Aldershot Troops in Kenya
| Eagle Radio has been given special access to Aldershot’s 1st Battalion Welsh Guards in Kenya. The troops have been sent there as part of pre-deployment training. The Welsh Guards were in Afghanistan in 2009 and there is a good chance they will be re-deployed next spring. 650 troops, including 100 new recruits and even a former Falklands officer, have been deployed to Kenya. They are having to cope with intense heat and bush conditions as part of the six-week Operation Askari Thunder mission. Over the next week, our reporter Des Busteed will be travelling to a number of base camps outside Nairobi to see how they are coping. |  |
Arrival and Settling in
Des and the Aldershot-based troops landed in Nairobi in the early hours of Monday morning.
It was dark and wet, but still very warm.
Here he describes conditions in the country:
