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P-coy's 1st Meeting & NAVEX I

With summer in full swing and the SVS back in full V-mode, a new batch of recruits were welcomed to their first Unit meeting, where they got the chance to get to know exactly what the Unit is, what it does and how it goes about doing it - basically a summary of what's to come! At their next meeting the recruits dove into their first instructions session, navigation, which was to prepare them for most new recruits' first field activity - NAVEX I.

The first navigation exercise takes the form of a walk-through talk-through were the recruits are accompanied by the older ventures and leaders. Besides actually practising their navigation the recruits get to learn new skills and practice them first hand in the field, skills such as navigating by the stars, walking on a bearing and boxing, and at the same time fine-tuning the skills they already knew such as triangulations.

The route took the fresh recruits from Mizieb, to the now famous Qolla ta' Brared where they got the chance to have a break and cook something warm, through Bidnija and along the Victoria Lines in Dwejra and finally finishing up in Bingemma. Unfortunately there wasn't time to hold the casualty evacuation, but I guess we're just going to have to make NAVEX II a little bit longer and harder...oh and the CASEVAC too!

Next was the Pioneering activity - this time the Unit decided to move away from the usual monkey bridge to something a bit more...medieval!

Until then happy reading!

Mo$es