So now that team leaders are no longer to provide ‘effective’ blister treatments and suggest pain relief, is this the end of Road Marching in the RAFAC?
I very rarely did much blister work myself at Nij. But putting it all in the medics is not going to go well.
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Might help people see sense tbh
I would easily waste an hour at the med centre enroute, if we had a marcher who wanted to see the emdical staff at an RA.
Closer to 2hrs of time they should be resting if we had to visit the med centre at Huemensoord.
Coupled with the fact that they have to be escorted to the med centre, the TLs are going to be spread thin and exhausted.
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So ive read it now,
Basically if I was road marching and i got a blister its now endex?
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Not quite.
If you got a blister and it’s hurting, it’s end-ex.
Or, frankly, if your feet hurt, it’s end-ex.
Ties in quite nicely with DT declaring Tylenol causes autism
Jeepers - how many amputations have there been due to blisters being lanced? I don’t recall any fatalities for the ones I did at Cranditz!! 
TBF you would never find me road marching so i wouldnt know
What happens if i get blisters or my feet hurt during drill? Why is this limited to RM?
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Is DofE banned now because of this logic?
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You can’t say things like that, you’ll give them ideas!
So this is a safety alert, highlighted in the weekly brief.
How many people are going to not be able to find reference to this when they need it?
I’m going to guess part of the issue is infection risk, so why don’t they say that?
Typical RAFAC doctrine. Simon Sinek said “Find Your Why”, while RAFAC says “Don’t Tell Them Why”.
Is the concern with pain meds the blisters worsening unnoticed, or disguising other potential problems?
P.s. we can’t control for cadets self administering. The risk now is we become less aware of what and how much a cadet is taking, because they will know our position is “any pain, no train”.
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If the concern is infection risk, then can we no longer treat any cut or wound because it’s not in a clinical environment?
How about if a cadet comes to a cfav with a blister that just happens to have already popped?
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From what I can read, this sounds like an utterly dumb and uninformed approach.
If anything, suggesting pain relief is more likely to lead to cadets self-administering ibuprofen (which can be fatal during endurance events) or attempting to treat their own blisters thus increasing the risk of infections or other complications (other RMTLs will tell you how often they’ve found the wrong sort of tape on a cadet’s foot - it’s not a stretch to imagine them fully opening up a blister and sticking zinc oxide directly to the raw skin).
In one swoop, the person responsible for this has made Road Marching less safe. Perhaps it’s an attempt to kill the activity without actually having to officially can it? That’s the only logical explanation I can come up with.
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Hanlon says otherwise.
More a situation of short-sighted ignorance triggering the law of unintended consequences.
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I mean, I’m shocked…
We stop, simples
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That’s definitely not how I remember the famous song lyrics:
“When the going gets tough; ENDEX!”
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