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great deal of time this year with our US Special Forces colleagues, The Green Berets, training and experimenting in arduous and complex environments such as swamp land, jungles, and cities. At one point this year we had Rangers and Green Berets working together on four different continents simultaneously. This global network has brought with it a wealth of opportunities for our Rangers
to help develop the insight and understanding Britain needs to prepare for and then respond to crises.
Whilst it is natural for us to focus on operations and the tasks we have been given, it is our Rangers who remain our greatest priority. We have spent a lot of time this year developing our ethos, identity, and esprit de corps as Rangers.
In such a busy unit, we have also worked hard this year to protect our people’s work-life balance particularly because by the very nature of our work many spend a great deal of time away from home.
We remain ever grateful for the
support given to us by The Rifles Regimental Headquarters, not least through the Always a Rifleman program which has directly supported several of our people this year. More broadly we continue to enjoy the generous support of our livery company, the Worshipful Company of Carpenters, who updated our memorial wall this year and hosted many of us in London. Of course, Veterans remain central to our community, and we continue to welcome them back to celebrate our Formation Day on 1 December each year, as well as attending our Salamanca Day celebrations annually too.
Our Gurkha community continue to provide wonderful richness to the Battalion fabric, and we were delighted to join G Company
and celebrate Tihar and Dashain recently, which helpfully coincided with the Company’s return from operations.
In short, a brilliant year led by our brilliant people whom it is my greatest privilege to work for.
Practicing the fundamentals on LFTT