An Cosantóir the official magazine of the Irish Defence Forces and Reserve Defence Forces.
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www.military.ie the defence forces magazine | 5 Manager Capt Declan Barrett info@military.ie 045 44 5306 Editor Sgt Wayne Fitzgerald magazine@military.ie 045 44 5307 Photo/Journalist: Sgt Karl Byrne 045 44 5307 Connect Cpl Paul Millar connect@military.ie 045 44 5307 Photographer Cpl Neville Coughlan photo@military.ie 045 44 5307 Subscriptions Cpl Kelly Gallagher 045 445312 subs@military.ie Magazine Archivist Mr Sean Shinnors DF/PR Information: Cpl Lee Coyle admin@military.ie 045 44 5308 DF Webmaster Sgt Mick Burke 045 445309 webmaster@military.ie Designer/Advertising JM Publishing & Media, Arklow, Co. Wicklow,Ireland Tel: +353 1 443 3476 Tel: +353871344135 Web: www.jmpublishing.ie Email: info@jmpublishing.ie Printer Turner's Printing Co., Ltd The fact that an article appears in this magazine does not indicate official approval of the views expressed by the author. © Published by OiC Public Relations Branch for the Defence Forces at DFHQ, Block 5, Ceannt Bks, DFTC, Curragh Camp, Co Kildare, Ireland. Tel: 045 445312 Front Cover An exercise during the recent Senior NCO Course by Sgt Karl Byrne. For more Defence Forces photographs, checkout: www. flickr.com/photos/dfmagazine editorial Sgt Wayne Fitzgerald - Editor H ello and welcome to the first issue of 2015 and our 75th volume. Thank you to all our readers', subscribers', advertisers' and contributors' for supporting us since December 1940 - We look forward to producing many more volumes... This issue is 40-pages jammed with articles and hopefully satisfies your continued readership. We were completely over-subscribed to our On Parade pages, but that makes the final photos more special, so keep them coming! Our In Focus features a visit to the National September 11 Memorial by Lt Col Dan Harvey, and hopefully most of you can relate to Veteran Tpr Sean Campion's story in Super Trooper. In Veteran's News we have some recent updates from ONEt, IUNVA and other Veteran's groups. Next we bring you two small pieces on the 90th Anniversary of the Army Nursing Service (ANS) and Capt Andy Whelan and the AS365Fi Dauphin Helicopter. Read how the Irish DF team fared in the 14th International Sniper Competition by Capt Liam McDonnell, held in the US Army Sniper School, Fort Benning recently. In our first main article EUTM Mali, Lt James Mulderrig updates us on the UK and Irish Training Team deployed as part of the European Union Training Mission in Mali. In our front cover article, Lt Brian Kelly updates us on the recent 34th Senior NCO Course conducted in the NCO Trg Wing. Next read how the 6 Inf Bn team performed in the Cambrian Patrol, the British Army's gruelling 48-hr test of patrolling and military skills exercise conducted in Wales late last year. Our Strategic Review feature by author and historian Paul O'Brien informs us about ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. In Broken Ground, we interview former Pte Paddy Doyle (3 Inf Bn) who was working in Haiti during the 2010 earthquake and has released a debut novel on his experiences. Our double History spread features a WWI story A Time for Reflection about Lt Vincent Fox a Veterinarian in the Great War and Hercules Mulligan, a US Revolutionary War hero in the 1770s by Maria Vann, the Director at Iroquois Indian Museum, Utica, New York. In Sport, we feature Canoe Polo in the Defence Forces by Pte Stephen Happe. We have two more interesting pieces to finish this issue: Sgt Donal O'Connor, writes about a recent training course in the Military Detention Barracks and finally read about the presidential Rolls Royce ZJ5000 and its last military driver Coy Sgt Billy Myers. Plus all our regular features and reviews. Reserve Recruitment Open Day Pictured are members of 4 and 5 Bty Reserve from 2 Arty Regt an a recent Reserve Recruitment Open Day in Custume Bks, Athlone. Photo: RSM Noel O'Callaghan, 2 Arty Regt With Thanks Pictured are members of 2 Bde Tpt Coy who raised €500 for the Clodagh Daly Trust by completing an 80km cycle. L/R: Pte Shane Doyle, Pte Anthony Morgan, Cpl John Daly (Clodagh's father) and Coy Sgt Tom Mullen. Photo: Cpl Lee Coyle, PR Branch Defence Forces Review 2015 Papers are currently being invited for the Defence Forces Review 2015. If you wish to con- tribute, please contact Comdt Neil Nolan at Ext 5114 or neil. nolan@defenceforces.ie. The deadline for submissions is 26th March 2015.