Chris Cocks (728352, L/Cpl retd.) served 3 years and 28 days with 11 Troop, 3 Commando from January 1976, sneaking out the back gate with a clipboard in early February 1979 during The Trooper Dedication parade - the appended 28 days being an unpaid Grow-your-own-Dope and How-to-Steal-an-Ammo-Truck course at Brady Barracks. He was then offered a farming job in Middle Sabi; however the Army refused to countenance a waiver of call-ups, so he attested into the BSAP and spent the remaining 14 months of the war as a PATU stick leader hiding from ZANLA and the Military Police. With Zimbabwean independence in April 1980, he made up his mind to promptly leave the country, doing so in 1996 when he moved to Joburg. Finding himself strangely unemployable, he was forced to start his own publishing business, which went spectacularly bankrupt in 2002 as a result of the C.N.A.liquidation. Slipping quietly out the country in 2003, he spent a year lurking in Mozambique, Malawi and Tanzania playing guitar in ex-pat pubs and building for himself a reputation as a SADC rock star. Returning to Joburg in 2004, he once again found himself strangely unemployable and was forced to start 30(deg) South Publishers. He is married to Kerrin, has four children in four different countries and two ex-wives, fortunately in two different countries. He is looking forward to a bright future.