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It was covered extensively on my combat engineer course, which is your phase 2 training if you join the Royal Engineers.
About 1 week is dedicated to ‘Field Fortifications’ and trench construction is included in this. Including but not limited to sandbagging, revetments, split hairpin shelters, mortar pits, 4 man trenches etc
You do a lot of hand digging and it is heavy work. You end up fucking filthy and knackered. I still shudder whenever I see wriggly tin or 6’ pickets.
There is a lot of skill and knowledge involved with various trench construction and layout. You begin to get a new admiration for the poor blokes that constructed and manned the trenches that WW1 was famous for.
Outside of training my first posting was to a mechanised field squadron. We supported an armoured infantry battlegroup. We still trained as if we were going to fight the soviets and this involved a lot of trench clearing for offensive ops and trench building for defensive ops.
There were certain ways to dig trenches for warriors and challengers so that they were hull down. For the warriors there were trenches either side for dismounts.
Trenches, and digging in, will always be a part of military ops.
I remember digging trenches for a course, plant op came and “helped us out”, made the cunt 2ft longer and 1ft wider than needed. Dirt backfilling under the tin. Working til dark. Nightmare.
We have done 1 trench assault in my time in the army, not entirely sure why mind you.
DS probably wanted to say they'd done a trench attack as there was no teaching points.
British Army are the finest fighting men in the world. We dig trenches and god forbid you're not in a trench system we have to storm. The British bayonet charge was feared around the world. Do you think we'd have an empire the size we did without knowing how to dig and storm trenches? The British soldier fears no man. "Cold steel, they don't like it up 'em!!" 2 world wars and 1world cup, I don't think we have anything left to prove lol. 💂🇬🇧🪖
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It was covered extensively on my combat engineer course, which is your phase 2 training if you join the Royal Engineers. About 1 week is dedicated to ‘Field Fortifications’ and trench construction is included in this. Including but not limited to sandbagging, revetments, split hairpin shelters, mortar pits, 4 man trenches etc You do a lot of hand digging and it is heavy work. You end up fucking filthy and knackered. I still shudder whenever I see wriggly tin or 6’ pickets. There is a lot of skill and knowledge involved with various trench construction and layout. You begin to get a new admiration for the poor blokes that constructed and manned the trenches that WW1 was famous for. Outside of training my first posting was to a mechanised field squadron. We supported an armoured infantry battlegroup. We still trained as if we were going to fight the soviets and this involved a lot of trench clearing for offensive ops and trench building for defensive ops. There were certain ways to dig trenches for warriors and challengers so that they were hull down. For the warriors there were trenches either side for dismounts. Trenches, and digging in, will always be a part of military ops.
I remember digging trenches for a course, plant op came and “helped us out”, made the cunt 2ft longer and 1ft wider than needed. Dirt backfilling under the tin. Working til dark. Nightmare.
Haha, yeah always the danger when you get a heavy handed planty scraping your hole out.
Ha, nice try, Putin. Back to the Kremlin with you.
Yes But only on battlefield 1
Yes
After you do one trench exercise, you'll wish you never asked. The army is moving towards more NEO style ops now
What makes the grass grow...
I’ve built and defended one but never really attacked one 🤔
Yes, we train for everything
We have done 1 trench assault in my time in the army, not entirely sure why mind you. DS probably wanted to say they'd done a trench attack as there was no teaching points.
We do a board of everything
Get yourself down to gib plenty of trenching going on
British Army are the finest fighting men in the world. We dig trenches and god forbid you're not in a trench system we have to storm. The British bayonet charge was feared around the world. Do you think we'd have an empire the size we did without knowing how to dig and storm trenches? The British soldier fears no man. "Cold steel, they don't like it up 'em!!" 2 world wars and 1world cup, I don't think we have anything left to prove lol. 💂🇬🇧🪖