hello lads,
i got 3 weeks off for summer leave wohooo
upto week 17 now things are going ok started phase 2 training now so i am classed as a basic soldier now, pay raise and i wear my green belt around camp apposed to core pattern.
i got the marksmanship badge from the 2 weeks on the range for getting a high score doing the apwt "annual personel weapons test" got hundreds of rounds down with the sa80 was great fun second week of the range packet was lsw doing another apwta with it only missed 3 rounds out of 60 doing an auto shoot with it awsome bit of kit the lsw.
from the ranges we had a week on camp doing bottom field aquant with is the assault course and man phys, grenade throwing wich was awsome and helicopter dunker drills wich was totaly awsome, inside a replica helo getting put under water and span around then escaping in day, low light and pure darkness. few people flapped and paniced lol ohh yea we got gassed in the chamber too with cs tablets blow all the air out your lungs take your resperator off take a breath of gas then say your name and number i got to p0647 then caughed my guts up and naily crapped myself i was caughing that hard and it felt like i just had acid poured into my eyes and my face was on fire lol not nice
after that we did ex running man wich was a practise run for baptist run it was a 3 day ex focused on navagation, we yomped for 3 days solid with day sacks/webbing (51lb+weapon) then on extraction we wernt fast enough so we had to carry jerry cans full of water for 2 mile was a hang out then yomp 8 mile back to camp with atleast 79lb in our burgans most of us way over i had 90lb :/ that hurt a lot.
baptist run was next this is a test of everythign we had learnt to pass us out of phase one its a 24hr ex starts with a 4 mile speed march with 21lb+ weapon then a kit muster in the drill shed, then we transported to the common did a few stances on things we lernt ( map reading, stalking, obsavation, fire control orders, obsavation orders ) then a night we got through in the pond and then setup our harbor and got a sentury running and tested on our wet and dry routine wich is getting out of your wet kit into dry kit and into your bag keeping minimal stuff out of your burgan then our dry-wet routine wich is the opposite and totaly horrible to do sentury after that we packed the stores up and did the 8 mile yomp back to camp again. when we got back to camp we did an nbc test as part of the test wich was decontamination, canister changes and administering anti nerve injections to yourself all done in the chamber full of cs how nice, anyone feeling the affects of cs yes me corpral "ahh well youve been seen off crack on".
next morning we had another kit inspection to test our deservicing and that was it over our troop got the best overall pass mark for 13 troops and got a nice chuck up from the commanding officer.
week 16 was a week of bottom field doing bpt (battle physical training) 2 hours monday 1 hour tuesday 2hours wed and 1 hour fri it the same as usual bottom field but a lot harder, few more cheeky 200m firemans carrys twice around the assault course with rope climbs inbetween running, up and down beasty nole ( a short but steep bank) then regains over the tank of water
and then we broke up on friday afternoon i will be going back into week 17 straight on ex first base doing a 5mile speed march to start it off then into a helo to the drop off point, we will be doing tactical harbour routines and section attacks mostly on this ex.
how is everyone else doing?
how did your pre prmc course go manlove?
Daz
ps i will try get some phots up, sry for any typo's too
