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"They Were Already Planning My Court-Martial" — Christian Craighead, Part 2
He's inside 14 Riverside Drive alone. His own side is planning his court-martial. Nobody sends him maps, mug shots, or orders — and 150 people are hiding in a hair salon.
Part 2 of 3. Christian Craighead — former SAS — walks through the DusitD2 assault door by door: the kitchen full of wounded, the hair salon, the 12-story car park, the police commissioner who asked "Can you lead my men?", and the phone call that put him on the line with the President of Kenya. It ends on the sixth floor of the hotel with grenades coming down the stairs and the terrorists starting to pray.
The first 40 minutes are the conversation that explains the rest: why military training "isn't good enough," why cardiovascular is king, why the monsters fail selection, and the 10-round shooting standard he refuses to publish.
If you want the assault only, jump to 40:20.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Cold open — "Security forces outside. I'm armed and I'm coming in."
0:29 Part 2
2:52 Why military training isn't good enough
6:37 "Why does it matter?" — where standards actually come from
8:44 The magazine change nobody trains
10:40 Training scars and what actually transfers
12:00 Be good at everything — champions of a choreographed zone