HAVE a nice cup of tea and a sit down…Now this may look like a group of officers grouped around a table, chatting over a cuppa… (apologies for the chintz chairs…)
Well, it is a group of officers grouped around a table, chatting over a cuppa… but they are chatting about serious things.
They’re discussing Exercise Green Alligator – green for marine, alligator because it’s HMS Al(bion) and it sounds quite warry… – in a planning room aboard the nation’s flagship.
The staff of UK Task Group Commander Cdre John Kingwell joined the assault ship alongside in her home base of Devonport for a week-long staff exercise.
They were joined by elements of the HQ of 3 Commando Brigade, the Joint Helicopter Command, the Royal Netherlands Marines Corps and 539 Assault Squadron Royal Marines – all of whom are due to deploy with the ship next month.
For five days the staff acted as if Albion was at sea, sailing to react with an emerging crisis (not entirely unlike the real world presently), planning the Navy’s response.
Albion will lead the Cougar amphibious deployment, including escorts HMS Sutherland and Liverpool, to the Mediterranean and Middle East this spring and summer.
Cougar is intended to demonstrate the need for Britain’s military to plan and train for unforeseen global events which might occur in parallel with current operations in Afghanistan.
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