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Post by Frenchie on Apr 3, 2009 1:40:53 GMT 1
Residents took to the streets of Lincoln on Thursday, March 12 to welcome home the 2nd Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment (The Poachers) after their second six month tour in Iraq in the past two years.
The homecoming parade was organised by the City of Lincoln Council and Lincolnshire County Council, and saw 200 soldiers march through the town centre led by the Minden Band of The Queen's Division.
The battalion returned to Iraq in May 2008 to a very different situation compared to their previous tour in 2006 where in a three month period the Poachers Battlegroup fired over 36,000 rounds of ammunition, as well as mortars, grenades and canon shells.
In 2008 the Poachers fired no ammunition in anger, but were instead formed into a number of Military Transition Teams and embedded in Iraqi Army units as mentors.
Quoted From MoD News
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bigstevie
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Post by bigstevie on Apr 3, 2009 18:38:51 GMT 1
Welcome home lads (and probably lasses too), here's hoping you get a longer spell at home before getting the call for a tour in Afghanistan.
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Post by Frenchie on Apr 3, 2009 18:40:45 GMT 1
I agree Stevie - at least a year or two!
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