Light Dragoons By Captain Shaun McIntyre


Serving alongside the Light Dragoons is busy and rewarding. It has been another year of high-tempo activity and the regiment is in a period of high readiness in support of wherever there is a demand for the Long-Range Reconnaissance capability it provides.


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he structural changes to the detachment’s workforce have been implemented and we have sought to exploit the advantages that having a fuller central administration ‘hub’ affords, as well as ensuring our MPAs employed in the Sqns are provided with early supervision and mentoring.


The detachment welcomed new members: Lt (now Capt) Calum Stewart, Pte Liam Fenn, Cpl Una Vakacegu, Sgt Paul Clemerson assigned in for the departing Sgt Paul Melvin and SSgt Kate Lawless into the currently gapped FSA role. Sgt Carl Atherton and Cpl Harrison Jones transitioned to civilian life after 24 and 12 years-service respectively. Both excellent ambassadors to the Corps.


It’s been a successful year of promotions, having congratulated, and said farewell, to SSgt Mandy Ross who took up post as RAWO of 2 Bn MI. LCpl Sara McColl, Pte Naithan Lee and Pte Jordan Hackles were all recognised for their excellent performances and selected for promotion in 2022.


Op INTERFLEX has been the regiment’s main effort, the SPS detachment has been at the fore in providing Pers Admin, G1 & G8 support, be that capturing personnel data during RSOI at South Cerney, delivering an accurate, yet sensitive, OPLOC process at Wathgill Camp or through activities aimed at maintaining the moral component.


Exercise WESSEX STORM (Ex WS) The Light Dragoon’s deployed on Ex WS on Salisbury Plain. This demanding exercise was conducted to confirm that the regiment was prepared to take its place as a Very High Readiness (VHR) unit, able to project at short notice to anywhere in the world and deliver defence’s outputs.


The exercise offered an opportunity for the SPS detachment to take the pre-exercise lessons received in barracks and test them in the field. The iHub team, led by the Det Comd, deployed alongside BGHQ and were thoroughly tested in austere conditions and rapidly changing scenarios, they were required to adapt their approach and seek out more agile methods of providing information management solutions.


Other members of the detachment deployed in some familiar and less familiar roles, such as ambulance drivers, watchkeepers and working in support of RLS functions. Operation INTERFLEX


The unit


received orders to establish a Training Delivery Unit (TDU) for OP INTERFLEX, the mission provided training partner forces to increase their survivability and success in warfighting.


The RAO, Sgt Nicola Bradder


Sgt Bradder (Right) & Cpl Gardner (Left) – Op Interflex (South Cerney).


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