Hunters moon.

[Paulc83]

Not sure i have even got the name right, but i was told of a field exercise called hunters moon, what does it consist of,

[mancuniankid]

Mainly map reading and yomping over Dartmoor

[digitalfreefall]

RT

[Hankins]

not to worry you, but it was possibly the most miserable ex we had, it was cold, wet, raining with strong wind, a couple guys went down with hypo almost, some of them got the shake going on good, inspections in the morning shit was flying everywhere because of the rain and then we got thrashed, but we were piss wet through already, but you get nice and close with all the poop on the ground, its beautiful.

[tomharto30]

Don't forget to mention the nice warm scout hut that the training team stay in and the fact you can smell bacon sandwiches everytime your cold wet and hungry!

[euro_andrew]

lol what would happen if you stumbled into their scout hut and started eating their bacon?

would you get binned?

[sabbo]

hahaha, hankins i have never heard hunters moon summed up so beautifuly lol.
dont forget the wide screen tv with sky that they have in the scout hut to.

[tomharto30]

Saying all that though, I love how hunters moon gets so hyped up, you deploy onto thinking your gonna die!lol. Each day I woke up and through the whole day I was just waiting to get wet and thrashed. Did you boys have to do the 16km yomp to survival ex?

[euro_andrew]

what happens in hunters moon? do you just sit out in the bush for a few nights and try to survive? or is there things you have to do?

[themattmeister]

what happens in hunters moon? do you just sit out in the bush for a few nights and try to survive? or is there things you have to do?

The survival exercise is the last night where apparently you just sit around keeping a fire going, not eating very much and spooning each other for warmth.

[tomharto30]

You don't sit round much, we spent most of our time looking for wood and water(keeps you warm). Its weird because you dont know what time it is or how long you have been doing somethin for, you dont know when it ends or how long ago it started!! Its total confusion!

[euro_andrew]

I'd get bored and go build stuff and sh*t.

lol I have done alot of camping out on the bush back home in Australia.

Good fun.

[Hankins]

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

[KJ-Edwards]

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

No way... I can not wait to get stuck in mate.

Kyle.

[Paulc83]

bring it on! i say that but ive yet to do my prmc! might be being a bit optimastic.