Damien Lewis

That's just where everybody fights because no one believes you can navigate or survive in the Sahara Desert.

So David Sterling says, well, why don't we learn how to navigate and survive in the Sahara Desert?

Then we can go.

thousands of kilometers behind enemy lines and attack the enemy in a way that they would never conceive of as being possible.

That is the genesis of the idea of the SAS.

So the 62-odd originals that he recruited included obviously himself, then there was John Lewis, who was one of the visionary founders of SAS Selection.

but then also Blair Paddy Main, the Northern Irishman, who was brought in initially as their PT, physical training specialist, because he was an Irish and British and Irish Lions rugby international, also the University of Ireland heavyweight boxing champion, just a stunning sportsman.

So obviously he was brought in as the PT officer, but interestingly,

Main was also made by Sterling, the discipline officer of the SAS.

He was the man charged to keep discipline.

And Paddy Main had a very good idea of how you keep discipline.

He said to the guys, listen, you do anything wrong, you come and tell me.

There'll be no paperwork.

There'll be no stain on your record.

All you have to do is stand as many rounds as you can stand with me in the boxing ring at that training base in North Africa.

And we will call it quits.

But he said, because he was an Irishman with that brilliant Irish sense of humor.

He said, but look,

If you can come up with an excuse that makes me laugh, I might let you off.

I'll just give you a quick example.