edition published: Sydney, Hachette Australia, 2014.
"An elite fighter inside Australia's toughest and most secretive combat force"--Cover subtitle.
Includes bibliographical references.
Clint Palmer has spent much of his adult life in the SAS and has fought in this elite military unit as it developed from its fledgling beginnings into the highly trained, specialised fighting force it is today. He is an insider with the long view and this is his unique story of life in the SAS. As a bush kid in the Northern Territory of Australia, growing up in a one dog mining town, Palmer's best friends were mostly Aboriginal kids, and the outside world barely existed. But he always had one driving ambition - the army. Enduring the toughest of tough training, Palmer soon demonstrated his fighting capabilities and became part of the Australian SAS. So began almost thirty years of service. We go with him to Iraq and Afghanistan, where he is at the heart of some of the worst fighting in Operation Anaconda in the Shahi-Kot Valley in 2002. He lets us in on what it's like to have made well over a thousand parachute jumps, many of them in terrible conditions and into treacherous terrain which may have ended not just his career but his life. And he shares with us how this adrenalin fuelled world has become a lifelong commitment. Palmer is the man who knows the Regiment almost better than anyone and is a gripping account of one Australian soldier's life at the sharp end.
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