Mark Wales

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3,479 appearances 5 recordings 3 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 6 Jul

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I Catch Killers with Gary Jubelin · 'I owe it to the guys who died to do something': Mark Wales Pt.1 · 4 Jul 2026 podcast

It's bloody shocking.

The major one was about three weeks long.

Yeah.

That has the really high fail rate.

Yeah.

And you just-

They're trying to see what you've got as a soldier when you're operating them beyond your limits with food and sleep and technical ability.

They'll put you in environments that you've never encountered and just see how you go, whether you can adapt to whatever the mission is.

And so, yeah, I prepared and trained for it.

I was waiting to do it that whole time I was in the unit and it was still pretty, I still found it hard.

Yeah.

But it's a great, I remember going through and going, well, if I don't pass, it's actually, there's nothing more I can say because it's a really fair process.

You actually have a lot of eyes on you, a lot of people watching, taking notes.

Yeah.

So I'm like, if it doesn't work this time, then it's probably fair.

I can try again later.

But yeah, I was able to get through on that selection call.

There was no real info about how to prepare for it.

There was a bit from the –

There was like a training wing in Special Force and they gave you a training package.

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