Live, Laugh, Lead – Episode Fifteen – Battle Groups and Beekeepers

‘Just remember, the tactics don’t matter ...’ In this episode, Todd and Jake discuss returning to their first residential course since their Officer Basic Courses to be given all the skills, knowledge, attributes and behaviours to be employed as all-corps captains. The first posting as a three-pip is likely to be as an operations captain, sub-unit second-in-charge or an adjutant and this is the course that completely prepares you. All Corps Captains Course (ACCC) is the first promotion course for junior officers and occurs at Canungra QLD. It is broken up into two modules, the Command Lead and Manage module and the Operations Module. Most of the war fighters in the Combat Brigades conduct the course in the first or last part of the year and the courses in the middle of the year are full of those that are not participating on the Joint Warfighting Series. It is best practice to scheme with your friends to stack the course you choose to participate in. In this episode, Jake plays another of his original songs – Goodbye Canungra – written while he was the Deputy Sherriff on his ACCC for the End of Course Function. The Sherrif and his or her Deputy uphold the social standards on a course or in a unit and do so by fining or charging those on the course for social faux pars. They also spend their entire time on ACCC planning the End of Course Function. Jake played Goodbye Canungra live to the course panel of ~80 Army officers bringing some to tears, most likely because the listeners had been voided of any emotions for the last six-weeks. Subscribe to The Cove Community Podcast so that you don't miss out on Season Two of Live, Laugh, Lead where we give you way more guests, way more stories and if we can work out how to do it, incorporate video into the podcast.