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ello and welcome to another well balanced feature rich edition of An Cosantóir. This month our regular reader's photos are On Parade, again we have focused in on two different types of soldier/airman for our In Focus
pages. We had a chance to ask our President Mary McAleese a few questions and to give her the opportunity to say a fond farewell. In our Strategic Review this month Wesley Bourke made a visit to the Maltese Armed Forces and spoke to Col Attard (DCOM AFM) and to check up on some previous visitors to the Defence Forces. In our centrespread we have a photo montage of some of the participants and results of the An Cosantóir 10K. Our History article by Armn Michael Whelan is on a recent visit he made to Gallipoli as part of a GTI tour. In Sport we have a look at how some of our DF colleagues got on in the French Alps by Capt Maeve O'Grady, and our RDF feature by Cpl Neil Richardson about year one of his Potential Officers Course and finally we have our other regulars – Noticeboard, Tac Aide, Reviews and What I Do.
