Talk:Mahon Road Barracks/@comment-31.54.191.101-20170326144237

The men and women of the xi battlion gave their free time  to ensure that people could go about their normal bussiness in peace and safety at a high risk to them selves.

.Acoy  was commanded by major who  one of the most talented senior officer in the British Army as was his 2/ic. the 2/ic was a man who was a former member of the Royal Navy he came to A COY as Leiutant pltoon commander of 3 pltoon c/s 20B. This man served with distintion he was a soldiers, soldier he be became a expert  in counter insurgency and anti terrorist tactics the man was a key asset to A coy his rapid rise to threw the officer ranks ment that the MOD had a prize asset he commanded training teams  in main land England and was highly succesful however he was denied his LT COL by the Army central command which ment they lost one of the highly talented men ever to serve in a irregular conflict had  this man been given the rank to which he deserved he would have made a big diffence in Iraq and other conflict areas in which the British Army was involved in

. The British Army Generals / high command are not very good at selecting officers who are  highly talented its an old boys net work and if you face fits and you are the flavour of the moment then you get the job. many Ulster Defence Regiment officers missed the chance to go on greater commands.