Falklands : BRIGADIER IMPRESSED WITH FALKLANDS’ TRAINING FACILITIES
Submitted by Falkland Islands News Network (Juanita Brock) 11.02.2010 (Article Archived on 18.03.2010)
Brigadier Justin Maciejewski of 3 Yorks Alma Company, 12th Mechanised Brigade based at Warminster, Buford near Salisbury has spent the past week in the Falklands visiting training facilities.
BRIGADIER IMPRESSED WITH FALKLANDS’ TRAINING FACILITIES
By J. Brock (FINN)
Brigadier Justin Maciejewski of 3 Yorks Alma Company, 12th Mechanised Brigade based at Warminster, Buford near Salisbury has spent the past week in the Falklands visiting training facilities. The 12th Mechanised Brigade combines several military capabilities that will help the men prepare for tours of duty in Afghanistan and ensure security for the Falklands.
“It’s great to come and refresh skills, build physical fitness and refine the fundamentals of soldiering,” he said. “It makes us a more capable force in the defence of the Falkland Islands.”
Having arrived on Monday’s airbridge, Brigadier Maciejewski has visited battlefields at Goose Green where he said a prayer at the memorial marking H. Jones and one located at Tumbledown. He’s had had a meal at Lookout Lodge with a veteran of the 1982 conflict.
“It’s been such a pleasure and I feel very much at home,” he continued. Brigadier Maciejewski was aid he was warmly welcomed and that it was a pleasure to work amongst such great people.
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