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Article: Tough times on the Rock; Mike Taggart steps out in training with the Territorial Army in Gibraltar.(Features)
- Article from:
- South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
- Article date:
- July 25, 2002
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Byline: Mike Taggart
IT'S blazing hot - I mean really, really sweltering - and I'm shaking like a pea in a food blender.
I can only look in wonder at men and women with guns scurrying past me as my thumping skull is mercilessly battered by the summer Gibraltar sun.
Surely their limbs are as heavy as mine?
Surely they too are feeling the wrathful effects of an evening in the Angry Friar, which ended just a few hours before dawn physical training?
Apparently not. The Territorial Army's 157 Regiment, based in Cardiff's Maindy ...