Blakey_boi
17-03-08, 10:03 AM
Well most of you dont know but i've recently joined the Austrailan Air Force Cadets (AAFC). Well the weekend just past i've been on a special combat training weekend. I've been at Mt Barrambogie in the chiltern forest. Most of the weekend consisted of Cam and Consealment, Cam being camoflague where you are out in the open but still not seen and Consealment being where you are consealed by something (behind something).
The stuff we did was prity hard core when it came to camoflaguing yourselfe such as in the day our group had to walk a 3k stretch of bush in battle formation using sighlent communication signals to communicate when another group had set up an ambush somewhere in that stretch of bush. I was the main scout, (yay) who is the guy up the frount who is the eyes of the group and in a real situation they would be a sniper. It was prity awsome walking through the bush watching like a hawk and then calling out contact when i saw a single poorly caomflagued head in the distance and everybody started running around doing their thing.
But the best part was at night when we had whats called a lanten stalk... basicly theres a glowstick (a little light) on a tree where we were and that was the starting point and their was a glowstick on a tree 100m away. This was in the middle of the night so it was pitch black dark and basicly we had to get from the glowstick we were at now to the other one 100m away through very thick bushland without being seen or heared by one of the 10 or so offerces that were sitting in different places in the middle. We had an hour to do it and it was fun as! And guess who was the first to get it... Me! Most of the other cadets their were seniour members which had been doing this for years and i bet them all... i dont mean to brag but i was prity proud about it.
Well it was a prity good weekend and now i'm sitting here with a day off school because i'm so stuffed.
I strongly reccomend the air force cadets to anyone here (13 to 18 years) as i think it's awsome and well worth it!
The stuff we did was prity hard core when it came to camoflaguing yourselfe such as in the day our group had to walk a 3k stretch of bush in battle formation using sighlent communication signals to communicate when another group had set up an ambush somewhere in that stretch of bush. I was the main scout, (yay) who is the guy up the frount who is the eyes of the group and in a real situation they would be a sniper. It was prity awsome walking through the bush watching like a hawk and then calling out contact when i saw a single poorly caomflagued head in the distance and everybody started running around doing their thing.
But the best part was at night when we had whats called a lanten stalk... basicly theres a glowstick (a little light) on a tree where we were and that was the starting point and their was a glowstick on a tree 100m away. This was in the middle of the night so it was pitch black dark and basicly we had to get from the glowstick we were at now to the other one 100m away through very thick bushland without being seen or heared by one of the 10 or so offerces that were sitting in different places in the middle. We had an hour to do it and it was fun as! And guess who was the first to get it... Me! Most of the other cadets their were seniour members which had been doing this for years and i bet them all... i dont mean to brag but i was prity proud about it.
Well it was a prity good weekend and now i'm sitting here with a day off school because i'm so stuffed.
I strongly reccomend the air force cadets to anyone here (13 to 18 years) as i think it's awsome and well worth it!