No 2 Welsh Wing ATC
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No 2 Welsh Wg is the @AirCadets in North & Mid Wales: the military youth organisation for young people Year 8+. Flying, gliding, shooting... The list goes on!
North & Mid Wales, UK
Joined March 2013
📅 Friday on camp We started the day with an inter-flight drill competition 🫡 Great to see consistent improvement across all cadets over the course of the week - always a great opportunity to strive for standardisation and dispel myth and rumour!
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Whilst the ☀️ weather was a bit warm for the planned exercise to take place - the air conditioned bowling alley was a perfect way to end our penultimate full day on camp 🎳
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Teamwork was required to construct a communication device to specification 📡
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After what is likely to be the best talk on history from a hugely entertaining Sgt Foster - he is now delivering the brief for this afternoon’s fieldcraft exercise to be delivered by the Squadron’s Regiment reservists after lunch 🪖
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Next up - starting our day at 609 (West Riding) Sqn RAuxAF with a brief on their role and history - with a very entertaining delivery from one of the Squadron personnel 😂
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📅 Thursday on camp Started off with some drill - final polish ahead of tomorrow morning’s inter-flight competition! 🫡
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We rounded off the day with some free time spent at the amazing Junior Ranks facility - featuring Flt Lt Buxton’s karaoke machine 🎤 🎶 …and yes - he did have a go; and yes - there is video evidence!
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We ended our time at Adrenalin with a Jacob’s ladder challenge which saw three cadets from each team working together brilliantly to meet their objective 🪜
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Of course we had to take a bit of Wales with us 🏴
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📅 Wednesday on camp We were out for most of the day at Adrenalin North Yorkshire for abseiling and high ropes. Everyone challenged themselves and had a fantastic time!
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Tuesday was completed with a Battle PT session delivered by the PTIs at @RAF_Leeming 🏃♂️🏃♀️🏋️♂️ with a quick drill session before dinner ahead of Friday’s competition…
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Rounded off a busy morning with a visit to RAFX - the RAF’s innovation hub - for a STEM session coding using @SpheroEdu
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We also looked at some of the kit used to move casualties - thanks to excellent volunteering by CWO Williams! Finally we had a look around the vehicles used by @RAF_MRS for transporting the team plus equipment as well as command and control ⛑️
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Having a go at tying knots 🪢 and looking at anchors ⚓️
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📅 Tuesday on camp Following an inspection by the Station Discip - we’ve headed over to the @RAF_MRS for a briefing on their role ⛰️
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Excellent visit to @11SqnQEAF to round off the working day - great to hear about their unique role training QEAF and RAF fast jet pilots and to have a look around one of their Hawks ✈️
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Although Millie the Padre’s dog is distracting us somewhat from the job at hand! 🐶
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