CCF RN Fifteen CCF cadets, eleven boys from City of London School and four City of London Girls School, along with six Cadet Force Adult Volunteers arrived at Gouvia Marina on the 15th August 2018. We arrived there following a short 8km drive North from Corfu airport, where we were introduced to the three yachts […]
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The adventure training week was set up by Staff Sergeant Seral Hassan in 2017 as an opportunity for Cadets from all backgrounds to take part in activities that they would rarely have a chance to take part in on their Annual camp or through the year due to other training commitments. It was a chance
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Expedition Name: Moonlands Expedition 2018 Budmouth College Cadets annually participate in a month-long expedition based around adventurous training but specifically designed to develop leadership in our future NCOs. In July a group of twelve departed for the Tibetan Plateau of Eastern Kashmir adjacent to the border with China. The surprises of expedition started rather sooner
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45 Cadets from 6 Squadron’s based in London participated in the 291 Squadron’s Annual Green Camp this year, last year it was 80 cadets attending. The 291 camp has been undertaken for the past 12 years with it firstly being just cadets from 291 Squadron. The past 3 years has seen this camp being offered
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The Headquarters Air Cadets West Coast Challenge offshore sailing expedition set out from Greenock on the River Clyde on Monday the 6th of August with a nervous and apprehensive group of 11 Cadets and two adult staff on board the 72’ Ocean Youth Trust Scotland yacht, Alba Venturer. Since the first annual voyage in 2005
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After a weary start in the early morning of the 10 February, our small hoard of skiers set off for a relaxed day of travel firstly to Birmingham Airport, on to Stuttgart and then to our destination at the lovely and cosy Haus Am Brunnenbach. On the way through the Bavarian countryside, we had picked
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We set off with 20 cadets (some weren’t actually cadets) and 4 staff members on Sunday the 29th of July, excited for the opportunity to go away for a week and learn great new skills from the experienced crew members. Sunday: This was when we got the coach to Portsmouth to meet the two boats.
12 Officer Cadets (OCdts) from Oxford University Officer Training Corps (OUOTC), split into two phases, travelled to the Dolomites for an action-packed multi-pitch climbing package. The main aim of the expedition was to challenge the OCdts in a high-pressure environment and develop their climbing skills on some of the best routes in Europe. After packing
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Whilst canoeing up the sea loch towards Kinlochmoidart, the sun shone for a few moments; we were happy to have successfully completed the expedition, but also very sad it was over. The moment of sunshine made the week of paddling in strong head winds to finish the last section of the 48km of Loch Shiel
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This was 2 R IRISH’s main Type 3 AT activity for the current trg yr and was designed to give all serving members the opportunity to experience an arduous trek in a completely new area. 13 members of 2 R IRISH took part and they were joined by three members from Queens University OTC. The
Our journey starts at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and finishes at Reykjavik, Iceland. Day 1 (JSASTC, Gosport, 9 Jul 18) Five odd things we’ve learnt as we prepare to sail across the Atlantic Ocean (authored by LCpl Rebecca Lefort) Exercise PACIFIC LONGBOW is the British Army’s major adventurous training sailing exercise, circumnavigating the Atlantic and
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Summer Rock 2018 was a multi-activity training and adventure week delivered by the London Area Sea Cadets Adventure Training Team. The weeklong camp this year was based at the Capel Curig military training camp in North Wales. The event took 36 young people between the of 12-18 from across London into the heart of Snowdonia
My first military trip to the Alps was on the Joint Services Alpine Meet, staged from a campsite in Saas Grund in 2009. It was run slightly differently to previous iterations in as much that the Joint Services Mountain Training Centre had intervened to assist. Little did I know at the time that this marked
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Exercise Northern Alpine 18 was a Mountaineering exercise based in Wertach, Bavaria, and designed to develop the mountaineering skills and experience of 9 officer cadets. The exercise took place in early August and spent 8 days training in the Allgau Alps. Activities included trekking, climbing and klettersteig (an Alpine discipline that is similar to climbing
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9 Cadets and 5 Cadet Force Adult Volunteers from the Air Training Corps (ATC) have just returned from a three week trip to South Africa and Namibia. The team came from 6 Wings, representing 3 Regions of the ATC. The main purpose of the trip was to complete the Fish River Canyon trek but also
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Thames Valley Air Cadets Golden Tarn II Expedition was a culmination of 12 months of planning and training for its 19 participants. The expedition to the Gorge Du Tarn, France carried 2 elements: a challenging and ambitious unsupported and unaccompanied 100km canoeing venture for a group of Air Cadets who were undertaking their Gold Duke
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Ex NORTHERN DOLOMITE was a trekking expedition conducted in the Dolomite mountains of Northern Italy. Amongst glorious Italian scenery, 20 regular and reserve soldiers (16 from 71 Engineer Regiment) covered over 6,000m of ascent (and the reciprocal knee buckling descent) over a 7-day expedition. The temperature and the gradient of some of the climbs proved
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Morzine Mountain Biking Expedition – Report 1 (Pte Qureshi) After a challenging annual camp in Lydd, 18 officer cadets and staff headed to Morzine for a week of mountain biking in the French alps. This provided a unique opportunity to further test the officer cadets both physically and mentally; needless to say both objectives
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