{"id":38333,"date":"2014-01-29T15:52:57","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T15:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=95fbe185f9efc0c14edb02762292e16e"},"modified":"2014-01-29T15:52:57","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T15:52:57","slug":"news-story-troops-dig-deep-on-salisbury-plain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=38333","title":{"rendered":"News story: Troops dig deep on Salisbury Plain"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The 23 students have been taking part in Exercise Badgers\u2019 Hole, a mounted reconnaissance tactics course which teaches them the basics of being a reconnaissance vehicle or troop commander. <\/p>\n

The group included troops from the Household Cavalry Regiment, the Queen\u2019s Dragoon Guards, the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, the Royal Dragoon Guards, the 9th\/12th Royal Lancers, the Queen\u2019s Royal Lancers, and the Light Dragoons <\/p>\n

Badgers\u2019 Hole is one of 5 exercises on the course. It tests the students on urban warfare training, including room clearance, using vehicles in the urban environment and establishing hides. <\/p>\n

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Soldiers taking part in Exercise Badgers’ Hole on Salisbury Plain [Picture: Crown copyright]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On completion of the exercise the non-commissioned officers qualify as vehicle commanders. This allows them to return to their units to run their own crew and command a tracked military reconnaissance vehicle. They will qualify as troop leaders and return to regimental duty to command their own 12-man troops. <\/p>\n

Salisbury Plain is used for the exercise, as the course is run out of the Land Warfare Centre in nearby Warminster. <\/p>\n

Major Joe Bigg, from the Queen\u2019s Royal Lancers, said:<\/p>\n

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The proximity of Salisbury Plain allows the students to quickly deploy on exercise in what is a hectic course programme.<\/p>\n

The Plain provides a good variety of ground for the students to exercise on; whether that is vehicle manoeuvre, dismounted recce patrols or sub-surface ops.<\/p>\n

The availability of the Land Warfare Centre Battle Group exercising troops allows enemy forces to be easily replicated, adding extra complexity and realism to the exercises.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Soldiers taking part in Exercise Badgers’ Hole on Salisbury Plain [Picture: Crown copyright]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Salisbury Plain Training Area<\/h3>\n

Salisbury Plain Training Area is maintained by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation<\/a> (DIO<\/abbr>), which delivers the training service, enabling defence training users to live, work, train and deploy at home and overseas. <\/p>\n

Lieutenant Colonel Mark Hiskett, Principal Training Safety Officer, DIO<\/abbr> Service Delivery Training South West, said:<\/p>\n

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DIO<\/abbr>\u2019s priority is to support our armed forces as they prepare for operations. Salisbury Plain is a diverse training area and the challenging terrain enables soldiers to really test themselves.<\/p>\n

We are pleased to be able to offer the environment and facilities that support our military personnel to further cement, and put into practice, what they have learnt in the classroom.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Military students have put their classroom teaching into practice during a recent exercise on Salisbury Plain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}