From the moment I joined, I loved the RAF.

Towards the end, with American influence, there was a bit of jitterbugging going on.

We are so privileged in this country to have such freedom.

Wherever, however, we get the job done

You realised that people were fighting for you, and I think I wanted to be part of that.

I found that really tough with a new baby, a young mum. I was 23 then, and he wasn't around.

You never train for the war you fight

We do our best at the very edge of our limits.

I was nineteen, streetwise but very unsophisticated

I realised something was wrong. The engine had cut out

There was a certain amount of tampering with the rules

With every deployment, the threat level was getting higher