I agree with Lara Crofts Pants
(how many times have I got to write that sentence in a lifetime). CCS isn't necessarily my favourite day of the year but I do think we need it and the formula is about right. I do feel sorry for the Regt instructors who have to teach it day-in-day-out but most do a good job.
We do have other distractions that are less worthy of taking people away from their primary duties and although IRT/IDT etc seem to have been rationalised, there was talk of a pre-det sand shovelling test; it's only apparent reason for being seems to be to redress the balance following the recent loss of other pointless pre-det training. If going out-of-area was simple, everyone would want to do it
