Grant’s on new mission
TANKS and drive pasts marked the handover of duties from the outgoing Commanding Officer of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment.
The mounted parade also commemorated the unit’s 48th birthday and Battle of Cambrai as well as the promotion of the regiment’s members.
Outgoing CO of 2Cav Lieutenant Colonel Grant Chambers said it was sad for him to leave the unit.
“The prospect of not being able to do it anymore pulls at the heart strings a bit,” Lt- Col Chambers said.
“I think the high points would have been the regiment’s performance as one of the battle groups working on Exercise Talisman Sabre … and then, of course, leading deployed troops in Iraq for the first half of this year.”
Lt- Col Chambers will head to Canberra to instruct at the Australian Command and Staff College.
Lt- Col Chambers said it was the love and support of his family that kept him going.
“I couldn’t have soldiered the way I have, and for as long as I have without Melinda and my girls,” he said.
“Words can’t describe the support that she provides and the hardship that she goes through.”
The incoming CO is Lt- Col Patrick Davison who will join the 3rd Brigade from Brisbane.
The wedge- tailed eagle mascot for the 2nd Cavalry Regiment is Trooper Courage. The new recruit is an experienced 12- year- old female and she lives at Lavarack Barracks.