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AGC JOURNAL 2016

6th Battalion

Rifles

By Major George Vosper

as Caerwent, Imber Village or Westdown
Camp. Camouflage nets, six foot tables
and battleboxes are the tools of our trade.
This has been backed up with training
weekends held with 1st Battalion Rifles
practising various scenarios as well as
shooting and Battle Casualty Drills. Our
new arrivals Privates Ellie Crook, Lee
Rosenthal and Corporal Melanie Mardell
have completed the Services Initial
Personnel Administration Course and are
now compiling their workbooks to achieve
Class One. And of course for the fifth year
running we entered a team in the Triple
Crown March and Shoot Competition.
This year a paired team with 1st Battalion
Mountain Troop SPS detachment, Alpendorf 2016. Left to right: Kyla Hamilton, Carly Mainwaring, Rifles and special assistance from Staff
George Vosper, Tracy Freer and Rachel Souness
Sergeant Nic Perkovic.

Another eventful year for our to complete her Ski Foundation One. She
growing detachment full of described her first experience of the views
as “breath taking” and her first black
adventure, professionalism, run as “ **** breaking” but she did it. In
friendship and recognition. addition Staff Sergeant Mark Unsworth has
been sailing on the Solent, Captain Jason
Mantle trekking in Georgia and we all took
Adventure part in paddle boarding and kayaking
with 1st Battalion Rifles on a wet day in
May. Jody Powell waiting for the monkeys in the caves of Gibraltar
As with our regular counterparts our
reservists have jumped at opportunities Attachments
to experience Adventurous Training. I led Professionalism
the way spending five weeks qualifying
as a Ski Leader and then teaching in Core to our existence is training and Our main event this year was the Infantry
Austria and Bavaria. In March Warrant practicing our role, on operations, Field Firing Camp attended by Staff
Officer Class 2 Tracy Freer, Corporal Rachel whether that be on a two week camp, Sergeant Mark Unsworth and Corporal
Souness, Corporal Carly Mainwaring this year in sunny Sennybridge, or over Tracy Millard. Outside of this Corporal
and Private Kyla Hamilton all deployed a weekend in such luxurious locations Carly Mainwaring and Sergeant Dex Coyle
on the Battalion expedition with Private have both enjoyed attachments to 1st
Kyla Hamilton going from zero to hero Carly Mainwaring on attachment to 1st Battalion Rifles Battalion Rifles in Chepstow whilst Lance
with her old friend Kyla Hamilton Corporal Jodie Powell had the best camp of
her career with Headquarters British Forces
Gibraltar in July. It doesn’t get much better
than that.

Friendship and Pairing

I deliberately use the word Friendship
SPS on Infantry Field Firing Camp alongside Pairing because after three
years of formally working together in

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