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The road
to Rouen –
Southampton
goes French
● Don’t fence me in...
CPO(Logs) ‘Pusser’ Hill
Eighth wonders
(Plymouth Command) tries to
escape the clutches of Naval
Air Command’s Capt Bosher,
S/Lt Tim Lomas, CPO David
Beaudro
Picture: LA(Phot) Caroline Davies,
FRPU East
Inside Strait
THE men’s swimming
– daily life
team equalled an RAF
RM show
record by clinching their
on the Rock
eighth straight victory in
the Inter-Services. fi fth sense
The event, hosted this year
by the Army at Aldershot, is the PORTSMOUTH hosted
premier event in the swimming this year’s closely-fought
calendar and is always seen as ‘the Inter-Command hockey
one to win’, writes Gary Thomas, tournament.
Assistant Sports Officer, RNASA. To their credit, Scotland,
This year’s team, due to duty the RM and Naval Air
commitments and a crop of Command all turned up with
seasoned and successful team full 20-strong men’s squads.
members leaving the Service, was Portsmouth and Plymouth
the weakest – in depth – fielded despite much hard work,
for more than ten years. were short of one or two
The RAF, with champagne on players but no team ever
ice, had been bolstered by new took the fi eld with less than
swimmers with known pedigree at a full team and invariably a
national and international level. couple of subs as well.
This only seemed to spur on In the ladies competition,
the RN team who were, despite Air Command/Scotland
a winning streak of nine wins in wished to remain as a unit
the previous ten Inter-Services, but could almost have
tagged definite underdogs. produced two teams from
The youngsters took on a great those who turned out.
Local Dhabi
challenge and performed above As in the men’s event
expectations with verve and they were able to lend the
– protecting
commitment. occasional player or two
Performances in the water to the slightly-less-well-
were no less than outstanding: populated Portsmouth and
the southern
Mne Chris Bumby (HQ London) Plymouth teams.
and Diver Chris Collins (SDU By the end of the fi rst
Gulf with
Portsmouth) started the ball day, Naval Air were ahead
rolling with a par 7pts in the 800m of the Royal Marines on goal
Montrose
freestyle. difference in the men’s event
This was followed by quality and Air/Scotland were ahead
perfomances from our seasoned on goal difference in the
veterans: CPO Mickey Nolan women’s event.
(HMS Richmond) completely It was a lead the ladies
PPluslus
outfoxed the competition in the held on to throughout the
200m backstroke; Lt Cdr Kev second day of the contest
Walsh (HMS Southampton) to lift the trophy, while in
produced a superb 100m ● CPO Mickey Nolan clinches victory in the 200m backstroke
3 Commando
the men’s competition, it all
breaststroke; and Mne Joe boiled down to a decisive
Tellett (CTCRM) destroyed the
Muir (DMSTC) in the 400m and had a great start and performed in succession. clash between the two top
Brigade
opposition in the 50m and 100m
200m freestyle and AB Gemma superbly throughout the four The tragic loss of RN and sides: RM and Naval Air
freestyle.
Howells in the 100m butterfly and quarters. Combined Services player Cpl Command.
prepares
Two new team members – S/Lt
200m individual medley – both The game was end to end and Damian Mulvihill, killed in action Both had come to win –
Joel Roberts (CFT HMS Albion)
new Inter-Service records – the there was never more than one in Afghanistan earlier this year, the Royals were determined
to return to
and OC Dan Pepper (BRNC) –
ladies pitched in with as much goal separating the two sides. has led to the inception of a new to continue their fi ve-year
pitched in with medals in their
enthusiasm as the men. The spirit, will to win and award in his memory. winning streak, Naval Air to
events.
Afghanistan
Improved performances came overall commitment of the younger The Damian Mulvihill wrest the silverware from the
POET(WE) Ben Rooker
from Lt Sally Goy (Portsmouth), element seemed to rejuvenate Memorial Trophy is to be awarded Green Machine.
epitomised the team spirit when
Musn Caillin O’Malley (CLR) the more experienced players, to the best RN player, as voted by Competition for the
Surg Lt Simon Hornby had to
and AB Sarah Feltham (HMS Lt Cdr Steve Etchells (Abbey the three Service coaches at the third, fourth and fi fth place
withdraw with an injury. Ben
Heron). Wood), Lt Cdr Paul Pitcher and Inter-Services. positions had continued
AAndnd
stepped up to the block and
Notable success for the women Lt Tony Atkinson (Fleet HQ) gave The inaugural trophy was apace with Portsmouth
gained the team an invaluable
came in the diving, where PO performances that defied their awarded to L/Cpl John Hudson edging out Plymouth and
point in the 200m breaststroke, an
Becky Kershy (Devonport) gained years. for his outstanding contribution Scotland. With the drive
event that he would never usually
silver in the springboard and Mne Andy Kidd (45 Cdo over the two games. and enthusiasm shown by
Edambusters
compete in.
platform events and debutante RM) turned in an excellent Given the generally more the Scottish clan led by
It is worth mentioning that six
AB Grace Clavin (HMS performance in goal, MA Mark stable environment and superior the redoubtable Lt Gareth
– Lyme Bay
of the 12 swimmers in the team
Nottingham) gained a bronze in Edmonds (CLR), PO Steve Collins numbers of the RAF and Army, ‘Jesse’ James (Neptune) it
are serving on ships which have
the springboard. (847 NAS) and L/Cpl John together with the ever-increasing will not be long before their
recently returned from four-to-
Hopefully the ladies team will Hudson (Arborfield) produced workload personnel in the RN fortunes improve.
goes to the
six-month deployments and two
be able to regroup and launch a quality attacking displays. and RM are expected to shoulder, As for the decider, Naval
are in the training pipeline, so
closer challenge next year. The game looked set for a draw the performance of the swimmers, Air clawed their way back to
Netherlands
they have had extremely limited
The water polo team produced before luck went against the RN divers and water polo players is 3-3 after being 3-1 down at
training options.
a much improved performance and the RAF scored with just credit to every individual who has one stage.
Unfortunately, due to the large
over last year. Fielding a much- over a minute left to finish 10-9 to train in their own time and pay The result of the
number of unavailabilities the
changed side and including winners. to compete in an array of events in competition now hinged
ladies were unable to match their
new and younger faces, the The side went on to beat the order to compete at the standard upon goal difference – and
results of the previous three years.
team competed in the closest Army 8-5 but the RAF also required by this event. the Royals’ difference was
However, led by double gold
tournament seen in recent years. managed to beat the soldiers to More details on the sport are superior.
medal winners LMA Mhairi
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