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My new found freedom didn't last long and my new job, although close to home, was extremely difficult. A friend from the Army asked if he could ring and I assumed that this was in relation to one of his daughters' education.

I couldn't have been more wrong.

Adam Gardner and I had served in the same regiment in Germany although in vastly different roles. At best, we knew each other by sight and may even have said 'hello'' on occasion but that was it. Our paths crossed again when we attended the University of Plymouth a couple of years later.

When he rang, our conversation radically changed the course of my life.