The Warrant Officer in the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, who has requested that stay unknown, was therapeutically released after just about 26 years of administration.
He was given the blood transfusion amid Desert Storm in December 1990 however turned out to be sick when serving in Kosovo in 2000.
It was still not until he crumpled in 2003 in Germany that it was found he had the overwhelming disease.
On top of the ailment he has cirrhosis of the liver and may need to have a liver transplant.
Presently, after over 10 years he has portrayed his encounters to back the Sunday Express Tainted Blood Campaign.
The daily paper is battling for a full and reasonable settlement for the most exceedingly bad's casualties treatment catastrophe in NHS history.More than 2,000 individuals have kicked the bucket from defiled blood items loaded with infections, including hepatitis C and HIV, in the 1970s and 1980s.
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The solider lived with undiscovered Hepatitis C for almost 13 years before falling genuinely sick
The trooper, who required the transfusion in the wake of being taken sick while serving in Iraq, said: ""It was damnation. I lost more than two stone, I resembled a crocodile in light of the fact that my skin went textured. I am still in a great deal of torment and get a torment in my knees.
"I have blood tests at regular intervals and am simply sitting tight for them to let me know that I have malignancy.
"I felt like a bit of soil, unclean. The most noticeably awful thing ever was that my family must be tried, fortunately they didn't have the ailment.
"In healing facility we were sat independently with medication addicts, I simply felt so frightful. My marriage survived however just barely in view of my mind boggling wife."
The 55-year-old is among 7,500 individuals to have gotten polluted blood items loaded with fatal illnesses.
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In the UK, around 8,000 blood transfusions are completed every day
He said that at this point he would have been elevated to a Captain or further would at present have been serving now in the event that he had not gotten sick.
I need pay for what has happened to me and other people who was left like this
Rather, he now gets by on his little military benefits and some cash from the Skipton Fund, which makes installments to those contaminated through corrupted blood.
His wife, who has surrendered her business to look after him, declines to take unemployment advantage in light of the fact that "they won't be scroungers".
In any case, the family feels they merit a legitimate monetary settlement to assist make with endsing meet.
He said: "When I was working I was procuring in the higher duty section, yet now I get not as much as 33% of my wages in my annuity.
"That was never what I arranged, I needed to work and to procure more for my gang.
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The Sunday Express is crusading for a full and reasonable settlement for the casualties of embarrassment
"We have paid the home loan off, however we never proposed to live here for eternity. Presently we can never move as I can't get another home loan. We can never travel on the grounds that protection would cost more than the occasion.
"I was a tank administrator in the Gulf War and it is horrible to be compelled to leave and to be in this circumstance.
"My future is low now, what will my family live on.
"I need pay for what has happened to me and other people who was left like this.
"We ought to be dealt with like the residents of an enlightened nation."
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