On the 16 February, 55 members of Derbyshire Army Cadet Force began the journey from Derby to carry out their annual winter adventurous training programme based in the Allgau region of Bavaria. This started with a team photo in our new exercise polo shirts before boarding the coach for the epic journey to the accommodation …
1365 – ‘Ski Cadet’ – Germany, Ober Allgau Read More »
16 Cadets and 3 Adults met at Battalion Headquarters on Friday 15th February, they each swapped their passports and EHIC cards for a trip hoodie and beanie hat and waited for the coach to arrive. After a group photo and waves to parents, off we set from Lincoln on the long journey to Artesina in …
1328 – ‘Ski Lincs’ – Italy, Foppolo Read More »
The aim of the exercise was to take 16 cadets and 6 Cadet Force Adult Volunteers who wouldn’t normally have the opportunity to ski in the Alps, on an Alpine Skiing expedition to Flaine, France. All personnel attending the expedition took part in the Ski Foundation Level 1 Course taught by three qualified instructors, Regular …
1326 – ‘Snow Cadet’ – France, Flaine Read More »
In recent years, 3 Royal Welsh have conducted their annual skiing on the continent as sport, and their winter mountaineering in Scotland as Adventure Training. Ex SHENKIN DRAGON was an attempt to box clever, provide better and more varied training, make better use of planning effort and to minimise the costs to participants. On all …
1392 – ‘Shenkin Dragon’ – Northern Cairngorms, Scotland Read More »
Ex Phoenix Dragon is the annual Ski training package for 101 Force Support Battalion, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. Taking place in January each year it aims to expose soldiers, young and old to the mountain environment in physically testing conditions to develop their leadership ability, their self knowledge and physical determination. So it was, …
1371 – ‘Phoenix Dragon’, France – Massif et Park National de la Vanoise Read More »
