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19 - Remembrance Special, war poems - Liz McConaghy, Royal Air Force, Chinnock Crew Veteran.
Liz joined the RAF as a Chinook Crewman on her 19th birthday. Throughout her 17 year career on Chinooks she deployed to Iraq twice and Afghanistan 10 times, along with detachments to both the Falklands and Northern Ireland, her home ‘turf’.
Out of all these tasks, her greatest was flying on the MERT aircraft during Op Herrick, recovering wounded soldiers from the battlefield, which shaped her outlook on life forever.
On leaving the RAF, Liz joined the UK disabled flying charity Aerobility as the Wounded Injured Soldiers rep, which she was naturally drawn to. She now helps many of those injured soldiers
on their recovery journey, getting into the skies to train as pilots.
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By TLALiz joined the RAF as a Chinook Crewman on her 19th birthday. Throughout her 17 year career on Chinooks she deployed to Iraq twice and Afghanistan 10 times, along with detachments to both the Falklands and Northern Ireland, her home ‘turf’.
Out of all these tasks, her greatest was flying on the MERT aircraft during Op Herrick, recovering wounded soldiers from the battlefield, which shaped her outlook on life forever.
On leaving the RAF, Liz joined the UK disabled flying charity Aerobility as the Wounded Injured Soldiers rep, which she was naturally drawn to. She now helps many of those injured soldiers
on their recovery journey, getting into the skies to train as pilots.