The Adjutants Lounge - Memoires of an Engineer Officer in the Royal Horse Engineers*

*not a real Regiment.

In this feature length episode of the Adjutants Lounge we're joined by Neil Poynter whose career in the Royal Engineers covered a step-change in NATO attitudes to the Warsaw Pact threat in Central Europe and its subsequent collapse as well as stints as a Troop Commander, Adjutant and trying to desperately hide from Wolfgang

Embedded with the Cavalry in West Germany, Neil shares his experience of working with some of the most prolific military leaders of the time including Generals. Rupert Smith and Roddy Cody Simpson as well as an interesting meeting with Dennis Thatcher.

Honourable mentions to US Nuclear Security, BRIXMIS, Measel Shafts and Russian Artillery.