Cardiff Marines Experience of Getting Fit For The Forces

I hoped my Cardiff BMF experience would help meus that we owed him a punishment from the
with this following experience.previous day, so it was back down in the mud for
From then we did the standard warm up and thenanother 20m crawl to the PTI. It was hard going. Our
got taken to the low ropes at the start for of thekit was already soaking wet and covered in mud
bottom field assault course. This was to introduce usfrom the assault course. We all completed it some
to the techniques required for the higher ropes oneasier then others and then it was back to the
the course. We did a walk through of the assaultaccommodation block. We had to strip off outside
course, with a PTI demonstrating all of the obstacles.turning our kit inside out to ensure we didn't drop any
We then went to the beginning and set off in pairs.mud on our way through the block. It was a quick
It was a great experience; I managed to completeclean of boots, then shower and finally a final clean
the whole course without falling off any of theof the accommodation block. Once the block had
obstacles which wasn't the same for everyone. Webeen cleared about 10 of us got called away for and
completed the course and had a cool down. Weof course interviews. We thought this was standard
thought that was it, but it wasn't the PTI remindedso were in high spirits, but confused.