Career
Prior to commissioning, William Hunt attained the highest non-commissioned appointment of Conductor. Prominent posts within the military service were:
- Senior Ammunition Technician British Army of the Rhine (1988–1990)
- Senior Ammunition Technician 321 EOD Squadron RAOC Northern Ireland (1990–1992)
- Military Advisor to Royal Brunei Armed Forces (1992–1994)
- Second-in-Command 521 EOD Squadron RLC (1994–1996)
- Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (1996–1998)
Throughout his military service, Hunt was primarily concerned with Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD), including Improvised Explosive Device Disposal (IEDD) in high-threat terrorist environments in Northern Ireland, Europe and the Middle East.
On leaving the military in 1998 after 26 years service, he became a consultant to NATO in the Balkans throughout the Kosovo crisis, where he remained supporting several projects until 2002. In Albania, he designed, set up executed NATOs first Partnership for Peace (PFP) Demilitarization Trust Fund project which successfully destroyed the country's entire stockpile of anti-personnel landmines.
More recently Hunt has been involved with the Sakhalin II integrated Oil and gas project in Far East Russia, advising on EOD and security issues.
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