Chris becomes a Lancer

Hello All,

Just a brief one I'm afraid as times are busy.  However i have the great honour of letting you all know i will be commissioning into the Queen's Royal Lancers as a Formation Reconnaissance Troop Commander, which is exactly what i wanted. It was a nerve racking process, and for our whole Platoon it's been a pretty emotional week.  There have been a few unfortunate let downs, most of them wholly undeserved, but on the whole the majority are off to where they want which is excellent.

In other news we are being beasted through a combination of mental and physical tests, culminating on Monday with the dreaded log race, a 3.5 km race through rivers and around the academy carrying two logs and numerous other heavy lumps of inconvenience as fast as we physically can.  Our Platoon is a strong one, so this is our time to shine, which piles on the pressure but getting it done will be a major hurdle jumped.  As the training for the event has taught us though it will hurt quite like nothing else can.  Within the first 50m every part of you is screaming to stop and it is only a sense of loyalty which sees one through. 


I will write again when time allows in more detail.  In the meantime here are a few grainy photos of the boxing night, where a few of our strongest Trojans ultimately unsuccessfully thumped the crap out of some of the juniors.