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  1. Allow me to add my story.

    After boys service in the Royal Engineers (Junior Leaders) I joined the adult Army in 1968. By 1972-74 I was training construction materials technicians (then CLOs) at the plant, roads and airfields school at Chattenden in Kent before getting married and leaving the Army to oversee the building of Second Dartford Tunnel and it’s precast concrete lining segments.

    From that project I joined the engineering team on the first Falkland Islands Airport to oversee construction, design the concrete mixes, design the asphalt mixtures and to run the trials to including grassland trials to stabilize the blown sand around the airport.

    Then I joined Bechtel as a member of the project management team designing and building Jubail Industrial City for four years. This when I saved enough to take two years off work to study for my MSc at Loughborough University.

    My time serving as a Sapper proved to be invaluable for a boy who left school at 14 with no qualifications.

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