Moortrek Experiences...
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My one top tip:
Make sure you don't forget to put a puritab in EVERY container of water you drink! I managed to forget once and ended up getting really bad sh1ts. As a result I managed to get to the Manston page in my BINA purely from wiping! THAT"S PAGE 113!!!
Worst poo took me from Cork all the way to Edinburgh! Particularly enjoyed wiping my arse with EGYD though!!!
Make sure you don't forget to put a puritab in EVERY container of water you drink! I managed to forget once and ended up getting really bad sh1ts. As a result I managed to get to the Manston page in my BINA purely from wiping! THAT"S PAGE 113!!!
Worst poo took me from Cork all the way to Edinburgh! Particularly enjoyed wiping my arse with EGYD though!!!
Johnfair has reminded me of the Mortrek experience. Thrown off the RAF launch out of Bridlington, bobbed about in the sea for a while, dragged out by helicopter (Wessex if I remember correctly) and then driven up onto the NY Moors in a covered truck. We had to hike to Rapers Farm, as I recall. There was the usual buggeration factor thrown in, like pointless marches and some escape and evasion, but I seem to remember the whole thing as a bit of a laugh, but I was with a good bunch of chaps. What they would call character building, I suspect.
Did mine in the early seventies (Bridlington, Rapers Farm etc)... My abiding memory is of waking up from a deep coma in a lukewarm bath in the block - with a black ring around the waterline worthy of the Torrey Canyon...
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Moortrek in winter 1984...Found a bunch of TA pongos leaving that morning who very kindly buried a stash of grub for us......Top blokes!
Spent our time smoking rollies & eating.
Spent our time smoking rollies & eating.
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I've done it 3 (yes, THREE) times and I've learnt stuff and enjoyed each one. My tips...
Make THE BEST shelter you possibly can. A few extra minutes making it good will pay massive dividends. Insulation, insulation, insulation.
Have a real go at the tasks they set you. You may think they're bolleaux, but they beat sitting around on your ass waiting for it to get dark.
Find an old bean tin for hot drinks at night. Put 2 tea bags in your go-pack, a couple of those hotel sachets of coffee (don't worry about the old "caffeine dehydrates you" - water shortage is not an issue) and a couple of Knorr chicken stock cubes in too. A hot drink at bedtime, as it gets dark, is worth it's weight in gold and sets you up for a good night's kip. In reality, that's all you really need a fire for (unless it's really chuffing cold).
Never lit a fire set yet. Not one. They're rubbish.
Make THE BEST shelter you possibly can. A few extra minutes making it good will pay massive dividends. Insulation, insulation, insulation.
Have a real go at the tasks they set you. You may think they're bolleaux, but they beat sitting around on your ass waiting for it to get dark.
Find an old bean tin for hot drinks at night. Put 2 tea bags in your go-pack, a couple of those hotel sachets of coffee (don't worry about the old "caffeine dehydrates you" - water shortage is not an issue) and a couple of Knorr chicken stock cubes in too. A hot drink at bedtime, as it gets dark, is worth it's weight in gold and sets you up for a good night's kip. In reality, that's all you really need a fire for (unless it's really chuffing cold).
Never lit a fire set yet. Not one. They're rubbish.
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ProfessionalStudent, you weren't ACA with attitude about 1989, and the £20 in your sock, were you <g>?
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
PS,
Clearly a lot more attitude about than one might suspect.
Yonks ago our little trek was Salisbury Plain. Junior courses played hunter force. The plan was a cunning one.
Hunter force would deploy along two roads north and south of Imber Clump. Evaders would then be sent off left and right so half would go through each hunter force.
When all evaders had passed through the first trap both HF were withdrawn and repositioned on the e-w road to west in IC. Evaders would be tired, crossing a double strength hunter force and also bumping in to each other.
I have never been so cold and peed off lying in a tank track rut trying to keep out of site and warm as the water all about froze. No one saw any evaders the entire night.
Working to a pre-arranged plan the evaders had, to a man, doubled through the HF lines before the HF deployed and made an RV in a pub in Warminster.
No way they could recourse or chop an entire course.
Clearly a lot more attitude about than one might suspect.
Yonks ago our little trek was Salisbury Plain. Junior courses played hunter force. The plan was a cunning one.
Hunter force would deploy along two roads north and south of Imber Clump. Evaders would then be sent off left and right so half would go through each hunter force.
When all evaders had passed through the first trap both HF were withdrawn and repositioned on the e-w road to west in IC. Evaders would be tired, crossing a double strength hunter force and also bumping in to each other.
I have never been so cold and peed off lying in a tank track rut trying to keep out of site and warm as the water all about froze. No one saw any evaders the entire night.
Working to a pre-arranged plan the evaders had, to a man, doubled through the HF lines before the HF deployed and made an RV in a pub in Warminster.
No way they could recourse or chop an entire course.
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When I did my first one in 92, overheard that the hunter force were a bunch of engineers on the same kind of do. With that in mind, we did all the things you weren't supposed to. Followed line featyres, crossed through the middle of fields and such like. We saw them a few times but were too busy hiding from their own DS! As a result we managed to get to the final RV way ahead of everyone else and gorged ourselves (as much as you could anyway) on veggie soup and bread. By the time the last team arrived, we wer gonking for Britain.
All 3 have been quite similar, but the I have noticed that these days you get a damn sight more food than you used to. There's nothing better than trout baked in tin foil over a wood fire...
All 3 have been quite similar, but the I have noticed that these days you get a damn sight more food than you used to. There's nothing better than trout baked in tin foil over a wood fire...
wasn't like that in my day, if you got caught you were in deep sh*t, if you got through you got processed cheese sambos & stale tea from the back of a Bedford.
But then... you never got caught...
But then... you never got caught...
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Mini,
Reminds me of the stories our instructors told us of the 50s. Mass E&E, sort of one end of Yorkshire to the other, or further, wearing clothing rejected by Oxfam. Whole populace enlisted to watch and report.
I remember in the 60s a minor repeat. A sqn ldr at one of the Yorkshire stations, CF I seem to recall but that is speculative, was 'escaping' and his photo appeared in the national press broadsheets, ie pre-Sun when the Mail was a real paper.
Everyone was warned to watch out for him etc. Don't recall the outcome but unlike the modern pound a mile for charity this was pure large scale E&E.
Reminds me of the stories our instructors told us of the 50s. Mass E&E, sort of one end of Yorkshire to the other, or further, wearing clothing rejected by Oxfam. Whole populace enlisted to watch and report.
I remember in the 60s a minor repeat. A sqn ldr at one of the Yorkshire stations, CF I seem to recall but that is speculative, was 'escaping' and his photo appeared in the national press broadsheets, ie pre-Sun when the Mail was a real paper.
Everyone was warned to watch out for him etc. Don't recall the outcome but unlike the modern pound a mile for charity this was pure large scale E&E.
