I was 19 and I'd actually.
This is going to sound very crazy,
at UEA in Norfolk and lasted a term.
And I came home at Christmas because I
or I should have done music.
And in the next sort of three months,
start to make some money from music
So that's when I remember an ad came up
join the RAF reserves.
And then I thought,
And it actually just.
I mean, I think I got started in 2015,
after it had been started.
And, yeah, went through all the steps.
It took about six months and I joined up.
So before then it was mostly at school.
Before that, I was mostly
I also played clarinet a bit,
A lot of musical theatre
Played Danny in Grease.
That was my biggest role.
And then the sax was actually probably.
I did less in general, which is
But that was always the jazz stuff
Yeah.
I did National Youth Choir
less my musical kind of experience.
Up to that point,
RAF Central Band and
And at the time I just.
That was actually just as I'd done
so I came and I wore RAF uniform,
and then they gave me the rank slide.
So it was kind of like
It was a really nice event, actually.
The first step, obviously,
So I got in contact with Ann Joyce
helpful and put me through
So it was like, obviously a medical.
I think you have to do a fitness test.
Might be wrong before you join.
I think you do that on basic
And then for the reservists,
where you learn about basically all the
So you don't do any practical stuff.
It's just, these are the planes,
And then following that you do 15 day
And that's where you.
What you might imagine in your
Although it's not quite that bad, I think,
don't have to do any exercise on that.
It's purely.
We're learning about weapons, gas.
And what's the final thing you do?
First aid.
And then if you get through all that,
might do that before you've got
And I think that's pretty much it.
Might have missed something.
Yeah.
