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That’s The Spirit Airman
Supernatural?
When you are a new recruit in the Forces, undergoing basic training, prior to trade training is the mainstay of being a soldier first, even when you are in the Royal Air Force.
After weeks and weeks of “beastings”, a final phase of in-the-field testing comes into play.
Myself and the band of other recruits in my intake were whisked off to some remote location in Scotland where the “war games” commenced.
Oh, how I laughed when, whilst being strapped to a medical stretcher and being “evacuated” from the war zone, I was dropped head-first into a water-filled ditch.
Getting my own back on the clumsy stretcher-bearers came the very next day, when they were tasked with taking the biggest, ugliest, oldest, recruit down in hand-to-hand combat…yup the latter was me.
At one point I had 6 other recruits hanging off me trying to take me down and the Directing Staff eventually called them off due to their lack of progress.
