Great day guys. Top notch efforts on both kit and the training. I was super impressed on many occassions and there are many positives to be taken from the day and roll on the game itself!
I'm not one for taking photos, so I only got a couple (as the recce patrol went out).
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When I want your opinion - I'll tell you what it is!
Once again a well attended training day wiht maxiumum effort put in by all.
I'd like to thank you all for travelling to the event (some from quite far away) and for throwing yourselves wholeheartedly into every item. As a former squaddie who hated drill i actually enjoy it with you guys - i also think you pick it up very fast.
Fieldcraft was top nothc and it was clear that everyone had learnt a lot form petes excellent lesson.
A few thanks here.
Evo and Yith for invaluable help in making orde rout of chaos with doing PBI, also yith for the drill and evo for the mortar training.
Thanks to and absent woodlander/steve for the excellent training pamphlets
Thanks to barrie and Anne for letting us all get to grip s with the Bren.
Thanks to Sgt Heide for a fantastic professional insight into fieldcraft and marksmanship
Cheers to Dave for training with us when i know you already give up to much time with your family for the scene, your presence was appreciated mate and you're always helping us put n many ways.
Cheers to Nige for helping my pickled brain remember ten year old drill lessons - not very professional the plt sgt asking 'is that right nige' after every new thing! (also cheers for being an enthusiast ic bren gun bearer)
Thanks to Del for assistance in the days lessons and being a great 'booby trap' in the ambush!
Thanks to John for the construction and supply of the bloody excellent targets, inspired genius having targets we can actually see the result of fire upon!
And thanks to Ed for really getting into the training day and picking it all up to be up to speed with guys who had done a few before, as a self proclaimed airsofter who doesnt really do re-enactment you handled the roleply/re-enactment bits brilliantly.
And lastly and very importantly thanks to Adz and the grange farm guys for the loan of their site. For those that I didnt enthusiastically tell at the end of the day i just thought id let you know that all the money Grange farm would have taken as green fee for op lightning will be donated by them to 'help for heroes' - to me that is a massively kind gesture.
I sincerley apologise if i#ve forgotten anyone, im a bit shattered and have to go Dj in 2 hours!
Pics to follow.
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
Great looks very proffesional and everyone there has a helmet by the looks of it. 
I think everyone did.
We did the field exercises in full battle order. Everyone carried full webbing, small pack and helmet as a minimum and the bren no2 had auxiallry pouches.
Was a good one, shame you couldnt make it Dev but obviously you have a massive distance to get to us.
We'll be fighting alongside you soon though!
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
Sounds like you chaps had a good day. I'm not liking how effective your camouflage looks in that terrain though. 
I look forward to testing your training out at Lightning at the end of the month.
Most the time when Pete and i were observing the tactical recce exercise, if they were not moving we couldnt see them!
I was also impressed by the way that the guys got to within about six feet of the sentry without being noticed and were only spotted on the second approach!
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
Looks like a lot of fun.
shame you couldnt make it Dev but obviously you have a massive distance to get to us.
We'll be fighting alongside you soon though!
Yer is a bit of a distance, im going to try and make it to St Lo though if possible, 
and il most likely be British for Gloke although I can be either US or British, only worry was is there any jagged metal or anything down there I could rip my denison on which is why I was thinking of being US instead, that and I wanted to make use of my Unused M43's. 
Once I get a car I will be able to travel alot more, my mate will be at Staffordshire uni soon so I would be able to crash at his making 1 dayers a bit more accessable to get too.
what can i say.....i have never seen anthing like it. the bar was raised almost into orbit. well done to all. big thanks to all, it was the caliber of the people that made it a day to remember.
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i loved the mortar , being rained with shrapnel BB's was ace 
Always great to be out with the Brits. Cheers to the PBI team for the time and effort to arrange and instruct - the results make it all worth while, I hope you will agree.
Heh, and I cracked the marching malarkey by finally realising not to take any notice of the person in front and just listen to the count in my head 
That looked like a great day, just wish I could have made it, any ideas when the next training day will be held?
"Will you stop talking about the war!!"
"What, you started it!"
"We did NOT start it!"
"Yes you did, you invaded Poland..."
I had a very interesting day - thanks to the PBI members for making a Polski welcome
Oh and Nige, thanks for the pic .....
of my arse
i think its your best side del...... dave, just count 123. 1 , easy.
oh BTW, chommers,,,, fantastic specs. really like them.want some.
Hehe, specs are period but the bifocals lenses aren't. I've made the mistake of having single vision shooting glasses - which are fine until I come to read a brief or check out a map! So, farby bifocals it is this time. Still, it hardly notices.
they look fantastic dave, i think a pencil tasche would suit you down to the ground with those frames. i am seriuosly considering a pair.