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Waho
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| Welcome to Waho on the Web, the
on-line supplement to the ABMP's newsletter, featuring
news updates, events and some new photographs smuggled past the Censor.
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Commando
Speed March
2008 - Entry now open |
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To enter your team for the 12th annual
commemorative event contact us
now!
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Commando Speed March
2007 |
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Almost 160 competitors - a good turnout given
current UK military operational commitments - loaded up their
bergens and took to the hills for this year's event, overseen, as usual,
by the Army Physical Training Corps.
The weather was inclement, with strong winds
and torrential rain. This, combined with some extremely large puddles,
ensured a good soaking was enjoyed by all the usual suspects who turned
out. As is customary, an all ranks prize giving dinner was held in the
evening.
The official team results for 2007 were as
follows:-
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1st. CTCRM
2nd.
FPGRM
3rd.
MSUOTC |
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CTCRM reversed last years result by coming in
ahead of FPGRM. This made it three wins in four years for CTCRM.
MSUOTC took third place with a good performance.
Our thanks as always go to Donald
Cameron of Achnacarry for allowing us use of the Achnacarry Estate and also
to all the competitors who raised sponsorship monies for the Commando
Benevolent Fund and Airborne Forces charities.
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Doing it the traditional
way with weapons & webbing
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Field storm towards the hill at the start
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race leader takes the hill in appalling conditions
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Going for it at the
finish
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The group photo at
Achnacarry after the race
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Wet on the course, but
atmospheric on the hills...
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Holland 2006
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During May 2006, the Association
undertook its 13th successful year of Netherlands Wing Courses in Holland.
The 20 foot wide drainage ditch across the centre of the DZ led to some early baths and near
misses!
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The DZ with water
hazard
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Exit Training
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Ready to emplane
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Under canopy...
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Coming into land...
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After the jump...
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Estonia 2006
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During June 2006, the Association traveled to
Estonia to undertake its fourth year of Estonian wings courses. Jumps were made using the D6 'chute from an
AN-2. The standard of hospitality and jumping provided by the Estonian Air
Force was first class and all jumpers qualified for their wings.
According to the highly trained ABMP Tasting Team, the vodka
wasn't half bad either...
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Close up of D6 'chutes. Note the AN-2 fuselage used for PLF
training through the nose - a 9 foot drop! Nothing serious then...
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The AN-2 Jumpship
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A stick ready to go
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Jump Dakota 2000
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| The Association's seventh annual trip to jump in
Holland had the added bonus of the Dakota Club's superbly maintained
historic C-47, N47FK, complete with temporary paint job from filming
Steven Spielberg's "Band of Brothers". It was impossible to jump
it and not come back smiling.
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| "The Dak" - Impossible to jump
it and not come back smiling...
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The weather, which had been good during the first
week, was less co-operative during the second. Despite this, everyone was
able to jump the Dakota with brisk winds ensuring some entertaining
backward landings. To commemorate Liberation Day, at
the end of the second week, a visiting B-25 Mitchell Bomber joined the
C-47 in a flypast over the town before two sticks of ABMP parachutists
were dropped on the airfield.
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| Still going strong - Three U.S. Veterans
inspect the C-47 Dakota and a visiting B-25 Mitchell bomber.
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| The C-47 and Antonov
AN2 wait on the DZ...
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The Malfunctioned
View...
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| The ABMP HQ in Holland -
it's tranquil appearance belies the complex planning undertaken
here to prepare for the invasion of breakfast...
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| Critical load adjustments being made prior
to take-off...
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ABI |
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