RTE : Exercise Slaney, 02/03/08 Army reserves train in Co Wicklow

[tonyrdf]

Nah I want to go back to the Curragh...........RDFTA at the earliest opportunity!

The curragh command is gone, get over it lads,
You have already come over to our dark (south) side!!!

[Muzzle]

The curragh command is gone, get over it lads,
You have already come over to our dark (south) side!!!

Yeah and as for the RDFTA having worked with them I wouldnt be in a hurry to have anything to do with them again.


I was involved on the fringe of the ex and on the prep weekend.

The exercise its self was really on the Coy attack on Sunday moning. Huge oppertunity to exercise all the troops fully between 22:00h Friday and 10:00h Sunday was lost as the exercise was really only 10:00 to ~11:30h Sunday. As with the prep weekend there was no plan laid down to do anything on the saturday and the units ended up making up things to do.

There was no reason why it shouldnt have been fully tac, out on the ground instead of sleeping in billets. Everyone was on ration packs anyway. There seems to be quite alot of restrictions in place on using pyroin the Glen now. Somthing like nothing in the camp area after dark, nothing in the general area after 23h untill 10h next day?! The Cav did a good bit of recce on the Sat night and the Inf sent out a couple of patrols (really only for show I think).

The Arty got to play real soldier for the weekend and put on a good show of it by the sounds of it. :wink:

There was minimal enough flapping on whole and I was shocked at how well the units all worked together in general and everyone did their part.

[turbocalves]

[QUOTE=Muzzle;198445]
The Arty got to play real soldiery for the weekend and put on a good show of it by the sounds of it.

QUOTE]

as per SOP

if they do something similar next year it'll prob be amazing as they now have better idea of how to go about it,

andto be balanced, i'll admit the fat cnut at they end of the vid is one of our soldier X types,

[Muzzle]

You can't just make a sweeping statement like that without backing it up.

You do :wink:

I found the PDF side to be a good lot, but the RDF guys to be a mixed bag just in terms of beeing good knowledgeable soldiers. I think I have described them in the past as pen pushers, detached for the reality of syllabus and training. The Pln assesments are a good idea but could be better executed for example.

[ZULU]

I think I have described them in the past as pen pushers, detached for the reality of syllabus and training.

I'll second that.

[Muzzle]

if they do something similar next year it'll prob be amazing as they now have better idea of how to go about it,

Yeah hopefully it will become an anual thing, don't see why it couldn't be (other then money). Good to see all the kit being issued out and used like PRR's, Kite Sights, Lucies and Sophies. Cav had the ground radar out I hear.

[turbocalves]

dont know bout the radar i thought that was the AD, but everything else was used, i heard the op's used sophie's on (the bast#rds) us,

though we need to more night training, maybe that can be the focus for next year, as we could see the form up from our position, because it was mid morning ( i know this is because of restrictions on firing)

[Muzzle]

Yes and the arty also need to learn that when you leave the billets at the end your supposed to take all your stuff, aint that right? :wink:

The Cav CTR'd the position to within about 80m during the night as well.

[turbocalves]

Yes and the arty also need to learn that when you leave the billets at the end your supposed to take all your stuff, aint that right? :wink:

The Cav CTR'd the position to within about 80m during the night as well.

??? i gots all my stuff do elaborate....

i dunno bout the ctr, (fair balls to them if they did) i know we got an aml with an "ied" first thing sunday morn,

and some how we ied'd the bridge as it was going up (apparently it was booby trapped but i think that it was just them practicing there assault pioneer stuff) but i dont know how true this is,

[Goldie fish]

AMLs are IED proof.

[apod]

RE plce: there was no shortage. However, no utility pouches were issued. Many people opted to keep their own 58 stuff that had kidney pouches so they could pack it before they arrived there and knew where all their stuff was and it was fitted to them properly.

It's not that difficult to understand why. Especially combined with a warning of "Limited" amounts of PLCE.

Its no longer a "utility" pouch its a respirator haversack.Trust me you dont want that thing fully packed and bouncing all over the place.Better to get a spare waterbottle pouch or utility pouch instead.neater and tidier to.

[Muzzle]

That's not very close.

Have you ever been on Cemetary Hill or even done a night recce against a position that has Night Vision for that matter?

[Muzzle]

??? i gots all my stuff do elaborate....

Your name was on a green backpack there is another person with the same rank and surname...? Few other items icluding kit belonging to a certain cpl Barry did his POTs with. There was some flapping and phone calls and all items were retirved. :wink:

[madmark]

That's not very close.

have you ever been on a CTR if they have NV and its possable they have TI its close enough

[spider pig]

Your name was on a green backpack there is another person with the same rank and surname...? Few other items icluding kit belonging to a certain cpl Barry did his POTs with. There was some flapping and phone calls and all items were retirved. :wink:

Sure Cpl Barry was KIA. He won't be needing any of that