What do you mean?
All you need is training from an Arms DI, a parade where all personnel on parade are fully trained in arms drill and arms DI in attendance…simples
So if we parade along side the sea cadets we can have a sword (as all their officers are) 
Aslong as all your cadets and staff are equipped with L98s
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What if we are the only one? 
Also technically under the firearms act section 5 weapons are not permitted for drill (the exemption for prohibited weapons only mentions target shooting and omitted drill which is in the paragraph above) 
& let’s leave that point there before the mods run me through with a sword due another thread derailment [although firearms law pedantry does make me happy 
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Go to D&C camp next week and learn all about it 
. That’s if it’s not curtailed due to heat.
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Tell HQAC it’s time you reformed the Marine Branch.
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I never knew that!
I am assuming however that opportunities to use it are limited. I’ve only seen one at a wedding and a Regular had his and obviously we need permission to attend a wedding etc in uniform (not sure I’d want to personally) and honour guards at inspections.
A fantastic week away at Windermere, first proper camp I’ve run for what seems like ages. We had 20+ Cadets out doing Ghyl Scrambling, SUP, the obligatory hill walking plus we threw them over a proper abseil.
It feels like an age since I’ve run a Camp like that and while we did the hill walking and training that those sort of Camps need, we mixed the other sexy AT activities in like it was going out of fashion.
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MMH/Smug, I put the child down for the night, first time without mammary input!
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GMG: getting home after a five hour drive back from holiday to find the zipper on the roof bag has completely burst.
MMH: the last minute decision to put a spare strap around the middle of the bag as we left so we didn’t actually lose anything as the straps and velcro held.
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MMH-it’s finally raining! And lots of it too.
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My 3D printer not messing about for more than 5 minutes after several hours of trying to get it to this point.
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Learning about the “Military Skills” Team:
https://rafac.sharepoint.com/sites/Shooting/SitePages/Military-skills-in-Teams.aspx
Hopefully it’ll get used in a similar way to VoP.
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We have a LaSER one too. Really useful 
The hope is for people to share good practice, ask questions to kill off local weirdness and help each other out with currency where people may be lacking.
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Free repairs to Berghaus* gear Repairhaus | Outdoor Clothing Repairs | Berghaus
Apologies if already aware but this appeared in my news feed today and thought it would be worth sharing in case anyone has any Berghaus gear that may be at the back of a cupboard. They say how old it is doesn’t matter so really going to put it to the test
Going to try sending them my original 1990s Mera Peak which has failed seals and a missing toooth from the zip. Was planning on gettign it done when covid hit and had kind of forgot about it.
*Only need to pay for packagin and recorded postage.
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One of our customers turned up at 0745 with enough McDonalds breakfast for everyone in the workshop. Let’s just say it’s going to be a good day 
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Good move by the customer, good psychology. As a boss I used to in summer buy ice creams for the team, raises morale really well. Act the right way, and you can get a team to virtually do anything for you, you just have to look after them and keep those above off their backs to do their jobs.
I worked by the adage, if it all goes right then they get the praise, if it goes wrong then it’s my fault, just culture training.
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This is great.
Litte lad is at hotel grandparents.
Wife and I are in town, just had dinner at the Pitch (owned by MasterChef winner Kenny Tutt, my Little brother works there and got us a last minute reservation). Cost a bomb but there we go…
I can barely walk. I’m up to my eyeballs in diazapam and codeine. Pains bad enough to warrant morphine. But we are both filling up on cocktails at the rocking horse. Enjoying a little bit of time in my godforsaken home town.
This is our first night together since the boy was born. I’m drunk, I’m high. The wife’s beautiful, I’m a shaggy mess. But God I’m happy.
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