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Last Friday’s lessons were conducted differently to normal, with the entirety of the army section conducting a SERE (survival, escape, resistance and evasion) on the school grounds. Army section was split down into 4-man teams, and equipped with radios, their objective being to stop the rest of army section from slipping through their patrols and making it to the extraction point. At first the exercise proceeded smoothly for the hunter group, with a patrol net calmly established by the IC using maps they had been issued. Soon however, the lack of overall surveillance and overstretched teams meant that the line began to be broken by the evading team. Radio traffic increased dramatically and the seemly perfect radio etiquette began to falter, with one ATV being the only reinforcement that could be offered to back up the 1/2 mile line. Both teams enjoyed the exercise greatly- as well as learning the importance of communication and planning in scenarios such as this and hope to see a variant of this exercise once again in the coming months.
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