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bokkatankie
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Having been through the mill at regular and TA basic my RCB decided that I did not need RowCo or the other one PCC? (where you got taught to use the correct knife and fork). My SMC had RowCo, PCC, Bde Squad, Welbeck (many of of whom had done RowCo). I, for one, was impressed with the zeal that they had applied to make it to SMC and they were all good chaps. The modern grad entry mixed with what would have been SMC is wrong, but hey ho I did not make it high enough up the chain to have any influence on officer training. But I will say this; the determination and reslove displayed, in my day, by those who went through the process showed a desire to be an officer and lead soldiers. So much of what I see on the the officer entry threads is about the career they can build off he back of the soldiers they lead and how they need to get everything right from day one. RowCo et al was about ****, up was about failing and was about learning, something we appear to have forgotten.