Rick Brindle

It's Not For Everyone  is a military memoir the like of which you've never read before, and for a limited time, you can read about the RAF Regiment's dark underbelly for free. Download your free copy now! What do you do when your dream job turns into a nightmare? Rick Brindle was a third generation military child. His father and grandfather served their whole lives in the Army, and all he wanted to do was join up. But for Rick it was more than just the job. Growing up on Army estates in Germany, he wanted to keep hold of the sheltered lifestyle that he’d enjoyed all through his childhood. Having left school, and after three years of trying and failing to become an officer in the Army, Rick was still determined to pursue a career in the armed forces. So in 1989 he joined the RAF Regiment as an Airman. Life in the Regiment, though, was a world apart from being a forces dependent, and Rick’s dream quickly became toxic. Facing a culture of bullying, beatings, verbal abuse and s...

I’d have to say, my sleeping bag. I served in the RAF Regiment. When I was going through Basics, I had this bad boy as my sanctuary. Your sleeping bag was the one thing that you absolutely kept dry, and they absolutely never got into with wet clothes. Even if you had to do the soul destroying thing of taking off your soaking wet camouflage, getting in your sleeping bag, and putting your cold wet clothes back on when you woke up. Once your tucked up in your fart sack, you’ve got one, two, maybe even three hours of recharge time, and you emerge feeling invincible. When I was posted to a squadron, I got an even better one. Warm as hell, and inside your bergen it crammed down into a stuff sack, and used with a bivi bag instead of the poncho-type bivi between two trees. Your issue sleeping bag, an absolute life saver. Cold Steel on the Rocks We Are Cold Steel Cold Steel and the Underground Boneyard It's Not For Everyone

Amazon have announced an increase in printing costs, which means that I've had to increase the prices of some of my print books on some of the Amazon sites. The price rises are as small as I can make them, and absolutely out of my control. Apologies to all of my readers. Cold Steel on the Rocks We Are Cold Steel Cold Steel and the Underground Boneyard It's Not For Everyone

  What are the best rock/heavy metal bands playing live? For me... Of all time, Dio Sadly, we won’t see such things again, so right now, I’ll go for these: Saxon Status Quo Judas Priest Nickelback AC/DC The Rolling Stones And if you want to read about a great live band, look no further than Cold Steel. Cold Steel on the Rocks We Are Cold Steel Cold Steel and the Underground Boneyard It's Not For Everyone