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AGC JOURNAL 2016

Baltic

Adventure 2016

By Major Tom Clark

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The Corps bids farewell to Great Times The Week
Kiel with the last Exercise

Baltic Adventure I look back with real melancholy over all We began with the customary overnight
fast food and Haribo fuelled road trip
the great times that we have all enjoyed in
Kiel on and around many of the Danish across France, Belgium, the Netherlands
Background islands. Events such as visiting the small and most of Germany to Kiel where we
seaside towns, pubs and restaurants,
took over the yachts and packed them with
barbecues, seeing the Danish Royal family vast quantities of food. On our first day, we
Exercise Baltic Adventure was first on their Yacht, being knocked down in sailed North West to the beautifully cobble-
organised in 2012. It was meant to be a a squall and celebrating the enormity stoned town of Sønderborg and rafted
one-off Corps sailing regatta designed to of Kiel Week. However, as this chapter out from their town wall within reaching
celebrate the anniversary of the formation closes, the most important element of distance of a vendor selling the biggest ice
of the Corps, but instantly became a Baltic Adventure will continue to live on creams outside America. We slipped early
central fixture. In the first year it attracted – and that is the spirit of the people. The the next morning to mill around like a
55 members from across all branches and character, enthusiasm and appetite for school of fish waiting for the town bridge
we celebrated in style. It was such a success adventure of our Corps members has been to open briefly and then sailed up the Als
that by popular demand it ran again in an enduring feature and has consistently Sund past the enormous seaside estates
2013 filling Kiel to its capacity of 78 and demonstrated the ethos of Adventure owned by the rich and famous, through a
continued to flourish every year since. Training through Teamwork, Endurance, squall and around the island of Fænø for
Awareness, Courage and fun brought a barbecue in the amusingly named town
about through some really enjoyable of Middelfart. We then left early for a long
sailing.

A typical stunning Danish Island town front

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