Brigadier

I know you've told me this before, Steve.

So Steve Mundt, retired Brigadier General.

You know, Steve, I don't know that I told you this, but you're in my phone as General Munt Mobile.

And then after that, dot, dot, dot, Steve.

Stay with us.

We'll be right back.

Welcome back to Wynn Tucson, and we're speaking with retired Brigadier General Stephen.

D. Munt is your middle initial D?

I'm going to be.

Who are you going to be? I'm going to be Brigadier, I'm not just going to read it, I'm going to be Brigadier General John Charteris of the General Headquarters.

I'm going to put everything into this.

I'm excited.

And once more, I'm going to be...

I'm not just going to tell you, Pete.

I'm going to be Brigadier General John Charteris of General Headquarters.

I find this almost emotional.

So that was a pretty important intellectual moment for me.

And I remain quite indebted to that Brigadier for... for allowing me to talk to his team and being so helpful.

And he had some very talented military officers under him, junior military officers under him.

And then also linked in with a professor of public health at Liverpool University, who's also charming and absolutely brilliant.

General Amos Braggs was his real name.

It's interesting because my uncle's name was Brigadier, which is the third level of Brigadier General.

So that's

interesting.

We're talking about you.

There's the story.

Brigadier, General Braggs.

It all comes together.

Otherwise, they'd just be languishing back in England.

So Mike Calvert, the, the Brigadier, went, went across to the Supreme Allied headquarters, which had advanced in, into France or Belgium, I can't remember which, looking for a job.

And rather unusually, having fought against this in 1944, they said, "Well, we, we will use the SAS, but we'll use them as infiltration troops and advanced reconnaissance for the armored divisions moving into Germany." And that's what they said, "Well, it's not what we're designed for, but we'll do it because we don't want to be sitting around in England doing nothing." And they did it en masse, actually.

Paddy Mayne commanded his regiment, where he got, I think, two more of his DSOs, and Brian Franks commanded something called Franks Force, which was his regiment plus a squadron of One SAS.

He surfaces days later and Obote starts asking a question he cannot stop asking.

Why did his army commander run? On January 17th, at a meeting of officers, Brigadier Pierino Okoya, the deputy army commander, says it out loud.

He calls Amin a coward.

He says Amin's disappearance made it look like the army was behind the shooting.

He is attending a Commonwealth summit he twice tried to get out of.

Before leaving, he writes a memo to Amin and to his defense minister.

demanding an explanation for 2.5 million pounds missing from the army's funds, for guns missing from the armories, and for why the police keep finding Amin's name in the file on the murdered Brigadier.

Amin says later that he read the memo as a death sentence.

Today, I am absolutely delighted to welcome two exceptional guests to talk about the first ever National Cadets Week taking place this week in the UK this October.

And I am delighted to welcome Brigadier Anthony Lamb, who's the head of Youth and Cadets in the UK Ministry of Defence, where he oversees the strategic direction of the five MOD-sponsored cadet forces.

Welcome, Brigadier.

Thanks, Victoria.

And of course, Kath Lane, who is the deputy wing commander for the Cumbrian Lancashire Wing of the Royal Air Force Air Cadets, overseeing 31 squadrons across the region.

Welcome, Cath.

Thank you.

So Brigadier and Cath, this is the very first time we have this week happening in our country.