Live, Laugh, Lead - Episode Seven - Pints, Planning and Pyrotechnics - Officer Basic Course

‘There has been a mistake here, I am basically going to be an OC in less than twelve months. I am not meant to be doing the basic course with lieutenants.’ Todd and Jake talk through diving into their first Army training since RMC, their Officer Basic Courses to train them in their specific jobs. Deemed competent with zero confidence, any competence that we had built at RMC was quickly realigned by the instructors of our Officer Basic Course. For Jake the Regimental Officer Basic Course at the School of Military Engineering at Holsworthy Barrack in Sydney and for Todd the Logistics Officer Basic Course in Wodonga, Victoria. Watermanship, Bridging, Search, Explosives, Construction, Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Helicopter Underwater Escape Training. Todd talks through getting drowned in a helicopter and gassed in a tin shed while Jake describes conducting a counter-CBRN exercise at a local university with some interesting locals. This episode is released on the day that most ADFA third years receive their graduation certificates, but Jake describes watching all his close friends cross the stage to receive their graduation certificates while he sat in the ‘non-graduate section’ because he failed a maths subject while galivanting around Japan.