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

[fred the red]

Or maybe try to break out of it.

[Dazzler]

yeah but the weekend was dry so i'm sure raiding it would have been a profitable, venture,

funny though the last time i did a gaurd, was in the glen and the mess got robbed....

i wonder why i havent done one since

Were you there with 5th or 4th Battallion? As far as I have heard every time one of them is there (not sure which) people break into the Mess.

[Truck Driver]

yeah but the weekend was dry so i'm sure raiding it would have been a profitable, venture,

funny though the last time i did a gaurd, was in the glen and the mess got robbed....

i wonder why i havent done one since

Think of the geographical positions of each location....

[turbocalves]

yeah but the weekend was dry so i'm sure raiding it would have been a profitable, venture,

funny though the last time i did a gaurd, was in the glen and the mess got robbed....

i wonder why i havent done one since

[turbocalves]

The result of that would have been Gunners turning up in Blessington with rifles

eh no we'd have dug in around fentons, and mined the approaches to and from said establishment and then conducted fighting patrols to the mess to replenish stock after we'd drank fentons dry.....

[luchi]

What collar badges are on your No.1's ?

I know were you are comming from but IMHO the collar badges are historical.

Workshops (Like all Corps workshops) are now in the DFLB, that doesn't mean that the Corps are gone. I bet there is also a Tpt Det in the SSU.

Yes but although the Sigs (CIS) work shop may be DFLB the units are CIS is not part of some new Bat.
Arty, Cav, AD, MP and Eng were left with their corps autonomy in tact. No gunnery battalion was formed of Intellegence battalion. Where as Tpt and Medics were "merged" ( and I am using the word loosly) to form a new battalion. Hence the name Logistics Support Battalion as opposed to callng it Logs support services. Which IMHO would indicate autonomy of the corps.

If Tpt has been subsumed, is there a D Logs?

Ah but there are vested interests protecting their jobs ensuring that D.Tpt remains. Long term it would only take a minor reorg to make a D.Logs and put the other Directors under its control.

[trellheim]

What collar badges are on your No.1's ?

[luchi]

TVMS is part of the CSSC, not the Logs Base. The Transport Corps is not gone anywhere.

I stand, not for the first time, corrected.

But Base workshops used to be part of tpt they are now DFLB

And both DFLB and CSSC are part of DFTC are they not?

But although D.Tpt still exists each tpt unit is a coy of the relevant LSB. You would not consider the tpt element of 5Bn as part of the tpt corp so how can the tpt element of the LSB be considered as a tpt corps any more? So if all the various tpt corps units have been subsumed into the new units how can the tpt corps still exist?

[Muzzle]

The result of that would have been Gunners turning up in Blessington with rifles

Probably not the first time thats happend know you lot

[Barry]

would it not have been better to just have told the defending force to go into the glen area, and get lost, then send out everyone else on patrols to find them, and then mount an attack?

Or am I missing something?

The result of that would have been Gunners turning up in Blessington with rifles

[luchi]

Check out the titles on the top of any of the newer TI's, etc, relating to the Corps...

Yes the syllibus is drawn up by T&VMS which is the transport and vehicle mainenance school which AFIK is part of Logistics Base which in turn is part of DFTC. So has little really to do with "the corp". Basically Tpt Corp is gone.

Camp Staff, RLSB

I think "Camp Staff" are the PDF employed full time in the camp. I think you should be refering to Camp Coy 62RLSB that should have supplied the cooks and camp staff for the weekend.
By the way the cleaning duties that I refered to were on the saturday and I think there was only about 6 bods detailed.
I don't see why fatigues would not be part of the normal running of an excersise. Wont someone have to do fatigues in Chad. It is part of running the army and not just a way to let some sherk personal responsibility.

The attack was great for filming, and was IMHO a useful training tool, but would it not have been better to just have told the defending force to go into the glen area, and get lost, then send out everyone else on patrols to find them, and then mount an attack?

Or am I missing something?

Patrols were sent out on Sat night.

If you look at media footage of Iraq and Afgan. THe rebbles are in the hills but the soldiers are in Bks. When the Recci patrols find the rebs the main body is mobilised. Is this not what was done? So Slaney was kinda realistic from that point of view!!

[Turkey]

Just seems odd to me that the company had to be billeted for the weekend. There was so much potential to exercise the company in much then just the attack. If the attack was the one and only goal then why wasn't it practised more then just the once (on the preweekend)?

The attack was great for filming, and was IMHO a useful training tool, but would it not have been better to just have told the defending force to go into the glen area, and get lost, then send out everyone else on patrols to find them, and then mount an attack?

Or am I missing something?

[spider pig]

Did anyone get any pics of the exercise? That link doesnt actually work for me so I didnt get to see much.

[turbocalves]

To answer a number of other points - there was enough PLCE for all attacking troops as well as helmet covers. If this was not used is down to the individual unit/sub unt (and, dare I say, to the commanders on the ground- NCO and offr)

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what is all this crap about plce, the guys who had to stay out on the hill, not in a nice warm camp had to make do with 58pat (and back pack), because there was no plce available to them, and not one of them complained about it,

so seriously everyone should stop whinging about it,

regards

TC

[Muzzle]

Just seems odd to me that the company had to be billeted for the weekend. There was so much potential to exercise the company in much then just the attack. If the attack was the one and only goal then why wasn't it practised more then just the once (on the preweekend)?