TA soldiers tackle terror attack drill
Published 6 Feb 2012 07:30
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READY FOR ACTION: Signaller Elliot Smith, 21, and Signaller David Brownless, 29, with the rest of the Windsor Troop.
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MEMBERS of the Territorial Army (TA) from Windsor and Slough were among those taking part in a training exercise tackling a potential terrorist attack.
More than 50 soldiers from 94 Berkshire Yeomanry Signal Squadron, based at Windsor, Reading and Aylesbury, took part in Exercise Cold Start at the Army training area at Longmoor, Hampshire.
Signaller David Brownlees, 29, lives in Slough and is currently job hunting. Mr Brownless said: "I have been in the TA for just over two years and was in the Regular Army before -hand.
"Being in the TA gives me a real boost and I am hoping it will help my CV a bit now that I am job hunting."
The exercise's fictional scenario imagined a terrorist force had been planning attacks on many fronts within Europe and the USA, and the latest attack in the UK had consisted of more than 100 terrorists storming a southern UK Army camp. A team of Paras had been called upon to parachute into the area, and 94 Squadron were called in to support their counterparts in the regular Army and to provide communications support.
Recruiting officer Captain Dawn Saunders, 39, from Winkfield, has been in the TA for 18 years and works for communications company Polycom as a director of global partner response in IT conferencing.
She said: "This weekend has traditionally been our New Year wake-up call, it is always a good first exercise to blow all the cobwebs away and get us ready for our training for 2012."
The weekend took place over January 14-15, when temperatures dropped to -5°C.
The Squadron will be holding recruiting events in Aylesbury, at its centre at Viney House, Oxford Road, and Windsor at its Bolton Road centre on Saturday, February 11 from 8.30am-4pm. Call 01753 860860.
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