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E (Lothians and Border Horse) Squadron
As COVID restrictions lifted, the “return to normal” has taken some getting used to for the Army Reserves. To start the training year, the Sqn deployed with the Regiment on Ex WESSEX STORM along with the paired Regular Unit, Royal Scots Dragoon Guards. This was the first opportunity for our Echelon to deploy with quad bikes and they reinforced the con- cept of agility being a key factor on the battlefield.
The Sqn delivered the first Regimental Urban Operations training exercise at the Northumberland Police Tactical Training Centre. The exercise was designed to give Reservists a broader understanding of operating in built up areas and exposure to tactics that they don’t get to practice often. Knocking down doors, working with dogs and room clearance drills were all on the highlight reel.
Apart from soldiering, the Sqn has had a successful sport and adventure training calendar. 2Lt Berrie com-
Combat Arms Sailing Regatta
peted at Blair International Horse trials at the inaugu- ral Services Show jumping; the Regimental polo team put in a valiant effort at the Captains & Subalterns polo cup; and representatives of the Sqn have joined the Royal Armoured Corps sailing team for numerous events.
MAGAZINE SECTION
The Fiftieth Anniversary celebrations of the amalgamation of the 3rd Carabiniers and the Royal Scots Greys
Captain Michael Houstoun
The wonderful thing about a 50th Anniversary is that you have 50 years to plan for it... I volunteered to plan The Third Carabiniers and the Royal Scots Greys Golden Wedding Anniversary on a whim one day in RHQ. A day before COVID-19, and a day before a Battlegroup Exercise in Salisbury Plain was going to be hotly followed by one in Oman.
The direction from the Colonel of the Regiment was clear. He wanted the programme to be a balance of public and private events designed to mark our anni- versary in a proper fashion (looking back to 1971, looking forward and covering the ground in between).
We started with ambition. A ride of 50 Grey horses from HHQ, via the House of the Binns, to Leuchars, hosting in a tented camp every evening. A Troop level mounted navigation and communications exer- cise around the land borders of Scotland, Including Shetland, the Inner and Outer Hebrides. Where the troop would stop off and engage with the regimental family twice a day. A parade in Edinburgh, followed by a garden party or picnic lunch, mess events, a highland games and an all ranks party.
Mounted Troop lead the parade down the Royal Mile
With huge amounts of uncertainty, the SCOTS DG battlegroup deployed on Exercise WESSEX STORM in May, we lived off of our vehicles until we returned to Leuchars in early July. Almost every phone call we had with the Colonel of the Regiment, Brigadier