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Maybe this will lead to more inventive ways to excercise troops on the sly. Extended periods of ar sodar, pro-longed advances to contact under duress...at speed when practicing section attacks, continuous practice of bear/leopard crawls
or maybe just the good old fashioned "follow me" as the NCO speeds off leaving a heap of puffing and panting soldiers straggling behind him or her.
I know if the DF ever made the mistake of giving me stripes I would use sly tactics like that to get the energy leveles up a bit
just wondering has there been any movement on a PTL course for the RDF? I know the BTC staff have done courses, but as for the rest of the RDF is there anything available? As considering that now there is a fitness requirement for POTs courses etc. It does not make much sense that they expect people to meet required levels with-out the appropriate instruction and training made available to them!
Maybe this will lead to more inventive ways to excercise troops on the sly. Extended periods of ar sodar, pro-longed advances to contact under duress...at speed when practicing section attacks, continuous practice of bear/leopard crawls
Completely agree that RDF should have full access to PTL/PTS/PTI courses.The PTL is a short and relatively easy course which lets you bring troops for a basic warm up,run,cool down which in my exprience anyway I never I never had in the RDF and fitness is an essential part of soldiering.
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Originally posted by hedgehog
there is no logical reason why rdf members cannot do the PTL course- in fact there is one scheduled for the PDF pot cse very shortly, so all it takes is a little lobbying and interviewing with CO's etc, to make the case and join in the course-
I actually think its the way we should be going and i hope it happens
Two RDF NCOs were on that PTL course, and they both passed, afaik.
there is no logical reason why rdf members cannot do the PTL course- in fact there is one scheduled for the PDF pot cse very shortly, so all it takes is a little lobbying and interviewing with CO's etc, to make the case and join in the course-
I actually think its the way we should be going and i hope it happens
A PTL or (PT Leader) works under the supervision of a PTI or a PTS ( PT Supervisor) - all Potential NCO's do a PTL course- then some do a PTS course and then after a year the PTS's can go on the PTI Cse.
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