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

Ladies don't sit at sherry evenings.

I was thinking that if I got shot it didn't matter.

People always ask me if the RAF is racist

I had a pole with a bayonet stuck on top.

I left school with one GCSE. Now I've got letters after my name.

Nobody takes Flying Officers seriously.