Youngsters get a taste of Army life

Jun 19 2009 by Our Correspondent, Perthshire Advertiser Friday

THE Army Cadet Force Outreach Project has just completed its residential phase with a weekend based at the Dunkeld Cadet Training Centre.

The Outreach Programme is a youth division project supported by the a number of organisations including The Black Watch Battalion Army Cadet Force, Tayside Police, and Alyth, Cougar Angus, and Rattray Primary Schools.

A total of 53 P7 pupils took part in the residential programme supported by their teachers, police officers, cadet force officers and cadets.

The students had to work together to complete a variety of military stands which included command tasks, field craft, field cooking, camp craft and drill.

To close the weekend, the youngsters and helpers travelled from Dunkeld to Balhousie Castle in Perth, the Regimental Museum of The Black Watch, where the students carried out a number of tasks including first aid and drill as well as handling museum artefacts from the rich history of the regiment.

Also present were Provost John Hulbert and Mrs Hulbert, Lord Lieutenant, Brigadier Mel Jameson, and Perth and Kinross Council’s convener of lifelong learning, Councillor Liz Grant.