9th-12th-Lancers - Year 1985 - Page 0039
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| Regiment | 9th/12th Lancers |
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| Year | 1985 |
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D Squadron The Squadron has now survived its first year and goes from strength to strength. We have had a busy year with much variety. We said farewell to Captain Lewis who was dined out in style by SHQ Tp. and we have seen a sizeable reinforcement of the Squadron by new recruits. As a result we are now able to man all our equipment in- cluding Support Troop. May saw us providing the enemy for PROBEX. This provided much variety; for amusement and fun we attacked trains, staged car crashes, demonstrated. manned check points. We even catered for the Americans. Sgt Bentley managed to be presented with a ‘Certificate of Achievement' by the Americans. We are still not sure what he achieved! In early June we spent five days at Sennelager conducting a Skill at Arms Camp. This gave us the chance to complete all the APWTs. We also ran a Rifle Meeting for the Regiment. LCpl Yorke and Tpr Darmola won the LMG Cup in great style. The rest of June and July were devoted to gunnery training and gunnery camp. Sgt Hutt joined the Squadron as 3 Tp Sergeant and the Sqn Gunnery SNCO. The Squadron achieved a good result thanks to every- one’s hard work. i and 2 Tps managed to destroy totally three model aeroplanes during the air defence practice. All the sabre troops produced good battle runs. GW Tp managed reasonable results. proving that they could make their equipment work sometimes. The Regimental live firing exercise produced some spectacular shoots from the Squadron. The reward at the end of Gunnery Camp was three weeks block leave. After leave Exercise Lionheart was upon us. Lt Bruseth handed over 1 Tp to Lt Duda of the royal Australian Armoured Corps who was with us on Exercise Long Look. He quickly settled in and soon the “popping of tubes" could be detected in lTp. The exercise had some amusing and memorable THE 9TH/12TH ROVAL LANCERS REGIMENTAL JOURNAL Welcome lo the pleasure dome! SHQ in nelinn. moments for the Squadron. 2 Tp achieved fame by capturing the entire plans for the exercise much to the dismay of the Bundeswehr. 3 Tp take the prize for audacity in treading in the footsteps of those who had already been captured. However. they are con- gratulated on excellent results in the early stages, even if they didn‘t see much action after their capture. The exercise provided the first outing for Support Tp under Col. Jones' direction. They were reinforced by reservists and found squeezing five into a loaded Spartan interesting! The event that most will remember was the Squadron’s deep penetration raid. Whether it was the voice of SSgt Anderson from the top of the hill trying to get to the bottom or, Captain Lewis' |
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