Chris Hunter (British Army officer)

He was then commissioned into the Royal Logistic Corps, the route that would eventually lead to his becoming an Ammunition Technical Officer (the British Army's bomb disposal operators).

[1] He was also the designated technical Operations Officer for the national contingency response to the terrorist use of a weapon of mass destruction in the UK.

Hunter is also a Fellow of the Institute of Explosives Engineers, a Member of the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators and a regular contributor to television, radio news and current affairs programmes.

[6] In 2012 he was selected to be one of 15 Ambassadors for Prime Minister David Cameron's youth development initiative, the National Citizen Service.

[7] He is also a supporter and donator to numerous military charities including Help for Heroes, Veterans in Action, Tickets for Troops, Walking With The Wounded, Combat Stress, The British Forces Foundation, Global Enduro, Change Step and BLESMA for which he trained to run the 2009 London Marathon while wearing a complete bomb disposal suit,[8] completing it in 6hrs 56mins[9] and setting a new world record.