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elcome to our December issue, where has the year gone? This
month we have an extra 8 pages of full content for you to pass
the festive season. This issue, your photos are On Parade. In
Focus features the latest RDF commissioning parade and two successful
money raising charity events. Our main article this month is a look at the
PC-9M 'Defending Our Airspace', by Wesley Bourke. Our next feature is a
look at the motorcycle a military warhorse by Cpl Noel Coss. Next Cpl Paul
Millar reports on the great work O.N.E. does for retired soldiers. I bring you
an update on the latest 107 IrishFinn Bn news. In Strategic Review, historian and author Paul O'Brien reminds us about the Falklands War. In Reserve
features the latest 2 E Bde RDF recruits by CQMS Mike Barrett. We have
extra article on Campa Gaeilge by Comdt Gerry Jordan. Our History pages
(3) are all focused on the Connaught Rangers. In Sport we have an article
on the Nijmegen International Marches by Capt Brendan McDonald. Also
in Sport we have a report on the DF Sea Angling Competition 2012 by Sgt
Declan O'Shea and Cpl Danny Quinn tells us how he got on at the World
Float Fishing Championships in the Czech Republic. We also have our other
regular features - Tac Aide, Gear Review, Reviews and What I Do.
Sgt Wayne Fitzgerald - Editor
Photographers!
I would like to take this
opportunity to say farewell and
thank you to our photographer,
Mr Jim O'Connor who
completed nearly 9 months
with us through the FÁS
Jobbridge program and to wish
Armn Neville Coughlan 'all the
best' on his Potential NCOs
Course. Also to welcome in our
new photographer Cpl Colum
Lawlor (105 Sqn) to PR Section.
Photo by: Cpl Colum Lawlor
Pictured at the recent RDF
Commissioning are myself with 2/Lt Neil
Richardson author of 'Dark Times, Decent
Men: Stories of Irishmen in World War II.
Photo by: Armn Paddy Reilly (105 Sqn)
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107 Inf Bn during Mission Readiness
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