9th-12th-Lancers - Year 1984 - Page 0092
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| Regiment | 9th/12th Lancers |
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| Year | 1984 |
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w; arH, ter ROYAL LANcrns REGtMENYAL JOURNAl What is a Junior Leader? Ftrst Term boys rmm Corunrta Troop playtrrg rugby When you arnve at the RAC Junror Leader Regrment Bovrngton as a member of the permanent statt you’re told, ’A Juntor Leader tS a young man who, has been setected by experts tn many ttelds, as a man must trkety to succeed In his Reglment and become the SNCO of tomorrow or even RSM’ As members of a tratnrng regtrnenl, It ts then meter) of the permanent staff to out their knowtedge and expenence rnto practrce tn order to give the jutnors the opportunrty to show their true patentrat, Trarntng begrns when the recrutts arrtve on tnductron day, they Come tronr atl parts or the Unrted Krngdom and occasronatty from abroad A rotat at tEO at them appear 3 trmes a year rh January, June and September The new Juntors arnve between 0830 , 2200 hours wrth their surtcase, hotdatt and envetope of documents Boys 01 an shapes and stzes ttte down the gymnasturn corridor wrth a took at apprehensron on therr faces, knowtng they've tinatty arnved at the ptace they’ve been tongtng to be, but with the fear of doubt hat/mg Just htt them for the ttrst ttme ‘Dtd t reatty hate Itvtng at harne’7 ’WtH she watt for me’? ‘Coutd t have tned a brt harder to get a rob’V Just a few of the questtons he asks htmselt whrte sttttng on a bench warttng hrs turn to move to the first desk. tnductrnn takes between 15 , 30 mtnutes then the newtunmr teader ts taken away to hrs Squadron, here he meets hrs Troop Leader and Sergeant, He then draws hts beddtng, ts shown his room, ts atlocated a bed and tooker and Is taken to the dtnntg hatt for hrs ttrst meat. During the next 13 weeks he t5 grven hrs trrst taste of mttttary tratrnrtg He was looktng forward to thts but drdn‘t reattse for one second how tntenso or dttttcutl It would be. 'WeH, rny rlght arm won’t go forward when my rtght Leg goes back’. ’WeH It does when you Walk' says the DrtH Sergeant! ’You want me to run through that stream up that muddy bank then crmb over that 6 loot watl’r7 ‘But there’s a path thereto a hndge whtch leads to the sty Sergeant’. ’Yes, but the path rs mrned, the brtdge has been btown up, and the sty has a machine , gun tramed on it', says the Sgt ‘Mines? t’verust come down that path’ |
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