While on an abseiling training procedure, Jon Flint dislodged a large boulder and plummeted 30ft from a cliff, landing on his back with his Bergen drilling into his spine. He continued with this journey, not wanting to compromise the training mission. However 13 years later his injury resurfaced. Tests showed that Flint was not only carrying a stress fracture across his shoulder blades due to tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, he had also split the bottom five vertebrae of his spine in the fall from 13 years earlier. If left untreated, Flint was in danger of becoming paralysed, so underwent surgery immediately. As part of his recovery program, Flint took up Archery and will now be representing the British Armed Forces Team.