Capt John Gill recently deployed to Mali, West Africa, on Op NEWCOMBE for six months as part of the European Union Training Mission (EUTM).
The EUTM is a training and advising mission, centred in Bamako but working across the country from the legendary Timbuktu in the north to Sikasso in the south, the mango capital of West Africa.
Having been in Mali since 2013, the EUTM has been training the Malian Armed Forces from individual skills through to battlegroup operations.
