00:00 The biggest rewards here at RAF Lossiemire is in year two, which is due to come to an end in July.
00:05 Is that correct?
00:06 It is, that's right, yeah. So it's being able to come back to Lossie. I desperately wanted to
00:11 come back here with my family. It's my third tour here. The fact that that was combined with
00:16 running the place was just a huge privilege. I got here 10 years ago,
00:22 the first typhoon, and I've kind of seen my time out at the best role, which is being
00:32 responsible for the station, its people, and its links to the community.
00:35 Amazing. And what role does RAF Lossiemire play in the Murray community? How do you help it,
00:42 and how does the community help you guys too?
00:44 RAF Lossiemire, fundamentally, we exist here to help keep the nation safer. Our role here
00:50 nowadays is the scale and complexity of the capabilities that we have here with our typhoons,
00:56 Poseidons, soon to be wedge sails. We're here to protect the nation in the air, over the sea,
01:01 and on the land. That's our fundamental purpose here, but we can't do that without the support
01:06 of all of our people, and therefore the community that we live within. And I think the fact that
01:12 most people who are based here are perhaps a little bit further away than where their support
01:17 networks are, then the community becomes so vital. And as much as anything, we've got our own
01:23 community in the camp, but now we are so big, it's ever more important that we're close to the
01:34 community that we live within too, here in Murray.
01:37 And this one's more of a personal one for yourself. You obviously, you've done lots of
01:42 tours in different places, and that must mean quite a bit of approval every few years. What
01:47 do you do when you get to somewhere new that makes things feel familiar for you and your family?
01:51 Like, do you have one ritual or routine that you do when you get somewhere new that makes you feel
01:55 a bit more settled?
01:56 I think it's changed over the years, that. But I signal, I think we all feel that we've made the
02:02 house a home when the pictures go up. And my personal aim is always to do that from within
02:09 seven days of kind of getting there. So we get pretty practised at packing and unpacking, getting
02:15 things set up pretty quickly. But I think it's those pictures up, and when they go up, then we
02:19 all sit down on the sofa and can kind of relax.
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