Long time, no see

[GGHT]

I think it's when on exercise they wear their dry clothes to sleep in to prevent getting too cold and to stop hypothermia, and then get back into the wet horrible dirty clothes the next day and continue the exercise.

The training team repeatedly dunks you in Peters' pool on Woodbury in week 5 on exercise "Quick Cover" until you are utterely drenched.
You then get changed into nice dry clean clothes for a few hours of sleep, you put the wet kit under the top flap of your bergan to dry(ish).

You are then abrubtly woken for your turn on sentry, for which you you have to re-don your soaking wet clothes.(Sentry involves at least an hour lying motionless and in silence in pitch darkness lying belly down, in soaking wet clothes!)

To be honest we did it in mid May so we dried out pretty quick and only really did it on one ex, but soem troops do it all the time as mentioned above and in much colder weather. It's not really the actual wet clothes that got to me , more the fussing around of changing etc as there are a few thrashings in order if you are caught with any dry kit on in sentry.

[yet_mae]

Yea, sorry GGHT, that was a better description, I just wish I could get down there ASAP, i've been having a nightmare with my medical for over a year and with this laser clinic who are supposed to be zapping my eyes to get me past this medical, thought I wouldn't be allowed but had the letter from my afco confirm it so just need to get it done.

Hope all you other lads goin down to RT are lookin' forward to wet 'n dry, in a weird way i'm actually jelous.

[mfat_man]

Nice to hear from you mate

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[GGHT]

Yea, sorry GGHT, that was a better description, I just wish I could get down there ASAP, i've been having a nightmare with my medical for over a year and with this laser clinic who are supposed to be zapping my eyes to get me past this medical, thought I wouldn't be allowed but had the letter from my afco confirm it so just need to get it done.

Hope all you other lads goin down to RT are lookin' forward to wet 'n dry, in a weird way i'm actually jelous.

No worries mate, ad all the best with your application.

[Mitch]

Thanks for the replies, sounds like fun. Oh and well done rgj!

[tomharto30]

IC, as in a room IC

course you can because i am one.

I keep the lads in my room in shape and make sure everything gets done.

Sod off to that, ok if thats your input but its a fact

I think he was saying sod off because he knows how hard it is in phase 2 as an i/c.lol. Wait till you have the bowman bouncing around on your arse cheek when your trying to fire manouvere!!lol

[MattP]

Nice one rgj, good luck with the rest of your training mate. Whats an IC and a bowman?

Regards, Matt.

[AJtothemax]

Hey RGJ, nice to hear from you again. Sounds like you're having a good old time down at CTCRM? God i wish i was there already Im starting to get really frustrated!

One question for you though - What are the birds, sorry *cough* 'parties' like down there?

[Jack1988]

One tip, don't go to the new strip bar, unless you want to spend 2 weeks with no money!

One quetsion, i've got the ranges when i get back, whats the routine for that, do you have to do sentry when you're in your ponchos?

The parties that you have, aren't much till after week 15 i'm guessing, you're only allowed out till 8pm, for the 1st few weeks then till 10.

I've been allowed out till 12 now for the last couple of weeks, but had hunters moon on the last sunday, and the week before had gym pass out so no "Partying" there.

I think i average about £10 a day at the naffie so a top tip try and budget!

[tomharto30]

Dunno if its changed, but the way it went for us, was that you had to gate sentry, all the knobbers would get pinged for it during the day, which usually meant 5 hour stint standing at gate while the rest of us were firing or going through dry firing positions- the fun!! Then one of sections would do it at night 1 hour staggered in pairs just like normal sentry, except no rifle and you sit in a garage with a vending machine-luxury!lol. Might have changed now though, we stayed down there for the whole 2 weeks, only people needing to go to sick bay returned to CTC, and we stayed in the old bat cave where quite a few of the lads went down with something but I thing you stay in the troop shelter now.

[GGHT]

Yeh Tom pretty much the same here, only we went to Dartmoor ranges in the second week which were ancient! Supposedly they had been used since WW1!!