The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Documentary - Part 1

shoulder up [Music] [Music] let that happen but it's what you do that will actually prevent it tributes have been paid to a north yorkshire soldier who's died after being wounded in afghanistan 25 year old captain andrew griffith served with second battalion the duke of lancaster's regiment and died on sunday in hospital his father brigadier mike griffiths is the head of the regiment in which his son served the tributes being paid to andrew griffiths today are quite exemplary his commanding officer said the respect he commanded from his men was genuinely the most impressive i have seen in a young officer in all my 24 years in the infantry on you go sir you'll get briefed by one of the color sounds good afternoon sir you're about to smile honestly it's a lovely day to join the army isn't it indeed registration for the right on the left there's a newsletter here for parents gardens okay you're in one platoon alamein company i'd like you to do is just go into the main hall turn right down the corridor everyone everyone's oh the first five weeks are gonna be hard and um i think it's a blissful ignorance at the moment i don't know i don't know what to worry about it's uh dark you said it's like white button that's not really dark well it's gotta make it more serious really hasn't it you've got to reign yourself in i think for the first five weeks you can't ever you can have a personality but you don't want to stand out dude because to be standing to stand out would be to be noticed and i think you don't want to be noticed six people missing stuff so we might have some people not turn up well at the moment i'm missing sick so unless they're down there at the moment i'd like to give you all a huge welcome really to sand test 269 british cadets on course 103 238 mail and thirty-one female so let's start really with uh what sandhurst does well the basic aim is to develop leadership and using uh field martial montgomery great definition what is that leadership it's the capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which will inspire confidence that leadership must be based on a moral authority and it must be based on the truth chapman derek gillum stewart stott yeah why do we have oxford and battery um approximately 30 seconds quickly say goodbye to mums and dads and i get fell back in here [Music] take care take care let's fight no makeup you want at all do not let me catch you out put little bits of mascara on there no jewelry and in no way nail polish are we all clear on that are we all clear on that yes right this is me and vanessa thatcher after sandhurst and after a few years in the military i'd like to be made of this stuff that you know a good politician would be i'd like to represent people some of them think i'm quite brave and then some of them think it'll be fine and i'll be fine but yeah and then other people have literally no idea they think i'm just going off like some sort of cushy boarding school it's not quite that friendly your ablutions and toilets are at the far end of this corridor yeah they're your toilets and your toilets only okay no stage should any females be coming in here without supervision from their staff sergeant okay that's vice versa you do not start going into their lines i've been with my girlfriend for a long time um and we recently stepped up about a year ago effectively kicking me into touch going for the interest to think like well i've got to do something for me now and i've always wanted to do it i thought well if i might give it a crack i'm not getting any any younger i've even done union i still get homesick me [Applause] oh all right gentlemen listen to me now and listen good all right first morning you're getting your not everybody here on time yeah you need to start thinking and you've got to be on parade five minutes before right if you're not on parade five minutes before okay that means you're late all right you were five minutes late for the queen's parade do you think you should be too pleased do we think she'll be too pleased gentlemen like gentlemen we started morning to a bad start that is your first and final okay tops of the lids open on your water bottles gentlemen drink your water bottles once you've drunk it place your water bottle up in the air over your head to ensure it's empty all of it it's not a race all right however it needs to all go gently when we sit in the national movement singing cry yeah [Music] right up so it's upside down on top of your head so i can see it's all empty and we sit clean it up if you're sick keep going for you to keep fluids on board yeah it's important if you do and throughout the day continue all right everywhere we go we'll carry you [Music] okay so it's important that we continue to set the fluids up [Music] right there we've got after mobile phones [Music] outside right ready to rock and roll go and do areas i'll have any questions correctly dress i cover holes with your boots on the only person to expect destroy the boots of the two individuals right you make a trailer all the way down my corridor [Applause] just a quick one because i know you're quite busy um i spoke to padre today and he explained about your friend i'm very sure to hear that um when did it happen he died not the sunday just gone the sunday before and was injured nine days prior to that in afghanistan he died in some of those from his injuries so who was he uh captain andrew griffiths from uh thanks yeah yeah i didn't know him but yeah that's what that means because he's a close friend you know i think it's quite important to try and get you the chance to go out there would you want to go i would love to go if i could okay if that's possible yeah i think it's quite important you know pay your last respects if possible [Music] did you go to university i did yeah i went to loughborough a few years ago now 2007 i finished did you study anything interesting geography matte coloring but a little bit of background did you enjoy it i did yeah that's the main thing yeah been been traveling since i've had a good uh good last six years right tell me about your family um i live with my mother and my stepfather my father died when i was 14. um sorry no that's that's fine uh my and he i kind of decided to join the army at the age of 15 so i don't know whether that was a turning point um i kind of thought maybe i should find out what i'm going to do with my life after that the right quick match done nice nice look nice look nice nice back turn one two quick match look nice nice if you're walking naturally you're like moonwalking hold there we go check one two better right hello what's up what's your name david stewart mr stewart come and sit down over here please thank you how are you mr jeff i'm 22 years old so where are you from edinburgh currently residing out of the sky currently residing in a block a company sorry what did you do at uni um i did history in english anything interesting about yourself i was going to go to king's college to do war studies but i needed bbc and i got bcd so what did you do i started doing a job labouring and then went off the job as a electrician's mate and you've done my apprenticeship become electrician electrician what about any issues you might have which you think i should know about before we sort of other than me not being able to march not really sir okay marching issue will come i assure you thank you good to meet you thank you very much fun am i supposed to yes i'm sorry i didn't realize sir please carry on so please yeah leave to carry on sir please yes please start with me hold on good effort quite old 25 25 in a non-grad it's got to be the oldest non-grad i've had but we finally seems pretty dedicated anyone who comes to scientists age 25 it's good [Music] from day one everything's hitting you at 50 miles an hour it's a military regime they've got to have a regime like that if we don't when we go on operational tours and things like that how can we expect people to perform and fight for their country [Music] it's like one minute you know you're sitting there and you can go to the pub but you can just turn on the telly or you can you can just do whatever you want and when you come here it's just like well look at that you're writing down your number and your name on the back of shirts that you're wearing like when you're about five years old and you've got all this kit and it's just yeah it's pretty mental to be honest what time is it uh it's only two so still got a few more hours yet this fork needs to be next to the spoon the knife is like this the shaving kits it's all very precise it's a work in progress at the moment i've been i've been neat before but i don't think this is very efficient to be honest but i suppose there's a purpose to it because look at all this space that isn't used so this drawer could take a lot of things but right now it takes two sets of gloves one belt and about 11 pairs of socks i was just thinking to myself i had a i had a couple of cigarettes outside a second ago i had a bit of time just to myself um which was nice and it's uh yeah i think it was just first day isn't it it's just a kind of change of pace now i know what's to come right i hope [Music] your wife said a baby yes she's um currently three weeks and one day old now so deal with all these children and come on and build some more children you can't take it too either well i'd say you can't take two of them straight away because they say they're all still stunned at the moment um and i would gradually get them into it and then we'll see a bit of a difference today now we've got to set one in time to do the job and this [Music] said they had that little that little feeling but then you've come this far you've gone through it all the jack in the first week could just be lunacy maybe if i'd actually come here when i was 16 i'd be alright but now after i've seen what i could have i can have without the army i want to do that yeah it's only day two it does get easy and better as usual it's not the course so it's the fact that i don't want to be an army officer oh that's fine okay he was 16 year old when he said he wanted to join the army he took him five years to get here and now he's here he's sitting the side of life and at the moment he doesn't like it but what he doesn't realize it's not always going to be like this and it does get easily getting to routine i think it's just a shot at university i i think i changed quite a lot we had this freedom and this freedom i really enjoyed and i enjoyed that a lot more than being in this regiment to style the army office and i just don't think i'll function it okay strictly speaking you you can't doll which stands for discharge as of right until week four right okay because i don't want to force you to be here if you give me a verbal agreement now that you give it until next weekend and if you're still not keen and up for it by next weekend then you can start actioning your discharge then i'll go with that down push out you've got two pouches open 20 press-ups yeah and you've got kit hanging out of it i don't want to stay another in school a week saturday i some people there have got press-ups for no reason you could quickly before you come out buddy buddy system czech teacher over right all pouches squared if then you're picked up your mate's checked on you don't actually know whether he's worth keeping he seems quite wet a little bit weak unsure um i could just be wasting everyone's time but he needs to make an informed decision um say two weeks two weeks today by the night quick march yeah right yeah nice yeah nice yeah straight on the heel gentlemen arm shoulder right close to fist push down on the thumb lock out the elbow next in the back of the collar heel that'll keep you in a step yeah right yeah nice eyes oh eyes i'm scoring commander of my ling squadron out in afghanistan and we're effectively providing intimate support to ground maneuver in helmand province when you come back from afghanistan and come straight away to santos they know you've just been applying it all out in in the one of the harshest possible environments yeah it's tough they're 95 guys here uh men and women and and i have no doubt that some cadets who are here now will die in the line of duty but that's the that's the business we're in that's the nature of the job we do and i think most of them probably realize that already with the full military funerals okay there's a lot of people there and there's a lot of ceremony to it there's a lot for you to learn and it's gonna be quite difficult when you come back if you need a bit of time we'll give you a bit of time there's people here it's myself too commander obviously you can get in touch with padre if you want someone to speak to when you get back okay so you know unfortunately happens to a lot of us and we have to go do these things so crack on as best you can today and then hopefully tomorrow a better day i'm steroid leave to fall out close up please yeah please do one two three one two three left left keep those arms pinned into the side anyway mrs barrack thank you i tried to explain to him what military funerals can be like slightly um i was at four five military funerals lapped myself last year it's it's it's a very emotional time and although he's got friends here who's made for the last three days he's still quite alone a lot of the ones i've been to have been very close friends of mine um and it's obviously emotional because you you know these people so well and you've lived in and out with them for many many years it has affected me but it hasn't affected me negatively it's just opened my eyes a little bit more i think to it to what the possibilities are um and uh yeah for all the all the officer cadets that have come in now it is something they need to need to consider you know are they prepared to put themselves in that sort of danger because it's going to come to that yeah it's a bit daunting that one of us would obviously be really good friends here part ways go to different regiments and then one day i could find out gillen was was blown up by an id but you don't want to think about that here we've got far too much to think about at the moment it's a long way off here how much you're struggling with the old marching side of things you still haven't got any press-ups for it at all when he pulls him off he puts on a southwestern accent listen mate listen let me let me do you a deal i do not need them push-ups what you need somebody just got rhythms unfortunately thompson speaks to his girlfriend gotten [Music] i'm not very good at ireland either so be honest you've got 30 blokes here in platoon they're all supposed to be marked out for leadership surely some of us have got to be followers and others have got to be got to be leaders and i think that's going to create a bit of friction in the coming weeks because i mean i can feel it it might just be me being like tired and wide on sugar i'm just over thinking about stuff [Music] race [Music] i've never even been to a funeral so this is this is uh this is all new for me the sa-80 a2 rifle fitted with the bayonet and the scabbard the bayonet itself is for close quarter battle can be thrusted into the enemy okay first of all without uh embedding itself into the bone because it doesn't embed itself into the phone it's accurate also situated here you'll see the recess which is the blood channel when you thrust that into the enemy there'll be no suction okay you will be able to pull it out straight away if that recess wasn't there all the air okay would not be able to escape it would make it harder to pull out the enemy afghanistan for example you open the door you're just about to go into a compound you do not know if that enemy is going to be behind the door the taliban etc so you have the bayonet there ready just in case the rifle does not operate so understand that they do want to talk about our experiences in afghanistan i was flying and looking here in in two minutes i don't know there are three radio calls the first one says they picked up a triple amputee about 40 seconds later they say they're administering cpr and then about two and a half minutes later they say the individual is now an angel that's the term we use for people who die in operations [Music] it's a difficult thing just to get your head around that clearly whatever happened before they get on a helicopter you're not privy to mainly being involved in an ied but you within three minutes you you hear someone lose their life and it's pretty humbling captain griffiths was destined to be a leader steeped in the army tradition born to an army family captain griffith's father once served as commanding officer of the king's own royal border regiment and he is now the honorary colonel of his own son's regiment the duke of lancaster [Music] aah [Music] it was mentioned that he'd been on two tours to afghanistan and that was as far as the war in afghanistan was was mentioned it was talked about how well he led his his soldiers he was a bit of an inspiration to all of his soldiers by all accounts i only ever knew him as randy andy from university but there's a lot of people that do very well to live up to what he achieved dying for your country is is fairly honorable there are a lot worse ways to go i think so it's something it's a risk that i'm i'm prepared to [Music] take right gentlemen first thing who has not painted their red tag integrity now why not mr barnes you forgot all right that's not acceptable all right so that end okay get it down press up position down five four three two on my timing you should all in the down position now up down up down up down up down up down down if i give you tasks to do during the evening it's not for my benefit it's for your benefit i don't need a red tag on my bergen usually individuals that do if you can't take a simple order as paint a red tag how can they expect you to start giving orders to soldiers that are going to be under your command if you commission out of here does anybody think they can disagree with what i'm saying up down up down up down down what are you doing what are you doing right mission to fall out close sergeant please please all right and then you'll turn to the right one two three one one two three two three right frank spencer one two three i was one of the kids running through the woods playing 10 guns then i went on to do target rifle shooting which was with the cadets so that was a military thing as well and and i was actually i was actually asked to leave school when i was 17. and i was caught smoking marijuana which was uh yeah a regrettable regrettable experience um to be honest though it sort of put me back on the straight and narrow you know it's a slippery slope and yeah certainly back my ideas up hey mr chapman turn your head slightly towards me that's better okay chin up slightly not too much good okay belt way too loose yeah okay what is that going to hold up hey we're not back in the ghetto all right and you bring your pants around your ass that is around your waist tight all right switch on gentlemen switch on attention to detail doesn't matter how fast you're going the drill movements need to be carried out correctly do you understand yes sir do you understand yes sir quick i think certain people if people have gone to boarding school they'd be more comfortable with the whole situation it's a lot it's i have heard it described as hogwarts with guns sand test and i think that's quite a good choice of words because you know all the pomp and ceremony gentlemen why are we calling the timeout you should be screaming the shaggy timeout one more try one more time you'll push me and then we'll increase the pace again we'll warm you up again do i make myself clear yeah start switching on gentlemen it's conformity it's before me to the max and i think that that's quite a shock do you never call him by his first name i don't know his first name honestly i already know his first night we've been in for five days what's your first one what's that i'm just learning everyone's second names sam okay that's stores in the memory bank now you and our family has three platoon at you you're all brothers work together look after each other all right gentlemen yes sir i can imagine that uh you know some of my more liberal or marxist friends in in the civilian world might call it brainwashing but in the army you call it training so i don't know maybe i am brainwashed it's a good sort of brainwashing i don't like that because if you think if you think of it in terms of brainwashing you're thinking that in terms of something kind of untoward that's done to you that you know changes you whereas training is something you embrace you want to become a part of the army you want to be an officer so you train so your brain is totally receptive to everything that they're sending flying at it obviously tomorrow we're going to go on exercise virgin soldier for some of you you will have been on exercise before but four i think there's a good ten of you so a third of the between it will be the first time out uh under the stars in this sort of military environment so i just want to lay a few ground rules now okay i've noticed some of you retain information incredibly badly no sooner have i said it then your hands are in the air and you're asking for exactly the same information to be given again tomorrow's a day of lessons and that's the only day you're going to get from then on we're going to expect you you know not to be the elite but we're expecting to get better and better so certainly by the beginning of uh by the second night of self-reliance you can administrate and conduct decent routine in the field okay i am putting a bit of a bit of rope to a spoon because um mr gray is going to be our second do i see so that it would be handy we all had spoons attached into our jacket slash mocks and then then we'll never lose them so that's what i'm currently working on oh spawn in a pocket bingo i've shot a pigeon with an air rifle before um the only time i've slept i i i've i've been kept you know fishing night fished and i've been drunk and slept in the back garden but that's about the limit of my uh my experience tomorrow is where i come into my element more in the field that is how i roll as an infantry soldier and that's how we roll yeah so don't be afraid if i start shouting and screaming at you because you're not doing stuff right i don't expect you to know it straight away i'll teach you first then once i've taught you i expect you to then put it into practice yeah anyone plan on going sick tomorrow no judging by opportunity anyone can come there's a lot of people from even from the other in the other companies who i look at in civvy street and think are you kidding you can't go with sandhurst you can fight your way out of a wet paper bag i'm feeling a little bit deficient and because i'm making mistakes and being the funny guy i'm being tired of the brush of a clown and a joker and that's probably what i'm what what's what i'm struggling with i suppose we'll sort out the men from the boys when we're on exercise and it's their piss wet through at three o'clock in the morning struggling to stay awake yeah some of them just infuriate me having me told everything now once we won't be told again so now it's gonna be no mistakes accepted just do what you've been told um so quite cheesy for taking this all up but what we're missing is a lager that'd be really great i think you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone here who hasn't at some point thought why am i doing this and why am i here simply why am i here [Music] oh there's tears occasionally but we got told yesterday we went out to cry anymore we had to man up a bit which is fair enough because i'm not about to cry in front of our soldiers anyone can get cold and wet the key is to try and keep warm and comfortable so a good effective soldier is the one that can look after himself in the field really all right guys guys i've cut myself pretty good and i can't sort of apply a dressing can someone just come over you've cut your finger getting your extra bone out yes all right it's not really bad i just let me call it i think it's on this side of my finger it's there my son are you taking the piss [Applause] what it's not but it's not big i just can't stop the bleeding kind of it's a chaplain you just get some testosterone down the gregory neck right i'm not like your typical army body or whatever and they won't find me funny i'm not quite as sporty as them or whatever but i'm not going to change who i am to to fit in you know i think they'll they'll come around hopefully sooner or later but yeah i'm just uh i'm not overly confident i know who i am and i will just get on with being me and get through the course and you know enjoy it as much as possible [Applause] aggression we're not all moving at the same time they're engaging now safer catches pouches pouches pouches don't go through the motions of checking him if you're not going to physically check him you lose a magazine on the battlefield that's 30 rounds that's three dead enemy if i was engaging that enemy something we talked about at night in bullying parades and kind of came to conclusion working probably about 130 240 hours a week which is obviously worked out as a normal person's working week in two days absolutely so fast-paced at the minute at the moment i'm walking around all camped up looking at the staggered walk that everyone makes along the paths and tracks and i kind of feel like i'm an apocalypse now so i am doing a bit of movie reenactment in my head but i'm trying not to because i think it's probably inappropriate it should be very serious i'm resolving very soon do you think that's acceptable who thinks that's acceptable so why not is it in that skate this is kid equipment gentlemen that you're gonna use on the battlefield yes this is an a for you scene at night if it's not kept in a good state i was expected to work correctly basically i had a bit of a long running problem i say long running in two weeks yeah with them especially it was machines and then i think for sort of counterbalancing that and then developed a problem in my knee in my left knee the physio has explained to me that it's my input patella and it's it's just cause me but really going up and down hills is where it's it's really getting bad but um i don't i don't like quitting i've never really quit anything before so i'm gonna see it through all right every single one of you here want to fight for your commission and want to be here all right to that end yeah you should have the personal discipline to stay awake two come on they've been exercised for just coming up to three days out they've got to concentrate on staying awake because it is hard you know they've only had what five or six hours sleep since since they've been out here but they're still expected to stay awake especially as these guys are hoping to be um second lieutenants between commanders within within the next 11 12 months i only gave you good warning this morning i only told the five people in front of the team this morning that should have been enough for you to motivate yourselves to stay awake 20 minutes of stand two that's it it's not mr impossible is it right gentlemen do you know why you're here why [Music] you slept whilst you're supposed to be on duty didn't you yes yes right do you think that is acceptable do you know what would happen to a private soldier if he sleeps on stag nice well i'll tell you what happens to him he goes to jail for 28 days as a result of this you are now going on platoon commander's warnings have you already been told that i am telling you now gentlemen that's the last chance you get with me do you understand cross me again and i'll absolutely snap that is totally totally unacceptable disappear disappear one two three one two three left right there not completing an exercise or not or getting on to what's called the jack wagon getting onto the ambulance sometimes fine you have a an injury but some of them is just simply fatigued and they will they will quit before their body gives out and yeah you have to ask some pretty serious questions because it's early in the course for them to do that right mr eldridge do you know why you're here yes why it's for falling asleep on radio stat what you fell asleep as well did you yes when did this come out when did this come out that you fell asleep on radio stack i well now i assume that was what this was about well who knows that you fell asleep on radio stack is that an admittance to me that you fell asleep on radio station yes yes sir okay you can speak to staff hardy about this once you've finished and then the platoon commander within you but that is totally unacceptable to fall asleep on stag yes sir totally unacceptable do you know why you're here why i've asked to see you no sir i've asked to see you because you at the moment are just a civvy in uniform there's no spark there whatsoever miss eldridge and the potential you've got is there yes sir follow up thank you think about a really really big sweaty man in an iron forge taking a piece of metal and hammering it repetitively whilst it's red hot i am that metal rod and i'm being hammered into a leader an officer [Music] why is people moving in that corridor [Music] in bed he's pulling a lot tighter okay that's not acceptable on that one okay so that requires to be done to a highest standard attention to detail gentlemen attention to detail new pictures mr stuart yes girls island are they your sisters still yes are they going to come to the pass off weekend uh yes good who's laughing out there stop coughing die in silence castle investor took me in um last week and we was having a chat and i was doing some jobs for him and he said i really like you've got quite a bouncy character and you're quite um you know you're quite open but he said just be careful that you don't take it too far because people won't take you seriously when you're in command i completely understand that but i i yeah i'm here now and i can't i can't change myself too much i don't think i don't think i'm capable of i'll always just be me um and that is quite loud in your face need to fall in sir please okay because i'm not content with your performance since you arrived here uh back in september at times i think you're very immature okay which isn't isn't required at sanchez i think your respect for the system at sandhurst is below what's expected as well yes sir what happened the other day was coliseum was giving his room inspection um my trip was undone my flies are undone and i removed um my appendage and popped my appendage from my pants why i don't know so i'm just not thinking it it makes me angry that you're in the corridor so colossal is trying to do a room inspection completely chilling him off showing that you've got absolutely no respect for him whatsoever trying to make other people in the corridor laugh whilst he's trying to do a room inspection immature it's pathetic yes sir if this was a heavenly battalion you'd be freaking out straight away yes sir as in the platoon sergeant would probably knock you out straight away yeah so you need to question yourself if you really want to commit to this course if you don't then decide it just people do come on and get out yeah because you're not showing it to me you're by far the worst example of an officer i've seen go through this place yes okay you need to up your game otherwise we will get rid of you mr stewart yeah right i'll have a chat with the company commander in the morning i was not aware yeah it was his testicles that he pulled out when who knows oh i was a bit i was a bit angry actually we're not angry you keep getting told it's just a big game and i i'm beginning to believe it because am i the bottom platoon i don't think so if he tries to pull that again i kind of wanted to laugh obviously i couldn't but bomber between my arms i can't as a company come on to look at 95 cadets the whole time and and observe them with the same level of detail but in the short term you're looking for people who are not at the standard required and long reaches is about as good a tool to find those people early on to see whether they have the commitment you know it's 180 square kilometers of real estate in the black mountains about 70 kilometers they'll be expected to walk in 36 hours and if they can't do it here then they're simply not going to be able to do it on operations so we design exercises purely with that in mind [Music] it's hard it's really hard it's the fault that you've got you know you could have another 24 hours of this i've already changed that we've done about 14 hours now give or take um it's funny happy moments i wanted you really down and hanging out and the next you're having to you're pulling someone else along so yeah all good fun there over there that mountain down the hill two more checkpoints back up to that massive thing over there and then down to two more checkpoints before the end hands up the contour around it around everyone right let's go just struggling to keep the pace and like my knees much worse going downhill and they basically took off me i'm fishing feeling any skills i was feeling a bit fresh and just helped help out on the knees it's quite balanced and if i fall over i've got a bit of padding g it's uh it's going down hills it's really just causing me grief it's the outside of my knee around here only as strong as the weakest don't we if your mind goes on a task there's normally a reason why it goes and if you don't feel part of the team that's a contributing influence and being no longer part of the group being a separation of 100 200 meters that's probably the factor at play sure quick okay right turn sir that is here for you thank you very much mr chapman do you know why you're here yes sir okay um what i'm going to do is i'll read you this company commander's warning certificate obviously chapman is not meeting the standard of an officer cadet at this stage of the commissioning course his performance went on exercises of particular concern this is to certify today that you've been warned by your company commander me obviously of the following shortcomings refusing to soldier whilst halfway up x-ray on exercise long reach while citing a lower limb injury is unacceptable in the light of your eventual completion of the exercise and subsequent categorization by the mrs this was compounded by a decision not to report sick on return to santos showing a complete lack of judgment leadership office cadet chapman has a particularly weak and ineffectual approach to leadership which fails to inspire and carry other members of his team with him my dad used to go on pheasant shoots he used to obviously watches all the all the war films we used to go to like war museums and things like that together you know that seed then sort of grows in your mind and you know and culminates in me you know deciding at some point in the past that i wanted to consider going into the military i think i've always known that i've been a bit you know like the word to use is a bit wet you know a bit sensitive a bit of a pansy and i think that i was almost before i was almost embarrassed in that and i'm not comfortable with it and i wanted i had something to prove and but if anything i've come here and learned that learnt to accept that i think it's because it's who i am now and i'm not saying it's too late to change but i don't think i can and i don't think i want to i'm quite happy maybe just being myself [Music] it's like boarding school you get a sense of who's stronger who's he's weaker and then it sort of preys on pray on the weekend isn't it someone has to be at the bottom and i think chapman was for a while so i could take the pressure off other people but now he's gone someone else could feel the heat you know what i mean when you get home you've got to face up to your family and your friends but then if you stay you have to face yourself so really i think the fact that he had the balls to say that this isn't for me and that he left was was admirable really thank you very much mrs patty your initial wobble when you started about wanting to leave on like day one that was just a bad couple of days for you but you're back in now okay so that the line's been drawn under that okay we won't mention that again not great performance to see non-exercise version soldier or self-reliance and i've said here that you're too busy trying to take shortcuts and looking for the easy option okay and that has got to go immediately okay nothing easy about being a leader you've got to be rigid in your approach to absolutely everything the army doesn't appreciate losers this is not the civilian world this is not a place where thank you for trying we're going to give everyone a medal a curse well done you were a bunch of individuals at the beginning of this term we managed to turn you into this extraordinary team of drillers so well done and many congratulations to your color sergeant who's got you to this point so far because without him it wouldn't have been achieved so big pad on the back for [Music] him your performance or conduct is currently below the standard required of an office connect i don't believe this is due to lack of effort at all i believe you are putting in everything you can however your military bearing is not at the standard currently required and i'm giving you to week four of intermediate term by which time we need to see an improvement leave that one please you

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Length: 57min 28sec (3448 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 13 2021