'Black Rats' prepare to continue Afghanistan transition process
A Military Operations news article
24 Aug 12
Members of 4th Mechanized Brigade (4 Mech Bde) are finalising their training ahead of their deployment to Afghanistan this autumn as the UK's Task Force Helmand on Op HERRICK 17.
Brigadier Bob Bruce is interviewed by broadcast journalists on Salisbury Plain
[Picture: Shell Daruwala, Crown Copyright/MOD 2012]
Due to the significant progress in the development of the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) in Helmand province, the deployment will see the Task Force begin the UK's phased drawdown in numbers of manpower and materiel in Afghanistan, with Brigadier Bob Bruce, Commander 4 Mech Bde, committing to sending 500 British troops back to the UK by the end of the year.
4 Mech Bde, also known as 'The Black Rats', is based in Catterick but made up of units from across the UK, including a number of reservist as well as regular military units.
At a facility held at Bulford Camp on Salisbury Plain yesterday, Brigadier Bruce, who has deployed with 4 Mech Bde three times in the past in three different ranks, praised the training and the new equipment that his men and women have received:
"As we have deployed Task Forces to Helmand of course we learn the lessons of that deployment, and we constantly adapt the training to make it better and better, and we are regularly in receipt of new pieces of equipment," he said...
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