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                                                          ADJUTANT GENERAL’S CORPS
                                                          25th ANNIVERSARY


                                                                                Tunnels


                                                                                Major Justine Williams and Warrant
                                                                                Officer Class 2 Sarah Cadman, serving
                                                                                with the Joint Administrative Office
                                                                                had arranged a number of events. First
                                                                                was the Tunnel Tour. Inside the Rock of
                                                                                Gibraltar are about 34 miles of tunnels,
                                                                                constructed over the course of nearly
                                                                                200 years. The tunnels housed guns,
                                                                                hangars, ammunition stores, barracks
                                                                                and hospitals, within a land area of
                                                                                only 2.6 square miles. Walking along
                                                                                the historic tunnels, visitors caught a
                                                                                glimpse of what life was like in the past,
                                                                                and wondered how the tunnels could
                                                                                have been carved out of rock without
                                                                                the use of machinery.




























































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