The Royal Highland Games Braemar 2008

By Sgt Al Sharp

As with all sports, in the current climate, it is getting harder to bring new blood into the squad but thankfully the publicity is working. With new members in Tug Of War it takes time to get used to the physical effort required to compete at such a high level of competition that the Royal Highland Games brings. With 2 new squad members, one who had only picked a rope up a fortnight ago, we arrived at Braemar a little apprehensive. It was an early start for the squad, as we had to be at the ground for 9 am, leaving RAF Leuchars at 7 am. We arrived to a particularly chilly Braemar but the competition was to heat up. The Competition consisted of 11 teams split into 2 groups. We had been put into the stronger of the 2. The Teams we would pull would be 19 Regiment, 4 Reg, 1 RSME, and the 2 strongest teams on the circuit 40 Regiment and 11 Signals.  More....