He served with the Parachute Regiment and 22 Special Air Service (SAS) from 1972 to 1984. He took part in several famous missions including the SAS Embassy Siege in London on May 5th 1980 and a suicide mission into Argentina in 1982. Shot, stabbed and the victim of an attempted bombing in Northern Ireland before the age of twenty-one, these are just some of his many exploits plus others as a sniper, mercenary and bodyguard. An acclaimed martial artist, in recent years he started placing philosophical maxims on social media and became known as 'The Wise Old Paratrooper.'