That same day, I spend time with the men of the First Battalion the Royal Regiment of Scotland.
On Thursday, Second Lieutenant Lucy Horner will escort the sprigs from Belfast City Airport to the First Battalion, The Royal Irish Regiment, currently based at Canterbury in Kent.
But with the bill to create the first battalion of 350, 000 jobs in the public sector now being aired in parliament, people seem to have changed their minds.
The first fully trained battalion of Malian troops is expected to be operational in July.
It was the first time the battalion had been posted to Afghanistan.
The first anti-narcotics battalion, now operational, has been dispatched to the southern province of Putomayo, a region under the control of the biggest rebel group, the 15, 000-strong Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
The Christmas 1914 fraternisation, in which the Battalion was among the first to participate, had had the same professional simplicity: no emotional hiatus, this, but a commonplace of military tradition an exchange of courtesies between officers of opposing armies.
They were among some 350 soldiers from the battalion which was on its first operational tour in 1994-1995.
In the first incident, a soldier from 4th Battalion The Rifles died in an explosion while on foot patrol near Nad Ali on Thursday afternoon, said Britain's Ministry of Defence.
Instead of thinking how Cajimat was one of the first soldiers he had been assigned when he was forming the battalion, he sifted through the sounds he had heard as he was going to sleep.
Arriving in Spain from Brooklyn in March 1937, he'd served first as a medic, then as a machine-gunner in the Washington Battalion.
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