I was at Air Command at the time.
So one star very much running the system,
And what's really interesting
looking back now is that the RAF delivered
the initial government
And how that came about was
it became publicly
January 2019, 2020 period
and in late January 2020
the Foreign Office had decided
on the RAF was asked to provide
and we were asked to do that
of successfully moving patients
on our previous history of dealing
If you look back
but of course at that time we didn't,
It was complex dealing with the Chinese,
there was a lot of ambiguity
and I think those people that went
So, so we provided the escorts
The Foreign Office hired a Spanish 747
our med teams went and met the Spanish
air crew and cabin crew teams, flew
and on the way out RAF medical teams
medical people on the flight
Because again we didn't really quite know
and we escorted those patients back.
A week or so later
This all made number one
those flights landing at Brize Norton
quarantine, were life number one news.
But in that time of initial response
to the crisis,
to help the country in the time of need.
And I'm really proud of the job
by those nurses and medics
said, you know, we just actually didn't
