{"id":992,"date":"2024-07-30T16:53:03","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T16:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/englishtwenty.org.uk\/usa2024\/?page_id=992"},"modified":"2024-07-30T16:53:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T16:53:03","slug":"colonel-retd-sir-charlie-sykes-bt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/englishtwenty.org.uk\/usa2024\/team\/colonel-retd-sir-charlie-sykes-bt\/","title":{"rendered":"Colonel (retd) Sir Charlie Sykes Bt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/englishtwenty.org.uk\/usa2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/07\/Charlie-Sykes-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-993\" width=\"515\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishtwenty.org.uk\/usa2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/07\/Charlie-Sykes-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/englishtwenty.org.uk\/usa2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/07\/Charlie-Sykes-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/englishtwenty.org.uk\/usa2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/07\/Charlie-Sykes-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/englishtwenty.org.uk\/usa2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/07\/Charlie-Sykes-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/englishtwenty.org.uk\/usa2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/07\/Charlie-Sykes-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Charlie started shooting at Malvern College and, after a brief gap year in the Army, continued at Oxford University finishing with a full Blue as team captain. His shooting career in the Army included a number of tours to Jersey and South Africa and was punctuated by frequent overseas operational tours (to Northern Ireland and, alongside close American allies, Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan). A former sniper instructor, a highlight was as the MOD\u2019s lead for infantry capability for three years \u2013 shaping small arms procurement and championing marksmanship across the UK\u2019s Armed Forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now retired after over 36 years\u2019 service he is able to spend significantly more time offshore sailing, cycling, alpine ski-touring and climbing and has recently found the time to take up triathlon. He is looking forward to this first ever non-work trip to the USA \u2013 but is still no closer to his dream of crossing the American continent on a Harley-Davidson!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie started shooting at Malvern College and, after a brief gap year in the Army, continued at Oxford University finishing with a full Blue as team captain. His shooting career in the Army included a number of tours to Jersey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":22,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-992","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishtwenty.org.uk\/usa2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishtwenty.org.uk\/usa2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishtwenty.org.uk\/usa2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishtwenty.org.uk\/usa2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishtwenty.org.uk\/usa2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/englishtwenty.org.uk\/usa2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994,"href":"https:\/\/englishtwenty.org.uk\/usa2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/992\/revisions\/994"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishtwenty.org.uk\/usa2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishtwenty.org.uk\/usa2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}