DURING MY MILITARY CAREER I was involved in two major military operations; the biggest by far was the First Gulf War 1990-91, of which more later. The other was Exercise Lionheart in 1984, which ...
ONE OF THE MAJOR events I took part in whilst 2ic of C Squadron in Tidworth involved taking a number of soldiers adventure training to Pakistan. I was never quite sure whether it was meant ...
Brian Wilson & Brian Monteith - What Next For Scotland? - Scotland Matters
With Nationalists set to win the 2020 Scottish Elections how do we stop five more years of incompetent government ...
ALL GOOD THINGS come to an end, and so it was for my all too brief period as troop leader of 13 Troop, D Squadron, 4th Royal Tank Regiment. It was time for me to ...
THIS ARTICLE contains significant spoilers for a sixty-year-old film that you should have seen already.
When I was young, I had a very good relationship with my maternal Grandfather. He was a ...
I WOULDN’T want you to think that the life of a subaltern in the #BARITWE was all work and no play, mind. All that stravaiging around the countryside in big, heavy metal beasts took up ...
JUNE IS PRIDE MONTH. Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, this year’s celebrations of all things LGBTQIA+ will be, understandably, curtailed and more sedate than usual. As the situation stands currently, there will be little ...
THE ULTIMATE training, for us tank soldiers at least, was in Canada, or more specifically at the British Army Training Unit, Suffield (BATUS), in Alberta. BATUS was, and is, a remarkable training facility which the British ...
Red Rag to a Bull: Rural Life in an Urban Age, by Jamie Blackett
THIS BOOK is balm for the soul. At a time when Scotland is in danger of being overwhelmed by ...
OVER THESE past few difficult weeks, I’ve enjoyed bringing you the fun little lists that have filled the gap imposed on my brand of entertainment journalism, and life more broadly, by Covid-19. It’s been great ...
AND SO TO RANGES, or firing camp as some other regiments called it. This happened once every year or two years depending on which particular training cycle you found your self on. We took it ...
LIKE ANY male movie geek who grew up on a steady diet of movies he was far too young to see, I have a real soft spot, and perhaps a blindspot, for one Quentin Tarantino.
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