Guest Editorial
Light Forces Transformation
Colonel Paul Johnson, Commander ES, 1st (UK) Division
Scribe: Colonel Paul Johnson, Commander ES, 1st (UK) Division
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last provided a Guest Editorial a year ago, at which time we were starting to understand the Army’s transformation plan, known as Future Soldier, which had just been published. Then, in November, CGS updated the Field Army on the supporting detail behind that plan, which confirmed the overall numbers for REME, where our Battalions would sit in the structure, and what their roles would be. Now we are at the point of starting to receive Implementation Orders, directing how units will change, where they will move to, and what size and shape the REME supporting them will take. For the Light Forces in 1st (UK) Division, our ES roles and structures are both familiar, and novel at the same time.
1 PWRR: Not every day you get to stand on the Equator, in Kenya
1 Welsh Guards: LCpl Rai conducting a CAV repair on Op SHADER 6 craftsmaneditor@reme-rhq.org.uk
2 SCOTS: Members of 2 SCOTS LAD deployed in support of Task Force Hannibal on Ex WESSEX STORM
