Airborne Marches Part 2
So following on from the first few days of our trip we set off on Saturday to complete the Airborne Marches. We finally managed to get to the car park and walk the kilometre or so to the start line and take our place in the crowd. Shortly after 11, the crowds fell silent as [...]
Airborne Marches 2012
After leaving Squadron HQ on Wednesday morning we finally arrived at our campsite on Thursday afternoon. Although fairly entertaining the journey was mainly uneventful with stops for food on the motorway and in Dover and surprisingly few toilet stops!! On arrival at our own little piece of heaven (aka the campsite) we were greeted with [...]
Junior Leaders Course
Junior Leaders is a course which is designed to train cadets in advanced leadership and field craft. It is largely based on giving cadets an insight into what life is like as an officer within the armed forces. The course starts in September with the applicants having to pass a series of tests at a [...]
ATC Sunday – First Wing Parade
Sunday 5th February saw an exciting day for the squadron. The annual Wing Parade to commemorate ATC Sunday was held, withLancaster as the host squadron, and the entirety of the newly formed Cumbria and Lancashire Wing arriving in the city to join the celebration (totalling approximately a massive 650 people). Starting with a church service [...]
Annual Camp 2011- RAF Boulmer
We arrived at RAF Boulmer after a 3 hour coach journey, we were designated our luxury single room accommodation; equipped with a sink, wardrobes, cupboards and drawers. Then we were thrown into the hectic training program, and we were designated into our Flights (A Flight and B Flight) with A Flight led by Sgt Smullen of 345 [...]
First Time Flier
For flying you have to be on the coach for 07:50, when you get to RAF Woodvale you get off the coach and march down to 10 AEF (10 air experience flight). Then you watch a safety video (it’s a bit boring, but has to be done), after that you do a practice of abandoning [...]
Nijmegen 2011
The Nijmegen 4-day marches are quite unheard of in the public, but most definitely aren’t within the cadets – 4 days of long distance road marching in Holland (around 25 miles a day), with around 5000 other members of the military and 40000 civilians along side you, it’s an event you will never forget. It [...]
Christmas Social
Christmas do! For Christmas every year cadets hold a party before standing down over the Christmas holidays to celebrate the festive season. We as cadets get to chose what we do. The activities vary from ice-skating, bowling, Trafford centre or laser quest (magazone but better). This year we decided to have a little party having [...]
Lancaster and Morcambe College
Sports at the college Sports at Lancaster and Morecambe College are the best for matches and full on games. At the Collage we play games like hockey, football and basketball. My favourite is basket ball because I am good at it compared to the rest, sometimes it gets very good because some cadets and staff get very [...]
Lancaster University Sports
Sports Sport at the University of Lancaster is very fun they have a fun range of activities and sometimes you can pick and chose! You only have to pay a small fee because squadron cannot provide the money because they are not made of it. Swimming if fun you can play games with your friends [...]