title: Simon Pack
text: # Simon Pack
  
  Major-General Simon James Pack CB CBE is a retired Royal Marines officer.
  
  ## Military career
  
  Educated at Fernden Preparatory School in Surrey and Hurstpierpoint College, Pack was commissioned into the Royal Marines in 1962. As a junior officer he was deployed to Sarawak during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation. After serving in Northern Ireland during The Troubles, he became Commanding Officer of 45 Commando in 1987, Director Commitments (Overseas) in 1990 during the Gulf War and Commander British Forces Gibraltar in 1994.
  
  Since his retirement from the Royal Marines in 1997, Pack has been International Teams Director of the England and Wales Cricket Board and Partnership Secretary of Gill Jennings & Every, a law firm.
  
  