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32Nd SIGNAL REGIMENT The Magazine of The Royal Corps of Signals Corps Formation: 28th June 1920 Corps Motto: Certa Cito Contents On exercise December 2017 Volume 71 No: 6 FEATURES Chrismas Message from the Corps Colonel 2 History of Signalling in 100 Objects 75 2018 Corps Calendar 84 The Last Parade - Junior Leaders Regiment 88 16 1 Sig Regt REGULARS Falkland Islands RSBF 4 News from Training 6 News from Regiments 16 Other Units/Troops 56 Royal Signals Association 80 Last Post 84 Obituaries 85 SPORT/ADVENTURE TRAINING 32 Sig Regt Parachuting 3 42 Exercise HARD RIDE 65 Exercise MERCURY COMPASS 15 66 Exercise DRAGON DIVER IV 67 Exercise NORTHERN INCA UNICORN 68 Exercise WIMBISH DIVER 2 70 Exercise DRAGON MALAYA TAHAN 72 Exercise DRAGON BAHRAIN ADVENTURER 74 Exercise ARCTIC EXPRESS 76 Exercise HIGHLAND EXPRESS 78 64 Sig Sqn at the NMA Service 46 37 Sig Regt Sailing towards Wishing all of our readers a Hvalfjörður Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Front Cover: SSgt Dan Jones, 226 Sig Sqn, 14 Sig Regt on Exercise DRACO'S SHADOW. Photo by LCpl Pete Dobson, 226 Sig Sqn, 14 Sig Regt. 76 Exercise ARCTIC EXPRESS The Magazine of The Royal Corps of Signals Note from the Editor Welcome to our Christmas edition and the last year in which there will be six editions of the magazine. Over the course of the past year The Wire has undergone some significant changes with the introduction of the Corps branding and articles becoming more image led. We trust these changes have made the magazine more attractive to our readers and made for a less onerous task for those of you who have to collate and submit the Unit content. Looking forward into 2018, the magazine will now be published four times throughout the year, with an edition in Spring (March), Summer (June/July), Autumn (September) and Winter (December) and this will be reviewed at the end of 2018 with any minor changes being implemented; Units will be kept fully informed of these changes. Any articles that we have already received for the February 2018 issue will be published in the Spring edition. The deadline date for submissions for the Summer issue will be 2 April. A full list of the revised contribution deadlines will be published in the next issue. As a reminder to Units, submissions should be sent via the Chain of Command to [email protected] and: • Should be in Microsoft word with no formatting. • CofC should edit and approve articles prior to submission. • All images should be of the highest quality, over 500kb and sent as separate jpegs. • Potential front cover images should be over 3MB. • Submissions are to be received by contribution deadlines. This is your magazine and our aim remains to promote the Corps and the great individuals within it. If there is something you want to see in the magazine please do get in touch with us or your Chain of Command. In the meantime, we would like to thank all individuals and Units who have submitted content to us over the past year and we wish you and your families a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Certa Cito Editor: Amy Petersen Subscriptions: [email protected] (preferred for submissions) All enquiries regarding subscriptions and changes of Mil: 94371 2817 Civ: 01258 482817 address should be made to Jess Lawson on Mil: 94371 2087 Civ: 01258 482087 or [email protected] SO3 Digital Communication and Publications: Stephanie Hamlett Last Post: [email protected] These will be inserted free to all past and present Mil: 94371 2818 Civ: 01258 482818 members of the Corps. RHQ R SIGNALS, Griffin House, Blandford Contents: Camp, Blandford Forum, Dorset, DT11 8RH Authors alone are responsible for the content of their articles. The opinions expressed in the Articles: articles of this publication are those of the indiv- Please email submissions in Microsoft Word format, idual authors and do not necessarily reflect the together with related photographs to the e-mail policy and views, official or otherwise, of the addresses above. Digital images should be in JPEG Royal Corps of Signals or the Ministry of Defence. format, kept separate (and not embedded within the All articles and submissions are published at the article) and supplied with captions. discretion of the Editor. This publication may contain official information and should be treated Contribution Deadlines: with discretion. 10th December for publication in the Spring edition. 2nd April for publication in the Summer edition. Advertising: All communications regarding commercial © Published by The RSBF Charity advertising should be made direct to yal Sig Ro na ls royalsignals.org/rsbf/ Be ne [email protected]. R vol SB ent Fund F Printed by Holbrook Printers Ltd, Norway Road, Hilsea, Portsmouth © Crown Copyright A Christmas Message from The Corps Colonel Colonel J Gunning As the year draws to a close we can look back and reflect on the many and varied successes that the Corps has had. We have continued to deliver on every front despite undermanning, uncertainty and increasing demand. Our achievements have drawn a lot of formal recognition but the fact that the vast majority do this work quietly in the background and without the accolades that they all so richly deserve makes this all the more humbling. All of these achievements are down to the fantastic soldiers and officers, both Regular and Reserve, who continue to deliver under immense pressure. As we approach Christmas it is only appropriate that we also acknowledge the vital support of families and friends whose love and encouragement make all that we do possible. As our Corps continues to serve in complex operations across the globe, many of you are asking what the future holds. The most important task is to continue to adapt and modernise in line with the rapidly changing character of conflict. Change will therefore continue to be a dominant theme over the coming year and we must embrace and seize every opportunity. Against this backdrop, the Corps has been directed to become more agile and forward thinking in order to allow commanders to use information as a weapon system. This means that we need to master technology and service provision in order to deliver effective information systems. To achieve this, we must use our experience and hard-won knowledge to adapt our structures, refine our doctrine, review our career employment groups and overhaul our training. Many of you will have read the criticisms over the Government’s austerity drive however, the design of the Army 2020 force structure, as part of this work, is both logical and compelling. Within this our proposed A2020 Refine structures still need considerable work and we are now in a position where we can use the considerable experience across all ranks in the Corps to add the granularity that will allow us to champion digital change. We also have the opportunity to develop our hybrid structures by fully integrating the Reserves in order to maintain capability. At the same time we are also improving the way that we develop and procure our equipment. This is being done through closer integration with industry to deliver rapidly adaptable systems that will allow us to react as new requirements and technologies evolve or emerge. We continue to face issues with recruiting under the partnership contract with Capita and we need a concerted effort at every level to advertise and promote the significant opportunities available in the Corps. Increasing our digital presence, along with more traditional recruiting activities, will be our main effort for the coming year. The drive to review and reduce inefficiencies and expenditure has also given us the opportunity and support to take a hard look at our training. The aim will be to remove unnecessary activity and thereby speed the passage of personnel to the field army. Considerable work will now go into reducing the length of our training pipeline, whilst ensuring that we still deliver highly trained and motivated soldiers and officers with the right levels of knowledge. As part of this we will also take the opportunity to examine our career employment groups in order to allow for more flexible career pathways and to provide more exciting and challenging employment. This work will be married to the ongoing drive for recognition through professional bodies and opportunities to gain civilian qualifications through further study and apprenticeships. We must not forget that we are moving towards our centenary year, which brings the opportunity for both celebration and reflection. Our plans include a set of core events including an Adventurous Training Challenge, services of celebration and a number of overseas sports tours, all of which will be publicised more widely in the New Year. I will close by wishing everyone, be you Regular, Reserve or retired and all of your families, a very Merry Christmas in preparation for a busy, successful and rewarding New Year. 2 [email protected] ROYAL SIGNALS PARACHUTING by Lt Rebecca Cooper The Armed Forces Parachuting Competition 2017 kick-started on 16 August at Joint Service Parachute Centre (Netheravon) with three days of training to build up to the competition. With a team of 15 strong from across the R SIGNALS, with both Regular and Reserves, novices and experienced jumpers, this year was looking like one of our strongest years for a long time. Three days of training before the event began on the Saturday allowed for some team bonding. There’s nothing like falling through the sky at 125mph with three other people to bring you together. Unfortunately, the first day of training wasn’t too productive when the plane crashed and jumping had to halt for the day.
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