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RANGERS, commanded by Lt Col A C J McCord MBE R IRISH, attended Annual Camp, Exercise MULBERRY TREE, at Camp Smith, Peekskill, New York, USA and at Knook Camp, Salisbury Plain Training Camp, Wiltshire from 1 - 15 June 2003.
RANGERS, commanded by Lt Col A C J McCord MBE R IRISH, attended Annual Camp, Exercise IRISH DIRK 04, at Fort George, Inverness, Scotland (1 R IRISH's location) from 27 August - 11 September 2004.
RANGERS, commanded by Lt Col H W Pritchard MBE R IRISH, attended Annual Camp on Exercise IRISH OTTER at Otterburn Training Camp, Northumberland National Park from 16 September - 2 October 2005.
The 1st and the 2nd Battalion The Royal Irish Rangers, under the UK Ministry of Defence's review ‘Options for Change’, were retiled the 1st and the 2nd Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment.
RANGERS compulsorily mobilised 85 personnel; 67 deployed on Operation TELIC (first Infantry compulsory mobilisation since the Second World War) over the period 21 Jan - 12 Aug 2003.
RANGERS personnel deployed on Operation TELIC 4 (Iraq).
On 11 September 2001, four American passenger jets were hijacked by al-Qaeda terrorists. Two of the aircraft were flown into each of the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York, both of which subsequently collapsed; one aircraft was flown into The Pentagon, headquarters of the United States Department of Defence; the fourth aircraft crashed into a field in Pennsylvania after passengers tried to wrest control from the terrorists.
Operation Herrick 13
The Royal Irish Regiment's third major deployment to Afghanistan came in 2010. The 1st Battalion, again reinforced by the 2nd Battalion, deployed into the Nad-e 'Ali District of Helmand Province as Combined Force Nad-e 'Ali South, taking over from the 1st Battalion, The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment.
Operation HERRICK 8
On 25 March 2008, the 1st Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment, reinforced by a company from the 2nd Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment, relieved the 2nd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment in Afghanistan.
The 1 R IRISH Battlegroup had three roles:
1) Providing operational and training support to the Helmand Brigade of the Afghan National Army (ANA).
2) Detaching C (Ranger) Company to 2 PARA Battlegroup in Sangin District.
On 28 November 1943, British troops had gained a small bridgehead on the north side of the River Sangro. The aim at this stage was to breach the German Winter Line that ran parallel with the northern escarpment overlooking the river.
