I met him a couple of times. He visited our UAS and made a point of addressing all the students. He told them that that in their future careers, whichever branch they joined, his advice was to take every opportunity to fly, in any aircraft they could.
I took him at his word. While he went to lunch, I persuaded his pilot of the day, an ex colleague of mine, to let me have a go in his Gazelle helicopter and we spent half an hour of GH on the airfield. Embarrassingly, this left him short of fuel and we had no Jet A-1 on site so they had to make an unscheduled stop at a local civvie airfield to get some!
