Irish Drill

[parkman]

The slope arms with the Lee-Enfield with bayonet fixed was really a dangerious move.The rifle was trown accross the body in the direction of your comrades head .On one occasion I recall a lad getting a very serious gash to his head,nearly lost an ete.

[parkman]

One of the worst displays of marching I have ever witnessed was at the military parade in O'Connell Street which was held to commerate the ending of UN service in the Leb [was it last year?].A very fine parade was marred by the pathetic attempt at marching in step by the Aer Corps unit .To say they were woeful would be charitable.I can only imagine the embarrisment of CinC and Brass on the saluting platform.To a certain extent the day was saved by the Naval service who were immediately behind them

[Goldie fish]

In fairness the Air Corpse have been out of the wheel for so long,they must have forgotten they were in the DF,and thought it was just a sunday morning stroll.

[FMolloy]

I remember the last national day of commemoration that I took part in. At the end of the ceremony we were marched out of Kilmainham Hospital, my party at the front. about 3 minutes after we started we had to change step because the Air Corp contingent behind us had started off on the wrong foot & messed up the entire parade.

[Bravo20]

I think I remember that one

[Goldie fish]

I think the whole country remembers that...

[rod and serpent]

Dont you just hate that when it happens.

[parkman]

I suppose no matter how bad they are at least one of them is in step.----On second thoughts , scrap that it requires two for one to be in step.

[rod and serpent]

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Do the Irish Army have a drill school. We have one in Pirbright, Surrey.

[Docman]

We barely have a drill manual. You go into different Barracks across the country and you will find 100 different ways of doing drill.

[turbocalves]

We barely have a drill manual. You go into different Barracks across the country and you will find 100 different ways of doing drill.

Here Here!

how i long for a drill manual i can make sense of......

saw a doc, in the intray in the office clarifying how ceremonial drill was to be done.....
seems who ever wrote it was tryin to rectify some problems,

though i didnt get to read it as i was busy

[rod and serpent]

We barely have a drill manual. You go into different Barracks across the country and you will find 100 different ways of doing drill.

We have a drill manual, also, we have two courses dedicated to ceremonial drill.

[hedgehog]

We have a drill manual, also, we have two courses dedicated to ceremonial drill.

We have a manual of foot drill thats in the process of being updated

saying that- its a bloody good manual,

We also have a Manual of Arms drill as well

We don't do separate courses for Drill as we learn that

In Recruit Training

we practice it on our 3 stars (and do more advanced)

we practice as part of a rostered programme (between 0830 and 0900 and 1330 and 1400)

we practice it again when we require it.

We learn to teach it on our Pot NCO Cse and we further practice it

we learn to supervise and teach more advanced on our Standard cse

and further practice etc

we learn to do more advanced Coy Drill on Snr NCO CSes

and we practice it further

Here Here!

how i long for a drill manual i can make sense of......

saw a doc, in the intray in the office clarifying how ceremonial drill was to be done.....
seems who ever wrote it was tryin to rectify some problems,

though i didnt get to read it as i was busy

Thats the fault of your unit and NOT the Army

We barely have a drill manual. You go into different Barracks across the country and you will find 100 different ways of doing drill

As stated we do have the manuals- so your wrong on point 1

and the dfferent drill is the fault of the Officers and NCO's in that they are accepting

variations on the Manual

I kind of figure your an Officer/NCO Doc

when you seen these 100 different ways of doing drill

whose attention did you bring it to

if you did then sit back and grin smugly

if you just looked on and tut tuted


then maybe your in the wrong

[luchi]

So when is this new manual for COFD comming out?

There have been changes to COFD over the years. Yet no up dated manual. So if you are doing a drill movement and someone says you are wrong because its not the way it is in the manual where do you go to get the doc that says it was changed?

[concussion]

So when is this new manual for COFD comming out?

There have been changes to COFD over the years. Yet no up dated manual. So if you are doing a drill movement and someone says you are wrong because its not the way it is in the manual where do you go to get the doc that says it was changed?

What changes, excluding those arising from a change in rifles, have there been?