• The thought of being done for speeding while on a MERT shout caused a little bit of interesting language in the car.

  • It's like camping without a tent, but with a 60ft helicopter instead.

  • The Army, they say it's one of the best sounds because they know that they're being picked up and taken home.

  • It's not hard to see why you get the myth and the legend and the general affection, which sounds weird for a lump of metal, but it's, it's probably not too far from the truth.

  • Sometimes the banter gets a little bit too pointed, a little bit too serious and unfunny.

  • To this day, absolutely delighted, honored, pleased, privileged. All those cliched words that that I had the chance to do it.

  • I was a squadron boss for two years at a time when my guys were doing about the toughest job that an aircraft has been asked to do.

  • I think everyone who joins the military at some point finds himself wondering what it would be like to be tested under proper conditions

  • Lord Etherton actually gave the pin to me so I was able to thank him for his work.

  • Because we had the police training, we knew all about police interviews and what they do and the process.

  • I knew there was a significant risk that if it turned up in the wrong place for the wrong person, that could be it.

  • Millions of pounds has been spent on my training at that point and all of that was going to get thrown away because of something that was entirely legal in the civilian world.