Many years ago our course 'adopted' Mike as our tame senior officer mascot when at Shawbs. We had a great incident one night when abseiling out of OC Ops top floor room in the mess (as you do) after a few beers. Mike hadn't quite grasped the technique required to abseil out of a mess window and folded back, upside down against the wall. After several minutes faffing and him almost passing out due to the pain of a now exacerbated former squash hamstring injury, we managed to get him inside and called for an ambulance. As the doors of the ambulance closed, the last thing we heard was 'keep the bar open lads, I will be back in 10 minutes'.
Sure enough he was. That was a measure of the man.
You are sorely missed Mike you were an absolute star, and good luck lads with the epic marathon!
Brad - watch that hip!
