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On Tour With Pte Langton

A Day in the Life of C ‘Essex’ Company Private Adam Langton from Grantham Lincolnshire

My name is Pte Adam Langton, from Grantham, Lincolnshire, serving with the First Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment (The VIKINGS) C-Coy.

I have been over here in Afghanistan now for the past three months, as I was deployed on one of the first flights to prepare for the remainder of the battalion’s arrival. Unfortunately this meant that I was unable to deploy on the final stages of the Battalion’s pre deployment training that was held in Kenya.

Since being here, in Camp Bastion, I have done many tasks that are involved in the J4 world (administration), firstly preparing for the Company to arrive and supplying the lads with all the new kit and equipment that they would need to do their job. Shortly after their arrival in Camp Bastion, the lads finished their final part of their training and pushed out to our company location, Kajaki located in the north of the Sangin Valley which the lads now call home.

The coy location is approximately 100 kilometres in a straight line from where I am living in Camp Bastion. This may look like a small distance, but this is where the resupply becomes difficult for us in the J4 world as we are dependent on flights from the RAF. I resupply the lads with a range of commodities ranging from food, water, ammunition, fuel and all the morale bits and bobs that the lads ask for (sweets, cigarettes and the odd bottle of shower gel). The job is a never ending task and is constantly changing with the different demands that come from the lads in the company.

I enjoy my time over here, but I do wish at times to be out there with the lads in the thick of the action, but I also know that I have an important job to do because if I was not here in Camp Bastion to organise their supplies then they would not be able to do their job.

The guys on the ground are doing an awesome job and I have the upmost respect for them as I can appreciate the job they are doing whilst people back home probably do not understand the conditions they are fighting in.

I am looking forward to getting home on my R&R so that I can spend some quality time with my wife (Lisa) and my three children (Damian 12, Tyler 10 & Skie 9). We have loads planned for my R&R so will probably be glad to come back over here for a REST…

Thanks for reading. Take care all.

Pte Langton