Musician Emma Peacock plays flute and piccolo in The Band and Bugles of The Rifles. She has been in the band for a year and a half, having completing Phase 1 training at ATR Pirbright and Phase 2 at The Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall. A strange sight! We’re now back off leave [...]
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Strange to be marching through a field with rugby players warming up
Posted in ATC Pirbright, CAMus, tagged Army Music, band and bugles of the rifles, British Army, camus, camus blog, Career in music, Corps of Army Music, emma peacock, flute, music jobs, piccolo, rifles band on 11 May 2012 | 2 Comments »
Steady 120 beats per minute
Posted in ATC Pirbright, CAMus, RMAS, tagged Army Music, Armyblog, band and bugles of the rifles, British Army, camus, Career in music, Corps of Army Music, emma peacock, flute, military bands, music jobs, piccolo, rifles band on 24 November 2011 | 7 Comments »
It is a great honour knowing that all round the country people were attending ceremonies like this one, and meaning it, when they say, “We Will Remember Them”.
Basic Training has been like a ‘pick and mix’ – you never know what’s coming next but you eat it anyway
Posted in ATC Pirbright, tagged 76, Army, Basic, Battery, British, Bty, Kelly, pirbright, Recruit, Reilly, SuT, Thomas, training, Troop on 8 August 2011 |
Our eyes have been opened to opportunities not just within the Army, from a career perspective, but from a personal perspective of self-belief and what we are capable of achieving for ourselves and for others
A soldier’s life is an all-encompassing one and these exercises carried the reality of it
Posted in ATC Pirbright, tagged 76, Adjutant, AGC, Amazu, and, Army, Basic, Battery, British, Bty, Chigozie, Corps, Einstein, General, Personnel, pirbright, Recruit, Reilly, SPS, Staff, Support, SuT, training, Troop on 8 August 2011 |
A soldier’s life is an all encompassing one and these exercises carried the reality of it.
I have never wanted to do something so much in my life
Posted in ATC Pirbright, tagged Army, British, phase 1, pirbright, soldier, training on 3 August 2011 |
Recruit Stanesby blogs about settling into Phase 1 training and the progress she has made at Army Training Centre, Pirbright.
I guess it’s all part of toughening up
Posted in ATC Pirbright, tagged Army, British, phase 1, pirbright, soldier, training on 2 August 2011 |
Soldier under Training (SuT) Amazu blogs about an action-packed week on exercise. Week 13 Monday It finally arrived; Exercise FINAL FLING was upon us. We tabbed to our hasty harbour for starters, then the first drama happened when one of our mates was kidnapped, though we were then able to tactically rescue him. Finding and [...]
With rifles sparkling and ammunition full
Posted in ATC Pirbright, tagged Army, British, phase 1, pirbright, soldier, training on 1 August 2011 |
Soldier under Training (SuT) Thomas blogs about the week they had all been waiting for…
Hard work always pays off
Posted in ATC Pirbright, tagged Army, British, phase 1, pirbright, soldier, training on 25 July 2011 |
Soldier under Training (SuT) Amazu blogs from the Army Training Centre on his eleventh and twelfth weeks of training.
Another good lesson this week was grenade throwing
Posted in ATC Pirbright, tagged Army, phase 1, pirbright, soldier, training on 25 July 2011 |
Soldier under Training (SuT) Thomas blogs about the tests she faced in her eleventh and twelfth weeks of training.
My nose was streaming and my throat felt like the striker from a match box
Posted in ATC Pirbright, tagged Army, Basic, British, Company, Corps, Coy, Greenhalgh, Jackson, Logistic, pirbright, Pl, Platoon, Recruit, RLC, Robert, Royal, SuT, Tobruk, training on 25 July 2011 |
Some people were heaving which we all found hilarious, some even thought they had gone blind and were running around like headless chickens which was even funnier.
