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AGC JOURNAL 2018

The newly arrived Private Sydney Cole attended Exercise
Golden Lion in Austria and socially, we continue to take every Stacey The repatriation of Captain
opportunity to gather outside of the work environment for Simpson Dean Sprouting. The cortege
enjoyable events such as karting, bowling, archery, pottery and having a go stops at the Brize Norton
more. at archery Garden of Remembrance
In October, 14 members of the Detachment deployed to the
Muir of Ord in North West Scotland, a bleak unforgiving, hostile
location, but nonetheless comfortable due to the excellent
facilities at the Fairburn Activity Centre. Whilst there, everyone
took part in mountain biking, geo-caching, archery, paint

balling and high rise team building and confidence activities
such as crate stacking and Jacob’s Ladder. Everyone thoroughly

enjoyed themselves with a welcome break from the office
routine.
The Bit We Get Paid For
Our day job is omnipresent, challenging yet perversely Collective
satisfying. The work life balance is great up in Inverness. The Mountain
Training Wing supports us in all matters and having a range Biking
on your doorstep keeps our shooting skills up to scratch and
we hope to deliver a good show at the 2019 Triple Crown which
will no doubt be led by the incoming Detachment Commander,
Captain Scotty Munro.
The Future and Beyond
We enter the next year with vigour and zeal and we will
continue to ply our trade. Captain Julie Anderson and Captain
Scotty Munro will be in post and we look forward to delivering
our 2019 Journal entry where we will detail what is expected
to be a kinetic yet exciting 12 months. If you’ve made it this far
then you deserve to look at some of our pictures.

Scott Hopkins
mountain
biking

On the
ladder

The Archery Team at Jurassic Park. Left to right: Pete Baron, Mo
Senehang, Renton Hopkins, Rav Ravutia, Al O’Neill, Lisa Smith,
Mo Al-Mamun, Sydney Cole, Brad Drake and Craig Jones

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