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D COMPANY 8 RIFLES
The Company has made the most of the virtual training over the last few months, focusing on BCS lessons and virtual PT. Luckily the CSM WO2 Dave Richardson is one of the Company PTIs, and designed a daily isolation work out for the Coy, to which we got up to number 102. Unluckily for the Coy we quickly realised the CSM has a love of a Burpee!!! Thank you to the PTIs CSM and Cpl Downey for delivering a structured PT programme over a tough period.
We also covered BCS, utilising the technology available to us, this was a great success, which is down to the hard work
of the Pl Comds and Pl Sjts on designing
and delivering lessons, as forward thinking Riflemen, the training always made the most of what was available and delivered on gaining maximum participation across the Coy, from the OC to those newly Recruited into the Coy, a massive well done and thank you to those who made this happen.
In August the Company finally managed
to get back into training within our ARCs
in Durham and Sunderland, all under the watchful eye of the PSAO Capt Jan McNab and her team; the slick COVID processes placed around the ARCs have kept the Company safe and given us the freedom to get back to as
much normal as possible.
We deployed to Warcop Ranges in August,
to hone our Marksmanship training, after a long period away the Riflemen got back to their core business of shooting with ease. Cpl Harris thought that one of the best ways to keep the Riflemen socially distanced would be to run CBRN as a concurrent activity for those waiting to shoot. The Range day was a great success and well attended by the Coy.
Capt C Hoggard 2IC D Coy 8 RIFLES
‘GAS GAS GAS!’
Members of D Coy
don CBRN equipment
during a training weekend
Unluckily for the Coy we quickly realised the CSM has a
love of a Burpee!!!
A very atmospheric morning
for a dawn attack
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Dining Out of Lt Col Nathan Teal Commanding Officer 8 RIFLES 11 Jan 2020
The battalion bid a farewell to its first CO on the 11th Jan 2020 in the form of
a formal dinner night held at The Eden Armoury in Bishop Auckland. Colonel Nathan assumed Command of the Bn in November 2017 and has successfully grown the Bn to in excess of 250+ members on his handover of command to Lt Col Mark Laverick early in 2020.
The dinner night was as always bound to be a great event with musical accom- paniment provided by the outstanding Durham ACF Band & Bugles, under the ever watchful guidance of Major Colin
Miller and Bugle Major Derek Corbett who invited The CO to join in, with what was an exhausting and somewhat painful effort of the Post Horn Gallop, or so he’ll tell you.
It’s these rare but special occasions that allow us to gather the Bn mess members from far and wide with mess members coming from as far south as E Company in
Birmingham and Shrewsbury, Y Company travelling in from Pontefract and Doncaster and D and HQ Company’s situated in Durham with all coming together for this special and very fitting send off.
Capt LJ McNaughton PASO HQ Coy 8 RIFLES
Lt Col Teal blowing
his own horn
The Durham ACF Band & Bugles
entertain guests during the evening
The dinner night was as always bound to be a great event