ARMAGEDDON'S SONG (Volume 3) 'Fight Through' by FARMAN ANDY

Author:FARMAN, ANDY [FARMAN, ANDY]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Andy Farman
Published: 2013-09-19T00:00:00+00:00

A very small component from the British Army was also present in Australia, albeit accidentally despite the current British Defence Minister’s attempts to spin it as largess.

Four British Mk2E Challenger main battle tanks of the 1RTR, Royal Tank Regiment, were sat in hull down positions on the high ground above the Princes Highway and Kembla Grange Racecourse, the temporary ‘home’ of the 5th Mechanised Division, to which the troop of British tanks, an infantry platoon of 3rd Battalion Royal Green Jackets and support troops were attached.

The division had the daunting task of defending a stretch of coastline from the port of Kembla, situated forty miles south of Sydney, to Bateman’s Bay, ninety miles to the south, and west as far as the northern edge of the city limits of Canberra, in all a mere seven hundred and twenty square miles.

Officially the British troops were part of the divisional reserve and therefore had no pre-prepared forward fighting positions.

Having been at Fort Hood on exercise ‘Commanche Lance’ at the outbreak of war the small British contingent known as unofficially as ‘The Queen Elizabeth’s Combat Team’ had embedded with their hosts, the 52nd Infantry, for a return to Europe via Atlantic convoy’s with 5th (US) Mechanised Division but the division had been turned around on reaching the docks in Texas and entrained again to be sent west as reinforcements for Australia.

‘Heck’, Captain Hector Sinclair Obediah Wantage-Ferdoux, RTR, Lt Tony McMarn, RGJ and Captain Danny King, their US liaison, walked together across the dusty and uneven hilltops west side of Ian McLennan Park, a bike scrambling and off-road dirt track area beside a football ground and small covered spectators stand, the home of the South Coast United Soccer Club.

In appearance the hill was spookily similar to that of an ancient Briton hill fort of the stone age, the camouflaged twenty first century armoured fighting vehicles whose barrels poked outwards at its crest somewhat at odds with that. However, as the Brits had dug in they had found nothing to excite viewers of the Discovery Channels ‘Ancient Aliens’ but plenty of evidence of landfill. The terraced sides engineered for stability rather than defence.

Both officers carried mess tins, mugs and ‘scoffing rods’, knife, fork and spoon clanking in one hand as they headed over to the covered football stand to join the breakfast queue.

The stand was the cookhouse and feeding area for the combat team, the changing rooms were the ‘barracks’ for the cooks and REME L.A.D, Light Aid Detachment, and the car park sported a covered workshop constructed of scaffolding with a ‘wriggly tin roof’, which means ‘corrugated metal sheeting’ to civilians.

“So we have a spare barrel and a bunch more rounds per tank?” Tony asked.

When the Australian Defence Force was looking to replace its ageing German Leopard 1s it had tested the contender’s main armament. The German Leopard 2s L44 main armament also ‘gunned’ the US M1A1 Abrahms, and an L44 was tested for comparison beside the British L30 tank gun. The rifled British

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