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Sgt Wayne Fitzgerald - Editor
H
ello and welcome to our December/January double issue, it's
crammed full of stories to get you over the festive season, and I
would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your continued
readership on the anniversary of our 75th volume.
There's plenty to see On Parade this month, keep those photos coming. Our first In Focus
piece is on the 50th Anniversary Celebrations of the 40th Cadet Class (1965/67), next we
look at Uniting Irish Veterans Globally with irishveterans.org. Veteran's News features 3
short pieces on the 55th Anniversary of the Niemba Ambush Remembrance, held in Cathal
Brugha Bks, the RBL Annual Remembrance Day Commemorations in Enniskillen and the Irish
Defence Forces Veterans UK at the Commonwealth Graves in Seaford East-Sussex.
Our first feature UN 60 from Congo to the Middle East, Celebrating 60 years of Irish
peacekeeping is by Lar Joye, Curator Art & Industrial Division, at the National Museum of
Ireland, Collins Bks. Next in Helping the Helpers, the Irish Emergency Logistics Team is training
Ireland's latest NGO volunteers. In Combined Weapons Shoot, Compl TACA, 1 Cn Cois turns out
in force in the Glen of Imaal. In FIBUA Training in Fort Davis, see how the 91st Cadet Class and
their exercise troops got on down south. In Strategic Review Planning Without Resources is
Dreaming! Lt Col Gerard Buckley writes about Military Finance Branch's primary role.
Our centre spread features the British Army's annual medical services tactical training
exercise Arduous Serpent. Next we have 2 short features from overseas; first we have EOD
Training with UNIFIL and the Engineer Corps deployed to UNDOF. On page 28 we have more
snippets from around the DF. In History, we look at the recent book The Ninth Ship by CPO
Martin Buckley Retd on the 50th Anniversary of the Naval Diving Section. We have 2 more
extra history pieces; first GOC AC Brig Gen Paul Fry reviews Irish Aces of the RFC and RAF
in the First World War and then in April in the Valley of Total, Coy Sgt Harry Mulhern Retd
writes about his experience with the 49 Inf Bn Lebanon. In Sport, Aptc Daniel O'Brien is back
and this time it's Adventure Kayaking in Norway. We also have more sport with the 2 Bde
Adventure Race 2015 and a Sports Round Up by Sgt Rena Kennedy. Plus we have all our other
regular reviews and What I Do feature. Check out our competitions and results on pages 26,
38 and 39.
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