![]() ![]() In the mid 60s, officially each troop had 4 tanks, however, only 3 were ever used at one time, the 4th was classed as war reserve and cacooned on the tank park with about a dozen other tanks which were also war reserve from other troops and squadrons. I was in "A Squadron".this was given the number prefix one(1) and the squadron symbol was a triangle a red triangle with yellow shading, had I have been in "B Troop" the prefix would have been a Square with number prefix beginning with a 2 the square was red with yellow shading, "C Troop" was a red circle with yellow shading and prefix began with a 3. Now I wish I'd taken the time to transcribe them.Ĭall signs for sabre troops when I was in BAOR ![]() I used to have a pretty complete set of callsign indicator matrixes from my time in the 90's as a reservist signaller, but they all had to go in the bin as the ink had reacted with the plastic pouches over time making them illegible. 11B and 22B could be either regimental or squadron HQ callsigns, with 22B possibly being the 2i/c. On this decal sheet I would say that 0B and 0C are probably battle group HQ callsigns, with 0B probably the BG 2i/c. They had the joy of monitoring 2 nets simultaneously. Squadron OCs, CPs and sometimes other SHQ personalities would have different callsigns on the Regimental net, but would not display them. So the Regimental CO and Squadron OCs would all be 0A on their own nets, which are the callsigns you display. However, Battle Group command callsign indicators didn't follow the "standard" regimental and squadron pattern. AFAIK, 0B was the standby control station ready to take over the net if 0 should go off air, with 0C being the standby for 0B. The commander of any net, "Sunray", was always 0A and the command post or station was always 0. ![]() The large white on black callsigns are exercise markings only and would mirror the smaller tactical symbol markings. 10-40 in the HQ diamond would be quite different personalities: probably not people allocated their own tank. 10-40 in those same symbols would be troop commanders' tanks, which on this decal sheet you would need to make up yourself. ![]() However, given the squadron symbols we can be sure that 11-42 on this decal sheet are indeed troop tanks. All those callsigns would have different meanings at Squadron, Regimental or Battle Group levels. ![]()
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