Well done to the RAF Regt.
ABIW. I have made good use of the IDT/IRT/CCS trg that we have to do year in year out. I have been in several situations where if it had all gone up the spout, probing for mines might have been a necessary skill that could have saved a life. I have donned my respirator in anger. I have also seen some of the C130 bretheren in similar situations. Whilst we are not infantry soldiers we are also 'not civilians in uniform'.
Better to have practised some of these skills in the safe environment of the rockery than trying to read the guidebook whilst on Ops in the middle of a minefield.
(For the record I don't feel the urge to don my cabbage kit and go running about the bondu in my spare time).
GB2