Worst course ever?
Worst course ever?
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Bit tricky that…
Worst weather, location, instructional staff, food, accommodation, totty, course notes, relevance of exams, etc etc?? Give us a clue. And don’t say ‘all of those’ because there is no such thing as bad totty during a course.
Worst weather, location, instructional staff, food, accommodation, totty, course notes, relevance of exams, etc etc?? Give us a clue. And don’t say ‘all of those’ because there is no such thing as bad totty during a course.
GIT Course
The GIT Course at Newton. gang of failed teachers with one quip- "We took the 3-year teacher training course and expanded it to 2 weeks".
Love to see them with a class of 5-year olds.
AR5 course at North Luff. Close second
Love to see them with a class of 5-year olds.
AR5 course at North Luff. Close second
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Sorry mbga9pgf, must be Port Stanley golf course.
View from the 6th!!
View from the 6th!!
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A certain course that used to be held at Locking that taught us how to double-knot and lead-seal mail bags, open blister cabinets and issue and receive various pads and bits of paper and electronic 'guns'.
Crap accommodation, but what really sticks in my mind was the weather was awful, pretty much all the time. No MT (but it was only a 20 min walk from the Mess to the classroom). We'd all pitched up with Geltex(Sp?) jackets, only to be told on day one that these were banned because:
It was a basic training unit.
Therefore the troops had to march everywhere in squads.
It is impossible to march in Geltex(Sp?) jackets.
Therefore the troops shall not wear them.
Not fair for other staff to wear them.
Therefore Geltex(Sp?) jackets banned for all personnel, including visiting students.
Result was that we'd start most 'lessons' wet and miserable; they were boring enough as it was. Of course there was no mention of the ban in the Joining Instructions.
Great leadership, in some respects, but not helped when Stn Cdr passes by in the rain, nice and dry in his warm car. Of course, the airmen in trg were allowed to wear their flasher macs, so they were nice and dry at least!
Crap accommodation, but what really sticks in my mind was the weather was awful, pretty much all the time. No MT (but it was only a 20 min walk from the Mess to the classroom). We'd all pitched up with Geltex(Sp?) jackets, only to be told on day one that these were banned because:
It was a basic training unit.
Therefore the troops had to march everywhere in squads.
It is impossible to march in Geltex(Sp?) jackets.
Therefore the troops shall not wear them.
Not fair for other staff to wear them.
Therefore Geltex(Sp?) jackets banned for all personnel, including visiting students.
Result was that we'd start most 'lessons' wet and miserable; they were boring enough as it was. Of course there was no mention of the ban in the Joining Instructions.
Great leadership, in some respects, but not helped when Stn Cdr passes by in the rain, nice and dry in his warm car. Of course, the airmen in trg were allowed to wear their flasher macs, so they were nice and dry at least!
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GIT Course? The best thing that brought us out of blackboards! And I also recall that claim about 3-years teaching, which was true. Prepared me for greater things, colured non-permas, shaded viewfoils, and the rest. A good two-week booze-up where rank didn't matter. Were we on the same course - 22 Jan 68.
GIT Course? The best thing that brought us out of blackboards! And I also recall that claim about 3-years teaching, which was true. Prepared me for greater things, colured non-permas, shaded viewfoils, and the rest. A good two-week booze-up where rank didn't matter. Were we on the same course - 22 Jan 68.
An excrutiatingly boring 2-day course at Raytheon about TCAS and SIFF? The average aircrew instructor could have presented it in a couple of hours.....
But at least we got a night in an hotel on HM's rates!
No - on second thoughts Speccers has it right. That crap Equal Opportunities course was the worst!
But at least we got a night in an hotel on HM's rates!
No - on second thoughts Speccers has it right. That crap Equal Opportunities course was the worst!
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It has to be ISS! No teaching and your very first submission could get you thrown off the course. It would just be a very poor course if it weren't for the fact that your future promotion could be hanging in the balance. And it's a far, far longer waste of time than any EO course.
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Has to be - for a Brit.
Why would you want to travel half way round God's earth to be confronted with sun, syndicates with wine, days off for the likes of Melbun Cup, free educational trip round the island, and a bunch of fellow thugs who were able to drop out at 3 months notice to go do other civvy things, Worst course in the world - unless you happened to be on it!
Has to be - for a Brit.
Why would you want to travel half way round God's earth to be confronted with sun, syndicates with wine, days off for the likes of Melbun Cup, free educational trip round the island, and a bunch of fellow thugs who were able to drop out at 3 months notice to go do other civvy things, Worst course in the world - unless you happened to be on it!
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IRT or IDT or what ever other in vogue title comes to mind.........practice bleeding or what
Latest observation was to have guys down simulating mine clearance.............................tail wags dog again
all spelling mistakes are "df" alcohol induced
Latest observation was to have guys down simulating mine clearance.............................tail wags dog again
all spelling mistakes are "df" alcohol induced
ABIW - I have to disagree about IRT. Has given me the biggest laugh on any course in my service history.
Having been told to re-do it last year for the second time in 2 months because the identical course I did for ONW didn't qualify me for TELIC. However, one very understanding Rockape instructor, realising it was IRT take 2 skipped all the crap and went straight onto the mine awareness bit which was the only thing I hadn't done. And it was then that he asked the following unforgettable Blackadder question that had me rolling round the floor, much to his annoyance -
Thought all my course Christmases had come at once.
Only completely bollocks course I was on, tempted to spare the course instructor's embarrassment here ........ nah ....... a course at the wonderful School of Fighter Control where 90% of the course failed an exam, the STDO was called in who said one student failing was acceptable as they were either thick, lazy or genuinely didn't understand. Fo 90% to fail was the fault of the instructors, the sign of a crap course or a problem with the exam.
At which point the instructors blamed the students for failing!!!! But it's SFC, so I suppose that explains everything
Having been told to re-do it last year for the second time in 2 months because the identical course I did for ONW didn't qualify me for TELIC. However, one very understanding Rockape instructor, realising it was IRT take 2 skipped all the crap and went straight onto the mine awareness bit which was the only thing I hadn't done. And it was then that he asked the following unforgettable Blackadder question that had me rolling round the floor, much to his annoyance -
So then Sir, just what are the initial actions on encountering a mine?
Well Cpl, do you mean jumping a hundred feet in the air and quickly spreading yourself over as wide an area as possible, or is there something else I should do???
Only completely bollocks course I was on, tempted to spare the course instructor's embarrassment here ........ nah ....... a course at the wonderful School of Fighter Control where 90% of the course failed an exam, the STDO was called in who said one student failing was acceptable as they were either thick, lazy or genuinely didn't understand. Fo 90% to fail was the fault of the instructors, the sign of a crap course or a problem with the exam.
At which point the instructors blamed the students for failing!!!! But it's SFC, so I suppose that explains everything
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256 degrees was my worst ever, during an IRT.
Should have been on 255 degrees.
Should have been on 255 degrees.
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Have to agree with Opso. ISS has it for me. 18 months of pressure and deadlines. Couple that with overstretch (yes, we did have it back in the 80's) and the normal demands of the job and you've got a recipe for disaster (as many a failed/recoursed student will testify). Mind you it was not a prerequisite for promotion in those days - we still had the "C" exam - and there's another story.
Having said that ISS was the worst course one did, of course, learn something from it which made the Basic Staff and subsequent staff courses slightly easier ('cos you got to know the mindset of the Directing Staff).
What annoyed me about BSC was the twee presentations of little models at the end of the course. I was on 99 BSC and suggested a pair of mannequin hands mounted on a plinth passing a pen from one hand to another. The caption was to read ...."99, change hands". Twas not accepted though as it was thought to be far too subversive. Prolly why I was only given B pass!
Having said that ISS was the worst course one did, of course, learn something from it which made the Basic Staff and subsequent staff courses slightly easier ('cos you got to know the mindset of the Directing Staff).
What annoyed me about BSC was the twee presentations of little models at the end of the course. I was on 99 BSC and suggested a pair of mannequin hands mounted on a plinth passing a pen from one hand to another. The caption was to read ...."99, change hands". Twas not accepted though as it was thought to be far too subversive. Prolly why I was only given B pass!
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Ab-initio training for a certain branch that shall not be named. Treated like small children. Failed the final exam. Got b@llocked by a rent-a-senior-officer. Found out there had been a b@lls-up between the exam paper and the marking script and we had in fact passed. Waited (in vain) for an apology. The epitome of all that is wrong in the service!