Life became good for me.
Come back from the Middle East,
I had enough money to
I bought a little minivan,
I was driving to London
This is the swinging '60s.
Beatles every month,
And I would take 3 fair-paying
to London on a Friday night,
on a Sunday night and
So life was absolutely fantastic.
I was really enjoying life.
But career-wise,
I was still an airman,
I wasn't a junior technician,
And I'd already been in 5
So I realised this is -
I've either got to work out
to do in 4 years' time,
or I need to work out
to improve my present situation.
Going back to my first
when I was a jack of all trades but
I was a dead ringer
So people knew that if
the best guy to get is Harry
because he never goes
And a sergeant navigator
regularly got hold of me early,
He'd go to his
he'd come back in the
he'd pour me a Scotch
and we'd have a few Scotches.
And he'd say to me,
I said, "Well, that's what I am." I said,
He said, "But if you had two O-levels,
All you need is two O-levels
Then I completely forgot about it
when I'm thinking to myself,
"What am I doing? Where am I going?"
So I take another O-level.
One - because I took one
I'll take another O-level.
And I applied to be a navigator.
I know nothing about navigators
except that I've seen them
and I know they're aircrew,
and I know they probably
And I applied to become a navigator.
I send the - there's an application form
and the reply when it comes
all navigators from now on
and you don't have the qualifications
and the minimum qualification
But if you want to become aircrew,
You could apply for air loadmaster.
So I didn't have to fill
I just wrote back saying,
Because it would take me -
I would instantly become a sergeant,
which would have taken me
at the rate of progress
and the salary would be 3 times
so it was quite an easy decision.
