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James Fleming

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May 27, 2026

8:45
Jim remembers how it felt when he arrived in 1968.
8:50
As we get off, the flares are going off around.
8:53
You can see artillery going off over here, and it was just no question in your mind you're somewhere you've never been before.
9:00
We probably got there midnight and got in our barracks probably 4:00 in the morning or whatever to get a couple hours of sleep, and I remember turning over and a tear comes out of my eye and down my nose.
9:14
And I s- [laughs] I said to myself, "Damn, only 364 more of these to go [laughs] before I get out." You know, I already, already knew I didn't like it there.
9:27
[laughs]

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25:52
He looked over his shoulder one last time.
25:55
And as I look over, Randy Harrison jumps up.
8:56
Jim remembers how it felt when he arrived in 1968.
9:01
As we get off, the flares are going off around.
9:04
You can see artillery going off over here, and it was just no question in your mind you're somewhere you've never been before.
9:11
We probably got there at midnight and got in our barracks probably 4:00 in the morning or whatever to get a couple hours of sleep.
9:18
And I remember turning over, and a tear comes out of my eye and down my nose.
9:25
And I said, [laughs] I said to myself, "Damn, only 364 more of these to go [laughs] before I get out." You know, I already, already knew I didn't like it there.

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26:37
He looked over his shoulder one last time.
26:40
And as I look over, Randy Harrison jumps up.
8:27
Jim remembers how it felt when he arrived in 1968.
8:31
As we get off, the flares are going off around.
8:34
You can see artillery going off over here, and it was just no question in your mind you're somewhere you've never been before.
8:42
We probably got there midnight and got in our barracks probably 4:00 in the morning or whatever to get a couple hours of sleep.
8:48
And I remember turning over, and a tear comes out of my eye and down my nose.
8:55
And I s- [laughs] I said to myself, "Damn, only 364 more of these to go [laughs] before I get out." You know, I already, already knew I didn't like it there.
9:08
[laughs]

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26:19
He looked over his shoulder one last time.
30:59
Here's James Fleming.
31:00
Sevens, isn't it? So, you know, there's a bit, there was always a bit of a quarterfinal challenge for us as a squad for, you know, back from 2010.
31:09
But actually each individual performance is quite different.
31:12
And that's the, I guess that's maybe what made the biggest difference for us is there was an element of it that felt like getting on a rollercoaster with sevens.
31:20
We hadn't necessarily had the best season if you looked at the table and if you looked at, you know, how many points we had.
31:26
But actually as a squad, we'd galvanised pretty well.
31:29
Even in the first tournament against in Dubai, we'd just about beaten England.

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62:38
But like really, you understand the point of it.
12:08
The SOG guys and the Green Hornets gathered on the runway, the way they did before every mission.
12:13
mission.Before you took off, you would brief and you would shake hands and hug the team members and the crew members.
12:22
Not a lot s- talking going on, and what's going on here is what you see in, in football when men stand around and hold hands, these big guys hold hands.
12:31
There's a bonding going on there.
12:34
What you're doing is you're saying, "I'm gonna take you, and I'm gonna put you out in the middle of hell.
12:43
If you have to come home, I'll bring you home.
12:46
That's my duty, it's my honor.

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26:37
He looked over his shoulder one last time.

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