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Hankins wrote:survivial ex was the best part of that thing, we built a teepee, we got a chuck up from the ML's, our training team called them back in the morning to show them. Oh i also forgot our troop f@#k up on the last navi and then we were stripped of all equipment and made to sleep in a bivi bag with another person in that little fort yard behind their shack. The worst about it was that we had to do roaming sentry and we walked right in front of that hut and you could see them eating laughin and just being warm and you could hear everyone that walked by going f*** this f*** that, i can't F**** believe im doing this... it was my bit of humor for the night, and then yes we did do the 16km yomp, it was a fun one. Our troop covered a good 50 to 60k that week.

note: for those who aren't in RT don't be discouraged

Did most of that when i was a kid and just laughed about it. Can't wait for that!

AAhhhhh Hunters moon and survival ex. Survival ex is a good excersise as long as you dont waste any of the animal parts, which our troop did. This resulted in a 30 minute thrashing from and ML's and a nice submerged dip in the ogging. All good fun

The lads have summed it up pretty well.

5 hrs sleep in 5days, 60k of yomping including night navex's that had our troop coming down a rock ravine where one false foot equalled a broken ankle, what fun!

By the time you get to ML survival ex, you're having constant cramps from dehydration and lack of sleep. They use any excuse to have you running up and down these godawful hills lol.


Good side is you get weekend leave after it!

huntermoons was emotional to say the least to of the lads went down with hyperthermia up on dartmoor on the night ex and we had to set of shermoolies(spelling) and flares blowing the whistle as hard as you can because they are dogs b*llocks and the rain and wind was coming in from the side.
great wanst it sabbo

I take it they've changed some bits round then? Survival Ex used to be after Running Man, which sounds like the exercise above, first proper yomping around the Moor with the scout hut in the wood at the bottom of the hill, and the abandoned farmhouse across the stream from Hen Tor? Hunter's Moon used to be week 10, on the Common, at the top of that huge hill we did phys up every morning (the road hill, not the gravel track hill near Peter's Pool where you do some other exercise).

lmao sullyyyyyy.
lol ye it was the defining week of my life old hunters moon, eurowandrew you wont be walking round builing anything lol, all you will want is just to lie down by the fire an go to sleep.
survival ex = wet, extremely cold and very very tired. that yomp to survival ex was one of the hardest tings ive done, had to speed mach it to keep up lol.

I really enjoyed Hunters Moon, best exercise yet. We came back on the Thursday before Christmas leave so we knew we just had to get through the ex and then we'd be home for two weeks - massive motivation.

We had one lad (a backtrooper from 928 who had joined us the day before deploying) break his ankle on a night time beasting and my bivvy partner fell while descending a Tor and had to go to hospital to have his face glued back on....

The weather was ace, sunshine all day everyday but that meant cold nights, we had frost forming on us on sentry and it was sub zero on survival ex.

Druadan, Running Man is now week 14 and on the Common. Hunters moon is still week 10. Sounds like they just shifted things around a bit.

Roll on Monday morning - two weeks on the range and speed marching everyday - rock on....

Regards.
Greg.

haha, sounds good greg surprised it didnt rain i thought the wet stuff comes down non stop on dartmoor lol.
what was your night time thrashing for, o and have fun at straight point u will like sleeping in the bat cave you will know what i mean when you get there lol

AJtothemax wrote: Did most of that when i was a kid and just laughed about it. Can't wait for that!

I can assure you when your being woken for sentry after half and hours "sleep", knowing that the very fact your on sentry is going to get you "flanked" due to lack of time to prep your kit, you wont want to laugh!

Hunters Gloom - beasting/map reading/beasting/beasting and beasting....and some (not much) sleep

....oh and did I mention BEASTING

Don't worry though lads - every second, minute, hour, day, week, month of privation, pain and suffering will make you strong. Bootnecks are strong If it was easy then everybody would do it

sabbo wrote:haha, sounds good greg surprised it didnt rain i thought the wet stuff comes down non stop on dartmoor lol.
what was your night time thrashing for

It was a fair one. We came back from a night nav and were given half an hour to be outside the scout hut ready to move to the harbour area. Some of the lads didn't stow their daysacks properly back in their bergens and had them hanging off the back or lobbed in the top leaning to one side. Obviously done because we knew we were only moving 200 metres - we got a 3K yomp to demonstrate what would happen if we had to move to a different area.

It was fair enough as are all the beastings to be honest. They're never done maliciously.

Greg.

orite sull, sabbo hows it goin its ross. ha hunters moon my blisters are still healing lol

I was looking forward to going back until this thread started.

Someone lock it before I fax my chit in and get a job at Argos.

It'll get worse before it gets better - but you know you want it

Don't mind me, I'm just jealous, sat here shining me arse in front of a computer - would love to be amongst it again.