All is quiet on the training area no movement to be seen these enemy soldiers must think they're safe they're about to be proved wrong 400 yards away a soldier moves in the undergrowth beginning to set up an outer cordon around the farmhouses and shortly after the attack begins foreign this is the final exercise for officer cadets at sandhurst before they commission um it is about a 10-day exercise held this time in thetford.
They come out here and they practice and rehearse all the skills that they've been taught through their nearly one year commissioning course at santos and they leave here with a confidence in the ability to go on to be leaders and commanders throughout the field army all the time this exercise is going on the officer cadets are being supported by their trainers they're the ones without the helmets they're going around making sure everything's going to play and offering advice and guidance and just watching how they're getting on there are also additional role players like these police officers whose job it is to add realism for instance.
How will the officer cadets liaise with the civil law enforcement authorities this exercise indeed much of their course has happened under the cloud of coronavirus cadets were initially separated and monitored for 14 days before being placed in a bubble-like platoon so we've been locked in for coming on to sort of 10 weeks now and so no no leaving at all uh we're literally living next to each other all day every day um and you can take that as a negative not being able to have the freedom of leaving and not being able to do uh the things that you'd usually be able to do go and see friends on the outside family girlfriends that kind of thing but at the same time it is a positive and that it's really really bonded everyone much much more so into family group.
As with every intake cadets from britain are the majority but there's always a huge international presence from colombia to oman well the most hard thing I've experienced in centers it's not really hard but it's the exercises here it's almost 50 of your time you're outside in the field and i think that's good because that's where you actually learn and you develop yourself the farmhouses are now clear casualties and prisoners taken care of this is the first complete intake to all be wearing the new vertus 3 body armor system santa's got it first because of the large proportion of female recruits as a small female in the army is brilliant because finally i've got kit that fits me so the key difference is uh the body armor uk is very adjustable so you can tighten it a lot better than you could before also you can play around with it uh it also all works sort of in coordination with each other so all the kit fits together a lot better before it was sort of a hodgepodge of multiple different uh sort of kits that didn't quite work all together whereas now all of this is designed to function as sort of one entity
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