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i guess i was kind of lucky in the fact

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that i knew from an early age exactly

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what i wanted to do and that was to fly

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so i decided to become a helicopter

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pilot in the army i'd already secured a

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place at the royal military academy

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sandhurst

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but they'd given me some advice and said

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well you're 17 at the moment we'd like

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you to get a little bit of life

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experience before coming to join the

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academy so at the age of 18 i didn't go

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to university i took a year out and i

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decided to go on an operation rally

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expedition to alaska for three months

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now the expedition to alaska really was

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for me um quite a i think a pivotal

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moment in my life and one of the phases

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of our expedition was to kayak around

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prince william sound from valdez to

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whittier

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so we set off with about three weeks

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worth of food in our kayaks

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and it was after about a week and a half

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that we realized that we didn't have

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three weeks worth of food and our kayaks

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we'd only gone off with 50 of rations

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for one reason or another so we had to

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cut back and start foraging and fending

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for ourselves and we were fishing

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we were supplementing our food

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i think i've always been somebody who's

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enjoyed a challenge um i always enjoy

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both you know physical and mental

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challenges

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in life be that in my career as a

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military pilot or in my current career

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as an astronaut i often go back to that

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period and draw on lessons learnt and

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use that experience really as a

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foundation for building on the future of

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how to deal with difficult situations