“The one I remember is going into London, as it was for us in Essex, on New Year's Eve in 1981. There were four of us and we'd had a few lagers on the way. One of my mates threw up in the Tube and then stood up and fell over in it. We thought it was the funniest thing we'd ever seen.”

“So we have a group within the office that is devoted to support for the war fighter. That's, of necessity, an operational and tactical level of concern.”