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Part Two: The Dumbest Coup In World History

Behind the Bastards

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Man's Friends in the 1970s

After rich boy high school man joined the military and went into officer training at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. Simon graduated and followed in his father's footsteps by accepting a commission in the Royal Scots guards. He bounced around Cold War era Europe and Central America until he grew board of army life and retired. Man immediately moved to the private military sector, joining a company run by SAS founder David Sterling who was pretty close to just being a straight up fascist.

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