An army regiment is operating in coronavirus bubbles as soldiers return to combat exercises after spending lockdown providing civilians with Covid-19 tests.
The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards will spend about three weeks at Kirkcudbright Training Centre taking part in live firing exercises. Over acres of farmland, the soldiers are planning and executing operations under stringent new safety procedures.
Soldiers are arranged in household groups of 10 to 15 people within larger cohorts and avoid contact with other squadrons.
Major Adam Champion, the officer commanding C Squadron, said: “There are about 250 soldiers in total in the exercise that are deployed here but most of those are socially distanced from each other so actually, for the most part, we only see a small number of us on any one day.”
