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Arromanches by David Pentland. Normandy, Mid-June 1944. A REME Leyland Retriever mobile workshop truck and M7 Priest SP gun of 33rd Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, 3rd Infantry Division, disembark from an LST at one of the Whale floating roadways that made up the British Mulberry B harbour at Arromanches. |
2nd Battalion, Reme by David Rowlands. Operation Agricola, Kosovo, February - September 1999. |
Tribute to the REME, Operation Herrick, Afghanistan by Graeme Lothian. No text for this item |
Corporal C.J.G. Comber MC by David Rowlands. Corporal C.J.G. (Fred) Comber MC and crew of the Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers in action on Bridge 4 over the Shatt al Basra waterway, Iraq, 24th March 2003. |
Musa Qaleh, Helmand Province, Afghanistan by Graeme Lothian. Located in Helmund Province Musa Qaleh - district centre occupies a central base surrounded by forward observation bases (FOB's) From one of the rooftops looking down below, can be seen various units which occupy the base. The Infantry, the dog handlers, REME, Royal Engineers, Police mentoring teams, Postal Services, medics, ANA (Afghan National Army) and ANP (Afghan National Police) |
REME Recovery by Graeme Lothian. Recovering a vehicle in Helmand. A support dumper truck has edged over to the side of the track which has given way under the weight. Two REME soldiers are pulling out the tow-rope (which is made of metal cables) and will attach this to the stranded vehicle. every vehicle will have a top-gunner, heavily armed with an array of weapons - usually the GPMG. When the convoy is stationary for any period of time they are at their most vulnerable to attack, so speed is of the essence to get the convoy on its way again. |
Urban Dasht by David Rowlands. A Combat Logistic Patrol establishes a desert laager for the night, following protracted CLP operations into the Green Zone, Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan. Each CLP traveled in single file during the day, but in the evening would form up in three columns and halt. The personnel immediately carry out clearance drills, searching for IEDs by sweeping the ground around their vehicles with Vallon detectors. A Support Vehicle (Recovery) of the REME with its crane is working to repair a vehicle. The leading vehicles in the column at the right of our view are Royal Engineer assets comprising the Talisman system. A Mastiff command-post with mast-mounted electro-optic sensors has a Remote Weapon System. Behind it is a JCB High Mobility Engineer Excavator; behind it are more RE vehicles including a Buffalo. The leading Mastiffs are also fitted with the SPARK - Self Protection Adaptive Roller Kit for protection against mines and pressure-initiated IEDs. There are some areas of urban desert; that is, in close vicinity of the population but still very much in a desert landscape. Dasht means plain or desert. |
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