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AGC JOURNAL 2016

2 Signal

Regiment

By Lieutenant Anthony Myers

understand what life was like for German
submariners during the war, visiting the
Top: The end of Exercise Key Endurance
International Slavery Museum to see the
Below: Lance Corporal Nebraj Rana at the 100 km Trailwalker event on the South horrors of the slave trade and taking in
Downs
the enormous Liverpool Cathedral, which
is the longest in the world. As I am from
Liverpool, I thought I was best placed
to continue the detachment’s cultural
education of my city in the evening with
a visit to a bar overlooking the Liver
buildings and also a visit to the Cavern
Club, made famous by the Beatles.

Exercise Key Endurance

In July all of the detachment deployed
on Exercise Key Endurance, which was a
three day low level infantry skills exercise
organised by myself and Staff Sergeant
Dave Green. The exercise included SPS
The SPS detachment has from across 4 Brigade and gave us all a
had a very rewarding year chance to get to know each other and

supporting a Multi-Role demonstrate the ‘soldier first’ ethos of the
Corps.
Signal Regiment that is
committed to over 20 different Sport Other Events
operations.
Our Detachment has been well involved We have also lost a few faces from our
on the sporting front this year. Private detachment over the last year, which
Exercise Lion Sun Erica Turner, who joined us in February, although sad has meant we have had
after transferring from the Royal Engineers plenty of reasons to socialise after work
A Company from the regiment deployed has led the way. She came first in her with such activities as Go-karting where
Warrant Officer Class 2 Damien Hames
to Cyprus straight after Christmas leave weight category in the Army’s Ladies’ showed he was as fast on the track as he is
in January to take part in a month long Powerlifting competition, has played on physical training and took first place.
Infantry exercise. Private Kevin Hardie football for the regiment in inter-unit
and I had to blow the dust off our webbing competitions and travelled to Jamaica
as we both deployed as exercising troops, to play in the Corps Netball team. Lance
something I had not done since Sandhurst Corporal Nebraj Rana showed he had The Detachment take in the sights from a rooftop bar in Liverpool
and Kevin Hardie since basic training. the legs to keep up with the rest of the
However we both got stuck in and enjoyed detachment when he completed the 100
the green side of our jobs, especially on the km Trailwalker event on the South Downs
final company attack, where we assaulted with a time of 16 hours 42 minutes.
vertically up a hill for three hours with
helicopter support, something we don’t Liverpool Trip
often get the chance to do. Lance Corporal
Symon O’Brien also deployed to Cyprus to Sergeant Anil Gurung kindly organised
provide the all-important real life support a development trip to my hometown of
to the Company and joined in with the Liverpool back in May. The trip consisted
training where he could. of visiting the U-Boat Exhibition to

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