High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! General Sir Michael David "Mike" Jackson,GCB, CBE, DSO, DL (born 21 March 1944) is a retired British Army officer and one of its most high-profile generals since the Second World War. Originally commissioned into the Intelligence Corps in 1963, he transferred to the Parachute Regiment, with whom he served two of his three tours of duty in Northern Ireland. On his first, he was present as an adjutant, second in command at the events of Bloody Sunday (1972), when soldiers opened fire on protesters, killing 13 people. The second inquiry was expected to report in late 2009 but was delayed until after the general election on 6 May 2010.The report of the inquiry was published on 15 June 2010. The report concluded, "The firing by soldiers of 1 PARA on Bloody Sunday caused the deaths of 13 people and injury to a similar number, none of whom was posing a threat of causing death or serious injury." Saville stated that British paratroopers "lost control", fatally shooting fleeing civilians and those who tried to aid the civilians who had been shot by the British soldiers. The report stated that British soldiers had concocted lies in their attempt to hide their acts. Saville stated that the civilians had not been warned by the British soldiers that they intended to shoot. The report states, contrary to the previously established belief, that no stones and no petrol bombs were thrown by civilians before British soldiers shot at them, and that the civilians were not posing any threat. Further info can be found in the Socialist Review of September 2006 titled: "A Glittering Career launched with a cover up." On his second, he was a company commander in the aftermath of the Warrenpoint ambush (1979), the British Army`s heaviest single loss of life during the Troubles. He was assigned to a staff post at the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in 1982 before assuming command of the 1st Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, in 1984. Jackson was posted to Northern Ireland for the third time, as a brigade commander, in the early 1990s.