9th-12th-Lancers - Year 2003 - Page 0028
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| Regiment | 9th/12th Lancers |
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| Year | 2003 |
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26 REGIMENTAL JOURNAL OF THE 9TH/12TH ROYAL LANCERS (PRINCE OF WALES’S) the UK. The remainder of the Troop was dished out to the Sqn for a very successful CATT and CAST. Sgt Pumford was whisked away to Bosnia as a replacement for a couple of months leaving the Troop in the very capable hands of Cpl Hughes, deal- ing with the every day running of things, until shooting off to Bovington to finally do his thicky Mech instructors, where he achieved a B grade. Wouldn’t expect anything less! The Troop would like to welcome the following personnel. The new Tp Ldr SSgt Emery from the training wing as former RGSS (finally somebody in the troop who knows something about 30mm!) Cpl Cassidy from the Regimental radio repair cell type thingy what ever that is! LCpl Plunkett from, dare we say, a Sabre Troop, but we won’t hold that against him as he did prove himself on Firing camp. LCpl foster from some attendance courses in Sennelager! LCpl Sadler who successfully tunneled his way to freedom from Easy Coy to good time C Sqn. And finally Tpr Hand fresh from his 77 day extended tour of Croydon and 55 days at Her Majesty’s pleasure. Apart from those few changes the Troop remains pretty much the same with all the old sweats refusing to leave GW and clinging on to their youth and hair! Unfortunately Cpl Johnson won’t be coming back to the Tp he’s destined for greater things and Tpr Stephens has been exiled in B Sqn much to the disappointment ofhis sofa in the Tp cage! The boys would like to bid a fond farewell to Cpl kusbish who as we speak is annoying folk on civvy street! And also Tpr Iliffe who will be sorely missed especially from the Regimental rugby team and the Sqn bar! The Troop is currently training for OP TELIC 3 so all that remains to say is to have a good safe tour all come back to pull up a lamp and swing a sandbag for next year’s journal! Sgt Pumfo rd SHQ Troop The troop returned from Christmas leave in the full expectation of taking the call to get ready for Operations in Iraq. When it came the troop set about it in a thoroughlyprofessional manner. Unfortunately this was not to be and it was two weeks into our preparation that we were stood down. To say that this was dev- astating is an understatement. The Sqn and the Troop quickly began to shed manpower to A and B Sqns to aid with their preparation for Bosnia. The troop went down to two stalwarts. Cpl Orr-Munro and LCpl Dorn. They did everything. The ‘Troop’ conducted some low level trg on Ex SPRING CHARGE. This was designed to build up the low level dis- 'iw mounted skills of the new troop- ers. SHQprovided a valuable ene- my. It was not long before the Sqn was stood by for Op FRESCO. Within seven days of having been warned off the Sqn was trained, kitted out and sitting in 6 Tempo- rary Service Fires Stations in the centre of Sheffield. SHQ however, - was almost out ofa job. Unfortu- nately to save time the Sqn level of operational command was cut out of the despatching role. However the Troop manned an Ops room for the less glamorous but equally important job of Sqn administra- ‘ tion. Unfortunately Op FRESCO was cancelled and the firemen turned up to work and we packed our bags and came back to Germany. The Sqn deployed on exercise on the Monday and spent a week near Uelzen undertaking Sqn level trg. This was a cracking week only marred by the pursuit and eventual capture and ‘shooing’ lTp Ldr took from a bunch of anti-war activists. (delete activists insert four grannies). Not to mention the pink paint his scimitar was covered in ..... SHQ spent an uneventful week in a static ‘hide’ on a railway siding and were not caught. /t happens a// the t/me By this stage of the year the troop now numbered three. Cpl Johnson joined us having removed the Brecon Beacons mud from his flip-flops and started setting about making some noise. Oi, OI... are you ******* DEAF! Cpl Johnson worked tireless- ly as Tp Sgt before handing over eventually to Sgt Styles. The Sqn was stood to for Op TELIC 3. There followed on the 21 Jul a near avalanche of men, from whence they came it is not known, however the troop numbered 27 by the time we were ready to deploy. Sgt Styles has been the backbone of the troop and organised and conducted all the training and administra- tion of men and vehicles. Notable hoods include: Cpl ‘Mad Dog’ Skinner, LCpl ‘Rosy Breath’ Reeves, LCpl ‘shouldn’t I be in Sp Tp’ Smith, Tpr ‘Thin’ Galvin, Tpr ‘Jacko’ Jackson, Tpr ‘Sick Note’ Astill, Cpl ‘MEDIC!!’ Cahill, LCpl ‘Bertie’ Bertham, not to mention old creaky bones himself LCpl Dorn. Cpl ‘Mat’ Brassington is currently away tackling the finer points of Arabic. Capt ‘Denny’ Denton has joined us for the tour as our Intelligence and Liaison Officer. Pte Foster and Cpl McLeod (1 BW) join us at the last minute. The troop is now complete and training completed with lLI our hosts for the next six months. We wait with bated breath to see what happens in Maysan province. HLS SHQ prepanhg for operat/ohs m the desert |
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