Whats the problem with the rocks???

[Unkychopchop]

As much as it pains me to say this I had to go and visit the rockery a couple of weeks ago to complete my annual dreaded ccs.
How wrong could I have been!!! Most of the rocks were happy and smiling, they were unusually pleasant and the day seemed to pass quicker than a normal day in sh1tville/ mong ts, why is this??? Why were all of the rocks happy?? Is it due to the absence of one particular FECKING B3LL END?? or did I happen to visit on the annual "lets be civil to a techie day?" or maybe they had just all indulged in a spot of mutual m8sterbation?? Who can say.
One thing is for sure now that the P3NILE SPLINT no longer works there, what a pleasant place it now is.

 

[pie sandwich]

You must have been sniffing hyd oil again, happy amiable rocks that are nice to techies dont exist DT_Xtremez_14:

 

[Goatherdingsplitter]

You must have been sniffing hyd oil again, happy amiable rocks that are nice to techies dont exist DT_Xtremez_14:

Funny though that whenever that horse riding, falling off motorbike arm-breaking miserable **** was on leave from Cosford, the rockery was a happier place. We've got a good bunch at my current place as well.

 

[Blindfire]

Guys spent my whole career working with regt as a tech(JAFAD) and to be honest most were all good guys - however like any section you always get a few nobbers.

 

[wgaf]

It's not just Cosford. Me, S2 and wobbly were on IRT the other week and I've got to say it was one of the best weeks I've had in years. The rocks went out of their way to be helpful and made it a bit of a blast.

 

[MontyPlumbs]

I'll go with what others have said, the Rocks seem to have moved on from the annual techie bashing session dressed up as military skills training to teaching you useful and interesting skills and drills.


Our local Rockery gets a big thumbs up from me! I dread the day the Pongos "teach" us WHT!

 

[True Blue Jack]

I did IDT and IRT at To$$ford just over a year ago and - with one midget-ar$ed exception - found all the Rocks to be top drawer. Mind you, most of them remembered me from Laarbruch which may not have been a good thing!

Just so I don't have to faff about creating a new thread: I did my CCS yesterday (a much better course than it used to be IMO). In the weapons lesson, the instructor talked us through one of the drills and told us to 'forward assist'. Now apart from giving Penguins Suck a hard on, I thought we didn't do that with the A2? If any Rocks would be kind enough to give us the definitive yea or nay, I'd appreciate it.

 

[roverboy]

I reckon they must have all been sent on a "How to get the most out of students course" in about 2000 as all regt sections seemed to have lightened up a bit. There must have been a change in training doctrine/policy or something.

 

[MrMasher]

I cant be ar5ed to trawl through all the threads but................CCS is changing according to our rocks.
Depending where you are and how often you deploy depends on whether you do yearly CCS or biannual CCS (huh huh! I said Bi!!DT_Xtremez_15: )
Biannual doesnt include gas either and first aid will go to lesson based rather than being taught the new way and examined on the old way!

 

[Albert Park]

I cant be ar5ed to trawl through all the threads but................CCS is changing according to our rocks.
Depending where you are and how often you deploy depends on whether you do yearly CCS or biannual CCS (huh huh! I said Bi!!DT_Xtremez_15: )
Biannual doesnt include gas either and first aid will go to lesson based rather than being taught the new way and examined on the old way!

Twice a year? That's biannual. Or do you mean biennial? Once every two years.

 

[True Blue Jack]

CCS has changed here, and yesterday I was on the 3rd course to be run to the new syllabus. We still have to do it annually.

The course is much less "death by powerpoint", much more relevant in terms of things like combat first aid, operational stress management, etc. Weapons and NBC (sorry, CBRN as we now have to call it) are the same as before but there is no tick test and the qualification shoot at the end of the day is hard enough that 7 out of 25 had to go back today to shoot again.

 

[GmanJock]

At the moment quite a lot of Rocks around Honington have just passed out. Most of my mates lol, and theyr all good guys

to be honest i thought the majority of the Gunners down there were overall a good laugh DT_Xtremez_14:

 

[Blindfire]

Guys - been out a while now but wtf is a forward assist?????????

 

[GmanJock]

Guys - been out a while now but wtf is a forward assist?????????

When you manually release the working parts forward, tapping the Cocking handle to make sure the parts are fully forward, is called a Forward Assist

feeling slightly like geek....

 

[mad_collie]

I think the topic of the regiment instructors at Cosford has run it's course.

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