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Final Exercise #day3 #finalexercise #communityemergencyresponsetraining #moulage #wounded (at Dallas CERT Training) https://www.instagram.com/p/B48duzKhJSg/?igshid=n7z4kes95e5n

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Please make sure you have all your stuff with you!! 👟Closed-toe shoes   👖Long pants / weather appropriate clothes that can get stage blood/moulage blood on it. 🛍A bag to put there medical supplies in 🔦a flashlight HEADLAMP preferred 🧤 work gloves The medical supplies you got in class 🖊Sharpie,  pen, 📝  notepad and paper tape. Please don't be late! #day3 #finalexercise #dallascert #communityemergencyresponsetraining (at Dallas CERT Training) https://www.instagram.com/p/B46b5P9hzLP/?igshid=wayijo8hfrg2

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EXERCISE FINAL FLING!

I did exercise final fling 3 weeks ago now, we have to fill in a diary at camp daily and these are my entries. Monday Tabbed out to the harbour at patrol pace which was rather painful and you are carrying about 32kg. Approached a lovely hill to which our corporal gave us a polo to try and distract us from the pain. Luckily our harbour was at the top and we did our snap ambush before occupying, digging in and getting on with work routine. We didn't do much the rest of the day so we got some admin time to clean rifles and get our heads down.  My section were the first out on recy patrol at 23:00hrs, a few girls were sent forward to do some stalking whilst the remainder got into an all round defence on the path. Your eyes do play tricks on you late at night and you convince yourself that someone is there when they are not. Tuesday Spent 4 hours patrolling, practicing section attacks and case-vacs all ready for Friday. Safe to say, we were hanging by the end of the morning.  Later that day we went on a patrol to an enemy position where we cam under fire. I became the causalty and the girls had to case-vac me all the way back to the harbour, I felt sorry for them! Did get quite a lot of sleep in the afternoon luckily! Wednesday Did a short patrol this morning and conducted a surer with Rct Foster to a village elder, asking them questions and providing reassurance. That night, the other two sections when out on standing patrols, leaving 9 of us to man the sentries all night so we did roaming patrols for an hour and a half each. 5 on, 4 off then switch. Was extremely boring but we got bugged out that morning at 05:00hrs and we had to run quite a distance to the hasty harbour.  Thursday We then tabbed to the FOB which wasn't too pleasant and over the last few days, we all had aching muscles and dehydration. Our section went on the sangers first for a 6 hour shift and I was exhausted. During this 6 hours, the FOB got attacks, we came under IDF and a suicide bomber approached the gate. Our next 6 hours were rest so we got our heads down, at some point we came under IDF and just by luck our tent got hot boxed by a smoke grenade. Our final shift was on the QRF (quick response team) which we went out on a perimeter and ied patrol.  Friday DOOMS DAY! Patrolled out the the attack area at 05:00hrs. We got on our belt buckles and advanced forward at about 06:00hrs. Our first section attacks went really well, lots of communication and shouting and the rounds were going down at a good pace. We were hanging out by the time we got to the first hill. We then advance onto our section position, the terrain was awful, especially for Delta fire team as we were unable to see much half the time. It went well though and we got to the top of the hill (hanging out) when our corporal became a casualty. We case-vac'd her our a few hundred metres and then had to deal with more casualties. We then had to wait for an hour for the other two sections to complete their section attacks and join us. Finally we had to do a Platoon case-vac for about a mile and half, our section were right flank and front protection. It wouldn't be too hard if it was just running but you have to run through the tree line and there was holes, mounds absolutely everywhere so you had to put 110% effort in. It was physically the hardest thing I've done at Pirbright but it was worth it! To think it ended there, we then had to tab back to camp with the burgen but it felt great knowing that we could have a shower as soon as we got back!