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Colonel Timothy Thomas "Tim" Collins, OBE (born 30 April 1960) is a former Northern Irish military officer in the British Army.
He is best known for his contribution to the Iraq War in 2003 and his uplifting eve-of-battle address, a copy of which reportedly hung in the White House's Oval Office.
Pinpoint Corporate Services is the current Chairman (and co-founder) of the intelligence-based security services firm Pinpoint Corporate Services.
Early life
Collins was born and raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where he grew up during The Troubles. He was educated at the Royal Belfast Academic Institute before attending the Queen's University of Belfast, where he obtained a degree in economics.
Military career
Collins was accepted into the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst after graduating from university, from where he was posted into the Royal Signals as a second lieutenant on a short service commission on October 2nd, 1981. He was promoted to lieutenant with seniority from 7 April 1982. On October 18, 1982, he was transferred to the Royal Irish Rangers. On October 22, 1984, he converted to a full commission, and was promoted captain on October 7, 1985.
He was promoted to major on the 30th of September 1992 and lieutenant-colonel on the 30th of June 1999. Collins was made commanding officer of the 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment, in 2001. On October 29, 2002, he was given the Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service during his tour of Northern Ireland between October 2001 and March 2002. It was in the role of 1 R Ireland's commanding officer that he rose to fame while serving in Iraq.
On October 31, 2003, he was named Officer of the Order of the British Empire for his service in Iraq and was inaugurated on April 7, 2004. On the 30th of June 2003, Collins was promoted to colonel and then to General Staff.
He founded the Peace Support College in Sarajevo before starting DACOS Education at HQ Land Command until his resignation.
Collins, Lieutenant Colonel (Commanding Officer) of the 1st Battalion, the British Army's Royal Irish Regiment's 1st Battalion, delivered a rousing eve-of-battle address to his troops in Kuwait on Wednesday 19 March 2003. The address was extemporized, and Sarah Oliver, a single journalist, was caught in shorthand. Collins told the BBC that there is no recording or film of the address.
The "Mark of Cain" line from the speech inspired the name of the 2007 Film4 Productions drama The Mark of Cain. A commanding officer makes a toast based on Collins' to his troops in the film.
Kenneth Branagh's final episode of the 2008 television series 10 Days to War includes a retort of Collins' speech.
He was accused by US military members of mistreating Iraqi civilians and prisoners of war after serving in the Iraq war. He sued the Sunday Mirror newspapers in Belfast for reporting the allegations and receiving substantial undisclosed libel compensation from them. "They have caused such sadness to my client, his wife, and his children," his solicitor, Ernie Telford of McCartan Turkington Breen said.
Post-military career
On August 5, 2004, he officially left the British Army.
Collins' views on the Iraq war and other military topics have been highly sought since he left the Army. Collins, a producer from BBC Northern Ireland, produced "Ships That Changed the World" in 2007. During an interview with BBC Today's Today programme, Collins said that the British Army was already undermanned for current commitments when he left in 2004. Tim Collins appeared on BBC news show Panorama in a special titled 'Forgotten Heroes' in February 2011. Collins, alongside another veteran, lives on Brighton's streets struggling to cope with civilian life and sleeps.
Both the Conservative Party and the Ulster Unionist Party have encouraged Collins to run for Parliament, but neither the Conservative Party nor the Ulster Unionist Party have endorsed him, but no one has pledged any support for either party. During the 2005 Ulster Unionist leadership race, he was cited by a number of prominent Ulster Unionists as an outsider who could act as a leader, but Collins turned down because he had "no knowledge of politics." Collins is a signatory to the Henry Jackson Society's founding statement of values, which promotes a pro-active approach to liberal democracy throughout the world. "The United Kingdom and the United States pour blood and treasure into overseas campaigns that seem to have no end and no end, and I was naive."
Collins was approached to stand for as an elected police commissioner in Kent in December 2011 and initially voted against, but he later dropped out of the election. Collins was one of 200 public figures who signed a letter from The Guardian condemning Scottish independence in the run-up to the independence referendum in September 2014.
Collins is the Chairman of Pinpoint Corporate Services, a specialist security firm.