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3 RIFLES
Ex RAPID SKIRMISH 1 was a two-phase exercise to validate A Company under the battlecraft syllabus prior to further pre-deployment training and Op CABRIT, where they are postured as an Anti-Tank specialised sub-unit within the Queen’s Royal Hussars battlegroup.
With speed and sustainability being strengths of the mechanised capability, the Company launched from Dreghorn Barracks, Edinburgh on a two-day road move to Stanford Training Area (STANTA). Rolling
onto the exercise area, they entered the TL BRAVO Platoon training almost immediately;
a three-day round-robin which encompassed the pillars of Anti-Tanking – the delay, the screen and the destroy. Working through each stand individually, the Sections and Platoons were given space to innovate within their new role.
Phase two TL CHARLIE saw the Reconnaissance Platoon deploy forward to conduct a two-day find on the Company urban objective of Eastmere. An enemy armoured screen added complexity and tested the abilities of the Javelin posts to find and destroy under time pressure before the dismounted break-in to the village. A thorough
and methodical advance followed, with an enemy counterattack quickly repelled and the objective secured.
The following day a dense and sprawling forest clearance forced the Company to make judgements on bypass and develop their OWAF TTPs. In an environment not dissimilar to that they will experience in Estonia, it
laid bare the risks and opportunities for a mechanised sub-unit.
The final mission was a delay over a vast
and congested battlespace followed by
an FPOL. All aspects of the Company and
enablers were put through their paces, with and vehicles being recovered, casualties being
stabilised and backloaded, and a rolling replen
lane being secured and utilised. The attention
to detail and command and control enabled
a successful FPOL to complete the tactical
phases of the exercise. Company
A hunger to learn
eagerness to adapt has
seen the
Sprawling woodland added realism to the operating environment
A hunger to learn and eagerness to adapt has seen the Company go from strength to strength throughout Ex RAPID SKIRMISH. A (Anti-Tank) Company now look forward to Ex TALLIN DAWN in Germany with their new Battlegroup.
Capt Wheeler, Regimental Signals Officer HQ Company
go from strength to strength
Adverse weather conditions
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A MASTIFF supports a FIWAF operation
Ex RAPID SKIRMISH 1