I could tell you some tales about said proper SWO..
Seriously though, agreed. He is one of the few blokes who you can say, with a fair degree of confidence, that he will be remembered well, for a while after he leaves. He's also on my Linked in and Facebook page and he's bigger than me so I better be nice to him.
His background (and the breadth of it recently) makes him a useful CASWO candidate.