9th-12th-Lancers - Year 2013 - Page 0042
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| Regiment | 9th/12th Lancers |
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| Year | 2013 |
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40 REGIMENTAL JOURNAL OF THE 9TH/12TH ROYAL LANCERS (PRINCE OF WALES’S) Training Wing his Year has been another transitional and busy year for the Training Wing with MST and the almost entire change of staff, except for Capt Rickett who managed to hang onto the seat until after the MST when he finally jumped ship in Oct 13 to become part of the UK ROG before then moving to Caterick in Jan 14 to endure the role of Amalgamation Projects Officer. The first new arrival was SSgt Champkins who assumed the role of RGSS for SSgt Hall, who like his predecessor move on to the role of SQMS to work a little harder and play a little less golf. Shortly after the arrival of SSgt Champkins, WO2 (TWO) Mawhinney moved to HQ SQN leaving the position Gapped for a month until WOZ Lane completed his handover of B SQN SQMS to SSgt Hall. SSgt Bagshaw although on paper as the D&M SSgt spent the first part of 2013 as CTS, teaching WHG along with LCpl Bell teaching RWMK. After this spent a few weeks in camp had a bit of leave and both headed off to Afghanistan until the end of the Year as part of the RSOI Team. LCpl Bell return to the Library whilst SSgt Bagshaw continued his resettlement and prepared himself for his transition into civilian life and a job with Leices- tershire constabulary where his is to become a student again for 7 months whilst conducting his training, look out for all those who return to Leicester! The Training Wing also had Tpr Burrows arrive to assist the Team throughout the busy MST period in a various number of tasks, including the rather mundane task of shredding a rather large amount of publications. The New Year started at a million miles an hour for the new Training Team continuing with the preparation of the MST courses and external Training Teams such as SAAB and JA- COVE setting up in Hohne, which on numerous occasions saw Capt Rickett and SSgt Champkins coming in on leave periods. The Main Effort to ensure all the SQN’s departed with the cor- rect number of qualified personnel, also making a number of name changes (more than once on many occasions!) to cater for the changes within the SQN’s and the number of redundancies on Tranche 3. Along with this the Training Wing organised three separate Troop assessments, giving the Troops the opportunity to practice all their skills on a complex ambush before heading to Thetford to be assessed by the OI’TAG Team. Along with the MST the Training Wing had to continue with the PAM 1 courses to ensure the Regt continued to have the cor- rect qualified personnel, again making a number of last minute changes to coincide with MST and Non PAM 1 course required. Running a total of 15 pre-course packages. Towards the end of the busy period saw the majority of the Training Team dispersing. SSGT Bagshaw and LCpl Bell were already out on the RSOI Team, next to go was WO2 Lane who at the last minute managed to take Tpr Burrow with him to the UK Detachment, leaving Capt Rickett and SSgt Champkins. Shortly after this Capt Rickett also departed to the UK Detachment un- til moving up to the QRL in Caterick to become Amalgamation Projects Officer Leaving SSgt Champkins to run the Training Wing on his own for the last few months of the year, continuing with the BCR Training and continuing the continuous task to get more places on the RSOI and ARB’s with the continuous churn. The next step is thinking ahead to all of the career cours- es due over the next year and beyond that to the autumn and the challenges of retraining to refresh the core mounted skills. SC Motor Transport Department his last year has been a testing year for the Motor Transport Department. We initially started 2013 with 25 soldiers on the ORBAT; as of the time of writing, this has been whittled down 60% to a meagrely 11. Operations, Tranche 3 redundancy and natural wastage have all taken their toll on a busy Depart- ment. This will always be the case and the main effort currently is supporting the Regiment on Operation Herrick 19. We have had drivers deployed supporting the sub units in Cy- prus, Kenya, UK and Afghanistan. Needless to say the soldiers’ driving skills are continuously improving and Tpr Russell can now be left unsupervised in the drivers’ cab. As is reported annually in the journal, we have said many fare- wells to numerous members of the Department. Sgt Janusz fi- |
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