C Company News
‘C’ COMPANY CADETS START
THE YEAR
AS THEY MEAN TO GO ON!
Cadets from ‘C’ (Tiger) Company of Leics, Northants & Rutland ACF got down to some serious training at the beginning of April, marking the start of the training year 2006-07 at their weekend training centre at Yardley Chase.
The weekend kicked-off the Army Proficiency Certificate training year for the Company by providing a stimulating and enjoyable fieldcraft based weekend for cadets of all levels ending with a combined exercise involving the entire company.
During Saturday cadets learnt new skills and brushed up on old ones in readiness for the night exercise. Senior cadets were put through their paces in section battle drills and fire team tactics in readiness for the forthcoming Combat Cadet competition in which cadets selected from ‘C’ (Tiger) Company will be representing the whole county.
New Adult Instructor, Colin Wells, wasted no time in rolling up his sleeves and getting stuck in on his first company weekend - stuck into a bucket of shredded newspaper and wallpaper paste that is! AI Wells, went to the trouble of making paper maché faces and painting them to demonstrate to young cadets how to apply cam cream.
With its fieldcraft skills perfected during Saturday,
‘C’ Company deployed for the night exercise; Exercise ‘Mud
Fest’. Senior cadets had been living tactically in the field since
Friday despite temperatures plummeting towards zero overnight. Fighting
a holding action until reinforcements arrived, the senior cadets joined
forces with the rest of the Company and defeated the enemy after a series
of skirmishes culminating in the enemy’s final demise at the battle
of House Wood. The cadets said how much they had enjoyed themselves and
that it was great to be putting what they had learnt into practice with
loads of blank ammo.
