9th-12th-Lancers - Year 2002 - Page 0035
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| Regiment | 9th/12th Lancers |
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| Year | 2002 |
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REGIMENTAL JOURNAL OF THE 9TH/12TH ROYAL LANCERS (PRINCE OF WALES’S) 33 from ‘B’ Squadron, having successfiJlly completed his R.P. course in Fallingbostel. Sgt Brignull took some time out to reflect on his impressive career in Wegburg! And only one week into the job Cpl Fleetwood disappears to Ibiza! (Bit old for Ibiza don’t you think?) And finally to top it all Mrs Whittaker’s pregnant again. We would like to congratulate Sgt Brooksbank and Cpl Whitworth on their promotions and thank them for their hard work during their time in the troop, and also congratulate LCpl Whittaker and Nikki on their good news. (Lets hope its not another ginger!). Now, Provost Troop may only be three strong, however if you feel like testing us, maybe flaunting a few dress regulations, letting the old sideys down a little, not bothering to B.F.G. your car or not displaying a Station car pass, then by all means give it a go... Trust me, we will get you! SHQ Troop aka Stealth Troop irstly for those of you who do not know who HQ SHQ are, we are better known as the Dolly Mixture troop, because we are made up of all sorts! Yes this highly tuned machine is the HQ element of the echelons. If you are down to crew one of the vehicles, to find us, just report to Command Troop and ask for the squatters in the hangar! If you are unsure if you are attached to SHQ as your job is so important, then welcome aboard as you will be manning one of our vehicles. As always we must say some goodbyes, firstly to Capt Peter Cochrane and his smoky equipment care meetings, Sgt’s Daz Linwood and Chalky White, both of whom legged it over the wall to ‘A’ Sqn. We welcome to the troop, with a big hello Capt “Gas, Gas, Gas” McGann as HQ Sqn 21C, LCpl “Wireless expert” Cassidy, Tpr “Spud” Payne, as the adult attached to the RAP, and finally Sgt Oselby Loseby as IC Dolly mixtures and BATCO word search fan. The troop like everyone else has had a most relaxing year, we have easily split ourselves between BATUS and Hohne and have been able to maintain our high standards. LCpl’s “Billy” Simmons and “Johnny” Meadows were deployed as the med- ical staff to BATUS. Both ofwhom now know the inside of the BATUS Med centre extremely well, but less so the route for the BPFA. Tpr Astill has requested counselling for his addic- tion to having his photo taken on a regular basis. We must point out that this is normally whilst driving at only 49 kph honest! LCpl Cassidy and Tpr’s Edwards and Jackson were seconded to Command Troop for BATUS, this was because, like most things, if it’s not bolted down it ends up in Command Troop. Tpr ”Spud” Payne has given the RAP a good shake up and has discovered the EU pile cream mountain con- cealed in the RAP store. Sgt Loseby ensured morale stayed high in BATUS by having nothing to do with the unofficial newspaper and by reading an extract from the current issued paperback novel. Yes BATCO had never been so much fun. The OC Maj “BOB” Hartwell has kept a sane hand over this stable troop, however even he was shocked to hear that the ZIC and Sgt Oselby had won the most boring conversation competition with the speech called NBC, Nobody Cares! WOZ Henderson has been moonlighting by running a white-knuckle ride minibus service. Calgary has no one-way streets according to “Terror on wheels” Henderson! We look forward to the next CSE show, but until then we will ensure that the indoor parade venue is clean for Regimental first parades! The “Sustainers” his has once again been a very busy year, which saw many of the main personalities leaving the Regiment, or even changing jobs. We have completed many excellent events of this year particularly the Spring Ball in the Officers’ Mess, where everyone said it was the best food they have had at a function for years, thanks to Sgt (Marc) Beveridge for his hard work and effort as well as the catering team as a whole. The RCWO, LCpl Kemp and the staff of the Officers’ Mess went on a cruise, economy class of course!! to cook lunch at the Grand Military Cup at Sandown in March 02, with limited resources, and lots of favours from the Army School of Catering at Aldershot, all went well, and the Officers seemed to enjoy it even though the Regimental horse didn’t win. Sadly we had to say farewell to LCpl (Emma) Kemp, who has been posted to AMFL in Tidworth on promotion to Cpl,so what is the Officers’ Mess going to do now? well there’s always pizza! Also Pte TJ (get it from a packet sorted) Jacques, well the NAAFI will miss him greatly, was selected for promotion to LCpl and posted to 3 CSMR in Abingdon Oxford. LCpl (Mick) Buchan was posted far, faraway to Fallingbostel with the 16 Tank Transporter Sqn, 7 Regt RLC. Cpl Gilchrist had decided that being a chef was too much like hard work, so after watching many an episode of Postman Pat, decided that this was the life for him, he was promised a red van, a black and white cat, working no weekend’s, late nights and to finish work at 1630 hours like the rest of the army, well he will only get three of these, can you guess which? He was a very committed chef, and will be sadly missed. Cpl (Tony) Clark is now a Sgt, a promotion he heartily deserved, lucky for some, he is staying with the Regiment for a further 3 years. Sgt (Duncan) Phillips has been posted to ARRC in JHQ, and has been blessed with a baby boy Ben, congratulations to him and his lovely wife. Pte Stewart is now posted to 32 Engrs and has been selected for promotion to LCpl this year, so there is hope for me yet, as most chefs seem to leave on promotion. Congratulations to the now LCpl Kelly who was promoted in situ and recently passed his MPC cadre (Junior NCO Cadre). During this year most of the chefs deployed with the Regiment to BATUS, where they all met new challenges (for LCpl Kelly most of them at night) whilst keeping the Army in the public eye!! As most of unit may or may not know we have a budding new chef who could give Jamie Oliver a run for his money, the MTWO, who by all accounts makes a mean fried egg at break- fast, to the astonishment of the BATUS QM. One person the chefs didn’t miss on completion of his tour in BATUS was “Lets have a BBQ Major Hartwell”, the Chefs said “they didn’t want to see another burger and cooked chicken breast” as BBQ’s for 500 became the norm out there for every event known. We the Catering Department will strive to ensure that the Regiment gets the best service possible where ever when ever as our motto say’s “we sustain.” |
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