What do these red line thingies mean?

I think Sandhurst needs to start doing courses on how to teach and lead men for the non military market. I'm not saying there aren't some terrible officers in the forces but those will be the ones who are acting against their training ( I imagine Dartmouth does the same for the floaties too) Bring people with you, encourage , lead from the front and leave the belittling and screaming to the Yanks

Having said that - and just shows what many people don't know - my first course with the army was what was called a Pre_RCB - a few days with the regiment you hope to join to see if they will sponsor you to go to the Regular Commissions Board to be picked to go on to officer training. In those days IIRC you needed at least 2 A levels to qualify (maybe just some O levels for a short service commission ) but they were only taking people with a good standard of education as you might expect. Out of 16 of us only one (thankfully me) when asked to point to the north as the sun set behind a hill could do so . Something you expect everyone in the world will know - rises in the east, sets in the west - simply was unknown to 15 educated men or the concept of turning 90 degrees from the sun to find north eluded them, or just possibly they were too intimidated to put their head above the parapet in case they were made to look a fool.
 
Trident said:
....Out of 16 of us only one (thankfully me) when asked to point to the north as the sun set behind a hill could do so . Something you expect everyone in the world will know - rises in the east, sets in the west - simply was unknown to 15 educated men or the concept of turning 90 degrees from the sun to find north eluded them, or just possibly they were too intimidated to put their head above the parapet in case they were made to look a fool.
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Repeating a point already made - nobody is born knowing that, or even what "north" is. It's something you have to learn.
 
I was in a car being driven by a friend, lost somewhere between Liverpool and Barnsley, late at night. I was no help but could say that we were headed NW. No idea why I can do this, always been able to.
In the 70s an experiment took a busload of students blindfold for a trip. Every so often they were unbussed and asked to point the way home. A high % could. The experiment was set to see if they could do what pigeons do.


Why didn't they just let them shit all over a car?
 
penberth3 said:
Repeating a point already made - nobody is born knowing that, or even what "north" is. It's something you have to learn.
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I think you may have missed the point I was making as below and relevant to this thread

just possibly they were too intimidated to put their head above the parapet in case they were made to look a fool.
 
fisherman said:
I was in a car being driven by a friend, lost somewhere between Liverpool and Barnsley, late at night. I was no help but could say that we were headed NW. No idea why I can do this, always been able to.
In the 70s an experiment took a busload of students blindfold for a trip. Every so often they were unbussed and asked to point the way home. A high % could. The experiment was set to see if they could do what pigeons do.


Why didn't they just let them shit all over a car?
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I used to be the same, had an uncanny sense of direction, I went to work and live in Australia for 2 years, came back to the UK and had totally lost any sense of direction.
 
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