John Crawley

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Anything Goes with James English · US Marine Fighting for the IRA - John Crawley Tells His Story · 18 Apr 2026 podcast

Full metal jacket, the bootcamp part of it is exactly how it was.

I mean, the drill instructor was actually a Marine drill instructor and the things he says in it, you know, I didn't know they stack shit that high, steers and queers come from Texas, you know, almost all that stuff.

It must be like a script, heard it all in bootcamp, right?

Bootcamp was a tough initiation into the Marine.

So bootcamp's only 13 weeks and you don't train that much.

It's really harassment and more or less testing your mettle.

It's only after boot camp that your real training begins.

And after 13 weeks in boot camp, excuse me, I went to advanced infantry training.

And I kept trying to volunteer for recon.

And the thing about it is, and I say in the book, like, whereas the army special forces would sign guarantees that they'd send you to the training.

Now, there's no guarantee you'll make the training.

The vast majority of people don't get through the training.

But at least they guarantee they'll send you.

Marines wouldn't do that.

So I took a bit of a chance joining them.

But eventually, eventually...

I got into recon, although along the way I had a lot of, I mean, people were literally laughing at me.

I mean, at the time I was 18, I looked about 12, I think.

I was about 10 stone, hard to believe now, you know.

I was like a little weed, you know.

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