Page 46 - QDG Volume 9 No. 5

“So when I say duck, don’t say ‘what’ alright?”
Yup - that’s broken
Op CABRIT 15 Pre-Deployment Training
2024 started with a quite literal bang for
dour throughout, morale stayed high,
recreate the rush experienced by our fore-
B Sqn as they completed Ex Dragoon’s
probably helped by the expenditure of
bears in the KDG charging at Waterloo,
Fire and Ex Eagle’s Fire, their dismounted
over 400 HE Grenades, a fact which
but some would say advancing west
and mounted range packages held in
astounded Brigade (It turns out the
along the M25 with your troop of Jackal
Warcop and Lulworth respectively, as
Gunners, HCR & RL are yet to show their
line abreast is the modern equivalent.
part of their PDT for Op CABRIT (P) 15.
ability or lack thereof with pyrotechnics).
Despite Capt Clark’s cavalier attitude to
Having not long returned from
For the destruction of 103 Fig 11s, 56 Fig
manoeuvre, all bar one Jackal made the
Christmas leave, the troops departed for
12s & 82 ‘Huns head targets’, miracu-
journey from Norfolk to Dorset without
North Yorkshire for a 2-week dismounted
lously, and much to the relief of the Range
issue, no doubt thanks to the stellar work
range package, progressing from basic
Conducting Officers, the only casualty
of the Artificer, SSgt Aldridge, and his
static firing and grenade drills, all the way
sustained to B Sqn was 1 x twisted knee,
fitter section.
to the Section attack by night.
all in all not a bad innings.
Once settled, the SQMS established
Following a recent influx of recruits
With all troops achieving the required
his tuck shop, LCpl Bateson accounted
from Bovington, this was the first compre-
standard, and Brigade well and truly
for his 100,000 Rds & DIO pushed out a
hensive range package for many of the
assured of B Sqn’s dismounted lethality,
ban on illumination, thus beginning two
Squadron, but all performed admirably
the focus transitioned towards our
weeks of sunshine, cordite, and range
and showed real skill on their weapon
mounted prowess, and hopefully a kinder
fires.
systems (bar a few of the attached
Dorset Climate.
AW
arms…). Whilst the weather remained
In Today’s Army, one will struggle to
Bateson and company
Nope, no range fires to see here, can’t
imagine how they’d have started…