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Anthony Sean Corbett, is a retired senior

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officer.

RAF career

Educated at

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where he studied geography and biology, Corbett joined the RAF in the Photographic Interpretation Branch in 1988. He was deployed on operational service during the

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in 1990, the

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in the mid-1990s and the

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in 1999 as well as the

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in 2005. He went on to be Commander of the Joint Service Signals Organisation at

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in 2006, Principal Staff Officer to the

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in 2008 and Chief of UK Intelligence in

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in June 2010. After that Corbett became Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff (Intelligence) at

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in March 2011, Deputy UK Military Representative to

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and Chief of Staff of the UK Delegation in October 2011 and Assistant Chief of Staff (Intelligence) at Permanent Joint Headquarters in 2014. His last post was as Deputy Director for Commonwealth Integration at the

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in September 2016 before retiring in September 2018. Corbett was appointed a

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in the

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and an

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in the

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