Well, thank you for the invite.

Yes, it's a privilege.

So why don't you go ahead and give people a brief introduction into who you are and your background?

Okay, so I had a pretty mixed school background.

There's a bit of music in there that helped us into schools.

I went to all types of different schools. Really quite a mixed period. I had a great family, but I ended up as

an industrial roofer. And in that time, my brother had joined the parachute regiment. I kind of

looked at him, looked at what he was doing, and that kind of fascinated me.

And because industrial roofing wasn't going our way, it was in those years when

didn't have any safety equipment when I started, and therefore we could do well on price and coverage of areas.

They started bringing safety equipment in, but it wasn't well engineered, you know, and it was becoming fairly perilous.

But, you know, also very, very hard to make viable, very, very long days, playing a lot of sport, a lot of rugby.

So, you know, in that, you know, I looked, I went up effectively unemployed for a while and then did what is a very routine story and I walked into

recruiting office asked to join the parachute regiment the sergeant who recruited me tried

to persuade me I needed to be an engineer I told her my brother's a paratrooper I

know what I'm asking for and then you know applied it took from what I remember

about six months to start basic training.

The Parachute Regiment is an incredible unit for a foundation.

And, well, as a career, I moved on.

But, you know, for me, it was my foundation.

It was a brilliant place to be.

The Marines and the Par regiment, you know,

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