# X Platoon

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- Book: [X Platoon](https://www.bookquiver.com/steve-heaney-mc/x-platoon) ([X Platoon.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/steve-heaney-mc/x-platoon.md))
- Authors: [Steve Heaney, MC](https://www.bookquiver.com/steve-heaney-mc), [Damien Lewis](https://www.bookquiver.com/damien-lewis)
- Publisher: Orion
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0914-851-7
- Published: 2015-09-24
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

For three decades one of the most secretive units in the British military has been a mystery force known as X Platoon. Officially there was no X Platoon. The forty men in its elite number were specially selected from across the Armed Forces, at which point they simply ceased to exist. X Platoon had no budget, no weaponry, no vehicles and no kit - apart from what its men could beg, borrow or steal from other military units. For the first time a highly decorated veteran of this specialised force - otherwise known as the Pathfinders - reveals its unique story. Steve Heaney became one of the youngest ever to pass Selection, the gruelling trial of elite forces, and was at the cutting edge of X Platoon operations - serving on anti-narcotics operations in the Central American jungles, on missions hunting war criminals in the Balkans, and being sent to spy on and wage war against the Russians. The first non-officer in the unit's history to be award the Military Cross, Steve Heaney reveals the extraordinary work undertaken by this secret band of brothers.