Where can I read about his SAS credentials being inflated?
I’m guessing it would be difficult for an average Joe to verify, not like you can go and look up this sort of thing at the local library. Which is probably why he thinks he can get away with it (if the allegations are true).
Chris Ryan from a newspaper article a few years ago:
Gulf War veteran Ryan even says he doesn’t believe Grylls broke his back on an SAS operation in Africa.
And the ex-soldier – who served on the notorious Bravo Two Zero mission in the first Gulf war in Iraq – viciously laid into 34-year-old Grylls for taking the plaudits while real servicemen suffered.
Ryan explained: “I’ve got respect for Ray Mears because he’s very,very knowledgeable in his craft.
“Bear Grylls goes on and on about an operation in Africa.
“He tells people he broke his back on an operation but I don’t know where in Africa he would be doing an operation.
“Nobody has been able to tell me that. I’ve spoken to several guys who were regimental sergeant majors and instructors in the regimental SAS but none of them could remember this operation.
“And I just think, ‘**** you, mate, there’s guys dying in Afghanistan and Iraq. You have to earn that beret’.”