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BUSHCRAFT COMES TO CONINGSBY
BUSHCRAFT
COMES TO CONINGSBY
BY FS CHAZ CUTTING
Set in Forestry England woodland near Bardney, Camshaw Woods is the ideal setting for the Station Bushcraft Course. This 3-day Force Development course allows all ranks to learn a variety of skills that are not related to their primary task. Because of this, it promotes teamwork in an unfamiliar environment away from the normal distractions of everyday life.
This is not a SERE or survival course although a lot of the skills are transferrable. By definition, if you are still alive at the end of a survival course, you have passed…well done (think Bear Grylls)! Bushcraft is different in that it utilises skills to use natural resources to improve your situation (think Ray Mears). This is not a starvation course, quite the opposite as you are well fed (Ray Mears is not a small guy).
The course takes the students on a journey that only a couple of generations ago, would have been seemed unnecessary because it would have been as commonplace then as checking your Facebook account is now. Students learn safe cutting techniques, shelter building, food preparation (pigeon, trout and rabbit), safe water collection, natural navigation, fire lighting (including lighting a fire using friction) and foraging as well as a variety of other skills.
Preparations are well under way for the 2023 season when 4 full courses will run between May and September as well as some one-day taster sessions held in the SOLSTA training area.
If you would like to book on the course, please take a look at the TDF Sharepoint site or contact any of the following:
FS Cutting gordon.cutting801@
mod.gov.uk
FS Higgins francis.higgins429@
mod.gov.uk
Cpl McAllister mathew.
mcallister101@mod.gov.uk
Cpl Tierney Andrew.
