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in nature. There is a clear imperative to extract the opportunities from the IR. We must be adaptive, inno- vative, and collaborative across the Corps. The blend of light and heavy armour across the Field Army will impact on how we think about signature management and the blend between dispersal and mass. We must change our tactics to suit the Equipment Programme and we will need to be bold. We must pioneer our own ideas on the application of technology through a will- ingness to embrace experimentation in our training. We must collaborate across our structure so that while we maintain the unique qualities of the regimental sys- tem we fight as one Corps.
I shall shortly hand over the role of Colonel Commandant RAC to Major General Nick Perry. He will be a very fine standard bearer for this Corps, and
I wish him well. However, my closing comments go to the fine soldiers that make up our units, both Regular and Reserve. Yet again they have delivered excellence across a diverse and busy year; whether that be in Mali, Wessex Storm, US Warfighter or on the ranges and plains of the UK, the standard has never relented. Quite the opposite, it continues to improve. Over nearly forty years in the Army I have seen the struc- ture changes many times over. It will change again. What does not change is the quality of our people and despite all the changes in the IR we do well to remem- ber that it’s the people that matter most.
Train Hard ~ Fight Easy.
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