Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Cap Badge

The Scots Dragoon Guards raise the regimental flag on their Challenger 2.  It saw active service during the Gulf War in 1991 deploying 57 Challenger tanks^[3] and in Bosnia as part of SFOR in 1996–97.^[4] In 1998, it became the first regiment in the British Army to operate the Challenger 2 main battle tank.^[5] It deployed to Kosovo, as part of KFOR, in 2000.  The regiment deployed to Iraq for Operation Telic, the British element of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The bulk of the regiment deployed as part of the Scots Dragoon Guards Battle Group with a single squadron (A Squadron) detached to the First Battalion The Black Watch Battle Group. All deployed elements of the regiment took part in the advance on Iraq’s second largest city, Basra. Prior to reaching Basra, A Squadron fought in and around Az Zubayr and C Squadron was detached from the SCOTS DG BG to fight with 3 Commando Brigade in actions south of Basra that included Britain’s largest tank engagement since the Gulf War, when 14 Challenger 2 tanks engaged and destroyed 14 Iraqi tanks (the so-called ’14–0′ engagement).