OUTDOOR TACTICAL OUTDOOR DEVELOPMENT
BASHA UP!
WE THOUGHT IT WAS TIME TO START PUTTING SOME OF THOSE TACTICAL OUTDOOR SKILLS INTO PRACTICE AFTER TALKING ABOUT THEM FOR SO LONG, SO BILL AND JIMMY HAVE BEEN OUT IN THE WOODS BUILDING FAST-SET SHELTERS THAT CAN SEE EVEN THE MOST EFFICIENT AND âLIGHT IS RIGHTâ PLAYERS AMONGST YOU COMFORTABLE FOR A NIGHT OR TWO!
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ack when I was a teenager I was really into my cadet-force life, and lived for âparade daysâ on a Friday! Back in the 8oâs it was perfectly acceptable to wear our DPM to school and then head straight out to âarmy training sirâ! Due to being in a garrison town we had a regular turnover of units in residence and it was my great honour (although not always pleasure!) to receive training from the likes of our parent Regiment The Royal Engineers, but also the likes of the Parachute Regiment, Royal Marines, the Gurkhas, Royal Irish Rangers, and the Queens Infantry Regiment! Weekend and summer camps were the undoubted highlights of my year, but especially those summer 40
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two-or-three-weekers where my friends and I lived and breathed all things âarmyâ! Proper days on the range shooting everything that UKLF had to offer, section and platoon skills, all kinds of field training, but most importantly for me a good 48 or 72 hour exercise to round things off. The final exercise was where we put ALL the training weâd been given into practice, and after a full day of patrols, ambushes and section attacks our platoon laager at the end of the day was where âfield adminâ really came into play, and I have to admit that this experience went about shaping the future person (and indeed airsoft player!) that I would one day become.
