The Moment That Made Me – Major General Julian Thompson

BFBS Radio Sitrep

Julian Thompson had already served thirty years in the Royal Marines when a phone call, in the dead of night, would come to define his career.

It brought news of an imminent invasion, and orders to lead 3 Commando Brigade more than seven-thousand miles across the Atlantic, in just a matter of days, to liberate the Falkland Islands.

He tells Kate Gerbeau how his first reaction to the call was horror at being so unprepared, but that chaos always reigns and victory goes to whoever sorts out the chaos quickest.