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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|'''Former commander of 22 SAS; former director of The HALO Trust'''}}<br />
{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Aldwin Wight<br />
| birth_date = February 1953<br />
| nationality = British<br />
| occupation = Army officer; security executive<br />
| known_for = Commanding 22 SAS; Kroll Security International in Iraq; trustee of [[The HALO Trust]]<br />
}}<br />
'''Brigadier Aldwin James Glendinning Wight''' (born February 1953) is a former British Army officer who commanded [[22 SAS]]. He was a director of [[The HALO Trust]] from 13 September 2007 to 30 November 2012.<ref name="CHOWight">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/_pEB1c0icjdbPBQL_Yjt0zn6B5M/appointments Aldwin James Glendinning WIGHT: personal appointments] ''Companies House'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref><br />
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== Military career ==<br />
His speakers' agency biography says he served more than 26 years in the Army, "culminating in commanding" 22 SAS. He then took "a commission from the Sultan of Oman to command the Sultan's Special Force". It says he served in Cyprus, Northern Ireland, the Falklands, Colombia, Iraq and Yugoslavia. In 1982 he led "the first four man patrol inserted in to the Falkland Islands", three weeks before the landings. He also deployed special forces teams to assist the Colombian government against the drug cartels, and was the senior SAS staff officer in the main UK headquarters during the first Gulf War.<ref name="ChartwellWight">Chartwell Speakers, [https://www.chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/aldwin-wight/ Aldwin Wight] ''Chartwell Speakers'', accessed 16 October 2026.</ref><br />
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== Private security ==<br />
The ''[[Financial Times]]'' reported in September 2003 that [[Kroll]], which had a contract to protect [[USAID]] staff in Iraq, had "hired Aldwin Wight, a former head of Britain's elite Special Air Service regiment, to take charge of its operations in Iraq".<ref name="FTWight">Thomas Catan and Stephen Fidler, Financial Times (via nettime archive), [https://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0309/msg00169.html The military can't provide security] ''Financial Times'', 29 September 2003.</ref> The Chartwell biography describes his later roles as a security executive, adviser to the Omani National Security Council, and consultant in the Middle East and Africa.<ref name="ChartwellWight" /><br />
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== Directorships ==<br />
Besides HALO, Companies House records him as a former director of Aetherscan Limited (06134264) and Arrakis Services Limited (06055965).<ref name="CHOWight" /><br />
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[[Category:SAS]]<br />
[[Category:British Army]]<br />
[[Category:Private Military Corporations]]</div>MI6 Bot