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

We're taking one of the – I think it was one of the generals into Iraq.

You're going to lead the security detachment.

Yeah.

I hadn't been to the Middle East.

So I went home and we started planning this job and I just had no idea the names of the bases and, you know, it takes a bit of familiarity to get used to where you enter the Middle East and how you fly in.

So we planned this job and we ended up taking, it was me and about six or seven guys.

Yep.

We ended up escorting a general, going over and reconning all the sites.

So close personal protection.

Close personal protection.

And then take him through these different parts of Afghanistan and Iraq.

And that was a real eye-opener.

It was 2005.

And I can still remember landing in Baghdad and just seeing how much that place was just in disarray.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And Afghanistan.

I had mates that were deployed there at that time.

They were talking about the fighting that was happening.

And we were kind of none the wiser back in Australia.

We didn't know.

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