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REPoRt & PhotoS by CQMS MIKE
BARRETT (RDF), E COy, 7 INF BN
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xercise 'Combined Effort', the annual Corps of Engi-
neers exercise took place in the Glen of Imaal from
19th to 23rd June 2016. My unit, 7 Inf bn, was to provide
an infantry company to participate in a defensive phase of
the exercise. Under the command of Comdt David Foley, 7 Inf
bn provided a company hQ, a company logistics point, and
three infantry platoons, two composed from the battalion's
PDF companies and one from the RDF companies.
The company departed Cathal Brugha Bks and deployed
straight onto the training ground on arrival in the Glen of
Imaal, with the three platoons siting and digging trenches
near Cemetery Hill.
I was attached to the Coy Logs Point, which
set up its own location, dropping our stores
container, erecting our admin tent, parking
our trucks and covering everything with cam-
ouflage nets. Then we began a busy schedule
of deliveries of water, reserve blank ammo,
picks, shovels, radio batteries, and rations,
to Coy HQ and the front line trenches. We
returned with rubbish bags and other used
ordnance items for disposal.
For these deliveries the logs staff had the
use of Gator all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), the
Moving out to the dig in area
