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museum in the morning before hightailing it back to Sennelager. Tipping up on the day with a Regimental flag raised a few eyebrows from bemused visitors but by the time anyone realised who we were we had made good our escape, not before scaling the heights of the Lions Mound.
By the end of the deployment even the youngsters were singing the praises of Germany and all it had to offer, a certain Officer was heard saying “Now I know why everyone keeps talking about Fally” whilst complaining that he was now skint.
August saw the Squadron deploy to and in support of dismounted ranges in Otterburn. This was to bring everyone up to dismounted section by night firing in preparation for the required start state for VJTF(L) validation. For anyone who has been on the range complex in Otterburn you will remember the type of
ground there. For those who have been lucky not to have been there its actually a great place to get the firing progression completed. The land is typical boarders rolling hills covered with heather sporadically dotted with sheep, cows, and soldiers. It has deep valleys filled with water, holes covered by flowers which are waist deep filled with water and every type of divot most would design to slow enemy advance by foot surrounded by water! On the section attack by day range the Commanding Officer whilst doing his best to impersonate Audie Murphy (youth might need to use Google) disappeared from view whilst in a full charge, HQ Sqn Leader looked round to see his wing man flying through the air and land in a wet feature face down, without breaking his run HQ Sqn Leader shouted ‘Penalty ref!” and took a new fire position to give covering fire. After two weeks the majority of the regiment managed to get through the brilliantly run ranges and get back up to Leuchars.
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