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IPHIE MODU
I am Flight Lieutenant Iphie Modu. I
started my Royal Air Force career in
2004 as a part-time Reservist with
No 600 (City of London) RAuxAF
Squadron, RAF Northolt.
Following a call to the Bar of MEDICAL SPORT
England and Wales in 2009 I joined
the RAF Legal Branch in 2014. My
rationale at the time was that as TOSIN TALABI SOLOMON WARISO
I loved the law and the military, it I am Wing Commander Tosin Talabi, My name is Aircraftman
made perfect sense to combine a consultant physician working Solomon Wariso, and I am the
the two. My interests include social in the regional occupational former Editor-at-Large of
justice, youth work and community medicine department at RAF The Powerlist magazine, as
development, all of which the RAF College Cranwell. I am one of well as a former Team GB
strongly encourage. I also enjoy many specialists in occupational relay reserve at two Olympic
poetry, amateur eld hockey, and medicine within the Defence Primary Games and a world-class 200m and
fencing.
fencing. Healthcare. I left the NHS in January 400m runner.
2000 to join the RAF as a specialist I worked for several years as a
entry o cer. I planned to serve for journalist and then as a sports agent.
only six years but I am still serving In 2015, at the Powerlist
17 years later! In the RAF, I have In uencers’ Dinner, I met members
worked as a GP, aviation medicine of the Royal Air Force, a meeting
instructor, manager and have trained which changed my life.
other doctors to become specialists. I’m now a very proud part-time
I have worked in Iraq, Afghanistan, Reservist member of 2623 RAF
Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, UAE and the Regiment RAuxAF Squadron at RAF
Falkland Islands. Being a doctor in Honington in Su olk.
the RAF is never boring and you are I am giving something back to the
always trained and supported before country, and it is one of the best
undertaking new roles. experiences of my eventful life.
CATERING

PASCAL ZGAMBO development saw me get specially
My name is Corporal Pascal Zgambo; selected into an instructional role
although born in Malawi, I have mostly lived a (Catering) within the Joint Services
nomadic life across Africa and Europe before Food Service Wing.
permanently settling in the United Kingdom in Having excelled in this role, an
the summer of 1999. I attended University of opportunity was presented to me
East London for my tertiary education where to join the Apprenticeship Centre
a career’s fair convinced me of the bene ts of and champion the intermediate
joining the Royal Air Force. My persistence in apprenticeships that we o er to our
furthering myself through continuous personal trainee Chefs and Logistics Caterers.