Page 11 - Cavalry Regiment

1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards
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DS team photo
There was plenty of this in evidence during a sunny and
pleasant four weeks in September.
dren at the Norfolk Show while we went through an intensive period of drill prac- tice to allow us to put on a good display for the 60th celebrations. Sadly the Luck Cup evaded us this year despite the best efforts of LCpl Branston and Tpr Al-Ameri to shoot straight in the basketball and Cpls Parsons and Flower to get one over on the wives in the netball competition. That said, after a day of racing around a go-kart track and proving that officers cannot drive we went on leave to get ready for what was to come in the Autumn.
No sooner had we returned from sum- mer leave than we headed down to Salisbury Plain to play enemy for 3 Scots Battlegroup on Exercise Wessex Storm. With Jackal use on hold we were given a fleet of Land Rovers to get around the Plain and do our best to test the Scots and Latvians placed against us. As you will read elsewhere in this journal playing OPFOR gives a huge amount of freedom and a great chance to try new tactics with junior soldiers more often than not commanding the last few personnel that keep the ‘friendly’ battlegroup on the back foot. There was plenty of this in evi- dence during a sunny and pleasant four weeks in September. Early recce patrols by LCpl Moon and Sgt Wilkins proved that we could get through their defences unseen, Tpr Huish surprised one of their headquarters by walking through the tent, greeting them all and then shoot- ing the company command chain before manging to get out and Sgt Edwards hid in the ground while the Latvians walked over him only to rise from the earth and cause mayhem. Alongside these individ- ual acts of heroism there was an equal number of hugely impressive recce actions that surprised both 3 Scots and the Training Staff. Cpl Jones 188 managed to infiltrate the battlegroup in defence of Imber village and then lead in 60 QDG soldiers to attack with complete surprise, LCpl Edmunds undid a com- pany advance with one carefully placed
The Sqn Ldr wonders if he’s incorrectly dressed
“And the 94th interesting thing about this hill is...”
They’d found where Tim Jones keeps his hat
The Guinness World Record snoring attempt