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Women riders unite
Hororata resident Carol Gurney joined other female motorbike riders from across the country …
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One hundred soldiers from 2nd/1st Battalion RNZIR at Burnham Military Camp recently competed for the honour of representing the NZ Army at Exercise Cambrian Patrol next month — the British Army’s premier patrols exercise, conducted annually in Wales. The battalion’s annual Skill At Arms exercise routinely puts soldiers through their paces to test they have met the required standard for a range of tasks, but this year organiser Staff Sergeant (SSGT) Joseph van Arendonk took the exercise to a whole new level “In addition to testing soldiers, we wanted to use this as a valuable training exercise and also to evaluate our own training capability through it So we added a third more tasks and made everything more complex and difficult to deliberately take soldiers well out of their comfort zones The medical stands, in particular, exposed the soldiers to a level of trauma they would not have previously experienced, which also required them to use tools that they wouldn’t normally Soldiers from 2nd/1st Battalion RNZIR at Burnham Military Camp rise to the challenge in their annual Skill At — but this is the reality of Arms competition exercise photo NZDF the environment we prepare ourselves for,” said SSGT van Arendonk and medicate, the exercise tested our training and ensure we are preparing During four days and four nights, combat skills, methods of entry and a highly adaptive force that is ready for soldiers completed tasks across 14 fighting in urban terrain, combined arms a range of hostile environments,” said stands at Burnham and West Melton, a cooperation, casualty care, shooting and SSGT van Arendonk The winning section was from Delta complex navigation challenge in Oxford response to unconventional threats — Forest, an urban raid, and a night shoot all in arduous conditions to increase Company, and they depart New Zealand They transferred between locations their resilience, capability, adaptability on October 7 for build-up training with the 1st Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, after 11pm each day, with only a single and team cohesion “As the threats involved in modern Warminster, before competing in woollen blanket for warmth and shelter overnight Centred around the core warfare get more complex, we are the Cambrian Patrol from October tasks of shoot, move, communicate constantly looking for ways to improve 13 to 15
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