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also completed a circumnavigation via the Pacific arriving in the Indian Ocean in time to be available for GRANBY. The part played by the RMS in humanitarian operations related to the Gulf war are described in Annex J. Following a cyclone which flooded large areas of Bangladesh in June 1991, RFA FORT GRANGE deployed from the Gulf with 4 Sea King helicopters and 6 RM Rigid Raider boats and rendered vital assistance in a variety of ways over a 2 week period.
ARMY
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Army deployments, operations and exercises are shown at Annex L; as with the other two Services, GRANBY made very considerable demands on the Army's resources.
Other deployments during the period have included continued assistance to security forces in Colombia in support of
of the latter's efforts to defeat narcotics terrorism. RE, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC)
are amongst units which have contributed forces since this package first started in the autumn of 1989. RE elements have provided high risk search training and the RAOC has conducted Explosive Ordnance
Ordnance Disposal (EOD) training. Assistance
has included training for the Anti Narcotics Police in a rural context and bodyguard training to the President's personal protection unit. RE personnel are scheduled to provide additional training in counter terrorist search (CTS) and combat engineer techniques early in 1992 but no further aid packages have been confirmed beyond the end of FY 91.
40. Elsewhere, Army deployments over the period have included Operation SALAM, mine clearance training for Afghan refugees in Pakistan, Operation PATRICIA, a half troop of REs to Western Samoa for disaster relief in early 1990 and Operation Eldorado, a combined Services Assisted Evacuation (SAE) operation with the US in Liberia in summer 1990. A small team deployed to Angola in the context of the peace process between UNITA and MPLA, and a Military Intelligence Liaison Officer (MILO) from HQ UK Land Forces (UKLF)
went to Addis
Ababa in June 1991 to provide advice prior to a possible SAE of UK expatriates, and to provide enhanced security to the Embassy staff. In the event no SAE was necessary, but those deployed were able to give valuable assistance in other ways. RE and RAOC deployed small teams to Zimbabwe in July and August 1991 to train security forces in aspects of EOD and high risk search in preparation for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) held in Harare in October 1991. A deployment to Zaire (Operation DEE) of a MILO
took place in
October 1991 as a result of a breakdown of law and order. Elsewhere in Southern Africa 4 officers from
from the Mozambique Training Team (MTT) Nyanga deployed to Mozambique for attachment to the Military Verification Commission (MIVECO) in early 1991.
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A map showing RAF 00A deployments during the period is at GRANBY and its associated operations entirely dominated the period from August 1990 to mid 1991. One such
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