Hi all,

Well as you can see thats me back safe and sound from Afghan, unfortunately the lads are still out there, Pebs and his boys are returning on the 13th April and Fitzy and his lads are returning on the 25th April.

The six months has gone extremely well, the lads have been coming into contact with the Taliban on many occassions, on one occassion Scott Fitzgerald was commanding the point section, he received effective enemy fire from only 30 metres away, he got pinned down in open grouund, we called for mortor fire, the MFC done an extremely good job with calling for fire within minutes, overall they fired 385 bombs onto 2 enemy positions which enabled scott and his section to extract into cover, thereafter we hammered the position with every gun available to us and that was a good sight.

Hi everybody, well things here have now now come to a halt as the Battalion are now on pre-deployment leave until early September. The last four months has seen us doing the Afghan training up and down the country.

We have completed numerous briefing days and alot of hard range packages. We have had 8 new draft come to the platoon which has now bolstered our numbers up to 25 which is good to see. Our main effort has been getting the blokes up to speed on Sf which has gone extremely well, however we have had the introduction to 2 new weapon systems, the 50 cal and the Grenade Machine Gun.

Most of you hopefully already know but I will put the info on here as well. The next Coldstream Drummers Reunion will be held in Victoria Barracks, Windsor, on the 17th March 2007. The day will start at approx. 1400hrs with a full practice in the main practice room.

Well it must be true then Spuggy and (Mrs Spuggy) Steve and Val Mycroft are migrating!! sorry emigrating to New Zealand on Wednesday THE 13 th SEPTEMBER 2006.  So some Drummers and Ex Drummers took up the kind invitation go down to Doncaster to tell Spuggy not to change his mind and to give them both a good send off and Drum them out of the UK.