9th-12th-Lancers - Year 1984 - Page 0052
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| Regiment | 9th/12th Lancers |
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| Year | 1984 |
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THE 9tH/t2tH ROYAL LANCERS REGTMENTAL JOURNAL Shooting There has not been much shoottng durtng the past 12 months UWlTlg to other Regtmental commitments The htghltght of the year was the Ftegtmental exerctse tn France. The pluses and tntnuses ot thts exerctse wtlt no doubt be dealt wtth ttt detatl tn other arttcles lwtlt reserve my comments to deal only With the range shoottng .A‘ To say the range tactltttes tn France were basrr: ts an understatement Lttnktng at It another way, tt you haven’t got It you can’t break It, therefore no ttnte was lost due to eqtttpntent n'tattuncttonsl Each Squadron had a two day range [tormd whttzh was orgatttsed as follows: Day One Each Squadron went through the Grenade Range run by Mator Oates t1 Ktngs), asststed by Col Merchant Everybody Came out of thts tt' one ptece, though one local gave ’Dort't putt than Too tatel' The Band m acttdrt, r” the range staff a shock when he appeared down range on a moped The French Army Interpreter (Les ‘Para‘l was sent trt pursutl The Regtmentat team did th one tttte for the second year runntng We From grenades the next step was to were the best .22 Milttary Team tn the 84mm Carl Gustav‘s on the Ann Hohne Garrtsort tank Range run by Sgt Maycock and Cpl Ntchnll Sadly only HO Squadron We look forward to a Regtntental heard just what sort of a bang the Rtfle Meettng tn Sennelager and the 84mm makes. However everybody Dtvtsronat Meettng trt T986. ttred sub , caltbre, watched at one GDM stage by the local French TV Channel. Day Two saw some surprtses tor the troops on the SMG Close Quarter Battle Range which had been constructed on a ntce ptece oi ground. More than one was surprtsed to dtscovertust how close you can get, betore you see what you should be shoottng at. Some would have been able to club at least one target to deathl Havtng ttntshed the most taxtng shoot, the rest of Day Two was spent rtdtng motor bikes and ftrtng the SLR APWT. Each Squadron range pertod was ttntshed by a ’crack and thuntp’ demonstration with slmulated arttllery . ftre, talked over by Mater Oates. 4 r "' - Sgt Maycock instructing on the 84mm Carl Gustav. |
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