Drone_pilot
20-07-04, 11:24
With Germany home to 60% of the British Army's firepower, a training range in Fallingbostel is a good place to find out what makes a great tank crew.
And in an age of computer games, it should be no surprise that a teenager is given the task of aiming and firing a Challenger 2 tank.
Trooper Gareth Harley, from Wolverhampton, is only 18 but his commanding officer said he was so good he was made a gunner without undergoing driver training.
Second Lieutenant Rob Moseley, 24, from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, was commissioned in August last year and is the youngest officer in the 7th Armoured Brigade's Badger squadron.
The brigade, better known as the Desert Rats, took part in the invasion of Iraq last year.
Three days after Lt Moseley was commissioned he was sent to Iraq for what he described as a "baptism of fire".
The tank's commander is always an officer but the other three men in the crew are ordinary soldiers.
BBC Read More (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3842027.stm)
And in an age of computer games, it should be no surprise that a teenager is given the task of aiming and firing a Challenger 2 tank.
Trooper Gareth Harley, from Wolverhampton, is only 18 but his commanding officer said he was so good he was made a gunner without undergoing driver training.
Second Lieutenant Rob Moseley, 24, from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, was commissioned in August last year and is the youngest officer in the 7th Armoured Brigade's Badger squadron.
The brigade, better known as the Desert Rats, took part in the invasion of Iraq last year.
Three days after Lt Moseley was commissioned he was sent to Iraq for what he described as a "baptism of fire".
The tank's commander is always an officer but the other three men in the crew are ordinary soldiers.
BBC Read More (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3842027.stm)