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Final EX
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Fitness_Freak
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tomharto30
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How did I get it? By being a Nod I suppose. Still have a scar just below my little finger because of it.Greg The Great wrote:Artist, how did you have Woodbury rash so late in training?Artist wrote:Come my Kings Squad pass out I had a bad case of Woodbury rash on the palm of my left hand.
It wouldn't fit in with the current syllabus so just wondered.
Regards,
Greg.
Artist
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tomharto30
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! Shitting myself for fianl ex, like I do for every other test!! Anyway, I will report back once completed, hopefully its the first and last time I have to do it!! Potts, if you read this and I pass final ex you owe me a pint!! 
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Well, I'm back, with a slight limp i might add!!lol. Final ex was very hard, but awesome as well, some of the stuff we did was amazing, much to our surprise we deployed on the mon after leave and returned thurs just gone, so it was slightly longer that your average final ex!! The yomps were the hardest thing I have done in my life, but made it through each one. We were quite lucky that our troop boss has been planning this exercise since early on in phase one, so it was actually quite gucchi and we did a lot of stuff most troops don't do. I think we lost 6 guys altogether, I think 5 failed and one has just been put in hunter with a broken foot.
We are what we do
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tomharto30
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I remain surprised at the number of people who are back-squadded
or have to go to Hunter remedial troop. The CS squad with which
I completed my CCse as I recall were all originals. The NS squads
were the same and there were very few failures. One Blue Mne Cpl.
aged 32 opting for commando died of heat exhaustion/heart failure
and one NS/YO landed up in the iron lung in Plymouth Hospital.
But these were exceptions to the rule. There was at least a 95%
complete pass rate for originals. This was in the late 1950s'.
Younger brethren if injured or sick Report It. Better to pass out
in due course rather than to be invalided.
or have to go to Hunter remedial troop. The CS squad with which
I completed my CCse as I recall were all originals. The NS squads
were the same and there were very few failures. One Blue Mne Cpl.
aged 32 opting for commando died of heat exhaustion/heart failure
and one NS/YO landed up in the iron lung in Plymouth Hospital.
But these were exceptions to the rule. There was at least a 95%
complete pass rate for originals. This was in the late 1950s'.
Younger brethren if injured or sick Report It. Better to pass out
in due course rather than to be invalided.
RM., Colonial Police & Queen's Regt HSF.
Our final ex was called Quantum Leap. Basically we spent a week running all over Dartmoor like blue arsed flies trying to capture a Blue Landrover 110 with a plastic missle stuck on it's arse end.
I dare say these days it's much the same. We didn't do the 30 miler in the early seventies. The Green Lid was presented at week 14 (not allowed to wear Cdo Flashes, you got them on your Kings Squad pass out). So the Final Ex was always a Humdinger! Our training teams made damn sure that we yomped liked buggery during the first two days and even after that we still had to dig out blind. You could always tell which recruits were in their final two weeks off training by the fact that all of them would be seen wearing training shoes due to the state of their feet.
When I joined my first unit what was the first thing we did? Once enough newbies had joined we did a thirty miler! Thank the Lord they had the sense to re-introduce it say I. Later on I found myself doing the sod every nine to ten weeks with the AACC and then later with my two Recruit troops.
A little known fact about Chas people. When he did his training they had to run with a 19 foot pike, a matchlock musket and steel armour, a bag on a pole (for his kit) and a pair of tights!!!!
Any one seen me coat then?
Artist
I dare say these days it's much the same. We didn't do the 30 miler in the early seventies. The Green Lid was presented at week 14 (not allowed to wear Cdo Flashes, you got them on your Kings Squad pass out). So the Final Ex was always a Humdinger! Our training teams made damn sure that we yomped liked buggery during the first two days and even after that we still had to dig out blind. You could always tell which recruits were in their final two weeks off training by the fact that all of them would be seen wearing training shoes due to the state of their feet.
When I joined my first unit what was the first thing we did? Once enough newbies had joined we did a thirty miler! Thank the Lord they had the sense to re-introduce it say I. Later on I found myself doing the sod every nine to ten weeks with the AACC and then later with my two Recruit troops.
A little known fact about Chas people. When he did his training they had to run with a 19 foot pike, a matchlock musket and steel armour, a bag on a pole (for his kit) and a pair of tights!!!!
Any one seen me coat then?
Artist
