“It took me over three years to get the beret and the most enriching part of the experience was getting to know men for whom you would have given your life on the battlefield. It is a big thing to say there are people who are not your family for whom you would give up your life. But that is how close we became.”

— Lewis Pugh

p 150-1, describing his time in the British SAS
Achieving The Impossible (2010)

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