As the Warthog Group, our Squadron is one of the last groupings to venture out beyond the wire of Camp Bastion and interact first hand with the population and all too often the insurgency.  This carries some amazing rewards, along with some very real risks.  Most of us know servicemen whose lives have been changed by catastrophic injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan and this is our way of supporting their futures at a time when their life changing experiences align so closely with the threats we face daily.

As such, and squeezed into those fleeting periods when we are in a position to do so, we will run the 3500 mile distance from Camp Bastion in Afghanistan to Leicester where our Regimental Home Headquarters provides the base for so much support to the wounded.  At around 30 miles per head, some will run marathons and others split the distance as time allows.  We have the first 3 weeks of the year to complete the distance, of which little time will be spent in a safe running environment.  We request your support, wherever you can spare it, to back the hugely valuable work undertaken by BLESMA.  Their support to so many unfortunate servicemen has been truly life changing.

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