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McNab came into public prominence in 1993, when he published his account of the Special Air Service ( SAS ) patrol, Bravo Two Zero, for which he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal in 1991.
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McNab, a carpenter, had married into a plantation-owning family in Alabama which later sold their Alabama land and moved to property at Summer Grove, near Shreveport, LA.
During the night of 24 / 25 January, whilst McNab was trying to contact a passing Coalition aircraft using a TACBE communicator, the patrol inadvertently became separated into two groups.
The story concerns a character named Grace McNab Salt, and her re-integration into high society after ending a term in prison that she served for attempting to run her husband's mistress Doris Dubois over with her car.
O ' Reilly climbed over the Plexiglas and went into the stands in pursuit of the offender, followed by Peter McNab and other teammates.
McNab and 1993
Awarded both the Distinguished Conduct Medal ( DCM ) and Military Medal ( MM ) during his military career, McNab claims to have been the British Army's most highly decorated serving soldier when he left the SAS in February 1993.
McNab has written about his experiences in the SAS in three best-selling books, Bravo Two Zero ( 1993 ), Immediate Action ( 1995 ), and Seven Troop ( 2008 ).
Ex-Special Forces soldier Andy McNab mentions in several of his novels how his fictional character Nick Stone relies on a G-Shock watch and according to Mark Bowden's book Blackhawk Down, the DELTA Operators wore G-Shock watches during the combat events of 3rd & 4th October 1993.
McNab and when
The township was created on January 1, 1998, when the Village of Braeside amalgamated with McNab Township.
Malcolm Allison, Derek Dougan, Pat Crerand and Bob McNab were dubbed the " Midnight Cowboys " by the press, due to the late night kick-offs and viewers deserted the BBC in droves, the only time ITV have beaten the BBC when the two have gone head to head with the same live event.
As Larry King put it, when McNab appeared on the Larry King Live show on CNN: " We have Andy in shadows.
McNab received her first notable acting role in 1991 when she appeared as a girl scout selling cookies in.
McNab reprised this role when she was cast in the spin-off Angel, which starred David Boreanaz.
This was referenced in the film Fever Pitch, when Paul Ashworth ( played by Luke Aikman ) correctly predicts part of the lineup for the FA Cup Semifinal between Arsenal and Stoke City, on neutral ground at Villa Park in Birmingham: " McNab won't play.
McNab and published
In 2007, USA Today published an article listing its opinion of who qualified as a modern scream queens ; the list included Sheri Moon Zombie, Jaimie Alexander, Andrea Bogart, Mercedes McNab, Tiffany Shepis, and Cerina Vincent.
* The Gulf War Chronicles ( ISBN 0595296696 ) by Richard Lowry recounted much of the patrol's story, though appeared to borrow heavily from the earlier story published by McNab.
McNab and account
* The patrol commander authored an account of the patrol in a book titled Bravo Two Zero ( ISBN 0-440-21880-2 ) under the pseudonym ' Andy McNab '.
McNab and Special
In his book on selection for the Special Air Service ( SAS ), Andy McNab wrote that people who give away the fact that they want to be in the SAS for reasons of personal vanity are labelled as ' Walter Mitties ' and are quietly sent home.
Butcher's Spy High, Joe Craig's Jimmy Coates, Charlie Higson's Young Bond, Robert Muchamore's CHERUB & Henderson's Boys, Sam Hutton's Special Agents, Andy McNab & Robert Rigby's Boy Soldier, Chris Ryan's Alpha Force & Code Red and Tom Palmer's Foul Play.
McNab and Air
* McNab Park School ( formerly Air Marshall Curtis School )-closed in the early 1980s and demolished soon after.
On 16 September 1942 control of Digby formally passed to Canada and the station was renamed Royal Canadian Air Force Station Digby under the command of Group Captain McNab RCAF.
While serving with Air Troop, B Squadron, 22 SAS for ten years, McNab worked on both covert and overt operations worldwide, which included counter terrorism and drug operations in the Middle East and Far East, South and Central America and Northern Ireland.
McNab and SAS
Former SAS soldier Andy McNab used a pseudonym for his book about a failed SAS mission titled Bravo Two Zero.
McNab later claimed that the patrol had been issued with incorrect radio frequencies ; however a 2002 BBC report discovered that there was no error with the frequencies because the patrol's transmissions had been noted in the SAS daily record log.
* W. A. Harbinson under the writing pseudonym " Shaun Clarke " presents a strikingly similar story to that told in the accounts of McNab and Ryan in the first book of his SAS adventure series, " Soldier A: SAS-Behind Iraqi Lines " ( ISBN 1-898125-00-7 ).
Author and former SAS soldier Andy McNab describes several in his fiction book " Firewall ".
* " Andy McNab "-Author and ex SAS soldier
Sergeant Andy McNab DCM MM ( born 28 December 1959 ) is the pseudonym of an English novelist and former SAS operative and soldier.
During the First Gulf War, McNab commanded Bravo Two Zero, an eight man SAS patrol that was given the task of destroying underground communication links between Baghdad and north-west Iraq and with tracking Scud missile movements in the region.
Due to the extremely sensitive nature of his work while serving with the SAS, McNab has a legally binding contract obliging him to submit his writings to the British Ministry of Defence for review.
The SAS veteran-turned writer Andy McNab frequently describes the building in his books.
The film covers real life events-from the perspective of Andy McNab, patrol commander of Bravo Two Zero, a British SAS patrol, tasked to find Iraqi Scud missile launchers during the Gulf War in 1991.
McNab and patrol
; Sergeant ' Andy McNab ' ( pseudonym ), DCM, MM, patrol commander: former Royal Green Jackets.
According to both Ryan and McNab, the weight of their equipment required the patrol to ' shuttle ' the equipment to the observation post.
Ratcliffe lays the blame for the faulty radios on McNab as, being the patrol commander, it was his job to make sure the patrol's equipment was working.
According to McNab, the four captured patrol members ( McNab, Pring, MacGown and the wounded Coburn ) were moved numerous times, enduring torture and interrogation at each successive location.
The patrol also had a PRC 319 HF patrol radio carried by Lane, four TACBE communication devices ( carried by McNab, Ryan, and two others ) to communicate with allied aircraft, a Magellan GPS carried by Coburn and a night sight ( referred to as a ' kite-site ') carried by MacGown.
McNab used pseudonyms and nicknames for the patrol members who survived, but controversially used the full names of those who died.
McNab and Bravo
He is also known for his film work playing such roles as Alec Trevelyan in GoldenEye, Jason Locke in Essex Boys, Odysseus in Troy, Ian Howe in National Treasure and Andy McNab in Bravo Two Zero.
Other later work included the adaptation of Bravo Two Zero for BBC1 in 1999, co-written with the book's author Andy McNab and starring Sean Bean.
McNab assumed his pseudonym while writing Bravo Two Zero.
The CD spoken word version of Bravo Two Zero, narrated by McNab, sold over 60, 000 copies and earned a silver disc.
Bravo Two Zero is a 1999 two hour television miniseries ( broadcast in two parts ), based on the book of the same name by Andy McNab.
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