9th-12th-Lancers - Year 2001 - Page 0062
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| Regiment | 9th/12th Lancers |
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| Year | 2001 |
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62 REGIMENTAL JOURNAL OF THE 9TH/12TH ROYAL LANCERS (PRINCE OF WALES’S) Dagger DTC MA 2001 left my last job in Newcastle looking forward to the 3 months offI had between that and the Defence Technology Course (MA). Glasgow had different ideas and I was sent on CATAC (or, as we call it, the Sqn Ldrs course). An enjoyable course, 3 weeks crammed into 5, and the only Army course left that is not assessed. DTC (MA) is the first year of the Staff College course. The majority of the students will go on to complete a second year at ‘the big school’, but I am on, what is known as, the Dagger course. Upon completion, the Dagger course will gain me a weapons qualification and an MA in defence studies. Not bad for a non-grad in a year! This will then open up a slightly wider career path for those who do not get picked up for Staff College. The course has been a surprise so far (I am just three weeks into the course). We are treated as adults (all too rare) and left to do a considerable amount of work in our own time. Private study makes up 25% of the course. The first four weeks concentrate on fundamentals, maths, electricity, magnetism, chemistry, and waves etc, all the things you think you left at school. The bulk of the course is then set aside to studying different systems and culminates in a project. The course ends in July 2002. Capt Jones wr// never /ooK at an armoured veh/c/e /n the same way aga/n I was not going to be picked for Staff College and, with a pen- chant for all things mechanical, Dagger makes a lot of sense. I am hoping this will make me more employable both in and out of the Army. Should you find yourself in the same boat, in an increasingly competitive army, I can recommend (so far) the Dagger course as an excellent option. TR} Adjutant QOY Aug 99 — Aug 01 orking in Fort Halstead and commuting to Norfolk, I was wondering what other ‘little gems’ the Regiment might throw my way. I was somewhat surprised when the Commanding Officer telephoned to offer me the job of Adjutant, The Queens Own Yeomanry in Newcastle. I had no idea what the QOY were, what they did or, for that matter, where Newcastle was! A number of phone calls confirmed that this was not a job to be turned down so, after a modest delay, I accept- ed with alacrity. RM? EX BR/GHT STAR The QOY are the only TA Formation Recce (FR) Regiment and therefore dedicated to assisting ourselves and the other FR Regiments. Y Sqn are affiliated to 9/12L. The QOY covers a large area - about the size of Belgium - with A and C Squadrons in Scotland, Y in York, D (NH) in Newcastle ."‘Lr;'l=!é‘= ”fr. and B (NIH) in Belfast; it is no mean feat to visit the Squadrons on a regular basis. The TA, and more so, the Yeomanry, are a k E rare breed. They are people who give up |
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