Educated at
Glyn Grammar School and the
University of Bristol, Lock joined the
Royal Air Force (RAF) in 1977. He flew combat missions against
Iraq during the
Gulf War in 1991. He was appointed commander of the RAF detachment at
Ali Al Salem Air Base in
Kuwait in 2000 and station commander at
RAF Lyneham in 2002. In 2003 he reopened the International Airport at
Basra as part of
Operation Telic. He went on to be deputy assistant chief of staff at Permanent Joint Headquarters at Northwood in 2004, air operations director at the Combined Air Operations Centre in
Al Udeid in
Qatar in 2005 and assistant chief of staff at
RAF Strike Command in 2006. He was made commandant of the
Joint Services Command and Staff College in 2010. ==Corporate career==