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    The text implies that there were 100 recruits but unfortunately, there was only a single platoon.


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    Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum

  • #2
    Poor ****ers spending 2 weeks in that shithole
    Everyone who's ever loved you was wrong.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by The real Jack View Post
      Poor ****ers spending 2 weeks in that shithole
      With the Doyles....
      For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.

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      • #4
        43 year Private...legend
        'History is a vast early warning system'. Norman Cousins

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        • #5
          Multiple shades of clothing, as per.....Bere island is fine in good weather but it is one awful kip when it rains....

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          • #6
            Originally posted by spider View Post
            43 year Private...legend
            43 years in and still couldn't march for shit during every rehearsal for Easter sunday last year.Kept putting us all out.
            "Let us be clear about three facts. First, all battles and all wars are won in the end by the infantryman. Secondly, the infantryman always bears the brunt. His casualties are heavier, he suffers greater extremes of discomfort and fatigue than the other arms. Thirdly, the art of the infantryman is less stereotyped and far harder to acquire in modern war than that of any other arm." ------- Field Marshall Wavell, April 1945.

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            • #7
              Bere Island - Where Units go to hide and capability goes to die.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Poiuyt View Post
                Bere Island - Where Units go to hide and capability goes to die.
                "That's not how we do it in this unit! I don't care what your Manuel sez."
                For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.

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                • #9
                  Bere island, Tralee, Saudi and the Indian subcontinent are all places I'll never go to again unless on absolutely obscene money
                  Everyone who's ever loved you was wrong.

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                  • #10
                    I was surprised it was still in use actually. What are the facilities like these days ? is the range still there .
                    "Are they trying to shoot down the other drone? "

                    "No, they're trying to fly the tank"

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                    • #11
                      Good for exercises. RDF units should NOT be using Bere or Tralee for FTT.
                      No good reason when you consider that manned post have everything they need already.The only reasons they go to these places is to hide from the Unit Commanders and for the piss up.
                      Plain to see.
                      "Let us be clear about three facts. First, all battles and all wars are won in the end by the infantryman. Secondly, the infantryman always bears the brunt. His casualties are heavier, he suffers greater extremes of discomfort and fatigue than the other arms. Thirdly, the art of the infantryman is less stereotyped and far harder to acquire in modern war than that of any other arm." ------- Field Marshall Wavell, April 1945.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by apod View Post
                        Good for exercises. RDF units should NOT be using Bere or Tralee for FTT.
                        No good reason when you consider that manned post have everything they need already.The only reasons they go to these places is to hide from the Unit Commanders and for the piss up.
                        Plain to see.
                        Accommodation?

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by apod View Post
                          Good for exercises. RDF units should NOT be using Bere or Tralee for FTT.
                          No good reason when you consider that manned post have everything they need already.The only reasons they go to these places is to hide from the Unit Commanders and for the piss up.
                          Plain to see.
                          Nothing wrong with that!

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by DeV View Post
                            Accommodation?
                            Accom in Bere Island is, and always was sub-standard. There is almost no rooms suitable for holding lessons indoors. Sleeping accom was suitable back in the 1980s. There is no drinking water available anywhere on the island.
                            Sleeping accom has always been crowded. Lockers were non existant. Last time I was there you hung your uniform on the end of the bed, and kept the rest under the bed in the kitbag.
                            The range is only fair. Firing must stop when boats pass behind the butte. This time of year, thats a frequent occurrence.

                            That said you would find it hard to find a better location for an exercise. Narrow quiet roads, plenty of ruins, and hostile natives who don't speak the same language. Plenty of places to set up trip flares etc without bothering the residents. Realistic terrain to carry out contact drills.
                            For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by na grohmití View Post
                              Accom in Bere Island is, and always was sub-standard. There is almost no rooms suitable for holding lessons indoors. Sleeping accom was suitable back in the 1980s. There is no drinking water available anywhere on the island.
                              Sleeping accom has always been crowded. Lockers were non existant. Last time I was there you hung your uniform on the end of the bed, and kept the rest under the bed in the kitbag.
                              The range is only fair. Firing must stop when boats pass behind the butte. This time of year, thats a frequent occurrence.

                              That said you would find it hard to find a better location for an exercise. Narrow quiet roads, plenty of ruins, and hostile natives who don't speak the same language. Plenty of places to set up trip flares etc without bothering the residents. Realistic terrain to carry out contact drills.
                              I meant lack of Accomodiation elsewhere

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