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Banker's Kabul Interest Guns in the Gulf OP Telic Oil Toil SPRING 2011 BankEr’s Kabul interEsT Page 3 GuNs in the Gulf Page 5 OP TElIc oil toil Page 8 IN AT THE DEEP END Diving Branch first proves capability is highPage 7 ALSO INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Missions | Exercises | New CMR on Bridge | Unit News | Activities MARINES RESERVES ON FRONT LINE DUTY Operation Herrick continues with 3 Commando Brigade Royal Marines having recently taken up the baton from 1 Royal Irish as the command group in Afghanistan. 19 Hour shifts Joining the regulars are 57 Royal section commanders. Marines Reserve officers and Other mobilised RMR roles other ranks mobilising on Herrick include HQ watchkeepers, Info don’t faze Fox doc 14. Ops personnel and a Major and Around 47 of these are A Flying Fox augmenting 42 and 45 WO2 RMR augmenting the UK reservist’s two Commando in front line roles in Land Training Team who help months at Camp Nad-e-Ali (South) including five as instruct Afghan Forces. Bastion in Helmand Province passed in a blur… but only because he was so busy helping save lives. Surgeon Commander Richard Graham, 36, works as a consultant radiologist in Bath but found his mobilised experience very different from the day job, as one of two consultant Surgeon Commander Richard radiologists working Graham with his Operation alongside coalition Herrick medal and clasp. forces from the US and Afghan National Army. “It was extremely busy in the hospital,” explained Sgn It’s not just Marines who Cdr Graham. “The most common injuries were blast deploy to Afghanistan: Royal injuries from IEDs and also gunshot wounds – with both Navy sailors deploy on a one- affecting soldiers and Afghan civilians. in-one-out basis and mainly “It was not unusual to work 19 hours a day but not take on roles in logistics, realise how quickly the time has passed – it was a fantastic experience for me and I was privileged to be intelligence, administrative able to help.” and operations. Officer In Command at the Mobilisation Mounting Cell training centre, Lt Cdr Pat O’Callaghan said: “These are personnel from across the Navy with specialist skills that are required to serve in Afghanistan. They spend four weeks with us learning valuable skills for theatre, some of it very new and very different to what they do on a day-to-day basis in ships and submarines. “We train up to 80 personnel 12 times a year so there is a constant rotation in the main operating bases, the Forward Operating Bases, headquarters in Kabul and also working with the Afghan National Army.” 2 The Maritime Reservist F-35 JUST JON BANKS WIZZER FOR HIS AFGHAN WILSON ADVENTURE You won’t find many Swiss bankers needed to make showing interest in Afghanistan… but operational decisions. one HMS President reservist recently Jonathan has been a reservist for 10 years but had to take a six-month deployment this was the first time he into account. had been deployed as part An income analyst for a Swiss bank of Operation Herrick. in civilian life, LH Jonathan Davis, 31, “I was based in Kabul, was deployed to Kabul as a database and as well as gathering Jonathan Peter Wilson in the F-35 cockpit administrator, where he helped provide the information for the Davies with coalition commanders with intelligence database, my job was to his Operation organise the briefings for Herrick medal An RNR Air Branch pilot has taken people each day, so there and clasp the controls of an F-35 Lightning II was a lot of responsibility. and clocked up a milestone in the I could use some of the skills from my day Joint Strike Fighter development job – I felt I could make an important programme. contribution. A test pilot for BAE Systems in civilian “In 2003 I was mobilised on Operation life, Peter ‘Wizzer’ Wilson became just the Telic where I was deployed in force third Briton to take the controls of the protection for RFA ships in the Gulf. They supersonic stealth jet, and flew the Short are definitely not the sort of things that a Take-Off and Vertical Landing (STOVL) Jonathan Davis with a friendly local in a normal bank worker gets to do.” market in Kabul version in STOVL mode for the first time at Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland. Then, days after his first flight, Wizzer became the first non-American pilot to SCOTIA’S BISH IN KABUL CHRISTMAS fly the F-35C carrier variant, which is the HMS Scotia’s chaplain, Reverend Dr “The real highlight for me as a version the MOD intends to purchase for Marjory MacLean, has become the Bish was having Remembrance and the new aircraft carriers. It was quite an achievement for someone who first flew first RNR chaplain to be mobilised Christmas in theatre, sharing these significant moments with so many in a Cessna 150 aged just 17. to Afghanistan. impressive people.” His first sortie was of just over one Marjory spent three months spent hour duration and afterwards he said the as Kabul Garrison Chaplain in Herrick aircraft handled beautifully, adding: “All- 12. With a ‘parish’ extending across all in-all it was an absolute pleasure to fly.” UK military and diplomatic personnel in the capital, the biggest challenge was simply reaching those in her care spread Wizzer earnt his wings after he across eight separate establishments. joined the RAF in 1986, and then Every pastoral visit required a vehicle qualified as a flying instructor movement of two assets and six soldiers before taking an exchange tour from the Kabul Joint Support Unit based with the Royal Navy flying the in Camp Souter, home to the Chaplaincy Sea Harrier. He was obviously and the other British life-support impressed for he requested a functions. transfer and went on to see action Chaplain MacLean said of her with the navy in Bosnia, Iraq and deployment: “The hardest parts on a Sierra Leone. He left the service in physical level, were the training and 2000 and joined BAE Systems as a the journeys in and out of theatre, since Harrier test pilot and has logged Kabul takes a bit longer to reach than over 3,000 hours flying fast jets. Helmand. Once there, a delightful Wizzer has been preparing for the challenge was working in a tri-service F-35 flights since he arrived in the environment which is overwhelmingly Marjory MacLean with one of her escort US five years ago, and to date all dominated by Army personnel. vehicles in Afghanistan his flying has been in simulators. Spring 2011 3 RNR MTO MUST ADAPT TO PIRATES TACTICS A team of Royal Naval Reserve Maritime Trade Organisation SAM LOGS DJIBOUTI (MTO) specialists was deployed to Dubai way back in October 2001 and although over the past 10 years the threat may have changed, the presence of RNR MTO specialists has not. Sam Martin leads a Remembrance service as Billy Somerville (left) looks on Numbers deployed may have increased and decreased, but the ever increasing threat of piracy in the past four The RNR Logistics notice with the full support of years in the Arabian Sea – there were 35 confirmed pirate specialisation is crucial to her employer in Nottingham, HM attacks on merchant vessels in the first two months of this the success of Operation Revenue and Customs. She was joined by HMS year – has resulted in a significant increase in staff over the Atalanta, as personnel from past 18 months. Dalriada’s LH Billy Somerville in a UKMTO is now manned by two officers and seven two RNR units found out. small but poignant remembrance ratings, augmented by a Merchant Navy Master. Early in HMS Sherwood’s CPO service in the French cemetery in 2011, an additional mobilisation took place with an AWNIS Samantha Martin returned from Djibouti, which also contains 12 officer being mobilised in support of Operation Atalanta; the Horn of Africa earlier this British military graves. Billy was this officer is located with the EU HQ in Northwood. year after six months based in responsible for dealing with both The Gulf of Aden and the eastern coast of Somalia is a Djibouti, where she was part of ships docking and helicopter vital artery of world trade that includes the main shipping the EU’s naval mission to deter landings, to ensure their cargo routes from the Far East to Europe and the US with over piracy in the region. was distributed effectively. 33,000 shipping movements, including over one third of Sam joined the RNR in He also spent considerable the world’s oil passing through the area each year. 1987 and is an experienced time refurbishing the local Pirate tactics are changing all the time as they adapt to Logistics specialist. As part of orphanage both outside and successes by the military. In turn the military and ship a three-person UK Forward inside. He said: “This was one of owners adapt their tactics to success by the pirates. But Logistics Support team, Sam had the most rewarding parts of the UKMTO is available 24/7 to provide the interface between responsibility for ensuring that mobilisation as I could use my the Merchant shipping community and military in the area. ships operating in the area got skills from back home to make shore-based logistics assistance. the children’s lives better.” Sam was mobilised at short A boarding team from HMS Chatham during Operation Atalanta 4 The Maritime Reservist Tony is GUNS IN London’s finest THE GULF Congratulations go to Lieutenant Members of the RNR Seaman specialisation are mobilised throughout the Tony Scott of HMS President, year as P Squadron with the Force Protection Group Royal Marines (FPGRM).
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