9 years J.L.R's Junior Leaders Regiment. Combat Signals. Combat Wamble 2nd class.
I was the communications cog in the machine.
7 passed orders.
Gave live feedback to command what was happening in my battle box.
Under the Adjutant Captain Rice, live fire missions.
As a Junior leader.
Aged 15, I signed on the dotted line to obay regardless of personal plight.
Aged 18 we didn't look like soldiers in Northern Ireland.
So we took more chances.
And got away with it.
In Lurgan I didn't take a hand gun.
I hid behind my child-like features.
With the ulster defence regiment.
War is war.
End off.
Under UDR spook Rainie.
We got to live with irish and German families.
Junior leaders regiment packed our own parachutes.
My regiment taught me.
life is also like packing your parachute.
If you pack it wrong, it's not going to deploy properly.
When you most need it.
After parachuting the mentoring changed.
It went up another level.
One shock to another.
Ski. Snow Queen
Sail. The Baltic Sea
Canoe. The Baltic Sea, Of shore the North Sea, mosel valley.
Caving. Sterling, Nevis
Abseiling. Every where
Climbing. Durrastone, Sterling, otterburn, Belgium, France, Denmark, Austra.
Bob Sledging. BAOR
Fire Fighting Yeovil.
Marathons. JLR Chesterleagh St BAOR Blanford, Plymouth, Macclesfield, Gloucestershire, Manchester, osnabruck, Berlin, Cochem, Burncastle, Zeltingham,
Orienteering. Every where
Helicopter handling. 7RHA BAOR
Helicopter rigging. 7RHA BAOR
HGV at 17. 7RHA BAOR
License at 16. School of signals Gaza lines Cattrick garrison.
Radio relay. School of signals.
Firemisson control. 7RHA BAOR
Electronics. PCM TDM. School of signals C11
C41 C42 C50 C70 one plus 4 Bruin, Clansman, tryfid, Tarmigan, D11 Pie, Marconi and Plessy, Cristchurch and school of signals Cattrick, the funny farm.
Antenna and propagation. School of signals
Medic. Euston Albemarle, 211 field hospital Derraford, always on going practice at 7RHA.
Trench Aikido Euston Albemarle
Combat radio man. School of signals
Les we forget our fallen comrades.
Chris Petre And Brian Carter Bangor Taff.
+++Rip+++
Is boy soldiering wrong.
No the mentoring made it all worth while.
Good mentoring. Good soldiering.
Junior Leaders' Regiments began in the mid-1950s, growing from the earlier system of 'Boy Service', and continued into the 1990s. There were various Junior Leader Regiments for entrants to the various Regiments and Corps of the Army. These included
The All Arms Junior Leaders' Regiment
The Junior Infantryman Battalion (1967)
The Infantry Junior Leaders Battalion
The Junior Parachute Company
Junior Leaders Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps
Junior Leaders Battalion Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Junior Leaders Regiment, Royal Army Service Corps
The Junior Leaders Regiment Royal Artillery
The Junior Leaders Regiment, (JLR), Royal Corps of Signals
The Junior Leaders Regiment Royal Engineers.
The Royal regiment of Wales. J,N,C,O. . Junior none commissioned officers.
When the military ask me to study terrorism. I was on it.
In northern Ireland our int teams trialled every thing.
The teams followed real life dayly intelligence.
I took a different path.
I read every thing that passed through comcen lurgan portadown and longkesh.
I studied the motives and core believes of my adversary.
Using geodesic mapping.
I listened to every rebble song.
From all sides.
I stopped and listened to my Cousins.
I gave a listening ear.
My people of England were blind to there words.
They were only asking for their human rights.
They only wanted what the English wasn't sharing.
When you find a terrorist core values, you find where he's hiding.
Reaching this aberration.
I payed my money and left the Army.
7 over