Joe Murray (born 1963) is a former British Army soldier and television personality from Glasgow, United Kingdom.
Murray joined the British Army in 1979 after he left school because of a lack of available jobs in Glasgow at the time.
[1] He was assigned to 1 Para Regiment and served with them in deployments in Northern Ireland, Sierra Leone and Kosovo.
[3] In the programme he was referred to as "Corporal Murray" and became better known to the public as such, despite his real sergeant major rank.
[5][6] Murray has expressed his support for a reintroduction of National Service after his work on Bad Lads' Army, a viewpoint that was not shared by fellow Bad Lads' Army corporal, Richard Nauyokas.