Education
Sidney Sussex College.
Sidney Sussex College.
Educated at Street Albans School (Hertfordshire), and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, Flint was commissioned into the Royal Corps of Signals in 1979. In 2004 he was appointed as Director Defence Logistic Information at the Defence Logistics Organisation. He moved in 2006 to the Defence College of Communications and Information Systems where he took up the appointment of Commandant.
In 2007 he became Signal Officer in Chief (Army), the head of the Royal Corps of Signals.
After three years in this appointment he attended the Royal College of Defence Studies. He is a Colonel Commandant of the Royal Corps of Signals.