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167 Catering Support Regiment RLC

This training year has seen a change in the man-
datory training for our soldiers with Individual
Training Requirement (ITR) replacing MATTs.
ITR provides a simple individual training system
and conditioning framework, preparing people
to succeed in their everyday jobs, during training
events, and in readiness for deployment on opera-
tions. The initial transition has proven challenging,
but progress is being made and the training team
are identifying the best path to achieve ITR for our
reserve soldiers in particular.
Furthermore, the Regiment is making changes
to the training by providing a mixture of weekdays
and weekend opportunities as well as school term
time and non-term time to cater for the needs of
all our soldiers where possible. This hopefully will
increase the commitment of our Reserve soldiers
and provide them with more opportunities to
remain part of the Reserves.
The Regiment continues to await the decisions Chef Class 3 Course inclusion of the other Services as well to spice up
on the structural changes following the Integrated the competition. Whilst the competitive element of
Review (IR) announcement. A possibility of merger the event did not take place, in the build up to it,
is also on the cards and the Regiment awaits the the Omani, American and Danish were already in
implementation orders with anticipation. Grantham conducting some training and gave us
In the Ops front, the Regiment continues the opportunity to achieve some defence engage-
to provide our talented chefs to support tasks ment and inter-operability objectives with the
worldwide. This period has seen deployment to international representatives.
a number of overseas exercises such as Cyprus, Looking ahead, Ex ARMY SUSTAINER 2023
Germany, Falkland Islands, USA and Gibraltar. is planned to take place on 24 June 2023 and one to
Within the UK, we have equally had commitments mark early on the diary. There are ample opportu-
to numerous tasks such as Op UNITY in support nities on the FOE to develop, improve and expand
of the Commonwealth Games, support to Op culinary skills both in the UK and overseas for our
BRIDGE, support to Ex Royal Yeomanry Picnic soldiers. Outside of catering, there are personnel
in Shrewsbury, NATO Dinner Night in London. deployed on Ex KNEES BEND and KNEES
Unfortunately, due to passing of Her Majesty STRETCH for skiing with additional opportunity
the Queen just prior to Ex ARMY SUSTAINER to go on Regimental AT (Skiing) in January 2023
2022, this was cancelled. This year would have ITR Training at and Battlefield Study to study Gallipoli campaign
Beckingham Camp
seen the international competitors return and the in March 2023.

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