In the first phase of term one you will be transitioned from civilian to serviceman with which six formalities?
- Issue and prep of uniforms
- Medical assessments
- Drill
- Regular inspection
- Team building exercises
- Intensive fitness programme
Confirmatory practical training in the final week of term one allows you to practically display which three new skills?
Military skills:
- Weapons handling
- Field craft
- First aid training
Name the academic elements of term 1?
- Air power studies
- Written and verbal communications
- Beliefs, values and principals programme
- Essential service knowledge ad customs
- Etiquette and social responsibility
- Leadership is taught and practiced
Term 1: week 1-4?
Medicals Drill Navigation Kitting Verbal Comms Leadership Fundamentals Weapon handling DYNAMIC EDGE FIRST STEP
Name the 4 force development weeks, spent mountain biking, climbing, caving and canoeing in Scotland and Wales
SHARP EDGE (Term 1 week 5) MIL AID (Term 2 week 3) VITAL EDGE (Term 2 week 6) DECISIVE EDGE (Term 3 week 3)
FIRST STEP
36 hours away from Cranwell
Living in small shelters
Building rapport
Using field craft skills we have been taught
At the end of term 1 Confirmatory Practical Training is a similar but longer exercise
What do force development weeks promote and enhance?
They promote and enhance teamwork and leadership
DYNAMIC EDGE
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SHARP EDGE
- First time you get to use the leadership principles you have been taught/ find and develop your leadership style
What happens in a Force Development week?
- First half of week is activities (sometimes panned and organised by recruits)
- Second half of week executing expedition and staying out overnight (Designed to physically and mentally stretch you and give opportunities to lead in a real life situation)
- Day 5 present back with your plans/ contingencies/ what happened and crucially what you have learned and how you can apply it
MIL AID
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VITAL EDGE
- Test to put into practice all that you have learned on the course
- Expected to work hard for every other cadet in your section
- Fight through the tiredness and hurt to pass
What is Carousel (DECISIVE EDGE) in term 3?
- Officer cadets rotate through DECISIVE EDGE which simulates a deployed air operations centre
- Forced to think on your feet on a much bigger scale than before
- Augment knowledge of air power and basic air warfare
Term 1 week by week?
- Week 1-3: Medicals, Drill, Nav, Kitting, Verbal Comms, Leadership Fundementals, Weapon Handling, Essential Service Knowledge (ESK)
- Week 4: Dynamic Edge and First Step
- Week 5: Sharp Edge
- Week 6: Force Protection
- Week 7: Leadership, Field Skills
- Week 8: Confirmatory Practical Training
Term 2 week by week?
- Week 1: Adventure Training
- Week 2: Air Power, Media Awareness
- Week 3: Mil Aid
- Week 4: Air Power Studies, Sports
- Week 5: Drill, Medicals, Academics
- Week 6: Vital Edge
- Week 7: Air Power, Cyber Security
- Week 8: Briefs, Leadership Theory, Interviews
Term 3 week by week?
- Week 1-5: Basic Air Warfare Course/ Mission Command (Amport House in Marham)
- Carousel: Within those 5 weeks where cadets will go away in groups for Decisive Edge
- Week 6: Air Power Studies, Leadership, Drill, Phys
- Week 7: Sports, Graduation prep (Champagne Tuesday)
- GRADUATION
What does leadership consist of?
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What does force protection and mil skills consist of?
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Verbal comms
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Essential service knowledge
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