Linnet Clough
Linnet Clough, was a residential trip that lasted for 3 days; it was used to show us a little bit of the first stage of training for public services. It was also used as a pass or fail entry into our course; however if you failed Linnet, you had to redeem yourself at college by working hard.
Linnet Clough was very tough, physically, mentally and most of all emotionally; everyday you wanted to stop and go home because you never really had a rest.
Typical Day:5:00am | Get up, tidy room early for later room inspection (Make bed, fold clothes & polish boots).
6:00am | Be outside on parade in P.T kit ready for a run.
8:30 | Breakfast (Very Nice).
9:00 | Room inspections (Best they'd seen).9:45 | Fitness.
12:15 | Dinner.
13:00 | Drill.
14:30 | Timed run (30min & 45min).
17:00 | Tea.
18:00 | Leadership Lesson.
19:00 | Night X.
19:00 | Night X.
20:30 | Room inspection.
21:30 | Skitz.
24:00 | Kit preparation (Ironing clothes and polishing boots).
Night X | Night X was an exercise, that tested our teamwork, navigation and radio procedure skills; the story is that people were seeing stealing water from one of four water sources, our job was to find one water source each in groups, sit and wait until the water source was stolen from, report it and head back to HQ.
We had to sit and wait for about an hour until there were any sign of people, we also had to find good spots were we could not be seen; we also had to use good radio procedure and code words.
Skitz | Skitz is were groups have to put on 2 shows to the rest of the people at Linnet, this was to show our confidence; the 2 shows were a singing act and one act made up. Skitz was very important as if you failed the skitz you could fail the whole thing.
Passing out parade:
really emotional time because we had been through a lot and if we had failed then i think i might of just quit the course, but when our tutor said that not only me but we had all passed out of our group that was such an achievement, i was still shaking when i went for my certificate, but we didnt come out with just a certificate we came out with a bond with new people and a bigger bond with the friends we already had which was great. although it nearly killed me when i got on that coach on the way home a felt a little bit sad and wanted to go back but whilst i was there i hated every second.
By Luke Collis.
By Luke Collis.
