them. Yeah. Is, when I,
When I left Air Force, or the Air
there was an organization,
set up, I’m trying to remember it’s name,
Rank Outsiders.
it was predominantly set up by Navy,
officers.
who had lost their commission and career.
many of those involved in it are, now
members of a new charity, relatively
and Fighting with Pride
vociferous or aggressive
It’s only taken thirty five years,
things move slow and military and government.
But, the I think it was
I might get this wrong, it might have been
that they would appoint Lord Atherton,
High Court judge, to conduct an inquiry.
a part of that
inquiry was to ask for evidence.
And just on about 300
people submitted evidence, myself included.
And it was in written form.
And it seemed to burst a big bubble.
It, it caused or prompted
a huge amount of the need to offer
mental and physical assistance
to a lot of veterans who were trawling back
very traumatic memories.
and it was causing
a little bit of trauma for many people.
I didn't think it would be me.
I thought nothing I thought I'd escaped lightly
as soon as I started telling the story, however
well it may have come across early on when I was trying
to tell what I was like.
the demons come back
