A taste of Army activity across the world
- UK
MEANWHILE IN SCOTLAND
Picture: Cpl Nick Johns, RLC Pictures: Chris van Houts Graphics: FreePik8 AUGUST 2019 http://www.soldiermagazine.co.uk- ALASKA
- NEW JERSEY
PACKAGE FUELS PARTNERSHIP
REGULAR and Reserve petroleum operators from 152
(Northern Ireland) and 9 Regiments, Royal Logistic
Corps crossed the pond to Fort Dix to conduct live fuel
operations alongside their American counterparts.
The training, hosted by the US Army’s 327th
Quartermaster Battalion, was a chance to rehearse their
niche role and saw them process in excess of 6.5 million litres.- ALASKA
GRENADIERS’ OFF-GRID ODYSSEY
A TEAM of soldiers smashed a world
record for paddling the Yukon River
from source to sea.
Captains Jon Frith and Tom Bolitho,
along with Guardsmen Joe Heywood
and Al Szyszko (all Gren Gds), beat the previous fastest time for completing
the 1,956-mile waterway by more than ten days –, arriving at the fi nish line
in the Bering Sea in 28 days, 21 hours and 15 minutes.
They also became the fi rst British troops to complete the feat.
Just getting to the remote starting point in British Columbia involved
hitching a lift on a freight train that was passing through and the
Servicemen had to be entirely self-suffi cient throughout the trip.
“The longest we went without seeing signs of human life was nine
days – and even that was only an airliner overhead,” said exped leader
Capt Frith.“More people climb Everest every year than have ever kayaked
the Yukon. It was an amazing experience but seeing the signs of climate
change was sobering.”- NEW JERSEY
ANOTHER group of fuel supply specialists converged on
Ardersier Port near Inverness for a rare opportunity to hone
their ship to shore transfer skills.
Divers, planties, petroleum operators and port and maritime
experts from a host of Royal Engineer and Royal Logistic Corps
units joined forces for Exercise Coastal Fuel.
The package saw them using the towed infl atable barge
discharge system, a series of 66-metre tubes – known as
dracones – that each hold up to 350,000 litres of fuel and can
be tugged from an oil tanker at sea to land.
They also worked on the ship to shore fuel pipeline system.
Maj Chris Warner, offi cer commanding of 516 Specialist
Team, Royal Engineers (Bulk Petroleum), which led the
package, said: “This capability enables operations to happen
anywhere in the world and is a little-practised skill.”TEN soldiers from 3rd
Battalion, The Parachute
Regiment took just 20
days to walk 500 miles
from Arnhem to Normandy
via Bastogne and the
Ardennes battlefi elds to
raise money for regimental
charity Support our Paras.
Help them reach their
£20,000 goal at
http://www.justgiving.com/
fundraising/ enduringheritage- BELGIUM
STARTLING DISCOVERY
HUMAN bones were among the
objects unearthed in the latest
phase of the Waterloo
Uncovered dig.
The long-running
project, which
combines archaeology
with recovery for
wounded soldiers and
veterans, this year
moved part of its
excavations to Mont
St Jean, the site of ahospital in the 1815 battle.
In a rare fi nd, several leg bones
were discovered in what is
thought to have been a pit
for the disposal of
amputated limbs.
Musket balls,
munitions and buttons
belonging to either the
Scots or Coldstream
Guards were among
the other items dug up
by the team.SIX
The number of veterans who
travelled to Waterloo to join
the dig in black cabs from
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