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Lieutenant-General Sir Andrew Peter Ridgway (born 20 March 1950) is a former Lieutenant Governor of Jersey. He was appointed to the role for a 5-year term on 14 June 2006 after a long military career. ==Military career==
He was educated at Hele's School, Exeter, the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and St John's College, Cambridge.〔(Profile of the Lieutenant Governor )〕 In 1970 he was commissioned into the 3rd Royal Tank Regiment, serving in Germany and Ireland as a Troop Leader. In 1975 he qualified as a helicopter pilot, and was given command of the 1st Royal Tank Regiment Air Squadron, operating in Central America and Northern Ireland. In 1982 he attended the Army Staff College at Camberley, before taking command of the 3rd Royal Tank Regiment in 1991〔(Green Flash Homepage )〕 and the 7th Armoured Brigade (the 'Desert Rats') in 1993. In 1994 he was appointed UN Commander in Central Bosnia and Herzegovina,〔(Lieutenant Governor officially ready for business ) BBC〕 and became Chief of Staff for the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps for NATO's entry into the Kosovo War in 1999.〔 For 2003 to 2006, he was Chief of Defence Intelligence,〔Whitaker's Almanack 2004〕 although he was not directly involved in producing the controversial intelligence reports that led to 2003 invasion of Iraq and Operation Telic. He is also Colonel of the Royal Tank Regiment (appointed in 1999), Honorary Colonel of Cambridge University Officer Training Corps and the Westminster Dragoons.〔(W (Westminster Dragoons) Squadron, The Royal Yeomanry )〕 Other jobs in his career have included running the Army budget as Colonel Army Programmes and posts as First Director of Operational Capability, First Director of Training and Education and Chief of Joint Force Operations.〔
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