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Parachuting in the bay
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The annual GIB SPLASH training exercise run by the Submarine Parachute Assistance Group (SPAG) takes place this week. Its role is to deploy a team of people with Escape and Rescue knowledge to the scene of a submarine in distress – and to do so as quickly as possible. Whilst in UK they are always on six hours notice to take-off from RAF Lyneham, twenty four hours a day, all year round.
A C-130 aircraft carrying the troops will arrive today and carry out three parachute drops on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. This will require the barriers on Winston Churchill Avenue to be lowered each time but every effort will be made to minimise traffic congestion.
GIBEX
Meanwhile, Headquarters British Forces will be running 'Gibex', an exercise designed to practise both the skills needed for the Command to act as a Forward Mounting Base and for its various Force Protection plans.
All the activity will take place this week within the MOD estate but members of the public may observe additional security activity around the perimeters of Devil's Tower Camp, Rooke, the Naval Base and Buffadero Training Centre. The public may also hear the noise of blank ammunition being used.
*The Type 23 frigate, HMS Somerset paid a visit to the Naval Base this weekend, as she heads back to Plymouth after a six-month anti-piracy deployment in the Indian Ocean.
20-02-12
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