Left school at 16 joined RAF Regiment and served for nearly 23 years before leaving and attempting civilian life. Lasted less than 6 months before rejoining as full time reservist. A further 3 years as reserve including another 2 tours of Afghanistan before finally leaving and becoming a civilian again
. Retrained as an electrician, thanks to retraining program for veterans etc and after working for a living, as the wife puts it, moved off the tools and became a project supervisor for the MOD, yep back on military bases again, but this time as a civi. Continued in this role until the "chinese flu" struck and after been on furlough decided to jack it all in and retire. With been over 56 I was entitled to take a tax free lump sum from my pension which helped fund the move over here to Tunisia and is keeping us quite comfortably and will until my full pension is due in just under 8yrs. So we are now living in the sun and enjoying every minute of it relaxing and doing exactly what we want, when we want, mainly sunbathing and riding the K11 around the quiet scenic areas of Tunisia what the tourists don't know about or go to very often.We also have the added luxury of been able to jump on a ferry and go to either Sicily, mainland Italy, France or Malta (via ferry from Sicily).