9th-12th-Lancers - Year 2002 - Page 0034
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| Regiment | 9th/12th Lancers |
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| Year | 2002 |
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32 REGIMENTAL JOURNAL OF THE 9TH/12TH ROYAL LANCERS (PRINCE OF WALES’S) of time during the year, he believed, that RGSS stood for Really Good Skiing Sgt and in truth for him it did. The two Int Cell Cpls both managed to escape from their warm office into the wide world on promotion. Sgt Wick went to the cold depths of ‘B’ Sqn Tank Park and Sgt Pegg moved into the Welfare Office, to support the newly promoted Capt Denton. To replace them in the Wing, along came Cpl Johnson who escaped from the SQMS Department and LCpl Brassington who escaped from the clutches of ‘C’ Sqn and Tpr Russell who man- aged his escape from Command Tp, only to rejoin them for a while in BATUS. Finally, a goodbye went to the man of many medals (Capt Crofts) and a hello to the new IO, the jungle trained, ceremonially expe- rienced, Capt Lort-Phillips. He leads the Training Wing into 2003, as we attempt to fill the unforgiving minute with sixty sec- onds worth of distance run. So if you can keep your head when all around you are losing theirs, come and book in your ITD training before the wing is inundated with calls to use the facili- ties. Our doors are always open! Gym Staff Well another year gone by and quite a bit has happened once again. 2001 finished with the inter company X-country on a very wet and windy day, which meant quite a few pairs of training shoes spent their Christmas out on the training area. Once christmas had passed it was then on with planning for Canada since we had been tasked with doing the OPFOR for 2002 summer season. I managed to get a quick recce in February just for 48 hours but it was enough to get the feel of what lay ahead. Well April came and it was time to go our separate ways LCpl Rocky Hudson was off to Bovington and I was on my way to Canada for 7 months. During the units time in Canada 3RHA had kindly offered to run our Gymnasium in our absence. On arriving in Canada my job was to be the OPFOR representa- tive up at Trails End Camp, looking after the Adventure Training and also co-ordinating an adventure training exercise, Exercise Bear Dawn (Multi Activity Exercise) for the whole season. Our first package was to be a skiing package this involved two five day ski packages, which were run up at Lake Louise. On completion of the 2 courses the unit ended up with 39 Basic Ski Proficiency (BSP), 5 Advance Ski Proficiency (ASP) and 1 Canadian Level 1 Ski Instructor. The whole adventure training package was a great success the activities varied from snow boarding to parachuting and from paragliding to alpine moun- taineering. I would just like to thank all the personnel that came up on the admin teams and supported me for the duration of all the pack- ages, without there help it would have made my life a lot more difficult Well this year is not quite over and there is still a lot to do, we still have the Inter Sqn boxing and the Inter Sqn X- Country. I must finish here as there’s a busy two days until we start our boxing. SQMS Department It has been yet again another busy period for HQ Sqn SQMS over the past year, with a few personality changes to boot. We started off the year preparing for deployment to BATUS as part of OPFOR, with the Regiment employed as part of the Base Admin Group. On arrival in BATUS we took over the excellent OPFOR soldier living accommodation, the vehicle hangar and an extremely BIG armoury. At the end of April SQMS 1/02 now W02 Keeney returned prematurely back to Germany to take over as A Sqn SSM, which left Cpl Simpson running the accounts held by SQMS BAG. Back in Germany the new SQMS 2/02 SSgt Dave Clark was busy taking over the account and preparing for his unexpected tour of BATUS. The next 2 months in BATUS passed quickly!! At the end of June SQMS 2/02 ably assisted by Cpl “Johnno” Johnson arrived in BATUS to take over the reins as the BAG SQMS. After some well-earned leave Cpl Simpson returned to work to find a new addition to the dept, Tpr “FRUIT” (P) Astill, joining the dept temporarily until the BATUS tour had finished. July & August came & went. At the end ofSeptember SQMS 2/02 returned to Germany and was posted to ‘B’ Squadron as their SQMS. SQMSless once again, we wondered if it was something we had said??? In October saw Sgt Chris Hatton postedback to the Regiment and take over as SQMS 3/02. Then in November the dept had another change around with Cpl Simpson and Cpl Johnson posted out of the dept. Posted in was Cpl Shaun Debell. Thanks to everyone for their help over the last year. For all those leaving or left the Department we wish you all the best and thank you for your hard work over the year, and for all those arriving into the Department best of luck, you will need it! The Provost Troop The Saga Continues . . . he emphasis for this years journal notes was BATUS, but unfortunately for some unlucky individuals i.e. the Provost Sgt and his faithfiJl sidekick LCpl Whittaker, we had to stay behind and ensure the smooth running of the Regiment and the Station Guardroom till those “Cheers easy’s” in BATUS returned in November. After one and a half months of the Regiment being away we wished we had gone out there! What with the added responsibili- ties of the B.FG. Office and looking after LCpl Whitworth, we were down to minus figures in manpower from the start! So what’s been happening with Provost Troop this year? Sgt Brignull aged even more trying to sort out SNCO duties and allocating which Squadrons remaining in Hohne did what duties. LCpl Whittaker took over the responsibilities of the B.FG. NCO from SSgt Holmes and was briefly helped by LCpl Whitworth till his departure to BATUS, that was until Cpl Brooksbank returned from Canada when he then took over these onerous duties and remained there until his well earned promotion to Sgt and subse- quent transfer to ‘B’ Squadron. Cpl Whitworth returned to BA(G) on promotion and was transferred to ‘C’ Squadron. The only per- sonnel posted in to the troop was the infamous Cpl Fleetwood |
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