Trident Adventure

30/03/2025

The team have arrived in Abisko for Arctic Warrior 2025.

A truly international team with guys flying in from Australia, Thailand, Los Angeles, Malaga, Amsterdam and UK.

Sure to be a great week ahead.
ice drills completed 🥶❄️

02/03/2025

Brilliant to catch up with the boss recently .

As a disengaged young person listening to situation reports from Operation Drake on inspired me to apply for a place on Operation Raleigh and later to join the Royal Engineers.

has inspired tens of thousands of young people around the World by helping them to expand their horizon and shift perspectives.

Operation Raleigh played a major positive influence in my life, it was an opportunity I will ever be grateful for and I endeavour to meet the final part of our challenge, to give back to the next generation.

It almost feels like they need it more than we ever did.

07/11/2024

I'm asking all my mates who have served their country 🇬🇧 to join the challenge of posting a picture of your time in Service. Just a pic, no description. The goal is to flood FB with positive photos instead of negativity. Please copy the text to your timeline, put up a picture and look at some great memories. 🇬🇧
Lest we forget 🌺

24/10/2024

TBT Resup , Hindu Kush , Afghanistan

When you’ve been waiting weeks for fresh food and mail.

And see that Herc come in.

Instant moral.

Until you see it drift into the side of a mountain and get smashed to bits.

Thanks for that.

19/09/2024

Russian trenches, Hindu Kush 2002

You gotta train every day….I never forgot those words from the selection chief instructor.

Even whilst deployed overseas in 50 degree heat….only make sure you carry a pistol and a radio.

Not just for your physical fitness but to give you an outlet, release the tension.

Back in the early days it wasn't yet the wild west, still there were moments but the release rarely came.

No adrenaline fuelled contacts with the enemy just months of tension, stress and fatigue.

Still you gotta train every day.

Whatever that looks like for you….mind and body, train every day.

12/09/2024

TBT Operation Raleigh selection weekend 1985

I caught sight of a poster advertising a round the world expedition at Waterloo station.

It set me off on a journey to the Army, expeditions and a life of global adventures.

I might have missed it or looked the other way.

Gets me thinking that things are meant to be, that all this is worked out for you?

I like the notion that our souls write a contract before we take our place on Earth and our job in life is to fulfil that contract.

I know that's deep but what do you say?

14/07/2024

Great time to have booked a trip to Eswatini !! Missing what will surely be an amazing match….fingers crossed 🤞

C’mon England ⚽️⚽️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

30/06/2024

With my old oppo and former cell mate.
We still argue over who ruined who’s career but hey ho it all works out in the end….march em in Sgt Major 😂

29/06/2024

Happy Armed Forces Day 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

It’s fair to say the joining the Army was one of the best calls I made as a young bloke and there were few. It provided an opportunity to expand my horizon and not to fall into a path of a mundane and predictable outcome.

I met some of the best men I know, we shared a common adversity and grew stronger in the process.

I was by far a model Soldier, my youthful and somewhat rebellious attitude led to spells in Military detention including the infamous glass house at Colchester.

Still it all worked out thanks to a UKSF legend who gave me a second chance.

Years later I joined his mob and as my former colleagues joke achieved one of the greatest regains known to any that have ever worn Military uniform..

It shows that what ever you decide to put your energy into and fully commit to you can achieve.

Will raise a 0% beer to all my former colleagues , those serving on ops and those no longer with us.

RIP Warriors ⚔️🇬🇧⚔️

16/06/2024

Happy Fathers Day Dad, never stopped missing you, thank you for everything you gave us, always in our hearts ❤️❤️❤️

30/05/2024

1989 Operation Raleigh Zimbabwe

Klepper canoe recce on Lake Kariba with Sgt Major Newton of the Zimbabwe Parachute Regiment.

Paddling across the lake you couldn’t help but notice the large Zambezi crocodiles and hippos eyeing up easy prey. The Kleppers weighed down with kit, sat 4” above the water line and we were firmly in their sights.

What I loved about these expeditions is the philosophy of just work with what you’ve got and make it happen. A clear objective with no fuss, just get on with it. Unshackled by the convention of the green army it’s also a guiding principle of UKSF.

Trips like these was what I joined the Army for. I was lucky to be there having just been released from Military corrective training at the infamous glass house in Colchester.

As a 24 year old Sapper I was the youngest project leader on the expedition and the only ordinary rank, a fact I only told them of at the end. Had blokes saluting me for weeks and even got an RSM to brace up.

A dream job supporting the development of young people on an adventure that’s still to be repeated. great people and remains one of my fondest memories.

23/05/2024

TBT Kuwait 91’

33 years ago we arrived in the desert for a summer you'd never forget.

Working in 50 degree heat we trawled through the battlefield and minefields searching for unexploded ordnance.

Making up charges and ring mains that would have your WO2’s hair stand on end.

Blokes blowing up 500lb bombs and just crouching down behind the nearest wagon.

Lads on tour.

Making bad situations tolerable through humour and initiative, just like we always did.

Some crazy s**t happened that summer, you wouldn’t believe it, it needs to be written down.

RIP the lads who never made it home.

15/05/2024

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Lying 200km north of the Arctic Circle in the heart of Swedish Lapland, Arctic Warrior follows a WW2 SOE insertion route via some of the most spectacular and isolated scenery in Europe.

This is a meaningful challenge achievable by anyone reasonably active who wants to stretch themselves out of their comfort zone, learn valuable new skills, be immersed in a unique wilderness and enjoy great company.

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02/05/2024

Afghanistan 2002

After a challenging journey to visit an American callsign located in a medevial fortress close to the Pakistan border.

A white knuckle ride like no other.

Hours spent scanning the horizon and scoping out every mud walled building dotted along dusty and often deserted streets.

Then catching eyes with scattered groups of young children playing happily in the dirt as we creep through villages and previous hunting grounds of the enemy.

We get back to base drenched in a sand filled sweat that's reached every part of your body.

It's in these moments all you have is the group.

You need these people as much as they need you. There's nothing you can do here by yourself in a land where safety and security are short lived.

…and some days I'd give anything to be back there.

25/04/2024

Africa Ranges 2007

Build up range package before moving onto live 2 man and 4 man contact drills.

Nails environment and no better training ground for what was to come.

High temperatures, limited cover, getting ripped to shreds by the ground and
heart rate red lining.

There’s a reason they say train hard fight easy.

Happy days.

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23/04/2024

What we provide is much more than just an adventure.

Our trips are experiences that stay with you, leaving you with a profound sense of achievement and a positive reference point for the future.

You’ll get a strong sense of belonging , taking an active part in a high performing team and you’ve never laughed so hard.

We’re not in this to tick off bucket lists.

What we’re really about is bringing people together in stunning environments and getting them to do stuff they wouldn’t do by themselves.

The value that our approach can add is hard to put into words but with over 70% repeat business we know we’re doing something right.

Come and join one of our trips in 2025 and see for yourself.

There’s much more to come.

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We start by building trust and confidence in the build up phase and see that develop with the unique friendships that these experiences can help form.

11/04/2024

nearly 5 years since I left the firm , great to look back on happy days with some top teams.

Some of the things we witnessed and the subsequent antics would not be believed!

Big shout out to the Green watch mafia and to all emergency services still in the fight, stay safe and stay positive, it’s the best job in the World 🚒 🔥

03/04/2024

https://youtube.com/shorts/qXjDamaam_4?si=FSMOtfOLr12QfmXs

One of the lads made this short film from
our recent Arctic Discovery trip and another created the song, a talented bunch indeed and all completed the challenge.

Operation Buttercup - Abisko, Sweden 2024- Cold Water Drills - Simulation skiing through frozen lake- Digging Snow ShelterMusic Composed and Sung by Greig Gi...