THE FUTURE

The lessons of past achievements and the example of illustrious predecessors deserve to be remembered and traditions derived from them kept alive, but they are no substitute for an attitude of mind which sees the present and the future as a challenge. For the past 250 years the regiments now composing The Royal Green Jackets have led the way in facing each new challenge of enemy, climate and technology which has faced the Army.

In the 1990`s many of the assumptions on which military thinking has been based for forty-five years - the threat from the Warsaw Pact, withdraw from overseas commitments - have been called into question. There have been periods in the past when there seemed to be little scope for innovation and the rest of the Army had caught up with the advanced thinking pioneered by Green Jackets, but each time the opportunity to lead the way has offered itself again and each time Green Jackets have seized it. There is no reason why the present occasion should be any different as we play a full part in peace keeping operations in Bosnia under NATO command.

1st Royal Green Jackets in the Gulf War, 1991