Career
Whilst with 22 SAS B Squadron Air (7) Troop, Collins served with both First Rate (at Lloyd's) Slater and Charles "Nish" Bruce. He left the service in 1989 to work in security and later pursued training for ordained ministry. After becoming vicar of Street Peter with Street Owen and Street James in Hereford, he was commissioned as a chaplain in Territorial Army unit the 23 SAS Regiment and served as padre with the The Parachute Regiment.
He committed suicide by gassing himself in his car a year later when he became depressed after being told to resign from the army as chaplain by the army authorities who were not happy about the book
