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36 Engineer Regiment is situated in Maidstone, Kent and provides force support within 12 Engineer group. The Regiment currently has 70 Gurkha field squadron deployed
on Op Trenton in South Sudan on a UN tour, currently constructing Pre-Fabricated buildings which will eventually turn into forming a role 2 hospital.
Even with some of the Regiment deployed to South Sudan, the Regiment conducted a section competition in Devon & Cornwall. 12 Mixed, Sub-Unit sections, competed against each other, testing their navigation and military skills. Towards the end sections were air-lifted by Royal Navy Merlin Helicopters to the start point of a gruelling 9.2 Mile march and shoot.
Merlin Section Comps
Sports has been rejuvenated within the Regiment with many successes. Three soldiers went to the Army Individual Squash Championship at Winchester to represent the regiment, all three showed a strong performance with Cpl Kumar Pun coming away as B Grade champion, Cpl Satish Gurung winning the B Grade shield and Spr Birdhan Rai making it to the quarter final in the B grade plate.
The Regiment hosted a successful boxing night, named ‘Battle of the Invicta Park’ the night raised a huge amount of money for various charities following an astounding performance by all boxers involved.
This year 36 Engr Regt Alpine Ski team had a fantastic season with members training at the Corps development camp and competing at the Corps Championships, Divisional Championships and Army Championships. Cpl Shorter was successful winning silver medal in the veterans Giant Slalom.
AT Within the Regiment has provided opportunities for a wide variety of challenges to the Regiment. Fourteen members of the Regiment completed an arduous 320Km trek in the wild west of Dolpo region of Nepal. Everyone embraced the challenge and spirit of adventurous training whilst learning and visiting key and educational places of the country.
In the next year 36 Engineer Regiment doesn’t look to slow down with 20 Field Squadron deploying to Oman and 50 HQ & Sp Squadron looking forward to deploying to the Falklands on Project Anemoi.
36 ENGINEER REGIMENT
SSgt (SSI) I Tosh RAPTC
ARMY HEADQUARTERS
SSgt (SSI) L Bowen RAPTC
Having been at the Army Headquarters (AHQ) gym for almost seven months I’m extremely impressed with how hard working and motivated the gym staff are. There has
been a huge amount of progress and success for the gym and the physical performance of the wider unit. The gymnasium at AHQ is not a purpose-built facility it is an old vehicle inspection bay. This means the number of users (Approx. 3000) far outstrips the gym capacity. This is further complicated by the unit being split over two sites, Blenheim (Army HQ) Ramillies (Field Army HQ). Therefore, there has been a new outdoor functional training facility built on the Blenheim side of the site, that is now heavily used, freeing up capacity in the main gym at peak times.
To better cater the physical training programme for the whole force and ranging ability of those in Army HQ, the programmed timetable for circuits has been revised and expanded. The spinning studio has been moved and updated to increase its size and capacity to further benefit the ‘Keep Army HQ moving’ initiative. A part time Yoga instructor has been employed teaching one-hour sessions three times a week, this has proven very popular with class sizes averaging 30 to 40. Outside the gym our cross-county team has gone from strength to strength wining numerous events and silverware culminating with the female team winning the Army inter unit cross country championships.
The gym and its staff have also supported various AHQ trials and research such as Optimising Physical Performance team who own the research into GCC and Non GCC PES, PERFORM, and further Army health and performance research.
ODTF
Looking forward into the next year, the focus will be on expanding the main gym and updating its equipment, the possibility of a trim trail is also being scoped. We hope to build on our cross-country success and increase wider sporting achievements.
PERFORM Trials (DESI)