Wednesday 2 July 2014

Uniformed Public Service Students Meet the Marines

As annual events go, the trip to the Commando Training Centre Royal Marines (CTCRM) at Lympstone in Devon has to be one of the high lights of the Uniformed Public Services Course.   Seven students along with one of their lecturers took part in a five day multi activity packed trip, pushing both the students and the lecturer to the limits.   

The students took part in a wide variety of evolutions, including field craft, weapons handling, briefings, assault course challenges, gym tests, 3 mile timed runs, bottom field (which is doing press ups, sit ups, pull ups and obstacle courses) including the infamous “sheep dip” where they had to crawl submerged along a water filled tunnel.

The purpose of the visit is to CTCRM is to give the students a taste of Royal Marine life and expose them to some of the rigours of military training.   Its a very hard week with early starts and late finishes involving lots of physical activity, mud and more mud.  At the end of the week the students will come away from one of the World’s best military training establishments knowing that they have well and truly been put through one of the toughest weeks of their life.


Uniformed Public Service Lecturer Sam Holmes, said: “It was one of the best trips I have ever been on.  The students loved it, I loved it and we all had a terrific time.  We all got stuck into the activities and by the end of the week we felt that the Royal Marines had really looked after us.  Our students never gave up and gave 100%.”

One student James Salt was on his second visit said: “I really enjoyed this trip, and it has helped me decide that I want to join the Royal Marines.”

Another student on the trip, Jack Horton said: “Now I know a lot more about what a Royal Marine does and their career progression I am having a really good look at joining the Marines, but the good thing about the Uniformed Public Service Course is that with the qualifications I will get, I can make smart choices, such as go to university or go into the military from a position of knowledge and not hearsay.  I’ve seen it first-hand.”


One of the Curriculum Leaders on the Uniformed Public Service Course, Paul Morris added: “One of my last Jobs in the Royal Navy was in charge of recruiting for Northern England.  I know straight from the recruiter’s desk that any young man or woman wanting to join the Service will stand head and shoulders above any other person of the same age and background once they start telling the recruiters about trips like this.  It tells the interviewer that the person in front of them has the determination and motivation to find out about the Service they want to join as opposed to looking at pictures on the internet or getting a high score on Call of Duty.”

Paul went on to add: “It's one of the unique selling points of our course, that we have a strong working relationship with the Uniformed Public Services in the area and we make sure that those students who want to find out about a particular job in the Uniformed Public Services are given the chance to find out about that service at first hand. 

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