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Liz McConaghy, from a small town in County Down, spent a total of seventeen years flying with the RAF’s Chinook Fleet. Aged just 21, she was the youngest aircrew member to deploy to Iraq and was also the only female crewman’ on the Chinook wing for four years. Liz became the longest serving female chinook crew member and during her career deployed to Afghanistan ten times. Liz is also the author of “Chinook Crew ‘Chick’: Highs and Lows of Forces Life from the Longest Serving Female RAF Chinook Force Crewmember ” ***** H-Hour patrons were sent this podcast before anyone else. Become a patron at patreon.com/hkpodcasts ******

Neil Woods spent fourteen years (1993-2007) infiltrating drug gangs as an undercover police officer – befriending and gaining the trust of some of the most violent, unpredictable criminals in Britain. With the insight that can only come from having fought on its front lines, Neil came to see War on Drugs as futile. ***** H-Hour patrons were sent this podcast before anyone else. Become a patron at patreon.com/hkpodcasts ******

Gareth Ellis-Unwin is a British film producer best known for producing the 2010 film The King’s Speech, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Picture. He is also the co-founder and CEO of Bedlam Productions, and Head of Film and Animation at ScreenSkills. ***** H-Hour patrons were sent this podcast before anyone else. Become a patron at patreon.com/hkpodcasts ******

Stuart Hale is a former sniper who lost his leg during a mine strike incident in Kajaki, Helmand Province on the 6th September 2006 – the “Day of Days”, during which several others were wounded and one solider was killed – Mark Wright, posthumously awarded the George Cross. In 2008, Stuart became the first amputee to return to the front line in Afghanistan.

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Kim Hughes, GC is a British Army bomb disposal expert and Warrant Officer Class 1 who was awarded the George Cross as a staff sergeant for gallant acts carried out in the Afghanistan conflict. Hughes made safe 119 improvised explosive devices during one of his tours in Afghanistan.

Sam Howell is an Emergency Nurse and Wild Swimmer. Diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2016 and since then have been harnessing the power of cold water and nature by swimming the bodies of water along the Dragons Back to raise awareness of MS and the effect of PTSD upon the neuroendocrine system and autoimmune conditions.

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Hannah Shergold returns for part 2…  Hannah Shergold is a self-taught wildlife and portrait artist who, since leaving her career as an Army helicopter pilot in 2018, has become one of the most successful self-representing artists in the UK and is now an ambassador for Tusk. To date, Hannah has raised over £300k for charity.

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Hannah Shergold is a self-taught wildlife and portrait artist who, since leaving her career as an Army helicopter pilot in 2018, has become one of the most successful self-representing artists in the UK.

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Mick Cartwright is a former soldier, aspiring actor, and founder of Grapple Beasts NFT – a Brazilian Ju jitsu themed NFT project.
https://grapplebeasts.com https://discord.gg/YfxVewsQjN https://www.instagram.com/grapplebeastsnft/ https://twitter.com/GrappleBeastNFT

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Quinton is a practicing barrister, a former environmental scientist, and the founder of Verenigma: a mobile app service which provides insight into your mental health. Verenigma is designed to help users to self-manage their mental health far more effectively.

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Jody Mitic is a Canadian former politician, an author, and a retired Master Sniper. While serving with the Canadian Army, Mitic lost both of his legs in a landmine incident while fighting in the War in Afghanistan in 2007. He served as an Ottawa City Councillor, representing Innes Ward in Ottawa’s east end, from 2014 until 2018.

Jody is also the founder of Green Army Coffee, and has authored his first book: “Unflinching: The Making of a Canadian Sniper”

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Ben Pile is a researcher, commentator and blogger. He is the co-founder and main writer of the Climate Resistance blog, which claims to be “challenging the climate orthodoxy.”

Rachel and Clare are former British Army Nurses (QARANC) who host the Just a Mum Podcast “Two Nurse Veterans walk into a podcast and talk about mental health and whether mental illness is a choice”

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/just-a-mum/id1617084416

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Hugh answers your questions. All questions were submitted via the H-Hour Discord Server or via the H-Hour Podcast instagram and twitter accounts.

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Freddie Kruyer served with the Parachute Regiment throughout the 1990’s and 2000’s, deploying on multiple operations around the world. He now works restoring historical military vehicles and equipment and was a regular cast member of Combat Dealers, alongside Bruce Compton.

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Simon served 23 years in the British Army with the Parachute Regiment and with 22 SAS (UK Special Forces). He is the founder and director of Big 5 Protection – a company focusing on enhancing anti poaching and wildlife conservation capabilities around the world. https://www.b5p.co.uk/

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Nick Brown is a former British Army Major who commanded infantry units on multiple operations, including Afghanistan. He is now the Product Marketing and Business Development Director – Defence at Hadean Supercomputing. Hadean provide distributed computing at massive scale. https://hadean.com

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Savannah Thompson is ex Army, now campaigning for better access to mental health support for veterans. She is in the process of developing an app which connects veterans and charities together – with some fantastic charities already lined up to use it – and is completing a Fan Dance Olympic Triathlon in October to raise awareness and funds. In the interim, she has created the Through Veterans Thoughts podcast, solely revolving around veteran mental health. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/through-veterans-thoughts/id1621897865?i=1000568591713

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Christie was just 17 when he passed out of Para depot and deployed weeks after joining 3 Para, to recapture the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic, following the Argentine invasion in 1982. After leaving the British Army, Christie became one of the UK’s chosen few Level 1 undercover Police operatives, regularly deploying into some of the most dangerous criminal environments in Britain, fighting serious and violent crime, playing the role of drug dealer, gangster and gun man, contract killer, thief, robber and handler of stolen goods. Early in his career as a UC he took it upon himself to redesign the Level One UCO course, transforming it into arguably the toughest police training programme in the UK. https://www.instagram.com/therealchristievincent/

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Joseph Mitcham served with the British military, in elite and technical units, for over 16 years. His service not only gave him a thorough tactical and technical understanding of some of the techniques and processes employed in his stories, but it also provided him with the opportunity to develop himself, earning a first-class honours degree in business leadership. Find Joseph’s books at https://www.amazon.co.uk/Joseph-Mitcham/e/B0822SRK9H%3F

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