Relentless year for Gibraltar personnel continues
The Royal Gibraltar Squadron and Royal Gibraltar Regiment (RG) have been in the thick of the action in 2018.
The work for the Squadron and Regiment will continue over Christmas with the service relied upon 365 days a year.
This year, the RG has been guarding ships, weapons training and has been involved in ceremonial events but has also spent time on deployments and taken part in exercises.
In January, the RG were deployed to Bahrain to provide the Force Protection Platoon for the UK Naval Support Facility, which was officially opened in April by HRH the Duke of York Prince Andrew. They will continue to provide guards until next April.
As well as sending personnel to Bahrain, I Company sent Lieutenant Garcia Magrath to the Antarctic to join HMS Protector as a logistics officer and translator. He spent four months on board as the Ice Patrol Ship carried out its work, which included a search for the sunken Argentinian submarine ARA San Juan.
Back in Gibraltar, RG spent a lot of time guarding a number of visiting ships including aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth which sailed into port alongside the Rock in February on her first overseas visit, and submarines HMS Talent and Astute.
