Moortrek Experiences...
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"DS check-of-studes the next morning"
A DS member stays out overnight also nowadays.
Good job the DS dont read this thread with all these cheating tips and lack of integrity prompts
Enjoy the week boys & girls
A DS member stays out overnight also nowadays.
Good job the DS dont read this thread with all these cheating tips and lack of integrity prompts
Enjoy the week boys & girls
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Good job the DS dont read this thread with all these cheating tips and lack of integrity prompts
But as you mention, the integrity issue disappoints.
Avoid imitations
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Ah, Yes, LSE! After the 25 mile moorland walk on day 1, set up camp with the rest and then ask who is coming for a walk to the nearest pub, a mere 8 miles away.
You might get a few takers. But do make sure you don't choose the pub with the staff Landrover in the car park and some very familiar faces in the bar, it's very disappointing after such a difficult day.
(Damn! The 8 mile walk back was a fair bit harder than expected without a pint or two of Theakston's to gee us up..... )
Make sure you actually KILL the chicken before plucking it naked, rather than stunning it with a stick. It is quite upsetting when it wakes up and runs away squawking while you are out collecting firewood! Silly buggers! Gave the rest of us a good laugh though!
Don't, having got through the strip search and enforced complete cold weather clothing change (to prevent twenty pound notes being sewn into labels) leave all your money on the bus. Plonker! But the staff loved those drinks it bought....
DON'T ever drink ANY ground water without purifying it, however thirsty you get. We walked into a new campsite after a long night route march / E&E exercise and one of our less sensible brethren drank directly out of the river as he claimed he was going to die if he had to wait an hour for the "Puritabs" to work. Next day, he realised that it was a sheep field and judging by the extreme evidence on the ground all around the bank where he drank from, EVERY sheep had a gross case of tapeworms. Not a pretty thought. He spent the next two days making himself throw up and feeling very sorry for himself, much to our great disgust!
Finally, NEVER try to be REALLY clever like one idiot on a previous course who put money in a cigar tube and hid it where the sun don't shine. He would tell you how it causes severe problems when it disappears upwards during the long trek. There's always ONE!
You might get a few takers. But do make sure you don't choose the pub with the staff Landrover in the car park and some very familiar faces in the bar, it's very disappointing after such a difficult day.
(Damn! The 8 mile walk back was a fair bit harder than expected without a pint or two of Theakston's to gee us up.....
)Make sure you actually KILL the chicken before plucking it naked, rather than stunning it with a stick. It is quite upsetting when it wakes up and runs away squawking while you are out collecting firewood! Silly buggers! Gave the rest of us a good laugh though!
Don't, having got through the strip search and enforced complete cold weather clothing change (to prevent twenty pound notes being sewn into labels) leave all your money on the bus. Plonker! But the staff loved those drinks it bought....
DON'T ever drink ANY ground water without purifying it, however thirsty you get. We walked into a new campsite after a long night route march / E&E exercise and one of our less sensible brethren drank directly out of the river as he claimed he was going to die if he had to wait an hour for the "Puritabs" to work. Next day, he realised that it was a sheep field and judging by the extreme evidence on the ground all around the bank where he drank from, EVERY sheep had a gross case of tapeworms. Not a pretty thought. He spent the next two days making himself throw up and feeling very sorry for himself, much to our great disgust!
Finally, NEVER try to be REALLY clever like one idiot on a previous course who put money in a cigar tube and hid it where the sun don't shine. He would tell you how it causes severe problems when it disappears upwards during the long trek. There's always ONE!
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I recall when I was on moortrek some 20 years ago we were given a fluffy white bunny at the midway point. Not only did it make a fine meal for our team, but at various times it was used as a glove puppet (we must have had an ex-butcher in our team, and cannot remember his name), and also used as the ball in an improvised game of baseball, all we needed to do was find a suitable stick. ..... hours of entertainment
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Cheating is all part of the game. In Germany they didn't follow the rules and always tried to out wit the goons.
On our Moortrek the studes were advised not to consider hiding up a tree as it was cold, windy and dangerous.
The only problem for my stude who did hode up the tree was that he was not caught on the first sweep and had to stay up there until the second sweep 6 hours later. We missed him that time round too.
He was also mighty pissed off with the 3 guys he was teamed up with as they were not on his course. Never-the-less he was the only one to get through RV1 undetected before the exercise was abandoned. His team was also 3rd off the blocks. Not bad going.
I think he made a fine copper in the end 'cause he couldn't navigate!
On our Moortrek the studes were advised not to consider hiding up a tree as it was cold, windy and dangerous.
The only problem for my stude who did hode up the tree was that he was not caught on the first sweep and had to stay up there until the second sweep 6 hours later. We missed him that time round too.
He was also mighty pissed off with the 3 guys he was teamed up with as they were not on his course. Never-the-less he was the only one to get through RV1 undetected before the exercise was abandoned. His team was also 3rd off the blocks. Not bad going.
I think he made a fine copper in the end 'cause he couldn't navigate!
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I can just imagine some of the journalist scum who read this site for easy stories (hello Sunday Express) using this thread for a forces bashing "RAF Top Guns kill cute White Rabbits" story.
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Above Datums, would be the same Flt Lt with the annoying 'good to go' catchphrase (sounds a bit like Badger from the kids TV show Bodger and Badger for those who remember it).
A nav will invariably get you lost and not own up to it.
Don't have a bet about how much you can eat when you get back, most painful twenty quid I ever won!
Enjoy, at least it's still summer!
).A nav will invariably get you lost and not own up to it.
Don't have a bet about how much you can eat when you get back, most painful twenty quid I ever won!
Enjoy, at least it's still summer!
JTIDS
Scotch Corner- we used (as DS) to let the studes stock up- like we didn't know- and then search them again when they got off the bus.
Cruel but fair, we used to think!
CG
Scotch Corner- we used (as DS) to let the studes stock up- like we didn't know- and then search them again when they got off the bus.
Cruel but fair, we used to think!
CG
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Ours used the greasy spoon at the A1M. Filled up on bacon, beans etc.
Now those that didn't think to pack toilet paper . . .
The BINA makes even bronco feel like soft tissue.
Now those that didn't think to pack toilet paper . . .
The BINA makes even bronco feel like soft tissue.
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..... you didn't catch me
Having said that was some years ago....
Moortrek, the course which made me realise how much i hated doing survival (even if looking back on it in the sweet light of retrospect it wasn't really that bad) and forced me into the career I now have...
SAR, go out and rescue other people who've done the survival bit already.
..... you didn't catch me
Having said that was some years ago....
Moortrek, the course which made me realise how much i hated doing survival (even if looking back on it in the sweet light of retrospect it wasn't really that bad) and forced me into the career I now have...
SAR, go out and rescue other people who've done the survival bit already.
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I had a great time! I reckon it's worth putting a bit of toilet paper in your go-pack - with the amount you eat you won't need much and it beats getting a papercut on your arse (as one member of my course did!).
I also echo the point about purifying the water - another guy on my course didn't and he got pretty sick but managed to hide from the DS.
I know 2 guys who have failed the course and from what they've told me it seems to be more a 'clash of personality' with the guy clad in hotpants than anything else.
But then, they would say that!
I also echo the point about purifying the water - another guy on my course didn't and he got pretty sick but managed to hide from the DS.
I know 2 guys who have failed the course and from what they've told me it seems to be more a 'clash of personality' with the guy clad in hotpants than anything else.
But then, they would say that!
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Back when I did Moortrek in the early 70s, we kicked it off with a dip in the North Sea courtesy of an RAF ASR Launch from Bridlington, being towed behind it for a few hundred yards until the damn harness released. 4 hours in a dinghy, then picked up and dropped off in the NYork moors in December. Bl00dy cold for the whole week!
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'clash of personality'
Worth remembering that there is more to Moortrek than simple survival skills. The students may be expected in the future to motivate their passengers and crew in a real survival situation, and use their albeit basic survival and location (evasion) skills to formulate and execute a logical plan of action.
If the Captain himself is a whinging pathetic little p ric k, then he does not deserve the responsibility that goes with being the captain of an aircraft. 'clash of personality' , is often used by low life with poor attitude who think the world owes them something.
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Worth remembering that there is more to Moortrek than simple survival skills. The students may be expected in the future to motivate their passengers and crew in a real survival situation, and use their albeit basic survival and location (evasion) skills to formulate and execute a logical plan of action.
If the Captain himself is a whinging pathetic little p ric k, then he does not deserve the responsibility that goes with being the captain of an aircraft. 'clash of personality' , is often used by low life with poor attitude who think the world owes them something.
T_M
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Ahhh, Moortrek what memories. That was a difficult one - wondering around a small disused airfield in Norfolk, sunbathing when ever the DS wern't looking! Seem to remember a load of trench-digging Rockapes having a slagging match with the inmates of the adjacent prison during the night navex.
How many catchphrases did above mentioned Flt Lt have?? I remember:
"Good to go"
"Not on this exercise"
"You're existing, not surviving!" (As the entire course sleeps in instead of checking snares)
And he always said them whilst imitating slitting his own throat, ha ha!
CG
How many catchphrases did above mentioned Flt Lt have?? I remember:
"Good to go"
"Not on this exercise"
"You're existing, not surviving!" (As the entire course sleeps in instead of checking snares)
And he always said them whilst imitating slitting his own throat, ha ha!
CG
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Smiling Knifed,
No, I think I was the course in front.
Seem to think the last time I saw you was at YH, on my wings grad. You and our mutual mate the now-rockape, were both mullered, as american footballers, on the almighty beater before the party had even started!
So are you a fully ticked up civvie driver now?
CG
No, I think I was the course in front.
Seem to think the last time I saw you was at YH, on my wings grad. You and our mutual mate the now-rockape, were both mullered, as american footballers, on the almighty beater before the party had even started!
So are you a fully ticked up civvie driver now?
CG
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Not fully ticked up, should be after Christmas (come on in, the water's lovely!). Faced Met and Gen Nav exams today mind!
I remember your grad very well(ish!) and still hear a bit from our newly qualified rock mate.
I remember your grad very well(ish!) and still hear a bit from our newly qualified rock mate.