9th-12th-Lancers - Year 2003 - Page 0029
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| Regiment | 9th/12th Lancers |
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| Year | 2003 |
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REGIMENTAL JOURNAL OF THE 9TH/12TH ROYAL LANCERS (PRINCE OF WALES’S) Z7 Admin Troop The training year started off with C Sqn SQMS troop compris- ing of two people, SSgt (SQMS) ‘snowy” White and LCpl ‘spot’ (also known as mini Q) Hackney. The first item of business on our agenda was a low level troop training exercise. Q White drove the bedford and LCpl Hackney was tasked as the illustri- ous bedford commander. Then came gunnery camp, or more commonly known to the Sqn as the ‘Sqn Ice cream camp’ (due to the uncommonly hot summer burgers unsurprisingly played second fiddle), however a tidy profit was made. Encompassed in this manic part of the year the SQMS’s helped administrate various other activities such as recruit firing and the Uppingham school cadet visit. C Sqn was alerted its involvement to the forthcoming Op TELIC 3. The troop was consequently increased by nineteen to include the following characters: Cpl ‘Lee the b*****d’ Machin, LCpl ‘Rog coppertop’ Whittaker, LCpl ‘Dr Death’ Meadows, LCpl ‘Dangerous Dave’ Bloom, Cpl ‘Cowboy Bob’ Hill, LCpl ‘Champs’ Champkins, Tpr ‘Sal’ Salih, Tpr ‘Tomo’ Thompson made a comeback, Tpr ‘Blue’ Peters, LCpl ‘Melv’ Melvin, Tpr ‘Stumpy’ Cholerton, Tpr ‘Luffers Baby Bloom’ Loughman, Tpr ‘I’addy’ O’Kelly and the following slop jock- eys: Cpl ‘Can’t Cook’ Passmore, LCpl ‘Won’t cook’ Allen , Pte ‘not another one’ Salih and LCpl’ Bertrum’ Bertham. We all happily deployed on Ex RUSTY LANCER where we watched carried A Sqn dump halfan UBREs’ worth of fuel over German soil and then spent a good deal of time digging the soil back up again, ‘Luffers’ snapped the towing eye of the bowser through excellent driving skills and the LAD initiated a rather unusual stand to, Sgt Holt, but no names clearly are allowed to be mentioned. We then embarked on a sustained round of operational training in preparation for our looming deployment. The SQMS have had a slow start to the year but have more than earned theirbeer tokens on the run up to the 6 month holiday in Iraq. MaSaalama. What troop am / m7 ’a - LWe/s te/aX/ng m the tree tops LAD The year started with the introduction ofa new Tiffy SSgt Codd joining the old regulars of Sgt Neil Holt, Cpl Dinger Bell and Craftsman’s Easterbrook and Anderson. It was a bit of a baptism of fire with the imminent deployment to Iraq that saw us work- ing and training hard for a deployment that was not to be. The next thing on the cards was OP FRESCO which saw the Tiffy in charge of a fire crew and the rest of the section deploy- ing as flying fitters Neil Holt keeping up the good name of White Van Men everywhere (definitely a job with the AA on the cards when he gets out). From FRESCO, we were straight into Spring Charge, which saw the Tiffy being towed on to the exercise area (not a good start) but even worse being towed back in again! (two crates). The peace protesters were out by now and Mr Docherty managed to keep us busy with worth, driving into trees to try to avoid some civvies with an abundance ofpink paint. The end of April saw a flurry of football matches for the LAD played in quick succession to keep us in the Craftsman’s cup competitions. This culminated in us booking a place in the final of the junior competition for May 28th, which we subsequently won 2-1. June saw the annual firing period, which culminated in an inter- national cricket match; C Sqn fitters V’s the Dutch army, the night before the FTX. The gentleman’s game soon deteriorated into “who can throw the ball the quickest at the Brits” as the Dutch had no concept of bowling over arm. This turned into a very sociable evening with the losers supplying the drinks (with L/Cpl C-C bowling and Bernie “Bradman” Winters batting we were always going to win). Busy as usua/ |
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