Declassified Podcast 3 Phil Campion
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“I wanted to listen to this particular podcast for one main reason. Phil is ex-Royal Hampshire Regiment and so am I. I left when he joined. I learned here that his foster father beat him. My father beat me. I learned Phil was COP. I was in the our Regiment’s first COP (Fermanagh, 1982). Parallels. Anger at amalgamation. Another one. Patton said there are no good field soldiers only good soldiers. Phil Campion pushes Patton’s statement right to its limits breaks it down. Phil had authority issues in the army, even in the SAS. Maybe Phil agrees with Patton. I don’t and think you have to have good officers to manage difficult men who are field assets. That happened to Phil to a certain extent. Selection delayed to work COP. Phil obliged a boss who valued him. Something similar happened to me in the Royal Hampshire. I relate to Phil and trust him. Follow him on twitter. Not interested really in SAS stuff. Besides you won’t find it in on twitter. He helps veterans. That’s why I follow him. Makes me laugh a lot. He’s infectious in that way and I’ve never met him (unless our patches crossed briefly at 1 R Hants).
I sat riveted to this. The unexpected parallels. He’s Big Phil. How can I be like him? I’m seeing a psychiatrist for 2 reasons. My father beat the crap out of me. Literally. And I had problems after leaving the British Army. It’s not the lost guys, contacts. I simply don’t know who or what I am. Tried quite successfully to reconstruct myself. Higher education. But in the end, the army marks you and I crumbled. Self-destructed. It’s as if the MOD or the Army itself puts a microchip inside you that animates your soul and then simply decommissions you, turns off the chip, when you leave. And I think of Phil in Winchester and feel angry about that! Soul deanimated. Nobody understands another veteran but another veteran. That may not be true. But I feel it’s true for me. I’m glad Phil has his ‘missus’ and son. Those two pillars. I’m glad for Michael the presenter too. I have a good shrink and some pals in the French forces. But even then. Hearing so many parallels. It’s important. My take home message (for myself) from this particular podcast is a duty that I have to make the British veteran community stronger by being stronger myself. I don’t feel anyone owes me anything.
Rogue soldiers have their place. Patton’s wrong. There are good field soldiers. That little line in passing from Phil, "I’d never pass someone whose ammo pouch was undone without saying something". That’s us. Thank’s for sharing Phil. Also Michael for sharing and facilitating.
Phil once described himself as a "media whore". It was during the tragic search for what turned out to be a PWRR suicide. Phil was at QE Country Park at the time. There’s a sharp mind under the bravado. Maybe he’s a media whore but if Phil says RT I RT because I trust his values and his instincts.
Ralph Brooker, August 14th 2018”Read full review »
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08/14/18
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