Wildcat Unleashed

PL ISSUE 3, 2012 E AS E T AK E YOUR FREE C OPY THE JHC DELIVERING JOINT SUCCESS ON OPERATIONS MINI EXERCISE UAS RAF CHINOOK PASHTUN MOVES BOMBER COMMAND MEMORIAL VORTEX AT BEACHY HEAD DIAmOND CELEBRATIONS JHC WAS IN THE SPOTLIGHT DURING THE QUEEN’S DIAMOND JUBILEE WILDCAT TOUGheST FOOTRAce UNLEASHED ON EARTH JOURNAL OF THE JOINT HELICOPTER COMMAND the jhc deLIVERING JOINT SUcceSS ON OPERATIONS NEWS Contents Message Issue 3, EDITORIAL from the 2012 Cdr JHC 10 Editor: Sqn Ldr Tom Draper E: [email protected] T: 01264 381 122 Sub Editor: Matt Carter E: JHC-J9SecGov- [email protected] T: 01264 381638 ADVERTISING Sales Manager: Sue Ward E: [email protected] 28 31 T: 01536 512 624 DESIGN 14 22 Designer: Chris Keller E: [email protected] T: 01536 521 126 PUBLISHER LZDZ is published by Lance Publishing Ltd, 1st Floor, Tailby House, Bath Road, Kettering, Northants, NN16 8NL T: 01536 512 624 E: [email protected] W: www.lancepublishing.co.uk 12 Company Registration Number: 3253372 PRINTER Lance Print Ltd, Unit 3 18 Houghton Hill Industries, Houghton Hill Farm, Houghton, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, PE28 2DH of our fighting T: 01480 492 183 MESSAGE role in 2014. E: [email protected] We are tracking W: www.lanceprint.co.uk these changes FROM THE very carefully to FURTHER INFORMATION ensure that our W: www.mod.uk/ COMMANDER training stays defenceinternet/ relevant and as aboutdefence/whatwedo/ It has been a busy Summer for everyone in realistic as we can airsafetyandaviation/jhc JHC. But our special thanks are due to all possibly make it. ranks of 16 Air Assault Brigade and the JHC One example of flying stations for their large and cheerfully this, in the article COVER STORY RAF Benson Embraces HERITAGE delivered contribution to security throughout on Page 30, is Exercise Pashtun Vortex ................................. 18 the Royal Navy ................................................ 17 Communities Show Their Support ................. 16 the Olympic and Paralympic Games. a particularly Air Show Success ............................................. 22 RAF Chinook Moves Bomber Command clever approach EXERCISE & OPERATIONS Joint Helicopter Command Memorial at Beachy Head .............................. 28 in using wounded British & French Troops on Public Display ............................................. 24 PARAs Mark Falklands’ Anniversary .............. 29 he whole thing has been veterans to help with training in Parachute Together ........................................ 6 Book Review: Life in Helmand ........................ 33 well planned, professionally emergency medical response. I have PARAs Build on their FLIGHT SAFETY done and been greatly enormous respect for the individuals Urban Combat Skills ....................................... 7 EqUIPMENT Control of Mini Unmanned Aircraft appreciated by the who are helping us in this way. Exercise Wessex Thunder ............................... 9 Wildcat Unleashed ........................................... 14 Systems (MUAS) Airspace .............................. 20 Tpublic and overseas visitors. Enjoy, wherever you can, the Junglie Training ............................................... 10 Elsewhere, our strong commitment remainder of the Summer! Team Medic Training The Reality of War ....... 30 SPORT & CHARITY HONOURS & AWARDS to Afghanistan continues and we are RAO Represents UK at World Junglie Pilot Reaches seeing the nature of operation continue Air Vice-Marshal NEWS Powerlifting Championships .......................... 15 Aviation Milestone .......................................... 26 to change as we move along the path Carl Dixon CB OBE FRAeS RAF Diamond Celebrations .................................... 12 Soldiers Stage Their Own Olympics .............. 31 845 NAS Wins Breitling Trophy Again! .......... 26 of transition towards the conclusion Commander Joint Helicopter Command Armed Forces Day 2012 ................................. 13 Toughest Footrace on Earth .......................... 32 Honours & Awards .......................................... 27 This publication is copyright Lance Publishing Limited and may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form in whole or in part without prior written permission of Lance Publishing EDITORIAL SUBMISSION DATE FOR NEXT ISSUE: FRIDAY 9th NOVembeR 2012 Limited. While every care has been taken during the preparation of this magazine, Lance Publishing Limited cannot be held responsible for accuracy of the information herein Please submit all entries for the next issue by no later than the date stated above. or for any consequence arising from it. Views Expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the Royal Navy, Army, Royal Air Force or the Ministry of Defence. 4 LZDZMAGAZINE | ISSUE 3 JOURNAL OF THE JOINT HELICOPTER COMMAND VISIT: WWW.LZDZONLINE.CO.UK ISSUE 3 | LZDZMAGAZINE 5 EXERCISE & OPERATIONS EXERCISE & OPERATIONS PARAs British Urban & French Combat Troops Skills PARAS BUILD ON BRITISH & FRENch TROOPS THEIR URBAN PARACHUTE COMBAT SKILLS TOGetheR Paratroopers have been practising British and French troops have performed parachute the urban combat skills they might jumps using each other’s aircraft and equipment need for operations as part of the as they work towards a closer relationship. Army’s rapid reaction force. xercise EAGLES VOL saw anywhere in the world. They have been tasked RAF Hercules with British Low Level Parachutes. to assess what could be transported x Bayonet Strike has honed soldiers from 16 Air Assault to develop a Combined Joint Expeditionary By doing the jumps the soldiers earned the in British aircraft on a joint mission. the compound clearance skills Brigade jump alongside their Force for contingency operations, ranging other country’s parachute wings, with a Col Andrew Jackson, Dep Cdr of 16 built up by B Coy 3 PARA French counterparts from from disaster relief to war fighting. presentation ceremony held on the drop zone. Air Assault Brigade, said: “This exercise during their deployment to E11e Brigade Parachutiste (11e BP) in Pau, The exercise saw British paras jump wearing Experts from Joint Air Delivery Test has been a major practical step forward EAfghanistan in 2010/11. The skills are south west France. Both brigades provide French Ensemble Parachutage Individuel and Evaluation Unit (JADTEU) also in developing our relationship with 11e key to 3 PARA’s current role in the their armies’ rapid reaction forces, held parachutes from a French C-160 Transall inspected the vehicles and equipment Brigade Parachutiste, which shares a very Airborne Task Force (ABTF), which at high readiness to deploy on operations aircraft, while French troops jumped from an used by 11e BP for airborne operations similar role and outlook to 16 Air Assault is ready to deploy anywhere in the Brigade. As airborne troops, there is no world at short notice, to do anything better way for us to get to know each other from disaster relief to war fighting. than to parachute together. It has been The training took place at Rock valuable to see each other’s equipment and Barracks in Woodbridge, Suffolk, procedures, both on the ground and in the where buildings have been adapted air, and learn from the different approaches for house-to-house fighting. Over we take to the same challenges.” the three-day exercise troops practised Col Xavier Vanden Neste, Dep Cdr of entering and searching buildings, 11e BP, said: “We are glad to welcome working up to securing and entering a our British brothers in arms of the famous complex of buildings to detain identified 16 Air Assault Brigade to the French enemy personnel. It built on the parachute training school in Pau. A common Intelligent Targeting methods developed parachute session is a major opportunity by 3 PARA for operations in the Nad-e Ali to improve our interoperability and to (North) area of Helmand Province. The prepare ourselves technically, physically approach focussed on using intelligence and psychologically for a future common and surveillance to identify the structure commitment, hopefully on operations.” of insurgent networks and local We are glad to welcome our The partnership between the two communities, with the information used brigades is part of closer military to precisely target individuals and groups British brothers in arms of the co-operation between Britain and to undermine the insurgent threat. France following the signing of the Intelligent Targeting helped 3 PARA famous 16 Air Assault Brigade Defence and Security Co-operation make progress in improving security in to the French parachute Treaty in November 2010. the area, enabling the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to reach training school in Pau. local people and build their confidence Col Xavier Vanden Neste 11E BRIGADE PARACHUTISTE as an alternative to the Taliban. The 11e Brigade Parachutiste (11e tactics, techniques and procedures have BP), which has its headquarters in since been studied by ISAF to share with into pitch-black buildings that could Toulouse, has 8,500 troops and forces operating across Afghanistan. have any number of obstacles placed specialises in airborne and air Maj Geoff Hargreaves, OC B Coy, inside and can be heavily defended assault operations. Its primary role said: “Our skills from Afghanistan are with a small number of people. At the is to deploy a rapid reaction force about capturing rather than killing a same time, there could be innocent in response to international crises, targeted individual and they are useful civilians

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