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A GUIDE TO KEEPING IN CONTACT WITH THE CORMORANT CLUB
Future Cormorant Club communication will be mostly electronic using the Defence Academy’s website (www.da.mod.uk/alumni/the-cormorant- club), by email and the business networking
site LinkedIn. The Cormorant Magazine and noti cation of news, and especially reunions, will be posted on these sites. The advantage of joining LinkedIn is that you will be automatically informed by e-mail of news about the club.
To join LinkedIn you will need to have access to the internet and possess an email address, then:
1) Through your web browser, search for LinkedIn or use this url: http://uk.linkedin.com/
2) Fill in the necessary basic details to join LinkedIn – rst name, last name, e-mail address and selected password. Once you are a member, there is no need to provide any further information beyond those basics unless you feel the urge to do so.
3) There are 2 groups you may wish to join: • The Cormorant Club (https://www.linkedin.com/groups/5113439) • JSCSC Alumni (https://www.linkedin.com/groups/4130014)
4) Both groups are “closed” and you will need to hit “Ask to join”. You will be accepted on the strength of your database details – although you may be asked to clarify some details to maintain the security of our group.
5) In order to receive “announcements” from the club via LinkedIn, please ensure the e-mail details you have supplied to LinkedIn are correct. You may also need to check the “junk” folder of your e-mail – and mark announcements from the club as “not junk”.
There is bene t in visiting the LinkedIn group regularly – and in particular creating and commenting on posts. Visiting the Defence Academy website is also valuable. You can submit updated details via the web form at
the “Club Members’ Database” section of the website. This is especially recommended if you have not heard from the club by e-mail recently.
Commandant’s Foreword 2 Editorial 3 HCSC 17 4 ACSC 20 Sports Olympiad 6 Trafalgar Dinner Night 8 Returning to Contingency: Land Combat Power Visit
2016 12
Air Combat Power Visit 2016 14
Maritime Combat Power Visit 18
Implications of the Chilcot Inquiry 21
RSE 1- Brussels 22
RSE 1- Paris 24
RSE 1- Poland 26
RSE 1- Berlin 28
RSE 1- Romania 30
Brexit Re ections from Summer 2017 32
ACSC (R) 8 34
Taranto Night Dinner 36
Parrying Unreliability: Foreign Relations and the Trump Administration 38
From Afghanistan to Zambia: International Families Day 40 Life on the patch – a husband’s perspective 42
Christmas Lunch 2016
King’s College London Policy Idol 2017
Burns Night 48
The Waterloo Dinner – 9th February 2017 50
Commando Dinner Night – 16th March 2017 52
The Lerwill Cup – 4th May 2017 53
Rome CJEX – May 2017 54
Paris CJEX – May 2017 56
RSE 2 Ways Visit to Jordan 58
Jordan – A Regional Perspective 60
RSE 2 – Ways Visit to Ghana 62
A Uni ed Georgia? Unlikely and here’s why... 64
Ends Regional Security Exercise (RSE) to Washington and New York 65
The US Election of Donald Trump 68
Means Regional Security Exercise to Sweden and Denmark 70
Dambusters Dinner- 8th June 2017 72
Defence Academy Hockey 74
Red Light 76
The New Imperative for Gender ‘Mainstreaming’ 78
Exercise CORMORANT VELO 17: Tales of the Shrivenham Velominati 79
Lights...Camera...Action 82
Purple Ball 17 84 44 Exercise Cormorant Dash- ACSC Sailing Expedition 86 46 ACSC 20 Prizewinners 89
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