CONTENTS
REGIMENTAL NEWS
From RHQ 3
From the First 6
From the Second 7
FIRST
A Squadron Update by Capt Malcolm Junior 8
The Ethos of the Modern Tank Soldier by Capt Hugo Young 9
Should the RAC Command & Control all the Army's AFVs? by Capt B Potts 10
D Squadron Update by Maj Mike Taylor 12
Ex Red Viper & Ex Red Cloud by Maj Hinds 14
Ex White Cloud by Lt Will Jones 16
Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2009 18
1 RTR Officers Mess Notes by Capt Matt Banner 20
1 RTR WOs & Sgts Mess Notes by WO (SSM) D L Gardiner 21
SECOND
Ex Medicine Man 3 Live Firing by Evan Westby 22
"Buster Buster!" - Cyclops as Tank Company 1 by 2Lt Dan Berry 24
Egypt 1 Troop & SHQ on Op Herrick by Sgt T Hopkins 26
Combat Action of 2 (Viking) Troop Egypt by LCpl S Davies 29
Mobile Operations Group in Nad-e-Ali by Lt Quicke 31
Life in Egypt SQMS - Camp Bastion by Cpl Sadd 33
BATUS & the Contemporary Operating Environment by Maj J Senior 34
Falcon on the Prairie: Ex Medman 4 by Maj J Senior 35
2 RTR Officers Mess Notes by Maj J Sheffield 37
2 RTR WOs & Sgts Mess Notes by WO2 Heslop 38
SPORT / ADVENTURE?TRAINING
A Squadron Football - a Few New Faces by WO2 Blackley 38
The Fishing Season 2009 by Sgt Hilson 39
Fastnet 2009 by Capt Iain Beaumont 40
Cowes Week 2009 by Tpr Stearn 41
Not Another Diving Article! by WO2 Flackett 42
CADETS
CO 1 RTR Visits Merseyside ACF by Maj R Bevan 46
Bristol ACF Annual Camp by Maj D T?Buck 47
GENERAL?FEATURES
My War - Part III by Frank Ashworth 48
Is Armour Useful in Europe? by Lt Gen A D Leakey CMG CBE 52
The Way It Was - Basic Training in the 1950s by Oliver LeMaistre 54
50 Years Ago 56
Collectors Corner - Air Tank by Peter Payne 57