Kit Bennett

So there's a couple of Herc captains that owe me a beer big time because they had to fly them low level because they were going to go down.

They couldn't fly them high.

So they came down at between 300 and 500 feet all the way down to Marlborough.

And I bet they didn't go out to sea.

I bet they spent their time over the land, you know, flying the naval team down there.

Then we found out from television, because they provided the best intel, when they had the photographs taken by the press of the guys coming off the ship, there was the KGB resident with the ship's commissar.

And the ship's commissar had his briefcase, and we knew that that's what he had got.

The Americans said he won't leave the ship without it, but you never know.

We should be ready to dive on there just in case he didn't.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, it was wonderful.

You know, I really got that.

That's the sharp end.

You know, everyone thinks that it's James Bond and fast cars and that sort of thing.

But really doing what I was doing, doing recruitments in place, you know, attempting recruitments in place, that's the glamour end of human.

It definitely is.

And there I was, a kid from Marsden doing this.

And as I say, the vocational guidance officer has never mentioned that opportunity to me.