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newly established to provide the Army focus for health policy and management.
He has been married to Elana for 18 years and together they share many interests. Their obsession is skydiving; they have competed
successfully at national and international level. As the Chairman of the Army Parachute Association he can be found skydiving at Netheravon on any weekend that the sun shines.
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Having assumed the SMAA appointment in May 16 it is a great pleasure to write these few words on behalf of HQ RAPTC. First of
all, the RAPTC continues to thrive and the many achievements of our personnel are articulated in the following pages. I offer my sincere congratulations to all those who have received awards or achieved sporting success this year. Such recognition is important and serves as an inspiration to us all.
Serving personnel will know after the Commandant’s Conference that the RAPTC has an agenda for
change in the coming years. There are a number of
initiatives which we must deliver in order to enhance
the lives of Army personnel and build on the RAPTC’s
reputation for excellence. I was extremely grateful that so many Corps men and women were able to attend the gathering, participate in the event and the ensuing discussions. I believe that the path the Corps has chosen to follow is correct and I hope you can support the aspirations we discussed at length at the Conference. The next few years will be a de ning period for the Corps if we can successfully implement our agenda and I seek your support to make it happen.
The Association continues its endeavours on behalf of the serving and retired members. With Lt Col Gary Jones as our Secretary the Association is in exceedingly good hands. He works tirelessly in the background and is a great servant of the Corps. The Association Branches also provide an excellent service in their respective areas and the 5 of 6 Branch functions I attended this year were all hugely enjoyable. It was great to meet so many retired members of the Association at the dinners and I hope next year that more serving of cers and soldiers can support the Branch gatherings. I know that those who have left the Service are eager to meet those that are following.
I sincerely hope you enjoy this year’s MBS and I commend it to you as an excellent historical document that Mr Eli Dawson, the new Museum curator, uses in his research of the Corps. I thank you for your continued excellence and look forward to seeing you in the coming year.
SENIOR MASTER AT ARMS
Lt Col (SMAA) T P Scarr MSc RAPTC
HEADQUARTERS ROYAL ARMY PHYSICAL TRAINING CORPS
Maj (MAA) G C Hendrickson MBE RAPTC – SO2 Policy & Plans
To be selected to take over the appointment as SO2 P&P HQ RAPTC, was an absolute honour, it is a role that puts you in a wide diversity of spheres across the spectrum of Army departments and without doubt has been the most challenging of my career so far. The manning arena alone placed me on a vertical learning curve. That said it is also an extremely rewarding appointment, which puts you at the forefront of all things concerning the RAPTC and PD across the Army. Although I took over the reins from Maj (now Lt Col) Mark Lewis at what I believed at the time was a speci cally hectic period, I have come to realise that the day to day pace of life within the HQ does not subside and every day is a full on day. For this update, I will try to follow on from where my predecessor left off at the end of last year’s notes.
The primary function of the RAPTC is the development, protection and rehabilitation of the ghting power of the Army; this is delivered via three principal employment pillars: PT, AT and ER. RAPTC personnel form the core of a much larger PD delivery capability consisting of AAPTI, civilians (both Civil Servant and contractor) and FTRS.
Strategic Defence Security Review (SDSR) 15 ef ciency measures directed a exible option to reduce PTI manpower liability in the Army by 168 over four years and deliver savings of £37M over ten years. Capability could be replaced, where required, with a
HQ RAPTC & ASPT - Runner Up Minor Unit Cross Country Champions - At 51 there’s still life in the ‘old dog’
civilianised or FTRS solution. If the Army could not ful l the option, the outstanding liability and nancial savings could be made elsewhere across the Army.
Maj Mark Lewis was the project lead for HQ RAPTC in the development of a paper for the Executive Committee of the Army Board (ECAB) that put forward a range of course of action (COAs)