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Audax / Re: Lets Ride to Dengie (New London ride 2024)
« Last post by Krad on Today at 03:44:22 pm »Update that I have Westbury Avenue Church for the depart and Westbury pub "The Westbury" for the finish.
Last year I contacted the local outdoor ed centre about volunteering to help on DoE and other activities.
They got back to me today, asking me to fill in a form.
It is a full employment application form.
See also: Trying to get paid for a one-off anything by a university. Although that's firmly the government's fault.
Not just the UK. Son gave a one-week course in English to science students at Strasbourg university and was over six months getting paid.
Just to be clear, this is for unpaid volunteering. Stand on a windy moor for most of a day, count the soaking wet miserable children walking past. Then return to a campsite and try to make sure they don't set fire to their tents.
Last year I contacted the local outdoor ed centre about volunteering to help on DoE and other activities.
They got back to me today, asking me to fill in a form.
It is a full employment application form.
See also: Trying to get paid for a one-off anything by a university. Although that's firmly the government's fault.
Not just the UK. Son gave a one-week course in English to science students at Strasbourg university and was over six months getting paid.
The SBS were more fun to drop, as their tasking was basically loopy, whereas the SAS (and other Special Forces like 2 Sqn RAF Regt) at least considered survival as a potential benefit. But most of that kind of crazy stuff no longer happens. However, exposure to real warfare tends to bring it back...
Oddly enough it seems the opposite has happened. My neighbour (until last summer) was a former officer in the SBS. He told me that there was real concern that the SBS were losing their maritime skills as a result of such a heavy commitment in Afghanistan for such a long period of time.
What you see was actually trials of a totally top secret new system whereby electromagnetic trampolines, disguised as haystacks, were used to catapult SAS members up into the sky and through the open door of said Hercules.